Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1017

I recited two lines of Amitabha Buddha in my heart, and after finishing the recitation, my heart became more ruthless, knowing that if I didn't make a death case, there would be many troubles in the future.

"Duke, other than that, the lower officials think that it's best to invite the Governor of Huanghuai and Lord Fu Yin to come together with this matter."

"Although according to the rules, the Duke of the State not only supervises the affairs of the lower reaches of the Huaihe River, but also has the right to make decisions and the right to march. But this matter, it is best to have more witnesses."

"The lower official speaks lightly. Even if private thoughts are not taken into account, if someone overturns the case in the future, the lower official, such as a sesame mung bean official, will not be accurate in what he says, and it will not be counted."

Liu Yu pondered for a moment, hummed, and said, "That's it, I'll send someone to invite you."

The county magistrate of Funing secretly heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that everyone should bear the blame together, which is great.

"Fu Ningling, since you are an official here and you are familiar with them, don't tell them about your impending death. Tell him in advance to make him worry, and the days before he dies, his mental breakdown is really not benevolent. I am a person with compassion.”

After finishing speaking, he walked out of the depression with his hands behind his back, and asked people to go to Huai'an quickly to invite officials from all walks of life to come here.

If it weren't for the construction of the Huaihe River, Liu Yu would not be qualified to manage the affairs of northern Jiangsu.But now he has not returned to Beijing to return to his command, and the emperor has not confiscated his errand, so it is justifiable for him to manage such matters.

The county magistrate of Funing saw Liu Yu leaving, Lord Xindao, you really redefine what compassion is.They are all mortals, what can I talk to them about?

Thinking this way, he could only walk down the depression.

The bewildered squires gathered around one after another.

"My lord! My lord!"

"What does Xing Guogong mean?"

"My lord, we are wronged."

"My lord, we know we are wrong. The money we have withheld this time should be returned to the imperial court, and we will never dare to do it again in the future."

Some said they were wronged, some said they were wrong, and some said they would never dare again.

However, the County Magistrate of Funing put on a businesslike attitude, and said seriously: "What does Xing Guogong mean? Naturally, he dealt with it impartially! You can't control your own hands, but at this time you say something wrong, what's the use?"

"Mencius said..."

Once the sage book is memorized, the rest is the standard official procedure.

In normal times, the official accent is either ready to see off guests, or ready to collect money.

But at this time, the official accent was spoken, and all the squires panicked, knowing that they were not going to speak at all.

For a while, some people who had some contacts with the county magistrate of Funing on weekdays gathered around one after another.

The county magistrate of Funing drank twice.

Several military discipline officers in blue trousers and blue and white helmets on the depression rushed down with whips when they saw this, and a small group of soldiers came down together.

"You little bitch, why are you making such a fuss?"

The soldiers didn't care about this or that, and when they saw the blue and white helmets, they all started, so there was no scruples, and they just smashed them with the butt of their guns.

After all, Lianghuai is no better than the border area. The country gentry here indeed rarely see bandit-like soldiers. At this time, it is inevitable that they have a deeper understanding of the four words "soldiers like combing".

The county magistrate of Funing had a good heart, so if he made such a fuss, he could justifiably slip away.So he only cursed a few words, and ran out of the depression, thinking that it was bad luck, and it would be better to stay away from the graveyard.

The squire who was beaten hid away crying, and the squire who was not beaten came over at this time, took out a pack of cigarettes and handed it to the military discipline officer wearing a blue and white helmet. Unlike others, I thought it was an officer.

The blue-and-white-helmed soldier took the cigarettes, took all the packs, and distributed them to the soldiers who rushed down to beat people after him.

The squire smiled and took out matches to light these people, and then asked: "Military masters, are you the soldiers of Duke Xingguo? But I don't know what's going on here? What does Duke mean?"

The little officer took two puffs of cigarettes, but his attitude was not the slightest kind, and he scolded: "You ask me, who should I ask? Besides, keep your mouth shut, don't be silly, who told you that we are the soldiers of the Duke? Lao Tzu After receiving the order from the superior, who came from Tanegashima, what does the Duke mean, who dare to ask?"

The squire didn't know where this kind of sub-island was, he guessed it must be a far away place, and said repeatedly: "Master Jun has worked hard."

As soon as he mentioned this, the officer became so angry that he threw the cigarette butt on the ground and cursed: "It's hard work! But it's hard work! You have to be ordered to board the boat. The brothers thought it was a war, my mother!" Xiong Bi, before boarding the ship, I gambled before the battle, and I lost several months of military pay! Who knew that it was not a war, but came to watch over you, what a damn bad luck."

"Just now I heard that you guys withheld food and grass? This is what the brothers hate the most. Let me tell you, if you put this kind of thing in the camp, it will be hanged like a dead dog. "

When the squire heard the words dragging the dead dog, he trembled with fright, and hurriedly said: "Master, calm down, calm down, even if we have a lot of guts, we dare not use military supplies. It's just that we were confused for a while, and moved." Move the common people."

The little officer couldn't help laughing and said: "You son of a bitch, what were you like before you became a soldier? The two battalions stationed in Tanegashima, the only ones who don't have a family background as a squire, either died in a catastrophe or were killed by you. These bastards are forced by rent collectors to lend money."

"In these days, whenever there is a way to survive, the grandson is a soldier. None of the navy sergeants has good teeth. If you eat a pot helmet, you will be soaked in water. Do you know what is scurvy and tooth loss? Do you know what is called the navy? Rotten teeth, sooner or later the marines will die of fever and malaria, and the Japanese garrison is full of Ryukyu sores?"

Laughing, he took out his whip and hit the squire's face with a whip, warning the surrounding squires: "Be honest, don't make trouble. See that line drawn by lime? Yes, they will be shot on the spot, which is the same as storming the army formation."

After speaking, he led the people back to the depression.

When the soldiers said this, the squires panicked even more, and they didn't know how much blood they were going to bleed this time.I'm afraid that not only will they have to return all the money that was deducted and resold this time, they may even be fined.

In the next few days, the squires were struggling in this depression.

There is also a bonfire at night, and there is food for the army to eat. I can't be hungry or cold, but this kind of life is really a kind of mental torture.

However, the white line painted by Lime is there, and no one dares to take a step, so they can only wait here.

While they were waiting here, the person who the magistrate of Funing had been looking forward to to take the blame with him finally arrived.

The Hongze Lake water from the opened Gaojiayan sluice has also flowed into the sea along the new Huai River channel.The sound of rushing water is not uncommon, and the roar of the Yellow River can be heard several miles away, mixed with the tide, and the water of the Huaihe River is not surprising.

These tides and the sound of the waves made the officials who had just learned about the matter spin their minds faster, and their thoughts seemed to be pounding on the shore.

The magistrate of Funing County has been pondering over the past few days, and gradually discovered some unusual smells.One of the reasons why this matter was possible is because the Yellow River has continuously impacted and breached over the years, pushing the land to the east for more than a hundred miles.

If the line is drawn in Funing County, it will be on the west side of Fangong Dike.But to the east of Fangongdi, there are still dozens of miles to reach the sea.

There is basically no man's land on the barren beach, and the food is transported in that barren beach area. It is really difficult to get involved by yourself. This is simply the perfect black market environment created by heaven and earth.

Sub-contracting and segregation everywhere, the gentry monopolized the interpretation of legal policies by virtue of their role as a bridge between the lower-level people and the government.

Coupled with the perfect black market environment created by such a world as the barren beach and no man's land, it would be strange if such a thing did not happen.

With years of experience at the grassroots level, the magistrate of Funing understood that if he wanted to embezzle corruption in this kind of thing, the chief officer had to take the lead.The question now is that if Liu Yu wants to deal with these people, can Duke Xingguo himself be the biggest one?
Where did those coarse grains come from?The squire just made a difference, where is the real big head?Could it be that Duke Xingguo wanted to kill someone to silence him?
That's not right, that's not how killing is done.

This case is so big, and the whole country must be shocked by the idea of ​​killing many people. Wouldn't it be more difficult to conceal it then?
Unless...unless Duke Xingguo made the buckle himself?

After figuring this out, the County Magistrate of Funing suddenly realized, thinking that no matter how strange this matter is, there is nothing wrong with it. Ask what should be asked, and what should not be asked should never be asked.

He had figured it out that he shouldn't ask random questions, but the other officials who were invited over thought more clearly.

This is not the past years. At the beginning of the founding of the country, it was normal to kill some people.But now is the Taiping Festival, so many people were killed at once, and they were squires, this must be a major case that caused a sensation throughout the country.

They know Liu Yu's character, and it is indeed easy to make troubles, but Liu Yu is generally too lazy to make troubles about such bullshit.

Anyway, I haven't heard that the "Liu Gong Case" was compiled by the people, and I have never heard of Liu Yu's behavior of punishing evil gentry by visiting people's sentiments.

Moreover, what is Liu Yu's background? These officials above the governor's level are very clear in their hearts.

Besides, on the Huanghuai Governor's side and Liao Hanhui's side, a bunch of them were from the army.Liu Yu had been in charge of the war against Japan and the Nanyang War. He could not understand such a big loophole in logistics supervision?

If it was at this level, what would the Battle of Nafara and the Battle of Nanyang be like?The logistics, ammunition, supplies, and military supplies of tens of thousands of troops are all counted clearly, and there are systems to follow in how to supervise the joints of various places.

When it comes to this, is it "employing people without doubt, doubting people without using them"?

The governor of the Huanghuai River thought to himself, these squires are considered 'innocent' and guilty of conceiving jade.

Now that the canal has been abandoned, millions of waterworkers have absorbed the young and strong into the Xiang army, and there are still a bunch of people left.In addition, the changes in business along the way also left a group of people unoccupied.

What are these people doing?
The imperial court wants to resettle, but can it afford it?
If they were resettled nearby, wouldn't they have to find land?The imperial court didn't have many official lands, or the places where there were official lands were either in the Western Regions or in Jinghai. It was impossible to accommodate these people.

Wouldn't it just be possible to put the eyeballs on the Lianghuai side?

The governor of Huanghuai thought to himself, this is His Majesty's intention to kill, but Mr. Xingguo bears the name of this murder.Since he has taken on the burden, he cannot see clearly and oppose it.

The county magistrate of Funing is also smart, knowing that a death case is to be done, so what else can he say?Come to be a witness by yourself, and you will be able to live well in the future, and give an explanation to the squires all over the world.

Liao Hanhui, who is in charge of Huaihe engineering technology, thinks more directly.

Although the imperial court built the Huaihe River, it was to reduce the flood in Anhui and reduce the risk of Hongze Lake's embankment collapse, but these did not see direct benefits.

It may take tens of millions to improve Huainan, just for these gentry?
In the future, we need to reclaim wasteland and increase taxes, and slowly earn back the money from the construction of the Huaihe River.In addition, seawalls and irrigation areas will be built in the future. If the Huaihe River is built like this, the imperial court cannot afford it.

It is necessary to organize the common people, and it is necessary to call the common people to perform this kind of labor, so what can we do?Naturally, the land should be equalized so that the common people would have the land in their hands, so that they would be able to perform hard labor without causing civil uprisings.

This matter is simple. If these gentry are executed and the land is given to the people, and the people need to pay back the land money from the court, wouldn't it be a good time to repair the river embankment and sea embankment to pay off the debt?
The imperial court did not pay a penny, and the common people worked hard.

For the irrigation canals of the second phase of the project and the new tidal embankments of the third phase of the project, the imperial court basically did not need to spend money.

And in the future, land will be measured, land reclamation will be collected and taxes will be collected.If the money for the construction of the Huaihe River can be used to irrigate 300 million mu of land, not to mention recovering the capital, the annual interest on the loan to the Netherlands is more than enough.

The floods in Anhui, the danger of Hongze Lake's embankment collapse, and the disaster relief funds here, aren't they all earned for nothing?
Liao Hanhui made some calculations in his mind, and thought that if each household was divided into ten mu of land, then the imperial court would be merciful and charge them 20 taels of silver.

In the future, the construction of river embankments and tidal embankments will cost two and a half taels of silver plus food, which is exactly eight months of construction time, and the irrigation area and tidal embankments will be completed just in time.

If the purchase of an acre of land is increased to three taels, the people will cheer and enthusiastically serve to rebuild the Fangong embankment without spending a penny.

All of them pretended to be confused, knowing what was going on in their hearts, so they all pretended not to know what was going on.

Everyone understands that this is a matter of redistribution of means of production, but none of them mention it. Instead, they all point their fingers at "moral" issues.

"Withdrawing money and food, especially for major river projects, this is a serious crime!"

"Since the end of the previous dynasty, there have been endless incidents of gentry abusing their neighbors. These people really read the books of sages in vain. But they blamed the court for their evil. There is no pardon for their crimes!"

"Moral depravity! Heavy punishment is necessary to serve as an example to others."

(End of this chapter)