At the same time when Zhang Xuan inspected Qingzhou, the Emperor Li Yuan of the Tang Dynasty also inspected the area of ​​Fufeng County. The liquidation of the Guanlong nobles took half a year to completely end. Hundreds of manors and hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land were confiscated by the court. Using these land, the Tang Dynasty also imitated the Great Zhou Dynasty to establish a land military merit system and rewarded the land to the meritorious soldiers.

The first person to obtain land was the tens of thousands of soldiers who participated in the battle with the Guanlong coalition. Each soldier obtained at least ten acres of land. He was cheering and morale was high, while the soldiers who did not obtain land were anxious and eager to make contributions in combat.

It should be said that the land military merit system of the Tang Dynasty was very effective, greatly boosting the morale of the army, and further gathering the morale of the army, making the soldiers willing to fight to protect their property, achieving the same effect as the Zhou army's implementation of the land military merit system.

But everything has its pros and cons. The implementation of the land military merit system also caused some adverse consequences, mainly the tenant farmers of various manors of the Guanlong nobles. Although these lands belong to various major families, the specific farmer was the tenant farmers, and these lands were also the lifeblood of their survival. Once they were confiscated by the court and were prepared to be rewarded to the meritorious soldiers, these tenant farmers lost the land they cultivated.

There was no monopoly class like Guanlong nobles in the Zhou Dynasty. The land granted by the Zhou Dynasty was all unparalleled land formed by war, and was taken into official land by the government or turned into military farmland. Most of them were abandoned for wasteland, so there was no conflict between the old and new land users of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was narrow, and the government could not take out extra land to resettle these tenants who lost their land.

In order to resolve this contradiction, the imperial court proposed another solution, transferring part of the confiscated land to local governments, and the government rented the land to these tenant farmers to solve the survival problem of the original tenant farmers. However, the military headed by Li Shentong firmly opposed this plan. All of these lands have been allocated to the Ministry of War to be used as the basis for implementing the land military merit system. How could the military allow local governments to get a share of the pie?

Under extremely tough opposition from the military, all solutions failed, and the contradictions intensified after the autumn harvest. The army suppressed hundreds of tenant farmers who refused to hand over the land in a manor in Yong County. More than 100 tenant farmers were killed, which further aroused the anger of the tenant farmers. In addition, the secret instigation of the Guanlong nobles, a large number of tenant farmers took advantage of the opportunity of the freezing of the Yellow River and fled to Bingzhou with their wives and children.

The Emperor Zhang Xuan of the Great Zhou Dynasty specially sent Li Gang, Minister of Revenue and Li Qingming, Minister of the Secretariat, to Lishi County, and resettled tens of thousands of tenant farmers who fled to Bingzhou one after another in the sparsely populated Bingbei three counties, Loufan, Yanmen and Mayi County, giving each strong man a hectare of land as Yongye land and giving each family a livestock a preferential condition to settle down in the Bingbei three counties that urgently need population filling.

The army built houses for fleeing tenant farmers and helped them reclaim land that had been deserted for many years. The government distributed seeds and relief food to them, and organized women from various families to sew military uniforms and shoes to earn some money for oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

The news reached Guanzhong, but it led more tenant farmers who lost their land to flee to Bingzhou. In one winter, Guanlong lost more than 20,000 households and about 100,000 people.

The tenant farmer incident that occurred in the autumn and winter seasons gave Li Yuan a heavy blow. For this reason, he was furious and dismissed the prefects of Fufeng County, Longxi County and Honghua County, and ordered the prince Li Jiancheng to handle the matter properly.

This time, Li Yuan took three days out of his busy schedule to inspect Fufeng County, but he did not come to visit the tenant farmers to deal with the situation, but to inspect the implementation of the land military merit system. Between the army and the tenant farmers, he of course chose the army.

Yong County is the second largest city in Guanzhong after Chang'an. It is a large county with a population of more than 100,000. It is surrounded by vast fertile land and is also the most concentrated place for Guanlong noble manors. When the land annexation was the most serious, more than 70% of Yong County's land was occupied by various large and small manors, among which the imperial countryside alone occupied tens of thousands of hectares of land.

This is also a fact that the land in Guanlong area cannot be avoided. The reason why there are fewer and fewer self-cultivated farmers is not only because of the large amount of land annexation of the Guanlong nobles, but also the large amount of land possessed by the Li royal family. There are more than a dozen imperial villages of the emperor Li Yuan alone, occupying more than 100,000 hectares of fertile land.

When the army was exhausted and the self-cultivated farmers were about to die, in order to save the dynasty, Li Yuan certainly could not have cut off the flesh of the Li royal family, so he had to attack the Guanlong nobles.

The place where Li Yuan inspected was originally a manor, covering an area of ​​nearly 5,000 hectares. It originally belonged to the Dugu family. After the storm-like liquidation, all traces of the Dugu family no longer existed. The walls were demolished, and the warehouse, the residences of the housekeeper and Zhuang Ding were razed to the ground, becoming a place for more than 100 military households. These more than 5,000 hectares of fertile land were also the first batch of rewards to soldiers, and about 8,000 soldiers benefited from it.

Li Yuan accompanied dozens of guards and officials to a farmer's house. An old man came forward and kowtowed tremblingly, "The little people bowed to His Majesty the Emperor."

Li Yuan asked gently with a smile: "Is it your son joining the army?"

"It is precisely because Xiaomin's second son joined the army and received a reward of fifty acres of land, so his son asked Xiaomin to farm for him."

Li Yuan turned around and asked the officer who followed, "Is the land right?"

Jia Yuanchao, the county magistrate of Yong County, hurriedly said: "I have checked specifically that his son is a lieutenant, and the rewarded land approved by the Ministry of War is fifty acres, which is completely correct."

Li Yuan nodded and looked at the surrounding land again. It was already lush and covered with wheat seedlings. He asked with relief: "Brother-in-law, are these lands yours?"

The old man pointed to the left and said, "Report to Your Majesty, fifty acres here are the land of the common people, and thirty acres there are rewards from another military household. Their family is in Shangjun, and it is inconvenient to come here, so the common people will farm for them and take 30% of the harvest as compensation for the common people."

Seeing that the endless land was full of wheat seedlings, Li Yuan asked the old man again: "Are this large area of ​​fertile land grown by military households like you? Or is it part of it planted by the original tenant farmers?"

"Basically, we planted it. The original tenant farmers have basically moved away. Since these lands have been changed, they will of course leave. None of us wants them to stay."

"Why?" Li Yuan asked in confusion.

"Your Majesty, these tenants are too much. They say that they have been farming the lands themselves for decades, and their ancestors are buried by the ridges, and they have the final say on how to plant them. Just as these lands are theirs, we are generally worried that they will be kept. Over time, these lands will become theirs and cannot be driven away. Therefore, we would rather put them in the wasteland than drive them away. Fortunately, the army supports us, and hundreds of tough tenants were driven away."

Li Yuan's face looked a little ugly. He originally expected the military households and tenants to get along well with each other, but he did not expect that these common people were so realistic and not vague in their own interests. More importantly, he knew that the several farmers he met today had arranged in advance by the government, otherwise how could the accompanying officials know the exact information of these military households? Even these pre-arranged military households are so extremely selfish, let alone other military households.

Li Yuan was both annoyed and helpless in his heart, so he had to say to the old man: "Write a letter to your son and let him fight for the Tang Dynasty and don't let my efforts down."

Leaving the manor, Li Yuan turned to Renshou Palace again. Renshou Palace was a summer palace built by Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian. It was built magnificently and cost a lot. Although Yang Jian himself died in Renshou Palace and Yang Guang had never taken any steps in his ascension to the throne for more than ten years, Li Yuan did not care. He ordered officials to renovate Renshou Palace and serve as his own summer palace. According to the proposal of King Li Shimin of Qin, it was renamed Jiucheng Palace.

However, since Li Yuan ascended the throne, he had encountered continuous internal and external troubles, which made him unable to leave Chang'an at all. This was the first time he came to Fufeng County and stayed in his palace for the first time.

More than a thousand cavalry guarded Li Yuan's dragon harem slowly walking on the mountain road. The low mountain road was covered with flat stone slabs, making the car not bumpy. The trees on both sides were dense, which was particularly deep and cool. The mountain breeze blew on the face, sweeping away the summer heat of early summer.

However, Li Yuan was not in a good mood. He was angry with his eldest son Li Jiancheng. Li Jiancheng had been dealing with the escape incident of tenant farmers in Fufeng County since the beginning of the year and had been stationed in Yong County. However, he heard that he came to Fufeng County to inspect, so he ran to Longxi County and said that his statement was to appease the tenant farmers in Longxi County. However, in Li Yuan's eyes, the eldest son was clearly avoiding himself.

Li Yuan also knew that the eldest son had not handled the land conflict between the tenant farmers, which led to the tenant farmers still fleeing after the beginning of spring. The Tang Dynasty signed an agreement with the Zhou Dynasty, and it was not allowed to stop the people of Guanlong from returning to the east in any way, otherwise the war would break out immediately, which made Li Yuan very annoyed. He was both annoyed that his eldest son was unable to deal with the tenant farmers' escape, and also annoyed that his eldest son was evasive to him.

Li Yuan stared at the big tree outside the car window with a gloomy face. At this moment, he suddenly saw a black shadow appearing on a big tree. With a sound of a crossbow, a wolf-toothed arrow suddenly appeared in front of Li Yuan's eyes. The arrow was flashing with a bright green light, and Li Yuan was immediately scared to death.
Chapter completed!