Because the founder of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, was a powerful figure himself, when the Tang Dynasty swept the world, it did not break the inherent class pattern. On the contrary, it was further strengthened.
That is to say, Emperor Taizong was too strong and did a lot to suppress the family during his reign. This left Li Zhi a relatively stable period of time to re-establish the majesty of imperial power.
In fact, Li Zhi also did it. Whether it was the battle for the Western Regions or the counter-insurgency incidents in the country, he did not bad. In the end, after completely pacifying the Three Eastern Kingdoms, Li Zhi's prestige has basically been Unable to shake it.
Just because the Li family came from a powerful family, they had a very clear understanding of the harm that powerful families could do to the stability of the country.
Now, the country has finally been stabilized, and Li Zhi has turned back to try to destroy the clan, but it is actually too late.
Because even a small and emerging family like the Yun family has the power to arm fifty armed tribes.
In the entire Tang Dynasty, there were no less than two hundred marquis like Yunchu, plus a larger number of earls, viscounts, barons, and more powerful dukes, princes, princesses, and princes, and they became one. Large shares of extra-legal power not subject to imperial authority.
Yunchu, who used to be an official, has a deep understanding of the uniqueness of the law and the uniqueness of law enforcement agencies.
Now that there are so many private armed forces that are not restricted by the royal power, it shows that the royal power has been challenged.
Because the main thing Private Tribe is guarding against is the imperial power!
The power of the nobility is not only reflected in private tribes, but also in the closure of households.
Yunchu's title of Marquis of Lantian allows him to collect 20% of Lantian County's taxes every year in an upright manner!
Among them, two hundred households were closed, which means that whether the two hundred households in Bashang can survive depends on the thoughts of the Marquis Yunchu. In theory, he can arbitrarily set the taxes he wants for these two hundred households. , and then collect all these taxes to themselves.
He can take away the girls from these two hundred households at will. Even if he tortures the good girls to death, the government will not interfere because they are the feudal households of Lantian Marquis.
This is what the Tang Dynasty called feudalism.
However, the thing more terrifying than exploiting one's own households is that there is almost no precedent for noble families to exploit one's own households to death.
Even a greedy, lustful, and disgusting person like Xu Jingzong has never been heard of snatching away the daughter of a feudal family.
On the contrary, his family's life in closed households is generally better than that of the people around them.
This is especially true for the Yun family's feudal households. Because of Yu Xiurong, a Buddhist disciple of the Ten Thousand Family, taxes were often raised, and then rewards would be given out in the name of Yunchu. In a few years, they would become fattened like pigs.
Since one's own household cannot be exploited excessively, what should the nobles do if they want to live a good life of sex, sex, and good food and clothing?
There is no good way but to exploit those people who do not belong to their own family but belong to Li Zhi himself.
Therefore, the girls Xu Jingzong raped actually belonged to Li Zhi, and the money Yun Chu made was also earned from Li Zhi's people.
It is for this reason that among all the nobles, Li Zhi is the biggest noble and the biggest grievance.
Under this kind of political system, according to the theory of people's hearts, how many unselfish officials can be born who are dedicated to benefiting Li Zhi?
Anyway, Yun Chu is not optimistic at all.
Speaking of which, officials like him, Wen Wen, Di Renjie, and Liu Rengui who consider the interests of all people are already rare.
As long as Li Zhi is not so stupid that he only cares about the palace and pays no attention to external affairs, these people will basically not be eliminated from his bureaucratic team by Li Zhi.
The emperor would never attack the local tycoons and divide their land, because he is the biggest local tycoon and landlord.
However, this did not prevent Yunchu from setting off a vigorous craze in Wannian County to conquer local tyrants and allocate their land.
This time, those who were designated as a target of the fight against local tyrants and allocated land were the lackeys of the Cui family—Du Chongming, Cao Hui, Zhao Ting, Qu Tianming, and Feng Zheng!
Speaking of which, these five people are all very smart people. They have a keen sense of smell, and with the financial support of the Cui family, they can always make the people feel confused as soon as the policies formulated by Yunchu to benefit the people are issued. Bet decisively at the first opportunity and reap the maximum benefits.
Similarly, in Wannian County, there is basically no opportunity for anyone to use violent means to grab the first bucket of bloody money. Therefore, although the actions of these five people made Yun Chu furious, the means they used to make money were reasonable and legal. .
Many opportunities were given to others by Yun Chu on his own initiative.
This is why Yun Chu felt incompetent and furious in front of Cui Zhen.
If ordinary people can get rich by following these guys and serve as a leader in getting rich, Yunchu will not only not be angry, but on the contrary, he will actively promote the achievements of these people and let their reputation spread throughout Chang'an.
The selfish nature of Cui's lackeys made them regard the neighbors and people as cattle and horses, and they also tried their best to acquire the Yongye fields that the poor people had that could be traded bit by bit, and then use these without The people of Yongyetian were treated as their own tenants and eventually became their own slaves.
Yunchu admitted that some of the people under his rule were stupid, some were unlucky, and some were even second-rate.
Even so, this is not a weakness that these five people can exploit to make a fortune.
Yunchu was the herdsman officer of Wannian County. Yunchu once herded sheep. His purpose of herding sheep was to let every sheep go home full and full. It was not that some of the sheep would fill the trenches with food, and some of the sheep would have bones. The skinny one was bleating from hunger.
These people were very secretive in their work. After taking over the land from the unlucky people in Wannian County, they did not transfer the ownership. Instead, they drew up a contract in private to prove that the land belonged to the five of them.
This gave Yun Chu a loophole to take advantage of. Master Wan wrote a notice telling everyone in Wannian County that Wannian County was preparing to confirm the property rights of Yongye Field again.
If you do not come to the county government to sort out your Yongye field property rights within three days, if there is any discrepancy in the property rights in the future, the government will not recognize it, nor will it recognize the property rights transfer contracts privately signed by the people.
As soon as this notice was disclosed, the people of Wannian County immediately went crazy. With the support of the village chief and village chief, the people who sold the land to the five families immediately turned their backs and no longer recognized the contract signed before.
The people in Guanzhong are naturally naive and cunning. They are naturally naive when they have no other choice. As long as there is a way to get back Yongye Field, which is more important than their lives, they can come up with 10,000 tricks in one night. method.
There are even some smart people who take their own land deeds and find some stupid rich people to sell their land privately.
"The consequence of your doing this is to fix the transaction of Yongye Field in Wannian County. In other words, from now on, there will be no more transactions in Yongye Field in Wannian County. In order to teach a few reptiles a lesson, you destroyed It has damaged Wannian County’s reputation”
Di Renjie, who studied law, still recognized the matter of contracts very much. He felt that Yun Chu's approach was very despicable and had no legal spirit.
"The spirit of the establishment of Yongye Field in the Tang Dynasty was to allow the tillers to have their own land and to allow the people to keep their last personal property that could survive."
"Judging from the current situation of the people of the Tang Dynasty, Yongye Field is the people's last resort. If there is no difficulty, they will never sell Yongye Field."
"It just so happens that the people who sell Yongye Field are basically the poorest people among the people. Once these people lose their last means of survival, they will become hooligans and second-generation vagabonds."
"If there are more second generation gangsters, it will not be a good thing for Wannian County."
"Since the business of Yongye Field cannot be locked up by law, we can only use government means to lock it down, so that there will be no market for this kind of business."
Di Renjie added, "I have checked these people. Although these people are greedy, there is nothing wrong with them. You put Du Chongming in jail. This is not what a wise county magistrate should do."
Yun Chu looked through the files, found a document and handed it to Di Renjie, saying, "He did commit a crime."
Di Renjie glanced at the document hastily, frowned and said, "Occupied six points of public land?"
"I remember that when you were the county captain for ten thousand years, you encouraged the people to cultivate the barren fields. Even the royal fields, you and the people occupied a lot. At this time, you made the mistake of using others to cultivate the barren public fields. , come to take someone to jail, aren’t you worried about the snow falling in Wannian County in June?”
Yun Chu showed a standard bureaucratic smile, showing eight snow-white teeth and said calmly, "The law is the minimum requirement for a person's behavior. We in Wannian County have higher requirements for moral character."
"Since these people regard the minimum requirements of the law as the highest standards of conduct, then don't blame me for using the most stringent laws to require them." "Isn't this a fair thing?"
"Furthermore, the officials of the Tang Dynasty never went to the countryside. In the countryside, the people governed themselves according to the "Rural Rules and Conventions". Therefore, the reason why Du Chongming is in prison now is because of the unanimous request of the local gentry and people."
Di Renjie looked at Yun Chu in surprise and said, "This will create a bad trend of taking advantage of the big players."
The bureaucratic smile on Yun Chu's face remained unchanged. He looked at Di Renjie and said, "It doesn't matter. We'll just punish the common people who like to take advantage of the rich." "They can be stupid or stupid, but they can't be bad."
"Are the people really innocent in this turmoil? Don't they need to be taught a lesson?" "I'm waiting for them to show their bad side, and then I will use thunder to punish those bad people and give Du Chongming All they have to do is explain it.”
Di Renjie took a deep breath and said, "After this, what will Du Chongming and the others have left?"
Yun Chu laughed and said, "They became rich because of Wannian County, and then lost everything because of Wannian County. When it snows heavily, Du Chongming can stand in the white snow and sigh - the white earth is so clean!" "
