The arrival of Pei Shiju and Li Xin's family immediately made Li Xin breathe a sigh of relief, and after playing the Son of Heaven, Li Xin immediately named Pei Shiju, Du Ruhui, Chu Suiliang, Xiao Yu, Ma Zhou, Hao Ying, and Liang Shuo as Wude Hall scholars to assist Prime Minister Li Xin in handling the affairs of the court.

"Qianqiu, where is Empress Xiao?" In the garden behind the Wude Palace, Li Xin walked in front, and Shen Qianqiu and Ji Gang followed behind, and the two looked cautious.

"I'm afraid I've arrived in Pengcheng now." Shen Qianqiu hurriedly said.

"Get her out." Li Xin didn't know what the Empress Xiao would be like in the end, but he only knew that what happened to Empress Xiao was very miserable, and he fell into the hands of Yu Wenhua, Dou Jiande and the Turks, and finally fell into the hands of Li Shimin.

"My subordinates will do it immediately." Shen Qianqiu and Ji Gang glanced at each other, and their faces suddenly became solemn, you must know that Empress Xiao is in the imperial camp, and she is strictly guarded by Yu Wenhua, and if you want to rescue Empress Xiao, I am afraid it is not so simple. However, since Li Xin had already given the order, the two of them had to fight to the death.

"How has the Guan Long family reacted recently? I believe that the news of our measurement of acres has already spread, don't they have any reaction? Li Xin looked at Ji Gang and said.

"Not yet, but my subordinates heard that Dugu Huaien is back. It was Dugu Monk Da who greeted him personally. Ji Gang hurriedly said.

"Hehe, his courage is not small, do you think that Chang'an is really their territory?" After Li Xin heard this, his face was cloudy, his eyes flashed with fierce light, and he said lightly: "Dugu Huaien betrayed the Son of Heaven, and he should have been connected to the nine clans, but the Dugu family has contributed to the imperial court, and Dugu Huaien has a line, the men are confiscated into the army, and the women are reduced to slaves. Canonized Dugu Wushi as the squire of the Ministry of Works. Dugu Huaien's family property and fields were confiscated. ”

"Yes. The subordinates will go to let His Highness Wude give an order. Ji Gang's face moved, he and Shen Qianqiu were one external, the other internal, and it was Ji Gang's responsibility to monitor the ministers.

Wei's mansion has now become the base camp of the Guanlong family, Dugu Huaien came in with makeup, accompanied by Dugu Monk, Dugu Huaien brought the old and young in the family to Hedong, but the base camp of the Dugu family is still in Chang'an. Presided over by Dugu Seng Da, he is the son of the general Dugu Sheng, and is actually the son of Dugu Huaien's family.

"Brother Dugu, you really treat Li Xin like nothing! At this time, he dared to come to Chang'an. Wei Yuancheng said with a smile. His eyes flickered, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Chang'an, that's also the Chang'an of our Guanlong family, and even one Li Xin also wants to occupy Chang'an?" Dugu Huaien said disdainfully: "Ladies and gentlemen, although Li Yuan is now retreating to Hedong, Li Yuan has not failed, and Li Xin occupies Chang'an and even Guanzhong. But it was not a victory, and his soldiers and horses also suffered heavy losses. ”

"It's natural." Dou Kang nodded, his face was not good.

"Listening to Seng Da, Li Xin is ready to make another big move in Guanzhong?" Dugu Huaien glanced at everyone. Said with a smile. He naturally knew what big move Li Xin was going to do, and he also had a countermeasure, just waiting for everyone's mouth to ask for help, after all, he was now in Hedong. Although he is still the head of the Dugu family, these guys may not be the same as before. Keep listening to yourself.

"Yes, Li Xin is going to use the number of acres of land to replace the number of heads to pay taxes." Wei Yuancheng said lightly: "This is a big move!" In the past, we could hide the population, and the money of the imperial court was reduced, but now Li Xin has learned wisely, and let us pay taxes from the land, so that our losses will be great. Each of our families has a large population, but more land, and he starts to pay taxes from the land, which means that we will pay more money, not only for us, but also for all the powerful landlords, and if the untouchables have no land at home, they will not pay taxes, which is really hateful! ”

"Li Xin can see that the poll tax is nothing, those untouchables have no money in their hands, so naturally they don't have to pay it, he is cursing up with those untouchables, but he doesn't care about our life and death." A short and fat guy said viciously: "My family has 2,000 acres of land, if it is called land tax, how much do you need to pay!" ”

"What are your two thousand acres, I have five thousand acres." The other said disdainfully.

"That's enough." Dugu Huaien glared at everyone and said: "Li Xin just saw that we have a lot of mounds, so it will be so, he will not only tax according to the land, but also levy commercial taxes, the old man got the news, Li Xin also levies a poll tax in the northwest, but very little, his northwest is relying on commercial taxes to raise so many soldiers." In the future, commercial tax will be the most important, followed by land tax. These are the lifeblood of our family. Li Xin is the gravedigger of the family, if we still want to support such a person, but in a few years, our foundation will be taken away by Li Xin. ”

"Yes, exactly." Wei Yuancheng was also dissatisfied and said: "Look at the Wude Hall scholars he canonized, except for Xiao Yu, the other people around him, Du Ruhui and others have followed him for many years, and now the political affairs are in their hands, and the court is now all Li Xin's alone." ”

"He's not an emperor." Wei Yuanzhao said calmly: "Everyone, what is the foundation of the imperial court, the foundation of the imperial court is our big family, Li Xin's behavior is to prepare to destroy the foundation of the imperial court, if we don't unite, sooner or later we will be wiped out by Li Xin." ”

"However, only unity can let him see what is the strength of the family." Dugu Huaien glanced at everyone, and said proudly: "Don't hide it from you, Hedong City will be captured, and Qu Tutong is ready to submit to my King Zhao." With Hedong in hand, it is equivalent to hanging a sharp sword on Chang'an City, and this sharp sword can be unsheathed at any time, enter the pass, and kill Li Xin, but this requires your cooperation. ”

"How to cooperate? Li Jing recruited troops in Lantian, and if we hadn't been in the way, I'm afraid that Li Jing would have recruited 350,000 soldiers and horses by now. Dou Kang glanced at Dugu Huaien jealously, he now regrets not following Li Yuan to Hedong earlier, going to Hedong now, than going to Hedong in the future, he will get more things, but unfortunately, now Li Xin's men and horses don't know how many people are cruising on the banks of the Yellow River all day long, and if they want to go to Hedong, it is even more difficult. Not to mention dragging the family.

"This fit?" Dugu Huai'en showed a smug look on his face, and was about to speak, when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside, and the faces of everyone in the secret room suddenly changed, Dugu Huai'en was even more frightened, the other families were still in Chang'an City in general, and they surrendered to Li Xin on the surface, but Dugu Huaien completely joined Li Yuan's arms, which was a thief. At this time, I secretly came to Chang'an, the capital division, this is simply the rhythm of death!

"Father." There was a burst of cheers outside the door, but I saw Dugu Feng breaking in in red, and his face showed even more anger.

"What's going on?" When Dugu Huaien saw that it was Dugu Feng, his nervous mind suddenly relaxed, his face was restored to majesty, and he looked at Dugu Feng coldly, if it weren't for Dugu Feng's strong martial arts and talent of the Dugu family, Dugu Huaien would have started to scold a long time ago.

"Jin Yiwei has sealed the Dugu family and is arresting the personnel of the Dugu family. Sanniang, they have all been arrested. Dugu Feng said nervously. When the ** war, although Dugu Huaien took away the old and young, but in the end he took away the descendants, and his concubines, concubines, etc. were still lost in Chang'an City.

"Ahh The thief dares, and he dares to arrest the people of our Dugu family? Dugu Huaien's eyes were red and he roared loudly. The other Wei family, the Yuan family, the Dou family, and so on all showed panicked expressions on their faces, in their opinion, Li Xin definitely did not dare to touch half of the family, after waiting for so many days, everyone did not take Li Xin to heart, and now they didn't expect that suddenly, the Dugu family was unlucky, and Jinyiwei rushed up, and it was not his turn to figure out when it would be.

"It's not a lonely family, it's our family." Dugu Feng said in a low voice.

"Dugu lineage!" Everyone listened to the complicated expression, the noise just now disappeared without a trace in an instant, and their hearts were suddenly relieved, it turned out that it was not the entire Dugu family, but the descendants of Dugu Huaien, these people immediately understood why Li Xin did this, killing chickens and scaring monkeys, maybe this is not a chicken, but a monkey.

"Jinyiwei has posted a notice in front of the door, saying that our Dugu family colluded with Li Yuan to rebel and conspire to rebel, but only because the Dugu family had made great contributions to the Great Sui before that, we disposed of some people, Dugu lineage, men were in the army, and women were reduced to heroes and slaves." Dugu Fengfeng's eyes were red, and his voice was much quieter at the end. Originally, she had a very good impression of Li Xin, but she didn't expect that the current Li Xin was so vicious.

"Li Xin, I am inseparable from you." Dugu Huaien roared loudly, his fists clenched tightly, his eyes were red, and his face was hideous. This kind of thing has never happened to the Dugu family since it appeared, and now it has finally happened, he looked around and saw that everyone's faces showed anger, but in the depths of their eyes, there was a hint of schadenfreude, how could they not know everyone's thoughts. Although these big families also have alliances, but in private, the struggle is also relatively fierce, and now that Dugu Huaien is unlucky, these people are naturally happy.

"A group of rat-eyed people, these guys will be eaten clean by Li Xin sooner or later. It's really a lack of vertical and conspiracy. Dugu Huaien felt angry in his heart.

"Li Xin also sealed our family's property. It is said that it will be collected by the state and distributed to those meritorious soldiers. Dugu Feng said in a low voice. Dugu Huaien didn't know what to say at this time. (To be continued......)