"I just don't understand...it's just asking those people to disperse their slaves to join the army. Moreover, those slaves were originally rewarded by the country. Now that the official slaves have been dispersed, how can we withdraw the slave status issued by the country before?"
Is it so intense? You don’t even have to plant the ground anymore?”
In Wenwenfang, the eldest wife Paul Fang, who was sitting in the front seat of Da Ma Jin Dao, was so angry that he threw a cup on the carpet. He really did what his adoptive father was trying to do and what his adoptive father was worried about.
But there were dozens of people with red ribbons, black ribbons, and a few white ribbons sitting around, but they just looked at each other.
In fact, there are many experts and bright-minded people here, so why don't you know what's going on?
If we really want to talk about the conflict between Emperor Cao and the military leaders of Guanlong, it is actually very simple.
That is, after Emperor Cao Che failed three consecutive eastern expeditions, he also brought the remaining core troops to Jiangdu. The eastern capital was empty, so Emperor Cao naturally wanted to form a new military force with Guanlong behind him to deal with the current situation.
All conflicts and crises that erupt violently.
For Guan Long, they have a military system, and it is natural to form an army.
But first of all, the Wei Dynasty has carried out three consecutive large-scale conscriptions in just a few years, and it has not brought tangible rewards to the military leaders. Instead, it has been defeated all three times. There is grass growing outside and below, but what about inside and above?
Secondly, no one believed that Emperor Cao had the qualifications to carry out a new round of mobilization against Guanlong on behalf of the Wei Dynasty.
This is a very fundamental contradiction.
But can this be said?
In front of the chief eunuch, he said that his boss and godfather were not qualified, so why bother?
However, other things can still be said, especially since everyone is from Jing'antai. From the outside, they are all direct descendants of the emperor's uncle. Since some things are known, there is no reason to hide them.
Because Uncle Cao is well, everyone can be well.
Uncle Cao Huang fell, and everyone suffered.
Sure enough, as some of the maids accompanying the drinks and the newcomer all retired, the more senior Chang Jian named Chai finally slowly twirled his beard and spoke:
"Luo Zhushou, some things are not as simple as you think. Let me ask you, you are a serious Zhushou, ranked fifth grade, and you have the qualifications to enter the palace. How much land has the court given you according to the law?"
"How did I know?" Luo Fang tried to save Chai Chang's face and barely suppressed his anger. He just spread his hands and told him frankly. "I have always been rented out by the government. I turned it into money and cloth and took it as a salary."
.”
"That's it." Under everyone's serious gazes, Chai Changjian began to talk about some common sense that everyone knows, but most people don't know. "But people with clans behind them can't do this.
Yes, they have a big family to support and maintain local manors, so they really have to farm according to the official and title territories... Specifically, the higher your official title, the higher your title, the court will notice
The more slave registration quotas are given to you, then you can buy official slaves or private slaves according to the quota, and then the court will use your slave registration to actually grant you land. If the slave dies, you must immediately report, purchase, and re-establish it.
Conferring farmland... This has been a rule for many years, just to prevent someone from wasting fertile land and leaving it uncultivated."
Luo Fang was startled for a moment, and seemed to realize something: "So, in these large clans, only slaves can actually grant land. The number of slaves is related to the amount of their land?"
"yes."
Chai Changjian's face twitched, but he smiled bitterly, and the few experienced Zhu Shou and Hei Shou around him almost all turned their faces inexplicably. "But it's more than that, so I asked Luo Zhu Shou whether he farmed?
"
"Old Chai, don't play riddles." Luo Fang realized something and waved his hand. "I'll put it bluntly, we are all from Jing'antai. We can only sit here and enjoy ourselves because of our foster father. We don't have to go outside.
The torment in this world... Not only will one be prosperous, but both will be harmed... Why hide something private?"
"If not, how could I speak?" Chai Changjian smiled more and more bitterly. "I still want to spend my remaining years in Dongdu with my calligraphy and paintings."
People around me also smiled bitterly.
"The truth is that the number of slaves is related to the land. In fact, they hid too many private slaves." Chai Changjian continued, but he made it clear. "Otherwise, where would there be so many manors and fields? Guanxi
Almost all the land, accounting for 60-70% of the total land, is owned by the estates of people with official titles. Who knows? Therefore, in the final analysis, they are guilty and afraid that their slaves will take it away and the land they were granted will be taken back.
.Therefore, as long as our Zhongcheng can promise not to use this matter to seize their good land, and then the big families have fewer slaves, they should still be able to take some slaves to serve in the army. At least they will not be like now, with the top and bottom forming one body.
Come and fight..."
Luo Fang nodded, and then suddenly thought of a question: "It's still not right... Why can they be granted land if they hide private slaves? Logically speaking, slaves are just a middle ground in the field between the official and the noble. No matter how much land the official or noble can give,
It should be fixed, right?”
At this point, Luo Fang himself became confused and his tone became weak, because he himself also realized the problem, that is, from the earliest appearance, it is an established fact that the Guanlong clan occupies a huge amount of land, not only in Guanxi
, in the Kinki area of the Central Plains, there are now many manors of the Guanlong clan.
So, what went wrong?
Fortunately, no one cared about it now that the words had been spoken, but the person who spoke to reveal this section was actually Qin Bao, a son of the Eastern Region from outside the country, which was also surprising.
"It was the late emperor who made the hole." Qin Bao drank a glass and explained without hesitation. "In his later years, the late emperor changed the law. When a slave died, and when he was promoted or demoted, he had to re-grant the land. This
When the time comes, they are allowed to retain 20% of the difference in the land grant as a reward... Specifically for the slaves, if five slaves die, and when the slaves are repurchased and the land is granted, one more person will be left with the land. The original intention is probably to adopt people's hearts.
There is also a saying that slaves reproduce naturally, and considering people's natural feelings, they do need to be given more. But in fact, because most of the high officials and titles belong to the Guanlong clan, it became a means for the Guanlong clan to take advantage of the opportunity to annex them. In the later years,
In 2006, he was even more unscrupulous, hiding private slaves, then reporting his death, and openly annexing the country's land."
There was a moment of silence at the banquet because what he said was clear enough.
The law is like this. Once there is an opening, the strong can play tricks on you...
Even in the east, powerful people can achieve de facto annexation by forcing people to rent Yongye fields at low prices, let alone the Guanlong masters who hold actual power.
Hiding slaves and falsely reporting deaths, if you have the guts, come and investigate. How dare you, a seventh-grade official, to investigate the manor of Shangzhu Country? If you find it, you dare to report it?
Why did he die so quickly? He just died so quickly! Just as fast as you!
And when it comes to granting land, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a narrow or wide township. I want the best for my 800 acres of land. I’ll measure it myself!
Of course, there are some things I don’t understand, but I really can’t go on talking about it, or even thinking about it.
Because it is difficult to say whether the late emperor who did not have Jackie Chan became confused in his later years, or whether he understood in his heart.
Did he bribe other Guanlong military leaders in this way because he wanted to eliminate heroes? Or maybe he thought from the beginning that the world was fought by Guanlong masters, so he wanted to let Guanlong masters eat and drink well?
These words are too heartbreaking, especially for the old man Cao Huangshu here in Jingantai. Essentially, he has to carry the banner of the late emperor to establish his legal rationality and stand up to the saint.
But in short, it was the late emperor who strictly enforced the law in his later years and killed ordinary people in the Eastern Territory for a penny. At the same time, he suddenly changed the law, allowing the Guanlong nobles to legally annex massive amounts of land in a specific short period of time.
Fertile farmland.
Today's saint is able to turn the world into something like this so quickly. He is by no means as simple as a genius.
He is really not the supreme being on earth.
Some problems are rooted in the Wei Dynasty, some are caused by his sage and wise father, and some can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty's journey to the south, the opposition between north and south, and the opposition between east and west, and even the failure of the earlier emperor's western expedition.
Above. Everything is of course the choices and behaviors of people at this moment, but everything seems to have some origins in history.
This is where history gets interesting.
"No matter what." Luo Fang thought for a while and responded in a deep voice. "I will tell my foster father about this matter. It depends on my foster father's decision... Actually, it's not me, Luo Fang, who called everyone here today.
What do I want to do? What I want to say is that no matter what, I am the adopted son of my adoptive father. There are some things that are hard for you to say, but I don’t have any scruples so that my adoptive father can listen to you... If you have anything else to say, please
And I will never reveal your names! Once your foster father is well, we will be well too! I won’t repeat the truth over and over again.”
When everyone heard this, they were very interested.
But in public, there seemed to be some obstacles to speaking out. For a while, everyone wanted to speak, but everyone had scruples.
After a while, Qin Bao actually spoke: "I do have an idea... Luo Zhushou, the first three patrol groups are almost disabled now. In the past, the coordination between the three towns and Fusi and the coordination with the army are also abolished.
It is difficult to expect these three groups to be reestablished quickly... So, can you let Zhongcheng make arrangements and send me to Nanyang to join the army? For one thing, my mother pointed out that I should make my wife Yinzi as soon as possible.
It's a meritorious service; secondly, it saves me the trouble of sitting here idle."
Luo Fang frowned and wanted to answer.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Qin Bao said this, it was like the floodgates were opened, and the whole hall quickly became buzzing, almost all of which were similar suggestions.
Everyone believed that Cao Zhongcheng should release these confidants from Jing'antai.
However, some people want to go to the court, some want to go to other places, and a few people like Qin Bao want to join the army... In everyone's opinion, Uncle Cao's current situation of being passively beaten is because he is in Jingantai and the army.
There are no branches and leaves of his own outside, especially now that the Eastern Capital is empty and there is no organized army, which makes Uncle Cao lame.
Even because of this lame leg, he was being controlled from all sides, so much so that even a villain like Zhang Xing could bully him, let alone those Guanlong clan.
Therefore, at this time, the more important it is to know how to use individuals.
Of course, isn't it also a mutual achievement for everyone to take this opportunity to stretch their legs?
Luo Fang was equally moved when he heard this, and secretly made a mental note that after the banquet that day, he would take several other eunuchs with him to the Black Tower and report to his adoptive father face to face.
As a result, he was stopped by several people.
"Li Twelve, Qin Bao, Lu Changheng... and Qian Tang, what do you mean?" Luo Fang saw these four people gathering together, looked back at Xue Liang, the second eunuch who was wrapping his hands, and became wary for a moment.
.
There is no way, these people, some have family backgrounds, some have abilities, and they are generally young, but they have all climbed to the top of the black ribbon, plus some common experiences and insights, they have vaguely become a faction.
...Not only these four, they also came from the Jingantai water pool. They have many qualifications, favors, and relatives in Taichung.
It's really scary.
"It's for business." Li Twelve was injured inside, and now his face is still frighteningly white. And since he came back, he has never looked good. At this time, he took out a document from his arms, and it was like drawing a sword. "This
It was a statement written by the few of us after we came back and looked at Zhongcheng's difficulties and the current situation... Since you are going to see Zhongcheng, you might as well bring it with you."
When Luo Fang heard this, he finally became impatient. He snatched it with his hands, flipped through a few pages, stuffed it into his arms without saying a word, and crossed over.
But less than half an hour later, these eunuchs appeared on the fifth floor of the black tower.
"I knew it……"
The wind chimes in the tower rang slightly. Cao Lin sat in his seat and listened carefully to the narrative before speaking. "These people can't stand loneliness. No one in the world can control their own selfishness."
"Your foster father." In front of a group of Taibao, Luo Fang leaned over and held his hands in his hands, speaking sincerely. "Of course I also know that they all have selfish motives. I feel that since my foster father is in charge of the Eastern Capital, they want to make things better... But now, this book
This is human nature; secondly, it is indeed a matter of public and private interests... If you can't spread your wings, not to mention Guanlong, even in the Eastern Capital City, it will be difficult for the foster father to spread his fists. And this time the strike of farming is going on.
, is a clear proof.”
Amidst the slight sound of wind chimes, Cao Lin was silent for a while, and the atmosphere was inexplicably tense.
And after waiting for a while, when Uncle Cao Huang finally opened his mouth to express his position, unexpectedly, Luo Fang, who had his head lowered, couldn't bear it anymore and spoke again.
"My lord foster father." Taibao Luo said nervously. "According to the boy's opinion, in order to stabilize the Wei Dynasty, we must level Hebei, the eastern border, and the Central Plains, and then ensure that the Eastern Capital and Jiangdu are unobstructed for the future;
If you want to pacify Hebei, the East, and the Central Plains, you must integrate Guanlong and organize a large army; and if you want to do this, you must first establish the Eastern Capital, because the Eastern Capital has a reputation and enough storage for more than ten years.
, and is located in the middle of the world, making it easy to attack from all sides; but if you want to conquer the Eastern Capital, you can't do it without weaving your wings widely, integrating the upper and lower parts inside and outside, and devoting your whole heart to the foster father."
The wind chime rang several times, and Cao Lin looked at his adopted son seriously: "Is this what you are saying?"
"This is what Lao Chai and Lao Hu said. Then Li Qingchen called Qin Bao, Lu Changheng, and Qian Tang. They recorded everyone's words and compiled a document for Hai'er.
...The child himself concluded it...it can be said from his heart." Luo Fang actually blushed a little.
When Cao Lin heard this, he felt a little relieved. He actually stood up, walked past a few cases, grabbed the other person's hand, and said sincerely: "I only thought you were brave men that day, but I didn't expect you.
The situation has reached this point. You have experienced some things, suffered some losses, and have made some gains... Now it is no longer good to continue to use you as external pawns, but as arms."
"I'm ashamed, kid." Luo Fang felt a little guilty and quickly explained through gritted teeth. "This is really not something I arranged, or it was just a paraphrase."
In fact, not only was he not the one who arranged it, he threw the document into the pond outside Jing'an Terrace on the way... To put it bluntly, these eunuchs felt that those people wanted to rob them of some money in front of their adoptive father.
Brother Liang Tuo, I just casually looked through it at that time, and happened to remember this paragraph that was easy to remember. I just saw Cao Lin and seemed unhesitating, so I temporarily arrested him.
"Don't feel ashamed." Cao Lin continued to sigh after seeing this. "Be willing to do things, be willing to listen to what others say, and be willing to admit your losses after suffering. The key is that you are still young, and there is still time to go... you may not be able to become a general in the future."
With that, Uncle Cao Huang gave up, turned back to the case, and said seriously: "There are some things that I was not prepared to involve you in before, but now it seems that it is not necessary... What you are talking about today is actually very important."
It makes sense, but some I can respond to, and some I need to think more about... For example, the issue of land granting was basically ruined by the former Tang Dynasty, so from then on, the land granting was done like this in the three dynasties.
He is a man of achievements and must stick to this matter. After a while, you asked me to promise those bastards. I am really embarrassed, because once the opening is opened, it will be difficult to clean up."
Luo Fang was slightly solemn, but felt something was wrong.
Didn’t the late emperor insist?
Is it because he is not a capable person, or is it because he will become confused when he gets older?
"However, I agree to scatter you out, control places and key points, and strengthen control over the army." Cao Lin continued. "If we don't deal with personnel matters, we really can't do anything... That's good. You go and do that."
Bring the documents, I will compare them and boldly release the trustworthy and talented people!"
Luo Fang was happy at first, and then suddenly startled.
How can he fish it out this late at night?
After a pause, under the almost helpless looks of the brothers behind him, Luo Taibao spoke earnestly: "Why do you need to read any documents, my foster father? Why don't you call Li Twelve and Qin Er, and let's face him together?"
Care about it?"
Hearing these words, Uncle Cao became more and more relieved amid the sound of wind chimes... This boss had learned to be tolerant after receiving a beating!
It can be seen that setbacks can still sharpen people, so why not use his knowledge of shame and courage to let him go?
