Better to live forever [Rebirth]

The human trafficking in the northern border market has not yet come to an end, and everyone is looking forward to these women and children being rescued from the black traffickers in the market.

At this time, there was another disturbance in Guangzhou Mansion, which kicked off the prelude.

On that day, Zhou Mu of Guangzhou Prefecture visited Ning's family and told the whole story, hoping to get help from Ning Prefecture.

It turned out that it was the squire's occupation of the fertile land.

In the past three years, there have been continuous natural disasters and frequent weather anomalies, resulting in the abandonment of many places. In some county towns that have been plagued by waterlogging, the land of one village after another has been abandoned.These abandoned or abandoned fields were brought back under the control of the government, and the owned fields were still under the original owner's name. According to the government's decree, once the land has been abandoned for more than three years, the land deed will be taken back as official property.

This was originally a hard restriction that was put in place to prevent the people from abandoning agriculture and turning to business and abandoning fields. Who would have expected that it would take three years if the situation went bad this year. After buying, selling and distributing the land, many people took up the idea of ​​these lands.

Dajing has strict control over the world. Every household has a fixed number of fields that can be bought and sold, and there are many restrictions. If it exceeds the limit, it will be suspected of abusing the land.During the reign of Emperor Taizong, due to the serious trend of land annexation, many strict laws and regulations were enacted in the imperial court. Even those who are officials must follow the law when purchasing land. risks of.

As a result, many people calmed down. After three disaster years, the number of vacant fields in the Guangzhou government suddenly increased. Now that the disaster is over, people frequently go to the government to buy land.Originally, this was also a common thing, but it was only when the state pastor checked the land owners in the first half of the year that they discovered that there were many people who used other people's names to collect the land for their own use.

It wouldn't be a big problem if it was just one or two, but now it seems to have formed a trend. After the supervision by the government, these people have come up with many opportunistic countermeasures. It cannot be said that it is a big mistake in the law to disperse and enclose land in the name of nephews or brothers-in-law.

However, now that the famine has passed, many refugees return to their hometowns, but when they return to their hometowns, they find that the land they depend on for survival has been occupied by others.Those who have land deeds can say that if they explain the situation to the government, even if the land is occupied, they can get back some similar land. The deeds, or they were damaged and lost on the road when they were away. Without proof, the government can't listen to their empty words and then distribute them.

These victims did not have any silver taels to buy land. The common people spent most of their lives facing the loess and their backs to the sky. They did not know any other work except farming. Losing the land would mean cutting off their livelihood. Even the honest small farmers None of them could bear to make trouble.Many people jointly appealed to the government to seek justice. They are three to five people, and they are refugees who have escaped from floods and droughts. Now that they are deprived of their way of life, they can do anything.

Lan Lu, the State Shepherd, has already submitted a letter to His Majesty for judgment on this matter, and the squire who committed the crime was also a member of the Ning family, so Lan Lu deliberately came to inform him. Let the Ning family show affection.

Lou Ankang also heard about it, and immediately decided: "If these things are reported to the public, these people will definitely not be able to please them."

Lou Anning nodded straight and said: "Before we headed south, two third-rank ministers were demoted in Jingzhong, saying that their clansmen invaded the land in Sizhou and used their power for personal gain. Your Majesty hates such a thing the most, let alone they occupy the victims of the disaster." Your Majesty will definitely give a heavy sentence, so many people... Lanzhou Mu has offended many people."

He admired Lanzhou Mu from the bottom of his heart, it's not easy for such an upright and principled person.

Seeing his reverence, Zhu Dingbei couldn't help laughing, pointing out: "If it weren't for the Guangzhou mansion, see if he dares to do this."

Seeing that his younger brother was ignorant of this matter, Lou Ankang explained: "Guangzhou government focuses on merchants. Although the merchants are rich, there are many restrictions due to their household registration. They have to rely on the relationship between the government to manage their affairs. No one can offend the state shepherd. If these people are not exterminated, the state shepherd can get along here."

This is the difference between Yangzhou Mansion and Guangzhou Mansion. It is also a rich place, but most of the country gentry in Yangzhou are scholarly officials. On the contrary, the state shepherd depends on the faces of these big families to check and balance among them.Guangzhou is the opposite. No matter how many generations of squires have been in the business or have left the business, the food at home is still eating their old business. The so-called business does not fight with the government, they have to hold the government. Relatively speaking, Guangzhou’s prefecture Mu's treatment is better than that of Yangzhou government.

After hearing this, Lou Anning thought again, then these merchants will always look for backers, didn't Lanzhou Mu's actions also offend these backers?Of these people, most of them must be important figures in the government, right?But then he figured it out for himself, it's okay for merchants to respect their backers. Lanzhou Mu never named them when he sued, saying that these people were the ones who ordered them to occupy the land, and their careers would not be hindered if they separated the relationship afterwards.What's more, the biggest official in the Guangzhou mansion is Lanzhou Mu, he is the one who will be courted by these "backers", and he is not afraid of offending them.

Thinking in this way, he said seriously: "Hey, Guangzhou Mansion is just fine."

They saw so many powerful ministers and senior officials in Luojing, and they all had to behave with their tails between their legs. They were not as chic as Lanzhou Mu.

Being laughed at by them, Lou Anning didn't care, and turned to Ning Heng—it has been more than a month since returning from the sea, and the Patriarch of the Ning family has "healed" and left the customs—spitting a smile and said: "Aheng, I I heard from Uncle Ning that there will be a caravan going out to sea in two months, and it will pass through many tribes and small countries, can brother and I go?"

Before Ning Heng could speak, Zhu Dingbei frowned and said to Lou Ankang: "Are you pampering him too? Grandpa Lou is still waiting for you to go back in Luojing. This time you caused such a big thing to frighten the old man." Now, you two better give me peace and contentment, if you do this to me again, I will break your legs immediately!"

This is the general pattern of the Zhu family's education of bear children. The biggest threat is to interrupt your dog legs, and they are often enraged. The addition of military sticks is no joke.

Before Lou Ankang could say anything, Lou Anning yelled: "We have already written a letter back to grandpa, and grandpa also agreed to let us go for a walk. I think back then, grandpa traveled all over the world when he was young, and he had already said that Thousands of books are not as good as traveling thousands of miles, if we don't pay more attention to the people's livelihood, how can we make useful tools?"

Zhu Dingbei glanced at him, then looked at Lou Ankang, who smiled and said, "My brother is not lying."

Before Lou Shangshu took office in the Ministry of Industry, he traveled all over the country. It was because he knew what the common people and soldiers needed that he was able to stand in the Ministry of Industry for so many years.Therefore, even though there are only two grandsons, although he is worried about their safety, he is willing to let them go and let them go and see more.

"Changsheng, don't worry, we will definitely bring enough people this time, and listen to the elders of Ning's family, we will do whatever they want us to do, and I will not do anything that is not allowed. Brother, I will take care of it .”

Lou Ankang said solemnly.

Lou Anning pursed her mouth in displeasure, is there a need to use the word "caretaker"!

Zhu Dingbei was still a little hesitant, and Ning Heng said from the side: "It's okay, this route has been traveled by more than ten generations of Ning's family, and it has rich experience and is very safe."

Seeing this, Zhu Dingbei couldn't say anything more, but he still specially educated Young Master Lou Er for a long time. Hearing that Lou Er's eyes widened, he couldn't laugh or cry: "I am also an official, leading the court. Salary, Changsheng, you underestimate me!"

It is not a lie that the two brothers of the Lou family are officials.

Although they are young, the two brothers have made considerable contributions to military and agricultural equipment in the past two years, so the emperor authorized Meng Yin to appoint them as seventh-rank officials in the Ministry of Industry and receive their salary.However, the small seventh-rank officials of the Ministry of Industry have a real advantage, that is, they carry the ultimatum document stamped with the official seal of Dajing, and they can go in and out of any county in Dajing, responsible for prospecting or experiencing mountains and rivers, every three years After the assessment, those with outstanding performance can be promoted.

It is a steady road to promotion.

Of course, he also has another advantage that the two brothers of the Lou family don't like him very much.

That is, they can receive salaries in any county government office by means of documents, and apply for money within the official rank limit for spending on the road.

However, the two brothers are not short of money, and have never received a salary after going out, let alone go to the government to get money.

The corner of Zhu Dingbei's mouth twitched. His status as a grandson sounds beautiful, but it has no benefits in practice.No rank, no official title, not to mention salary.

Now that the matter has come to this point, he can only check on those who escorted them, and just give them a few more instructions.

Lou Anning was overjoyed, in fact, this was their idea all the way south.The two brothers, even the steady Lou Ankang, have long wanted to go to sea to see it—it was a place that even their grandfather had never been to, and of course it was reassuring to go to sea with the Ning family's caravan.

The atmosphere in the room was relaxed, and none of them knew about it. The merchant's land invasion case that they brought up in one stroke caused an uproar a few days later.

The Guangzhou prefectural pastor's actions are quite satisfactory. After all, the merchants have taken advantage of the loopholes in the law. If the state pastor wants to use real power to do things, he must first obtain the emperor's permission and instructions.

Originally, although the impact of this incident was a bit bad, fortunately, it was discovered in time. As long as the government verifies the people's conditions and reissues the land deed, and then returns the land to the people, there will be no major incidents.Those opportunists who took up many fields in one go, as long as they don't go too far, can get away with a little money.

The bad thing is that Blue Deer's memorial and the Yizhou land seizure case arrived in Luojing at the same time!