After Li Congyan returned to Dengzhou City for a short stay, he immediately rushed to Muping County. When Li Congyan led the first regiment of birch armor to arrive outside the north gate of Muping County, he saw thousands of people surrounded outside the city gate, confronting the officials and archers patrolling the city in Muping County, and the scene was chaotic.

At this time, Chen Shuo, the county commander of Muping County, stood at the head of the city, and saw Li Congyan's Daxu from a distance, and was immediately overjoyed, his main backbone had finally arrived, so he shouted loudly: "Li Tingshi is here!" Li Thorn Shi is here! ”

Thousands of people cheered when they heard the news, at this time Li Congyan was a blue sky in the hearts of the people of Dengzhou, and unlike those bad businessmen and corrupt officials, Li Congyan was also the backbone of these thousands of people.

However, Li Congyan frowned slightly when he looked at the chaotic scene in front of him, worried that once the situation got out of control, it would cause casualties among the people, which would completely worsen the situation, so he hurriedly ordered the birch armor to lead the troops to maintain order.

"Don't let the people storm the city gate, and let the officials of Muping County be vigilant, and if there are anyone in the crowd who takes advantage of the chaos to rob, take it down immediately!"

"Whoa!"

He commanded more than 1,400 soldiers of the New Army to rush into the crowd, stabilize the restless thousands, and then open a passage through the crowd to allow Li to pass through Yan Zema.

Then Li rode his horse from Yan to the center of the crowd, and the birch armor and more than a dozen soldiers followed, nervously watching the surroundings, for fear of a little accident.

"I'm Li Congyan!"

Li Congyan rode his horse to the center of the crowd, then stopped and looked around, and said loudly: "Today's events, this assassin history has already known, since I have arrived in this Muping County, I will definitely give you an explanation." If you can trust me, please obey the command of the officials and soldiers, wait outside the north gate in an orderly manner, and do not make any trouble! ”

Chong Huajia commanded more than 30 soldiers to run through the crowd over and over again, repeating Li Congyan's words loudly to ensure that every ordinary person could hear them.

At this time, thousands of people were talking, but no one stood up to express their position, although everyone subconsciously believed Li Congyan, but no one was willing to be the first to express their position. And Tang Yi's figure appeared in the crowd, and at this time, Tang Yi looked at Li Congyan on a horse, and was stunned.

"Is it him? He is Li Tingshi! ”

Tang Yi never expected that the "son of the family" who had a relationship with him in that deserted village turned out to be Li Congyan, the assassin of Dengzhou, and he was so excited in his heart that he immediately shouted: "Li Tingshi, I believe you!" I listen to you! ”

The surrounding people looked over, and then the crowd sounded in response, and hundreds of people chanted Li Congyan's name, and then under the guidance of the Muping County officials and the soldiers of the new army, they scattered and waited in the wilderness outside the north gate.

Li Congyan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, he also noticed Tang Yi in the crowd just now, and took advantage of the crowd to reorganize, and ordered someone to bring Tang Yi to him.

Tang Yi saluted with a slightly nervous cross-hand: "Li Tingshi still remembers me?" ”

Li Congyan looked at it carefully, and then laughed: "It turned out to be you!" If I'm not mistaken, your name is Tang Yi, right? Now it seems that I am a close friend with those families? ”

Tang Yi smiled embarrassedly, and then said: "It's just that the grass people have eyes and don't know Mount Tai at the beginning, and ask Li Tingshi to forgive him!" ”

"Haha, what's your sin? I really like your straightforward and upright personality. ”

Tang Yi was excited in his heart and said, "The grass people don't dare. Li Tingshi didn't know anything, my family was allocated land, and the grass people also signed up to participate in the new government military system, hoping to work for Li Tingshi in the future! ”

Li Congyan nodded with satisfaction when she heard this, then frowned slightly, and said to the birch armor beside her: "Tell Chen Shuo, the county magistrate of Muping County, to come over and report the specific situation to me immediately!" ”

"Whoa!" The birch armor hurriedly rode his horse and rushed to the north gate of Muping County.

Then Li Congyan said to Tang Yi: "I don't know much about the details of this matter, you are also waiting here, and you will tell me everything you know in a while, how about it?" ”

"Whoa!"

Tang Yi saw that he could help, and the excitement in his heart was beyond words, and he immediately crossed his hands and said: "The grass people dare to disobey their fate!" ”

After a while, Li Congyan's brows tightened, and he listened carefully to the report of the county magistrate Chen Shuo outside the north gate.

“…… Li Tingshi, a total of seven merchants participated in this incident, they wantonly requisitioned land in various parts of Muping County, involving more than 1,000 hectares of land, and the government has now controlled all these seven merchants, confined in their respective homes, guarded by the archers patrolling the city, and will not get away with one. ”

Li Congyan didn't expect these businessmen to be able to buy so much land, and said suspiciously: "The Assassin's Mansion has just distributed land to the people from all over the country, just a few days later, why are so many people selling the land?" ”

Chen Shuo said: "Qi Li Tingshi, his subordinates have preliminarily interrogated several businessmen, and they all coerced and lured them for various reasons, either taking advantage of the people's urgent need for money and taking advantage of the danger of others, or using high prices as bait to let the people give up their land, and finally relying on the money from selling the land, in short, they tried their best to let these people sell their land. ”

Li Congyan's face turned pale, and he asked, "I have repeatedly ordered that land sales are prohibited in all parts of Dengzhou, and land annexation is strictly prohibited. But why did such a thing happen in Muping County, what are you doing with this county order! ”

The county magistrate Chen Shuo also felt very aggrieved, and said with his crossed hands: "Li Tingshi doesn't know, those businessmen are very cunning, they only have a verbal agreement with those people on the surface, or sign a loan contract, the agreement is just to borrow land, and pay the people monthly rent. However, in private, those merchants signed a contract with the people to purchase land, and if the people did not make trouble this time, the county government would not have known. ”

Li Congyan understood that this was equivalent to the yin and yang contract signed by unscrupulous businessmen in later generations, and it was indeed difficult to find out in this era.

Li Congyan looked at Tang Yi and asked, "Could it be that those people were all deceived?" One or two is excusable, thousands of people were deceived at the same time, how is this possible? ”

In this era, land is the life~ root of the people, and they will never be easy to sell, which is also a point that Li Congyan doesn't understand, why those businessmen can easily acquire so much land.

Tang Yi crossed his hands and said: "Li Thorn Shi doesn't know, although the Thorn History Mansion has divided land for us grass people, but the people everywhere are still poor, and most of them have only land in their hands and no money. Once something happens at home, you can only guard the land and stare dryly! ”

"I understand."

To put it bluntly, these people are too thin to withstand the slightest impact. Once there is a big expense, no matter what the businessmen say, these poor people can only be slaughtered by others, and there is no room for resistance.

Li Congyan thought calmly for a while, and then began to make arrangements.

"Chen County Order, you immediately rush back to the county office, and assign people to put those seven businessmen in prison, and you will be charged with illegal land annexation, and you will be severely punished!"

"Whoa!"

Then Li entered the city from Yan Zongma, climbed to the top of the city and overlooked the thousands of people outside the north gate, and said loudly: "The history of this assassin already knows the whole story, and the seven unscrupulous businessmen have all been imprisoned, and Chen County Commander is responsible for severely punishing them!" ”

After dozens of Forces nouvelles soldiers repeated it several times, thousands of civilians cheered.

The reason why these thousands of people besieged the city this time was that they sold their land without getting any money, or only received a small part of the money. Now that those black-hearted businessmen have been taken by Li Tingshi, for these people, their land will definitely be returned.

Under the city, Tang Yi asked loudly: "Dare to ask Li Tingshi, what about our land?" ”

Li Congyan said: "This assassin's history promises: all the land of the deceived people will be redivided within ten days, and the assassin's mansion will issue relief funds to you, one hundred yuan per household, which will be paid by the Muping County Government on behalf of you!" ”

As soon as the words fell, thousands of people in the city thundered with joy.

The matter on the side of Muping County came to an end, and Li Congyan instructed Chen Shuo, the county commander, on some specific matters, and then went to Tang Yi's house to have a look.

Tang Yi's father and son were so excited that they bowed to the ground one after another, and were helped up by Li Congyan one by one.

Looking at the dilapidated house of the Tang family, Li Congyan's heart was sour: "Most of the people in Dengzhou are like this, when will Dengzhou become rich and strong?" ”

Li Congyan left after greeting everyone for a while, and returned to Dengzhou Assassin's Mansion overnight. Before leaving, Li Congyan left Tang Yi the usual money, and Tang Yi's father and son thanked him for a thousand thanks.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Congyan returned to the Assassin's Mansion exhausted, and then found Wu Conghan, who was still asleep.

After the sleepy-eyed Wu Conghan entered the door, Li Congyan first told him about the affairs of Muping County, and then said: "The Assassin's Mansion immediately drafts a land decree. ”

Wu Conghan suddenly sobered up after listening, and then pulled the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and prepared to record.

"From now on, all private land in Dengzhou is not allowed to be bought and sold, subject to the existing distribution amount, and violators will be severely punished! If the poor people really need to sell their land to survive, they can only be bought back by the Assassin's Mansion. ”

After Wu Conghan finished recording, he couldn't help frowning slightly, and said: "The lord's subordinates can probably understand it, that is, to prohibit land annexation. However, his subordinates also have a few questions: First, at present, the people in various places are generally poor, will the Assassin Mansion be burdened with wealth because of this? Second, how to dispose of the land purchased in large quantities, the Assassin Mansion does not have enough manpower, and the land alone cannot be converted into money and grain. Third, if the people buy and sell privately, how will the Assassin Mansion detect it? ”

Wu Conghan's questions are not a problem, Li Congyan has already thought about it on the way back, and said at this time: "This is easy to do, first, the tax income and workshop income of the Assassin Mansion are growing day by day, and I will open other workshops in the future, so money is not a problem, and the Assassin Mansion will not be dragged down by this matter." ”

"Second, the land acquired by the Assassin Mansion is very useful, one can be used to implement the new military system, and the other can be used to recruit displaced people, so there is no need to worry about the land purchased will be wasted."

"Thirdly, the Assassin's Mansion should make one point clear in this land law: allow people everywhere to supervise each other, and if anyone is found to have bought or sold land privately, anyone can report it to the local government at any time, and the whistleblower can get one-third of the land involved in the case! In addition, the county officials in various places should also pay close investigations, and if they find people who buy and sell land without permission, the Assassin Mansion will give a certain subsidy according to the number of cases involved, which can be regarded as a reward! ”

Wu Conghan applauded his hands in agreement after hearing this, and at the same time admired Li Congyan's intelligence, why couldn't he think of such a method?

A few days later, the Dengzhou Assassin Prefecture issued the Dengzhou Land Ordinance, ordering a ban on land transactions in Dengzhou.

The local government also vigorously popularized the "Dengzhou Land Decree", and the people everywhere were ecstatic, which not only solved their worries, but also did not have to worry about the powerful eyeing their own land, and they all applauded this decree.