Compared with the 500,000 immigrants, 800 households with more than 4,000 people are so insignificant that many documents do not mention the Huaiyuan immigrants. Even people like Song Zhengchen only moved around in Shandong, Henan, and Beizhili. Take a trip to Huaiyuan.
If the others don't go, Zhu Yunwen will go.
Three years after the flood, you can still see dilapidated houses that were washed away in the fields, old and unvisited, and ruined temples overgrown with weeds. What is comforting is that the late rice in the fields is growing well. Although it has not yet reached the ripening stage, it is still growing. It can also be seen that the ears of rice are full.
Enjoying the breeze blowing from the rice fields, Zhu Yunwen's depressed mood for days finally eased. As long as there is food and the people can eat, the country will not be in chaos. As for corrupt officials, just find a way to deal with them.
"Looking at the situation this year, Huaiyuan will probably have a good harvest."
Xia Yuanji fiddled with the ears of rice and said with a smile.
Zhu Yunwen looked at the long rice fields, very satisfied, and sighed: "The people have a good harvest, and the court can be stable."
Ma Enhui bent over and looked at the rice ears, and despite her joy, she did not forget her duty of admonishment: "May the emperor uphold his original intention, cherish the power of the people, always put the people, the country and the country as the most important, use punishment lightly, and govern with mercy."
Zhu Yunwen glanced at Ma Enhui, then raised his head to look at Huaiyuan City in the distance: "I love the people, but officials may not do the same. It is difficult to avoid severe punishment for stubborn corruption."
The problem of corruption will never be solved.
It is said that one is strong without desires, but as a human being, who does not have desires?
He also said that the principles of nature should be preserved and human desires should be destroyed. Everyone opened and shut up to follow the principles of Neo-Confucianism. But if the principles of nature existed, who would destroy the desires?
The county magistrate flatters the magistrate, the magistrate bribes the chief envoy, and the chief envoy shows off to the court. Some sixth- and seventh-grade officials also began to enjoy luxury houses and top-quality tea, and openly and secretly engaged in business to make extra money. They also did not forget to use their status as the imperial court to create monopolies or semi-monopolies, and to bully or crush them.
In Zhu Yunwen's view, official corruption was a major reason for the destruction of the Ming Dynasty. Although many people were killed in the early Ming Dynasty, corrupt officials were more powerful than weeds. They did not need the spring breeze to blow, but the northwest wind would still grow.
The politics of the Jianwen Dynasty were relatively clear. After four years of rectification, there were not many corrupt officials. However, there were more than ten million roads to corruption. Not long after the whipping law was implemented, people discovered the fire consumption. They could not arbitrarily increase taxes and plunder. People, people began to exploit other loopholes, such as controlling minerals, manipulating salt prices, doing business secretly, exchanging interests...
These things prove a truth. You can see far from a high place, but you cannot see the various conditions at the foot of the mountain. If you want to understand the truth of the Ming Dynasty, you have to walk down from the high mountain of the Nine-Five Supreme Mountain to take a look.
Huaiyuan City is far from prosperous, far inferior to Yangzhou and Huai'an. Fortunately, the city is peaceful and peaceful, and the smoke and smoke makes people soothed. A peaceful small town, slowly, is good.
Zhu Yunwen was sitting in the teahouse, looking at the people who came to drink tea from time to time. He didn't see many people with sad faces and bitter hatred. Finally, he met an old man there who was dejected and full of sorrow. He stepped forward and asked, "It turns out that This guy has a granddaughter.
When the two government servants in soap uniforms arrived at the teahouse, the people around them not only did not look down upon or avoid them, but a few came up to say hello. The teahouse owner even offered to waive their tea money.
"It's nice here."
Ma Enhui likes it here very much. It only has an ordinary and plain life, without so much intrigue, corruption and oppression.
Zhu Yunwen nodded slightly, took a rest, ordered the people to pay the bill, and then left the teahouse, walking towards Xicheng, walking through the streets and alleys, occasionally tasting street snacks, and then said without leaving a trace, "It can be said that there are no things picked up on the road here." It will make the stall owner talk endlessly...
Got it, got it.
Wei Bacai, the previous magistrate of Huaiyuan City, occupied the highland Guishan during floods. The leader of the squad, Li Wu, pleaded for life for the people but was hung up and beaten. The flood came and many people were drowned. A civil uprising broke out and Wei Bacai and others were beaten to death. Li Wu became a hero in the hearts of the people. Later, he was appointed by the imperial court as Huaiyuan County Magistrate.
Li Wu knew how miserable the people's lives were, and had seen with his own eyes the craziness and power of the people to beat people to death. Since he took over as the magistrate of Huaiyuan County, he had worked hard and served the people everywhere. It only took three years to build Huaiyuan into order.
This is a good county magistrate, and the people have a good reputation for him. At least he does not bully the people. The Security Bureau went to investigate the Huaiyuan County government's warrants and prison sentences, and found that the Huaiyuan dungeon was almost empty, with only five people detained.
This was very abnormal. Zhu Yunwen did not believe in evil. He settled down at the inn and looked through the files. He found that Li Wu was very efficient in judging the case, almost faster than Bao Qingtian. Ordinary civil cases were judged on the spot and usually did not delay for three days. When encountering ambiguity, If it is unclear or there is insufficient evidence, just rely on public opinion.
For example, when a landlord's dog disappears, he says that the tenants ate it. He also finds the dog's tail in the tenant's house, but the tenant insists that he did not eat it and that the dog's tail was framed.
This situation is difficult to judge, and the circumstances are not serious. Li Wu did not bother to investigate in depth, and directly respected the simple public opinion. If the public opinion sympathized with the tenant farmers, then the tenant farmers did not eat the dogs; if public opinion supported the landlords, then the tenant farmers ate the dogs...
A simple and funny method, but the people supported it. Zhu Yunwen was a little depressed. If Bao Zhao or Hou Tai were here, they would probably hang Li Wu up again and beat him up. If you don't even break the Ming Dynasty law, will you be sentenced?
Fortunately, Li Wu can still stand up when it comes to major matters and criminal cases. Every case has solid evidence and clear organization. What should be reported will be reported to Fengyang Mansion.
The gentry had suffered some losses and did not dare to do anything to Li Wu. Although Guishan's blood had dried, everyone was still afraid. Who knew if the people were angered and there would be another civil uprising.
It became the unanimous attitude of Huaiyuan gentry and landlords to care about big things and ignore small things.
The common people, county magistrates, and gentry reached a balance in this way, and this is how peace and stability in Huaiyuan came about.
After Zhu Yunwen understood everything, he smiled bitterly and shook his head. The key to whether a county has clear governance and whether it has the support of the people depends on the magistrate. A good magistrate can benefit the people, but a bad magistrate can harm the party.
The immigrant people are doing well here and have completely integrated into Huaiyuan. The smiles on the children's faces are very bright.
Without disturbing Li Wu from being a good official, Zhu Yunwen led his people to leave Huaiyuan City and head north to Suzhou, arriving near Guzhen two days later.
Here, Zhu Yunwen took people deep into the countryside and visited the people's conditions. It can be seen that the quiet villages lead ordinary lives. The people do not have much wealth, but they can still afford to eat. Most of their clothes are old commoners. There are even fewer people wearing patches.
"The energy sinks into the Dantian, hey!"
"Strong your arms! Hey!"
"Shovel hard! Hey!"
A distant chant came over, and Ma Enhui looked into the distance curiously.
Zhu Yunwen and others followed their gaze and saw twenty or thirty people gathered a hundred steps away, busy. They couldn't help but said to Ma Enhui and Concubine Xian: "Come on, let's go take a look too."
Yang Shiqi and Xia Yuanji followed, Liu Changge led the way, and Tang Buping followed behind in a carriage.
"Old man, what are you doing?"
Zhu Yunwen saw an old man on crutches on the side of the road and said hello.
The old man looked at Zhu Yunwen and others, and said with a smile: "Dig a well."
When the man digging the well saw Zhu Yunwen and others coming, the person who took the lead in shouting the slogan turned around and said, "There's a woman coming from the south, hey!"
"Hey!"
Everyone shouted in unison and looked up.
"The woman is so pretty, hehe!"
"Hey!"
After Ma Enhui and Concubine Xian heard this, their faces became a little hot, and they turned around and got into the carriage without intending to come out.
Zhu Yunwen laughed loudly on the sidelines. He had heard a lot of these common people's slogans. In later generations, people would need to shout slogans when laying foundations. Occasionally making fun of them is not disrespectful or teasing, but to relieve fatigue. This is a good thing for the common people. It's perfectly normal.
Xia Yuanji and Yang Shiqi followed Zhu Yunwen, and the people who were digging wells saw this and gave way.
"Ah, it turns out we are going down the well, no wonder we are shouting slogans."
Yang Shiqi said with a smile.
Zhu Yunwen looked at Yang Shiqi and asked a question that made people think it was an idiot: "What is Jingradi?"
Everyone looked at Zhu Yunwen with a confused look on his face. He was a stupid young master. He didn't even know this?
Zhu Yunwen was very depressed. He really didn’t know. Although he had carried water from wells when he was a child, they were all made of masonry and no wood. Later, machines were used to dig wells, with long pipes going down. Drilling has not opened such a big hole, and I have never seen a well radius.
The old man had a lot of experience and knew why he should not eat minced meat. Although he looked down upon a novice like Zhu Yunwen, he still took the initiative to point to the hexagonal wooden frame in the pit and said: "This is the well radius. It is also six-meter-high. It is used to support the well wall." No collapse.”
One foot and one is one secret, and six secrets are six feet and six.
"Haha, don't make fun of me. I am strictly controlled by my family and don't go out easily. This is my first time to open a well. I need help. I want to try it too."
Zhu Yunwen proudly admitted that he did not know.
Feng Shangliu, who took the lead in shouting, made eye contact with his father-in-law. The old man nodded slightly, and then Feng Shangliu greeted him: "Since this young master wants to do something, let's help dig up the well."
Zhu Yunwen took the heavy hammer handed by the person on the side and looked back at Xia Yuanji and Yang Shiqi who were motionless: "What are you doing standing still? Let's go together."
Xia Yuanji and Yang Shiqi had no choice but to roll up their sleeves, each holding a hammer and preparing to help.
Feng Shangliu started shouting again: "Master wants to work, hey!"
"Hey!"
Everyone around the shaft shouted together and dropped the hammer at the same time. With a bang, the shaft moved downward along the wall of the shaft.
"Everyone, please work harder, hey..."
After Zhu Yunwen beat him nearly twenty times, Feng Shangliu finally stopped shouting, and then asked everyone to step aside and shouted to the people sitting and resting: "Feng Qi, it's your turn to go down."
Feng Qi stood up, picked up the shovel stuck in the ground, went down to the bottom of the well along the radius of the well, stepped on it with his feet, knocked out the soil, and poured it into the bamboo basket on the side...
