"Then do you know that when His Majesty was entrusting vassal states to a number of aristocratic families, he issued an edict strictly prohibiting privately bringing the people of the Tang Dynasty to his own vassal state?"
Before the manager of the Yuan family could finish speaking, Li Xuan said coldly.
"His Royal Highness the King of Jin clearly knows that these people are not ordinary people, but tenants of my Yuan family..."
However, before he finished speaking, under the angry glares of Li Xuan, Li Chengqian and others, the steward of the Yuan family gradually did not dare to speak.
“Are sharecroppers not common people?”
Li Xuan snorted coldly and looked at Xue Rengui.
"Gather these officers and their guards together and turn their backs to us! Stand behind them and no one is allowed to look back!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Xue Rengui responded, and quickly led a group of personal guards to drive the Yuan family steward and a group of guards to one side, and stared at the group of guys eagerly.
And since he knew that the person in front of him was the King of Jin, the steward of the Yuan family did not dare to think of any tricks at all, and stood still and obeyed Li Xuan's words.
Li Xuan once again looked at the terrified people.
"I am the King of Jin of the Tang Dynasty!"
"I see His Highness the King of Jin!"
All the people hurriedly knelt down to pay their respects.
"You all, please get up. I have something to ask you, and you all will answer honestly. And the Yuan family members all have their backs to us, and there are my personal guards who are guarding me. You don't have to worry.
They can know who said it, and they don’t have to worry about retaliation in the future!”
After saying that, Li Xuan asked directly: "You can tell me now, who are you? Where do you come from? Where are these bastards from the Yuan family going to take you with so much effort?"
Hearing this, the manager of the Yuan family shuddered subconsciously and wanted to turn his head.
Unfortunately, before he could turn around, a cold steel knife was placed on his neck with a 'crack' sound, which frightened the Yuan family manager so much that he did not dare to move.
After the common people looked at each other, a look of cruelty flashed in the eyes of the leading middle-aged men, and then they knelt down.
"Please, Your Majesty, make the decision for us!"
"That's right. Your Majesty, please make the decision for us. These people like us are not tenant farmers of the Yuan family!"
Behind him, a large number of people looked at it and knelt down.
"Um?"
Hearing this, Li Xuan's face immediately darkened.
Li Chengqian, Li Chongyi and others even had frosty faces.
"Can you please explain in detail what is going on?"
"Back to your Majesty, we are all from Chen County, but we are not tenant farmers of the Yuan family in Chen County, but some poor households in various counties in Chen County. We have only borrowed some money or money from the Yuan family because our families are poor.
The food is planned to be returned to the Yuan family after the autumn harvest, when the family has food.
Unexpectedly, a few days ago, some stewards of the Yuan family suddenly came to visit with a group of nursing staff..."
"His Royal Highness, Prince Jin, because we accidentally blocked the young master of the Yuan family's carriage on the road, we were watched by the Yuan family's nursing home, and they insisted on making us pay. If we can't afford the compensation, we have to pay for it.
The Yuan family is working. However, we never expected that the Yuan family would take us to such a far place."
"Your Highness Prince Jin, we are even more unjust. When we were plowing the fields, we accidentally turned over the soil and fell into the Yuan family's fields. The Yuan family's nursing home came to find us..."
"His Royal Highness Prince Jin, we just took one more look at the young lady from the Yuan family..."
There are more than 400 farmers, and each one has a different experience.
However, they all have one thing in common: they were all targeted by the Yuan family, threatened and deceived.
By the time these farmers realized something was wrong, they were already thousands of miles away from their hometowns. Not only were they unable to escape, they also did not dare to escape.
"What a Yuan family!"
After listening, Li Xuan sneered subconsciously.
"I didn't expect that the Yuan family would dare to act so boldly!"
But at this moment, the steward of the Yuan family was already so frightened that his whole body became weak and he was even a little unsteady on his feet.
"Your Highness the King of Jin, please forgive me. It is really my Yuan family who had to do this! My Yuan family spent hundreds of years of their wealth to buy three cities including Goguryeo Jianshan City, but those three cities only had one hundred thousand Goguryeo hozens.
.
These hozens are really as stupid as pigs on the cultivated fields. Hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile farmland really cannot be left there to waste."
"So, you, the Yuan family, use your own excuses to bully the people, ignore His Majesty's edict, and trick them into going to Goguryeo?"
Li Xuan sneered and continued to ask: "Tell me, how many people of the Tang Dynasty have these evil beasts deceived?"
"Your Majesty, King Jin, please calm down. These villagers are the first people that this villain wants to take to Goguryeo!"
The steward of the Yuan family said quickly.
"Can you give these villagers wages?"
Li Xuan asked again. He didn't believe what the Yuan family manager said.
"Salary?"
The manager of the Yuan family was stunned.
"snort!"
Li Xuan snorted coldly, "They are really a bunch of gangsters!"
Then, he turned to look at the bankers.
"Don't be afraid, I will rest in Qingzhou for one day and I will send you home tomorrow!"
"Thank you, His Highness King Jin!"
All the bankers were overjoyed.
As for the manager of the Yuan family, his eyes narrowed and his expression changed rapidly.
Later, Li Xuan asked the steward of the shipyard to arrange a large factory building for these villagers, and guarded it by personal guards, so that they could spend one night.
After returning to Qingzhou City, Li Xuan asked Cheng Chusi and Li Chongyi to find the caravan steward in Qingzhou City.
Let these stewards send people to various vassal states in Goguryeo again to sell goods.
The most important goal is to find out how many aristocratic families in the various vassal states of Goguryeo went to Goguryeo to deceive the people, and how many people were deceived in total.
In the major cities of Goguryeo, there are tea shops for caravans, and caravans often come and go. They are very familiar with the situation of the various vassals of Goguryeo.
Therefore, caravans are the most convenient and quick way to find out this information without attracting attention.
At the same time, after learning about the Yuan family's behavior, Li Yuan just sighed with some disappointment, not much surprise, not much anger.
Early the next morning.
Li Xuan took Li Chengqian and others to send the people he rescued yesterday to Chen County.
After arriving in Luoyang, Li Yuan continued to Chang'an under the protection of his own bodyguards.
Li Xuan, on the other hand, took Li Chengqian, the more than 400 people, and the Yuan family stewards, and began to go south to Chenzhou.
The ancestral home of the Yuan family in Chen County is in Yangxia, Chenzhou.
The Yuan family of Chen County has a distinguished family background and is one of the top families.
However, the Yuan family of Chen County has always advocated purity, never fought for power, never amassed money wantonly, and was not famous. Therefore, during the Han Dynasty, people only knew about the Yuan family of Runan, but not the Yuan family of Chen County.
However, during the Han Dynasty, the Yuan family in Chen County was not much weaker than the Yuan family in Runan.
Moreover, from the Han Dynasty to the present, for nearly 600 years, the Yuan family in Chen County has always had children serving as officials in the court. However, the Yuan family in Runan has long since declined.
Unexpectedly, this kind of aristocratic family could do such a shameless thing for the sake of a mere feudal country!
The group of people marched directly to the ancestral home of the Yuan family in Yangxia.
As one of the top aristocratic families in the world, the Yuan family's ancestral home is not too big.
However, on the two streets surrounding the ancestral home, there are high-rise courtyards that are dozens of times larger than the Yuan family's ancestral home.
Inside, all the powerful branches of the Yuan family live.
Li Xuan and others are more than 600 people, all wearing steel swords and armor!
There were more than 400 civilians and more than 100 Yuan family guards.
As soon as thousands of people arrived at the gate of the Yuan family's ancestral house, a guard of thousands of people poured out from all around, holding swords and spears, looking at Li Xuan and others with wary faces.
"Who are you?"
"Commander Zhou is a villain, Lin Nanshan!"
Lin Nanshan, the steward of the Yuan family who was escorted all the way by Li Xuan, ran out quickly and said anxiously.
"Manager Lin?"
Commander Zhou naturally knew the steward of the outer courtyard next to the head of the family.
Moreover, knowing the mission of the steward of the outer courtyard, he subconsciously looked up and recognized the hundred subordinates following Lin Nanshan, and couldn't help but be a little surprised.
"Manager Lin, didn't you go to Jianshan with this kind of banker? Why are you back again?"
Then, feeling something was wrong, he looked at Li Xuan and others nervously.
"Who are these gentlemen?"
"Commander Zhou, this is His Highness the King of Jin!"
Lin Nanshan said quickly: "I wonder if the master of the family is here?"
"His Royal Highness King Jin?"
Commander Zhou looked shocked.
"I'm here to see His Highness the King of Jin. I didn't know that the King of Jin is here. My family's head is resting in the house. Please wait for a moment. I'll go in and report to my family's head!"
After saying that, Commander Zhou quickly ran to the back room.
The surrounding Yuan family guards also slowly put away their swords and spears, and began to look at Li Xuan with somewhat different expressions.
Less than a moment.
Commander Zhou ran out in a hurry again.
The whole gate of the house is completely open.
Inside, an old man in plain clothes and a pair of golden glasses walked out with an anxious look on his face.
Seeing Li Xuan in the middle of a group of people, he directly raised his hands and saluted.
"I have met His Highness the King of Jin, but I didn't know that His Highness the King of Jin came all the way from afar. If I miss you from afar, please don't be surprised by His Highness the King of Jin!"
"snort!"
Li Xuan's face suddenly darkened, "Yuan Zhen, do you still remember the first agreement between your Majesty and you when your family auctioned the cities of the surrounding small barbarian countries?"
"this?"
Yuan Zhen's face froze.
On the side, Commander Zhou and all the guards could not help but feel nervous. His Highness Prince Jin seemed to be here to cause trouble!
"I don't know where the Yuan family offended His Highness the King of Jin. Please ask the King of Jin to be merciful. I, the Yuan family, will definitely apologize!"
After Yuan Zhen was stunned for a moment, he smiled again.
"It's better to make it clear outside. You have just been named King of Jianshan, and you have already dared to break the agreement and disobey His Majesty's edict. I am really worried that if you enter your Yuan family so boldly, you will be assassinated by your Yuan family.
inside!"
Li Xuan sneered.
"The King of Jin is serious. Although I have been named the King of Sword Mountain, my Yuan family is still the same as before, a home of scholars, and everyone who comes here is a distinguished guest!"
Yuan Zhen said slowly.
"It turns out that it is still a scholarly home. I thought it had become a den of thieves!"
Li Xuan's words were still so rude, and he didn't have the consciousness to reach out and not hit the smiling person.
After this, Yuan Zhen's face became solemn.
"If you have any questions, please let the King of Jin speak clearly. Although our Yuan family in Chen County has always kept a low profile, we are not people who allow others to bully us!"
"good!"
Li Xuan sneered, moved to one side, pointed at the more than 400 people behind him and said: "Yuan Zhen, tell me why these servants of your Yuan family used all kinds of despicable methods.
Use the excuse to deceive and trick you into going to Jianshan City?"
At this moment, Yuan Zhen noticed the more than 400 people behind Li Xuan and his more than 100 guards.
At the same time, everyone also understood why Li Xuan came to the door angrily!
Thinking about it, a smile appeared on Yuan Zhen's face again.
"It turns out that King Jin is here for this matter. Please allow me to explain to King Jin!"
"These people are all poor farmers in Chen County. Many of them have borrowed money and food from my Yuan family. However, because of poor harvests in successive years, they have not repaid them for a long time.
For this reason, as a creditor, it is not an exaggeration for our Yuan family to ask them to go to Jianshan City to reclaim and plant more acres of fertile land for our Yuan family!"
"As for the other people..."
"Pooh!"
Li Xuan snorted coldly, "What a sanctimonious King of Sword Mountain!"
Yuan Zhen couldn't help but pause, his face turned livid.
Li Xuan ignored it and continued: "For the moment, if you lend them a lot of money, how much money can you get back in the end?
I would like to ask you, do they want to go to Jianshan City themselves?
Also, how many people among them did not lend money to your Yuan family, but in the end they were given dirty excuses by your Yuan family, or even designed to provoke them into provoking your Yuan family?"
"You Yuan Zhen think that just a few casual words can cover up the evil deeds of your Yuan family in Chen County, maliciously oppressing the people, privately deceiving and intimidating them, and trying to take them all to Jianshan City?"
"Prince Jin..."
"My last question is, do you still remember the agreement you signed when you auctioned the three cities of Jianshan City, and how you agreed to it?"
"This...I certainly remember it!"
Yuan Zhen's eyes flickered and he said slowly.
"That's good. If I can capture Goguryeo and sell those cities to you, then I will be able to take back those three cities again!" Li Xuan said coldly.
"Prince Jin, although I am not a prince now, I am still a county king. How much money and effort I have spent on purchasing Jianshan City. What qualifications do you have to take it back just by saying it is taken back?" Yuan Zhen said angrily.
Li Xuan couldn't help but chuckle.
"Any feudal family that does not abide by the agreement or His Majesty's edict, and wantonly oppresses the people of the Tang Dynasty and transports the people of the Tang Dynasty to the vassal country in order to replenish the population of the vassal state, will destroy the family and the country!"
"Yuan Zhen, do you think being messy will be useful to me?"
Yuan Zhen was startled, then remembered something and quickly looked at the steward.
"Lin Nanshan, where did you say you were intercepted by King Jin?"
"Go home, Lord, I just went to sea for less than a day when I was stopped by His Highness Prince Jin!" Lin Nanshan quickly replied.
Hearing this, Yuan Zhen's eyes flashed with joy.
"Your Majesty, King Jin, these people are not sent out to the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, I am not breaking the agreement, let alone disobeying His Majesty's edict! Therefore, please calm down, King Jin. We will go into the house to drink tea and discuss these matters again.
!”
"Yuan Zhen, do you think those who attempt rebellion are not guilty?"