"Have you heard? Mr. Wu's house was confiscated."
"What Master Wu? That's Wu Youde! No, it's Wu Quede!"
"Wu Youde, doesn't that mean he has no virtue? It means the same thing anyway."
"Wu Youde deserves what he got for his crime. However, those who bought the Wu family's land are blessed! The Wu family has been confiscated, and they don't have to pay grain to the Wu family..."
"Yeah! Why don't we have such good luck?"
"I heard that the prince was just looking for trouble and confiscated all the property of Wu Youde's family! This is called killing the chicken to scare the monkey, and it was done specifically for those wealthy families who don't cooperate with the new tax system to see."
“…”
The news of the Wu family's property being confiscated spread throughout Sifang County in a short period of time.
There were people who applauded, while others had conspiracy theories.
With the support of various conspiracy theories, the wealthy families in Sifang County are in a state of crisis.
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In fact, according to the laws of the imperial court, the things committed by the Wu family did not warrant a confiscation of their property.
But the bad thing was that the ox that Old Liu had was given by Yun Zheng, which gave Yun Zheng the opportunity to make use of the situation.
Therefore, the wealthy families in Sifang County are more inclined to believe in conspiracy theories.
Now, those wealthy families are all in fear, fearing that Yun Zheng will catch them and use this as an excuse to ransack their homes.
Some timid big households have already started buying back land.
There is some truth to the saying that rich people are unkind.
Among the wealthy families in the county, how many dare to say that they have never done anything against the law?
If Yun Zheng was really determined to investigate, not to mention having done anything against the law, even if he had not done it, he would probably be framed with some crime and then have his house searched.
They certainly don't want to pay more taxes.
But the current situation is not optimistic.
Paying more taxes and grain is better than having your property confiscated, right?
However, when some wealthy families had negotiated to repurchase the land from previous buyers at a higher price or with better conditions and were preparing to go to the Zongzheng to register the land, they were told that the registration of land in the county was suspended.
After hearing this news, the wealthy families became even more worried.
Many people suspected that Yun Zheng was going to use a knife on them.
The entire Sifang County began to be filled with a depressing atmosphere, and many people even considered giving up everything they had and quickly fleeing the county.
"If you keep going like this, I'm afraid those wealthy families in Sifang County will be scared to death by you."
In the palace, Ye Zi smiled and said to Yun Zheng who was holding Yun Cang and basking in the sun.
"Just be scared to death!"
Yun Zheng said disapprovingly: "If you have done nothing wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door! If I don't teach them a lesson, they really think that I won't dare to touch them if they unite!"
“So when do you plan to open the land registry?”
Shen Luoyan, who was teasing the child nearby, looked up and asked.
"Let's wait for them for a while!"
Yun Zheng said calmly, "If someone really can't stand the pressure and voluntarily gives up the contract and flees to another state, then I should be happy!"
Landlords and gentry are often the smartest, but also the dumbest.
They are so naive!
They always think that they should cherish their reputation, but they don't know that they don't care about reputation at all, and have never thought of relying on their support to seize the world.
They take them too seriously!
"You can be quite stubborn sometimes."
Ye Zi smiled helplessly, not knowing how to persuade Yun Zheng.
Fortunately, Yun Zheng had a large number of troops under his command, otherwise, Fuzhou would have been in chaos long ago.
As the two were talking, Yu Fu came to report that someone was entrusted to deliver a letter to Yun Zheng.
Yu Fu originally wanted the man to hand the letter to him, but the man said that the person who sent him to deliver the letter had repeatedly instructed him that the letter must be delivered to Yun Zheng personally.
“Bring it in!”
Yun Zheng ordered.
I don’t know if it was a letter sent by Hou Shikai.
Soon, the messenger was brought before Yun Zheng, "I pay my respects to Your Majesty."
"Get up!"
Yun Zheng raised his hand slightly and asked again: "But did Hou Shikai ask you to deliver the letter?"
"yes!"
The servant nodded quickly and took out a letter and handed it to Yun Zheng.
Yun Zheng took the letter nervously and opened it quickly.
After a quick glance, Yun Zheng felt relieved and immediately ordered Yu Fu: "Find a place to settle him down and reward him with five taels of silver!"
"yes!"
Yu Fu took the order and quickly took the servant away.
It was not until they left that Ye Zi came over to check the contents of the letter.
"Done?"
A bright smile appeared on Ye Zi's face.
"Not only did it work, but there was also an unexpected surprise!"
Yun Zheng showed a bit of a sneer on his face, "The third brother is really still ruthless!"
Although Hou Shikai did not say in the letter why Yang Huizhou went to Su's, he could guess with his toes the purpose of Yang Huizhou's going to Su's!
It is nothing more than winning over the Su family and letting the Su family join forces with other powerful people in Fuzhou to make trouble for himself.
He just wanted to ruin his plan of distributing the tax based on the amount of land he owned!
All signs indicate that Su has hooked up with the third brother!
In that case, don't blame yourself for being ruthless!
Originally I just wanted to teach them a profound lesson, but now that they are involved with the third brother, that’s a different matter!
"Are you going to do something ruthless to the Su family?"
Ye Zi noticed the coldness in Yun Zheng's eyes and asked softly.
Yun Zheng looked at Ye Zi from the side, "Do you think I should be ruthless to the Su family?"
"That depends on how far you go."
Ye Zi smiled and said, "If you want to wipe out the Su family, that would be a bit cruel."
She knew that Yun Zheng had extorted millions of taels of silver from Yun Li.
If Yun Zheng was determined to destroy the Su family openly, he could just secretly capture a few members of the Su family and then stage an assassination plot, which would be enough to destroy the entire Su family!
And, that was just what she could think of.
If Yun Zheng has this intention, there are definitely many ways to do it.
"It's not like the whole clan will be wiped out."
Yun Zheng shook his head and smiled, "The Northwest Protectorate is still very short of people. I'm thinking of moving 200,000 people from Fuzhou there! I think it's too cruel to let the human race be exterminated for such a small matter."
"That's fine."
Ye Zi smiled and leaned her head on Yun Zheng's shoulder. "You gave the Su family a chance, but they still wanted to get involved with Yun Li. You should be ruthless! If you don't want the issue of tax distribution to affect spring ploughing, it's better to cut the Gordian knot."
"That's what I thought."
Yun Zheng put his arm around Ye Zi's shoulders, his eyes flashing with coldness: "There is really no need to waste time with the Su family. Let's just attack from both sides! Kill this troublemaker first!"
The moment Yun Zheng learned that Su was involved with Yun Li, he had already lost his patience.
In other words, he has overcome that hurdle in his heart!
If the Su family gets involved with the third brother, they will become his enemies!
There is no need to be merciful when dealing with enemies!
Since the Su family thinks that I dare not touch them, then I will try to touch them myself!
He wanted to see how big a splash the Su family could make!
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