The great man will live forever

Chapter 274

In the palace, Liu Han looked at Liu Xiu, "Is my father very determined to save the land?"

"It's natural. This time, no matter what the evidence is, we must find out clearly. Otherwise, how can the world become rich? The aristocratic families hide their population and land, and put the taxes they should pay on the people. If this continues, the country will not be a country."

"Then keep doing it, but it will be very difficult. Father, please be prepared for the world to be in chaos and the country to be overthrown.

If successful, Erchen estimates that this time the field will be divided into four stages.

The first stage is to stop the officials. Taking money from others is like killing one's parents. Most of the officials in the court and the generals who support the father are from wealthy families.

This order would cause them to lose at least half, or even more, of their money and population. How could they be willing?

Even if they are willing, their family members, relatives, and tribesmen behind them will not be willing, so they will try their best to stop the father. The father also saw it a few days ago, and all the officials were unwilling and wanted you to take back the edict.

At this time, many people will come to persuade my father, even his former subordinates.

Of course, with my father's prestige and ability, I can naturally enforce it.

Then, it entered the second stage, local rebound.

The emperor sent some officials to supervise the local area and asked the county guards and magistrates below to completely account for the population and land within their jurisdiction.

But the result will inevitably be as expected. These officials and county magistrates will either come back to report false numbers, or they will be killed by local powerful people.

There will even be rebellions in many places, and local powerful people will entangle people to attack the government. Some may not raise rebel flags. They will create the illusion of bandits, which is difficult to detect.

After all this, the county guards and magistrates in many places began to become timid. They were unwilling to carry out their father's orders and began to obey and disobey them because they were afraid of being killed by powerful men.

At this time, those powerful people will give money and land to local officials, and even beauties, to corrupt them, win them over, and tie them to the same boat as themselves.

If the father discovers that these data on the field survey are false, this will enter the third stage, and you will most likely send your trusted officials to conduct the field survey.

Not only do these officials have strong backgrounds, but they are all personally selected by the emperor and are loyal to you, so they are not afraid of being killed by powerful men. They also have money and land, and do not need money and land from powerful men.

This time the expedition was relatively smooth, but there were some problems, such as not enough officials. After all, the world was so big that we could only check some places.

At this time, my father began to use historical data and information on the land system to complete the land transfer, and focused on sending officials to places with large data gaps.

For example, in the imperial city of Wancheng and the imperial township of Nanyang, the land and population data are bound to be even more false, and the underreporting is particularly prominent.

Powerful landowners, especially our fellow emperors, tried every means to win over local governors, prefects and other officials in order to pay less taxes and enrich their one-third-acre land.

They have a great background and are related to us. Naturally, the local governor did not dare to offend us, for fear that they would say bad things, so he only filled in symbolic land and population data and reported it.

In these places, the outstanding problem of "there is a lot of cultivated land in the world is not real, and the age of household registration increases and decreases".

If the father sends his trusted followers, these problems can be solved. Compared with the previous two stages, this time the field trip will be more accurate and error-free.

Then the fourth stage entered. The local powerful people understood that this operation to conquer the fields posed a huge threat to their interests.

As a result, many places began to be in chaos at the same time, and even powerful families openly raised armies and killed local officials on a large scale.

However, after the imperial court sent troops over, these powerful families were able to quickly break up the troublemakers into pieces and hide them directly.

At the beginning, you may be very determined to let the world see your determination. After hearing about the falsification of land data in various places, you will implement an iron fist crackdown and thoroughly investigate all officials who falsify land data.

At the local level, you probably killed more than a dozen or even more county-level officials.

But people's hearts are greedy, and they will continue to oppose you, so that you are helpless and overwhelmed in the face of this chaos, so you have to make certain compromises, change some methods and orders, and be gentler.

For example, it was ordered that as long as multiple people can report and expose a person who has committed a crime before, he can be exempted from crime. The powerful family leaders who organized crime will not be killed directly, they will only be moved to other places to live, and they will also be given a lot of farmland.

At the same time, local officials who had previously failed to suppress the situation were no longer held accountable. As long as you continue to work hard and destroy the local bandits, you can atone for your sins...

After the implementation of these policies, those local powerful families finally took a step back. Since the court no longer holds them responsible for the rebellion, the amount of land and population can naturally be reported more, but they can still hide it and will not be too honest.

In short, in the end, both sides compromised a bit, and the local officials finally figured out the approximate land and population. In this way, the land transfer was barely successful.

However, if one of them fails, in the third stage, the whole world will turn against you, and they may even overthrow you, and then choose an emperor from the Liu family and elect him to the throne, or directly support a prince who does not know how to farm to become emperor..."

Liu Xiu listened attentively, nodding from time to time, frowning at first, then relaxing, melancholy and depressed, and then sighed helplessly: "Sometimes, I wonder if there is an 80-year-old old master in your head, whether it is His knowledge and ability are both better than those of my father. Is there really anyone in this world who is born with knowledge?"

Seeing Liu Xiu looking directly at him, Liu Han's heart trembled, but he said expressionlessly: "My father is also very powerful, and I still have a lot to learn. A saint will be born every 500 years. I might be a future saint."

My dear, this is shameless boasting.

"You, you will be a good future emperor. You are still a saint. Why are you so fat and suffering from asthma?" Liu Xiu smiled and patted his shoulder.

Then, he looked extremely serious and said, "Your Majesty, do those powerful men really dare to do this? After all, rebellion involves losing one's life. I just asked them to report how many people and fields they have, and why would they rebel without their lives?"

Liu Han smiled, "Father, there is a result in his heart, but he just doesn't believe it. You will know after you see it."

At this moment, he suddenly thought of a saying from later generations: "

Once there are appropriate profits, capital becomes bolder.

If there is a 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere;

With a 20% profit, it comes alive;

With 50% profit, it takes risks;

For 100% profit, it dares to trample all human laws;

With a profit of 300%, it dares to commit any crime and even risk being hanged. "

The capital and power are the same, with dirty blood flowing from every pore.

At Liu Xiu's strong request, the vigorous journey to the field began.

But before that, something happened, which made Liu Xiu further feel the power of the wealthy family.

Liu Xiu made one of his nephews the king of Beihai in Shandong. Although Liu Xiu gave the power to the feudal state, in fact the central government still controlled the personnel power. Therefore, Liu Xiu sent a reliable assistant, Dong Xuan, to handle affairs in Shandong. He was the upright Dong Xuan who was not afraid of the powerful.

At that time, a servant of Princess Huyang, Liu Xiu's sister, killed someone during the day. Because he hid in the princess's mansion, the officials could not arrest him.

When the princess went out, she asked this servant to accompany her. Dong Xuan was waiting at Xiamen Pavilion. When he saw the princess's carriage approaching, he restrained Manu and told the carriage to stop. He drew the ground with a knife and stopped the carriage. He loudly blamed the princess for her fault and ordered the servants to get out of the car. Kill.

The princess then went to complain, but Dong swore to uphold the law to the death. He even hit his head on a pillar, causing blood to flow from his face.

Liu Xiu ordered the young eunuch to hold Dong Xuan and ask him to kowtow to the princess and admit his mistake. Dong Xuan refused and forced him to kowtow. Dong Xuan put his hands on the ground and refused to bow his head.

Liu Xiu admired him very much and rewarded him. He vigorously promoted Dong Xuan. He sent Dong Xuan there, which had the effect of fighting in the front line.

However, after arriving in Shandong, Dong Xuan soon discovered that the local situation was more complicated than he imagined. In Shandong, there are powerful families in many places, and they have huge power.

They owned a lot of land, had many family members, and kept many slaves. Within their territory, a small kingdom was formed.

Therefore, Dong Xuan had to reach compromises with these local powerful people after taking office. He must summon the leaders of the major families and let them serve in the local government. Only in this way can the local government's decrees be truly implemented.

What happened next brought a problem to Dong Xuan. It is said that the owner of the Gongsun family built a new house at that time.

However, after the fortune-telling, the Feng Shui master said that the Feng Shui was not good and that the dead body must be used to wash away the bad luck.

Good guy, what should I do? Are you going to dig someone's grave?

Naturally, the Gongsun family did not do such a shameful thing. They simply killed a few people and threw the bodies into the new house.

There is controversy about the identity of the people killed by the Gongsun family at that time. Some people said that the Gongsun family killed passers-by, while others said that they were servants in the family.

But no matter who is killed, even the emperor generally does not kill easily, and there must be a reason for killing. The Gongsun family has already committed murder at this time, because Liu Xiu had previously issued a clear order prohibiting the private killing of slaves.

Therefore, Dong Xuan directly arrested Sun Boyu, the protagonist of the Gongsun family, in accordance with the laws of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

A strange thing happened next. After learning that the head of the family was arrested, the Gongsun family gathered more than 30 people to make trouble with weapons and openly cried out for injustice outside Dong Xuan's office.

"It's unfair, it's unfair."

More than 30 people stood at the gate of the office, holding weapons and shouting that they were wronged. The momentum and scene would have made most people fall down in fear.

"Sir, what should I do?" Everyone in the yamen was dumbfounded. They had never seen such a scene before.

Dong Xuan said directly: "What are you afraid of? If you are upright, you are not afraid of your shadow. Gongsun Boyu violated the laws of the Han Dynasty when he killed people. They were admitted to gather weapons and make trouble at the gate of the government office, which was tantamount to conspiracy. Anyone who came would be arrested. Executed to death.”

"Sir, that's the Gongsun family." An official said worriedly.

"The same goes for the royal family. The emperor's crimes are the same as those of the common people."

Therefore, Dong Xuan ordered that the law be strictly enforced and more than thirty members of the Gongsun family be executed. Although the Gongsun family is not the top wealthy family in Shandong, it still has great influence within the counties where it is located.

If the Gongsun family decides to rebel, with their clansmen and servants, it shouldn't be a problem to gather a few thousand people. This scale is comparable to when Liu Xiu raised troops in Nanyang.

As a result, local officials quickly split into two factions. One group believed that Dong Xuan intensified the conflict and killed innocent people indiscriminately; the other group believed that Dong Xuan acted in accordance with the law and it was completely legal to kill those more than 30 people.

Since Dong Xuan was already a minister-level official in Shandong, equivalent to the level of a deputy prefect, the matter quickly reached Liu Xiu, who made the final decision.

Liu Xiu had a headache and looked at Liu Han, "Prince, what do you think should be done?"

Liu Hanneng felt Liu Xiu's embarrassment. If he insisted on governing the country according to law, Dong Xuan must be acquitted. However, this verdict will most likely lead to a direct rebellion by the Gongsun family, and Liu Xiu can only send troops to suppress it.

If only the Gongsun family was making trouble, Liu Xiu wouldn't mind killing chickens to scare monkeys and use the Gongsun family to establish its authority. However, the situation at that time was that almost every county had a powerful family like the Gongsun family.

If the appeal of the Gongsun family is followed and Dong Xuan is dealt with, then the laws of the Eastern Han Dynasty will become empty documents. Who will help Liu Xiu manage affairs in the future?

No matter what choice I made, it felt wrong.

Historically, Liu Xiu also felt quite a headache when facing this problem. In the end, he chose a more sensible solution. He first removed Dong Xuan from his post, imprisoned him, and appeased the Gongsun family.

However, after Dong Xuan entered prison, he kept delaying the sentence. Within a few years, when the matter was over, Dong Xuan was released and re-employed.

"Dong Xuan was at fault. Execution of 30 people was too much, but he also upheld the law. His merits outweighed his faults. Let's issue an edict and reprimand him.

The head of the Gongsun family killed someone innocently. Whether it was a slave or a passerby, it was a human life. Because a feng shui in a newly built house killed someone, how could the person who was killed be innocent? must be dealt with.

As for their rebellion, let's just do it and destroy their family. As long as they have the guts, Gu will have the courage to fight the world all over again. If the father has no energy, then his sons and ministers will come.

The emperor's ministers are not concealed, and simplicity is in the emperor's heart. I am guilty, but not all of them are guilty; all directions are guilty, but I am guilty.

I sincerely request you to lead troops and patrol the world. During this time in the field, if there are rebels, they will be killed without mercy; if there are false reports, they will be killed without mercy; if there are those who are corrupt and pervert the law, they will be killed without mercy.

The father proclaimed himself emperor, and the world was peaceful for twelve years, and his sons ruled the world. In another twenty years, at worst, they killed his sons, the second brother, the third brother, the fourth brother, the fifth brother... and the father.

Some things have to be done by people. Should we impose taxes on the people all over the world? "

After Liu Han finished speaking, he looked at the court ministers, "Gentlemen, this is Gu's determination. This land transfer must be carried out. The court has given you titles, food, salary, and glory, but some people's hearts are always Unsatisfied.

If you have a thousand coins, you would like a million coins, but every year, the food produced by the people is always limited. Some people get more, and naturally some people get less. It is actually okay to get less, but I am afraid that if they don’t divide it, the people will be Going to starve to death.

You can only eat leaves, chew tree bark, eat Guanyin soil, and exchange children for food, so you can't rebel?

As a result, the country is overturned, overnight..."

As if sensing Liu Han's persistence, no one in the entire imperial court dared to speak.

"Well said, the prince's wish is my wish. I will give you generous gifts, but you must not be greedy. No matter what, this time the land transfer must be carried out."

Liu Xiu made the decision, but did not let Liu Han lead troops to patrol the world.

(End of this chapter)