Chapter 70: A Nice Woman

Yun Zhao was very sure that what he gave to the people was five catties of white rice!

Then, what the people received was strange, according to Han Lingshan's investigation, the people even received artillery battles.

This is excessive.

And the reason why the magistrate dared to do this was because Lantian County was sending wheat!

"The people will hate us to death."

For this matter, Yun Zhao has no way to deal with it at all, if he is seriously investigated, from Zhang Guozhu, Yun Zhang to the magistrate, they will all be punished.

"No one hates us, the people who got the artillery are still very happy, Your Majesty, seriously, as long as it is taken for nothing, the people will be very happy, and as for the converted money and grain, in fact, it is also used on the people.

First of all, according to the law of Lantian, the dynasty did not have the obligation to distribute food to the people plainly, and now, it is just a matter of universal celebration, which shows that the dynasty is financially rich.

The officials at the bottom did not have a good time, and 70 percent of the taxes collected in various localities had to be paid, and only 30 percent were left in the localities; with this little money and grain, they also shouldered the responsibility of maintaining public order in the locality, developing the locality, building roads, repairing water conservancy, and helping the poor and weak.

This is how the development of the country is carried out, and there is no need for His Majesty to delve too deeply. ”

"Once upon a time, I remembered you as a jealous person."

"Wechen is still now!"

"Why don't I think you're not?"

Zhang Guozhu said with a smile: "Weichen knows it in his heart, he used to be a magistrate, and now he is the in-laws of all officials, people have long said that it is difficult to be a mother-in-law if he is not deaf or dumb, as long as the hearts of these officials are still used on the local people, subsections, they should not be asked, after all, they are the officials who govern the locality, we are not, they know the truth of each place better than us."

Your Majesty must think that he has been deceived, as long as he keeps an eye on them and does not put money and food in his pocket. ”

Hearing Zhang Guozhu say this, Yun Zhao said to Han Lingshan: "Reach out and chop your hands, stretch out your legs and chop your legs!" ”

Han Lingshan smiled: "I'm staring at it." ”

Yun Zhao sighed and said to Zhang Guozhu: "Our great persistence is just a little bit of compromise. ”

"In the past, my eyes were fixed on a hundred years later, but since I became His Majesty's state minister, my eyes can look at five years at most, and I can see things in five years, and after five years, my eyes are dark.

Moreover, I thought that the person who watched things for decades, hundreds of years, or even more should be Your Majesty, not me. ”

Yun Zhao nodded, he had to admit that Zhang Guozhu's words were very reasonable.

This time, Yun Zhao did not take the sparsely populated Shanxi, but chose to enter Henan, then take Shandong, and finally arrive at Yanjing, compared to Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong, which were also the hardest-hit areas where the rogue was wiped out, the speed of restoring people's livelihood was much faster.

Yun Zhao's trip almost ran through the entire Henan, and after arriving in Xuzhou, Shandong, he had to change to a boat and go north along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

The journey was very quiet, and the magistrate's control was also very effective, and there was basically no case of suing the emperor.

Yun Zhao himself doesn't like this kind of thing, and if he has a grievance, he should go to the Criminal Justice Department or the Ministry of Law, instead of coming to him, an emperor who can't judge the case and investigate.

It's just that after arriving in Xuzhou, there was a complaint.

This made Huang Chenghai, the prefect of Xuzhou, extremely angry.

Unfortunately, they were already kneeling in the middle of the road with their papers held high, blocking the way of the guards, who were also disgusted by this kind of emergency, so they tied up the complainant and trapped him in the army.

Yun Zhao sat in the palace prepared for him by Huang Chenghai, took a sip of tea, and said to Han Lingshan: "Let's talk about it, everyone has sued me, if there is anything to say earlier, so as not to be embarrassed for a while." ”

Han Lingshan spread his hands and said: "What's so embarrassing about Weichen, Li Yan's head has been made into a wine bowl by His Majesty, and now, the wife of the family is ready to ask His Majesty for this wine bowl so that she can use it to make a whole corpse for her husband."

It's Your Majesty who is in trouble. ”

"Shouldn't Li Yan's wife be a red lady?"

"The red lady has never been Li Yan's wife, the real wife of the family is Li Hongji's original wife Xing, and now the person who is blocking the road and suing is this Xing's, at the beginning, we all thought that Xing died in the war, as a result, the previous Xuzhou prefect found Xing when he ascended the throne roster, and once played His Majesty, hoping to behead Xing, it was His Majesty who personally approved the document and said that the crime was Li Yan alone, as a result, people's courage became bigger, and they dared to block the road and ask Your Majesty for wine."

"Don't give it!"

After Yun Zhao heard Han Lingshan explain the reason for the matter, he immediately refused.

The reason why the heads of those bandits back then turned into wine cups and placed them in the Bald Mountain Memorial Hall was to shock the world, and there was no reason to return Li Yan's head to his family for no reason.

If you do this, I am sorry for the soldiers who died fighting against Li Yan.

"Go back and tell Xing that Li Yan is a giant and kills people like hemp, and the first two places on his body are his destination, so that she forgot about this matter, since the dynasty has pardoned her, she should live a good life."

Han Lingshan frowned and left the palace, he felt that this matter was a little strange.

On the second day of Xuzhou's repair, heavy snow fell, and overnight, Xuzhou was covered with heavy snow.

Yun Zhao inspected the Yellow River all the way to Xuzhou, a place where soldiers must fight.

Most of the people born here are unlucky, as long as the dynasty changes, Xuzhou City will be destroyed once, as long as the Yellow River floods in Shandong once, Xuzhou City will also be destroyed once.

I don't know how many times this city has been rebuilt and how many times it has been destroyed.

The name of the place where Yun Zhao is standing now is called Chongzhen City.

When the Yellow River burst the embankment in the fourth year of tomorrow, the water depth was one zhang three, and the city was completely flooded, so it was moved to the south of the city for twenty miles to rebuild, which was the second time that Xuzhou moved the city. In the first year of Chongzhen, the water receded, and the silt and sand in the city were as thick as one to five meters, and the houses and streets were buried in the sand. When the soldiers prepared for Tang Huan to rebuild on the original site, it was called Chongzhen City.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Yan and Li Hongji fought here, and the fierce battle lasted for a whole month and a half, making this city, which had not been repaired for a few years, once again become full of holes.

Huang Chenghai and the former prefect of Xuzhou spent countless efforts to rebuild the city, and borrowed the old city as the center to expand the city of Xuzhou outward, turning it into a city that seems to be defenseless in Lantian County.

Things here are very strange, most of the people live around the city of Xuzhou, the vast area under Xuzhou's rule, there is hardly a lot of population.

"Li Yan, in the battle with Li Hongji, the locals of Xuzhou died 160,000 in battle, at that time, the corpses under the city of Xuzhou were like mountains, almost flush with the city, and to this day, the wells in the city can still fish out human heads and corpses.

Weichen had to order all the wells to be closed, bring in living water, and choose a place to re-dig the wells, it can be said that Xuzhou itself is a city built on the corpses, so far, when the people are building houses, the first thing to do is to ask monks, Taoist priests to recite scriptures, and expel those unjust souls. ”

"And then?"

Yun Zhao asked.

"And then? Then, of course, the foundation is excavated, then filled with lime, and finally the house is built on the lime foundation. ”

"Han Lingshan told me last night that Li Hongji's treasure is hidden in a well, what do you think of this matter?"

Huang Chenghai was stunned for a moment and said, "Really? ”

Yun Zhao nodded and said: "Xing's life is lonely now, she doesn't dare to stay away from Xuzhou City by guarding this secret, and she doesn't dare to tell this secret to others, she thinks that only by telling me can she get a little reward to improve her life, and in addition, she can continue to live." ”

Huang Chenghai said with a smile: "This woman is very smart, even if she tells Weichen, after Weichen takes out the hidden treasure, she will be sent to the Western Regions or Nanyang for the honor of the government."

Only by telling His Majesty is that this is the safest thing to do. ”

"That's the reason, you should start digging immediately according to the prescription given by the Xing family, I want to see what Li Hongji grabbed in Fengyang."

Huang Chenghai took the order to run errands, and Qian Duoduo, who was wearing a cloak, came over and said, "The concubine wants to go and see." ”

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "You have also heard clearly, no matter how valuable these treasures are, they will be left in Xuzhou Mansion to build a place, and you will not have your share." ”

"Isn't this what the Xing clan dedicated to you?"

"Wrong, it's dedicated to the emperor, not to Yun Zhao."

"The concubine didn't want to take it, she just wanted to take a look......"

Yun Zhao shook his head and walked down the city wall of Xuzhou, just now he saw very clearly, the Yellow River, which looked bright in the snow, meandered from the edge of Xuzhou City, and was firmly bound by two embankments.

Seeing this, Yun Zhao was also relieved.

The weather at the beginning of November was not too cold, the Yellow River was not frozen, the snow that had fallen last night melted quickly after the sun came out, and Yun Zhao had to arrive in Yanjing before the Grand Canal froze.

In the evening, Huang Chenghai came to report on the excavation of Li Hongji's treasure.

After listening to Huang Chenghai's return, Yun Zhao somewhat regretted that most of these treasures were ritual weapons that Li Hongji had snatched from Fengyang, including all kinds of giant tripods, chimes, and jade, as for the gold and silver things, they had already been squandered by Li Yan and Li Hongji.

These things were of little use to Huang Chenghai, and as a result, Qian Duoduo bought them all as the queen, spending one million silver dollars.

This is a helpless thing, except for the royal family, it is not appropriate for anyone to use these ritual weapons, although the Lantian Dynasty has long canceled countless taboos, but there are still few people in the world to take in this kind of thing.

Qian Duoduo also rewarded Xing with 1,000 silver dollars.

"Xing's family didn't hide her secrets, this woman is very cunning, when Li Yan was killed, she cheated to death and escaped, after hearing that His Majesty pardoned Zhu Yuwu, she jumped out and gambled again, but the people gambled right, survived, and now she still has two Li Yan's evil seeds.

When he heard that His Majesty had come to Xuzhou, he jumped out again and told His Majesty the secret of Li Hongji's treasure in the form of a complaint, and exchanged meritorious service for the opportunity to truly live and live in peace.

Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that this woman can't stay, including Li Yan's two evil seeds! ”

Every word of Han Lingshan is full of murderous intent.

Yun Zhao smiled, patted Han Lingshan on the shoulder and said, "The matter has passed, now it is our world, I have a tolerant attitude towards these people who survived by luck, and besides, there is no explanation of killing them in the law." ”

"Execution in secret is."

"Wrong, when we want others to obey the law, we must first obey it, and I don't expect the Ming people to suddenly wake up and become people like us, I only hope that they can at least obey the laws we have made."