All Hail Cousin Brother

Yu Youyao showed up without much fanfare, and the carriage she rode in was also low-key. Mrs. Sun took the princess's name card, quickly got out of the carriage, and went to take pictures of the cave door next to her.

Then a yamen servant opened the door, and Mrs. Sun quickly handed over her name card and explained her intention.

The yamen servant took it and took a closer look, and said quickly: "It turns out that the princess is here. Our adults have given instructions early in the morning. After the princess arrives, she will directly invite people into the yamen."

As he spoke, he opened the cave door.

Mrs. Sun quickly thanked her, turned around and reported to Yu Youyao, and informed Tao Da to continue on her way.

Someone nearby noticed this scene and noticed that the government officials had a different attitude. Upon closer inspection, they found that although the carriage was low-key, it had the emblem of the "Yu Family" hanging on it.

A family emblem is often a symbol of a family. After all, the Northern Territory is not under the rule of the emperor, and the rich and powerful are everywhere in Jingzhao. Not everyone recognizes the emblem of the Yu family, and no one noticed it for a while.

It was obvious who was sitting in the carriage.

"Look, that's Princess Shaoyi's carriage, with the Yu family's emblem hanging on it..."

"Princess Shaoyi is here? Where is she? Where is she? You are not lying, right..."

"You don't even dare to ride in the princess's car? I remember when she went to Longfeng Temple, it was called a fragrant carriage and BMW, a magnificent building, hundreds of escorts accompanying her, and a swaggering driving style that we don't have in Liaodong yet. Go through such a battle."

"What is this? You haven't seen the scene when Princess Shaoyi came to Xiangping City. Thousands of Youjun escorted her. Wherever she went, no matter people or animals, they retreated. The people along the street We all really thought that some "living Bodhisattva" had come to rescue the suffering, and they all knelt down to greet her and shouted that the princess would live long."

"Isn't this the true color exposed? These women, instead of staying at home to practice etiquette, learn to be a good lady, and inherit the three obedience and four virtues, being filial to their elders and obedient to their parents, they instead came to Liaodong to show themselves. Since ancient times, men Outside of the master, the heroine is in the right place. She doesn't know what to say because of her status, and even interferes in court affairs. She is Si Chen."

"You can't say it like this. It is true that Princess Shaoyi was the first to successfully plant sweet potatoes, and her cultivation was promoted in many areas in Liaodong..."

Someone tried to say a fair word for Princess Shaoyi.

"It's okay," before he finished speaking, someone from the crowd immediately jumped out to retort: ​​"The imperial court encourages trial planting of new species, and distributes new species for free every year. People can go to the yamen under the rule to receive new species based on their household registration. , depending on the number of new crops received, part of the land tax can be reduced or exempted, and there are relevant express provisions. Those who succeed in the trial planting will receive rewards from the court, and the severity of the rewards will be calculated based on the harvest of the new crops."

As soon as this statement came out, someone immediately jumped out to echo:

"Let's put it this way, everyone understands! Experimenting with new species is a national policy implemented by the imperial court. Those high-ranking officials either have someone in their family who is an official, or have a relative who is an official in the government. They must more or less pursue the national policy in order to To show their loyalty to the court, which of their families does not have thousands of fertile fields? Allocate ten acres and hundreds of acres, select a few people who know how to farm and cultivate mulberry trees, and the planting will be successful, and they will gain both fame and fortune. Even if they fail, it will not affect anything. It’s beneficial without any harm.”

"Furthermore, I heard that many high-ranking officials received large amounts of new seeds from the imperial court, lied and concealed the quantity of new seeds planted, colluded with the government, and embezzled money from "partial land tax exemptions" to profit from it..."

"..."

Princess Shaoyi experimented with growing sweet potatoes. There were indeed many people in Liaodong who enjoyed the high yields and various benefits of sweet potatoes. This is an indisputable fact.

The people are very down-to-earth, and whoever gives them enough food is considered good.

It is not advisable to blindly deny the merits of Princess Shaoyi.

And these words are extremely sinister. Through the imperial court's implementation of the national policy on new species, it is used to "weaken" the "credit" of Princess Shaoyi's trial planting of sweet potatoes, and to deduct Princess Shaoyi's trial planting of sweet potatoes. The "utilitarian" behavior that is "only in appearance" characterizes this behavior that benefits the country and the people as "coping with" the imperial government's national policy.

Not mentioning the various difficulties in the planting process, he deliberately pointed out that Princess Shaoyi was a "high-ranking official" and her family had "tens of thousands of acres" of fertile land.

The trial farming does not require Princess Shaoyi to do the farming herself. She just has to talk a lot and hire a few people to help her do the farming.

If the trial planting is successful, she will gain both fame and fortune. If it fails, there will be no loss for her.

Why would such a good thing come about?

Not only that, they even maliciously pointed out some of the shady secrets in the distribution of new seeds and the exemption of land tax for new seeds. Although they did not explicitly accuse Princess Shaoyi, they implicitly connoted Princess Shaoyi.

Don't be afraid to speculate on others with the greatest malice.

But the reality is cruel. When a person falls into the wave of public opinion, there are far more people who are angry and maliciously speculate on others than those who are rational and "rumors stop at the wise".

The results can be imagined.

Princess Shaoyi's planting of sweet potatoes was a utilitarian move to meet the national policy. The success of the sweet potato planting was not due to Princess Shaoyi's credit. She only enjoyed the power brought by the aristocratic family in name only, and stepped on the hard work of the common people. But he gained both fame and fortune.

As soon as these words with ulterior motives came out, the scene was filled with anger.

The focus of everyone's discussion suddenly shifted from Liu Dagen's case to Princess Shaoyi, and soon Princess Shaoyi was thrust into the limelight.

Public opinions like this have been circulating in Xiangping City for many days. At first, considering the identity of Princess Shaoyi, they did not discuss it openly and blatantly. However, as the public opinions continued to ferment, Yu Youyao seemed to be showing weakness. He has been saying nothing about this. What does it mean that the Baifu was imprisoned, which seemed to indirectly confirm that the Baifu was indeed related to Liu Dagen's death, and public opinion began to intensify.

Princess Shaoyi made a low-key appearance, and the wave of public opinion seemed to reach its peak in an instant.

At this time, Yu Youyao had been invited and sat in a specially arranged hearing seat in the main hall of the state government office.

Ye Xiaoci wore an official uniform and sat in the court.

The two exchanged polite greetings, and the closed door of the state government office finally opened, and the people rushed to the door one after another.

Ye Xiaoci didn't waste any time. He first summoned the plaintiff in the case, Ms. Zhang, and the defendant, the Bai family and his wife, the boss behind Jimintang, for interrogation.

Ms. Zhang insisted that her husband just had a common cold and died after taking the medicine from Jimintang.

After her husband died, Mrs. Zhang accidentally learned from an idle gangster in the same village that two days ago, the gangster met a doctor at the head of the village and asked for directions.

The doctor saw the dregs of medicine on the roadside and asked the bastard casually: "This medicine is a prescription for treating common cold evil in the body. But the medicine also contains bezoar, but the patient has strong fever, coma, convulsions and convulsions." Symptoms? If you don’t have such symptoms, you must not use medicine indiscriminately. Although bezoar can relieve fever, it is not good for cold evil."