Zhang Kuan's face was vicissitudes, and Zhang Kuan's face appeared pleading, even pleading, he hoped that Zhang Xiaowu would think that Zhang Biao was just wronged, and he hoped that his son was just bewitched. At this moment, Zhang Kuan is not Prime Minister Zuo, but a father, an old father in his seventies.

The masterminds who plotted the rebellion were all the backbone of the Zhang Party, and Zhang Kuan, the leader of the Zhang Party, obviously couldn't say that he was unaware, he just didn't expect that his son was the mastermind behind it. Zhang Kuan, a smart person, doesn't know that there are undercurrents surging and some people take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, but Zhang Kuan's body is really weak these days. The seventy-three-year-old man, who has been an official for more than 50 years, should indeed rest at the time.

For so many years, he has always been the leader of the Zhang Party, but he himself knows that his grade is too old, and he needs to train his son Zhang Biao as the party leader. But Zhang Biao is a person who is obsessed with learning, seems to have no fighting spirit and no enterprising spirit, and gradually becomes the leader of the clear stream.

At this time, after Emperor Dade suddenly promulgated the reform of the tax law, Zhang Biao was recommended by many scholars and disciples to become the leader of the rebellion against the tax law. Zhang Kuan believed that Zhang Biao could use this opposition to the tax law to establish himself as the new leader of the Zhang Party, so Zhang Kuan pretended to be sick on the one hand, and secretly acquiesced to it on the other. In everyone's cognition, Zhang Biao is a literary leader who does not care about government politics, does not like party disputes, and loves poetry and poetry to promote young people. How could such a person conspire to kill the emperor, and how could he organize such a secret and huge plan.

Zhang Kuan never thought that Zhang Biao would launch an armed coup d'état, what he didn't expect was that his son would buy Li Canglan. Unexpectedly, Zhang Xiaowu relied on his own strength to reverse the situation and challenge Li Canglan's rebels alone.

"Perhaps, there is some misunderstanding in this." Zhang Kuandao.

Zhang Xiaowu's gaze was firm, his attitude did not change at all, he just nodded and smiled, and said, "Zuo Xiang, do you know the fate of the Liyang Hou Mansion?" ”

Zhang Kuan said angrily: "You threaten me? ”

Zhang Xiaowu smiled faintly and said: "I'm not threatening you, I'm informing you that someone is preparing to kill your grandson, and someone is also seducing your daughter. ”

Zhang Kuan said: "I want to see Your Majesty." ”

Zhang Xiaowu directly refused: "You can't see Your Majesty, Zuo Xiang, do you think your son is trying to subvert the imperial power, are you still qualified to see Your Majesty?" Your son wants to kill your grandson, and if you fail like you, how can you have the face to see the emperor? When you see the emperor, if the emperor is angry and orders the court captain to kill you with a cane on the spot, where will you put your face? I respect you for your loyalty to the country for more than 50 years, assisting three generations of emperors in handling the affairs of the court, but you can't make such a big mistake and pray for preservation. Left phase, there is a give-and-take, if you are not reluctant, you will not be able to. ”

Zhang Kuan suddenly took two steps back, his body staggered, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and fell straight backwards. The Zhang family hurriedly caught Zhang Kuan, and immediately someone shouted: "The master fainted." The old man fainted. The men moved him in.

At this time, Zhang Xiaowu raised his hand and ordered: "Xia Ming, lead the team, enter Hengshui Bo Mansion, remember not to kill people, don't disturb the female dependents of Hengshui Bo Mansion." ”

"Whoa."

Xia Ming shouted: "The rest of the people, follow me into the mansion and arrest the prince Zhang Biao." ”

The so-called title of the son, only the earl, the prince of the county deserves to have, Zhang Biao, as the eldest son of Hengshui Bo Zhang Kuan, has been called the son of the world for more than 40 years, and now it is the last time to be called the son. When everyone came to Zhang Biao's study, the flames were soaring, Zhang Biao set himself on fire in the study, and even his book "Confucian Classics" was burned.

When Zhang Xiaowu arrived, the fire in the study had been extinguished, and there was only a corpse that had been burned beyond recognition, and it was impossible to confirm that this was Zhang Biao. Zhang Xiaowu glanced at it lightly, and then announced that this corpse was Zhang Biao, and then he whispered in Zhang Kuan's ear alone: "Congratulations to Zuo Xiang, the prince should be far away, you can tell him that I will not hunt him down again, let him be an ordinary person from now on." It makes the son's scholar angry, as the so-called scholar rebelled for three years, and now he is hastily rebelling, and he will inevitably fail. Zuo Xiang, you're tired too, hand over the fold tomorrow, please resign. ”

Zhang Kuan took a few heavy breaths and said, "The imperial court can't move without me Zhang Kuan." ”

Zhang Xiaowu smiled and said: "No, your students have grown up, and you don't need to suppress them anymore, they secretly showed me that they can take your place." ”

Zhang Kuan's eyes widened in disbelief, but Zhang Xiaowu smiled easily and walked away with his subordinates.

Hengshui Bofu, the next day began to close the house without receiving any guests, the fifth day of the first month, Zhang Kuan handed over the fold, the old man resigned to take care of the day, the emperor must be.

The reckoning of Zhang Biao and Zhao Bu's rebellion continued, but the king of Jin disappeared, and Zhao Bu was also arrested, and then more than 100 officials were involved. Zhang Xiaowu is not the Great German Emperor, for the rebels are naturally killed without forgiveness, and Zhang Xiaowu urgently needs their assets to fill the treasury, from the New Year to the fifth day of the first month, six days, the blood in the city of Longdu is full of blood, and nearly 10,000 people were slaughtered. Among them, especially those who directly participated in the rebellion, they were all killed, and the whole family was executed.

Every day, people were executed on the streets, but their bodies were quickly pulled out of the city and buried casually.

Zhang Xiaowu also sorted out this case of rebellion, half a year ago, the then Hubu Shangshu Xiangrui submitted a national land cultivation area table to Emperor Dade, Emperor Dade found that the people's cultivated land was 2 million mu less than that of Emperor Taiqian, and 5 million mu less than that of Emperor Taiqian's early years, and by consulting the history of the Shenghan Dynasty, the area of land cultivation today has decreased by 30 million mu compared with the peak area of Emperor Shengshun.

At the time of Emperor Shengshun, the Lingnan region had not yet been fully developed, and through more than 100 years of opening up and expansion, and even at the expense of driving out the indigenous people of the Southern Barbarians, the land area of the country had not increased, but had decreased by 20 million mu compared with the time of Emperor Shengshun, which is really hard to believe.

So Emperor Dade ordered Xiang Rui to find out the reason, but Xiang Rui did not need to inquire at all, and directly told Emperor Dade that the reduction in land area was only because of the reduction of land directly taxed by the state, not the real reduction. Therefore, Emperor Dade ordered Xiangrui to carry out land tax reform, the focus of which was to abolish the tax-free fields of the Shi clan, and force those peasant households under the name of the Shi to re-enthrone the land in the local government offices, so as to increase the national cultivated land area and field tax revenue.