At the same time when Zhang Xuan inspected Qingzhou, Li Yuan, the son of the Tang Dynasty, also inspected the area of Fufeng County, and the liquidation of the Guanlong nobles took half a year to completely end, hundreds of manors and hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land were all confiscated by the imperial court, using these lands, the Tang Dynasty also followed the example of the Great Zhou to establish a land military merit system, and rewarded the land to meritorious soldiers. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The first to obtain land were tens of thousands of soldiers who participated in the battle against the Guanlong coalition army, and each soldier was given at least ten acres of land.

It should be said that the Tang Dynasty's land military merit system was very effective, which greatly boosted the morale of the army, made the soldiers more cohesive, and made the soldiers willing to fight to protect their property, and achieved the same effect as the Zhou army's implementation of the land military merit system.

But everything has advantages and disadvantages, and the implementation of the land military merit system has also caused some undesirable consequences, mainly the tenant farmers of the estates of the Guanlong aristocracy, although these lands are owned by the major families, but the specific cultivators are thousands of tenant farmers, these lands are also the lifeblood of their survival, once confiscated by the imperial court, ready to be rewarded to meritorious soldiers, these tenant farmers also lost the land they cultivated.

The Zhou Dynasty did not have such a monopoly class as the Guanlong aristocracy, and the land rewarded by the Zhou Dynasty was a terra nullius formed by the war, which was taken over by the government as official land, or turned into a military tun field, and most of them were abandoned land, so there was no contradiction between the old and new users of the land in the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty had a narrow area, and the government could not take out the excess land to settle these tenant farmers who had lost their land.

In order to solve this contradiction, Liu Wenjing, the prime minister, proposed a solution, which was to assign a part of the confiscated land to the local government, and the government would lease the land to these tenant farmers to solve the problem of the survival of the original tenant farmers on the land, but the military headed by Li Shentong resolutely opposed this plan, and all the land had been allocated to the Ministry of War to be used as the basis for the implementation of the land military merit system, and how could the military allow the local government to take a piece of the pie again.

Under the extremely tough opposition of the military, all kinds of solutions failed, and the contradictions intensified after the autumn harvest, and the army suppressed hundreds of tenant farmers who refused to surrender their land in a manor in Yongxian County, and more than 100 tenant farmers were killed, which further aroused the monstrous anger of the tenant farmers, and the secret instigation of the Guanlong nobles, a large number of tenant farmers took advantage of the freezing of the Yellow River to flee to Bingzhou with their wives and children.

Zhang Xuan, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, specially sent Li Gang, the head of the household department, and Li Qingming, the squire of the middle secretary, to Lishi County, and settled the tens of thousands of tenant farmers who had fled to Bingzhou one after another in the sparsely populated three counties of Bingbei, Loufan, Yanmen, and Mayi Counties, and gave each Zhuang Ding a hectare of land as a Yongye field, and gave each family a livestock to the favorable conditions, so that they could settle down in the three northern counties that were in urgent need of population filling.

The army built houses for the fugitive tenant farmers, helped them reclaim land that had been left unused for many years, distributed seeds and food relief to them, and organized women from various families to sew military uniforms and shoes to earn a little money for oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

When the news reached Guanzhong, it led more tenant farmers who had lost their land to flee to the state, and in one winter, Guanlong lost more than 20,000 households and about 100,000 people.

The tenant farmer incident that occurred in the autumn and winter dealt a heavy blow to Li Yuan, for which he was furious, dismissed the three counties of Fufeng County, Longxi County and Honghua County, and ordered the crown prince Li Jiancheng to properly handle the matter.

This time, Li Yuan took three days out of his busy schedule to inspect Fufeng County, but he did not come to visit the current situation of the tenant farmers, but to inspect the implementation of the land military merit system.

Yongxian is the second largest city in Guanzhong after Chang'an, is a large county with a population of more than 100,000, surrounded by fertile fields and vast, but also the most concentrated place of Guanlong aristocratic manor, at the time of the most serious land annexation, more than seventy percent of the land in Yongxian County is occupied by various large and small manors, of which only Huangzhuang occupies tens of thousands of hectares of land.

This is also an unavoidable fact of land annexation in the Guanlong area, the reason for the decrease in the number of yeoman farmers is not only the large number of Guanlong nobles annexed land, but also the Li royal family's large occupation of land, only the emperor of the Son of Heaven Li Yuan has more than a dozen places, occupying more than 100,000 hectares of fertile land.

When the source of soldiers was exhausted and the yeoman farmers were about to die, in order to save the dynasty, Li Yuan certainly could not cut the flesh of the Li royal family, so he had to attack the Guanlong nobles.

The place where Li Yuan inspected was originally a manor, covering an area of nearly 5,000 hectares, which originally belonged to the Dugu family, after the stormy liquidation, all traces of the Dugu family no longer existed, the wall was demolished, the warehouse, the housekeeper and the residence of the Zhuang Ding were also razed to the ground, and became a gathering place for more than 100 military households, and the more than 5,000 hectares of fertile land were also the first batch to be rewarded to the soldiers, and about 8,000 soldiers benefited from it.

Li Yuan, accompanied by dozens of guards and officials, came to a farmer's house, and an old man stepped forward and kowtowed tremblingly, "Xiaomin knocks to see His Majesty the Emperor." ”

Li Yuan smiled mildly and asked, "Is it your son who is in the army?" ”

"It is that Xiaomin's second son joined the army and was rewarded with fifty acres of land, and the son asked Xiaomin to cultivate for him."

Li Yuan turned around and asked the officials who followed, "Is the land right?" ”

Jia Yuanchao, the county commander of Yongxian County, hurriedly said: "Weichen has specially checked, his son is a school captain, and the reward land approved by the military department is fifty acres, which is completely correct." ”

Li Yuan nodded, looked at the surrounding land again, it was already lush and overgrown with wheat seedlings, and he asked with relief: "Uncle, are all these lands yours?" ”

The old man pointed to the left and said: "Back to Your Majesty, fifty acres here is the land of the small people, and the thirty acres there is a reward from another military household. ”

Li Yuan saw that the endless land was full of wheat seedlings, and asked the old man again: "Are all these large areas of fertile land planted by military households like you?" Or is there a part of it that was planted by the original tenant farmers? ”

"Basically, we planted it, and the original tenant farmers basically moved away, and since the land has changed owners, of course they have to leave, and none of us wants them to stay."

"Why?" Li Yuan asked puzzled.

"Your Majesty, these tenant farmers are very excessive, they say that these lands have been cultivated for decades, and their ancestors are buried on the ridges, and they have the final say on how to plant them, as if these lands are theirs, and we are generally worried that if we keep them, after a long time, these lands will become theirs, and we can't drive them away, so we would rather put aside the land than drive them away, but fortunately, the army supports us, and hundreds of tough tenants have been driven away."

Li Yuan's face was a little ugly, he had hoped that the military households and the tenants could get along in harmony, but he didn't expect these small people to be so realistic, and there was no ambiguity in their own interests, and more importantly, he clearly knew that the several peasant households he met today were all arranged by the government in advance, otherwise how could the accompanying officials know the exact information of these military households, even these pre-arranged military households were so extremely selfish, not to mention other military households.

Li Yuan was annoyed and helpless in his heart, so he had to say to the old man: "Write a letter to your son, let him fight for the Tang Dynasty, and don't let me down with my hard work." ”

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Leaving the manor, Li Yuan went to Renshou Palace, Renshou Palace is a summer palace built by Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian, built brilliantly, costing a lot, although Yang Jian himself died in Renshou Palace, Yang Guang has never set foot in a step since he ascended the throne for more than ten years, but Li Yuan did not care, he ordered officials to renovate Renshou Palace, and as their own summer palace, and according to the proposal of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, renamed it Jiucheng Palace.

However, since Li Yuan ascended the throne, he has encountered continuous internal and external troubles, so that he can not leave Chang'an for a single step, this is the first time to come to Fufeng County, the first time to stay in his palace.

More than 1,000 cavalry escorted Li Yuan's dragon on the mountain road slowly, the low mountain road was paved with smooth stone slabs, so that the car was not bumpy, the big trees on both sides were dense, particularly deep and cool, and the mountain breeze swept away, sweeping away the heat of early summer.

However, Li Yuan's mood is not very good, he is angry with his son Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng has been dealing with the escape of tenant farmers in Fufeng County since the beginning of the year, and has been stationed in Yongxian County, but when he heard that he came to Fufeng County to inspect, he ran to Longxi County, saying that his statement was to appease the tenant farmers in Longxi County, but in Li Yuan's eyes, the eldest son was clearly avoiding himself.

Li Yuan also knew that the eldest son did not deal with the land contradictions of the tenant farmers, which led to the continuous flight of the tenant farmers after the beginning of the spring, and the Tang Dynasty signed an agreement with the Zhou Dynasty that it was not allowed to prevent the people of Guanlong from returning to the east in any way, otherwise the war would break out immediately, which made Li Yuan very annoyed in his heart, not only annoyed that the eldest son was not effective in handling the tenant farmers' flight, but also annoyed that the eldest son was afraid of his evasive attitude.

Li Yuan looked at the big tree outside the car window with a gloomy face, and at this moment, he suddenly saw a black shadow appear on a big tree. With a crossbow sound, a wolf's tooth arrow suddenly appeared in front of Li Yuan's eyes, and the arrow flashed with a bright green light, and Li Yuan was suddenly frightened.