Chapter 65: The Family's Struggle

The next day, the content of Wei Shuo's speech in front of the Assassin's Mansion spread throughout Dunhuang like the wind, and the most excited people were those poor and poor Shu people's families, who looked forward to the government's oral teaching as soon as possible. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

In addition, the servants and subordinates of those great families have also become ready to move, and who is naturally willing to be a slave?

Knowing that the government intends to restore the freedom of everyone, these slaves who have been rolling at the bottom of the society can no longer hold back the excitement in their hearts.

Even some slaves and subordinates have secretly made up their minds that as long as it is determined that the government will start to release slaves, they will go to the government to sign up on their own, and as for how their masters will feel, it is no longer in their consideration.

This turmoil slowly spread to all corners of Dunhuang, and it further undermined the confidence of those powerful families to raise troops to rebel.

"Master, what can I do?"

Suo Xian's face was as earthy as if he hadn't heard the anxious questions of the children of the clan, but instead sat there motionless like a lifeless sculpture.

"Master, do you have a word?" On the side, Suo's children jumped to their feet in a hurry and asked questions again and again.

"Frightened! What else is there to say? That Wei Shuo didn't leave us a chance at all, and now he has the support of the assassins and the people inside, and nearly 10,000 elite cavalry troops on the side, what do we use to fight against him? ”

Suo Xian's face was dead gray, and since Wei Shuo's public speech, he had a premonition that the days of the family covering the sky with one hand were over.

"What then? You can't let us give up the land, can we? Otherwise, let's unite with the other families and gather all the remaining parts to give him a ......"

Unexpectedly, Suo Xian smiled bitterly and said, "Haven't you found out yet?" Go out and observe your own tribe and see how many people are willing to join us in the rebellion? ”

"Since Wei Shuo openly declared that he wanted to release the slaves, the common people and slaves were all elated, just waiting for the arrival of the county government personnel, and then they would turn around and become free people with their own land. Frightened! O freemen, O freemen! In the face of such temptation, what slave or subtract is not tempted? ”

The faces of the Suo clan changed greatly when they heard this, yes, they wanted to rely on the trilogy to make trouble, but they didn't know that the heart of the trilogy had long been towards the side of the government.

Maybe they will come to the battlefield in the future, and if they don't wait for the arrival of Wei Shuo's army, those troops will probably tie them up and send them to the government by themselves.

"Isn't that our defeat this time?"

The powerful families finally recognized the situation, don't look at the families on weekdays, they are all high, and they don't even pay attention to the government.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that they owned a large number of tribes and land, I am afraid that a few officials would be able to bring them to justice.

In the same way, the reason why a family like Jiangdong dared to defy imperial power was that they controlled most of the world's land, food, population and other resources.

In this case, as an emperor, when facing these families, he naturally lacks confidence.

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Three days later, Thorn Shi Du Jin held a banquet in the mansion to wash the dust for Wei Shuo, and after receiving the invitation, the major families went out one after another.

Everyone came to the Assassin's Mansion, and there were maids and servants serving wine, and a unique reception banquet began. In addition to the civil and military forces at all levels in Shazhou and Dunhuang, there were also Zhang, Ma, Yin, Suo and other families present.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, and the atmosphere of the banquet was warm, I suddenly saw Guo Qian get up and bow to Wei Shuo and asked: "In Xia Guo Qian, I have heard that Wei Du protects the name for a long time, and I have a few questions I want to ask Your Excellency a question or two, I don't know if it is possible?" ”

A hint of inexplicable smile appeared on the corner of Wei Shuo's mouth, and he replied: "If the head of the Guo family has any questions, it doesn't hurt to talk about it, and you should know everything before you make up your mind." ”

"It is said that Wei Duwei once vigorously promoted the uniform land system in Gaochang and the policy of the officials and gentry to pay grain together, I don't know if it is true or not?"

Here, as soon as Guo Qian's words came out, the hall that was still smiling at first suddenly became surprisingly quiet, and it was almost audible that a pin had dropped.

Du Jin's heart couldn't help but tighten, and an embarrassed smile appeared on his face.

And Duan Ye and Song Miao in the corner simply sneered at the corners of their mouths, looked at Guo Qian's back and shook their heads slightly.

As for Dunhuang Taishou Meng Min, the whole person suddenly became wooden, and he didn't know how to round the field all of a sudden.

With the entry of the Gaochang army, various new policies implemented in Gaochang, such as the uniform land system, the integrated payment of grain by the officials and gentry, the apportionment of the land into the mu, the increase in the amount and width of commercial tax collection, and the three-long system, were successively introduced into the customs.

Coupled with the fact that Soxh's is behind them, these families even know more than the news circulating in the outside world.

But the more they learned, the more frightened they became, for fear that Wei Shuo would transplant everything from Gaochang over, which was also the reason for the success of Soxh's series of upper and lower series.

These big families have enjoyed all kinds of preferential treatment for more than 100 years, how can they say that they will give up.

Today, it is said that it is for the sake of the Lord Thorn Shi to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Wei Duwei, but in fact, to put it bluntly, it is a Hongmen banquet, and he wants to force Wei Shuo to make concessions in the court.

Of course, it can't be said that the families have no concerns, after all, Wei Shuo is not an ordinary person, this young Wei Du has more than 10,000 iron horses, if he really annoys him, everyone will definitely not be able to eat and walk around.

However, everyone also thought about it, if Wei Shuo really planned to go his own way, although everyone did not dare to oppose it openly, they could only resist it secretly.

"Indeed, as the head of the Guo family said, the policies just mentioned are all implemented or planned to be implemented by Gaochang. It is thanks to the smooth implementation of the new policy that Gaochang has been completely new in less than two years. ”

"Ridiculous, ridiculous! It is obviously a law that harms the people and suffers the people, how can it benefit Sangzi? I think Wei Duhu is slapping a swollen face and becoming fat. ”

"That is, that is, since ancient times, I have never heard of the saying of striking at the nobles of the family and strengthening the state."

"Why not? Have you forgotten Shang Ying's reform? It was by striking at the clan nobility that the Shang monarch changed the law to strengthen Qin. ”

"Uh...... Shang Ying, such a cool official, don't say it! ”

"Humph! I think Shang Ying is not only a cool official, but also a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh, because the changes he implemented have never stood on the side of the nobles. ”

The families and Wei Shuo had a heated debate around Gaochang's new policy at the banquet, but of course, no one could convince the other.

No matter how hard Wei Shuo explained, those big families were always unwilling to make concessions.

In the end, Wei Shuo had to take drastic measures, but fortunately, he had made a complete strategy, and he was not afraid of turning the table badly.

Wei Shuo knew that the key to solving the current predicament was the Suo family, and everyone was watching how he dealt with the Suo family.

He glanced at Suo Xian in the crowd, held up the wine bottle and said: "Presumably this is the famous Suo Zhizhong, originally Wei Mou wanted to wait for the reception banquet to go to Suofu to visit, but he didn't think that everyone would even want to wait for this little time." In the end, everyone's wish was fulfilled, and the words were opened first, and then the drink was fun. ”

"Someone, bring the traitor Suo!"

After a while, with the sound of messy footsteps, I saw Kang Long walking in with Suo, who was no longer human.

He stood in the middle of the hall, like an iron tower, and looked majestic.

"This is the confession of Suo Zhi, he admitted that he was assigned by Suo to participate in the rebellion, I wonder what explanation Suo Zhizhong has for this?"

As he spoke, Wei Shuo took out a stack of papers from his arms, only to see that it was full of words.

"Ridiculous, this is completely a wanton slander by rebellious ministers and thieves! Suo Yi has long been expelled from the clan by my Suo clan, and he is not a child of my Suo clan at all, how can he be assigned by the Suo clan? ”

As for Suo Xian's categorical denial, Wei Shuo had expected it, and he didn't intend to let the other party admit it, he was ready to flip the table before coming today.

Therefore, I saw the corners of Wei Shuo's mouth bend slightly, and snorted coldly: "Suo Zhizhong, Lao Tzu has no time to grind with you here, I will only give you two options: first, be obedient and hand over the land and the tribe, or you can be exempted from death; ”

"Second, if Suo's still doesn't know what to do, Lao Tzu's three thousand iron cavalry are already on standby, and they can drive to Suo's manor at any time, but they don't know if Suo's Dock Fort can stop the iron cavalry army that lives below."