Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 416: People-oriented Ming Dynasty, major crimes occurred frequently
After the imperial court captured Bozhou Xuanwei Division, it was renamed Bozhou Prefecture and included in Guizhou.

There are only six prefectures in Chongqing Province, Chongqing Prefecture, Kuizhou Prefecture, Baoning Prefecture, Shunqing Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture and Xuzhou Prefecture. Yongning Xuanwei Division was included in Luzhou Prefecture.

It has a vast area, but apart from Chongqing, there are really not many wealthy places.

For example, Kuizhou Prefecture in the north has been deeply affected by flooding in the Yangtze River. As a result, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, it is unable to use the Yangtze River's transport capacity to transport things overseas.

The Ministry of Water Resources once proposed the construction of the Three Gorges Project.

However, there are great advantages and disadvantages. The main disadvantage is that the river will swallow up a large area of ​​cultivated land. When the tide recedes, the cultivated land will become muddy and salinized. It is expected that 100,000 acres of cultivated land will be lost. The loss will continue in the future, and millions of acres of good farmland may be lost.

Secondly, there is serious water and soil erosion, which washes downstream sediment into the sea, losing downstream sediment in vain, causing damage to the downstream economy.

The benefits are also huge. It can effectively prevent floods and disasters, allow river ships to sail smoothly, and can also effectively generate electricity.

Everything has pros and cons.

From the perspective of transportation capacity, the advantages definitely outweigh the disadvantages. Chongqing will also become a giant city in the mainland because of the Three Gorges Project.

The imperial court has been discussing it for more than 20 years, but there is still no conclusion. The main reason is that it is concerned about fertile land. There are many port cities in the Ming Dynasty, including Chongqing, but there is not much arable land.

With a population approaching four billion, food is a huge headache.

In the Ming Dynasty, food was never allowed to be wasted.

In the 39th year of Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty established the Department of Frugality to deal with private waste issues. Waste of food, water resources, etc. would be fined and detained.

All restaurants in Daming must submit a report on Operation CD every month, and occasionally investigators from the Department of Frugality will conduct random inspections.

Every year, the imperial court calls on people all over the world to cherish food and save water.

Including the royal family, the old emperor never wasted food. One meal consisted of eight side dishes and one soup, two main meals and three simple meals a day, such as breakfast, afternoon tea and supper. They were simple meals and they ate more casually.

The emperor had eight small bowls of dishes, the concubines had six dishes, the princes, princes, grandsons and ministers all had four dishes, and the canteens in the palace all had the same standard.

The emperor eats more than eight dishes. If he is discussing business, he will give it to the ministers. If he is working alone, he will give it to the palace people.

This kind of gift is not given to anyone after the emperor has done the work, but given directly to him, and the emperor does not move.

The palace should take the lead in not wasting food, and the officials in the court should also follow suit.

In the forty-second year of Jingtai, an official knowingly found a large amount of food from a dirty water bucket. The old emperor directly dismissed him from the official position and never hired him. His family was exiled to a bitter and cold place.

Therefore, the trend of frugality was established at that time.

The Ming Dynasty is a country that is extremely short of arable land, food, and even water resources. The limit of the population supported by this land is 25 billion, but the Ming Dynasty has more than billion people above the red line.

Although it can maintain stable growth in housing prices, the disadvantage is that there is simply not enough food to eat.

As the population of the vassal state grew, less and less food was exported, and more and more of the food that the Ming Dynasty needed was imported, and more and more meat was needed.

The real big eaters of food are not people, but animals. Animals eat food and grow up, and people eat meat and become fat.

In the 60th year of Jingtai's reign, Zhu Jianqi took the lead in eating fish, encouraging people to eat more fish and replace livestock meat with fish meat.

Very little effect.

Although the Ming Dynasty is coastal, it is not a maritime country, but a standard continental country. It has a natural resistance and fear of marine life.

Common people don’t like to eat wild seafood.

But the common people readily accept farmed seafood because the strong fishy smell has been removed.

Many marine fish do not sell well in the mainland. People in coastal cities quite like them, but people in inland cities don't.

Daming has one of the world's largest natural fishing grounds, the Hokkaido Fishing Ground.

As long as we are willing to catch it, there will be enough marine fish to feed the whole country.

But people won’t buy it if they don’t like it, businesses can’t make money, and the fishing industry can’t develop. On the contrary, the aquaculture industry is booming.

Although people in the mainland do not like to eat sea fish, they are happy to eat crabs and prawns, so there are Dongting Lake hairy crabs, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, Poyang Lake hairy crabs and other river crabs. The most popular aquaculture industry is shrimp farming.

Ming people can consume 1.7 million kilograms of crab aquatic products and 12 billion kilograms of shrimp aquatic products every day, while the consumption of marine fish is only 1.2 million kilograms.

Some people may say that chicken and duck meat can be used instead of livestock meat?

In fact, the ecology needs to reach a balance. If you raise too many chickens and ducks, chicken and duck plague will occur. If you want to change the ecological balance, you need to acquire technology.

People these days are relatively simple and have not yet risked everything for money.

However, drugs such as meat enhancers and clenbuterol have appeared, but they are still used on a small scale, and the people who use them are still cautious and secretly feed them.

Within a few years, you will find that there are ruthless jobs everywhere.

In fact, the imperial court was doing hard work and was forced to do so. There was not enough food to eat, not to mention not enough meat to eat. If there was no other way, some of the four billion people would go hungry or rebel.

In the forty-seventh year of Jingtai, the old emperor made the development of characteristic agriculture the first strategic national policy of the Ming Dynasty and would not waver within a hundred years.

Starting from the 48th year of Jingtai's reign, agricultural product research institutes appeared in many cities. It is said that the court and the palace invested more than one billion yuan each in research and development.

Compared with hunger, health problems should be put on the back burner.

In the 63rd year of Jingtai's reign, the imperial court introduced a new breed of chicken called white-feathered chicken. It was a new breed that matured in six months. The chicken portion was large enough, and the meat was tender and delicious. A chicken could grow to 16 or 7 pounds when it became an adult.

Later, in the 182th year of Jingtai, the Cherry Valley duck was introduced. The maturity period of breeding ducks is 210 days. The parents produce an average of 220 to 75 eggs per year, and the egg weight is grams.

Introducing science and technology into farming is no longer a secret, it is justifiable.

Not only in animal husbandry, but also in the cultivation of grain, fruits and vegetables, technology is also used on a large scale.

The imperial court invests more than one billion into the research institute every year for updates and iterations.

Before Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty's grain yield per mu was 350 kilograms. During the Jingtai Dynasty, new rice species were introduced, hybrids were constantly hybridized, new rice seeds were developed, and pesticides and chemical fertilizers were used, so the grain yield per mu increased steadily every year.

In the 760th year of Jingtai, in Kuizhou Prefecture, Chongqing Province, the annual output of one acre of rice fields was about kilograms, more than doubled.

Kuizhou Prefecture not only grows rice, but also grows wheat, corn, cassava, barley, sorghum, etc.

Now that people have more fat in their stomachs, they are not eating as much food as before. If they eat a lot of fruits, vegetables and meat, they will save more food.

Although no one starved to death in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court still regarded food security as its top strategy.

We must ensure a stable supply of food, ensure that food prices do not rise or fall, and ensure that farmers have income from work and something to depend on in their old age.

As industrialization progresses in full swing, more and more young people have left the countryside and are unwilling to farm.

But the land cannot be taken back by the court.

If it is taken back and falls into the hands of capital, the emperor will not be able to sleep.

Therefore, in the 53rd year of Jingtai, social security and medical insurance were covered throughout the countryside. By the 63rd year of Jingtai, all farmers were covered.

Farmers who farm at home pay social security and medical insurance, while migrant workers do not have this preferential policy, because for migrant workers, the security benefits are paid by the factory and must be paid.

This is also one of the reasons for the increase in labor costs.

Farmers do not have to pay taxes or social security. The government has no choice but to provide them with welfare policies and medical insurance and let them take the initiative to pay.

Of course, it is also to ensure that more people can farm in rural areas.

In the fifteenth year of Jingtai, when the Ming Dynasty entered a slow industrial period, it issued a policy that the land was not allowed to be deserted. Once it was verified, the land was confiscated and the whole family was exiled.

Although the Ming Dynasty has a huge land area, it has a lot of people. After average, there are more people and less land, and the living space is narrow, not even enough oxygen.

Daming is a country that is extremely short of land, resources, food, and water resources.

The Ming Dynasty has eight major rivers, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Heilongjiang River, the Lena River, the Yenisey River, the Ob River, the Zhonghua River, and the Lancang River, but it is still a water-poor country.

With the launch of the North-South Water Utilization Project, there may be no water shortage in the north of the Ming Dynasty in thirty years.

Daming seems to have a lot of coal and iron resources, but they are all buried in permafrost areas. Currently, apart from the mainland, the mineral resources that can be mined are the Altai Mountains, Sakhalin Island, and Borneo. Laos and Myanmar have minerals, but mining is difficult. , the cost is too high.

It can be said that more than a dozen large oil deposits have been detected in the permafrost area, but how to mine them?

Judging from the resource map, the Ming Dynasty is vast and rich in resources.

But when it was actually used, it turned into a resource-poor country.

Zhu Houyong came out of Chongqing and entered Qutangguan in Kuizhou Prefecture. When he entered the first gorge of the Three Gorges, he could only hear the sound of running water and knew that the waves were majestic.

But this small town is also very magnificent.

On his way into the small town, someone stopped him and complained. It was a real estate developer who sued the Qutang County Government, claiming that the company owed the company 100 million yuan and would not repay it.

After learning about it, he sent people to visit the site and found that the owners of the community were also filing a lawsuit against the unscrupulous developer. They had not paid down the rent even after ten years of living in the community. The property management of the community did not care about anything other than collecting money and could not replace them.

The developer immediately had something to say, saying that the county government was in arrears with the project payment, and the property was mortgaged in the bank. If he had no money to pay back to the bank, he would not be able to get the property, and he would not be able to distribute the property to the residents of the community. .

Zhu Houyong came to the county magistrate, but the magistrate said that this was a mess left by the previous magistrate and had nothing to do with him. However, in the county government's public accounts, the money was repaid. As for the owners of the community who asked to change their properties, the county also sent people to Yes, but the real estate developer and the developer are in the same group. They stay in the community and drive the people to sue the county government. They work together in collusion.

Zhu Houyong was very happy: "I want to ask you, why did the imperial court ask you to be the county magistrate?"

"Of course it's about governing the place." The magistrate said calmly.

"Then have you managed the place well?" Zhu Houyong asked.

"It's under control. The tolls on the bridge used to be unreasonable. After Weichen took office, he canceled the tolls on the bridge and allowed vehicles to pass freely. There were several unfinished buildings in the local area. It was also because of Weichen's efforts that the people were able to live in houses. "

The county magistrate said: "This is all a mess left by the previous magistrate. Wei Chen is indeed a county parent, but he is not a god. He can take care of everything."

Zhu Houyong still couldn't control him, so he put all the blame on the previous magistrate.

But if he followed his lead, Zhu Houyong would still be considered a thousand-year-old man.

"The problems of the previous county magistrate were investigated by the officials. I just want to ask you one thing. Are you the local county magistrate?" Zhu Hooying asked.

"Yes!"

"Then you should take care of it! If you can't take care of it, go home and eat free rice! Don't eat nothing here!" Zhu Houyong's face showed a stern expression.

The magistrate didn't dare to say anything, but he was still unconvinced.

"Bring the real estate developer here and ask him how big the project is. How big of a project can I owe him 100 million?" Zhu Houying knew very well how real estate developers and officials colluded. The water here was too deep.

The real estate developer calculated an account for him and explained the arrears clearly one by one.

"You are very powerful. How can you advance so much money and lend it to the county government?"

Zhu Houyong stared at him: "The county government owes you money, but you let thousands of people in the entire community suffer with you. You know how to operate power, and you dare to block Gu's mastery. You are not simple."

"The villain doesn't dare, the villain doesn't dare!" The real estate developer knelt on the ground.

"Get up. Kneeling has been abolished since tomorrow. You don't have to kneel when you see me. Get up. You didn't make a mistake. Why are you kneeling?"

Zhu Houying smiled and said: "Tell me, who taught you?"

"No one teaches villains." The real estate developer was sweating like rain.

"Use the people of Ming Dynasty as bargaining chips. If you feel uncomfortable, let everyone accompany you to suffer. If you are unhappy, let everyone accompany you to suffer. You are bad enough. You are a developer, how did you end up in a real estate company?"

"The villain owns a property company."

"Oh!"

Zhu Houyong suddenly realized: "So you moved into the community directly without the owner's consent, and you didn't follow the rules."

"Master Chitose, the owners of the community agree!"

"fart!"

Zhu Houying shouted sharply: "If you agree, why do you want to sue this black-hearted real estate company?"

"Someone, drag him out and beat him!"

"I want to see who gave him such courage! What is he hiding!"

Afterwards, Zhu Houyong looked at the county magistrate with sharp eyes: "What a great double act. Gu patrols every county. Officials in each county are afraid of Gu. They are worried about what Gu will see and report back to the central government. Local officials will not be able to take advantage of it."

"You are very interesting in Qutang County. You are not afraid of Gu at all, and you even take the initiative to find fault with Gu."

"Master Magistrate, what kind of medicine are you selling in this gourd?"

The magistrate hesitated slightly and knelt directly on the ground: "Please Qiantose make the decision for me!"

Sure enough, something happened.

Wherever Zhu Houyong went, officials from all over the country avoided him, fearing that they would be targeted by him, but they chose to shoot him here.

"Speak!" Zhu Houying sat on the chair: "I don't like listening to nonsense, and I hate being played like a fool!"

"Your Highness Chitose."

"Wei Chen reported that during the Beijing inspection last year, Jing Guiwen, the merit-examination doctor, accepted bribes!"

"Weichen's political performance is excellent every year, but he has wasted seven years in this small Qutang County. He has watched officials whose political performance is not as good as Weichen's being promoted. However, Weichen has done very well, but he has not been promoted. ”

"Last year, Jing Guiwen, the meritorious examination doctor, openly asked Wei Chen for a bribe. Wei Chen refused to give him a gift, so he gave Wei Chen a bad review, which caused Wei Chen's seven years of achievements to be ruined."

After hearing what he said, Zhu Houying frowned: "Is it over?"

"Wei Chen only knows this. Please report back to the Central Committee and ask Your Majesty to investigate and redress Wei Chen's injustice." said the county magistrate.

Zhu Houyong was very happy: "Jing Guiwen, the merit-examination doctor, asked for a bribe. You have excellent merit, but you can't get promoted. That's it, right?"

The magistrate nodded repeatedly.

"If I am a meritorious doctor, not only will you not be promoted, I will also give you a very bad rating and tell you to get out of the bureaucracy!"

Zhu Houyong shouted in a deep voice: "Is the unfairness among doctors in examinations an excuse for you to be lazy and lazy in government and not make decisions for the people?"

"The imperial court chose you as a local parent to benefit the local area! It is to give the people the power to take charge of the country!"

"I'm not here to get you promoted and rich!"

"The Central Committee conducts merit-based examinations every year, not to promote anyone, but to see who can get out of the court if his political performance is not good!"

"You don't even know basic common sense, and you still go around in circles!"

"I thought you wanted to make decisions for the people, and you wanted to report something so big that the sky was falling. I thought it was a flood in the Qutang Gorge that caused people to be displaced. Did the higher-ups hide it and not report it? I thought it was the interests of the local people that were harmed. , you have to speak up for them!”

"The result is that it's no big deal for you to get promoted and make a fortune!"

"Compared with the interests of millions of people, your personal interests are nothing!"

"Why do you want an official like you to go up there?"

"Tell the people in the world, does the court only use a dog official like you? Or should all the scholars in the world imitate you and only focus on the buttocks of the people above and not listen to the voices of the people?"

"Gu tell you, I will catch bastards like you one by one! I will check every day, every month, every year, and I will find out those official fans like you!"

"Somebody come!"

"Drag him out and kill him with a stick!"

Zhu Houyong was extremely angry. He had grown up listening to the deeds of his great-grandfather. In his impression, the Ming Dynasty was a country with clear politics, smooth governance, good governance and people, and a hundred flowers blooming.

But when he really came to Ming Dynasty and took a look at the grassroots level, he realized that it was a completely different world from what he imagined.

He knew that this was the chaos that only appeared after the prince was deposed.

Otherwise, his grandfather and father would not always talk about the goodness of the Ming Dynasty. His father also visited the capital when he was young and had seen the people.

"Chitose, you have no power to deal with officials!" The magistrate was horrified.

He believed that the Beijing police were unfair, so he could not get a promotion. Now that the emperor's great-grandson and the future emperor were here, he wanted to appeal and redress his grievances. What was wrong with that?

Do we have to pretend to be the people who call the shots?
Those are all lies!

There are hundreds of thousands of officials in the world, who makes the decision for the people? Who doesn’t do it for their own money bag and the welfare of their own small family?
Only a few fools in the royal family still believe it. Who would be that kind of fool in this age?
But why not let people tell the truth?

Didn’t the imperial court ask the people to tell the truth? Do you have to tell lies to be an official? What logic!
"It's true that I don't have the power to deal with you, but I have the power to beat you to death!" Zhu Houying asked others to beat him.

But there was already a close servant admonishing him. Zhu Houyong knew about it, so he threatened him. He did not have the power to deal with local officials, not even his father.

He asked someone to send a telegram to Donggong and waited for a call back.

There is no telephone in such a small county, so you have to go to Chongqing to make a call or send a telegram. Zhu Houying carried the radio with him.

Even if there is no electricity locally, you can take it with you to nearby places with electricity to take telegrams.

Wait until you hear back.

He just left Qutang Gorge, and this time he visited the whole journey by train, not by ship.

Zhu Jianji personally responded and ordered the county magistrate to seize his post for investigation, check the accounts of the previous magistrate, and arrest and put the real estate developers on trial.

It also set off a vigorous Beijing investigation case in the 66th year of Jingtai.

The imperial court directly arrested Jing Guiwen, and Zhu Jianji reused Dongchang to interrogate Jing Guiwen, which led to a major case.

Zhu Houting passed by Dongxiang and went to Baoning Mansion.

Dongxiang is poorer than Qutang. However, according to the records of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Dongxiang has a population of 600 million, is a mid-level city, and is a powerful county in Kuizhou.

Maybe they knew Zhu Hooyong was coming in advance. Fences were built on many roads in Dongxiang, and it seemed that road construction was under way.

Zhu Houyong sent someone down to take a look. The construction site was full of workers, very busy with construction. Every worker was smiling and working enthusiastically.

Zhu Houying sat on the sedan, opened the window and looked for a long time, then smiled suddenly.

On both sides of the road, there were spontaneous welcome crowds, who were blocked from the sidewalk, and they all cheered for Zhu Houting.

"Did you see the people at the construction site?"

Zhu Houying closed the window and chatted with the waiter: "A few of them didn't know how to use a shovel, but they were still shoveling the ground; there was one person who obviously couldn't stand the smell of earth, so he turned around and secretly wiped his hands with a tissue, and even he couldn't bear to use the tissue; and One kept smiling at me. His face was quite dark, and he looked like he had been sunburned, but his teeth were too white. He brushed them eight times a day, right? He had bad breath after sitting too much, so he brushed his teeth every day? "

When he said this, he couldn't help but laugh.

"Your Highness has a really good eye."

"The cheering crowds on both sides of the road were also arranged. Just look at their pale faces and you'll know they haven't been exposed to the wind or the sun."

"The weather here is such that even if you walk outside a few times, you'll get tanned. Why are they so white?"

"This place is not big, and the evil wind is not small."

Zhu Houyong laughed.

I heard the hearty laughter of Lord Chitose outside, thinking that the Sacred Heart was overjoyed.

Zhu Hooying had to ride in a sedan, and the rickshaw had no cover. If he was assassinated, he would have nowhere to hide.

"Chitose, I will send someone to ask the people."

"Don't work in vain. If you can't find it, our tricks have been figured out. It's estimated that there aren't any real people on these streets. You can't ask anything."

Zhu Houying smiled and said: "It's time to relax and have a good sleep. We'll talk about it tomorrow."

In the evening, Zhu Houying was hungry and asked someone to go out and buy some dinner.

They were all prepared in the hotel, but Zhu Houying didn't want to eat, he wanted to eat some folk fireworks.

Waiting for something to be bought.

He was happy when he touched it with his hands: "This thing was probably made in another place, then sent to the store where you bought it, and finally sent here. It took forty minutes and was heated in the middle."

"Doesn't this mean that the original owner of the store is not here. If we go to buy it, they will have to buy it from somewhere else and send it here non-stop." The waiter did not dare to give it to Zhu Houyong directly. He had to go through several rounds of poison testing.

After staying in Dongxiang for three days, all I saw were fake faces and fake smiles.

No matter where you go, it's all arranged and boring.

On the third day after Zhu Houting left Dongxiang, he sent someone to sneak into Dongxiang quietly and visited for two days before catching up with the large team.

The guards around him are sent by the imperial court at any time, rotating irregularly or randomly. Some of these guards are drawn from the vassal state, some are palace guards, and some come from various frontier armies as well as local guards. They are all randomly selected. .

When they are on duty, they will receive a reward from the court and then go back to their respective homes, keeping the mission secret.

If Zhu Houyong is always surrounded by a group of guards, he is likely to be corrupted. On the one hand, it will be difficult to see the true appearance of the place, and on the other hand, his safety cannot be guaranteed.

Only the eunuchs, palace maids, imperial doctors, sword-wielding guards, and a few confidants around him are constant, and the others are rotated randomly.

Some border troops didn't know what mission they were going to perform. They were not informed of the mission content until they arrived at the station. The mission time was also random, and it all depended on how the central government arranged it.

At this time, Zhu Houying was in Bazhou.

The situation in Dongxiang was summarized in his hands.

"No wonder I don't dare to let you see the truth." Zhu Hooying sneered.

The Ming Dynasty was a maniac about infrastructure construction, and infrastructure construction was an important indicator for evaluating the performance of local officials. Every year, the imperial court allocated a large sum of money to invest in local infrastructure construction.

Dongxiang is different.

Every year's construction is invested in a few fixed roads, which are repaired almost every year, while the roads with problems are invisible.

Let’s not talk about how much money was made from it.

Isn’t it convenient for people to commute to and from get off work? Roads were being repaired and closed at every turn. After a year or two of repairs, all the shops on both sides of the road closed down, and people had to sell their houses at a cheap price.

Then, the officials here rose steadily in status.

Because the roads are well built.

As long as the superiors come to check, they will find that this road is the best in the country.

Nonsense, it’s a good road in the first place. How about putting diamonds on it?

Is the history of surveillance blind? Or is the censor blind?

How is it checked?

Why does the imperial court approve it every year? Don’t you know they are building the same road?
The local government has its own ideas. If the street names are changed, the inspectors won't be able to find them. The people who approve the notes above approve hundreds of city notes at once. Who would check them street by street?

As for the supervisors and censors, they all charge money.

Officials are evaluated every year as excellent, the highest class, and then this road becomes a national model road for people all over the world to learn from.

Just build a road like them?
Or should we follow their example and deceive others?
"There are many bastards in Chi Qian." Zhu Houying's eyes were sinister: "Send a report."

This Ming Dynasty was ruined by these people.

A city's resources are all concentrated on a few roads, and relying on these roads, one can rise in official position.

If everyone imitates others, who will manage the place well?
Some of the roads that have not been maintained by anyone are already muddy and difficult to walk on, some are overcrowded and have accidents every day, and some are privately built and built indiscriminately, resulting in poor traffic. There are all kinds of problems, but no one takes care of them.

Anyway, as long as you keep an eye on these few roads, you are guaranteed to be promoted. Who would look elsewhere?
As long as the people do not rebel, they are good people.

People who don't cause trouble are good people.

"The Supervision Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Beizhen Fusi, and Xichang are all in shambles!"

Zhu Houyong sighed quietly: "You are like a raccoon dog. You really only deceive people from the old Zhu family."

Bazhou is not much better.

There are unfinished buildings everywhere. As soon as you enter the city, you see unfinished buildings in one community after another.

There are still complaint banners on the wall that have not been wiped clean. They all say that the local county government does not act and the unfinished building is ignored.

You can tell at a glance that even after wiping it dozens of times, it's still not clean.

I guess I knew that Zhu Houyong would come to Bazhou, so I started clearing the traces in advance and dispersed those who complained.

It’s really interesting that the results haven’t been cleaned up yet.

"It's all about deception."

Zhu Houying shook his head: "There's no need to check. Just look at how many unfinished buildings there are in this city and you'll know that this place is rotten to the core."

Is it possible to find a place that isn't bad?
A big city like Chongqing is just a hell that is covered up by its prosperity. A city like that is half heaven and half hell. Sooner or later hell will swallow up heaven.

You can't hide something in a small city like this. How can you hide it if you can see it at a glance?
On the contrary, it is in such cities that one can see the signs of the demise of a dynasty.

However, the supervisors, censors, factory guards, and bodyguards who were previously sent were all bribed, and they would never go back to tell the truth.

Anyway, people like Lao Zhu’s family will never come to such a small city, not in their entire lives.

So, you can cheat as much as you want.

In this world, everyone is trying their best to deceive the old emperor. As long as he is fooled, all that is left is to party, get promoted and make money, and want both.

In the past, Zhu Jianqi didn't take responsibility. Let's wait and see what Zhu Jianji will do.

Zhu Houying still sent an order to the local county magistrate to inquire.

"It's all those damn real estate developers."

"They are fraudsters!"

The magistrate said aggrievedly: "They don't have the ability to develop a community at all. They rely on loans to develop. As long as there is a slight disturbance, the capital chain will be broken, and a good community will be unfinished."

"What about the people who buy houses?" Zhu Houying asked.

"What can be done? We can only arrest people and sentence them, and the people will consider themselves unlucky."

The county magistrate said: "The humble minister also wants to provide a house for the people to live in. The problem is that the developer owes a lot of debt, and the house is still in dispute. No one knows the cost of the house. We can't let the county government pay for it." Right? The key thing is that it’s not just one company’s debt, there are dozens of companies that have to pay it every day, and they don’t even know how to mortgage it?”

"Then the people have to admit that they have suffered a loss?" Zhu Houying was dissatisfied with his attitude.

"Chitose, you speak lightly. How can the people who have suffered a loss recognize it? They come to complain every day, making us afraid to show up."

The county magistrate said: "Tell me, this is a crime committed by the developer. What should the county government do? Moreover, the person has been arrested and all his money has been squandered, leaving him with a lifeless death. You say he should be executed. Who will pay back the money?" ? Let him live, the people hate him, and they also hate us officials. "

"Say that we are incompetent, OK, we are indeed incompetent, but you can't block our home, make our home full of chaos, and make it difficult for us to live in peace. Isn't this our fault?"

This is indeed a dead end.

"It's fine if there are one unfinished building and two unfinished buildings. Are the developers responsible for so many unfinished buildings?" Zhu Houying was too lazy to listen to his complaints.

"Chitose, you don't know that there are only three developers in our county, and all three have been arrested, so a total of 4700 buildings in the county are unfinished."

"There are only three developers in such a big county?" Zhu Houting didn't believe it, but the accounts he investigated were indeed like this.

"Are they all your local developers?"

The magistrate nodded: "Your Highness, the ministers don't know about the problems here. They happened when the previous magistrate was in office."

"What about others?" Zhu Houying asked.

"Beheaded."

Another Duanwutou case.

"This happened in the 58th year of Jingtai. It was a sensation across the country at that time."

"In the fifty-ninth year of Jingtai, His Majesty personally issued an order to kill the prisoner and his family members, as well as more than 200 people involved in the case. They were all executed. The whole family was exiled to Lena Province and was not allowed to return to the mainland for life."

Good kill!

Zhu Houyong felt excited: "Then what?"

"Your Majesty took all the proceeds from the house raids and invested them in unfinished buildings, and the court allocated some funds so that the people could live in houses."

"Huh? What about the house?" Zhu Houying wondered.

"The building collapsed!"

The magistrate said: "On the seventh day after moving in, a building collapsed, killing more than 700 people. Since then, this large area of ​​​​building has been completely in ruins."

Zhu Houyong understood that the old emperor had been tricked and that the executed magistrate was just a scapegoat. In order to cover up more crimes, they collapsed the building and put all the blame on the old emperor.

"and then?"

"Chitose, there's nothing more to come." The magistrate said.

"Your Majesty will not care?" Zhu Hooying didn't believe it.

"What can Your Majesty do? How much will it cost if you re-build the building? Besides, Your Majesty shouldn't have to pay for it! If Your Majesty pays for this money, wouldn't it allow real estate developers all over the world to take advantage of this loophole? Wouldn't it become Does your Majesty support the people of the world?"

The county magistrate said: "However, in the fifty-ninth year of Jingtai, His Majesty was furious and dragged out the beheaded criminal, Ling Chi, all his family members, Ling Chi! The entire Bazhou officials, all Ling Chi!"

"The governor of Baoning Prefecture, Lingchi; the officials in charge of Bazhou in Baoning Prefecture, all Lingchi! The chief envoy of Chongqing Province, beheaded; the patrol envoy, beheaded; the inspection envoy, beheaded; the guarding eunuch, Lingchi; the officials in charge of Baoning Prefecture, all Behead!"

"All officials involved in the case had their family property confiscated and their immediate family members exiled to Lena Province. Nine ethnic groups were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, engage in politics, or engage in business."

"At that time, the entire Chongqing court was killed, causing people to panic."

"In the court, many officials such as recommending officials, investigating officials, merit examination doctors, and officials of the Qing Dynasty Department were demoted or beheaded. It is said that dozens of people were executed, more than a hundred people were demoted, and more than a hundred people were exiled. "

Zhu Houyong saw this time that the old emperor really didn't blink when he killed someone.

"But even if we kill more people, we still can't compensate for the losses of the people." The county magistrate said.

"Even though he didn't compensate for the losses, your majesty took a breath of anger for them! He also told me that the Ming Dynasty should put people first and the people first!" Zhu Houying felt that the killing was right.

"The problem should be solved, right? How should the people be resettled? It has been several years, but there is still no way to resettle them."

All the proceeds from the confiscation of homes have been given to the people as compensation, and they have done their utmost to be benevolent and righteous. If they want to ask for it again, they will definitely lose it.

“Why aren’t these unfinished buildings demolished?”

"Your Highness, who dares to demolish it? They all belong to other people. If they are in ruins, they don't belong to the county government. Besides, should they be demolished and rebuilt? If they can't be rebuilt, how can the people do it?"

Zhu Houying said: "If it stands here like this, how can we maintain the appearance of the city?"

"What if we don't stand still?"

The county magistrate said helplessly: "It's still developing. Outsiders will worry that this city is a ghost town. Who dares to come in and take a look?"

Zhu Houyong found that the county magistrate was not afraid of powerful people and spoke out loud, so he asked him his name.

The county magistrate rolled his eyes. He didn't even know my name after chatting for so long: "My name is Tang Gao. I am a new scholar. I have been an official here for less than three months."

"What are your plans for Bazhou?" Zhu Houying was about to take the exam.

"Planning requires money. Where can Wei Chen get the money? Ask the court? The court knows that this place is full of unfinished buildings, so how can it give Wei Chen money? Without money, how can we talk about development?"

"Then you plan to muddle along like this as an official?" Zhu Houyong hated Tang Gao's attitude, which was too realistic.

"It's better to die than to live. You can demote me to a minor official, or report to the central government and let me become an official. Anyway, I can only say three words, there is nothing you can do." Tang Gao said clearly.

The normal way for a new Jinshi to become an official is to first observe government affairs in the Hanlin Academy, and then be transferred to the local government, starting from the position of section chief. However, this kind of Jinshi's rise from the grassroots level is just a formality, and he will soon enter the county government. For core official positions, one can take up to the county magistrate within six years at most.

But this Tang Gao, a new Jinshi, became the county magistrate. He was either bribed or specially promoted because he had great talents.

Obviously, it's like the former.

Zhu Houyong's evaluation of him was that he was talented but not moral and could not be reused.

"Tang Zhixian, don't you know Gu's identity? How dare you speak like this in front of Gu?"

"Of course I know, but Wei Chen will not lie, and he will speak like this in front of His Majesty."

Tang Gao saw through Zhu Hooying's thoughts and explained: "Weak ministers are not bribes to get in charge."

"Rather, the officials divided the counties and counties in the world into three, six or nine grades. Langzhong and Nanchong are both superior counties and third-class counties. However, although Bazhou has a superior geographical location, it has a large area of ​​ruins. The tail building is a lower-grade county and a ninth-grade county.”

"A new top scholar like Wei Chen could stay in the central government to observe politics, but Wei Chen wanted to go to a local place to practice, so he was assigned to be a county magistrate in a ninth-level county."

"Are you the number one scholar in your new subject?" Zhu Houyong really didn't realize that this guy's looks were so bad that he could win the first prize in the exam?

Tang Gao rolled his eyes again, I am ugly, but I am gentle.

"And if a county like this wants to re-emerge, it has to either invest huge sums of money to demolish unfinished buildings, or it can just muddle along and live one day at a time. Without money, it will be useless even if the gods come."

This is the truth.

But no one wants to listen to the truth. For example, Zhu Houyong is somewhat overjoyed with great achievements. He likes to hear bold words, regardless of whether he can do it or not. Anyway, he is very credible if he says it.

On the contrary, an honest man like Tang Gao is not suitable for the current officialdom.

"You go down." Although Zhu Houying appreciated Tang Gao's talent, he had a thorn in his side and was not easy to surrender.

"Wei Chen resigns." Tang Gao did not hesitate at all.

Even if there is wealth and wealth in front of him, he doesn't care.

If he cares, he can stay in the central government and observe politics. With his qualifications as the top scholar, he can survive for twenty years and become the next Wang Hao.

But he is not without a backer. He and Yang Shen are good friends, and Yang Tinghe is his mentor.

But he did not rely on Yang Tinghe's power.

He was conceited and talented, and if he was given a platform, he could show off his talents, but when he was assigned to such a hellish place, he simply lay down.

But I have forgotten that when he was the top scorer in high school, he wrote "Song of Encouragement" with emotion:
There are only seventy years in life, so we should first get rid of the young and then get rid of the old.

In the short period of time, there is more heat and trouble.

There are too many officials in the court to do enough, and there is too much money to be made in the world.

If you have a high official position and have a lot of money, you will have more worries than you will have, and you will end up with a long life.

The moon is not clear after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the flowers are not good after the Qingming Festival.

Singing loudly before the flowers and under the moonlight, I hurriedly poured out the golden cups in time.

Please check the people in front of you and bury the grass several times a year.

The fragrant grass is high and low, the new and old graves are high and low, but the poor cold food has no one to sweep it.

(End of this chapter)