With the completion of the restructuring of the provinces and counties, the yamen of each county has been reorganized, and the former Suzaku Mansion has been divided into three counties, the largest of which is the Suzaku County that surrounds Suzaku City.

Suzaku County has six counties under its jurisdiction, and the northeast, is one of the six counties of Dongxiang County, Dongxiang County Xiahuzhuang, next to a not wide river, in this hot season, both sides of the river are full of green rice seedlings, with the scorching waves churning, setting off a series of green waves.

Huzhuang is not prosperous, the whole village is less people to come and go, because Huzhuang is the Zhuangzi of Hu Sanjin, the local rich man of Dongxiang, half of the whole Zhuangzi is the Hu family compound, the courtyard wall of Zhangxu is all bluestone, the thickness is three feet, and there are corner towers at the four corners, on this flat plain, the wind and grass around are all in full view.

Being able to buy land near Vermilion Bird City, and still being powerful in the local area, the Hu family is naturally not a good person, in addition to being well-managed, it naturally depends on the relationship behind it.

Hu Sanjin, the current owner of the compound, Hu Sanjin, the head of the Hu family, is sitting on a pear blossom wood hat chair, Hu Sanjin is more than fifty years old, looks a little thin, but a pair of eyes are shining, and there is a small goatee under his chin.

Hu Sanjin, who was holding a little goatee, squinted his eyes, like an old fox napping: "Everyone, bring you here, everyone is full of doubts, I, Hu Sanjin, don't go around in circles, I call everyone here today, I have something to discuss with you!"

The Hu family was a family trembling when they stomped on it in Dongxiang a few years ago, but now it is declining, and everyone here knows that the reason why the Hu family is trembling is because the Hu family used to have an in-law relationship with the Pang family in Vermilion Bird City, and his daughter married the old man of the Pang family and became a child.

Although it is said that selling women for glory, because of the support of the Pang family, the Hu family has not only controlled the county government in the past 20 years, but also accounted for half of the fertile land in Dongxiang, but with the fall of the Pang family, the Hu family fell to Xinchu very neatly, and was very deferential, like a grandson.

In recent years, Da Chu has issued several decrees to weaken the local big landlords and the intertwined clan families, after all, these landlords almost gather in a county, or even a few percent of the land in a county, and turn the place into private ownership, which will affect the government affairs of a county, and even appear, and the local officials are not as good as sneezing the heads of these local big clans.

It is precisely because of this high concentration of land by local landlords and wanton interference in the operation of the government that local corruption has been accelerated, because the government has become a tool for a family's interests.

Several people in Hu Sanjinzhao are also well-known in Dongxiang, and the family headed by the Hu family can be said to be grasshoppers on a rope, and since the establishment of Dachu, it can be said that their interests have been greatly hit.

"Jin Weng, I don't know what you want to tell us!"

Hu Sanjin moved his body, sat up straight, and said: "In the past few years, all of us have not had a good time, I think at the beginning, our family is the heaven of this Dongxiang, and if you say a word, it is the order of the Yamen, on the ground of this Dongxiang, if you say something bad, we are the emperor of the soil!"

As soon as Hu Sanjin said this, several people here also remembered the glorious days, but the more they remembered the scenery, the more they felt aggrieved that they were living these days.

Hu Sanjin said, his voice became a little heavier, and said: "The scenery of the past is like the clouds outside, dissipated cleanly, and now there are still people who care about us, the founding of the Great Chu, the officials of our empire have become the stepmothers, and the officials of our empire are bullied by those who are soldiers, and they are also trampled on the head by those bullshit patrols sent by the Chu State!"

"Locally, the common people have all become Chu people, we have directly become the commander of the light pole, and the people who can manage it are not as good as the original in case, just like this, they are still unwilling to give up, and now they don't even want face, and they directly tear their faces and drive us out of the yamen!"

"Now, it is rumored everywhere that this rebel Chu is going to break away from the empire and set up his own door, I think this is a true thing, and the people of the empire such as us don't even have the right to choose, especially in the past two years, how many people like us have been torn apart, and the Nuoda family has become an ordinary family!" Hu Sanjin said and slapped the table fiercely.

Several people present heard Hu Sanjin's words, and their expressions were also gloomy, but although what Hu Sanjin said was true, their lives were actually not as bad as they thought, although the family's land was forcibly acquired, but they changed their business status and got some preferential policies, and they made a lot more money in the past two years than digging in the field.

But because of the land restriction order, originally a big clan like them, relying on the large number of clansmen and unity, in the local area, they formed a large force and reaped a lot of benefits, and once the family disintegrated, these patriarchs were like a phoenix with falling hair, and they were no longer as beautiful as a chicken.

According to the policy of this land restriction order, each household is limited to the maximum amount of land, and a family is only allowed to own a maximum of 100 acres of land, and if you want to have more land, you can only have a title, otherwise no matter how rich a businessman you are, how powerful an official is, you can only own a maximum of 100 acres of land, unless you divide the family and set up one more household, but this household, then the field does not belong to you.

These people are reluctant to do this, so they have never joined the Dachu household registration, but although they have not joined the Dachu household registration, they have not received too much unfair treatment at the local level, but have lost a lot of preferential policies.

And now that Da Chu is going to break away from the empire and set up his own door, the status of their imperial subjects will be completely embarrassing, although they have become a minority of people before, but after all, this is still an empire, although it is only nominal, but they still have the soil to survive, but once Da Chu leaves the empire, they will become guest people, and there will be no support in legal theory.

And they will have no choice, even if they do not join the Da Chu household registration, they have to abide by the law of the Great Chu, subject to the land restriction order, they can only divide the family, in order to guarantee the land, or sell the land at the market price, there are only these two choices.

In addition, the Great Chu Law does not allow the existence of private armed forces, any weapons need to be reported, and if there are retired soldiers in the family, the psychic must also go to the yamen to report, and the number of such armed forces is also strictly limited, unlike in the past, as long as you have money, no one cares about the hundreds of thugs you can raise in your home.

It can be said that only these two laws have completely dismantled their local clans, of course, you can also sell all the fields and still maintain this big family life pattern, but obviously Da Chu spared no effort in order to deal with them.

Originally, they sold the land, they can do business, anyway, they have a lot of family business, they can have fun, and even open a few workshops can also make money every day, in Dachu in order to split them, although there is no clear discrimination in the law, but it is stipulated that a family can only get a business registration, that is, only one person can do business, open a shop, and run a workshop.

And this business registration is actually a license, but also a legal representative certificate, is protected by Da Chu, and if a big family, up and down can be divided into multiple branches, and now shops, workshops, all under the name of one person, although it is to strengthen the authority of a person, but the question is, are others willing to do this?

Once the distribution within the family is unfair, Da Chu only protects the person with a business registration, and the others, if they go to the yamen to fight a lawsuit, they will lose, and they can only obediently serve as workers and become vassals, but anyone who has a little brain and ambition is impossible to be willing to live in this family.

This has divided these local clans from the inside, and now, even if they want to struggle, they have no chance, Da Chu has driven them out of the yamen in the past few months, which is already an obvious signal, and in Vermilion Bird City, the huge sky palace has risen from the ground, how can they not know.

Even some of them have already compromised, and they are ready to divide the family first, so as not to make trouble at the time, but hurt the harmony of their own family, so when Hu Sanjin said this, they only sighed, what else could they do.

"Are you willing to become an ordinary family with nothing?" Hu Sanjin asked a few people present after a long speech.

"What can you do if you don't want to, the Great Chu has been established for several years, the foundation is solid, and the empire is far away in the north, thousands of miles away from Chuzhou, you can't control us people at all, there is no way, you can only give up, you can't still make trouble at home, it's better to divide the family directly, and you can get more benefits, although it is not a family in the future, but you can also stay together!"

"Hmph!" Hu Sanjin snorted coldly and said: "Stay together, this family is divided, who else will listen to what your patriarch says, when the time comes, won't a cat or a dog be able to ride on your head!"

"Hey, what else can I do, we can't rebel, our strength is not enough for others to stuff their teeth!"

"This is not necessarily, since the words are on this, I will not bend, there are people from the empire, on the day of the founding of the Great Chu, it will be said that Leng Zhuo's rebel son will not die well, Qingzhou, it is said that it is also said by the empire, Chu, Yang is in chaos, and the army will immediately wave down!"

"Is this true?"

"Then there can be a fake, Lord Liu, come out, everyone, this Lord Liu is a messenger sent by the empire, this time he represents the empire to contact us loyal people who are loyal to the empire, in order to light a fire at a critical time, let Chuzhou chaos, in order to welcome the army south!"

Several people present looked at the young man who walked in from the back hall, they were all a little surprised, this person is too young, he is really the envoy of the empire?