Liangzhou is the former Wuwei County, at the end of May of the eighth year of Dazhi, the Tang Emperor Zhang Huan arrived at the city where he had started before under the escort of 20,000 Yulin Army, Zhang Huan's final stop on his westward journey was the Dawan Governor's Mansion, that is, the capital of the Shiguo in the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms, where he will meet with the Great Food Caliph Rashid, which was an official meeting between the two countries more than a year ago, the time was in October, and there were still five months before now, and there was enough time for him to patrol along the way.

Sixteen years ago, when Zhang Huan was in charge of Wuwei, he placed more than 1,000 Han military households in Tianbao County, and they reclaimed land along the Shiyang River, so that the two banks of the Shiyang River that were originally barren appeared patches of wheat

More than ten years have passed, the scene here has not changed much compared with that year, the population of Tianbao County is still about 1,000 households, Han and Qiang account for half, maintaining the traditional situation of Han farming and Qiang herding, the wheat at the end of May is about to ripen, and the golden wheat waves are undulating and tumbling under the blowing of the wind.

"Your Majesty, Tianbao County was ravaged by the Tubo army, the people of the Tang Dynasty died, fled and fled, at that time it was almost an empty city, and later after the Tang army regained Hexi, many people who fled to Longyou returned to the county one after another, with the help of the army to rebuild their homes and recultivate the land, only to slowly restore to today's scene, it is really not easy."

The county commander of Tianbao County is surnamed Wang, a native of Chang'an, about 30 years old, and is a scholar who passed the imperial examination held separately in Longyou that year, and was promoted to the county magistrate of Tianbao County by the county of Changdu County the year before last, although he was only 30 years old. But years of hard work had made him very old, like a forty-year-old. The official uniform on his body was also washed white, very shabby, and it could be seen that he had worked hard as an official.

Zhang Huan always has a special feeling for Tianbao County and Liangzhou, in order to prevent the people there from being poisoned by corrupt officials, he has to arrange for the supervision office to go to the counties of Liangzhou every year to secretly visit the people's opinions, and the results are quite satisfactory to him, especially this Wang County Order. With two generations of old people and four children to support, the family was very poor, and because they could not afford hired labor, he and his wife were said to have to work in the fields themselves.

Zhang Huan nodded, and he came to a wheat field. Looking up at the huge waterwheel next to him, this was the one he had seen back then, the new waterwheel had become very old, creaking and turning. Zhang Huan looked at the wheat field from a distance, then walked to the waterwheel to find a stone to sit down, and waved his hand to order everyone to sit down, but the poor people did not bring cushions. I had to sit on the ground one after another. Zhang Huan smiled and asked Wang County again: "Has the land real-name system started in Tianbao County?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty. We started in mid-March after receiving the document from the Ministry of Households, which was presided over by the Liangzhou Land and Acres Division. Our prefecture assists. Speaking of this, Wang Xian Ling quietly glanced at the Liangzhou Land Tian Mu Si Shen Military who was sitting not far away, meaning that he should answer the emperor's question, but the other officials saw that the emperor did not ask others at all, and no one dared to say much, Zhang Huan really didn't want to ask others, he continued to ask Wang County Ling: "Then tell me, how does the land real-name system in Tianbao County work?" ”

Wang Xian Ling saw that the emperor was only staring at himself, so he had to secretly smile bitterly and said: "Back to Your Majesty, most of the cultivators in Tianbao County are military households, according to the standard of military households, each household can get 50 acres of land, military households are registered when granting land, and each household has a land deed, and for non-military households, they are also registered according to the standard of 30 acres of land, and more than 100 households of Qiang people who farm are also treated equally, and there is no discrimination, so the real-name system of land in Tianbao County is relatively simple, and the on-site verification is completed in only one month. ”

"Isn't there a big household in Tianbao County that exceeds the standard?" This is the key question that Zhang Huan wants to ask.

"Most of Tianbao County is newly reclaimed land, so there are almost no large households, only two families because of the large population, so more land has been reclaimed, each exceeding the standard of 50 acres and 100 acres, a family is divided into three households to solve the problem of exceeding the standard, and the other household has donated to the county to run a school, and his subordinates have reported for him to apply for the honor, and the record form has been sent to the imperial court."

Seeing that the emperor was pondering, Wang Xianling suddenly plucked up his courage and said: "Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know whether to say anything or not. ”

Zhang Huan glanced at him in surprise, then nodded and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it!" ”

Wang Xian Ling saw that other higher-level officials were looking at him nervously, but there were some words that had been suffocated in his heart for a long time, and he didn't say that he was unhappy, so he said in his heart: "Although this real-name land system can solve the problem of land encroachment, it can only be effective for small and medium-sized landlords, but for those big landlords who occupy thousands of acres or tens of thousands of acres of land, it directly infringes on their core interests. The matter is serious and may be resisted by force, thus causing turmoil in the world, the land problem has always been extremely difficult to solve, and a careless will poison future generations, Your Majesty, you must not guard against it! ”

Zhang Huan looked at this loyal and upright low-level official, he nodded approvingly, and said to the officials around him: "As this Wang County Decree said, the land problem has always been extremely difficult to solve, almost all social turmoil and dynasty changes are caused by excessive land annexation, the former Han Emperor Ai changed the circle, but also wanted to restrict land annexation to keep the Han family, but there was no way, and the Han family was usurped by Wang Mang, Emperor Xuanzong of this dynasty also realized the serious consequences of land annexation, and issued several orders to limit the land, but finally because the disadvantages were too deep, The issue of land annexation finally led to the Anshi Rebellion, and there are examples of successful land solutions throughout history, such as the early Han Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, but this is because of the sparse population, the land is numerous, and the contradiction is not deep, I am also exhausted to solve this land problem, and now the Tang Dynasty occupies a vast area and the population is sparse, and after a long period of civil strife, the difficulty of solving the land problem is much easier than when the Tianbao was opened, and at the same time, I adopted the strategy of first revitalizing industry and commerce, and then changing the land, which led to a way out for large households. They were also able to set up workshops and trade to keep their families wealthy, which greatly reduced the possibility of large families being cornered and if they could get the title deeds they had purchased at the time. ^^^UC e-book^ first issued ^^ The imperial court will also give tax reduction compensation after the establishment of industry and commerce, and take 10,000 steps back. The Tang Dynasty gives the powerful themselves a very high standard of land, which is enough to enjoy, the key is a greedy word, you think about it, a family occupies 10,000 hectares of land, what do they want so much land for, a year's harvest can not be eaten for several lifetimes, and a large amount of land is uncultivated and barren. If I don't change this situation, there is a bad precedent in the past, and the land annexation of my Datang will inevitably intensify a hundred years later, and at that time, I can only watch the Tang Dynasty die under Jiuquan, so the late pain is not as good as the early pain, if I don't change it now. There will be no chance to change in the future, and even if it costs a heavy price, I will never regret it. ”

With that, Zhang Huan stood up. He patted the dust on his body and said to the officials on the left and right: "Okay, it's not early now, I will rest in Tianbao County for one night, and tomorrow I will continue to march west." ”

At the same time that Zhang Huan set off from Chang'an to Broken Leaves, in Xiangzhou, Hebei, a carriage drove into the city gate at high speed under the protection of a hundred guards. In the carriage sat Pei You, who was anxious. He received an urgent letter from his family, and both the Xiangzhou Land and Tian Mu Division and the Xiangzhou Regiment Training Army sent people to the Pei family. Began to officially check the real name of the Pei family's land.

There is no doubt that this is the beginning of the imperial court against the Pei family. But what made Pei You feel a little frightened was that the night before he left, he successively received news from the Chu family, the Cui family and the Fang family, these three families were investigated almost on the same day as the Pei family, Pei You immediately realized that this so-called real-name system of land and land was actually a huge conspiracy that was carefully planned, and the goal was to target the land of the major families.

Xiangzhou is the former Ye County, the state is Anyang County, Pei Jiadi Benzong is located in the north of Anyang County, is a vast residential group, there are moats, there are high walls, there are arrow towers, just like a city in the city, in addition to Xiangzhou Benzong, there are some Pei family heirs distributed in Chang'an, Weizhou and other places, a total of more than 500 households.

At this moment, the mansion of this great family is shrouded in an atmosphere of fear, the investigators came a total of more than 300 people, the Pei family's account room and all the account books are controlled, before Pei You arrived, the investigation team has conducted a full ten days of investigation, in fact, the so-called investigation is only a confirmation process, Pei's land distribution was controlled by the imperial court as early as eight years ago, distributed in Xiangzhou, Weizhou, Bozhou, Weizhou inland six estates.

"The head of the house is back!" Pei You's arrival was like a ray of sunshine penetrating the dark clouds, and the Pei family smiled and pinned all their hopes on the main land.

"The head of the family, they are coming aggressively, there are thousands of soldiers surrounding the Pei family, we can't stop it." It was Pei Dai, the younger brother of the Pei You clan, who stayed in the Pei family to take charge of daily family affairs, and when he saw the head of the family coming back, he hurriedly stepped forward to complain.

Pei You waved his hand and didn't say anything, his face was gloomy, and he rushed into the Hanshui Hall of the Pei family like a whirlwind, which is a place for the Pei family to gather, and is now requisitioned by the investigators as a temporary audit office, all kinds of account books and documents in the Hanshui Hall are piled up, and even the old accounts that have been yellowed decades ago have been turned out, and a few big Nanmu boxes are full of land deeds, and more than 30 investigators are sorting out the account books and land deeds, and the information that has been clarified has been numbered by them and neatly stacked aside, A young official was inspecting back and forth with his hands behind his back, constantly commanding something.

Rao is Pei You is almost the age of ear shun, seeing this scene, a wave of anger in his chest still rushed to the top of his head, the Pei family has not yet been defeated! Dare to be so rude, he shouted as he entered the door: "Who is on duty here? ”

As soon as the official turned around, he suddenly recognized Pei You, and he hurriedly stepped forward to give a salute, "Humble Xiangzhou Land and Mu Division Counselor Yang Shan, see Pei Taibao." ”

Pei You's angry eyes stared at him tightly, and it took a long time to squeeze a sentence from between his teeth, "A small Congqipin official dared to come to search my Pei family, you are so bold!" ”

Yang Shan's face was solemn, he took out a document from his arms, straightened his waist and said proudly: "The subordinate official position is humble, but the subordinate is acting on orders, this is a supervision order issued by the land and acres supervisor, and the subordinate is only performing his duties, please forgive Pei Taibao." ”

Pei You was so choked that he couldn't say a word, and after a while, he said hatefully: "The old man has already returned to the house, do you still have to check in front of the old man?" ”

"I don't dare." Yang Shan bowed and replied without humility or arrogance: "It only stipulates the time for us to settle in, but it does not stipulate the end time, if Pei Taibao feels inconvenient." We can pause for a few days and give Pei Taibao a quiet place. ”

After speaking. He immediately turned around and ordered: "Take away the boxes that have been checked, seal the rest on the spot, and come back another day." ”

Everyone immediately cleaned up, leaving a list of the materials they had taken away, and the investigators immediately withdrew from the Pei Mansion, the clouds dissipated, and dozens of important Pei family figures of the Pei family came to Pei You to complain.

"The head of the house, they are still the second to check the books. Our land has been drawn by them with red lines. A white-haired Cangdi clan was so anxious that tears were about to fall, "They said that our Pei family can only get 1,100 hectares of land, and it must be distributed to each house according to the standard, the head of the family, so that our Pei family is really finished." ”

Another clansman also said anxiously: "There is also news from Bozhou that mahogany stakes have been planted on the land of our manor. It says that the land and acres are sealed, and the deacon of our manor went to reason with them, and was injured by them. ”

"Master, think of a way! At that time, our Pei family had more than 100,000 hectares of land. When it was reduced to 10,000 hectares of land, you promised that the imperial court would not move our land again, and now that the army is gone, and the land is gone, how can you explain to the ancestors of the Pei family! ”

Everyone was gossiping, and their tones became sharper and sharper, all of them accusing Pei You of agreeing to hand over the army without authorization. Pei You's face swelled like a pig's liver. Sweat was streaming down his forehead, and he finally couldn't help but shout. "That's enough, shut up!"

There was a moment of silence in the room. At this moment, a cold voice suddenly came from the door, "The head of the family is so good-tempered, as if all the responsibility is on us." ”

Pei You turned back suddenly, only to see the fourth brother Pei Jia, who had not been seen for several years, appeared at the door, and followed by the eldest brother's second son Pei Mingyao, Pei Jia was originally a scholar in the imperial court, and was later moved to the left as the assassin of Weizhou, Pei Mingyao was also demoted to the county order of Wenxi County, Hedong because of Wu Yuanheng's beating incident, and in the process of competing for the head of the family, the two of them and more than 70 families fell out with Pei You, and moved to Weizhou in a fit of anger, and divided the Pei family in Weizhou 2,000 hectares of land, as a condition they did not set up another family head, on the surface they still recognized the Pei family in Xiangzhou as the main sect, Unexpectedly, this time the land real-name system also had an impact on the land of Weizhou, Pei Jia and his family could only keep less than 200 hectares of land, and the rest were all taken away, and the angry Pei Jia and Pei Mingyao rushed to Pei Mansion in Xiangzhou, but they happened to meet the Pei family to investigate, they refused to come forward, and waited to see Pei You's jokes.

"Fourth brother, what do you mean by this, when did I put the responsibility on everyone." Pei You looked at him and said coldly.

Without waiting for Pei Jia to speak, Pei Mingyao next to him said in a strange manner: "Second uncle, when things come to this point, it is always necessary to find out the person responsible, since the second uncle said that it is not everyone's responsibility, is it my father's responsibility?" ”

Pei You snorted heavily, disdainful of talking to him, at this time, Pei Dai saw that the scene froze, and hurriedly came forward to play a round and said: "Now is the life and death of our Pei family, everyone can only overcome the difficulties by sincere unity, but don't have infighting at this time." ”

"I have my own idea about this matter, now I'm going to go to the manor to have a look, if you want to go, you can go together, if you don't want to go, please restrain your mouth."

After speaking, Pei You no longer paid attention to Pei Jia and strode towards the outside of the mansion.

Xiangzhou is close to the Yellow River, Anyang County is about 200 miles away from the Yellow River, there are many tributaries in the territory, among which Huanshui traverses its borders, there are a large number of fertile fields distributed on both sides of Huanshui, Pei's family has two large manors on the south bank of Huanshui, about 4,000 hectares of Shangtian, the nearest manor is ten miles away from Anyang County, less than half an hour, Pei You led more than 30 clansmen to arrive at the manor.

The manor is built in the endless wheat field, at this time it is dusk, the gorgeous sunset shines on the rolling wheat waves, making people feel as if they are in the golden ocean, magnificent, Pei You looks at this rich land with complicated feelings, he knows that it will not be long before this land no longer belongs to the Pei family, Pei You suddenly knelt down slowly, and touched this land that has nourished the Pei family for generations with his forehead, he has never missed these wheat fields like today for decades, perhaps because he is about to lose, He actually had an indescribable melancholy of parting, and unconsciously, the corners of Pei You's eyes moistened.

At this time, the children of the Pei family and several deacons who managed the manor heard that the head of the family had arrived, and they all rushed to greet them, Pei You glanced at them, and asked with a gloomy face: "Has anyone from the official mansion come to ask about the manor recently?" ”

The children of the Pei family, who managed the manor, sighed and said: "Back to the head of the family, ten days ago, there was an army to measure the land, and they asked us to cooperate, but we ignored it, but those damned tenants heard that the land would be distributed to them, and they helped the army to identify that our Pei family's land has been completely controlled by the military, saying that it will be all taken away after harvesting the wheat, hey!" ”

A deacon ran to the wheat field and pulled out a stake and handed it to Pei You, "Master, look at this. ”

Pei You took the wooden stake about two feet long, only to see that it was written in red letters: The land is sealed by the mu, and the name of the imperial court is used, Pei You silently looked at the red stake that took away the Pei family's land, and he suddenly had a deep hatred for Zhang Huan in his heart, and he muttered to himself: "Zhang Huan, you have gone too far this time!" ”

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