"Zhen Dalang's wine today is good, it seems to be different from the one in Zhen Dalang's wine shop, what is there to say here?"

Of course, the wine that Hao Ren drank was not the burnt knives sold on the market, but the newly brewed Erguotou, with a degree of only forty degrees, which was almost close to the taste of the Tang people, but Zhen Qian was not in a hurry to introduce it to the market.

"This is a newly brewed immortal brew, the yield is not high, so keep it for yourself to taste, if Hao Bantou likes it, bring two bottles when you leave!"

"You're welcome!"

In addition to the large pieces of mutton, there are also slices of paper-thin mutton rolls, which are put in a hot pot and dipped in Zhen Qian's unique secret seasoning, so that Hao Ren can't stop at all.

In a while, Hao Ren had already eliminated three plates of mutton by himself, drank a full bottle of wine, and burped, then he touched the grease stains on the corner of his mouth with satisfaction, took out a stack of paper from his sleeve and put it in front of Zhen Qian: "Da Lang, this is the slave contract you want to buy, brother, I will help you keep people, if you are satisfied, you can take someone to go through the formalities tomorrow!" ”

Hao Ren is the head snake in Luquan County, and Zhen Qian does not have time to stare at the slave market every day, if he finds a good slave craftsman, Hao Ren will help Zhen Qian stay first.

Zhen Qian's vision is very picky, generally slaves who don't have family members don't want it, such slaves are not easy to control, because there is no concern, it is likely that there is a grudge in the heart and then a mouthful, it is different with a family, even if there is any dissatisfaction, thinking that it may harm the family, you can only endure it first, even if it costs a little more money, it is worth it. Secondly, the slave must have a skill, and he can farm and watch the door. In the end, people with bad conduct should not be wanted, especially those who used to be wrongdoers will only bring trouble to themselves.

During the Tang Dynasty, the price of slaves was much longer than that of the early Tang Dynasty, the price of ordinary adult male slaves was more than ten times, and the price of adult female slaves with good looks was as high as twenty or thirty times, but the old and young slaves were not worth much.

The price of the slaves that Zhen Qian wants to buy is not low, usually a skilled slave costs fifty or sixty yuan, which makes Zhen Qian a little painful.

Talent, the most valuable and least valuable thing in the world is money, money can make money, can also become a pile of dung, only talent is the only way to make money.

"Why are so many slaves being sold this month?"

Hao Ren picked the minced meat between his teeth with a toothpick: "If you weren't just a craftsman, the number would have doubled, and the price had dropped by 20%!" ”

Seeing that Zhen Qian was puzzled, Hao Ren explained: "Wang Ji ......, that is the household servant, the imperial historian, Jing Zhaoyin, Wang Jiao, who led more than 20 envoys by himself, because his younger brother Hubu Langzhong Wang Weld and Xing Wei conspired to revolt, he was given suicide by the emperor, and his family property was confiscated and sold. Wang Jie has purchased a wide range of land and property in various places, and there are many henchmen under him, and there are more than a dozen properties in Hengzhou alone, otherwise how could there be so many slaves sold this month! ”

Of course, Zhen Qian knew that Wang Ji was the person, and in the fourth year of Tianbao, Tang Xuanzong appointed Wang Ji of Hubu Langzhong as the envoy of the household registration, and issued an edict to exempt the people from renting that year.

Wang asked the people to levy the freight of the people, exaggerated the amount of money, and let the money be used to buy local valuables, so that the people would pay more than they would have paid if the rent had not been exempted. According to the system established in the past, the soldiers guarding the frontier should be exempted from rent and replaced once every six years. However, the generals guarding the frontier were ashamed of their defeat and did not report to the government the soldiers who died in the battle, so the household registration of these soldiers in their hometowns was not cancelled. According to the household registration, all those who have been guarding the frontier for more than six years will be levied rent, and some people will be levied for 30 years at a time, and the people have nowhere to appeal.

Tang Xuanzong reigned for a long time, and his spending became more and more extravagant, and the rewards of the harem were not controlled, and he could not go to the treasury to get them as he wanted. Wang Jietan heard Xuanzong's intentions, so he paid an extra 10 billion yuan every year and stored it in the treasury for Xuanzong to feast and squander in the palace, and said: "These money are all other than rent, and have nothing to do with the state's funds." Tang Xuanzong thought that Wang Ji was good at managing money and could enrich the country, so he liked him even more. Wang Ji tried every means to harsh the people to please Xuanzong, so that the government and the opposition complained about it.

Wang Jie's younger brother Hubu Langzhong Wang Weld is a sinister outlaw, summoning the warlock Ren Haichuan and asking: Do you think I have the appearance of an emperor? After Ren Haichuan heard this, he was afraid of killing himself and fled.

Wang Ji was unjustly implicated in his brother's rebellion, but he didn't expect his family property to be so rich, it was really cheap for Zhen Qian.

Zhen Qian picked out four copies from a pile of slave contracts: "These are the four slaves I want, tomorrow we will go to the market to see people?" ”

"Okay! I'll wait for you at the market early tomorrow morning......", Hao Ren looked at the four slave contracts selected by Zhen Qian, "Da Lang, there are a lot of Silla maids and orchids in this batch of slaves, and they are of excellent quality, why don't you pick a few to stay in the inner house?" ”

In addition to being able to serve people, sing a small song, and dance a glamorous dance, Silla maids and orchids are basically useless to Zhen Qian, and when they think of the two little girls at home who can't be fed, Zhen Qian also broke off the idea of hunting for beauty.

Seeing that Zhen Qian was unmoved, Hao Ren raised his thumb and said: "Brother really convinced you, you won't enjoy your family wealth, what are you thinking in your heart?" ”

If there are not a few Silla maids, orchids and Kunlun slaves in the family in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, they are embarrassed to greet people when they go out, Zhen Qian is considered to be an outlier, and the fixed assets in the family add up to ten thousand, but there is not even a Silla maid and orchid, let alone raising singers and singers (operas) at home.

Among the slaves sold by the government, there were a large number of Silla maids and orchids, and Hao Ren specially left a few beautiful women for Zhen Qian, but he didn't expect Zhen Qian to pick any of them.

Of course, Zhen Qian's purchase of craft slaves is to prepare for business, which Hao Ren also knows, but for those who have money and don't enjoy it, Zhen Qian is still the first.

"Da Lang, during this period of time, the number of displaced people in the county has increased a lot, and the Ming Mansion is anxious about this matter, lest there be chaos, Da Lang does not need manpower, but he hires some among the displaced people, which can be regarded as helping the Ming Mansion to solve problems!"

In the eleventh year of Tianbao, Li Linfu, the prime minister of the government and the opposition for 20 years, died of illness, and the Tang Empire also lost the last strongman who could control the overall situation, and Yang Guozhong became the third person to collect wealth for Tang Xuanzong, and the situation was completely out of control after that.

Yang Guozhong, who has not learned since he was a child, but is handsome, after Yang Guifei entered the palace, he and Yang Yuhuan's second sister *** climbed the dragon and attached the phoenix. However, this person also has a special skill, that is, he can calculate money without making any mistakes, and it is said that in the "big surplus warehouse" inventory, he can quote the discount of each warehouse inventory according to the market price in units of "pieces". After Li Linfu's death, Yang Guozhong became the prime minister and concurrently served as more than 40 errands in Duzhilang.

Whenever Tang Xuanzong asked about the source of the money, Wang Ying said to Xuanzong: "Please rest assured that Your Majesty will use it, these are not from the state tax!" ”

This poor prime minister is very ambitious: I came from a humble background, but because I climbed into a woman's relationship to soar, after all, I am not a famous minister who has contributed to the empire, so I will not seek a good reputation in my lifetime, I only want wealth and luxury, I just need to be happy in time! (It seems that Yang Guozhong is still a little self-aware)

It is said that two years after Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, Yang Guozhong claimed that his family had 30 million pieces of brocade, and converted the brocade into later renminbi, about 7 billion yuan.

In the eleventh year of Tianbao, that is, as soon as Li Linfu died, the Tang Empire issued an edict "Banning Officials from Conquering the People's Mouths and Dividing Yongye Tian".

Taken literally, the edict meant to prohibit the feudal bureaucracy from forcibly seizing the land of the common people.

Don't be fooled, the name of the edict is just a play on words, and the essence of the edict is to recognize the private sale of land, that is, to abandon the "Kaiyuan purchase restriction order".

In this edict, the imperial court first admitted that since Tianbao, "the families of princes, hundreds of officials and wealthy people" have done everything possible to annex land and illegally sell and buy the land that the people rely on for their livelihood, and the current situation is that the people have "nowhere to resettle". Subsequently, the edict turned the pen and put forward solutions: the gap between the rich and the poor is excusable, and all land transactions that have been completed, as long as the land purchased with cash is a market-oriented behavior, it should be fair and just, so the land purchased with cash can not comply with the "Kaiyuan purchase restriction order", do not need to be fined and confiscated, and only need to be "more lenient and make sure that Hongtong"; As for the land that was not bought with cash, if someone came to ask the official family to redeem the "Yongye Field" for him, if no one came to ask for it, it would be .......

In the final analysis, all the means of wealth accumulation of the feudal dynasty were to compete with the common people for control of wealth. Normally, the feudal rulers robbed wealth by increasing taxes, reducing the weight of copper coins, and so on, which today we call "tax regulation", "fiscal policy" or "monetary policy".

If Zhen Qian is allowed to evaluate, then increasing taxes is the stupidest policy, everyone knows that they have less money in their pockets, at most it is a realm of "having a trick in your hand and no trick in your heart"; Although the additional issuance of currency is a ruthless move, everyone will not feel that there is little money for a while, but it will be difficult to fool people after a long time, but it is also the realm of "no tricks in your hands, but there are tricks in your heart". Yang Guozhong, the only scoundrel who does not learn and has no skills, as soon as he made the "Edict of Banning Officials and Seizing the People's Mouths", he reached the highest level of robbery--- land annexation, and he had the style of "no trick in his hand and no trick in his heart".

In an agrarian society, land is the means of production on which every small farmer depends, and the price of this means of production skyrockets to quickly wipe out the wealth accumulation of generations at the bottom of society. Obviously, Tang Xuanzong was aware of this problem in the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and it was only in the Kaiyuan Purchase Restriction Order that the "Kaiyuan Purchase Restriction Order" denied the legitimacy of all land sales and sales, and stabilized the land obtained by small farmers from the imperial government in an extremely tough way.

Now, the rules of wealth distribution have changed, and everything has changed. The outcasts, the terrible outcasts, once again appeared within the borders of the Tang Empire.

Judging from the later development, in the fourteenth year of Tianbao, more than forty percent of the people in the Tang Empire lost their land, even if there was no Anshi Rebellion, all the conditions for social upheaval were already in place, and it was only a matter of time before it broke out.