There is a farm covering an area of ​​about 300 hectares about thirty miles west of Taiyuan. This is one of the three farms of the Wang family, called Xishan farm.

The three farms in the Wang family were all under the charge of Wang Xu's third son Wang Qi, and three major managers were appointed to take charge of each. Among them, the manager of Xishan farm was named Wang Suilu, who was also a veteran family member of the Wang family.

Xishan Tianzhuang is backed by the northern foot of Xishan Mountain. A small river flows through the farm, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with beautiful scenery. Dozens of pavilions and towers were built. The weather is cool in summer, making this place a place for the Wang family to spend summer.

In addition to the vacation houses, there is a village at the foot of the Xishan Mountain, with about 300 families. These families are all Wang family tenants. They were originally refugees who escaped from the war in Hebei and came to Taiyuan. They had no household registration and made a living by renting Wang family land.

However, with the implementation of the Hebei equal-field system, the tenants in Xishan Field Village also began to return to their hometown in Hebei. After the summer harvest, more than 70 tenants ended their rent and returned home, while more tenants were preparing to return to Hebei after the autumn harvest.

This is also a common crisis encountered by all manors of the Sui Dynasty. Tenants were unwilling to farm for the farm and had to return to their hometown to receive the distribution of land. Not only did the land belong to their own, but the land tax was far lower than the rent.

Although some estate owners have repeatedly reduced their rents, only slightly higher than the land tax, and have promised to marry a wife for the tenant farmers, they still cannot stop the tide of returning home from the tenant farmers.

At dusk, a cavalry of inner guards composed of thousands of people rushed to Xishan Manor. There was no wall around the manor, but a ten-mile-long wall was built around the house where the Wang family vacationed.

The killing of more than a thousand cavalry had already alarmed the village and Wang's houses. Dozens of tiny dogs ran out of the village and barked at the cavalry. The cavalry ran away from the horse and shot arrows. More than tiny dogs were nailed to the ground.

The murderous intention was revealed, and the villagers who were scared to watch the excitement ran back. Every family closed their doors and doors. The janitor of the Wang family house also saw the cavalry rushing toward him. He closed the door and ran back to report the news. In an instant, the cavalry rushed to the scene and the gate was knocked down by a bang.

Thousands of cavalry rushed into the Wang family's house group. They had clear goals and divided into two groups. One of the cavalry surrounded a granary. Dozens of soldiers kicked open the door and rushed in.

The other cavalry surrounded a large mansion, raised a crossbow, aimed at the wall and gate of the mansion. An officer shouted sternly: "All the people in the room come out, otherwise they will kill them!"

After a moment, dozens of men and women were so scared that their faces were pale. They raised their hands one by one and came out of the room. About fifty or sixty people rushed up and ordered dozens of people to kneel down.

The capital commander led more than a hundred guards to rush into the mansion. This mansion covering an area of ​​about two acres consists of more than twenty houses. The yard and room are filled with various wine-making equipment. The entire mansion is filled with a strong smell of wine lees.

Hundreds of urns of wine and a large number of empty wine bottles were also found in the granary. At this time, Wang Suilu, the chief manager of the farm, was taken up. He knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

"General, have you been taken away by everything?" asked a captain.

The captain shook his head. "General Wei has an order to seize the stolen persons he captured on the spot to prevent the Wang family from refusing to admit their accounts."

He immediately said to the captain: "You lead three hundred brothers to guard the seized stolen people. If anyone dares to attack, kill them on the spot!"

The captain bowed and received the order, "Abide by the order!"

The commander arranged the left-behind soldiers and led hundreds of other cavalry to run towards Taiyuan City.

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At the same time when Xishan farmland was searched, two other cavalrymen also searched the other two farmlands of the Wang family, and also found wine-making tools in the granary, and a large amount of wine-stuck storage was also searched in the granary.

In Taiyuan City, Yipin Jiji Restaurant and Jinshi Restaurant were also surrounded by the Neiwei Army. Soldiers searched thousands of bottles of rice wine from the wine cellar. In addition, a large number of rice wines that were prepared to be sold wholesale were also found in several Wang's shops in Taipei City.

At this time, only three hours had passed before Yang Yuanqing's order. Wei Ben and Liu Qiaosong, the chief of the Inner Guard, presented a memorial to Yang Yuanqing.

As night fell, the lights were still brightly lit in Ziwei Pavilion. In the official room of the King of Chu, Wei Ben and the Chief Secretary Liu Qiaosong stood aside with their hands down, waiting for orders.

Yang Yuanqing sat at the table and carefully read the report. Wei Ben's high efficiency made him very satisfied. He liked to attack like this and captured everyone in the shortest time.

However, the content of the memorial made Yang Yuanqing angry. There was nearly 100,000 stones of grain in the three farms of the Wang family, but shortly after the ban on alcohol was issued, they began to make wine and make profits. In just half a year, they used 50,000 stones of rice to make rice wine, and openly confronted their ban on alcohol.

Yang Yuanqing came to the window with his hands behind his back, staring at the night sky and pondering. The Wang family’s winemaking incident was enough to make the Wang family undisturbed. The question now is, where does he need to expand this incident?

Whether to kill one to warn a hundred, or to completely cleanse the officialdom and completely eliminate the power of the Wang family from the court, Yang Yuanqing has been weighing this matter in his mind, weighing the pros and cons of it. It is not that he cannot do it, but that he has the determination.

After pondering for a long time, Yang Yuanqing slowly said: "Take the first step first!"

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In the heavy night, an inner guard army composed of two thousand fully armed soldiers was silently heading towards the Wang family mansion located in the south of Taiyuan City. This army was led by Wei Ben and surrounded the minister's residence. This was the first time since the establishment of the New Sui Dynasty.

After a moment, two thousand inner guards arrived at the Wang family mansion. Wei Ben said a low order, and two thousand soldiers surrounded the Wang family mansion, which covers an area of ​​nearly 100 acres.

At this moment, in the inner hall of the palace, the ground was covered with teacup pieces of porcelain. The head of the family, Wang Xu, was extremely angry. He held a long sword in his hand and his face turned pale. He was cursing several Wang children, "You group of stupid pigs, our Wang family will be killed by you. The continuation of the Wang family in Taiyuan for hundreds of years will be ruined!"

Wang Xu was demoted to the prefect of Zhao County a few months ago, but he used the excuse of recuperation and never took office in Zhao County, but stayed in Taiyuan Prefecture.

However, his position as a prefect was not removed. The government affairs of Zhao County were all represented by the Chief Secretary Zhao Hongxuan. He stayed in the Taiyuan Mansion's house and secretly controlled his followers in the court and local areas. This time, he opposed the Sui army's attack on the Central Plains. He took the lead in attacking the court, which caused a stir.

Because he devoted all his energy to the official operation and ignored the operation of the Wang family's industry, he didn't even know that the Wang family's children had secretly started making wine and making money.

It was not until half an hour ago that the news that Yipin Iji Restaurant was searched by the inner guards came that he learned that his tribe members had caused a huge disaster without him.

He was so angry that he almost raised his sword to chop up these idiots, including his son Wang Qi. At this time, he was already in vain and didn't know how to deal with this family crisis.

There were four people kneeling on the ground. At the front was Wang Xu's clan's brother Wang Xuanzhi. He was the general manager of the Wang family. He was fully responsible for all the industrial operations and accounting income and expenditure of the Wang family.

The decision to make money with Wang's grain was also decided by him, and he was forced to be unable to do so by the financial crisis faced by the Wang family.

This year, the Wang family's summer grain harvest was the worst in a century, and the production reduction was even higher than that of the six-year drought. Not only did the wheat harvest reduce production in the Little Year, but more importantly.

The separation of a large number of tenants without saying goodbye directly led to a sharp drop in the grain into the warehouse by 30%. What's more serious is that it is said that a large number of tenants will leave after the autumn harvest. He initially estimated that the 600 tenants in the three farms may leave about 400.

In this way, the most important source of income for the Wang family, the 500-hectare farmland, would face the risk of collapse. What should be used to support the Wang family's huge expenditure? The amount of money and grain consumed by Wang Xue every year will be as high as tens of thousands of hangovers and tens of thousands of stones of grain.

Without land income, the Wang family's family's family can only last for three years at most, and then the Wang family disappeared.

As the chief manager of the Wang family, Wang Xuanzhi was worried. Until a few months ago, Wang Jizhong, who was in charge of the wine shop, told him a way to make money: brewing wine.

This is because of the issuance of the Prohibition of Wine Prohibition, which makes twice as much money as purely selling grain. In addition, the price of grain wine soared due to the Prohibition of Wine Prohibition, and the huge profits are as high as thirty times. In addition, the profits of making wine with grain themselves can make up at most sixty times the profits of his inventory of grain.

The huge profits of brewing wine made Wang Xuanzhi so envious. He did not discuss with the head of the family, but only discussed with a few nephews in charge of power. Everyone hit it off and decided to take risks and make profits.

In addition to Wang Xuanzhi, behind him is Wang Xu's third son Wang Qi, who is in charge of the farm, as well as the brothers Wang Jizhong who is in charge of the wine shops and Wang Jiyun who is in charge of the shops.

These four people were the masterminds of the Wang family's winemaking. At this moment, they were all kneeling in front of the head of the family. The disaster caused by the winemaking incident made them extremely frightened, but so far, they did not know that something was wrong in the farm.

Wang Xuanzhi said in great anger: "Master, this is my responsibility. I didn't expect it to cause such serious consequences, but I have no choice. If I don't find a way to make money, the Wang family will be unable to maintain it. Did the head of the family forget my report a few months ago? A large number of tenants are leaving, who will farm for us? The head of the family agreed at the time."

"shut up!"

Wang Xu shouted again: "I agree to you make money, but I didn't let you make wine. I openly disobey the ban. Do you think others are stupid? If you don't know how to make money by making wine, you don't dare to offend the ban. What are you?"

Another clan brother next to him, Wang Zhenxiao advised: "The head of the family is calm. Now that the problem has come, we must find a way to solve the crisis first, and not complain about each other. When the crisis is over, we will settle the accounts internally. Is the head of the family right?"

Wang Xu said hatefully: "You said it simply. How do you ask me to solve this problem? Let me tell you?"

At this moment, there was a sound of running outside the door, and then the butler said in horror: "Report to the head of the family, the head of the house has been surrounded by troops outside the house, led by Wei Shaba. He wants the head of the family to go out to respond, otherwise he will lead his army into the house."

This news shocked Wang Xu.
Chapter completed!