Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 495 Road Encounters

There are thirteen heads, two of them are descendants of the Yuan family in Dingxiang, and the remaining 11 are disciples of the Yuan family.

The bloody head was hanging on the city gate, Li Shan stared at it for a few times, then turned around and said: "It has been passed down to the counties of Daizhou and Xinzhou, and it will be admonished by those who come later."

Zhang Gongjin didn't say a word, Xue Wanche should have taken the initiative... In his opinion, this time, King Qin's lineage suffered a big loss, and this kind of shattering incidents of seizing land and people are not uncommon, but if it is exposed to the public, that is Great loss of reputation.

"This matter is of great importance, and people need to be sent to various places to investigate." Li Shan explained blankly: "Brother Xue will lead the investigation."

Xue Wanche couldn't help but be overjoyed, this kind of matter fell into his own hands, whether it was to suppress or win over, there were many benefits.

Li Shan glanced sideways at Zhang Gongjin, "Brother Hongshen, isn't he Jianyan Xingjun?"

"If there is no land, how can we march and station things?"

"Brother Hongshen presided over the matter of the wealthy families from all over the country encroaching on the fields and plundering the population. If there is any discrepancy, you are the only one to ask."

Hearing the marching station, Xue Wanche immediately understood that Zhang Gongjin had taken a fancy to the soldiers under Yuan Junzhang's command... Everyone in Daizhou knew that Li Shan would definitely hold Ma Yi firmly in his hands. In Mayi, Xue Zhong was also sent away not long ago.

But when he heard the back, Xue Wanche couldn't help but burst into laughter. In short, he ate meat, while Zhang Gongjin was forced to gnaw on a bone...and it was a hard bone.

Tracking down the fields and concealing the population has always been the most annoying job... You can't get any benefits, and you will offend others.

Glancing at Fang Renyu, the governor of Xinzhou who had been silent all this time, Li Shan forced a smile on his face, "Xinzhou still needs to ask Yan Hegong."

Fang Renyu squeezed out a smile on his face, "Duty duty, duty duty..."

"Taiyuan Wang's side, let's go down and talk about it." Li Shan didn't know the name Fang Renyu in his previous life, and he didn't even know the prominence of Qinghe Fang's family. .

But in this life, Li Shan already knew enough about how prominent the Qinghe Fang family was. Among the Shandong gentry, they couldn't compare with the five surnames and seven families, but they were very prestigious under it.

Fang Xuanling's father, Fang Yanqian, and Fang Renyu's father, Fang Fangkuang, were both famous for a while.

Nowadays, regardless of Fang Xuanling, there are only two of the Fang family at the level of the governor, and they are also married to Qinghe Cui, Boling Cui, Fanyang Lu, Longxi Li, Taiyuan Wang, um, Cui Xin's eldest son The daughter-in-law was born in the Fang family of Qinghe.

And this Fang Renyu's mother came from the Li family of Longxi, his wife came from the Wang family of Taiyuan, and the eldest son was a daughter of the Cui family of Boling... Historically, his granddaughter was also the concubine of Prince Zhanghuai Li Xian.

Li Shan and Fang Yi are close friends, and Yuan You has his own shadow behind the fact that he became Si Tian and joined the army, so this blame can only be carried by himself... Fortunately, in the Wang family of Qi County, Taiyuan, he and Wang Renbiao are best friends No matter how bad it is, he can invite Wanggui Zhongyun, the crown prince of the East Palace.

Zhang Gongjin on the side hesitated for a while, and reminded in a low voice: "Although the Yuan family in Dingxiang is not prominent, apart from the Wang family in Taiyuan, they are also married to the Xue family in Hedong."

Li Shan's cheeks twitched. Later generations said that Li Jiancheng, the prince of the East Palace, relied on the Shandong gentry, while the Qin Palace did the opposite, and there was a fierce conflict between the two sides.

In fact, this is completely nonsense. In fact, no matter which side it is, it is basically filled with children from aristocratic families. This kind of intertwined power is unimaginable in future generations.

In the entire Tiance Mansion, regardless of academics or martial arts, as long as they are outstanding and have official positions, most of them are descendants of aristocratic families. Li Shimin's most trusted confidantes are the Fang family of Qinghe, the Du family of Jingzhao, the Changsun family of Luoyang, and the Xue family of Hedong.

The children of a few not-so-famous families are all high-ranking fathers and grandparents, and all of them are the children of officials, such as Gao Shilian, Yuwen Shiji, Tang Jian, Su Xu...either in the Northern Qi Dynasty or in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Either in the former Sui Dynasty, they were all like Zaifu.

There are too few people who are really from poor families... This poor family does not refer to ordinary people, but to Cheng Yaojin, Li Shiji, Yuchi Jingde, etc. who are either born in a wealthy family or in a poor family.

Seeing nearly a hundred cavalry galloping southward, Fang Renyu laughed dryly and commented: "Huairen...he looks like a famous minister of the former Han Dynasty."

Zhang Gongjin and Xue Wanche looked at each other, but didn't say a word... This evaluation is very interesting. The famous ministers of the former Han Dynasty often became famous for their cruel methods, destroying the rich and powerful families in the county, and doing ordinary food, but most of them could not die.

With the thirteen bloody heads, the news quickly spread throughout Xinzhou, Daizhou, and even to Taiyuan Prefecture. The local tyrants kept their voices silent, the elites stifled their feet, and Zhang Gongjin acted hard and softly, finally temporarily curbing the trend of land annexation.

In fact, in the northeast of the River River, there are a large number of unowned fields, which were abandoned due to frequent wars before, and land annexation is not serious.

But as the war situation stabilized, the hands of the aristocratic families began to stretch out. Even if there are so many unowned fields, there are good and bad, and because of the loss of population due to wars over the years, the land was annexed and the people were enslaved. , closely linked together.

There has been no dynasty for 300 years since ancient times, and Li Shan would not be so stupid as to engage in industrialization in this era, but if so many unowned lands were seized, and the people who moved here were captured as serfs, what he did in the past half a year would be worthless. What is the practical significance?

When the news reached Taiyuan Mansion, Li Daozong, who only saw Li Shan on the side of the road, smiled and said, "What do you think, cousin?"

The middle-aged man beside him stroked his beard and sighed: "Acting upright, with a firm mind, the methods seem to be cruel, but in fact there is room for them, and they have not yet been crowned... Are such skills a gift from God?"

This middle-aged man is Dou Jing, the second son of Chen Guogong Dou Kang. He has been the governor of Bingzhou since the third year of Wude, and has assisted Li Yuanji and Li Shenfu successively. Now it is Li Daozong's turn.

Li Daozong nodded, "Thirteen people were beheaded, but Yuanyou was retained, and Xu Yuanshi chose someone to serve as Sitian to join the army... Huairen wants to do something."

"what?"

"Huiren intends to set up his army."

"That's right!" Dou Jing stood up abruptly, "Last year, a certain person wrote a letter to the court, but it's a pity that the Zai Fu group discussed it and rejected it. If Li Huairen can persuade His Majesty..."

Li Daozong said with a smile: "Daoxuan once mentioned that Brother Guang and Huairen are friends."

What Guangda refers to is Dou Jing's younger brother, who is now Tai Changqing Dou Dan.

Dou Jing sat down slowly, pondered for a long time in her heart, and suddenly said: "I will write to Your Majesty again, please go to the Taiyuan government to farm the fields."

Li Daozong nodded slightly, thinking that this not only helped Li Shan, but also Dou Jing, not to mention the great benefits to himself, killing three birds with one stone.

Li Shan, who had almost arrived in Chang'an, didn't know that there was a shameless person who was planning to borrow his windfall.

(End of this chapter)