Chapter 404: Discrimination
According to Xie Yuan's instructions, the Xie Family Army stationed in Tongxiang County will implement closed management for these people for 20 years.
In the past twenty years, they can come and go freely on the land allocated to them by Xie Yuan, but if they want to leave the land that will soon become their permanent residence, they must first obtain a license from General Xie Jiajun from Tongxiang County. direct approval.
Of course, what they are limited is only the scope of activities, and they have all other basic rights such as building houses, buying land, opening up wasteland, and shopping.
It’s just that the way they meet their own living needs is not the usual way of going to the market, shopping, and bartering, but all of them are directly supplied by the military.
Considering that when they arrived in Tongxiang County, starting a new life would require a certain amount of money, Xie Yuan generously let them take away the floating wealth they carried with them when they fled.
In addition, Xie Yuan also considered the marriage of the unmarried children of these royal families.
In this regard, he asked these royal family members that their children's marriage partners must be from Tongxiang County.
The reason for this request is that Xie Yuan intends to issue an imperial decree to the officials of Tongxiang County, asking them to control the future sons-in-law and daughter-in-law of these royal family members.
In the next twenty years, they will also be the same as these former royal family members and cannot leave Tongxiang County for any reason.
With this article, those women from rich families and good backgrounds, those who study hard to become officials in the imperial examination, or those who have to travel around to do business, or even men with richer families who occasionally go out to visit the provincial capital, Because of the restricted movement, they will be discouraged from those former clan children.
If there is no special reason, they will basically not consider those former clan children as marriage objects.
In this way, the marriage partners that the children of the former clan can choose are basically only those children of small farmers and small businessmen who are not politically sensitive, and their class and their own economic conditions do not allow them to wander around. Children and craftsmen's children.
Although there are no absolutes in the world, among the children of the former clan, there are some who can use their outstanding appearance and temperament to win a relatively good marriage for themselves, but this kind of situation is not common after all.
There are only a few, and the garrison and officials in Tongxiang County will not be unable to monitor them.
In addition, Xie Yuan also planned to confer the title of Marquis of An Le on the little emperor, the most upstanding and upright son of the royal family, and Marquis of Jing'an on the former king of Pingkang County.
With the two of them at the front, if the other royal family members who can only be regarded as side branches rebel under the banner of the former royal family, the words "the name is not right and the words are not right" are tailor-made for them.
Although this operation is more troublesome than killing them all directly, the benefits that Xie Yuan can obtain in terms of personal reputation and appeasing the hearts of the people are also obvious.
The biggest advantage besides this is that after he gained the reputation of "treating the former royal family kindly", he can finally deal with the Queen Mother's party impartially without worrying about the public opinion.
Speaking of which, the death of Xie Yuan's grandfather had something to do with the Queen Mother's party.
Although the stubborn old man couldn't stand his grandson abandoning literature and martial arts, and even drove him out of the house in a rage in order to force Xie Yuan to "reform evil and return to righteousness", and let him experience severe beatings in society, his love for Xie Yuan was not the slightest bit. No adulteration either.
Whether it's the earnest teachings when he was a child, or the attempt to "correct" when he grew up, Xie Yuan actually appreciates it very much.
If he hadn’t had a bottom line that he wanted to stick to no matter what, if he hadn’t had an ambition that he wanted to achieve no matter what, Xie Yuan would have even thought of compromising with his stubborn old man.
But it was such a stubborn old man who not only gave him a lot of love but also gave him a lot of troubles, unexpectedly died in the hands of the royal family of the Great Zhou that he was devoted to.
For the sake of the overall situation, he could gently let go of the little emperor who was just a little boy at that time, without any ability to make troubles, and did not hold any authority, but the queen mother and her party members who had contributed to the flames, Xie Yuan said that he would never Will not forgive them.
He threw this group of people to Lin Xi, his aide who was temporarily appointed by him as Minister of Dali Temple, and bluntly asked the other party to have a public trial, and then gave them a fair and fair sentencing according to the numerous crimes committed by the Da Zhou remnants.
In order to collect as many crimes as possible against the Queen Mother and her party, Lin Xi, who understood it, released the news that the Dali Temple would hold a public trial of the Queen Mother and her party members three days in advance.
The people in the capital were skeptical at first, but the officials in charge of propaganda talked too much. Among them, those who had been persecuted by the Queen Mother's followers finally couldn't control their hearts.
They counted the days, and on the day of the public trial, they pretended to be ordinary people who joined in the fun, and went early to occupy a seat at the gate of the Yamen of Dali Temple.
At first they thought they had come early enough, but they didn't expect that a large number of onlookers who were only responsible for eating melons came earlier than them, the sufferers with grievances hidden in their hearts.
This group of people looked at the besieged and impenetrable Dali Temple Yamen, and they couldn't help feeling anxious and speechless.
They stood on tiptoe behind the crowd, looking around and waiting for Dali Temple to announce their promotion.
Lin Xi was very satisfied with the crowd outside the yamen. He was promoted on time, with a dignified expression on his face.
The suffering masters who were hiding among the onlookers listened for a while, and found that Lin Xi was indeed acting strictly in accordance with the law, so they all stood up and sued those officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty who had caused them to be wronged.
These people's reports are basically small fish and shrimp, but behind these small fish and shrimp, there is no doubt that all of them involve those big fish that Xie Yuan is interested in.
When Lin Xi upheld justice for these suffering lords in accordance with the law, and those who later went to court to sue, their identities were no longer just ordinary people.
Many survivors who were originally born in wealthy families also came to the stage one after another and talked about their misfortunes.
They are all suing important figures in the Queen Mother's clique. These people are crooked top beams, and what they do is actually not much different from their distant relatives and servants at home.
If you have to say it, the difference is probably only that the targets they choose are fatter and more difficult to deal with, and they are actually powerful people before their families are ruined.
The only difference between them as victims and perpetrators is that they are not the Queen Mother's henchmen.
They are not partisans of the Empress Dowager, and they do not hold power, so the rich family and official family that they used to be proud of have become as fragile as paper.