In the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the sun is like fire.

From the first day of this month, after the Jihan government no longer restricted the scope of activities of the heads of the Kanto family. More than 40 heads of the family and their subordinates rushed to the house like crazy.

Among them, the Chen family, located in Guangling County, Xuzhou, is relatively far away due to its distance. Therefore, even if Chen Yue rarely rode a horse and galloped, by the time he arrived at home, it would already be June 20.

"The puppet is rude! Insult me too much! ”

When he arrived at home, he saw the housekeeper and the relatives who stayed behind crying and handing over an account book, and after a quick glance, Chen Yue yelled and fainted.

Guangling Chen, the official eunuch of many generations. Although in terms of prestige and even the size of the official positions of the ancestors of the past dynasties, it is inferior to the Yingchuan Chen family represented by Chen Qun. However, unlike Yingchuan Chen's focus on the world and the court. Guangling Chen's eyes are always and attentively focused on Guangling County.

Back then, no matter Tao Qian, Liu Bei, or Lu Bu, it didn't matter which of you was the boss of Xuzhou: as long as you recognized my Chen family's status as the soil emperor in Guangling County.

At the beginning, Tao Qian and Liu Bei both pinched their noses and confessed. But when Lu Bu was in charge of Xuzhou, he wanted to concentrate the strength of the entire Xuzhou against Cao Cao. The two fathers and sons of the Chen family, Chen Qi and Chen Deng, made a decisive move.

I have to say that the conspiracy and tricks played by the Chen family father and son are really wonderful, and they have played Lu Bu, Chen Gong and others to death. In the end, it paved the way for Cao Cao's smooth entry into Xuzhou.

Therefore, after Cao Cao entered Xuzhou, he did not dare to do anything to the Chen family when Yuan Shao was in the north, Liu Biao in the south, and Sun Ce in the southeast was still aggressive. Therefore, he simply waved his hand: Chen Deng, Guangling Taishou, if you want to be the soil emperor of Guangling County, just do it, I will give you all the name and benefits. I beg you to keep me at bay from the enemy in the southeast.

So the Chen family really honestly guarded the southeast direction for Cao Cao.

In the past 100 years, the current Guangling Chen clan has completely controlled everything in Guangling County. Land, population, commerce, the resources that the Chen family has in Guangling County far exceed the national resources in the jurisdiction that Guangling Taishou can control, not to mention, that is, below Guangling Taishou, the appointment of all officials in the county, which one does not look at the Chen family's face? Whether it is filial piety recommended in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, or Jiupin Zhongzheng in the Wei and Jin dynasties, which scholar who was recommended was not recognized by the Guangling Chen family to stand out?

Therefore, after Cao Pi, the six emperors of the Wei and Jin dynasties all maintained restraint against the Guangling Chen family: unlike other super families that had more or less two or three enemies and restrained each other. Guangling County, there is really only such a super family. If you provoke it, the entire Guangling County will be turned upside down!

However, Guan Da Sima's brain is relatively clear, and it is different from the emperors of the Wei and Jin dynasties.

In his opinion, what is the so-called face of the problem to be slowly figured out, to be cautious, in fact, it is all a manifestation of weakness and lack of self-confidence, isn't it just a persimmon picking up a soft pinch?

On the surface, this will yield some results and maintain social stability. But the hidden dangers brought about by this are extremely huge: the obedient are beaten, and those who usually do it have to be appeased. Usually work hard to continue to work until tired, because of lack of ability or there is a background but idle to die in a word, the result of pinching soft persimmons is to force hard persimmons harder, and the remaining soft persimmons are also trying to become hard.

Guan Da Sima: All the persimmons must be pinched! But! It must be pinched from the hardest persimmon!

At the beginning of April, Ma Long personally led the Xuzhou Corps into Guangling, and conducted a preliminary inventory of the population under the control of the Chen family while many serfs of the Chen family were working in the fields.

The family business of the Chen family in Guangling is too huge, so even if the whole army of the Xuzhou Corps starts together, it can really only do a preliminary inventory. But even then, the results were astonishing.

After the two-month inventory, the data submitted by Ma Long to Wei Qian were: Guangling Chen, headed by his own head Chen Yue, horizontal investigation of his brothers, cousins, cousins, in-laws and brothers, longitudinal investigation of his uncles, sons, nephews, a total of 237 relatives within three generations.

Under the names of these 237 people, there are 4,350,000 mu of cultivated land, 73 manors, 35 hills, 7 lakes, and 1,322 fish ponds. According to the preliminary count, it was frankly admitted that they were serfs in their families, totaling more than 153,700 people. There is also a group of private soldiers with more than 3,000 people, and they are fully equipped with weapons and armor!

After this number was reported, Wei Qian himself was also frightened by the fact that he was from a super family.

You must know that Guangling County at this time was ceded to Huainan by the Jin State. But there's only half of it left. There is also a small half, but it is in the hands of Wu Guo. The southern half of Guangling County can't be found by Ma Long. And over there, there must still be a considerable part of the Chen family's industry! Not to mention half of the half, at least three or four percent of them.

In this way, this is really terrifying! What you have to know is that in this half of Guangling County in Huaibei now, Wei Qian only controls more than 70,000 people and more than 2 million mu of cultivated land on behalf of the state.

If this contrast is not too strong, then you can think about the internal purge of Shu Han after Guan Yi just took control of the power of Shu Han: Liu Gan, Yan Laohu, the first corrupt official in Shu Han. When his house was raided, his home was only 17 manors with more than 100,500 acres of land. There were more than 7,800 domestic slaves and tenants.

So, how can Shu Han attract the love of the family

According to Dahan's regulations on household tax, the Chen family is no longer on the list of household tax levels. It is estimated that Zhuge Liang, who formulated the Shu family back then, did not expect that there would be a family of such a scale.

The Chen family's previous declaration to the Jin State was: 500,000 acres of land and 10,000 serfs under his command. Combined with the data found out this time, the amount of tax evasion and concealment of the population is really amazing!

"Hey, being sent by my father-in-law to do the history of Xuzhou is really like sitting on a volcano." Even after smiling bitterly, Wei Qian had no choice: the Wei family, as the in-laws of the Guan family, was the benchmark set by the Ji Han government in the Kanto family. If the Wei family wants to get off the ship at this time, they will inevitably be retaliated by Ji Han's desperate madness. Besides, the wealth of the Chen family is the super family Wei family in Hedong, and it looks very popular.

Therefore, Wei Qian has no choice, he can only be a dead friend and not a poor man.

In the end, Wei Qian issued a fine to the Chen family: the 500,000 mu of land and 10,000 serfs previously declared by the Chen family were retained, and the rest were confiscated. In addition, because the Chen family's tax evasion was too serious, a fine of 5 billion yuan was imposed. The Chen family was responsible for paying taxes and all the relevant personnel were arrested, and after all the evidence was cleaned up, the Xuzhou Anti-Corruption Office filed a public prosecution with the Xuzhou court in accordance with the Dahan Litigation Law.

The serfs and land confiscated by the state were resettled by the Xuzhou Assassin Prefecture. Before the Chen family paid the fine, all the taverns, Bo Opera Building, Fengyue Building and other fixed assets under the Chen family's name were all seized and prohibited from business!

Never underestimate the accumulation of hundreds of years of the family. Five billion dollars, for the Chen family, may not be available. But it was not difficult to get the equivalent of gold out of the cellar of the old house. But how could the Chen family be so willing to be killed? Lu Bu was invincible in the world back then, how fierce a person he was? Just moved his head to requisition the Dingkou and grain of Guangling County, and was sold by the ancestors of the Chen family. Is it difficult for you Guan Zifeng to beat Lu Bu?

So, after Chen Yue arrived at home. The Chen family quickly unified their opinions: armed confrontation!

"The head of the house, because it happened suddenly. The head of the family and several young masters were all in Chang'an at that time, so the reaction was very untimely. A large number of people in the family and the private soldiers in Huaibei are now under the control of Wei Qian's house. But we still have 80,000 people on the Huainan side, and we also have 3,000 private soldiers! In the warehouse in Huainan, there are nearly 10 million stone of grain, in short, if you don't take care of your family, you deserve death. Please give the family law! ”

"Well, the butler doesn't have to blame himself. It's all to blame for the Guan Zifeng who is too shameless! "It's a mess at home now, so you have to speak gently. Chen Yue is still clear about this: "Housekeeper, please get up, I don't blame you for this." ”

"Thank you for your kindness!"

"The most urgent thing now is how to fight back as quickly as possible! Chen Gang! ”

"Head of the family, Chen Gang is here." With a loud answer, a burly man with a rough face stood up.

"You are the head of the family, and it is up to you at this time. Gather all our remaining private soldiers first, and then move to Xuan County! ”