There are friends from afar, how can you be happy if you don't pit it?

Li Ran gave full play to the spirit of losing friends, and pulled Pei Donglai into the water with a word.

"Princess Taiping has arrested the big businessmen of the entire Chang'an City, do you let it go or not."

It's such an abrupt multiple-choice question, good friends meet, shouldn't they hug each other and have a meal together, take a sauna or something?

“…… What sin did they commit? ”

Pei Donglai had to answer, it is the duty of Dali Temple to interrogate in prison, if Princess Taiping really has perverse behavior, Li Ran's testimony is very important.

"They made a mistake for spring ploughing, specifically, I poached their tenant farmers, and their land was idle and wasted, so Princess Taiping found a reason to put them in prison, confiscated their property, and then confiscated the land and distributed it to the tenant farmers."

Unabashedly straightforward, Pei Donglai's face turned green when he heard it.

arrogant and domineering, robbing people's property...... His first reaction was to almost draw his knife and take Li Ran down.

Then he was stunned by Pei Min's eyes and calmed down.

Wrong! Li Ran is famous.

Although the reason for mistaking spring ploughing is nonsense, Princess Taiping issued an edict with a legal procedure, so the merchants could not complete it, which was indeed against the law of the country.

Therefore, Li Ran's approach is simple and rude, but he can't pick out the thorns!

Pei Donglai's scalp instantly numb, and he understood why he would be honest.

Li Ran was telling himself that everything he did had rules to follow, even if he was stabbed in front of Wu Zetian, he was at ease!

“…… How much of the situation in Chang'an City do you control? ”

Pei Donglai stepped back and asked in a deep voice.

"On the official face, there are seventy-seven-eighty-eight, three-class and ninth-rated, and there is no one in Chengdu."

Li Ran told the truth, and suddenly smiled mysteriously, "However, you are here, and it is estimated that you can also be seventy-seven-eighty-eight." ”

"What do you mean?!" , Pei Donglai's most troubled expression came again, as uncomfortable as being stripped naked.

"Of course, I ask you to help, clean up the opposition in Chang'an City, rest assured, I won't let you do it in vain, you are now Dali Siqing, with your age, it will be a little difficult to rise again, but there will be a few more industries and land in Chang'an City, it won't be too much."

“…… You're a bribe! ”

"Don't pretend to be a big-tailed wolf, when you were in Luling, you ate at my house every day, what virtue do you have, can I not know? You can rest assured, I do things in accordance with the law and will never exceed the rules. ”

Pei Donglai suddenly had an expression of I believe you are a ghost, but his mind was indeed active.

cooperated with Li Ran, and he didn't seem to have lost anything.

"What are you going to do?" Finally, he 'fell'.

"After entering the city, two decrees were announced."

Half an hour later, the news that Luoyang City had come to set things right spread throughout Chang'an City.

The local bureaucrats rejoiced, as if they had seen the sunshine in the cold winter, and Princess Taiping's good days were over!

In fact, Pei Donglai's approach did give them a shot in the arm.

The first decree was to deprive Princess Taiping of the right to manage Chang'an City, and to launch an investigation into her various practices.

Happy Puben, almost did not set off two strings of firecrackers to celebrate the celebration.

However, the second decree is a bit regrettable.

Pei Donglai demanded that all bureaucrats in Chang'an City continue to work on a daily basis to keep the city running before the investigation was over.

The reason is understandable, but at present, the people who hold power are all airborne officials appointed by Princess Taiping, so they can only adopt an overhead strategy, and Yang Fengyin is violated.

In a word, you outsiders can issue government decrees, but whether they are implemented or not, our grassroots officials have the final say!

This is the situation that Li Ran wants...... It's perfect for fishing in troubled waters.

Originally, the merchants and landlords in prison still had a glimmer of hope for seeing the light of day, but Pei Donglai dragged them like this, which completely cooled them.

Although the verdict is not announced, these people do not have the cockroach attribute of Zheng Su, the prison prison, that is where people stay?

On weekdays, one by one they are pampered, and they have no oil and water for several meals, and they fall ill one after another, and then infect each other, and in a few days, they become serious and then from severe to terminal.

By the time Pei Donglai announced that their punishment was too harsh and that they should be released from prison, there was no longer a single living merchant or landlord in the prison, and in fact, Pei Donglai was waiting for the last person to die before issuing the order.

During this period, Li Ran frantically dumped the materials of Luling in the Chang'an market...... With the size of Chang'an, his hoarding of materials was originally far from enough, but the big businessmen were imprisoned in prison, and the entire Chang'an business community was leaderless.

At this point, the commercial lifeline of Chang'an City was completely in his hands.

However, this is only the beginning, business is only one of the lifeblood of the economy, along with land and people!

The distribution of confiscated land to tenant farmers was not to rob the rich and help the poor, but to enrich the pockets of the government...... The extra tax is more than doubled.

Based on this alone, Luoyang City has to be praised, and the tax revenue is more than equal to the abundant treasury, and there is nothing wrong with it.

And the land and tenant farmers he 'rented' from the big businessmen naturally fattened his own pockets, and the creditors died, so this debt was naturally written off, right?

Quickly planted potatoes and hybrid rice, and a few months later, he had the final say in the production of food in Chang'an City.

All this, the big and small subordinate officials of Chang'an City saw it in their eyes, and they were anxious in their hearts, and they wanted to stop Li Ran's small actions more than once.

It's just that they disobey the official documents from above, so how can the superiors agree to their petition?

The two gangs competed, and Li Ran profited, not only fattening his pockets, but also gaining a firm foothold with several newly appointed government officials, such as Shi Xue Sixing, the new governor of Chang'an.

After this guy received Li Ran's secret letter, he resigned from his job as Youyu Lin Wei very quickly and took up his post lightly.

Taking advantage of the distribution of confiscated land, he quickly grasped the rights of agriculture and pastoralism, dismissed all the local bureaucrats who were not open-minded, and selected a group of clever stewards from among the tenant farmers, with very good results.

And Yang Yuanyan, the new chief secretary in charge of household administration, is also outstanding, with the distribution power of tens of thousands of tenant farmers in hand, and the small landlords who have not been suppressed still have to hold him well.

After the foundation was solidified, Pei Donglai's investigation results were also released.

"Princess Taiping found that the shortcomings of the Chang'an official office were meritorious, but it was overkill, and she should be asked to return to Luoyang, sent by the emperor, and Li Ran, the master of Taichang Temple, recruited tenant farmers for the construction of a mausoleum, and asked to return to Luoyang by the emperor."

The very neutral investigation results are all facts, but the results of how to deal with them are kicked into Wu Zetian's hands again.

When the proclamation document was delivered to Luoyang City, Princess Taiping and Li Ran's return carriage also hit the road briskly.

The two of them sat in the carriage, not half worried.

Especially Princess Taiping, leaning lazily on the car window, her eyes slightly drunk.

"Nephew, you are really a talent, and my aunt loves you."

“…… Auntie, you're drunk. ”

Li Ran smiled faintly and gently snatched the wine glass from her hand.

This girl, the wine is terrible, and she talks nonsense when she is drunk, but fortunately, Xian Hui'er is not around, and she is not jealous and flies.