My Daming New Empire

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Although the imperial court has been promoting the prosperity of Nanyang, most people are dubious.If it's really that good there, how could it still be miasma everywhere?

But everyone knows that it is true that Nanyang is rich in food. When you arrive in Nanyang, as long as you are not lazy, it is not a problem to have a full stomach.

Yan Shutong was the county magistrate in Qufu, and several relatives of the family went with him, and they all arranged errands in the county government. He was escorted back to Beijing, and naturally these relatives also returned to Yingtian Mansion.

Because of the constraints of the family, no one dared to covet his family property, and brought back all the family property he had saved in the past few years.

Of course, when they returned to Yingtian Mansion, these family assets would be paid [-]% to the clan and let them buy ten acres of clan land, but Yan Shutong still left several hundred taels of property here.

Because he was sentenced to exile in Luzon, Nanyang, if he did not bring his family there, he would be exempted from crime if he served as an academic officer there for five years.

However, if you are willing to take your family to migrate to Nanyang and take root there, you can be exonerated directly, and you can even continue to manage a county seat there as a county magistrate.

Yan Shutong is only thirty this year, so he is naturally full of ambitions, so he tends to choose the latter.

On this point, her mother also strongly agrees, her husband is dead, and this old woman has only her son to rely on.How could she be willing to let her son suffer alone in Nanyang, why not migrate there with the whole family.

Although it is in Nanyang, the Yan clan is still very happy to be able to continue to retain the post of county magistrate.

There is a tribe who can go to Nanyang to serve as the county magistrate, and Nanyang is now vigorously reclaiming wasteland. Their Yan family is just a village surname in Daming, and it is nothing but the village.

If a branch can really be developed in Luzon, it will be worthy of the ancestors of the Yan family.

Therefore, during the few days when Yan Shutong returned home, in addition to enjoying the family happiness with his wife and children, he was also discussing the arrangements for going to Luzon with his tribe.

But Yan Shutong can't leave now. Although he has been released, the case of the Kong family is still involved in him.Therefore, he cannot leave Yingtian Mansion until the trial of the Kong family case is completely over.

However, he has already said that he wants to transfer the private land in the clan, and the whole family will move to Luzon to develop well there.

As an official of the imperial court, he knows the situation in Luzon better than the common people, and he is very sure about the future development there.

The climate there is hot, crops are cropped three times a year, the land is fertile, and there is no shortage of water sources. The only thing is that there are too many miasmas, hot climate, and too much malaria.

However, he was still a county magistrate, so he would not face various problems easily like ordinary people.

However, if the matter of the Kong family is not resolved, he can only stay in Yingtian Mansion and can't go anywhere.

By mid-April, all the fields including the house had been dealt with.

There is a family, and these land and houses are taken over by the clan, and the price given is relatively reasonable.

He is a criminal officer now, and he is a county magistrate when he goes to Nanyang. The Yan family is just a small family, and he will be counted on to flourish in the future, so he will not be treated harshly because of this.

Today, Uncle Yan was at the patriarch's house, and he was still discussing with him who he would bring to Nanyang this time.His follower, who was also the nephew of the clan, came galloping severely, and rushed in directly.

Yan Yan accompanied Uncle Yan to study Wen, and his personality has gradually stabilized over the years.Seeing his panic-stricken appearance, Yan Shutong moved in his heart and asked, "But there is news from Beijing?"

"Sixth Uncle, it's the servant who came to deliver the decree, why did this alarm the palace!"

Yan Shutong frowned, he didn't think that a small county magistrate like himself could disturb the palace, but now that the servant came to deliver the decree, his heart arose.

The patriarch was timid and didn't dare to be careless, so he immediately said: "Go back quickly to meet the order, and don't neglect the angel."

Yan Shutong returned to the two courtyards that still belonged to his family, and eight horses were tied outside the gate of the courtyard.

In the courtyard, the mother was standing in the courtyard, arranging for several juniors to set up an incense table, waiting for the order.Faced with such a situation for the first time, everyone seemed a little panicked.

Seeing Yan Shutong coming in, his mother rushed over to meet him, and grabbed his arm worriedly.He tremblingly said: "My son... this angel..."

Yan Shutong said with a relieved smile: "Mother, don't worry. It shouldn't be a bad thing. If it was a bad thing, the child would be arrested directly. Why bother to pass the decree... I'll go in and ask."

In the main room, a servant in red, two servants in green, and four guards were drinking tea. When they saw Yan Shutong coming in, they all looked over.

Yan Shutong bowed to the ground and said loudly, "Yan Shutong, the criminal officer, has seen an angel." But he wondered in his heart, how could seven people have eight horses?

The leading eunuch smiled and said: "He is a good-looking talent, but why did he get so close to the Kong family at the beginning, right and wrong? It's a pity."

As soon as he finished speaking, he took out a folded official document from his pocket and said, "Our family came here to deliver the decree, and by the way, I also brought you the payment order from the Ministry of Punishment. I will talk about the decree later, and you should first look at the decree from the Ministry of Punishment." Official documents!"

The order passed to him by the Ministry of Criminal Justice said: Kong Yanjin, the head of the Kong family, has arrived in the capital, and the trial will officially start on April [-]th. He is asked to go to Dali Temple to testify for the trial on April [-]th.

At this time, Yan Shutong was even more puzzled, because this incident did not need to alarm the grandson of Jian Guo at all, how could it attract the edict from the servant.

But Yan Shutong didn't dare to be sloppy, this was the first time the family received an order, and the others didn't know the rules, and they were panic-stricken, so he needed him to arrange it so that they wouldn't lose their manners.

He pleaded guilty, asked some angels to sit down for a while, arranged an incense table, and asked his mother to take fourteen silver coins, and the others each had two. silver coins.

After everything was finished, the leading servant received a copy of the Minghuang imperial decree from the entourage, and declared the decree at the door of the main room.

This imperial decree was extremely simple, and it was just that Yan Shutong was ordered to go to the hot spring courtyard with his servants to wait for orders.

"The guilty minister accepts the decree..." Yan Shutong helped his elderly mother before he stepped forward to accept the imperial decree. He turned his head and gave a wink, and Yan Yan hurriedly handed the wrapped silver coins to everyone's hands one by one.

They smiled and took the silver coins, and then Yan Shutong asked: "Angels, the criminals are low-ranking and not very familiar with the situation in Beijing. I just don't know why His Highness called the criminals today? I hope you can Let me tell you one or two, and the guilty minister should be fully prepared, so as not to be dishonored in front of the imperial court."

The leading servant smiled and said: "Our family is not very aware of the specific affairs. We only know that His Highness the Crown Prince has always been concerned about the affairs of the Kong family. He knows that the head of the Kong family is coming to Beijing and wants to see him. His Highness is a filial son, so naturally he does not want to It will go against the opinion of His Royal Highness, so when our family came, it is said that the Patriarch of the Kong family has been summoned to meet him in the hot spring courtyard."

At this moment, Yan Shutong somewhat understood.

It was the grandson who was going to deal with the Kong family, but the prince had some affection for the Kong family, so this time it was a problem between the prince and the grandson.

He has participated in many affairs of the Kong family, and he can be regarded as a key witness, so he was called to the other court to meet him.

In order to receive the order, Yan Shutong had already changed into an official uniform, so there was no need to change at this time.He bowed and said, "The guilty subject will follow the angel."

He ordered Yan Yan to prepare a carriage and go to the hot spring courtyard to wait for him, so he got on the horse with several special envoys and went to the hot spring courtyard first.

In the hot spring courtyard, Zhu Gaochi, who had recently recovered a little energy, was lying on a soft sofa.Zhu Zhanji sat on his left, and opposite him was Kong Yanjin with a white face.

Originally, he hated the Kong family very much, because it carried the memory of his previous life.

In his heart, all the Kong family members are moths, scumbags, old and cunning people.

But when he saw the current Patriarch of the Kong family, this little boy who was three years younger than himself, looked trembling, he felt that he couldn't bear to punch a primary school student.

His father died when he was only nine years old, so he inherited the title of Lord Yansheng, and his servant has been studying the Four Books and Five Classics under the guidance of the great Confucian in the clan.

At the age of 16, he officially inherited the position of Patriarch, and then wrote an article "Meng Yuan Su Zheng Lu" under the bewitching of someone with a heart.

In order to rectify the name of his ancestors, he regarded Meng Yuan as orthodox.

As soon as this book came out, Zhu Di was furious, and directly cut off the title of Lord Yansheng.

A 16-year-old boy, when he was in high spirits, suffered such a big blow, and was terrified all of a sudden. In the past few years, he has been staying in the Confucian mansion, rarely showing his face.

But after all, he is the head of the Kong family. No matter what good things the Kong family did, he would bear this name. If they did something bad, he would not be able to escape the responsibility.

He is a little guy, he is the opponent of those old guys, and he has been cheated a lot in the past few years.