For Qin Shaoyou, he had a lot to do now. The newly stored five towns have spent so much money, which has certainly stabilized the hearts of the people. Through the establishment of the Five Military Camps, almost all towns have been completely incorporated into the hands of the Shence Mansion.

In addition, almost all the governors are in control, so there is no need to worry about their loyalty and a large number of officials assigned from Shence Mansion to "assist" the governors of various towns. Basically, Qin Shaoyou's rule over the five towns, 31 prefectures and 232 counties was already solid.

However, it is obviously a gratifying result for Qin Shaoyou, but it is another matter for the officials in the Seminar Hall.

The members of the Council of the Council originally represented the interests of all parties, including the Shence Army, merchants and gentry, and some readers. However, now, these people have integrated with each other. To some extent, they are just an iron-clad interest group.

The gentry is no longer a simple landlord, and even the vast majority of the gentry in Henan Prefecture have now far exceeded the expenditure of farmland. This means that no matter which family in Hongnong is, in essence, they have transformed into giants with prominent families.

These huge chaebols who have extended their tentacles into all walks of life are obviously hungry.

A few months ago, due to the many policies of each town, the commercial activities in Henan Prefecture began to shrink, and many people had a hard time. Now, Qin Shao can travel to five towns, and many people have begun to sharpen their knives.

A large number of projects made them start to get ready, and most importantly, a large amount of goods were urgently needed to be dumped, and some people even had the intention to set up some workshops in various towns.

After all, building workshops on site can save a lot of unnecessary transportation costs. Although the canal has been opened, it is always more convenient to be nearby.

However, the members of the council in the current environment of the five towns are obviously extremely dissatisfied with.

First, there is insufficient manpower, and the registered manpower is really difficult to meet their needs. The vast majority of labor is actually hidden under the local wealthy families in the form of slaves and slaves. The population is very important, such as Shuofang Town. The registered population is pitifully small, but many people estimate that the real population may be two to three times the current number, and all the extra manpower has been concealed.

In addition, it is land. Whether it is building workshops, warehouses, or building bridges and roads, these require a lot of land. If the land is insufficient, once the merchants purchase land frantically, it will inevitably lead to a surge in land prices until the merchants cannot bear it. The biggest profit will naturally become local wealthy families.

These are obviously things that major commercial banks in Henan Prefecture would never want to see. They went to the five towns to spend money for profit, not to share the huge profits with local wealthy families. Otherwise, everyone would be a landlord and just sit on the ground to share the spoils. Why bother to worry about the laborers who set up any workshop?

At the beginning, in order to curb the wealthy families in Henan, Qin Shaoyou used the redemption policy, giving them some sweetness and benefits, and then slowly took it in exchange for their local control over the land and population.

Of course, there are rough methods, but the policy of carrot and sticks was finally continued. Although it took a lot of effort and spent a lot of money, the effect was significant.

However, for these five towns, it is obvious that Henan Prefecture, which is in a mess, can hardly take out the astronomical money to redeem it again. There are many reasons for this. For example, the merchant power represented by Qin Shaoyou was still very weak at the time. If it was too rough, it would be very likely to be backfired and the loss would be not worth the loss in the end. In addition, Henan Prefecture is entrenched in countless high-ranking clans, and their power is obviously not comparable to the local tyrants in prefectures and counties such as Shuofang, Zhaoyi, Shenwei, and Zhenwu. Therefore, it is obvious that the Seminar Hall has no intention of redeeming it at all. Instead, under the leadership of Yang Jiong, many laws related to the five towns have been passed in succession.

When these laws were transmitted from Luoyang to Weizhou, Qin Shaoyou was really shocked when he saw them.

These so-called laws are so familiar, such as abolishing slaves, and any person and animal raising private slaves, once reported, they are guilty of serious crimes, such as restoring the king's field. The so-called king's field naturally means that a lot of land is directly confiscated, which is naturally the Shen Ce Mansion, such as encouraging money houses to borrow money.

This is clearly the decree implemented by Wang Mang’s new policy.

And now, the revamp has appeared more than a thousand years later.

Wang Mang's new policy is a negative teaching material for reform. It looks very advanced and even makes people suspicious. Wang Mang is simply a time traveler, but in fact, these things look beautiful, but in fact, they were unable to be implemented at the end of the Western Han Dynasty. Instead, they touched the interests of the powerful at that time. In addition, Wang Mang was injustice, and wars suddenly broke out in the world. Wang Mang's new policy naturally entered hell with Wang Mang's Great New Dynasty.

But I never expected that the so-called new policy passed by the Seminar Hall was exactly the same as the new policy of Wang Mang. These measures were actually used to attack the powerful people in the five towns. If those powerful people refused to give up their population and land, they would be hit by the heavy blow from Shence Mansion. If they comply with the current situation, they might become a group of emerging local commercial tycoons.

In any case, these methods are obviously extremely precise strikes, almost a custom-made law for the large merchants in Henan to erode the five towns.

The reason why these people unscrupulously formulated such radical and strict laws was probably because the emerging interest groups that merged with gentry and gentry were disdainful of small fish and shrimps in those places.

These decrees are just added at the end, and those who follow me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish.

However, Qin Shaoyou weighed the pros and cons of the pros and cons of Wang Ju and others for a long time, and finally found that this law was feasible.

If the problem of private slaves is not solved, more people will not be liberated, and if the effective population is lost, the Shence Mansion is also a victim. After all, fewer people pay taxes and fewer strong men recruited. The output of these people is ultimately a group of local bullies who rely on the land. The stronger these local rich people grow, the less dominant rule of the Shence Mansion.

As for the land issue, it is even more fundamental. If it cannot be solved, it is obvious that the government of the Shence Mansion must rely on local tyrants. The only way to break the so-called village party relationships that rely on land to connect other places is to do everything possible to completely eradicate the basis on which they rely on for survival.

The method is feasible.

Although it is a so-called new policy that has almost failed, it is different from the past. Wang Mang's plan. It cannot be implemented in Chang'an, and it cannot be implemented even more decades ago. However, for the current Shence Mansion, it is simply tailor-made.

Qin Shaoyou thought for a long time and bargained with the Seminar Hall. In the end, he changed these aggressive bills into a relatively eased plan and delivered them to the Shence Mansion for promotion.

Even so, before the promotion results came out, Qin Shaoyou was quite nervous. After all, there was no precedent in this matter. I don’t know if the damaged tyrants would jump around. Of course, if they jump around, they should be suppressed. After all, Qin Shaoyou did not rely on a group of powerful people to govern the place, but this was the method used by the court. Qin Shaoyou was leaning against the giants and gentry groups in Henan Prefecture.

These days, Qin Shaoyou has been waiting for the news from Henan. He seems to be idle. Of course, he wants to go to Luoyang early, but he is always a little worried about Weizhou. Before the fifth military camp was completely built, Qin Shaoyou dared not easily lead the Shence Army to "team the army" with him.

Today he sat idle. He saw Wang Fangyi talk about the fifth military camp in the early morning, so he read a little boredly. He was about to take a nap and then went to see some urgent documents sent from Henan.

Who knew that someone came to report to the minister Zheng Rong and the governor Zheng Tong asked for a meeting.

Here comes

Qin Shaoyou knew that Zheng Rong must be here, so he calculated the days and was about to arrive.

This time, Qin Shaoyou's tricked the Zheng family and made Qin Shaoyou gain a lot. On the one hand, it hit Wei's house hard and put Wei in greater trouble. On the other hand, it made the Zheng family turn from its own enemy into its own "friend". Moreover, such friends are definitely the kind of people who are both in trouble, so there is no need to worry about their betrayal.

So when Qin Shaoyou heard this news, he was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Please come in."

Originally, as Zheng Rong's identity, Qin Shaoyou had to open the middle gate to welcome him. When it comes to official positions, he was even worse than Zheng Rong.

However, Qin Shaoyou knew the position and position of both sides. In this world that was bigger than a fist, if Qin Shaoyou was respectful to a person with a lower status, he might be flattered. However, even if you greet someone like Zheng Rong, you will never get his honor and gratitude. Instead, you might as well wait here to let him understand his current identity and situation. In this way, it will be easier to get along with him in the future.

Not long after, Zheng Rong and Zheng Tong came in. Zheng Rong was very rude and bowed directly and said, "I have met Your Highness." According to qualifications, Zheng Rong did not make a ceremony to Mr. Qin first. Whether it is official title or qualifications, there were differences between the two sides, but Zheng Rong did not hesitate at all. Obviously, he was prepared for this time.

For people like Zheng Rong, he can be relaxed in his personal honor and disgrace. For him, life is only a hundred years, and many things are nothing, but his family has to reproduce and exist for countless generations. People like Zheng Rong are like Yang Jiong, and although they have a high status, they are just slaves to the family.

Seeing Zheng Rong like this, Zheng Tong dared not be negligent. He was quite sorry for his elder brother. Who is the elder brother? Now, he wants to bow to Qin Shaoyou. Oh, who is the one who blames me? I'm blamed.

Zheng Tong hurriedly said, "Sir Zheng Tong, I have met Your Highness."

Qin Shaoyou smiled slightly and said, "Ha, Shizhong Zheng is here. Shizhong Zheng is not in the capital, why are he here?"

Zheng Tong's heart was bleeding. My elder brother was not in the capital. It was not because of you. Now, you asked questions knowingly.

But it seems like a cunning person, all the bad habits of asking questions knowingly.

Zheng Rong did not feel any slander in his heart. He came to lose sincerity this time, and he himself knew very well that the future of the Zheng family could only be placed on the young man in front of him in the future. Although it was a bit sad, he was powerless to change. Since this was the case, there was naturally no need to be sloppy. Instead, it would be better to be more open-minded: "I came here to hide from Your Highness. If Your Highness does not abandon you, the Zheng family will be willing to serve Your Highness and serve Your Highness for your initiative."

He was straightforward and had no trace of twists and turns. He directly told that he had something to ask for and said that he had a difficult situation, without covering up anything, nor playing any words.

This attitude is like treating himself as fish on the chopping board, looking like he is slaughtered by Qin Shaoyou.

Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but smile, Zheng Rong's performance was beyond his expectations.

Unlike Zheng Rong who was cheating, although Qin Shaoyou has seen this Zheng Rong many times when he was in Luoyang, he has not had many dealings. However, now it seems that Zheng Rong is indeed a very smart person, much smarter than Zheng Tong who is only good at playing tricks.

Since the matter is already very clear, any cleverness may be suspicious of others, and the consequences of being suspicious by Qin Shaoyou are obviously not able to bear the Zheng family, so he chose the most direct and effective method, which is very suitable for Qin Shaoyou's appetite.

Qin Shaoyou laughed and said, "What kind of virtue is this king? But since Duke Zheng is here, I am also a very easy-to-talk person. Duke Zheng has something to ask for, so I will naturally do my best and will never disappoint Duke Zheng."

This is to give Zheng Rong a reassurance first.

Although Zheng Rong had long expected this result, because he still had useful value, Qin Shaoyou should not give up, but now he heard Qin Shaoyou say it in person, he naturally breathed a sigh of relief.

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