Chapter 683: Civil Disturbance 1 "A wealthy family like the Song family, especially Song Ning, who has been in charge of Jiangnan Yancao for many years, cannot be unmanned in the court.
The reason why I have never acted rashly is that observing who is behind it is also an important factor.
Moreover, according to Shenlongwei's recent investigation and secret visit, less than fifty percent of the Jiangnan salt has entered the imperial treasury, so where is the remaining fifty percent lost, is it all greedy by the Song family, I am very suspicious. ” Kong Sheng lowered his voice and said: "So, Brother Mu, on the surface, standing behind the Song family is the Jiangnan merchant family, but in fact, the Song family is probably inseparable from those dignitaries and dignitaries in Chang'an, even" Kong Sheng's eyes flickered, but he didn't continue.
He has been suspicious of many things in his heart, but there is no direct evidence to verify it.
But in any case, Song Ning is by no means simple, his years of operation have expanded the vine of interests to every corner he can see, and the breadth and length of this vine of interests should be beyond everyone's imagination.
If Song Ning's interest network covers the capital Chang'an, it will be infinitely more difficult for Kong Sheng to move Song Ning.
Song Ning still has no fear, and he relies on this.
Kong Sheng knows better than anyone that the most difficult thing in the world to deal with is actually not power but interests.
And power, to put it bluntly, is also a derivative of interests.
If there is no interest, who else can still be willing to be an official Thousands of years of royal society, the concept of the official standard is deep-rooted, and in the end it will be boiled down to a profit word.
"Brother Mu, help me keep an eye on the Song family.
Song Ning is more difficult to deal with than Yang Qi, and we must find out the hole cards he masters, otherwise, it will bring us endless trouble.
Kong Sheng smiled coldly: "But this is the last time I will back down."
If Song Ning has to make an inch, don't blame me for turning my face and being ruthless. ” Mu Changfeng nodded, and his figure disappeared.
When the red sun slowly rose and jumped into the eastern sky, the entire Jiangning City was plated with a thin layer of golden light.
It's just that this morning, the city is not quiet, dozens of officials guarding the yamen of Jiangning County, more than 100 Mo swordsmen of Shenlongwei, and 500 soldiers of Jiangning Iron Cavalry Battalion surrounded the Xue family's mansion.
Liu Pingshan personally led the team to handle the case, and asked the Xue family to immediately hand over the chief culprit of the siege of the county palace, that is, Xue Wu, the brother of the head of the Xue family, and dozens of other people.
The head of the Xue family was taken aback, and he was just about to fight with Liu Pingshan about a few points when he went out, but Liu Pingshan didn't listen to him at all, waved his hand, and the wolf-like official took the lead in rushing into the Xue family, and took out all the 37 children of the Xue family under Xue Wu, locked them, and escorted them back to the county guard yamen.
Immediately, Shenlongwei seized the Xue family in the name of rebellion.
Although the Xue family had hundreds of servants and slaves, they did not dare to resist in the face of hundreds of iron horsemen who killed people without blinking.
Although there was sporadic resistance in the process of raiding the house, it was suppressed by the iron cavalry battalion and the iron fist of the Shenlongwei.
The mansions, fields, farms and shops under the name of the Xue family all escaped the net, and they were all seized by Shenlongwei.
Anyway, in the afternoon, Shenlongwei finished counting and loaded dozens of carts of the Xue family's wealth and brought them back to the county guard yamen for sealing, waiting for Kong Sheng's unified adjudication.
The once-prominent Jiangning family, the Xue family, was so shattered.
The shortness of the process, the speed of the action, and the ruthlessness of the means made all the Jiangning businessmen and people stunned, and many of the wealthy families in Jiangnan who were in the same mood as the Xue family were also frightened when they heard the news, and everyone began to endanger themselves, not knowing when Kong Sheng would attack them.
In order to protect themselves, each family took the initiative to hand over several scapegoats in an attempt to appease Kong Sheng's monstrous anger over the siege of the county king's mansion.
The county guard yamen was responsible for investigating the case, and accepted all the weak shows of each family, but no further action was taken.
This makes a lot of people feel lucky.
In fact, this is Kong Sheng's order.
After all, Kong Sheng's real purpose is to suppress and deter, not to uproot all the Jiangnan giants.
Even if he is the king of Jiangning County, it is difficult to make it difficult for Jiangnan to have no wealthy families from now on.
This world naturally has classes and classes.
The wealthy and the grassroots are always at opposite poles.
Kong Sheng never had the idea of eliminating the class, what he wanted to do was nothing more than to stop the increasingly fierce trend of enclosure and seizure of social wealth by the wealthy families, and turn the wealth from the wealthy into the wealth of the people and the country.
When more and more wealthy families are rich and can control the lifeblood of a country, this is definitely a deformed social state.
Kong Sheng's promotion of land reform in the south of the Yangtze River and the return of land to the people is one aspect, and more importantly, it is necessary to promote the flow of social wealth, which is conducive to the prosperity and strength of the country and social stability.
When he was in Chang'an, Kong Sheng set his sights on the world's major families.
The wealthy occupy land, monopolize wealth and social culture, and block the way for ordinary people to advance.
When the news was transmitted back to the Yang family, Yang Qi's face became extremely strange.
At this time, he had to be greatly impressed by Kong Sheng's wrist, Kong Sheng had the upper hand little by little in the game with Jiangning's wealthy families, the Yang family had been dealt with, Liu Pingshan was immediately settled, and then, there was actually only one Song family that could pose a threat to Kong Sheng's implementation of the new land policy in Jiangnan.
There is no doubt that the destruction of the Xue family's house has an unparalleled deterrent effect.
Those wealthy families in Jiangnan who are unwilling to benefit from being taken away by Kong Sheng should be a lot more honest.
At least on the surface, they will no longer dare to openly confront the county king's mansion.
However, the Song family not only had people in the court, but also tied up with the two major Jiangnan clans, the Wuxing Shen clan and the Yixing Zhou clan, and advanced and retreated together.
In Yang Qi's view, Kong Sheng wants to move Song Ning, but he can't bypass those top-level magnates in the court, and he can't bypass the two Jiangnan clans.
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Different from ordinary Jiangnan tycoons, the Wuxing Shen family and the Yixing Zhou family have been entrenched in Jiangnan for at least hundreds of years, and the hidden power is so amazing that it can be imagined that hundreds of years of heritage have been accumulated.
Yang Qi looked up at the chief housekeeper Yang Kuan, with a complicated smile on the corner of his mouth, and said softly: "Yang Kuan, the Xue family is clearly a dog of the Song family, and it depends on the owner to beat the dog, Kong Sheng directly sealed the Xue family this time, Song Ning will not be able to hang the old man's order on his face, and the whole family has been closed recently, don't get involved in the battle between the Kong family and the Song family, so as not to get into trouble." ” Yang Kuan snorted: "The villain understands that the villain will strictly restrain the people in the house, there is no important matter, and he will not go out of the door, and don't cause trouble for the adults." ” Yang Qi's expression became solemn, "Princess Naxi is still there for Miss" Yang Kuan nodded: "Yes, my lord."
Princess Xixi and Miss fell in love at first sight, and they fell in love with each other, and they were so good in the past two days that they were commensurate with sisters. ” Yang Qi sighed lightly, and said in his heart that this young man Kong Sheng was inevitably a little romantic, and suddenly a princess of Xixi appeared, no wonder he didn't come to Jiangnan to propose marriage, it turned out that there were already other women around him.
However, in these years, with his respect as the king of the county, it is probably impossible to only accept Xue Ruo as his wife.
The identity of this Xixi princess is also noble, and she is commensurate with the Xueruo sisters, and it is not an insult to our Yang family.
At this time, Yang Qi actually didn't know that there was also a princess of Jiguo and Princess Hui who were given by the emperor to marry.
And what really has something to do with Kong Sheng is actually a red line of Nie Chuchen in the past and Shi Siming's daughter now.
It's just that the two are at odds because of their different positions and temporarily part ways.
At this moment, a fast horse galloped into the city, and the face of the soldier was solemn and tired, he waved the pennant in his hand, and made a hoarse and deep voice in his mouth: "Deqing is urgent, 100,000 rebellious people rebel" Civil uprising This news shook the entire Jiangning City in the shortest possible time.
For more than 100 years, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there has never been civil unrest in Jiangnan.
No matter how the Central Plains changes, Jiangnan has always been prosperous and stable.
But now there is a civil unrest, and the shock among the people can be imagined.
Yang Qi, who received the urgent report, did not dare to slack off, and immediately summoned the civil and military officials of Jiangnan Province and Liu Pingshan, the warden of Jiangning County, to gather in Jiangnan to deal with the affairs of the yamen.
At the same time, he sent someone to report to Kong Sheng, the king of Jiangning County.
It has been many years since there has been no rebellion in Jiangnan.
Even when the Central Plains was disrupted and An Lushan's iron cavalry trampled on most of the Tang Dynasty, Jiangnan was as calm and stable as ever.
But today, when the world is about to be pacified, rivers and mountains are stable, there are a mob claiming to be 100,000 on the Jiangnan side of the Yangtze River mutinied, and the armed uprising did not make Yang Qi and other Jiangnan officials shocked Yang Qi's face was very ugly.
It is reported that he has captured the county seat of Deqing, and is gathering forces to prepare to launch an attack on the Tangxing line, and the local officials have abandoned the city and fled, and the local gentry and tyrants were killed, and the family wealth was taken away, once it was spread to the capital, he will be unable to escape the blame.
At the very least, they should be held accountable for poor governance.
The emperor blamed him, and he couldn't run for the first time.
The rebels in the Central Plains, especially Shi Siming in Hedong, have not yet been completely dealt with, and there have been rebellions in the south of the Yangtze River, which is completely to block the imperial court, and the emperor's anger can be imagined.
Moreover, Deqing is one of the two major surnames in the south of the Yangtze River, Wuxing Shen's foundation, the chaos of the people in Wu rising, the Shen family is afraid and the Shen family is in Jiangnan, that is, the influential gate valve, once the Shen family has a problem, Jiangnan will be completely chaotic.
The soldiers hurriedly came to report: "The king of Jiangning County has arrived" Yang Qi immediately led everyone to get up and greet the door of the official office.
Something so big happened, how could Kong Sheng, as the commander-in-chief of the Jiangnan military and political affairs, and the county king who carried out education on behalf of the emperor, sit idly by and watch.
However, Kong Sheng's expression was far calmer than Yang Qi imagined.
His calmness contrasted sharply with the apprehension of the Jiangnan Provincial officials and generals.
Kong Sheng was surprised when he heard the report, but he was not out of proportion.
Because at this point in history, there was a peasant rebellion in Jiangnan with a time span and a large number of people, and Kong Sheng had long been mentally prepared for this.
What really surprised Kong Sheng was that he had already appeased Yuan Chao and reused it by his side in advance, but after all, he still did not completely change the general trend of history.
This illustrates a key problem, although he has been trying to change the times, he still has no ability to change the tide of history.
Without Yuan Chao, there were other peasant leaders who stood up and replaced Yuan Chao, invisibly pushing the wheels of history forward.
Of course, the local details of the uprising may be different from the original Yuan Chao uprising in history, but the nature and origin are very different from the official pursuit of rents and the collection of corn, and the peasants could not bear the burden and rebelled.
In addition, the land was occupied by a large number of wealthy families, and there were more and more displaced people in various parts of the Yangtze River.
If there are too many people who don't have enough to eat, they are prone to problems.
This has been the case throughout the ages.
Some people took the lead and promised heavy profits, and the displaced people flocked to it.
Kong Sheng sat in the middle of the lobby and took Yang Qi's place.
Yang Qi was the next to take the lead.
There was a strange silence in the lobby, Liu Pingshan hesitated, but still took the initiative to get up and bow down and salute: "The king of the county, the envoy of the king, this time the rebellious people in Deqing County gathered to rebel, and urgently reported that they had captured the county seat of Deqing, and 100,000 rebellious people burned and plundered everything on the front line of Deqing, and there were signs of attacking Tangxing and Taizhou, the matter is urgent, we must not hesitate, we must immediately send troops to encircle and suppress, and at the same time report to the imperial court."
Yang Qi nodded slowly: "Of course."
The civil turmoil in Jiangnan is a matter of great importance, so it should be reported to the imperial court urgently.
However, the top priority at the moment should be to suppress the civil unrest as soon as possible, so as not to cause turmoil in the hearts of the people in the entire Jiangnan Prefecture.
Kong Sheng snorted: "It's up to Yang to make the decision."
You are the town of Jiangnan Domain, and you command the soldiers and horses in Jiangnan, and the civil turmoil in Jiangnan is within the scope of your duty, so naturally you cannot shirk it. ” The corners of Yang Qi's mouth twitched, and he said in his heart, where does the old man want to shirk At this time, you kept saying that it was within the scope of the old man's duties, but in the past, you didn't want to take away the old man's military power one day But before Yang Qi could reply, he heard the official report that Song Ning had arrived from the Yancao transfer.
Kong Sheng raised his eyebrows, and a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes.
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Kong Sheng had a premonition at the moment, he always felt that this time the rebellion of the rebellious people in Jiangnan seemed to have something to do with Song Ning and the Song family.
Otherwise, it would have been too coincidental that this large-scale civil unrest had come.
The rebellion of the chaotic people undoubtedly attracted Kong Sheng's energy and time to how to quell the chaos.
Moreover, Kong Sheng had just laid down the stall of land reform in the south of the Yangtze River, and before it was completely opened, there was a civil uprising, which was seized by people with intentions and ill intentions, and all kinds of gossip spread into Chang'an, and the emperor and court dignitaries were bound to be very suspicious of this.
Even, there will be people who maliciously slander, and the root cause of this civil unrest is blamed on Kong Sheng.
This crime is definitely simpler and more crude than any false accusation, and it hits the vital point of the court and the emperor.
This is what Kong Sheng worries the most. oshow7 t1706231537: