"I haven't seen you for a few years, don't you come to harm?" Yuan Chong smiled and saluted.

"The prince still remembers that he was just below, so he didn't have the cheekiness to come to the mansion to ask for an errand." Tian Ren waved at him with a smile on his face.

Since seeing the appearance of the two of them, he has maintained a stunned expression, Yuan Chong is Yuan An's nephew, and he is the one who advised Mrs. Shen to be careful to become a human and was rewarded, and Yuan An, who was the prime minister of Wu to persuade Liu Bi, the king of Wu, not to rebel, and pinched Chao Cuo in the court and killed him with his own hands.

Tian Ren is the youngest son of Uncle Tian, Uncle Tian was willing to die for Zhang Ao, the king of Zhao, which indirectly prompted Taizu Liu Bang to spare Zhang Ao's life, and his reputation happened to be similar to Luan Bu who cried for Peng Yue, the king of Liang, and Uncle Tian's eighty-year-old man was still serving as the minister of state for Liu Yu, the king of Lu.

The two of them are from extraordinary backgrounds, and their abilities are also very good, Yuan Chong is a smart person and is especially good at making suggestions, many of Yuan An's decisions when he was alive are from his handwriting, and Tian Ren inherited the advantages of his father Uncle Tian, who is good at deciding suspicions and judging right and wrong, distinguishing the virtues and abilities of subordinate officials, and managing government affairs is very good.

The abilities of the two of them were so good that Cao Shi was startled when he saw the two of them: "Doctor Yuan, Tian Langguan, you two are imperial court officials, how could you come to my mansion." ”

Yuan Chong and Tian Ren glanced at each other, and said helplessly: "The two of us have long ceased to serve in Chang'an, I am a little-known Taishou subordinate official in Donghai County, and Brother Tian has been a county magistrate in Beidi for a few years. ”

"With the talents of the two of you, there is still a place where you can't stay? Could it be that there is something else to say about it? Cao Shi shook his head and said he couldn't believe it.

Tian Ren sighed and said: "The county's wealthy people and businessmen have sprung up, and the lawsuits to decide land disputes are increasing, and the county Taishou is unwilling to make a big move in the county to clean up Haoqiang, with my and Brother Yuan's temper, I can't stand the atmosphere, and the days are getting worse and worse, if it weren't for this letter of recommendation, I'm afraid that I will be dismissed by the Taishou in less than half a year, and I will return to Lu to serve my old father." ”

"Almost! There are slightly fewer wealthy people in the border area, and there are several wealthy people in each county of Donghai County where I am located, don't say that a subordinate official like me is helpless, even the Taishou of 2,000 stones can be suppressed lightly, after all, not everyone wants to be a member of Zhidu and Ning Cheng. ”

Since the Han Dynasty for more than 60 years, the mainstream voice of the Han court has always been the Huang Lao School, from Xiao He Cao Shen, Chen Ping Zhou Bo, Guan Ying Zhang Cang, Shen Tu Jia Wei Wan are all the pillars of the Huang Lao Taoism, in the violent Qin scenery for more than 100 years of Legalism died down, and chose to integrate into the Huang Lao Taoism in the way of rubbing and kneading, Chao Cuo is the representative of the outer Tao and the inner law, and the strategy of the Huang Lao Legalist, Goshawk Zhidu and Lieutenant Ning Cheng also belong to this category of people.

This group of Legalists is very unpopular, as if everyone shouts and beats rats crossing the street, and the only way to gain a firm foothold in the court is to be a lackey for the emperor, and they are the best at killing the powerful and powerful in the local area to achieve political achievements, and in the court they are good at catching noble relatives to improve their reputation, their choice may be forced to make, and the impact is that the local heroes and noble relatives in the court hate them very much.

The heroes in the county don't have to worry, they have always had no political status, offending the relatives of the nobles can ask for the life of the Fa family, Chao Cuo was beheaded, Zhi was killed, Ning Cheng is like a lost dog who can't live in fear, and the smell of reputation can float hundreds of miles in the wind, so the local heroes also take the opportunity to publicize public opinion, creating the illusion that the cool officials kill the bad reputation of the Haoqiang, even if it is just an illusion, it is enough to make the Taishou of 2,000 stones have scruples.

The Taishou are not worried about the idea of Haoqiang, it does not mean that they are not worried about the attitude of the noble relatives, there are only a handful of people in the whole world who can receive 2,000 stones, if you want to sit on the throne of 2,000 stones or go further into Chang'an, you must carefully observe the attitude of the noble relatives, offend them or leave a negative view, at least you will waste a few years in vain, and at worst, you will lose your official position and ruin your good future.

Cao Shi was well aware of the twists and turns of the cause, but it was inconvenient to break it on the spot, and coughed comfortingly: "Calm things down, the Taishou's approach can't be said to be wrong, after all, the law stipulates that the law can do it without prohibition, as long as those wealthy people do not cross the red line of legal land occupation, it is not wrong." ”

Tian Ren shook his head and sighed: "But now there are very bad signs, there are more and more wealthy businessmen who illegally occupy the land, their titles are only hairpins, and they occupy twenty or thirty hectares of land, I sent the county officials to cooperate with the pavilion chief to check and occupy more land, and those wealthy people sued me to the county and said that I was corrupt and perverted the law, and I took a lot of trouble to go to the county to explain before I was able to pass the test, and the Taishou privately advised me not to be a direct enemy of the wealthy people." ”

"The situation is so strict? I've never heard of this kind of thing in Hedong, the Han system has always been extremely strict, aren't those wealthy people afraid of death? Cao Shi couldn't believe it.

The "Tian Law" stipulates that the land that each head of household can legally hold according to the level of the title is limited, and the civil lord only has the first five grades, and the doctor can occupy 5 hectares of land, not even more can occupy 4 hectares, hairpins can occupy 3 hectares, Shangzao can occupy 2 hectares, public officials can occupy 1 and a half hectares (15o acres), public soldiers, and concubines can occupy 1 hectare of land, and Sikou and hidden officials who are criminals and untouchables can occupy 5o acres of land.

Occupation of land is a qualification rather than a grant of land, except for the famous land given by the emperor to the military meritorious, and the land of ordinary people is their own property, and everyone is only allowed to cultivate cultivated land within the quota according to the title, and the land beyond the quota is illegal occupation, even if the wasteland is opened, it must be confiscated, and no one is allowed to secretly expand the amount of his cultivated land in any way.

A simple and rude system, but very useful, the military merit system is a very simple and rude system, if you have merit, you will occupy more legal farmland, and the liehou can legally occupy hundreds of hectares to more than a thousand hectares of land, and you can not buy land if you have money without merit, because the land belongs to everyone, even if it is ownerless wasteland, it cannot be encroached upon.

Of course, there are always workarounds in the system, and now the people of the wasteland can choose to have a few more sons, and then let the sons start a family and divide a branch to reclaim the wasteland, but the seemingly clumsy system can avoid the unscrupulous purchase and expansion of the rich people, and the farmers who sold their land died one after another, and the Han Empire relied on this stupid method to suppress Haoqiang for 60 years.

The high-interest lending business itself has a huge risk, just like beating the drum and passing the flower into the hands of the last person to explode, Cao Shi thought that the wealth of the people was going to lend, but he did not expect that there were bold people who annexed the land privately.

Yuan Chong said worriedly: "The situation in Donghai County is stricter, as far as I know, there are many wealthy people in the six countries of Kwantung who illegally occupy more than 100 hectares of land, those who are bold occupy 1,000 hectares of land, and 2,000 Shi Taishou Lieutenant does not dare to provoke lightly." ”

"Really?"

"No lie."

Cao Shi snorted coldly: "Those people are doing death!" Tomorrow, I will issue an order, in the name of supervising the insufficient population of Yangling, to summon the world's wealthy people to enter the capital to live in Lingyi, the standard of family property of more than 3oo yuan is too loose, enough for them to illegally occupy 2o hectares of land, this time it will be changed to a family property of more than 1oo yuan to live in Lingyi. ”

At the court meeting early the next morning, the Son of Heaven did not sit in the court to listen to the government as usual, and the crown prince Liu Che sat on the throne of the Son of Heaven to govern the country on his behalf.

The content of the court meeting is very brief, nothing more than to report on the summer flood control and drought relief situation of each county, and then there is the rest of the finishing work of Chang'an City, cleaning up the construction waste is carried out in an orderly manner, leaving a large circle of rammed earth city walls outside the new Chang'an City has not had time to be demolished, and the plan to demolish the wall will be scheduled until next spring, and 100,000 people from Shaofu will be responsible.

At the end of the court meeting, Cao Shi stood up to report his plan to move to Lingyi, but he didn't expect a few people to jump out on the spot to obstruct it.

"Shaofu, this is not right, the Lingyi system has been working well since Emperor Taizu Gao was created, and it is common for wealthy businessmen with more than three million families to enter Beijing, and it is suspected that you are overstepping your authority by changing the upper limit of migration assets without authorization."

"Shaofu's eagerness to make meritorious service is very understandable, but officials must remember not to be in a hurry, if you govern a big country and cook small fresh, such a hasty action is against Huang Lao's original intention!"

Cao Shi suddenly saw that all the officials and ministers did not agree with it, which was not a small deviation from the situation he expected, and it was expected that it should be a trivial matter that was nine out of ten, but the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty came out to oppose it, which made him very annoyed.

"The wealthy people are also the people, they are honest people, and the family wealth saved from a grain of rice and a night of soup, it is not a humble gentleman for the Shaofu to treat the people so harshly." Kong Anguo was in high spirits and ready for the debate.

Since the complete failure of the academic battle, his career path came to an abrupt end, and he was ostracized and suppressed in Lang Guan, and had to be turned into a doctor.

Zhi Budo kindly reminded: "Shaofu may think a little too much, go back and think about it, and then draw up a recital and hand it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to decide." ”

When he hinted at Cao, in the face of Tiyì, who was not sure of nine out of ten, he could write a chapter and hand it to the prince for approval, even if it was rejected by the prince, it would not be known by the Chinese military officials, so that he could save face.

"Shaofu has indeed gone a little too far." Wei Juan also said that he didn't agree, Wei Juan hated Shen Han's technique very much, and when he saw the people of the Legalist family, he shook his cold face, and he had thrown off Chao Cuo, Zhi Du and Ning Cheng's cold faces, but these three were all thick-skinned people who were not afraid of cold treatment, and in his eyes, Cao Shi was using Shen Han's technique to lead himself astray.

Liu Che liked this strategy very much, but he didn't dare to support it in person because the Manchu Dynasty was opposed by both civil and military forces, and Prime Minister Jue and Imperial Doctor didn't agree with it, and he was a little anxious: "Shaofu, do you have anything to say?" ”

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