Southern Song Dynasty military god

Chapter 357 Starting from Hongcheng, leveling mines
The city of Liujiazhuang is not a quadrangle in the usual city, but a hexagon, five miles long from east to west, and three miles wide from north to south.

Although there is no shortage of funds and manpower for building the city right now, the problem on the road to Jiancheng is the materials.The Yizhou Plain is actually the Chengdu Plain that everyone is accustomed to call, and it is difficult to find suitable stone materials.

If you want to build a strong city, you can't use ordinary rocks, especially when building foundations, using ordinary rocks will cause great hidden dangers. Only the hardest granite can bear the weight of the city wall itself , without sinking as a whole, or deforming the wall and tearing the cracks.

The Yizhou Plain does not produce this kind of granite, so it needs to be purchased and transported from other places, and the cost is quite high.

Just after returning to Liujiazhuang, Liu Wei arranged for Yang Zaixing and Bupleurum to take Wu Lin around. As for himself, he was going to start solving some practical problems, such as stone materials.

"Husband, according to your initial thinking, the remaining funds in our hands can support the completion of the foundation work of the city wall and the construction of the city gate, but now, the money for buying stone materials alone may be a little nervous." Gao Yuniang With a worried look on his face, his elder brother Gao Jin was involved in the budget matter at the time, but who knew that such a big mess would come out.

Fortunately, as a man, Liu Wei did not show the slightest panic, his expression was still calm and composed, and he even asked Gao Yuniang with a smile on his face, "Why, is the stone problem really hard to solve?"

Gao Yuniang nodded, and said, "Yes, even if the stone is transported by water, the price of the stone is three times higher than the cost. We really can't afford such a price, if we use ordinary stone."

"It is impossible to use ordinary stone!"

Before Gao Yuniang finished speaking, Liu Wei interrupted Gao Yuniang's conversation with a wave of his hand. Liu Wei has seen too many bean curd projects in later generations, so he either doesn't repair it, but if he wants to repair it, Liu Wei will never let it go. His first city was built as a defective product, leaving it as a joke for future generations.

"Husband, if you insist, we can only suspend work temporarily. Without stones, the foundation work cannot be carried out. If the foundation is not carried out, the follow-up work will not be carried out." Gao Yuniang felt very helpless when she said this.

"Don't be afraid if there are problems, we can find a solution to the problem, isn't it just stone? Buy it first, and if we don't have enough money, we can find a solution. Well, I'll go find my brother!"

"Looking for big brother?"

Before Gao Yuniang could ask, Liu Wei had already left in a hurry and went straight to the Chengdu county government.

The Chengdu County Yamen is said to be the government's Yamen, but in fact, it has long been the home of the Liu family and the Gao family.The government decrees of the Southern Song Dynasty, in Chengdu County and Yizhou Prefecture, are absolutely not as good as Liu Wei, Gao Chong's words.

When Liu Wei arrived at the county government, Gao Jin was in the process of being promoted.This is not surprising, even though he already has the power in his hands, Gao Jin cannot be vague about what the county magistrate should do, and this question is one of them.

Even Liu Wei couldn't tell Gao Jin to stop asking questions immediately to discuss matters with him, he could only wait in the side hall, bored at leisure, and he just learned about the case from the yamen servant who served tea.In fact, this is also a very simple case. It is nothing more than a landlord in the west of Chengdu County suing the tenant farmer for three years in arrears of rent and asking the yamen to pay off the debt.

It should be said that under Gao Jin's governance, Chengdu County and even the entire Yizhou Prefecture, whether in terms of public security or other aspects, far surpassed other jurisdictions of the Southern Song Dynasty court, and even the emperor's feet were no more peaceful than that.It's not that Gao Jin is really talented and well-educated, the main reason is because of power.

In Gao Jin's feeling, Yizhou Mansion is the flesh in his palm. Even if he is not the local emperor of Yizhou Mansion, he is at least a prime minister level figure, below one person and above ten thousand people.With such a feeling, of course he would not allow the flesh in his palm to rot, rot, or rot.

Because of this, Gao Jin was able to govern with integrity and enforce the law impartially.

Regarding the trial of the case, Liu Wei did not express his opinion, because he represented the army, not the government office. Even though he could influence Gao Jin's thoughts, he could not affect the fairness of the judiciary.

So after listening to the yamen servant's introduction to the case, he closed his eyes and said nothing.

In this seemingly ordinary case, Liu Wei thought of an extremely important issue, land.

Land is the basic tool of life that people rely on for survival. People cannot leave the land, and all actions must be completed on the land. Whoever controls the land controls the second most important resource - people.

Landlords and tenant farmers are two opposite and interdependent individuals. This is a pair of contradictions that cannot be differentiated at present. Without landlords, tenant farmers cannot find land to cultivate. Without land, those who can only cultivate land will lose means of earning a living; conversely, if there were no tenant farmers, there would be no landlords, just because the landlords would never farm the land themselves, and those who farm the land themselves would not be landlords.

The contradiction between landlords and tenant farmers is actually one of the most important contradictions in this society at this stage.Don't look at Liu Wei as a soldier, but because his job is a political commissar, and a qualified political commissar must at least undergo corresponding training, social science and philosophy training, this is the foundation. It was just that Liu Wei hadn't really calmed down and thought about it before. these questions.

But now, when the city of Liujiazhuang enters the actual implementation stage, it means that Liu Wei's century-old plan has begun to be implemented, and it is time for Liu Wei to consider these social foundation issues.

It's not that Liu Wei didn't think about this question in the past. For example, if a country is built in the future, what kind of social system should be used?
Naturally, the slave system is not acceptable. In this era, the slave system has been eliminated by the Han culture, which is at the forefront of the world. No matter how powerful Liu Wei will be in the future, he will not be able to cleanse people's minds and make the whole society go backwards. Liu Yi himself would not do this either.

It may be a good idea to continue the feudal society.Since history has chosen the feudal society to emerge in this era, there must be a reason for its emergence. Of course, going backwards will not work, and pushing the seedlings to encourage growth will also only result in a castle in the air.

Of course, Liu Wei has also considered that even if he wants to continue the feudal society suitable for this era, he must do some improvement work, and the most basic improvement is the improvement work that needs to be started from the beginning, that is, land.

A large concentration of land is not allowed to happen, because the enrichment of land means the beginning of the gap between the rich and the poor, and the emergence of the privileged class is bred from the widening of the gap between the rich and the poor.

Thinking of this, Liu Wei couldn't help thinking of a saying that was widely circulated in China in later generations: beat local tyrants and divide the land.

Back in the day, the poor and poor organization relied on these six words to inspire the enthusiasm of the poor people, defying life and death, and finally won the whole world.It can be said that these six words are the biggest temptation to the poor.

That was the era when hot weapons were already prevalent, and these six words could have such a huge effect if they were actually implemented. If in the current era of cold weapons, the era where the number of soldiers can almost determine the victory or defeat, when they occupy the absolute majority of the population What kind of situation will it be like for the poor, after the enthusiasm in their hearts is completely released?

Liu Wei didn't dare to estimate yet, but he believed that it would not be worse than later generations, only crazier than later generations.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, when did you come, but have you been waiting for a long time?"

Before he knew it, Liu Wei was immersed in his own thoughts, completely forgetting the time, and his identity made those government servants dare not come to disturb him until Gao Jin was promoted to hall.

"Oh, soon, soon, why, the case is over?"

"You know it too? Well, it's just a small case. It's nothing to say. The rent owed by the tenant farmers should be paid. It's just a pity. A family with no roof and no land. Where can I get that?" Three stones."

"You are the county magistrate, so you have the final say on how much you will be sentenced?" Liu Wei asked with a smile, "There are so many three stones of millet, so you can't be the one who took bribes from the landlord?"

"Brother-in-law, you must not talk nonsense about this matter!" Hearing what Liu Wei said, Gao Jin seemed a little nervous, "Now that Chengdu County has been governed like this with great difficulty, if word spreads that this official accepts bribes, All the effort in the past was in vain!"

Liu Wei was indeed just joking, and he really believed that Gao Jin would not accept bribes. He promises to be a Gao family manor. people.

Of course, the richest person should be Liu Wei, but his current wealth is relatively invisible, but one day, when the city of Liujiazhuang is built, I am afraid that he, the richest man, will no longer be able to hide Live—just kidding, there is already a city, no one will believe you if you say you are poor!
"Brother, from the way you look, you sympathize with that tenant farmer, don't you?"

"Well, it's a little bit. His land has been gone since his father's generation. In the past two years, he was able to stick to his land. It's not bad. Besides, the rent collected by the landlord is really too much. Some, alas, these are actually common phenomena. The land of the landlord’s family is usually idle, and there is no one to cultivate it. Who are you going to force?"

What Gao Jin said made Liu Wei fall into deep thought again.

Because of the war, people have been displaced. Even if there is land, the ultimate means of living, there is no guarantee that these lands will be able to earn income. No crops will grow on uncultivated land, only weeds will grow.

"Brother, do you want to become a famous prime minister who will go down in history?"

After thinking for a moment, Liu Wei suddenly opened his eyes, looking at Gao Jin with burning eyes.

(End of this chapter)