Lord Moyu was forced to open

Just after returning from Shangshan Mansion with a full load, Zhang Tang received news that because of his assassination, His Majesty was furious in the court and sent 50,000 soldiers to attack Nanyang County in a mighty manner.

He had an attitude of turning the entire Nanyang County upside down to see how rich these guys were, and if it was worth taking the risk of killing the imperial envoy.

Zhang Tang is certainly not a fool. His Majesty's reason for sending troops because of him was just an excuse. Your Majesty just used this excuse to check the number of acres in Nanyang County.

As for the reason, he knew even more. The terrifying number of acres he had taken from the temple a few days ago was the main reason why His Majesty had this idea.

More importantly, these brainless people in Nanyang County gave His Majesty a suitable excuse.

Now that Your Majesty is using this excuse to send troops, no one in the world has any legitimate reason to stop His Majesty.

These matters are His Majesty's arrangements and have nothing to do with me.

Zhang Tang shook his head and put all this behind him. Now his top priority is to quickly check out all the remaining Buddhist temples before His Majesty's people arrive.

Otherwise, if he waits for His Majesty's people to come and clear his father-in-law, then the credit will belong to others.

Moreover, His Majesty's movement can be regarded as relieving the pressure on himself. Those individuals will probably have to concentrate on dealing with Your Majesty in the next time, and they will not have time to worry about themselves. After all, they just want money and land. If their activities are known to His Majesty, then What matters is life.

Which one is more important, Zhao Jun believes they can figure it out.

After clearing the thoughts in his mind, Zhang Tang immediately led the people towards the counties under Shangshan Prefecture.

There is still a large amount of income waiting for you.

And at some point, the forefront of their group was led by a group of shirtless men.

Regarding these shirtless men, Zhang Tang still remembered seeing their grace in the Ministry of Household Affairs when he first went to court.

But now, because they often carry money and get into fights, these former suave officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs have almost turned into strong men with arms that can run horses!

It was true that Zhang Tang looked helpless.

He could already imagine that when he returned to the capital, everyone in the other departments of the court would be handsome young men or handsome young men, or they would be handsome men or dignified old men.

The only one here is the strong man in Hubu!

The momentum is no worse than that of the opponent!

That scene makes my eyes burn just thinking about it!

One night, when Zhang Tang passed by their camp, he heard them discussing how to fight in the middle of the night. The other party couldn't stand it and took the initiative to reveal the whereabouts of the money!

Oh my god, is this a topic that dignified officials of the Song Dynasty should discuss?

What's the difference between this and a martial artist? Don't you remember what the sage said about convincing people with reason?

The world is declining, people's hearts are not as old as they used to be, so good civil servants learn martial arts!

"Ugh……"

……

Here, after a day of selecting and reorganizing the army, on the third day after the imperial edict was issued, the 50,000-strong army ordered by Zhao Jun finally gathered and set off.

This time, the general who led the troops was Guan Ning.

Since it is in Nanyang County, which has many plains, the main force is cavalry, supplemented by infantry.

Guan Ning first mobilized 10,000 people from the Black Tiger Army, then 20,000 cavalry from the Zuowu Iron Cavalry, and finally 5,000 people from the Dragon Cavalry. The remaining 15,000 people have been taken up by the dragoon auxiliary troops.

In addition, in order to prevent the Nanyang group of guys from jumping over the wall and defending the city, Zhao Jun also transferred ten artillery pieces, a thousand musketeers and fifty Shenhuo flying crows from the Shenji camp.

It can be said that that group of guys occupied Nanyang City, and this lineup was enough to flatten the entire Nanyang City!

The army marched at a slow pace, and it took them five full days to finally reach Nanyang County from Bianjing.

The arrival of the army made the people of Nanyang County panic, because normally the court would not send so many troops to Nanyang County unless something big happened. They even thought that the Huns were coming again.

Later, when I heard from well-informed people that these troops were sent by His Majesty to clear out their husband's land, the people were immediately overjoyed instead of surprised!

Because they learned that the so-called clearing of land is to check all the land and its ownership so that it can be used to collect taxes.

The reason why they are happy is that they are taxed on a lot of land that does not belong to them. The specific operation is that this wealthy family has a hundred acres of land.

But he didn't want to pay taxes, so he found the county magistrate or other officials in the county who could handle the matter, and asked them to spread the taxes on the people and let the people pay their share of the tax.

Someone said, how can the people be willing to hand it over?

However, when the government officials come to your door with a knife and force you to pay, and insist that you have to pay that much, how can ordinary people resist?

The final result is naturally that we can only accept the extra tax honestly and pay it year after year.

The first place the army attacked was Nanyang City, the capital of Nanyang County.

When Guan Ning led his army into the city, the entire gentry and wealthy households in Nanyang City panicked.

But under the pressure of the army, he could only hold back the fear in his heart.

When Guan Ning first came to the county magistrate's office and asked the local magistrate to hand over the fish scale atlas, the magistrate excused himself by saying that it was a huge quantity and needed to be sorted out before it could be released.

As a result, that night, the document library where the fish scale album was stored caught fire.

Just when the county magistrate and other officials were happy in their hearts, but were worried on the outside and asked for punishment for improper storage, Guan Ning's words made them dumbfounded on the spot.

Guan Ning looked around at them coldly, then sneered at the corner of his mouth and said, "My lords, don't panic, the album is gone as long as it's gone.

Your Majesty said before coming here that if the atlas is gone, then use the stupidest method to re-measure all the land in Nanyang County inch by inch. When the measurement is completed, let people claim the land with the title deed. In the end, no one will claim the land. Just nationalize everything.

In addition, the Ministry of Household Affairs also keeps the original records of annual tax payments.

If someone who has not paid the land tax in the past years takes out the land deed and says that the land belongs to him, he will be punished as hiding the land and avoiding taxes!

In the past, the fine was confiscated, but this time it changed. His Majesty was angry. When we came out, we had already explained that once we find this kind of situation, we can directly kill these tax evaders on the spot!

It was because the country had no money before that it did not have enough silver to guard the border. People like this who hide land to evade taxes deserve to die! "

As he said that, Guan Ning smiled and had someone take out the imperial edict sent by Zhao Jun before they sent out troops. On it were clearly written the words Guan Ning just said.

Seeing this, the Nanyang County officials who were feeling proud just now were instantly dumbfounded!

How can this be good?

In order to clear the land this time, Zhao Jun specially transferred a group of students who were proficient in mathematics from Yunzhou County.

The day after the fish scale atlas was burned, thousands of mathematical talents from various counties under Yunzhou County came to Nanyang County under military escort.

When they saw how easily they measured the actual conditions of each piece of land and recorded it and rewritten the fish scale atlas, the people in Nanyang County who had their own secrets felt like crying!

And just when Guan Ning was leading a massive inventory of the land, a special incident suddenly became the concern of the entire Nanyang City!

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(End of this chapter)