A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 670: Dealing with the aftermath
Zhao Hui asked the coachman to keep changing horses all the way, and rushed towards Luoyang under the starry night. After he arrived in Luoyang, he immediately went to the palace to ask for an audience with His Majesty.

Li Shimin did not see him immediately, but asked him to wait in the palace next to him.

When he arrived here, he saw that the heads of the Zhang family, Yu family and other families were already waiting here.

"Brother Yu, Brother Zhang, Brother He Lan, you guys are all fine!" Zhao Hui greeted everyone with a smile without any embarrassment.

"Brother Zhao came so quickly. I almost didn't make it even though I was traveling all night." The head of the Yu family next to him said without any embarrassment.

"Both and each other, I haven't stopped all the way. I'm still one step behind you all here!" Zhao Hui said lightly.

Just as everyone sat down, someone else walked in from outside the door. He was also an acquaintance of everyone, the head of the Chen family whom they had met not long ago.

None of the people were surprised to see each other. Obviously they all knew that the so-called agreement before was completely nonsense.

After a while, a few more people came in a steady stream. In short, all the heads of the powerful families were here. Seeing everyone coming, everyone was disappointed. They knew that if everyone came, there would be no chance for them to betray others.

After everyone arrived, Li Shimin summoned these people in the side hall next to him.

If you want to gain a foothold in these places, you not only need to invest a lot of money, materials and manpower, but you also have the possibility of overturning at any time. But now the situation is pressing and they have to accept Li Shimin's request.

Next, these noble families would send their children to serve as officials to help the court govern the world. At the same time, in exchange, the court could allocate them land in the south, Hexi, Shunan and other places.

This time the imperial court took hold of these people, and naturally they would not let them go easily.

And these noble families who have grown up will start to follow the path that the previous noble families have taken.

Li Shimin will not bring down the entire Guanlong Group, but that does not mean that he will not take down one of them.

Li Shimin didn't like these noble families, but he had to use them.

These are places where the imperial court's control is weak, and there are also barbarians and barbarians who cause chaos from time to time. Li Shimin asked them to go here because he wanted to use their power to stabilize the border.

These Guanlongmen, no matter how unhappy they were, could only agree. Agree to the imperial court's request and open up to the border.

It can be said that the power of these aristocratic families and nobles in Guanzhong was reduced by 90%, and at the same time, these noble families and nobles were allowed to allocate a large amount of strength to southern Xinjiang and Hexi.

Li Shimin wanted to create an era of prosperity that would last forever, so naturally he didn't want to get entangled in this matter. Therefore, he needed more honest and cooperative aristocratic families and noble families.

Once you refuse, the consequences are obvious.

Li Shimin severely reprimanded these noble families, and then asked them to hand over 80% of their land properties in Guanzhong, Hebei, and Longyou, and also handed over 50% of their hidden population.

Naturally, these high-ranking families and nobles are not willing to go. If those places are really easy to go to, why have so few people been willing to go there over the years?

Beating all these people to death with one stick may look good, but if you really do this, it won't take long for others to fill their positions.

If the imperial court prevents people from going to these places to develop, ordinary people will not be willing to go there in the first place, and they can only look for the victims of the disaster.

However, these disaster victims were almost impoverished. After the imperial court moved them there, it was still responsible for their food, clothing, housing, transportation, and various tools.

Moreover, the strength of these people is far inferior to that of the noble clans. Even with the support of the court, it is difficult to gain a foothold. But the situation is different for high-ranking aristocratic families and noble families. They have a large number of tribes, including food, weapons, property, etc., and they are more united than ordinary people.

The probability of them going to explore is very high.

Li Shimin did not allow them to exploit the people in Guanzhong and Hebei, but allowed them to go to the frontiers to suppress aliens. If they gain a foothold here, their power will also develop rapidly.

Of course, there is another problem here, that is, each of these families has split off a part of itself. This will not be a problem for a short period of time, but over a long period of time, they will split. In this way, the strength of the Guanlong family and the Hebei family will be greatly weakened.

In addition to these, Li Shimin also allowed a large number of children in his family to participate in the imperial examination and serve as officials.

If the imperial court wants to control the world, it needs a large number of basic officials. In the past, the imperial court did not have enough manpower, and the execution of government orders was not very smooth.

Now Li Shimin allows them to serve as officials just to fill the vacancies, and at the same time to make the imperial examination system deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

After these Guanlong and Hebei families surrendered, they retained part of their strength, and the imperial court also received a large number of acres of land.

These acres will continue to implement the official land equalization system in accordance with Wang Xuanjing's requirements.

Sending these high-ranking and noble families to various border areas was similar to the policy of enfeoffing various lands in the past.

Back then, Daqian relied on this method to continuously develop. Now that productivity has improved, the situation faced by Datang is much better than that of Daqian.

Chang'an City.

After killing a large number of those who maliciously raised prices, no one dared to stop them.

Wang Xuanjing also began to take advantage of this opportunity to carry out work-for-relief projects.

A large amount of food was distributed, and the victims in various places were properly resettled.

The grain originally held by those high-ranking and noble families was also bought back by Wang Xuanjing at a low price. Food prices throughout Guanzhong are already lower than those in the pre-Sui Dynasty.

The weather is still dry now, so Wang Xuanjing provides work-for-relief to these people, allowing local governments to take the opportunity to build water conservancy projects and dredge ravines. At the same time, we also began to repair Guanzhong roads, build reservoirs, etc.

Even many places in Chang'an City need to be rebuilt.

Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty was built on the basis of the Sui Dynasty. The construction of Chang'an City in the Sui Dynasty took only one year, and a large number of old objects were used.

In addition, Chang'an City was also attacked that year, and some places also needed repairs.

Wang Xuanjing put all the projects into action, and then began to use work as relief. This time the court spent almost nothing.

All money is basically obtained from those people. The imperial court basically just paid some food to build all these facilities.

Through this operation, Wang Xuanjing not only did not spend any money, but also made a fortune. At the same time, he helped the people and weakened the noble families. It can be said that he succeeded in killing many people with one stone. More importantly, everyone knew that the Prime Minister If you want to confront the Prime Minister in the future, you should think about it.

(End of this chapter)