He didn't particularly understand that when this group of people gained freedom and land from the original gentleness or mediocrity, such drastic changes would occur.

"They really seem to be living for themselves now, don't they? Not for Zampu, not for Ruben, not for Yuben, not for any Bodhisattva. Mu Di finally opened his mouth, as if muttering to himself.

Several of the guards around him also easily tied their horses to the stump of the tree, sat on the ridge, and watched with great interest the people working in the fields and the long clouds floating from the Qilian Mountains in the blue sky.

Able to answer Mu Di's questions, it seems that only Yuan Tongzhi, who is with him, at this time, Yuan Xingzhi, no longer has to be as careful as he was a prisoner before, he raised his head, and can talk to Mu Di freely and honestly, just like among brothers and friends, "Confucius of our Han land once said that the urgent person of politics is nothing more than making the people rich and longevity, and another Mencius once said, Yi Qi Tian, thin its taxes, the people can make rich and Sun Qingzi Xunzi said, the king is rich in the people, the overlord is Fuji, the only remaining country is rich doctor, The rich basket of the dead country and the treasury of the real government. ”

"Who are they?" Mu Di asked curiously and enthusiastically.

Yuan Tongzhi curled his lips slyly and laughed, saying that they were all sages who were concerned about the present world and thought about how to save the people and make the country a better place all day long.

"Zen Buddhism has said that the beginning of everything in the world is all from fate, and then for karmic knowledge, we must uphold a lamp, as long as the lamp is not extinguished, then it will eventually come out of the era of the end of the law, although I don't understand the truth you said for the time being, but I think what they are talking about is also a lamp, a lamp that circulates in the Han land."

Then Mu Di asked Yuan Tongzhi very seriously if he could let him read the classics written by Confucius, Mencius and Sun Qing, "Whether it's Tantra or Bon, I don't think I can save Xifan." In the afterlife, the sacrifice of gods and demons is nothing more than a drowsy anesthesia, and when the medicine becomes weaker and weaker, the people will eventually wake up from the heavy pain, they will find it unbearable, they will be angry, and they will overturn the lies carefully woven by Zamp and the nobles. Then Mu Di's face turned pale, as if he was talking to himself, "That's really terrible, maybe the sage words of the Han land can save Xifan." ”

But Yuan Tong smiled and replied very seriously: "With Gao Jigong here, he will never let you come into contact with these classics, Zampu, you should study Zen Buddhism with peace of mind." ”

This answer disappointed Mu Di very much.

Yuan Tongzhi finally pointed out a way for him: "It doesn't matter if you stay in Shancheng, what Ji Gong does here right away, you just need to observe carefully in secret, you will benefit for a lifetime, and it is a living classic." ”

At this moment, in the Shancheng Military Mansion, in front of Gao Yue, a large group of people knelt down in the black press, all of whom were twisted and sent by the people of Shan, Kuo, He and other prefectures, that is, "thieves". Most of them were originally the indigenous wealthy families of Helong, and after Xifan came, they turned around and became big landowners under the protection of Xifan, helping Xifan to camp fields, carving and stripping, and collecting taxes.

To deal with this group of people, Gao Yue has experience, "Xingyuan experience".

"Thanks to your fathers and elders, take Shanzhou as an example, with you here, the fields are finally neat, the water conservancy is still the same, and the livestock are also very good." Ji Gong said this sentence first.

But the "thieves" trembled even more, their family property was seized by the slaves of the late Wen Dynasty after the Tang army came, and now they have to deal with this Ji Gong, this Ji Gong they have also heard of, it is said that he is notoriously fierce, and all those who are targeted by him are all ruined.

"Therefore, there is no need to be killed or exiled, and punishment is sufficient." Gao Yue touched his beard at this time and said his punishment standard.

Hearing the punishment, the faces of this group of thieves were a little relaxed, but to say that it had completely improved, I am afraid it was still a little too early to say.

Because the "levy and punishment" in Gao Yue's mouth is the so-called "bending the law in a timely manner, and substituting punishment with levy", that is, when the situation was difficult, the criminals no longer used the law to punish them, but could pay money and food to offset the crime.

In fact, this is not the Tang Dynasty, let alone Gao Yue's originality, the Han Dynasty prevailed in the "ransom money", Sima Qian just couldn't pay the money to be corrupted, to some extent, corruption is also a mode of redemption, until the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, that He Shen also engaged in a "discussion of the silver" system, allowing criminal officials to use silver to offset their crimes, to a certain extent, also helped the emperor to seize part of the silver money from the corrupt officials who went to succeed him, and used it for the ten great martial arts expenses of the old man.

This kind of system is not good to say, but the money and food obtained from it are innocent and useful, and the current levy and punishment are not for the officials, and the cost of the levy and punishment will not be passed on to the people, but for this group of thieves who can't afford to make waves, and Gao Yue has not much psychological pressure to implement it.

So Gao Yue asked Quan Deyu around him to draw up a standard document for levying penalties and hung it in the lobby, so that all the thieves could see it when they raised their eyes:

The amount of the fine is determined according to how much official you have been under the rule of Xifan and how much real estate you occupy, but generally speaking, thirty percent of the family property is gone

And the people who brought them will receive a tenth of their possessions

Originally, when the slaves rebelled at the end of the Wen Dynasty, they had already lost fifty percent of their family property.

Coming and going, they can only keep 10% of their property.

At the same time, Gao Yue also stipulated that this group of thieves would not be exempted from taxes, and that they should be engaged in dredging the river, repairing the bridges, and as for Hehuang, the local Wang Tian's income would be owned by Zampu, and the financial officer's field and the officer's field would all be confiscated, and Gao Yue was ready to allocate it to the newly managed Tang military camp as for the temples in Hehuang and Longyou, although Gao Yue did not confiscate their land, but he also flew out of the paper, asking them to accept and buy the book, and send a fixed amount of grain, oil and salt to the Tang army garrison every year, and to set up water in the temples on the rivers and rivers without authorization. Except for the retention of 20%, the rest will be destroyed to ensure the people's farmland irrigation water.

In short, now in Helong, Gao Yue is now the lawmaker, the owner of the army, and the manager of the land, and his vision is not only to recover the lost land, but also to connect to the Anxi Court, he is more concerned about how the Tang family can gain a foothold in Helong after this expedition.

Behind the screen of the government office, Mu Di stared, quietly eavesdropping and observing what this Ji Gong was doing.

He saw that every day, after the Duke of Ji had taken care of the complicated government affairs, he would stand in front of a huge map, holding a rabbit quill dipped in vermilion ink, and when the herald's Yu Hou reported to him that when the 5,000 cavalry from the previous expedition had arrived at a certain place, Gao Yue would carefully draw a red circle at that place on the map.

Dadou Pao Valley was painted with a red circle, followed by Yanzhi Mountain, then Qilian City, then Delete Dan, and then Zhangye of Ganzhou, just like this, every two or three days, it continues to extend to the west.