Han Shizu

Chapter 199 Luoyang Divided Up
Xijing Luoyang.

Hundreds of officials, large and small, and garrison soldiers and horses, as well as thousands of people, waited outside the city.After all, it was the final stop of the emperor's west tour, so a decent pick-up ceremony was necessary.

In the welcome team, the people are numb, the army is indifferent, and the officials are hesitant, but there is not much joy.Liu Chengyou's reputation has spread throughout his journey, being demoted and killed.

The leader is staying behind. Li Congmin, the Duke of Ju, stands in the front row, looking eastward, and at the end of his line of sight, he can vaguely see the dragon flags and banners standing in a row.Li Congmin will enter the year of destiny, but the whole person looks abnormally old, and his appearance looks far beyond his age.

His expression was very serious. After all, he had a special status, he belonged to the imperial family of the previous dynasty, and he was appointed by Liu Zhiyuan to stay behind in Xijing, which was just a way to appease people's hearts.Now that the new emperor has changed, what attitude he will have towards him is unknown.

Moreover, during this period of time, he offended Prime Minister Su Fengji.But this time, the emperor was on a west tour, and Su Fengji was ordered to accompany him, so he couldn't help but worry about his retaliation.The emperor had dealt with so many officials during his trip, and Li Congmin didn't think his ass was clean.

"This is Luoyang?" Yu Jia slowly turned to the south gate of Luoyang, looking at the city of Luoyang, Liu Chengyou's tone was a little surprised.

Taking care of the old minister, Feng Dao was called to chat with Liu Chengyou on the imperial car. At this time, he looked at Luoyang City together, and he also felt a little deep emotion: "Exactly. I haven't been to Xijing for many years, and the veteran feels strange."

Liu Chengyou's emotion was not that he was amazed by the magnificence of the city, but that the city seemed too old and decayed.The city is naturally a majestic city. After all, the thousand-year-old capital has a profound heritage and the vastness of the city walls, which is incomparable to Kaifeng in Tokyo.However, there is no "anger" like Tokyo.

"Your Excellency, Li Congmin stayed behind in Xijing, and led all the yamen, generals, ministers, and common people in Xijing to welcome you!"

Liu Chengyou got out of the car and stood on the shaft of the car, sweeping around condescendingly.My first impression of officials in Xijing is: why are there so many officials!

There are too many people, and Liu Chengyou is sure that most of them are empty positions. After this tiring, I don’t know how many lords and old ministers have been produced. Now they are all taken over by the big man. There is a reason.

Sweeping over the officials who bowed their heads, and then looked at the people "swarming" around, there was no scene of enthusiastically paying homage to the king, and the atmosphere seemed very serious, a bit depressing.

Liu Chengyou didn't say much, but ordered someone to pass down an order to exempt the officials and people of Xijing and order Jiashimin.

"I've ordered you repeatedly, you don't need to greet me, and it's strictly forbidden to disturb the people. This Luo Jing official still makes such a big commotion, what is he trying to do, to invite pets and flattery?" Liu Chengyou said lightly when he entered the city.

Feng Dao sat beside him with stretched buttocks, and his face twitched when he heard the words. He felt that Liu Chengyou was a bit too strict. If he really didn't want to disturb the people, he, the emperor, shouldn't go on tour, and just stay in the palace and rule. , will never disturb the people.

Of course, this is just a slander in the old fox's heart, and he won't say it at all, and he won't even show it in his expression.After thinking for a while, he softly comforted him: "Luoyang is also the capital of the country, and now His Majesty is here, and the officials and people welcome him, as if looking forward to the rain. I think it comes from the heart."

Liu Chengyou didn't take Feng Dao's words seriously, but he didn't say anything more.It stands to reason that Luoyang civil and military's respectful reception should please Liu Chengyou. However, it violated Liu Chengyou's previous order.It made Liu Chengyou feel a little complicated. Of course, he also knew that he was too harsh for not being good.
The Tianjie, which runs through the north and south of Luoyang, is still as wide, but it looks much messier.After experiencing Luojing personally, I can find that there are too many traces of disrepair inside and outside the city.

Enter Ziwei Palace City, Yuzheng Hall, and accept the court congratulations from Luoyang Wenwu.This was the first time that Luoyang's Wenwu met the emperor Liu Chengyou, and it was also the first time Liu Chengyou met them.Here, it is almost a small imperial court. Even if Liu Chengyou is in Luoyang to manage the political world, it seems that there is no problem. All civil and military officials will come as soon as they are called.
According to the speech prepared in advance, Liu Chengyou gave it without much emotion.It is probably to explain the purpose of the west tour to bring peace to the people, persuade the farmers, and inspect the government, give a little explanation of the "rectification actions" along the way, and say some words of comfort. As for the effect of comfort, it is not clear. Got it.

The palace city of Luoyang was in ruins, and the Xijing government had no spare time to repair it. There was no treasure left in the palace. It is said that it was looted by the Khitan people during the previous Beidi Pingling.But Liu Chengyou doesn't pay much attention to these things, as long as he can live.

The first thing Liu Chengyou did when he settled down was to summon Li Shaoyou and listen to his report.Before coming to the west, Liu Chengyou sent him, the Wude envoy, to personally lead the team to Xijing first to investigate the situation secretly.

What Li Shaoyou reported made Liu Chengyou very angry.

The situation in Luoyang can be summed up in one word: Carve up everything.

Whether it is the upstarts of the current dynasty, the old ministers of the former dynasty, or the big officials from other towns, they basically own properties in Luoyang.

Take Su Fengji as an example. After entering the Central Plains, he sent a group of servants to enclose land and occupy houses in Luoyang.Over the past year, there are five Su residences in Luoyang City, and more than ten manors around Luoyang, each of which controls more than [-] hectares of land belonging to Su Fengji.
This is just Su Fengji's family. The courtiers in Tokyo have learned more or less from it. Even Yang Bin, who has always been known for his incorruptibility, has two mansions in Luoyang City, and he also has a share of the land around Luoyang.It is said that some of Yang Bin's sons sent people to place him.

How many officials are there in Tokyo, and how many officials are there in Luoyang.Kaifeng City is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, so not many people dare to act recklessly, and Luoyang is different.

Based on various sources, it can be roughly estimated that about [-]% of the land around Luoyang is occupied by officials of all sizes.As for Li Congmin's farming in Xijing, it was only a small area.

And this leads to a problem, that is, the problem of hidden households. It is not enough to have land, they have to find someone to cultivate, so a large number of ownerless farmers have become their farmers and tenant farmers, and they are likely to be "voluntarily "of.

After all, the policy of the imperial court is that as long as you register in the register, you can get your own land.However, policies also need to be implemented by people, and the people who implement them are basically the bureaucratic class occupying land.

Seems like a vicious circle.

The refugees from all over the country should belong to the self-cultivated farmers who allocated land by the imperial court, and paid taxes and food for the imperial court!In the feudal era, self-cultivating farmers were the main force in the source of the imperial court's finances and taxes.

That is to say, in this era, the population is sparse, the land is sparsely populated, and there are basically no major conflicts on the land.However, such abnormal annexation phenomenon in Luoyang made Liu Chengyou extremely frightened.He seems to have seen the scene that the rich have a field of hope, but the poor have no land of excellence.

Of course, this is not the case in all parts of the country, Luoyang has its own particularity.However, if such a situation is not suppressed, once it spreads, the country will inevitably become unstable.Thinking farther ahead, as long as the world returns to tranquility and the population enters a stage of rapid growth, within a few decades, it is estimated that the entire country will quickly fall into the vicious circle of land conflicts.

(End of this chapter)