In the early morning of the second day, I got up and wandered aimlessly in the courtyard alone. At this time, the weather was already a little cold, and the wind was blowing on the face, and it was cool.

I didn't know what to do, and suddenly I saw a person standing at the door, although I couldn't see clearly, but judging from the figure, it should be Sima Jin. I walked over and saw that it was really Sima Jin, so I asked, "How long has the prime minister been here?" ”

Sima Jin hurriedly said: "The minister has just arrived, if there is no emergency, how dare he disturb the emperor?" When I saw that his face was different, I asked, "It's okay to talk about it." Sima Jin took a step forward and said, "Your Majesty, it is inconvenient to speak here, please move your respect." I nodded, and followed him to the Commander's Camp.

"The prime minister can say it." I said. Sima Jin had a difficult look on his face and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are not doing well, please punish the emperor." As he spoke, he immediately fell to his knees and bowed his head.

I hurriedly tried to help him, but he refused to get up. I sighed and said, "What's the matter, could it be that Zhang Liang ran away?" If you don't say it, what punishment will I do? Sima Jin raised his head and said, "Zhang Liang's escape is a small matter, this matter is very important, and it is related to the survival of my Luo country!" ”

I was a little surprised and said, "Prime Minister tell me quickly, what is the so-called matter?" As he spoke, he pulled him up. Sima Jin then said: "There was a rebellion in Luoyang City, and the rebel forces were very strong, reaching more than 20,000 people. But according to the minister's opinion, this Luoyang City is afraid that it has already fallen into the hands of the enemy. ”

After hearing this, I couldn't help frowning and asked, "There must be a cause for effect, who started the rebellion?" Sima Jin already had beads of sweat on his forehead, and said: "I only know that the leader is a person named Li Sheng, this person is the largest landlord in Luoyang City, his family has hundreds of acres of fertile land, his waist is wrapped in thousands of miles, and there is no one who does not know him." ”

"Why the rebellion, does the prime minister know?" I asked, Sima Jin shook his head, suddenly nodded again, and said: "This Li Sheng is a nephew of Li Si, the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, it can be said that 'one person attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven'. ”

"Since this Li Sheng is so lawless and oppressive of the people, how can anyone be willing to follow him?" I was puzzled. Sima Jin sighed and said: "'Money can make ghosts grind', then Li Sheng only took out one-tenth of his family property, and attracted so many people to work for him, which is really unguardable." ”

I immediately stomped my foot and said, "The prime minister quickly ordered, straightened out the people, and killed Luoyang City on the same day, and I must capture this Li Sheng." Sima Jin answered, and went to mobilize people.

I went to say goodbye to Bingyan and the others, but I didn't tell Bingyan the truth, in the hope that she wouldn't think about going to the battlefield again, so as not to accidentally hurt herself.

Sima Jin arrived at the main camp and summoned Qin Wen and Xu Fang, Lu Liang, the barbarian king and dozens of generals to the main camp to discuss matters. The generals knew that the matter was not trivial, and where did they dare to despise it, so they hurriedly rushed to the main camp.

When Sima Jin told the generals about the Luoyang rebellion, everyone was shocked. The barbarian king immediately expressed his willingness to bring 300 cavalry as the vanguard. Sima Jin agreed, and ordered someone to take him to select the accompanying cavalry and generals.

Except for Li Pu, who was newly married and failed to participate in the war, there were 32 generals, leaving Xu Fang, Lu Liang and six of their partial generals to lead 10,000 soldiers to defend the city, and the remaining 24 generals and more than 50,000 soldiers immediately set off, and the whole army marched to Luoyang. This place is less than half a day's journey from Luoyang, and the dark men and horses have reached it, and they set up camp five hundred meters outside Luoyang City.

In the commander's camp, Sima Jin picked up the warm wine but put it down halfway, I saw that he had something on his mind, so I asked, "Is the prime minister worried about the siege of the city tomorrow?" Sima Jin shook his head and said, "This is not worth worrying about, what I'm worried about is ...... tonight."

"Tonight?" I was a little puzzled, Sima Jin nodded slightly, and said: "Your Majesty, Fang Caichen saw that Luoyang City was already pitch black in the evening, and there was not a wisp of smoke, so there must be fraud in this." ”

"What does the prime minister mean is that the thief army will come to rob the camp tonight?" I asked as he spoke.

"Exactly." Sima Jin said, motioning for me to make a decision early.

"Then set up an ambush and catch this Li Sheng!" I said, and immediately ordered Sima Jin to gather all the generals.

When everyone arrived, I said: "If Li Sheng robs the camp tonight, he will not return!" The generals said "yes", just waiting for me to give orders. I stood up from the tiger skin bench, held the military order in my hand, and said in a loud voice: "Obey the order!" Ordered Qin Wen to ambush Wang Fang, Dong Ming and other eight people and 20,000 soldiers in the east of the camp, and Cai Zhen, Chang Shun and other eight generals and soldiers 20,000 people to ambush in the west of the camp. This is a sure success! ”

The generals said "yes" and left the camp to prepare. After only a stick of incense, all the men and horses were withdrawn, and only a few scarecrows in military uniforms were planted in the guard tower. I led the rest of my generals to lie in ambush in the southern bushes.

At midnight, Li Sheng really came to rob the camp, only to see a few people dressed in black, whose faces were covered with black cloth, leaving only their eyes, riding fast horses, leading nearly a thousand minions into our camp. The black-clothed man led by the minions checked in the account, and when he learned that there was no one, he shouted "there is fraud". When I saw that the time had come, I immediately gave an order, and the lights were lit up all around, and tens of thousands of soldiers surrounded the area.

Seeing this, the men in black wanted to fight their way out of the bloody way, and tried their best to fight in the southeast direction. For a while, a mouth appeared in the southeast direction. "Don't let Li Sheng go!" I shouted, and the barbarian king immediately whistled, and several war elephants poured out from the southeast, and surrounded the gap tightly. The war elephant was very brave, or with its feet, or with its nose, or with its fangs, and in an instant, dozens of minions fell to the ground, and the rest of the minions did not dare to step forward when they saw this.

Those few black-clothed men were still fighting with trapped beasts, fighting hard, killing hundreds of soldiers and injuring Wang Fang and Dong Ming. I was about to get rid of a few people, when I suddenly saw Qin Wen pull his bow and arrows, and three arrows were fired at the same time, hitting the three black-clothed people almost at the same time, one of them was killed on the spot, and the remaining two were killed by Cai Zhen and Chang Shun respectively.

At this time, the remaining two men in black could not help but panic, and one of them did not know what to say to the other, but they rushed towards me with a gun. It was too late, but it was too fast, and the barbarian king cut off the leg of his horse with only one axe, and as soon as the man got up when he landed on the ground, he was cut in two by the barbarian's axe.

"It's not good, Li Sheng wants to run!" I saw the rest of the man in black running north, and I couldn't help but shout. That Li Sheng fled on horseback, where did he care so much, but suddenly there was a pit in front of him, and even a person and a horse fell into it, and the bamboo chips in the pit were extremely sharp, how could he be alive?

The instigator was dead, and his minions panicked, and when I saw this, I cried out: "Lay down your arms, or you will be killed!" The minions looked at each other and lowered their weapons one after another. Sima Jin looked at me and said, "Your Majesty, what should you do with these people?" I said, "If you have surrendered, let them go." ”

Sima Jin hesitated a little, sighed, and said to the minions: "My emperor is merciful, I read that you and others are only accomplices, and there is no big mistake, forgive them for the time being, and you must not make them again." He waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to get out of the way.

With a "plop", all the minions knelt down in unison, thanked them repeatedly, and then refused to leave. I watched their departing figures, and my heart was mixed.

That night, I had a very strange dream, in which another monster with the head of a lion kept chasing me and wanted to eat me, and I asked it why, and it said that I had failed the Emperor's request to let the people live and work in peace. I woke up from my dream, it was the fifth watch, I sat on the bed, but my heart could not be calm for a long time, and this sitting came to the early morning.

Soon after dawn, a few guards brought me food, but I didn't want to eat, so one of them called Sima Jin. Sima Jin walked in the door, saw me not thinking about tea and dinner, and knew that I had something in my heart, so he said, "The emperor has something in his heart?" I nodded and asked him to sit down and talk. He thanked him and sat down.

I told him about yesterday's dream, and he was stunned for a moment after hearing it, and then his face changed and said: "The emperor must have been thinking too much because of his hard work for days, please take care of the dragon's body." I sighed and said, "Although Li Sheng is excepted, I am afraid that there will be more Li Sheng in the future!" ”

Sima Jin was also silent, and then said: "Throughout the ages, rebellions have happened many times, and it is not something that human beings can stop. I shook my head and said, "The prime minister's words are wrong, and the reason for this is the land issue. Looking at the cultivated land in China, most of it is in the hands of landlords and aristocrats, and the land owned by the peasants is only one-tenth of one-two. ”

Sima Jin said: "The emperor said this, and the ministers have long had this thought, but I am afraid that it cannot be solved, and I hope the emperor will think twice!" "Reform!" I said it categorically. Sima Jin was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this move must not be done!" In today's situation, this reform will never be implemented! ”

I shook my head, disagreed, and said, "Judging by this rebellion, land reform is imperative. The contradiction between the peasants and the landlords has become very acute. The peasants were eager to acquire land, and Li Sheng took advantage of this opportunity to stir up the infusion, saying that if the new dynasty was overthrown, the land would be divided equally. Most of the instigators were poor peasants, who had neither money nor land in their hands, and depended on the land leased by the landlords to survive, and most of them were not highly educated, or even had no education at all, so they naturally did everything to survive. ”

Sima Jin sighed, his face returned to normal, and said, "As the emperor said, the ministers also feel the same way. If the law is not changed, it will inevitably make the landlords and aristocrats more and more rampant, and it will only aggravate the degree of national division. However, our country has just been established, and its foundation is not yet stable, and I am afraid that there will be great resistance to reform. Moreover, almost none of the reformers of the past dynasties have a good end, and the Qin Shang Dynasty is a good example. The minister is also thinking about the emperor's safety, and I hope the emperor will think twice! ”

I waved my hand and said, "The prime minister doesn't need to say much, but just pass on my orders!" Sima Jin glanced at me and knew that I had made up my mind, so he didn't say anything more, so he immediately said "yes" and ordered someone to prepare pen, ink and bamboo slips to record on the side.

"As the old saying goes, 'Under the whole world, it is not the king's land'. From today onwards, the land of the whole country will be collected and distributed by the state in a unified manner, so that 'the cultivator has his own land'. Laborers, both men and women, who are able to work and are willing to engage in agricultural production, may be given a certain amount of land for cultivation, and the amount of land shall be determined according to the population of each city. The peasants have the right to use the land, and all the groups belong to the state and cannot transfer or sell the land without permission. Each farmer is required to pay one-tenth of his personal income as a tax, which can be replaced by grain. In case of special circumstances, the state will grant less or no tax according to its specific circumstances. I said.

Sima Jin listened on the sidelines, he was already sweating profusely, and after a long time, he said: "Your Majesty, this move is bound to greatly touch the interests of the landlords and nobles, and I am afraid of rebellion." I pondered for a while, and felt that what he said was reasonable, so I continued: "The nobles and landlords keep a part of the property inherent in their ancestors, and the rest of the land is handed over to the state, and the state acquires the land and gives it a certain amount of compensation on an annual basis, which will be repaid in twenty years." ”

Hearing this, Sima Jin breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "The matter has come to this, and it has to be like this." So he went down to the reform.

There was nothing to do in the army, so I decided to go back to the capital first. As soon as I entered the city, I saw Guan Yunyong waiting on the side, and when he saw me coming, he hurriedly greeted me. I turned over and dismounted, handed the horse to the groom, and spoke to Guan Yunyong. I asked, "General Guan, how are you doing in the city lately?" Guan Yunyong said: "In recent days, nothing has happened in the city, the broken city walls and houses have been repaired, and the wounded and killed soldiers have been resettled. But Zhang Liang still refuses to say a word. There is also the one named Meng Gang, who is unwilling to surrender. ”

"Take me to prison." I said, Guan Yunyong nodded, and showed me the way. The prison is not large, it is still the same as it was during the Qin Dynasty, but it has been slightly repaired. The main gate was guarded by two jailers, each holding a halberd, and when they saw me coming, they hurriedly opened the gate. I asked Guan Yunyong to wait outside the door, and then the warden led the way into the prison. The dungeon is divided into earth dungeons and water dungeons. A dungeon, also known as a dungeon, is a place where ordinary prisoners are held. The water prison is a place where important prisoners such as spies, traitors, and political prisoners are held.

"But whoever goes into the water prison, at most one out of ten will come out alive. In this dark and damp place, the prisoners either died of illness or committed suicide, and they could hardly wait for the day when their beheadings were cut off. The warden said, sighing, and then said, "But this is the first time I've seen anyone locked up here in more than ten years. Hearing him say this, I couldn't help but look at the water prison twice, only to see that the water in the prison was half a meter deep, the water was green, bubbling, and there were several pairs of shackles hanging on the wall, which were already rusty, and there were dark red on the walls, which seemed to be bloodstains, which should have been a long time ago. I shuddered at the thought of having my feet soaked in this rancid water all day long and subjected to all kinds of torture.