Chapter 502

The reason why Haoqiang is Haoqiang is that it occupies a lot of land and uses land to attract others. In addition to land, clans and contacts are also the key to becoming powerful. The more clans have, the more prosperous they are, and the stronger their contacts are, the easier it is to gather people in case of trouble.

After the restoration of the Han state, the land of the powerful was redeemed in order to reduce the number of land held by the powerful. If the redemption of mild means is useless, iron and blood means will be used. The redemption of land can only be said to be fair, at the cost of the new copper money issued by the Han state, which adopts the standard of five baht, which is divided into Shangtian and Xiatian.

Redeeming the powerful folk land with copper money is a part of the economic policy, that is, let the copper money of the Han Dynasty dredge the people and become a trading currency.

It was a long time ago that there was new money in the Central Plains. After Sima and his family usurped the world, they issued a number of coins, but the number was small. As a result, the people still used Cao Wei, Eastern Wu, Shu Han and even the copper coins in the Eastern Han Dynasty. There were more varieties than expected.

In fact, until the Song Dynasty, the amount of copper coins used in private transactions was not much, and most of them were bartered, because the circulating copper coins were not enough at all. The circulation of copper money in the two Song Dynasties was still insufficient. In the northern and Southern Song Dynasties, the central court issued Administrative Instructions many times to prohibit the outward circulation of copper money.

People usually trade by barter, and then use cloth as currency, so there is the word "wealth and silk", and "silk" is the general name of silk products, which is a synonym for wealth.

It must be noted that gold and silver are not currency in circulation. Until the Li and Tang Dynasties, gold only existed as an "equivalent", that is, how much weight of gold was worth and how much copper money was not officially recognized. Only aristocrats and Haozu would use gold for large transactions. After getting gold, they would generally try their best to replace it with copper money. The transaction of silver can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty, but it was not officially recognized until the Ming Dynasty, so nine out of ten people who saw people paying with silver before the Ming Dynasty would be transgressors.

Everything is handled by people. Everyone will have different handling standards for what kind of events or people they encounter, or enforce the law impartially, which may also be abusing justice for personal gain.

After Ji Chang left Liu Yan, he returned to his tent and saw sang Yu waiting early.

"Tai'an." Sang Yu bent his knees and knelt down, stood up, stretched his hands forward, and his fingers and palms became 90 degrees. It was a very big etiquette. He said, "thank Tai'an for rescuing Yu."

In response, Ji Chang gave a cold hum.

It was only less than four years since the establishment of the state of Han, but many interest groups with several important officials as the core were established. Although there were early interest groups, they still focused on public interest in general. It was only in trivial matters that they would compete for the interests of their own group.

Now the Han Army has compressed the stone tablet in Bingzhou and Shuozhou. The invasion of the small imperial court in the Southern Jin Dynasty also seems to be very smooth. The national situation seems to be a great good, so some people think they should think about their own interests?

"Zishen and the general of the northern expedition had a bad relationship because of Xingyang?" Ji Chang came to Sangyu and knelt down on his knees. His eyes forced him to say, "there needs to be a degree under the shelter door. It's a national thief to waste his official career."

"Yu has no military power." Sangyu looked directly at Jichang and said, "ran min is the general in charge of the army."

His answer was a little off the mark, but Ji Chang was moved.

There were not many people with state-owned military power in the Han Dynasty. Even if they had military power, they would lose it instantly because of Liu Yan's order. Ran min's situation was different.

Different from ran min, the former Ran's Qin army still has 60000 or 70000 soldiers in service. Some of Ran min's old departments also serve in several field corps. No one can tell what response ran min will call on those people.

As the monarch of the Han Dynasty, Liu Yan did not obviously show his fear of Ran min. after ran min took the Ran's Qin state to the whole country, although Liu Yan did not do anything greasy to ran min, it can be said that Liu Yan still treated ran min very well.

Including Ji Chang, sang Yu and other early people who followed Liu Yan to rise at the end of the decade, they speculated that Liu Yan valued ran min's military ability and gave him a lot of favors, that is, some things can not be judged simply from the perspective of Liu Yan's appreciation of Ran min's military talent. They found that there are other reasons, but they can't figure it out.

Because they couldn't understand, one of the important officials in the center was counted as one. Whether they were selfish or loyal to the king, they never relaxed when they were able to supervise ran min.

"Tai'an does not know where the contradiction between Yu and the general of the Northern Expedition originated." Sang Yu talked about arranging for those who followed ran min to join him. He seemed to laugh sarcastically and waited for Ji Chang to frown before saying, "it's Yu's sign about the Zheng family in Xingyang."

Now there are no five surnames and seven hopes. For sang Yu, the Zheng family is really a family that can be assigned as a pawn at will. At present, there are no big aristocratic families in the Central Plains. Those who can be counted are probably the Sang family of Wei county where sang Yu is located and the Cui family of Boling where queen Cui Wan is located. No matter who Ji Chang, LV Yi, Cai you or others, they only have the foundation to become an aristocratic family because they are in a high position, but they are not an aristocratic family.

To say that the aristocratic family is only in the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, where the aristocratic family is divided, the rest is probably that the aristocratic family in the Liang state of Zhang is better off. In addition, it has almost no arrogant qualification, let alone the capital such as "it is difficult to find the daughter of the aristocratic family" in the Li Tang Dynasty.

In the early days, those aristocratic families without "clothes to the South" were just better than ordinary people under the rule of the Hu people. It was common for people in their families to be killed, and it was not an exception for family women to be abused and even killed by the Hu people. It can be said that the aristocratic families who stayed in the Central Plains knew that the family women would be humiliated and killed when they gave them to the Hu people, but they still kept sending them.

Among the many women rescued by the Han Army, there are not many aristocratic family women. Some of them have perished, and some women who have not perished have been signaled not to return to the family. I think they have some plans.

"The general of the Northern Expedition directly sent a tribe to kill the number of people of the Zheng family, and the house was set on fire." Sang Yu sneered: "if you say bear heart and leopard courage, Yu is not as good as the general of the north."

Ji Chang asked, "is there any evidence?"

"Can the witness count?" Sang Yu said, but shook his head: "according to the law of the Han Dynasty, the victim only makes corroboration with one word, which is not conclusive evidence."

"It's only the Zheng people... It's really not hard evidence." Ji Chang probably knew what sang Yu wanted to do. He said seriously, "Zi is deeper than the Chao club. Is it to remind the king?"

"In fact, Yu Shi believes that people should hold more land." Sang Yu probably wanted to be honest: "there are more capable people, which has remained the same since ancient times, regardless of aristocratic families or the people. Granting farmland with military merit can naturally enable more people to grant farmland, but those who can really have a lot of land will still not be the people. They will change from the people to a distinguished family and seek to become aristocratic families."

"The people get the title of nobility. With the title, they will no longer be the people." Ji Chang is a direct participant in national policy, as is sang Yu. They all know that the state of Han will rise to an emerging class. He said: "people gather for their interests. The king does not exclude people from having factions, but he will not allow them to waste their official duties."

Sang Yu is the end of the topic. After talking, he stands up and leaves.

On the other hand, ran min waited for Ji Chang to leave before asking for an audience. He also met Liu Yan as he wished.

"... so I did it." Ran min was just talking about what happened in Xingyang. He didn't know what to think and didn't hide the fact that he sent a trilogy to kill people. After telling the story of Xingyang, he said carelessly, "I should have offended the right prime minister."

Liu Yan doesn't know whether ran min is honest or what. He can even tell the story of sending a trilogy to kill people. He turned to think that whether Sima's family was in power or Hu people were in power, family disputes and killings only depended on whether the victim reported to the official. In many cases, reporting to the official was useless. It was the two sides of the conflict who fought for a victory or defeat by relying on their own strength. Obviously, ran min was exercising the rules of handling affairs with old ideas.

"According to the law of the Han Dynasty, killing people needs to pay for their lives." Liu Yan's words really stunned ran min. He looked at ran min with some headache and said bluntly, "offending Zi Shen is a private matter. It can't be generalized with violating the laws of the Han Dynasty. You can never understand it?"

"..." ran min clearly didn't understand. He still looked at Liu Yan and asked after a short meeting, "so... Did you break the law of the Han Dynasty?"

Don't you understand? It's just that Liu Yan doesn't know. Even if he knows that no one "reaches heaven to listen" to sue ran min, he can pretend not to know. As a result, ran min is good and confesses his disapproval in person.

Ran min asked again vaguely, "what should I do?"

This is not what Liu Yan can say directly. What is needed is that the Zheng family reports to the government, which accepts the lawsuit, investigates and obtains evidence according to the process, and makes a judgment directly according to the Han law.

According to the law of the Han Dynasty, those murderous episodes must be killing for life. Ran min, as an emissary, should be removed from office and exiled.

Liu Yan asked ran min to leave. He covered his forehead and smiled bitterly.

Han is a country that stresses the rule of law, but like any country, the law has its own process and is implemented by people. The common saying is that the law is not only the umbrella of the good, but also the plaything of some people. In fact, the state of Qin, which has a strong legal system, does not govern the country 100% according to law. There is still room for man-made law enforcement.

Ran min returned to his tent and told his courtier Liu Yi the story of meeting Liu Yan. Finally, he asked in confusion, "what does the king mean?"

Liu Yi didn't let ran min wait long and said, "if the right Prime Minister sticks to it, I'm afraid the king will urge him to deal with it according to the law of the Han Dynasty."

Ran min's face was uncertain for a moment, and his hands were also in the shape of fists.

"What is the Lord thinking, how... How..." Liu Yi was angry and funny, and said: "how could he personally say those words equivalent to pleading guilty to the king?"

"Someone thought that if he didn't hide from the king, he wouldn't let the right prime minister have an opportunity." Ran min still feels that he has done it right. He said in great confusion, "isn't that so?"

Chinese history has always been a political system of "I am the country", that is, as long as the rulers allow or do not investigate, it doesn't matter who kills and sets fire or even does more things. In this way, there is a phenomenon that the national law is not as good as the ruler's golden mouth. If you can win the favor of the ruler, you can do whatever you want.

"Lord!" Liu Yi kept smiling bitterly: "the LORD did nothing wrong. The best way to express his position is that the king didn't get angry."

Ran min did not understand what Liu Yi meant.

"It can be big or small!" Liu Yi understood ran min and said bluntly: "for today's sake, the Lord must find the right prime minister. In any case, the Zheng family can't sue the government."

"Simple, destroy the Zheng family!" Ran min didn't like to bend around. Even in the face of Sang Yu, the right prime minister, he didn't want to be soft. He said murderously, "all the doors are destroyed. Who will sue?"

Liu Yi directly covered his face and said almost groaning, "the king already knows about it."

At this time, ran min finally reacted and said, "that really can't..."

"Lord, the so-called big husband is able to extend and bend." Liu Yi wanted to remind him before. In order to let ran min know the seriousness of the matter, he repeated "this matter can be big or small" several times, and then advised him bitterly: "the Lord is the head of a country first, and it is lucky to be trusted and reused by the king. The king's trust is one thing, but it is impossible to say that there is no fear. After all, compared with other generals and schools, the Lord has a large number of old troops!"

"There's no old department. Except you, someone has never been in touch..." ran min wanted to say more. Seeing that Liu Yi was about to cry, he hesitated three times before gritting his teeth and said, "can it be big or small? Then someone will find sang Yu and let Zhang Jia be disposed of."

In fact, Liu Yi has cried. All of them who followed ran min in the early stage know their character. If they don't really live, they also see that ran min is really brave and unparalleled. I don't know if they will follow him.

Zhang Jia has raised his family to take refuge in ran min, but now it's better. Ran min doesn't want to wrong himself at all. In case of trouble, he wants to take Zhang Jia as an abandoned son to vent his anger on Sang Yu. He didn't expect that this would chill the rest of the adherents.

Liu Yi, who was crying with tears, was speechless and sat in place with a dull face. When he came back, ran min was no longer in the account. When he asked the guard, he knew that ran min went to find sang Yu alone.

[prime minister Zuo asked the aristocratic family to raise their heads again in the morning, presumably to test the king's attitude.]

Recently, there are not too many aristocratic families attached to the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Almost all aristocratic families with channels and ability have sent their children to Xiang country, using all kinds of means and methods, just trying to get themselves ashore before the ship of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has completely sunk.