Chapter 737: Who's Crowned Marquis
Li Mao sent envoys to lobby the towns to make his bottom line clear: the Huangzhuang system was only applicable to Guanzhong, and the purpose was to attack the economic base of the relatives and nobles of the previous dynasty, so as to purge their power better and faster. The land system in other places followed the previous dynasty, with the local government protecting private land ownership, presiding over the distribution of ownerless land to prevent excessive land concentration, and the Bureau of Reclamation of the Ministry of Industry presiding over the organization of displaced people to reclaim land.
Each locality may also formulate a land system that conforms to local characteristics according to its own actual situation, report it to the Ministry of Household Affairs for review and submit it to the government affairs hall for approval and promulgation. This policy was endorsed by Li Quanzhong, He Jintao, Tian Bu, Wang Zhixing, He Sancai, and others.
But there were also some feudal towns that were suspicious of Li Mao's land reform in Guanzhong, and Situ and Han Gongwu, the king of Liang, were one of them, and he said to his son Han Shaozong, the envoy of Xuanwu Jiedu: "What does Li Mao mean by taking so many imperial villages into his own house, is he hoarding grain and grass and preparing to take us to the knife?" I heard that Yan Qin was poisoned by him. ”
Han Shaozong said: "The Kwantung princes hold each other together and strive for self-improvement, he naturally has no room to drill, and if the Kwantung princes are infighting and do not repair their internal affairs, they will naturally eat him and harm him." At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial family wantonly annexed the land in Guanzhong, accounting for six out of ten, if these lands were distributed to meritorious service, it was inevitable that they would have to conceal their household registration and do a lot of illegal things. And he monopolized these fields in the name of the emperor, so he gave up the covetousness of meritorious heroes, and the wealth he obtained was called the emperor's private property, but in fact it subsidized the public treasury, which is really his cleverness. ”
Han Gongwu said: "In this case, I can also follow his example in Bianzhou and confiscate some Zhuangtian in my hands." ”
Han Shaozong said: "No, most of the land in Guanzhong was owned by the relatives of the former Tang Dynasty, and the former Tang Dynasty perished, and it was natural for him to seize it." Bianzhou is surrounded by Qin Xun and local heroes, and there will be chaos when they seize their land, so I hope my father will think twice. ”
Han Gongwu said with a smile: "He confiscated the grange of the prince of the former Tang Emperor, and I confiscated the grange of the former Tang officials. ”
Han Gongwu was determined not to listen to Han Shaozong's advice, so in order to avoid his son's constraints, he found an excuse to send Han Shaozong to Xuzhou. Haozhou was captured by Huainan, Wang Zhixing was unwilling, and secretly prepared troops and horses to recapture Haozhou. Han Gongwu, Li Quanzhong and others are not optimistic about Wang Zhixing's move, and it is inappropriate and cost-effective to offend Li Mao for Yihao Prefecture. Besides, Qian Duoduo is a world-famous general, Wang Zhixing's ability may not be able to beat others, so why bother with taking humiliation.
Han Shaozong also opposed Wang Zhixing's initiative to provoke, the world is coarse, and people are determined, so it is really not appropriate to use troops again. Moreover, Shu has been flattened, Huainan, Caizhou, Wuchang, Xiangyang, Guizhou, Jiangxi are all owned by Li Mao, Fujian, Jiangling, Hunan, Lingnan, Annan, Sangui and other places have sworn allegiance, He Sancai monopolized Jiangnan, there is a lot of money in the north, there is a lot of deer in the south, more than self-preservation, but there is no power to interfere in the affairs of the Central Plains, at this time with Li Mao, the Kwantung princes won less and lost more, even if they win, the existing pattern will be completely broken, the torrent of history, surging, always a generation of new people for the old, who dares to guarantee that the last laugh is themselves.
Although Han Shaozong was the envoy of the Xuanwu Festival, because his father was there, he did not want to hold real power, and he did not have much concern about the envoy to Xuzhou, so he rushed to Xuzhou to persuade Wang Zhixing after listening to Han Gongwu's words.
As soon as his son left, Han Gongwu had no restraints around him, he mobilized heavy troops to enter Bianzhou City, and after all preparations were stopped, he ordered the confiscation of all the gentry granges that had been officials in the former Tang Dynasty under the pretext of purging the remnants of the former Tang Dynasty.
The land of Xuanwu has always had strong folk customs, and was forced to die at home, how could they be restrained, the squires everywhere rebelled, Han Gongwu had already prepared, ordered a suppression, the gentry were defeated, and the group went to Luoyang to ask Shi Xiong to stay in the eastern capital to preside over justice, Shi Xiong was not only the general of the Eastern Capital and the Left Guard, but also the patrol envoy of Xuanwu, Zhongwu, Yicheng and other towns, and had the right to supervise the local government and protect the people.
After Shi Xiong asked Chang'an, he immediately sent troops to attack Bianzhou to stop Han Gongwu's perverse behavior. As soon as Luoyang sent troops, there was a great earthquake in Kwantung, and Li Quanzhong, He Jintao, Wang Zhixing, Tian Bu and others asked Li Mao to withdraw his troops, and sent envoys to Bianzhou respectively, asking Han Gongwu to revoke the order to take over the fields and not give Li Mao a tongue to interfere in Kwantung.
Han Shaozong, who was in Xuzhou, was shocked when he heard the news and hurried back from Xuzhou.
Under pressure from all sides, Han Gongwu had to revoke the order to reclaim the land, and the generals withdrew from Bianzhou, ordering compensation for the losses caused to the gentry in various places due to the repossession of land, but the big mistake had been made, the people's hearts had been broken, and the public funds could not be used up to compensate for the lost people's hearts.
Han Gongwu was at a loss, and he was even more shocked when he heard that Han Shaozong had returned to Xuzhou. Since he was captured by Shi Xianzhong, he has lost his status as the envoy of Xuanwu Festival, and it is his son Chunxiao who let him take power and be the lord of this town. But the army's desire is no longer in him, and the Xuanwu generals obey Han Shaozong and disobey him, he doesn't know it, but he just mixes it with a shy face.
He had already heard some bad news, saying that the generals in the army were discussing to make military admonitions and force him to return to power with Han Shaozong, and the time was on the day Han Shaozong entered the city. The news made his heart beat and he couldn't sleep. But he didn't know what to do, the heart was lost, and he really didn't know what to do.
At this time, a person who claimed to be Sun Fu suddenly appeared in front of him, claiming that he had done what Han Shaozong had confessed, and that he would have to take off a few layers of skin if he didn't die, and asked King Liang to save his life.
Han Gongwu's eyes lit up, this woman is indeed a flower and moon appearance, and her beauty makes her heart palpitate, but what makes him even more overjoyed is that it is the person from Sun Mansion who dedicates his wife, and she is also a close confidant of Han Shaozong.
Han Gongwu did not rush to appease the poor woman who was abandoned by her husband, but hid in a room with the man who was about to abandon her and stayed alone for an hour.
An hour later, Han Gongwu walked out of the secret room, he was already in a good mood, he generously beckoned the woman in, saying that he wanted to comfort her. The woman wiped her tears and followed him into the house, and her man knelt down by the door, never daring to look at his wife. When the door was closed, he got up and went away, his eyes shining and his cheeks flushed, and he was going to do something that would bring him glory and wealth for the rest of his life.
Three days later, an unfortunate news reached Bianzhou, and Han Shaozong, the envoy of Xuanwu Festival and the prince of Xingyang County, died violently at a post station on the outskirts of Songzhou. Situ Han Gongwu lost his beloved son, howled and cried, because of excessive sadness, fainted several times, because he cried day and night, it is said that his eyes were almost blind from crying.
Li Mao learned of Han Shaozong's death in Chang'an, and he was also sad and wept, so he quit the dynasty for three days, posthumously presented the crown prince Taibao, and posthumously named him the king of Xingyang County.
Half a month later, Li Mao remembered Qin Fengmian for many years of diligence and hard work, and named him Ruian Hou.