Hearing Zheng Wenyong say such words, Bai Fan was very surprised.

Many years ago, when I first debuted, I met Cui Jian, a gentleman from a family, and that was the first time I met the family, and my understanding of the nobles of the family was Cui Jian's domineering, arrogant, and powerful ......

Later, after fighting Qinghe Cui's family, I found that the family is also divided into good and bad, the so-called forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, the family is big, there are two gentlemen, and it is normal to have two old immortals and protect the short.

has seen Cui Junxuan's old stubbornness, Bai Fan's understanding of the family is that the nobles of the family can do everything in order to save face.

Of course, this view was overturned when the Taiyuan Wang clan submitted to the imperial court, and the family was also afraid of death.

Until so many years of experience, Bai Fan's general perception of these great families has not changed much, this group of people is a group of people who have gone astray, from the ancestral teachings of the ancestral poetry and book heirlooms, to now it has developed into a prestige that is maintained and improved at all costs, and from the bottom of his bones, he feels that he is superior to others, and he has departed from the civilian world.

Of course, if there are advantages to the family? Yes, the family knows how to survive, otherwise it will not be passed on for thousands of years, the family understands the righteousness of the country, and there are also pillars like the old Li clan in Longxi and the old Li Zheng of the Qingcheng faction, even if the clan is destroyed, they will not take refuge in other races.

So in Bai Fan's eyes, there are good people in the family, but there are not many, more are not bad people, but pretentious and annoying children.

Today, Zheng Wenyong was able to say the responsibilities of the nobles of the family, which made Bai Fan look at it with a fresh and impressive eye, it seems that he was shallow in the past, these nobles have been inherited for thousands of years as the pillars of the country, and some people keep in mind the mission, at this time, Bai Fan remembered Cui Junsu of the Cui family.

Shaking his head and removing all kinds of distractions from his mind, Bai Fan began to organize the language to express his opinions, although he may not be able to convince the Zheng family, but at least the pros and cons in it should be agreed upon.

The reason why the people have not been chaotic for many years, and even faintly agree is because the nobles of the family have a large area of acres at the same time, the people can rely on your big family to make a living, otherwise the family is not financially strong, even if they have good land, they can't plant it, and they can't survive in disaster years.

And the relationship between supply and demand under this coincidence has also caused the rationality of this rule, if there is no nobles who indirectly rescued the kindness of the people, I am afraid that some people would have expressed dissatisfaction with this long time ago. ”

Zheng Wenyong said with a smile: "Hehe, how do you know that this is a coincidence, it is indirect, the old man can answer you clearly now, the nobles of the family are not stupid, there are more fields, naturally someone has to plant, we have to invite the people if we are insufficient, of course, the free employment relationship is not reliable, and it will also make us less profitable, so the means may be a little despicable, but it is true that we help them survive."

For we know that if the people die of hunger, who will farm for us? So this is no coincidence. ”

Bai Fan understood, and admired in his heart another layer, this is the balancing method used by the family for thousands of years, the employment relationship is naturally not as reliable and powerful as the life-saving relationship, although the means are simple, but they are very practical.

"Boy, admire!

How is this matter, the kid will not comment, what I want to say today is that after having immortal food, this kind of coincidence, or this kind of help, I am afraid that there will never be again.

Because fairy food is really something that can make the world no longer hungry, just imagine, a thousand catties of grain per mu, even if the common people only plant three or five acres, or even just one acre, as long as they persist in the first year, then the era of surplus grain will come, and the people will have no threat of life and death, so they will naturally have other ideas, and it is impossible to grovel and snort, do you say yes?

So if you go further, as long as one person is dissatisfied with the injustice of your non-payment of grain taxes, slowly, it will spread to the hundreds, and everyone in the world who pays grain will feel unfair, and what will happen when the time comes? ”

This......

Everyone present understood, and all of them felt a chill in their hearts, yes, there is no threat of life and death, everyone wants to pursue some freedom and human rights, the major affairs of the country, not suffering from widowhood but unevenness, there will definitely be people who stand up and be dissatisfied, at that time, I am afraid ......

"A group of ungrateful people, just don't give them fairy food, it's all the fault of the fairy food.

Lantian Hou, why do you want to get back the immortal grain? Are you sincere in dealing with us? Is it to destroy the nobility of our family? One of the elders stood up and shouted.

"Shut up!"

Zheng Wenyong let out a loud shout, and the elder suddenly came to his senses, and he lost his words.

"We are called nobles of the family, and we have been respected for generations, is it that we have obtained it by such despicable means? Zheng's poetry and books are heirlooms, and he has always stood up with Confucian righteousness, and Lao Jiu went to the ancestral shrine to receive punishment. ”

The elder's face darkened, and he wanted to open his mouth to argue a thing or two, but when he looked up, there were so many clan elders present, and none of them seemed to be ready to speak for themselves, so he sighed in his heart, got up and went straight to the Zheng family ancestral hall.

"The Zheng family style is pure, the family rules are strict, I admire it!

The pros and cons of this change in land cause and effect have been explained below, I don't know what you think? Bai Fanlang said.

The Great Elder of the Zheng Family spoke: "What if my Zheng family doesn't agree? Is Lantian Hou about to use sword soldiers? ”

Bai Fan was dumbfounded, and said sincerely: "Fan is not the first to salute and then the soldiers, in previous years, because of the youth and vigor, so I used more swords, but this time I said, it's not what I Bai Fan wants, it's the situation that is compelling, we can only solve the problem in this way, if Bai Fan really doesn't care, the country will be in chaos and bloodshed in the future, and it's not impossible for anyone to clean up the mess again, but then why bother?" The losses are all my good sons and daughters of the Tang Dynasty. ”

The Great Elder nodded, and did not refute further, but some people were still not satisfied.

A clan elder sitting in the third seat snorted coldly: "Lantian Hou has a good move to overwhelm people.

Immortal grain per mu yields 1,000 catties, which can eliminate the disaster of famine, and our Zheng family will also benefit from it, so there will be no shortage of food in the world.

But with a single word, you pulled us together with the group of mud legs who have always relied on us to survive, and what kind of nobles and commoners will be separated from now on? Now they are dissatisfied with the immortal food, and they will feel dissatisfied with their status when they are full in the future, and when the time comes, will we continue to make concessions?

Lantian Hou, the old man admires your integrity for the country and the people, but you are also a member of the aristocracy, since we inherit the status of the nobility, then we must be differentiated, otherwise let a group of mud-legged people ride on our heads in the future, we will definitely not be able to bear it.

If you're only worried about the chaos of the common people, aren't you worried about the dissatisfaction of the nobles like us? ”

Bai Fan laughed and got up, and at the same time applauded the clan elder's outspokenness.

"I see, thanks to the senior's outspokenness, all the doubts in my heart can be solved today.

After weighing the pros and cons, the aristocracy is still insisting on status, which is understandable, but you are always a senior and well-informed, have you forgotten? Wanting to be respected is not based on who you are, but by what you do.

The family has existed for many years, and its reputation in the past was great because of the countless kindnesses of the living people who were remembered by the people, and if they only relied on the shadow of their ancestors in the future, it was inevitable that everyone would be lost.

I think, even if we are determined by law to be superior to others, but whether we can really be superior or not, it still depends on the action, you are old, you should no longer be greedy for a hypocritical, forced aristocratic title, let the people recognize our aristocracy from the bottom of their hearts is worthy of our pursuit. ”

The old man nodded, and did not continue to speak, Zheng Wenyong, the patriarch of the Zheng clan, saw that the matter had an eyebrow, and said: "Jian Zhi, I will know your intentions, and we have also listened to what you said today, but this matter is not easy, and if you want to complete it, our Zheng family will not count."

Let's tell you the truth, there are only four of the seven families with five surnames, and the Taiyuan Wang family has followed the imperial court, so it is not difficult, our Zheng family has always been friendly with you, needless to say, there is also the strongest strength of the Li family of Zhaojun, and the second is the Boling Cui family, you have to convince it, and even if you want to implement it nationwide, you must add the Hedong family, Luoyang, Shandong and other famous families. ”

Bai Fan saluted respectfully, knowing that this trip was completed, "Thank you uncle and all the elders for your generous understanding, in this case, please ask your uncle to help, ten days later, Chang'an County Xianliang Breeding Base, Fan sincerely invited the patriarchs of these big families to come to discuss the land of immortal grain, and bothered my uncle to help invite people, after all, the boy's reputation is not very good." ”

nodded, Zheng Wenyong agreed, in his own eyes, the land problem caused by immortal grain is the trend of the times, and it is naturally nothing to help Bai Fan be a favor.