Xijing Luoyang.

Hundreds of officials, large and small, and soldiers and horses, as well as thousands of civilians, were waiting outside the city. After all, it is the terminal of the Son of Heaven's western tour, and a slightly decent pick-up ceremony must be necessary.

In the welcoming procession, the people were numb, the army was indifferent, and the officials were hesitant, but there was not much joy. Liu Chengyou has been degraded and killed all the way, and his reputation has spread.

The leader is to stay behind, Li Congmin, the Duke of Juguo, standing in the forefront, looking eastward, and at the end of the line of sight, he can vaguely see the dragon flags standing in the forest. Li Congmin is about to enter the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, but the whole person looks abnormally old, and his appearance looks far beyond his age.

His expression is very serious, after all, he has a special identity, he is a member of the former dynasty, and he was appointed by Liu Zhiyuan to stay in Xijing, which was just a move to appease people. Now that the new emperor has changed, it is unknown what attitude he will have.

And, during this time, he offended Prime Minister Su Fengji. And this time, the Son of Heaven toured the west, and Su Fengji was ordered to accompany him, so he couldn't help but worry about his retaliation. The Son of Heaven has disposed of so many officials on this trip, and Li Congmin doesn't think that his ass is clean.

"This is Luoyang?" The royal driver slowly turned to the south gate of Luoyang, and when he looked at the city of Luoyang, Liu Chengyou's tone was a little surprised.

In order to take care of the old minister, Feng Dao was called to the royal car to chat with Liu Chengyou, and at this time, they looked at Luoyang City together, and also had some deep emotion: "Exactly." He has not been to Xijing for many years, and the old minister feels strange. ”

Liu Chengyou's emotion was not that he was surprised by the majesty and magnificence of the city, but that the city seemed too old and decadent. The city is naturally a majestic city, after all, the thousand-year-old capital, the profound heritage, the vastness of the city wall, is Tokyo Kaifeng can not compare. However, there is no such "anger" as Tokyo.

"Minister, Li Congmin stayed in Xijing, and led all the subordinates, generals, ministers, and people in Xijing to welcome the holy driver!" When the royal car was approaching, Luoyang Wenwu under the leadership of Li Congmin greeted him with brushes.

Liu Chengyou got out of the car, stood on the wheel, and swept around condescendingly. The first impression of Xijing officials was: Why are there so many officials!

There are too many people, and Liu Chengyou is sure that most of them are fictitious, which is tired of coming down, I don't know how many lords and old ministers have been produced, and now they are all taken over by the Han Dynasty, after all, they have to buy people's hearts, just like retaining a large number of Later Jin officials in Tokyo, a reason.

swept over those officials who bowed their heads, and looked at the people who were "swarming" around them, and there was no scene of enthusiastic greeting the king, and the atmosphere seemed very serious, serious and a little depressing.

Liu Chengyou didn't say much, but just ordered someone to pass on the message, so that the officials and people of Tokyo would be exempted from courtesy, and the people of Jiashi would be edicted.

"I have repeatedly ordered that there is no need to worship, and it is strictly forbidden to disturb the people. This Luojing official still made such a big move, what do you want to do, to invite pets? When entering the city, Liu Chengyou said lightly.

Feng Dao sat with his ass stretched beside him, his face couldn't help twitching when he heard the words, he felt that Liu Chengyou was a little too strict, if he really didn't want to disturb the people, he, the emperor, should not go out on patrol, and honestly stay in the palace and rule, and he would definitely not disturb the people.

Of course, this is just the old fox's slander in his heart, and he won't say it at all, and he won't even show a little in his expression. After thinking about it, he comforted softly: "Luoyang is also the capital of the country, and now that His Majesty has arrived, the ministers and the people are happy, like looking forward to Ganlin, I think it is from the bottom of my heart......"

Feng Dao's words, Liu Chengyou didn't take it seriously, but he didn't say anything more. It stands to reason that Luoyang Wenwu's respectful welcome should please Liu Chengyou, however, it is against Liu Chengyou's previous orders. made Liu Chengyou feel a little complicated, of course, he also knew that he was not good at being too harsh......

The heavenly street that runs through the north and south of Luoyang is still so wide, but it looks much messy. Personally experiencing Luojing, I can find that there are too many traces of disrepair inside and outside the city.

Enter the Ziwei Palace City, the Imperial Palace, and accept the congratulations of the civil and military forces in Luoyang. This is the first time that the civil and military forces of Luoyang have met Liu Chengyou, the son of heaven, and it is also the first time that Liu Chengyou has seen them. Here, it is almost a small imperial court, even if Liu Chengyou is in Luoyang's political world, there seems to be no problem, and hundreds of civil and military officials will come as soon as they are summoned......

According to the speech prepared in advance, Liu Chengyou spoke again without much emotion. It is probably to explain the purpose of patrolling the west to reassure the people, persuade the peasants, and inspect the government, and slightly explain the "rectification action" along the way, and make some reassuring words, as for how much comfort it has played, it is unknown.

Luoyang palace city is ruined, the Xijing government has no spare strength to repair, and there is no jade wealth left in the palace. However, Liu Chengyou doesn't pay attention to these, it's good to live.

The first thing he did when he settled down was to summon Li Shaoyou and listen to his report. Before coming to the west, Liu Chengyou sent him, a martial envoy, to personally lead the team to Xijing first to secretly investigate the situation.

Li Shaoyou's report made Liu Chengyou extremely angry.

The situation in Luoyang can actually be summed up in one word: carved up.

Whether it is the upstart of the current dynasty, or the old ministers of the previous dynasty, or the officials of other towns, they basically have properties in Luoyang.

Taking Su Fengji as an example, since entering the Central Plains, he has sent a group of domestic servants to occupy a house in Luoyang. In the past year, there are five Su houses in Luoyang City, and more than ten manors around Luoyang, which control more than 50 hectares of land belonging to Su Fengji......

This is just Su Fengji's family, the courtiers in Tokyo, more or less have learned, even Yang Wei, who has always been known for his honesty, also has two mansions in Luoyang City, and the land around Luoyang also has his share. It is said that several of Yang Wei's sons sent people to place it.

How many officials are there in Tokyo, and how many are there in Luoyang. Kaifeng City is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, so not many people dare to act recklessly, and Luoyang is different.

According to various sources, it is estimated that about eighty percent of the land around Luoyang is occupied by officials of all sizes. As for Li Congmin's Tuntian in Xijing, it is only a small scale.

And this leads to a problem, that is, the problem of the hermit, they have to find someone to cultivate it, so a large number of ownerless farmers have become their tenant farmers, and it is likely that they are "voluntary".

After all, the policy of the imperial court is that as long as you register your register, you can get your own land. However, policies are also to be implemented by people, and the people who implement them are basically these bureaucratic classes who occupy the land.

It seems to be a vicious circle.

The displaced people from all over the country should have belonged to the yeoman farmers who allocated land to the imperial court and paid taxes and grain for the imperial court! In the feudal era, yeoman farmers were the main force of the source of the imperial court's finance and taxes.

That is, in this era, the population was sparse, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and there was basically no big contradiction in the land. However, such an abnormal merger in Luoyang made Liu Chengyou extremely frightened. He seemed to see the sight of the rich having a land of hope and the poor having no land.

Of course, all parts of the country are not like this, Luoyang has its own particularities. However, if such a situation is not suppressed, once it spreads, the country will inevitably be unstable. Thinking farther, as long as the world returns to tranquility and the population enters the stage of rapid growth, it will not take a few decades for the entire country to quickly fall into the vicious circle of land contradictions.