Lin Fan's words made the scribe understand that now he had no choice, in order to protect himself and his family, he could only completely take refuge in Lin Fan.

The scribe was a resolute man, and since he had decided to offend those big families, he no longer hesitated to offend them to the end.

The scribe told all that he knew, and did not hide anything from it. Because an official like him knows the rules best, if he wavers and curries favor on both sides at this time, then his fate must be that neither side can end well, and neither side will let go of himself in the end.

To confiscate the fields that were encroached upon by local magnates in Shenzhou, Lin Fan was by no means just talking, and quickly put it into action.

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"Lord Lin, this is my family's private property, the land handed down by my ancestors, it has been a hundred years now, and everyone present can testify, but now you suddenly say that this is a Juntun field, what evidence do you have?" In a field, the patriarch of the Zhang clan, a wealthy household in Shenzhou, led a large number of local gentry and wealthy households to question Lin Fan loudly.

"You want credentials?" Lin Fan looked at the silk pattern on the body of this old man who was not tall, it was a famous Su embroidery, very precious, and it was not something ordinary people could wear.

"Of course, if Lord Lin has no evidence, please retreat as soon as possible, we are all good people of the imperial court, and we don't want to go against the government, let alone embarrass Lord Lin. If Lord Lin insists on refusing, then we will go to the Zhizhou Yamen to accuse you of encroaching on people's land and oppressing the good people. ”

"If the old man of Zhizhou doesn't care, we will go to Yangzhou Mansion and go to the governor's yamen and the Jingfu envoy yamen to complain, even if the lawsuit is brought to the capital, I have to ask for an explanation." The patriarch of the Zhang clan said solemnly.

The rest of the families also agreed, and everyone knew that if Lin Fan took down the Zhang family, it would be their turn next. Everyone understands the truth of lip and tooth dependence, if you don't come out to stand for the Zhang family at this time, no one will stand up for yourself next time.

"Okay, what if I show up the voucher?" Lin Fan didn't take everyone's threat seriously at all, and said with a smile.

The patriarch of the Zhang clan was a little weak-hearted, but he didn't lose the battle, so he still said: "That old man is at the disposal of the adult?" ”

"Lu Shuban, is this here?" Lin Fan stomped his feet on the ground, pointed to his feet and asked the scribe.

The patriarch of the Zhang clan and the others didn't expect that the scribe had betrayed him, and said in surprise: "Lu Shuban, you?" ”

Lu Shuban was the scribe who took refuge in Lin Fan, he didn't pay attention to these people, but replied directly to Lin Fan: "Lord Hui, this is it." ”

"That's good, dig!" Lin Fan waved his hand and said to the sergeant under his command.

As soon as Lin Fan gave the order, several sergeants stepped forward with shovels and began to dig down at the ground where Lin Fan was standing just now.

Seeing that things were not good, the patriarch of the Zhang clan looked at the slave who accompanied him with one eye, and the slave understood.

A group of evil slaves got the instructions of their masters, surrounded them, and shouted: "What are you doing, do you know who my master is?" Do you dare to dig my master's land? ”

The evil slave kept pushing the sergeants who maintained order on the periphery, trying to stop Lin Fan's next move.

Some of the sergeants who were digging the ground looked at each other, most of them were locals, although they were now soldiers, but in their hearts, the coercion of these big families was still there, and they were still inevitably afraid in their hearts.

So they looked at Lin Fan, wondering if they would continue to dig.

Lin Fan's brows furrowed, and he glanced at the Zhang clan patriarch and the others who were sneering on the corners of their mouths.

However, before Lin Fan could speak, these minions began to gain an inch.

Those evil slaves and dogs were used to fighting people, and when they saw that the sergeants did not fight back, they thought that these soldiers were just like the common people who were bullied by them before, and they were also afraid

The power of his own master.

Thinking of this, their arrogance became more and more arrogant. There have even been people who secretly attack the sergeant with their elbows or legs and feet when they are not noticed, and the pain and anger make many of the sergeants' faces redden.

Lin Fan knew that if the arrogance of these big households could not be suppressed at the moment, his so-called inventory of the army's acres of land would only be empty talk.

The sergeants were all waiting for Lin Fan's order, and Lin Fan didn't hesitate for too long, and ordered: "Call me!" Whoever dares to disrupt military affairs will be beaten severely. ”

Well, the soldiers have been holding their breath for a long time, just waiting for this sentence. The guy in his hand mercilessly smashed down on this group of evil slaves, and the group of minions who beat him cried and called his mother.

The patriarch of the Zhang clan changed his face again, and the officials he had seen in the past, no matter how intriguing they were, they could maintain a harmonious atmosphere on the surface. How could he ever see such an unsympathetic person: "Lord Lin, don't you think you're a little too much?" ”

"If you say too much, then the official will go a little too far!" Now that he has torn his face, Lin Fan is too lazy to be polite to them.

Seeing that those evil slaves were still resisting, he ordered again from the sergeants: "If anyone dares to do anything again, he will be punished as a gangster, and he will arrest him." I'm going to count how many heads can be sacrificed on the flagpole in the camp. ”

As soon as Lin Fan's murderous words came out, those slaves were frightened, and they squatted on the ground honestly one by one, not daring to move again.

The slave was frightened and didn't dare to obstruct it anymore, and the patriarch of the Zhang clan and the others had no choice but to watch those sergeants keep digging down.

There was a muffled sound of a bell, and a sergeant's shovel clearly touched a hard object such as a stone as he dug down into the earth. He reached out to get the dirt off it, revealing what was underneath, and after seeing what was dug up, he said to Lin Fan, "My lord, I found it." ”

It is a long stone tablet buried nearly two feet deep in the ground.

Because it had not seen the light of day for too long, the stone monument had become the same color as the surrounding soil due to years of immersion.

But everyone still recognized what it was, Lin Fan pointed to the stone tablet and said to the patriarch of the Zhang clan: "Patriarch Zhang, what else do you have to say?" ”

The ground pile is here, which makes the patriarch of the Zhang clan secretly regret why he forgot to dig this thing out and throw it away.

The evidence was ironclad, and the lips of the patriarch of the Zhang clan squirmed a few times, but he still didn't speak.

"Come on, take it for me!" Lin Fan snorted coldly, no longer polite, and ordered the sergeant behind him.

Several wolf-like sergeants stepped forward at the order, tied the hands of the patriarch of the Zhang clan with ropes, and guarded him.

The patriarch was arrested, and the Zhang clan naturally couldn't give up. One by one, they cried and grabbed the ground, especially some women, who were even splashing and rolling in front of Lin Fan.

Lin Fan didn't have time to deal with these people, he took the lead in pulling out his weapon from the scabbard and inserting it on the ground in front of him.

Seeing Lin Fan like this, all the sergeants also unsheathed their swords one after another, pointing at the Zhang clan people who were sprinkling.

After all, Lin Fan had fought a war, and when he got angry, his face was full of murderous energy.

These soldiers did this, and no one dared to step forward, and even the crying stopped.

Don't look at them, these people are usually used to acting as a prestige among the people, and they don't even pay attention to the government. But when the bright blade is in front of him, he should be afraid or afraid, and no one wants to use his head to test whether the knife of the official army will really be cut off.

After shocking these people, Lin Fan asked Li Qingshan and the scribe to measure the land that had been invaded by the Zhang family.

There was no one to stop them, so that Li Qingshan and the others could do things a lot faster, and other ground piles were dug out one after another

In the end, it was found out that the Zhang family alone had encroached on nearly seven acres of Juntun land

Fifteen hectares.

The officialdom has accumulated disadvantages for a long time, resulting in thousands of acres of fertile land, which have silently entered the pockets of these big families, and they have never paid a penny of grain to the imperial court for so many years.

After the inventory of Zhang's fields and acres, Lin Fan looked coldly at the rest of the major households, no one dared to look at him, Lin Fan looked at him, and everyone lowered their heads one after another.

The secretary knew that it was time for him to appear at this time, even if he knew that after today, these big families would hate him more than Lin Fan, the initiator, he had to do it.

He cleared his throat and attracted everyone's attention: "After investigation, the Zhang family, a wealthy household in Shenzhou, disregarded the law of the country and occupied 75 acres of military tuntian, and was ordered by Lord Lin to immediately arrest the patriarch of the Zhang clan and other relevant people, and wait for the court to fall." In addition, all the acres of military cantonment fields belonging to the battalions in Shenzhou will be thoroughly investigated, and all those suspected of encroaching on military fields will be arrested. Anyone who dares to obstruct it, whether or not he participates in the matter, will be punished with the same crime. ”

The scribe's words also showed Lin Fan's attitude, today's matter is only the beginning, and it is far from the end.

Sure enough, his next move was to check the fields that had been encroached upon by the rest of the families one by one, and after the patriarch of the Zhang clan, the most powerful in the local area, had already been arrested, no one in the family dared to stop Lin Fan.

After several days of inventory, when he finally summed it up to Lin Fan, the figures he got were as follows: Sixteen large local households in Shenzhou have gradually occupied more than 680 acres of military fields over the years.

Among them, many are 75 hectares of Zhang's family, and there are more than 10 hectares of less. In addition, the families have accumulated countless amounts of money and grain owed to the imperial court over the years.

For these thieves who harm the country, Lin Fan will not be polite.

He led the sergeants to arrest people on a large scale, and in a short period of time, a total of hundreds of people were arrested in 16 families. Not a single one of the patriarchs of the families was missed, and all of them were arrested by officers and soldiers and imprisoned.

Lin Fan made such a big move, putting everyone in Shenzhou in danger.

The stakes are big, and the local wealthy families have always been in the same spirit, so regardless of whether these people are involved in this matter or not, there are more and more voices of dissatisfaction with Lin Fan openly and secretly.

But Lin Fan was not done with these things, and his next move was the one that really shocked the entire Shenzhou City.

After Lin Fan took over the acres of land that had been encroached upon by those big households again, he decided to distribute all the military fields to the people for cultivation.

All the landless and landless people could receive land from the army.

After these lands are in their hands, they are left to the people to cultivate them themselves, whether it is to grow grain or mulberry hemp, it is all up to the people themselves, and the army does not ask questions. The people who received the land only needed to pay one stone of grain to the imperial court every year as a tenant rent per mu of land.

When the news first came out, people couldn't believe it was true.

But when someone in the army asked their families to claim the land and actually received it, the people of the whole city were boiling and flocked to the camp to get the field.

The people outside the camp were lined up in a long line, and Li Qingshan and the scribes set up a row of tables outside the camp gate, but they were still too busy.

72,000 acres of land were robbed by the people in just two days.

The people of Dayun are very simple, as long as they have land to plant and food to eat, they are very satisfied.

They are hard-working, content with poverty, and have no higher expectations. They have long been accustomed to being submissive, and as long as they can have something to eat, they are the easiest group of people in the world to govern.

And the court and the government often find it difficult to meet even the simplest requirements, which has caused hungry people everywhere and mountains full of thieves.

Now that Lin Fan has done this, the people are naturally on his side.

The voices of dissatisfaction with Lin Fan made by those big families before could only be regarded as some small voices in the crowd, and they were immediately drowned out.