Han You was still sitting on the stool, looking like he was thinking.
You Mingtang was still kneeling there, looking resigned to his fate.
Han You thought for a while and secretly remembered that he should talk to Lao Ba about this when he returns to Beijing. Many prefects and county governments across the country have been working together for more than ten years. Their ranks have been promoted, but their buttocks have not moved. In places like You Mingtang, there must be many situations like this.
"Two hundred thousand guan. In order to be the county government, I am willing to use 200,000 guan as tax money."
Han You teased: "What a big gesture."
You Mingtang smiled shyly: "The general is joking, it's all the noble families who give him face."
Han You said angrily: "Aristocratic family, hey, do you think this general, the swordsman of the Yidao Guard, is paid to be a pawn!"
Lu Baichuan muttered, "Of course not, he paid for it."
Jiang Zhui glanced at Dachuan'er, didn't that mean something?
"Do you know what my nickname is? Evil force correction fluid, the little nemesis of the aristocratic family!" Han You pointed at You Mingtang and cursed: "How dare you lie to me? There are no real aristocratic families in Yongcheng."
"That's right, all the real aristocratic families were slaughtered by the lower officials."
"Zai..." Han You almost choked to death at these words: "You killed the family?"
"That's right." You Mingtang said matter-of-factly: "If you don't kill the family, where will the money come from and be paid as tax money?"
"I understand, this time I understand. I finally understand that you are the biggest family!"
"Well...if the general says so, that's probably the case."
Han You: "..."
Wang Hai didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "In order to stay in office, you paid the tax out of your own pocket, but the money is not yours. After you destroyed the Yongcheng family, you snatched theirs into your hands?"
You Mingtang said happily: "That's it."
Everyone looked at Han You and knew that Han You disliked the aristocratic family the most. Just destroying a city's aristocratic family without mentioning other things should be highly praised by Han You. Of course, he still said this without mentioning other things. if.
As expected, Han You nodded: "Since you have destroyed other aristocratic families and become the largest aristocratic family, the provincial generals will deal with them one by one. They will not mention the tax and money matters, but will deceive the court to use the taxes and money you paid out of your own pocket due to the disaster." They were greedy again, and they pushed the people away from Lan County to seize their fertile farmland, and burned granaries to seize official grain. Oh, and there was also the matter of pretending to be bandits, robbing grain, grass, and killing people. Just sign and post it, and I will have someone give it to you. Take me back to the capital and let you die happily."
"Wait a minute." You Mingtang frowned sharply: "General, what you are saying...isn't right."
"What, you deny it again?"
"It's not that I don't recognize it, it's just..."
"Just nothing."
"There is a way to cut off officials, but it is not to deceive the court into suffering disaster."
"What's that for?"
"Because..." You Mingtang pointed to the map hanging behind Han You: "On the west side of the official road, the caravans have left Pengcheng and bypassed Yongcheng. Then why did the official build Sanji Villa? No one came Ah, if no one comes, we can’t make any money. If we can’t make any money, why build Sanji Villa?”
Han You looked confused: "You cut off the official road to Pengcheng just to divert traffic...just to let the caravans and merchants from the southeast pass through your Yongcheng?"
"Yes, if you think about it, the official road was built in Pengcheng because the court in the previous dynasty was afraid that the King of Qin would support his troops and marched north and south. It was 80 miles farther than I, Yongcheng, cut off the official road, and it is not enough to talk about it. Merchants from the north and south can save about a day’s journey.”
Han You yelled: "According to your opinion, Pengcheng will not develop?"
"Development?" You Mingtang was overjoyed: "What kind of development can there be in a place where birds can't shit? It's all Qiu Ba. There are three zhechong mansions, two garrison guards, and one garrison mansion. There are military camps everywhere, and there is less than one Tens of thousands of people are all relatives of the military, so what kind of development is there?"
Han You: "..."
Seeing You Mingtang's "obsessed" and "righteous" appearance, Han You opened the booklet recorded by Wang Hai and sneered again and again.
"You are so eloquent, right? You think you are quite reasonable, right? How do you explain the pushing of the mountain? The people of Lan County were displaced by pushing the mountain, forcing them out of the city and taking away their fertile farmland. You How to say!"
"General, are you kidding me? There is some fertile farmland in Lan County. More than 7,000 people are cultivating mulberry and hemp on only a few acres of land. They are as hungry as skinny dogs in the suburbs."
"You mean, you saw that they were starving to death, so you forced them to become refugees. What a kind prefect!"
"I'm not a refugee. Aren't you all kidnapped...have you all been invited to come to Yongcheng?"
"Why did you get Yongcheng?"
"General, you are asking this." You Mingtang said cheerfully: "If we don't get them here, there won't be enough manpower to build Sanji Villa."
Han You: "..."
The whole hall was silent, and no one said anything for a long time.
You Mingtang was quite proud: "In the poor area of Lan County, with those few acres of mulberry and hemp, hundreds of people will starve to death a year. In a few years, all of Lan County will be dead. I'll let the officials negotiate and ask them to come." , this group of unscrupulous people actually said they would not leave their homeland. The Japanese were starving to death and they still refused to leave their homeland. I led a group of people to push the mountain... No, the official led thousands of people to the mountain to collect wind and accidentally pushed it down. With tens of thousands of large rocks and accidentally blocking the road in Lan County, they came here. Although they didn't get any wages, they were at least better than in Lan County. At least they could live with three meals a day, which was better than going hungry. die…"
"Wait a minute!" Han You's expression changed slightly: "How many meals do working people eat a day?"
"Three meals."
Not to mention Han You was shocked, so were everyone else.
You must know that ordinary people normally eat two meals, and this is true for small households. If they are forced to do corvee work, the government only provides one meal a day, and it is still sparse.
"Three meals?!" Han You said with disbelief on his face: "Common people, go to work and eat three meals a day. Are you not lying?"
You Mingtang didn't know why: "General, don't the people in your villa and the people who work for you also have three meals?"
"Holy crap, can we be the same? I'm rich!"
"There are also lower officials."
Han You shouted: "My money was blackmailed from aristocratic families!"
"The general is still smart." You Mingtang said with a look of admiration on his face: "You can't do it if you are a low-ranking official. You are killing the goose to get the eggs and slaughtering all the famous families. You are so smart and smart. I admire you."
Han You suddenly felt that this guy seemed to be mocking him.
As long as I can explain the family in Beijing, whoever extorts their money will kill them long ago!
"What about burning the granary? I don't believe you have any excuse."
"That's no excuse, but what the general said is wrong. I didn't steal official food. There was no food in that warehouse, so I burned it down."
"No food?" Han You's pupils shrank suddenly: "If you didn't steal it for yourself, who did it for yourself? Since there is no food, why should we burn it?"
"What can we do if we don't burn it?" You Mingtang said with a wry smile: "In autumn and winter, it was difficult to transport grain and rice. Back then, many people who had no food to eat were waiting for relief from the official warehouse. But at that time, when Xiaguan first took office, the official warehouse was already there. It was divided up by the aristocratic families in the city. It would be strange if the people did not rebel when they saw that there were no grains in the warehouse when the grain was put out. Instead of doing this, it would be better to burn it with fire. The people said that it was caused by dry weather and water. God, at least the people will not become rioters or anti-people, they will just curse."
"Okay, you dare to protect the aristocratic family." Zhou Tong cursed: "The aristocratic family swallowed the grain, but you burned the granary and deceived the people!"
You Mingtang looked at Zhou Tong with a silly expression on his face: "Which one are you?"
"My king... I feel unhappy when I look at you, Xiaoqi, why!"
"It turns out to be Xiaoqi, no wonder, it looks like he is deaf."
You Mingtang looked at Han You with a smile on his face: "General, you must understand, right?"
Han You nodded, with a very confused look on his face: "This is also the reason why you got rid of the Yongcheng family, right?"
"Yes."
"The noble family embezzled official food, why didn't you report it to the court?"
"What's the use of reporting to the court? The court will destroy the aristocratic family. The aristocratic family in the previous dynasty was heaven. Even if the court sends people to investigate, it can take as short as two or three months or as long as half a year. By then, the people will be damn hungry. It’s a dead end, and besides…”
After observing Han You's expression, You Mingtang said shyly: "If this was reported to the court, it would be hard for me to lead my men to pretend to be bandits and rob the grain teams of those noble families."
Han You's expression changed slightly: "Are you robbing the food that was misappropriated by the aristocratic family?"
"Well...partly."
"What's a portion?"
"It's just... it's just part of it, Xiaguan... Xiaguan thought that he would never stop doing anything, so... he went up the mountain to become a bandit, and came down to become an official. He even made a name for himself as the king of the Black Mountain. When he had nothing to do, he just... brought him I'm following my brothers to rob the family's caravan, but I won't harm my life if I'm a low-ranking official. If I kill someone, they won't come back in the future."
"Go up the mountain to be a bandit, come down to be an official..." Han You took a breath: "How many times have you been a bandit and how many times have you robbed?"
"Just...a mere...a hundred times."
Han You: "..."
When mentioning this matter, You Mingtang also cursed: "Those damn aristocratic families have awakened and been robbed a lot. They stopped leaving Yongcheng three years ago, and I have to take hundreds of people with me." It was a waste of time, and the things they grabbed were not enough to eat on the road. Later, Jinpen washed his hands. After Jinpen washed his hands, the official became more and more angry. Damn it, just kill all the aristocratic families. They have nothing anyway. There’s plenty of money to be made.”
In the hall, both those who were silent and those who were not silent were silent.
