What's the big deal if two sons have different political views?

Apart from Zheng Fei's talent and character, nothing else he did made Zheng Boming happy. The father and son also had political disagreements, just like he and his fifth brother. They got along well on a daily basis, but when it came to family,

If you don't develop your ideals in life and train your disciples, you will quarrel, and you will basically be in a fight all your life.

But no one just said that he wanted to kill the other person, it was just a difference of opinion. Some people like to eat cabbage, and some people just like to eat radishes. Does he have to ask everyone in the world to like to eat cabbage as much as he does?

Not even brothers.

Patriarch Zheng must not be able to bear this tone in his heart. If Zheng Dalang did not know about his wife's nephew's attack, he would not let him go.

If Zheng Dalang and his wife's nephew team up, he will not let each other go. In his opinion, his good son has been instigated by the Sun family.

Magistrate Guo, who is also a son of an aristocratic family and knows a lot about the Zheng family, can imagine what the Zheng family leader is thinking, and it is impossible for Yin Li, the official in charge of the case, not to know.

He is still His Majesty's confidant.

It's just that it's hard to find evidence for this matter. I'm afraid even if the bandits are wiped out, there won't be any evidence that Chief Zheng ordered the people.

But sometimes, it is this paradoxical situation that is the most tormenting and the most emotionally draining.

Patriarch Zheng would think, you have no evidence to prove that I did it, but you always doubt me, is it because you don’t trust me?

The Sun family would think, your two sons killed each other, but you took it out on my son. They were kidnapped right after they left Xingyang. Even if the Zheng family didn't do it, we can't believe it if they were beaten to death.

Man Bao was confused and asked: "Is it really Chief Zheng who did it? Why didn't he stay farther away before attacking? Isn't this actively arousing people's suspicion?"

Magistrate Guo said: "Maybe Patriarch Zheng thinks so too?"

Man Bao was stunned, and after being stunned for a while, he shook his head, "No, all of this is just speculation. If you are so suspicious of people's hearts, there are many possibilities. How can you judge the case so carefully? You have to find evidence, right?"

Magistrate Guo looked her up and down, "Master Zhou is wise, such suspicion of people's hearts cannot be used as a standard for us to judge cases. Even people like Patriarch Zheng know this, but how many people in the world can really not guess people's hearts?

Among them, how many of them can avoid doubting based on their own guesses?"

County Magistrate Guo affirmed: "Except for a few ministers in the court, I'm afraid even His Majesty can't do it, right?"

Yes, the emperor really couldn't do it. At this time, he couldn't help but discuss with Wei Zhi whether the Zheng family wanted to turn against the Sun family.

He just met Yin Li this morning and learned about Sun Zhi's disappearance.

Then he was criticized by Wei Zhi, who said: "Your Majesty should order the local officials to investigate the case as soon as possible and eliminate the mountain bandits, especially the latter. If the bandits are allowed to run rampant, not only the local people will be terrified, but the passing merchants will also be panicked."

, if things go on like this, even if the trade routes are not cut off, it will also hit the merchants along the way."

This is a major matter involving people's livelihood and taxation. As an emperor, you still have time to gossip here, and the appearance of bandits outside Xingyang is a good thing?

Do you want to be more careful and worry about the Zheng family's private support?

How many decades has it been since the world became stable?

Nowadays, the powerful families in many places are still far ahead of the imperial court. If someone wants to rebel against you, although there is a small chance of success, it is more than enough to seize a few cities and play for a few years, okay?

The emperor was scolded by Wei Zhi, and finally got back to business. At the same time, he ordered the local officials in the Xingyang area to conduct self-examination, and they must destroy the bandits and ensure the safety of the people and business travelers along the way;

At the same time, he issued an edict to appease the Sun family.

Then he turned around and paid attention to the investigation situation in Qizhou.

Mr. Old Tang went into the palace to report.

The situation in Qizhou doesn't look serious on the surface, but upon closer inspection and reflection, the situation is very bad.

When the previous dynasty fell, the people were displaced. Many people left their hometowns and fled. Some villages or even entire villages were empty, and some villages only had one or two households. This left large areas of uncultivated land.

land.

Plus those who died in the war...

Anyway, at the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, large tracts of farmland were abandoned.

Most of these lands were taken over by the imperial court as state-owned, while a small amount of them were occupied by local wealthy families who did not leave and were directly marked as their own land.

Some people who could not produce land certificates were still nationalized, some bribed officials and subordinates to supplement their land certificates, and some people simply forged land certificates.

But most of the land was still in the hands of the imperial court and local yamen.

Then the imperial court began to recruit refugees. Those who were exiled to the local area would generally not be sent back to their hometowns, but would be collected directly in the local area. The imperial court would allocate the land, provide improved seeds, lend agricultural tools on credit, organize servants to build houses for them, etc...

This allocated a batch of land, and the remaining land was allocated to the growing population every year. The remaining land was still in the hands of the local government.

Some of these fields are being cultivated by prisoners sentenced by the Yamen, as well as hired part-time and long-term workers, but most of them are abandoned.

Not long after I ascended the throne, the imperial court issued a policy in order to prevent the land from becoming too wasteful. People who had been allocated and lost their land, as well as refugees, could reclaim wasteland and cultivate it for more than three years to use it as their permanent farmland...

You can also use money and grain to purchase land from the court, but the land purchaser's personal name should not exceed 20 acres of Yongye land.

In other words, only good people with less than 20 acres of Yongye land can purchase land from the local government.

Almost all the land in the capital and Yongzhou has been bought and sold, especially the land in Gongzhong, which must not only be distributed to the good people of Xinchengding, but also be used as employment land for the imperial court.

Further out, there is still more land in Shangzhou, Fengzhou and Qizhou.

When the Zheng family and the prince of Hejian County purchased land, they first bought a large amount of land from the Qizhou Governor's Mansion using the names of their tenants, and then transferred the land from the tenants to their own names. It was basically a matter of hands.

Li Shangshu waited for a period of time before reselling it to the Ministry of Revenue, thus achieving the final achievement.

However, the Zheng family controlled a large area of ​​land in Qizhou after changing hands.

And there are many people who operate like this with the Zheng family.

And this is just one of the problems. Another big problem is that the price the Zheng family paid for these fields was less than one-third of the price when the Ministry of Revenue and the Qizhou Governor's Office consulted.

Even Li Gong, the king of Hejian County, spent more money to buy eight hectares of land than the Zheng family paid to buy ten hectares of land.

Of course, the governor of Qizhou also had his reasons, and the court did grant him this right. He was guilty and innocent unless there was evidence that he benefited from the Zheng family.

However, people from the Yushitai and the Dali Temple of the Ministry of Punishment searched for a long time and found no evidence. The money purchased by the Zheng family and the Hejian princes indeed went into the public treasury of the governor's office and was not withheld.

At the beginning, the steward sent by the King of Hejian to buy land directly used the post of the King of Hejian to exert power and did not give anyone a bribe. Therefore, the governor of Qizhou said confidently that he did not ask the King of Hejian for a bribe.

How could he ask for bribes from the Zheng family?

He is innocent!
Chapter completed!