Wei Zheng came back, with a body full of wind and dust, regardless of the cold and freezing weather of Datang, and with what he had seen and heard in various states and counties for more than a month.

Wei Zheng was an anxious man, he didn't bother to go home after he came back, and after saying goodbye to the students of Nanshan Academy, he went straight to see the emperor.

Li Er met him in the Chengqing Palace, and Li Er found that Wei Zheng had lost a lot of weight compared to a month ago, his short body was even thinner, and his gray beard seemed to be covered with dust, gray and disorderly. Li Er's heart floated with a feeling of pity, and he hurriedly gave him a seat, and ordered Gong'e to offer tea.

Without waiting for Li Er to ask, Wei Zheng reported in detail what he had seen and heard in various states. He said worriedly: "The big surname of the wealthy family, these years of business and factory construction, the family property is abundant, there are many people, and now they are all clever names, snatching people's land, has become a great harm to the country, if it is not strictly prohibited, the previous dynasty that "the rich have a lot of fields, and the poor have no place to stand" will appear again. If these rich people are allowed to continue to be swallowed up in this way, it will eventually become a great disaster for the country, and at that time, the people will have no land, and the country will be no more! “

"How much land do farmers actually give?" Li Er's reaction to Wei Zheng's big reaction was a little unclear.

"The minister visited the four counties around Chang'an, and each county only granted an average of 30 acres of land per county, less than one of the 30 acres of the legal 100 acres. The rich are constantly making clever names and are eroding the land of the common people. ”

"So, the land is left unfilled?"

"Yes, not just to give enough, but to go far beyond the limit."

"Who?"

"Linyi Cui Gan and the Cui family. According to investigation, the Cui family is in Yunzhou, covering an area of nearly 10,000 hectares. Linyi Cuigan alone owns more than 3,000 hectares of land. It almost encompasses the fat fields of Linyi. Thereinto. Part of it is hereditary, and part of it is for tricks. The Cui family is now the majority shareholder of the Chang'an brick factory, earning hundreds of thousands of silver dollars a year, so naturally they are rich and rich, wantonly snatching the land of the people, making them tenants, working for them, and some people are unwilling to work under them. The Cui family was extremely excluded, and in the end, those people could only run to other places to find another way to make a living. Wei Zheng said with righteous indignation, and his tone was full of resentment.

"So strict?" Li Er asked a little wryly, "I see that after I planted potatoes and corn and other high-yield crops in Datang in the past two years, isn't the grain yield extremely high?" Why do these people still have to go about and toil? ”

Wei Zheng said with some sadness: "Your Majesty, my Tang Dynasty is becoming more and more prosperous and powerful, it is true, the people's lives are indeed advancing by leaps and bounds compared with the beginning of the founding of the country. But Your Majesty, you don't see those big families. They are the biggest beneficiaries of the empire's prosperity, and the courtiers look at the Cui family in Linyi, with houses in the city and villages outside the city. The house is the place where the swallow lives every day, and the village is the place of leisure and pastime. The houses are all high halls and bright houses, row upon row, and the village is wide open fields, with thousands of flowers and trees. Last year's catastrophe caused the collapse of people's houses, but the homes of the rich were not seriously damaged, and this year they were built in a big way, which took a lot of people's effort. The rich took in landless peasants, stayed on the farms, cultivated the land, became tenants, and became a state within a state. ”

Wei Zheng was impassioned, and his words showed his anger against the family, and Li Er also fell into thought when he heard his words.

After pondering for a while, Li Er raised his head and asked, "How does Wei Aiqing think this matter should be resolved?" ”

Wei Zhengyi said in a serious and sincere tone: "Your Majesty, in today's world, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, this situation is the foundation of the self-cutting of the country's society, and the minister implores to rebuild the "Clan Chronicles", and charge high taxes for the large-scale monopoly of the family, redivide the fields, so that the people can live in the house, plant the land, so that the people of my Tang Dynasty can really live in the prosperous world." ”

Li Er stroked his beard and said word by word: "The mouth divides the land, the Yongye field is strictly forbidden to buy and sell, the farmers who are not granted enough land are exempted from paying taxes for one year, and the rich people return the land to the people, I have already decided to rectify the problem of the excessive gap between the rich and the poor in my Tang Dynasty, and the commercial tax law will add a new article, all individuals with an income of more than 100,000 yuan a year must pay a huge tax to the national treasury, and I will not allow anyone to snowball in trading and make huge profits to exploit those poor people!" ”

Hearing Li Er's decision, Wei Zheng knelt under the Great Highness and was already very excited: "Your Majesty, although what you said is a good policy for governing the country, I am afraid that it will involve the interests of many parties, and I am afraid that there will be countless officials who come out to oppose it." ”

Li Er's expression was firm, "For me, the people of the Tang Dynasty, no matter who it is, I will never tolerate it!" ”……

On the occasion of the Spring Festival of the tenth year of Zhenguan, Li Er officially issued an edict: rebuild the "Clan Chronicles", not based on the gate valve, but on the merits of the crown, Li Er ordered Shangshu Zuo Cheng Wei Zheng to preside, and Juntian at the same time, at the same time in the "Commercial Tax Law" added a new article, all individuals with an income of more than 100,000 guan a year, must pay a huge tax to the treasury, and at the same time in Chang'an components of the imperial history have gone to the countryside to investigate the field governance in various places, to implement the Juntian system thoroughly.

This matter, like the wind on the water, rolled up layers of waves, and many ministers entered the palace one after another to advise.

Among them, the Long Group, the Shandong Group, and some old ministers of the Qin Wangfu all opposed Li Er's decree.

To Li Er's surprise, the branch secretary Yushi Quan Wanji was also an opponent.

Since Quan Wanji became an internal official, he rarely expressed any opinions, and he was relatively easy-going with the people around him. This time, of course, his exhortation to Li Er was also very tactful, not as explicit as those ministers of some groups, but to separate Cui Ganqi from the entire soldier. In his admonition, he destroyed Juntian, but Cui did not involve too much of a person's affairs. Most of the Shi clans in the world are in peace and keep to themselves, not all of them are like Cui Gan, if they rebuild the "Clan Chronicles" just because of Cui Gan, it may not be appropriate.

When Quan Wanji flickered his words, Li Er suddenly thought that Quan Wanji's wife Zheng was also a niece of a famous family, so Yushi should have come to the palace by order, right?

Li Er actually guessed it. Quan Wanji's wife is the daughter of the Zheng family of the Laiyang clan, and as soon as she heard that she was going to rebuild the clan history, she immediately sent someone to Jingkangfang to find her second brother Zheng Baoan at home and discuss countermeasures. The sister and brother are talking and persuading, they have to let Quan Wanji make a statement to the emperor, back then, Quan Wanji married the daughter of the Zheng family in Laiyang with a lot of money, and has always been proud, and now, after listening to the words of his wife and brother-in-law, he also feels that this matter is directly related to his vital interests, so he happily obeyed.

Li Er looked at Quan Wanji aggressively, and said with a little sarcasm: "Quan Qing, you said that the scholars are all safe and guarded by themselves, but I don't think so. Then Zheng Baoan is probably not very peaceful, last year he sold Silla people privately, of course Quan Qing will not forget it. ”

As if a scar had been revealed, Quan Wanji was so ashamed that even the roots of his neck turned red, and he muttered: "The minister should discipline his relatives more...... But the minister failed to do his duty. ”……

Among the many admonitionists, Fang Xuanling was the only one who used the pen to replace the mouth, and he solemnly put on a recital, persuading Li Er not to act recklessly, it is better to be cautious. Because the country is developing, it is necessary to settle matters and calm people, and it is not appropriate to intensify contradictions.

As the prime minister of this dynasty, Fang Xuanling's loyalty to the Tang Dynasty is undoubted, but there is one thing that cannot be erased from Li Er's memory no matter what, although Fang Xuanling is not Cui, Lu, Zheng, Wang and other high-ranking gates, it is also known as the second-rate gate valve. The origin of the Qinghe Qinghe Fang clan is a very powerful family, and it has been crowned for several generations.

Li Er looked at Fang Xuanling's recital and sighed in his heart, Fang Xuanling also has his own plans! ……

The dissuasors kept coming, some talked directly, some twists and turns were obscure, some were complimented with persuasion, some hid grievances within the promise, and the dissuasors included military generals with outstanding military achievements, as well as civil servants who were full of wealth, officials from the Tiance General's Palace, and the old department of the former prince. They have different faces and different tones, but they all have the same opinion: the "Chronicles of the Clans" cannot be rewritten, the high taxes are unreasonable, and the Juntian Law will take time......

"Husband, now that the whole dynasty is discussing the new decree introduced by His Majesty, what do you think? I don't see you going to the court to talk about it. ”

Liu Mengli sat in front of the dresser casually flipping through a copy of Nanshan Academy's latest printing of "Journey to the West", and asked lazily.

"Sitting and watching the changes in the court is my Guiguzi tradition since ancient times, the so-called authorities are fascinated, the husband jumps out of the game, and it is clear to see things." Xu Yang put down the mobile phone in his hand, "If the husband doesn't make a move, he will do it, and if he makes a move, it must be a non-stop ...... without shocking...... (To be continued......)