"Then do you know that when His Majesty was entrusting vassal states to a number of aristocratic families, he issued an edict strictly prohibiting privately bringing the people of the Tang Dynasty to his own vassal state?"

Before the manager of the Yuan family could finish speaking, Li Xuan said coldly.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin clearly knows that these people are not ordinary people, but tenants of my Yuan family..."

However, before he finished speaking, under the angry glares of Li Xuan, Li Chengqian and others, the steward of the Yuan family gradually did not dare to speak.

“Are sharecroppers not common people?”

Li Xuan snorted coldly and looked at Xue Rengui.

"Gather these officers and their guards together and turn their backs to us! Stand behind them and no one is allowed to look back!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Xue Rengui responded, and quickly led a group of personal guards to drive the Yuan family steward and a group of guards to one side, and stared at the group of guys eagerly.

And since he knew that the person in front of him was the King of Jin, the steward of the Yuan family did not dare to think of any tricks at all, and stood still and obeyed Li Xuan's words.

Li Xuan once again looked at the terrified people.

"I am the King of Jin of the Tang Dynasty!"

"I see His Highness the King of Jin!"

All the people hurriedly knelt down to pay their respects.

"You all, please get up. I have something to ask you, and you all will answer honestly. And the Yuan family members all have their backs to us, and there are my personal guards who are guarding me. You don't have to worry.

They can know who said it, and they don’t have to worry about retaliation in the future!”

After saying that, Li Xuan asked directly: "You can tell me now, who are you? Where do you come from? Where are these bastards from the Yuan family going to take you with so much effort?"

Hearing this, the manager of the Yuan family shuddered subconsciously and wanted to turn his head.

Unfortunately, before he could turn around, a cold steel knife was placed on his neck with a 'crack' sound, which frightened the Yuan family manager so much that he did not dare to move.

After the common people looked at each other, a look of cruelty flashed in the eyes of the leading middle-aged men, and then they knelt down.

"Please, Your Majesty, make the decision for us!"

"That's right. Your Majesty, please make the decision for us. These people like us are not tenant farmers of the Yuan family!"

Behind him, a large number of people looked at it and knelt down.

"Um?"

Hearing this, Li Xuan's face immediately darkened.

Li Chengqian, Li Chongyi and others even had frosty faces.

"Can you please explain in detail what is going on?"

"Back to your Majesty, we are all from Chen County, but we are not tenant farmers of the Yuan family in Chen County, but some poor households in various counties in Chen County. We have only borrowed some money or money from the Yuan family because our families are poor.

The food is planned to be returned to the Yuan family after the autumn harvest, when the family has food.

Unexpectedly, a few days ago, some stewards of the Yuan family suddenly came to visit with a group of nursing staff..."

"His Royal Highness, Prince Jin, because we accidentally blocked the young master of the Yuan family's carriage on the road, we were watched by the Yuan family's nursing home, and they insisted on making us pay. If we can't afford the compensation, we have to pay for it.

The Yuan family is working. However, we never expected that the Yuan family would take us to such a far place."

"Your Highness Prince Jin, we are even more unjust. When we were plowing the fields, we accidentally turned over the soil and fell into the Yuan family's fields. The Yuan family's nursing home came to find us..."

"His Royal Highness Prince Jin, we just took one more look at the young lady from the Yuan family..."

There are more than 400 farmers, and each one has a different experience.

However, they all have one thing in common: they were all targeted by the Yuan family, threatened and deceived.

By the time these farmers realized something was wrong, they were already thousands of miles away from their hometowns. Not only were they unable to escape, they also did not dare to escape.

"What a Yuan family!"

After listening, Li Xuan sneered subconsciously.

"I didn't expect that the Yuan family would dare to act so boldly!"

But at this moment, the steward of the Yuan family was already so frightened that his whole body became weak and he was even a little unsteady on his feet.

"Your Highness the King of Jin, please forgive me. It is really my Yuan family who had to do this! My Yuan family spent hundreds of years of their wealth to buy three cities including Goguryeo Jianshan City, but those three cities only had one hundred thousand Goguryeo hozens.

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These hozens are really as stupid as pigs on the cultivated fields. Hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile farmland really cannot be left there to waste."

"So, you, the Yuan family, use your own excuses to bully the people, ignore His Majesty's edict, and trick them into going to Goguryeo?"

Li Xuan sneered and continued to ask: "Tell me, how many people of the Tang Dynasty have these evil beasts deceived?"

"Your Majesty, King Jin, please calm down. These villagers are the first people that this villain wants to take to Goguryeo!"

The steward of the Yuan family said quickly.

"Can you give these villagers wages?"

Li Xuan asked again. He didn't believe what the Yuan family manager said.

"Salary?"

The manager of the Yuan family was stunned.

"snort!"

Li Xuan snorted coldly, "They are really a bunch of gangsters!"

Then, he turned to look at the bankers.

"Don't be afraid, I will rest in Qingzhou for one day and I will send you home tomorrow!"

"Thank you, His Highness King Jin!"

All the bankers were overjoyed.

As for the manager of the Yuan family, his eyes narrowed and his expression changed rapidly.

Later, Li Xuan asked the steward of the shipyard to arrange a large factory building for these villagers, and guarded it by personal guards, so that they could spend one night.

After returning to Qingzhou City, Li Xuan asked Cheng Chusi and Li Chongyi to find the caravan steward in Qingzhou City.

Let these stewards send people to various vassal states in Goguryeo again to sell goods.

The most important goal is to find out how many aristocratic families in the various vassal states of Goguryeo went to Goguryeo to deceive the people, and how many people were deceived in total.

In the major cities of Goguryeo, there are tea shops for caravans, and caravans often come and go. They are very familiar with the situation of the various vassals of Goguryeo.

Therefore, caravans are the most convenient and quick way to find out this information without attracting attention.

At the same time, after learning about the Yuan family's behavior, Li Yuan just sighed with some disappointment, not much surprise, not much anger.

Early the next morning.

Li Xuan took Li Chengqian and others to send the people he rescued yesterday to Chen County.

After arriving in Luoyang, Li Yuan continued to Chang'an under the protection of his own bodyguards.

Li Xuan, on the other hand, took Li Chengqian, the more than 400 people, and the Yuan family stewards, and began to go south to Chenzhou.

The ancestral home of the Yuan family in Chen County is in Yangxia, Chenzhou.

The Yuan family of Chen County has a distinguished family background and is one of the top families.

However, the Yuan family of Chen County has always advocated purity, never fought for power, never amassed money wantonly, and was not famous. Therefore, during the Han Dynasty, people only knew about the Yuan family of Runan, but not the Yuan family of Chen County.

However, during the Han Dynasty, the Yuan family in Chen County was not much weaker than the Yuan family in Runan.

Moreover, from the Han Dynasty to the present, for nearly 600 years, the Yuan family in Chen County has always had children serving as officials in the court. However, the Yuan family in Runan has long since declined.

Unexpectedly, this kind of aristocratic family could do such a shameless thing for the sake of a mere feudal country!

The group of people marched directly to the ancestral home of the Yuan family in Yangxia.

As one of the top aristocratic families in the world, the Yuan family's ancestral home is not too big.

However, on the two streets surrounding the ancestral home, there are high-rise courtyards that are dozens of times larger than the Yuan family's ancestral home.

Inside, all the powerful branches of the Yuan family live.

Li Xuan and others are more than 600 people, all wearing steel swords and armor!

There were more than 400 civilians and more than 100 Yuan family guards.

As soon as thousands of people arrived at the gate of the Yuan family's ancestral house, a guard of thousands of people poured out from all around, holding swords and spears, looking at Li Xuan and others with wary faces.

"Who are you?"

"Commander Zhou is a villain, Lin Nanshan!"

Lin Nanshan, the steward of the Yuan family who was escorted all the way by Li Xuan, ran out quickly and said anxiously.

"Manager Lin?"

Commander Zhou naturally knew the steward of the outer courtyard next to the head of the family.
To be continued...