On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 69 The King of Jin holds a banquet

Author: He Tiantian from Lotus Picking

Chapter 69 The King of Jin holds a banquet

As Brother Che's closest domestic slave, Zhao Wen has never been idle these days.

Since Cui Che and Yang Guang did not dare to completely trust the scribes assigned to the general administration to supervise the various states, Yang Guang secretly sent a group of trusted confidants to monitor them.

However, manpower was needed to investigate the actual situation of land distribution in Taiyuan County, so Cui Che asked Zhao Wen and other slaves brought from Chang'an to participate.

Zhao Wen and others have been walking along the country roads in Taiyuan County for the past two days. They have asked many local poor farmers, but they still have no harvest. They all say that the fields are allocated to them by the government and have nothing to do with the Wang family.

Looking at the numb or fearful eyes of those people, Zhao Wen knew very well that someone must have said hello in advance and unified the message.

In the land of Bingzhou, the Gao family once established a domineering mansion here, and the Yuwen family ruled for five years. Now they are named Yang. However, the king's flag changes on the city wall, and only the Wang family of Taiyuan is the ironclad master.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the emperor in Chang'an City is too far away, and the Wang family gentlemen in Jinyang and Qixian County are the ones they need to serve carefully.

At first, Zhao Wen thought it was broad daylight and no one dared to contact him. He deliberately stayed overnight in the suburbs of Qi County, but no one came to look for him at night.

Tomorrow was the time to entertain the Wang family. Zhao Wen returned to Jinyang City in frustration and told Cui Che that his trip had not yielded any results.

"Go down and rest first."

Cui Che sent Zhao Wen back home, feeling calm.

Zhao Wen was not the only one who failed. The indifference of the Taiyuan people made many investigators hit a wall. Without their cooperation, it would be difficult to figure out the actual distribution of fields in Taiyuan County.

In the main hall of the government office, Yang Guang said in confusion:

"I sent people to investigate the land distribution, and I wanted to make decisions for the poor. Why were they willing to hide it for the Wang family?"

And Cui Che didn't understand this truth until today. The two of them were alone with no outsiders. The rest of the staff had already been dismissed. Cui Che sighed:

"If we are here to kill the Wang family, someone may secretly provide clues.

"But this time we are just checking the fields and hiding houses, not overthrowing the Wang family. Whoever dares to take the risk of contacting the investigators will not be afraid that the Wang family will later track down who revealed the truth.

"Moreover, when His Highness first arrived in Jinyang, no trust was established. Although he intended to return the land to the people, the people did not know His Highness's intentions. They were even more afraid that the land would be taken back by the Wang family in the future, so they had good intentions, but no one appreciated it."

Yang Guang was silent after hearing this. The gentry clan was not invincible. Qihurzhu, who came to power in the late Northern Wei Dynasty, almost slaughtered the Hongnong Yang family, but he could not bear the consequences.

The noble clans are all related to each other to some extent, such as the Cui family of Boling. Although the Li family of Zhaojun is the most closely married to them, Cui Che himself also has relatives from the Wang family. The mother of his younger uncle Li Yuanjian is not from

Taiyuan Wang family.

Everyone can understand the Yang family's massacre of the Yuwen family, but killing the Wang family without any reason would be a natural disaster. This is a major event that can shake the foundation of the country.

Don't you see, in the future the prophecy of the Li family will only kill the whole family of Li Mu, instead of attacking the entire Li family of Longxi and Zhao County.

But Cui Che didn't have any other options. He whispered to Yang Guang, and a smile finally appeared on A Guang's face.

On the second day of April in the first year of Kaihuang's reign (581), the bathing holiday, which lasted every five days, came, and Yang Guang held a grand banquet in his official residence.

Although the banquet held by the King of Jin was not a good banquet, it could not be the Hongmen Banquet. All the important figures from the Wang family in Taiyuan who had received the invitation came accordingly.

The official residence was connected to the government office. When everyone passed by the gate of the government office, they saw a big drum that suddenly appeared, and they were very curious.

The General Manager's Office was not a yamen for breaking prison sentences and hearing lawsuits, and the drum of grievances would not be opened until the Northern Song Dynasty. Naturally, the members of the Wang family did not know the meaning of this move.

However, the banquet was still held as scheduled, but many people complained that the banquet of King Jin was too plain.

It's not that Yang Guang was stingy, there was wine and meat at the banquet, but there was no string and bamboo orchestral music, and there were no singers or dancers to add to the fun.

During the dinner, Cui Che smiled and raised glasses with faces with rosacea, including many distant relatives.

The Wang family in Taiyuan has ancestral rosacea, and people in Jiangdong call it "King Zhu". During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a branch living in the south of the Yangtze River was exterminated by Liu Yu, and only Wang Huilong crossed the river alone. Cui Hao, a Northern Wei Dynasty student, was based on Wang Huilong's wine.

Zhanbi believed that he was a descendant of the Taiyuan Wang family and married his niece to him.

But later, Lu Gui, a southerner, defected to the Northern Dynasty, claiming that Wang Huilong was the illegitimate son of a monk who happened to have rosacea, so he pretended to be the Wang family of Taiyuan.

Even people at the time had no way of verifying the authenticity of Wang Huilong's identity, but what is certain is that rosacea is indeed a distinctive feature of the Taiyuan Wang family.

Cui Che couldn't help but secretly rejoice that fortunately, the Boling Cui family did not have this dominant inheritance, and he also made up his mind that he would never marry a girl from the Wang family.

Although it cannot be said that everyone in the Wang family has rosacea, what if I am affected by it?

After thirty years of drinking, the atmosphere was still lively. Yang Guang raised his glass again and laughed with everyone:

"My father ordered me to go out of the town and merge with the state. The first important thing he told me was to check the land and hide the houses. I dare not live up to my father's expectations. I have sent my confidants to visit for several days, but nothing was found. The people treat the Wang family.

Everyone was full of praise.

"I never thought that the nobles from all over the country would invade the public land and exchange it for the better. I am the only one who can merge the states and take care of myself. This must be the contribution of all the wise men. Please have a drink with me."

The members of the Wang family did not understand its purpose, and the stupid people even thought that they had been deceived and drank from each other.

While he was enjoying himself, Yang Guang put down his wine glass and sighed:

"However, the court officials do not know the truth. If I find nothing in Bingzhou and my father blames me, what should I do?"

Upon hearing this, the person in charge of the Jinyang branch of the Wang family in Taiyuan who was temporarily elected stood up and said:

"Although the Wang family passed down poems and books, they also had property accumulated by their ancestors. Jinyang Fang is willing to use the 50,000 acres of land owned by his ancestors to respond to the court's call."

The person in charge elected by a Qi County group immediately agreed and was willing to cede 50,000 acres of land.

Everyone in the Wang family knew that they had to cede some of their interests this time. After all, this was Yang Guang's first time working on an errand. If he really lost a cent and forced Yang Guang into a hurry, he would not be able to get a favor.

Yang Guangming said hello and laughed heartily on the face, but in his heart he was furious. The entire Wang family in Taiyuan only gave out 100,000 acres of land. This was clearly to treat him as a beggar. He had sold it well before, saying that Bingzhou was left alone.

Do these people really think that they have never invaded people's fields?

While raising the glasses, Yang Guang signaled Cui Che with his eyes. Cui Che nodded in response, put down the wine glass, apologized to Yang Guang, excused himself to go to the toilet, and got up to leave the table.

Brother Che is already very familiar with the Urine Release move.

I caught a cold again. Let’s take a rest. Tomorrow’s two chapters should be posted in the evening.

(End of chapter)