The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

There have been serious land enclosures in the past dynasties. Some of the land in the hands of these meritorious clans is that their ancestors were the founding heroes and received rewards from the emperor; Approach circles a lot of land.

At the court meeting, not to mention ten out of ten officials, at least nine officials had a large amount of land encircled in their hands, not only in their own hands, but even in their entire family, The family of the mother's family, as well as the entire family of the Yue's family, everyone who has a little relationship with them has a large amount of land in their hands.

Just take the capital city as an example. The land within a radius of a hundred miles in the capital city has already been enclosed by people, and most of these lands fall into the hands of officials.

As for places far away from the capital, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and no one cares about it. The encroachment of the people below is even more serious. For this reason, there have been many murder cases. If they bribed and shielded them from time to time, it was only the common people who suffered, and no one could avenge the grievances of these common people.

If the emperor issued an order to prohibit land enclosure, confiscate the land in their hands, and limit the amount of land in their hands... This is simply unimaginable!

Usually these officials, as long as their own interests are not involved, are best at pretending to be dead.And once their interests were involved, they immediately jumped out to oppose it.

So when Li Wen's words fell, some officials immediately jumped out to object, "Your Majesty, I object to what Li Liuyuan said... If it is according to what Li Liuyuan said, wouldn't it be possible for some people to sell the land in their hands? Can you still get the land back? But for those who spent silver taels to buy land, the money was spent and the land was gone in the end, so who will take the loss?"

"Your Majesty, this minister agrees!"

"My minister agrees!"

These officials think that those who hold the land deeds own the ownership of the land, and now they want to take away the land in their hands. Isn't this a violation of their rights?

There are also officials who use the law of the ancestors to speak out, thinking that once the law of the land is changed, it will be disrespectful to the ancestors.

In short, they just don't agree with the prohibition of land enclosure, and they don't support land reform.

Seeing an official jumping out to oppose his proposal, Li Wen had expected this possibility a long time ago.If these people didn't jump out against him, it would be strange to support him!So standing on top of the main hall at this moment, seeing so many officials jumping out to speak against him, he didn't feel any surprise in his heart.

And the reason why these people jumped out to oppose him, no need to guess, must be because they hold a large amount of land in their hands.

From this era, land is the foundation of survival for most people. They think that holding land in their hands is the foundation of their foothold in this society. Therefore, once people have money in their hands, first What comes to mind is to buy a large piece of land.Now that he proposes land reform, he has no objection and wants to touch the lives of these people. It's no wonder they don't jump out to oppose it!

Today's early court is doomed to be fruitless.

Li Wen's proposal was opposed by most of the officials. Some officials remained neutral and did not jump out to speak out.However, it is not difficult to see that most officials do not support the limited enclosure and land reform. The reason is that this greatly violated their own interests.

"We'll discuss this matter another day, retreat!" Emperor Zhaozong waved his hand with a headache, making people retreat, and left with all the court ladies and eunuchs behind him.

"The ministers and others sent the emperor respectfully, long live the emperor, long live, long live——"

The civil and military officials below knelt down and sent the emperor off respectfully.

I don't know how high the sky is!

Dong Xiang glanced at Li Wen. It seemed that someone would have killed this kid without him doing it himself. He thought this kid was smart, but he was stupid and hopeless.After the court was over, many officials came to surround Dong Xiang. Surrounded by many officials, Dong Xian took people away.

Usually after the court is over, the surrounding officials will greet him.But today after the court was over, Li Wen's side was empty, and no one dared to approach him, for fear that if he approached, he would be hostile by others, but it was true.

He touched his nose, he didn't care to say hello to these old men, but can you all stop staring at me before leaving?

Young master Dare love is easy to bully, right?

Forget it, just respect the old people, don't care about these old men.He's going to touch other people's lives, isn't it?

Are you allowed to stare at him?However, judging from the reactions of these officials in the court today, I am afraid that the task of land reform is a long way to go.

Not to mention that the officials in the court have a lot of land in their hands, even the princes have a lot of land in their hands. Concubine Chen Shi and Concubine Shu in the palace, their natal families belong to the Yi clan, so how could they have land in their hands? no land?

Therefore, the land reform law proposed by Li Wen today has seriously touched the rights and interests of the meritorious clan members.

After the dynasty was dispersed, everyone was guessing in their hearts that Li Wen was someone close to the emperor, so it was not the emperor's idea that Li Wen proposed the prohibition of land enclosure and land reform, right?But no matter who meant it, these people absolutely do not allow others to take advantage of their interests.Not to mention that the emperor is the son of heaven, most of the time the emperor also depends on the opinions of the officials. If the officials disagree with the matter, the emperor can't just go his own way.

After going back, these officials all wrote papers to impeach Li Liuyuan, and soon the papers on the emperor's desk were higher than others.Seeing the papers submitted by the courtiers below, Emperor Zhaozong knew what was written in it without reading it.

The emperor casually picked up the folder on the desk and glanced at it, his face became angry, and with a wave of his hand, he swept down the folder on the table, "All these people think I'm a fool, don't they!  … ...I am the emperor! All of these..."

They all regarded him as a fool, thinking that he was easy to deceive!

If Li Wen hadn't gone to the account department and checked the accounts of the account department, he still didn't know that the account department had lost so much money over the years, the tax revenue of the account department had decreased so much, and all the less money had gone into his account In the pockets of these good courtiers.

Don't think that the emperor doesn't know, these people are eating the emperor's food one by one, let him keep it, and in places where the emperor can't see, they have changed their ways to empty out the silver from the treasury, and in the end, He became the poorest emperor, and all the courtiers below were richer than him.The most hateful thing is that every time the imperial court has no silver taels for disaster relief, or needs to use silver taels for something, these people all pretend to be deaf and dumb, and stand below and pretend to be dead.

Others thought that he was very comfortable as an emperor, but they didn't know that the household department had no money and the treasury was empty, so he had to look at the faces of his courtiers to do anything as an emperor.

Now everyone dared to impeach his Xiao Liuyuan. Among his many courtiers, the only one who only thought of him as the emperor and was loyal to him was the courtier Li Wen.

I will never allow anyone to understand his little Liuyuan!

It has to be said that the emperor helped Li Wen avoid a lot of trouble here.

"Recently, you should not go out alone. It is better to bring people with you in the upper and lower yamen. I have sent a few people to protect you in private. This is a distress signal for you. In case you encounter any danger outside , you just turn on the signal, and someone will go to rescue you.” When he mentioned the land reform at that time, he saw Zhao Xiangyi saying these words to him with a serious face, asking him to take someone with him when he went out, and giving him three coins. The signal flare is carried on the body, and it can be used for help at any time if something happens.

"Isn't this necessary?" Li Wen also felt that Zhao Xiangyi was exaggerating. He was in the capital and would not leave the capital unless there was anything to do.Does anyone dare to assassinate him here in the capital?

In fact, it proved that he still thought of the enemy too kindly.

On the way home from Hubu that day, he ran into a crazy horse on the road and ran straight towards him, but he didn't realize it at the time.When he heard the commotion and turned his head, a horse came in front of him and almost ran into him.

"Sir, be careful!"

Fortunately, he was with Chen by his side at that time, and when Chen realized the danger, he immediately pulled away his master, protected him behind him, kicked the mad horse away, and at the same time inserted the long sword in his hand into the horse's crotch. Inside the neck, the commotion was stopped.

"Boom--"

The horse crashed and fell to the ground, where blood flowed out from the place where the neck was pierced.

Li Wen was in a cold sweat. If today's scene was an accident, he wouldn't believe it if he was killed.He is walking on the street with people coming and going, these people dare to attack him blatantly!I don't even look at so many people on the street, what if I bump into an innocent person?

"My lord, are you alright?" Ah Chen pulled out the long sword and returned to his master's side.

"I'm fine. Check to see if anyone is injured and have them sent to the hospital to see a doctor." Li Wen saw people falling down on the ground and wondered if anyone was injured.At this time, the coachman ran over and apologized to them, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I don't know why this horse went crazy, but this morning the horse was fine

The coachman also felt that he was wronged. His horse was fine this morning, why suddenly it went crazy now.

"I'm fine. Check to see if anyone is injured. Your horse was killed by my guards. How much money do you think? I'll pay it to you." The coachman looked about 50 years old, Li Wen didn't know whether this horse belonged to himself or his master's family, but judging from the way the other party was dressed, he was from a poor family.It is a fact that they killed someone else's horse, so he can pay the other party the compensation they deserve.

As for what's going on today, and the coachman, he'll just ask someone to investigate later.

"No, no, no, no..." The coachman didn't have the nerve to ask for compensation from others, so he hurriedly waved his hands, but this horse is indeed not his, it is his owner's horse, and he will probably be scolded when he returns.