Grass seedlings heading, summer rain continuously, grass and trees withered, winter thunder.

Time turns, when everything familiar in the past blooms in front of you again, it will unconsciously remind everyone that a new day has arrived.

Five years of the Xia Dynasty!

Since the beginning of the third year of the Xia Dynasty, the Xia Dynasty court, which had been silent for three years, began its first big move.

It is said that the new official took office three times, and Wang Mang, the biggest "official" of the Xia Dynasty, held back for three years before finally making a move.

And the goal is extremely clear, if you don't do it, it's enough, and once you do it, it's related to the lifeblood of thousands of people.

Taxes and conscription!

The policy of apportioning the land into the mu began in the third year of the Xia Dynasty and was officially implemented!

In the previous three years, in order to care for the people who were affected by the war and could not even maintain their livelihoods, the Xia Dynasty did not collect taxes, and relied on various materials and money donated by the four countries free of charge to support its own financial problems.

But this way of sitting and eating empty will definitely not last long, and three years is enough time for the people to settle down and accept the baptism of the new order again.

The most critical thing is that three years is also enough to fill the gap in officials.

Moqiu once said: If the country has virtuous people, the country will be rich; If there are few virtuous people, the governance of the country will be thin.

Whether the new officials who were selected and collected by the Xia Dynasty are virtuous or not, they can't all rely on one mouth, they must do something practical, and even make political achievements to prove themselves.

Those who are indiscriminate will also be revealed in such a process!

After the implementation of the policy of apportioning the land into the mu, the imperial court immediately felt extremely huge resistance!

The world is the world, it does not mean that you sit on the throne and control the world.

The real world is a group of people who have their own ideas and interests, and when their interests are shaken, there are always people who want to use various methods to resist.

For example, as soon as this policy was announced, rumors spread among the people that Moqiu's death was the work of Emperor Xia, and it was he who stole the authority of the saint and colluded with the rebels within the Mo family, so that he had such wolf ambitions and wanted to cut everyone's life.

This statement is very dramatic, and it is eye-catching enough, and the most important thing is that it is secretly consistent with the fall of the saint covered by the clouds and mountains and fog announced by the imperial court!

If you don't have some article skills, it's really not good to speculate like this.

But the Xia Dynasty's reaction was also something they did not expect.

This statement has only appeared for a short time, and before it has time to spread, the Mo family giant Yu Lisheng took a group of ink scholars to investigate the matter, and finally determined that it was done by a large family with hundreds of acres of fertile land!

The hundred hectares of fertile land are only the number of registered fields, and they do not count the hidden fields at all, and if they are counted, the number has reached a shocking level.

Before the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, it was far from enough to clear the territory of Dayue, only Yangzhou, Yuzhou, and Yuzhou were ruthlessly liquidated, which was a complete reshuffle.

In other places, those rich and noble families who have amassed a lot of wealth can still live a life of poverty and luxury with their rich family foundations, and even recruit bullies to take care of their homes and homes, and the turmoil they suffer is far smaller and more stable than that of the people at the bottom.

The same thing happens to different people, and the risks that can be fought are completely different.

When the country breaks down, people with money can live better and live safer.

They will not even take the initiative to resist, but will look at the direction of the wind, which way the wind blows, and which way people fall, and even take the initiative to divide the family property and divide a branch of the faction to constantly invest in new forces.

The main thing is not to win, but not to lose.

For example, Xia Zhangsi was sent by the Xia family in the big family to the White Lotus Sect to secretly fund it, and even the Huang Tianjun had similar people, which was their old tradition.

But that doesn't mean they're up to date.

When there is a threat to their lives, they can give up their momentary interests, but if the knife will keep sticking in, these people will rise up and resist.

If you don't suffer the people, why do you suffer from the big families and rich families?

I don't think you want to be an emperor anymore!

Do you know what it means to rule the world together with the emperor and the scholars?

Can those rural savages recognize a few big words and say a few words?

The people who really grasp the right to speak in the voice of the people are precisely these big families, who win the hearts of the people through various small favors, and then secretly send people to embezzle land and property, and those who take the plunders abound.

Of course, they don't need to do this themselves, and there will naturally be subordinates who will do all this neatly, but no matter what the process is, it is enough to see who the final property and benefits fall on.

When it comes to real, fundamental interests, these guys will turn into jackals and do whatever it takes.

But the Xia Dynasty's response was equally violent!

When the policy was actually announced, nearly one-third of the officials within the imperial court immediately opposed it.

And after a few days, there was another group of people who objected, and in total, almost half of them!

After Wang Mang expressed his determination that it was impossible to change or postpone it, even if someone resigned.

The number is still a third!

Half of the talents that have been gathered after three years of hard work have not even been used much, and they have to leave.

These people, of course, are all talents supported by the family.

They themselves represent the interests of the family.

It is precisely because those big families saw the gap in the court that they sent people to grab the fat, but they didn't think that the fat meat had not yet reached the stomach, and the knife would reach the heart.

In this case, it is as simple as tearing the skin of the face, and in this way to show its strength.

In this regard, Wang Mang's response was.

As long as you resign, you will all nod.

When the resignation turmoil temporarily stops, Jin Yiwei will immediately send him to prison on various charges and thoroughly investigate his net worth!

But if there is the slightest mistake, it will be strictly interrogated.

Countless people have been implicated.

And that's just the first round of collisions.

If this is a monstrous fire, it can only be regarded as a flame.

When Wang Mang showed his unshakable determination, all kinds of gossip followed.

The Mo family also appeared at this time.

In the past few years, the publicity of Moqiu has achieved real results.

Aiwu and Wu, the Mo family created by the sage, even if there is no sage leader, there should be some brilliance left, right?

Although everyone is talking about gold and accumulating and destroying bones, the person who has been boasting before has suddenly become a big villain in the storytelling, and it is impossible for the wind to turn so fast.

The most effective place for Wang Mang is to move like thunder and leave no room for it.

Three years of dormancy, just like a tiger lying on a hill, lurking minions to endure.

After cleaning up all the uneasy and well-meaning people who joined the imperial court, Wang Mang also had another national policy to implement together with the apportionment.

All the people of the Xia Dynasty must truthfully report all the land and property, and those who conceal it and do not report it can be reported and confirmed by others, and after it is confirmed, the person who exposed it will take half of it, and the state will take half of it!

This is the real bottom of the kettle!

You like to play Hideta, don't you?

You like to hide it and not report it, right?

If you don't report it, then don't ask for it!

And what if even that goes unreported?

It doesn't matter, the government will also send people to verify it regularly.

Hidden fields that have not been registered are found and directly nationalized!

Yo, there's a good field here, and there's grain planted here!

Look at the pamphlet again, yo he, it's not there!

How can no one do such a good field?

Isn't it a tyrannical thing? Then go home!

In addition to these policies, it is not only the officials of the imperial court who can really guarantee the policies.

And the Grandmaster!

The four kingdoms admired the five grandmasters sent by the Xia Dynasty, and they played the role of a god needle in the sea.

Among them, which is far away from the imperial capital, the war has not been affected too deeply before, and even in Yingzhou, where the emperor is far away, there was a fire that burned them all to death as soon as the officials sent by the imperial court to inspect the fields arrived at the hotel.

Yingzhou, which was lucky not to be affected too much by the war, just wanted to try the edge of the Xia Dynasty, but it ushered in a monstrous disaster.

When the news came back, Wang Mang was furious.

The Mo family likes to talk about morality, so the grandmaster will come to talk to you about martial arts!

The three grandmasters went to the land of Yingzhou in person, and took down all the people involved in this matter, the eggs were shaken and yellow, and the earthworms were split vertically, killing a river of blood, and nearly 10,000 people were destroyed, and countless people were implicated for this, and even with the next few decades, Yingzhou is grandfather who does not love grandma and grandma, this is the story later.

The grandmaster who had suffered from qi and blood obstacles was no worse than the torture department.

When other people's true qi is swimming in the body, and something sharper than a cow's hair is cut in the body, how many people in this world can withstand it?

This must be withstanding, then you can praise the master with a good mind, and then choose a better grave with three incense sticks.

Don't ask if it's torture, you just say it doesn't work!

Not enough officials?

Come together by force!

Wang Mang is not confined to the means of power.

He is very aware of how he got to the top, and what he got was the trust of Gu Dan, the trust of the first person in the world.

He wants to do things to make the people of the world live a better life, not to make himself a holy monarch in the mouth of the family, and then make the people miserable.

And this is by no means a whim to prove himself quickly, after the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, Wang Mang has been directing the already small number of officials to thoroughly investigate the fields, and in three years, he has actually counted seventy-seven eighty-eight.

This time, the picture is poor, and the real edge is revealed.

With unparalleled determination and will, the national policy of spreading the land into the acres has also been unstoppably implemented.

Even with such a tough attitude, if his iron-blooded wrist attracted countless gossip, Wang Mang didn't care at all.

When the Xia Dynasty was founded, he was no less insulted and slandered than now.

Isn't it just being scolded by others?

How can you not be scolded when you are an emperor!

In two years, the policy of apportioning the land into the mu has been truly implemented.

When the first time the tax is collected, the people will find that they have collected less than they had collected before—and that little has been taken from other rich families.

The fields are divided into equal yields, and the quantities should also be equaled.

The more people there are, the more taxes they have to pay.

Once Wang Mang starts to do things, he leaves no room for anything.

You like Tuntian, right?

Okay, if it exceeds the amount stipulated by the imperial court, I will make you unable to make ends meet!

Those who dared to resist and conceal it happened to send the grandmaster over to tell them what the word martial arts was.

The five grandmasters who defected to the Xia Dynasty from other countries completely became the swords in Wang Mang's hands.

As for the Mo family?

Such a brutal and not very moral thing, of course, has nothing to do with the Mo family.

The Mo family was mainly responsible for exploring the hidden fields and receiving reports from the people, after all, the credibility of the Mo people was well known, and they were even more trusted by the people than the government that exploited the people.

A two-pronged approach!

As for the public shang, he served as a secretary and transferred officials at all levels.

The general direction is that Wang Mang is grasping, and to implement it, he needs to work hard.

Fortunately, this kind of thing is familiar to the public, after all, the original Mo family, when Moqiu had no leisure, he was also in charge.

Compared with Yu Lisheng, Gong Shangguo is not the kind of person who can't tolerate sand in his eyes, but he will never drag mud and water when he does things.

I have experienced unforgettable despair, so I know how to grasp the truth of the moment.

The three of them join hands, plus the grandmaster, power, morality, and martial arts, I want them all!

After two years of vigorous reform, during which a lot of blood was shed, it finally achieved results.

At least Wang Mang can pat his chest and say that he has done the task that Gu Dan gave him five years ago.

The people of the Xia Dynasty will also live better because of this move.

But this is by no means the end, but a new beginning.

In the past five years, many places in the Xia Dynasty still rely on the old system of Dayue, how can this work?

There will inevitably be a series of changes in the Xia Dynasty in the future, fundamentally distinguishing the Xia Dynasty from Dayue, and no one will miss Dayue in the Xia Dynasty since then - the squire landlord, except for the family gatekeeper.

In Wang Mang's heart, these guys are not people, and if they kill one family after another, they may be wronged, but if they only kill ninety percent, there will definitely be fish that slip through the net.

The rest of the time is to keep using knives at those guys.

What the Xia Dynasty didn't have time to do before the founding of the country, who said that he couldn't do it when he was in power?

What can those guys do with him other than making up some rumors?

Wealth?

The Four Kingdoms are still supporting the Xia Dynasty.

Right?

He is the Emperor!

Force?

I'm sorry, now all the grandmasters of the Xia Dynasty are under Wang Mang's control, and the one above the only grandmaster is also related to him.

When they are slaughtered, they should scream twice, and when they are killed, they will still scream, and this does not prevent their meat from being delicious.

When another busy day of government affairs was over, after seeing this year's taxes, Wang Mang showed a heartfelt smile on his face.

When it was implemented in the first year, the situation was not clear enough, even if the momentum was like thunder, there were bastards who dared to struggle and resist, and deceived the superiors and subordinates, and the effect could only be said to be unsatisfactory, but it was not enough to take it out.

Until this year, good results have been obtained, at least it is already a political achievement that Wang Mang thinks can be taken out.

With the paperwork to be reported, Wang Mang took off his dragon robe, changed into civilian clothes, and asked the imperial dining room to prepare a food box, which was loaded with good wine and food, and quietly slipped out of the palace at night.

Brother Gu, the task you gave you five years ago, today, it's time to give you an answer!

Push open the familiar courtyard gate.

The courtyard was empty.

Usually when it is just late, Xu Zhian likes to lie on the recliner to rest.

Cang would also ply around him to listen to stories, and if Xiao Ying came back, she would take out a lantern and embroider under the tree.

And if Gu Dan is also there, he also holds the scriptures and studies them silently.

But no matter what, there should be someone in the yard.

Wang Mang's heart jumped, and the joy in his mind seemed to have been slashed.

Jin Feng did not move, but the cicada realized that in the past few years of being the emperor, he already has the ability to see the subtleties.

In this change in appearance, he sensed something wrong.

Hurriedly walked in, and walked into the house that was still lit by the light of the candle.

Pushing open the door, I saw a full crowd of people at a glance.

Gu Dan is here, Xun Ke is here, Cang is here, and Xiaoying is also here.

And on the bed, a person was lying quietly.

Xu Zhian.

He's old.

Even the eyebrows are white, not thin and saggy, the face is a little stacked with wrinkles, and the breath is long and weak, and it is difficult to hear it without listening carefully.

He closed his eyes on the bed, as if he had fallen into a wonderful sleep, and if it weren't for the slight heaving of his chest, it would have made one think that he would never wake up again.

"Smack."

With a loud bang, the food box and wine jug in Wang Mang's hand all fell to the ground.

He stood there, his lips opening and closing, and a thousand words seemed to be blocked in his throat together, "Xu Xubo?!" ”

Wang Mang squeezed away a few people and stepped forward, his eyes blank.

He looked at Gu Dan.

Gu Dan also looked at him quietly and did not speak.

When Wang Mang was less than ten years old, he came to the Gu family's courtyard.

At that time, the small courtyard of the Gu family was still called the Mojia Martial Arts Hall.

Wang Mang has known Xu Zhi'an for a long time, and later he has had many intersections, and has been fed by Xu Zhi'an many times.

After the founding of the country, whenever he was worried about government affairs, Wang Mang would sit in the small courtyard.

It's not that I want to be close to Gu Dan, in fact, in recent years, Gu Dan has not been in the small courtyard very much, running out all day long, trying to treat diseases and save people.

He came to the courtyard only because it was different from the rest of the place.

Here, it seems that you can forget the mundane things in the world and enjoy a different time.

And no one will treat him as an emperor, more like a relative and friend, without any interests.

When he came over, Wang Mang usually had a drink with Xu Zhi'an, talked about the customs, and talked about storytelling stories or the few interesting things that happened in the court.

This is like a haven for him, he can come here to rest when he is tired, and Xu Zhi'an, who is the oldest and has seen the most wind and waves, is the listener of the tree hole.

In Wang Mang's heart, it is not an exaggeration to say that this is a paradise.

So much so that he never thought that much would change here.

After all, Gu Dan is already so powerful, how can something unpleasant happen on his territory?

But not everything can be done as desired.

Looking at Xu Zhi'an lying on the bed, Wang Mang, who had just completed an exciting event, couldn't say a word.

Silence, only a long silence.

No one spoke, Cang clutched Gu Dan's shirt tightly, his little hands were white, tears swirled in his eyes, and he couldn't hold back and didn't cry.

He was ten years old and had truly understood the meaning of death.

That means that from now on, you will never see again, never hear again, never touch again.

It's like you've lost something forever.

and irretrievable.

For a long time, Xu Zhi'an on the bed still showed no signs of waking up.

Wang Mang's throat rolled, and he said in a trembling voice: "When?" ”

In the past two years, because I have to be busy with the reform of taxes and forced labor, I have come to the small courtyard a lot less, and sometimes I am busy for a month or two.

After all, his identity is already the Xia Emperor, and no matter how good the paradise is, he must first ensure the stability of the Xia Dynasty.

So much so that this quiet change in the small courtyard was missed by him, and if he hadn't come today, he would have been kept in the dark.

"Three days ago."

Gu Dan replied like this, and he couldn't see any expression on his face, except for the palm hidden in his sleeve, which was pinched white.

Xu Zhian did not get sick.

He's just old, very old.

The body without pain and suffering also has its own limits.

Even the great master is powerless.

He tried his best to treat the disease and save people, and he didn't scrape together 50,000 longevity yuan to improve the Aoki Transformation Recipe in such a short period of time - not to mention that the next stage of the Aoki Transformation Recipe can increase the longevity of others, it is still a big unknown.

For this possibility, Gu Dan has worked hard for a long time, but unfortunately, it is still not enough.

"Why don't you tell me?"

Gu Dan replied: "Uncle Xu said that the state affairs are busy, don't delay you." ”

Wang Mang felt as if his throat was blocked.

Even he is so uncomfortable, what kind of mood should Brother Gu have?

There was only a long silence.

It's already halfway through the night.

Xu Zhi'an, who was on the bed, began to blink slightly.

The few people who were always watching him even breathed lightly.

After a few breaths, Xu Zhi'an's eyes finally opened a gap, revealing his already cloudy eyes, looking at the outside world.

The warm light of the lantern was still a little dazzling to him, and he tried to dodge sideways.

Gu Dan hurriedly moved the lantern aside, relying only on the afterglow to illuminate the room.

After a few more breaths, Xu Zhi'an woke up completely, his eyes were already open, his cloudy eyes looked at the few people in front of him, and after a while, the voice that was already full of excitement reprimanded him without surprise.

"How many of you don't sleep at night, what are you doing around the old man's bed?"

Xu Zhian reprimanded dissatisfiedly.

"It's not good today, I'm afraid you'll be cold at night, come and take a look."

Gu Dan stepped forward and said with a reassuring smile on his face.

"Go, go, go! When I'm a three-year-old, can't I? ”

Xu Zhian rolled his eyes and was about to sit up.

Gu Dan wanted to step forward to help, but was slapped by Xu Zhi'an.

Gu Dan could only helplessly put on clothes for him.

Xu Zhian didn't pay attention to him, but turned his eyes to Wang Mang and said, "Are you here too?" What you do, I have heard from the neighbors, you do well, you do well! ”

The old man half leaned on the bed and praised Wang Mang happily.

This old man, who has experienced two dynasties, finally saw the dawn of prosperity after dying of old age.

(End of chapter)