The Analects. There is a cloud in the Eight Hundred Chapters: "The king makes the ministers courteous, and the ministers are loyal." ”

Dong Zhongshu, a great Confucian of the Western Han Dynasty, even interpreted this sentence in "Virtuous and Virtuous Countermeasures" as, "The king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die!" ”

In these years, Zhongjun has a strong ideology, and ordinary people, especially scholars, really dare not be like Yang Cong, contempt for imperial power, disgusting Jiajing.

Xia Yan is crazy, but he is not crazy, he looks down on Jiajing a little in his heart, but that is also in terms of talent and learning, and he still doesn't dare to go beyond it in the slightest when it comes to imperial power.

Yan Song is a traitor, but he is not so traitorous that he does not take Jiajing in his eyes, although he uses Jiajing, he is only using Jiajing's ignorance to benefit himself, if he wants to say that he despises the imperial power represented by Jiajing, he does not have the courage.

Yang Cong is different, he is really not afraid of Jiajing in his heart, what's wrong with the emperor, he is not a person, if you dare to disgust me, I will dare to disgust you.

After he re-interrogated Yuan Yingshu and other corrupt officials, he arranged for people to escort these guys to the capital, and as for the dirty silver handed over to the imperial court, according to the amount they "honestly confessed", the total total was only tens of thousands of taels.

If he is a corrupt official, he will make a fortune, because the gold and silver treasures copied from the homes of those dozens of corrupt officials and Yuan Yingshu this time are worth more than two million taels, and after removing tens of thousands of taels, there are more than two million taels!

Of course, he didn't intend to be greedy for this money, two million taels is indeed a huge fortune enough to make people crazy for others, but it is not so attractive to him, and he is not short of this money.

As for what to do with this money, he had already thought about it.

The so-called "take it from the people and use it for the people", this money is the people's fat and people's ointment looted by these corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Guangxi, and naturally it is necessary to return it to the people of Guangxi.

However, what he called is not to divide these two million taels equally among millions of people, because this is meaningless, and it is less than one tael per person, and they can eat a full meal for a month at most, and then they will still have to starve.

He is ready to use this money to help the people of Guangxi get rid of the current situation of poverty and backwardness.

At about midnight on this morning, a dense sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded near Longji Mountain, which is more than 100 miles away from Guilin's mansion city, and nearly 100 people rode horses from the official road at a gallop, and soon ran into the passage into the mountain.

What is strange is that the people of Longji Mountain did not flock to these high-ranking officials because of the arrival of these high-ranking officials, and did not come to see the excitement, they were still busy with their work in the terraced fields on the mountain, as if they did not see this group of people.

What's going on here?

In fact, the people here have long seen this group of people, there are many people who seem to be busy in the fields, but their eyes are secretly looking at these people, but they have already been warned by the county magistrate and the head of the clan, what should they do these days, no matter who they see, they are not allowed to make a fuss, let alone gather crowds to watch, if not, they are caught on the board!

The deterrent effect of this board is still very great, otherwise, the people here can't help but be impulsive and run to watch on both sides of the mountain road.

Although they are standing in the field, their minds have been on the mountain road, what is the origin of this group of people?

The magistrate looks like a grandson in front of those high-ranking officials!

The leaders were the right deputy imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the secretary of the military department, Yang Cong, the governor of the five provinces, and the newly appointed Guangxi procurator Huang Guangsheng and Guilin prefect Zhang Jiude.

The reason why Yang Cong came here is because there are terraced fields, many, many terraces.

He thought hard for a long time, to change the current situation of poverty and backwardness in Guangxi, the only way to increase the area of cultivated land here, in the future generations can feed tens of millions of people here, why can't millions of people live at this time?

The production of grain is only one aspect, and the main thing is the area of cultivated land, because there is too little arable land in Guangxi at this time.

Here is a typical mountainous and hilly terrain, mountains and hills account for more than eighty percent, there are about one percent of the waterways left, the area of plains and basins is less than one percent, if you want to increase the area of cultivated land, only in the mountains to find a way, excavate terraces, and Longji Mountain is the most famous terraced rice field in Guangxi.

It is not that there are no terraces at this time, there are terraces in Guangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hunan, Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places, and the history of excavation is not short, but the terraces are not popularized at this time, at least Yang Cong has not seen any terraces, so he personally brought people to Longji for a field trip.

When the group arrived near Longji Mountain, they got off their horses, and Yang Cong hurriedly explained at the foot of a high mountain, and then climbed up the mountain with a few accompanying officials and a group of elite wolf guards.

This guy, the mountain is not easy to climb these days, let alone the road, there is no place to step on, the mountains are full of weeds that are not half a man high or dense woods, if you want to climb to the top of the mountain, you have to split the weeds and shrubs and open a road.

Fortunately, the wolf soldiers and Jinyi guards who came with them were the elite of the elite, and it was not difficult for them to open a road, but the weak scholars like Yang Cong were obviously not strong enough, and when they climbed to the top of the mountain, Yang Cong, Zhang Jiude and others were already sweating and panting.

Finally arrived at the top of the mountain, Yang Cong couldn't wait to raise his eyes to see, the opposite side was the Longji Mountain terraces, only to see the terraced fields like a jade belt around the mountain, so not spectacular.

He looked at it for a while, and then gasped: "Mingju, do you see anything?" ”

Mingju is the word of Huang Guangsheng, the new procurator of the criminal commission, this Huang Guangsheng was originally the deputy envoy of Guangdong to remind the procurator, and in the whole of Guangdong, he was known for his fairness and strictness, and he was outstanding.

Yang Cong had heard of him as early as when he was the governor of the southeast, but his specialty was farmland and water conservancy and criminal law investigation, and at that time, Yang Cong's main task was to exterminate pirates and pirates, so although Yang Cong heard that there was such a sage, he never found a suitable position to win him over.

This time, it happened that Chen Shouyu, the procurator of Guangxi, resigned and vacated such a position as a positive envoy, and Yang Cong immediately thought of this sage.

When Huang Guangsheng heard this, he hurriedly raised his hand and said: "My lord, you see, there is a river near this Longji Mountain, and it is more convenient to get water. Of course, the soil quality is also very important, depending on the growth of the seedlings, the soil quality here should also be quite good. ”

Water source is indeed a very important factor, rice, rice, the reason why it is called rice naturally can not lack water, if there is no water source, it is definitely impossible to grow rice.

The reason why he didn't take people directly to Longji Mountain to see the terraces, but chose the highest barren mountain near Longji Mountain was to see the cause of this Longji Terraces.

This Huang Guangsheng is really an expert in farmland and water conservancy, and he can see the key at a glance.

When Yang Cong heard this, he couldn't help squatting down and grabbed a handful of soil, pinched it in his hand and crushed it carefully.

The soil quality of this barren mountain is actually very good, but it is a little dry, there is no water at all, and there is no river nearby, so it is definitely impossible to grow rice.

He couldn't help but sprinkle the soil and said excitedly: "Okay, let's dig a ditch to divert water, bring the water over there to the foot of the mountain here, and open a few terraced fields to try!" ”