The world of counterfeit magistrates competes in the world

Chapter 664
Luo Yi's wedding will be arranged on February [-]th.At that time, Luo Feng and the generals from all over the country have already rushed back to Huayuan City, just in time to attend his wedding banquet.

After completing the marriage process and confirming the date of marriage, Ouyang Rui finally waited for someone.

But unexpectedly, the person who came was also Pei Yan, who was also a nobleman.

"Master Pei, why are you here?" Ouyang Rui frowned and asked in confusion.

"Haha, why can't it be me?" Pei Yan laughed loudly, "Brother Ouyang doesn't seem to want to see younger brother?"

"Hehe, where, where." Ouyang Rui now has a powerful brother-in-law as the backing, and he has the confidence to speak, "Master Pei came to my house, but did he follow his orders?"

Pei Yan immediately restrained her smile, and said seriously, "Not bad."

"In that case, please tell Mr. Pei to my study." Ouyang Rui didn't dare to neglect, so he made an invitation.

After the two of them entered the study, Ouyang Rui couldn't wait to ask: "I don't know, my lord, what do you want my Ouyang family to do?"

Pei Yan pondered and said: "Brother Ouyang, what your lord means is that you and my two families will unite to divide the Huazhou gentry."

"Oh, what is the differentiation method?" Ouyang Rui frowned slightly and asked immediately.

"Your Excellency only said eight words, weed out the strong and support the weak, and defeat each one." Pei Yan said coldly.

"Eliminate the strong and help the weak, defeat each one?" Ouyang Rui frowned suddenly, "Master Pei, what does your lord mean, let us win over those small gentry and help the government suppress the big gentry? Don't you know that our two families, Is it the largest gentry in Huazhou?"

"That's why the adults hope to use your strength and mine to break down the cohesion of the Huazhou gentry." Pei Yan smiled wryly, "As long as our two families make a move, those small gentry can't resist at all. Besides, their current strength has already been suppressed." Hengshan has almost been cut. As long as we use the name of the government to win over these small gentry, they will not refuse at all. The rest of the big gentry must be further suppressed so that they no longer have the strength to fight against Hengshan."

"That being said, Mr. Pei should know that if all the noble families are wiped out, what about you and my family?" Ouyang Rui stared at Pei Yan sharply.

Pei Yan was silent for a moment before replying: "Brother Ouyang, now Hengshan is about to establish a state, and the future world will be an unprecedented prosperity. The old gentry clan is out of date, and it's time to start making changes. My Pei family has already begun to sell land , turned the family business to business and official career. You may not know that the future Tianhua Empire will never be limited to the Central Plains. In the grand blueprint of the Duke, he intends to bring the civilization of the Central Plains to this Everywhere in the world. Besides the army, merchants can achieve this great goal. In the future, my Pei family will not only become a big merchant in the empire, but also become a pioneer in expanding the civilization of the Central Plains outside the region."

"This, Mr. Pei, this, this statement is serious?" Ouyang Rui swallowed hard, thinking to himself, the Duke is so bold.

"Naturally it is true." Pei Yan said proudly, "The general trend of the world is mighty and mighty. Those who follow it will prosper, and those who go against it will perish. Brother Ouyang, it's time for you to make a choice."

"Thank you Mr. Pei for your guidance." Ouyang Rui stood up, bowed and said, "If Mr. Pei hadn't pointed out the maze, the old man would almost have led the family all the way to the dark."

"Haha, brother Ouyang, you don't need to be too polite. This is just what my lord wants me to point out to you." Pei Yan smiled and supported him, "Now brother Ouyang is already a relative of the future emperor, but in the future it will be Pei, and there will be more You should be close to brother Ouyang."

After the two complimented each other, they continued to discuss how to complete the task assigned by the adults.

A few days later, the two families began to send people to contact the small gentry, and successfully persuaded most of the gentry to give up a lot of land at home and rebuild workshops and shops one after another.

Faced with the large amount of land sold by the small gentry, the major gentry suddenly became suspicious and sent people to investigate.It turned out that this matter was secretly used by the Ouyang family and the Pei family to coerce and lure the small gentry, forcing them to give up their land and carry out the so-called gentry improvement.

They are quite disdainful of this. If the nobles have no land, how can they pass on the family business from generation to generation?By running a business?A joke, if the management is not good, wouldn't it mean that the family is completely defeated and there is no room for recovery?Only the land is the real harvest.As long as there are people, food can be produced continuously. As long as there is food, no matter how the world changes, it will not affect the foundation of the family.These little gentry are fascinated by ghosts for a while, and sooner or later they will regret it one day.

However, are these little gentry really that stupid?No, on the contrary, they are smart.Although the two sent people to persuade them to hand over the land in Huazhou, they did not prohibit them from buying land outside the Central Plains.They have already made up their minds, since the land in Huazhou is firmly targeted by the government.Those nobles with small families and small businesses are powerless to resist.

That being the case, it is better to take advantage of this time to sell the land at a high price, only retain enough land to establish a foothold in Hengshan, and the rest to go to the grasslands or the Western Regions to buy farms.The land there is really ridiculously cheap, one hundred mu of land is only one tael of silver.They have already calculated that as long as they buy it back and cultivate it for a few years, it will be a family property that can be left to future generations.

It's not that the big gentry didn't see this, but because the temptation was too great to make them suspicious, fearing that this was a conspiracy by the Hengshan government.In addition, Huazhou is about to become the location of Gyeonggi, and the land price here has already multiplied many times.The more so, the more they refused to give up.Even though Hengshan adopted many decrees, they insisted on bearing tremendous pressure and adopted various methods to keep their land.Such behavior has prevented Hengshan's policy from being implemented, and has already aroused the dissatisfaction of Hengshan's high-level officials.

Just when the major gentry families were full of doubts, the Ouyang family also sold the family land to the outside world, exchanged it for a large amount of money, and built workshops wantonly.Some people even secretly found out that the Ouyang family is also planning to buy a large number of properties in the grasslands and the Western Regions, and it is suspected that they are planning to move the family's focus to outside the region.

After all, Ouyang's family is a high school in Huazhou, and his every move immediately caused a shock among the nobles in Huazhou.Even the Ouyang family, who will soon become relatives of the emperor, did this. Is there any hidden secret in it?
Some gentry began to waver. After these years of tossing, they felt more and more powerless.If they continue to choose to fight secretly with the Hengshan government, I'm afraid it will end in their own destruction.Don't you see, in the past three years, how many noble families have disappeared?
But there are also some stubborn gentry, relying on Hengshan's strict laws, as long as they don't make mistakes, Hengshan can't find excuses to punish themselves.Only when Hengshan loses all of his hearts in the future will they make a comeback.In their eyes, what Hengshan did was bound to offend the gentry all over the world.Even if the world is unified in the future, so what, whether it can be kept, depends on whether the gentry agree.

(End of this chapter)