Chapter 280: Huang Aizi Hand

However, the next day, Huan Yuan did not go to court directly, but went to the residence of Shusun Guan, the prefect of Wu County. (《》彩7*

In fact, a senior official like Huan Yuan is not qualified to enter the palace unless the king summons him or the dynasty. Even if he is Huan Chu's uncle, he will not do it.

Shusun Guan did not neglect and solemnly received Huan Yuan in the study.

In the study, the two of them spoke rituals, and Huan Yuan said directly: "Shusun Gong, since the king issued an edict to implement the new land tax method, the court and the country were full of discussions inside and outside the temple, allowing the aristocratic families, the gentry and the untouchables to accept the tax together. There has been no precedent since ancient times. Such a rebellious act will inevitably cause anger and resentment from heaven."

Shusun Guan silently said nothing and did not express his opinion easily.

Huan Yuan said again: "Your Highness has served Xiang for three generations, and it can be said to be the elders of the three dynasties of the Great Chu State. As the old minister of the Great Chu State, you cannot watch the king listen to the greedy words and act against the enemy. You should not watch the Great Chu State go astray and slide into the abyss. Shusun Gong, you should climb up and call and lead the Jiangdong gentry..."

"What are you going to lead the Jiangdong gentry?" Shusun Guan interrupted Huan Yuan coldly and said, "Rebel?"

"Uh, of course it's not a rebellion." Huan Yuan was suffocated when he heard this and said a little embarrassedly, "As the elders of the three dynasties of the Great Chu, the old ministers who carry the tripods, the public has the responsibility and obligation to urge the king to get close to the gentleman and stay away from the villain, right?"

"A gentleman is close to him, but a villain is far away?" Shusun Guan said coldly, "Who is a gentleman, and who is a villain?"

Huan Yuan said: "The noble character is a noble and honest gentleman, like a Bailixian and Ziche Shi, who only knows flattery and does not know what etiquette is. He even said that the gentry and the untouchables in the world will be accepted as a tax. He is a villain. You should lead the Jiangdong gentry and urge the king to stay away from Bailixian and Ziche Shi, such as a lowly villain. Otherwise, our great Chu State will be out of state!"

"What kind of flattery and etiquette?" Shusun Guan frowned and said coldly, "Huan Yuan, I might as well warn you today that the implementation of the new land tax law is the general trend and the will of the people. Whoever dares to obstruct the reform and who dares to resist the progress of Qingzhang land will be an enemy of the entire Great Chu. Please take care of yourself. ("《》.com)"

"Mr. Shusun, you are..." Huan Yuan was stunned and a little busy.

"Come here, take the guests away!" Uncle Sun Guan ignored him and directly issued an order to expel the guests.

A junior official from the school came forward and sternly looked at Huan Yuan, saying, "Minister, please."

Huan Yuan had no choice but to get up, bowed to Shusun Guan again, then turned around and left.

It was not until Huan Yuan's figure disappeared outside the door that Shusun Guan's face gradually became gloomy. Huan Yuan didn't know that Shusun Guan had just returned from the palace. In the palace, Shusun Guan met Xiang Zhuang and Fan Zeng one after another. However, before Shusun Guan could express his attitude, Xiang Zhuang was blocked by Xiang Zhuang first.

Fan Zeng even made a harsh statement, just the sentence that Shusun Guan just handed over to Huan Yuan, but there was only a slight difference. Fan Zeng's original words were: Shusun Guan, I might as well warn you today that the implementation of the new land tax law is the general trend and the will of the people. Whoever dares to obstruct the reform and who dares to resist the progress of Qingzhang land will be my mortal enemy of Xiang. Please take care of yourself.

Xiang Zhuang and Fan Zeng all said this to this point. What else can Shu Sun Guan do? He can only lie dormant.

Back then, the Xiang family relied on the support of the Jiangdong family, the gentry and clans, which was true, but now, the Xiang family has long been full of strength. Especially after Xiang Zhuang succeeded to the King of Chu, he showed extremely superb political skills. The clan power that had been entrenched in Jibei counties for many years, Xiang Zhuang uprooted it just by turning his hands!

Now that we have started to weaken the influence of the gentry, we have made plans before moving forward, and the general trend is probably difficult to reverse.

With Xiang Zhuang absolutely controlling the military power, and now with Fan Zeng in charge, Xiang's status can be said to be as stable as a rock.

Shusun Guan did not think that the dozen families in Jiangdong were able to compete with the Xiang family. Once Shusun was rashly involved in the middle, he would probably be brutal bloodbathed by the Xiang family. Fan Zeng's decision to kill was not a pity. Looking back at the time, if Xiang Yu had not been indecisive, Liu Bang would have let him kill him. ("" website 7*

Of course, the decision to lie dormant does not mean that he will give up resistance.

If the opportunity is right, Shusun Guan didn't mind being the behind-the-scenes pusher, because no matter what, the new land tax law has severely donated the interests of major families. Once the new land tax law is implemented smoothly, it not only means that the major families have to pay a large amount of grain tax to the treasury every year, but also means that the major families lose power in the political arena of Chu. This is what Shusun Guan cares most about.

Shusun Guan had already seen that Xiang Zhuang had a great ambition when the Chu State reformed, and he wanted to follow the example of the powerful Qin Dynasty to minimize the influence of Shixun and Shiqing, that is, the aristocratic families, and then strengthen the royal power to the greatest extent! If the major aristocratic families do not try to resist, they will sooner or later become dolls in Xiang Zhuang's hands. He will pinch whatever he wants and play whatever he wants.

As the head of the Shusun family, Shusun Guan certainly would not allow such an unfavorable situation to occur.

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Wuzhong County, western suburbs.

There is a large area of ​​farmland near Guze. This area of ​​farmland is the property of the Zhang family in Wuzhong. The Zhang family is not only the relatives of the Huan family, but also has two children who work as minor officials in Wuzhong County, and they are like gentry.

Relying on the family power, the Zhang family gathered a lot of land in the western suburbs of Wuzhong.

However, today, the Zhang family was in big trouble, and the guardian lieutenant led his troops to the door!

Just yesterday, when the Wuzhong County Magistrate led people to clear the cultivated land in the western suburbs of Zhangzhou, they were obstructed when they measured the Zhang family's property. In the end, the Zhang family's evil servants even beat the Wuzhong County Magistrate and more than a dozen yamen runners. The Wuzhong County Magistrate was furious and immediately sued the Zhang family to the guardian's lieutenant headquarters with a complaint. So, Ziche Shi led his troops to the door.

On Tian Geng's head, more than fifty blue-clothed slaves held long wooden sticks and formed a circular formation. Around the circular formation, there were more than two hundred murderous Chu soldiers.

Ziche Master rode on the back of the horse, pointed at the head of the Zhang family who was hiding among the slaves with the horse whip in his hand and shouted: "Zhang Wen, I will give up the resistance immediately, ask your people to put down their weapons, and then assist the Wuzhong County Magistrate to clear the land. Everything is still too late, otherwise, I will kill someone!"

Zhang Wen, who was hiding among the slaves at home, couldn't help but feel a little scared when he heard this, but he immediately thought of what Huan Yuan said to everyone last night. It should be noted that the Jiangdong gentry is not the Jibei clan, nor is it comparable to those untouchables. Although this Ziche Master is domineering, would he really dare to openly kill the Jiangdong gentry?

Moreover, the Zhang family has no way out, because once the land in Qingzhang begins, the Zhang family's industry will shrink by at least 60%, because most of the land is obtained by the Zhang family, and there is no land deed or land deed at all. In the past, because there was no need, it was not necessary to forge land deeds or land deeds. Now it is too late to forge it.

Zhang asked now: "The scholars do not pay food, and it has been the same since ancient times. You traitors dare to corrupt etiquette and law and cause chaos. I want to see, do you really dare to kill people here?"

What an old man who was ignorant of life and death, a trace of ferocious murderous intent suddenly appeared on the corner of Ziche Shi's mouth. He slowly pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist and raised it high above his head. More than 200 Chu soldiers who were waiting for him all pulled out the ring-headed swords. The sharp blades reflected a suffocating cold flame under the illumination of the setting sun.

The fifty servants of the Zhang family surrounded by the middle suddenly became turbulent. In the chaos, I don’t know who shouted first. The fifty people threw down their weapons and wanted to escape. Unfortunately, they only remembered that it was too late to escape at this time. They said that it was soon enough, and Ziche Master raised the horizontal sword above the top and slashed it hard.

"Kill!" Accompanied by a loud and powerful shout, more than 200 Chu soldiers had already rushed towards the fifty Zhang family servants who had already escaped like tigers and wolves. In an instant, extremely shrill wailing and moans sounded from the ground. As soon as they touched each other, more than 50 Zhang family servants fell into pools of blood.

Since ancient times, it is impossible not to shed blood!

Ziche Master has made up his mind to borrow these fifty heads to establish authority for the new law!

In less than a moment, the Zhang family advocated the question and the fifty servants were all killed on the spot. The blood shed at the scene almost filled the entire field ditch, and the ferocious heads rolled down the fields. The headless corpses lay all over the ground, and the entire Shura hell.

However, many people standing in the distance watched were cheering loudly. The Zhang family usually did some evil things to deceive men and dominate women for the sake of harming the countryside, especially these fifty evil slaves, and more than fifty evil dogs raised by the Zhang family, making accomplices for tigers. Now these evil dogs have finally been abandoned by the officers and soldiers, so everyone can applaud them?

Many of the gentry hidden in the crowd were so scared that their faces turned pale.

This Ziche Master is really a murderer who can kill people without blinking. He has more than fifty people, and he killed him as soon as he says he wants to kill him. He really killed him. Although Zhang Wen has not served in the official position, his two sons are both working in the Wuzhong County Government. The Zhang family and the Huan family are even more in-laws. This is a famous gentry in Wuzhong.

Ziche Master ignored these things at all, and did not even ask someone to clean up the bodies at the scene, so he ordered the Wuzhong County Magistrate to start cleaning up the land and land of Zhang's family.

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Wuzhong, the county magistrate's office.

Shu Sun Ping hurried into the study and reported to Shu Sun Guan who was reading the "Shangshu": "Father, the son Cheshi killed people, and killed more than 50 people from the Zhang family in one breath, even Mr. Zhang Wen!"

"Oh, is that?" Uncle Sun Guan was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled and said, "Well, haha!"

"Ah? Father, are you..." Uncle Sun Ping was confused. What a good killer?

Shusun Guan did not explain too much, but just ordered Shusun Ping, "Ping'er, you can go to Huan Mansion and ask Huan Yuan to come to see me immediately, and then I will discuss with him urgently."

"Here." Uncle Sun Ping bowed and turned around.
Chapter completed!