Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 268

But the next day, Huan Yuan did not go directly to the court, but went to the mansion of Shu Sunguan, the prefect of Wujun.

In fact, a Chinese doctor like Huan Yuan is not qualified to enter the palace at all unless he is summoned by the monarch or a great court, even if he is the uncle of Huan Chu.

Uncle Sun Guan did not neglect, and solemnly received Huan Yuan in the study.

In the study, the two talked about the ceremony, and Huan Yuan said directly without concealing: "Uncle grandson, since the king issued an edict to implement the new land taxation method, there have been a lot of discussions in the court and the opposition, inside and outside the temple, so that the whole country's aristocratic families, gentry and untouchables can accept it as one." Fu, there has been no precedent since ancient times, such a perverse practice will inevitably arouse the wrath of heaven and people."

Uncle Sun Guan remained silent and did not express his opinion easily.

Huan Yuan said again: "Your Majesty has served the Xiang family for three generations. You can be said to be the elder of the three dynasties of the Great Chu Kingdom. As a veteran minister of the Great Chu, you should not just watch the King listen to greedy words and act perversely, let alone watch The Great Chu State has gone astray and slipped into the abyss, Uncle Grandpa, you should rise up and call out to lead the Jiangdong gentry..."

"What are you leading the Jiangdong gentry for?" Uncle Sun Guan interrupted Huan Yuan coldly, "Are you rebelling?"

"Uh, of course it's not a rebellion." Huan Yuan was stunned when he heard the words, and said with some embarrassment, "As a veteran of the three dynasties of the Great Chu, and a veteran minister, it is the public responsibility and the obligation to urge the king to be close to a gentleman and far away from a villain, isn't it?"

"Close to a gentleman, far away from a villain?" Uncle Sun Guan said coldly, "Who is a gentleman and who is a villain?"

Huan Yuan said: "Public integrity is high, and honest gentlemen are also like Bailixian and Zi Cheshi, who only know flattery and honesty, but don't know what etiquette is. The villain, you should lead the Jiangdong nobles and urge the king to stay away from such lowly villains as Bailixian and Zicheshi, otherwise, our Great Chu Kingdom will not exist!"

"What flattery, what etiquette?" Uncle Sun Guan frowned, and said coldly, "Huan Yuan, I might as well tell you today that the implementation of the Xintian Fu law is the trend of the times and the will of the people. Who dares to obstruct the reform? , whoever dares to resist the process of clearing the land is making an enemy of the entire Great Chu, so do it yourself."

"Granduncle, you are..." Huan Yuan was stunned, but also a little busy.

"Come here, see off the guests!" Shu Sun Guan ignored them and issued the order to evict the guests.

A small official from the sect had stepped forward a long time ago, raised his hand to Huan Yuan, and said, "Doctor Zhong, please."

Huan Yuan had no choice but to get up, bowed to his uncle and grandson again, then turned around and walked away.

It wasn't until Huan Yuan's figure disappeared outside the door that Uncle Sun Guan's face slowly darkened. Huan Yuan didn't know that Uncle Sun Guan had just returned from the palace. Fan Zeng, however, was stopped by Xiang Zhuang with words before Uncle Sun Guan had time to express his attitude.

Fan Zeng made even more harsh remarks, which was the sentence that Uncle Sun Guan gave to Huan Yuan just now, but there was only a slight difference. It is the trend of the times and the aspiration of the people. Whoever dares to obstruct the reform, whoever dares to resist the process of clearing the land, is my mortal enemy of the Xiang family, so please do it yourself.

Xiang Zhuang and Fan Zeng have talked about this, what else can Uncle Sun Guan do?Can only dormant.

Back then, the Xiang family relied on the support of Jiangdong's family, gentry and clan to ascend to the throne. His superb political skills, and the clan forces that have been entrenched in the counties of Jibei for many years, Xiang Zhuang was uprooted just by flipping his hands!

Now it is even more deliberate to weaken the influence of the gentry, and the general trend may be difficult to reverse.

With Xiangzhuang absolutely controlling the military power, and now with Fan Zeng in charge, Xiang's position can be said to be as stable as a rock.

Uncle Sunguan didn't think that the dozen or so aristocratic families in Jiangdong had the ability to fight against the Xiang family. Once the uncle Sun family rashly got involved in the middle, the result was likely to be brutally bloodbathed by the Xiang family. Fan Zeng's decision to kill was terrible It's not bragging, thinking back then, if Xiang Yu hadn't been indecisive, Liu Bang would have killed him long ago.

Of course, Shusun Guan's decision to hibernate does not mean that he will give up resistance.

If the opportunity is right, Uncle Sun Guan doesn’t mind being a behind-the-scenes pusher, because no matter what, the new land endowment law is strictly donating to the interests of the major families. Paying a large amount of food and taxes to the treasury also means that the major families will lose power in the political arena of Chu State, which is what Shu Sunguan cares most about.

Uncle Sun Guan has already seen that Xiang Zhuang's ambition is not small for the reform of Chu State. He wants to imitate Qiang Qin to minimize the influence of Shixun Shiqing, that is, the aristocratic family, and then strengthen the royal power to the greatest extent!If the big aristocratic families don't try to resist, they will become Xiang Zhuang's dolls sooner or later. He can pinch and play with him however he wants.

As the patriarch of the Uncle Sun family, Uncle Sun Guan certainly would not allow such an unfavorable situation to arise.

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Wuzhong County, the western suburbs.

There is a large piece of farmland near Juqu Ze. This piece of farmland is the property of the Zhang family in Wuzhong. The Zhang family is not only the in-laws of the Huan family, but also has two children who are small officials in Wuzhong County, just like a noble family.

Relying on the power of the family, the Zhang family has amassed a lot of property in the western suburbs of Wuzhong.

But today, Zhang's family is in big trouble, and the guardian captain led troops to the door!

Just yesterday, Wuzhong County Prime Minister led people to clear Zhang’s cultivated land in the western suburbs, and when they measured Zhang’s property, they were obstructed. In the end, the evil servants of Zhang Family even beat up Wuzhong County Prime Minister and a dozen government servants. The magistrate of Wuzhong County was furious, and immediately sued Zhang's family to the Dharma Protector's Department. No, Master Zi Che led his troops to kill him.

On the field stalks, more than 200 house slaves in Tsing Yi held long wooden sticks and formed a circle, and around the circle were more than [-] murderous Chu soldiers.

Zi Cheshi straddled his horse, pointed at the head of the Zhang family who was hiding among the slaves with his whip in his hand, and shouted: "Zhang Wen, let me say this one last time, give up resistance immediately, ask your men to put down their weapons, and then assist Wu The prime minister of Zhongxian County, Qingzhang, has good land, and everything is still in time, otherwise, this general will kill someone!"

Zhang Wen, who was hiding among the slaves, couldn't help being a little scared when he heard the words, but he immediately thought of what Huan Yuan said to everyone last night. You need to know that the Jiangdong gentry is not the Jibei clan, let alone those untouchables. Although Che Shi is domineering, does he really dare to openly kill the Jiangdong nobles?
Moreover, the Zhang family has no way out, because once the clearing of the land starts, the Zhang family's property will shrink by at least [-]%, because more than half of the land property is taken by the Zhang family, and there is no land deed or title deed. It was necessary, so I didn't forge the land deeds and title deeds, and it was too late to forge them now.

At that moment Zhang Wen said bluntly: "Scholars don't pay food, and it has been the same since ancient times. You rebellious officials and thieves dare to corrupt the etiquette and disrupt the rules and regulations. I want to see, do you really dare to kill people here?"

Such an old man who doesn't know how to live or die, Zi Cheshi's mouth suddenly showed a ferocious murderous intent, and then he slowly drew out the horizontal knife at his waist, and then raised it high above his head, and the more than two hundred Chu soldiers who were waiting all around drew out their rings one after another. The first knife, that sharp blade instantly reflected a suffocating cold flame under the shining sun.

The fifty or so servants of Zhang's family who were surrounded in the middle suddenly became agitated. In the chaos, whoever shouted first, the fifty or so servants threw down their weapons and tried to run away, but unfortunately, this It was too late when I thought of running away. It was too late, and the horizontal knife that Zi Cheshi raised above his head had already been slashed down.

"Kill!" Accompanied by a loud and powerful shout, more than 200 Chu soldiers had already rushed towards the fifty or so servants of Zhang's family who were running away like tigers and wolves. There were wailing and groaning sounds, and as soon as they touched each other, more than fifty servants of the Zhang family fell into a pool of blood.

Since ancient times, it is impossible to reform without bloodshed!
Zi Cheshi has already made up his mind to lend these fifty heads to Xin Faliwei!
In less than a moment, the Zhang family's advocate Wen and more than [-] servants were all beheaded on the spot. The blood shed on the spot almost filled the entire field ditch, and the heads of those with hideous eyebrows rolled down on the field. Those headless corpses were lying all over the ground, and the whole place was a Shura hell.

Many of the people who stood watching from a distance applauded loudly. The Zhang family usually did some evil deeds to bully men and women, especially the fifty or so evil slaves who were raised by the Zhang family. More than [-] vicious dogs were working for tigers. Now that these vicious dogs have finally been eliminated by the officers and soldiers, why don't everyone applaud?
Many gentry hidden in the crowd turned pale with fright.

This Ziche master is really a murderer without blinking an eye. He has more than fifty people, and he killed him as soon as he said he would, and he really killed Zhang Wen. Although Zhang Wen did not become an official, his Both sons work in the Wuzhong county government, and the Zhang family and the Huan family are even more related by marriage. They are quite famous gentry families in Wuzhong.

But Master Zi Che didn't pay any attention to these things at all, and he didn't even let people clean up the corpses at the scene, so he ordered Wuzhong County Chancellor to start clearing Zhang's land and property.

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Wuzhong, the prefect's mansion.

Uncle Sun Ping hurried into the study and reported to Uncle Sun Guan who was reading the "Book of History": "Father, Zi Che Shi, the gangster, killed people, and killed more than fifty members of Zhang's family in one breath. The old gentlemen are all killed!"

"Oh, is that so?" Uncle Sun Guan was startled when he heard the words, then smiled and said, "Good kill, heh!"

"Ah? Father, what are you..." Uncle Sun Ping suddenly became confused, did Master Ziche kill well?

Uncle Sun Guan did not explain too much, but told Uncle Sun Ping: "Ping'er, you go to Huan's mansion right now and ask Huan Yuan to come to see me immediately, and tell him that I have to discuss with him urgently."

"Here." Uncle Sun Ping gave a bow, turned around and left.

(End of this chapter)