Early in the morning of the second day, Huo Quzhi, together with Huo Guang and Zhao Ponu and others, all Huo Quzhi's henchmen gathered at the Bacheng Gate east of Chang'an City.

Champion County belongs to Nanyang County, that is, in the territory of Henan in later generations. Chang'an is also more than 1,000 miles away from here, and Gao Buzhi is a family who goes together, so it will take more than ten days to reach this way.

Because of Huo Guang's analysis last night, he had a lot of hope, and he didn't seem too disappointed at the moment, but there was still reluctance. Not to mention that in the Western Han Dynasty, an era of material scarcity and extremely backward communication and entertainment, even in later generations, it is estimated that it will be difficult for you to let a ministerial-level high-ranking official in the capital suddenly move to a small county town to relax, not to mention that in this era, enjoy the prosperity of Chang'an and then go to the county to live a hard life.

This is another reason why the establishment of the princes in the Western Han Dynasty was regarded as exile, because it not only meant staying away from power, but also represented that the glory and wealth of the past were gone.

Seeing Gao Buzhi go away, Huo Guang didn't know when he would be able to see this battlefield general again? However, as Huo Guang himself said, three or five years is a big variable in itself, and no one can say what direction Dahan will go in when the time comes. There are also huge uncertainties in the future.

Gao Buzhi went to the champion Hou Guo, and this matter was basically settled. Chang'an City also returned to calm, in short, the next few days were calm, and the daily court meeting was also a routine. And Huo Guang is still living a life like a county order.

Until the fourth day after Gao Buzhi left Chang'an, this day came to the day of fixed rest, and Huo Guang naturally did not have to go to the county office. Early this morning, he took Zhen Youcai, Li Yan and the old seven and eighty-four people out of the city, and it was in the direction of Yangling.

Li Yan's current identity is Huo Xian, and accompanying Huo Guang is naturally also as a maid. However, Huo Guang was worried that Li Yan would be inconvenient to ride a horse, so he simply didn't ride a horse, but let the old seven and eight drive a carriage pulled by two horses. He and Li Yanzhen Youcai also took the car directly to Yangling.

"Rich, have you found out the place?" There is a very wide and smooth road from Chang'an to Yangling, and in less than half an hour, Huo Guang and his party entered the Yangling range. Huo Guang had already instructed Zhen Youcai a few days ago to secretly investigate the location of Li Cai's field in Yangling, and at this time Huo Guang asked in the car.

"It's all clear, it shouldn't be far away, I heard that the field is near a pair of stone sheep on the side of the road." Zhen Youcai has only been in Chang'an for more than a month, but he has already established a large circle, but it is extremely simple to find out the scope of a piece of land. "Ya * Wen * Yan * Love * First * Hair" And Huo Guang also needs Zhen Youcai to deal with these trivial matters, after all, Huo Guang can't do everything himself.

Ancient cemeteries, especially the emperor's mausoleum, would not only plant trees on both sides of the main road, but also place some stone men and beasts for guarding. Although Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty advocated frugality, the emperor's prestige should not be less, and the things that should be in the Yangling Tomb are complete.

"Ah Guang, look ahead. Stone beasts have appeared on both sides. After a while, Zhen Youcai pointed to the road in front of him and said, sure enough, dozens of zhang away, a pair of stone beasts could already be seen on both sides of the road.

"Old Seven, stop the car, let's walk in." Huo Guang glanced up, and then hurriedly ordered the seventh who was driving. Although Huo Guang hasn't seen the stone tablet that prompts him to dismount, he estimates that since there are stone beasts on the road, it should not be far from the mausoleum, although there are generally no people here, and no one may see his group, but be careful and not at fault, if someone frames him and says that he drove into the mausoleum of the first emperor, it will be a great crime of disrespect.

"If you have wealth, let's look for it separately, it stands to reason that there will be obvious boundary markers on both sides of the land, look for it carefully." Huo Guang and the others got out of the carriage, he and Li Yan together, while Zhen Youcai and the old seven and eight went separately to find Li Cai's Fengtian.

Huo Guang walked to the side of the main road, he looked and found that there were indeed flat and open fields on both sides of the road, but the fields here are different from other places, and the land in other places is used as much as possible, and almost all the flat places are reclaimed, but every piece of land here in Yangling is very regular, and the key is that it is ten zhang away from the main road before it is reclaimed, and the ten zhang distance between this land and the road is completely open land.

I have to say that in the feudal era when agriculture was the foundation of the country, such idle fertile land was indeed a great waste. Huo Guang looked at these clearings, and walked towards the edge of the clearing, and when he reached the edge of the clearing, he looked up and looked along this edge, and on the other side of the clearing, the main crop of this period was planted millet, which is often called millet.

Now this season is the harvest season, and you can still see busy figures in some fields, but those who work here should not be their own fields, and these people should belong to the domestic slaves of some powerful people, because the land here is not owned by ordinary people.

"Ah Guang, where do you look?" Li Yan also followed behind Huo Guang, and she already knew the purpose of this trip.

Huo Guang looked in the direction of Li Yan's finger, and sure enough, he saw a field with a difference. In the place Li Yan pointed out, that field was obviously more than the other fields, and the extra part naturally extended to the open space.

"That should be Li Cai's field, but this is too obvious, right? Li Cai, that old guy can't make such a low-level mistake? Even Li Yan can see it at a glance, which shows how serious the encroachment of the land is on the vacant land in the cemetery? However, Huo Guang was also puzzled in his heart, such an obvious problem should not happen.

Huo Guang was suspicious, but he didn't go directly to Li Cai's field, but walked towards the field closest to him, and there happened to be a few people here who were still harvesting.

"Uncle, how is this year's harvest? This field belongs to your family? Huo Guang walked into the few people who were working, he knew that these fields could not belong to these people, but he still asked as if he didn't know.

The old man who was harvesting looked up at Huo Guang, saw that he was dressed with a good temperament, and knew that Huo Guang was a person with status, so he hurriedly replied: "Gongzi doesn't know, the fields here are all those dignitaries and nobles in the court, and we are just servants in the manor." ”

This old man didn't know that he was the servant of the manor under the powerful family, but he obviously had some eyesight, he was very respectful to Huo Guang, and knew that Huo Guang was the kind of person they couldn't afford to offend.

"Oh, I see! I see that there are still large fields that are unused, why are there no such empty fields cultivated anywhere else but there? Huo Guang asked again knowingly, his words were easy to make people think that Huo Guang was a powerful kid, bored and took his concubine out to play.

"Hehe, Childe laughed. These vacant lands belong to the mausoleum of the first emperor, and we subordinates are just working in the manors of adults, and we dare not cultivate these lands. The old man wiped his forehead and continued disappreciatively. In his opinion, Huo Guang was just curious and casually asked, and these questions were not a secret, so he answered them very simply.

"So these lands are only managed by the manor of the court? So why do they dare to farm? Huo Guang asked, pointing to Li Cai's field.

It turned out that the land here was not directly managed by the Chang'an magnates, but by the nearby manors. These estates were like estates of courtiers, each of which managed a portion of the estate, usually under the charge of a steward, who only had to pay the estate's income on a regular basis. Like this, there are no less than ten manors near Chang'an, and there are no less than ten under Huo Qu's name.

In fact, understanding this, Huo Guang had already vaguely guessed the trickiness in it. And the next old man's answer just confirmed this.

"Childe is cautious! It is the property of the current prime minister, and it has been like this for the past few years since the manager of the prime minister's mansion changed. The old man whispered, whether the word prime minister is useful in the court or not, but it is definitely second only to the emperor in the people, and the ordinary people think that in addition to the emperor, the prime minister is the biggest.

Huo Guangxin said that this is really the case, it seems that this matter is just a personal matter of Li Cai's family, and it is estimated that the income from the encroachment on the land of the imperial tomb has also fallen into the pocket of this steward himself, which really hurts Li Cai.

Then he took the opportunity to say: "Hehe, what the old man said is true." I don't know who the head of the old uncle's family is? ”

"I don't know if the son knows the Marquis of Wuqiang?" When this old man talked about his own master, he also had a sense of pride on his face, although he was just a servant, but he could have a relationship with the three words Wu Qianghou, and he could also grow his own face.

"Oh, it's Zunaishi-sama!" Huo Guang knew that the owner of this land was Yizong's boss and Zhuang Qingzhai, the Marquis of Wuqiang, who also held the title of prince and young master.

"Hehe, uncle, you continue to be busy, I'll go look elsewhere." After Huo Guang got the news he wanted, he had no intention of staying, so he casually found an excuse and left.

"Aren't we going to go there and have a look?" Li Yan asked Huo Guang with some puzzlement, because after Huo Guang left the old man, he did not go to the land of Li Cai's house, but went in the direction where the carriage stopped, as if Huo Guang planned to leave directly.

"I already know everything I want to know, so there's no need to look at it anymore. Anyway, it's there, and since it's been like this for years, it won't change anytime soon. "Huo Guang really doesn't need to look at that piece of land. And since the steward has done this, he must have gained a lot of benefits, and before the matter is exposed, he will definitely continue to cultivate this land, this is the lack of people's hearts, no corrupt official will feel that he has embezzled enough and stop the corruption.

When Huo Guang and Li Yan returned to the carriage, Zhen Youcai and the others also returned, and they also inquired about Li Cai's land, but it was still not as direct and effective as Huo Guanglai.

"Second master, are you going back directly?" Lao Qi asked.

Huo Guang looked at the sky, thought for a while and said, "Don't worry, it's still early now, let's go to Maoling again, we haven't seen Aunt Sima for some days." Huo Guang said, and his eyes had already fallen on Li Yan's face.