This year, God is very face-saving, the wind and rain in Guanzhong are smooth, and the sunshine is sufficient, so this year must be a big harvest year!

Farmers who have worked hard for a year can finally reward themselves at the end of this year.

Therefore, these days, almost all the peasants are busy harvesting the grass in the fields, drying it, and then tying it into bundles to be handed over to the imperial court.

But the common people were happy, but the bureaucrats and landlords were not so happy.

According to the requirements of the Son of Heaven, the highest price of corn this year is 60 yuan a stone, and the lowest price is 40 yuan ...... stone.

It was unexpected.

After listening to their reports, their respective masters breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time.

The lowest price is 40 yuan, and the highest price is 60 yuan, which basically maintains the average level of grain prices in Guanzhong last year.

Although it is said that the price is artificially forced to die, the price of food has lost room for maneuver.

However, in comparison, there is still enough room for profit to be operated by the vast majority of landlords and merchants.

In other words, the interests of small and medium-sized landlords and small and medium-sized businessmen, who account for the overwhelming majority, have not suffered much damage.

Since this is the case, then ......

"Go and tell the people of the Du family that their family's affairs have nothing to do with me...... "Almost most of the landlords made a decision immediately after learning about the upper and lower limits of the protective price of grain.

No one in this world is stupid.

The gods are fighting, and the little ants insist on getting in, isn't that looking for death?

What's more, has anyone changed Liu's decision in the past twenty or thirty years?

At the same time, an official letter from the Inner History Yamen was also placed on the desk of the county commander and the county lieutenant of the seventy-five counties in Guanzhong.

After reading these county orders and county lieutenants, they did not dare to slack off, and immediately called their appointed pro-confidants to the front and gave them a lecture.

"The Yamen of the Imperial History, the implementation of the grain protection price has been included in the future assessment...... "A county order issued his order to his relatives and confidants like a torturer, a pavilion chief, a tour of the court, and a husband, "I know that someone is trying to woo you, but you have all thought clearly, your position is given by the official, who wants to hinder the promotion of the official, the official will make him uncomfortable for the rest of his life!" ”

The so-called broken county order, the order to destroy the door!

Who would dare to take it lightly in front of the real rulers of these local regimes?

The county order of the Han family has the power to directly appoint and dismiss the pavilion chief at the bottom and the tour payment!

As the saying goes, the current official is not as good as the current management.

The pavilion chief at the bottom can not bird the policy issued by the minister of two thousand stones, but he definitely does not dare to offend the top boss.

So, these low-level officials bowed down one after another and promised, "No, the county has an order, and the little ones naturally dare not disobey!" ”

Who called this year the big exam of the imperial court?

As for some guys who have already received benefits, they have thought about it in private, and I feel that this Du Shi is really not afraid of death!

Dare to go against the heavenly family.

It seems that this Du Shi is going to die.

This ship is sinking!

Case......

What has already been eaten in your mouth is naturally your own!

Even, the bold people have begun to think about what benefits they can get after the fall of the Du family.

Well, the Du family's several Zhuangzi and workshops in this county look quite delicious......

The world is so cruel.

Sending charcoal in the snow, few people can do it, but there are a lot of people who fall into the well!

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Liu Xun was in Qingliang Hall at the moment, looking at the reports that came back from the counties in Guanzhong.

There is no way, it will be the autumn harvest soon, and it is time to test whether the fist of the Son of Heaven can smash the chains connected by the rich merchants in Guanzhong.

No one in the entire Weiyang Palace dared to take it lightly.

"Your Majesty, the report from Huayin County is back...... Ji Di hurriedly trotted in with a bamboo slip, bowed down and said, "Huayin County is calm, the market merchants are calm, and the folk landlords and gentry are as usual, and there is nothing abnormal!" ”

"It's hard work!" Liu Xun nodded, and hurriedly asked Huang Xie to prepare tea.

"Taniguchi Prefecture Emergency ......" Shi Gao ran in panting, and reported, "Taniguchi is all business as usual!" ”

Liu Xun also nodded, and asked him to sit down with a smile.

He looked at the reports from the counties of Guanzhong that were piled up on his case.

Today, 60 of the 75 counties in this pass have sent back reports, and they are basically calm.

This shows that Liu Xun's move is right.

The general trend has been achieved, and those big businessmen who are trying to confront him in vain are just using their mantis arms as cars!

To be honest, in order to deal with all this, Liu Xun can be described as having worked hard.

Then, to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Liu Xun even made concessions on the issue of grain protection prices.

Originally, Liu Xun set a minimum of 45 yuan and a maximum of 55 yuan.

In order to make this policy more acceptable, Liu Xun conceded five yuan and took last year's average.

It turned out to be a wise choice.

At this moment, the vast majority of the landlords and businessmen in the entire Guanzhong did not have any opposition or criticism, but were calm

and accepted this policy.

"That's right, politics is to unite the majority and fight a handful!" Liu Xun sighed in his heart: "Any reform can only succeed if it is built on the basis of benefiting the majority!" ”

There have been many reforms in history.

The original intention of the reform was to change the unfavorable situation of the country, but in the end they all failed.

The famous Wang Anshi's reform made the civilized and powerful Northern Song Dynasty go to extinction.

And these losers all have one thing in common, that is, they forgot to take care of the interests of the majority of the landlords and gentry and the aristocracy, and the attack was too large, resulting in all kinds of resistance and resistance from the middle and lower classes, even if there was support from the top.

Successful reforms, such as those of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, were designed to take care of the interests of the aristocracy and gentry landlords, so they could succeed.

As for the reform of Taizong of the Celestial Dynasty in later generations, it was only after feeding the bureaucratic class that it succeeded later.

Thinking like this, Liu Xun already had a clear understanding.

Right now, this first step can be regarded as stepping out, and his name as the Son of Heaven has also begun.

Well, there's only one thing left.

Punish someone as a warning to others!

Since those big businessmen dare to go against him, it means that they are enemies.

No mercy is needed for the enemy!

Not to mention......

So many pairs of eyes are staring at it!

In this era, it is not important to repay grievances with virtue.

This society, which advocates great revanchism and advocates revenge by blood, only says one sentence to repay grievances with virtue, how can it repay virtue?

"Go tell Hu Jian and start acting!" Liu Xun instructed Huang Xie lightly.

"No!" Huang Xie nodded and retreated, at the door, Hu Jian, who had long been unable to hold back, turned red.

This battle is a battle in which he Hu Jian made a name for himself and made his official debut in the political arena, and he was only allowed to succeed and not to fail.

After receiving the order, Hu Jian turned to look at the hundreds of heavily armed men who lined up to occupy the entire garden, and asked, "Gentlemen, is the evidence conclusive?" ”

"Back to Ming Gong, the evidence is conclusive!" The crowd sang in unison.

The big businessman who came out in Guanzhong, that one didn't have a few lives or a few bloody cases.

It's just that, before, they were all protected by a protective umbrella.

But at this moment, the Son of Heaven attacked strongly, and the thieves were all in the yamen, and those protective umbrellas had already shrunk their heads.

Many of the original rangers, as long as they thought of those nobles who were invincible in the past, had to tremble in front of them, and their hearts were excited.

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In the hall, Liu Xun's attention shifted to other things.

"Chen Qing!" Liu Xun strode forward, walked in front of Chen Wannian, and asked, "So far, how many five baht coins have been minted?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, so far this year, a total of 27,540,000 five-baht coins have been minted,...... Chen Wannian was prepared, and immediately reported a series of data, "A total of more than 190,000 catties of copper and more than 60,000 catties of iron and lead have been minted......"

Liu Xun nodded when he heard this.

That's a pretty good number.

Theoretically, if a pound of pure copper is not doped, then it can probably cost five baht, eighty to ninety pieces.

But is there such a conscientious minting of money?

Money that is not mixed with iron and lead...... Hehe......

I'm afraid, such money simply can't circulate......

The reason is simple, if this is the case, then the smart Chinese will immediately melt all the money, cast it into bronze and sell it, and then use the money from the sale of copper to continue to cast copperware.

Relatively speaking, the ratio of copper to iron and lead in the five-baht coins minted by Emperor Xiaowu reached nearly four to one.

This is already the most conscientious batch of coins since the Han family minted money!

Well, the batch of three-baht coins minted by Liu Bang back then was simply miserable! Sixty or seventy percent of them are impurities......

So much so that it is almost impossible to see it on the market now......

When Emperor Xiaojing, Deng Tong minted four baht coins in Shu County, and the ratio of iron and lead reached three to one.

In this way, the currency market in the north swept away all the bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods, and unified the coins of the north.

Even the Wu Qian of Wu King Liu Bi back then was generally slightly better than Deng Tong's coinage, but it was not much better.

Liu Xun followed Emperor Xiaowu's five-baht coin, which not only had a high copper content, but also weighed more than most other coins in circulation.

Thinking like this, Liu Xun felt that his five baht should be able to easily dominate the currency market in Guanzhong.

The only regret is that it costs too much copper to mint money! Just a batch of coinage, it exhausted all the copper products that Liu Xun, the son of heaven, mastered, and even had to take tens of thousands of catties of copper from Shaofu.

China, on the other hand, is not a copper-rich country.

At present, the largest known copper ore vein in China is actually in Wudi......

As a traverser, Liu Xun is very clear, what does currency mean?

Money is the regime, the foundation of the state, one of the symbols of the legitimacy of the dynasty!

From this point of view, not to mention that there is a profit in minting money, it is a loss, and this power must be returned to the central government!

The fish market with the largest flow of people in Chang'an City is crowded with people.

Thousands of civilians watched the several prison vans that had been escorted by heavy troops.

In the first car, Du Mao, the contemporary head of the Du family, who was once the largest merchant family in Guanzhong, was escorted.

In the second prisoner van, escorted

is Chen Gui, who has a relative background and is also the nephew and son-in-law of the Empress Bo.

In the third carriage, he was also a big man who used to be a high-ranking and powerful person.

There were six or seven wagons.

Six or seven big men who used to be high in the past, at this moment, are being escorted to the market like pigs and dogs.

Countless ordinary people are waiting for it.

"Du Mao can't see this...... It's so bad...... a common man said angrily, "There are more than a dozen lives on his hands alone, and it is said that several slaves are killed in his family every year...... It's horrible......"

"Yes, these people usually look kind and angry, how did they become like this"

"However, then again, the heavenly family is really fair! Back then, Emperor Gao made three chapters of the law, and whoever touched it died, it was really right! ”

In the eyes of the majority of ordinary people, the real cause of death of these people is that they will kill themselves if they commit many injustices.

But in the eyes of the aristocratic ministers, it was different.

"It's really a hand!" Xu Guanghan looked down at the prisoner car on the street and sneered.

Xiang Zhuang danced the sword and aimed at Pei Gong.

Xu Guanghan is not stupid, this is his lovely heavenly son-in-law demonstrating to him.

Obviously, as long as you are not blind, you can see that after the Son of Heaven ascended the throne, in the past two months, he has never taken the initiative to visit the door of the Su family, nor has he invited the relatives of the Su family to visit the Heavenly Palace, and even the Su family cannot be received if they want to see the Son of Heaven.

However, these did not hinder him at all, and His Majesty Su was reaping benefits under the banner of the Son of Heaven.

For example, go to Shaofu to fight the autumn breeze and get some gold or something.

Or use their status to the advantage of coercing local officials to give them benefits or something.

In the past two days, it has been reported that the Son of Heaven issued an order to the three yamen of Tingwei, Jing Zhaoyin, Left and Right Fufeng, and Zhijinwu, saying that in the future, those who will carry the banner of the Son of Heaven, as long as there is no Son of Heaven Decree, will be dealt with as liars.

In addition, the recent large-scale execution of Du Shi and other anti-Tianzi group people, especially the black gloves of the Xu family as a typical publicity, propaganda that the law is selfless, the law must be followed, and those who violate the law must be investigated.

But this spearhead, there is no doubt that it is directed at his Xu family and his family.

Xu Guanghan even felt that he, a good son-in-law, was almost pointing at his nose and saying don't cause trouble for me, otherwise Hugh blames me for being ruthless!

Even, Queen Xu Pingjun was also scolded.

"In the future, you have to think twice before you act!!" Xu Guanghan shook his head.

On the high palace wall, Liu Xun walked slowly.

The officials and attendants behind him followed closely and huddled.

"Your Majesty, this time a total of six merchants' properties such as Du's, Zhang's, and Wang's have been confiscated, counting more than 1,000 acres of land, nearly 100 million dollars, more than 5,000 gold, more than 10 treasury, dozens of mansions, countless shops, Your Majesty's meaning, money and gold, all paid into the Shaofu Inner Treasury, as for these acres of land and treasury houses, Your Majesty can arrange it yourself!" Zhang Tang lowered his head and reported.

Liu Xun lowered his head and looked at the bricks on the city wall and smiled slightly.

At this moment, five days have passed since he ordered the execution of Du Mao and others.

In the past five days, Liu Xun used blood and butcher knives to let the merchants in Guanzhong know that the affairs of the royal family were not something they could touch at all.

The Du Mao family headed by more than a dozen children who were imprisoned alone, and countless others were exiled and sentenced to prison.

The other families are treated in much the same way.

Of course, this is just an episode.

The real handiwork fell on the matter of raiding the house.

"More than a thousand hectares...... Liu Xun sighed with emotion, and said with a sneer, "Just six merchants, people from the city, occupy more than 1,000 hectares of land, what a good means!" ”

You must know that ten years ago, when the emperor was the emperor, Guanzhong still had a grant of land.

At that time, the Han family's standard for granting land to landless peasants was that they were Guanzhong civilians with knighthoods and no criminal records.

The minimum standard for granting land is 100 acres per household, that is, one hectare of land.

At that time, the land annexation in Guanzhong was not for nothing. But on a fairly small scale.

However, ten years later, only six merchants have been confiscated. More than 1,000 hectares of land were copied out, totaling nearly 100,000 acres. Equivalent to the entire arable area of a small county!

In particular, Guanzhong is a large acre, one acre and two hundred and forty steps.

But Liu Xun knows that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

What was defeated this time was barely a tiger for the Du family at best, and the others were just flies.

The real oligarch, Liu Xun has not even touched it.

For example, the Tian family, the Wuyan family and even the giant Mac such as the Yang family.

Even, Liu Xun knows it. After the fall of Du Envoy this time, most of the Du family's land, property, and workshops were divided up by other wealthy businessmen and bureaucrats.

What was left for the court to confiscate was just some leftovers.

When Hu Jian heard this, he lowered his head deeply.

Hu Jian knew very well what role the Tian family played in this feast.

Liu Xun waved his hand and said, "The slaves and maids and subordinates of the various families who were confiscated this time will all be arranged to go to Sixian Yuan......

The six merchant families had hundreds of slaves, and among them, there were more than 100 families who had children, and the young ones were even breastfeeding.

Obviously, Liu Xunruo waved his hand. Giving these people freedom may have cost them their lives.

"Han Zeng, send someone to abolish the slavery of these people, arrange some work in Shaofu, and send them to Hexi to cultivate in the prime of life, and find some students to advocate the abolition of slavery!!" Liu Xun said lightly.