Liaodong County Sheriff's Mansion
Lu Desheng was writing a note. This note was a request for instructions on moving the county governor's mansion to Houcheng. He was going to send it to the emperor of Chang'an after writing it.
He wrote very quickly, and the whole article was eloquent, all about the necessity of moving the palace.
When he finished writing, he put down his pen.
Guo Chunsheng on the side said very worriedly, "Sir, is there something wrong with changing the plaque? It's not that it can't be changed, but you should write a note to ask the emperor for instructions first."
The Liaodong County Sheriff's Mansion was built after the first previous governor selected a place and asked the imperial court for instructions, and the imperial court agreed. Later, it was moved due to other reasons, but before moving, it must be reported to the court and asked for instructions.
"You make sense. Aren't I just asking for instructions?" Lu Desheng said lazily.
Guo Chunsheng: Sir, are you sure you are asking for instructions and not beheading first and reporting later?
"Sir, what I mean is that if you change the plaque so quickly, what if the emperor doesn't agree?"
Lu Desheng sneered in his heart, "He will agree." How could he not agree?
At the beginning, when the new emperor agreed to his release and placed him in Houcheng, Lu Desheng was a little suspicious that the new emperor wanted him to die in Houcheng.
You know, the border between Houcheng and Xianbei grassland is the front line of war every year. How dangerous it is.
It was true that he wanted to go to Pingzhou, and it would be best if he could be in Liaodong County. However, in the eighteen counties of Liaodong County, the new emperor chose to place him in Houcheng, which made him have to doubt the new emperor's intentions.
Lu Desheng once felt that he had thought too badly of the person. When he came to Houcheng and reunited with his daughter, he couldn't help but express his suspicions.
Then his daughter told him for sure that his suspicions were correct and that the new emperor did have sinister intentions in releasing him to Houcheng.
He was furious at that time, what the hell is Song Mo? Compared with the late emperor, he is far behind by more than a star!
Guo Chunsheng wondered why Mr. Lu was so sure that the emperor would agree to move the Liaodong County Governor's Mansion to Houcheng?
Lu Desheng snorted, could he tell him that the emperor wanted him to die in Houcheng?
In addition, "I decided to locate the governor's palace in Houcheng to reassure the people. Why doesn't the emperor agree?"
Song Mo had better agree.
If you don’t agree, don’t blame him and blame him!
Guo Chunsheng shook his head, "Sir, you are too willful."
Lu Desheng listened to his words and refused to act willfully. Was he still Lu Desheng? If he thought carefully about every aspect, the emperor might not be able to sleep.
Guo Chunsheng was even more worried. Your Excellency, behead first and then tell the story later. Even though your intentions are good, the emperor is only fifteen and will be more willful. He doesn't care whether you are doing it to appease the people or not, so he won't agree. Isn’t Mr. Lu being slapped in the face? How should we deal with the common people?
If that happens, the person who has to answer to the people is not him, but the emperor! Lu Desheng said heartily.
He wrote the note and sent it to the emperor of Chang'an as quickly as possible using the inn.
For the people of Houcheng, a very relevant thing happened the day after the Houcheng County government office changed its plaque. This was the first decree issued by the county governor after he took office, to collect corvees and build roads.
Lu Songli had recently read the laws of Dali and learned that Dali stipulates that a man must be 16 years of age, and after becoming a man until 60 years old, he is obliged to perform corvee service during this period of age. The age span is 40 years old. Four years.
Every adult man had to serve in corvée for one month every year.
She knew that compared with later generations, various taxes and corvees in ancient times were very heavy. In many dynasties, land taxation was around one out of ten taxes. Taxes of one for fifteen, one for twenty, and one for thirty are all uncommon. Only powerful dynasties, that is, in prosperous times, would dare to set such a low tax.
Lu Songli remembered the Romance of the Three Kingdoms she had read, in which the taxes of the Shu Han were really heavy.
The policy implemented by the Shu Han Dynasty at that time was "one from every three dings, and a tax of four to six". One from every three dings meant that if there was a male in the family, one of them would have to join the army, and the taxation of 46 meant that farmers had to pay 40% of their harvest. handed over to the country.
You can imagine how miserable the people were at that time, but there was nothing we could do about it. It would be good if people in troubled times could keep their lives safe, and there was no requirement for a happiness index at all.
Lu Songli planned to build a road starting from Chen Village at the border of Wulu County and Liaoxi County, connecting Liaoyang and Wangping, and finally ending in Houcheng.
On the basis of the official roads of the four counties, we will widen, connect and smooth them.
In fact, at this time, it would be great if there was cement or asphalt.
But she thought about it, asphalt is refined and decomposed from petroleum, forget it, there is no such condition, but cement can still be used.
She knew the approximate composition of cement. Living in an era of rapid infrastructure development, people of her generation were often exposed to cement on a daily basis.
I know the approximate ingredients, but I don’t know the exact ratio.
But this matter is not urgent. We will wait until her brother Lu Mingzhi makes the paper.
Moreover, at this time, they are still too weak, and it is not the time to take out the cement.
Lu Songli felt that this was the time when the people in Houcheng were most fond of her father, and since this year's corvee service had not yet been completed, the road construction should go smoothly, and the people should not have much resistance.
Lu Songli's guess was correct. Their recruitment of corvees and road construction went smoothly.
After Geng Yuan returned home, he thought about it and felt that he couldn't just let it go. So he personally visited several powerful landlords in the same circle.
After a while of discussion, they unanimously decided to send someone to probe Lu Desheng and ask him if he still needed money for the construction of Liaodong County or Houcheng.
The person Geng Yuan and the others entrusted to them was none other than local Guo Chunsheng.
Lu Desheng: "What do they mean?"
Guo Chunsheng knew their intentions very well and said to himself, if he had known about this today, why did he do it in the first place?
"Sir, they probably want to lend you money."
Lu Desheng was about to get angry, but his daughter cut him off, "We know about this, please trouble Mr. Guo."
Seeing that the situation was not right, Guo Chunsheng quickly retreated, leaving the battlefield, no, the venue, to the Lu family and his daughter.
"Daughter, why don't you let dad reject them?" In the past, Lu Desheng must have rejected them without saying a word.
You looked down on me before, but now I want you to look down on me. When he was polite to others before, they gave him two to three thousand taels each! Who do you look down on?
Lu Songli quickly advised, "Dad, we can't live with money."
"Are you still short of money?" Isn't the son-in-law attacking Wangping's Black Dragon Village? I brought back a lot of money from the attack on Heifeng Village before, haven't I spent it yet?
Lu Songli sighed, "Dad, before it was just a city that cost money to build. Now it is an entire eighteen counties in Liaodong County that are waiting for food. We can't help but prepare some money."
Lu Desheng was angry.
Next, Lu Desheng accepted the offer of borrowing money from Geng Yuan and other wealthy landlords in Houcheng.
My daughter said that if you want to do big things, you must be morally obsessive. Nowadays, there are still many places to spend money in Houcheng and even the entire Liaodong County. People trust them and are willing to lend them money to develop. Why should they refuse?
Of course, Lu Songli also agreed with some of her father's ideas. The treatment for Geng Yuan's group of people will be inferior to that of Lan Bingrong, who was the first to donate generously. When the opportunity arises, under the same conditions, they will be treated worse.
Lan Bingrong took the risk and took real money to play with them. If he made the right choice, he should be rewarded.
When Geng Yuan and others came to the door with money in their hands, Mr. Lu's disregard for past grudges and smiling face made them feel relieved.
These people were very generous in borrowing money this time, ranging from 20,000 to 10,000.
Boxes of silver were carried into the government office one after another, and finally everyone took away an IOU stamped by the Liaodong County Sheriff.
This time Lan Bingrong didn't come, so Lu Desheng took the initiative to give him an IOU stamped by the Liaodong County Sheriff, and then arranged for someone to send it to his home.
Geng Yuan and others felt sad when they saw it. But they also know that they are one step behind, and it is normal for Mr. Lu to look at Lan Bingrong differently.
