Chapter 260: An Intimately Contacted
Zhao Yuan took an ever-expanding group of officials from all over the country to visit the mansions of various officials in Meizhou, and each official's attitude towards Zhao Yuan was unexpectedly consistent, maintaining respect on the surface, but disapproving him in his heart.
Zhao Yuan also had the first in-close contact with the Meizhou bureaucracy, and as expected, neither side could leave a good impression on each other.
After a look around Meizhou City, Zhao Yuan, who had no hope for his subordinates, was completely determined to carry out a purge in Meizhou officialdom.
It's just that the specific time for action has to wait until the next time he comes to Meizhou, and the child he is about to be born is the most important thing for Zhao Yuan at present.
Zhao Yuan's "blind wandering" left the impression on these officials in Meizhou, in addition to being despised by them, but also leaving a very greedy impression.
As soon as a Shangguan arrived, he thought about renting his subordinates' houses.
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After the inspection, the officials and leaders of Meizhou gathered together and began to discuss countermeasures against Zhao Yuan.
"Our Lord Thorn Shi is not only a stunned young man, but also has a lot of appetite, you didn't rent the house to him."
"Who is so stupid, saying that it is renting, and when he lives in, can he still come back?"
"The appetite is too big, according to him, he is from Danling, and the last thing he lacks is money, why is he still so greedy."
"How do you think he got the position of assassin Shi, he must have exhausted his family wealth and put it in place."
"All of a sudden, from a penniless small loose official, to suddenly take over the history of a state assassin, how much money will it cost to dredge up the relationship, and there may be a big deficit ready to make up for it from us, it seems that we are right not to welcome him to take over."
"By the way, we must suppress his arrogance from the beginning, otherwise our years of hard work will be in vain."
"I'm afraid that it will be a lot of trouble from now on, stunned, if he has to come nonsense, we will be the same as before, but he will take advantage of the loophole, maybe everyone will have a hard time."
"In this way, the official will make a statement first, Zhang Sigong, the shop that our two families have been earning, the official will give up the fight first." Cai Tong, who was patronized by Zhao Yuan's second soldier, has always been preoccupied, and he took the lead in expressing his position.
"Lord Cai seriously?"
"Then there can be a fake." Cai Tong confirmed.
Among all the officials, the only one who was picked by Zhao Yuan this time was Cai Tong, although it was just a trivial matter, but who knows if this new assassin who everyone is not familiar with will take advantage of this topic, plus he refused Zhao Yuan's request to rent a mansion, I am afraid that he will be the first to be unlucky at that time.
"Lord Cai is wise, colleagues, I see that there are any small disputes between the families, and they will be resolved as soon as possible, and don't look at our young assassins, so we will relax our vigilance, and when the time comes, the boat will capsize in the gutter, and it will be uncomfortable." Don't drive Luo Andong arched his hand and said.
"Old fox." Cai Tong muttered secretly, he knew that he was provoked by Zhao Yuan because of Luo Andong.
"Then listen to Lord Luo, after fighting for so many years, no one has been able to take advantage of anyone, everyone has taken a step back, some of them are dirty, and they will negotiate to solve it, especially recently, don't make trouble on the bright side, and give people an excuse to scratch their feet."
"Hey, it's not stupid, everyone knows how to do it, in order to have a better life in the future, I think everyone is still getting closer to the above recently, don't be reluctant to give up those few silvers."
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The officials in Meizhou, in a few words, formed a tacit understanding and were ready to unite against Zhao.
Zhao Yuan didn't know the tandem situation of the officials below, and after having a rough idea of the situation of the officials in Meizhou, he returned to the mansion in Meizhou, and at this time at the gate of Meizhou City, a large number of people and materials were being transported from Danling.
"If you want to do things, there are people under your hands, and now in the situation in Meizhou, none of the people below can be used, even if you rely on the authority of the official position of the assassin to mobilize three melons and two dates, Zhao Yuan can't look down on it, so he simply doesn't need the people here for the time being." Zhao Yuan said to Guo Du with a smile.
"When you first arrive, those officials don't seem to know anything about you, so I wonder if they don't care about the surrounding affairs." Guo Du looked at the performance of Meizhou officials and couldn't help but feel funny.
This old man of his own family has created a huge family business in Danling, and there are countless industrial personnel under his hands, how can a few frogs at the bottom of the well in Meizhou be bullied.
The horizon determines the height, and the knowledge and experience expand the horizon, Guo Du and even the workers in the small workshop under Zhao Yuan's system have a completely different insight from the outside world, who is good and who is bad, and also has a clearer understanding of the poor people in the outside world.
"I only know how to stare at my own one-third of an acre, and spend some energy and money to dot it up, drunk and dreaming every day, how can I know the changes in the wind direction around me." Zhao Yuan took the book and flipped through it, and shook his head with a smile.
Although Meizhou is a county governed by the state, there are not many people on the register, and it should be related to the inevitable land annexation of all dynasties, and a large number of people have settled down on the land annexed by the official gentry and the big families, and they have become the slaves and tenant farmers of these families and officials.
Although Meizhou is rich, the people are miserable, and in most places in this era, the main problem lies in this.
"You see, in the eighteenth year of Guangzheng, there were more than 6,700 local households in Meizhou, and in the twenty-second year of Guangzheng, the number of households did not increase but decreased, and 5,510 households were recorded, but even the registration was missing." Zhao Yuan roughly flipped through Meizhou's book, and knew that the data on it was for reference only, and he couldn't help but have a headache.
"My lord is here, I think I will soon be able to govern Meizhou like Danling and Gray Plain." Guo knew that his adults were lazy, and said with a smile.
"You also see, the low-level students of Yucai Academy can make a hundred times better than this when they do this, and the corpse is a vegetarian meal, which is the current group of people in Meizhou."
"As long as there is a young lady taking the lead, it will definitely be better than them, and our follow-up personnel and materials will be in place one after another, so let's give some new things to the people of Meizhou first." Guo Du said with a smile.
"Let's show people a new thing first, the history of this official is going to bring great changes to Meizhou. But you still have to take some strong medicine, and tomorrow you take the official's written order and go to all the houses to spread it, and give them a chance to see if there are any people worth 'saving'. Zhao Yuan casually threw the book aside, splashing a puff of dust.
"Ahem, my lord is generous." Guo Du waved his hand at the dust that filled the air.
"The official wants to be lenient with others, I hope they can give the official this opportunity."
Zhao Yuan didn't give up hope at all, this group of people was stubborn and persistent, and they didn't take him seriously at all.
Leaving the book of Meizhou, Zhao Yuan mainly wanted to understand the current land distribution in Meizhou, from these old and outdated books, I can't see any specific useful information, or have to wait for the personnel on the Danling side to be in place, combined with the map brought by later generations, from scratch.
The next changes in Meizhou, Zhao Yuan can expect, will be soon.