The little nobles in Pei County, there are almost no who can see the situation in the world clearly, and they are destined not to think that the ink man will suddenly turn his face.

The first news of the change eventually reached the ears of the local nobles of Peixian.

After co-opting the merchants of Peiyi, emancipating the industrialists and merchants under the industrial and commercial officials, lowering the taxes on the industrialists and merchants, slightly increasing the taxes on the peasants but at the same time compensating them with new agricultural techniques, and taking the opportunity to clean up the local officials, the only Mo-who finally made up their minds to oppose were the old nobles whose interests were greatly harmed.

In Peiyi's luxurious mansion, several old nobles were full of anger and denounced the evil deeds of the ink man.

The first change seriously hurt the interests of these old aristocrats, taking people's money like killing their parents, harming people's interests like *** women, this hatred is irreconcilable.

The high-sounding truth is for outsiders. Now the people gathered here are not outsiders, so there is no need to talk about those nonsense such as "bad ancestral law", "broken well field", "bad for the world", and just explain clearly how to deal with the ink person.

More than twenty local clans and nobles gathered together, just as when the ink master dealt with those witches.

It's just that this time compared to the last time, it is obvious that everyone's hearts are not aligned.

Xia Qi, who had a blood revenge method and quietly inked afterwards, sat on the west side with a few people; The rest sat on the east side.

The more numerous ones said first: "The ink master has endured for a long time, and finally did such a thing. If you want me to say, you should ignore the consequences that day and fight to the death to kill the ink, where is the disaster today? ”

Everyone thinks, what you said is easy, the one who fought and killed the ink that day...... Not to mention whether it can be killed or fought, even if all the ink people in Peidi are killed, what will happen to the revenge of the ink people in other places in the future?

These ink artists are all forces that can resist the besieging army of a country, with us people, where can they touch?

The person who spoke also knew that he was just addicted to it, but the dissatisfaction in his heart really needed to be vented.

He had his own fiefdom, which could be taxed from small fiefs and provided military obligations for the number of acres within the scope of the fief.

The peasants in their fiefdoms were again required to perform all kinds of servitude obligations to him.

There was also a part of the nominal public land, which could also drive the serfs to work without pay.

This change was tantamount to dividing the public land, not recognizing the land tax rights in the fiefs to the nobles, and exempting the serfs from the obligation of servitude to the nobles......

This is something he can't accept in any way.

What's the use of leaving only the land? Do you go to farm yourself?

If you don't cultivate yourself, what is the difference between those lands and wasteland?

Xia Qi, who was kneeling on the west side, didn't think so, the people behind him all belonged to a group of people who might benefit and suffer less in the Moji reform system.

He waited for a moment and said slowly: "In my opinion, the transformation of the ink master may not be impossible. The ink master has iron tools and all kinds of good breeds, and the land that originally required a hundred people may only need ten oxen and ten people to complete. ”

"If new grains and new hemp such as cotton, black corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes can be sold, they can be planted. We have land, cattle and horses, and we can hire people to help with the farming as long as we pay for it. ”

"The liquor made from cotton cloth and sweet potatoes is now quite profitable for merchants to transship, and I have seen a lot of profits in growing these......

After Xia Qi, he was not a local nobleman, but fled here after the collapse of the Qi Kingdom, and it was a side branch, which was difficult to integrate into the Song Kingdom, and only in Peiyi as a small nobleman, relying on those who followed the clansmen to reclaim a lot of land, and profited from it.

The well-field system did not collapse in a day, and private ownership did not come into being in a day, and the clansmen of those years were gradually reduced to renting peasants and hired peasants, and the relations of production have actually undergone some changes in the long century.

Most of the people behind him were nobles in this situation, and the number of fiefs themselves was not large, and they had accumulated a lot of private land by relying on privileges such as divine power and clan power.

In their opinion, it doesn't matter how much the ink artist tosses.

Let's just say that Shangxian, in the future, they have a lot of land, and their children can study part-time, even if the world is still virtuous in the future, they are not afraid.

Maybe the world is really virtuous, and they can still climb up.

They are low-level nobles, and it is difficult for them to climb to the upper circles under the patriarchal system, although they are privileged, but in their opinion, even if they are still virtuous and meritorious, their privileges can still exist, after all, their children have more opportunities to learn.

I hope to practice the concept of "all the ministers of the emperor are equal"; I hope to practice the distinction of "difference between high and low, hard work".

This kind of completely contradictory theory cannot be used as a reason, but it is necessary to win the battle at the top and suppress the bottom, so reality cannot make their truth a reason.

After thinking about it, they still feel that the truths of the ink master can actually be equal to the upper and oppressive to the lower, and they still like it.

This is also due to the Xuanyi Department of the Mo, which clarified a lot of truths and disintegrated the nobles within Peiyi.

As soon as Xia Qi's words were finished, the nobles on the opposite side who had suffered the most damage from this change cursed in unison.

was originally on the same front, but now it is unconsciously distinct.

The old-school aristocracy scolded: "Don't say whether the reasoning of the Mo people is right or wrong, and don't say that if they do this, the world will be in chaos, just talk about this private mu tax, do you really want us to pay the tax?" ”

"Which governor of the province can rule the city without being friends with us first?"

After scolding a few words bitterly for the shamelessness of the ink man's behavior, the loss of conscience, the anger of people and gods, and the chaos of the world, these old nobles finally talked about the most substantive problem.

"If we admit private acres, why should we ask those farmers to cultivate for us?"

"Divide the public land, where does the military endowment come from? Shall we use our own money and grain to feed chariots and horses? ”

"Shang Xian Xuan Xian, is it tolerable that we have to compete for the position of official with those from low backgrounds?"

"Encourage grass reclamation, and provide agricultural tools and iron tools, and how many tenants are unwilling to own their own land?"

"What's the use of land if there's no one to cultivate?"

When Xia Qi heard this, he smiled and said, "Even so, what can we do?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a thunderous sound outside, followed by bursts of cheers from the people.

You don't have to ask, you know, the Ink Artist is there to display those terrifyingly powerful weapons.

Xia Qi then said, "Listen, this is the voice that the ink master wants us to hear!" The people are convinced, what can we do? ”

"Two or three years ago, we didn't know the depth of the ink master, and we thought that there were only a hundred people, and they might not be invincible. It's ridiculous to think like that now! Even if the people don't obey the ink, how can we deal with the inkers and those righteous teachers? ”

When it comes to the most practical issue of violence, the faces of those on the other side are much more ugly.

Among the ink masters, most of them are considered "scholars", and the righteous teachers belong to the expanded "armor scholars". If a big nobleman can have three or four hundred powerful "soldiers" under his command, he can have enough say in a place like Shangqiu.

The nobles of these small places, even if they are skilled in carriages and horses, are really not the opponents of the ink people when they really want to fight.

When the person on the other side heard this, he said after a while: "Now that the ink man has cleaned up those officials, in the name of collecting wealth and harming the world with Wu Zhu back then, won't they come to deal with us?" ”

Xia Qi then got up and said, "Wu Zhu was killed by the ink man, and the rest of the people are doing labor. Those officials don't have much property, and they can't afford to pay it back. But we can pay it back. ”

"If the ink man really persecutes us, he will pay us back. After all, the ink man is still reasonable, except for those witches who were thundered and hanged, most of the rest are paid off and not investigated. ”

"But if we go against the inkman, we have to exchange our lives. You've all seen the murder of the Ink Writer! ”

Speaking of killing, these people can't help but think of those Wu Zhu who were hanged and executed, and think of the corpses hanging and shaking outside the city.

Under the tide of the times, these old aristocrats have fallen behind.

Not to mention the more advanced thinkers, in a few decades they won't even be able to fight for the power of the monarch in some countries, let alone the inkers who have never taken bloodline seriously.

What the Moshi were worried about was not the rebellion of these nobles, but only that these nobles instigated the opposition of those "unknowing" tenants, and could solve the problem of the tenants.

But these people can also know that their power is weak, and now that they have been divided internally, and the murderous reputation of the ink artist has spread a lot, they are really helpless.

After being silent for a long time, an old man said: "We can't deal with the ink man, but the ink man wants to make the world chaotic, which the prince cannot tolerate." ”

"Now that the ink is powerful, let's not provoke them yet."

"But each family needs to scrape together some money, go to Taoyi to hire a person who can speak well, and promise it with a lot of money, so that he can lobby the king, and let the king and the six secretaries come forward to solve this matter."

"If the ink man does this, he is afraid that the six kings will not know about it, so he only needs to report this matter, and then use his tongue to say that this matter will be done."

"As long as the king has an order and the six kings have an order, once the ink man leaves, we can deal with the local affairs ourselves."

They didn't know why the Mo Scholar chose this time to act, and they didn't know that the Song Kingdom was now in chaos, so they still pinned their hopes on the upper echelons to oppose it.

After all, the Moshi could not fight against a country, and even defending the city only served as a catalyst to increase the strength of the weaker, so they thought it was a feasible solution.

These people present did not learn the relationship between the productive forces and the relations of production, and only felt that once the Mo people left, even if those people had iron weapons, they could still return to the old system of patriarchal separation.

At first glance, it seems to be really feasible.

The few people around him after Xia Qi were also a little moved, but Xia Qi sighed secretly in his heart, and he was afraid that this method would not work - he didn't know that the chaos that was about to occur within the Song Kingdom, but he was vaguely aware that even if the ink master left, Pei Yi might not be able to become what he used to be.