There is a grange covering an area of about 300 hectares about 300 miles west of Taiyuan, and here is one of the three granges of the Wang family, called Xishan Grange.

The three granges of the Wang family are all in charge of Wang Xu's third son, Wang Qi, and three chief stewards have been appointed to be in charge respectively, among which the chief steward of Xishan Grange is called Wang Suilu, who is also an old family member of the Wang family.

The West Mountain Grange is backed by the north foot of the West Mountain, a small river flows through the Grange, it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the scenery is beautiful, dozens of pavilions and pavilions have been built, the weather is cool in summer, so that it has also become the summer place of the Wang family.

In addition to the holiday houses, there is also a village at the foot of the West Mountain, about 300 households, these families are all tenant farmers of the Wang family, who were originally displaced people who came to Taiyuan to escape the war in Hebei, and have no household registration, and make a living by renting the land of the Wang family.

However, with the implementation of Hebei's equalization system, the tenants of Xishan Tianzhuang also began to return to their hometowns in Hebei, and after the summer harvest, more than 70 tenant farmers returned to their hometowns after the summer harvest, and more tenants were ready to return to Hebei after the autumn harvest.

This was also a common crisis for all the estates of the Sui Dynasty, the tenants were unwilling to farm for the grange, and had to return to their hometowns to accept the division of the land, not only the land was their own, but the land tax was much lower than the rent.

Although some manor owners lowered their rents again and again, only slightly higher than the land tax, and promised to marry wives for their wivesless tenants, they still could not stop the tide of tenant farmers returning to their hometowns.

At dusk, a cavalry of the Inner Guard, consisting of 1,000 men, galloped all the way to the Xishan Manor, where there was no wall around the manor, but a ten-mile-long wall was built around the Wang's vacation house.

The killing of more than 1,000 cavalry alarmed the village and Wang's house, dozens of thin dogs ran out of the village and barked at the cavalry, the cavalry galloped on horseback, opened their bows and released arrows, and more than 20 thin dogs were nailed to the ground.

The murderous machine was revealed, and the frightened villagers rushed back. The door of the house was closed, and the gatekeeper of the Wang family's house also saw the cavalry running, he closed the door, and ran back to report the news, and in an instant, the cavalry rushed to the door, and the gate was knocked down with a bang.

Thousands of cavalry rushed into the Wang's house group, and they had a clear aim. Divided into two routes, one cavalry surrounded a granary, and dozens of soldiers kicked open the gate and rushed in.

The other cavalry surrounded a large mansion and raised their bows and crossbows. Aiming at the wall and gate of the mansion, an officer shouted: "All the people in the house come out, otherwise they will be killed!" ”

For a moment, dozens of men and women turned pale with fright. One by one, they raised their hands and came out of the room, about fifty or sixty people. The soldiers rushed forward and ordered dozens of people to kneel.

Captain Wei led more than 100 internal guard soldiers to rush into the mansion, which covers an area of about two acres and consists of more than 20 houses, the courtyard and rooms are full of various wine-making utensils, and the whole mansion is filled with a strong smell of sake lees.

Hundreds of urns of wine and a large number of empty bottles were also found in the granary. At this time, Wang Suilu, the chief steward of the grange, was escorted up. He fell to his knees and begged for mercy.

"General, have you been taken away by everything?" A lieutenant asked.

Du Wei shook his head, "General Wei has an order to seize the stolen goods of the captured people on the spot to prevent the Wang family from denying their accounts." ”

He then ordered the lieutenant: "You will lead three hundred brothers to guard the stolen goods. If anyone dares to attack, kill them on the spot! ”

The lieutenant bowed down and took the order. "Yes!"

The lieutenant arranged the remaining soldiers and led the rest of the hundreds of cavalry to Taiyuan City......

At the same time that the Xishan Grange was searched, two other cavalry also searched the other two granges of the Wang family, and also found wine-making tools in the granary, and also found a large amount of wine in the granary.

In Taiyuan City, Yipinju Liquor Store and Jinshi Liquor Shop were also surrounded by the Internal Guard Corps, and soldiers searched thousands of bottles of rice wine from the wine cellars, and also found a large amount of rice wine ready to be sold wholesale in several Wang shops in Beishi.

At this time, only three hours had passed since Yang Yuanqing's order, and Wei Ben and Shi Liu Qiaosong, the chief of internal security, presented a written note to Yang Yuanqing.

At the beginning of the night, the lights in the Ziwei Pavilion were still bright, and in the official room of the King of Chu, Wei Ben and Changshi Liu Qiaosong stood aside with their hands down, waiting for orders.

Yang Yuanqing sat behind the table, carefully flipped through the report, Wei Ben's efficiency made him very satisfied, he liked to attack like this, and in the shortest possible time, he would get all the stolen goods.

But what Song Shu wrote made Yang Yuanqing angry, there were originally nearly 100,000 stones of grain in the three granges of the Wang family, but soon after the ban was issued, they began to make wine for profit, and in just half a year, they used 50,000 stone rice to make rice wine, openly confronting their own ban.

Yang Yuanqing came to the window with his hands behind his back, staring at the night sky and pondering, the Wang family's wine-making incident was enough to make the Wang family undoomed, and now the question was, how far did he need to expand this incident?

Whether to make an example of a hundred people, or to completely purge the officialdom and completely eliminate the royal forces from the imperial court, Yang Yuanqing has been weighing this matter in his heart, weighing the pros and cons, the latter is not that he can't do it, but to see if he has the determination.

After pondering for a long time, Yang Yuanqing said slowly: "Take the first step first!" ”……

In the dark of night, an army of 2,000 heavily armed soldiers was silently marching towards the Wang's mansion in the south of Taiyuan, led by Wei Ben himself, and surrounded the minister's mansion, which was the first time since the establishment of the new Sui Dynasty.

In a moment, two thousand internal guards arrived at the Wang's mansion, and Wei Ben gave a low order, and two thousand soldiers surrounded the Wang's mansion, which covered an area of nearly 100 acres.

At this moment, in the inner hall of the palace, there are broken porcelain teacups all over the ground, and the head of the family, Wang Xu, is extremely angry, he is holding a long sword, his face is pale, and he is scolding several Wang children, "You stupid pigs, our Wang family will be killed by you, and the continuation of the Taiyuan Wang family for hundreds of years will be cut off from your hands!" ”

Wang Xu was demoted to the rank of Zhao County Taishou a few months ago, but he never went to Zhao County to take up his post under the pretext of recuperation, but stayed in Taiyuan Mansion.

But his post was not dismissed, Zhao County's government affairs were represented by Zhao Hongxuan, the chief of history, he stayed in the Taiyuan mansion, secretly controlled his party in the court and the local government, this time against the Sui army to attack the Central Plains, it was he who took the lead, causing a wave in the imperial court.

Because all his energy was focused on the operation of officialdom and neglected the operation of the Wang family's industry, he didn't know that the children of the Wang family secretly started making wine to make money.

It wasn't until half an hour ago that the news that Yipinju Liquor Store was raided by the internal guards came that he knew that the clansmen had caused a great disaster without him.

He hated so much that he almost raised his sword to chop these fools, including his son Wang Qi, who was already the master of the six gods at this time, and didn't know how to deal with this family crisis.

There were four people kneeling on the ground, and in the front was Wang Xu's brother Wang Xuanzhi, who was the chief steward of the Wang family, and he was fully responsible for all the industrial operations and account receipts and expenditures of the Wang family.

The decision to use the Wang's grain to make money was also decided by him, and he was also forced by the financial crisis faced by the Wang family.

This year's Wang family's summer grain harvest is the worst in a century, and the degree of reduction in output even exceeds that of the great drought in the sixth year of Daye.

The resignation of a large number of tenants directly led to a sharp drop of 30% of the grain in storage, and what is even worse is that it is said that a large number of tenants will leave after the autumn harvest, and he initially estimated that about 400 tenants of the 600 tenants in the three granges may leave.

In this way, the most important source of income for the Wang family, the five hundred hectares of farmland, will face the danger of collapse, and what will be used to support the Wang family's sky-high expenditure, and the money and grain consumed by Wang Xue every year alone will be tens of thousands of hanging money and tens of thousands of stone grains.

Without land income, the Wang family's family can only last for three years at most, and then the Wang family will disappear.

As the chief steward of the Wang family, Wang Xuanzhi was worried until a few months ago, when Wang Jizhong, who was in charge of the liquor store, told him that there was a way to make a fortune: winemaking.

This is because of the issuance of the prohibition and the emergence of a huge business opportunity, the use of grain to make wine itself is more than the pure sale of grain to make twice as much money, plus because of the prohibition caused the price of grain wine to skyrocket, the windfall profit is as much as 30 times, plus the profit of using grain to make wine itself, then his stock of grain can earn a maximum of 60 times the profit.

The huge profits of winemaking made Wang Xuanzhi feel distracted, so he did not discuss with the head of the family, but only discussed with a few nephews who were in charge of power, and everyone hit it off and decided to take risks and make profits from winemaking.

In addition to Wang Xuanzhi, behind him was Wang Xu's third son, Wang Qi, who was in charge of the grange, as well as Wang Jizhong, who was in charge of the wine shop, and Wang Jiyun, who was in charge of the shop.

These four people are the masterminds of the Wang family's winemaking, and at this moment they are all kneeling in front of the head of the family, and they are all terrified by the catastrophe caused by the winemaking incident, but so far, they don't know that the Grange has also had an accident.

Wang Xuanzhi was very annoyed and said: "The head of the family, this matter is my responsibility, I didn't expect it to lead to such serious consequences, but I also have no choice, if I don't want to make money, the Wang family will also be difficult to maintain, did the head of the family forget my report a few months ago?" A large number of tenants are leaving, who will farm for us? The head of the house agreed at the time. ”

"Shut up!"

Wang Xu shouted angrily again: "I agreed with you to make money, but I didn't let you go to brew, blatantly disobeying the ban, do you think everyone else is stupid?" I don't know how to make money by brewing, and the Pei family doesn't dare to offend the prohibition with such a deep background, what are you? ”

Wang Zhenxiao, another clan brother next to him, persuaded: "The head of the family is angry, now that the problem has come out, we must find a way to solve the crisis first, instead of complaining to each other, and when the crisis is over, then settle the accounts internally, the head of the family said right?" ”

Wang Xu said hatefully: "You said it simply, how do you ask me to solve this problem, can you tell me?" ”

At this moment, there was a sound of running outside the door, and then the housekeeper was terrified: "Report to the head of the house, the outside of the house gate has been surrounded by troops, led by Wei Shatou, he wants the head of the house to go out to answer, otherwise he will lead the army into the house." ”

This news stunned Wang Xu