In the elegant palace room, the two brothers sat opposite each other.

Luo Qing smiled and asked, "Brother, this time I called Qing back from Chang'an, but is there any big deal?" ”

Luo Bai called Luo Qing back from Chang'an, naturally he didn't simply let him be a seeder, after all, Luo Qing was his own brother, and this kind of inhumane thing couldn't be done casually.

Luo Bai thought for a moment and said, "There are many things, but I don't know where to start for a while. ”

Wang Wenjun and Luo Ling walked in from the outside, Wang Wenjun knelt beside Luo Bai, and Luo Ling knelt behind Luo Bai's right.

After Wang Wenjun sat down, he pinched Luo Bai's arm, the two glanced at each other, Wang Wenjun glanced at Luo Ling out of the corner of his eye, and then whispered: "Ah Ling is beautiful, knows the roots, and is a good match for Ah Qing, if Ah Qing hadn't been running around, she would have been married a long time ago." ”

Luo Bai was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Luo Ling and nodded, "Ah Qing and Ah Ling have known each other since childhood, and they have been together for several years, it is indeed appropriate, and then you talk to Ah Qing in private, and then report to your father, although Ah Ling's pedigree is definitely fine, but you still have to go through the process." ”

Genealogy is the calculation of inheritance algebra.

Wang Wenjun nodded, then looked at Luo Qing with a smile, looking at Luo Qing straight, not knowing what his sister-in-law, who has liked to pit people since she was a child, wanted to do.

Solving Luo Qing's lifelong event so quickly, Luo Bai was in a somewhat happy mood.

Luo Qing had an ominous premonition, so he hurriedly led the topic and asked, "Brother, are there a lot of family affairs?" ”

Luo Bai said with a smile: "You have done a lot of things in Chang'an, it is a palace change, and it is a preaching, and the family has not stopped moving forward."

The stall laid by the family is too big, fortunately, Emperor Xiaoxuan has governed the world well over the years, otherwise it will definitely affect the family.

But now it's time for the family to change.

It has been one hundred and fifty years since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, and all kinds of contradictions have been highlighted over the years, and the land annexation has gradually become serious.

It is still the most critical order to migrate the powerful may be about to expire, and once the imperial court finds that the costs and harms of the relocation of the powerful outweigh the benefits, it will definitely stop this policy.

In the past, the officials of the lower ranks of the Kanto region also fought against Haoqiang, but now they are almost in cahoots.

The key is that even if the officials sent by the imperial court dare to crack down on Haoqiang, the purpose is not to maintain the operation of the imperial court, but to enrich their own pockets by forcing Haoqiang to death, which is already a vicious circle. ”

Luo Qing has been staying in Guanzhong, he didn't expect the situation in Guandong to be so serious, what he saw in Guanzhong was only the royal family and relatives who were more arrogant and domineering, and the encirclement of land was more serious, and ordinary county and county heroes and officials did not dare to do so blatantly.

Luo Qing frowned and asked in a deep voice: "The assassination history and embroidered clothes sent by Emperor Xiaoxuan to Guandong have not been reported, could it be that they have been suppressed?"

Huo Zimeng is not good at stubble, hasn't the killing in the past three years shocked them?

Could it be that Huo Zimeng didn't dare to make a move?

That's a serious situation. ”

Huo Guang's character Luo Qing is still relatively clear, if even he doesn't dare to make a large-scale move, it means that the development of the situation is already difficult to control.

Luo Bai said softly: "Huo Zimeng is only an auxiliary minister after all, not the Son of Heaven, there are some things he doesn't dare to do." ”

Luo Qing was silent when he heard this, this is a very real problem, Huo Guang needs to take care of what happens after his death after all.

If it was Liu Xun, even if it was a big killing, no one would dare to retaliate.

But Huo Guang can't, he is not alone, he has a huge family, if he offends too many people, once he steps down, the family will definitely usher in liquidation.

In this world, only Luo's auxiliary government dares to do it with all his might without fear of being retaliated against, it's not that no one dares to retaliate, but that Luo's will beat those people down again.

The problem of powerful officials was determined by the family to fight against it long ago when the path of the Luo clan was decided.

Seeing that Luo Qing was silent, Luo Bai said again: "It's not just the powerful officials in the place.

The official camp of Yantiejiu also began to have problems, and you should have heard about what happened in Yuzhang County last year. ”

Luo Qing nodded, that incident was quite famous.

The iron tools in the official camp in Yuzhang County were of poor quality and could not be used for farming at all, and the imperial court monopolized all the iron tools, did not allow them to be minted, and forcibly sold them to farmers, resulting in farmers having to use primitive stone farming tools for farming.

The difference in the efficiency of stone tools and iron tools was too great, and as a result, Yuzhang County reduced production on a large scale, and in the absence of natural disasters, there was a vicious incident of starvation to death.

This matter was originally suppressed by the Yuzhang County Guard, but it happened that a child of the Mo family went to Yuzhang County to visit friends and knew about it, so he used his own crossbow to shoot the Yuzhang County Guard directly outside the county guard's mansion.

A high-ranking official of two thousand stones was assassinated!

The court was furious, and Prime Minister Liu Xiang personally supervised the matter, and as a result, he pulled out the radish and brought out the mud, and exposed the poor quality of the iron tools in the middle government camp of Yuzhang County, which caused a famine and forced more than a dozen people to death.

Huo Guang was furious, because he killed a lot of people because of this incident, and because Yuzhang County was close to Lingnan, he directly exiled the families of the prisoners to Lingnan, but according to the king of Lingnan, they all died on the way because of the epidemic, and no one arrived in Lingnan, as for what the real situation was, no one knew.

It may be that he died on the road because of the epidemic, or that the escort died on the road, or that he was hidden by the king of Lingnan and became a hidden slave in the kingdom.

The emperor was far away, and it was impossible for the imperial court to investigate the hidden population in the Lingnan Kingdom.

Luo Bai said in a deep voice: "According to the information that the family has mastered over the years, not only Yuzhang County, but almost most of the counties have this situation to a greater or lesser extent, and Yuzhang County is only one of the more serious ones.

This situation is no longer just a simple problem of salt and iron government, the grain production of the whole world is declining, and there are many dissatisfied people. ”

The salt and iron government was originally an institution to ensure the unity of national decrees, to facilitate control, and to prevent local tyrants from profiting from it, but now it has caused a decline in the productivity of the entire society.

This is a very simple math problem, if there is a stone of grain and grass in the world before, the court has three buckets, the strong have five buckets, and the people have two buckets.

Now it has become a total of seven buckets of grain and grass in the world, and the court still wants so much, and the loss of Haoqiang is naturally smaller, and it is difficult for the people to get even one bucket.

Luo Qing gasped when he heard this, the salt and iron official camp is an extremely important tax channel for the imperial court, and at the same time, it is a sharp weapon for the imperial court to control the world, and all the leveling officials and salt and iron officials are directly under the control of the two Jiuqing, Dasi Nong and Dasi Shang.

In other words, this is under the direct jurisdiction of the central court.

As a result, there is such a serious problem with this weapon now, the people are being exploited by the powerful, by the local officials, and even by the central court.

After thinking for a while, Luo Qing said in a deep voice: "What does my brother mean, now there are voices among the people who want to abolish the salt and iron official camp?"

This is impossible, it is absolutely impossible for the imperial court to agree, and even if there is no salt and iron official camp, will those powerful people stop exploiting the people?

No way!

Haoqiang's greed has no end, but this matter should indeed be discussed by the court, and in any case, this issue must always be faced by the court head-on. ”

Luo Bai said in a deep voice: "Now the family is in a dilemma, the pros and cons of the salt and iron official camp are too obvious, the current family is in a state of neither support nor opposition, this requires a lot of arguments to be able to decide how to do it, I have been in Chang'an for a long time, I must have seen more, what do you think?" ”

Luo Qing groaned.

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After the death of Liu Xun, a powerful emperor, the burden of reform fell on the shoulders of Huo Guang and Liu She, the two monarchs and ministers, perhaps not to be called reform, but rather to reform, because when the dynasty reached this stage, no one could completely change it, only to delay its onset.

In "The History of the Rise and Fall of the Zhou Dynasty", the author once made the following evaluation of the reform of Luowen Gongwangji: "After being widely opposed, especially after the sources of power that supported his reforms were also opposed, he decisively stopped some of the more radical reforms."

This evaluation can also be used in the Han Dynasty, and anyone has to admit that after successive turmoil, the basic plate of the Han Dynasty has gradually changed, and the groups that support it have changed. ——"The History of the Rise and Fall of the Han Dynasty"

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