On the other hand, after Yuwen Shihong sent out the notice, it was as if he had disappeared into the palace for half a month.

Smelling Xi, he looked around for him and tried to talk to Yuwen Shihong, but he couldn't find anyone.

I was anxious to smell the west, and seeing that all the Taishou of one hundred and eight states were pouring into the imperial city, I was even more anxious and helpless.

And what no one knows is that Yuwen Shihong is already dressed in civilian clothes and went to Yangzhou City alone-

He wanted to see how Junda worked.

On this day, he deliberately rode a donkey and leisurely entered Yangzhou City.

The law stipulates that horses can only be raised and used in the army, and raising horses privately is a serious crime of killing heads, so the people use donkeys as a means of transportation.

The rich can use donkeys, and the poor still have to walk.

When donkeys and cattle are used for harvest, they have to be rented from the local state capital, or they can be exchanged for donkeys and cattle in a corresponding share of the harvest.

Yuwen Shihong knows that when he really goes deep into the locality, he can see more of the disadvantages of local governance.

It is not to blame for the poor governance of the state capitals, but ...... The generational gap in ideas is too great.

Here, after Yuwen Shihong passed through the state capital, his footsteps naturally walked to Daode Street, where the gentry had gathered earlier.

Just thinking about the street-style infrastructure in the Tang Dynasty, which is more suitable for the current Great Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Shihong suddenly saw a large number of people surrounding the doors of the mansions of those wealthy gentry who had already been raided.

The people were full of anxious expressions and chattered with each other.

Puzzled, Yuwen Shihong jumped off the donkey and walked over quietly.

"Ouch, why don't you open the door yet, I'm afraid it's really completely offended!"

"If you want me to say, this little emperor only knows Hu Lai, and we guessed at that time, what is the average field, and each household is ten acres!"

"Give us the stolen fields! Of course there is no good fruit to eat! ”

The people's discussions, listening to Yuwen Shihong was confused, what is the situation?

I have a good heart, how did I get into the mouth of the people, but I did something wrong?

"What does this uncle mean by speaking in tongues?" Yuwen Shihong stopped an uncle and asked in a calm tone.

The uncle glanced at Yuwen Shihong, and asked with an angry and worried look in his eyes:

"You're from out of town? Ouch, I advise you, go back where you came from, this Yangzhou City, there is no way to live! ”

"What do you tell me about?" Yuwen Shihong was patient and asked again.

But seeing that the uncle glanced at the gate of the mansion of the gentry from time to time, and saw that the gate showed no sign of opening, the uncle said with a little impatience:

"Earlier, the little emperor came to Yangzhou City, robbed our local landlords of their land, and then distributed them to our landless tenants."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Yuwen Shihong couldn't help but interject.

"What a good thing!" Uncle reprimanded:

"Looted land! The little emperor snatched the front foot and left, and the gentleman could snatch it back with the back foot! ”

"Rob? Really? Yuwen Shihong was surprised, this group of gentry was too bold! How dare you commit a crime against the wind after you leave?

It seems that his prestige is still not enough! Yuwen Shihong was suddenly full of anger.

However, when the six departments of the three courtyards and the five prisons of the nine temples are operational, these local bullies will have the coercion from the imperial city to deter!

"Hehe, people have been landlords for decades, where do you need to use robbing, we ordinary people, bare and nothing, empty and poor, and their own families, afraid of losing things, just a few."

"Yangzhou Taishou ordered earlier that the farmers who have obtained the land should pay ten stones of grain when the spring class is harvested!"

"The little emperor doesn't know at all, the fields in Yangzhou are mostly mudflats, and he grows corn grains on the mudflats? The roots are going to be soaked! ”

"On the surface, it is indeed a good thing for farmers to get ten acres of land, but in fact? Of these ten acres, five acres are packed up and planted! ”

"There is a lot of rain this year, even if the millet is not planted in the mudflats, as soon as there is a lot of rain, the roots of the millet will still be soaked and rotten, and it is good to produce three stones per acre! Five acres is fifteen stones! ”

"But once the grain is paid, how much will there be left in our farmers' homes? If you can have five stones left, God will reward you for eating! ”

"After working hard and hard to farm, in the end I got five stones of grain, and after one stone was exchanged for salt for half a year, I couldn't even eat a bite of green vegetables!"

Hearing this, Yuwen Shihong was extremely shocked, this bold Yangzhou Taishou! How dare you collect grain from peasant households without authorization?!

"Didn't the emperor say that he was exempted? Then how can Taishou ask you to pay without permission? In order to find out the inside story, Yuwen Shihong asked again.

"Whew!" Uncle sighed heavily:

"Does the little emperor really not understand or fake not understand?"

"In addition to the well-field rentals required above, there are also cattle rents, donkey rents, farm tool rents, and water rents, and if these rents are not paid, the land cannot be planted."

"It's exempt on the surface, so what about rent?"

Yuwen Shihong understands that the original land reform still involves so many complicated aspects.

When he came back to his senses, the door of the mansion of the gentry still showed no sign of opening, and Yuwen Shihong pondered, these people were all exiled, could it be ......

Didn't you clean it up?

"What are you doing here?" Yuwen Shihong asked again.

The uncle replied naturally:

"Naturally, I came to return the land."

"Returning the field?! How can you return the field! Never! Yuwen Shihong couldn't hold back for a while, and shouted directly.

This shout made the surrounding people cast puzzled glances.

"What are you shouting? If you don't return the land yet, we farmers have the final say! The uncle said in a very firm tone:

"Today's rent law is levied on a household basis, as long as I return the land to the Pan family, hundreds or even thousands of peasant households have to pay the rent, as long as the Pan family pays it once."

"Let's still be like a tenant before, half of the grain production goes to the Pan family, half to ourselves, let's say less half of the grain left, it's better than handing over all the grain to the state government!"

At this point, Yuwen Shihong can be regarded as understanding why the implementation of land reform is so difficult!

It turned out that there was something wrong with the law!

The miscellaneous rents of the law were theoretically affordable for the peasant households, but what the law did not take into account were natural disasters, man-made disasters, and even the condition of the land!

This leads to theoretically available grain production, which is only theoretical, and the actual harvest is simply impossible to achieve the theoretical harvest!

At this time, the door of the Pan family's mansion was opened from the inside with a creak.

The people were moved when they heard the sound, excitedly holding up the land deed, calling for the wording of admitting their mistakes, and even saying that they were forced to be helpless when they went to get the land!

In short, it is a call to return the land to the Pan family.

Yuwen Shihong silently looked at the incredible scene in front of him, and Sanguan was also really shocked by this dark world.

"Hmph, that's a nice thing to say, when you went to get the title deed, didn't you still shout Long live the emperor?" Pan Wenkang, who was standing at the door, was still the one with an angry face:

"Long live again! I'd like to see what about you mud legs! Who is the real Viva! ”