Yuan Xi looked at Lu Fang, who was beaten and his nose was swollen, and couldn't help laughing.

Lu Fang covered his face and said vaguely: "Second son, why are you still smiling?" The people of the Wen family are so arrogant, they treat me like this, it is equivalent to slapping the second son in the face. ”

Yuan Xi hurriedly held back a smile and said, "That's right, this time it's really a tie." Lu Fang, you have made a great contribution. ”

The two met in the south of Ji County. At that time, Yuan Xi was about to go out of the city to inspect and visit the grassroots level, but he met Lu Fang, whose head was swollen like a pig's head. This rather general scholar looked quite embarrassed, even his clothes were torn several holes, and he looked resentful.

Lu Fang proposed: "Why don't you just pull the army forward and exterminate Wenjiabao?" ”

Han Yan, the county commander who followed Yuan Xi's side, hurriedly said, "My lord, by all means. This is a personal grudge, at most it is contempt for the government and obstruction of official business, and if the army is directly dispatched, the local people will be panicked. These landlords and wealthy families are not easy to mess with, and every family has private soldiers, maybe they will attack them in groups. ”

Yuan Xi said: "Then what should I do?" My people were beaten for nothing? ”

Han Yan tilted his head and said, "Naturally, you can't make adults suffer......

"What then?"

Han Yan couldn't think of a way for a while. In the final analysis, in this world, the strong have always bullied the weak. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Chinese society has taken the family as the core unit. Once the family is strong, it will become a tyrant in the township. By the end of the Han Dynasty, this situation had become more and more aggravated, and the gap between the rich and the poor had become even wider. And there is a faint tendency to connect between families and families, and some of them have been called valves. A family like Qinghe Cui's belongs to a super-large aircraft carrier family, which goes without saying, because it is eye-catching, he doesn't dare to be too presumptuous in doing things, and he must be worthy of the identity represented by his surname. And more are small families, which can't be controlled by the top, and the local government can't manage it, so they began to run rampant in the fish and meat township. In fact, this ecology has always existed, and it has been like this until the liberation of New China. After that, the family ties slowly decomposed into families, and the blood relationship slowly faded.

Chinese always feel that prosperity is a symbol of family prosperity, and if there are more men, outsiders will not dare to bully. Cao Cao is an example of this. Cao Cao's father's surname was Xiahou and he was passed to the Cao family. It is equivalent to having two families as backers. Although the Xiahou family is not rich, the ancestor is the founding minister Xiahou Ying, and the family style dictates that several brothers Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan are all fierce people. In addition, the Cao family was rich and invincible, so that he could quickly have his own team after the army was raised.

Yuan Shao is also in a big family, and his rank is several levels higher than Cao Cao. But it is obviously not as united as the Cao family, but even so, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu also set up their own doors, Yuan Shao became the third duke, and Yuan Shu also established himself as the emperor. If in the Three Kingdoms, there are no uncles, uncles, cousins and cousins at the beginning, and the whole family is in your vein, then I'm sorry, you can only ask for more blessings.

It can be seen that the influence of the family on ordinary people is much higher than that of the temple.

Yuan Xi spread his hands and said to Lu Fang: "There is no way, I can only cause you to be beaten in vain." Now that Xu Dayan and He Daniu have gone to Yijing, there is no one around me to use. ”

Lu Fang said miserably: "Isn't there a newly trained second battalion in Ji County, and there are also three or four hundred people......

Yuan Xi smiled and said, "It can be seen that you really hate the Wen family." ”

Lu Fang was stunned for a moment, thinking that this still needs to be said.

Yuan Xi said: "Actually, standing in my position, I really can't make decisions because of personal grudges. If his followers were beaten up, they would bring an army to the door to encircle and suppress a law-abiding citizen. That was a reproachful ......"

Han Yan nodded again and again when he heard this, and felt in his heart that although this second son of Yuan was young, he was extremely knowledgeable and was not a reckless person.

Lu Fang rubbed the pus on his head, his eyes rolled around, he took out a cloth from his arms, and said: "The Wen family is not a law-abiding people, I have contacted many villagers, and they can all identify that the Wen family has embezzled their land, and the evidence is conclusive. ”

Han Yan's eyes were about to straighten as he looked at the names recorded on his cloth and the details written in small characters, as well as the fingerprints on the side. On weekdays, I watched Lu Fang revolving around Yuan Xi, saying some gossip, thinking that he was a subordinate who was promoted by currying favor with his superiors, but he didn't expect that in just half a month, he would be able to dig out so much fierce information from under Wen Jiabao's nose.

And these fierce materials, Han Yan still felt that it was a little difficult to do. Logically speaking, the Wen family must have violated the rules by doing this, but it is very reluctant to be convicted. The most important thing is that bringing people to the door like this is equivalent to turning the face with the people of the Wen family.

The people of the Han Dynasty did not have any concept of law, and the Qin Dynasty was replaced by the Han Dynasty because the rule of law was too strict. In the countryside, it is about looking down and not looking up, as a parent official, Han Yan also knows very well what "giants" are under his nose. Agriculture and water conservancy, weddings and funerals, these wealthy families cannot be bypassed at any time. In recent years, people have fled, and occasionally the Wen family will mobilize tenants to do things for the government. So if you really offend them, some things will be out of control of the government.

But Yuan Xi didn't care about this, and said: "In this way, the Wen family does constitute a crime. It is also reasonable to use troops. ”

Lu Fang said: "Yes, yes, it makes sense." ”

Han Yan immediately became nervous. It seems that the use of troops for such a thing is a bit too much fanfare. In his case, it would be enough to send a few tolerances over to inquire.

Yuan Xi said to Han Yan: "Lord Han, in fact, this Wen family may not be deliberate. It's just that these villagers have suffered losses, and they don't know that they have come to the government to complain, they are still so confused, and they get by, and they are afraid that they will offend the Wen family. As a last resort, we, as parents, have to help them. That makes sense. ”

Han Yan said: "That's reasonable...... But ......"

"But what ......"

Han Yan said: "Directly bringing those troops of adults to the door is easy to cause misunderstanding. ”

He had seen Yuan Xi's so-called people's army, and those people were completely fatal when they trained their troops, according to the standards of Wei Wushu, maybe Wu Qi was not so strict back then. Once these people are released, they will be violent, like a tiger descending from a mountain. The Wen family and the civilians in that area are terrible.

Han Yan was a man of letters, and he knew well the disasters caused by the ruffians, so he did not advocate sending troops to deal with a wealthy family.

Yuan Xi said: "It's still Lord Han who thinks thoughtfully, and I think I'm also the first time to be in charge of the government, and I finally became an official, and I am still a magistrate in Youzhou." There are some things that still need the help of those of you who are more experienced. ”

Han Yan hurriedly said: "Where is it, I can't talk about assistance, it's just to share the worries of adults." Whatever the adults order, Han will definitely obey. ”

Yuan Xi said: "That's very good, although the Wen family is in the fish and meat township, we parents and officials can't sit idly by." But the direct use of force seems a little petty. You have to find out what the Wen family thinks first. ”

In this way, Lord Han personally went to Wenjiabao and told the brothers of the Wen family to return the land to these victims. Also, this year's tax revenue, you need to count his family's land again. ”

"Huh?"

Han Yan suddenly felt his scalp tingle.