Chen Wenchuan left the Zhengcao Yamen and did not take Li Decan's official car, but walked all the way home. The road was full of teams of escorted prisoners, coming and going in a constant stream. Some prisoners met and fought. Most of the people were distant relatives or slaves from the two squads of families, while those who were beaten were officials who were originally showing off their power. These people were implicated because of their masters or the Zong family. They were confiscated their land and property and sent to unfamiliar places. The farthest to the west to Gansu and the east to Ningguta. The empire's border provinces and military appeasement zones needed these labor. Whether they were exiled was not due to their guilt or not, but to how much labor the empire needed.

No one will stop those people from playing, and the people on the street will applaud when they see it. For them, fighting with noble people and evil slaves who bully others is the best and most lively thing.

Chen Wenchuan, who takes everything in his eyes, is a contradiction. Chen Wenchuan doesn’t know how to describe it in words. The fight between master and servant is a gentle and polite way, but how can the people applaud and praise him?

When Chen Wenchuan returned home, he saw that there was a long queue in front of his house. He saw those people wearing green hats and small families with their families. He knew that they were all poor families, including servants in the family, as well as long-term workers and tenants. Everyone came to resolve the contract. According to the empire's orders, the people of Korea were all good households, and contracts such as selling contracts and other personal dependence relationships were abolished. However, the experience summarized in the empire's pacification of the Central Plains provinces was not directly invalidated, but was bought by the official.

"What's the name?"

"If you go back to your boss, little Park Tae."

"Pu Tai, right..." Chen Wenchuan's son Chen Zixing found Park Tai's name in a stack of contracts. He was an old man who rented land by Chen's family. He had rented land for seven years. Chen Zixing shook his abacus and calculated it according to the account book. He said, "Pu Tai, you owe my family's rent of nine stones and five dou and have not paid it back. He also borrowed two cents of silver, right?"

Park Tae nodded: "Yes, yes, what the boss said is right."

Park Tae said this, but his woman pulled him from behind. Park Tae didn't care. The woman said, "Boss, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, my family pushed it with eggs."

Chen Zixing leaned back, and with a thud, his foot hit the table directly, saying, "You are paying interest, not capital."

"Boss, your accountant didn't say that at that time. If you ask him to come, we will confront each other!" The woman was a fierce man and shouted, and she welcomed the echo of a group of people.

Chen Zixing could not find the account room. The businessmen of the Empire arrived in Seoul with the army. The situation was slightly slower and they opened the door and set up shop. People like the Chen family's account room who were both Chinese and Korean and capable of writing and calculation had long been poached by the businessmen of the Empire at a high salary of 5 taels per month.

Park Tae-ze pushed his woman and said, "Why are you doing that? Why do you say that, let's just say it. Anyway, we don't have to pay back the money, it was paid back by the court."

Chen Zixing then put down his feet and said loudly: "Pu Tai owed the Chen family nine stones and five dou of grain and two cents of silver. Now they are all returned to the yamen. From now on, Papa Tai and the Chen family will have no relationship."

After saying that, Chen Zixing took out a piece of mulberry paper, which stated the name of Park Tai and the reason for the accumulation of money and food. Chen Zixing signed it first. Park Tai was ignorant of his big words, and a secretary next to him signed his name. He pressed his handprints. The secretary made the deed, wrote an IOU, and handed it to Chen Zixing. Chen Zixing put it in the box next to him. The secretary said, "Pu Tai, your business is over. Take this note and go to the official to rent your land."

"Thank you, sir, thank you! You will be cleared up in this way!" Park Tae-hwan happily put away the notes and said.

Park Tae’s woman asked carefully: “Master, we heard that the court also gave land to me. If the land is given to me, isn’t it?”

The clerk slapped the table, and a local official in shackles came over. The clerk said, "You explain the policy of dividing border land to the Park family."

Chen Zixing had already started the next one, and the second person was the Chen family's servant. The clerk only wrote an IOU of 12 taels of silver and redeemed the servant's contract. At this time, the criminal had already explained the distribution of border land. After discussing with his wife, he decided to move his family to the Qiqihar Appeasement Zone to obtain treatment of twenty acres of mature fields, one cattle, one plow, and fifty acres of barren fields.

The clerk is also rare to take the initiative to migrate. He asked for the original note from Park Tae and wrote a new one, saying: "What I have given you has written clearly here. You go to the yamen to get the family's winter clothes and shoes and socks. In addition, someone will give you fifteen kilograms of white flour. Remember, when you go home, you will make the white flour into pancakes. You will eat it on the way to Qiqihar. Do you understand?"

"I understand, I understand, I still give out clothes and shoes, OK, OK." Park Tae's family left happily.

It took Chen Zixing two days to finally clarify the relationship between all the servants and tenant farmers in the family and harvest a box of IOUs. When it was finished, it was summarized and there were more than 300 taels of silver and more than 900 stones of rice. It was a considerable wealth. Chen Zixing cleaned up and took advantage of the dinner time to report to his father.

There are only four dishes and a few steamed buns on the round table. Chen Wenchuan has never been extravagant, and the dishes are not necessarily less expensive than before, but the style of dishes has changed drastically. In the past, there were assorted pots and mutton soup in winter, but now the table is full of directly cut cooked food, and only that pot of porridge is considered hot. This is no wonder the kitchen. The chef of the Chen family was also poached by someone for a lot of money, and the servants who helped the kitchen were redeemed and dismissed by the court. This table of dishes was bought by the wife of the Chen family who had not left the door on weekdays. The Chen family, which had been lively for two years, is now very lonely. The father and son sit opposite each other, and are lonely.

"Dad, we have all cleaned up with the imperial court. All the IOUs are here. Tomorrow, my son will go to the yamen to collect debts." Chen Zixing filled Chen Wenchuan with a glass, poured a glass of wine himself, and said with relief.

"Forget it, put away those notes, and you don't have to go to the yamen to ask for it." Chen Wenchuan said, who had been silent for a long time. Seeing that his son was puzzled, Chen Wenchuan said: "You think the new officials in the yamen are easy to share. If you go there, you will not be able to make trouble. You will also cause many troubles in vain."

"What kind of disaster will happen? The notice was issued by the court. It has the seal of the president of the Lifan Academy and the head of the government. It cannot be faked. This IOU was also personally issued by the clerk sent by the Lifan Academy. It is also true. No matter how arrogant they are, they must recognize their own accounts. The son was worried that the night was long and dreamed, and was afraid that the left-behind officials would not recognize it once Li Decan left Seoul......" Chen Zixing said, and he lowered his voice and said to Chen Wenchuan: "Dad, my son sent the clerk back to the Caoyamen this afternoon. I accidentally heard someone say that the king rejected the title of Joseon awarded by the emperor. He wanted to go to the capital and asked for his crimes. He resigned from the throne on the grounds that he had put the vassal side but had lost his virtue to serve the enemy. He also said that the Korean royal family had bowed to serve the captives, and no one could succeed the throne, so please join the heavenly dynasty......"

Dang!

The cup in Chen Wenchuan's hand fell on the table, and he murmured: "I knew, I knew it would be like this..."

Chen Zixing originally wanted to pick up the cup, but found that Chen Wenchuan's hands were trembling. This was not a good sign for an old man in his fifties. He hurriedly asked: "Dad, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Chen Wenchuan shook his head, he was silent for a long time: "I am fifty-seven years old for my father..."

Chen Zixing didn't know what he was going to say, and Chen Wenchuan said: "There were not many old people who came to Seoul with the previous king back then. Old but not dead is a thief. I'm just talking about me. It's such a blessing for those who died with the previous king. There is no need to conflict between the family, country and the world, nor......, ah!"

Chen Zixing seemed to have countless sighs, but in the end it turned into a long sigh.

"Dad, don't think about it randomly. What does the relationship between the king of Korea and our family? The former king gave you a meal and a dress, but you devoted your efforts. Do you really want you to die? After all, the fate of Korea has never been controlled by yourself. To say something that should not be said, Bingzi was in chaos, and Korea surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. If it was not the empire but Zhu Ming, how could he let it go to Korea? He would also be different from the royal family of the Lee Dynasty? After all, the actions of the former king and the king over the years are just a situation where the barbarians are hard to accept. Those small actions are for their own face, and for the grace of the Ming Dynasty. What does it have to do with the current empire?"

Of course, Chen Wenchuan knew that his son was telling the truth, but how could he forget that it was the King of North Korea who allowed him to live and keep his clothes intact.

"For my father, you should have a meal. Remember, if you go to the household in the future, don't force it, let alone force it. Our Chen family has already established a household in this Seoul. We cannot cause trouble because of a moment of indignation." Chen Wenchuan said.

Chen Zixing was puzzled: "No, the imperial court issued a notice and the letter was complete. How can we not admit it?"

Chen Wenchuan smiled bitterly: "Acknowledge the account, who will admit it? If you are a good citizen, he will admit it. But if you are not, I guess if you go to the Caoyamen in the future, the other party will definitely find various reasons to delay the time and not exchange it. If you go there later, you may have to review it again. Check the background of these people who are asking for debts. Maybe you can find a few people who miss the net who are missing the net. For my father, I ask you, how many of those who hold bills can stand the review?"

Chen Zixing didn't feel that he could not stand the review. The key is whether the yamen was reasonable or not. If the yamen was determined to refuse and fabricate some evidence at will, he could put his family in jail and question it. Not to mention asking for debts, he would not even have his own family and life.

"What should I do if my son?" Chen Zixing asked.

Chen Wenchuan said: "You are going tomorrow, just look at it. If someone is willing to give you money, then continue. If someone is unwilling, don't force it."

Chen Zixing opened his mouth and was still a little unhappy, but he thought that his family is no longer a family of officials, but just ordinary people. The so-called good people do not fight with officials, and they are not opponents who have lost their power.

The father and son sat opposite each other, poured wine and drank, making occasional sounds, and it was also the sound of chopsticks hitting the bowls and plates. Until the porridge was completely cold, no one remembered to drink porridge.

On the second day, Chen Zixing went to the Hucao Yamen early, where many people had gathered. As Chen Wenchuan guessed, Hucao Yamen suspended the accounting clearance on the grounds that the demand for military funds was getting worse and the financial turnover was not good, and everyone came back two months later. Some people refused to allow it and started to make trouble. Chen Zixing avoided it from the grounds that he did not participate. A few days later, someone was confiscated and was found guilty. Chen Zixing looked at the list. He recalled that many of them were the leaders in the day when the accounting clearance was made.

When the date of the agreement came, Chen Zixing took the boxes full of IOUs and Account Books and went to settle the accounts, and he was no longer so active. After he had breakfast, he arrived at the Cao Yamen, which had become a commendation meeting. After asking, he found out that some people voluntarily gave up the debts of the yamen and received the commendation of the yamen. Each family received the plaque of "Loyal and Sustainable Gentlemen" and was hung with red color. He sent home like he won the top prize. He also exempted the tax arrears of each family from three to five years, and paid their children to study in the school. Fortunately, North Korea became an official, and a large number of people insisted on asking for the debts. The review really happened. After the review, a large number of people arrested. Fortunately, Chen Zixing did not submit it and avoided the disaster.

Chen Zixing also understood that Xin Dynasty was lying on debt and not paying back the debt. Whoever dared to ask for the debt would throw it into the prison. Not only did they not get the money back, they also threw themselves into the net, so they simply sent the account book and IOU to the yamen, and also exchanged a plaque of "Zhongshun and Gentlemen". This thing is really like a talisman. With this thing, the yamen would not come to cause trouble anymore, and the list of the crime and liquidation naturally eliminated the Chen family.

"Dad, where is this plaque hanging?" Chen Zixing took the plaque home, saw Chen Wenchuan and asked.

Chen Wenchuan said: "I don't know where to hang it for now, so I put it in the warehouse first. If it is used in the future, it will not be too late to hang it again."

Chen Zixing also knew that his father was not very happy, so he obeyed his wishes. Chen Zixing put the plaque in the warehouse, went to the study, and said to Chen Wenchuan: "Dad, my son went to the yamen today and found out about his father."

"What's the matter?" Chen Wenchuan was puzzled.
Chapter completed!