Chapter 104: The Governor of the East Factory arrives
However, Liang Jia has no time to pay attention to this red-clothed beauty at the moment, and he wants to take down the group of dog officials in Tai'an now.
Xiao Chunzi was responsible for contacting Tang Sai'er and handing over the situation here, and then Tang Sai'er handed over the information that Liang Jia learned to the Administration Office, and the Administration Office sent personnel to cooperate with Liang Jia to investigate and deal with it.
Then Li Xiaogu was responsible for contacting Rourou's side, and asked Rourou to dispatch some personnel to be responsible for arresting at that time.
After Liang Jia left a guard by his side, all the others went out to investigate the situation, and they must take down all the evidence of the illegal behavior of this group of dog officials in Tai'an City.
On the second day after arriving at Taean City, Chen Yueqiang sent news that they had rushed to Jeju Prefecture, but the disaster relief money had not been handed over. Because Liang Jia named Xu Yinghyuk, and Xu Yinghe was not in Jeju at this time, but in Rizhao Province in the south, responsible for encircling and suppressing the largest local gangsters.
In addition to the 50,000 Liukou in Rizhao, a few thousand in Zizhou, 30,000 or 40,000 in Weixian, and more than 20,000 in Jining Prefecture. The rest of the rest of the country has a smaller number of rogues, and the personnel are more scattered, saying that they are rogues, but in fact they are almost the same as bandits.
Seo Young-hyuk is going to take down the biggest one first, and then start to eliminate the others.
However, although these rogues ostensibly played different banners in different places, they secretly allied with each other, and the movements of Xu Yinghyuk's army were very clear to them, and the rear army was often attacked and disturbed, and the transportation of grain and grass was often attacked, which made him very annoying.
Hearing that the emperor allocated 300,000 taels of silver from the palace to come over for disaster relief, Xu Yinghe breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as half of these 300,000 can be used in the hands of the victims, the power of the rogues will be greatly reduced. Except for those who are ambitious, many people will not continue to be rogues as long as they see that there is hope of survival.
The rogues are the most difficult to clear, because they do not defend the city and do not occupy the land, and they will take the next city and leave. It is very difficult for the imperial army to find them in a decisive battle.
Even if you can block some of the fights, the number of rogues that can be lost can be replenished soon. On the contrary, on the side of the imperial army, it is not so easy to replenish the losses of personnel.
Although Liang Jia did not know much about the military situation, he also knew that it was never a simple matter to exterminate the Liukou, so he never issued an order to urge Xu Yinghyuk to speed up the progress.
If the Liukou were so easy to perish, the Ming Dynasty in the previous life would not have been attacked by Li Chuang. If the Liukou were so easy to destroy, the Liukou of the Great Liang Country would not occupy a province now, and they would really have a chassis that belonged to them.
To eradicate the rogues, we need to start from two aspects, one is military and the other is policy.
In terms of policy, when Ge Mingxuan arrived in Shandong, he had already made it clear.
All taxes were exempted, and the government unconditionally distributed relief food and built soup kitchens. If the grain is not enough, ask the large households to borrow, and later report to the household department, and the household department will pay the grain money in a unified manner. Of course, the price is not allowed to be too much higher than the usual price, and the minimum is only allowed to rise by 10%.
The third policy should be the most effective in Liang Jia's view, that is, land division.
Leave the existing land untouched, and whoever reclaims new land will be given the land, and not a penny will have to be handed over for five years, and the government will also be responsible for irrigating and distributing grain during drought.
Land has always been the foundation of the common people, and it stands to reason that this policy will definitely attract those who have only a little land or no land at all, but from Texas to the current Tai'an, Liang Jia has not seen the implementation of the three policies he instructed at all.
Liang Jia brought 300,000 taels of disaster relief silver this time, but he was not going to distribute it directly, but to exchange it for grain and grow grain to distribute. If it is exchanged for silver money, it will still raise Liang Jia. Buying food in the name of the government not only controls prices, but also keeps the victims from starving to death.
"Childe, it's time to eat." Zhao Min's voice interrupted Liang Jia's musings.
When she looked up, Zhao Min had already served all the food, and she was followed by a little girl. Her body had been washed and changed into a blue shirt, her little face was timid, and her skin was a little dark.
"Hong'er has seen Childe." Zhao Min should have taught her, so when she saw Liang Jia's eyes looking over, she knelt down and kowtowed, and shouted crisply.
"You don't have to kneel, just feel free. Let's eat. ”
After eating, several people who had gone out to investigate the situation also returned.
According to their descriptions, Ge Myung-hyun distributed real grain to Taean, which was bought from merchants in Jeju. At first, the common people thought that they would be able to eat enough food when they came, but they didn't expect that the porridge was still so thin, and the grain shops that were originally closed in the city suddenly opened for business, and the price of food soared.
From the time of the disaster to the present, the officials of Tai'an City have said some reassuring words to a fellow acquaintance, and the other officials have not even shown their faces.
This is a typical collusion between officials and businessmen.
Koharuko reported that she had been in contact with Jinyiwei, but it would take a few days to pass the message back and forth.
However, now the collusion between officials and businessmen on Tai'an's side is obvious, although there is no direct evidence, but it is possible to take down a cadre of officials.
"Xiao Lizi, immediately contact Rourou and let her take over Tai'an Mansion, all the big and small officials will be taken down, and those who are convicted of the crime will be directly pulled down at the city gate and cut down."
"Yes!"
Li Xiaogu promised and went out to contact Rourou.
Meat and meat followed secretly with people, and Liang Jia didn't know the specific location. This fat man is quite powerful, with hundreds of people, and there is no trace at all.
Early the next morning, Liang Jia got up, and he and his people had rushed to the vicinity of the Yamen of the Tai'an Prefect, waiting for Rourou to appear.
As the sun rose, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard outside the city, followed by a series of noises.
A quarter of an hour later, the sound of horses' hooves began to sound throughout the city, heading straight for here.
"Childe, our people are here." Li Xiaogu said in a low voice.
Liang Jia nodded, and then Li Xiaogu greeted him.
After a while, the Dongchang team of 200 people arrived at the door of the prefect's yamen, and the catchers standing guard at the yamen were startled when they saw so many people suddenly arrive.
But these people are dressed in uniform and have long knives around their waists, a bit like an army. But this costume has never been seen before.
A catcher came over hesitantly and asked, "Excuse me, who are you?" ”
"The superintendent of the Dongchang factory has arrived, and he will quickly go to your prefect to come out to greet him." A eunuch shouted at a shriek.
"East Factory?" The catcher was stunned. He had heard the name of Dongchang, after all, the establishment of Dongchang was written in the imperial court's newspaper. But what the East Factory does, they are just a small catcher, and it is not clear.
"Don't go yet!" The eunuch's voice became stern.
Caught up for a moment, hurriedly agreed, turned around and ran in.
After a while, a chubby guy in his fifties, dressed in an official uniform, hurriedly walked out.
"May I ask who is the superintendent of Dongchang?" The prefect walked up to the Dongchang cadres and asked, facing the carriage with the curtain closed.
Fingers that had been white and slender stretched out from the curtain, and then the curtain was opened, and a scholar with a slender figure and a handsome face walked out.