Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 354
After half an hour.

"Congratulations to Mr. Lang for making another great contribution, this Liu Qi is indeed the one hiding behind the scenes!" Hei Chi Chang Zhi said excitedly

"It really is this guy!"

Wang Wenzuo gritted his teeth and sighed: "At the Xiawangmiao, I thought this guy was not simple, but he didn't expect to be such a giant bandit. I knew that if I killed this guy, I would have eliminated today's catastrophe. !"

"Hehehe!" Black Tooth Changzhi smiled and said: "Your Majesty's words are a bit exaggerated, you are not a Bodhisattva, how can you be a prophet?"

"Yeah, I knew it was hard to buy!" Wang Wenzuo shook his head: "Chang Zhi, you cut off this guy's head and seal it with lime, and send someone to the Jin Mansion later, and let Brother Renshou send it to the palace. Go here and say that this person is one of the masterminds behind the scenes!"

"Obey!" Hei Chi Chang Zhi responded, but did not leave immediately, but lowered his voice and said: "Lang Jun, from what I have seen, why don't you investigate strictly first, and wait until you have some eyebrows before reporting it?"

"Usually, we are military officials, not wardens! Although we kill people, we kill enemies with bows and arrows, not prisoners with bare hands." Wang Wenzuo said in a deep voice, "I didn't want to cause trouble when I came back to Chang'an. Everything hits my head and I have no choice but to do it. If I had known earlier, I would rather stay in Baekje than go into this mess!"

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Daming Palace.

Twilight was sinking, only a ray of dark red light shot into the hall through the window pane, dyeing everything in the hall an ominous dark red.Li Zhi was leaning on the brocade couch, his eyes slightly closed, his chest heaving slightly, as if he had fallen asleep.Empress Wu was sitting beside the couch, holding her husband's right hand in one hand and a round fan in the other, shaking it from time to time, as if waiting for Li Zhi to wake up.At this time, a court lady came in from the outside, knelt down seven or eight steps away from the brocade couch, raised her hands above her head, and presented a silk book.The queen slightly raised the corners of her eyes, and the eunuch at the side walked over with a silent pace unique to felines, took the silk scroll and forwarded it to Mrs. Wu.

"Wang Wenzuo's lead trilogy has quelled the riots in the West Market, and beheaded the person behind the scenes, who is from Hebei!" A look of joy flashed across Wu's face. She put the silk book in her sleeve and asked in a low voice: Where is the level?"

"Just outside!"

"What about Liu Weili?"

"Still in pursuit!"

"Okay, take the pen and paper!" Wu took the brush, pondered for a while, and quickly wrote two lines on the paper, and then took the seal of his family and used it: "Send it quickly, and give it to Wang Wenzuo!"

"The slaves obey the orders!"

Li Zhi's eyelids flickered twice, as if awakened by the movement just now, Mrs. Wu hurried back to the brocade couch, leaned over to Li Zhi's ear, and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, what do you think?"

"It's okay!" Li Zhi opened his eyes, his voice could not conceal the exhaustion: "How is it going outside now?"

"The West Market has been pacified!" Mrs. Wu took the bowl from the hand of the maid, and while stirring the buttermilk inside with a spoon, said in a low voice, "Wang Wenzuo made it!"

"Wang Wenzuo?" Li Zhi frowned: "Where did he get the soldiers? Didn't the widow already issue an edict to prohibit all troops from leaving the camp?"

"It's a part of going to Beijing with him!" Wu said in a low voice: "He also beheaded a bandit leader in Xishi, who was identified by people around Liu Weili, and the bandit leader was from Hebei who had conspired with Liu Weili! "

"Oh?" Li Zhi's brows stretched out: "Part one? It shouldn't exceed a hundred people, right? It's not bad, it's really good to be able to quell the riots in the West Market so quickly and kill the leader of the bandits!"

"That's right! Two days ago, the Ministry of War said that it was a bit too fast to promote him to the fifth rank. After all, he was still a fire leader a few years ago, and he said that he would suppress it. Now, judging from the status of the concubine, it is still a bit low from the fifth rank. Now, if you are a talent like this, you should be directly promoted to the third and fourth ranks, and stay with the emperor of Chang'an to listen to him!"

"Hehehe!" Li Zhi laughed when he heard the words: "Ah Wu, I know what you think. Wang Wenzuo is indeed a capable minister, and he is loyal and diligent in his errands, but if he stays in Chang'an, it will harm him. He will do it too." Can’t do so many things. Think about why the widows issued an edict to prohibit the troops from leaving the camp? Could it be that so many soldiers in Chang’an can’t suppress the thousands of thieves? After all, Wang Wenzuo was able to do this because he was not involved in Chang’an Are you worried? If you leave him in Chang'an for three or two years, he will be stuck in this quagmire, lost to everyone!"

After hearing Li Zhi's words, Wu Shi was speechless for a while.As Li Zhi said, the reason why Wang Wenzuo was able to kill the Quartet in Chang'an and made outstanding achievements repeatedly was due to his personal talent and fortune, but the biggest reason was that he was an outsider who was in harmony with the various factions in Chang'an. There is no connection with power, so there is no need to worry about acting, and the superiors can use it with confidence.

Take this incident as an example, with the strength of the various armies stationed inside and outside Chang'an at that time, just stretching out a little finger can suppress the rioting mob.But the emperor Li Zhi suspected that there was still a shadow hidden behind the scenes in this matter. If he mobilized foreign troops to suppress it, he would be too supportive, and he was afraid of giving people an opportunity to mobilize a trustworthy army like the Forbidden Army under his sect.

That's why the [-] troops inside and outside Chang'an City couldn't move, they restrained each other, and they all squatted in the camp and watched the mobs burn, kill and loot outside, and then Wang Wenzuo led a hundred horsemen on a rampage and made great achievements.But if Wang Wenzuo stayed in Chang'an, and became an official under the Forbidden Army under his sect and the Six Commanders of the East Palace, just imagine what he can do now?Isn't it the same as squatting in the camp and waiting for the edict?
"Alas!" Wu sighed: "What your Majesty said is that my concubine is short-sighted. After finally seeing a useful talent, I wanted to stay and make a big use of it, but I didn't think too much about it!"

"However, what happened this time is indeed a lesson!" Li Zhi said in a deep voice, "I thought Chang'an was already the most important place, but I didn't expect that there would be such a mess, and we must rectify it after the incident is over! "

"What does your majesty mean?"

"Ah Wu, don't you think there are too many people in Chang'an?" Li Zhi glanced at Mrs. Wu: "A few days ago, several ministers in the Zhengshitang said that they would send tens of thousands of vicious youngsters to Anxi. I was still a little hesitant. If you think it will damage the foundation of Guanzhong, it seems that the Xianggongs have considered it carefully!"

"That's right! The increasing population in Guanzhong is a good thing, but in Chang'an City, there are at least 10,000+ idlers who are sitting on food and rice. Sooner or later, troubles will arise!" Mrs. Wu agreed, "It's just a matter of taking this opportunity to transfer these People drive some people out, which can not only reduce the pressure of water transportation, but also enrich the household registration of border counties, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone!"

In a few words between Li Zhi and his wife, the fate of tens of thousands of people in Chang'an City was decided.It turns out that since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, it has been adhering to the policy of "Guanzhong Standardism", that is, the Guanzhong area is the homeland, and the Guandong Jiangnan area is the conquest area.In order to ensure the local military, political, and economic advantages over the newly conquered areas, the government of the Tang Dynasty consciously migrated the population to the Guanzhong area and restricted the outward migration of the Guanzhong population. That is to say, the population is dense, and it is unable to allocate corresponding land to farmers according to the rent system.

The reason why the Tang Dynasty government did this is very simple - under the system at that time, the number of registered population determined the source of taxes and soldiers in the hands of the government. The larger the population in Guanzhong, the more it can maintain its military and political advantages over other regions. The Tang Empire’s The more stable the rule.But the consequence of this is that the per capita land of farmers in the Guanzhong area is much lower than that of farmers in Jiangnan, Hebei and other areas with more per capita land, but they have to bear the same taxes, labor, and military service. Naturally, they are poorer than farmers in these places. few.

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