"A few days ago, I asked Daohui to check the land annexation around Jianye, and the situation is extremely not optimistic!"

Speaking of this, Sima Shao muttered with anger in his eyes: "In recent years, the taxes of the imperial court have been decreasing day by day, and most of the wealth has fallen into the hands of the family. As far as the surrounding area of Jianye is concerned www.biquge.info the land annexation is more serious than the outside world can imagine, and more than half of the people have lost their land and become tenants. ”

These tenant farmers belonged to the family, and the family did not have to pay taxes to the imperial court, and the tenant farmers toiled every day, and the wealth they created fell into the hands of the family. As a result, the common people and the court became more and more difficult, and the family became richer and richer. ”

"Actually, I'm very curious, according to normal circumstances, they will have to go without eating or drinking for decades to have the wealth they have now, but the family has only been in Jiangdong for more than ten years, but they have accumulated countless wealth and land."

"Needless to say, there's too much shady in between."

As soon as Sima Shao's voice fell, Wang Dao, Yu Liang and other children of the family all changed slightly, and just heard that Sima Shao was going to start with the land reform, which made many people tremble. Now that they heard that Sima Shao was going to expose the crime of the family's cunning and robbery, everyone could no longer sit idly by.

They know better than anyone how the land came from, and although some of them are purchased by normal means, every family inevitably has the phenomenon of stealing and plundering. If you really want Sima Shao to lift this black curtain, the face of the family will really be lost.

"If we want to improve the revenue of the imperial court, we must promote land reform so that the imperial court has a large number of yeoman people in its name."

Listening to Sima Shao's categorical words, the officials of the family realized that it would not work for the family not to bleed this time, but in this way, Jiangdong would have another turmoil.

Director Wang looked at the high-spirited Sima Shao worriedly, he had just wiped his ass with Wang Dunzhi's rebellion, but he didn't expect to face new turmoil so soon.

"Your Majesty, land reform is of great importance, and it should not be implemented rashly, and it can only be implemented after discussion by all ministers."

"Well, in that case, then a great court meeting will be held in five days, and this time I will leave no one to say."

Of course, Sima Shao knew how difficult it was to promote land reform in Jiangdong, but this time he had made up his mind, and he already had a lot of evidence of the family's violations of law and discipline in his hands, and he had complete human and material evidence, and he was not afraid of the family's quibbles.

As long as the family does not approve of land reform, Sima Shao will expand the influence of the case, and it is better for the whole world to know about it, so that it will be the most shocking. It's not that Sima Shao has to turn his face with the family, it's really that the Northland Yan Kingdom has put too much pressure on him, and it's better to give it a go than to be the king of the dead country in the future.

Soon, the news that the Son of Heaven wanted to promote land reform spread, which immediately caused an uproar from all walks of life in Jiangdong.

Many families wrote letters to advise the Son of Heaven, demanding that he obey the ancestral system and abandon land reform.

In the face of the wave of opposition from various families, Sima Shao sneered and immediately asked Xi Jian to investigate and deal with several second-class scholars, intending to kill chickens and monkeys before the Great Dynasty Meeting was held.

After a few days of preparation, Xi Jian took strong evidence, and under the complaint of the bitter lord and the support of the emperor, he put all four inferior families in prison at once, and the crime was obviously the crime of stealing and mutilating the common people.

As soon as this case came out, the whole Jiangdong was shocked, and countless families lost their voices.

In October of the first year of Taining, the Son of Heaven handed over the case to Danyang Yin Xijian for trial, because the case was very important, the court was concerned about the trial of the case, so that on the day of the trial, the three princes and nine kings and people from all walks of life heard the trial in front of the court.

The case was held and the plaintiff was summoned first, and due to the large number of plaintiffs, the case was tried on Suzaku Street.

On the same day, the people of Jianye went to the trial. Before the trial of the case began, the people were talking about it.

"You see, that's not Lao Li's family, why did these people come, there were more than 20 people in their family at the beginning."

A person next to him said: "You don't know this, eight years ago, Lao Li Tou's family was ruined, and he was forced to kill two sons by the Liu family, and Lao Li Tou fled to other places with his grandson." Their family is helpless, and their life in the field is worse day by day, and there must be a lot of deaths in the middle, and now there are only a few grandchildren left. ”

"There is also the Wang family next to him, who was a solid family back then, and often helped us. Doesn't it mean that they went to other places, so why did they also appear in the plaintiff's place? ”

"Where, they were forced by the big Li family to have no choice, and the whole family went to relatives. I heard that the Li family brought a large group of people to forcibly occupy their land, and only gave a little money, but they refused to accept it, and were beaten half to death, so they had to flee. ”

Listening to the following discussions, the officials of the family sitting in front of them were like mangs on their backs, and they never thought that they were even more hateful in the minds of the people at the bottom than Hu Lu.

After the trial began, Xi Jian first ordered someone to bring a cadre of prisoners with him, and soon Liu, Li and several other family heads were escorted to the court.

Seeing that there was no sign of torture on Liu Li's several family heads, the officials present bowed their heads slightly, and they had a little good impression of Xi Jian.

"The plaintiff accuses you of stealing and stealing, occupying people's land, and forcing people to death, can you plead guilty?"

"I didn't take other people's land at all, and the land I got was obtained through legitimate means. You are like Old Man Li's family, but I spent a lot of money to buy his family's land. There is also the Wang family, but I exchanged hundreds of acres of land with them more than theirs. These are evidenced by contracts. Saying that, the head of the Liu family really took out a bunch of contracts.

"There are no literate people in our family at all, you are the handprint that you put a knife on the necks of my children and grandchildren, and if I don't press it, you will kill my two sons. You pressed me with my grandson's life, and I did it. ”

As he spoke, Old Man Li's family had already cried bitterly.

Unexpectedly, the head of the Liu family asked very arrogantly: "You said that I forced you with a knife, who saw it?" You say I killed your two sons, is there any evidence? You were clearly greedy for money and wanted to blackmail me, and I kicked you out, so you took revenge and falsely accused me. ”

As soon as these words came out, the people were talking about it again.

"Old man Li's family are honest people, they have never had conflicts with others, they are kind to others, and they always help the villagers, how can they covet the money of the Liu family."

"That is, the Liu family has a big business, how many domestic servants there are, who dares to go to his house to make trouble."

"How obvious this is, it must be the Liu family bullying Old Man Li's family."

Listening to the people's discussions, Xi Jian already knew that the goal of the Son of Heaven had been achieved, and within a few days, this matter would spread all over the world.

Xi Jian sneered and said: "You think you are doing it seamlessly, but you don't know that the evidence of your crime has already been mastered by this official, it seems that you are not dead until the heart of the Yellow River." Come and bring witnesses and physical evidence. ”

"Master Liu, do you know this person, he is your former housekeeper, and he helped you when you forced Old Man Liu's son to death. Half of what you do is immoral because of his involvement. The one next to him is the murderer who killed Old Man Liu's son with his own hands, and he has confessed to the crime and pointed out that you are the mastermind. ”

"No way, they're framed. They stole my family's money a few years ago and I sent them to the government. ”

"Yes, sir."

The butler gritted his teeth and said, "I stole money, so did you find the money you lost?" Catch thieves and catch stolen goods, what about the stolen goods? It's still hidden in your warehouse. ”

Without waiting for the head of the Liu family to intervene, Xi Jian asked the officials to come up with a lot of physical evidence, and one piece of physical evidence was ironclad, nailing the evidence of the Liu family's crimes.

In the end, Xi Jian pronounced the verdict: "The head of the Liu family is suspected of killing 17 people and robbing more than 24,000 acres of land, and the evidence is conclusive. Because of his heinous crimes, he is now sentenced to be beheaded, and those of the Liu family and their servants who hurt people's lives will be beheaded. Those who are guilty shall be punished according to the law. The property is deposited into the state treasury in addition to compensating for the losses of the sufferers. ”

As soon as Xi Jian announced the verdict, the outside world resounded with earth-shattering cheers, and hundreds of people shouted one after another, so that the officials of the family who originally stood up to intercede for the head of the Liu family had to sit there honestly, and they really didn't dare to offend the public!

Soon, Xi Jian quickly convicted several other inferior families, and Liu Li and other family heads didn't expect the court to kill them, until the sword and axe were added, and everyone cried and begged for mercy with tears. It's a pity that Sima Shao wants to use their heads to deter the family, how can he easily spare them?

Within a few days of this case, it spread throughout Jiangdong, and when the families in various places remained silent, the common people applauded.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Sima Shao immediately ordered a court meeting to discuss the reform of the new policy. (To be continued.) )