"Ahh......h

Menzi exclaimed after hearing this, and sat down on the ground.

"Attack!"

The captives shouted in unison, and they entered the Lu Mansion.

The door couldn't stop it, and he didn't dare to stop it, so he had to watch the soldiers go straight to the backyard of the Lu family.

"Ah......h

"Don't!"

"Who are you?"

"Stop, what do you want to do?!"

“……”

In the Lu family's house, there was a burst of chickens and dogs.

Master Lu was still pampering his new concubines, but he was interrupted by the unruly army that broke in, and he was dragged out of the room in disheveled clothes.

Behind the Dang Army, followed by the officials of the Ministry of Military Justice and the Ministry of Households, as well as the Imperial Historical Tower.

The Ministry of Judge Advocate General supervises whether the prisoners have violated military rules in the process of raiding their homes, such as hiding property and raping/adulterating women.

The household department is responsible for counting the value of the property copied from the house, while the imperial history of the imperial history platform is responsible for supervising the household officials.

Avoid corruption as much as possible!

Although the problem of corruption can never be solved, even Zhu Yuanzhang embezzled 60 taels of skin and grass, killed tens of thousands of people and killed them so ruthlessly, and the officials were not afraid of being killed.

Chen Yan doesn't think that he can be more ruthless than Zhu Yuanzhang and can stop the greed in people's hearts!

But this does not prevent Chen Yan from doing his best to curb corruption.

The head of the Lu family shouted desperately, and his wife and children also kept screaming, but this didn't change anything.

Such a scene happened almost simultaneously in various mansions in Anping City, and those wealthy landlords who took advantage of this time to raise prices and make money were almost wiped out.

The entire sky over Anping City was full of howls!

Ordinary people were also frightened by this scene and did not dare to go out, thinking that the Dang Capture Army had caused a military disaster, so they hid in their homes and listened to the movement outside and shivered.

It wasn't until the soldiers rode in the city and announced that they were going to put the profiteers on trial, so that all the people could see them, that they settled down.

In addition, the military discipline of the Dang Captives Army was indeed good during this time, they never bullied the people, and they paid back money for buying things, so the people woke up one after another, and it turned out that the Dang Captives Army did not make a military disaster!

Many people walked out of their homes and converged in the direction of the county government.

I heard that some time ago, while the army was besieging the city, the profiteers who made a lot of money were going to be killed, and the people were excited.

Those profiteers are the ones who cheat, how can they not hate those profiteers!

……

In the back hall of the county government, Chen Yan sat behind a table and sipped his teacup lightly.

Opposite him, Wu Linglong stood there, frowning slightly and admonishing Chen Yan.

"Governor, you can't do this, if you really try those merchants, you will push those merchants to your opposite."

Chen Yan spread his hands a little disappreciatively.

"I don't think so."

"I don't agree with your current behavior, you confiscate the landlord's land and distribute the land to the mud legs, which will make you lose the support of the landlord and squire."

"Not only that, but you also cracked down on the businessmen who raised prices, which pushed the businessmen to the opposite side of you, and only these people are educated, without these people to help you govern the party, you will never be able to succeed."

"These people are the foundation of the real emperor's hegemony, without the support of these people, you will sooner or later be exterminated by the imperial army with the support of these people, those mud legs are ignorant and cowardly, it is impossible to help you."

Wu Linglong continued to persuade bitterly.

"No, my foundation is not those landlords and squires, nor those wealthy businessmen, but those mud legs in your mouth."

"Whether my subordinates are generals or soldiers, whether they are officials or anything else, they were just mud legs in your mouth before."

"In fact, until now, there has not been a landlord and squire in your mouth, a wealthy businessman, who has taken the initiative to invest in my conversion."

Chen Yan said with an extremely calm expression, what he wanted was never a feudal country like the Great Song Dynasty.

Perhaps in the eyes of the people of this era, the landlords and squires are the foundation, but in the eyes of Chen Yan, they are moths, moths lying on the body of the country to suck blood, and moths that slowly pull the country into the abyss step by step.

"If you don't have their support, you won't be able to find enough scholars to be officials and manage the place for you."

Wu Linglong insisted.

Chen Yanpo glanced at Wu Linglong meaningfully.

"What do you think is the purpose of me promoting literacy among the captives and running literacy classes and schools in various places?"

Chen Yan had already begun to arrange when the Dang Capture Army had just launched Erfeng Mountain, and every time he occupied a village, he would organize local villagers to read and write, run literacy classes, and run night schools.

"You...... Is this digging up their roots? ”

Wu Linglong looked at Chen Yan with a frightened expression.

Chen Yan showed a light smile on his face and did not answer.

"You are crazy, without them, even if you divide one side in the future, or even overthrow the Great Song Dynasty, how can you govern the country?"

"Do you rely on those mud legs who only know a few words?"

Wu Linglong said.

"Do they think they are important and indispensable?"

Chen Yan asked rhetorically.

"The bloodline nobles of the pre-Qin period also thought so, and the family gate lords of the Han and Wei and Jin dynasties also thought so, but what was the result?"

Before Wu Linglong could answer, Chen Yan continued.

I don't know why, Wu Linglong suddenly felt a little chill behind her, and her eyes were full of horror when she looked at Chen Yan.

As if she had recognized Chen Yan for the first time, she stared blankly at Chen Yan's side face!

Since the establishment of the imperial examination in the Sui Dynasty, the ruling class has been declining, from the family gate valve to the ordinary landlord class.

The imperial examination has developed to the Song Dynasty, and the various systems have become relatively perfect, as long as you are innocent, you can participate in the imperial examination.

But although you can participate in the imperial examination, whether you can pass the exam or not is another matter!

The most basic requirement is to start reading from an early age, practice calligraphy, and read the Four Books and Five Classics.

But is this really something that ordinary people can do?

No, absolutely not!

Ordinary people have always struggled on the verge of life and death, and they can't afford to support a reader, and the most basic need for a reader is books, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

And these things, in this era, are definitely luxuries, not something that ordinary people can afford.

A simple calculation shows that at least twenty people need to work on the land to support the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone needed to support a scholar.

In other words, if you want to participate in the imperial examination, if you want to read and write, in this era, at least you have to be from a small landlord family.

Otherwise, you won't be able to afford it!

Even if it is a small landlord family who wants to support a scholar, it has tightened its belt to live.