Liang Xiao twisted his fingers and looked at Dong Zhongshu with a smile, as if he was looking at a prey.●⌒,

Dong Zhongshu brags about not making drafts, but seeks to be done once and once? If you really want to be so magical, you are not a great scholar, but a god. I am sorry to travel through this time without just saying that you don’t practice fake styles and not making your cowhide so badly.

The response to heaven and man is one of the three pillars of Dong Zhongshu's countermeasures and the most fragile pillar. Although his theory is very clear, it is actually vulnerable. Dong Zhongshu was unlucky later because he talked about disasters and was full of confidence, but he turned around and was slapped in the face by his disciples.

Liang Xiao advised the King of Huainan not to rush to confront Dong Zhongshu head-on, not to be afraid of Dong Zhongshu, but to not want to respond hastily and make a life-and-death battle. If it is empty to air, whether it is Confucian or Taoist, in fact, everyone is similar and no one has obvious advantages. When the emperor has prejudice against Huang Lao, the King of Huainan will undoubtedly lose.

Leaving a step for the time being, laying a firm foundation, and waiting patiently for the flaws that Dong Zhongshu revealed was a tactic that Liang Xiao had planned long ago. He originally thought it would take several years, but he did not expect that Dong Zhongshu would use such a trick as asking for rain in less than half a year after he was in office.

The gentleman acted at the opportunity. Liang Xiao quickly bit Dong Zhongshu's flaw and hit it with one blow.

Dong Zhongshu's face was pale and sweated coldly. He knew very well that Liang Xiao was no ordinary opponent. In terms of knowledge, Liang Xiao might not be very good, even an ordinary scholar, let alone a scholar of the level of King Huainan. However, in terms of tactics, Liang Xiao is definitely a master. Although King Huainan is not as good as King Dong Zhongshu, he was not sure of winning.

Is it effective to ask for rain?

Dong Zhongshu believed in the response of heaven and man, but he also knew that asking for rain was not effective, at least not as effective as he hoped. To say that it was just a cover-up. However, if you admit that asking for rain was not effective, the response of heaven and man became empty talk. Liang Xiao would inevitably pursue and slap him in the face. His countermeasures also became nonsense and deceiving the emperor.

If you don't admit it, you will endure it to the end? I'm afraid it won't work. Once Liang Xiao spread his prayers for rain, everyone in the world will stare at him. There have been frequent natural disasters in recent years. If the emperor puts the hope of good weather on his head, something will happen sooner or later. The crime of deceiving the king is enough to prevent him from turning over forever.

Whether it admits it or not, the crime of deceiving the monarch seems to have been confirmed.

No matter what happens, it is not a trivial matter if it involves deceiving the king.

Liang Xiao stood up and shook his sleeves slowly. "Mr. Dong, don't worry, I'll leave a few days, please think slowly. Just give me an answer before I leave."

After saying that, he shook his hands and left, leaving Dong Zhongshu alone in a daze.

When Dong Zhongshu was thinking about countermeasures, Liang Xiao was not idle either. In addition to returning to Qingyun to visit his old neighbors, he also did a few things.

First, he visited the immigrants who moved from Dongou. He once suggested moving the borders of the vassal states, but the emperor did not accept it. He adopted Yan Zhu's suggestion and moved the people of Dongou to the Jianghuai area, a large part of which were placed in the territory of Jiangdu. He visited these immigrants to check their living conditions.

The result was as he expected, not optimistic. Different customs and habits were just one of the reasons why they had conflicts with local residents. The more important problem was land. The Jiangdu Kingdom did not have so much land to settle them, and many people have not yet reached the minimum standard of life. They can only be slaves and maids, complaining, and some even fled across the river and went back to become subjects of Minyue.

Secondly, Liang Xiao focused on investigating the situation of the powerful occupying the land and the Yuru Township.

Why was Huang Lao's way abandoned by history? While his inaction and resting, his power of powerful people quickly expanded, embezzled the interests that should have been shared by the court and the people, and became a cancer of society. The powerful people infringed on the imperial power and harmed the people, and were too big to lose their duties. While forcing the court to use violent means, they also broke countless people.

The Tu family was forced to sell land, which is a microcosm of the society where the powerful people were rampant in the countryside.

If this problem is not solved, no matter how hard Liang Xiao tried, it would be difficult for Huang Lao to reappear on the political stage.

These problems are not hidden problems. Liang Xiao didn't spend much time collecting a lot of evidence. He spent two days writing a memorial in his half-interpretation text and sent someone to Chang'an.

Dong Zhongshu and others were busy handling the funeral, and no one noticed that Liang Xiao did such a big thing quietly.

The emperor received Liang Xiao’s memorial and pondered for a while, and someone called Yan Zhu over. "Go to the Prime Minister's Mansion and re-authorize the Jiangdu Kingdom's book."

Yan Zhu laughed in his heart as soon as he heard this. The new year has just begun. Last year's plan documents have just been filed, and the emperor has to re-audge it. Needless to say, this is a trouble for Prime Minister Tian Fu.

Yan Zhu led the imperial edict and rushed to the Prime Minister's Office to convey the emperor's edict.

Seeing Yan’s assistant, Prime Minister Zhang Tang did not dare to be negligent and hurried out to welcome him. After listening to the edict, Zhang Tang was very surprised. "Mr. Yan, wasn’t the books from last year sent to the palace? Please read them?"

Yan Zhu glanced at Zhang Tang and felt a little disdainful. Zhang Tang was a minor official and was able to work in the Prime Minister's Office entirely because he pleased the Tian brothers. He was proficient in law and had no knowledge. He was a standard grammatical official and the kind of person Yan Zhu looked down upon the most.

"Your Majesty wants to ask, I will come and check it out. Where can I ask why? Otherwise, Mr. Zhang will ask?"

Zhang Tang smiled, but was extremely annoyed. As the prime minister and chief minister, he had dealt with Yan Zhu a lot. On several occasions, Tian Feng was very passive by Yan Zhu and suffered a great loss of face. Later, Zhang Tang came forward if he had anything to do. Zhang Tang could not push him away, so he could only endure it. He had no good feelings for these scholars.

"I'm just asking why I have to go to the palace to see the emperor."

Zhang Tang asked someone to take the relevant documents. Yan Zhu checked them one by one. He was eloquent and could speak well, but when it came to specific accounts, he was not very good at it. Zhang Tang was by his side and was ready to inquire at any time. Seeing this, Yan Zhu became more and more aggressive and scolded Zhang Tang several times, which made Zhang Tang very embarrassed.

Zhang Tang was really angry. He cheered up and carefully tested Yan Zhu's words. When he found that Yan Zhu was concerned about Dong'ou immigration, he felt a sense of opportunity.

He knew that the people of Dongou moved to Jianghuai and that was the idea of ​​Yan Shu.

"Yan Jun, there is something that may be related to Dongou immigration."

Yan Zhuo didn't raise his head. "What's the matter?"

"In the past two years, the household registration of Dongou immigrants in Jiangdu Kingdom has decreased year by year, leaving only about 30% of the immigrants at the time."

Yan Zhu was shocked and subconsciously raised his vigilance. He thought of a question: Liang Xiao, who was his subordinate and had a disagreement with him, is now in Jiangdu. Could he have discovered something and wrote a letter to the emperor?

The more Yan Zhu thinks, the more he becomes, the more he is afraid. Sometimes people are not afraid of threats placed in the open, but are afraid of those invisible and intangible opponents. Liang Xiao is undoubtedly a thorn in Yan Zhu's heart. Dongou immigration policy is also a highlight of Yan Zhu's career. If this highlight is pierced by Liang Xiao and finally found to be a stain, then the trouble will be great.

Yan Zhu put away his arrogance and asked Zhang Tang to transfer the relevant documents to investigate carefully. Zhang Tang cooperated very well and dug out the documents from a few years ago. Looking at the audit results of a certain year alone, I still couldn't see anything. I looked at the statistics for several consecutive years together and immediately saw it at a glance.

Dongou immigration policy was a complete failure.

Yan Zhu held his breath and his face looked like earth.

Zhang Tang watched coldly, feeling secretly happy. He knew that he had finally grasped Yan Zhu's weakness.

Yan Zhu was very careful to guess the possible content of Liang Xiao’s letter, but he didn’t pay attention to Zhang Tang at all. In his eyes, Zhang Tang, a famous cruel official in later generations, was not worth paying attention to at all. Prime Minister Tian Fen was defeated. What’s the use of Zhang Tang, the prime minister’s long history?

Yan Zhu weighed the pros and cons, but left with great worries. He did not talk about the situation provided by Zhang Tang, but only informed the emperor of the audit results last year, and then quickly sent someone to send messages to Zhu Maichen, asking him to use his identity as an envoy of the emperor to check the current situation of Dong'ou immigration to see if there was an issue of immigrants running away.

Yan Zhu never expected that as soon as he left, Zhang Tang reported the matter to Prime Minister Tian Fu. When Tian Fu heard that he had the opportunity to fight against Yan Zhu, he immediately came to his senses and asked Zhang Tang to sort out the relevant information and took Zhang Tang into the palace.

The emperor was very dissatisfied with Yan Zhu's reply. He asked Yan Zhu to review the audit data of Jiangdu Kingdom, one was worried that Liang Xiao would take revenge on his own, and the other was that he really wanted to figure out the current situation of immigration. He hoped that Yan Zhu could find out the result, regardless of whether the letter proof Liang Xiao was correct or not. However, Yan Zhu gave him a report that had no practical significance at all, and just repeated the audit data from last year, and could not see the reason at all.

He was very disappointed. At this moment, Tian Fu and Zhang Tang's report gave him a detailed report. He was very dissatisfied with Yan Zhu, especially when Zhang Tang told him that Yan Zhu had read the data from previous years, he couldn't help but be furious.

Needless to say, Yan Zhu deliberately concealed the immigration of Dongou, Jiangdu, to prove his correctness, and therefore did not hesitate to deceive the emperor. He was the verbal trust of the emperor. If he could not trust him, who else could the emperor trust?

The emperor did not have an attack on the spot. After seeing Tian Fu and Zhang Tang away, he found Yan Zhu and casually took out Liang Xiao's letter.

Yan Zhuo was immediately disorganized when he saw it. What he was most worried about did indeed happen.

The emperor said calmly: "You said, did Liang Xiao do it on purpose?"

When Yan Zhu heard this, he nodded quickly. "I think there is a possibility. Not only did he have a marriage with the Prince of Jiangdu, he has always been unsatisfied with Jiangdu Prime Minister Dong Zhongshu. If the people of Jiangdu flee, Dong Zhongshu's governance will inevitably be greatly affected."

"If this is the case, then he will be too much." The emperor sighed. "You go to Jiangdu and verify it."

Yan Zhuozheng agreed immediately.

Seeing Yan Zhu leave the palace, the emperor's face becomes dark. He feels like he is betrayed. Liang Xiao, who originally thought he is unruly, was doing things steadily, but Yan Zhu, who originally thought he could trust, was concealing the superiors and bullying the subordinates. What did he become? Is he a fool who is loyal and treacherous, or a fool who can be played with? -

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