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The efficiency of the imperial court of the Tang dynasty was very good. Soon after the imperial edict was issued, a large number of soldiers rushed into a casino and arrested Zheng Laoliu, who was reprimanding his subordinates. At the same time, another group of soldiers rushed into Zheng Laoliu's home and arrested all his relatives and servants.
In order to make an example of Zheng Laoliu, the place of the trial was set in the downtown area, which was a public trial. Anyone had the right to sit in. Ang Lee naturally attended the trial.
"Assistant Minister Li, since you are here, you'd better do the trial!"
The new magistrate of Chang 'an, Liu Sheng, walked to Ang Lee with a smile. After all, Ang Lee was now in a higher rank than him, so he naturally had to be modest.
"No need. I'm here to sit in like these people. Magistrate Liu, you'd better do the trial as usual!"
Ang Lee played it down and had no intention of trying the case by himself.
"Yes, I'll solve the case right away."
Seeing that Ang Lee had no intention of trying the case by himself, Liu Sheng walked back to the main seat, patted the gavel, and asked his subordinates to bring the prisoners in.
Soon, Zheng Laoliu's family of nearly a hundred people were tied up and brought in. They knelt down and bowed their heads, ready to be tried.
"Not guilty, not guilty. Why do you arrest me? Why do you arrest me?"
Zheng Laoliu looked arrogant, as if he didn't think he had committed any serious crime. Of course, this was because the government runners in charge of arresting him were just following orders and didn't know what kind of prisoners they were arresting. In addition, Zheng Laoliu had the support of the Zheng family in Xingyang, so the imperial court couldn't do anything to him for ordinary small crimes. Therefore, he dared to be so presumptuous.
Liu Sheng had long been accustomed to arrogant criminals. This time, he was handling the case by order of the imperial edict. Naturally, he was not afraid of such a ruffian as Zheng Laoliu.
"How dare you, Zheng Laoliu! You annexed 20,000 acres of good land, causing hundreds of people to be displaced. How dare you complain?"
Liu Sheng scolded loudly.
"Hahaha! This is also a crime. There are so many people who annexed land. Why do you arrest me? "
Zheng Laoliu was obviously crazy. He even dared to say such words. This kind of unreasonable words would only make his situation worse and even offend a lot of people.
Liu Sheng ignored Zheng Laoliu's rhetorical question and directly ordered, "Bring witnesses and evidence."
Soon, dozens of people in ragged clothes came up, knelt on the ground, and cried out their grievances. They told how Zheng Laoliu had forced them to sell their land, and even used violence to break their legs when they refused to listen. Many people exposed their broken legs and feet, exposing Zheng Laoliu's crimes on the spot.
There were also some onlookers who went up to expose the fact that Zheng Laoliu had opened a casino and caused many families to be destroyed, asking the Imperial Court to severely punish Zheng Laoliu.
However, the crime of opening a casino was not important. Liu Sheng was ordered to investigate the matter of Zheng Laoliu's annexation of land. As for the casino proposed by the onlookers, he gave a vague response, which could be considered as adding to Zheng Laoliu's crime.
"Zheng Laoliu, raise your head. These are all evidence of your recent land transactions. What else do you have to say?"
Liu Sheng took a large stack of evidence and placed it in front of Zheng Laoliu.
"Hum, what's wrong with buying and selling land? I'm not the only one. Which aristocratic family doesn't buy and sell land everywhere? Why do you only arrest me?"
Zheng Laoliu grasped the mentality that the law could not punish the majority and was still arrogant. Just like the people who ran the red light in the future, after being caught, they blamed why they didn't catch the people who ran the red light with them and why they only caught him. It was a bit unfair, but there was only one police officer. They could only catch one! Who told you to be unlucky? At this moment, Zheng Laoliu was more unlucky. He was picked out by Ang Lee.
"Well! Since the criminal has confessed, come and sign. "
Liu Sheng ignored Zheng Laoliu's refutation and directly asked Zheng Laoliu to sign.
"I won't sign. I'm not convinced."
Zheng Laoliu was extremely resistant.
Ang Lee, who was watching from the side, smiled and asked, "Zheng Laoliu, what are you not convinced of? Tell me."
"Assistant Minister Li, buying and selling land is common. Which aristocratic family doesn't buy land in large quantities? Is this a crime?"
Zheng Laoliu looked at Ang Lee as if he had seen his savior. He was very aggrieved.
Ang Lee took out a document and disclosed that Li Longji had repeatedly issued decrees to prohibit the buying and selling of land. He also said that Zheng Laoliu had recently bought and sold land in violation of His Majesty's decree. Moreover, he forced people to sell land by force, which added to his crime.
When Zheng Laoliu heard this, he suddenly panicked. He more or less knew that the Emperor prohibited the buying and selling of land, but all the aristocratic families ignored the Emperor's order and continued the consolidation of land. Of course, he was unwilling to fall behind. But now, if the imperial court punished him for this crime, he really had no reason to shirk.
"Zheng Laoliu, you just said that the buying and selling of land is common and that many aristocratic families are buying and selling land. Do you have conclusive evidence? If you can show evidence of the buying and selling of land by the aristocratic families, the imperial court will reduce your crime."
Ang Lee guided him patiently and asked calmly.
Zheng Laoliu was suddenly dumbfounded. It was an ironclad fact that the aristocratic families were constantly annexing land. He was well aware of this, but he really couldn't show evidence at the moment. In addition, if he really dared to show evidence to prove that the aristocratic families were annexing land, he would offend too many people. Even if the imperial court was willing to forgive him for this, in the future, the aristocratic families would certainly kill him for revenge, and he would not be able to live a good life.
"I'm just guessing. I have no evidence."
Zheng Laoliu answered dejectedly. He seemed to have realized his fate. It was useless to resist. He had been in Chang 'an for so many years and had seen too many things.
"Since there is no evidence, the imperial court can't reduce your sentence. Well, sign your name!"
Ang Lee said helplessly.
Zheng Laoliu looked back at the crowd, raised his thumb, and pressed it down with a painful expression.
"Zheng Laoliu will be beheaded immediately, and the rest will be sent to Lingnan."
Liu Sheng announced the verdict.
Suddenly, nearly a hundred family members kneeling on the ground all cried sadly. Zheng Laoliu just smiled bitterly, but he didn't cry. He was a scoundrel who ran a casino. He had seen everything, so he didn't care about his death.
At this moment, many people in the crowd had left stealthily and stealthily. They urged their horses to gallop towards the mansions of the various landowning clans. They were the trusted aides of the various landowning clans. They had specially come to gather information.
"What? Zheng Laoliu was executed for annexing land, and his whole family was sent to Lingnan?"
All the representatives of the aristocratic families were extremely surprised after hearing the news, especially the Zheng family, who was so scared that they sat on the ground. After all, Zheng Laoliu was a member of the Zheng family in Xingyang. His sudden execution by the imperial court was a great loss to the Zheng family's power.
After careful consideration, these representatives of the aristocratic families gathered together again to discuss the contingency plan.
"Ang Lee, the little boy, has some tricks. It seems that we have underestimated him. Laoliu was killed by him."
The representative of the Zheng family was the first to complain, looking anxious.
"The loss of a small branch of your Zheng family is not a big loss. However, this is only the beginning. The reason for Zheng Laoliu's execution was the annexation of land, but which of our families didn't annex a large amount of land? If we continue to investigate, I'm afraid that all of us will be executed."
"How can this be? Does the imperial court want to destroy our aristocratic families?"
"We can't sit still and wait for death. We must fight back immediately and stop them from continuing the investigation."
"Fight back? How to fight back? His Majesty has decreed many times to ban land transactions. It's reasonable to say that we are in the wrong first! Ang Lee, the little boy, grasped this reason. How can we fight back? Do we ask His Majesty to take back the imperial edict from many years ago? "
"Then what do you think we should do? Do we just sit still and wait for death? "
A group of representatives of the aristocratic families quarreled together, and no one could come up with a good way to get out of the crisis in front of them.
"Everyone, now Right Prime Minister leads the officials. Why don't we go to Right Prime Minister's Mansion together and persuade Right Prime Minister with righteousness and let the imperial court take back the order?"
A person proposed.
"There's no time to lose. Let's go quickly!"
In fact, the so-called persuading Right Prime Minister with righteousness referred to giving gifts, a lot of gifts.
In the Moon Hall of Right Prime Minister's Mansion, Li Linfu sat in a chair and was lost in thought. He was thinking about the two tax laws.
When the two tax laws were introduced, the imperial court was in a mess. But he couldn't figure out Li Longji's intention at the moment, so he didn't rush to express his opinion. But he was the Right Prime Minister of the Tang dynasty and the head of the officials. This opinion had to be expressed sooner or later, and he couldn't avoid it.
Li Linfu was as clear as a mirror about how much benefit the two tax laws could bring to the imperial court and whose interests would be harmed. But these were not important to him. The most important thing was Li Longji's thoughts. As long as Li Longji was eager to implement the two tax laws, no one could stop him. If Li Longji was hesitant, there was still a possibility of stopping him. But at this moment, Li Linfu was wondering whether Li Longji had made up his mind to deliberately test the officials or just casually proposed it to let the officials discuss it before making a decision.
"Alang, Alang."
Li Zhonglin strode into the Moon Hall, seeming to be in a hurry.
Li Linfu frowned and said, "What's the hurry? Tell me slowly."
As the Prime Minister of the country, Li Linfu disliked the flustered look of his servants the most. It was too improper.
Li Zhonglin took a breath and told him how Zheng Laoliu was beheaded on the spot.
"Zheng Laoliu was a member of the Zheng family of Xingyang, but he was beheaded because of annexation of land. His whole family was exiled to Lingnan. Liu Sheng would not be so bold. Is this Alang Lee's idea?"
Li Linfu was also shocked when he heard this news.
"Alang, according to the news sent back by our people, Liu Sheng was acting on His Majesty's order. This is His Majesty's idea."
"His Majesty's idea?"
Li Linfu nodded thoughtfully. In his heart, he was certain that Li Longji had already made up his mind to push for the two tax laws. The reason he had discussed it in the Imperial Court was to understand the thoughts of the officials and assess the resistance. At the same time, he wanted to see just which officials were working for the great clans.
Since Li Longji's thoughts had been found out, Li Linfu naturally would not stop the implementation of the two tax laws. He wanted to stand on the Emperor's side to please the Emperor and let himself be favored forever.
"Alang, representatives of the Zheng family of Xingyang, the Lu family of Fanyang, and the Yang family of Hongnong have come to visit."
A servant stood at the door of the Moon Hall and reported in a low voice.
"Alang, these people must have come to visit for Zheng Laoliu's matter. Do you want to see them or not?"
Li Zhonglin guessed the purpose of these people at once.
"Zhonglin, let them go back!"
"Yes, Alang."
Li Zhonglin was just about to leave when Li Linfu stopped him again.
"Zhonglin, tell them not to be too nervous. Ang Lee will go to them."
Li Linfu smiled as if he had guessed something.
"Got it, Alang."
Li Zhonglin walked out of the mansion and told everyone what Li Linfu said. These people were confused, but Li Linfu insisted on not seeing them. They had no choice but to go back the way they came.
"What does the Right Prime Minister mean? Why doesn't he want to see us?"
"The Right Prime Minister means that Ang Lee will come to us. What does that mean? Why does Ang Lee want to see us? Does he want to arrest us and behead us in public?"
"Oh, what should we do? We can't sit still and wait for death. If we can't … "
Several representatives of the aristocratic families were so anxious that they even had the idea of assassinating Ang Lee. But Chang 'an was the capital of the Tang dynasty. It was almost impossible to assassinate someone.
Of course, the average age of these representatives was more than 50 years old. They were all experienced old foxes. The reason why they didn't understand Li Linfu's words was that they were too concerned. Now they were frightened by the matter of Zheng Laoliu. Naturally, they guessed that Ang Lee would continue to investigate the land annexation by the aristocratic families and behead them all step by step.
They ignored the fundamental purpose of Ang Lee's punishment of Zheng Laoliu. They also forgot that Ang Lee's mission as the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue was to implement the two tax laws so that the imperial court could get enough tax revenue. Therefore, Ang Lee naturally couldn't kill all the aristocratic families. If he did, it would be an irreparable loss to the imperial court of the Tang dynasty.
After returning home and calming down, most of the representatives of the aristocratic families gradually understood Li Linfu's meaning. At the same time, they also felt that the implementation of the two tax laws was difficult to stop. But after all, the two tax laws would harm their interests. Therefore, they still didn't give up. They mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources to advocate that the implementation of the two tax laws would shake the foundation of the country and was disrespectful to the laws of the ancestors.
Of course, this kind of hopping like grasshoppers after autumn obviously couldn't last for too long. No matter how they hopped, they couldn't change the final result of failure.
At the moment when the aristocratic families were nervous and anxious, Ang Lee spent most of his time very comfortably admiring the vegetables in the greenhouse. From time to time, he ran out of the city to see how the greenhouse outside the city was growing.
When he was free, he would also study and improve various kinds of furniture with the craftsmen in the mansion.
"Alang, according to your request, the new wheelchair has been built. What do you think?"
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