Chapter 576 Little Nuobao relieves Daddy's worries again
Soon, this matter fermented in the court.
After hearing about it, some court officials applauded, and they had long seen through this group of people who were in cahoots with each other.
However, some of them were not clean enough, and felt that "the lips and teeth are cold", fearing that once this matter was set a standard, their previous mistakes would be found out and they would also be in danger of being imprisoned and beheaded.
So when they went to court the next day, more than 20 officials knelt in the Qinzheng Hall, kowtowed and pleaded for the guilty officials, begging Mu Yihan to let them live.
Mu Yihan was furious.
He directly ordered the Black Armored Army to drag these twenty or so people out of the hall.
Unexpectedly, they still did not give up, and found a sunny place in the South Gate of Heaven and continued to kneel for a whole morning.
Xiao Nuobao, wearing an apricot-yellow short jacket, an orange-red deerskin hood, and lambskin boots, came to the palace to play with his father and saw them still kneeling.
"What's wrong? Don't they have knees? What are they doing kneeling outside?" Xiao Nuobao pouted.
Wu Que, who came to greet them, was very angry. "Don't mention the princess. They made excuses for the guilty ministers in the court, and the state teacher was angry about it. They are a group of shameless things."
Xiao Nuobao stopped the carriage and walked over in his velvet boots.
When the ministers saw the princess coming, they hurriedly saluted.
Xiao Nuobao ignored them and asked the guards of the Nantian Gate to bring a few copper pots and hot coals, and then cooked a hot pot of mutton.
The fragrant mutton mixed with the aroma of pickled cabbage and peppercorns floated in the cold air, making people's tongues fall off.
After receiving the princess's order, the guards ate happily. Not only did they enjoy the food, but they also deliberately ate next to the ministers.
Finally, the kneeling officials were stunned, their stomachs growling, and their mouths were drooling.
They swallowed their saliva, looked at the noon sun, and finally couldn't bear it anymore. They got up quickly and went home for lunch.
After driving them away, the little fat girl rubbed her full stomach and smiled with her teeth showing.
Hehe, food is the first necessity of the people.
Food attack, no matter who it is placed on, is a sharp weapon.
Wu Que was also full of admiration, and gave the little princess a thumbs up, "Princess, you are amazing. The imperial teacher has frightened them several times, but they were not driven away by these stubborn donkeys. You got them with just one move."
Xiao Nuobao giggled and deliberately frightened Wu Que, "You are praising one and trampling the other. Wait for me to tell daddy, and see if he will let you raise cats in the palace in the future~"
Wu Que quickly covered his mouth, opened the curtain of the carriage, and continued to send the little fat girl into the palace.
But obviously.
These courtiers who asked for orders will come again tomorrow.
Xiao Nuobao knew that his father had thundering methods, but now was the eve of a big war, and the court needed people. It was inevitable that beheading eight important officials at once was a bit too cruel.
Not to mention, the power in the court is intertwined, and behind these eight people, there are countless students and former officials. In this way, it is inevitable that the court will be unstable.
When Xiao Nuobao entered Longxuan Palace, Ali was also discussing this matter with Mu Yihan.
"National Master, let's not talk about others, just talk about that old Pei. There are at least nine people in the court who are his former students and have a deep personal relationship with him. If we really take his life for this, I'm afraid those people will be alienated from us." Ali whispered.
Mu Yihan knew this.
That's why he didn't give a date for execution.
"But, if we let them go, wouldn't it chill the hearts of the soldiers and the people? And it's inevitable that there will be repeat offenders in the future!" Mu Yihan frowned.
Xiao Nuobao touched his head, and suddenly he had an idea. With a pair of small tufts of hair on his head, he threw himself into Mu Yihan's arms.
"Daddy, I have a way~"
Xiao Nuobao climbed onto his legs and said in a baby voice, "I have a way to teach them a lesson, and cut off their financial resources, so that they can never think of bullying the price of grain again."
Mu Yihan touched the softness in his arms, a little curious, "Hmm? Then tell me, Daddy is listening."
"Mr. Pei and his men have hoarded a lot of land, so they can control the grain and hold most of the wealth in Beijing. They have always been the parasites in Beijing." Xiao Nuobao held his finger in his mouth and hummed, "Why not take this opportunity to let them hand over all the manors in their hands and return the land to the people!"
"Those who are willing to hand over their land will be reinstated, but a three-year salary deduction is considered a minor punishment."
Mu Yihan's eyes lit up when he heard this.
Big landlords like Pei Lao have been occupying nearly half of the land in Beijing and sucking the blood of the tenants.
What if we can use this as an excuse to take back all the land?
It's more effective than taking their lives!
Ali clapped her hands vigorously, "Great, this is considered a leniency from the court, and it will also make them remember the favor and do things honestly in the future."
Mu Yihan hugged the little girl in his arms, raised his eyebrows happily, and kissed her on her milky white cheek.
"You are really daddy's little darling. When you come, daddy has no worries."
He was very happy in his heart.
He held the young lady tightly with both arms, fearing that if he let go, the chubby girl would fly back to the Jiang family, leaving him as an empty-nest father.
Soon, Mu Yihan sent someone to the prison to read out the imperial decree.
"The Imperial Master is mindful of your diligence in the past and cannot bear to kill you. So it is a minor punishment and a major admonition. As long as you are willing to return the land to the people, you can be reinstated!"
Return the land to the people?
Old Pei and the others got up from the ground, their eyes widened. Does that mean they should hand over the manor?
The manor is important.
Nothing is more important than life!
What's more, they are willing to be reinstated and can make money anytime, which is already very good! So
everyone knelt down and received the imperial decree.
"Thank you, Imperial Master."
"We will hand over all the land deeds when we return!"
Soon, after these people walked out of the sky prison trembling, they reluctantly took out all the land deeds, as well as the deed on the farm, and handed them over to Ali.
Ali spent almost a whole morning to sort out the number of acres of land they had and marked them on the map of the suburbs of Beijing.
After he finished, he looked through it and was shocked, "This... this is almost half of the land in Beijing. These parasites are simply sucking the blood of the court and fattening their own pockets."
Soon, these lands were handled by the Ministry of Households and sold to the people at 30% of the market price.
Mu Yihan stipulated that anyone who was born in Beijing, or had lived in Beijing for more than five years, and whose family had less than ten acres of land, could come here to buy a maximum of ten acres.
If the whole family had no land to farm, they could buy fifteen acres.
When the news came out, the people were almost crazy.
Really?
They finally had land to farm.
"The Imperial Master is wise!"
"The Imperial Court is wise!"
"We, the farmers who have no land to farm, finally don't have to rent other people's land and be bullied tenants anymore!"
"Wuwuwu, we can have our own land!"
Many farmers burst into tears and kowtowed several times in the direction of the Imperial Palace.
In the past, during the Murong Dynasty, we only heard about the emperor levying heavy taxes and forcibly seizing the people's good land to make royal territories.
But returning land to the people like this, and the land price is far lower than the market price, is unprecedented!
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