Chapter 144 considers how to separate the dirt

Seeing that Zheng Rentai's heart was like ashes, he hung his head down.

Li Jiancheng let out a long sigh.

Before he could speak, Chen Ying took a step forward and pointed at Zheng Rentai and said, "Zheng Rentai, you are a smart person, don't do stupid things!" ”

"Win or lose, this day...... I have expected it for a long time! After speaking, Zheng Rentai bowed his head and kept silent.

Chen Ying turned to Li Jiancheng and said, "Your Majesty, it's not too early, please go back to the palace to rest first!" ”

Li Jiancheng was silent for a moment, and said with an iron face: "One counts as one, don't let it go!" ”

The soil is still three-pointed, not to mention a person.

Zheng Rentai and others have touched Li Jiancheng's bottom line.

Li Jiancheng turned around and went back to the palace.

Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng looked at Chen Ying with a look of hope: "General Chen, how do you think this matter should be handled?" ”

In all dynasties, the handling of rebellion was extremely severe.

A rebellion with conclusive evidence like Zheng Rentai, even if the nine clans are not punished, the three clans must be razed. Zheng Rentai's death is not a pity, but these 100,000 people are 100,000 families, and it is easy to cut off the head, but it is difficult to grow back.

Population is the hard wound of the Tang Dynasty, and now the territory of the Tang Dynasty is extremely wide, three points larger than the later Celestial Empire, the key is that the population is worth 30 million, not to mention remote areas, even if it is Henan, Hebei, which were originally densely populated in history, are now seriously lacking people.

Wei Zheng didn't want to kill so many people, the key is that all these people have violated the law, if they don't deal with it, where is the prestige of the imperial court?

Chen Ying smiled and said: "Your Majesty once said that those who descend will not be investigated, does Xuan Cheng want to trap Your Majesty for losing his trust?" ”

When Wei Zheng heard this, he pretended to suddenly realize: "Xuancheng understands! ”

Chen Ying didn't break the little Jiujiu in Wei Zheng's heart, he said that Wei Zheng was not afraid of death, but in fact, this was, he didn't come forward at the critical moment, just to take himself out. Now that Chen Ying is speaking, he is also fortunate to have someone to block the thunder.

Of course, Chen Ying is willing to take on this responsibility.

For Chen Ying, these responsibilities are not even tickling.

Chen Ying looked at the kneeling soldier on the ground with a gloomy face and said: "You are openly rebelling, the crime is extremely heinous, and it is unforgivable, and its crime should be punished." ”

Hearing this, the pawn who was originally kneeling on the ground was so frightened that his soul was scattered at this time, and his body trembled like chaff. After all, ants still survive in steal, let alone people?

The soldiers cried out to the heavens and the earth, "spare your life...... Wronged ......"

The sneer on Chen Ying's face became thicker and thicker, and he said coldly: "Your Majesty is lenient, and you can't bear to wait for your wife to be separated, so you will open the net." However, the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped, since today, you will all be assigned to Anxi, and you will not be pardoned within ten years, and ten years later, you will see the after-effects! ”

These pawns breathed a sigh of relief.

I can live.

As long as you don't die, although Anxi is bitter, it is colder in winter, and you can get through it by gritting your teeth.

In fact, Chen Ying's ultimate goal is to carry out large-scale migration. Anyway, the plot of the Tang people is too serious, no matter how tempting it is, they are unwilling to leave their hometown.

Don't look at the number of people who break into Anxi, the people who are really willing to settle in Anxi's house are actually less than one in a hundred. Just like the migrant workers in later generations who went to the city, as long as they made money in their pockets, they would definitely return to the countryside.

Now, 100,000 clan gate lords and private soldiers, that is, 100,000 families and a population of 500,000 or 600,000, can migrate out of Guanzhong. Whatever one may say, it's all earned.

Chen Ying ordered these soldiers to take 100 people as a team, 10 teams as towns, and each town sent a regiment to escort them, and all of them went to the Duobaoshan Copper Mine. Although a large number of war slaves in Anxi were almost all thrown into Duobao Mountain to dig copper mines, there was still a great shortage of manpower, and these 100,000 households migrated to the past, and more than 100 towns of all sizes could be densely spread outside Duobao Mountain, forming a grain self-sufficiency in Duobao Mountain.

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In the prison of Dali Temple, Li Anyan came to Wang Renbiao's cell again.

It just so happened that Wang Renbiao, who was covered in blood, woke up, he kicked his scarlet eyes, looked at Li Anyan and gritted his teeth and scolded: "Eagle dog, if you want to kill or chop, listen to it!" ”

Li Anyan said with a smile on his face: "Have you asked clearly?" ”

The chief of the prison beside him bowed down and said, "General Qiyu, it's all clear." Especially this kid, he explained all the bedwetting when he was a child. ”

Li Anyan said with a smile: "Since you have confessed, what kind of tough guy are you doing?" ”

Wang Renbiao snorted, turned his head and ignored Li Anyan.

Li Anyan continued: "The real tough guy, this general has seen it, that is a real tough guy, and he has never recognized it until he died." What are you! ”

Li Anyan didn't give Wang Ren a nonsense, he took the confession of the chief of the prison, turned around and returned to the Taiji Palace.

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Li Jiancheng returned to Taiji Palace, was about to sleep, never thought that Li Anyan would come, holding Wang Renbiao's confession, looking at the familiar names one after another, Li Jiancheng's face twitched.

He looked up to the sky and roared, "Why...... Why, I treat them well, why do they treat them like this! ”

At this time, a feeling of betrayal and betrayal surged into Li Jiancheng's heart.

Especially Wen Daya.

Wen Daya is an old acquaintance of Li Jiancheng and has a good relationship. On the eve of Li Yuan's army, because of the death of his father, Wen Daya, who returned to his hometown to worry about Ding Wei, was recruited by Li Yuan to join the army as the secretary of the general's mansion, and specialized in taking charge of confidential information. In the following year (618), Li Yuan established himself as emperor and was appointed as the squire of the Yellow Gate. Deeply trusted by Li Yuan.

Li Yuan once said gratefully, "I started in Jinyang, and I was a disciple of Qing."

Li Shimin and his brother Li Jiancheng fought fiercely for the throne. Li Shimin pushed Wen Daya out of the town of Luoyang, thinking that it should be an external response. As Li Shimin's hardcore henchman, Li Jiancheng ignored Wen Daya's past suspicions, promoted him to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and was named the Duke of Li Guogong.

Unexpectedly, Wen Daya actually ran in tandem and spared no effort to overthrow Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng threw the list in his hand in front of Li Anyan, and shouted: "Arrest all these wolf-hearted beasts, and the three divisions will be tried!" ”

Li Anyan picked up the confession and said: "The minister is edicted! ”

Then, the left guard of the brigade followed Li Anyan Taiji Palace and arrested people according to the list.

Li Jiancheng was really angry, and even the Zheng family in Xingyang issued an order to raid the house.

may be the reason for taking into account Zheng Guanyin, and the fat difference of the Zheng family actually fell on Chen Ying's head.

Chen Ying saw that the sky was about to dawn, and he didn't care about resting, and while ordering all the people, he headed towards Xingyang.

Three thousand cavalry, very fast.

At dusk on the third day, we arrived in Xingyang.

Chen Ying didn't believe that the Zheng family would take risks, and he didn't meet the arrival all the way, so he came to the Zheng family's ancestral house.

Three thousand soldiers and horses surrounded the Zheng family's mansion, and then rushed in to raid the house.

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Although Chen Ying was rich and had millions of family assets, he was still speechless in surprise when he saw the Zheng family's treasury in Xingyang.

Gorgeous and exquisite, brilliant gold ornaments and wine utensils, silver winter melons weighing hundreds of catties, copper pillars cast with thousands of catties of brass, boxes and boxes of jewelry...... It's bigger than the treasury!

It took Chen Ying a long time to recover from his dizziness, stroking a giant silver winter melon, and said with emotion: "It's unimaginable, just the Xingyang Zheng clan has looted so many treasures!" ”

A member of the Zheng family asked blankly: "The Zheng family is so rich, why can't we have a full meal and wear a decent dress?" ”

Chen Ying sighed, he remembered a joke in later generations, the poor are cautious and generous, while the rich are upright and stingy.

The Zheng clan in Xingyang controlled tens of millions of hectares of fertile land in Henan, and there were hundreds of thousands of tenants, but they did not give back to the society.

In fact, in all dynasties, China has been rich, but China is rich, which does not mean that the imperial court is rich.

For example, in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, any family of family lords can be rich and rival the country. Just like in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, none of the four major families of Xi, Huan, Xie, and Liu, who held the military power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, relied on the financial allocation of the imperial court to support the army, they all relied on the power and money of the family.

In all dynasties, wealthy merchants, gentry and officials would rather melt their money into silver winter melons than take it out and pay a little tax. Ning Yuan's family's food was moldy, the money was rusty, and he was unwilling to donate to the country.

Chen applied his strength to pat a silver winter melon, and he felt like he couldn't cry or laugh. During the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was actually not short of money, especially after inheriting the huge inheritance of the Sui Dynasty, the Li Dynasty obtained immeasurable wealth, and the seven sects and five wangs of Shandong casually took out 1.7 million yuan, which is equivalent to 8 billion yuan in later generations.

Could it be that the Sui Dynasty was poor?

In the early days of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the loss of 100,000 horses alone was fought twice, and from the founding of the country to the ninth year of Wude, the loss of troops alone was no less than 500,000 horses, not to mention men and horses, even the ordnance and armor were as high as millions of pieces.

However, the finances of the Tang Dynasty have always been red and purple.

The clan does not have to pay taxes, the officials do not have to pay taxes, the gentry do not have to pay taxes, and the merchants who have earned a lot of wealth do not have to pay taxes as long as they are under the name of the clan gatekeepers.

All taxes fell on the common people, and a lot of people robbed the imperial court for this tax source, such as vassal kings, officials, and gentry. According to the laws of martial arts, the nobles of the knighthood are exempt from taxes, so whenever a soldier is knighted for military merit or becomes an official, many people will inevitably come to donate their land and property, and they will naturally not have to pay taxes. The vassal kings and officials also did not pay taxes, both of which were justifiable, and who would dare to collect their taxes? As a result, the tax source of the imperial court has dropped sharply, and it can only desperately raise taxes on fewer and fewer fields, and it is difficult to think of it.

So, where did all this huge amount of money go?

Went to the cellar.

The Tang Dynasty did not have industry, let alone securities and stocks, and coupled with the old tradition of the Chinese who were happy to save since ancient times, the money earned could not be spent, so it was naturally hidden in the cellar. Those rich families were afraid of being patronized by small thieves, and melted the silver into silver winter melons weighing hundreds of catties, and several big men couldn't move it, so naturally no one could steal it.

Then, the money disappeared from the market, no longer existed, until the crisis came and the whole country fell into panic, and the money flowed out of the cellars and poured into the market to desperately buy food, cloth and other necessities, triggering soaring prices and eventually accelerating the collapse of the entire country......

There is no way, a country's money will always be several times more than materials, and if all this money flows into the market to buy goods, it will become inevitable that prices will get out of control.

According to Chen Ying's incomplete statistics, the Zheng family's money in Xingyang is about 3.8 million yuan, and once this money is put into the market, Datang's economic system will collapse.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying looked at the soldiers around him and said: "The most important thing for us now is how to divide the dirt,"