Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 569 Punishment of Profits
Li Jing looked down at the crying man, but saw that the man was about 30 years old, dressed in ragged clothes, his face was blue and purple in the cold weather, and he couldn't stop shaking, obviously he was very cold.

Leaning down, Li Jing asked softly, "Brother, what happened?"

The man shook his head, sighed softly and said: "The villain worked for Mr. Liu. After finishing the work, Mr. Liu said that the villain did something wrong, so he didn't pay him for an excuse. The whole family of the villain is waiting for the money for the New Year, alas !"

Li Jingjing nodded, looked up at the family, and then realized that the door was actually a side door, and the front was a shop, with the words Yongji Rice Shop written on the door.

Li Jing sneered in his heart, grain merchants, grain merchants again, eight out of ten unscrupulous merchants in Daming these years were grain merchants.

"Get up and follow me. I'll solve the Chinese New Year problems for you." Li Jing said in a deep voice.

The man was startled when he heard the words. He just casually poured out his grievances to others, and he didn't pay attention to who was talking to him. At this moment, he heard that Li Jing was going to solve the problems of the Chinese New Year for him, and then he came to his senses.

The man was about to speak when he suddenly realized that although Li Jing was dressed in plain clothes, he had never seen such a bearing.

"This master, villain, villain..." The man was taken by Li Jing's momentum, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Li Jing smiled: "It's freezing cold, you are wearing thin clothes, this is not a place to talk, you come with me first, let's find a warm place to talk slowly."

"Yes! Thank you, master." The man said hastily.

Li Jing waved his hand, turned around and walked back to the city.

Xiao Jiu thought for a while, called a guard, and whispered a few words. The guard nodded, and went to the guards on the outside to say what Xiao Jiu had said.After hearing this, a group of guards quickly surrounded Yongji Rice Shop.

Seeing Li Jing, he smiled and said nothing.

But when the man saw him, he had a surprised look on his face, and he kept looking back while following Li Jing as he walked.

After walking for a while, the man suddenly realized that he was going in the direction of entering the city, and he couldn't help asking in surprise, "Where does the master want to take the villain?"

Xiao Jiu said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't hurt you, and you don't even think about it. Are you worth our harm?"

Li Jing reprimanded, "It's so easy to talk."

Xiao Jiu stuck out her tongue and patted the man's shoulder lightly: "You are lucky to meet my handsome man. Let me tell you, as long as you are telling the truth, that family just now will be in trouble." gone."

"Marshal? What marshal?" the man asked in surprise.

Xiao Jiu smiled and said, "How many handsome men do you think Daming has?"

The man shook his head again and again: "The villain can't even eat, how can he care about how many handsome men Daming has?"

Xiao Jiu was dumbfounded when he heard this.

After a while, Xiao Jiu sighed softly: "No wonder you can't eat, you don't even know my commander in chief, and naturally you don't know the decree issued by the commander in chief."

Li Jing waved his hand: "I can't blame him for this matter. It was the court's mistake, and it was also my mistake. There are many places like Tianjin Wei in Ming Dynasty, and there are no local governments in these places. After I abolished the guards, I forgot to set up government offices in these places." , without the local government, how can they know the decree of the imperial court?"

"The garrison here was abolished by the master? The master can still set up a local government. The master is not the emperor, is he?" the man was shocked.

Xiao Jiu said with a smile: "My commander in chief is not the emperor, but the emperor has to listen to my commander in chief."

Li Jing turned around and glared at Xiao Jiu: "Stop talking nonsense! If this word gets out, where are you going to put me?"

Turning to look at the man, Li Jingwen said with a smile: "Brother, don't listen to his nonsense."

Seeing Li Jing's kind attitude, the man nodded involuntarily.

Bringing the man back to the city, Li Jing looked at the man's attire, shook his head and said to Xiao Jiu, "Take him to take a bath, find him some clothes, and deal with the rest."

Xiao Jiu nodded and led the man to make arrangements.

Li Jing went back to the study to record what he had just considered.

After a long time, Xiao Jiu came to the study.

Seeing this, Li Jing stopped writing and asked, "Is the matter over?"

Xiao Jiu hurriedly said: "It's over. The man just now was called Liu Tiezhu, and these days he worked for the boss of Yongji Rice Shop. The boss of Yongji Rice Shop wanted to use Liu Tiezhu's work for nothing, saying that Liu Tiezhu did the wrong job and didn't pay him. .

That Liu Tiezhu also said that many local people have suffered from the owner of Yongji Rice Shop.Hai'er sent someone to arrest the owner of Yongji Rice Shop and questioned him, and it was probably the same as what Liu Tiezhu said. "

After a pause, Xiaojiu continued: "So the boy sent someone to copy the Yongji rice shop, and the food and money copied, the boy took out part of it and distributed it to the poor local people who couldn't afford it. That Liu Tiezhu is grateful to the commander-in-chief. , Said to set up a longevity tablet for the commander in chief."

Li Jingjing nodded, sighed softly, and said, "I don't know how many such things have happened in Daming, and they can't all be solved by this method after all. Alright, tell everyone to clean up and return to Beijing after dinner."

"In such a hurry? Let's stay another day." Xiao Jiu hurriedly said.

Li Jing shook his head: "I can't stop, isn't this another problem? If these things are not resolved, how can I live steadily."

Xiao Jiu sighed softly when she heard the words, and had to go out and tell the guards to pack up.

For Li Jing's current way of doing things, Xiao Jiu found it more and more difficult for him to understand.

According to what happened today, if Li Jing handled it himself, it would better reflect that Li Jing is close to the people.However, Li Jing only asked his subordinates to deal with the matter, and when he listened to the report, he just listened to it and finished the matter. This was not at all like Li Jing's previous style.If it was before, Li Jing would definitely come forward to deal with this matter in person.

Xiao Jiu couldn't understand Li Jing's actions, because he was a guard, and his status determined that he couldn't understand Li Jing's actions.

Xiaojiu's thinking is similar to that of most ordinary people. When ordinary people are oppressed, they always hope that those high officials can visit in secret, understand the people's feelings, and bring justice to them.

Unfortunately, such things rarely happen.

It's not that those high-ranking officials are unwilling to go down to the people to solve problems for the common people, but because that's not their job, and these jobs should be done by grassroots officials.

For example, a chief envoy wants to manage the affairs of a province. If he is asked to deal with civil disputes, what do the county magistrates below do?
Li Jing is the chief assistant and governor of the cabinet of Ming Dynasty, and the highest decision-maker of Ming Dynasty. He has to deal with much more affairs than the chief envoy. No matter how capable Li Jing is, his energy is limited. Li Jing can't do it. Everything is under control.

Moreover, Li Jing is now thinking about how to build Tianjin Wei's port. How can he have time to personally deal with such trivial matters as bad businessmen oppressing ordinary people?It is enough to arrange a guard to handle such a matter, and Li Jing only needs to ask about the result.

In fact, handling this matter is not what Li Jing's guards should do, it should be resolved by the local government.

However, there is no local government office in Tianjin Wei, so Li Jing can only send people around him to deal with it.

In addition, after this incident happened, Li Jing had to consider setting up a government office in Tianjin Wei, and arrange capable officials to serve as local officials.

However, the establishment of local government offices is not something that Li Jing can decide with a slap on the head. Tianjin Wei is just a small city with a population of only [-].Li Jing had to seriously consider what level the government offices should be set up in such a small town, and even had to negotiate with the officials of the various ministries.

Silently watching Xiao Jiu tidy up the books, Li Jing thought for a while and suddenly asked: "Xiao Jiu, how many poor people came to Yongji Rice Shop to get food just now?"

Xiao Jiu sighed and said, "There are four to five hundred people."

Li Jingjing nodded, then asked, "Are there any young men?"

Xiao Jiu said: "Most of them are young and strong men. My family gave five buckets of rice and two buckets of noodles. Without these young and strong men, how could we come back so soon?"

Li Jingjing nodded, and murmured: "It seems that manpower can still solve part of it."

"What did you say?" Xiao Jiu asked.

Li Jing waved his hand and asked again: "You ransacked that Yongji Rice Shop?"

"Then you can keep him? A profiteer like this can't be polite to him!" Xiao Jiu laughed.

Li Jing shook his head: "Although this family is a profiteer, they are not guilty of ransacking their property. A small punishment is fine, and the rest of the money and food will be returned to them."

"Marshal, the owner of this rice shop has a very bad reputation. The common people hate him to death. How can such a person be let go?" Xiao Jiu hurriedly said.

"Did his family murder and set fire to it? Or did they rob civilian women? If such a thing happened, it would not be as simple as ransacking the house." Li Jing said.

Xiao Jiu hurriedly said: "That's not true. This rice shop is mainly for the rich and unkind. During the disaster year, it drives up the price of rice. In addition, it often uses some small tricks, and the employer does not give money, so the common people hate him."

"Isn't this the end? According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the punishment for such a person is twenty sticks and a certain amount of money, but there is no such penalty as ransacking the house. You distribute the money and food from his family to the poor people, which is enough to pay for it." As for his punishment, return the rest to him and hit another [-] boards." Li Jing said.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Jiu waved to the two guards, and said helplessly, "Return the confiscated money and food to that bastard. By the way, the twenty boards will beat his ass hard."

Li Jing didn't find it funny, and after a while Fang said: "Xiao Jiu, you are my bodyguards, and you represent me when you go out to handle affairs. Remember to follow the law when you do things. If you don't abide by the law, how can I restrain others?"

"Yes, my son understands." Xiao Jiu hurriedly said.

At this moment, Xiaozhu opened the door and came in with a smile, "Master, why are you teaching the child again!"

Li Jing smiled and said, "Hehe, you're up."

Xiaozhu frowned and said: "Going out again early in the morning, master, can't you pay attention to your body?"

Hearing this, Li Jing knew that Xiao Zhu had come early in the morning.

Seeing that Li Xiang was holding the food in his hand, Li Jing smiled and said, "Go out and take a look around, and look around. Xiang'er, put the food on the table, Xiaojiu and I haven't eaten yet."

Xiao Zhu sighed softly, helped Li Xiang put the food on the table, and then served a bowl of porridge for Li Jing and Xiao Jiu.

Xiao Jiu hurriedly said, "Thank you, Auntie."

(End of this chapter)