Zhu Bai smacked his lips and sighed, then asked: "How to dismantle it?"
Xie Cheng said: "We need to ask a mason to carve it out bit by bit."
Zhu Bai: "How many days will it take?"
Xie Cheng said: "It will take three to five days at least."
Zhu Bai tilted his head and asked Cen Du, "How many days can this fat man last?"
Cen Du commanded: "His body should be able to last for half a month just by drinking water. However, this is not a problem. I can ask people to feed him food and water regularly. But this place is exposed to the wind and sun, and there are snakes, insects, and rats at night. The ants came out..."
Xie Cheng also became nervous: "I asked two masons to come. If they work overtime, they should be able to dig it out in two days."
If someone died under Zhu Bai's nose, the matter would be a big deal.
Zhu Bai nodded: "Okay."
Zhu Bai glanced at Sun Ying.
Sun Ying said hurriedly: "Since Mr. Xie is demolishing the wall, there is no need to move the wall here."
Zhu Bai cursed secretly in his heart: You bastard, you got here by playing tricks on me.
Wait until you rescue the person first, and then see how I treat you.
Xie Cheng had already called the masons over and started hammering away at the stone with chisels.
Zhu Bai commanded Cen Du and said: "Master Cen sent someone to keep an eye on it. I will leave first."
Commander Cen Du said hurriedly: "Your Highness, please go and do your work. If there is any progress here, I will ask someone to inform Your Highness as soon as possible."
Zhu Bai whispered: "Only give this fat man water, don't give him any food."
Commander Cen Du frowned: "Why?"
Zhu Bai grinned: "If you don't starve him for a few meals, he won't remember things and will mess around next time."
Commander Cen Du suddenly realized: "Okay, I understand."
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Fatty Cao wails day and night, making it impossible for both Xie and Sun to sleep peacefully.
Xie Cheng was afraid that Fatty Cao might have some shortcomings, so he asked someone to put an umbrella on the top for him, and got some mosquito repellent to light it.
Sun Ying had not appeared since she took a look at Zhu Bai that day. She only asked the housekeeper to come out and scold Fatty Cao for a few words, telling him not to disturb their rest by yelling.
Fatty Cao cried and howled for two days. He didn't eat, and he didn't have the strength to howl anymore. He still had his eyes closed, and he didn't know whether he was asleep or dead.
This made Xie Cheng very nervous. He asked people to come in from time to time to test his breathing, while urging the stonemason to speed up the progress.
Seeing that the mason was about to cut off a piece of the green stone on the wall of Xie Mansion.
Zhu Bai came, looked at Fatty Cao, and said to Cen Du thoughtfully: "Master Cen, do you feel that this fat man has lost weight?"
Commander Cen Du smiled and replied: "Hey, he only drank water and didn't eat for three days in a row, so he will naturally lose weight..."
Ah, yes. If this fat man loses weight, he will naturally not be so stuck.
His smile suddenly froze on his face, and he glanced at Zhu Bai: Hiss, this young prince wouldn't have planned to save people like this from the beginning.
Zhu Bai raised his chin towards the alley and said, "Then let's see if we can pull him out?"
Commander Cen Du hurriedly waved his hand: "Come on, come on, come on, come in and drag him out."
As soon as he finished speaking, the fat man fell down with a "boom".
Two soldiers went in, one pushed and the other pulled, to get him out.
As soon as Fatty Cao came out, it was as if he suddenly woke up from a slumber and began to cry feebly: "Father, mother. I finally came out. I thought I was going to die here."
Do it. If I had known that this fat man would be able to come out if he lost weight, why would I tear down the wall?
There is such a big hole in a good bluestone wall...
Xie Cheng stood there for a while with a depressed look on his face, then waved to the mason: "Let's make it up again."
Commander Cen Du asked Zhu Bai: "Your Highness, do you want to report this matter to the Emperor?"
Sun Ying came out and happened to hear these words, and immediately became nervous. If the young prince said it all, there was no guarantee that Lao Zhu would not put all the responsibility for this matter on him.
He wanted to raise his head and say a few nice words to Zhu Bai, but Zhu Bai had already left, so he said to himself: Forget it, just one child.
Besides, in the palace, this child is still under the control of my sister. What can he do to me? !
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Fatty Cao lost more than ten pounds, and his belly became smaller.
Zhu Bai took him to a restaurant and ordered a bowl of meat porridge.
When the meat porridge was served, Fatty Cao didn't care whether it was hot or not. He drank it with "Xilihulu" three times, five divided by two, and then said continuously: "Shopkeeper, here is another braised trotter, three kilograms of mutton, two Chicken, a bowl of rice. Be quick. Add money!"
Zhu Bai smiled quickly and said, "Hey, hey, take it easy. I heard from the elders that if people are hungry for a long time, they can't eat haese like this, or they will die."
Fatty Cao thought about it, so he could only say to the store owner: "Forget it."
He now regained his strength and stood up and handed over to Zhu Bai: "Thank you, Master. If you hadn't called the Army and Horse Department this time, I'm afraid it would have been true..."
In fact, it was not all Fatty Cao's fault. It was because the Soldiers and Horses Division did not do their job properly that he suffered this crime.
The work of the Military and Horse Division was not in place, and Zhu Bai, the commander-in-chief of the Military and Horse Division, was naturally responsible.
Because of this, Zhu Bai was willing to spend time eating with this fat man.
Otherwise, the fat man would stretch himself to death and all the previous efforts would be in vain.
Zhu Bai smiled and nodded: "It's easy to talk about. From now on, when you come from Sichuan, just bring me some fun and delicious food."
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Zhu Bai returned to the palace and went straight to the imperial study to find Lao Zhu.
He still told Lao Zhu as a joke.
However, the more Zhu Yuanzhang listened, the darker his face became.
Human greed is unlimited, and if it is not restrained, there will be more and more cases of people taking advantage of it in the future.
He asked: "Now that you are in charge of the Military and Horse Department, what are you going to do with it?"
Zhu Bai tilted his head and said: "Today's land deeds only indicate the approximate location and area, and do not draw the shape of the plot. For example, I have a triangular piece of land. I think it is not easy to use, and I repair the fence every year. At that time, they secretly occupied a little bit of the neighbor's land, and finally it became a trapezoid. Even if the government finally came to measure it, the area would be about the same. So it's not easy to really hold people accountable."
Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and said, "Indeed."
In fact, it is also possible to move left and right, replace bad land with good land, and the area will remain the same anyway.
Zhu Bai said with a smile: "Then it would be nice to draw a map of the land on the land deed. Then mark the size and location. Even if you are buying and selling houses and land, don't you still need the previous land deed? This can be used forever, no? Things will go wrong.”
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Yes. I don't know how many houses in Yingtian City have become ownerless because their owners left or died. Now they are quietly occupied by lawless people to do some shameful things. It has been almost nine years since we established the Ming Dynasty. Now that the four parties are basically in peace, it’s time to deal with these things.”
For example, Gu Cheng found out that the courtyard was ownerless while patrolling, so he took possession of the hidden money.
Zhu Biao said: "My father is wise, why not take this opportunity to order all the unowned houses to be cleared across the country and all be owned by the government."
