In the fourteenth year of the great cause, a month after Yang Guangcai's death, Li Yuan was proclaimed emperor in Hedong, Taiyuan was the capital, the founding number was Zhao, and the year name was the first year of Xingwu, and the eldest son Li Jiancheng was the prince, the second son Li Shimin was the king of Qin, and Li Yuanji was the king of Qi. For a time, the world shook, and there were countless people who claimed to be kings and hegemons.

"Prime Minister, this is the land handed over by the family, a total of 900,000 acres." Xu Jin's face was thin and thin, his face showed a tired look, in the Wude Palace, Pei Shiju and others sat on the brocade stool, Xu Jin held the document in his hand and said.

"In less than a month, these big families are very smart, and they actually returned 900,000 mu of land, so that we can also resettle a lot of people." Li Xin was very happy to hear this, looked around and said: "These fields should be well distributed, and those ordinary people who do not have fields will be distributed according to the population of their families. ”

"Prime Minister." Pei Shiju was about to speak, but he saw that Xu Jin did not have any joy on his face, but said: "Prime Minister, my subordinates think that there is fraud in these 900,000 mu of land. ”

"How can there be fraud?" Li Xin asked curiously: "Isn't there another 900,000 mu in the account?" ”

"Although there are 900,000 mu more on the books, these 900,000 mu are all owned by the owner. The people below said that during the Great Cause period, the imperial court neglected the state government and did not carry out land surveying for many years, in fact, many people in Guanzhong had fields in their homes, but they were not registered with the county government. Xu Jin smiled bitterly: "Prime Minister, almost overnight, almost every family in Guanzhong has land. The same is true for those poor families, who may have ten acres or even dozens of acres at home. The subordinates thought that there was something strange in this. ”

"Yes, how can it be that there are so many fields overnight, it must be a trick of the Guan Long family, probably just to fool the prime minister on the face and wait until the land is obtained. Most of them are still owned by the Haoqiang family, and those ordinary people only temporarily own the land, and the land is still owned by the family in essence. Du Ruhui said angrily.

"Damn. Tell me, what should we do now? Is it forcibly divided equally? Li Xin's face was gloomy, this matter is really hard to say, those ordinary people and big families, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, and they don't take Li Xin's orders in their eyes at all. Even if Li Xin forcibly ordered it, it would not be much better. Thinking of this, Li Xin looked at Pei Shiju. Looking forward to what Pei Shiju can think of.

Pei Shiju sat there quietly, hesitated for a while, and then said: "Prime Minister, now that we have just entered Guanzhong and have not yet gained a firm foothold, the old minister thinks that these big families are hateful but hateful, but in fact, we can slowly weaken them, and we may not necessarily strike them down now." What these big families believe in is Li Yuan. As long as the prime minister defeats Li Yuan, these families will naturally be attached to the prime minister. All we need now is time. ”

"Prime Minister, my subordinates think that Mr. Pei is reasonable, Guanzhong is different from Liangzhou. Liangzhou's methods and measures are not necessarily suitable for Guanzhong, and his subordinates think that it is better to slowly guide these families into business, as long as they earn a high amount of money from business. They will certainly give up their claim for land. Cui Yuan also said.

Li Xin was about to speak, but saw Duan Qi striding in outside, and arched his hand and said, "Prime Minister." Wei Xuan's mansion sent someone to come, saying that Wei Xuan was no longer good and wanted to see the prime minister for the last time. ”

"Let's go meet him." Li Xin groaned for a while, and decided to meet Wei Xuan, this old minister of the Three Dynasties, when he was exterminating Yang Xuangan, although he had a clear conscience in what he did, in the end it made Wei Xuan lose many relatives, and now there is only one grandson Wei Gui by his side.

When Li Xin went out of the palace gate, he saw Wei Gui standing outside the palace in person, Li Xinfei got on the horse and said to Wei Gui: "What's the matter with Boss Wei?" Didn't you hear some time ago that he had gotten out of bed and walked around? ”

"Grandfather is old, after the beginning of the year, it has actually been a lot worse, today the doctor said, I'm afraid it's just a few days, grandfather may also know that the deadline is coming, so I came to invite the prime minister to see him for the last time." Wei Gui said with some concern. In fact, the relationship between the Wei family and Li Xin is not good, and Wei Xuan has calculated Li Xin several times. Even Wei Gui himself didn't know why his grandfather was looking for Li Xin.

"Lord Wei is loyal to the imperial court, if something happens, it will be a big loss to the imperial court." Li Xin urged the war horse, Duan Qi and Zhongnan eighteen cavalry guarded the left rear, and there were more than 1,000 cavalry around him, although he occupied Guanzhong, but there were many enemies hiding in the shadows in Guanzhong, although Li Xin was strong, but he did not dare to act alone.

The team soon arrived at Wei Xuan's mansion, but the lively mansion in the past is now much deserted, since Li Yuan came to Chang'an City, Wei Xuan began to complain at home, and now it seems that Wei Xuan at that time was really not good at the body.

"Master Wei." After entering Wei Xuan's bedroom, Li Xin first glanced around, and saw that Wei Xuan's bedroom was very ordinary, faintly filled with a trace of decay, but there was nothing to hide, Li Xin approached Wei Xuan's bed, but saw that the old man, who was very thin in the past, was as thin as skin and bones at the moment, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Prime Minister." Wei Xuan heard Li Xin's voice, slowly opened his eyes, I don't know what was going on, Li Xin felt that Wei Xuan's spirit seemed to be much better at this time.

"Master Wei, it seems that your body bones are okay, this king turned around and asked Master Sun to come and take a look, and he will definitely be able to cure the old man." Li Xin comforted.

"The old minister is old, and he can't do it." Wei Xuan shook his head and said, "This time, I invited the prime minister to come, just to meet the prime minister." ”

"Boss." Li hesitated for a while.

"Prime Minister, wait for the old minister to finish speaking." Wei Xuan waved his hand and said: "Prime Minister, the old minister has heard that the Prime Minister is preparing to measure the acres of land in Guanzhong recently, and the Prime Minister is preparing to weaken the Guanlong family!" ”

"What the old man said is very true." Li Xin was not surprised, if Wei Xuan didn't hear a little wind, then he was not an old minister of the Three Dynasties.

"The old minister also knows that the prime minister sent people to measure the acres of fields, but found that those ordinary people have a lot of fields in their homes, right?" The corners of Wei Xuan's mouth showed a hint of disdain, and said: "This is just a ploy of those families, and if you can't figure it out, this ploy is said by Dugu Huaien." ”

"What do you think is good, my lord? None of the scholars in the Wude Hall could give an idea for the Lone King. Li Xin looked at Wei Xuan expectantly, but he didn't expect Wei Xuan to say this before he died.

"Hehe, the prime minister laughed, a few people from the Wude Palace, not to mention Pei Shiju's treacherous and cunning, the other Du Ruhui and Chu Suiliang are all masterpieces of a generation, how can they not know the truth in this, it's just that it's hard to say." Wei Xuan shook his head and said: "Du Ruhui and Chu Suiliang both know, but what he is worried about is that the people's hearts fluctuate under the rule of the prime minister, which is not conducive to the prime minister's decision-making, as for Pei Shiju, he must know how to do it, but he doesn't dare to say it, don't forget it, although he married his granddaughter to the two prime ministers, but he is also a family!" As for Cui Yuan, it is probably because of this. ”

"So, the old man knows how to do it?" Li Xin's face was cloudy, and he didn't say anything, but looked at Wei Xuan and said.

"Hehe, Dugu Huai is very talented, what idea can he come up with." Wei Xuan said disdainfully: "Prime Minister, since these ordinary people have fields in their hands, then these fields are the common people." From the beginning of Emperor Wen to the present fourteen years of great cause, so many years have not re-measured the land, the population has increased, but the fields have not increased, the prime minister re-measured the land, re-stipulate the ownership of the land, I believe, those people must be very happy. ”

Li Xin's face moved when he heard this, and finally applauded and said: "What the boss said is very true, in this way, those big families are probably shooting themselves in the foot." The boss is clever. ”

"Prime Minister, although the family is powerful, but the number is relatively good, in the final analysis, it is the local landlords who are strong, they collude with officials at all levels, and disobey the yang and yin of the court, this is the big thing, no matter how good the policy of the DPRK and China is, in the end it still falls into the hands of the officials, and the governance of the world is actually just the governance of the officials. The landlord is strong, in fact, it is these officials, the officials have no hope of lifelong promotion, and the positions they hold are passed down from generation to generation, not leaving Sangzi, secretly filling their pockets, but two or three generations are a landlord Haoqiang! Wei Xuan said in a low voice: "Du Ruhui and Chu Suiliang all know these things, but they don't dare to say it, because they are worried that the prime minister will suspect them." The old minister is no longer good, say it, and the prime minister doesn't have to worry about the old minister. ”

"Do you have any last words to confess?" Li Xin took a deep breath and stared at Wei Xuan and said.

Wei Xuan listened and glanced at the brocade box on the side, Li Xin reached out and took it when he saw this, opened it and took a look, but saw that there were some land deeds inside. Immediately looked at Wei Xuan curiously.

After the death of the old minister, the old minister could not keep these things, leaving fifty acres for his own use, and the others might as well be given to the prime minister, hoping that the prime minister would calm the world as soon as possible and return the world to a peace. The old minister was also dumbfounded. After Wei Xuan said this, his face suddenly darkened a lot.

"Someone, pass on my order, Lord Wei Xuan is loyal to the country, has made outstanding achievements, and has been crowned the Duke of Xu Guo, and his grandson Weigui has been crowned as the Duke of Beidi County, and he has been appointed as the general secretary and the undertaker of the military department. Enjoy 100 acres of fertile land. Li Xin thought about it, took out a hundred-acre land deed from the brocade box in his arms and put it aside.

"Prime Minister." Wei Xuan looked at Li Xin with wide eyes, he didn't expect that his words would be rewarded like this, it can be said that although the Wei family will only have one person who violates the rules in the future, from now on, no one will dare to bully the Wei family.

"Boss, let's rest!" Li Xin sighed, turned around and prepared to leave, all the grievances were written off from then on.

"Prime Minister, the government needs to be balanced! Ahem! Wei Xuan yelled again, and Li Xin paused and walked out of the room.

That night, the Great Sui Xu Guo Gongwei Xuan died of illness at home, and Yining Tianxia issued an order to leave the dynasty for one day to show mourning. (To be continued......)