Everyone knows very well that one of the main dishes of today's court meeting is to discuss and discuss matters related to the reports of the officials in Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yangzhou.

But the Son of Heaven handed over all this matter to Zhang Zi to be responsible for?

Each one couldn't help but glance at Zhang Yue extraordinarily.

As Liu Qu, who was about to pay homage to the prime minister, he immediately reacted, and he smiled and bowed to Zhang Yue: "Zhang Shizhong, since Your Majesty has ordered the service to be responsible for the affairs of Qingzhou, Yangzhou, and Xuzhou, there must be a high opinion in the service, and I will listen to it!" ”

Everyone else immediately said, "Please speak freely!" ”

Even Han Shuo pinched his nose and said, "Please speak freely!" ”

But in my heart I sneered.

The affairs of Xuzhou and Yangzhou, Han is not very clear.

But doesn't he know about Qingzhou yet?

His fiefdom is in Qi County, Qingzhou.

He has also returned to Fengguo many times, so he naturally knows how bad the problems and situation in Qingzhou are?

He himself, even in Linzi City, still has interests.

For example, the three service officials of Qi County are his people.

Even so, Han Shuo also found that he didn't understand Qi Jun at all.

I don't even understand what game the people of Qi County are playing, I just know that this game is very fun and very profitable.

Therefore, Han said that he would treat others by himself, and felt that it was impossible for Zhang Yue to know anything about Qingzhou.

This lieutenant servant, who survived to death, only talked about some clichés such as "the people's country" and "the peasants are divided into the end", and he used to quote the famous sayings of Chao Chao and call for attention to agriculture.

These things are talked about every year, every day, and Han said that there are calluses in his ears.

Zhang Yue looked at everyone, smiled and bowed, and then said: "There is not much time, and the lower officials don't dare to delay the discussion of the princes, so let's make a long story short!" ”

"Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, the twenty-two counties of the three prefectures, according to the situation grasped by the lower officials, are already extremely dangerous!" Zhang Yue looked at everyone and said with a solemn expression: "Just Qingzhou is a state department, and the lower officials have already calculated from the report of their counties and states that there are at least two million landless vagrants scattered among the eight counties and two countries in Qingzhou......"

"Among them, Qi County is even greater! In Linzi City of Qi County alone, there are more than 94,000 households, and there is no record of land in the Qi Minbo! ”

"There are more than 20,000 households in Jinan County, and there is no land ......"

"Gaomi County and Jiaodong Kingdom, there are about more than 10,000 households ......"

“……”

"And there are tens of thousands of people in Huiji County and Yuzhang County of Yangzhou Thorn History Department, and there are no land property registrations!"

“……”

Zhang Yue calmly read what he knew.

Everyone listened silently, but their expressions became extremely nervous.

As a political creature, among the people present, there were pro-people officials like Liu Qu who rose from local prefectures and counties, there were also well-informed magnates like Han Shuo, economic experts like Sang Hongyang, and politicians like Huo Guang, Jin Ri, and Zhang Anshi.

They may have different positions and different views.

However, what Zhang Yue narrated, of course they knew about it.

"The affairs of Qingzhou, Yangzhou, and Xuzhou have been corrupted!?" After listening to Zhang Yue's narration, Liu Qu took a long breath and asked with emotion: "Is there a solution to that Zhang waiting?" ”

If Zhang Yue raised this problem, he didn't give him a way to solve it.

Then Liu Qu can only think that this mid-serve official is slapping him, the minister who is about to become prime minister, in the face, is a naked expression of hostility and embarrasses him!

"Method, there is a ......" Zhang Yue said softly: "Mencius said: Those who have constant property have perseverance, so the way to govern the country is to make the people have their own ...... industry."

"In today's Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yangzhou, millions of people have no land and are in exile in the market, so there are bandits, hundreds of thousands of bandits, lingering in the states and counties, and even robbers in broad daylight, brazenly walking in front of the market and even the official office!"

"Your Majesty's 'Shen Ming Law' is like a dead letter!"

The so-called 'Shen Ming Law' was a strict decree promulgated in the second year of the Tianhan Dynasty in response to the rampant bandits in the Qilu area at that time.

According to this law: the group of thieves does not find out, and those who catch the full product of the people who find out will die if they are less than 2,000 stone and the owner of the petty officials!

It's just murderous, simple and rude!

There are bandits under the rule, but the officials do not find them, those who do not exterminate them when they find them, and those who do not meet the standards of the robbers they hunt and kill, from less than 2,000 stone to the local officials, all sit down and die!

Needless to say, this is learned from the successful experience of Shang Jun.

The Qin of the Shang Dynasty also dealt with bandits and those officials who were ineffective in suppressing bandits.

Unfortunately, times are different after all.

Moreover, the bandits in Qilu were originally supported by local landlords and aristocrats.

It is the result of indulgence by people with a heart.

Therefore, this law has no effect at all.

Even, this law buried the last effective control of the Han family over the Qingxuyang region.

Before this law, it was possible that local officials, to a greater or lesser extent, were willing to crack down on banditry.

But after the promulgation of this law, no one was willing to take care of the bandits anymore for the sake of their lives.

From top to bottom, for the bandits, they pretend not to see.

This is also the fundamental reason why the Qilu bandits are raging today.

Local officials dare not manage, refuse to manage, and do not want to manage.

Because, who knows if this bandit is new or new?

Who knows, if you manage them, will you lose your head?

Anyway, it is in places like Qijun, Jiaodong and Zichuan, when you leave the city and go to the wilderness, where there are no people, bandits may appear at any time.

These bandits were even able to openly enter the city and swagger before the official office.

Zhang Yue has seen these things from the historical materials he has traced, and he has personally asked from the mouths of Wang Yu and others.

It's just shocking and creepy.

Moreover, Zhang Yue has now finally confirmed his previous suspicion of Qilu's bandits, and he really attacked the people who supported them.

Those who once thought they could control these bandits have now reaped the consequences and completely lost control over them, and even several officials and nobles have been killed by the bandit leaders they once supported.

Local officials in Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yangzhou did not dare to report these incidents at all, so they had to lie that these people died violently.

And in private, everyone is trembling.

Because, there have been more than 10,000 big bandits in Qingzhou!

This group of bandits, known as the 'Giant Wild Bandits', even controlled two county seats, collecting taxes and trying cases in the county seats.

What's even more frightening is that they are actually more honest and efficient than the previous Han government!

They collect half the amount of taxes!

It's nothing short of terrifying!