The next morning, it was the first day of the Lunar New Year. Others were fine, but Li Xuandu had already stood up at the time of Yin, and then around Mao, some people came to pay New Year's greetings one after another. Most of them were children of the Li family, and there were other gentry figures in the city.

The elders of the clan of the "Dao" generation do not need to mobilize themselves like this. They can wait at home for their younger generations to come to pay New Year's greetings.

Li Xuan had to receive New Year's greetings at the Li family's ancestral home, so he could not go out to pay New Year's greetings, so he came forward with Tai Tai. Fortunately, the "Ru" generation is also a senior, and only a few "Dao" generations need to come to pay New Year's greetings, which is not a problem. However, Li Xuan was afraid that his unruly nature would cause something to happen to him, so he explained that his family was different from the world, not fighting and killing, but human relationships.

Li Taiyi was unruly, but he was not brainless. When facing his master Li Daoxu, he should have given up when he was forced. At this time, his senior brother was so arrogant that he would not disobey his senior brother's wishes.

This New Year is also really tiring. Li Xuan is always receiving New Year greetings in his ancestral home. Although there are no elderly people of the "Dao" generation, children of the "Long" generation who did not show up during their ancestor worship became the main force.

Li Xuan looked at these grandchildren. The young one was still in her infancy. It would be fine. The older one was already a grown-up or even married, but he had to call him "Uncle" respectfully, which made him feel a little funny.

Seriously speaking, it’s Li Daoxu’s fault. In terms of age, Li Xuandu should be Li Daoxu’s disciple and grandson, but Li Daoxu took him as his adopted son. Zhang Haishi, who should be Li Xuandu’s father-in-law, became his brothers and brothers. Li Xuandu’s father-in-law Qin Qing even had his own opinions. If they were to do their own things, then you really call me a virtuous brother and I call you your father-in-law.

If Zhang Haishi were here, this uncle would not be abrupt at all. But then again, it is not uncommon for the old man and the old man with the scrambled baby to talk about brothers in the big family.

While respecting these young people of the "long" generation, they were also secretly looking at this young uncle. As a child of the Li family, they were not a well-watching the sky, and had heard of all kinds of major events. They have been famous for a long time. I won’t talk about the experience of being the Sword Immortal of the Purple Mansion in their early years. In recent years, they first took over as the sect leader of Taiping Sect, and then obtained the inheritance of the Earth Master and participated in the integration of the Taoist Sect. They defeated the "Demon Sword" Song Zheng in the Yuxu Fighting Sword and won a key game, defeated the Saint Lord Dan Taiyun in the North Palace of the Great Wilderness, and Yu Dazhen Mansion forcibly killed Zhang Jingchen, and finally took over the Qingwei Sect from the old sect leader in the imperial capital.

This experience is so legendary that these young people ignore the true age of this uncle. After all, there are many people who have the ability to keep their eyes open. For example, the great-grandfather and aunt, who looks in her thirties, stands with her great-grandfather and uncle, not like a couple, but like a grandparent and grandchild. In addition, Li Xuandu has been infected with a lot of dusk energy in recent years, and is in a high position, holding great power, and is becoming more and more majestic. Therefore, many young people of the "long" generation have regarded Li Xuan as an old man who has the ability to keep their eyes open, which Li Xuan did not expect.

This New Year greeting started from the hour of Mao to the afternoon, and Li Xuandu finally got some leisure time. In the afternoon, he wore regular clothes and took Li Taiyi, who came back to the New Year greeting, to the street. Lu Yanbing and Qin Su had other things to do, and they were not with Li Xuandu and others.

According to the novel in the story, you should have encountered some stories of Huahua Tai Sui teasing a woman in the street, but it was the New Year Festival, but no such thing happened.

As for the frozen bones on the road, it is not that. When Li Jinxuan was alive, he built more than a dozen Puji Halls in the city, specifically to accommodate the elderly and abandoned babies. He hired the poor people in the city, and the direct disciples of the Li family were in charge of the Li family. Although Li Daoxu later denied most of the decisions of his adoptive father and master, this was still preserved. For the Li family, it was not much money, and the annual cost was not enough to be worth a ship of goods. On the contrary, because Li Xuan attached importance to the laws, he also investigated and dealt with several officials who had enough money. Not only did he confiscate the family's wealth, he was also exiled to a remote desert island for hard labor.

However, Li Daoxu was not interested in promoting such good deeds. It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish. It is better to help people how to save urgent things but not poor people. It is necessary to fundamentally solve the problem. Li Daoxu had considered this in his early years. In his later years, Li Xuandu had completely slacked because of his disgust in the world. These things became everything as usual, and the development of the Qingwei Sect also fell into stagnation. So these things fell on the heads of later generations Li Xuandu.

This reminded Li Xuan of a joke, and a great charity spoke: "I can't control other places, but there can't be poor people within a radius of twenty miles of my house." Then he sent someone to drive away all the poor people nearby, because the great charity is kind-hearted and can't stand the poor.

Now that I want to just give money and rice, it is just a headache to treat the head and feet. It will not solve the problem. We must truly make the residents have their own houses and farms, and find a way for the people to survive. This is the way to maintain long-term stability, just like in Liaodong.

Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, and some are land, so you can cultivate a large amount of land, but Qizhou is not good. Qizhou has been developing for many years and there is no spare land. So if you attack the wealthy gentry, you will either find another way out to open up the source.

For this reason, when Li Xuandu went to see Qin Qing, the father-in-law and son-in-law had a secret talk, and finally reached a unified opinion. The attack on the wealthy gentry was not to directly eliminate these wealthy gentry and seize their land, but to repay taxes according to the rules and regulations, and to pay the taxes owed for many years. If they were unable to pay the money, they would use their names to offset the tax arrears. In addition, the wealthy gentry had to return the land they had invested, the hidden land, etc.

There are two situations for the so-called land dedication. One is the forced annexation that is well-known to the world, and the other is to voluntarily devote it to the gentry and powerful people, and he also changed from the people to tenant slaves to avoid the taxes and corvee service of the court. The so-called return of the land dedication is to clear out the land dedication and return it to the original owner to make it pay taxes again.

Therefore, Li Xuandu and Qin Qing's method was very simple. First, clear out the land they invested, re-registered, and then let the gentry and wealthy families pay the taxes. The tax arrears that cannot be compensated will be offset by the land under their name. Then the remaining land is the legally owned land of the wealthy families, and they are given official approval certificates. From then on, they pay taxes according to law, and they are still rich.

If you do not follow the situation and use various means to fight against each other, you will strongly suppress it, confiscate all your property and put it in the national treasury.

Moreover, they are equal. The Li family and the Qin family also need to clean up the land and pay taxes to take the lead. For this reason, Li Xuandu also specifically asked Li Rushi. According to Li Rushi's answer, the Li family has not much land and does not accept investment. As long as the taxes are paid, some taxes are a drop in the bucket for the Li family. Therefore, Li Xuandu really wants to implement this policy, and no one in the Li family will come out to object, and they just think that the patriarch is the new official and takes office for three reasons.

The real big head of the Li family lies in the sea trade, which is the key. It can move the whole body with one move, not just as simple as the Li family, but the entire Qingwei Sect. This involves the issue of the sect, and even ascending to the entire Taoist sect, even Li Xuandu and Qin Qing dare not move lightly.

After all, the reliance of the great gentry is Confucian Sect. Without the Confucian Sect, they are fish on the chopping board and can be slaughtered. But the Dao Sect is different. They support Li Xuandu and Qin Qing because they lead the Dao Sect to defeat the Confucian Sect, which is in line with the interests of the Dao Sect. If the two betray the Dao Sect, they will inevitably be backfired by the Dao Sect. The Dao Sect is not a gentry who has no power to tie a chicken. Rebellion is a heritage for many years. If you really want to be impatient, the emperor will kill it, and the immortals will not be able to kill them.

In other words, the Taoist sect is the foundation of Li Xuandu. The more the foundation, the more difficult it is to shake it, and at the same time, the more difficult it is to change. If Li Xuandu obeys the Taoist sect, a "Xuan Sheng" cannot escape and will be regarded as the leader of the Taoist sect's revival and praised for all generations. If Li Xuandu dares to disobey the Taoist sect, he is afraid that he will lose his integrity in his later years, that is, he will have mixed merits and demerits and mixed praises.

The Taoist sect is not a certain person, or even the Supreme Taoist ancestor, but a group of people. These people may be Li Xuandu’s friends, seniors, juniors, subordinates, allies, and have close ties with Li Xuan. Li Xuan can accomplish things, and they must have their strong support.

Does Li Xuan dare to disobey the Taoist sect?

It’s hard to say in the future, at least I still dare not.

Although there were no bones frozen to death, there were still some beggars. However, Li Xuan saw that these beggars were in good hands and feet and were in their prime, so he knew that they should be members of the Beggars' Sect, who specialized in doing things that the government was unhappy, such as clearing ditches, guarding chariots, moving corpses, etc., and occasionally doing some errands like crying and thugs.

The people of this Beggar Sect cannot be eliminated in the imperial capital, and the people of Beihai Mansion cannot be eliminated. However, the leaders of the Beggar Sect are like ordinary wealthy gentry, and they also have maids and servants to serve them, ride horses and horses in sedan chairs and riding silk and satin, without any sign of a beggar.

The inaction of the government has made these people and gentry grow up and become local tyrants.

At that time, Emperor Taizu of the Great Wei said that the Great Jin and the Jin tent were both lenient. This is not about lenient politics, but about the Great Jin and the Jin tent being too indulgent to local gentry. Now it seems that the Great Wei has followed in the footsteps.

Many people have seen this, including but not limited to Zhang Suqing, Li Daoxu, Qin Qing, Xu Wugui, and Li Xuandu. It is precisely because Li Xuan has seen this and is determined to change that he has the blue eyes of Zhang, Li, Xu and Qin. The so-called Taoist can be planned, which is the case.
Chapter completed!