Bai Fan, who couldn't bear it, shouted: "Enough!

I thought you were all old and wise old people, but I didn't expect that all of them were so ignorant of current affairs. ”

"Shaft! Do you dare to humiliate the old man? ”

"Humiliating you? Do you deserve it?

I said it before, and today I am here to discuss, and it is not me who persecuts you, is it useful for you to bargain here?

It is the situation that forces us to make concessions in advance, it is not that I, Bai Fan, force you to make concessions, do you still want to compromise with the people in the future when the blood is flowing? At that time, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as losing face, and I won't be able to save face.

Based on this, is it wrong to scold you for not knowing the current affairs? ”

You......

Bai Fan's scolding instantly felt hearty, which also made this group of guys who were in a flustered state speechless, and scolded secretly in their hearts, thinking that this kid had changed to a smiling tiger today, but he didn't expect it to be so hateful.

The patriarch of the Taiyuan Wang clan sighed and said: "Lantian Hou, although the old man understands in his heart that what you said is very reasonable, as soon as this thousand catties of immortal grain per mu comes out, it will definitely change the land pattern in the future, but with your words today, let us go back and start to pay the grain, we can't explain this to the clansmen, it's ashamed to say that when the family is big, the people's hearts are not aligned, and there is no reason for them to accept it, even if the old man is the patriarch, he can't cover the sky in the family with one hand." ”

Nodding, Bai Fan expressed his understanding, the old man's words were to the point.

"Yes, Marquis Lantian, even if I come here to see the power of immortal grain and know the consequences of the situation, but the children of the clan disobey the order and do not pay, there will still be accidents in the future, I am afraid that before the people make a fuss, the aristocracy will fight against the grain payment policy first, which I am afraid the court does not want to see." The patriarch of the Pei clan in Hedong spoke.

"I don't know if you have any countermeasures, how can you convince your family to accept this condition.

Since you agree with what I said before, it is up to us to work together to solve the problem, so that there will be no chaos in the family and no chaos among the people, which is why I invite you here today. ”

It was only at this time that everyone recognized Bai Fan, and it seems that Bai Fan is really different today, and he is not here to suppress the nobles.

"Many people in the family will have enough food to survive, and they have been living by not paying food taxes for many years, and this time they have started to pay food taxes, and the impact on this group of people is the greatest, which is equivalent to beating them from the nobles to the common people at one time, so their hearts will be extremely unbalanced." The old man of the Bolingcui clan spoke.

Bai Fan shook his head and said: "With immortal food, this group of people don't have to worry about food and life, even if the grain left over after paying the grain tax, it is enough for the family to have surplus food."

In other words, what they care about is still a matter of face, afraid of paying grain with the people, losing their aristocratic status, and becoming a common people? ”

Everyone bowed their heads and was silent, and the patriarch of the Bolingcui clan nodded: "Yes, that's exactly the reason." And this reason is probably the fundamental reason why the nobles do not pay the grain, we do not lack the grain to be handed in, but we have to maintain the reputation of the nobles for thousands of years, and the nobles still have to be different from the common people. ”

Yes, basically all the old men nodded secretly in their hearts at this time, this is indeed the case, it is really insulting to let everyone be juxtaposed with mud legs.

"Is it useful for the aristocracy to keep face so stubbornly? Is the honor of the nobility kept in this way? Are aristocrats really superior? It's just that the people who were born have different levels of wealth, who is not born naked? ”

The patriarch of the Hongnong Yang clan snorted coldly: "We will naturally not be as unwarranted pretentious as that kind of gentleman, most of our nobles are literati or military generals, all dynasties have contributed to the country, meritorious to the people, military generals protect the country and protect peace, literati educate and secure the world, so that they can enjoy the status and rights of the nobles, which is also worthy of the respect of the people, and now we will deprive our family of past contributions and honors for no reason, Lantian Hou, do you think it is fair to us?" Is it fair to sacrifice our past contributions? ”

Bai Fan stroked his palms and laughed, "Okay, Elder Yang's words are very reasonable, and Fan also thinks so." ”

Everyone was puzzled, this Lantian Marquis was sometimes angry, sometimes laughing, what was he doing? It's really hard to get along with this person, you can't see what this smiling tiger is calculating at all.

"Since you can let go of the unreasonable insistence of the nobles and talk about the contributions and merits of the nobles, this involves the rewards and inheritance of the nobles.

As the old saying goes, the virtue of a gentleman is cut by the fifth generation, but the nobles of the family are now a thousand-year-old inheritance, this is unreasonable, the scholar is tax-free, although this sentence is a thousand-year-old precept, but is this scholar self-appointed? Can you be called a scholar if you are a scholar?

The nobles of all dynasties have come because of the separation, but the titles of the nobles who have been divided must be decreasing from generation to generation, and after a maximum of five generations, they will be reduced to commoners if they have no merit.

But please tell me, today's old aristocracy, a big family of more than 100,000 people, a small family of hundreds of thousands of people, these have all contributed to the Tang Dynasty court, have they been canonized?

Therefore, the ancestors of the nobility cannot shine on their descendants for thousands of years, and the side branches, external branches, and even those who have no contribution in the lineage need to be re-discussed.

If not, the old nobles have no contributors and will not lose their honor, and the new people will be rewarded with contributors year after year, sooner or later, one day, there will be a new situation in the Tang Dynasty where everyone is a nobleman, so I am afraid that it will end up with an embarrassing situation where there is no food to collect and no labor available. ”

Hiss...... Everyone took a breath in unison.

"Bold, Bai Fan, do you want to move my noble status? Do you have what it takes? ”

Only then did everyone understand that Bai Fan was crazy, he didn't want to move the land, but to collectively suppress the aristocratic forces, and to dismiss a large part of the old nobles and make room for the new nobles.

Zheng Wenyong was stunned, this, what is the situation? It's different from the script, didn't it say that it was only about land and food?

That's right, he seems to have been cheated by Bai Fan, his nephew and son-in-law.

"How many sons of nobles from our family have entered the court to benefit the officials, even if they don't have a fiefdom, they have titles, why aren't they scholars?"

"How many things have we done for the people and the country in the past dynasties, do we want to wipe it out with your words?"

The scene was chaotic in an instant, and many old people were full of red, if it was said that the land grain tax could still be discussed, what was being talked about now was really the life and death of a family, and it was impossible to give in.

Bai Fan sneered: "Where to use me to obliterate?" The wheel of history has been erased.

I want to ask you, haven't the contributions made by the predecessors of all dynasties have been rewarded by the emperors of the current dynasty? But over the years, there have been many changes of dynasty, how long can those rewards last? Is the reward of Emperor Wen of the former Sui Dynasty valid in the Tang Dynasty?

Even if His Majesty can tolerate it, then further back, can the rewards of the Jin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty continue to the Tang Dynasty?

It's ridiculous, if you still build a fart country, won't the land under heaven always belong to you?

If you don't want to mess with you, we don't want to move your ancestral business, and we also express our admiration for the honor of our ancestors, but your marginalized children are no longer qualified to inherit the honor, so we must make way for the people who come later, which is not only related to the wealth of our new nobles, but also related to the life and death of you old nobles.

As I said, everything is due to the fairy food, don't you still understand? If they don't give in, sooner or later there will be a war between the nobles and the common people. ”

Today's fourth chapter, thank you for your support.

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