Chapter 49 - Desire to add sin
After this drastic reform, the power of the nobles in the court was tamed, but their private power was still on their backs.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Son of Heaven divided the princes, the princes divided the doctors, and the doctors divided the scholars, which was similar to the hierarchical relationship between the kings, feudal lords, and knights in Western Europe. Under this feudal system, each rank was loyal only to its own superior, unlike the later Central Dynasty, where everyone was loyal to the emperor alone. Therefore, the private armies of those nobles in the DPRK and China are all time bombs, which will explode if they are not done well.
Di Tu was unwilling to be like Yi Jun, who was killed by those nobles' soldiers because he turned against the nobles. He planned to take the opportunity of punishing the criminals to solve this problem together.
On the surface, according to the usual standards, Dutu neither kills nor acts, but only sentences "migrate". To put it bluntly, it is exiled to the border to be offered. Although this kind of punishment will suffer a little, it will not hurt the huge family power behind them. Thinking that Yu Shi's father stabbed such a big basket at the beginning, after defecting, the Yu family was not only not punished, but launched a Yu Gonghan to continue to hold power.
Therefore, Di Tu privately found Suoqiu and asked him to check the entire clan of Da Sima to see if there were any people who opened Xintian privately and did not report it, whether there were any people who bullied the villagers with their power, and whether there were any people who violated etiquette and crossed the level in their daily lives. The so-called crime of wanting to add is no excuse, the Da Sima family has been in the army for generations, and the clan style is relatively rude among the nobles, and there are really a lot of bullshit and bad things. So Sochu grabbed an uncle today and a nephew tomorrow, and cut down his big tree silently until there was only one bare pole left.
Neizai is more troublesome. His family is a big family in the end, and under the strict rules and regulations, the clan style has always been good. However, the road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high, and there is still a way to dig through.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Jingtian system was implemented, that is, the land was divided into nine square grids, and everyone planted them together. At the time of harvest, the surrounding eight pieces belong to themselves, and the middle one belongs to the government. The saints who invented this system don't know if they were too kind or funny, so they didn't use the simple method of directly collecting one-ninth of the grain, but had to specify the middle piece. This doesn't make it clear, it makes people lazy when they go to the public field. When Zhou Tianzi was strong, this system was barely working well, and everyone sang the poem "Rain my public land, then my private land", which seemed to be very conscious. However, by the spring and autumn periods, this system had long been rotten, and the public land was generally deserted. No matter how high the Naizai family is, it can't bear the trend of the times.
Since this is a mistake that everyone makes, it gives the digging room for "selective law enforcement". He asked Sochu to use this as a name to clean up Nejae's relatives one by one. The real cleverness of this method lies in the fact that it is inconvenient for other nobles to intervene. Their own buttocks are not clean, how dare they help talk.
There is only one punishment for these people, which is to take back the fief directly. Originally, the nominal sub-feud was only given the right to use, not ownership, which was the same as the land policy of our people's government more than 2,000 years later. This trick can really be described as a salary draw. The aristocracy and aristocrats rely on a large family to provide for them, so they are expensive. Once the income of the fief is lost, the retainers who support them are scattered one after another, and they will not be able to afford it at all.
Some die-hard retainers took out the blood of the Spring and Autumn Scholars and led their soldiers to resist. However, digging to learn the lesson of the fall of the Yi Kingdom, the Long Xiang camp had already been prepared. These people were destroyed at the first sign of the beginning.
This gives a new reason to dig up. He took the opportunity to denounce the private armed forces at the court meeting for the disaster of the country and the people, and forced all the nobles to dismantle their soldiers and not have a formed armed force, thus completely eliminating their capital for resistance.
Neizai, Sima and other criminals on the way to exile couldn't help but be ashamed and indignant after learning that their wives and children were in extremely depressed condition. They violently killed themselves and relieved their worries for Dutu.
After sending the guard envoy and Nie Rang, Dutu's mind turned back to the harem again. Now, the DPRK and China no longer have the strength to effectively stop Zhong Ji from taking the lead. He was determined to strike while the iron was hot, and marry Zhong Xi into the door before Wei Hou found out about his deception, completely breaking the old man's repeated thoughts of blackmailing.
He came to the place of house arrest alone and listened carefully outside the closed palace gate. Except for the sound of bamboo leaves rubbing in the breeze, there was no movement inside. He was about to knock on the door when suddenly there was a singing voice from the sky. This voice was none other than Zhong Ji, singing the mountain song when the two of them were playing in the carriage before.
The singing is intermittent, and although it is not as bright and moving as it was back then, it at least sounds more normal. Digging out of the blue, is it possible that little Lori has finally figured it out? He hurriedly pushed the door in, nearly tripping over the threshold.
"Zhong Ji, are you in a better mood?" Dutu looked at the beauty who was lying on top of the beauty, and asked cautiously.
Zhong Ji turned her back to her, seemed to be unresponsive, and still sang to herself.
The maid next to her responded: "Your Majesty, the little lord has been like this for the past few days, and he doesn't make trouble or talk to people, and he sings from time to time." ”
He snorted and hurriedly beckoned the maids to stand down. He went around to the front of Zhong Ji, but he couldn't help but feel a twitch in his heart.
I saw two tear stains hanging on her delicate face, and the clothes underneath were already wet.
"You ......" no matter how beautiful it is in the court, when it comes to the front of his beloved, he hits back to the prototype. He scratched his head for a long time, but still couldn't open his mouth.
Zhong Xi slowly straightened up, but took the lead in breaking the embarrassment: "Your Majesty, if you have something to say, just say it." ”
"I ......," the protruding lips pursed, wanting to say but not daring to say it.
"Are you ready to marry me?" The corners of Zhong Xi's mouth rose slightly, and she put on a pear blossom and rainy smile, deeply fascinated by the digging protrusion.
"How do you know?" Digging Tu was a little flustered, "You, have you figured it out?" ”
Zhong Xi put away her smile, wiped away the tears from her side face, and nodded seriously: "I figured it out, everyone will be miserable if it goes on like this." Only when I let go of the obsession in my heart can I untie this dead knot. ”
Dig Tu bowed his head as if he were a sinner.
"You're right. Maybe I'm just a kind of dependence on Brother Nie Rang in trouble. People have to grow up, and I can't tie him to me forever. ”
"It's good that you figure it out. Now that we've turned the page, let's not mention it again. Dutu gently took Zhong Xi's hand and tried to reassure him, "You better sing me a mountain song." ”
"Hmph." Zhong Xi sneered, "These mountain songs were all taken by Nie Rang Brother to learn them with me. Do you want me to sing? ”
He was stunned for a moment, so he wasn't embarrassed. From this tone, he faintly felt that Zhong Ji didn't seem to really change his mind.
"I am willing to marry you, but there is one condition."
"You tell me, I will promise you." Digging Tu frowned, but still put on a generous posture.
"I want to see Brother Nie Rang one last time."
When he heard this, his head suddenly grew big. Not to mention that this Nie Rang has been gone for almost half a month, even if someone is sent to chase him back, what does the guard envoy next to him think? The scam is bound to be a goof. He couldn't think of a way, so he had to honestly say that Nie Rang was gone.
Zhong Xi's face, which was still as calm as water just now, was instantly clouded: "Why do you want to take revenge on him?" ”
"Revenge?" Dutu was a little aggrieved, "I just sent him to envoy Wei Zhou." ”
"Liar! You're retaliating! Zhong Xi suddenly became hysterical, "Last time I saw you scolding him through the crack in the door, letting people beat him and arrest him!" ”
"Not what you think!" He was caught off guard and panicked.
"Ahh No! You must have killed him! Zhong Ji covered her face in horror, she was already completely like a mentally ill person, "Don't lie to me, you must have killed him!" ”
"Nope! I swear to God I didn't lie to you! ”
"Then you bring him to me!"
"Nie Rang is really on an envoy, he has been gone for half a month, and it is impossible to come back immediately." He was so anxious that he was about to cry.
"Liar! If you don't see it, you're dead! Swindler! You murderer......" Zhong Ji desperately beat her handsome brother who was once close, and seemed to be really going crazy.
Dutu was a little confused, and was about to call someone to help, but the saber on his waist was pulled out. The bronze sword was heavy, and Zhong Ji almost didn't hold it in one hand. She turned to clasp her hands together and stabbed with all her might.
Digging Rush dodged the deadly cold light. Seeing that he couldn't hurt him, Zhong Ji simply lifted his sword with both hands and put the sword across his neck.