Xiao Ken was puzzled. No matter what a person experienced, it was impossible for them to change so much in just a few days.
"The Consort Dowager is getting more and more arrogant! The two-tax system is a rule passed down by our ancestors. Generations of emperors have protected and followed it. The reason why our national treasury is so abundant is because of the contribution of the two-tax system. What does a woman like her know? She actually wants to abolish it just like that?" Ning Bianyi was fuming, and the people around him tried to calm him down, but it didn't have much effect.
As for Ning Bianyi, he was about to spit out a mouthful of saliva when he noticed that Lord Si was acting particularly abnormally today. He did not speak to him and had not heard him say a single word since they had left the hall!
"Lord Si."
"Lord Si?"
It was only when Ning Bianyi called out for the second time that Si Zhengliang came back to his senses.