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"It doesn't matter, we still have our own servants, and there are many slave laborers who sell themselves to farm for us. Our land will never be depleted." The patriarch of the Langya Wang clan said.

Bai Fan waved his hand and said: "Although the laws of the Tang Dynasty require fine land to be punished, but with your identities, the law may not be able to be imposed on everyone, so what Fan said today is not that this fairy grain caused the land to be barren.

After the people are full, they will yearn for a better life, but what lies ahead of them is the issue of food tax. In the past, when they were starving every year, they didn't think that as long as they could survive, they would rather rent and plant a few more acres with the help of the nobles. Food is fine.

But it won’t happen in the future, when people have free time to stop and think about problems, some people will definitely think unconsciously, why do people need to pay food taxes?And the aristocrats with countless land properties don't pay food taxes?This is human nature, I don't know if you may think of the consequences? "

"Consequences? What are the consequences? They are just thinking in vain. Scholars have tax exemption, which has not changed through the ages. Otherwise, why has no one questioned it for thousands of years?" The patriarch of Hongnong Yang said disdainfully.

But at this time, many people fell into contemplation, especially those old people. They have deeper knowledge and experience, and it can be said that they understand the human heart and human nature better.

"No one questioned? Why did the Yellow Turban Uprising happen when the people were in dire straits at the end of the Han Dynasty? The gap between the rich and the poor, the injustice of the national law and those who stand up, although this is not written in the iron law of history, but it has been engraved on the human heart and human nature at the beginning of the birth of human beings.

Confucius also once said, 'I heard that those who have a country and a family do not suffer from widowhood but inequality, and do not suffer from poverty but anxiety'. This is the reason.

I invite you to come here today to discuss and solve the problem sincerely, not to argue and force you, because Fan is also a member of the nobles. It can be foreseen that if we nobles stick to the rules, one day in the future, there will be people who will pay for the food tax. If the injustice comes forward, I am afraid that there will be a lot of responses, and what will be brought about is the bloodshed and sacrifice of the whole country. At that time, we will not be eating and chatting like today, but will compromise with swords around our necks. "

"Do they dare? A bunch of mud-legged people, we and the nobles are also what they can overthrow?" exclaimed the head of the Xue clan of Hedong.

Bai Fan snorted coldly, "Mud-legged? No one in this world should underestimate the people you call mud-legged people. In Xia Baifan, you are also born as mud-legged people.

Have you forgotten the beggars?

Even if all the nobles in the world join forces, how many people can there be?Ninety percent of the world is common people, and one percent is nobles. We have no chance of winning. "

Bai Fan's aura was shocked, and the crowd suddenly lost their temper. They were also frightened by Bai Fan and convinced by Bai Fan's words. He was right. He was really fighting with the common people. Since ancient times, the way of survival has been to compromise, and those who stand the straightest are often the first to be crushed.

"In that case, I have to listen to you, and pay the grain tax with them? This old man can't go back and explain to the tribe." The patriarch of the Hedong Liu clan was dissatisfied.

"Yeah, yeah, pay food with him to help Mudlegzi? It's too embarrassing."

Many people followed suit.

Bai Fan looked at the ugly faces of these people coldly. They were all so-called nobles who were used to being pampered. They only remembered their own identities and forgot the origin of the family. Whose ancestors were not born in poverty?Whose ancestral precepts are not heirs of poetry and books or farming and reading?

People who only remember the privileges of the nobles and forget the mission of the nobles are no longer worthy of being called nobles. The more Bai Fan looks at them, the more he disdains them. So what if the 40-meter broadsword is all chopped up?I really want to see if the death of the nobles is more elegant and noble than that of the common people?

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6 Chapter Twenty

The unbearable Bai Fan shouted: "Enough!

I thought you were all old and wise old people, but I didn't expect that everyone was so ignorant of current affairs. "

"Zhuzi! How dare you humiliate the old man?"

"Humiliate you? Are you worthy?

I have said something earlier, today I am here to discuss, and it is not me, Bai Fan, who is persecuting you, is it useful for you to bargain here?

It is the situation that forces us to make concessions in advance, not that I, Bai Fan, forced you to make concessions. Do you still want to compromise with the people when blood is flowing in the future?At that time, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as losing face, and I won't be able to keep my face.

Based on this point, is it wrong to call you ignorant of current affairs? "

you……

Bai Fan's yelling and cursing instantly felt hearty, and it also made this group of chattering and flustered guys speechless, cursing secretly in their hearts, I thought this kid had changed into a tiger today, but I didn't expect it to be so hateful.

The patriarch of the Taiyuan Wang clan sighed and said: "Lan Tianhou, although I understand that what you said is very reasonable, once the immortal grain with a yield of one thousand catties per mu comes out, it will definitely change the land structure in the future, but with your words today, let us We can’t explain this to the clansmen when we go back and start paying food. It’s ashamed to say that when the family is big and the business is big, people’s hearts are not in harmony, and there is no reason for them to accept it. Even if the old man is the patriarch, he can’t cover the sky with one hand in the clan.”

Nodding his head, Bai Fan expressed his understanding, but the old man's words were to the point.

"That's right, Marquis Lantian, even if I have come here to see the power of immortal food and know the consequences of the situation, but the clan's children resist orders and refuse to hand over, there will still be troubles in the future. I am afraid that before the common people make a fuss, the nobles will go ahead with the handover. There is a struggle over food policy, which is probably something the imperial court does not want to see." The Patriarch of the Hedong Pei clan said.

"I don't know if you have any countermeasures, how to persuade the family members to accept this condition.

Now that you all agree with what I said before, we need to solve the problem together, so that neither the family nor the people will cause chaos. This is why Fan invited everyone here today. "

Until this time, everyone recognized Bai Fan. From this, it can be seen that Bai Fan is really different today, and he did not come here to suppress the nobles.

"Many people in the family will only have enough food to survive. They have lived by not paying food tax for many years. Now that they start paying food tax, it will have the biggest impact on this group of people. It’s like they entered the common people from the nobles, so their hearts will be extremely unbalanced.” The old man of the Bolingcui family spoke.

Bai Fan shook his head and said: "With fairy grain, this group of people don't have to worry about food and survival, even if the grain left after paying the grain tax is enough for every family to have surplus food.

In other words, what they care about is still a matter of face. They are afraid that they will pay food with the common people, lose their status as nobles, and become ordinary people from now on? "

Everyone bowed their heads in silence, the patriarch of the Boling Cui clan nodded and said: "That's right, that's exactly the reason. And this reason is probably the root cause of the nobility's non-payment of food. We have no shortage of food handed over, but we have to protect the nobles for thousands of years. The reputation of a nobleman is still different from that of ordinary people."

That's right, basically all the old men nodded secretly in their hearts at this time, it was indeed the truth, and it was really insulting to let everyone stand side by side with mud legs.

"Is it useful for the nobles to keep their face like this? Is it possible to keep the honor of the nobles? Is the nobles really superior to others? It's just that the wealth of the people they were born in is different. Who is not born naked?"

The patriarch of Hongnong Yang snorted coldly: "Naturally, we will not be pretentious for no reason like those dandies. Most of our nobles are families of literati or military generals. All dynasties and dynasties have contributed to the country and the people. , military generals protect the country and keep the world safe, and literati educate the world. Only in this way can we enjoy the status and rights of nobility. This is also a merit worthy of the respect of the people. Now we are going to deprive our family of past contributions and honors for no reason. Marquis Lantian, do you think it is fair to us? Is it fair to sacrifice our past contributions?"

Bai Fan clapped his palms and laughed, "Okay, Mr. Yang's words are very reasonable, and Fan also deeply agrees."

Everyone was puzzled, this Lan Tianhou sometimes got angry and sometimes laughed, what the hell was he doing?It's really hard to get along with this person, you can't see clearly what this smiling tiger is planning.

"Since everyone can let go of the nobles' unreasonable insistence, when it comes to the contributions and merits of the nobles, this involves the nobles' rewards and inheritance.

There is an old saying that the virtue of a gentleman will be cut off for five generations, but the aristocrats of your family are now passed on for thousands of years. This is unreasonable. Scholars have tax exemptions. Although this sentence is a thousand-year old saying, is this gentleman a self-proclaimed one?Can a scholar be called a scholar?

The nobles of all dynasties came from enfeoffment, but the enfeoffment of noble titles must be reduced generation by generation, and after five generations at most, they will become commoners if they have no merit.

But please tell me, everyone, today’s old aristocratic class, a big family has 10,000+ people, and a small family has hundreds of thousands of people. These have made contributions to the Tang court, have they been canonized?

Therefore, the shadow of the ancestors of the nobles cannot shine on the descendants for thousands of years. For the side branches, external branches of your family, and even those who have not contributed credit in the direct line, this noble status needs to be re-discussed.

If not, the old aristocrats will not lose their honor without contributors, and the new people will be rewarded year after year if they have contributors. Sooner or later, there will be a new situation in the Tang Dynasty where everyone is a nobleman. I am afraid that there will be no food to collect and no labor to use. The embarrassing situation, the country will not be the country, and the world will not be in chaos? "

Hiss... Everyone took a breath.

"Bold, Bai Fan, do you want to touch our noble status? Do you have the ability?"

It was only then that everyone understood that Bai Fan was crazy. He didn't want to move the land, but wanted to collectively suppress the power of the nobility. He wanted to abolish a large part of the old nobility to make room for the new nobility.

Zheng Wenyong was stunned, what, what's going on?It's different from the script. Didn't you agree to only talk about land and food?

That's right, I seem to have been cheated by Bai Fan, the nephew and son-in-law.

"I'm waiting for how many children of noble families to enter the court and serve as officials to benefit one side. Even if they don't have a feudal city, they still have titles. Why aren't they scholars?"

"How many things we have done for the people and the country in the past dynasties, are you going to obliterate them with a single word?"

The scene became chaotic in an instant, and many old people's faces turned red. If the land and food tax can still be negotiated, what is being discussed now is really the life and death of a family, and there must be no compromise.

Bai Fan sneered and said, "Who am I to obliterate? The wheel of history has already been obliterated.