I, Liu Bian, Sanxing Han Dynasty

Chapter 332 Return
"The villain will never forget this day..."

"What day are you talking about?"

"One day eight or nine years ago..."

Zhao Qi is old, but he does not have Alzheimer's disease.

His leg was broken, which left a deep impression on him, but he couldn’t remember the specific day, time, or even year. Can he be considered stupid and deceived?

If it were an ordinary scoundrel, Zhao Qi would not hesitate to order someone to hit him with a few sticks before driving him out. But looking at the disheveled appearance of the person who came here... he already knew that this person simply couldn't survive and came to him to desperately seek a way out.

"What you said is so vague that you can't even tell the year or month. How can you sue someone? I see that you are old and frail, and it is very difficult for you. Today I will not punish you for falsely accusing you of rebellion. Go away!"

After driving people away without any punishment, Zhao Qi sighed and said: "Hateful, pitiful, and deplorable."

Zhao Qi's voice was not low, but Suo Zhan beside him couldn't help feeling ashamed after hearing his emotion.

Suo Zhan was the one who had led the way for Hu Zhen. After Zhao Qi took office, he had to be recruited as the chief secretary. The reason why he was ashamed was that he knew the reason behind this situation - land annexation. Taking advantage of the vacancy of the prefect, he had also done it in the Sox clan where he was annexing ordinary people's land.

"What do you think of this matter?" Zhao Qi asked Suo Zhan.

Suo Zhan reacted quickly and immediately replied: "Those who have permanent property have perseverance. If this person has some property, he must not dare to take such a risk."

Zhao Qize said: "You know this truth, but some people pretend not to know!"

Suo Zhan was speechless for a moment after hearing this.

Zhao Qize continued: "The so-called rich people's fields are connected to each other, and the poor people are dying and standing in the land. The consequences of violent Qin using Shang Yang's method are nothing more than this! The people are not afraid of death, but how can they be afraid of death..."

Even after the Guangwu Zhongxing, in the Han Dynasty, Qin was still violent and needed to be denounced. Zhao Qi compared Dunhuang's land annexation situation with Qin's, and the profound meaning is worth pondering.

After saying that, Zhao Qi did not wait for Suo Zhan to answer, but ordered: "There is nothing to do here, you go and do your work first!"

"Yes, Mr. Fu."

Suo Zhan didn't understand that Zhao Qi's words about today's case and after the trial were all specially told to him.

Now this person cannot tell the year and the month is a false accusation, but what if this person remembers the year and month in the future?
Suo Zhan found an opportunity and told the story to his nephew Suo Shao.

Suo Shao was lower in seniority than him, but older than him. He had also served as the chief historian of the Western Regions. Suo Shao's father, Suo De, was worshiped as the prefect of Dongping during Emperor Huan's reign, and he had the most say in the clan.

Suo Zhan is inclined to show kindness to Zhao Qi, even if he has to pay some land for it.

In a sense, annexation is also a kind of involution. The land is there. God knows when the new governor will take office. If you don't take it, someone else will take it. This is an unavoidable situation after losing the constraints of top-level power.

In the years when the prefect was away, Suo Shi could do what other surnames did. Otherwise, if our strength is surpassed by other big clans, wouldn't we be willing to lag behind others?

Today your Song family annexed 100 acres, tomorrow his Cao family annexed 150 acres, and the day after tomorrow I, the Suo family, dared to annex 200 acres. Due to mutual competition, Dunhuang's population only had so many acres, and soon the acres became almost exclusive to the rich.

Now the imperial court has sent a prefect, who is also a well-known party member. After all, the wealthy families have gone too far in annexing the land.

Dunhuang people still identify with the Han Dynasty. In these years of isolation from information, there are many officials who were active in the Han Dynasty court in their early years. Liu Bian's minister She Gaixun was born in Dunhuang. Of course, the premise of this kind of compromise is that Zhao Qi is tough enough and wants to deal with the messy debts caused by the loss of the Dunhuang governor in the past few years. Otherwise, who would dislike having so many acres of land under his name? The worst thing is to buy more slaves and hire more tenants.

Is Zhao Qi tough enough?
Of course there is. As a veteran party member, apart from other things, integrity is absolutely impossible to discard. This is something that party members have always adhered to.

Therefore, in Suo Zhan's opinion, as long as Zhao Qi's request is not excessive and the number of acres spit out is within an acceptable range, compromise is not a problem.

Correspondingly, Dunhuang County's quota of Xiaolian, who is one every three years, is naturally a must, but it is quite difficult. If filial piety and integrity are not available, it is also acceptable for the clan's descendants to be recommended by Zhao Qi and obtain the quota of additional public servants specially allocated to Liangzhou.

At the same time, the same news spread among the various wealthy families in Dunhuang, and different people had different reactions.

Some people are alert to the fact that the Huang family in Jiuquan County next door was destroyed, while others are greedy for the fields they hold in their hands.

Against this background, a group of people came to Yangguan, southwest of Dunhuang.

His body and face were covered in dust and dust, showing the color of having been weathered for a long time.

The soldiers guarding the pass saw that they had noticed the weapons, bows and arrows carried by the incoming man very early, so they had already closed the gate of Yangguan and were ready to prepare.

But the people outside the pass were not afraid of this. The leader among them saw the pass that he had been thinking about for a long time, and couldn't help crying for a moment.

"I, Mi Fang, finally came back alive."

Soon someone from the team came to Yangguan and handed over the pass for passage. After repeated inspections by Yangguan Waiting Officer, a subordinate of the Yangguan Captain who was stationed at Yangguan, Mi Fang and his party were finally able to enter the pass. .

Mi Fang, who used to be fair and tender and had not suffered much, has become completely different from when she set out in more than half a year. The most obvious one is the extra scar on his face. I'm afraid that even if his brother Mi Zhu came in person, he would be stunned for a while.

Mi Fang is not a simple businessman, he has an official background and the emperor's endorsement. When he took out the money, the smell of meat soon filled Yangguan where only the officials and soldiers lived.

Mi Fang must have been holding it in for a long time, so she took Yangguan to the waiting officer and told her the hardships of this trip.

"This Western Region is really not a place for people to go. It's too chaotic..."

"Did you see the scar on my face? It's a small country in the Western Region. They were greedy for the money I got from selling silk. They disguised themselves as thieves and robbed me when I returned."

"The leader, when I brought Silk across the road, we had a drink with him. Later, when we said goodbye, he sent me ten miles out of the city... If I hadn't seen his body with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it was him."

"A foreign barbarian, an ignorant savage! If he is short of money, tell me and care about the friendship in the past. How can I, Mi Fang, be a stingy person?"

Waiting Officer Yangguan couldn't get in the conversation at all, but he wasn't annoyed at all.

He only responded with "Yes!" and "Yes!" from time to time to show that he was listening carefully.

As for his thoughts, he was completely focused on the belongings Mi Fang gave him.

Mi Fang is right about one thing, he is so generous!
Not to mention those barbarians, he was also tempted by the wealth Mi Fang brought.

(End of this chapter)