"Really, you don't know?"
Zhu Youzhen asked.Gai Jian said: "The students really don't know. ”"Would you, then, be willing to collect all the debts of the House of Men and burn them in front of the king, saying that you would not admit them because you did not know about them?
If you wish, the king will order only one person to be detained!
”Zhu Youzhen asked."
This, this."
Gai Jiansheng hesitated, he took advantage of the aggravation of the drought to exploit the livelihood of the villagers, and released a lot of usury, he really didn't admit it, and personally destroyed all the IOUs, he was really a little reluctant.Li Hongji has long been dissatisfied with these gentry and magnates who are scheming and robbing, so he helped Zhu Youzhen more actively, and said: "Your Highness, he must be reluctant, he has a lot of usury released by building a family, if he doesn't want it, he can't force people to sell their sons and daughters!"
”It's good that Li Hongji didn't remind him like this, but as soon as he reminded him, Zhu Youzhen was even more angry, so he asked the prisoner again, and only ordered: "Copy it directly!"
”Gai Jiansheng was shocked, then looked at Li Hongji and pointed at Li Hongji: "You!
You!
You pariah!
”Li Hongji sneered proudly.He only now realized that there was someone who could clean up these people.About half a day later, Lu Xiangsheng rushed to Zhu Youzhen's place and said, "Lord, our people have confiscated more than 20,000 stone of grain in Aifu, which is enough for disaster relief. ”Zhu You nodded after listening: "Then immediately use this grain for disaster relief." ”Ai Juren fainted directly after hearing this.Here, Zhu Youzhen continued to the other gentry: "Since you refuse to release grain to save the villagers, then the government can only save it!"
But the government has no food yet, so now all of you will have to be forcibly expropriated, and the government will pay you back according to the amount of food levied on you. ”"AhhNaturally, it was very unacceptable for these gentry to hear Zhu Youzhen say this.After all, they hoard food in order to take advantage of the shortage of food caused by the drought and take advantage of the opportunity to sell it at a high price and make a lot of money.As a result, now, the imperial court wants to forcibly take away their grain, and the key is to return it with grain in the future, which suddenly makes the idea of these gentry wanting to make money from grain come to naught."
Send people to collect grain from house to house!
Those who do not obey will be forcibly raided for the crime of disobedience. ”Zhu Youzhen instructed Lu Xiangsheng after speaking."
Yes!"
…… At the same time, Zhu Youjian arranged for people to set up security points, food distribution points, and arrange for soldiers to collect the victims overnight.Relying on his youth, Zhu Youzhen worked directly all night, and he was very conscientious.Just like when he was emperor in history, he was very diligent in his work.However, Zhu Youzhen's behavior of forcibly expropriating the gentry's grain naturally caused the gentry to be very dissatisfied.Not only was he dissatisfied with Zhu Youzhen, but he was also very dissatisfied with Ma Maocai, the governor official who recruited the imperial court.But these gentry were dissatisfied and dissatisfied, and they did not dare to confront the imperial court officials and soldiers.They could only secretly instigate some bandits who had colluded with them to attack Mizhi County, in order to stop Zhu Youzhen's behavior.But these bandits were naturally no match for the official army and were quickly defeated, and these gentry could only obediently hand over all the grain.And because of this, Zhu Youzhen was able to feed many victims with the grain forcibly requisitioned from the gentry before the arrival of the grain mobilized by the imperial court, so that no one in the entire Yan'an Mansion starved to death or became thieves."
Your Majesty, King Xin has already offended the gentry of Shaanxi this time, and now there have been several letters of impeachment of King Xin for misconduct in Shaanxi, wanton accumulation of wealth in the name of disaster relief, and cruelty to the gentry, and even the imperial history has also been sparse to impeach Ma Maocai and exaggerate the disaster, obviously, some gentry in Shaanxi have blamed Ma Maocai for Your Majesty's sudden letting King Xin go to Shaanxi for disaster relief."
Two months later, Xiong Tingbi came to Zhu Youxiao with a few notebooks to report on King Xin's disaster relief in Shaanxi.After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao only smiled and said: "Fighting brothers, fathers and sons in battle, this kind of thing that offends the gentry of the world, how can it be just me to do it, King Xin does this, not only will I not punish him, but I will reward him, you plan a purpose, in the name of King Xin's disaster relief, let him eat the prince's double money!"
In addition, Yan Zibin embezzled, deceived the prince, delayed disaster relief, was dismissed, and was brought to Beijing to strictly punish crimes!
”"Yes!"
Xiong Tingbi also knew that King Xin's current behavior undoubtedly meant that in the future, the powerful gentry in the world who were not satisfied with the status quo would not want him to replace the Son of Heaven at all, and in the future, these people would completely focus on the princes."
I don't know when the drought in Shaanxi will end, so many victims, it is not enough to rely on grain transfer, and the imperial court does not have so much food, not to mention that the imperial court still has hundreds of thousands of troops to support, and it must be made self-sufficient as soon as possible."
Zhu Youxiao said suddenly at this time.Xiong Tingbi couldn't help frowning and said: "What Your Majesty said is of course, but now that the drought in Shaanxi is serious, the fields everywhere cannot be cultivated at all, even if the water conservancy is built, it is too late for a while, and it is a little difficult to make it self-sufficient as soon as possible." ”"Why do you have to stay in Shaanxi to cultivate, this world is so big, there is no idle land that can not be planted, as far as I know, there are many fertile fields in Siam, Mughal and other places, and it is completely possible to move the disaster victims to farm, but this will cause conflicts with the local natives, so our court needs to provide military support to these disaster victims to help them take root in these places.""
But in this matter, the imperial court cannot directly provide military support, it is easy to make the conflict suddenly bigger, it is better to set up a company first, it is called the Ocean Development Company, I and the imperial court are shareholders, and you can also invest in private shares, and then this company can go overseas to develop the corresponding industries, hire some young and strong victims, especially the young and strong victims who have committed crimes, and go to these places to develop, and the company will provide each of them with a horse, a firecracker, a pair of bows and arrows, a piece of armor, and a Yanling knife, and a number of lead bullets.
Send them to these places for free to occupy their own fields, and they can occupy as much as they can, but they need to share the profits of development to the company, and Han Aiqing is responsible for this matter.Zhu Youxiao said at this time.Han Yi replied: "Yes!
”"Try to recruit all the victims, now in Shaanxi, because of the drought can not feed so many people, after the drought is likely to have locust plagues, and even plagues, let them stay here, either starve to death, or cause chaos for thieves, or drag down the court, they can only emigrate to other places, transfer this disaster to the barbarians!
Now is not the time to be kind. ”Zhu Youxiao continued.Xiong Tingbi nodded: "What Your Majesty said is a good way, now that I think about it, it can only be like this, in the final analysis, it is still the way of heaven is unkind, not I am unkind, I have to do this." ”"Yes, you can't suffer the people, you can only suffer the barbarians, who let them not heart my China!""
In addition, I will mention a few people, and they must be hired at that time, Han Aiqing will go to investigate carefully when the time comes, one is Li Hongji, a native of Mizhi County, Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, who worked as a post guard in Yinchuan Station, one is Zhang Xianzhong, who was a border soldier in Yan'an Prefecture, Qingyang, Yan'an Prefecture, and a person named Gao Yingxiang who sold horses in Ansai County, Yan'an Prefecture......"
Zhu Youxiao said and read a number of peasant rebels in northern Shaanxi who were more famous in the late Ming Dynasty in history in his impression
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