Zhenguan Wenzong System

Chapter 167

In the afternoon of the same day, without asking why, Luo Yan closed the grain store in the city and took away all the weighing utensils.While the people clapped their hands and applauded, all the gentry who sent people to make trouble were detained.

Hatred of the rich is a common feature of any era, especially when these rich people have exploited themselves year after year.Seeing the noble gentry who yelled and yelled on weekdays, they will be taken to prison one by one by the guards in disgrace, and I feel happy.The mood that has been made more and more depressed by the pressure of life these days is also refreshed at this time.

Many people don't hesitate to spend a few extra pennies, rushing to the tavern for a drink or two, just for the little pleasure in their hearts.

He Mingde is the only gentry who can be defeated by a group of people now.If you want to beat these people thoroughly, you have to find more crimes.After controlling these gentry, Luo Yan issued another notice the next day to collect evidence of the evil done by these gentry.For a while, the threshold of the county government was about to be broken.

These people are domineering in the countryside on weekdays, and they don't know how many evil things they have done.But no county magistrate has ever dared to put these people in jail.Luo Yan's action gave courage to many people, and things that they dared not speak out in the past, now poured out like a pouring rain.

It was convenient for Luo Yan now.In the end, He Mingde was accused of murdering officials, instigating servants to make trouble, making fake measuring instruments, killing servants without authorization, etc., and was executed after autumn, and all his family members were confiscated in Guanzhong.Search the mansion and disperse the servants at the same time.Several other gentry also ransacked their homes, but they were not punished with capital punishment.After all, some crimes were eventually offset by money.Luo Yan was also very helpless about this, but a rich gentry without money is just a tiger with its teeth pulled out, and life must not be easy in the future.

As the county magistrate who was justified and broke the family, Luo Yan's status in Lantian skyrocketed in an instant.In the next few days, in order to completely suppress the few surviving local gentry, Luo Yan distributed the grain in the granary according to the county books and every township for half a day.According to the population, the share of one liter per person is distributed door to door.A bucket of rice was restored to [-] Wen, which was more than [-] Wen lower than other counties.

This time it really made the gentry unable to sit still.A few days ago, I desperately wanted to buy the grain in Luo Yan's hands, and received it at a price of almost [-] yuan per bucket of rice. Now the supply is suddenly restricted, but I am optimistic about the [-] yuan per bucket of rice, coming and going , How much money was lost in the middle.

But it has to be sold. If the grain cannot be sold and the harvest was good that year, wouldn't it be that they will suffer a loss next year.

But I didn't expect that Luo Yan didn't even think about making these people feel better, and the way of providing relief from work suddenly changed from distributing money to distributing food.This further satisfies people's food needs, so there is no need to go to the rice shop to buy rice.

There is no way, let's lower the price, how much the grain in Luo Yanguan sells, I can lower it by a penny or two, someone will buy it.However, what made these people spurt blood was that as much as they lowered, Luo Yan would follow suit.What's even more exasperating is that some people actually said that Luo Yan said to himself: If it weren't for not being able to compete with the people for profit, they would directly send people to wrap up their grain.

When Luo Yan asked the Drum Banner Army to withdraw all the soldiers from all the important roads in Lantian, among the big counties in Jingzhao Prefecture, Lantian unexpectedly became the one with the lowest food price.

If it weren't for the fact that all the counties stopped the refugees at this time, and they couldn't enter Lantian County to buy food, I'm afraid people from all the surrounding counties would come to grab the food.

After completing the whole thing, Luo Yan let out a sigh of relief.In the past few days, I have really worried myself.If it wasn't for He Mingde's stupid move, he would have to fight these people for a long time.And the final benefit, at most, is to recover all the money released before from these gentry.

It's not like now, just go straight to a few, and the rest are just small fish and shrimp.The confiscated money and food also supplemented the money and food in the previous granary and treasury, and there was a lot more.

He left a sum of money and food for backup, and privately gave some benefits to the Drum Banner Army and county officials.Only then did Luo Yan hand over the remaining money and food, together with his memorials, to his subordinates to escort them to Chang'an.

The memorandum naturally explained the ins and outs of the whole matter clearly.Without Li Shimin's support, this matter would definitely not be possible.Anyway, I didn't do anything wrong, and I explained everything clearly. Li Shimin has the bottom line, and even if someone makes a fuss about it in the future, he can still support him.

As for money and food, it should be regarded as a return gift to Li Shimin.The amount is basically a little more than what Li Shimin sent down before.I have seen two layers of peeling, and there are so many left, which shows how rich these gentry are.

Escorting a large amount of supplies, it took the brigade's troops a day to reach Chang'an.Because these things were brought without first asking Li Shimin, they were temporarily placed in the post station outside Chang'an City.After waiting overnight, the memorial was handed over to Li Shimin by Zhongshu Province early the next morning.

Li Shimin has completely noticed what happened in Lantian these days.It's just that Luo Yan had been given the right to act cheaply in advance, and what Luo Yan did was not too out of line, so even if Luo Yan said that he wanted to mobilize the Drum Banner Army, Li Shimin asked Du Ruhui to give the Drum Banner Army a document.

Under such circumstances, now that Luo Yan came to report the results, Li Shimin also wanted to see what this kid had to say.

One good thing, Luo Yan didn't use the official parallel prose, but wrote it more like a legend.A few flattering words were added in the middle, which made Li Shimin very happy.

"Look, Luo Yan really has some tricks. In just a month, he has wiped out all the gentry in Lantian. If there were more Luo Yan in the world, how could these local tyrants and evil gentry be as rampant as they are now." In front of Fang Xuanling, Li Shimin said happily.

"Your Majesty, Luo Yan's ability to deal with things is indeed great. However, he is also a bit more murderous." Fang Xuanling reminded Li Shimin intentionally or unintentionally.

It's not that he is very reluctant to deal with Luo Yan, on the contrary, Luo Yan's doing this really makes him feel very relieved.But in the past half a year, Luo Yan already had two lives in his hands.And being entangled with the army at every turn is really out of tune with these civil servants.

"You, you are just worrying too much. If you take a closer look at the punishment results of these people, you will find that many people will lose their heads according to the law. But why did Luo Yan only kill He Mingde?"

"Your Majesty, are you saying that Luo Yan did this on purpose?"

"Why not? Didn't you just say that his style of handling things is very murderous. But only in this matter, he only killed the chief culprit. This is the excuse he left for himself. The courtiers will only You can criticize him for being too gentle, but you can’t say that he is too gentle. You know, He Mingde intends to kill him.” It’s not that Li Shimin understands Luo Yan’s heart, but that Luo Yan blatantly said this in the memorial .

Yes, I was going to kill, but this man deserved it.If anyone refuses to accept it, someone will fail to assassinate him in the future, and if he has the ability, he will give him a way to survive.We must know that the cases handled now will become common practice in the future and can be used as a reference.Whoever has never offended someone, life and death enmity is not a rare thing.

It was precisely because Luo Yan saw this point that he dared to write so arrogantly in the memorandum.

Seeing Fang Xuanling's puzzled expression, Li Shimin handed him the memorial, and said with a smile: "He is really the first person who has been speaking openly in front of me since he entered the Qin Palace." Then what Not to mention, I started to read other memorials.

As for Luo Yan at the other end, after successfully dealing with the gentry and food issues, the next headache is the increasing number of refugees outside the city.

It is almost the end of May now, and in January, the crops will be harvested.But in the last period of time, the common people ran out of money to buy food, and all edible wild vegetables, and the rest were fleeing famine.Half a month ago, there was no one outside the city, only those straw huts were placed there. The city gate guards also stopped many refugees in the past few days, and Hu Cao was temporarily sent to serve porridge.

Now that the problems in the city are resolved, the rest is to deal with things outside the city.

Refugees are actually not scary. To put it bluntly, they are ordinary people who are looking for a living.But why are these officials so afraid?Without him, refugees can become rogues, which is a hidden danger to law and order and national stability.Second, refugees may also bring plagues.A large number of disorderly refugees gathered together, and they were anxious to save their lives in a hurry. How could they manage the issue of hygiene, such a time would easily bring infectious diseases.Finally, there is the financial burden, which is also a big one.In some prefectures and counties, the people under their own rule can't have enough to eat, so they can't care about others.

There are many reasons why refugees are regarded as tigers in the eyes of officials.

This year, due to the famine, many projects of the Ministry of Industry have chosen to use work as relief.Of course, this has solved a lot of refugees, but how can there be so many projects that can resettle all the people in Guanzhong.Most of those who fled famine became old and weak women and children. These people were more troublesome to deal with than the young and strong.

Because of these people, you want to do something about work-for-relief, but you don’t know what to do.There are so many things in the world that these people can do.

However, with the support of many confiscated family properties of the gentry, they can barely feed these refugees for a month and maintain normal life activities. There is still some family wealth.However, these people cannot be left idle.After solving food and clothing, and then idle, something will really happen.Luo Yan has always been kind to the people, but as an official, he has to be on guard.

But the refugees, the children let them study, and the teacher will find them from the refugees.Don't they just let them do the sanitation during the day, the guard at night, and the patrolling of the camp.Wouldn't this greatly reduce the work of the Lantian guards?These days, Luo Yan's big movements every three days, coupled with the distribution of food in the countryside, the guards are tired enough.

Thinking of this, Luo Yan couldn't help feeling relieved.

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