Little Detective of the Tang Dynasty: What to do if you are beheaded at the beginning?

The next day, Li Zhi rewarded Song Zhen with "500 hectares of good farmland, 500 households of fiefdom, and 3,000 gold and silver wares" for his meritorious service in impeaching Li Yifu.

What is a fiefdom? In short, it means that the 500 households will not have to pay taxes to the court in the future, and the money that should be paid will belong to Song Zhen.

A family of 1,000 households provides 13,000 shi of income to the Marquis of 1,000 households of fiefdom every year. You can calculate how much money it is.

All the civil and military officials were stunned. Good guy, Your Majesty, what are you doing...

What scale of reward is this? It's almost comparable to the Duke of the State.

For example, in October of the ninth year of Wude, Emperor Taizong first decided to grant meritorious officials a real title, and Changsun Wuji was rewarded with 1,300 households of fiefdom and 1,000 hectares of good farmland.

Even if some of the civil and military officials had opinions, they did not dare to raise them at this time.

They felt that Song Zhen was not worthy of such a reward.

Wasn't it just reporting Li Yifu? I can do it too!

As for the official position, there is no promotion for the time being, because Li Zhi has not decided what to do for Song Zhen.

Now Song Zhen's highest official position is the fourth-rank official of the Ministry of Justice. If he is promoted further, he will be promoted from the third-rank.

The fourth-rank to the third-rank is a huge gap, and countless people cannot cross it in their entire lives.

Because Song Zhen is too young now, it is not convenient to assign him to many important positions.

Li Zhi felt sorry for it. Song Zhen is a minister who really treats him well and practices what he preaches.

Moreover, Song Zhen is deeply loved by him in both work and life. He really admires him personally, and Wu Meiniang's pillow talk is also a big deal.

If he doesn't reward him, it will be not good, right? You can't create a new position for him, right?

After the court was dismissed, Li Zhi was walking and suddenly thought of a position, which is the third-rank, just suitable for Song Zhen to do! It is a professional match.

[Dear Yanzu and Yifei, you can guess what the position is, and it will be revealed tomorrow. 】

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On the other side, Shuzhou.

Di Renjie and his seven men have stayed in Shuzhou for five days, but still found nothing.

He sat in the inn with a look of disappointment on his face, and he was holding his breath in his heart, unable to swallow it.

At this time, Yuchi Junjun came over and persuaded: "Old Di, why don't we go?"

Since we can't find out, there is no need to stay here and waste time.

"No." Di Renjie's stubbornness burst out all of a sudden, he didn't believe that there was still a truth in the world that he couldn't find out.

He wrote and drew on paper, classifying the information he had collected in the past few days.

"First of all, we can temporarily rule out the possibility that the Yu family and the Tang family are gentry families."

"Then, the Yu family and the Tang family are likely to refer to something else."

Di Renjie closed his eyes and thought, and after a quarter of an hour, he suddenly thought of it!

"Yu, in the "Strategies of the Warring States", there is the phrase 'Suliang Caoyu', which means an open-air granary."

"And Shuzhou, due to its special geographical location and superior natural environment, has fertile fields for thousands of miles and abundant storage."

"So, where is Shuzhou's granary? Can I find the answer I want from there?"

During the Tang Dynasty, there was a saying "Yang Yi Yi Er", which indirectly reflected the richness of Yizhou.

Although it was not called Yizhou or Shuzhou in this era, but Jiannan Road, it was not renamed until the Kaiyuan period, but everyone was used to calling it that.

Di Renjie ran out of the door immediately, shocking Yuchi Junjun, who hurriedly followed him.

In the second year of Emperor Taizong of Tang's Zhenguan reign (628), he ordered prefectures and counties to set up charity granaries, and all land purchased was required to pay two liters per mu for storage. During the Gaozong period, it was changed to pay millet according to households.

When natural disasters occur, the granaries will be opened for disaster relief or loaned to the people without interest for planting, and the grain will be returned in autumn.

The Tang Dynasty had so many granaries that it was unimaginable.

According to the Records of Food and Goods in Volume 24 of the Book of Sui, from the beginning of the Sui Dynasty to the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, there were Heyang Granary, Changping Granary, Guangtong Granary, Liyang Granary, and later Luokou Granary and Huiluo Granary along the Yellow River.

The above are the large granaries with records. There are six main types of granaries used in the Tang Dynasty: Zhengcang, Taicang, Zhuanyun Granary, Juncang, Changping Granary and Yicang.

How much grain can be stored in so many granaries?

According to the Tongdian, "In the eighth year of Tianbao (750 AD), the total number of granaries in the world, including grain storage and purchase, was 196,622,200 shi."

Food is the most important thing for the people. Only with food can the country be stable.

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Di Renjie whispered as he ran: "Since Shu is rich, there must be a large granary! Either the people who manage the granary are rebels, or the rebels come from the granary area, anyway, it must be related to the granary."

The large granary in Shu is no secret. He soon found out that the Pi County under the jurisdiction of Chengdu Prefecture has a large granary.There is a super large granary called "Tiangu Cang".

When Di Renjie and his men arrived in Pi County, it was already afternoon.

He did not hide his incompetence, and directly changed into his official uniform and showed his fish token.

"I am the Chief Censor. I ask you, who is the official in charge of Tiangu Cang?"

The clerk at the gate confirmed their fish tokens and hurriedly said, "Reporting to the Chief Censor, the official in charge of the granary here is named Tangxi."

"Tangxi?"

"Yes, he has another identity. He is the brother-in-law of the governor He."

Tang? Tang! The two words are just different in tone!

So that's it! Di Renjie couldn't help laughing.

At this moment, he finally found the truth.

It turned out that the Shuzhou Yu family and the Tang family did not refer to the local gentry, but to one person.

Obviously, Tangxi or He Heng, they are very smart. They deliberately released two surnames to confuse the other party as a smoke bomb when communicating with the outside world.

They can also clear themselves of all wrongdoing after the truth is revealed.

However, they could not deceive the clever Di Renjie.

On the other hand, why did Governor He Heng deliberately fabricate the false case of the extermination of the Yu and Tang families? He must have been related to the suspect Tang Xi in this case. Maybe the two of them conspired with the Wen and Yu families to rebel.

Seeing this, Yuchi Junjun, who followed, immediately arranged his men to notify the remaining Qianniu Guards who were ten miles away from the border of Shuzhou.

They were going to arrest He Heng!

Yuchi Junjun held his breath in his heart. He was very unhappy. He had suffered so much in Shuzhou for investigating this case.

He had never lived in a leaky house since he was a child! ! !

However, Di Renjie thought of another problem.

"Tangxi is so cunning that he even made up a Yu family to refer to him. This is wrong. If I were him, I would never expose myself like this."

Because there are very few families with the surname Yu in the Tang Dynasty, most people would think of granaries when they see the word "Yu".

Then Di Renjie smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Maybe he was overthinking? After all, other nobles directly and boldly used their own surnames to contact the Wen and Yu families.

Moreover, if Tangxi did not refer to him in this way, how could he communicate with the Wen and Yu families?

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