On the tenth day of the first month of the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, the cabinet of the Forbidden City was on duty. m.8wav. The three pavilion elders were in the room to review and read, and suddenly Li Dongyang said happily: "Great, this Juzhou Liang Zhizhou has solved the big problem of the imperial court at once." Liang Zhizhou is not only a capable minister, but also a virtuous minister! ”

Liu Jian and Xie Qian heard that Li Dongyang suddenly praised Liang Zhizhou like this, so they asked at the same time: "Binzhi, is Liang Zhizhou playing again?" ”

Li Dongyang was in a good mood and said to the two of them: "Shoufu, Yu Qiao, guess what request Liang Zhizhou made in the compromise?" ”

"What request?" Both asked at the same time.

He said in the recital that he felt the same when he heard that an earthquake had struck his hometown, and the people of the county were affected by the disaster, homeless, cold and hungry, and wept bitterly. As the emperor's courtier, he decided to share the emperor's worries and the court's worries, and asked the court to move the affected people in the court and the surrounding areas to Juzhou for temporary resettlement. He said that all the workshops in Juzhou need workers to work, and now they need about 10,000 people. Based on the calculation of five people in one household, it can accommodate 50,000 victims. He also said that Juzhou has the ability to provide food and housing for these victims, and that no one will die of cold and starvation. ”

When Liu Jian heard this, he said happily: "This is a good thing, the emperor is worried about this matter." If Juzhou can really resettle 50,000 victims, the disaster relief pressure in Chaoyi will be reduced by at least half. ”

Xie Qian also said happily: "If this matter is successful, there will be no need to relocate the victims to the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River." Liang Zhizhou's move is very good! ”

Li Dongyang carefully read the fold again, and said: "This fold also has the signature of He Zhiyuan, a student from Juzhou, which means that this is a fold that the two of them went on together. ”

Liu Jian smiled when he heard this: "This is also normal, I heard that the He family in Juzhou has become the richest man in the local area, without his support, Liang Zhizhou would not have such a big hand." ”

Then Liu Jian said: "The rest of the twists and turns will not be approved first, let's see the emperor together." ”

"Wait, there's one more of his twists and turns." Li Dongyang opened the fold and hurriedly browsed it, and then said: "This is a twist and turn to impeach Supan, the magistrate of Chaoyi. ”

"Then let's show it to the emperor together!" Liu Jian said.

So the three pavilion elders hurriedly came to the East Warm Pavilion of the Wenhua Hall with two twists and turns. Emperor Hongzhi saw the three elders coming over together and knew that something big must happen. Emperor Hongzhi of this matter is worried about the affairs of the disaster area in Chaoyi. But he saw the three pavilion elders with joy, and after a simple salute, Emperor Hongzhi asked: "The three pavilion elders came today, with happy faces, there must be good news to tell me, right?" ”

Li Dongyang took out two notebooks and said: "Your Majesty, these are the two recitals of Liang Wensheng, the governor of Juzhou, please read them." ”

After speaking, he presented the two books, and Emperor Hongzhi took the book and looked at the title first, the first is the impeachment of the Chaoyi Zhixian Su Pan only to prevent the earthquake and cause heavy casualties to the people of the court. After Emperor Hongzhi saw it, he said angrily: "What is the use of such an inactive mediocre official to keep him, notify the Criminal Department to take him down first, and then discuss the punishment after the investigation is true!" ”

Liu Jian replied: "The old minister obeys the order!" ”

For the three of them, a little magistrate will take it, and they don't care at all. The important thing is that the second book of the fold of this land is what he really is

caring. Li Dongyang deliberately put the impeachment recital on it, so that the emperor could see it first, and wait for the emperor to deal with Suzhi County, and then watch the second recital, so that the emperor's mood would be much better, and the contrast between the two magistrates would be very obvious.

Sure enough, after Emperor Hongzhi finished reading the second recital, his anger suddenly subsided, and his face was happy. He took the fold and said to the three elders: "Look, this is the model of my Ming local officials." Compared with the Su Pan just now, it is simply a pearl and a dung! ”

Xie Qianxin, who was standing next to him, said to the emperor, don't just praise Liang Zhizhou and forget He Zhiyuan, without his support, Liang Zhizhou would not have been able to resettle so many victims at once. He had already known the relationship between He Zhiyuan and the Zhou family from Zhou Fulai, and Zhou Fulai was his student, if he won the examiner again in the spring of next year, it was likely that he would be He Zhiyuan's teacher. Even if he is not the chief examiner, with the relationship between Zhou Fulai and him, the relationship between him and He Zhiyuan is relatively close. Therefore, he still favors He Zhiyuan in his heart.

In fact, the emperor didn't look at the second fold carefully at all, but just skimmed it roughly and understood the general meaning, and didn't notice that there was He Zhiyuan's signature at the back.

At this point, Xie Qian coughed lightly and said: "Your Majesty, although Liang Zhizhou is from a noble background, he is not comparable to Su Pan, who was born as a scholar, in terms of managing government for officials and people. Liang Zhizhou has been in office for less than a year to make such political achievements, and the key is that there is a capable person around him to help him. ”

Speaking of this, Emperor Hongzhi understood, and immediately said: "Xie Ge Lao is right, without He Zhiyuan, who created the original scientific school, Liang Zhizhou would not have made such political achievements so quickly, and both of them are worthy of praise." ”

Li Dongyang said to the emperor at this time: "Your Majesty, since this recital was signed by Liang Zhizhou and He Zhiyuan, the old minister believes that Juzhou is fully capable of accepting 50,000 disaster victims, and the imperial court should immediately approve and agree to it, and immediately start organizing the migration of the disaster victims. ”

"As it should be." Emperor Hongzhi nodded, and then raised his doubts: "A year ago, the court was still worried about the rampant bandits and disaster victims in Ju County, but I didn't expect that a year later, Ju County will not only be governed, but also to settle 50,000 victims, I remember that Juzhou has more than 40,000 registered households, and the population is only more than 200,000. Is there really a capacity to resettle 50,000 victims now? ”

Liu Jian also had some doubts about this, after all, the trouble was big, and if the disaster victims were not resettled and caused chaos, it would be a big deal. It was he who said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the old minister also has this question in his heart. Although Liang Zhizhou said that many workshops in the territory need workers to work, but after all, the trouble is big, so the old minister suggested that he should ask Fu Gonggong, who went to Juzhou to preach the decree a few years ago, to talk about the situation in Juzhou in detail, and then make a decision before it is too late. ”

Xie Qian's thoughts were the same as those of Li Dongyang, who believed that Juzhou was fully capable of housing 50,000 victims, and his student Zhou Fu had mentioned the situation in Juzhou in a letter a few years earlier, knowing that Juzhou now needed a large number of workers. But since the emperor and Shoufu have questions, it is inconvenient for him to object.

It was because he exchanged glances with Li Dongyang that he agreed to Liu Jian's proposal. Xie Qian thought to himself that if Fu Gonggong thought it was okay, he thought that it was not okay, and then he explained the situation in Juzhou to the emperor in detail.

After a while, Funing came to the East Warm Pavilion. After Funing kowtowed, Emperor Hongzhi asked him: "Fu."

Ning, you went to Juzhou last year to pass the decree, and you can tell me more about the workshop in Juzhou. ”

Fu Ning stood down, thought about it for a while, and then replied: "Back to the emperor, the slave went to Hejia Town once last time, and walked roughly in his workshop. At that time, there were about 2,000 households in Hejia Town, with a population of more than 10,000. There are as many as five or six large and small workshops, the largest of which has more than 1,000 people working in my workshop, and three or four thousand people in other workshops. ”

"Three or four thousand? How can a town with a total of 2,000 households have so many Ding Zhuang? Emperor Hongzhi asked Funing in surprise.

"Back to the emperor, I also asked He Zhiyuan at that time. According to him, not only the people of this town worked here, but also people from other nearby villages worked in the workshops, and some young women also worked here. So there were three or four thousand people. Fu Ning explained, and then added: "There are seven or eight cement workshops on both sides of the Shu River, where seven or eight thousand people are working, and two or three thousand people are mining stones in the mines. According to He Zhiyuan, if the construction of the city wall and buildings in Hejia Town began, the output of cement would be far from enough, and a large number of workers would be needed to work in the cement workshop. ”

When Emperor Hongzhi heard Funing say this, the doubts in his heart were slowly resolved, and he then asked: "Funing, as far as you know, how many workers are needed to work in the entire Juzhou?" ”

Fu Ning thought for a while and said: "Back to the emperor, according to what the slave maid heard, there is only one Hejia Town, after the completion of the city's area is comparable to Juzhou City, enough to accommodate fifty or sixty thousand people to live in, and there will be many shops of all kinds in the future, plus workshops outside the city, I think it is enough for seventy or eighty thousand people to make a living here." In the future, Hejia Town will become a commercial center, which is in the center of the north and south of the country, and the business is enough to reach the north and south, and it will be a prosperous place for a few years according to this trend. ”

Emperor Hongji nodded happily again, and the troubles of the past few days were swept away. But he still couldn't be too careless, so he immediately looked at Liu Jian and asked, "Elder Liu Ge, do you have a problem with another Funing?" ”

When Liu Jian heard Fu Ning's answer, most of his doubts were solved, but at this time he still had many questions to ask Fu Ning, he first asked: "May I ask Fu Gonggong, do you know what the monthly salary of the workers in those workshops is?" What is the price of local food? ”

Fu Ning said in his heart that Liu Ge was really careful, and he noticed such a small problem. Fortunately, he had dinner with Lord Liang and He Zhiyuan a few times when he was in Juzhou, and asked similar questions in small talk, so he had a comprehensive understanding of the situation in Juzhou.

So he replied without thinking: "Looking back at Lord Fu, as far as our family knows, the least work in the workshop has a monthly salary of two or five taels of silver, and most of them have heard that there are six or seven taels of silver. As for the price of grain, I heard that in the early spring and early summer, it once reached two taels of silver and one stone, and there was a food shortage. Since Liang took office, he has dealt with three unscrupulous profiteers who have raised grain prices, and grain prices have been lowered. When we went to Juzhou, the local grain price had dropped to one or two taels of silver and one stone of rice. The price of coarse grains is even lower, about one tael of silver and one stone. So one artificial money is enough to feed a family of five. ”

Hearing this, Liu Jian nodded with satisfaction. He said to the emperor: "In this case, the old minister also agreed with what Li Ge Lao said, and immediately approved Liang Zhizhou's request, and at the same time immediately organized the Chaoyi disaster victims to move to Juzhou. ”

(End of chapter)

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