At this time, Wang Qiang's eldest son, Wang Fei, kowtowed and said: "To the prince, I have something to report!"
"What else?"
"Last year we reached a contract with three families and purchased their 60-acre ancestral land at a price of three guan per mu. May I ask the prince, is this contract legal?"
"They all signed and stamped it?"
"Everyone signed and stamped it, and there was an intermediary. We also paid taxes to the government."
Chen Qing nodded, "Since this contract is between you and me, although the price is a bit low, it is still legal. The sixty acres of land can be excluded from the hundred acres of land. You only need to pay ninety acres of the remaining forty acres of land."
Just pay the money, but the other 450 acres are illegal and must be taken back."
Jiang Kuangyuan, the first director of the Supervision Department, nodded secretly. He adhered to principles without losing tolerance. This is considered a classic judgment case and must be promoted to the entire Guanzhong.
Two days later, Chen Qing heard another major land case in Heyang and created another case. Han Sangnong, the then county lieutenant, transformed all his relatives into farmers in northern Shaanxi, granting each family two to three hundred acres of land and occupying
Six thousand acres of land.
The nature of this case was different from that of Wang Yuanwai. It was about officials taking advantage of their power to privately seize land. Therefore, all the land of Han Sannon's relatives was confiscated and became official property. Without any choice, Han Sannon was dismissed from office on the spot.
This is the second typical case involving officials' land.
There is also a third case, a major case involving Zhizhou Wang Xingmi, involving nearly 10,000 acres of land. This case is even worse. He did not bother to pretend to be a farmer in northern Shaanxi and take advantage of policy loopholes. Instead, he came up empty handed and made false accounts to purchase 8,000 acres.
The idle land involves three counties: Fengyi County, Heyang County and Hancheng County.
In the name of his brother-in-law, Wang Xingmi purchased 8,000 acres of land from the government at a price of three guan per mu, and then made false receipts, false entries into the accounts, false entries into the treasury, false outflows from the treasury, and false outgoings from the accounts, so that all the accounts were confirmed.
Made it even.
If Han Sannon and the county officials hadn't exposed him in order to avoid guilt, this matter would never have been discovered.
Wang Xingmi was given back all his land and removed from all official positions. Both he and his brother-in-law were sentenced to five years of exile in the salt fields and worked as coolies.
This is the third typical major case, which is ten times worse than Han Sang's farming case. He was an official who personally went into battle to seize the land, so his crime was aggravated.
The judgments of three typical cases were printed, and Chen Qing ordered them to be distributed to various places in Guanzhong and ordered them to be implemented accordingly.
After the land case was over, Chen Qing came to Pujing Pass, where a hundred thousand troops were gathered at Pujing Pass, led by Yang Zaixing, the governor of the capital, and Liu Cui, the governor of the capital. They seemed to be preparing to attack Hedong after the spring.
But Chen Qing's real target is not Hedong, but Shaanzhou and Guozhou.
Shaanzhou is a long and narrow state, including the long and narrow states on both sides of the Yellow River. The south bank of the Yellow River is the old Weihan Road, and the north bank of the Yellow River is also a narrow strip, located between the Zhongtiao Mountains and the Yellow River.
The north bank of the Yellow River is not difficult to attack. Cross the Yellow River from Fenglingdu and attack all the way there. There are not many enemy troops stationed, only a few thousand people. The more difficult part is the south bank of the Yellow River, including the old road of Xiaohan, Hangu Pass and the county seat of Shaanxian County.
These are extremely hard bones to crack.
However, what Chen Qing considered was hard attack and outsmarting.
On the second night after arriving at the Pujin Pass camp, Chen Qing led an army of 100,000 people southward to Tongguan.
Chen Qing divided his troops into three groups. One group, with Liu Cui as the commander, crossed the Yellow River from Fenglingdu and captured the northern bank of the Yellow River in Shaanzhou. The other group, with Liu Qiong as the commander, led an army of 10,000 to capture Guozhou.
Chen Qing personally led an army of 70,000, with Yang Zaixing as his deputy general and Niu Gao as the vanguard, to attack the old road of Xiaohan.
Since it's called outsmarting, Chen Qing's chess pieces have already been quietly laid out
Shaanxi County is located in the east extension of the Qinling Mountains and the intersection of Funiu Mountain, Xiong'er Mountain, and Laoshan Mountain. The terrain is complex and dangerous. The county seat is located on the terraces on the south bank of the Yellow River, facing water on three sides and shaped like a peninsula. It is known as "surrounded by mountains on four sides and water on three sides".
"The strategic position is extremely important.
Because of its important strategic position, Shaanxi County's military status is also very prominent. The city has a circumference of about thirty miles, and the city wall is three feet high. It is strong and thick, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Ten years ago, Song general Li Yanxian fought a bloody battle with Wanyan Lou's 100,000 Jin soldiers. They defended Shaanxi Province for two years. In the end, they ran out of food. Shaanxi County was attacked by Jin soldiers with giant trebuchets. Li Yanxian committed suicide by throwing himself into the river. Thousands of Song soldiers were also killed.
Died in bloody battle.
Although seven years have passed, traces of the smoke and fire can still be seen on the city wall, and the impact craters on the city wall are still shocking.
However, order in the city gradually recovered, with a population of more than 100,000. Since the Puppet Qi Dynasty did not prohibit commercial exchanges with Shaanxi Road, Shaanxi County became an important transit point for east-west trade, and business was prosperous.
There is an endless stream of merchants coming in and out of the city every day. This morning, a caravan of more than thirty people came from the west, carrying hundreds of camels and fully loaded with goods. This was a relatively large-scale caravan.
, the leader of the caravan is called Qiao Lin, a Luoyang native, he is very famous on the Weihan Ancient Road, and the generals and soldiers who defend the city know him.
After Qiao Lin paid a few strings of tea money to the general who defended the city according to the rules, he led the camel team into the city. The first step in entering the city was to pay taxes. The Puppet Qi's commercial tax was quite heavy, reaching 10% of the total merchandise volume.
This caused complaints from merchants. On the contrary, Sichuan and Shaanxi were exempted from commercial taxes. The consequence of this was that a large amount of copper coins flowed into the Central Plains and a large amount of materials flowed into Guanzhong.
For the Puppet Qi, the harm of this one-way material flow is not yet seen. On the contrary, a large amount of copper coins entered the Central Plains, making the government rich in copper coins and the army also had money to pay salaries.
Therefore, there are not many caravans like Qiao Lin who bring goods into the city. In the past, Qiao Lin would have a big fight with the tax collectors because he thought their valuation was too high, but today he was very silent and paid the tax happily.
The tax collectors found it strange and made fun of him.
"Old Qiao, were you drained by the woman last night and don't have the energy to quarrel today?"
The tax collectors laughed a lot, but Qiao Lin didn't bother with them. He paid the tax and went to the inn.
The inn is right next to the city gate, and it's called Sanqiao Inn. This bridge means Qiao Lin. He owns 50% of this inn, and the third is Du Sanlang, his brother-in-law, who is also a big businessman. The two of them opened this inn together.
Home Inn.
Seeing that there was no one around, Qiao Lin said to a tall, dark man behind him: "Tangtou, there is no problem with the inn. My nephew is in charge of it. You can ask other brothers in the city to move here."
This Tang leader is Tang Qian, the scout leader of the Song army. He made meritorious service in the later stages of the Xixia War and has been restored to his original position. At the beginning of the year, he was promoted to the commander of the army. He was only one step away from taking control. Tang Qian was so energetic that he took the initiative to come to Shaanxi.
County lurking.
Tang Qian nodded, "I understand, let's stay here first!"
The key person Guan Shigu introduced to Chen Qing was not Qiao Lin. Qiao Lin was just a businessman. At most, he was familiar with the road, but he would not be of much use in seizing the city.
Next to Tang Qian was a scribe in his thirties, his name was Yang Jin, and he was Guan Shigu's staff. Guan Shigu recommended him to Chen Qing.
The biggest tycoon in Shaanxi Province is Yang Gongdao. The Yang family is a branch of the Hongnong Yang family. They moved to Shaanzhou in the late Tang Dynasty. During the reigns of Zhenzong and Renzong, the Yang family served as the general magistrate of Shaanzhou twice.
He also served as magistrate of Shaanxi County and Sima of Henan Prefecture.
And Yang Jin was Yang Gong's second son, so Guan Shigu dared to promise Chen Qing to win Shaanxi County.
After everyone stayed at the inn, Tang Qian went to the city to find the two dozen brothers who had sneaked in earlier, while Yang Jin returned to Yang Mansion to meet his father.