This person served as a scholar during the reign of King Qi.

His son is still serving as a taishou today.

Of course, he himself retired very early, and at his age, at this generation, Xun Yi has to bow when he sees him.

In the entire Yanzhou clan, he is also the most prominent and faced, and if there is a dispute between the clans, most of the time he will be invited to go over to reason.

At the moment, there are many people around him.

In addition to Wei Lie, there are Jiang Rui, Fan Qiao, Sun Mi, Gao Tangchen, Hu Wuyuan and many others.

These people are all from big clans, and their families have a lot of money, even if they are not as good as a super family like Xun Yi, they can't be underestimated.

Xun Yi was still a little suspicious at the moment.

He can't say that he has no friendship with these people at all, but the friendship is indeed not too deep, they suddenly formed a group to visit, Xun Yi felt that they must have asked for themselves.

But he didn't know what else he could do to help them, a fictitious powerless old man.

They ate some more wine and had their stomachs full, so Xun Yi asked the dancers to retreat and led the people to the study.

"Xun Gong's study, there is a taste of it, I heard, the classic heirloom, its own literary atmosphere is obvious, I see that the literary atmosphere here is to gather the essence of learning"

As soon as they walked in, several people began to praise them.

When Xun Yi heard their praise, instead of being happy, his face frowned.

Although he is not a capable minister, he is a person who can do Jiuqing after all.

He still understands the truth that if you are courteous to others, you must ask for something.

He cleared his throat and said, "Naturally, it is not as good as you. ”

"You have come all the way to see if the tone in my study is good?"

Hearing his words, several people raised their heads and smirked.

After showing his heroism, Wei Lie said: "Xun Gong, it's like this, we are here because of Taixue. ”

"I heard that you are now presiding over the matter of learning, and you are arguing with Sun Yan and others, although a few of us are only shallow in learning, we are also willing to help you!"

Hearing this, Xun Yi was even more surprised.

This matter is directly related to the Xun family, if it is done, it can make its own income, but what does it have to do with you?

He asked, "Why are you so concerned about this matter all of a sudden?" ”

The few people present either retired home or were dismissed, and basically none of them held official positions.

Cai Mu motioned for everyone to sit down, and Xun Yi also sat among them.

Cai Mu opened his mouth and said: "Xun Gong, not long ago, an official broke into my mansion and asked me to write truthfully, informing me of the amount of cultivated land in my house, as well as the number of tenants, and they even had to search, saying that they would make sure that I did not have armor and crossbows hidden in my house. ”

"Most of the rest of the princes have encountered such a thing."

"The cultivated land in our family is the accumulation of several generations, all because of the virtue of our ancestors, why did Your Majesty take away our cultivated land? Isn't this a competition with the people? ”

Xun Yi immediately frowned.

"The temple is not trying to rob you of your arable land, but just to let you truthfully tell you the amount of arable land, and you will have to pay taxes on arable land that exceeds the standard."

"You have served as a scholar in the past, and it stands to reason that you can keep a lot of farmland that is not taxed, and you can keep the rest of the farmland, but you have to pay taxes."

Cai Mu pursed his lips and said unhappily: "The temple does not allow us to keep tenants, and if there are no tenants, I just keep the cultivated land, so how can I farm?" Do you want the old man to go to the ground with a hoe himself? ”

"Isn't this just forcing us to hand over our farmland?"

Xun Yi shook his head again, "That's not the case, Your Majesty just doesn't need to raise too many tenants, you can keep the tenants allowed by the official position and title, if your cultivated land has no seeds, you can take other ways, such as renting or hiring like a temple." ”

The so-called tenants are different from the long-term workers of later generations, and the tenants of the big clan are similar to the common people under the Cao Wei tuntian system, they have no right to harvest the cultivated land, they are just tools of labor, and the big clan will ensure that they will not starve to death, and their harvest is all owned by the big clan.

But if it is rented or hired, then there is no lifelong affiliation, and it will not belong to the hidden labor force.

Hearing his words, Cai Mu suddenly asked, "Then how much arable land does your family have now, and how many tenants do you have?" ”

Xun Yi immediately fell silent.

If he is facing others, Xun Yi can talk about the truths of the day, but when it comes to the things of his own knife, these truths are not so practical.

Today's great clans are fully compliant on the surface, but in fact they have been resisting all the time.

Let's just say that those tenants, the big clan can actually hire them or rent farmland to them, but they have to let them leave, and at the same time release a large number of people, which is deliberately demonstrating to the temple, trying to make the temple retreat.

At the same time, in the face of the investigation, these people also maintain the mentality of hiding as much as they can.

When the officials first came to Xunyi's house and asked about the amount of arable land, Xun Yi told the other party that he had 6,000 acres of arable land in his home.

The official laughed when he heard this, told Xun Yi to think about it again, and then turned around and left.

When the official came for the second time, Xun Yi told the other party that he had 30,000 acres of arable land at home.

Then, the other party was ready to come to thoroughly investigate Xun Yi's mansions in various places, and check that there was no armor and crossbows.

This time, he reported 100,000 acres.

In fact, Xun Yi's family is definitely not just 100,000 mu of arable land, it is too exaggerated to say that his family has 1 million mu, but hundreds of thousands of mu can still be scraped together.

As the top clans, the amount of arable land their families have in various parts of the world is a mystery.

To say that they are rich is to humiliate them.

Just think about the history of their heirs to see how rich they really are.

Every time he thought that he had to pay a tax of 100,000 mu of cultivated land, Xun Yi felt very painful in his heart.

In the past, he could often use those truths to convince himself, but in the face of Cai Mu's questioning, he could no longer speak.

Every time I think of these things, it's like cutting flesh on my body!

Cai Mu saw his reaction, so he nodded with satisfaction, "To be honest, we people are here for this matter this time." ”

"Your Majesty is in this government, competing with the people for profit, serving the temple but still having to pay taxes, this is a truth that has never existed in the world!"

"Officials who work for the temple should be a foodmaker, how can they still pay taxes??"

"It's incredible!!"

Cai Mu was very excited.

Since the pre-Qin period, people with certain titles and official positions can get rid of taxes and servitude, and can even obtain fiefs and ask for taxes from people within their own borders.

In the Han Dynasty, filial piety can become a master, and no longer worry about taxes and servitude.

When you arrive in the Wei and Jin dynasties, you can avoid Zhongzheng as soon as it passes, or you can avoid it as long as there is a big guy in your family.

As a result, all the heavy tax pressure fell on the heads of the bottom

Of course, during the two Han Dynasty, not counting the end of the dynasty, the big family with the temple like now, and tens of thousands of acres or even hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land basically did not exist

said that the Eastern Han Dynasty was powerful and powerful, but if you compare them with today's gate valves, then they are nothing.

Now these gate valves can be compared with the princes of the pre-Qin period.

If I don't collect taxes from you, who will I collect taxes from?!

Forget about the normal income, you can follow the old rules, but you still want to avoid taxes by virtue of the official annexation of such a huge amount of arable land??

Of course, in the eyes of these big clans, this is definitely not the case.

They felt that by serving their own emperor, this privilege should not be taken away.

"Alas"

Xun Yi let out a long sigh.

"The truth is true, but who dares to admonish? The last person who advised His Majesty has already arrived in Yizhou at this moment, and His Majesty is wise and martial! ”

"Since he came to power, the world has been governed, first leveling Shu, and then destroying Wu, the world dare not obey, and the soldiers will repay each other with their lives!"

"Who would dare to obstruct it?"

Hearing Xun Yi's words, Cai Mu and the others glanced at each other, and Cai Mu said, "The old man has a way." ”

Xun Yi was stunned for a moment, "What can you do to advise Your Majesty?" ”

"As long as Your Majesty knows that this matter is not conducive to the world, Your Majesty will naturally not be like this anymore."

"Ling, I, no matter who gets up, it is inconspicuous in front of His Majesty, and His Majesty can execute at will, but the celebrities of a county, a state, and even all the states are gathered together, and Your Majesty may not dare to kill us all!!"

Xun Yi's original look of expectation suddenly disappeared.

That's what you're good at?

Not necessarily??

What's the matter, do you gamble with your clan?

Do you dare to bet that others dare?

Cai Mu said again: "Don't worry, we don't want to unite against Your Majesty, that is the way to seek death, but there are some things that we can still do." ”

"You just came to Luoyang on the front foot, and something happened on the back foot, do you think Your Majesty will not find out about your arrival? I don't know if we meet?? ”

"This must not be!"

Xun Yi simply rejected them.

"Xun Gong, we are here this time for academic matters, to help you, to stand on His Majesty's side, and it has nothing to do with the rest!"

Xun Yi hesitated.

"Gong Xun, even the old man has to pay 40,000 acres of arable land, as for you, it will probably only be more, right? How long can our clan last if we pay like this? ”

Cai Mu asked again at this moment.

Xun Yi sighed, "It's not that I'm timid, it's just that because Your Majesty is mighty, you haven't stayed by Your Majesty's side, you won't understand, the Zhao family in Wen County, how does it compare to you?" ”

"Your Majesty gave an order, the Ju clan was arrested, Zhao Yu was beheaded, and the rest of the children moved to Nanzhou, and the accumulation of several generations in Jiaozhou and other places came to naught."

"If you think so, then we have never been here, and we will leave!!"

Several people got up one after another, and they were about to leave.

"Well, let's talk about your solution."