Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1805 Pingwo ([-]) Treating symptoms and root causes
During the treatment of the disaster victims, Gao Wushi and Zhang Yiyuan convened a meeting. Gao Wushi first said: "According to the reports of various prefectures, states and counties, more than [-] patients have been treated. Mr. Yang and the cabinet department said that after a long illness, Its spirit will be hurt, just like a replanted tree, its roots will be damaged. If you want to restore the vitality, the spirit will gradually fade away.

The Ministry of the Cabinet and the Fujun have written a statement on this, please show mercy to the emperor, and lightly serve in Henan, and you also need to keep it in mind. From now on, you should use the power of the people carefully and live with the people. "

Zhang Yiyuan, the governor of Henan Province, went on to say: "Previously, in order to please local wealthy households, or to accept bribes, some prefectural and county officials reported the intact cultivated land as disaster land to apply for relief, robbed the victims of relief money and food; or withheld relief money and exploited the victims. The poor love the rich, and they give all the official reserves to the wanderers in the market, the heads of the rich and big families, and the neighbors and victims of disasters do not see a grain of rice all day long.

Benfu asked the cabinet department for instructions on this, and the cabinet department has already said that such people have no pardon for their crimes!All these people have been investigated one by one, and the Fa is being rectified on the spot. I hope that you will strictly order the commanders to take warning, and don't hit this knife edge, and leave an eternal infamy. "

As soon as Zhang Yiyuan said this, the audience fell silent, the needle could be heard, and everyone looked at Gao Yushi with awe. "On-the-spot Fa-rectification" is not just a joke. Some time ago, Gao Yushi killed 27 officials. How many officials and officials will be killed this time?
Considering that civil servants in the Ming Dynasty have always been "golden and precious", even the emperor would not dare to take their lives at will. On the other hand, Gao Ge, Gao Jinglue, and Gao Houye obviously don't care about this kind of affection, and they kill as soon as they say it. Are you afraid?The key is that you still dare not resist, or even dare to impeachment easily.

The so-called heavy code should be used to govern the chaos, and the past dynasties have clear political correctness on the issue of disaster victims. At this time and on this issue, impeaching Gao Yushi for random killings is almost a kind of self-inflicted, and everyone is not stupid enough to do this the point.

Gao Yushi looked around the audience and said coldly: "People have desires, but they forget righteousness when they see profits. The imperial court allocated millions of silver and rice millet to relieve the common people in Zhongzhou, and some distribution officials coveted it and wanted to get their hands on it.

These people either secretly exchanged inferior silver, or mixed rice and wheat with sand, or faked and smuggled them.The legal net is tight, but he still does not hesitate to risk himself, which is hateful and sad.

Once again, I would like to advise everyone, don't make big mistakes because of small things. You should know that the government of this cabinet is like running an army. There are more than hundreds of thousands of dead souls under the sword, so you are not afraid of another hundred or ten heads to decorate the gate of the gate. "

The officials thought of the long string of withered heads at the gate of Jinglue Xingyuan, many of them were old acquaintances or even old friends, they couldn't help but shuddered, and bowed tremblingly to accept their orders.

Zhang Yiyuan saw that Elder Gao Ge had shocked all the officials, so he took the topic and continued: "Next, we need to prepare for the redemption of wives and children, return of refugees to work, etc. This time in Zhongzhou, there is a catastrophe of cutting people and cannibalism, and relatives cannot protect each other. In order to survive, many people have to sell others cheaply, and send their wives and daughters to live in foreign lands.

Now that the disaster situation has gradually stabilized, Yousi immediately carried out the redemption, traced the details of the transaction, and paid for the redemption of his children to return his father, his siblings to return his brothers, and his wife to return his husband.

Regarding this matter, Elder Gao Ge has already set an example and unconditionally dismissed all those who had betrayed themselves to the Xinzheng Gao Mansion since the disaster occurred, and allowed them to leave on their own.Among them, there were 760 four males, 130 nine females, 420 three children and 230 elderly people.

Among these people, those who voluntarily stayed in Gaofu because they had no family property and all their relatives died, have all been registered in the county government.A total of 140 six men, 390 seven women, 150 children, and [-] elderly people, the rest have been repatriated, and their food expenses when they were detained in Gaofu were all taken care of by Gaofu, and no one was charged. , and give each person a certain amount of severance package.

In addition, let's talk about the aftermath plan of the province: all localities need to bury the bones of the dead in various townships, and they need to be buried in the ground for safety, and the corpses should not be left in the wild, which will stabilize the hearts of the people.For every corpse covered, three points of silver for workers and food, and two points of silver for lining mats, all townships will follow suit, and there must be no mistakes. "

This matter is mainly the work of the chief secretary, so the chief envoy stepped forward to take orders on behalf of the chief secretary.As for Gaofu's setting an example, although everyone feels a little pain for no reason, and wonders whether everyone needs to follow suit, they are also somewhat grateful.

In fact, everyone has always seen Gao Yushi's own practices, and they really have nothing to say.He reformed the tax collection first to collect his own family, and after that he dismissed the refugees and also dismissed his own refugees first. No one dared to question his exemplary role.The officials couldn't help but think, if he dared to "kill people like hemp", the premise was that he was invulnerable, right?

However, Gao Yushi was too lazy to boast. Instead, he continued to talk about the business, saying: "After the famine, fortunately, the remaining lives were left. The common people are ignorant, and they always use small anger to show off, but you are often unable to persuade them. If the case is accepted, the family may be seized after deliberation. Food for several months, food for one person for a day, or life for several families.

At present, disaster relief is the urgent task, and we should not be easily distracted. Therefore, we should order all prefectures and counties to suspend ordinary lawsuits according to the old rules. Except for those involved in major rebellion and chaos, they must be judged quickly, but they must not be seated. Discussion on hold.

Some of the victims were caught because they were forced to take risks for their livelihoods. Their crimes were justifiable and they were sympathetic. Those who were not murdered or injured or disabled were released after a little training.

At the same time, those who are released because of this need to temporarily stay on the case for one year to see the aftermath.If there is no subsequent crime, the criminal record will be cleared; those who continue to commit crimes will be punished concurrently. "

This matter belongs to the judicial level, so the prosecuting envoy stepped forward to take orders.

According to the inspector, he also had something to say after he took the order. He cupped his hands and asked, "It is reported by the Ministry of the Ministry that in the famine years, there were also many victims who fell into bandits. Some of them were just forced to return to their hometowns to redeem their sins. Taking the opportunity to gather the victims, roaring together in the mountains and forests, infesting the valleys, beating houses and looting houses, it is very rampant.

Right now these people have become a hindrance to the disaster relief work. I don't know whether the government will exterminate or appease these bandits. I would like to ask the cabinet to show me this, and the lower officials can handle it. "

This is a good question, Gao Wushi nodded in approval, and then said: "After all, it is because of the hunger and cold. This cabinet department is willing to go to all the villages to talk to the chief minister, so that he can know the real situation of the disaster relief. If they can be disbanded immediately, It can also contribute to disaster relief. If you are obsessed with obsession, you will be wiped out immediately."

The inspector was taken aback, and said: "The cabinet department wants to talk to these thieves and bandits in person? Absolutely not, the cabinet department is not only a court assistant, but also an honorable prince. How can a body of ten thousand gold be in danger so easily?"

Gao Wushi waved his hands calmly, and said: "I will bring some servants along to prevent Xiaoxiao from doing anything wrong, and besides, in Zhongzhou territory, this cabinet department is not afraid of someone being so bold."

When the officials heard this, they also felt that this was the case.One point is that the Gao family’s Ding Zhiqiang is not at the same level as the Henan government and army. This can be seen from the fact that after the disaster, bandits from all over the country dare not enter Xinzheng. Xinzheng ran.

The second is that the Gao family's reputation in Henan Province is really good. Even some vicious gangsters are respectful to the Xinzheng Gao family. It is almost never heard of any gangsters taking the initiative to trouble the Gao family's property or caravan.This is already the case under the banner of the Gao family, if Gao Wushi is willing to go out in person, don't say which gangsters dare to risk the world's disgrace and have any plans against him, maybe they will really cry and beg Gao Ge for forgiveness.

Sure enough, later Gao Wushi led only [-] family members, and from Kaifeng to Runing, Nanyang and other places personally persuaded him to abandon evil and do good. Any disrespect, without exception, will be led by the village owner to personally lead the whole village to meet and confess.

Among them, some people seem to have read the book for a few days, and they have come up with tricks such as pleading guilty.And Gao Wushi also implemented the strategy of combining leniency and strictness. On the one hand, he appeased them, regardless of minor crimes;

In short, wherever Gao Yushi went on this trip of persuasion across the province, the bandit camps all over the country did not say that they were welcome, and they almost surrendered on the lookout.

When the news came out, don’t say that the officials in Henan were shocked when they heard the news. Even if the emperor got the news in Beijing, he couldn’t help but feel a lot of emotion. Government is based on virtue, such as Beichen."

These eight characters come from "The Analects of Confucius". The original words are "Government with virtue, such as Beichen, where the stars live together (arch)." Originally, most of the courtiers praised the emperor, but occasionally they can also be used to describe the leader. auxiliary.

The problem is that Gao Yushi is not the chief assistant, he is just the most junior and lowest-ranked group assistant in the current cabinet.The emperor gave him this sentence as Chen Han, and its meaning naturally makes people unable to help but have various associations.

Closer to home, before Gao Yushi went on a tour to persuade, he first announced to the whole province: "The Holy Son of Heaven is very sympathetic to you and others. You are restless, sleeping and eating, and sighing day and night. I specially ordered my cabinet to come here to rescue you in many ways.

The common people have their own consciences, but they are helpless because of hunger and cold.It is suitable for you to tell the legend that the holy emperor Jiuzhong has sympathy and sent officials to help. We small people, how can we wear them?There must be those who sigh and runny nose, who burn incense and wish the Holy Son of Heaven.And the method of distributing silver in porridge factories, you have heard of it, must wait until the wheat is cooked.

You will be disbanded immediately, and you will be good citizens. If you are obsessed with your mistakes and have your own laws, what is the point of regret?Today, when you are turning misfortune into blessing, the place of enlightenment is paradise, and the place of confusion is hell.If you start to lose your mind and finally realize it, you will turn hell into a happy land, but you must think about your grandfather first, and your descendants later, so as to protect your life and don't regret it later. "

After this, Gao Wushi personally came forward to teach, and the bandits and bandits all over the country felt fear, and they put down their weapons one after another and returned to their homeland.

In this way, through measures such as medical treatment of diseases, redemption of children, burial of bones, dispersal of theft and prohibition of litigation, the disaster situation in Henan has gradually stabilized.Every time Gao Yushi went to inspect the porridge factory, the refugees still cried day and night even though they received relief. He starved to death, so he had no choice but to continue to live outside and occupy the porridge factory.

From this, Gao Wushi learned that the disaster victims from all over the country were eager to return to their hometowns, but they had no travel expenses, so the government began to investigate the refugees, subsidize the return to their hometowns, and subsidize the travel expenses according to the distance of the place.Some companies issued a seal, indicating the place of origin, and the states and counties they passed would give three points to the silver.A total of [-] refugees were returned.

Gao Yushi and the chief minister inspected the prefectures and counties, and found that although the local relief was timely and some of the refugees resumed their jobs, they were extremely short of farming tools, so that the fields were barren, so they asked the chief minister if they had any suggestions for disposal.

The chief envoy said: "According to the usual practice, after the disaster, the government will borrow two cattle from every ten households, and the seeds will be given, and the fields of the court will be cultivated, and the food gap will be exempted for five years. But now the cattle are really insufficient. If the government wants to buy them Niu, the expenses are really too big.

In famine years, many cattle were slaughtered by hungry people, and it was difficult to ration them accordingly.We can only strictly survey the barren land, measure the seeds, and distribute the cattle according to the number of fields. "

Gao Yushi said: "This method is very good, and it can solve this problem. For example, if there are hundreds of cattle in a county, you can get thousands of offspring cattle after decades of living. To avoid private slaughter of cattle, the government must register every year and keep them forever. Folk. It grows widely and multiplies, so that people have tools to cultivate, and every household has a field that cannot be cultivated."

The chief envoy replied: "It is just like this, and farming can be gradually resumed in various places, and the disaster will be cured soon." So the government implemented it accordingly, so that the destitute farmers could temporarily re-cultivate their fields.

However, even so, because the total number of cattle is limited, calves will not be born and grow up all at once, so there are still some people who cannot resume farming immediately and become idlers without food and clothing, so the government began to implement work relief.

Under the highly pragmatic arrangement, Henan carried out projects such as rebuilding academies, rebuilding towns, dredging rivers, and building dams.These projects are designed to recruit people, and each person gets three liters of grain per day, which can be used for reconstruction after the disaster, and it can also not affect the livelihood of the people, which benefits both public and private.

One day, Gao Wushi and the chief minister were leading people to inspect Yucheng County. The local folks heard that the visitor was Gao Nanning, who was a Buddha of Wanjia, and they came forward to say hello and warmly invited him to taste the mulberry.

Gao Yushi had no pretensions, took it and ate it, and then talked with them with a smile on his face, and asked: "Since there are mulberries here, we must be able to grow mulberries. If there are mulberries, we can produce some silk. Why do I see no mulberry trees along the way?" What about silk?"

The local folks replied: "Mulberry trees are rarely planted here, and sericulture farmers only sell cocoons instead of spinning silk."

Gao Wushi asked: "Do you know what kind of use this silk can be used for? Do you know how much silver it can be sold for?"

The fellow replied: "I don't know much about it. I only heard that this silk can be used to weave silk. It is a very expensive fabric. But we have never seen it in the countryside. I don't know what the master means?"

Gao Wushi asked again: "The villagers know a lot, so why is there no spinning takeaway in the village?"

The fellow said: "In the past, the villagers were all farming and doing some small business. How could they have time to plant mulberry and silkworms?"

The chief envoy couldn't help asking: "Is Yucheng County just distributing relief food all the time?" The fellow said yes.

After Gao Yushi bid farewell to the local folks, he said to the chief envoy: "Some county officials and local people still only focus on saving food for disaster relief, and are not in a hurry to resume production. To be able to cultivate and eat them, and to weave and clothe them is the way to develop their resources.

The officials of the prefectures and counties are ordered to inspect the farming, and they should take active actions, and various economic crops can be considered in the vacant wasteland.For example, one mu of vacant land can be planted with hundreds of mulberry plants, and ten mu of mulberry plants can be planted with thousands of plants.

More mulberry means more silkworms, more silkworms means more silk, and more silk means more profits.As for planting besides grains, jujubes, pears, persimmons, chestnuts, etc. can also be planted.All kinds of wealth are based on diligence and wisdom. "

The chief envoy cupped his hands and said: "What the cabinet said is very true, food is the people's heaven, and relief is given because of famine. But if farming is abandoned because of relief, the famine will never end."

Gao Yushi asked the chief minister to order the governors of all states and counties to go deep into the rural fields to guide agricultural production. In addition to planting wheat, soybeans and millet, mulberry trees or fruit trees should be planted in suitable soil to enrich agricultural products for production and sales.

At the same time, Gao Wushi found that officials in the Ming Dynasty generally did not have the initiative to guide economic production, and they may not even have such awareness at all. This made him feel that it is necessary to think of ways to improve the ability and enthusiasm of officials in economic work.

He thought about it, and the Ministry of Household Affairs might take the lead in training for this matter, while the Ministry of Officials took the lead in including it in the assessment, so that it could be implemented smoothly.
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