There was silence in the Qilin Hall.

The atmosphere was a bit weird, everyone lowered their heads and didn't squint, for fear that they would look up and meet the emperor's eyes, and then be named by the emperor to answer this pit question.

You must know that what Ying Zheng hates the most is that someone says that he is not.

In the past, after Fang Shi Lu Sheng, Hou Sheng and others failed to seek immortals for Yingzheng, they privately talked about Yingzheng's personality, governance, and seeking immortals, and then fled with a huge amount of money for seeking immortals. Ying Zheng was furious when he found out, so he became angry with Fang Shi and ordered a search and interrogation in the capital, capturing hundreds of Fang Shi and burying them all alive.

There are also those Confucian scholars, who were also killed because of the "atrocities" that constantly discussed Yingzheng among the people.

Even Fusu was sent to the frontier because he accused Yingzheng of being too much servitude.

If this fucking is in the main hall, in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, and directly say that the previous famine was caused by your heavy conscription, wouldn't that be looking for death?

There are so many bloody examples, and even his son can't say anything about heavy conscription, let alone as a courtier.

In short, who said who died!

Ying Zheng was also speechless when he saw everyone looking like this.

He sighed and said, "Is the reason why you are silent because you feel that this year's famine is all due to my continuous years of forced labor, so you don't dare to reply?" ”

When everyone heard this, they were all panicked, and said in unison: "The ministers don't dare!" ”

"Don't dare? Hum! I don't think you dare to think about it, but you don't dare to say it, right? Ying Zheng snorted coldly, very displeased.

"Wait, ten thousand deaths!"

Everyone suddenly trembled, lowered their heads, and looked like they were scared and innocent.

Ying Zheng glanced at everyone with disgust, then looked at Li Yang, and said, "Li Yang, they don't dare to talk about it, you come and tell me the truth about the cause of the famine before!" ”

Li Yang was stunned for a moment, and also pretended to be panicked, and said, "This...... Minister...... It's not easy to talk about it. Or...... Or let General Meng or Feng Xiang and Li Xiang analyze it? ”

And Meng Tian, Feng Quji, and Li Si were startled when they heard this.

Li Yang, this grandson, should he be so lacking in morality? You're going to kill us!

At the moment, the three of them were unhappy, and Meng Tian hurriedly said: "The prime minister of the middle, with a unique vision, is simply three points into the wood." Analyzing the problem is even more penetrating, hitting the nail on the head, and always getting to the point. And the insights are even more analysed, careful and thorough, deep and to the point, and can always explain the problem very profoundly. Therefore, when it comes to the problem of analysis, you should analyze it for His Majesty and me and other civil and military officials! ”

Everyone nodded.

Li Yang hurriedly waved his hand: "General Meng has praised it falsely, and the prime minister is worried that it will make His Majesty unhappy after analysis, and it is estimated that it will be refuted by all the adults, so let's talk about it by General Meng or Feng Xiang." ”

Feng Quji secretly scolded in his heart, Li Yang, you are really not a good person! Then he said: "Prime Minister Zhong, Your Majesty named you to analyze, how can you resist and disobey the order, let's analyze it quickly!" ”

This time, Ying Zheng was really angry, slapped the desk, banged, looked at Li Yang angrily, and said, "Okay, you Li Yang, are you going to resist the decree!" ”

Li Yang was so frightened that he shuddered: "The minister doesn't dare!" ”

Ying Zheng said angrily: "Don't dare, you can tell me the truth!" As long as you analyze the truth, I want to see who dares to contradict you in black and white! Say, say it boldly! Don't say it, I'll treat you now for disobeying the order, pull you out and behead you immediately! ”

Li Yang's face changed in fright, and he nodded tremblingly: "That...... And so the minister said so! ”

Ying Zheng glared at Li Yang, which meant to say: Please start your performance!

In other words, at this time, some of the civil and military officials in the palace were already waiting to see a good show.

In their opinion, the matter of heavy conscription, even Fusu said that it had to be distributed, if you Li Yang dared to say it, it is estimated that it would not be pleased. After all, the reason why the emperor forced everyone to analyze this problem was to let everyone attribute the mistake to other aspects.

Although you can also attribute the problem of famine to other aspects, such as natural disasters, such as laziness of the people, but ...... That's too far-fetched.

So, this question simply cannot be answered.

"Ahem!" At this time, Li Yang cleared his throat, put his hands behind his back, and took two steps back and forth in front of the hall, and then he organized his language and said: "The previous famine, according to the minister, there are two problems!" ”

"First, in previous years, the forced labor was too heavy, resulting in a shortage of young and strong laborers, and all the young and strong laborers were requisitioned by the project, resulting in the vast shortage of farmland in Daqin, and only women cultivated a small amount of farmland, and it was still difficult to survive with a year's output. In addition, this spring, the implementation of the policy of light forced labor, the scattered millions of servants, these people returned home, that is, the original small amount of food, quickly consumed, thus causing a great famine in the world! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone's faces changed greatly.

Because this is really too perverse, and it is all blamed on the emperor alone.

This Li Yang is really bold!

Suddenly, all of a sudden, everyone looked at Ying Zheng, wanting to see if Ying Zheng was going to be angry!

However......

When everyone looked at Yingzheng, everyone shushed each other, because the emperor was expressionless at this time, is he happy? Is it anger? I can't see it at all.

Of course, the emperor had a cold face and was expressionless, which also made some people sweat for Li Yang in their hearts, because it showed that the emperor was unhappy.

Therefore, people like Li Si, Xiao He, Cao Shen, Han Xin and others all thought in their hearts, how dare Li Yang talk so nonsense, is it not fatal?

I saw the emperor say coldly: "You go on!" ”

"Whoa!"

Li Yang nodded, and then continued: "Heavy conscription is one of them, and the other is that the land annexation is serious, and the common people have almost no self-cultivated land!" Although it was not the main cause of the previous famine, if the problem of land annexation is not solved, the minister is sure that this year's famine chaos will occur at any time and frequently in the future! ”

"Land annexation?"

As soon as these words came out, there was a sudden sound of surprise.

At this moment, some people with good brains have faintly heard some eyebrows.

For example, Li Si and Feng Quji, these two veterans of scheming, have already glanced at Li Yang for a while, and then at the emperor with a pair of eyes.

Because the two of them have already come back to their senses, it is no wonder that as soon as the emperor came to the court, he inexplicably asked about "replacing the military industry with the annual salary", and then asked the question of "famine", which was all to lead to the issue of land annexation!

Knowing this, Li Si and Feng Quji, their jaws were about to drop.

After doing it for a long time, it turned out that the emperor and Li Yang, these two people were singing and harmonizing for most of the day just now, and they were actually singing double reeds!

I'll it!

Feng Quji and Li Si were directly dumbfounded.

They are well aware of the issue of land annexation, and they are also very clear about how serious this problem is.

Because of the continuous requisition of young and strong laborers, so the civilian young and strong laborers almost all the year round in the Great Wall, Lishan service, the field is unable to cultivate, can only let it grow with wild grass, but the old and weak women in the family have to eat and drink, and have to pay the field tax every year, what should I do? I can only sell the field!

Therefore, in the past ten years, all the land in the world has basically been annexed by the nouveau riche of the noble clan at a low price.

And what the consequences of land annexation will be, the two know better.

It's just that the two of them don't dare to say it, because this matter involves all the nobles and nouveau riche, and whoever dares to bring this matter to the court to discuss it, won't they become the target of public criticism? That's going to cause outrage.

Therefore, Feng Quji and Li Si were both shocked in their hearts at this moment, and then looked at Li Yang, and their hearts were shocked.

"Sure enough, Daqin really has something big going to happen today!"