The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 331 Yanzhou’s Trouble

When Chen Yuanda saw Gou Chun coming back covered in blood, his face could not help but show a bit of solemnity, and he couldn't help but let out a long sigh:

"Why do you have to do this yourself? Just let your subordinates do it."

"Tingwei, you are responsible for checking the families who evade taxes. If the tax evasion exceeds more than a thousand dollars, just let me carry out the house raids!" Gou Chun couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Your Majesty asked me to stay in Yanzhou just to clean up these people. What a worm to my big man.”

"Okay!" Chen Yuanda said no more.

Chen Yuanda, the court lieutenant, and Gou Chun, the director of the tax bureau, basically stayed in Yanzhou this year.

Of course, it is more accurate to say that it is the Central Plains, but both Xuzhou and Yuzhou were conquered by war. Basically, the ignorant families were slaughtered once by Liu Tai with a butcher knife, and the land was basically distributed to the soldiers. And died in battle.

The remaining aristocratic families also knew clearly that the Han army was not a good man or woman, so when facing the tax payment after the autumn harvest, they decided to be on the safe side and cooperate well.

But a large part of the aristocratic families in Yanzhou surrendered. After all, the main armed forces, whether it was Zu Yue or Huan Xuan, chose to surrender. Naturally, many aristocratic families also surrendered.

They have never really seen Liu Tai's fierce side, which makes these families more or less lucky.

After all, the aristocratic family is a creature of rules, and it is almost instinctive to use the rules to make money, especially in the gray area. The blurr the boundaries, the greater the profits for the aristocratic family.

What the family considered as a big man was still the same as the Jin court in the past. For example, he concealed the fields and corvee services he owned. For example, when assisting the court in collecting taxes, all his taxes were refunded, and the taxes of the common people were divided into 30-70.

As long as the operation is performed, traces will be left, and Gou Chun is best at finding the hidden population and land of the family from these traces.

After discovering these problems, Gou Chun reported them to Chen Yuanda. Although Chen Yuanda was an upright man, in charge of the law, and seemed to be a scholar-official among scholar-officials, in fact, Chen Yuanda was actually a Huns.

To a certain extent, he is considered a lone minister in Liu Tai's political system.

Coupled with the Huns' sincere disregard for human life, especially in such troubled times, Chen Yuanda was really able to uphold the rules of troubled times and use heavy codes. He ransacked homes when he could, beheaded when he could, and decided every serious case decisively.

To a certain extent, Gou Chun was similar to Chen Yuanda. He started working as a tax inspector under Liu Tai's hands, so he was naturally hostile to the aristocratic family.

Especially recently, his brother Gou Xi chose to die in battle, which made Gou Chunyou full of anger and didn't know who to vent his anger to.

After all, can I blame Liu Tai for Gou Xi's death? You can’t blame Liu Tai for wanting to unify the world, right?

Could it be that his brother Gou Xi was so loyal to the Jin court that he surrendered and helped the Ming Lord together? ?

Gou Chun knew that his brother was benevolent, and Liu Tai also respected Gou Xi and buried him with great ceremony. Everything was fine, but Gou Chun just felt that he was incompetent. He could not save his brother, but he also felt that he had some feelings for Liu Tai. Loyalty is not pure.

Because of this, Gou Chun had such a complicated mood, which made him feel awkward!

Then Liu Tai discovered this and threw the combination of Gou Chun and Chen Yuanda to Yanzhou.

Liu Tai knew very well that it would be strange for Yanzhou's aristocratic families to say that they would pay taxes obediently.

Having just captured Yanzhou, he also needed to reestablish his authority, so he left this matter to Gou Chun and Chen Yuanda.

The combination of Gou Chun and Chen Yuanda has indeed given these Yanzhou aristocratic families a little bit of a shock. The era of those aristocratic families dominating the local area has almost completely passed.

These Yanzhou aristocratic families dealt with the Han Dynasty according to the old rhythm, but they first discovered that the imperial court's tax collection had bypassed them and could be implemented directly through the government soldiers.

At this time, basically the aristocratic families cooperated with the court, and the court was very satisfied with their attitude. If they did not cooperate with the court, Xi Jian gave these lists to Gou Chun. Gou Chun got the evidence of the crimes of these aristocratic families and handed them to Chen Yuanda, who After the sentence was pronounced, Gou Chun was asked to execute it, and Xi Jian also sent people to follow him.

For example, Gou Chun confiscated the family's money and grain to make up for their tax evasion gains. Xi Jian immediately asked the people behind him to seize the fields and nationalize them. In a blink of an eye, he gave some of them to the local soldiers who looked at the land with glowing eyes. .

The land confiscated from any aristocratic family can at least support more than 500 soldiers.

And when these government soldiers took over the fields, they were basically related to at least 2,500 people.

And as long as they don't cause chaos, it will be very difficult for the entire world to become chaotic.

At this time, the aristocratic families who were paying money and food in a regular manner saw the houses of the surrounding aristocratic families being ransacked. Naturally, they felt sad that the rabbit was dead and the fox was dead, but more importantly, they felt lucky to have escaped from the scythe of death.

If I were greedy and didn't choose to cooperate with the big man, I would be the one who was now the one whose land, money, food, and education were confiscated and exterminated!

To be honest, these aristocratic families wanted to resist to some extent, but when they wanted to take action, they keenly discovered that those soldiers, especially those who were not allocated land, appeared around their manor from time to time.

The greed revealed in their eyes made all the aristocratic families feel the piercing pain in their hearts.

Because they gradually understood that Fu Bing was a tool used by the Han Dynasty to control the grassroots and deal with aristocratic families like their own.

As long as he makes any rash actions, the force represented by the soldiers will give the personnel sent by Liu Tai the strongest force support at the grassroots level.

As long as there is force at hand, for grassroots officials, the aristocratic family is no longer an existence that cannot be offended, but an existence that is worth offending.

But for Fu Bing, they support any grassroots officials who want to establish aristocratic families, because the land quota for Fu Bing is not full yet.

Normally, land can be obtained in the Fubing stage. Only when Liu Tai's army comes and the local people actively participate, Liu Tai will take advantage of the situation to establish Fubing and let the local people who take the initiative to join the army become Fubing. After winning the battle, This group of soldiers were directly assigned to the land divided from the local noble families and became ministers of Conglong.

The subsequent soldiers who joined the army could only become soldiers, get married and start a business, and then the court would hand over the land.

But now, under the control of Xi Jian, Gou Chun, Chen Yuanda and others, the soldiers in Yanzhou suddenly understood that as long as these aristocratic families were found to have violated laws and disciplines and were discovered by the court, and the court ransacked their homes, the soldiers who performed well would be assigned fields. There is no need to become a soldier at all, which makes it more attractive to the people.

After all, not all people are willing to leave their hometown and go to fight in a distant place, and they may not even be able to get their lives back.

In contrast, now as long as you beat the rich from aristocratic families, you can get the land reasonably and legally. How can this not make these common people feel excited!

It's just that it's really not common people to report things like this to the family, and Xijian will let Gou Chun investigate. This has not been true since ancient times. This kind of thing depends more on opportunity.

After all, this time Xijian Gouchun and Chen Yuanda teamed up to clean up a group of Yanzhou aristocratic families, so as to establish their authority for the Han Dynasty, and they were consciously doing it hard.

After this purge, these aristocratic families will not hesitate to issue administrative orders in a short period of time.

After all, if Liu Tai wanted to rule Yanzhou and even most of the areas south of the Yellow River, he would need help from aristocratic families. The most important reason is that regardless of whether they are soldiers or military soldiers, their number is limited.

Unlike college students of a certain era, the jobs needed every year are far from the astonishing employment population provided by the school!

Now Liu Tai's military history and government troops left in Yanzhou can successfully fill up several counties, but they cannot fill up the entire grassroots level of Yanzhou!

These grassroots established a military and military mansion, leaving behind a military historian. The next step is to see the family realize themselves.

If he kills the aristocratic family without any care, then his grassroots level will collapse because there will be no more people to do the work.

However, for Xi Jian, with the existence of government soldiers and military history, even if some aristocratic family commanders at the grassroots level did not want to cooperate with the court, the era when the court's execution power could not be implemented at the grassroots level was over.

If you don't do it, the court has other options, but if you don't cooperate with the court, then it's a matter of position. Gou Chun investigates him!

Therefore, Xi Jian asked Gou Chun to kill a group of aristocratic families, and then started to appease the local aristocratic families one by one.

It means that we big men are all reasonable. Just look at us and kill the whole family, which means that no one is left.

Next, you just need to be obedient and cooperate well, and the big man will not mess around.

What can these aristocratic families in Yanzhou do? Are they going to rebel against Xi Jian?

What a joke, Gou Xi alone has a thousand armed tax collectors in heavy armor, these aristocratic families can't handle it.

And even if he rebels, those government soldiers stationed in the local area may be able to crush the corvee conscripted by his family. As for the local people, faced with the temptation of the land, they may not follow him to revolt, but wait to explode him. Money, food and land.

Not to mention, even if these hurdles are passed, behind the entire Han system, there is still Liu Tai, who has been invincible in battles so far.

This is what makes the family most fearful. As long as Liu Tai has never lost, no one dares to stroke Liu Tai's beard.

To be honest, if Liu Tai was purely a warrior, similar to Xiang Yu, then the family would not be afraid.

But the problem is, Liu Tai can win over what he should win over, appoint what should be appointed, and can clearly distinguish between his enemies and friends. At least compared to the other crazy foreign princes in the north, Liu Tai is really a qualified Liu family. monarch.

However, the Liu family monarch was crippled by the scum of the family, Wang Mi. As a result, in Liu Tai's view, the family was not his support, but his enemy.

This makes this feeling really uncomfortable for the aristocratic family. It's not that the monarch is unworthy, or that there are no opportunities in the world, but that he himself is from an aristocratic family, so he is not trusted by Liu Tai or the big man!

Seeing Xi Jian coming to comfort him, it was like the scumbag who had just been hurt came over and said, "You are my treasure."

Even if the family knew that they shouldn't believe what Xi Jian said, they could only believe it now, otherwise? Are you resisting?

Xi Jian comforted these aristocratic families to every possible extent. The most remarkable thing was the heavy amounts of grain harvested from below.

This made Xi Jian very satisfied with the cooperation of the family this time. With this resource support, at least Bian Hu and Wang Sang no longer need to rely on the food supply north of the Yellow River, thus freeing up the food and materials north of the Yellow River. It was smoothly transported to Luoyang.

Xi Jian also approached Gou Xi and Chen Yuanda at this time. Although the two of them cooperated quite happily, they immediately gathered together to start discussions after receiving letters from Liu Tai one after another.

Because with the establishment of the system in this first year, it is time for those who need to establish their authority. Liu Tai said that you should discuss it and choose someone with a sufficient position to stay and continue to maintain the implementation of the system. Several others were dispatched to Luoyang to listen. make.

Nowadays, if Yanzhou leaves too many people with too high ranks to manage, it will be a bit of a luxury.

Xi Jian just arrived at the conference hall and felt the solemn atmosphere in the hall. Xi Jian said slowly:

"It seems that I came a little late. You two should know that the king asked us to leave one person to take charge of Yanzhou!"

Several people looked at each other, and Gou Xi said calmly, "We are new to Luoyang and are not familiar with our tax system. I need to go to Luoyang and formulate tax laws according to local conditions, so as to make it easier for the best place to collect taxes and enrich the court."

Chen Yuanda said slowly, "The king is going to conquer Zhao in the west, and I need to formulate laws for the naturalization of the Xiongnu clan. Therefore, although I miss the Central Plains in my heart, I cannot stay in Yanzhou for a long time."

Xi Jian looked at these two idiots. They didn't want to stay anywhere and wanted to return to the court. He also coughed:

"The King asked me to prepare to go back and improve the imperial examination system a few months ago. I already have a draft in my mind, but I can't keep it!"

"Then there is only one choice!" Gou Chun also said seriously at this time.

"Yeah, I thought about it too!" Chen Yuanda took a deep breath and looked at the two guys in front of him.

"Now that everyone has discussed and decided, the only choice is to let the old man shoulder the burden!" Xi Jian couldn't help but said in a deep voice.

Soon a job promotion report, which had been discussed and decided by the entire Yanzhou senior management, was delivered to Liu Tai:

"Dao Hui, Chang Hong. Dao Zheng all recommended Cao Yi as the governor of Yanzhou and asked him to take over Yanzhou?"

Liu Tai looked at this report, thought about it, and agreed.

After all, Cao Yi was building roads in Yanzhou at this time. To be precise, it involved road projects in Sizhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Xuzhou, and Yanzhou was the core area of ​​this project.

This road was built naturally to facilitate the dispatch of supplies when attacking the Jin Dynasty in the future, but for the people of the four states that had just been captured.

At this moment, they have just experienced the war, and the four states are in a state of desperate need. Even if they move bricks for this project, they can provide food and accommodation, and there are salt stamps, which can stabilize the people of these four states to the greatest extent. Naturally, the people's will is what they want. .

At this moment, Liu Tai saw that these three guys had recommended Cao Yi, so he appointed Cao Ni as a part-time governor of Yanzhou, who could mobilize the resources of Yanzhou to build this entire project.

And Cao Yi, who had been building roads on the construction site, saw the official position of the governor of Yanzhou hit him in the head inexplicably. It was the first time that the officials on the construction site realized that he was following the rough guy running around. What thick thighs.

He was actually just working on a construction site, and he had the title of governor of Yuzhou falling on his head!

"The King of Han appointed me as the governor of Yanzhou to build this project. Is this road so important? Or is he preparing to attack the Jin court?" Cao Yi didn't understand.

But Cao Yi knew that all he had to do was continue to complete the project. Work, work!

(End of this chapter)