As a result, a fierce controversy broke out in the main hall.

The ministers and doctors from the Wei, Xue, Pei, Li, Wang, and Du families were fiercely opposed, but the ministers and doctors from the Han family or the Shu clan strongly supported it.

There are even radical people who want the family to donate land for free.

Hundreds of ministers and doctors quarreled for a long time, but no result came out.

In the end, it was Lu Tianshi who suppressed the quarrel with one sentence: "Shut up for me!" ”

With a word from the Heavenly Master, the main hall of the Calyx Xianghui Building was silent for an instant.

Lu Tianshi said to Li Longji again: "Li Longji, do you know why the Han Dynasty died? Why did the Jin Dynasty die? And why did your Tang Dynasty and later dynasties die? ”

Without waiting for Li Longji to answer, Lu Tianshi continued: "There are two reasons, one is the complete solidification of the class, and the other is land annexation. ”

"The imperial examination has been reformed."

"The ascending channel of the Hanmen Shu clan has been opened."

"So now, what Datang needs to solve is the problem of land annexation."

"As long as the problem of land annexation is solved, the Tang Dynasty can last for at least three hundred years."

"If we can put a few more patches on the imperial examination system and the land system, it is not impossible for the Tang Dynasty to surpass the Zhou Dynasty for 800 years, and the key is that the people can also live a good life."

Hearing this, including the right minister Wei Jiansu, all the ministers and doctors from the high-ranking families had a bitter look on their faces, and Lu Tianshi actually supported the deprivation of their high-ranking property?

"Don't feel aggrieved by your family." Lu Tianshi said abruptly, "Yes, you didn't steal or rob, all cultivated land is legally bought and sold, but even if it is legally bought and sold, resulting in a high concentration of land, it is a fact that the state has lost taxes, because after your family has annexed a large amount of land, you will definitely try to evade taxes." ”

Speaking of this, Lu Tianshi asked again: "Do you dare to say that the high families of each family have paid a full amount of land rent for every mu of cultivated land under their names?" ”

Wei Jiansu and other ministers from the family were all silent.

Of course, it is absolutely impossible to pay a full amount of land rent for every mu of cultivated land.

In the face of others, even if they are Tang saints, they will never admit it.

But in the face of Lu Tianshi, it was useless for them to deny it, because Lu Tianshi was an immortal.

Li Longji felt an inexplicable pleasure at this time, because these high-ranking families were intertwined and woven into an all-pervasive and all-encompassing net, although he was a sage of the Tang Dynasty, he was also subject to these high-ranking families, but as long as the policies touched the interests of the high-ranking families, they could not be implemented at all.

But today, these high-ranking families have finally been deflated.

Let's see if these family masters can fight against Lu Tianshi?

And the evolution of things is indeed as Li Longji envisioned, evolving into a war of words between the minister's doctor from a high-ranking family and Lu Tianshi and the minister's Dagui from the Hanmen Shu clan.

After a long time, Wei Jiansu asked with a dark face: "Lu Tianshi, you mean to ask our family Gaomen to donate all the cultivated land under his name for free, right?" ”

"Not really." Lu Tianshi said, "This can't be said to be a donation, but just to return the cultivated land to the country, because your ancestors originally relied on power and obtained the land resources that belonged to the country through unfair competition methods including but not limited to forced buying and selling, and now these land resources should be returned." ”

"What if we don't want to?" Another prime minister, Pei Mian, said with a blushing face.

"Don't want to?" Lu Tianshi said coldly, "The Shannan Army will try to convince you. ”

"Lu Tianshi, are you threatening us?" Another prime minister, Cui Yuan, said angrily.

"Yes, this Heavenly Master is threatening you." Lu Tianshi didn't deny it at all, and said, "If you obediently hand over the cultivated land, then everything is easy to say, if you refuse to hand it over, you can only resort to force, but this Heavenly Master first said ugly things in front, and when force is used, it is not so decent." ”

Pei Mian said to Li Longji again: "Sage, aren't you afraid of forcing the family to rebel?" ”

Cui Yuan also said: "Just an An Lushan rebellion has already made the mountains and rivers of the Tang Dynasty change color, if all the high-ranking families in the world join forces to confront the imperial court, has the saint thought about what will happen?" ”

Without waiting for Li Longji to answer, Lu Tianshi sneered and said: "Don't put gold on your face, An Lushan holds the border army of Hedong Fanyang and Lulong Three Towns, and he still ends up like this, although your family has a little land and wealth, but there are no soldiers and no generals, what can you do?" Is it really Li Siye's 200,000 Shannan Army an ornament? ”

Wei Jiansu said with a bitter face: "Lu Tianshi really wants to kill all of our family's high sects? ”

"Wei Youxiang is wrong, he doesn't want to kill you, but just let you hand over the land." Lu Tianshi said, "If you hand over the land under your name, everything is easy to say, at least the property of the house can still be preserved, if you refuse to hand over the land, then the jade will be burned, not only the land under your name can not be saved, but the property of the house will be destroyed." ”

"Right Prime Minister, and the minister, you must think clearly."

Li Siye pressed the horizontal knife in his hand and looked at Wei Jiansu and the other ministers with a cold gaze.

The discussion on the calyx upstairs finally broke up unhappily, and Wei Jiansu, Pei Mian and other ministers and doctors from high-ranking families all returned to their respective mansions angrily, and then messengers came out.

……

The Du family, the Liu family, the Pei family, the Cui family, the Xue family, and the Yang family in Guanzhong began to secretly communicate with each other.

Although Li Siye's 200,000 Shannan Army was stationed in Guanzhong, and despite Lu Tianshi's warning, the six great families in Guanzhong still resolutely launched a mutiny.

Rather than hand over the cultivated land in vain, it is better to fight to the death.

The six great families in Guanzhong did not hesitate to launch a mutiny.

However, there was no suspense in the result, and the Shannan Army broke up the mutiny of the six great families with just a light blow.

Immediately, the six great families were suppressed, and all the ministers and doctors related to the six major families in the court were purged, and even the right minister Wei Jiansu was deposed, but it was not physically eliminated.

Immediately, Cen Shen sent household officials, and with the assistance of the magistrate, began to clean up the fields and properties of the six great families.

I don't know if I don't know the statistics, but I was taken aback by the statistics, more than 60% of the more than 36 million mu of cultivated land in Guanzhong is concentrated in the hands of the six major families.

More than thirty percent are in the hands of the royal family.

Less than 10% of the arable land is in the hands of the people.

It's no wonder that the government military system can't be played at all when it reaches the Xuanzong Dynasty.

The 30,000 arable land in the hands of the royal family was not kept, and it was also confiscated.

This move drew fierce opposition from the royal family, but it was of little avail.

Because now it's not even easy for Li Longji to speak, let alone other royal families?

Who dares to be disobedient and refuse to hand over the land? The Shannan Army will immediately come to the door and convince people with "morality".

Of course, it must be said that the violent methods of the Shannan Army were only aimed at the royal family of the Gaomen family, and they were extremely friendly to the ordinary people in Guanzhong, and even often helped the people near the station to do farm work.

A sentence often in the mouth of the Shannan Army is that the Han and Tibetan clans are the same and wish to be a family.

After all the cultivated land in Guanzhong was confiscated, the redistribution of the land began.

The more than 3 million people in Guanzhong were divided according to their heads, and each person was given five acres of cultivated land.

Five acres of land per mouth is indeed a bit less, so the imperial court gave a policy to encourage reclamation, and the wasteland obtained from reclamation can be cultivated for ten years without compensation, and then returned to the state for unified distribution.

The 200,000 Shannan troops and the more than 180,000 rebels were each given 50 acres of arable land.

Among them, the Shannan army was allocated high-grade fertile land, and the rebels were allocated ordinary arable land.

These 380,000 elite soldiers will become the new government soldiers, and they will not have to pay any money and food taxes, but they will need to bring their own weapons and horses when they go out to fight, and they will need to return the land to the imperial court after they retire in old age.

Of course, in exchange, the imperial court will give a generous enough reward for retirement, and will also redistribute the land in the veteran's hometown, so that he will become an ordinary person again.

The more than 19 million mu of cultivated land of the Shannan Army and the rebels will become the land of the government soldiers.

The government soldiers will also break the original hereditary system and be openly recruited from all over the country.

This is also another upward channel in addition to the imperial examination system reserved for the children of the poor family.

If you are a poor child and are not good at studying, you can also move up the ranks by enlisting as a government soldier.

Of course, you can raise this class, but your son may not be able to keep it, in the future, you will retire in old age, there will be no government military position, and the rewards given by the court will be spent, and your son will most likely fall back to the bottom.