Tang's dining table

Because the founder of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, was a powerful figure himself, when the Tang Dynasty swept the world, it did not break the inherent class pattern. On the contrary, it was further strengthened.

That is to say, Emperor Taizong was too strong and did many things to suppress the family during his reign. This left Li Zhi a relatively stable period of time to re-establish the majesty of imperial power.

In fact, Li Zhi also did it. Whether it was the battle for the Western Regions or the counter-insurgency incidents in the country, he did not bad. In the end, after completely pacifying the Three Eastern Kingdoms, Li Zhi's prestige was basically It can no longer be shaken.

Just because the Li family came from a powerful family, they had a very clear understanding of the harm that powerful families could do to the stability of the country.

Now, the country has finally been stabilized, and Li Zhi has turned back to try to destroy the clan, but it is actually too late.

Because even a small and emerging family like the Yun family has the power to arm fifty armed tribes.

In the entire Tang Dynasty, there were no less than two hundred marquis like Yunchu, plus a larger number of earls, viscounts, barons, and more powerful dukes, princes, princesses, and princes, and it became A large body of extra-legal power not subject to imperial authority.

Yunchu, who used to be an official, has a deep understanding of the uniqueness of the law and the uniqueness of law enforcement agencies.

Now, the emergence of so many private armed forces that are not restricted by the royal power shows that the imperial power has been challenged.

Because the main thing Private Tribe is guarding against is the imperial power!

The power of the nobility is not only reflected in private tribes, but also in the closure of households.

Yunchu's title of Marquis of Lantian allows him to collect 20% of Lantian County's taxes every year in an upright manner!

Among them, two hundred households were closed, which means that whether the two hundred households in Bashang can survive depends on the thoughts of the Marquis Yunchu. Theoretically, he can make any plans he wants for these two hundred households. Pay taxes, and then collect all these taxes to yourself.

He can take away the girls from these two hundred households at will. Even if he tortures the good girls to death, the government will not interfere because they are the feudal households of Lantian Marquis.

This is what the Tang Dynasty called feudalism.

However, the thing more terrifying than exploiting one's own households is that there is almost no precedent for noble families to exploit one's own households to death.

Even a greedy, lustful, and disgusting person like Xu Jingzong has never been heard of snatching away the daughter of a feudal family.

On the contrary, his family's life in closed households is generally better than that of the people around them.

This is especially true for the Yun family's feudal households... Because of Yu Xiurong, a Buddhist disciple of the Ten Thousand Family, taxes are often collected, and then rewards are given out in the name of Yun Chu... In a few years, they have become fattened like pigs.

Since one's own household cannot be exploited excessively, what should the nobles do if they want to live a good life of sex, sex, and good food and clothing?

There is no good way but to exploit those people who do not belong to their own family but belong to Li Zhi himself.

Therefore, the girls Xu Jingzong raped actually belonged to Li Zhi, and the money Yun Chu made was also earned from Li Zhi's people.

For this reason, among all the nobles, Li Zhi is the biggest noble, and at the same time, he is also the biggest grievance.

Under this kind of political system, according to the theory of people's hearts, how many unselfish officials can be born who are dedicated to benefiting Li Zhi?

Anyway, Yun Chu is not optimistic at all.

Speaking of which, officials like him, Wen Wen, Di Renjie, and Liu Rengui who consider the interests of all people are already rare.

As long as Li Zhi is not so stupid that he only cares about the palace and pays no attention to external affairs, these people will basically not be eliminated from his bureaucratic team by Li Zhi.

The emperor would never divide the land among the local tycoons, because he is the biggest local tycoon and landlord.

However, this did not prevent Yunchu from setting off a vigorous craze in Wannian County to conquer local tyrants and allocate their land.

This time, the targets who were designated as the targets of the fight against the local tyrants for land allocation were the lackeys of the Cui family—Du Chongming, Cao Hui, Zhao Ting, Qu Tianming, and Feng Zheng!

Speaking of which, these five people are all very smart people. They have a keen sense of smell, and with the financial support of the Cui family, they can always make the people feel confused as soon as the policies formulated by Yunchu to benefit the people are issued. Bet decisively at the first opportunity and reap the maximum benefits.

Similarly, in Wannian County, there is basically no chance for anyone to use violent means to grab the first bucket of bloody money. Therefore, although the actions of these five people made Yun Chu furious, the means they used to make money were reasonable and legal. .

Many opportunities were given to others by Yun Chu on his own initiative.

This is why Yun Chuhui felt incompetent and furious in front of Cui Zhen.

If ordinary people can get rich by following these guys and serve as a leader in getting rich, Yunchu will not only not be angry, but on the contrary, he will actively promote the achievements of these people and let their reputation spread throughout Chang'an.

The selfish nature of Cui's lackeys made them regard the neighbors and people as cattle and horses, and they also tried their best to acquire the Yongye fields that the poor people had that could be traded bit by bit, and then use these without The people of Yongyetian were treated as their own tenants and eventually became their own slaves.

Yunchu admitted that some of the people under his rule were stupid, some were unlucky, and some were even second-rate.

Even so, this is not a weakness that these five people can exploit to make a fortune.

Yunchu was the herdsman officer of Wannian County. Yunchu once herded sheep. His purpose of herding sheep was to make every sheep go home well-fed. It was not that some of the sheep would fill the trenches and fill the trenches with food, and some of the sheep would have bones. The skinny one was bleating from hunger.

These people were very secretive in their work. After taking over the land from the unlucky people in Wannian County, they did not transfer the ownership. Instead, they drew up a contract in private to prove that the land belonged to the five of them.

This gave Yun Chu a loophole to take advantage of. Master Wan wrote a notice telling everyone in Wannian County that Wannian County was preparing to confirm the property rights of Yongye Field again.

If you do not come to the county government within three days to sort out your Yongye field property rights, the government will not recognize if there are any discrepancies in the property rights in the future, nor will it recognize the property rights transfer contracts privately signed by the people.

As soon as this notice was disclosed, the people of Wannian County immediately went crazy. With the support of the village chief and village chief, the people who sold the land to the five families immediately turned their backs and no longer recognized the contract signed before.

The people in Guanzhong are naive and cunning by nature, and they are naturally naive when they have no other choice. As long as there is some way to get back Yongye Field, which is more important than their lives, they can come up with ten thousand ways in one night. A cheating method.

There are also some smart people who take their own land deeds and find some stupid rich people to sell their land privately.

"The consequence of your doing this is to fix the transaction of Yongye Field in Wannian County. That is to say, from now on, there will no longer be transactions in Yongye Field in Wannian County. In order to teach a few reptiles a lesson, you destroyed It has damaged the credibility of Wannian County.”

Di Renjie, who studied law, still recognized the matter of contracts very much. He felt that Yun Chu's approach was very despicable and had no legal spirit.

“The spirit of the establishment of Yongye Field in the Tang Dynasty was to allow cultivators to have their own land and to allow the people to keep their last personal property that could survive.

Judging from the current situation of the people of the Tang Dynasty, Yongye Field is the people's last resort. If there is no difficulty, they will never sell Yongye Field.

However, the people who sell Yongye Field are basically among the poorest people among the people. Once these people lose their last means of survival, they will become hooligans and second-generation vagabonds.

If there are more second generations of gangsters, it will not be a good thing for Wannian County.

Since the business of Yongyetian cannot be locked up by law, it can only be locked up by government means, so that there is no market for this kind of business. "

Di Renjie added: "I have checked these people. Although these people are greedy, there is nothing wrong with them. You put Du Chongming in jail. This is not what a wise county magistrate should do."

Yun Chu looked through the files, found a document and handed it to Di Renjie: "He did commit the crime."

Di Renjie glanced at the document hastily, frowned and said: "Occupied six points of public land?

I remember that when you were the county captain of Wannian County, you encouraged the people to cultivate the barren fields. Even the royal fields, you and the people occupied a lot. At this time, you took advantage of others' mistakes in cultivating the barren public fields. If you come to take someone to jail, aren't you worried about the snow in Wannian County in June? "

Yun Chu showed a standard bureaucratic smile, showing eight snow-white teeth and said calmly: "The law is the minimum requirement for a person's behavior, and our Wannian County has relatively high requirements for moral character.

Since these people regard the minimum requirements of the law as the highest standard of conduct, then don’t blame me for using the most stringent law to require them.

Isn't this a fair thing?

Moreover, the government of the Tang Dynasty never went to the countryside. In the countryside, the people governed themselves according to the "Rural Regulations and Conventions". Therefore, the reason why Du Chongming is in prison now is the unanimous request of the local gentry and people. "

Di Renjie looked at Yun Chu in surprise and said, "This will create a bad trend of taking advantage of big players."

The bureaucratic smile on Yun Chu's face remained unchanged, he looked at Di Renjie and said: "It doesn't matter, just punish the common people who like to eat from the rich.

They can be stupid, they can be stupid, but they can't be bad.

Are the people really innocent in this storm? Don't you think they need to be taught a lesson?

I am waiting for them to show their bad side, and then I will use thunderous means to punish those bad people, and I will just give Du Chongming and the others an explanation. "

Di Renjie took a breath and said, "After this, what else will Du Chongming and the others have left?"

Yunchu laughed and said: "They became rich because of Wannian County, and then lost everything because of Wannian County. When it snows heavily, Du Chongming can stand in the white snow and sigh - the white earth is so clean !”

Chapter One