Shao Liang is the eldest of the younger generation of the Gao clan in Yanzhou, whether it is in the four major rankings, he is the youngest one, and he will only turn sixteen in June this year. It is said that at this age, he has just been crowned, and although he is already qualified to marry a wife, he has generally not yet married a wife. For young people in this era, this is a transitional age from teenagers to youth, as a family child, many teenagers of the same age are in a state of hazy and rarely have a deeper understanding of the world, but this by no means includes Gao Shaoliang.

This sixteen-year-old doll has a reputation as a teenager and an old man in the clan, which is in stark contrast to his father, Gao Yunwen, who actually does not have a good reputation in the clan. In the era when Gao Yunquan was still in charge of Yanzhou, only this Gao Shaoliang of the clan enjoyed the right to enter Gao Yunquan's study, which was the right only Gao Shaoji in the government at that time.

During Gao Yunquan's reign, the relationship between Gao Shaoliang and Gao Shaoji was not very good, and he even deliberately avoided this cousin, and even alienated his uncle Gao Yunquan, who cared for him very much. However, since Gao Yunquan passed away last year and his father Gao Yunwen became the patriarch of the family, Gao Shaoliang and Gao Shaoji's contacts have suddenly become closer. At this time, Gao Shaoji had become a troublesome figure even in the clan, and no one wanted to provoke. Yanzhou is a person who knows the festival between this person and the current Yanzhou Li Jieshuai, even at home, behind the scenes, most people think that Li Wenge's lack of trouble with Gao Shaoji now is just a temporary appeasement measure, and there will always be a day when he will be completely liquidated. Therefore, even the brothers in the clan are now afraid of the third room. It's just the youngest son of the current patriarch, who has begun to move around the third room often for a while, refusing to listen to his father's scolding.

On this day, Gao Shaoliang came to Gao Shaoji's room again, but he was not polite, pushed the door and entered, shouting: "Is Brother Jiu here?" ”

Gao Shaoji was reading a book with him, but he was startled by him, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Twenty-four brother." Don't you knock when you come in? Didn't Uncle Seven teach you etiquette? ”

Gao Shaoliang smiled: "Brother Jiu must not care about me......"

Gao Shaoji shook his head and put the book on the case. Said: "Sit down, I'll pour you tea!" ”

Gao Shaoliang frowned and said, "Ninth brother, what about the old Xu Xiaojiao who was originally serving in your house, why is there no half of him?" ”

Gao Shaoji said nonchalantly: "I'll send them out of the customs to handle some goods." I am also alone at the moment, and your sister-in-law doesn't need a man to serve you. ”

Gao Shaoliang was thoughtful, he stretched out his head and glanced at the book that Gao Shaoji put on the case, frowned and said, "Ninth brother." You actually watched "Lao Tzu"? ”

Gao Shaoji smiled faintly, clumsily came over with a teacup and said: "Your uncle liked this book the most when he was alive, and I didn't like it before, but I have read it carefully in the past few months." I read it and learned a lot! ”

Gao Shaoliang looked at Gao Shaoji in a daze, and said in a little surprise: "Ninth brother." It's not like you! ”

Gao Shaoji glanced at him: "If it's still like me." I'm afraid that the twenty-fourth brother will not enter the door of the ninth brother! ”

Gao Shaoliang grinned. Gao Shaoji sat down again and said, "Okay." Anyway, what do you want to ask me? ”

Gao Shaoliang said solemnly: "Brother Jiu, my father was summoned to the meeting by the government again, why didn't you go to the meeting today?" ”

Gao Shaoji smiled: "The assets under the name of your ninth brother are not even fifty acres of land, so what's the use of the government calling me again?" This is a meeting about the public field, and those who don't have land, the government is naturally not interested in summoning it! ”

Gao Shaoliang's eyes blinked for a long time, and he sighed: "Brother Jiu, are you cheating tightly?" How could you know in advance that the government was going to set up a tax system for public land, and actually sold all the land to my father in advance, if I am not good with you, I will say that you are a bully! ”

Gao Shaoji looked at Gao Shaoliang and said calmly: "When your uncle passed away, Li observed ...... Oh, Li Xianggong has already said that the seventh uncle didn't listen to others, and only cared about the location of the patriarch, who would complain? ”

Gao Shaoliang nodded: "If it was before, I wouldn't have believed what Brother Jiu said, but now I believe it!" ”

He thought for a while, and asked, "Brother Jiu, you tell me the truth, in this situation, can the government do this thing of changing the tax system and dividing the acres of land?" ”

Gao Shaoji's face turned cold, and after a while, he regained his calm complexion, and said with a faint smile: "If it is someone else, it may not be possible, but if this matter is the proposal of that General Li Jieshuai, he must be able to do it." ”

Gao Shaoliang said: "How can you see it? ”

Gao Shaoji said lightly: "In the past year, you are not in the bureau, brother, and you don't have a deep understanding. But when you go back and think about it, what is the thing this man can do in advance by watching him do it? What did he not do? ”

Gao Shaoliang was speechless for a moment, thought about it carefully, and suddenly said in surprise: "Brother Jiu, you don't seem to hate this person now?" ”

Gao Shaoji picked up the book with a wooden face and said lightly: "What if you hate him?" What if you don't hate him? Since you can't fight him, it's useless to hate. How many years has your uncle been in Yanzhou, and finally planted in his hands, with my little way, even if I hate him to the core, what can I do with him? If you can't do things, how can it be of half use to hate the heavens and the earth in vain? ”

Gao Shaoliang thought for a moment and asked softly: "This matter of harvesting the land, how many people in Yanzhou have no countermeasures?" ”

Gao Shaoji smiled lightly: "Where there is no countermeasure, as long as there is a decree above, there will be a countermeasure below, and everything in the world is like this!" ”

Gao Shaohao was surprised: "Brother Jiu, tell me, how is it best for our family to deal with it at this time?" ”

"Split!" Gao Shaoji said without hesitation.

"Separation?" Gao Shaoliang exclaimed.

Gao Shaoji glanced at him reproachfully, Gao Shaoliang hurriedly covered his mouth, then let go of his hand and asked softly, "What do you say?" ”

Gao Shaoji put down the book, lightly tapped the bookcase and said: "The decree stipulates that each family shall not retain more than ten hectares of land, and our Gao family has thousands of hectares of land, if it is counted as one household. It was only ten acres, and although it was enough for a large family to eat, it was a world different from the previous days. However, if the family is divided into six households according to the six head houses, then ten hectares of each household is sixty hectares, which is six times the land of the family, and if it is divided into more details, according to our brothers, the twenty-four brothers in the clan are two hundred and forty hectares, that is, twenty-four thousand acres. It's enough to eat for a few lifetimes......"

Gao Shaoliang was speechless for a moment, and only after a while did he say: "But even if it is two hundred and forty hectares, it is not even half of the current ten percent, and the bulk still has to be sold......

Gao Shaoji looked at his cousin's eyes. And he said seriously: "That's natural, otherwise wouldn't the decree of the government taking out the land be equal to empty land?" Twenty-four brothers, you have to understand the so-called countermeasures. It's not that you want to think of ways to do the right thing with the government's decrees, but to do your best to preserve your own interests under the government's local decrees, which is the countermeasure, as you think. Fifty percent or even seventy percent can be left in ten percent of the land, which is not called countermeasures, but confrontation. It's a way to find your own death. ”

Speaking of which. His expression and tone were solemn: "You know. The arm can't twist the thigh, this is the simplest truth. Now Yanzhou is the head of the family surnamed Li. The handle of the knife is held in the hands of others, so it is the people who have the final say, and this article must be understood first, otherwise even if you die, you don't know how to die. In fact, for our family, there is not much difference between 24,000 hectares of land and 240 hectares of land, and there are few people who farm the land today, and there are at most 3 or 400 hectares of our thousands of hectares of land that are cultivated by tenants, and it is less than 10%. The seventh uncle and the patriarchs of the family couldn't think about it, because they took the land too seriously, and they couldn't understand that no matter how much land there was, there were no tenants to plant it, it was no different from wasteland. Li Wenge's decree actually didn't hurt much of our bones fundamentally, he wanted to get some people to farm the land. Our patriarchs thought that after there were more people, the land would produce more, but they didn't expect that without land, Yanzhou, a poor place, would not attract anyone to come. It's extremely boring to confront the surnamed Li in this matter, which offends people and has no benefit. It's actually a good deal to exchange these unclaimed land for some real money......"

Gao Shaoliang nodded slowly: "Brother Jiu said yes, Dad just can't think about it!" ”

Then he asked: "If all the families are divided, there should be one or two thousand hectares of land in the hands of those families, and if so, the surname is Li...... Won't the government find a way to restrict it again? ”

Gao Shaoji smiled coldly: "I guess he won't restrict it at all, I'm afraid that when the minimum number of ten hectares per household is formulated, this person has already been calculated to divide the family, and another purpose of his decree may be to force the major families in Yanzhou to divide their own families......

Gao Shaoliang was even more surprised: "What good is it for him that the clans are divided?" ”

Gao Shaoliang raised his head, and said with a sneering smile on the corner of his mouth: "Today's scholars are all in one place, with a lot of land and a large population, and they are also powerful in the city, and everything will hinder him from time to time. But the families who were separated were different. Now there is no separation of families and endless quarrels and fights in the clan, if the family is separated, it will be difficult for everyone to pinch one place again......"

He lowered his head and glanced at Gao Shaoliang: "Brother, you must know - the scholars who have divided the family are not fart!" ”

……

Chai Rong was crowned the king of Jin and worshiped the news of Kaifeng Mansion Yin, Li Wenge heard about it on the road, and he had already walked to Shaanzhou at this time. Although there was no news of Wang Jun's downfall, the trend of history has not changed significantly. His own recital seems to have worked, although he did not publicly establish the crown prince, but the two positions of King Jin and Kaifeng Mansion Yin are already symbols of the prince in a sense.

Even if Wang Jun has not fallen at this moment, he is not far away, Li Wenge secretly calculated in his heart.

In Shaanzhou, Li Wenge met a Southern Tang merchant named Xu Jingzhai, which was the first Southern Tang Dynasty man Li Wenge had met since he crossed over to this era.

"Mr. Xu is looking for Li, why don't you go to Yanzhou or Bianliang? Although the Great Zhou and the Tang Dynasty are still fighting in Huainan, they will presumably not ban the passage of business travel. Li Wenge asked with a smile.

Xu Jingzhai stroked his beard and said: "The general is also a big man in Bianliang, after all, the villain is from the south, and I am afraid that openly visiting the general will cause trouble for the general." The villain in Yanzhou actually wanted to go, but last year there was some misunderstanding with Fengyu because of a business.

I was afraid that Chen Dongzhu of Yanzhou would turn away the villain, and I was afraid that I would not be able to see the general without Chen Dongzhu to introduce the state. It's better to wait halfway here, as long as the goods are used, the officials of the pavilion can still talk......"

Li Wenge suddenly understood that there were not many officials in those days, and the little salary of the petty officials in the pavilion was almost the same as none in the face of the soaring prices, and it would be difficult to live if he did not collect some other inputs.

He smiled: "I see! But I don't know what business Mr. Xu has to talk about next? ”

Xu Jingzhai laughed and said: "The general is quick to talk, and he is really happy, and Xu will not hide it from the general." Since October last year, Yanzhou has banned the fur trade with Yinxia. A large part of the villain's business is the fur business. Before, he had been purchasing goods from the Pingxia Department through Fengyu Firm and several other merchants, but now that the general will order it, no one in Yanzhou will collect Yinxia's leather goods anymore, which will cost the villain's life. Because of this. Last year, there was a grain deal and abundance Chen Dongzhu had a suspicion, and the villain regretted it. On the one hand, the villain hopes that the general will make peace, and the villain is still counting on the big buyer Chen Dongzhu; Second, the villain wants to ask the general to raise his noble hand and let the villain go, and the general knows. This leather goods are good in the south, from the princes and nobles, to the wealthy merchants and gentry, all of them are loved. ”

Li Wenge frowned. It's not a big deal to build a bridge for this person, but the fur barrier is a long-term policy that has been determined, and it is an important link in the party's economic blockade war. For such a businessman, the established policy was modified. It's incredible.

He said slowly: "Mr. Mingjian." I'm afraid that this matter won't help me, and Mr. is afraid that he will know. I am at war with the party, and the ban on the fur business is to avoid the enemy, and I hope that the gentleman will understand......"

Xu Jingzhai listened to his words, but he was not disappointed, and said unhurriedly: "The villain also knows that this matter must be extremely difficult for the general. However, the villain will naturally not teach the general to help this in vain, if the general is willing to be accommodating, the villain will be rewarded! ”

Li Wenge smiled: "Sir didn't understand, it's not a matter of money, let the party members eat enough, the soldiers on the battlefield will have to shed more blood, and they can't trade the lives of the brothers with Mr......"

"What if the villain could make the soldiers under the command of the adults shed less blood?"

"What do you mean by that?" Li Wenge asked with a frown.

"Don't hide it from the adult, in addition to selling fur, the villain also sells armor and equipment, although there are too many and it is difficult, but to get hundreds or thousands of pieces at a time, the villain can still do ......it," Xu Jingzhai said calmly.

"What?" Li Wenge immediately lost his color.

It's no wonder he was surprised, not to mention that in the troubled times of the Five Dynasties, that is, when the prosperous era was peaceful, armor and equipment were also prohibited items that were absolutely not allowed to be bought and sold privately, and it was a felony to buy and sell armor rods without authorization. In the Later Week, the control of the armor staff was stricter, and generally speaking, the local army was only equipped with a few hundred pairs of armor per state at most, and only the central forbidden army could obtain better armor equipment, and private trading was not heard of. Since Li Wenge began to train in Fenglin Mountain, part of the armor obtained was to rob the treasury of Yanzhou, and part of it was discounted from the local tyrants of Ruandi, this time because he undertook the task of exterminating the rebellion of the pheasant tribe, Guo Wei specially allocated a thousand pieces of armor to him from the Shaofu, which is already a grace of the world, and this Xu Mou, actually said hundreds of pieces of a thousand pieces casually, as if it was such an inconspicuous ordinary goods, how could he not be surprised.

"No wonder the general was surprised,......" Xu Jingzhai still said unhurriedly, "In the Tang Dynasty, the rules and customs are different from those of the Great Zhou. Up and down like to land are gold, silver, antiques, gold jewelry, antiques, calligraphy, paintings, fur classics, the Tang Dynasty's army is also different from the Great Zhou, relying on that little money, whether it is a general or a soldier, it is not enough to eat, if you don't do something from the treasury on weekdays, you will all starve to death when you are a soldier......"

Li Wenge said with difficulty: "Doesn't the government care? ”

"The government also sells land at home, don't you know, Shu Han fought against the army, the Great Zhou and the Northern Han Dynasty fought, all of them were bought from our Datang armor equipment, not to mention the workmanship, the price is fair, it is much more cost-effective than making it yourself......"

"Why is that?" Li Wenge secretly scolded in his heart that this damn dare to call himself the Tang Dynasty, but he asked very curiously.

Xu Jingzhai said very proudly: "Our Tang Dynasty has a stable life, the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and the food is also better for many days, such as today's craftsmen, seven or eight out of ten are working in the south of the Yangtze River, unlike Jiangbei who fights every day, not to mention that the days can't go on, and the two ends of the three days are conscripted into labor, and they can't eat enough, who has the heart to work?" At present, only the imperial court Shaofu craftsmen can create hundreds of pairs of armor in a month, and it is no secret that the army resells armor, only need to report a loss, and the lack will naturally be made up from above, and the feudal towns call around, all of them have to buy blades and armor, and there are buyers and sellers......"

Li Wenge pondered for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking, "How is the workmanship?" What's the price? ”

Xu Jingzhai smiled: "As long as the adults are willing to help the villain, open an opening for the leather trade, and the high-quality fine scale armor, the villain will settle with the general at cost price, one hundred and one pairs......"