Chen Qun's son-in-law of Liu Zhenghui, Duke Xingguo.

Because Liu Zhenghui's relationship was too low-key, he has always been unfamous.

As for Liu Zhenghui, during the period when Li Yuan started his rebellion, this person was once the one who stayed in Taiyuan, who is now Li Guan's former boss, and is currently the governor of Hongzhou, and enjoys a fief of 300 households.

However, since Wen Zhen has been named, Chen Qun naturally has no way to continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb. After all, he was from the Censorate. You can't split up before doing anything.

He bowed to Li Hao and showed an apology and bitter smile. Chen Qun followed Wen Zhen and left the Wen Nuan room.

After the two left, Li Hao waved his hand as if nothing had happened, and said, "Everyone should sit down. It's very hard to run all the way. Have a good rest these days."

"Dejian, nothing will happen, right?" Hegan Chengji looked outside with some concern: "Wen Yanbo's second boy has a bad reputation in Chang'an. He is famous for being stink and hard. You must not be careless."

Li Hao laughed: "Haha, many things have two sides. In my opinion, Wen Zhen is good like this. At least I don't have to worry about not being able to find something to arrange it in a short period of time."

Well, it seems that this is true if you think about it seriously.

The responsibility of the censor is to find faults. If you really want to keep Wen Zhen and the others, you are afraid that you will not be able to pick the bones in the eggs. This is not good today, but tomorrow is wrong. Is this still going to do work?

With a wry smile, Hegan Chengji said, "Okay, since that's the case, then let's go and rest first. If you have any questions, please arrange someone to notify us. His Royal Highness the Prince has already told you before coming. Let us cooperate with you with all our strength."

"You don't have to worry about Lao He. There are so many jobs, but you are afraid that you can't finish it." After Li Hao said that, he called the guards guarding the yard and asked them to take Changsun Chong, Hegan Chengji and others to rest.

Fortunately, the Liu family mansion was big enough to live in Changsun Chong and his friends. As for the guards they brought, the government troops also had enough room to rest.

Time passed little by little. Changsun Chong and others rested for two days and devoted themselves to their work.

Two officials from the Ministry of Revenue were responsible for statistics and three masters of the supervisor were responsible for the design and creation of some tools. Wen Zhen and Chen Qun disappeared for ten days, and after returning, they became much more depressed, as if they were hit.

Li Hao seemed to have expected this, and sent the idle people in the room to make a cup of tea for each of them, and said with a smile: "I said before that there is no right to speak without investigation. Wen Zhen, do you still think I did something wrong now?"

"Why didn't you tell me at the beginning?" Wen Zhen held the tea in his arms and answered the question that was irrelevant.

"Will you believe it?" Li Hao asked back.

Wen Zhen shook his head: "No."

"Will it be over? Many things are like this. Others say it a thousand times, so it's better to experience it yourself." Li Hao shrugged: "By the way, what's the result of your investigation?"

"Shocking." Wen Zhen said word by word: "I really didn't expect that these people were so shameless, lying about Tianmu and evading taxes was a very evil crime."

Li Hao laughed and said, "In the Tang Dynasty, such things are simply too common, so there is no need to make such a fuss."

"What are you laughing at? Don't you realize that those people did too much yesterday? Do you know that some of them have less than one percent of the actual land. What's more, they even lend usury to the people, which is a 70% profit. Donkeys can make a lot of money. They can make several profits in two years, and the people are unable to repay them, so they can only pay the land to them.

Can you think that they exploit the people in this way. Every inch of land in their fields carries the blood of the people!”

Wen Zhen became more and more excited as he spoke, and his voice became louder unconsciously: "Li Dejian, do you know all these right? You know everything, but you just watched coldly and ignored me, right?"

"Brother Wen, Brother Wen, calm down." Seeing that Wen Zhen's fingers were almost poking Li Hao's nose, Chen Qun quickly stood up and separated the two of them, grabbed Wen Zhen and said, "These things have nothing to do with Li Hou, they are all local government affairs."

"So what about local government affairs? Didn't Li Dejian have the emperor's sword? He has the right to take action first and then report!"

The emperor is wearing a sword, and the god is killing first and then reporting. Do you want me to kill you first?

A donkey day, don’t he know that without an imperial edict, the emperor’s sword in his hand, it is at most a fool, and it has no practical effect at all?

Li Hao completely understood that Wen Zhen is a complete nerd, and he is also a fool who is stupid in reading. You have no way to communicate with such a person, unless you can suppress him, that is, the legendary scholar meets a soldier.

After making plans, Li Hao calmly looked at Wen Zhen, who was angrily asking for an explanation, and said calmly: "Wen Zhen, can I understand your words as I want to arrest all the gentry in Bingzhou and then behead them uniformly? That's more than 200 people. I really didn't expect that Brother Wen, a literati, had such courage, and I admire him."

More than two hundred people?!

Thinking that more than 200 people would fall to the ground because of one word, Wen Zhen quickly calmed down: "I don't mean that, Li Dejian, I know you are not a cold-blooded person, otherwise the gentry gathered in front of the government office a few days ago would have been killed by you."

"Stop, stop, provoking the trick is useless to me." Li Hao sat leisurely on the chair, holding the teacup and said slowly: "Let me say that, it is impossible to eliminate the land annexation in the Tang Dynasty. No matter how many you kill, the final result will be the same."

"What should I do?" Wen Zhen lost his previous aura at this time and sat back in his position in depressed manner.

Li Hao lent tea: "There is no way, the cooperative is one of them, but this can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. There is only one way to treat the root cause, that is, make the land less important and fundamentally change people's view of the land."

"How is this possible!"

"Yes, this is impossible, so no one can stop land annexation, at most it is to delay it."

Li Hao sighed.

The Chinese nation has written its passion for land into its bones for thousands of years. You can never expect people of this era to give up land. Even if there are obviously more profitable things at your fingertips, land is still the favorite of people, even if it is thousands of years later.

After a long silence, Li Hao came to his senses and put the tea that had already become cold aside: "Forget it, don't think about this for now. I have a new idea here, please help me with the staff."

"What new idea? Do you have a solution to land annexation?" Wen Zhen's eyes lit up.

"What are you thinking? Is it good to be realistic?" Li Hao curled his lips: "My idea is that since land annexation cannot be changed, we might as well change our thinking. We don't care about the rich and wealthy families. If they have money, they will buy land. It has nothing to do with us. Just make up for the tax.

The key issue is that those people living at the bottom of society can change their living habits and turn their attention from the land to other aspects, such as working in the city or becoming a handicraft.

In short, as long as the court can provide a large number of jobs, the people may not really hold on to the land and refuse to let go.”

"Hiss..." Wen Zhen took a breath of air conditioning: "Li Dejian, you, you are a trick."

Why do wealthy families have so much land? The fundamental reason lies in those ordinary people.

Because they have no other way to increase their income except farming. For the sake of their living, even if they know that farming for those wealthy families will be exploited, they can only bite the bullet and become tenants.

It is precisely because of this that wealthy families can occupy land unscrupulously. Anyway, there is no need to worry about people coming to farm. Naturally, the more land they belong to, the better.

But if Li Hao's plan can be implemented smoothly, all this will change drastically. After ordinary people find a better lifestyle, they will inevitably give up their previous tenant status, so that no one will come to farm the land of wealthy families.

Damn this doesn't seem to be a good thing.

When no one cultivates the land, where does the food come from?

Wen Zhen felt that the young man in front of him, who was a few years younger than him, should be crazy, otherwise how could he have such crazy ideas?

"It's not a question of a household plan, it's just an idea. There are still many difficulties to implement it." Li Hao's eyes shining with a strange light, and he said excitedly: "For example, we don't have so many jobs to provide to the people now, and it's also a housing issue. People will inevitably pour into the county town in a large number of ways to implement the industrialization process. With the current scale of the city, it will definitely not accommodate so many people."

"You, are you serious?"

"Of course!" Li Hao sat upright: "How about it, Wen Zhen, should I get a kick? Since those gentry and wealthy families are so shameless, let's teach them a lesson so that they can know what it means to shoot themselves in the foot."

Reason kept reminding Wen Zhen not to agree, otherwise something big would definitely happen, but in terms of emotions, he was more inclined to agree to Li Hao.

After all, this is an unprecedented change. If it is really successful, it will be kept in history, and countless descendants of later generations will benefit from it.

In the end, Wen Zhen was fooled by Li Hao, and nodded in a vain and agreed to his request. Until several years later, whenever he thought of the winter with light snow, Wen Zhen would sigh and say no to regret it.

...

Changsun Chong and others were very curious. They didn't know what magic Li Hao used, but they actually made Wen Zhen, who went out for research, become so obedient after he came back, and he did whatever he asked him to do, without even saying nonsense.

"This guy was beaten by Dejian, otherwise how could he be so obedient?" Under the eaves, Changsun Chong held his arms and winked at Ma Zhou beside him.

Ma Zhou shook his head: "It shouldn't be true. I think it should be the teacher who told him something."

Changsun Chong curled his lips: "Haha..., you really treat your teacher as omnipotent. What did you say? Do you think people like Wen Zhen can convince them with just a few words?"

"I don't know, it's just a kind of intuition. I can't help if my young master doesn't believe me." Ma Zhou scratched his head and slapped his forehead before Li Hao asked him for trouble: "By the way, I still have a piece of information that has not been sorted out. My young master, you can rest first, I'll go to work hard first."

"Tsk, coward." Changsun Chong looked at Ma Zhou's departure back and shook his head, and walked towards Li Hao, who was lowering his head and writing on the paper: "What are you busy with?"

Li Hao didn't raise his head: "Don't pay attention to me, I'm so annoyed."

Yes, I’m so annoying. Since I plan to provide more jobs to ordinary people in Bingzhou, I need more jobs first.

But Li Hao and Wen Zhen have searched all the information and records in the past few days, but in the end they found that Taiyuan Mansion actually has not many jobs to provide.

Taverns, teahouses and other things do not require too many people. Although fabric stores require labor, they prefer female workers rather than male workers. The standards for entering other teeth stores are not high, but the problem is that there are only a very small number of people who are quick-talking.

So Li Hao has been very irritable these days and feels disliked by everyone. Even Cheng Yinyin, who always likes to pester him the most, hid far away.

Changsun Chong smacked his lips, looked at the paper where Li Hao wrote and painted, and said in a whisper: "Tsk tsk tsk, I said Li Dejian, what kind of talisman are you? Can you understand it if you write it out?"

Li Hao angrily threw his pen on the table: "Changsun Chong, you're not over, right? I believe it or not, I'll fight you with you."

In normal times, Changsun Chong would definitely choke with Li Hao for a few more words, but now he also saw that Li Hao seemed to be really anxious, so he could only smile bitterly and point to his nose: "Li Dejian, Master Li Hou, look at me, look, I didn't let you think of anything?"

What came to mind?

Li Hao clenched his fists, and to be honest, he had no idea of ​​anything but beating someone.

Seeing this, Changsun Chong patted Li Hao's shoulder proudly: "Li Dejian, Li Dejian, you are so smart and confused for a lifetime. Can't you think about what your family is doing?"

"What are you doing? You're just practicing... Damn..." Li Hao suddenly realized and grabbed Changsun Chong's arm: "Brother Changsun, no, no, Mr. Changsun, you must help your brothers this time. After the matter is done, the best restaurant brothers in the capital will come down to treat him. How about it?"

Changsun Chong took off Li Hao's hand and proudly held his hands: "It depends on your mood!"

It depends on your uncle's mood, it will give you a face, right?

Li Hao stomped on the villain Changsun Chong and stepped on him again and again in his heart, but a sincere smile appeared on his face: "Brother Changsun, what does it mean to be the relationship between our fathers for life? In this way, you can write a letter to Chang'an and transfer a few craftsmen who are knowledgeable. We also open an iron smelting workshop in Taiyuan Prefecture. You don't have to worry about workers. Brother, how should I find it for you?"
Chapter completed!