Chapter 62: Wanting to be knighted

After sleeping in the palace for a day and having a meal with the Queen Mother, Yang Mu changed his tired state, and under the service of Ji Linger and Shen An, he started the court meeting on the first day after returning to the court.

To be precise, it should be the post-war summary celebration meeting.

This expedition, a total of 5,000 soldiers were brought out, and when they came back, not only did they decrease, but there were 1,000 more people, such a record is inseparable from Yang Mu's clever plan, but the performance of the soldiers is also remarkable.

After a big battle, a proper reward helped the unity and morale of the entire army, and it was a means for the emperor to gather power.

Naturally, the six major gate valves were unwilling, which was tantamount to directly touching their interests and destroying the monopoly position of the six major gate valves, so at the beginning of the court meeting, some people continued to stand up against them and bitterly express their disadvantages.

Yang Mu really couldn't figure out what the disadvantages of rewarding meritorious people were, but in the mouths of these family lords, the advantages with positive significance have also become the bane, such as rewarding the title, saying that it will increase the financial burden of the imperial court, and will make those generals from civilian backgrounds pampered and arrogant, posing a threat to the rule of the imperial family...... And so on, in short, it is a sentence, and there is no harm in all benefits.

There are also a few old stubborns, who put forward some practices and examples of the past emperors, saying that the ancestral system cannot be changed, and the experience of the ancestors should be emulated.

In this regard, Yang Mu nodded while listening, and then ...... And then dismissively.

Because, this time is different from the past, through a royal expedition, he is no longer the immature young man who has just ascended the throne in the eyes of others, but a ruler who has great power and prestige is not weaker than that of the previous emperor!

Now, in his eyes, the family gate valve is no longer the power to rely on and rely on, and there is no longer a need to compromise step by step, they are just a tool to govern the country, and it can be tolerated if they do not add to the chaos, but if they want to make trouble, hehe...... will definitely let them know why the flowers are so red......

"Your Majesty, the old minister has a word, don't spit out unpleasantly......" At this time, Fan Hongji, the right prime minister, who had been standing silently by the hall, spoke.

"Speak." Yang Mu glanced at it lightly, Fan Hongji belonged to the moderate, not directly opposed like other gate valves, the question raised at this time may really be a problem, it depends on whether he can withstand it.

Fan Hongji held the wat board, bowed down and said: "When the first emperor founded the country, he once rewarded all the meritorious heroes, so far my Cangguo has not been rewarded for more than 30 years, and no one has won the title, on the one hand, it is to maintain domestic stability and prevent the common people from rebelling, and on the other hand, it is also because of the limited national strength. Now His Majesty wants to reward on a large scale, and the old minister has a bone, and he neither supports nor opposes it, but I want to remind you that if you want to reward on a large scale, I am afraid that the national strength will not be able to support it. ”

National strength can't support it?

The eyes of all the courtiers lit up, and everyone had been anxiously admonishing for so long, it was not as effective as this sentence.

Since ancient times, the lord will get Lu, the practice of the vassal states is that after the knighthood, they will also give the corresponding estate, that is to say, the land and population, today's Cangguo is in ruins, and the land for the implementation of the three major decrees is stretched, where is there still the resources to be rewarded?

If you can squeeze in just a few titles with a few titles, but if you want to reward the whole army in a big way, it will be a terrifying number, and it will be impossible to achieve it in a short time.

In this way, after the title is rewarded, only some silver money can be given, so the knighthood will lose its original meaning, and it is better not to reward it, so as not to end up with a joke.

Thinking about this, the officials of the six great families were secretly happy in their hearts, not that everyone disagreed, but that His Majesty the Emperor did not have this condition at all, no wonder everyone!

"Hmm...... This is a real problem. Yang Mu nodded and groaned, and at the same time, his heart was relieved, and his tone changed: "Rest assured, Aiqing, I have already planned for this matter." ”

Got a plan?

Ghost believes! Now the existing land in the country, except for the newly divided basic farmland and civilian private property, has long been occupied by the six major lords, can you still conjure up a piece of land out of thin air?

"Please also make it clear to Your Majesty." All the courtiers shouted in unison.

Yang Mu glanced at Shen An, who presented a box, took out a few pieces of silk cloth, and handed them to the ministers in the main hall to read.

"It's ......"

"The Tian family actually had an affair with Jindaozhai?"

"There is also the Zhang family, the Zhang family is secretly doing the salt and iron business of bandits!"

When the silk cloth was distributed, the officials held it in their hands, and when they saw the content on it, they were shocked and began to discuss at the same time.

These pieces of silk cloth are all letters between the Tian family and the Zhang family and the Golden Dao Zhai secretly communicated, one is a letter written by the Tian family to the owner of the Golden Dao Village on the eve of the expedition, and there are several goods transactions between the Zhang family and the Golden Dao Village in the past.

Although there are no seals and imprints, if Yang Mu dares to take them out, he must be completely sure, and the physical evidence is like iron.

The Tian family, since the head of the family, Tian Rongchang, was beheaded, has been walking on thin ice for a long time, and his power in the court has plummeted, but he didn't expect to secretly have an affair with bandits, and also leak military secrets!

The Zhang family, originally a merchant family, because of the support of the first emperor uprising, so was canonized, quickly became a big family, nearly forty percent of the business in the country of Cang are controlled by it, in the six major families are the richest, the family advocates Tao is now the head of the household, can be called powerful.

In fact, this kind of secret deed has been done by all major families, but it is rare to see such a serious one, and the key is that he was caught.

The crime of collaborating with the enemy is not small, especially betraying military intelligence, which is already the bottom line that the ruler can tolerate, and it is tantamount to pulling the flag and rebelling, and it is absolutely impossible to be forgiven.

"Your Majesty, my Tian family has been wronged!" A fat official fell to his knees and shouted grievances.

"The ministers are wronged!"

"My Zhang family has nothing to do with the Bandit Mountain Range, please Your Majesty to investigate!"

Kneeling on the ground in the main hall, they are all people from the panicked Tian and Zhang families, once the crime of collaborating with the enemy is confirmed, the two families will be finished.

"Are you still shouting wronged?" Yang Mu sneered and said, "Okay, then let you die." Come on, Xuan Liu Dingshan and Li Hu go to the palace! ”

"Xuan! Liu Dingshan, Li Hu, see you in the last dynasty——"

"Xuan! Liu Dingshan, Li Hu, see you in the last dynasty——"

"Xuan! Liu Dingshan, Li Hu, see you in the last dynasty——"

Several eunuchs sang all the way, and Liu Dingshan and Li Hu, who had been waiting in the side hall, heard about it, and immediately tidied up their appearance, followed the little eunuch step by step, and bowed down into the palace.

As soon as the owner of a blood crow village and a village owner of Taiping Village appeared, some of the ministers showed a shocked face, especially the Tian family and the Zhang family, who were already so frightened that their faces turned pale, as if they had seen a ghost.

How could these two people be here?

If that's the case...... Isn't there all the human and material evidence?

Because the Bandit Mountains have always been isolated from the world, the soldiers who went out this time have also stayed in the barracks after returning to China, and have not leaked any relevant news, so now the entire Cangguo Emperor does not know about the surrender of the cottages in the Bandit Mountains.

Therefore, the appearance of Liu Dingshan and Li Hu directly made some people who knew the names of the two people change their faces greatly.

Especially the Zhang family, because of the secret business dealings, the Zhang family advocated that Tao secretly met with several village owners in the Bandit Mountain Range, and when they saw the two of them appear, they suddenly trembled.

"Weichen see Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live long live, long live—" The two knelt on the ground and bowed.

"Well, you two take a look, among these courtiers, which are the people of the Zhang family and the Tian family?"

"Wechen, obey the order—"

Liu Dingshan and Li Hu stood up, facing these beings who needed to be looked up to, they couldn't help but be a little stunned, but when they thought of having His Majesty the Emperor behind them, they suddenly became bolder.

"This is from the Zhang family, this is the adult of the Tian family, this is from the Zhang family, he was standing next to him last time......"

"And this one, the minister has also seen it, the last time he came to the Bandit Mountain Range as a guest, he also sent us a few delicate women."

The two walked around the hall and pointed out the officials of the Tian and Zhang families who knew each other one by one.