Chapter 616: Frustration in Land Survey

"No... Your Majesty, I have no such intention!"

Yang Zhun was also shocked by this situation and quickly tried to explain. But before he could say anything, Liu Chan immediately jumped into the crime.

"There is no need to say more about this! Back then, the Prime Minister once said that the General's strong temperament was a blessing to the Han Dynasty. Now that the Prime Minister has not said anything in Jingzhou, are you as smart as Prime Minister Zhuge?"

"Stand back, everyone! Don't say anything again!"

Liu Chan's conclusion at the speed of light blocked Yang Zhun's long speech. The other ministers had no idea that their emperor had such strong trust in Ma Di.

This made many ministers who were dissatisfied with Ma Su's style stop the idea of ​​​​proposing a memorial. At least during Liu Chan's time, they probably didn't have the chance to discredit Ma Di.

Well... even if the prince succeeds to the throne, the chance is probably not good.

Just after Liu Chan calmed everyone down with a firm attitude and concluded the matter, another person suddenly stood up to report.

"Your Majesty! I present my auspicious omen!"

The performer is Qiao Zhou, who has been diving for many years and has always been a small and transparent person in the ministerial office. The old speculator stood up at this time and told Liu Chan.

"I watched the sky a few days ago and saw the Emperor's Star in the west. It was so bright and dazzling! There was also a big star heading eastward, guarding the Emperor's Star. It was so bright that it was indescribable."

"And this Luoyang nursery rhyme corresponds to it and is auspicious to His Majesty. Doesn't the words of the Emperor immediately in it mean that with the loyalty of the general, Your Majesty will be regarded as the lord of the world?"

"This is great auspiciousness! I beg your Majesty to grant me a pardon and change my reign to announce it to the world!"

Obviously, Qiao Zhou tasted speculation at this time. And immediately after Liu Chan made the decision, he quickly stood up and congratulated him with celestial phenomena to show that Ma Su had no intention of turning back.

If Ma Su were in Chang'an at this time, he would probably feel unlucky. However, these words made Liu Chan turn from anger to joy, nodded slightly and said,

"What Shangshu Qiao said is true. For this auspiciousness, it is natural that the world should be granted amnesty. However, the matter of changing the reign name will be put aside for the time being."

Liu Chan can also be considered as able to distinguish between what should be done and what should not be done. Finally, at Qiao Zhou's suggestion, Chang'an simply settled the matter and granted an extremely rare amnesty.

In addition, Liu Chan once again sent someone to deliver the holiday edict to Ma Di. At the same time, Liu Chan also assigned Bingzhou and Jingzhou to the Donggong Mansion, and ordered Ma Su to do whatever he wanted.

Such a crisis of trust was resolved so easily.

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Ma Su didn't know that this crisis of trust had occurred in Chang'an. He didn't know that if it weren't for Liu Chan's firm attitude, he would have had a chance to go home.

Now, Ma Su has been heartbroken for a while by the ongoing process of clearing his father-in-law's land.

"You mean... you have measured the acres of land near Luoyang for a month, but you didn't find a single acre difference?" Ma Su stared at Chen Zhi closely, his tone a bit unbelievable.

"Do you believe this result?"

The measurement results of hundreds of thousands of acres of fields are exactly the same as the land deed records. What a fairy tale this is. Even in later generations, it would be impossible to be so accurate, right?

"Uh... I don't believe it either. It's just that the official responsible for clearing the father-in-law's land reported it this way." Chen Zhi was also a little helpless, spreading his hands and said to Ma Su,

"We underestimated the difficulty of this matter and the influence of the Luoyang clan on the local area!"

"They didn't even specifically block it. They just made a little stumbling block secretly, which made our two months of hard work all in vain."

Chen Zhi's words also made Ma Su finally realize that these Guandong wealthy families have extraordinary control over the local area.

Even if he has specially screened out the officials responsible for measurement, most of them are from poor families without any foundation. But even so, the wealthy people in Luoyang were still able to interfere and interrupt Ma Su's surprise attack extremely gracefully.

This kind of method is ten thousand times better than the fire dragon burning warehouse of Longyou gang.

This is Luoyang!

Ma Su looked at Luoyang City outside the General's Mansion again, with deep murderous intent in his eyes.

The current situation means that the government's control over local areas has become extremely weak. If they can't even measure the most basic acres of land, what can the government do to Kanto?

"Kandong needs a huge change, otherwise the imperial government's decrees will not be able to leave Hangu in the future!" Ma Di quickly made a judgment on the current situation, and no matter what, he must weaken the control of these powerful families as soon as possible.

However, just as Ma Su was thinking about how to solve the matter quickly and efficiently, a personal guard came in and reported to Ma Su.

"General, the head of the Cai family in Luoyang sent someone to see you and hopes to invite you to a banquet!"

"Going to the banquet?" Ma Su frowned, and his first reaction was that these people were planning to act as monsters.

These days, he has been persuaded to join the Luoyang family many times. Ma Su's method of handling this was very simple. He burned it directly and could no longer read it back.

But now it seems that the ambitions of these local wealthy families in Luoyang are not ordinary. You already have this attitude, and you still plan to come and interfere?

"You must be sick." Ma Su shook his head and raised his hand to refuse. But at this time, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of an idea to get the best of both worlds.

It can not only effectively attack the power of this group of wealthy families, but also solve the current rumor problem. Although the method may be a bit radical, it doesn't matter to Ma Su.

"Send someone to reply to the Master Cai family. I will accept this immediately!"

Ma Su immediately changed his words and asked his personal guards to invite the envoy of the Cai family in. Then Ma Su received him with high standards and solemnly expressed his willingness to accept Cai's invitation to the banquet.

The major families in Luoyang were ecstatic about Ma Su's sudden change of attitude. Luoyang Cai also immediately took the lead and pulled dozens of Luoyang big families to a dinner party.

That's right, dozens!

Although Luoyang is not a large place, there are many big families that can be on the stage. The various forces are intertwined with each other, and they have already established deep roots in Sizhou.

Let alone Ma Su's opening of the imperial examination to recruit officials, even if they all find officials from Guanxi, they have plenty of ways to secretly trip Ma Su up.

But these are all issues of interests in the final analysis. For these super big families, the land survey is not so unacceptable.

Therefore, when Ma Su was willing to attend the banquet and his attitude softened, these big families immediately used the land measurement as a bargaining chip to persuade Ma Su to ascend the throne.

Whether Ma Su wanted to establish himself or usurp the throne, they were willing to support him. They just hoped that Ma Su could help them when he started.

As for the issue that Ma Su's wife and children were all in Chang'an, several big families expressed their willingness to marry their legitimate daughters to Ma Su, either as a wife or a concubine...

In short, all the dirtiest political negotiations took place at this dinner.