After my soul traveled to ancient times, I don't want to be cannon fodder

When Zhou heard the voice, she immediately rushed over and threw herself on Ning Yuanzhou's bedside, holding his hand tightly. Her beautiful eyes were filled with worry, and tears fell down: "Master, how are you?"

Ning Yuanzhou opened his heavy eyelids and was stunned for a long time before he remembered what had happened before he fell into a coma.

I suddenly felt panic in my heart and struggled to sit up.

Zhou quickly helped him up and put a thick quilt under his back. Ning Yuanzhou's face was still pale, and his fingers trembled as he pointed in the direction of the old housekeeper.

The old housekeeper immediately understood, and knelt on the ground with a plop, crying loudly to Ning Yuanzhou: "Master..."

Ning Yuanzhou's eyes dimmed, his lips turned pale, and he paused for a long time before speaking: "Add more people to investigate..."

"Yes, I'll go right away!" The old butler wiped his tears and went out to make arrangements. The others didn't understand what was going on, but looking at the current situation, they knew that something extremely bad must have happened.

Ning Yuan frowned and stepped forward, asking, "Father, what exactly happened? Why can't you let me know? Also, how are the deaths of those shopkeepers related to this matter?"

Shopkeeper?

What shopkeeper?

Which shopkeeper died?

Ning Yuanzhou looked over in confusion, and Zhou immediately avoided her eyes. Ning Yuan knew that he had said the wrong thing, and did not dare to say another word.

Everyone was very cautious, fearing that Ning Yuanzhou would be accidentally stimulated and fall into coma.

Finally, Ning Yuanzhou's gaze fixed on the figure of the servant kneeling not far away. He waved his hand and asked the servant to come forward.

Zhou hurriedly stopped him, "Master, you just woke up, you should rest first. We can discuss those trivial matters after you have rested well!"

There was a pleading tone in Zhou's voice, but was Ning Yuanzhou someone who was so easily fooled?

Something big must have happened again, but they were hiding it from me.

Ning Yuanzhou clenched his teeth and closed his eyes weakly. After a long while, he squeezed out a word from his back teeth: "Speak!"

The servant shuddered and immediately knelt on the ground and repeated what he had just said about the shopkeeper.

Now, it was Ning Yuanzhou's turn to become autistic.

First, I received the bad news that the operation against Wen Renye failed, his Mr. Liu was missing, and half of the four seventh-grade warriors were killed or injured.

Now, even the shopkeepers under his command have been killed!

"Wen...Ren...Ye!" Ning Yuanzhou's eyes were bloodshot and he roared. Then he instantly vomited a fishy and sweet mouthful and fainted again!

"master....."

There was constant crying and shouting in the room, and the doctor was invited back into the room.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night!

........

Wen Renye is fighting fiercely with the aristocratic families.

Things were not going well for Gu Mingzhe and Chong Jingxiu either.

Implementing reforms is not an easy task, especially when it will damage the interests of many wealthy and powerful people.

But one thing that makes them better than Wen Renye is that the cities they both live in are right next to Kyoto. Among them, Chong Jingxiu is the representative of the reformists chosen by Emperor Yong and Princess Zhaohua, while Gu Mingzhe is the legitimate son of Prime Minister Gu.

They can't afford to offend either of these two.

But even so, it does not mean that they have to bite the bullet and swallow this half-cooked bowl of reform.

If big opposition cannot be carried out, can small obstruction not be carried out?

Those tenants are just a bunch of slaves who will work for you as long as they are given some food. With them standing at the forefront, I believe the county magistrate who wants to implement reforms will not say much.

But they didn't expect that although they were cruel, Gu Mingzhe and Chong Jingxiu were even more cruel.

Both of them are talented people who have lived in Kyoto for many years, and are most familiar with Zhong Ning's methods of using public opinion to control public opinion.

Therefore, the first thing they did after taking office was not to rush to implement reforms, but to recruit a group of poor students and let them go to teahouses, restaurants, fields, and all places where people gathered to publicize the reform measures that the court was going to implement in the near future.

The reforms included abolishing the head tax and levying taxes based on the amount of land owned by each household. In other words, the court would only collect land tax from landowners.

In addition, the tax-exempt privileges of scholars and all gentry were abolished, and officials and landlords were also required to pay taxes.

This one is easy, but the second one is the most difficult.

After all, for those gentry and wealthy families, they still have a certain degree of awe towards the government and the court, but those who are officials or are preparing to become officials have long been accustomed to the privileges granted by the court.

Therefore, when the idea of ​​all gentry paying taxes together was proposed, it was opposed by almost everyone!

Every official standing at the forefront of reform has to promote reform under tremendous pressure.

The main reason why Qinghe County, the only one that was successfully promoted, was successful was that Zhong Ning wiped out a thousand-year-old family overnight.

This made many local wealthy families realize that if they did not comply with the court's new policies, they would be the ones to be destroyed.

Of course, they did hire assassins to assassinate Liu Ben, but the key point was that all the assassins could not get close to Liu Ben and were directly dealt with.

After losing a lot of money to hire assassins, they finally realized that there was a martial artist with superb skills beside Liu Ben, who was not something that those second-rate killers in the world could deal with.

After trying every possible means but failing, they finally accepted their fate.

One month after taking office, Gu Mingzhe finally got a thorough understanding of the situation in Dingyuan County. He found that Dingyuan County had concealed a total of 1,300 acres of newly reclaimed land and had an additional population of 3,200 households.

He disguised himself, made secret investigations, and saw with his own eyes how poor the lives of the lower-class people were.

This is one of the three county towns closest to the capital, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is at the feet of the emperor.

But even in such a treasure land with excellent feng shui, there are still people who have no food to eat and can only gnaw on a black and hard lump of wild vegetables every day to fill their stomachs.

It was not until this moment that he understood why Zhong Ning was determined to implement reforms in the court despite all objections.

Because she comes from the people, she knows what the real people are like.

She also knew that those high-ranking officials had long been accustomed to holding power while awake and sleeping on the laps of beautiful women. Money and power had blinded their eyes.

They have long lost sight of what the real people and the real common people are like.

When the truth was torn open and laid naked before him.

Gu Mingzhe felt his face burning because he had once been one of those people standing high up and looking down at everyone.

"Aning!" Gu Mingzhe stood in the fields, gazing towards the distant Xining City, and couldn't help but mutter, "Are you really not an immortal sent by heaven to have mercy on all living beings?"