The current situation of land annexation was serious, and the land was highly concentrated. Most of it was in the hands of the bureaucrats and the landlords, especially the bureaucrats. Most of them occupied tens of thousands of acres.
The reason why the commoners did not spend too much was because they did not have much money in their hands. It was difficult for them to even eat their fill. How could they have the money to spend? But once the commoners became rich, did they not need to buy things?
Land annexation would cause more and more farmers to lose their land, or even have no land at all.
Land annexation was an incurable disease in the feudal society. In order to have more land, the big landowners used all kinds of despicable means.
Especially in the years of disasters and wars, due to some irresistible factors, the aristocratic families and local tyrants forced farmers to sell their land and property to become tenant farmers.
Land annexation was something that every dynasty would do, and Long Yunfeng could not do anything about it. Right now, Great Qin was like a broken ship that was drifting on the sea. Originally, it could still sail on the sea, but once it was broken, it would definitely capsize.
This land was the lifeblood of the children of the aristocratic families. If they moved now, it might cause chaos in the country. The aristocratic families would desperately resist, and the gains would not make up for the losses.
A slight move could cause the whole body to move.
Even though the Great Qin Family wasn't as powerful as the Great Heaven Eight Great Families, some of the families were also immeasurably powerful. They could only take things slow and weaken the families before taking action.
He could only move when he was strong enough.
However, Great Qin's national treasury was severely empty, and the only thing it could do was trade.
Even though Great Qin was a large agricultural country, how much money could it earn from farming taxes?
If he wanted to make Great Qin truly rich, he had to develop commerce, and the main focus was on the business tax.
If they could open up ocean trade in the future, Great Qin would be able to trade with all the countries, which would be a true opportunity to strengthen Great Qin.
As long as he had money, he could build all kinds of troops and complete Long Yunfeng's various ideas.
Money wasn't everything. Without money, one couldn't do anything.
This sentence was very reasonable.
Of course, all of this could only be considered as an idea at the moment.
"Money, we still need money. Without money, it's hard to do anything.”Long Yunfeng muttered to himself.
"Your Majesty, Situ Li Zhenguo, Prime Minister Wang Huan, and Cheji General request an audience.”Guo Huai's voice came from outside the door.
Why are they here?
However, Long Yunfeng had a good impression of these three people because they were incredibly loyal to Great Qin.
The Wang family had been the Prime Minister of Great Qin since the founding of the country and was loyal to Great Qin. In the past hundred years, the Wang family had been an official in the royal court for generations, and Wang Huan had been an elder of the three dynasties.
Li Zhenguo had been promoted by the late Emperor. He had climbed up from a small county magistrate to the position of Situ step by step. He had relied on his own hard work, as well as the late Emperor's promotion of him. Moreover, the late Emperor had been kind to him.
There was no need to mention the Zhu family, who had been generals for generations. Many of the northern regions of Great Qin had been conquered by the Zhu family and the Qin family, and they had been loyal and brave for generations to protect Great Qin.
When his father passed away, if there were still people in the court that he trusted, they were Prime Minister Wang Huan, Cheji Zhu Yu, and Situ Li Zhenguo. The remaining one was the North Guard General Tang Hu who went to the north to guard Dragon City Pass.
As such, he now controlled 80% of Great Qin's military power.
"Invite them in." Long Yunfeng stroked his chin and said.
After a while, Li Zhenguo, Wang Huan, and Cheji General Zhu Yu were brought in by Guo Huai.
" Greetings, Your Majesty." The three of them came to Long Yunfeng and kowtowed in unison.
"Rise," Long Yunfeng said as he waved his right hand.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
" Men, bring the three lords to their seats." Long Yunfeng saw that they were standing there and couldn't speak, so he immediately ordered the chairs to be moved over.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." The three sat on the chairs that the eunuch had brought over.
"May I know why the two beloved ministers have come today?”Long Yunfeng didn't know their purpose, so he could only get straight to the point.
"Your Majesty, in the past few days, this old subject has been thinking about why Great Qin has fallen to such a state. After thinking about it day and night, this old subject has come up with some ideas, so I came to tell Your Majesty.”Seeing that the Emperor was asking him directly, Situ Li Zhenguo said what he had been thinking these days.
"Tell me what you think.”Long Yunfeng said.
"This old official believes that Great Qin has become like this because of the chaotic laws and many loopholes. If Great Qin wants to become strong again, we have to rebuild our laws. It is because of this corruption that if we don't deal with it soon, Great Qin won't be able to live for long.”Li Zhenguo said.
"In troubled times, severe punishment should be imposed." Long Yunfeng said.
"Your Majesty is wise. It is only right."
Wang Huan agreed with Li Zhenguo's words.
Right now, Great Qin was beyond cure, and if they wanted to save Great Qin, they could only use drastic medicine.
Although Long Yunfeng was currently facing a situation where he had no one to use, it was better not to use these people.
These people were of no use to Great Qin at all. On the contrary, they were harming Great Qin's interests in many ways.
"Then what do you think we should do now?”Long Yunfeng asked with a smile.
"I'll cut them off if I reach out my hand. I must make those corrupt people pay the price.”Wang Huan added.
Long Yunfeng nodded, and his eyes lit up!
That's right! He had no money now! But those corrupt officials were rich!
Since ancient times, there had been no lack of corrupt officials in every dynasty. There were almost no lack of corrupt officials. The hateful thing about corrupt officials was that they used the power in their hands to oppress the people and obtain improper benefits.
Cai Jing of the Northern Song Dynasty, one of the prime ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty and a calligrapher.
Cai Jing served as prime minister four times, for a total of seventeen years.
Cai Jing launched the war of Hua Shi Gang, changed the salt law and tea law, and cast ten coins.
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Chen Dong, a student of the Imperial College, wrote a letter calling Cai Jing the "head of the six thieves".
Cai Jing used his official position for personal gain and amassed wealth. He was so rich that he could rival a country and even owned 500,000 mu of land.
This wasn't enough. In his later years, Cai Jing was " both noble and greedy ". He even falsified the accounts and received double the salary of the prime minister.
Once, the emperor gave him a western garden. In order to expand it, he demolished hundreds of nearby houses. After the completion of the western garden, it was even more luxurious than the emperor's eastern garden.
In the Ming Dynasty, Yan Song and his son served as assistant ministers of the Ministry of Rites and chief assistants of the cabinet. His son, Yan Shifan, also served as assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry.
Yan Song's son, Yan Shifan, was an expert at amassing wealth. The two of them controlled the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War, wantonly bribing and selling officials.
In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, the two were arrested and imprisoned. After looting his house, they obtained more than 32,000 taels of gold and 2,020,000 taels of silver. Other houses, land, treasures, gold and silver jewelry, antiques, calligraphy, jade, clothing, and furniture were countless, almost exceeding the collection of the royal family.
In the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin was from Xingping, Shaanxi Province. His surname was Tan, but he changed his surname to Liu because he sought refuge with an eunuch surnamed Liu.
After entering the palace, he served the Crown Prince Zhu Houzhao, who later became Wu Zong.
Liu Jin later became the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor.
Liu Jin amassed property and openly asked for bribes. The governors of the world entered the capital to receive the imperial edict, and everyone had to bribe him.
Liu Jin also wantonly embezzled gold and silver from the national treasury and pocketed it.
Liu Jin was in power for five years, but his rebellion was finally defeated and he was arrested and executed.
Wu Zong personally plundered his house. In addition to the fake seal, jade belt, and weapons, there were also millions of taels of gold and silver and countless treasures.
This book comes from：m.funovel.com。