Chapter 428: The Scholars Kneeled
"The grass people see His Royal Highness the Prince!" One hundred and ten people came to Li Chengqian's throne to salute.
When the poor people saw Li Chengqian, they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed, while the patriarchs of the scholar clan just bowed down.
Li Chengqian had a sneer on the corner of his mouth, got up and helped the poor peasant old man Liu up and said, "You all come here." ”
Old man Liu and the others saw that Li Chengqian's six gods were already frightened and there was no owner, Li Chengqian said what was what, and hurriedly followed Li Chengqian's hand to the right and took a few steps to separate from the patriarchs of the scholar clan.
As soon as the two sides separated, Li Chengqian turned around and returned to the throne and looked at Old Man Liu and the others with a smile: "King Gu has too many things to do these days, and I don't have time to see you, I don't know if your fields are all distributed, and you may have enough food every day?"
Since he knew that Li Chengqian was the current crown prince, Old Man Liu and all those who knew him and didn't know him said that Old Man Liu had achieved great creation. These days, Old Man Liu has already become a celebrity in Yichuan County, and many people have come to him to listen to him talk about "the days with the crown prince".
At this time, when he saw Li Chengqian again, Old Man Liu couldn't say anything excited.
"Okay, okay, we're fine!" After saying that, he paused, seemed to remember something, and said loudly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Xie." As he spoke, he kowtowed to the ground again.
Li Chengqian hurriedly asked the chamberlain to help him up, then turned his head to look at the others and said, "You have also been assigned to the fields?"
These people are not much stronger than Old Man Liu, and when they saw Li Chengqian asking, they were all busy and said: "It's been distributed, it's been distributed, His Royal Highness Prince Xie." After that, they all lay on the ground and kowtowed to Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian looked at these people and smiled: "Get up!" ”
Hearing this, the chamberlains hurriedly stepped forward to help the kneeling man up.
One of the young men didn't want to get up, he still lay on the ground, and said with tears in his eyes: "In our family, people have been asking for food for several lifetimes, and my father has never put on shoes in his life."
A few days ago, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent someone to divide the fields, grain, and a place to live for our family, and also gave me farm tools and seeds. Today, I know that I came to meet His Royal Highness the Prince, and specially asked me to kowtow to His Royal Highness the Prince. ”
Everyone knows that the Tang Dynasty has a uniform field system, but Luoyang has always been the political and military center of the Northern Dynasties, and there are many high-ranking officials and nobles in the past dynasties, and the nearby fields have long been carved up.
There was still a lot of undeveloped land in the Tang Dynasty, but the people who wanted food did not have the ability to develop it.
As the man spoke, he cried and kowtowed, which made the civil and military officials and soldiers present sigh with emotion.
But the more this happened, the more embarrassed the patriarchs of the clan next to them became, and they still hadn't gotten up.
Li Chengqian saw that this man was crying sincerely, so he personally helped him up and said with a smile: "After you have land, you must cultivate it well, and it is important that the whole family can have enough to eat." ”
"Hey! Ay! The man hurriedly agreed.
Li Chengqian walked among these people, and saw that they all had tears in their eyes, and they were so excited that they couldn't express themselves, so he smiled and said: "In this Yichuan County, there will be no gentry to bully you, and your good days are still ahead."
The Lone King has ordered the steelworks in Luoyang to start making farming tools for you, and to invite nearby doctors to treat you and your family.
In the future, you must keep your eyes open, and do not easily believe the words of those gentry and cult demons, who have their own selfish intentions and want to harm you. ”
Li Chengqian's words have been instilled in the people of Yichuan County in the past few days in the worship of the Eight Winds Palace, and those who can be called to see Li Chengqian understand this truth.
Hearing this, they all rushed to show their loyalty to Li Chengqian, and also recounted some of their personal experiences, all of which were about the gentry's bullying on weekdays.
Li Chengqian walked back to the throne and listened with relish, and there were scribes behind him who were in charge of recording.
But these words made the hearts of those patriarchs of the Shi clan tremble, and some things that were extremely common in their family were now extremely evil, and it was not an exaggeration to kill their heads and rob their homes.
For example, the head of the family will naturally include his daughter-in-law directly in the room, but if he likes someone's daughter-in-law, he has to find a way to kill the other party's husband.
All in all, these privileged country warriors really don't take human life seriously seriously.
When the government gave them face, there was nothing, but if they were replaced by someone like Li Chengqian, it would not be too much to raid their families and destroy their clans.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, you don't know anything! I fell to such a point because I was killed by the Zhao family in Chengguan. A young man in his twenties said with tears in his eyes.
Out of the corner of his eye, Li Chengqian saw that the gentry over there were still standing bowed, and he didn't mean to salute again, so he said to him: "You slowly tell King Gu what is going on?"
Xindao: I don't believe that you are not tired?
The young man listened to Li Chengqian's soft words, and he couldn't hold back his tears anymore, lowered his head and cried: "It's also the villain's fault for being careless, the villain's family was originally a tenant of the Zhao family, and they have been cattle and horses for their family for generations.
When the villain was seventeen years old, there was a drought in Xingyang, and the people of Xingyang came to us to escape the famine.
My daughter-in-law's name is Dani, not only good-looking but also virtuous, and she is obedient to me and my mother.
After I married my daughter-in-law, Zhao Dalang's long-term entourage found me in less than a month. said that he heard that I married a daughter-in-law, and the family had a difficult life, so he asked me to follow him to Luoyang to buy thick satin, and came back to give me two taels of silver to settle down.
When I heard about it, I was so happy that I took the dry food made by my daughter-in-law and followed, but halfway through, they tied me up and threw me into the Yi River while I was asleep. ”
"Ahh Why did they throw you into the river?" Pei Xingjian couldn't help but ask when he heard this.
The young man wiped away his tears when he heard this, gritted his teeth and said, "It's not that Zhao Dalang has taken a fancy to my daughter-in-law, he only harmed me to bully my daughter-in-law."
When I was washed ashore by the waves the next day, and when I was saved, I went home overnight, and I heard that the chief of the Zhao family went back and said, 'I stole his money and ran away!' ’
Zhao Dalang took someone to arrest my daughter-in-law to pay off the debt, and reported to the officials to arrest me everywhere.
My mother was angry with them to death, and I wanted to sneak into his house to rescue my daughter-in-law and escape from Yichuan County. Who knew that within three days, my daughter-in-law was also killed by Zhao Dalang's wife in Zhao's house, woo woo ......"
"I heard that the Chengguan Zhao clan in Yichuan County is a branch of the Tianshui Zhao clan, and it actually did such a thing." Pei Xingjian was surprised.
The Tianshui Zhao clan is a descendant of the Zhao royal family in the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, and moved to Tianshui during the Qin Shi Huang period, and one group moved to Luoyang during the Northern Wei Dynasty. After a hundred years of branches and leaves in Luoyang, there are many Zhao clans in nearby states and counties.
Among the patriarchs who came to see Li Chengqian today was a patriarch surnamed Zhao, who was the descendant of the Tianshui Zhao family.
Li Chengqian ignored Pei Xingjian and directly turned around and asked Li Yifu: "How did the Zhao family judge this Chengguan?"
Li Yifu hurriedly bowed down and said: "His Royal Highness the Prince of Qiqi, the Zhao family of Chengguan has done a lot of evil things, in addition to the murder of Sun Dalang's family, there have been dozens of murder cases since the founding of the Tang Dynasty alone, and the ministers sentenced all men over the age of 16 in their family to be beheaded, and the family was exiled to Lingnan and never returned to their hometown. ”
Those patriarchs of the Shi clan were shocked when they heard this, but they also knew some of these things in the past few days, and they could still hold on to hearing them at this time.
The patriarchs still stood there with their bows bowed, waiting for Li Chengqian to order them to be flattened first.
However, Li Chengqian was also prepared, and immediately got up, and said in a solemn voice:
"Your Majesty has long intended to build the Eastern Capital in Luoyang, and people like Li Bancheng and Zhao Dalang must clean up in advance. According to the order of King Gu, the people of Luozhou can form a team to go to the government to report and expose the crimes of the local tyrants and shoddy gentry, and all those who are found to be true will be severely sentenced, and the land and property will be equally distributed to the local landless people for cultivation. ”
"Ahh
Plop, plop, plop、......
As soon as Li Chengqian's voice fell, the patriarchs of the Shi clan could no longer hold it and knelt down one after another.
"Ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for mercy! Ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for mercy! ”
These people have more or less brains, and know that with Li Chengqian's order, the poor and tenants will definitely work together to denounce their past crimes, even if they are for the sake of the land.