Zhang Xingcheng brought some cakes and gave them to the girl Xiaokui. Not only did he not gain any goodwill from her, but he also aroused the caution of the lame second and fourth children.
"We won't sell it!" Si'er said angrily.
Zhang Xingcheng was puzzled at first, but then understood something and explained: "Don't get me wrong, I have no intention of buying a child. This is a gift from my son."
"Sir?" Si'er looked at the man and two women eating pastries over there, "You didn't lie to me?"
"How could I lie to you?" Zhang Xingcheng smiled.
Seeing this, the lame second son said quickly: "My lord, don't be angry. Although our family's livelihood is not guaranteed, we will not sell our children."
"Both flesh and blood relatives should have their due principles, I understand." Zhang Xingcheng said.
After this incident, the relationship between the two parties finally eased a little.
Zhang Xingcheng asked: "Where are you from in Guzhou?"
"Changshui people."
"Why come all the way to Luozhou?"
The lame second child smiled bitterly and said, "Who would be willing to leave their hometown if they had a choice?"
"How to say?"
"In the past few years, many people from Luozhou have moved to Guzhou, buying land everywhere. Our family's land has also been bought. Everyone doesn't want to be tenants. I heard that being an official here in Luozhou is good.
We farm, and everyone wants to come over and give it a try."
"The rich people in Luozhou are all bastards!" Si'er said angrily: "If our family doesn't sell their land, they will unite with those beasts in Guzhou to force our family. My second brother's legs were broken by the Guzhou policemen.
of!"
"Four children!" the lame second child scolded, and then smiled at Zhang Xingcheng and said: "This child is young, ignorant, and talks nonsense."
Nonsense?
This is the ninth time I've heard this repeated statement.
Zhang Xingcheng remained silent and continued talking nonsense with the lame second son and fourth son.
On the other side, Li Zhiyun gently wiped the cake crumbs from the corner of his mouth and looked at more and more people around him, feeling both scared and angry in his heart.
Fortunately, he did not promote large-scale sharing of people into acres of land, otherwise we don’t know what big things would happen!
In the past few days, he has seen people who migrated from many places in Luozhou. Their experiences are generally the same. They are all wealthy people from Luozhou and Zhengzhou. They migrated to other states and counties to join forces with local officials.
, buying land, forcing these people to be unable to survive. Either they become tenants of those people, or they have no choice but to leave their hometown and come to Luozhou.
Before this, things had not happened, but the matter had not yet fermented. In the two prefectures of Luo and Zhengzhou, the shareholding system had been implemented for several years. However, a large number of wealthy people could not accept the shareholding system and began to migrate outwards, finally triggering an avalanche.
People went into exile.
As for the means of forcing people to sell their land, there is no need to explain it in words, everyone understands it. This also leads to a series of missing persons, human trafficking and other evil things!
Li Zhiyun was not unaware of this kind of thing before, but he still had some confidence in the officials under his rule. The Tang Dynasty was established less than twenty years ago, and the dynasty was prosperous. No one dared to be so brazen and arrogant.
.
But the facts gave him a slap in the face. There are really many people who dare!
Local officials colluded with wealthy people to buy land and recruit tenants. Those wealthy people could not stay in Luozhou and Zhengzhou and had no choice but to go to other states to continue purchasing land.
hateful!
Deserve to kill!
The most serious ones are in the prefectures and counties around Luozhou and Zhengzhou.
"First, the officials were derelict in their duties and did not check the officials' character. Second, the Yushitai was incompetent and failed to detect the evildoers. Third, it was my fault that I failed to seek truth from facts." Li Zhiyun said coldly.
Wei Boti looked at his lover who had a tendency to turn evil and whispered: "Sir, this matter needs to be verified in detail. Don't cause trouble out of anger."
She originally thought that her lover was taking her on a trip, but it turned out that something like this happened, which was really uncomfortable.
"Yeah." Li Zhiyun nodded calmly.
Soon after, Zhang Xingcheng came back and told Li Zhiyun the contents of his conversation with the lame laoer.
"Your Majesty, I think I'm afraid there will be people coming over later."
Li Zhiyun snorted coldly: "Pass on my oral instructions to tell Pei Shiqing and ask him to properly resettle these people."
"As commanded."
After Zhang Xingcheng left, Li Zhiyun did not stay and took the people back to the carriage and returned to Chang'an.
The situation was urgent, and he couldn't alert the enemy. When he went back to gather people, he must check out all the garbage around and kill them.
What happened this time was a reminder to him that if we don't solve the original problem of borers and directly implement the method of apportioning every acre into an area, there will be big problems. Fortunately, it's just a local problem, not a large one. Fortunately, we didn't promote it directly, otherwise
Not easy to clean up.
Rich locals in these places dare to do such things, so what will the aristocratic families do?
Of course, you can't be in a hurry.
In the car, looking at the worried emperor, Wei Dante leaned against Wei Boti with some fear. The latter gently comforted his sister, but was also a little worried.
"His Majesty."
"Huh?" Li Zhiyun asked, "What's wrong?"
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, it will get better." Vedant mustered up the courage to say.
Looking at his sister-in-law, Li Zhiyun smiled, put his arms around her, and whispered: "Are you scared?"
"No." She said quietly.
"Don't be afraid." Li Zhiyun said: "After returning to Chang'an, let Bodhi and you go to the mansion I have arranged for you to have a good rest. After a while, I will visit you again."
"Yeah." Vedant's face turned red.
She also knew that after coming out this time, she would be Li Zhiyun's woman.
Two days later, Liangyi Hall.
Li Zhiyun directly called Wei Zheng and Gao Jifu from Yushitai.
"Luozhou, Zhengzhou, Guzhou, and the surrounding prefectures and counties, you all have to investigate, and this time you have to investigate thoroughly!
Remember, don’t alert the enemy, I will catch them all!”
"yes!"
Li Zhiyun continued: "We must not slack off in rectifying the personnel department, we must not slack off!"
Repeating it twice meant that the emperor was very angry. Wei Zheng immediately said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will definitely find out!"
"I give you the right to do things conveniently. If anyone stops you, you will arrest them directly." Li Zhiyun ordered.
With Wei Zheng's loyalty and integrity, he can be trusted.
"yes!"
This investigation was a secret investigation jointly conducted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Yushitai. For this reason, Li Zhiyun did not even tell the Prime Minister of the Political Affairs Hall. But he knew that there must be rumors in the Political Affairs Hall.
So, after sending Wei Zheng and Gao Jifu away, he summoned Du Ruhui and Xue Shou.
"What you said is right. It cannot be used on a large scale for the time being. This is a lesson." Li Zhiyun sighed.
After Du Ruhui read the memorial of Pei Shiqing, the governor of Luozhou, and listened to the emperor's story, he said: "Your Majesty, I have neglected my duty. This matter is of great importance, but there is no news from the Political Affairs Hall. I have not investigated it."
"Me too." Xue Shou lowered his head and held his hands.
"You really don't know?" Li Zhiyun narrowed his eyes.
Du Ruhui shook his head and looked at His Majesty the Emperor with clear eyes.
"I really haven't seen the relevant memorial."
"So, someone intercepted the memorial." Li Zhiyun sneered, making people's hair tingle.
Xue Ting swallowed. If someone really intercepted the memorial, then this person must have a high status, and he was probably from the Political Affairs Hall.
Otherwise, we would not have discovered this kind of thing until His Majesty the Emperor inspected the place.
Zhengshitang, is there going to be an earthquake?
Li Zhiyun said: "Since you don't know, then don't worry about it and continue to do your job."
"Yes." Du Ruhui cupped his hands.
He really didn't know about this matter. The Six Ministers of the Political Affairs Hall assisted the emperor in handling state affairs, so it was impossible for him to see every memorial. If someone intercepted the memorial in advance, it was not impossible for him to not see it.
However, he was very curious as to who had the courage to do such a thing.