"Official! Please don't give us any more land! We are tenants of our own volition! ”

"Taishou-sama was very kind to us! When you usually have to use cows and donkey carts, Taishou quickly rents them out to the little ones! ”

"And the rental fee, we still don't care about it until we harvest it!"

"Taishou is really thinking about the little ones, please don't forcibly take back the fields like before, and then distribute them to us!"

"We don't want it!"

Hearing the words of the people's petition, Xizha couldn't help but be stunned.

The field is the lifeblood of the farmers, and the people of Yangzhou City in front of them are actually refusing to obtain Juntian and agricultural status?

What's the situation?

"Okay, the official knows, please go back first, the official just came to Yangzhou City to have a look, not to do anything."

Wen Xi, who decided to make a decision after finding out the situation clearly, smiled at the people quietly.

But the people didn't mean to leave obediently, because they heard that the west party was in the Taishou Mansion, and it was clear that they were going to enter the Taishou Mansion to do something.

"Lord Taishou is like a biological parent to the grass people! Please be aware of it! ”

Smelling Xi Nai's temperament, he smiled and listened to the people say a lot of words about the maintenance of Yangzhou Taishou.

He could naturally realize the strangeness of the period, but he didn't show it.

After persuading the people to leave, Yangzhou Taishou Luo Song walked out of the Taishou Mansion with a smile, raised his hand and bowed his hand to smell the westward salute:

"I don't know that Lord Wen came to Yangzhou from afar, and I missed the welcome, so please forgive Lord Wen!"

Luo Song didn't know that he had heard the name of the Metropolitan Inspectorate of the West, but he could realize the meaning of patrolling for the imperial driver.

After inviting the smell of the West and drinking tea, Luo Song took the initiative to open his mouth and said:

"I don't know what Lord Wen is here for?"

"Hehe," he smiled at Xi Cihe:

"Naturally, I came here for the earlier incident with Junda."

"The emperor personally gave Tian Jun to the people, so he will naturally care about the follow-up, whether the people's lives have changed after they have their own fields."

As soon as he heard this, Luo Song wiped the sweat oozing from his head.

opened his mouth and moved the emperor out, and the deterrent meaning here can be heard by fools.

Luo Song organized his language a little, but he also said frankly:

"Don't hide it from your lordship, the good land that the emperor went out of earlier is now ......"

"The people who had been given the land voluntarily returned it to their original employers."

"Oh?" Smelling Xi feigned surprise, he had already learned about this before he came.

He even knew that the emperor was angry because of this incident, but the emperor did not return to Yangzhou City to intervene again with his usual rough temper.

On the contrary, they more actively promoted the restructuring of the three courts, six departments, nine temples and five prisons.

Except for a few people who know about the reform, almost all the people in the entire Zhou Kingdom don't know about it, and the emperor has no intention of publicizing it.

And what is the deep meaning, I can't see it completely when I smell the West for the time being, as a courtier, listen to the emperor's orders and wait and see what happens.

"As far as I know, the land is the lifeblood of the farmer, so how can the farmer 'return' the land ...... to the employer?"

Smelling that Xi pretended to know nothing, he continued to test Luo Song.

Luo Song smiled again and said calmly:

"The law of the Great Zhou is the law of the country promulgated by Taizu himself, and the law of the country has been passed down to the present, and the law on rent, you should be clear."

"The law of agricultural endowment says, my big Zhou well field and double seedling method in parallel, the well field is nine parts of one, double seedlings is the harvest of grain every season, to take ten stone seedlings in order to solid."

"The law of agricultural rent says that all peasant households need to rent ploughing cattle, ploughing donkeys, farm tools, etc., and rent them on a daily basis, and the grain consumed by cattle and donkeys will be fed by the government first, and then discounted with the peasant households after harvesting."

"When these laws are combined, the rent to be paid by each household is about twenty stones."

"Farmers are not able to take care of their farmland on weekdays, so when the harvest comes, the grain harvest is not harvested, and the rent cannot be paid, so they voluntarily sell the land to others, after all, the rent stipulated by the law is not in arrears."

"If you are in arrears, you will become a fugitive, and even the eaves that cover your head from the rain will be discounted."

"Once you become a fugitive, you can't be a tenant if you want to, and if you want to live, you can only resign yourself to fate."

"Therefore, it is the people's own choice to sell their farmland."

is too reasonable, and the law is self-justified, and when he hears it, he sneers in his heart:

"When the emperor equalized the fields earlier, he ordered that the taxes be exempted, why is Lord Taishou still collecting agricultural taxes from the farmers?"

"You really don't know that?" Luo Song pretended to be surprised:

"It is true that the peasants have been exempted from taxation, but here in Taishoufu, they still receive a fixed amount of grain to be transported upwards every year."

"How can the lower officials resist and disobey the order?"

Smelling that the West now completely understands, why Yuwen Shihong even has to concentrate on restructuring in the early dynasty-

There are indeed lawless courtiers in the court who are secretly issuing decrees!

The reality of the situation is linked one by one, and the complexity between them is generally clear.

At the same time, he also secretly sighed that Yuwen Shihong's ideas were thoughtful, and Yuwen Shihong's series of restructuring measures were actually interlocking, so I will not press the table for the time being.

Smelling Xi, he quietly drank a cup of tea, then stood up and smiled at Luo Song:

"This official understands, since Luo Taishou is acting according to the law, this official will naturally not do anything beyond the law."

After that, he gave up to Luo Song:

"Then the official will leave first."

……

On the upper floor of Yangzhou City, I heard that the West thought that the establishment of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was nothing of resistance, and it was the most difficult to implement it throughout the country.

Even Yangzhou, which the emperor is most concerned about, can't do anything about it, after all, the law is there.

Thinking of this, Wen Xi couldn't help but think again, maybe Yuwen Shihong also realized this?

"Breakthrough...... Breakthrough ......"

Smelling Xi muttering these three words, what will be the breakthrough of the Metropolitan Procuratorate extending to all parts of the country?

While thinking about it, I didn't notice that in the distance outside the city tower, there was a black shadow, which was gradually approaching.

The Yangzhou army defending the city noticed the situation outside the city in time, and a lieutenant immediately rode out of the city to check the situation.

After a short time, the captain of the Fan army rode back, walked straight to the city tower, and reported to Wen Xi:

"Lord Wen, there are more than 30,000 fugitives from the Qi State coming ahead, who claim to have asked them to come over by General Gao."

Hearing the sound, his face was full of doubts when he smelled Sidden:

"The fugitives of the Qi Kingdom?"

His first reaction was that the comer was not good, but the lieutenant's report again suddenly made Wen Xixi dispel his vigilance, and at the same time, he suddenly realized:

"The leader of the fugitives is the deputy general of General Gao, and the adjutant general ordered me to open the city gate in Yangzhou, and after letting them in, the Si Nong Temple will issue peasant registrations to the fugitives, as well as Juntian."