The gentry of Jizhou panicked, and the matter of Anping was settled, because of the death of a county order, the entire Anping County was killed from the county to Anping County, and the gentry of the thirteen counties and their disciples paid the price of tens of thousands of people, what is this concept? More than half of the gentry of Anping County were exterminated.

What's even worse is that Chen Mo controls a large number of criminal evidence and publishes it in various counties, and every family is made public, not only killing people, but also nailing people to the pillar of shame.

At this moment, the gentry of Jizhou counties suddenly became a lot more honest, for fear that Chen Mo would carry this out, after all, he could become a wealthy gentry, with a huge family business, and there would always be a few scum in the clan who liked to make trouble out of nothing, and some contradictions were irreconcilable.

The gentry of the counties now don't talk about embarrassing the newly appointed county magistrates, all families are confined to their homes, honest people, and even more strictly ordered the children of the family not to behave outside the law.

As a result, the new county orders of each county were also implemented, and they began to quickly control the real power of each county, and the new policy of Jizhou began to be implemented rapidly, but this matter was not so easy to end.

"Has the general ever thought that such an approach is contrary to human morality?" Ye Cheng, in the general's mansion, looked at Chen Mo with a somewhat gloomy face.

After Yecheng was completely breached, Gao Gan was let go by Gao Shun in exchange for Li Shan's investment, but the trial did not let go, but the trial was unwilling to surrender, and Chen Mo did not embarrass him, but just let him stay in Yecheng and not go out.

Yuan Shang's defeat made the trial quite regretful, but as a prisoner, he couldn't interfere with anything, just sat at home and drank every day.

"Unethical?" Chen Mo looked at the judge with some surprise: "I remember Mencius. Teng Wengong "has clouds, the sage has worries, so that the deed is Situ, teach people to be human: father and son have relatives, monarchs and ministers have righteousness, husbands and wives are different, young and old are orderly, friends have letters, this is the words of Confucianism, this person is big, father and son first, respect and humility, monarch and minister are important, although I do not fully recognize, but I don't know where I am contrary to human ethics? ”

The judge was speechless, and then a little depressed, I am here to discuss human ethics with you?

"The general's words are wrong, and the people are not limited to these, the general is the hero of the world, now that Jizhou is established, how can he make up killings in vain, slaughter the gentry, how can he make the world return to his heart?" The judge frowned.

"The heart of the world is a little bigger." Chen Mo shook his head, looked at the judge and said: "Besides, the Son of Heaven wants the world to return to the heart, you call me a general, and you want me to return to the heart of the world, just this point, Mr. Zhengnan has surpassed humanity." ”

"Do you know what a general is?" The judge didn't want to talk about humanity anymore, so he changed the topic.

"I know a little bit about it." Chen Mo nodded: "Confucius once said: Scholars are determined to be in the Tao, poor and righteous, and they cannot deviate from the Tao, this can be a scholar, a scholar, the backbone of the country, but Zhengnan should also know that the scholar clan is not a scholar, because of the ancestral dignitaries and according to one side, this is the scholar clan." ”

"Since the general knows, he should know that the ancestors of the scholars have contributed to the world, and they should be treated well by the world, and their descendants are blessed by the ancestors, which is not a bad thing, so that more people will be willing to be the first in the world and willing to make contributions to the country, does the general think so?" The judge frowned.

"Of course, since he has contributed to the world, he should be rewarded by the world, but it is not wrong for his descendants to be shaded by their ancestors and enjoy the yin virtue of their ancestors; But if the ancestors have contributed to the world, are they the capital of future generations to do evil, even if they plot to rebel and kill innocents in vain, they should turn a blind eye? "Chen acquiesced to the trial, he couldn't object to this, if this truth was overturned, then who would be willing to work for him? In addition to being for the world, everyone is more for themselves, and they want to seal their wives and sons, so that their descendants can have a better life, which is a simple appeal.

But this does not mean that the ancestors have contributed to the world, and future generations can act recklessly, and everything should always be measured.

"But the Anping gentry, even if they have been, they will not be guilty to death, let alone to destroy their families!" The judge said quickly.

"Killing officials is the same as rebellion, does Mr. Zhengnan think so?" Chen Mo asked.

The judge nodded, but did not speak, in this matter, it is obvious that the person who did this has a hole in his brain, and then the judge said: "But the punishment of the first evil is that the general implicates the innocent, which is a bit too much." ”

"Really?" Chen Mo shook his head and said: "Forcing good people to become prostitutes, this is called innocent, bullying and dominating the market, robbing people's daughters, this is called no fault, if these families are not openly resisting the law and want to shelter the scum in their clan, why is this?" But I don't know what is wrong with me, Mr. Zhengnan said that he will no longer ask about the world, so why should he come to question me publicly? ”

"There are some things that can't be crossed, killing officials, looking at the past and present, who dares to do it so blatantly, but they dare, do you think I should be angry, and should I kill people?" Chen Mo looked at the trial, and his voice became worse.

It is precisely because of this that Chen Mo openly attacked the Anping County scholars and killed tens of thousands, but instead won a good reputation, but who is the judge, he can be regarded as a top wise man in Jizhou, and it can be seen that the reason why those people killed officials was clearly because Chen Mo deliberately tolerated it, so that those people thought that Chen Mo was easy to bully, so they would come to this point.

It is clear that Chen Mo is playing with people's hearts and digging holes for these people, but this thing can't be said on the surface, because Chen Mo didn't do anything, this is the most helpless thing.

The judge took a deep breath, looked at Chen Mo and said, "But the general changed the old law and implemented the new policy, causing the people to pay more taxes, have you ever thought that such a practice is against benevolence?" ”

"How can it be contrary to benevolence?" Chen Mo asked rhetorically: "In the past, the imperial court tax law was ten taxes or twenty taxes, but now I use three taxes and one, but what Mr. Zhengnan said is this?" ”

The judge nodded and said: "The general captured Jizhou, the world is divided into two, and the general has one of them, and now in the name of the imperial court, he has taken a large amount of fertile land to himself, and wantonly exploited the people. ”

"But as far as I know, if the gentry hired tenant farmers, and if the old law was used to collect taxes on the capitation of the gentry, the taxes paid by the gentry were extremely limited, but the tenant farmers they hired to work hard, but in the end they got less than one ten, and even then, they had to pay taxes, and I really find it difficult for me to see any mercy in the old law. Of course, this grain people can't survive, at that time, the gentry will send food to help the people, and they will have to be grateful to Dade for taking the food that should belong to them to save them. Chen Mo asked with a smile.

The judge frowned and looked at Chen Mo: "This is the law of the ancestors, and my Han has been doing it according to this method for four hundred years......"

"That's why the Han Dynasty is in decline today." Chen Mo shook his head and said: "And since Wang Mang, the Han Dynasty has actually been divided into two sections, and if you calculate it carefully, whether it is created by Gaozu or Guangwu, it is only two hundred years." ”

As far as Chen Mo knows, in this world, the scholarly power has swelled to the point where the imperial power has no place to collect taxes, and if the law is not changed at this time, then the war in the world will not end, the reason why the scholarly power has not been completely suppressed is just because the scholars are completely destroyed, and no one can use it in this world, so Chen Mo has always given the scholarly power to develop, but it has been restricted.

According to Chen Mo's plan, most of the land in the world is ultimately owned by the scholars, but the remaining half of the land must be held in the hands of the imperial court, so that the people can have a way to live, and the scholars will not swell to the point where the imperial power is difficult to contain.

Of course, it is difficult to do this, so Chen Mo will actively promote the three schools to check and balance the family, everyone is still playing, but it has to leave room for the people to live, and it has to leave space for the people to know the court.

If you take land as an example, Chen Mo divides the land in the world into two parts, one accounts for sixty percent and belongs to the scholars, and the other is forty percent and belongs to the imperial power, you can also see the people in the world as tenant farmers of the imperial power, and the gentry are among the remaining sixty percent, whether they merge with each other or reclaim wasteland, but don't affect the people's livelihood, this is Chen Mo's bottom line, and it is also the bottom line of the imperial court, no matter which family becomes the Son of Heaven, once this bottom line is crossed, it must be cleared.

And Jizhou, but the power of the scholars has swelled to the point where the imperial court has almost no interference, even if Chen Mo defeated Jizhou, but if he wants to govern the people, he has to look at the face of the family, so he rarely sacrificed the butcher's knife after entering Jizhou, if he does not slaughter a batch, it is difficult to give the imperial court a living space, and in the end it is difficult to escape the situation of being hollowed out.

The judge frowned, Chen Mo's words were a bit rebellious, but he couldn't refute it, the judge tried to use the ancient allusions to talk about things, but Chen Mo can always use your allusions to refute your arguments from a novel perspective.

And many things, everyone knows, but they can't be put on the table, but they are the rules that everyone abides by, but when someone presses the rules on the real table, the rules under the table are untenable.

The existence of unspoken rules has its own reason, but this rule is not visible, Chen Mo is now putting many unsightly rules in the past few hundred years on the table, and the arguments of the trial are naturally untenable.

The most important thing about the new law is to make profits for the court, so that the court can quickly collect money and food to operate, but it hurts the interests of the scholars, just like Chen Mo said, if the old law is used, the scholars can get benefits, and then take out a little to feed the people, so that the people are grateful to Dade, both benefits and reputation, but as soon as the new law comes out, not only the interests are damaged, but the reputation is also returned to the court, so naturally unwilling.

"But the general's new law is really the way to get into trouble." In the end, the judge couldn't say anything about Chen Mo, snorted coldly, and walked away.