The rise of the prince

Chapter 834 The Idealist

Because Li Xingzhou could see that Xie Linjiang had something to say to him.

So he took Pu Chaling back to the inner hall, where Wang Ke and Xie Linjiang were already waiting.

After seeing the ceremony, Li Xing sat in the main seat, and the two hesitated to speak.

Li Xingzhou stood up and said to Pu Chaling: "You go to the outer hall and wait for me." Pu Chaling nodded and walked out from behind the screen.

Wait in the small hall outside.

"Excuse me, tell me, what's the matter." Li Xingzhou took a sip of the tea in hand, and asked directly. He was sitting on a chair, while Wang Ke and Xie Linjiang were standing.

If Li Xingzhou would let them sit down and talk before, he won't now.

When the status reaches a certain level, it is the other party who will do what the status does, and then make those uncomfortable embarrassments.

If he was an unsuccessful eldest son, he could call Xie Linjiang a brother and brother, and he could act like a virtuous corporal. After all, in Jingguo, princes, elder sons, son-in-laws and the like are stared at by ministers, unless they have the right to inherit Participate in politics.

But with his current status, if the two of them were asked to sit down and talk, they were afraid that they would be so nervous that they would forget what they had thought.

"Your Highness, what we want to talk about happened two months ago. When the army was fighting at the front, we didn't tell you right away in order not to disturb the morale of the army." Wang Ke said.

"At that time, a large amount of grain was transported north, but our country had a lot of grain in stock, and we had already prepared for this war, so the state treasuries in the north had stockpiled grain, and the grain reserves were abundant.

However, big merchants in central Sichuan and Ningjiang Prefecture took the opportunity to spread the news that the army would go on an expedition and consume countless grains, and the price of grains would rise in winter to trick the people into hoarding and snapping up grains, causing grain prices to skyrocket. "

Li Xingzhou frowned: "Then why don't you care?"

"We took care of it, but it was completely useless. At first it was fake, and it was raised by rumors, but later the people looted and hoarded grain, and the price of grain really went up." Xie Linjiang took the conversation and looked helpless.

"Yes, they made the fake ones real, and the people followed suit and handed over their money, and those big businessmen made a lot of money.

Later, we punished several companies in Ningjiang Mansion, recovered some money, and issued an official document to inform people that there is enough food in the front line. The government has prepared for several years and will not increase the price.

But the people's money has been cheated, and it is difficult to send it back. They buy so much rice, and they don't know who was cheated.

And
Mr. Xie thought of a way, we use the money to collect the rice at the original price, and want to return the money." Wang Ke said slowly, Li Xingzhou reacted a bit when it came to this.

"But there are not many people who come to buy, and more people think that the price of food will continue to rise, and they don't believe that they have been cheated." He said lightly.

"Your Highness is wise!"

"I think this method won't work, and it shouldn't go on like this.

But Mr. Xie felt that it was necessary to continue and return all the money to the cheated people one by one.I would like His Highness to make a decision on this matter.

And there is another matter involved at this time, it is the businessmen of the Wu family who are driving up the price of grain in the middle of Sichuan." Speaking of this, Wang Ke shut up.

Li Xingzhou fully understood why the two of them didn't report to the court at this time, but filed a secret complaint with him.

The Wu family in central Shu is the current Empress Wu's family. Jing Guo officials are very strict with their relatives because of the lessons of the Han Dynasty, but even so, Empress Wu's family is not something they dare to mess with.

Going directly to the court may cause trouble to the upper body, even if there is no trouble, it will be nothing.

Li Xingzhou tapped on the table lightly, and casually said, "Sit down, let me think about it." The two sat down with hands clasped.

At the beginning, he loosened the shackles on merchants and vigorously developed commerce and trade along the river in order to make Jing Guo rich quickly, otherwise he would have no money to fight, and he would not be able to solve the imminent crisis.

However, the so-called capital has no motherland, these people can't be completely relieved, let alone betraying the country for the sake of profit, they might even be willing to sell their parents, this incident just proves it.

The army in front is fighting a battle that concerns the fate of the country and the future fate of the people of the country. Are you making such a small move in the back?
Li Xingzhou was about to explode, but he didn't show it.

In addition, he also discovered another problem. Xie Linjiang, as an official who was born in school, although he has been tempered in the officialdom, he still lacks experience in grassroots management.

His actions obviously made a mistake, thinking too well of the grassroots!Too ideal, too taken for granted.

Sooner or later, this kind of person will have big problems.

Li Xingzhou experienced something in his previous life. Back then, he settled in an urban village, which was facing demolition due to urban planning.

At the beginning, the district government negotiated compensation measures with all the villagers, and everyone was satisfied. They could get a sum of money enough for ordinary people to spend half their lives, and they also prepared new houses.

But at that time, the leaders of the district government were too immature and didn't understand the complexity of people in the grassroots management. After negotiating and signing, they directly sent the money to the villagers, and then waited for a year and a half for demolition.

This act of generosity and honorable reputation ruined him.

After getting money, people are completely different.

A few people used the money to open tea factories and pickled mustard production outside the village, and some people set up car repair factories to provide services for the convoys that came around because they were preparing to start construction. The business grew bigger and bigger, and the money was hundreds of times more than the subsidy. .

Some people live peacefully and live comfortably with money.

But there is still a group of people who do nothing after getting the money, eat, drink, play, gather crowds to gamble, and do nothing all day long.

A street is full of restaurants and restaurants from beginning to end. They don't open when no one goes there. They are not afraid of losing money. Anyway, if they have money, they can just dawdle, eat by themselves without customers, and play mahjong every day.

It turns out that it hasn't been a year and a half, and those people have almost spent their money.

Some of these people went to the district government to ask for money, saying that they were not satisfied with the previous compensation, and kept making petition calls, saying that the government owed them money.

As a result, no one paid any attention to them. The security guards of the government felt that these people were simply making trouble for no reason, and their attitude was very bad, and even physical friction occurred.

In the end, I don't know whether they contacted the reporter or the reporter was lucky enough to find them, and the matter was exposed in the city.

The public opinion is directly one-sided, and they all feel that the people at the bottom are pure, kind and simple, and they must be oppressed by the unscrupulous district government.

The district government was also in a hurry, and posted a bunch of documents signed at that time on its official account. As a result, no one read it, or it was said to be coercion, or it was said to be fake, and the compensation was small.

In the end, the city couldn't sit still anymore. In order to quell public anger, they found someone to investigate and hold them accountable. They organized a follow-up report, and then paid some money to those who made trouble.

The people's high-level emotions such as "sense of justice", "demand for fairness" and "sense of social responsibility" are satisfied, and the matter is over.

Later, after the replacement, the senior leaders learned to be smart. When encountering such a thing again, one is to delay the distribution of demolition funds, and the other is to pay them in installments.

The matter itself is also very ironic. Those who use money to do hard work don't get much, and those who use money to live a good life don't get much, and those who are the most troublesome get more money.

So what is the logic behind the distribution according to the noise, and what is the driving force behind it?It is the inexplicable logic of ordinary people that "the people at the bottom are all simple and kind".

No matter where you are, what position you are in, whether you are at the bottom or at the top, there are all kinds of people, good and bad.

Although Xie Linjiang, a scholar, has been honed in the officialdom for several years, his concept is still like that of the district leaders at the beginning, who think of the grassroots as simple and honest, thinking that as long as they pay, they will be rewarded.

If there is no Wang Ke, he will suffer a big loss sooner or later!

Li Xingzhou sighed, Xie Linjiang is indeed a talent, not to mention his responsibility and courage to practice and do practical things, he appreciates it, but it still needs to be polished.

So he said in a deep voice: "You don't need to collect rice at a high price, and put all the money in the treasury."

"Your Highness, the money is all from the common people, so it's inappropriate." Xie Linjiang said.

Li Xingzhou laughed at him: "Why don't you give each of them a different brain, so they won't be cheated in the future; if they can't eat anymore because of being cheated, you can go to each household to feed them?"

"Your Highness." Xie Linjiang looked dazed, probably not understanding why His Highness was suddenly angry with him.

Li Xingzhou became angry when he heard his words, but he didn't want to hurt Xie Linjiang's kindness.

But innocent kindness will kill him. Confucius said that human nature is good, Mencius said that human nature is good, Xunzi said that human nature is evil, and Han Feizi said that human nature is inherently evil.

This is how the pre-Qin philosophers became blackened step by step.

Why are they blackened?Reality teaches life!
After hundreds of years, their views on human nature have been changing until they are completely blackened.And Xie Linjiang had too many fantasies about human nature.

He sighed and said, "It's not that I won't pay them back, when they find out they've been cheated, they'll make trouble with you, so you can pay them back then.

But at that time, we can't let go, and we can't collect rice at a high price. Each family can give a fixed amount to appease the people's hearts, and fight the troubles directly! "

"Why did they make trouble with me? It's not that I lied to them. I even issued an official reminder.

Furthermore, Your Highness, this is not fair, everyone buys different amounts of high-priced rice, how can we generalize," Xie Linjiang was still rambling on.

Li Xingzhou interrupted him directly and loudly: "You are the official of their parents! It's your fault that you were cheated, it's useless if you try to persuade them, I will find you when the time comes!

Also, if you speak fairly, they can buy rice from other places and pretend to knock you off!Don't talk about those illusory things, think about what is real. "

Seeing him getting angry, Xie Linjiang was puzzled and stopped talking.

Li Xingzhou stood up, and then said: "I will clean up the Wu family, and you can settle the Ningjiang mansion!

Wang Zhifu is in charge of this matter, Xie Linjiang, please don't get involved. "

As he said that, he hurried to the outer hall and left with Pu Chaling. This Xie Linjiang lacked the beatings of the society, and he was too idealistic to do business, such a person was unreliable.

He began to consider whether to transfer Xie Linjiang to the front line of Liaodong, let him truly manage the grassroots alone, and see what reality is, otherwise he would not dare to reuse him in the future.

As for the Wu family, they can only be put aside for the time being, as long as the queen is around, they cannot be moved for the time being.
The strategy he is thinking of now is to start from the coast first, and then go to the inland. Because of the queen, the middle of Shu can only be put at the end.

(End of this chapter)