On the Xiaoshu day in the 14th year of Wanli, when the scorching sun was shining brightly and the sound of birds was silent, in the afternoon, the imperial governor Zhang Yue, who was responsible for recruiting rogue bandits, arrived at Fengxiang Mansion.
As soon as Zhang Yue arrived in Fengxiang, the bandits in Fengxiang Mansion took the initiative to send people to request to be recruited.
At this time, the bandits in Fengxiang Mansion were successfully recruited.
Regarding this, Zhang Yue said when he met with the local gentry: "I know why your hometown is so cooperative, and I must understand our difficulties."
"We know the difficulties of the department, and we don't dare to blame the department. We only hate Li Tieling!"
Zhou Yi, a wealthy gentleman in Fengxiang Mansion, only said this with resentment in his eyes after Zhang Yue said this, and said with gritted teeth: "I really hope God can punish this despicable person!"
"Don't think so!"
"He is the emperor's favorite general. Now he wears the purple gold helmet given by the emperor when traveling. If something happens somewhere, it will be difficult for that place to be blessed by the emperor's favor."
Zhang Yue persuaded him.
Zhou Yi said in frustration: "We understand, now we can only admit it."
…
"We understand what the Marquis means, we only hate Zhang Yuyao!"
"If it hadn't been for Zhang Yuyao, Mr. Hou would not have done this."
Li Rusong left Qingyang Mansion for Fengxiang Mansion before Zhang Yue, and he came to Qingyang Mansion behind him, preparing to take the bandits who had been recruited from Qingyang Mansion to Lu Kun.
Therefore, Li Rusong also met Fang Yongji and other wealthy gentry in Qingyang Mansion.
Fang Yongji, on the other hand, did not really blame Li Rusong because Zhang Yue pushed all this to Li Rusong, but because Li Rusong was really a favorite of the emperor, so when Li Rusong said that Zhang Yue forced him to do this, he chose to believe Li Rusong. Complained about Zhang Yue.
Li Rusong said to this: "It's good if you can understand!"
Soon after Li Rusong exchanged greetings with these people, he left here with the recruited bandits.
After Li Rusong left, Fang Yongji and other wealthy gentry in Qingyang Mansion became serious. Fang Yongji himself even said at this time:
"I really smashed my teeth and swallowed it! I have never been so wronged in my life!"
"Isn't it?"
"However, we are better than those in Yan'an Prefecture. At least we did not end up being executed for treason."
The wealthy gentleman Ma Feng echoed at this time.
Fang Yongji asked Ma Feng: "Have all the gangsters you contacted been silenced?"
"Went out!"
"Don't worry."
"If no one is left, Zhang Yuyao and Li Tieling can't find anything."
These gentry all started talking.
"That's good!"
Fang Yongji said something and then his face darkened.
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When Li Rusong was preparing to leave with the recruited bandits from Qingyang Mansion, he learned about the situation with the little leader of the recruited bandits named Lone-tailed Wolf: "You mean that when you came to recruit, your leaders and military advisors were not there. See you?"
The one-tailed wolf said: "Yes!"
Li Rusong couldn't help but ask Zha Damou: "Is this always the case?"
Zha Damou nodded: "Yes, the main leaders of several bandits in Qingyang Mansion, no matter how big or small, disappeared mysteriously on their way to be recruited."
"This is just killing people and silencing them when they see that they can't make money to recruit people."
After hearing this, Li Rusong laughed and said: "Don't worry about it, take them to see Lu Butang first!"
"yes!"
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Shaanxi Mizhi, Yinchuanyi.
Lu Kun, the governor in charge of disaster relief and immigration to Japan, was currently wearing a large cloak and a scarlet official robe. He was standing in a pavilion at the post station, watching row after row of victims passing by him. Register in advance and receive food.
At this time, he suddenly said to Li Rusong, who had just arrived here: "Until I came here, I really didn't know that the drought would be so serious here and that there would be so many refugees."
Li Rusong said: "It can be seen that the temple and nunnery are not entirely without benefits!"
"Before the liquidation, many landless people did rely on them to provide a livelihood, or borrow some food from them. Some temples, temples and nunneries were indeed more conscientious than many wealthy gentry. First of all, it was easier to collect interest on loans. It’s much lower, and there are even interest-free ones; secondly, the host population is not entirely selected on whether they can work, after all, not all monks are greedy for profit.”
"So it's cleaning up, not eradication!"
Lu Kun said something.
Li Rusong nodded, then smiled and said:
"However, what many gentry and powerful people in the world may not have expected this time is that the imperial court would be willing to spend so much money, food and energy on disaster relief!"
"Those who have started a rebellion will try their best not to recruit people. Those who have not started a rebellion will also find ways to give them money and land in the hope of rebuilding their family business."
"The imperial court treats the common people with such kindness, I'm afraid some gentry and right-wing officials may not be happy with it, and may suddenly feel that their value in maintaining peace is diminishing."
"They have to be happy even if they don't want to!"
Lu Kun smiled and said: "When Yuan Fu organized me and Qian Tang (Jin Xuezeng) and other trained officials to study the governance of the country left by Taishi Zhang and discuss new rites, I realized that we really need to make the country To achieve long-term peace and stability, we must try our best to change the way in which the gentry and right-wingers can enjoy eternal wealth and wealth by sucking the common people into a way where they can only actively expand externally and actively increase profits!"
“And how can we increase profits through external expansion?”
"We must use new rituals to govern the country!"
"Practice benevolent policies internally and promote imperial style externally! Internally, we must allow the people to have friendship with each other for reasons other than profit; externally, we must not just convince the foreigners to submit, but also allow them to increase taxes for the heaven."
Li Rusong nodded.
The Ming Dynasty has indeed begun to use natural disasters to transfer the population, and to transfer the population outwards, in order to achieve the goal of not causing a large number of man-made disasters due to natural disasters.
Because of natural disasters, and the places where natural disasters occur are often not wealthy, the survival line of people who suffer from natural disasters is particularly fragile at this time, and they no longer have such a strong hometown complex and will be willing to They moved to other places because there were new fields and money and grain available.
This is different from immigrants in good times.
During the good times, the imperial government forced immigrants to migrate, so basically the people would have their hands tied, or the officials and soldiers would be forced to use whips, and they would cry all the way.
And now.
The victims of the disaster are organized by the officers and soldiers one by one, and follow them quietly without having their hands tied. The food supply for each person is only limited to prevent them from taking a lot of food and running away. They will be called by names regularly and trained regularly. and health examination and sanitation treatment, so as to achieve the purpose of successfully relocating these refugees.
"The imperial court is better!"
"When the drought comes, the rich man's family is only willing to borrow money, but the court and government will directly provide food for them, and they will also allocate farmland to us, landless exiled tenants."
"In this case, I don't even have to sell my daughter!"
Li Sanshu, who was exiled to Yinchuanyi due to the famine in Fengxiang Prefecture this spring, started talking to his wife He after receiving his food and accommodation tickets.
After saying that, he touched his daughter's little head and pulled out the grass stick on his daughter Xiao'e's head.
Xiao'e picked up her straw mark and looked up at Li Sanshu: "Dad, won't you sell me?"
He smiled and said, "Your father won't sell you out!"
Xiao'e jumped up happily on the spot: "Daddy won't sell me out!"
Li Sanshu couldn't help but grin when he saw this.
And that time.
A slave from a wealthy family who was about to come over to buy someone couldn't help but stamp his feet and sigh:
"Finally, I met a girl with straw tags at the inn, but I don't want to sell her anymore!"
"How do I explain this to the master? The imperial court is so full of money now that a token relief effort is enough for a few days. Why is it that it has been a month since the relief effort and we are still providing relief!"
"Is it easy for me to buy people from a place so far away from Hedong?!"
“If it weren’t for the difficulty of buying people nowadays, who would be willing to travel so far!”
(End of chapter)
