At this moment, the powerful landlords were immersed in the huge water conservancy project plan announced by Zhang Yue.

This pie is too big.

It's big enough for everyone to eat.

Merely......

Many people glanced at each other the moment they woke up, and then each took a few steps back in a particularly tacit understanding.

Especially those families who are intertwined in the local area.

At this moment, sparks erupted from his eyes.

Since ancient times, wealth has touched people's hearts.

Therefore, Yan Zi can kill three soldiers with two peaches.

Now, in the face of what is likely to be the biggest favorable policies and preferential treatment in the history of Xinfeng County.

Everyone wants to eat a little more for themselves and a little less for others, especially their direct competitors in the local area.

In this way, the family may take advantage of this opportunity to overtake in the corner, throw off that competitor, or even overtake it from now on.

Chang Sheng licked his lips, at this moment, almost all of his mind was one thing that his nephew Chang Wen had told him - the servant led Xinfeng to order Zhang Zizhong, hoping that he could take the lead in reporting the lawlessness of the Liu Ting Yang family.

Chang Sheng didn't listen to it at all at first.

Reporting the township party is a taboo thing.

At the beginning, Yang Ke was very angry, the local neighbors reported each other, and the township party reported each other, which caused a very bad impact.

It also made the landlords all over the world start to be cautious.

Under normal circumstances, even if the two families fight to the death and are incompatible with each other, they will not easily resort to the government and bring the matter to the official office.

Because, the lesson of the confession, so that people know.

If you report others, others will report you.

In the end, it is the same end.

The good head and the thousands of family fortunes will all land, and they will all be divided by the mud legs.

But now, Chang Sheng's heart is pounding and pounding.

He took his eyes and looked at Yang Fei, the head of the Yang family beside him, and it just so happened that Yang Fei was also looking at himself with obscure eyes.

Chang Sheng knew very well what the Yang family had done.

This family developed by lending money in Liuting.

Every year when the green and yellow are not harvested, it is Yang's favorite season.

They lent large quantities of corn to civilians.

Nine out of thirteen returns, it is already a conscience price, a price for relatives and friends.

Yang's interest is a rolling interest.

One month is not enough, and by the next month, a bucket of rice can become a stone!

It has only been 20 years since the rise of the Yang family, and the household registration of the people of Liuting has changed from more than 170 households at the peak to only 100 households now.

Where did these families go? Don't even think about it.

If the Yang family only relied on lending, it would undoubtedly be impossible for them to accumulate wealth so quickly.

The real secret of the Yang family's wealth is to collude with officials and take advantage of it.

The method is simple but effective - in the autumn and winter of each year, no harvest is levied, forcing the people to sell the hard-harvested harvest at a low price in order to survive.

And in the spring and summer of the following year, when the price of stalk is high, it will be urged.

forced the people to buy the rice they sold to the Yang family at a low price last winter.

With this reversal, the profit is doubled.

Some peasants were wiser and endured not to sell them in the autumn and winter, trying to save the harvest until the spring and summer of the following year.

Yang's approach was rude and simply - send a few rangers to set fire to the place where the family stored their crops.

As far as Chang Sheng knows, just last year, there was a family in Liuting, because the firewood room where the stalk was stored was burned in the middle of the night, because he didn't notice it, resulting in a fire that burned down the house, and the whole family of five people, only one person survived!

After knowing that it was the Yang family who instructed the arson, this person came to the Xinfeng official office to complain, but was beaten to death by two rangers with sticks on the way, and his body was thrown into the mountains and forests.

To be honest, Chang Sheng looked down on these despicable methods used by the Yang family.

It is even more contemptuous of the methods used by the Yang family.

In Chang Sheng's view, what the Yang family did did did not benefit from anything other than making the people 'hold grudges in their hearts'.

If there is a cool official, the Yang family is the best target.

Maybe it will also involve a 'good family' like myself who has always been clear and friendly to the township party.

Originally, although the Chang and Yang families had some contradictions, they also had a lot of dirt with each other.

But, everyone is a squire.

Each other knows each other's background, and also grasps some of each other's handles.

Throwing rat bogey, Chang Sheng did not dare to act rashly.

However, now......

Looking at the place where the channel on the cloth in front of him flowed, Chang Sheng took a deep breath.

One of the four channels will pass between his family and the Yang family's land.

In other words, if the Yang family falls.

The interests of this channel are his Chang's monopoly.

The Chang family has seven or eight hundred acres of land in the local area, plus the hundreds of acres of the Yang family, which together is a thousand five hundred acres of plastered land.

If the channel is opened, the value of the land itself will increase several times dramatically.

What's more, there is also the benefit of more servitude.

This benefit is so great that even Chang Sheng is difficult to control!

However, there are still concerns.

After all, there is a lesson from Yang Ke's experience.

Chang Sheng is not sure that he can be alone.

It's not just Chang Sheng's inner entanglement.

Almost all the powerful landlords, scholars, doctors and aristocrats are now like cats scratching their hearts.

They want to monopolize all the benefits by themselves, but they are also jealous, afraid of being beaten by the other party!

You know, when the storm of the policy was set off.

Countless people were the victors one moment before, but the next moment they were reported and imprisoned like those unfortunate.

Almost all the merchants of the county were affected.

Only a few were spared.

That turmoil made all the powerful landlords all over the world understand a truth - don't go to the government to report your fellow villagers!

………………………………

Zhang Yue glanced at the audience, his gaze shuttling through the crowd.

He knew that it was time to add some firewood and burn it well.

He stepped forward slightly and bowed his hand to everyone: "Fathers and brothers, you should all know that the ancestral system of the Han family has always been 'scholars cannot be levied if they don't teach', and in civil affairs, it is 'punishment for not teaching is abuse'!" ”

During the Wenjing period, the Han family under the rule of the Huang Lao School, these two were even heavenly precepts.

Before the state promulgates a law and implements it, it will be posted under the cloth and preached and popularized by the officials, so that the people can know about it.

Before conscription, the army will inevitably choose those who have received systematic training and have sufficient military skills.

This is the spirit inherited from the Warring States period and the continuation of the spirit of the 'Open Law' of Mr. Kosan.

However......

In recent decades, with the rise of Confucianism.

These two systems gradually relaxed.

After all, for Confucianism, although the child is a sage, it is not as good as Confucius.

Confucius's teachings are good: the people can make it, but they can't let it go.

The mud-legged common people or something, just obediently listen to the command and education of our gentleman.

Do you need to understand the law or something? No, you don't!

In the Confucian form of thinking, even the best, the common people should not complain, and do not easily disturb the cultivation of gentlemen such as us.

If there is any problem, you can negotiate and solve it yourself, that's great!

To sum it simply, it is a foolish people.

The stupider the people, the better, and the better they are.

Everything is under the command of the government and the village sages.

This is in stark contrast to the previous ones.

However, after all, these two systems are the ancestral system of the Han family.

Confucianism could ignore them, but they could not abolish them.

Just like the Confucian scholars, although they hated the Lingyi system and the Han household registration system of 'one husband and five mouths rule a hundred fields'.

However, he didn't dare to say the word 'please scrap'.

After all, after Di Shan took the lead and learned a lesson in person, that kind of stupid white sweet was basically extinct.

Therefore, when Zhang Yue reintroduced these two ancestral systems.

Although the scholars and doctors felt awkward and unhappy, they did not dare to object.

This is the ancestral system, the high emperor system.

The Son of Heaven can not be a bird, but does the courtier dare?

However, they are also much more relieved because of this.

In fact, in fact, the landlords and nobles of the landlords and nobles did not think of it at all, or even if they did, they would not say one thing - in a sense, in fact, although the landlords and nobles in the Wenjing era were subject to various restrictions and constraints, their personal safety and property safety were far more secure than now.

Under the rule of the Huang Lao School, the state was too lazy to care about the landlords and tycoons who stayed in their own homes and played their own affairs.

As long as you don't break the law, everything is negotiable.

Cheng Zheng and Zhuo in Linqiong, rich in the world, travel to compare princes.

Between the master of Luoyang and the knife of Linzi, there are thousands of disciples, countless lackeys, and tens of thousands of assets.

But, each of them is alive and kicking.

Now, on the contrary, under the rule of Confucianism, they seem to have gained the power and freedom to do whatever they want at the grassroots level.

But at the same time, he also lost the freedom of his life and property.

If you send a random official down from above, you can kill all the heroes in a county.

Because, when the powerful can wantonly torture and exploit the small people, it also means that the people in power of the country can also treat them as pigs and dogs.

Therefore, when Zhang Yue reintroduced the ancestral system of the Han family, he actually announced the principles he upheld when he came to Xinfeng.

'Governing the county according to law', to be precise, is the Huang Lao school's 'if the law is not prohibited, it will not be corrected'.

If you don't break the law, I won't care about you.

Even if you break the law, if you can prove that you really didn't know that this law existed, then you can be lenient.

Because 'Xuanming and education' is the responsibility of the government.

And now this person does not know this law, which is a dereliction of duty on the part of the government.

Although he broke the law and had to be punished, the government also had 'dereliction of duty'.

Therefore the man may be lenient, but the relevant officials shall be rebuked—what are you eating? The country raises you for fun, isn't it?

In some cases, even the officials involved may be severely punished.

Flipping through the Han laws of the Wenjing era, you can easily see countless punishment provisions for official dereliction of duty.

From fines and fines to denigration and even exile and execution.

In fact, Huang Lao's politics can never be explained by 'quiet and inaction'.

To be precise, the Huang Lao school advocates 'doing nothing, and doing everything'.

I don't care about anything outside the law, outside the system.

Within the law, within the system, I have to take care of everything!