Start a Ming Dynasty plane

Chapter 202

Li Chaosheng's official robe came, accompanied by a letter of appointment from the Ministry of Officials. From now on, he is a serious seventh-rank Lantian magistrate.

The county magistrate of the Ming Dynasty is not necessarily Qipin, but depends on the political situation and economic situation of the county, and the official department will evaluate it, and then find a county for you and divide it into upper county, middle county, or lower county.

The magistrates of the upper county are of the sixth rank, the magistrates of the middle county are of the seventh rank, and the magistrates of the lower county are of the seventh rank.

Li Chaosheng put on the normal clothes of the seventh rank brought by the officials of the official department. The regular uniform of the seventh rank magistrate is a blue Confucian gown, and the official uniform is blue, embroidered with a costume of an unknown bird.

Wearing a black gauze cap on the head, the official hat at this time is called a black gauze cap, unlike the Qing Dynasty, the hat in the Qing Dynasty is called a bucket hat, and a pair of cloth-soled cotton boots are under the feet.

When Li Chaosheng put on this set of clothes, he didn't feel that he had turned into a beast, and he didn't understand why the ancient people's court clothes drew some small animals.

Of course, this is likely to be derived from the dragon robe. After all, the emperor is a dragon, so aren't all the civil and military officials the beasts of the dragon?

There is nothing wrong with thinking so.

Putting on his official robes and bearing the county magistrate's seal, Li Chaosheng rode his horse to Lantian County Yamen to serve as magistrate.

Bai Shoumin had gotten the news a long time ago, so he sorted out the county office and waited there quietly.

When Li Chaosheng arrived, Bai Shoumin hurriedly greeted him. Originally, some old people in the county government wanted to bully the county magistrate, but after seeing the [-] strong and murderous security guards behind Li Chaosheng, they were completely honest.

At this time Li Chaosheng got off his horse, looked at the dilapidated magistrate's office in front of him, frowned and said: "How can this majestic county's office be so dilapidated."

At this time, Bai Shoumin hurried forward and said: "My lord, this county government has not been repaired for many years."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng turned his head and said to Guzi who was following behind him: "Tomorrow, I will bring the engineering team to tear down this county government office for me, and build a new one for me. By the way, we will find more victims to do it."

"Yes."

Gu Zi responded, followed Li Chaosheng to see a magnificent house behind the county government office and asked, "Is that the county magistrate's residence?"

Bai Shoumin said: "Yes, my lord."

Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "Go, go inside and talk."

Li Chaosheng rode his horse into the home of Zhang Dezheng, the former magistrate. At this time, the house was completely cleaned up. Bai Shoumin asked many women to clean up the house. Li Chaosheng took a look around. It doesn't seem crowded for at least 100 people.

Li Chaosheng nodded, then turned his head to look at a group of old people in the county government office and said, "From now on, I will be the county magistrate of Lantian."

"I have seen the master."

Everyone responded, and at this time Li Chaosheng said: "First of all, I announce the first order. From now on, all the officials in the county will be dismissed, and all the soldiers patrolling the city will be dismissed, and the people I lead will take over."

"what!"

Everyone was shocked after hearing this, and then looked at Li Chaosheng in disbelief, Li Chaosheng continued: "Second, announce the appointment of Li Chaolong, the county magistrate, Bai Shoumin, the county lieutenant, and Liu Degui, the chief secretary. Official Zhao Yuquan..."

After a circle of names were read, the entire county government changed hands. From then on, almost all of Lantian County were Li Chaosheng's cronies. They acted so nakedly as soon as they came to power, because with Li Chaosheng's strength, he didn't need to drag anyone along.

Among them, the county magistrate is similar to the deputy county magistrate, and most of his work is to assist Li Chaosheng. Li Chaolong is a stable person and worthy of a great responsibility.

The county lieutenant is similar to the current head of the Public Security Bureau. Bai Shoumin is an old yamen servant. He knows the rules here and is tactful. He will not be too blunt in handling some conflicts and intensify them.

The chief secretary Liu Degui was a former famous criminal master of the county government. He still has abilities and is very upright. Bai Shoumin thought highly of him, but when Zhang De was in office, he was not used in the same way, because Zhang Dezheng didn't care if it was an unjust case or not. , he was promoted only to make money.

In addition to them, there is Zhao Yuquan, the pawn. The pawn is the warden. Zhao Yuquan used to be the deputy pawn of Lantian. Just get promoted.

The main reason is that Li Chaosheng cannot be used by others. Li Chaohu, a pockmark, can’t show his face now.

After Li Chaosheng announced the quota, he waved his hand immediately, and the next moment Shi Xiaolei Guzi led his men to arrest some of the high-ranking pawns and master clerks who were present before.

"You, what are you doing, what are you doing?"

The few people didn't react at this moment, and shouted loudly. At this time, Li Chaosheng stretched out his hand, and Bai Shoumin brought over a pamphlet, which was all evidence of these people's corruption and perverting the law. Li Chaosheng waved in front of everyone, "I need a Can you read one by one?"

At this time, everyone's face was ashen, and some people shouted in disbelief: "Li Chaosheng, you liquidated us as soon as you took office. You are unpopular, unpopular."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at these people and said, "People, are you people?"

As Li Chaosheng said, he immediately said to Shi Xiaolei: "Lead someone, ransack the homes of these adults, confiscate all their property, and investigate according to the criminal evidence above. If there are any perpetrators in their families, arrest them all and send them to prison." Go to Beixiang Reservoir to work."

"Yes."

As Shi Xiaolei said, he escorted these people out of the house. These people were yelling and cursing endlessly, but it was useless. In the face of absolute strength, they couldn't turn the tide.

At this time, Li Chaosheng looked at Liu Degui, the chief bookkeeper, and Zhao Yuquan, the court official, said, "You two are pretty good among these people, but you should also be taken as a warning. I don't rub sand in my eyes."

After hearing this, Liu Degui and Zhao Yuquan immediately cupped their hands and said, "I would like to follow your lord's order."

At this time, the two were also frightened by Li Chaosheng's thunderous tactics. At this time, Li Chaosheng looked at everyone and said, "Okay, I will issue the last order to announce that I will call all the landlords and squires in the 18 towns of Lantian and the county government. meeting."

After hearing this, Bai Shoumin, who had just been promoted to county captain, frowned and said, "What if they don't come?"

Li Chaosheng frowned, "If we don't come, we won't guarantee their safety, and if the disaster victims flock into their homes to do something, we won't be able to control them."

Hearing this, Bai Shoumin was stunned. When he saw Li Chaosheng put on his official uniform, he almost forgot that Li Chaosheng was the underground emperor of Lantian County, and now he was the leader in public. If those two were combined, he was Lantian The earth emperor!
Thinking of this, Bai Shoumin immediately bowed his hand, and then went to notify Li Chaosheng. At this time, Li Chaosheng glanced at Bai Shoumin and said, "Your yamen servants have been arrested, big cousin, you go and send some people to notify Bai Xianwei."

"Yes."

Li Chaolong immediately cupped his hands, and galloped out following the [-]th-route fast horse. At this moment, Li Chaosheng glanced at Bai Shoumin and said, "Don't worry, go back to Qingyu tomorrow to find Qianjin and Liu Airen, and let them start from the construction site." The Corps will select two hundred yamen servants for you."

"Ah, Construction Corps."

Bai Shoumin still knows that the Construction Corps is a group of farmers, isn't it?
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "Don't underestimate them, they have undergone strict military training, they can fight better than ordinary guard soldiers, and they are ten thousand times stronger than you former government servants."

As Li Chaosheng said, he followed Bai Shoumin and clasped his fists, "It's my lord."

At this time, Li Chaosheng turned his head to look at the master secretary Liu Degui and said, "Master Liu, the next job for you and Zhao Yuquan is to retry the wronged prisoners in the prison. If they are not guilty, they will be released immediately, and each person can go to the county government to receive one or two dollars." compensation in silver."

After hearing this, Master Liu and Zhao Yuquan cupped their hands together: "My lord is benevolent and righteous."

At this time, Li Chaosheng looked at Mr. Liu and said: "I seldom sit in court. If there is any criminal name, you can act as an agent. Remember, you must live with your conscience. Everything must be done in accordance with the law of the Ming Dynasty. There must be no Do you understand the part of favoritism and fraud?"

"Yes."

Director Liu immediately surrendered his hands, and Li Chaosheng looked at Zhao Yuquan again and said, "I heard that the atmosphere in the prison is very bad. There are often jailers who whip prisoners and don't treat them as human beings. This is not acceptable. You also have the problem of collecting money from prisoners. , We have to change it, prison is not a place to get rich."

"Yes."

Zhao Yuquan said immediately, and at this time Li Chaosheng looked at Zhao Yuquan and said, "Tomorrow, Bai Shoumin will bring you a hundred new jailers. If you have any problems with your old jailers, you can go back and investigate for me. Those who plead guilty will be given a lighter punishment. Otherwise, send me to Beixiang Reservoir to repair the reservoir."

"Yes."

Zhao Yuquan took the order immediately, and Zhao Yuquan had seen Li Chaosheng's resolute actions.

Li Chaosheng let everyone go, and Shi Xiaolei said at the side: "Brigade Commander, we are now the masters of the entire Lantian, should we expand the army to 1 people?"

Li Chaosheng shook his head and said: "No matter how powerful you are, you will be feared by the court, and 1 people can't make the bandits fear Lantian County. We have to come up with a better method."

"Ok?"

Shi Xiaolei looked at Li Chaosheng with a puzzled look on his face. At this time, Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said, "We want to turn the 27 people in Lantian County into soldiers who can fight and kill, and we want to make the thieves as long as they enter Lantian without seeing them." The regular army will be beaten up by the common people first."

"Ah, how is this possible!"

Li Chaosheng turned his head to look at Shi Xiaolei and said, "We must be good at using the people."

After saying this, Li Chaosheng said: "However, don't be in a hurry, take your time, and don't take too long steps all at once, as it is easy to cause trouble."

As Li Chaosheng said, he stretched his waist and looked at Zhang Dezheng's house; "It's really good, it will be ours from now on."

In the afternoon, all the respectable landlords from the eighteen townships came. The big guys gathered in one room, and they didn't know why the county magistrate forcibly called him here.

And just when everyone was wondering, Li Chaolong in an official robe came in. Now Li Chaolong is the county magistrate, and the big guys stared wide-eyed. Among them, Wang Laocai was the most shocked. In a blink of an eye, he became an official ?
At this moment, Li Chaolong looked at the crowd and said: "Fathers and folks, let's get to know each other. My name is Li Chaolong. I am the magistrate of this county. The magistrate of the county has something to do. Today I will tell you the purpose of calling you here."

"I'm looking for everyone this time, mainly because I hope everyone will hand over all the food at home and distribute it uniformly..."

As soon as he said this, there was an uproar. Everyone stared at Li Chaolong, "Do you want to eat farts?"Who would hand in all their food these days?

"I said, Mr. County Prime Minister, the food is what we all have worked so hard to grow, and your court can't force you to leave. We are going to leave. Whatever we eat, people will die."

"That's right, that's right, my lord, think about it again, we can't hand it over, we can't hand it over."

"Yes, I can't."

A group of people clamored that they couldn't pay, Li Chaolong didn't panic at this time, he just said lightly: "You rich people, think clearly, now Lantian County has gathered 7 disaster victims, and our county government has no personnel who can fight against [-] people. If these people I am so hungry, I know that everyone has food at home, let alone food, I am afraid that whether you can survive will be a problem."

After hearing this, everyone's eyes widened. This is a problem. Seventy thousand disaster victims are like locusts crossing the border. Everyone is rich and rich for many years. Of course, they know the saying that the landlord eats the tenant farmers in good times, and the tenant farmers eat the landlord. .

And these [-] disaster victims are much more terrifying than the tenant farmers. What, what can we do about this.

Everyone was frowning, sitting in the room without saying a word, thinking about gains and losses, and whether they could bear the consequences of the impact of the victims. Everyone was almost in despair.

An hour later, in this oppressive atmosphere, someone let out a long sigh and said, "Forget it, since you've encountered this catastrophic year, just admit your bad luck and donate."

One person opened his mouth and the others seemed to have made a decision, and they all decided to donate, saving their lives first.

But just donated like this, everyone still had resentment in their hearts, at this moment Li Chaolong pushed the door open, followed by Li Chaosheng walked in wearing the county magistrate's mansion, and immediately cupped his hands and said: "Gentlemen have been waiting for a long time ,Awaited."

After hearing this, the others looked at Li Chaosheng together and said, "I have seen the county magistrate."

"You're welcome, sit down, sit down."

Li Chaosheng motioned for everyone to sit down, then took a sip of tea and said, "Gentlemen, the county magistrate has told you about the food donation, right?"

After hearing this, the landlords all nodded: "I said it, I said it."

"Then how are you thinking?"

After hearing this, everyone was silent, Li Chaosheng was not in a hurry to speak, and for a long time a landlord who did not give up said: "My lord, we all know the situation in Lantian, and we are willing to do something for the fathers and villagers of Lantian, but my lord, I have donated all the food stored in the family, I am reluctant."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng took a sip of his tea and said, "That's true, and everyone knows that I bought a lot of land from you this year, and our family built a canal this year, and the grain harvest was bumper. There are a lot, so let me make a sample for you first. This year, my family harvested a total of [-] dans of grain (one place in Tanggou Town, not including Liudayukou). I don’t keep any, and donate it all. You can supervise it tomorrow. Go to Get food from my house!"

After hearing this, all the landlords looked at Li Chaosheng in surprise. After all, nine thousand dans of grain was almost ten times their harvest this year.
The landlord Laocai's eyes widened, Li Chaosheng took another sip of tea and said, "This time, I have destroyed my family and relieved the difficulties. Of course, I am a county lord now, so I should do this step. You are all country gentry, so you don't need to learn the basics." Officer, in this way you donate [-]%, leaving two floors enough to feed your family, and when the weather is good in the coming year, Lantian will definitely repay you twice."

After hearing this, everyone was obviously relieved, and there was a hint of a smile on their faces, [-]% and [-]% left, which is much better than donating all. At this time, everyone seemed to be taking advantage, and they all nodded: "Follow your lord's order."

This is the way to control people. At the beginning, Li Chaosheng gave a goal that was very difficult to achieve. As long as he let go of his mouth a little, the other party will feel that it is cheap. This trick is actually very practical in life. , I will buy you a new game console.

In fact, the psychological expectation of the parents is that a score of 99 or [-] is enough for the test, and then the son took the test of [-] and [-], and felt that the game console was ruined in his heart. After hearing this, the parents were very satisfied. But he pretended to be embarrassed and said: "Well, it's okay this time, I bought a game console for you, and I have to take the double hundred test next time."

Then the child will be very happy.

Of course, this example may not be appropriate, but the principle is the same, that is, first establish a higher psychological expectation, and then lower the goal, and you will reap joy.

Li Chaosheng changed the amount of donated food to [-]%, and immediately won the support of the landlords, especially on the premise that Li Chaosheng set an example.

Immediately afterwards, Li Chaosheng discussed with everyone, preparing to hold a mobilization meeting. The main spirit of this meeting was to mobilize wealthy families in Lantian County to donate excess grain.

The meeting was scheduled for ten o'clock in the morning the next day.

Before the meeting started, the entire venue was packed with people. The meeting was held in the wasteland outside the city, and a high platform was set up to welcome all the people in the county to come and watch the ceremony.

At the beginning of the meeting, Li Chaosheng took the lead on the stage, followed by the mobilization.

"Fathers and folks, I am Li Chaosheng, the magistrate of this county. I am from the Li family in Tanggou Town. We are all fellow villagers, so I know that it is not easy for everyone. However, the famine in Shaanxi has spread this year, and we still have a bite to eat in southern Shaanxi. , the land in northern Shaanxi has already begun to change children and eat, if you don’t believe me, ask the victims who fled to your townships.”

"In this year of catastrophe, there will be eggs under the nest, and we in Lantian can't be alone, and we won't have a good time this year, so we have to carry it together this year, and the food must be distributed uniformly, and each family can't eat the food of each family. , all farmers, each household will leave half of the rations, and the rest will be handed over and distributed uniformly. This year, we in Lantian County must not starve to death."

"I won't say much else. For the donation of grain, I, the county magistrate, took the lead in donating. I harvested a total of [-] dans of grain this year. I didn't keep a grain of grain. I shipped it all to the county government. You can go to Tang Gou Town Supervisor, to see if my grain transportation team is fake, I hope everyone will donate enthusiastically, especially the landlords of the towns.”

Once Li Chaosheng finished speaking, it was like a signal.

I heard a landlord in the crowd shout loudly: "My Wang family in Languan Town has donated all the food this year, a total of [-] dan."

"My Zhu family in Xiaozhai Town donated [-] tons of food."

"My Sun family in Lanqiao Town donated [-] tons of food."

……

At first, the common people thought it was a means of exploitation by Xinzhi County, but after hearing the voices of these landlords, everyone was stunned. How much grain these landlords produced, and there are probably a few of them as tenant farmers, and the villagers probably have a few of them. Are these landlords crazy and donated all the food?

The people were shocked, but there were also people who were sober in the crowd.

"Hehe... It's another trick played by the government to fool people. They really treat us as fools?"

After hearing this, people around said: "What do you mean?"

The man said: "This is an old trick. The big family is just helping to call the number. When the time comes, the government will not accept a grain of grain from them. They will divide up our little grain and play tricks."

After hearing this, the common people stared and said, "Impossible?"

The human being soberly said: "If you don't believe me, just wait and see."

"If you really want to do this, I won't hand over the food, or you will die!"

"That's right, no food will be handed over."

There was a lot of discussion among a group of people, everyone was not a fool, and deceiving people was definitely not acceptable.

At a mobilization meeting, the common people looked at everything indifferently one by one. Li Chaosheng thought that he would respond with enthusiasm, but it seemed that he was not serious. The common people did not trust him at all. Neither is trusted.

These officials are not wronged to be pulled out and shot one by one.

It seems that this trust needs to be built up by yourself a little bit, and the way to build it is to be honest.

The next day, dozens of carts pulled the grain from Tanggou Town to the granary in Lantian County. Everyone's eyes widened when they saw the genuine grain.

Is it true, because on the same day, the grains of other landlords were also loaded and transported to the large granary in Lantian.

The truckloads of grain were transported to the large warehouse in Lantian. Li Chaosheng ordered the locksmith to make a huge lock. To open this lock, three keys were needed to open it. One key, Li Chaosheng gave to the county grain manager. Official, Shi Xiaolei, and the other two keys, Li Chaosheng asked the whole county to elect two elders who are most trustworthy by the people.

In the final round of selection, two elders were selected, originally there were three, and one was Li Jinli from Tanggou Town, but the old man voluntarily withdrew from the competition in order to avoid suspicion.

So the elder who was in charge of the key was selected. Li Chaosheng stipulated that from the day the grain was put into storage, there would be 200 security guards outside every day, and no one was allowed to play with fire within 50 meters.

Then the granary opens twice a day at [-]:[-] a.m. and [-]:[-] p.m. to transport grain to various places for the workers to eat, and after each granary is opened, the common people can come to visit and see if there is any shortage of grain.

The supervision of the people is welcome.

After Li Chaosheng did this, he sent people to the countryside to collect grain, and his attitude was not very strong. Li Chaosheng made a rule to store grain for each household to survive this winter, and collect the surplus for unified distribution.

This job went smoothly, thanks to Li Chaosheng's example and the exemplary role played by the landlords in the county.

"brigadier."

At the county magistrate's house, Li Chaosheng was eating a sweet potato, a very small sweet potato. This is Li Chaosheng's meal today. Of course, that's what he said, for the servants to see.

Save it for everyone to spread, in fact, every meal, Li Chaosheng will secretly use the time and space door to go back, and then what kind of hot pot, rice and chicken, you are welcome to kill it.

Anyway, Li Chaosheng won't really lose his stomach, the sweet potatoes are really for show, and the small sweet potatoes that are as thick as two thumbs are for Li Chaosheng to sew.

But even so, the reputation of Li Chaosheng's frugality has spread. Everyone knows that Li Chaosheng eats a small sweet potato for every meal, and there is absolutely nothing extra.

In the home of the magistrate, there are women who help with laundry and servants who help with work. Li Chaosheng didn't want to use these people at first, but later saw that these people would have no food if they didn't need them, so he divided some of the laundry and cooking work. give them.

And these people are all locals, and they can go home after finishing their work, so they can see the county magistrate eating every day, and they can also know that the kitchen made these sweet potatoes today.

The words of these people were convincing, and soon people knew about it and believed it. Of course, some people said soberly: "Hey, let's pretend, let's see if he can survive for a few days."

In the end, the slap in the face was so unexpected, Li Chaosheng insisted on it for a month, everyone was dumbfounded, and some people laughed at the sobriety in the world; "You can pretend to be sober for a month, you know how to guess randomly every day, don't you feel ashamed?"

Sober in the world: "Hey, shouldn't it be? It's a ruthless person who can pretend like this."

Two months, the sobriety of the world collapsed, and three months of sobriety completely shut up, even if it was pretended, if it could be pretended for three months, it would be true. Secretly delivered eggs to the magistrate's office.

Of course, these are all things to talk about, and Li Chaosheng doesn't know about these folk affairs.

Li Chaosheng is now concerned about big things.

The grain in Tanggou Town, the grain from the major landlords, and the excess grain collected by the common people were all put into the warehouses. Now the warehouses in Lantian County are much more than the grain in the harvest year.

A total of nearly [-] tans of grain were installed. With so much grain, no one in the whole of Lantian, not the whole of Shaanxi, has so much grain.

Looking at these grains, the people of Lantian have a solid foundation in their hearts. With these grains as a foundation, at least they will not starve to death.

So the entire Lantian started a big construction in full swing. First, the Lantian County Government was demolished and rebuilt, and then all the victims were sent to the construction site to build reservoirs and canals.

Li Chaosheng wants everyone to get up, it’s not enough to just eat and not work. Now that the food is in Li Chaosheng’s hands, Li Chaosheng uses the food to mobilize the people and start building water conservancy projects in Lantian.

The Beixiang Reservoir has gathered 2 people to build it, and Qingfeng personally sits in charge. He promised Li Chaosheng that the reservoir will be put into use in the spring of next year. If not, he will come to see him.

But he was kicked away by Li Chaosheng, don't come here, boy, you are now the commander-in-chief of Lantian Water Conservancy, more important than me, I can kill you.

As for other disaster victims, they are scattered in various towns and villages. It is not harmful to build canals and reservoirs for Lao Tzu.

Of course, these are the jobs of men. As for the women, they help to cook, and the food is distributed according to the village every day. After the distribution, the women in the village gather together to cook the food and eat together.

The current policy is that if you work, you will have food, and if you don’t work, you will have food.

And doing so will definitely save food, and the efficiency is particularly high. Of course, this policy cannot be implemented for a long time, but it is definitely an excellent rescue method in a disaster year.

Everyone is working, and the victims are working harder than the local people. It is rare for them to participate in the construction of water conservancy projects, and the women are arranged on the river, cutting the ice and throwing the ice into the ground.

In this way, as long as the ice melts in the coming year, the land here will be moistened, and even if it does not rain, the planting can be completed smoothly.

Sowing is the most important thing.

Everyone in the entire Lantian County was mobilized by Li Chaosheng, and everyone worked hard to work hard, because in this era, only those who work hard can be qualified to live.

Li Chaosheng took the county chief, the county lieutenant, and a group of people walked on the road in the countryside, watching the county citizens who were in full swing.

Master Liu couldn't help sighing: "My lord, I have only seen such a grand occasion in my life. When other local officials encountered such natural disasters, they either asked the court for food, or believed in the magic of gods and ghosts, and asked the sorceress to pray for rain. God takes pity on them and gives them a way to live, but often they can’t do both.”

"The imperial court is unable to rescue the disaster, and God has no intention to rescue the disaster. In the end, it can only cause countless deaths and injuries to the people, corpses litter the field, and people cannibalize each other."

"However, my lord, you are able to achieve such a level and fight against the sky, your lord is really No. 1 in ancient and modern times."

The old master was really shocked. Of course, the ancient and modern No. 1 he mentioned must be flattering, but Li Chaosheng is quite comfortable listening to this kind of unparalleled flattery.

Li Chaosheng looked at the people working at this time and said: "In fact, natural disasters are not terrible. What is terrible is that people bow their heads in front of disasters. Moreover, the catastrophe in Shaanxi is obviously avoidable, and the solution is also very simple. As long as the county magistrate Building more canals before the disaster can completely eliminate the disaster, but why is no official willing to do this?"

After hearing this, the old master was silent for a moment and said: "There is nothing to gain, nothing to do."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at the old master and said, "What's the explanation?"

The old master sighed and said, "My lord, the matter of Lantian can only be carried out by an adult. In other counties, it is impossible. Firstly, there is no profit. The purpose of being an official is to make a fortune and build aqueducts." It costs money, and that official will spend money for the common people, and now there are many political parties in the officialdom of Ming Dynasty, the first thing an official thinks about is self-protection."

"It's not a problem to increase taxes and collect people's anointing in the officialdom, because they are all doing it, but if you repair the canal, you will make people jealous. If you don't repair it, you will be incompetent. It just gives others a mouthful. Why bother?" unprofitable."

"As for being powerless, do you think the county magistrate can do whatever he wants? Usually the county magistrate can collect a little money, but if he really collects the food from all the wealthy landlords like adults, the landlords will quit. These people It doesn't matter who, when the time comes, you, the county magistrate, will not know who will be impeached and dismissed from office."

"That's why the county magistrates know that the common people can be bullied, but the gentry cannot be bullied, and you, my lord, led hundreds of elite soldiers with tyrannical force, and you are the number one gentry in Lantian, so you can do things that other people can't do, that's why I said my lord It is No.1 in the ages."

"I only hope that the adults can be the magistrate of Lantian forever, so that Lantian can get out of the quagmire step by step and live a good life."

(End of this chapter)