The hearing of the Political Affairs Hall demonstrated the feasibility of the overall situation, while the Sansi household tax case was supplemented in details, and the next one was the Privy Council.

Originally, Fu Bi Ouyang Bian disagreed with the hearing. He said: "The Privy Council does not participate in political affairs. If the Political Affairs Hall needs the military to cooperate with matters, just issue a transfer order."

Ouyang Bian had anticipated Fu Bi's reaction, and he advised: "This matter requires a lot of effort from the Privy Council. My father-in-law, you understand me and the whole thing.

However, the other deputy Privy Councilors may not understand or agree. They may go through a formality, so you can explain it even if your father-in-law is able to do so.

In addition, I also hope to hear the opinions of professionals on how to mobilize troops to cooperate, so that we can check for omissions and fill in the gaps.

The assistance of the army is very important. There have been cases in which Qingzhang Squad was beaten to death because there was no force to protect him. This time we cannot make such mistakes again."

Hearing this, Fu Bi took it seriously: "You have made sense. Since that's the case, then let's go. I'll go there and I'll put you in the process."

Ouyang Bian smiled and said, "Then thank you father-in-law."

Fu Bi snorted: "The wedding date between you and Jianjia is coming soon. Get ready. Don't let my girl wait for a long time. In this blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, and I have been waiting for an old girl!"

Ouyang Bian nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry, my father-in-law, it won't affect you. My son-in-law will definitely welcome the beautiful scenery of the reeds according to the wedding date!"

The marriage between Ouyang Bian and Fu Jianjia is scheduled to be in the end of the spring of the first year of Xining, and it has only been more than a month.

Ouyang Bian insisted that the Privy Council participated in the hearing, and of course it was not simply that he wanted to obtain the support of the Privy Council.

His real purpose is to take the opportunity to touch the bottom of the Privy Council and see how capable the Privy Council is.

Military reform is Ouyang Bian's ultimate goal.

The so-called redundant officials and redundant expenses in the Song Dynasty seemed to be harmless in Ouyang Bian.

The so-called redundant officials are nothing more than spending money and delaying their work. These are the problems that the old empires have.

But the army is a matter of life.

Without sharp swords and guns in hand, no matter how many sheep there are, they can't stand the peeping of hungry wolf!

However, at the hearing, when Ouyang Bian saw a large group of civil officials attending, he knew that he could not see anything.

But I think it is true that the Privy Council of the Song Dynasty used literature to control military affairs, Privy Councilors and Deputy Privy Councilors were all literati.

It’s not that they don’t know the soldiers at all. At least when they talk about a certain place, they still know whether there are soldiers stationed in the local area, but they don’t know much about the details.

Ouyang Bian was quite disappointed with this. He actually wanted to see the capabilities of today's middle and lower-level generals and the combat effectiveness of the army were actually determined by small-scale organizations at the grassroots level.

Grassroots generals are the decisive factors that determine the military's combat.

However, it was not completely fruitless. At least the Privy Council was quite supportive of the force of escort when investigating the fields.

At this point, the Three Divisions, the Privy Council and the Political Affairs Hall have reached a consensus.

If it were in accordance with the previous rule, this would be an extremely ideal state.

But Ouyang Bian knew that the ultimate obstacle was the censor represented by Sima Guang.

As the hearings were held one after another, the debate in the Song Dynasty Weekly became increasingly fierce.

However, Sima Guang and other censors did not join.

Because Ouyang Bian had already passed the wind with Sima Guang, he said that he would hold a hearing with them in the near future and let Sima Guang restrain other censors.

Sima Guang has a very good impression of Ouyang Bian.

When persuading Renzong to establish the crown prince and Ouyang Bian's performance during Puyi's discussion, Sima Guang and others believed that Ouyang Bian and them were the same.

Especially when Ouyang Bian was the censor and impeached and expelled a corrupt official on January 1, not only Sima Guang, but almost all censors regarded Ouyang Bian as a model.

So they are willing to listen to Ouyang Bian's words, at least now.

However, hearings were held in the Political Affairs Hall, the Three Divisions, the Privy Council and other hearings, but it was not their turn for a long time, Sima Guang was still a little anxious and urged Ouyang Bian to hold them as soon as possible.

Ouyang Bian agreed.

However, it was precisely because of this period that although the public opinion in the Song Dynasty Weekly seemed to be getting more and more intense, the wind direction was controlled by Zeng Gong.

According to Ouyang Bian's instructions, Zeng Gong seemed to give the opposition a chance to publish in the newspaper every time.

But at the same time, they will use several targeted articles that almost point to the opposition’s articles to criticize them.

In this way, readers first read the opposition's articles and think there is some truth, but they think something is wrong.

When I saw the articles supporting Qingzhangtianmu, every word and sentence revealed the flaws in the opposition's articles, and the true face of the opposition was completely revealed, and everyone was tired of it.

This is not a clever method, it is just a control over the basic operation of public opinion.

Besides, things like hiding the fields cannot be viewed in detail in the light.

No matter how opponents advocate how many poor peasants they consider, they believe that the poor peasants in the world live on these hidden fields.

If these fields are deprived, the farmers in the world will fall into a situation where there is no place to stand.

Faced with such a statement of diverting contradictions, Ouyang Bian asked someone to publish the information in the hearing, especially the hierarchical system, to completely control the wind direction.

The main argument for the opposition to investigate the fields is that if the hidden fields of ordinary people are found to be taken back, they will be in trouble.

And this argument was directly penetrated.

According to information from Ouyang Bian's working group, as long as the hidden land is less than 20 acres, this part of the land can be classified as the farmers' own private land, and they will not be recovered or taxed.

For more than twenty acres, those who hold the land can choose to continue farming or return it to the country.

If you continue to farm, you have to pay taxes according to the normal fields.

The boundary between twenty acres of land happens to be the dividing line between rich peasants and landlords.

Farmers in the Song Dynasty were divided into five levels according to the amount of land.

A first-class household refers to a family that covers an area of ​​three to hundreds of hectares;

The second and third-class households refer to families that cover an area of ​​less than three hectares or even less than one hectares.

The fourth-class households occupy about fifty acres of land;

The fifth-class household has less than 20 acres of land.

Among them, the first three households are called upper households, and they are the landlord class.

Except for some of the third-class households, most of them are self-cultivated farmers who occupy 50 to 70 acres or more of the land.

Therefore, twenty acres of land are a very appropriate dividing line.

In this way, most of the farmers can be eliminated.

And this group of farmers is the group that is most likely to be incited to fight against the court every time.

However, the landlords that the court really wanted to deal with were secretly hiding behind the scenes and fanning the flames to watch the fun.

When the whole thing was discussed in the sun, the opposition had no excuses.
Chapter completed!