Chapter 455: Settle accounts after the autumn
Wang Zong went to Handan with 500 Lin Wei, accompanied by 500,000 stones of grain and grass. In addition to these, Wang Zong also brought several Heavenly Mandate artifacts.
These artifacts are meant to be used either if you can't use them or try not to use them.
Wang Zong rushed to Handan with 500,000 stone grains, and then went to meet Liu Jing first.
"The criminal minister Liu Jing see King Wu." In the government office, Liu Jing bowed to Wang Zong.
"Hurry up, hurry up!" Wang Zong helped him up: "It's hard work Liu Yushi!" ”
"It's the incompetence of the criminals." Liu Jing sighed.
"Liu Yushi, this is an edict from Your Majesty to you, after reading it, go back to Luoyang!" Wang Zong patted him on the shoulder, and then ordered someone to give him the edict before leaving.
Liu Jing took the edict and went back to the place where he lived, and then took out the edict and looked through it. He now knows very well what he will do, and after reading the edict quickly, Liu Jing immediately knelt down to Luoyang and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, the minister died without regrets!" ”
In the edict, Wang Che didn't say much, but told him that he could recommend the children of the two families to study in the school palace, or study with the children of the royal family for a few years.
Wang Che is leaving a way back for the Liu family. If he doesn't make a move, those officials will only keep pressing the Liu family, and they won't be given the opportunity to be officials again.
After understanding these things, Liu Jing packed his things and returned to Luoyang, where he needed to face his fate.
After Wang Zong met Liu Jing, he came to the government office to meet the nobles, the powerful and the heads of the wealthy families.
"You townsmen have suffered, and this king is too late." Wang Zong walked in and said.
"See King Wu, King Wu is not too late, just right." Everyone hurriedly bowed and saluted.
"Your Majesty knows that you have been wronged here, and there will be compensation in the future, so you can go home first." Wang Zong said with a smile.
Hearing this, everyone was very happy, knowing that this time they had won the game.
After watching those people leave, Wang Zong did not stay, the court disaster relief still needs him to control the overall situation, and at the same time, he also needs to solve the matter of Chang Ping.
Wang Zong had already sent someone to arrest his predecessor Handan Ling, and at the same time interrogated Zhao Pei. Although Zhao Pei's confession looked seamless, Wang Zong obviously felt that something was wrong, and he was very likely to be in the same group as those nobles, heroes, and wealthy families.
There is no evidence, but in many cases politics does not need evidence. Your ass is crooked, how can the emperor still use you? Wang Zong encouraged Zhao Pei, and then asked him to continue to serve as a relief for the victims.
Relief for the victims, work for relief, this is not a good errand, Handan City around a large number of nobles, heroes, eunuchs of the land, digging ditches, building embankments, are all problems, if you do not do well, directly dismissed, if you do a good job, it is also to offend those nobles and heroes.
This is to let him stand on the fire and roast.
In addition to these, Wang Zong also ordered the embroidered envoy to go to the merchants in the city to inquire, 400,000 stone grain is not a small amount, it is difficult to hide, the best way is to sell it through the merchants, directly to these merchants for interrogation.
In the face of the embroidered messengers, how dare these merchants hide it, and soon tell everything about it, and Wang Zong directly asked these merchants to transport the grain back.
As for the money? Dare to help sell the stolen goods, and if they don't clean them up, they are already thinking that they are accomplices, and they dare to ask for money?
Many of those merchants had already sold their grain, and even if some were still left, there was not much left, so these merchants could only spend money to buy grain to make up for the 400,000 stone grain.
A year ago, the price of grain was only much, but now that there is a drought in the north, grain prices are soaring, and these businessmen are going to lose a lot of money, and they are even breaking their muscles and bones. But even if it's bankrupt, you deserve it.
Wang Zong put back the heads of those noble, powerful, and official families, and at the same time gave some encouragement in the name of the imperial court, rewarding these people for donating grain and grass during the great drought in the world.
And the rewards that have been negotiated a long time ago will also be announced, basically giving them hundreds of food estates. Then, with the merits of these nobles, heroes, and eunuchs, they were allowed to move from Handan to Luoyang, and the imperial court also set aside a piece of land for them to relocate and use.
On the surface, Handan is just the head of a county, how can it be compared with Luoyang, the divine capital. But these noble, heroic, and eunuch families were originally just some names in the state and county, once they arrived in Luoyang, the capital of the gods, what kind of things were they?
There are countless high-ranking nobles in Luoyang, the capital of God, not to mention that they are still at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and they don't even dare to make some small moves. As for annexing land and oppressing the people, don't even think about it, if you dare to do this kind of thing in Luoyang, you will be directly solved by the imperial court.
After hearing Wang Che's edict, these noble and powerful eunuchs were unwilling in their hearts, unwilling in every way, and they had to make a happy appearance on the surface.
Wang Zong looked at these people in front of him and snorted coldly in his heart. When they arrived in Luoyang, even if the imperial court did not target them, these people would continue to decline. It won't be long before Haoqiang will become an ordinary rich family, and as for the noble and official families, they will basically decline.
The land that Wang Che had prepared for these people was not willing to be from Luoyang, and he had specially rewarded them from the royal land. It would be a great honor to be rewarded by the royal family.
As for the size of the land, it is estimated that it is not even a quarter of their original land. You must know that the land in Luoyang is the most expensive in the world, so it is naturally impossible to exchange it for one to one.
Wang Che's method is to implement the 1,000-year-old mausoleum system in a different way. The Lingyi model has always been implemented by the imperial court, and every time the emperor dies, the world's wealthy families will be dispatched to guard the spirit. It's just that there have only been a few emperors since the founding of the Great Qian, and there are not many tombs that have moved to the world.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the sage has issued an edict, so let's pack up and go to Luoyang!" Wang Zong said with a smile.
The people could not, but had to obey.
The land and mansions of these noble, noble, and eunuch families will basically be bought by the imperial court, and even the land of these nobles and nobles will be bought. Most of these people's land is around Handan City, and it is basically good farmland.
The imperial court will no longer divide the land in densely populated places such as the Central Plains and Hebei, and these farmlands will be auctioned.
At the same time, Wang Zong planned to directly migrate some of the victims outside Handan City to places such as Hexi, Liaodong, and Lelang County. In normal times, it is difficult to move a large number of people, but now in the year of famine, people are naturally willing to go in order to survive.
Wang Zong planned to take advantage of this drought to migrate 500,000 people from Hebei.
(End of chapter)