Soon, Huang Xu was taken to the living room, his nose was bruised and swollen, his clothes were dirty, and his left foot was limping. He looked really embarrassed.

"grown ups."

Huang Jue called out to the master, his voice was very aggrieved, and there was a hint of crying in his tone.

Li Xun frowned and asked, "Who hits you?"

"King of Yan."

"Zhao Heng?"

Li Xun said in confusion: "Why did you measure the land and get involved with King Yan Zhao Heng?"

Zhao Zhi is relatively cold to women, so he has few children. He gave birth to eight princes, three of whom died young, and the remaining five are grown up. They are the eldest son of the emperor, King Yi, King Zhao He, the second son of the emperor, King Chu, Zhao Shuo, King Qi, Zhao Xun, the third son of the emperor, the fourth son of the emperor, King Hengshan, and Zhao Heng is the fifth brother. He is the youngest son of Zhao Zhi, and he is less than eighteen years old this year.

Zhao Zhi's five sons survived until now, only Zhao Xun and Zhao Heng were left. Zhao Xun was very friendly and favored to this remaining younger brother. According to the royal nobles, the prince was only eighteen years old and was qualified to be the king. However, after Zhao Xun ascended the throne, he soon appointed Zhao Heng, who was only sixteen years old, as a series of prominent officials such as the King of Yan, Taiwei, and Grand Sima, and rewarded three large-scale imperial villages at one time, which were originally under the emperor's name. There were nearly 600 fertile land in total, which was nearly 10,000 acres of land in Liu. This kind of reward was enough to be called generous.

"Today, Lord Zhou took us to Xiao County to investigate..."

Huang Xu began to describe what happened today.

Although the land measurement work has been completed, this is just the beginning. This work is actually not difficult, because the land is limited and the total number is so large. You cannot reduce it out of thin air, nor can you increase it out of thin air. However, the land taxes in Dajin were not collected completely based on the amount of land.

According to the laws of the Jin Dynasty, people with juren, jinshi, and high-ranking officials with titles and above four ranks did not have to pay taxes. Therefore, in order not to pay these heavy taxes, ordinary people want to put their land under their own names in the names of these people. Over time, the amount of land is still so large, but the taxes collected by the state every year are getting smaller and smaller, and are decreasing year by year.

Zhao Xun initiated financial reforms, obviously it is impossible to just measure land. He must have greater ambitions and plans. Measuring land is just the first step. The next step is to count each person and each family’s inherent land quantity to prepare for the second step of land reform.

As for the core of land reform, Zhao Xun has not announced it to the public for the time being, but Li Xun has received some news. Zhao Xun is preparing to break the original rules and no longer collect taxes based on the heads, but collect taxes based on the actual amount of land. The main target of this tax standard is that those aristocratic families, big landlords, and these families all own a huge amount of land, but they use various means to evade taxes, greatly harming the overall taxation of the country.

If Zhao Xun wants to undergo reform, improve or even completely reverse the country's fiscal and tax revenue, he must make strong changes to a certain class and group.

Zhao Xun handed over the land reform work to Qian Mingdu, but he only named it, and the actual person in charge was Zhou Chuan, a very young official who had just been transferred from the local area.

After the overall land measurement work in the entire pass was completed, Zhou Chu immediately launched the next step. Today, he took more than 100 people including Huang Ju to Xiao County, and then scattered them to conduct secret investigations and check the land in Xiao County, which was mainly in the hands of whom.

Things were going well, but what I didn’t expect was that Zhao Heng was also in Xiao County today, and Lin'an King Zhao Jian was also with him.

The person named Zhao Jian, the King of Lin'an, was not famous, but his grandfather was the prince most favored by Emperor Xizong. Their family, their father and grandfather, had the favorite things that were land and women. They were all greedy for money and lust. By the time of Zhao Jian's generation, the amount of land in their family had reached a very amazing level.

To the outside world, Zhao Jian has no reputation, but in the circle of powerful people, he has a great reputation. This reputation is not a good reputation, but greed and wealthy. In terms of land annexation, Zhao Jian's father can be regarded as a representative figure.

The matter was actually very simple. Because Zhao Xun favored King Zhao Heng of Yan, some people naturally began to curry favor with him. Zhao Jian was one of them. He asked Zhao Heng to come to Xiao County, but he had no other purpose, just to give gifts. Zhao Jian gave Zhao Heng 10,000 acres of land at one time.

Zhou Chuan and more than ten people were blocked in the field and beaten. Huang Ju, who rushed to the scene, quickly told them about their identities and explained them, but this did not relieve them at all. Not only did it not relieve them, but he himself was besieged. More than 30 people were beaten up by Zhao Heng's two hundred guards for nearly half an hour. Five people were beaten to death and more than ten were seriously injured. Huang Ju was not the main target, and the blow he suffered was still light.

After describing the incident, Huang Xu began to touch his tears.

Li Xun's face was gloomy. Zhao Heng's courage was a little too big. It was a serious crime to openly siege the imperial officials.

"How is the weekly stamp?"

Fan Zhongyun asked out loud.

Huang Xu shook his head: "The situation is not optimistic. On the way back, Zhou Bao was already in a coma, was seriously injured, and his breath was weak. I don't know if he could be rescued."

At this moment, Hua Shaosheng came again.

"Lord, someone has come from the palace. Let you go to the palace immediately to meet the saint."

Li Xun pointed to Huang Xun and said, "Zhao Heng is a man who is very crazy and has a lot of courage. I have asked someone to find a doctor. You live here now, so don't go anywhere."

Huang Xu obviously had this concern and said, "Can you notify my wife and ask her to take her family to stay at her parents' home for a few days?"

"I will send someone to notify you, don't worry about other things."

After saying that, Li Xun stood up and prepared to leave.

"Master."

Sima Tu called Li Xun, walked closer, and whispered: "If King Yan Zhao Heng or other royal family is present, don't say anything, don't express any opinions, and find an opportunity to discuss with the emperor in private."

After hearing Sima Tu's words, Li Xun pondered for a moment, and finally nodded.

Li Xun went all the way and soon met Zhao Xun.

As he looked at him, King Yan Zhao Heng was standing there, with an excited expression on his face and complaining about Zhou Jiu and the great rebellion of Huang Ju and others. King Qu Zhao Tong, King Ji Zhao Antong, King Lin Zhao Ji, King Lin'an Zhao Jian and other royal princes stood aside. When they saw Li Xun coming, they looked at him coldly.

Qian Mingdu, Lu Bojiang, Zhou Biming and others stood on the other side, lowered their heads, and remained silent about the painful complaints of King Yan Zhao Heng.
Chapter completed!