Chapter 516

"Since... Committed suicide?"

Wang Meng definitely has the reason to sweat violently. He knows that he has no special background. For example, what the king values is very empty. Only when he seeks his government in his position can he have such a judgment.

To tell the truth, the people tangled up to commit crimes in order to obtain land. The phenomenon of private land division is very serious. If you can get land by framing, how many similar cases should there be? Therefore, this phenomenon similar to the "Nanpi incident" must not be tolerated. On the contrary, it should be judged with the strictest specifications to deter people who want to do similar things.

There is also a basis for judging the Ge family's intention to gather people to revolt, just because the Ge family is really involved with too many people privately, or with contractual constraints. However, we still have to say that there is a tendency of "no reason to add guilt". The Ge family's involvement with many people is on the land, and there is no private building of weapons or training of soldiers.

If there is anything wrong, it is that Wang Meng is sitting in the position of county magistrate, considering what the center should do, and the impact is too great.

Looking at sang Yu's attitude, he is obviously on Wang Meng's side, but it is difficult to say what purpose he has.

"The big man saves the people from fire and water, but he doesn't want the people to be ignorant of the law and greedy." Sang Yu was still smiling. He didn't seem to notice that Wang Meng was very nervous: "you can get something from work, you can get something from pay, and everything needs to be within the framework of Han law and national law."

Wang Meng heard something unusual. He didn't know that the whole center had a similar view, or sang Yu's personal attitude. It was because he heard a special meaning that he sweated more seriously.

The state of Han pays attention to the law, but it also divides into obvious classes. For example, people with titles must be more noble than those without titles. If there is anything wrong, it is not wrong. After all, the principle of ethics has always been the mainstream in China.

The problem is that Wang Meng heard a special thought from sang Yu's words, as if to express that as long as the people honestly accept the rule and alms, don't go east and West?

The Han Dynasty had a strict class system, but it never stopped anyone from making progress. The people were willing to make progress and had channels to make contributions. The nobility or officials would still be cut and dismissed if they made mistakes. There was never a national policy of class immobilization.

The common people have a channel for self-improvement. Joining the army for meritorious service and paying more taxes are both channels for self-improvement. Those who think they have talent can also recommend themselves to be an official after being assessed. Joining the army or paying more taxes should be the most suitable channel for people to make progress. The illiteracy rate is almost 100%, and ordinary people can't pass the examination.

Compared with other countries, the opportunities given by the Han state to the people to change their destiny are actually many times higher. Think about the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it is a "born with seed" social pattern. Dignitaries are always dignitaries, and baiding is always baiding.

Whether a country has hope, or whether the country can build and operate healthily, and whether there is room for improvement is very important. Once the room for improvement is blocked, it means that the country begins to be critically ill and has not been changed. There is no other way but to die.

Wang Meng is afraid! He was afraid that the central government would keep up with the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The existing dignitaries would not only pass on their wealth from generation to generation, but also block the way for others to make progress.

"The serious local private division of land is a huge hidden danger." Sang Yu only knew that Wang Meng's face was strange, but he didn't know where Wang Meng thought. With the dignity of the right prime minister, he said: "it is necessary to have the effectiveness of private land sharing, which is a special case initially determined by the state and the dynasty."

Wang Meng saluted restrictively and said, "yes."

Sang Yu smiled and asked, "what good plan does JINGLUE have?"

Let alone, Wang Meng has really thought about what to do. He believes that the best way is to move those big families, powerful and aristocratic families. As long as these people move to a new land, they will no longer have any influence and will be separated from the past, and the people who get private land will no longer have to worry.

Wang Meng would have said it before he didn't notice sang Yu's attitude, but now he doesn't want to say it.

Finally, Wang Meng didn't know how he was separated from sang Yu. When he was led out of the palace city, a maid in waiting led four or five of them. At a glance, it was the forbidden guard of the palace city who came and sent a message that it was summoned by the king.

The palace city of Xiang state is very large. Shile period is one thing, and after Shihu, it is another thing.

After Shi Hu's repeated expansion and reconstruction, the main palace city is not located in the center, but at the foot of a mountain. The main hall is built on the top of the mountain, and the rear palace is the main palace city in shile period.

As a king, Liu Yan did not live in the back palace, where the rescued women were placed. The Liu Yan Family chose the palace que group on the top of the mountain. Such an arrangement has not disappointed many people. There are people who want Liu Yan to sit in more harem and give birth to more royal blood for the country. Naturally, there are women who want to be a member of Liu Yan's harem.

The mountain is not too high. The altitude is estimated to be less than 200 meters. There is a stone ladder about four feet wide extending from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. Some boring people have counted steps after steps. There are 500 steps from the first step to the top of the mountain.

Wang Meng stepped on the steps step by step. The more he went upwind, the stronger it seemed, and the clothes on his body made a noise. He was full of worries and didn't observe too much. When he reached the top, he almost bumped into the stopped maid in waiting.

In fact, there is a guard standing on both sides of each of the three steps of the stone ladder, which really achieves the point of three steps and one post. They hold a halberd and don't move, like a sculpture. When they look at their clothes, they only have one more coat that looks like a windbreaker. They can see that there are metal armor in the windbreaker. I don't know if it will be cold?

The stairs lead directly to the top of the mountain, but there are still some settings that can turn the road and lead to some places on the hillside. If you pay attention to observation, you will find that there are everything, which is in line with Shi Hu's hobby of enjoyment. It is now covered by heavy snow.

A tiger roar came into Wang Meng's ears, which once made him feel that he had heard wrong.

Wang Meng didn't hear it wrong. Shi Hu likes wild animals more than people. For example, Shi Jie and Zhao have strict rules to restrict Jin people's hunting. In addition, Shi Hu also collects wild animals for breeding, from tigers, leopards, jackals, wolves and bears to lions especially from the western regions. As a result, both Xiangguo and Yecheng have their own zoos.

After leading the army to recover Xiangguo and Yecheng, ran min once wanted to burn the two places to ashes, but they placed the animals properly and dedicated them to Liu Yan. Of course, ran min's fire in the back was not put into operation. The animals were resettled and specially sent to raise them. When Liu Yan arrived in Yecheng or Xiangguo, he found a group of fat beasts raised.

At the top of the mountain, the stone ladder connects a high and big door. The position of the plaque reads "Zhengyang gate".

"The maidservant went to tell the king." The palace maid squatted down and said, "please wait here, Mr. lang."

What else can Wang Meng say? Although he wore a lot of clothes, he couldn't stand the mountain wind blowing again and again. In fact, he was choked with cold and worked hard not to make himself tremble. In order to distract his attention, he looked down and could see most of Xiangguo city.

Xiangguo is a big city, but the planning is messy. There will be no avenue to the whole city, and the buildings are basically scattered and messy. This is related to the fact that the Hu people have no planning consciousness at all. A good capital just looks big. There is no other merit in addition.

Xiang had a population of more than one million, but not all lived in the city. Most people settled outside the city or were nomadic. This leads to a very special phenomenon. The city of Xiang is desolate for nearly 200 miles, that is, there is no other city outside Xiang. Apart from some powerful manors, it is a place for grazing.

The gate of Zhengyang gate was opened with a "babbling" sound. Wang Meng turned around and saw the palace maid just now.

The palace maid gave a blessing and said, "the king is in the forest garden. Please come with your slaves."

This time, there was no guard with her. She led Wang Meng down instead of entering the city gate. She went down unknown steps and turned to the right. After passing unknown courtyards and platforms, she came out of an arch and saw a forest, where there were the roars of many wild animals.

The range of the forest looks very large. The snow on the tree is left over because of the snow a few days ago. It's pleasing to the eyes. Wang Meng's nose is almost runny with cold.

After walking out of the path in the forest and the field of vision became empty, Wang Meng saw Liu Yan.

Liu Yan is standing in a pavilion, facing out is a sloping cliff.

The pavilion was built on the edge of a pool. Not far away, there was a bamboo forest artificially planted. In the bamboo forest, there was a thatched cottage that looked very much like ordinary people's residence.

Wang Meng especially noticed that there was a strange woman standing next to his king. The woman was not wearing palace clothes, but obviously rich and noble. She stood respectfully with her hands on her lower abdomen.

Naturally, Liu Yan was climbing high and looking far. He had slaughtered a tiger in the past, and his clothes had just been changed in the hut, or it should be a blood stain.

Wang Meng was led into the pavilion, bent over 90 degrees to salute and shouted, "king."

Kneeling is rare in the undistorted Chinese etiquette. There is no need to kowtow to see the king on non pilgrimage or sacrificial occasions. Kowtow bug actually became the mainstream in the Ming Dynasty. Before that, kneeling down in the Song Dynasty was not the mainstream. Zhu Yuanzhang purposely set it. As for what it was because, it can be guessed from Zhu Yuanzhang's childhood wish to work with a gold hoe and a gold bullwhip and eat cakes in a gold bowl.

"Here comes JINGLUE?" Liu Yan turned around and saw Wang Meng with a pale face and stiff body. He also ordered the woman next to him: "bring me my raccoon dog clothes."

The woman's name is Li Tu. She respectfully squatted. Fortunately, she looked at Wang Meng strangely before she left.

Li Tu has the same name as one of the generals of the state of Zhao, Shi Jie, but she is a Yecheng person. She was captured by Shi Huqiang and became one of the harem. In history, the woman informed the former Yan Emperor Murong Yu that the body of Zhao Zhushi Hu was under the Dongming temple in Yecheng.

"How dare a dead beard fear the birth of the son of heaven!" he said Several of his cruel crimes were whipped and thrown into zhangshui. The corpse leaned against the bridge column and did not flow.

The fate behind Li Tu is very miserable

Fu Jian, the king of Qin, was grateful for Shi Hu's kindness to his grandfather Fu Hong. He opened his eyes to money with Li Tu's "Wuxing" (Imperial reading). He was greedy for unjust reward of "100 gold" and did not have the ethical idea of settling down in the earth. So he instructed Wang Meng to arrest Li Tu and kill him. At the same time, he buried the remains of Shi Hu flowing to a hole in Zimo bridge on the Bank of zhangshui again.

Liu Yan also happened to see Li Tu, but Li TU was very bold and called out. Liu Yan knew Li Tu's name and remembered what Li Tu had done in history. It was definitely not because of his beauty.

"Have you seen Prime Minister right?" Liu Yan sat casually on the bench in the pavilion and asked with a smile, "what did you say?"

At this time, Wang Meng ended the posture of bending over and saluting. He described the process of meeting sang Yu in every detail. He was only "replaying" without adding a trace of his own ideas.

"Heaven rewards diligence, and you get what you get. Zishen said it well." Liu Yan looked at Wang Meng and found that Wang Meng had a small frown: "what else did JINGLUE not say?"

Give Wang Meng ten thousand courage and dare not say no to the right prime minister in front of the king. Naturally, he will not say his guessed ideas, let alone arrange what sang Yu is not.

Wang Meng hesitated again and again. In line with the idea that Liu Yan attached importance to him and he dared not be unfaithful to the king, he said: "my Lord, I have a lot of feelings and ideas when I took office as county magistrate and magistrate before and after. I don't know if I can state it to the king?"

Liu Yan's response was a slight nod, and at this time Li Tu had brought the clothes.

Wang Meng, of course, refused. He couldn't accept it later. With gratitude on his face, he deepened the idea of loyalty and began to tell what he had encountered.

Where the Han army recovered, the Han people will no longer face the bullying and killing of the Hu people. Generally speaking, the people feel secure in the current living environment, but the quality of life has not changed much.

In the Han Dynasty, there was no equal field. Apart from the land originally owned by the people, they could only obtain land by joining the army. Take the county where Wang Meng was an official successively as an example. Many ordinary people actually had no land under their name. They basically cultivated for people with land, that is, rented land to grow. They faced high rent, and their life could only be summarized by hardship.

"I remember that every state and county has set aside land. Although it is rented to the people for farming, the tax is not high." Liu Yan was talking about a measure after the cooperative commune began to cancel. He added: "those whose land under the name does not exceed 100 mu can also get three-year tax exemption."

Of course, Wang Meng knew that there had been a lot of good governance in the Han Dynasty, but it was still the land problem in the end. He said: "my Lord, I think it is urgent to make more people have their own land. In addition, there are great hidden dangers in the private distribution of land, and there is also the problem of honourable land occupation..."