Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 47
Yang Shizhong filled the two heads with a chopping board, shouted "surrender" and came out of the governor's mansion.

The private soldiers of the three families had long since lost their will to fight. Seeing that Yang Shizhong had surrendered, they all fell on the ground to beg for surrender.

Yang Shizhong held the chopping board and knelt at the door of the Governor's Mansion.

Li Yan said to Yu Chixin: "Bring Yang Shizhong up here."

Trembling, Yang Shizhong walked to Li Yan's door, and raised the chopping board above his head.

Li Yan sighed when he saw the head of An Changgui with a mocking smile on his face, and the head of Wu Hao with a determined expression on his face.

He said to Yang Shizhong: "Do these two people have a last word?"

Yang Shizhong bowed his head and said, "I'm afraid the words of a sinner will spoil His Highness's ears."

Li Yan said with a stern face: "When a person is about to die, his words are also good, let's talk about it."

Yang Shizhong kowtowed and said, "Wu Hao has no last words. Before An Changgui died, he said, 'My head is not to buy you a living, but to buy a living for hundreds of members of our Anyang Wu family!'"

Li Yan nodded and said: "The lonely king has already said that only the chief criminal will be punished, and the three families of Anyang and Wu will only deal with the mastermind of the crime. The lonely king will never be implicated."

Yang Shizhong knew that he was bound to die, but surrender would save his family, so he finally felt relieved.

Sure enough, as An Changgui said, his head was used to buy the lives of innocent people in his family.

But from then on, I am afraid that Guazhou will no longer have the three powerful families of An, Yang and Wu.

Thinking of this, Yang Shizhong wept bitterly, bowed his head and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."

Li Yan didn't like Yang Shizhong who was kneeling on the ground, and said to Zhou Hao beside him, "Take Yang Shizhong to prison, and ask Fa Cao to try the case carefully. The lonely king will not implicate the innocent, and will never let the guilty be spared."

Zhou Hao crossed his hands and said, "No!"

In this way, the rebellion of the three clans that shocked Guazhou was quelled by King Jianning before dawn, and the people in the city talked with relish about the "Heavenly Thunder" that King Jianning summoned in the Governor's Mansion.

These patriarchs who did not follow the rebellion of the three clans were trembling, and in the next few days of Dasuo appearance, they confessed to the hidden fields and small mouths.

Several families really couldn't make up the owed rent, and were already planning to sell the land for money to make up the hole.

Zhou Hao's interrogation of Yang Shizhong soon came to fruition. There were 27 masterminds involved in the rebellion among the three clans. This time, Zhang Mian, the governor of Guazhou, was very decisive and sentenced all 27 people including Yang Shizhong to be beheaded.

At the same time, the players conducted a survey of the three clans, and found that the three clans embezzled and hid thousands of lands, and unregistered families had hundreds of children.

With a swipe of the pen, King Jianning only distributed land grants to the men registered in the Ding Register of the three clans, and confiscated the rest of the land of the three families.

Li Yan asked the players to take the grain hoarded by the three clans to buy the acres sold by the other big households. After such a round, Li Yan had a lot of land in his hands.

Regarding these fields, Li Yan once again convened the players to discuss how to deal with them.

Players are chattering, all kinds of outrageous suggestions.

Some want to abolish the land equalization system and change it to the well field system of the Zhou Dynasty. Good guy, Wang Mang is possessed.

Others want to directly change the land to private ownership, so that the land can flow freely. This player is indeed a fruit fan.

There are also radical ones, who want to confiscate all the land owned by local tyrants and set up farmers' cooperatives first.

Li Yan knew that these were fun people, they were all talking for a while, and when they really asked them to come up with feasible plans, none of them could come up with it.

Fortunately, a player named Lu Zhi stepped forward.

Lu Zhi specialized in agricultural issues at university, and his advisor is also a member of a think tank specializing in land issues.

The core argument of Lu Zhi's proposal is that the land equalization system is not outdated in the Tang Dynasty!
The land equalization system in the Sui and Tang Dynasties can be traced back to the period of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty. During the period when the Southern and Northern Dynasties were fighting for hegemony, the implementation of the land equalization system allowed the military to maintain its military advantage over the Southern Dynasties no matter how the Northern Dynasties changed.

This is the contribution of the land equalization system, and the land equalization system implemented from the early Tang Dynasty to the first year of Kaiyuan also created a prosperous and prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Lu Zhi believed that there was no problem with the land equalization system, but that the land was gradually occupied by officials and gentry during the implementation process, and the land could no longer be distributed to ordinary people.

So there is no problem with the land equalization system, but the people who implement the land equalization system have problems.

Lu Zhi suggested to Li Yan to use the fields cleared from the three families of Anyang, Wu and other wealthy families to grant land to the people of Guazhou again!

First of all, the people in Guazhou should be granted land on an equal basis. At the same time, Li Yan should be asked to pardon the servants of the three clans, and grant land to the children of those who were found from the big families.

Because of the two taxes in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Tang Dynasty, the main subjects of collection are Tian Mu and Dingkou, granting land to ordinary people, and liberating the hidden population of powerful families. This will increase the tax base of Guazhou and increase the financial expenses of Guazhou. Spend.

Only with money can we do things well, so Li Yan naturally agreed to this suggestion.

Lu said directly: "After a hundred years of land granting, the fields of the people's homes are fragmented. This kind of fragmented land is not suitable for large-scale farming with farm tools. The people have to walk more roads to plow the fields."

"That's why my subordinates suggest that we use the fields in our hands to replace those in the hands of the common people, and give the land to the common people as much as possible."

Li Yan also discovered this problem, because a lot of land was occupied by others, so people in Guazhou would often be awarded fragmented fields.

Some families will even be awarded that kind of long and narrow land, which is not suitable for farming at all.

Li Yan adopted Lu Zhi's suggestion, and used the land in his hands to exchange fields with the common people, trying to replace the fields in the hands of the common people with fields that were just right for farming.

Now, after this big investigation, the people of Guazhou were given more fertile land, and those rich families who had evaded taxes for many years made up for the rent owed, and the treasury of Guazhou was filled up all of a sudden.

The annihilation of Anyang's Wu family also completely wiped out the intertwined forces of the three families in the governor's mansion in Guazhou. Li Yan took the opportunity to promote many students from poor families to the governor's mansion as officials.

All of a sudden, everyone in Guazhou praised Jianning Wang Xianming, and Guazhou quickly settled down.

The common people are gearing up and waiting for the arrival of spring plowing, but Li Yan got Yang Shizhong's confession, but fell into worry.

An Changgui, the patriarch of a mere Guazhou clan, could see Li Yan's crisis.

At the beginning of time travel, Li Yan was attacked by elite Uighurs disguised as bandits, and now An Changgui can also think of using his own head to curry favor with the Eastern Palace.

Li Yan once again felt that time was running out.

As for the rebellion of the three tribes, if Cui Ruoyun hadn't donated gunpowder, Li Yan's subordinates would have suffered heavy losses.

It must be expanded. With this little card of my own, I can't support the prince to make another move. Maybe another group of "bandits" will come and I will be finished.

Li Yan is even more anxious, he must expand his territory as soon as possible!

With more chassis, more luck points can be obtained and more players can be summoned.Only with more players can we survive in this treacherous and chaotic world.

(End of this chapter)