I'm only seven years old, Lao Zhu, you let me supervise the country?

Chapter 380 Official authority!

In this regard, Zhu Yunxuan and his party naturally followed the good advice.

It just made Zhu Yunxuan have a doubt in his heart. The disappearance of the road guide system was naturally to facilitate the development of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, in Daming, it would be difficult to even leave the village.

Don't even think about developing this economy. Just farm the land all your life.

But with the disappearance of the road guide system, problems with public security followed. The Ming Dynasty did not need so many troops, but maybe... more police officers and soldiers guarding the city were needed to maintain public security. .

This is the predicament that Ming Dynasty is in now. When one problem is solved, another problem will appear soon.

Just because all Zhu Yunzhen's new policies did not touch the foundation of the Ming Dynasty!
It is still a stage of treating the symptoms rather than the root cause, so many problems will naturally arise.

The modernization of a country is often an extremely difficult process, and it must pay the price of blood and fire. And Zhu Yunzhen wants a peaceful transition, and the difficulty of this is naturally self-evident.

What's more, the road to modernization in Ming Dynasty naturally faced many obstacles.

But now was not the time to think about this. After Zhu Yunxu and his party put down their weapons, they walked into the city.

Chengcheng County is a very small place. It seems that you can see the other end of the city wall along the road in front of you, but it still takes a while to actually walk.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Drums sounded.

Zhu Yunzhen looked at the sound, which seemed to be the direction of the county government office.

Obviously, someone reported the crime, and the county magistrate here is being raised to court.

Zhu Yunxuan immediately became interested.

"Go and have a look."

Passing by a group of people who were watching the excitement, Zhu Yunxuan relied on his small size to successfully squeeze in.

In the lobby, the local magistrate was sitting high and high.

The government officials on both sides looked serious.

Below, a somewhat simple commoner was kneeling on the ground. Looking at it like this, his feet seemed to be a little weak, but he still persisted and clenched one hand tightly.

"Who is in the hall?"

"Come to report to the official, what's the matter?"

A lazy voice sounded. It seemed that the county magistrate sitting directly in front had not woken up and even stretched.

Can't beat the energy.

"Regards... Sir!"

"Zhang Lisheng, a common man, wants to sue the elders of Zhangjia Village for depriving me of the grain to redeem the fields!"

"Practice fraud, pass off inferior goods as good ones, be short of what you need, and even add sand to the grain!"

"The food that was originally promised was less than [-]% in my hands!"

Zhang Lisheng said sadly and angrily.

But Zhu Yunxuan, who was among the crowd, was a little unable to do anything. He wanted to redeem the grain from the fields?Where did this start?
And why is this matter related to the clan?
Zhu Yunxuan was very puzzled, so he had to ask the people around him, and then he found out the whole story clearly. It turned out that in the territory of the Shaanxi Chief Envoy, the imperial court ordered that the fields be taken over as state-owned and given to the people. The compensation was originally in silver, but there were many differences in the Shaanxi Chief Envoy Department.

It’s food!

But if it's food, that's fine. As long as it's sufficient food, it's not a mistreatment of the people.

But these guys have connected with the local clan forces.

The food promised to the people was indeed distributed, little by little, but it was distributed to the clan, and the food that passed through the clan's hands was suddenly reduced by [-]%.

Replacing sunken grain with new grain, adding sand into it, or even missing a pound or two are all common operations.

Naturally, the clan cannot eat all of the [-]% of the food.

Some of it must have flowed back into the hands of local officials, but after passing through this level, local officials can completely shift the responsibility to the clan.

They did distribute the food in full.

It's just the clan's own deduction. Even if they really go to investigate, these clan forces will definitely deny it.

Then push out a few people to take the blame.

As for the whereabouts of the real food, it is naturally impossible to find out.

Therefore, it seems that Zhang Lisheng is suing the clan elders at this moment, but in fact, he is suing the local officials in the hall!
as predicted.

The magistrate of Chengcheng County, who had not been very interested just now, suddenly sat up.

He raised his head and looked down at Zhang Lisheng.

His face gradually turned gloomy and uncertain. This scene reminded Zhu Yunxuan of a classic saying - Who in this room dares to sue me!

It's really funny, but also sad!

"So, are you sure it was the elder of your Zhangjia Village who withheld the grain?"

"Is there any evidence?"

"I would like to remind you not to slander good people with empty words here! I have heard that the elders of Zhangjiacun are always kind to others and willing to help!"

"How could you do such a dirty thing?"

It is naturally clear which direction the Chengcheng County magistrate is leaning.

If you are a smarter, less stubborn person, you will know that no matter what, you will definitely not win after hearing these words.

The elders of Zhangjiacun and the county magistrate are obviously on the same side!

Communicate in series and work together!
At the gate of the county government office, many people could not help but whisper, each one whispering: "You are still willing to do charity? That old guy in Zhangjiacun simply eats people without spitting out their bones!"

"Although we distributed grain in other places, we only deducted [-]% of it."

"Only for him, he starts with [-]%. If he encounters orphans, widows, and the like, and only deducts half, it's because his conscience suddenly discovered it!"

"Who says it's not the case? I've heard that there are people in Zhangjia Village who are really forced to live."

"Not only did we not receive any grain from the imperial court, but we also took away all the land from other people." "It was said that it was decided by the government."

"Bullshit! Where does the government have this power? Didn't the People's Daily say that the government's land acquisition is just a change of 'ownership', and the land still belongs to everyone."

"It won't change at all!"

"It's just that these guys colluded to make money together and push people to death!"

Zhu Yunzhen listened very unpleasantly.

The imperial court ordered local officials to release money to redeem their fields and make them state-owned. However, when it came to the land of Shaanxi Chief Envoy, it suddenly became food.

But that’s fine if it’s changed into food.

At least it won't cause dissatisfaction among the people, but the purpose of these guys' distribution of food is to make it easy to deduct it.

After all, Ginzi can't play so many tricks.

It's as much as it is, and if you're not careful, it's a serious crime that requires beheading!

They have learned the lesson of Zhejiang Chengxuan Administrative Envoy.

I don't dare to play so boldly.

At this time, Zhu Yunxian also understood why Shaanxi had been reporting "droughts" one after another in recent years.

Because this method will inevitably lead to a shortage of food for the government.

So we have to bring in food from the outside, but these guys are the ones who can only get in but can't get out. How do you expect them to pay for the food themselves?

That is really a delusion!
That's why they focused on the court's disaster relief food.

Anyway, this area of ​​Shaanxi is often hit by disasters.

This is already a common occurrence. As long as we have eaten enough disaster relief food for several consecutive years, we have to replenish the food in the granary.

Wouldn't the money originally allocated by the court go completely into their own pockets?
And the returned grain can be used as an extra income, isn't it wonderful?
Anyway, the Shaanxi Chief Envoy Department is located in a remote area, and it only took a few years to find it.

Unexpectedly, several consecutive years of drought reminded Zhu Yunxuan of Li Zicheng, who started his business in Shaanxi due to years of drought.

In order to prevent such a change, Zhu Yunzhen ordered people to come down to investigate.

But it was only after this investigation that we discovered the actions behind the scenes of these Shaanxi local officials. They really spent a lot of effort to put the money into their own pockets!
However, for officials in Shaanxi, eating disaster relief food has long been a norm.

Various disasters have to be reported from time to time.

Unfortunately, you still can’t figure out whether the disaster is real or fake, because sometimes there is a real disaster in the place!
True and false, unreal and real, it’s hard to fathom.

After all, Shaanxi is still too far away from the political center of Ming Dynasty!Whether it is Yingtian Mansion today or Beiping in the future, they are all located in the extreme east.

In the future Qing Dynasty, this kind of eating disaster relief food was still very common.

The reason is that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the people are poor. In this kind of place, local officials are almost the same as the earthly emperor!
However, these problems will be perfectly solved after Ming Dynasty has trains.

The shortening of the distance represents the expansion of the scope of imperial power, and when the road is built to the countryside one day, it will completely break the iron law that imperial power does not go to the countryside!
just now...

The county magistrate of Chengcheng County can still dominate the local area.

The forces of various clans still have great influence in the countryside.

"Sir! This is the food received by the grassroots!"

Zhang Lisheng took out a small cloth bag from his arms and poured it out in front of everyone. It was dark yellow beige, mixed with rough yellow sand.

Obviously, this is old grain that is so old that it is rotten.

Mixed with sand!
"With this kind of food, even if the grassroots people receive one thousand catties or ten thousand catties, it will be of no use!"

"Let's judge, can this be eaten?!"

Zhang Lisheng asked.

Everyone immediately became excited. It was obvious that this was old grain that had been stored for many years!There may even be some rice inside that is rotten!

How else to eat?
The price of this batch of rice is probably less than one-tenth of the new grain originally distributed!

Unless they really can’t survive, who would eat such rice?

"quiet!"

boom!
Gavel slapped.

The magistrate of Chengcheng County looked angry and accused: "You bunch of unruly people, do you want to rebel?!"

Later, he pointed the finger at Zhang Lisheng.

"And you are such a cunning person. I don't know where you got such a pile of rags to stain my eyes."

"Have I ever distributed such food?"

"I have given numerous instructions to the elders of Zhangjiacun. How could he do this?"

"It's obvious that you, a cunning man, deliberately framed the elder of Zhangjiacun!"

"Come here, hit me hard!"

"Then put him in jail. I want this ungrateful and unscrupulous man to know who is in charge in Chengcheng County!"

The magistrate of Chengcheng County did not wait for Zhang Lisheng to defend himself.

He came to a conclusion.

Zhang Lisheng was about to be thrown into jail without any explanation. Zhu Yunzhen watched this scene at the yamen gate.

Can't help frowning.

A mere county magistrate has such great authority!

The chief minister of Shaanxi Province corrupted the administration of officials.

It can be seen!
"Your Highness...should we..."

(End of this chapter)