The Imperial Concubine Just Wants To Be a Salted Fish Every Day

After the death of Duke Hongguo, the Lu family experienced the most panic period in history.

Fortunately, the Empress Dowager is helping them secretly. Now they have new residences, and they have paid for servants, carriages and horses, and the cost of food and clothing has gradually returned to the past.

The days seemed to return to the past.

However, just this morning, the soldiers of the Jingzhao Mansion suddenly rushed into the Lu Mansion and arrested everyone in the Lu family.

The eldest son of Duke Hongguo, the current head of the Lu family, Lu Yin, was shocked and screamed.

"What are you doing? We are all good people, why are you arresting us?!"

A government soldier took out the arrest document issued by the governor and said loudly.

"More than a dozen merchants have jointly sued the Lu family for not giving money to buy things, condoning servants to beat people, oppressing good people, and being domineering. It has been verified by Jingzhao Mansion, and now I will arrest you to go to Jingzhao Mansion for trial!"

Amid the screams and scolding, more than 30 members of the Lu family were all taken into Jingzhao Mansion.

Mei Guangtao, dressed in official uniform, sat on the high hall and began to hear the case.

As the head of the Lu family, Lu Yin was naturally the main object of interrogation.

He did not admit that he owed money.

He was confident. When the Lu family took credit, they didn't write an IOU. Even if the merchants wanted to sue them, they couldn't produce conclusive evidence.

However, he made things too simple.

Although the merchants can't produce IOUs, they have ledgers, which clearly record how many things they sell every day.

Not only that, they have their own logo on the shelves like cloth furniture, gold and silver jewelry, as long as it is sold from their home, everything has their unique logo.

Not to mention antique calligraphy and paintings, each one is unique and can be recognized at a glance.

The officials of Jingzhao Mansion took the ledger to the Lu family to compare them one by one, and quickly found all those things.

Now Lu Yin couldn't deny it anymore.

He could only try his best to justify himself, saying that it wasn't that they didn't pay back the money, they just didn't have enough money recently, and they would definitely be able to pay it back after a while.

Mei Guangtao couldn't help sneering when he saw that he still wanted to play tricks at this time.

"Do you know how to deal with those who do not pay their debts according to the Dasheng Law?"

As the saying goes, if the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, the Duke of Hongguo himself is not a good thing, and the son who was raised naturally did not learn very well.

Lu Yin has been inexperienced since he was a child. Even if he stayed in Taixue for a period of time due to his family's relationship, he was still clueless, and he didn't know anything about Dasheng's laws.

It was precisely because he did not understand the law that he dared to blatantly instruct his servants to shoot out the merchants who came to ask for debts.

Hearing Fu Yin's question at this moment, Lu Yin didn't think much about it and pouted.

"It's just that I owe some money. If it's a big deal, I'll have people pay them back."

Mei Guangtao has been an official for many years, who has not seen him?

When he saw Lu Yin's ignorant stupidity, he knew that it was useless to talk too much, so he directly asked people to take out all the valuable things in the Lu family, sold the unified code to the pawnshop, and then used the money from the pawn to pay off the Lu family's debt to the merchant. their money.

When the merchants got the money, they were naturally satisfied and happy.

Lu Yin had a sad face, and dared not speak out.

However, this is not the end.

Mei Guangtao: "The Lu family is bullying people and condoning servants to beat people. This is still at the feet of the emperor. You dare to be so arrogant. If you can't teach a lesson, I'm afraid that you will intensify the bullying of the good people in the future. All the above men were sent to the Tongshan Quarry for a month of corvée service as an example!"

Lu Yin was shocked and exclaimed: "I don't want to serve corvée! We are a noble family, and we have the privilege of not serving corvée!"

Since the rise of the nobility, there has been a great difference between the nobility and the common people.

The gentry did not have to perform corvée and military service, and the land and business under their name did not need to pay taxes. Some of the more powerful families even kept private soldiers.

The common people not only have to serve three months of corvée service every spring and summer, but every household has to have at least one male to serve in the military, and all kinds of taxes are terrifyingly high. Not to mention doing business. Excessive and miscellaneous taxes can almost crush people to death. After paying taxes, there is basically not much money left by merchants every year.

In the previous dynasty, the common people were not even qualified to participate in the scientific examination, which was a game that only the nobility could afford.

It was not until the Great Sheng Dynasty that this restriction was broken, and ordinary people had the opportunity to participate in scientific examinations to change their lives.

But that's all there is to it.

The privileges of the gentry still remain, and they still monopolize most of the country's resources.

Mei Guangtao sneered after hearing Lu Yin's words.

"You have already been demoted to commoners, and you are not a gentry at all."

Lu Yin choked, and then shouted: "Although we are no longer a noble family, but I am the nephew of the Empress Dowager. You treat me like this, aren't you afraid that the Empress Dowager will blame me?!"

Mei Guangtao propped on the table with one hand, leaned forward slightly on the upper book, and smiled coldly.

"This official is not afraid to tell you the truth. Some officials have already impeached the emperor for the stupid things your Lu family did. The emperor was very unhappy and signaled that this official must deal with this matter severely. Do you understand the meaning of this?"

Lu Yin didn't expect that he only owed a little money, and even the emperor knew about it.

He was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he dared not speak any more.

Mei Guangtao waved his hand.

Immediately, a government soldier stepped forward, grabbed Lu Yin roughly, and dragged him out.

In the afternoon of the same day, all the males over the age of 12 in the Lu family were sent to the Tongshan Quarry for one-month reform through labor.

This matter was soon introduced into the palace.

Lu Xinyao burst into tears immediately, her father and her brother had never done any heavy work, and if they were to serve a month of corvée labor, they would definitely be exhausted to death!

She cried and went to the Empress Dowager and asked the Empress Dowager to help save the Lu family.

When the Empress Dowager heard this, she was shocked and angry.

She immediately sent someone to invite the emperor over.

The Empress Dowager asked: "The emperor has already confiscated all the Lu family's property, why should they send them to corvé service? You don't know how hard it is to serve corvée. Do you really want to kill the Lu family before being willing to do so? ?!"

Now that the two military talismans have been in Luo Qinghan's hands, he is in control, and he is too lazy to pretend to be a snake with the empress dowager.

He said with a blank face.

"As long as the imperial grandmother promises not to interfere in our private affairs, the Lu family will naturally be safe and sound."

The Empress Dowager was taken aback by his undisguised threat.

After a long while, she made a sound in disbelief.

"You've worked so hard just to vent your anger on the imperial concubine?"

Luo Qinghan didn't answer, just looked at her so coldly.