Chapter 374 Local tyrants and inferior gentry
Yang Feng visited Xian Yu Zhongtong in Chengdu and received a lot of gifts by the way, and then went with Li Gao to receive his manor.
This manor is at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain.
Here by the mountains and rivers, close to the famous Dujiangyan, can be said to be absolutely good land, it can be seen that Li Gao is still very generous, after all, five thousand acres is a very amazing number, of course, this can also be seen that the heir of the king of Cao has a lot of land, although as the heir of the king, his Yongye field is only 5,000 acres, but he can take 5,000 acres as a gift, that proves that his family does not have 50,000 acres that is a joke, as for his family's extra that, needless to say is the result of land annexation.
In fact, land annexation was already very serious at this time.
It was in this year that Li Longji issued an edict prohibiting the sale of land in the mouth, and the same edict had been issued in the twenty-third year of Kaiyuan, and now with his stupidity, he actually had to issue it again, it is conceivable how serious the land annexation has been, in fact, although the implementation of the uniform land system, but the land annexation runs through the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty's uniform land is not all the land, those Guanlong nobles who supported the Li family to seize the world, those who fell to the Li family in the course of the war, those upstarts who rose by virtue of their military exploits, Of course, it is impossible for their land to be equalized, Li Shimin dares to equalize the land of the Jingzhao Du family or the land of the Pei family in Hedong?
And he dared to equalize the lands that had no owner!
Not to mention the land, Li Yuangang wants to move the people of Guanzhong outward, reduce the tenants of those wealthy families, and enrich the Kanto Prefecture and counties that were abandoned because of the war!
Immediately Xuanwu Gate!
If Li Shimin dares to close the land of the nobles of Long, Xuanwu Gate may not be able to point out which Ling Yan hero will stab him in the back!
Many of the political struggles in the Tang Dynasty actually revolved around land, and the annexation was still Juntian, which was beneficial to the emperor, because more taxes could be collected, there were more soldiers, and the annexation was beneficial to the family, and the essence of many political struggles was actually the struggle over the land system. Including the series of struggles around Wu Zetian in the era of Tang Gaozong, it seems that it is aimed at Wu Zetian, but in fact, it is the Guanlong aristocratic group headed by the eldest grandson Wuji, and in this regard, it fights with the royal group headed by Tang Gaozong, such as Chu Suiliang, who has a positive image in history, was once demoted because of forcibly occupying the land of his subordinate petty officials.
The essence of all political struggles is a struggle of interests, and no matter what strange slogans people put forward as their political banner, in the final analysis, they are all for certain economic interests.
Again, no one really cares which woman the emperor marries, that's just an excuse for them to make trouble.
The real problem is Kanto development.
The east of Hangu Pass was destroyed by the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and there were no people in many places, Li Zhi wanted to emigrate from the overcrowded Guanzhong, but many of the people in Guanzhong were tenants of the Guanlong nobles, and he removed the people, so who did the eldest grandson Wuji exploit? His grandfather is like this Xuanwu Sect, and Wu Zetian is precisely the mastermind who assisted Li Zhi to play the Kanto Great Development, who does the eldest grandson Wuji and his gang deal with if they don't deal with her?
If it was said that in the early Tang Dynasty, there was still a struggle around this issue, but by the time of Li Longji, it was completely out of control.
Because at this time, the cold door has risen again.
When the land annexation of the wealthy family came to an end, the newly rising Hanmen, or small and medium-sized landlords, took over the banner of annexation, and the most valuable wealth of this era was nothing more than land. Although Li Longji is also in charge, he is just issuing an edict, who cares if he is forbidden but not punished? For example, when someone told him in the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Lu Congyuan, the secretary of the ministry, had more than 100 hectares of land in his family, and for this Shangshu with a land of 10,000 acres, Li Longji only commented that he was not honest. He had to issue an edict to prohibit it, and he didn't even catch a few typical killing practices, so isn't this acquiescing to those wealthy and wealthy nouveau riche recklessly plundering the land?
Of course, this has nothing to do with Yang Feng.
As a nouveau riche from a humble family, he happily took over this piece of land that he had divided many times his own land.
"This is your new master!"
At the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, in the quiet and elegant manor, Li Gao pointed to dozens of slaves and maids, pointing to Yang Feng beside him.
"The slave has seen the master."
A group of slaves and maidservants saluted.
"This is their roster, and there are some account books of the property here, as for Zhuangzi's Zhuangzi, this free brother can summon him, this is Zhuangzi's steward, and all affairs are handled by him!"
Li Gao pointed to a middle-aged man and said.
"The old slave Li Fu has seen Ah Lang!"
The middle-aged man hurriedly saluted and said.
"Okay, or you continue to manage it, nothing else, that is, after the beginning of spring, each household needs to plant two acres of tea, as for their rent, let's reduce it by one percent, after all, after planting tea, the yield of this grain is low, in addition to the scope of the courtyard wall to expand ten zhang and rebuild the wall, to build to the standard of the city wall, the height of one and a half zhang, and the wall must be able to walk, each of the four corners of the watchtower, the front and back two doors should be able to drive side by side, as for the courtyard wall of this courtyard should also be rebuilt and heightened to one and a half zhang, a group of people will come over in a few days, You can just cooperate with what they have to do! ”
Yang Feng said.
"What does my brother want?"
Li Gao said suspiciously.
"It's nothing, just build a tea farm, that is, my brother often drinks that clear tea, this tea brother has asked for a patent, but I dare not guarantee that this Shu land is strong and does not covet counterfeiting, so the secrecy of this tea field is the first!"
Yang Feng said.
The tea-making technique has been taught to his four female slaves, and they will bring a group of female slaves bought in Chang'an to be responsible for roasting tea, and then buy a group of domestic slaves to arm them, leaving a few Anxi Army soldiers to be responsible for leading and guarding this manor, and outsiders will be forbidden to enter in the future. The inner courtyard acts as a factory, and the outer courtyard is responsible for the transit of raw materials and products, and all the workers are locked in the inner courtyard at that time, and the big deal is that every winter when there is no tea to fry and pull it away with a horse-drawn cart, anyway, these things are seasonal work, and they are all pulled away when they stop work in winter, and then send them back before the start of work in winter, so that they can keep the secret for a few more years to the greatest extent, and it is enough to make do with it before An Lushan's rebellion.
"Ah Lang, then this is a lot of money."
Li Fu said cautiously.
"You don't need to worry about this, you just have to do what they tell you to do."
Yang Feng said.
Money is not worth anything to him!
Besides, he can find that kissing sister if he is short of money, this is not his own business, Mrs. Qiu Guo and Yang Guozhong also have a share.
"What other fruit trees are there?"
Yang Feng then asked.
"Peaches, pears, apricots, and so on."
Li Fu said.
"Then plant more on the mountain, is there a lychee here?"
Yang Feng said.
"Well, I haven't heard of it."
Li Fu hurriedly said.
In this way, rock sugar lychees can't be made here, but rock sugar pears can, and canned yellow peaches are also very good, ah, and canned hawthorn This must be no problem, in short, the tea factory and the canned factory can be here, but the canned lychee needs to change places, this can only be found after Chongqing, and it is really not good to buy a Zhuangzi.
"Sugar cane shouldn't be available here, right?"
Yang Feng asked.
"There is this, and there are many in the Neijiang area."
Li Fu said with a smile.
In this case, the cane sugar also has to be here, but with so many factories, the area in this Zhuangzi plan is not enough.
"Ten zhang is not enough, expand thirty zhang!"
Yang Feng said.
"Brother Yang, this is not Zhuangzi, this is the county seat!"
Li Gao said in horror.
Thirty zhang is sixty, plus his courtyard covers an area of twenty zhang square, eighty zhang square that is definitely the city level, this year the county is basically a mile square, this scale is at least a large post city level, this year everything is level, including the width of the main hall is at the level of regulations, more than five more than five, a four-grade official's private mansion is built so big and absolutely beyond the system, not to mention that this is still a fortress, those imperial histories will definitely be impeached.
"Then it's okay to be Yizhuang!"
Yang Feng said indifferently.
"Yizhuang?"
Li Gao was stunned.
"Yes, you also know that many brothers died in the battle of Talas before the Anxi Army, and their families are inevitably poor and sick, although the court must have a pension, but how many pensions can go to the hands of their relatives You also understand, brother is ready to bring those poor and sick brothers and family members, let them farm and work here, and teach them their children in a voluntary school. In this way, it can be thought that the court can share the worries and make those brothers rest in peace in the heavens, as for the wall to be built higher, this is normal, they live here and do not build the wall higher, it is inevitable that there will be treacherous people to harass, is it such a righteous village, those imperial historians still have to talk nonsense? Believe it or not, the brothers who died in battle in Talas went to talk to them in the spirit of heaven? ”
Yang Feng said.
"Huh?!"
Li Gao shut up.
Well, if you really want to have a royal history to dare to find trouble, Yang Feng will really let the Tang warriors of the Battle of Talas come to talk to him in the spirit of heaven.
Of course, the main thing is that there is the backing of Yang Guozhong.
Otherwise, he will definitely not be able to cover a fourth-grade official, and some of the powerful in those places are recruited to deal with him, but it is different with Yang Guozhong standing behind him, at this time in Sichuan, Yang Guozhong is basically the same as the emperor, and the wealth of Sichuan is lost to the hands of several brothers and sisters of the Yang family, I am afraid that more than it is lost to Li Longji's treasury, with Yang Guozhong's support, not to mention that he builds a post city here, he will not have anyone to interfere even if he really builds a county.
In this way, Yang Feng completed his layout.
This guy looked at Qingcheng Mountain behind him in a happy mood, and now even a small piece of mountain forest at the foot of this famous mountain belongs to him, but ......
"Whose family is that?"
He looked at a building under construction on Qingcheng Mountain and said.
The latter just overlooks his estate.