This matter is not easy to handle, so the imperial court set up a system for the elderly.

Elderly people with high moral standing are selected to serve as elders, and when there is a conflict between the villages, the elders are responsible for coordination.

This system has helped the imperial court to solve these problems in the past, and the administrative orders of the imperial court can be easily issued to the villages.

But now, coinciding with a major drought, the landlords and bullies have cut off the water, resulting in no water available downstream.

And the elders failed to coordinate at the first time, or they did not have the ability to coordinate at all, which is the result now.

It is not the decline of the elderly system, but a natural disaster, and the unequal status of the two sides, resulting in the elderly having no way to start.

"Is there a way for the imperial brother to solve it?" In this regard, Li Yuanji also asked Li Daozong with a headache.

"There is no countermeasure for the time being!" Li Daozong shook his head.

Being able to see the problem clearly does not mean that you can come up with a solution.

Li Daozong lived in Lingzhou all the year round, and his main task was to prevent the Turks from breaking through from Lingzhou.

Over there, there are not so many landlords who are strong, and even if they do, as long as they come forward, they can definitely solve the problem, at least they can be quiet on the surface for a while.

But in Chang'an, the network of relationships is so intertwined that it doesn't take a year or two to fully understand what's going on.

"Go back to the palace!" Seeing that Li Daozong had no choice, Li Yuanji could only shout back to the palace with a headache: "Send Xuan Ling, Du Ruhui, and Wei Zheng to me." Wait, call Pei Lin too. ”

I didn't want to find so many people, but Pei Lin is an old qualification, and it is not suitable to pull him down in this matter.

The current imperial court is also not very stable, at least until its own reforms are completed, it will maintain this status quo.

But I'm not worried about this at all, it's still the same sentence, without competitors, they don't have the opportunity to change their courts, they just do something wrong, they can only endure it, and then enlighten themselves.

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"Your Majesty, the matter has been clarified." On the palace, Ma Wu hurriedly entered and reported.

On the way to investigate, I happened to meet someone from the dark guard who came to report, because I had to investigate the cause of the whole thing, so the speed of the dark guard was a little slower.

But not long after Li Yuanji returned to the palace, the specific situation had already been reported to Ma Wu.

"The reason for the incident is very simple, the Zhong family of Lihe Village built a dam in Bashui, and temporarily diverted the river water to irrigate the cultivated fields of the Zhong family in Lihe Village. Hundreds of villages downstream have no water available, first came to the door to ask for an explanation, to no avail, today by Zhangqiao Village is Zhang Caiwang gathered the people to go to Lihe Village again to ask for water, on the way some people heard the news and also joined in. ”

"It was the Zhong family who did it first, they lured Zhang Caiwang out of the crowd, and then forcibly drowned and lynched, and Zhang Caiwang's son led the crowd to start a fight. At present, there are 22 deceased, 8 people, and 14 members of the Zhong family, including Zhang Caiwang, who was drowned. The people below inquired, and the Zhong family and the Zhang family of Zhangqiao Village have not had a good reputation in recent years, because Zhang Caiwang obtained the qualification of Lizheng, which led to the jealousy of the Zhang family. Ma Wu explained the whole thing in detail.

"Zhangqiao Village? Zhang's family? Pei Lin was secretly stunned, the more he listened, the more he felt that this place and the name were so familiar? Puzzled, he asked, "But the Zhang family in Zhangjia Village near Baqiao?" ”

"Exactly!" Ma Wu nodded.

"What does this have to do with the Zhang family? Didn't they fight with the Zhong family? Pei Lin didn't understand a little, but the familiar place and the familiar person had already been determined.

"In fact, the fuse of this incident was caused by the Zhang family." Ma Wu continued: "The people below also inquired nearby, affected by the drought, the landlords of Shili Eight Villages also began to help the people, even if it is not free, the interest is within an acceptable range.

However, from the very beginning, the Zhang family demanded that arable land be exchanged for grain, one mu of Yongye field for grain and half a stone, and one mu of land for grain and one bucket, and no one could accept it to the people, so they could only find a way to keep the banker.

And it is said that before Zhang Caiwang set off with people, he also had a quarrel with Zhang Dachang, the son of the Zhang family, at the head of the village, and when Zhang Caiwang and others felt Lihe Village, Zhang Dachang was in Lihe Village and held a sword in his hand. ”

"Hey, it's evil...... "Hearing the whole thing, Pei Lonely sighed depressedly, and his expression was a little depressed.

"Pei Gong, why is this?" Pei Lian's reaction made Li Yuanji a little surprised and confused.

"Your Majesty doesn't know that the Zhang family in Zhangqiao Village has some old feelings with the royal family." Pei Lin said with annoyance, if it was a trivial matter, with the old love in the past, he could persuade Li Yuanji to return this love, but such a big matter, even Li Yuan is not easy to deal with here, let alone Li Yuanji, who does not enter the oil and salt?

Li Yuanji frowned, could it be that this Zhang family is also someone who has been crowned king? Haven't heard of it!

"During the great cause years, when the old man of the Zhang family was still alive, when Sichang led the troops to meet His Majesty's army through the Baqiao, he was due to the lack of military food, so when he passed through Zhangjia Village, he got the assistance of the old man Zhang, and then His Majesty sent someone to thank him, but the old man of the Zhang family refused to thank him, and refused all the rewards, until three years ago, when the old man of the Zhang family died, His Majesty sent Sichang to mourn, and then I knew that some of the heirs of the Zhang family did not know about it at all, and they were also in Chang'an at that time, but I didn't expect it, As soon as the old man of the Zhang family left, the Zhang family became like this. Pei Lin explained with a little sadness.

Mr. Zhang is kind and charitable, and he is a good man in ten miles and eight towns, but he has not been in touch for a long time, and the gap in the status of the two sides has led to the gradual forgetting that there is such a person.

If it weren't for hearing about the Zhang family in Zhangqiao Village, Pei Lin would not have thought of this old friendship more than ten years ago.

It's a tricky thing.

This friendship is not deep, but as a royal family, you can't treat ordinary people with ungratefulness.

If this matter does not take into account the old friendship in the past, it is not the court's.

But if the matter is so big, if you consider the old friendship in the past, what about the people of hundreds of other villages?

Old Man Zhang is no longer there, with the personality of the Zhang family's father and son, if the court favors them this time, will they be even more crazy?

If they get out of their past friendships, will they use this as a threat, and they will be lawless from now on?

Not to mention, judging from the kind of thing done by the Zhang family's father and son, there is really such a possibility.

"Your Majesty, this is a problem of two classes, but it is also a problem of one village to hundreds of villages, the minister believes that this matter must be dealt with strictly and seriously, and the court must take advantage of this incident to sound the alarm for some people, otherwise with the intensification of the drought, there will be more and more such things." After thinking about it again and again, considering all kinds of problems, Wei Zheng stood up and admonished.

Wei Zheng is not a minister, but letting a minister say what a minister should say seems to confirm the danger of the current situation.

"The minister thinks that the Zhong family did it directly, and although the Zhang family has bad intentions, they haven't really made a move, so when dealing with the Zhong and Zhang families, they can be disposed of differently." Fang Xuanling also nodded.

But unlike Wei Zheng, he must consider the Zhang family's old feelings for the Tang Dynasty in the past.

Although the friendship is small, the court must remember this matter, and it must not make people feel that the court is not emotional, and it is also not possible to make people feel that with the court's affection, you can do whatever you want.

"Good!" Li Yuanji also preferred to stand on the side of the people, mainly because the two landlords had gone too far.

Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling's suggestion was exactly in line with his own wishes, and he continued to instruct: "The Zhong and Zhang families should be dealt with separately, and Ma Wu cooperated, and the matter was handed over to Wei Qing for disposal." ”

"Obey the order!" Wei Zheng gave up again and again.

Wei Zheng is a smart man, and there is no problem with this matter left to him.

Wei Zheng also knows very well what should be done about this matter? Especially after Pei Lian's reminder and Fang Xuanling's suggestion, as well as his own advice.

If you still can't understand what you mean, then Wei Zheng in history is afraid that he is also a vain person.

Obviously, Wei Zheng is not the one who has a false name.

No one can see the current situation more clearly than Wei Zheng, a neutral person.

The incident between Zhangqiao Village and Lihe Village is said to be small and just a fight between two villages for water, but if it is too big, if this matter is not handled properly, I am afraid that other places will follow suit.

Although there are not many landlords in the world who look so ugly, there are still them.

And those landlords who eat better, the ultimate goal is the same.

For this kind of environment, I can't solve it at the moment, but I must also beat the landlord class hard, and it is best to let them restrain a little.

To be honest, it's a bad feeling at the moment.

Under this system, when times of crisis, the first thing the people think of is the landlord, not the government.

To a certain extent, the existence of landlords has also weakened the influence of the government in the people.

And the emperor is actually not much different from the landlord, except that one is a low-level exploiter and the other is a high-level exploiter.

However, Li Yuanji always believed that he was different from those people, and that the landlord system was a hurdle restricting the rapid social and economic development, and that if we wanted to make a breakthrough, we had to cross this hurdle.

Although difficult, it is almost an impossible task.

Sometimes, Li Yuanji also feels that his ideas are a little whimsical, but he still has to try to make some changes.

After dealing with this matter, another question that Li Yuanji has been thinking about in his heart, although it is not the best time, it is better to bring it up first, so that everyone can be psychologically prepared.

"I want to separate the royal treasury from the national treasury in order to avoid the endless waste of the royal treasury ......"