Yang Shizhong held the two heads on a chopping board and came out of the governor's office shouting "surrender".
The private soldiers of the three families had long lost their will to fight. Seeing that Yang Shizhong had surrendered, they all fell on the ground and asked for surrender.
Yang Shizhong held the chopping board and knelt at the door of the Governor's Mansion.
Li Yan said to Yu Chixin: "Bring Yang Shizhong up."
Yang Shizhong trembled and walked to Li Yan's door, holding the chopping board high above his head.
Li Yan sighed when he saw the heads of An Changgui with a mocking smile on his face and Wu Hao with a determined expression on his face.
He said to Yang Shizhong: "Do these two people have any last words?"
Yang Shizhong bowed his head and said, "I am afraid that the words of a sinner will stain His Highness's ears."
Li Yan said with a straight face: "When a person is about to die, his words are also good. Let's talk about it."
Yang Shizhong kowtowed and said: "Wu Hao had no last words. An Changgui said before he died, 'I don't put my head on my head to buy a living for you and others, but to buy a living for the hundreds of members of our Anyang Wu family!'"
Li Yan nodded and said: "The lonely king has already said that he will only punish the chief culprit. Any Yang and Wu families will only blame the mastermind. The lonely king will not be implicated."
Yang Shizhong knew that he could not escape the death penalty, but surrendering could save his family, so he finally felt relieved.
Sure enough, it was exactly what An Changgui said, his head was used to buy the lives of his innocent clan members.
But from now on, I'm afraid there will no longer be any powerful family in Guazhou, such as the Anyang, Yang, and Wu families.
When he thought of this, Yang Shizhong burst into tears and bowed his head to the ground and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."
Li Yan didn't have a good impression of Yang Shizhong who was kneeling on the ground, and said to Zhou Hao beside him: "Take Yang Shizhong to prison and ask the judge to try the case properly. The lonely king will not implicate innocent people, and he will never let off guilty people."
Zhou Hao made a cross-hand salute and said: "No!"
In this way, the chaos among the three clans that shocked Guazhou was put down by King Jianning before dawn. The people in the city talked with great interest about the "sky thunder" summoned by King Jianning at the Governor's Mansion.
The clan chiefs who did not follow the rebellion of the three clans were trembling with fear. During the inspection in the next few days, they confessed to the hidden fields and Dingkou.
Several families really couldn't make up for the rent arrears and were already preparing to sell their land in exchange for money to make up for the holes.
Zhou Hao's interrogation of Yang Shizhong soon came to a conclusion. Twenty-seven of the three clans were involved in the rebellion. This time, Zhang Xian, the governor of Guazhou, was very decisive and sentenced all twenty-seven people, including Yang Shizhong, to execution.
punishment.
At the same time, the players conducted an extensive survey of the three clans and discovered that the three families had misappropriated and hidden thousands of lands, and that the unregistered families had given birth to hundreds of children.
With a stroke of his pen, King Jianning distributed land grants only to the men of the three clans registered in the Ding register, and confiscated the remaining acres of the three families.
Li Yan then asked the players to take the grain hoarded by the three tribes to buy the acres of land sold by other large households. After this round, Li Yan had a large amount of extra land in his hands.
Regarding these fields, Li Yan once again summoned the players to discuss how to deal with them.
Players are all talking about it, and they have all kinds of outrageous suggestions.
Some want to abolish the equal field system and change it to the well-field system of the Zhou Dynasty. Oh my god, Wang Mang is possessed.
Others want to directly change the land to private ownership and allow the land to flow freely. This player is indeed a fruit fan.
There are also radical ones who want to confiscate all the land owned by local powerful people and set up farmers' cooperatives first.
Li Yan knew that these were just fun-loving people, and they were all in a mood of excitement. He really asked them to come up with feasible plans, but none of them could come up with them.
Fortunately, a player named Lu Zhi stepped forward.
Lu Zhi majored in agricultural issues at university, and his mentor was also a member of a think tank, specializing in land issues.
The core argument of Lu Zhi's proposal is that the land equalization system was not outdated in the Tang Dynasty!
The equalization of land system in the Sui and Tang Dynasties can be traced back to the period of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty. During the period when the Northern and Southern Dynasties were competing for hegemony, the implementation of the equalization of land system allowed the Northern and Southern Dynasties to maintain their military advantage over the Southern Dynasties no matter how they changed.
This is the contribution of the equalized land system, and the equalized land system implemented from the early Tang Dynasty to the Kaiyuan year also created the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Lu Zhi believed that there was no problem with the land equalization system, but during the implementation process, the land was gradually occupied by officials and gentry, and the land could no longer be distributed to ordinary people.
Therefore, there is no problem with the equalization of land. The problem is with the people who implement the equalization of land.
Lu Zhi suggested to Li Yan that they should use the land cleared from the Anyang, Wu, Sanjia and other wealthy families to once again grant land to the people of Guazhou!
First of all, the people of Guazhou should be granted land on an equal basis. At the same time, Li Yan was asked to pardon the slaves of the three tribes, and the sons of those families who were found from the big families should also be granted land with civil registration.
Because of the Spring and Autumn Taxes of the Tang Dynasty, the main subjects of collection were farmland and Dingkou. Granting land to ordinary people and liberating the hidden population of powerful families increased Guazhou's tax base and increased Guazhou's fiscal expenditure.
Spend.
Only with money can things be done well. Li Yan naturally agreed to this suggestion.
Lu directly said: "After a hundred years of land granting, the fields in people's homes are fragmented. This fragmented land is not suitable for large-scale farming using agricultural tools. People have to walk more roads to cultivate the fields."
"So my subordinates suggest that we use the fields in our hands to exchange them with the fields in the hands of the people, and grant the fields to the people as much as possible."
Li Yan also discovered this problem. Because a lot of land was occupied by others, people in Guazhou were often granted fragmented fields.
Some families will even be granted long and narrow land that is not suitable for farming at all.
Li Yan adopted Lu Zhi's suggestion and used the land in his hands to exchange fields with the people, trying his best to replace the fields in the hands of the people with square fields suitable for farming.
Now, after this great survey, the people of Guazhou were allocated more fertile land, and the wealthy families who had evaded taxes for many years paid up their arrears in rent, and Guazhou's treasury suddenly became full.
The destruction of the Anyang Wu family also completely eliminated the intertwined forces of the three families in the Guazhou Governor's Mansion. Li Yan took the opportunity to promote many students from poor families to officials in the Governor's Mansion.
Suddenly, everyone in Guazhou praised King Jianning for his wisdom, and Guazhou quickly settled down.
The people were gearing up and waiting for the arrival of spring plowing, but Li Yan fell into worry after receiving Yang Shizhong's confession.
Even An Changgui, the head of a wealthy clan in Guazhou, could see Li Yan's crisis.
At the beginning of time travel, Li Yan was attacked by Uighur elites disguised as bandits. Now An Changgui can think of using his own head to please Dong Palace.
Li Yan once again felt that time was running out.
As for the rebellion of the three tribes, if Cui Ruoyun hadn't donated gunpowder, Li Yan's men would have suffered heavy losses.
We must expand. With this little trump card we have, we won't be able to sustain the prince's attack again. Maybe another group of "bandits" will randomly appear and we will be doomed.
Li Yan is even more anxious, he must expand his territory as soon as possible!
With more chassis, you can get more luck points and summon more players. And with more players, you can survive in this treacherous and chaotic world.