Li Shimin watched the vast crowd grinding his teeth and making noises, and murderous intent appeared in his eyes. Until the crowd passed by for a long time, he still looked at the empty streets under the gatehouse, his chest undulating and unable to calm down.

"Your Majesty—" Li Daozong shouted softly behind Li Shimin.

Li Shimin looked back and found that it was Li Daozong, and squeezed out a sentence from his teeth and said, "Does he want to rebel?"

"Uh--" Li Daozong was stunned when he heard this, not knowing how to answer.

Li Shimin turned to look at other ministers again. The ministers didn't dare to say anything when they saw this, and finally looked at Ma Zhou.

Seeing this, Ma Zhou shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Your Highness the Crown Prince is smart and wise, and will not rebel."

Li Shimin hummed heavily when he heard this, meaning why didn’t he rebel?

Just forget it if you mess around like this.

Ma Zhou glanced at the people's team walking towards Zhuque Gate and said, "The East Palace's move is to deal with those people." He said, and pointed to the officials who followed from Liangyi Gate who opposed the reduction of rent.

Li Shimin followed Ma Zhou's hand and saw hundreds of young officials looking up at Li Shimin and others on the Chengtian Gate Tower. He felt even more angry and suddenly shook his sleeves and walked down the tower.

"Your Majesty, the prince was deceived by a traitor in his youth. He has entered this remark that has ruined the country. Your Majesty must not issue an order to encourage their arrogance." As soon as Li Shimin walked down, he was blocked by a young official and made a comment.

This person Li Shimin knew, Chai Lingwu, the son of his third sister Princess Pingyang and Qiao Guogong Chai Shao, and Li Shimin's nephew.

Because Princess Pingyang and Chai Shao died early, Li Shimin also loved him very much on weekdays, but when Li Shimin saw that he blocked his way, he said something like this. He was so angry that he raised his foot and kicked Chai Lingwu to the ground, and went to Liangyi Palace without looking back.

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On the second day after Li Chengqian asked to surrender the rent from Guanzhong, Liu Renguigao sat in the seat of the county magistrate in the lobby of Xianyang County. Zhu Cheng sat sideways on his right hand, and a group of local gentry from Xianyang stood below.

Among them are the spokespersons of the head of the Wei family and Dugu family, but their status has plummeted compared to the guests in the county government several months ago.

Liu Rengui sat quietly with a solemn face. After a while, Sun Silang came in from outside and walked to Liu Rengui and whispered: "Sir, everything is ready."

Liu Rengui nodded, changed his smile and looked at the gentry of Xianyang County below. This smile made the hearts of the gentry of Xianyang below tremble. I wonder how he would torture others.

Liu Rengui smiled and said, "I would like to come today. It's a great thing. His Royal Highness is kind and pitiful. The tenant farmers in Guanzhong are too high, so I asked Your Majesty to lower the order that all tenant rents in Guanzhong should not exceed 30%. What do you think?"

"Hmph! How can the court control me? How much rent will I collect?" Wei Qingyan, the cousin of Wei family head, stood up and shouted. The Wei family had long hated Liu Rengui and the East Palace. After hearing this, he naturally wanted to jump out and oppose it.

Liu Rengui sneered and ignored him, but looked at Dugu Shouzhong from the Dugu family, who was Dugu Mou's brother.

The Dugu family is different from the Wei family in Xianyang. Because Dugu Mou's father Dugu Yanyun and Li Shimin launched a coup in Xuanwumen, many tribesmen were officials outside. Seeing that Liu Rengui seemed to Dugu Shouzhong didn't care, he just smiled faintly and said, "This matter requires a formal emperor's decree."

Liu Rengui smiled coldly when he heard this, and looked at the others and said, "Where are you?"

Everyone in the lobby didn't know what this meant. If it were like this in the past, there was no need to ask any more. The Wei family and Dugu family talked and other gentry naturally followed them. However, since Liu Rengui got the power and dealt with the Wei family and Dugu several times, the other gentry did not dare to follow their pace.

Seeing that everyone didn't dare to say anything, Liu Rengui nodded with satisfaction.

Then he said with a solemn expression: "The Wei family and the Dugu family have been in Xianyang County for a hundred years. The officials and officials have accumulated evil for generations. The people of Xianyang have already gone to your two families to ask for an explanation."

There was a sound of gasping in the lobby. Everyone knew that since Liu Rengui got the power, he had been plotting against the Wei family and the Dugu family. Although the two families had already become dirty due to some cases, no one present believed that Liu Rengui could easily remove these two families.

But at this moment, when he heard Liu Rengui's tone, he was about to launch a general attack. The other gentry in the lobby couldn't help but take two steps back and set a distance between Wei Qingyan and Dugu Shouzhong.

"Liu Rengui, you are so brave! Do you know that my nephew has been engaged to Your Majesty's Princess Ankang?"

Liu Rengui sneered indifferently when he heard this, "When I report to Your Majesty the harm you have done in the Dugu family over the years, I see if Your Majesty is willing to marry your family?"

"You!" Dugu Shouzhong fainted after saying the word "you".

Wei Qingyan's eyes flashed with cold light and said nothing. Although the Wei family in Xianyang was evil, Li Shimin had no one to be an official in the court, their family had already become in-laws with Gao Shilian's family in the past two years. Gao Shilian was the uncle of Empress Changsun and the prime minister of the current dynasty. He did not believe that Liu Rengui could really defeat their family.

Liu Rengui should know that he has something to rely on, but since Liu Rengui relied on Li Chengqian, how could he be afraid of a silly Gao Shilian?

Liu Rengui no longer paid attention to Dugu Shouzhong and Wei Qingyan, and looked at the other gentry in Xianyang who had already distanced them and said, "Your Majesty and His Highness the Crown Prince intend to reduce the tenant rent. I know that the Xian gentry is supporting this matter, so I wrote a memorial to 'respecting Your Received Declaration of the tenant rent in Guanzhong forever' and you will sign it with me."

"Thirty percent?" The gentry of Xianyang jumped up suddenly, and this was cut in half!

Who can agree?

The lobby immediately became lively. Wei Qingyan could not hide the smile in his eyes. After a while, when everyone was talking for a while, he deliberately coughed, attracting everyone's gaze. The gentry also forgot what happened just now and came to Wei Qingyan again.

An old gentry shouted: "The people of Xianyang have always been led by the Wei family and the Dugu family. Now that we are bullied by this dog official, we will naturally ask the Wei family and the Duhu family to make the decision for us."

"right……"

Everyone hurriedly agreed when they heard this.

Wei Qingyan showed a smug look on his face, then turned to look at Liu Rengui, and saw that Liu Rengui still had a faint smile on his face, as if he was happy to see their actions.

Although Wei Qingyan was strange, he didn't think much about it. He directly spoke to the gentry: "Don't worry, my Wei family and Dugu family will also write a memorial to expose the crimes of the dog official. Please sign together at that time."

"It should be so!"

...

Just as everyone was enthusiastically echoing Wei Qingyan, they heard a noise coming from outside. A young man walked in and bowed up and said, "The people of the Wei family and the Dugu family in Xianyang have been brought to the New Year. Are the people outside waiting for the adults to avenge their grievances?"

"What?"

"Catch people so quickly?"

When everyone in the lobby was surprised, Liu Rengui spoke. You have lived in Xianyang County for generations, and you know what you have done. If you provoke the people to come to your house to ask for an explanation, you will not even have 30% of the rent."

"Liu Rengui, do you know what you are doing?" Wei Qingyan said in disbelief.

Liu Rengui sneered, and his eyes flashed with a cold light: "It is enough to kill the nine clans with the evil things that the Wei family has done over the years, so take them down!"

As soon as Liu Rengui finished speaking, a yamen runner stepped forward and pulled Dugu Shouzhong and Wei Qingyan out after just woke up. Outside the lobby, Dugu Shouzhong and Wei Qingyan cursed, but they were soon suppressed by the cheers outside.

Liu Rengui and others were silent outside, and looked at the gentry who was stunned in the lobby and said, "You all don't agree to reduce the rent to 30%?"

Gentlemen:...

"Don't you want to sign your official memorial?"

Gentlemen:...

"Then you go and tell the people outside!"

The gentry's faces changed drastically: "No, no..."

Seeing this, Liu Rengui slapped the table and shouted: "Then come and sign the autograph."

After the gentlemen signed their names, Liu Rengui got up and picked up the memorial and a stack of files on the table, and handed them to Zhu Cheng beside him with both hands. Zhu Chengyi quickly got up and took it respectfully.

Liu Rengui respectfully clasped his fists towards Chang'an again and said, "Please give these to His Highness the Crown Prince!"

Zhu Cheng hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Please rest assured Lord Liu!"

Zhu Cheng met Liu Rengui because he came to Xianyang County to recruit people to Longdaoyuan for land reclamation last time. Liu Rengui was determined to surrender to the Eastern Palace. Li Chengqian also knew that Liu Rengui was a person who could be a civil and military general and become a prime minister, so he was naturally willing to accept him.

Although Liu Rengui was not promoted on this day, Liu Rengui had completely undermined the Xianyang County Magistrate with the help of the power of the Eastern Palace, and the original Xianyang Lord Bo Weiman was also thrown into prison by him.

This time, Li Chengqian planned to reduce the tenant rent, so he originally planned to let the tenant farmers directly attack several Guanzhong gentry families and divide the fields to shock the opposition forces.

Unexpectedly, the monk jumped out first, and Li Chengqian submitted a memorial by suppressing the monk. Later, the effect was not ideal, so he mobilized the people to defeat the Wei family and Dugu family in Xianyang according to the original plan.
Chapter completed!