Chapter 205

Qian Ning walked out of the gate of the mansion, and the people of Chun'an County saw a big official come out and surrounded him. The officials at the gate of the government hurriedly held steel knives and gestured, forcing these people back some distance, and they also knew in their hearts that with such a few people, if the people really wanted to **, who could stop them?

"Folks!" Qian Ning pressed his hands in the void to silence everyone, "This official knows that the rice field is the foundation of your life for several lifetimes!" It's just that this change from rice to mulberry is really a good thing that will benefit the future in the present generation! Let's think about it, the harvest of this mulberry field will definitely be better than that of the rice field, and the price will be higher than that of rice. For some problems and some bad situations, this official is here to promise you that we will seriously consider and deal with it, and those who should be rewarded will be rewarded, and those who should be punished will definitely not be soft! Please give us some time, it's going to take a process......"

Listening to Qian Ning's bitter persuasion, Zhu Yidao didn't know what it was like in his heart. He brought those soldiers back to the station, and quietly followed the people of Chun'an County all the way to Hangzhou, wondering how the local government in Zhejiang implemented the change from rice to mulberry? If it were all extremely crude methods like Ma Yuan's, not only would there be no results, but sooner or later it would provoke a popular uprising. Jiangsu and Zhejiang are important places for imperial court taxes, and if something goes wrong here, the treasury will be even more worrisome! But then again, what did Li Hualong do? It's time to count, but I still don't see him! If he comes, the officials in Zhejiang will have a backbone, and some things will be much easier to do! Now I don't know what kind of regulations the imperial court has for changing rice to mulberry, all relying on previous experience to do things, if there is no chaos, it will be really surprising.

How difficult it is for Qian Ning to be a political envoy! Lao Zhu pondered in his heart

C, this person can still do things for the people, but I don't know how far he can go? Let's take it one step at a time! I just came here in the name of patrolling the border, so I brought an eye and an ear, and my mouth could not say or say anything, and I told the emperor what I saw and heard, and the task was completed.

The people of Chun'an County gradually dispersed, they did not get the most satisfactory answer, and the arrested people were not released, but they finally knew the attitude of the province, and knew that this national policy must be implemented, so they could only accept it.

Qian Ning had time to wipe the sweat on his head. The imperial court said that it would send someone over to guide Zhejiang to carry out this national policy, but everyone in Zhejiang officialdom knew that this national policy would never be implemented so easily! The local monks can't recite the scriptures well, but the foreign monks can recite them well? And it is said that the person who is about to come has also worked in Li Chengliang's border army, let a civilian official do the work of a military attaché, and now he has been transferred to implement the policy, what do the ministers of the cabinet think?

No matter what he thought, Li Hualong arrived in Hangzhou in mid-July, and as soon as he arrived, a spy reported to Lao Zhu, and Zhu Yidao welcomed him directly to the local guard camp in the market, and when he came here, he first brought the group of cavalry back to the garrison, and learned through their mouths that the Jinyi guard was in the guard camp here, so he directly took the hundred and ten people to be stationed here. When the brocade guards of Hangzhou Wei saw that they were their bosses, the leaders of the emperor's personal guards, they couldn't do it one by one, and the thousands of households even vacated their own places for Lao Zhu to live.

Li Hualong's face didn't know if it was because he was in a hurry for too long or something, it was extremely different. He told Zhu Yidao that he had been wandering around below these days, and he planned to learn about the situation in Zhejiang first, but the more he knew, the more he felt that the national policy of changing rice to mulberry could not be implemented so quickly! A lot of work has not been done, and it is directly and rudely issued in the form of government decrees, regardless of whether the people are willing or not, and sooner or later there will be a big mess if this continues! Go, Li Hualong's heart is getting colder and colder, and he feels more and more the weight of the burden on his shoulders.

The situation in Zhejiang is that the landlords, merchants, and officials have formed new interest groups, which are no longer simple landlord officials like the Jingshi, and are mixed with huge merchant forces. These merchants were closely bound to the officials through direct interests, whether it was silk, tea, or even porcelain, all of which had huge profit margins. The Zhejiang government did not simply adopt a means for merchants, but adopted a way of exploitation, everyone has a fortune, officials rely on merchants to make money, merchants rely on officials to earn silver, then the offender can only be the lowest level of the people. Li Hualong gave an example, there is a small family in Jiande County who plans to open a restaurant; On the first day of opening, because the door was full of customers, it was maliciously poisoned by another large restaurant in the county, and a week later, it was maliciously poisoned and several customers were poisoned; After being sued to the county office, the county government only completed a hasty investigation, and announced that the restaurant was suspected of intentional murder and put the boss and the proprietress in prison; The backstage of the restaurant felt that these two people were indeed talented, and it was not easy to start from scratch, so he thought of cherishing their talents, and even went directly to see the two in prison, promising that as long as he did things with him, he could find a way to bail the two people out. The poor little boss was extremely strong, and after learning that he was framed, he committed suicide in prison that night.

But what's the use of suicide? His small restaurant, a few days after their deaths, was given to the big restaurant by the county government at a very low price. This incident once caused an uproar in Jiande County, but in the end it was not known. It's not that no one wrote an anonymous letter complaining, but after the paper was handed to the Hangzhou government, there was no more news. Soon someone sued the province again, but the criminal envoy sent the case back to Hangzhou Prefecture, asking Hangzhou Prefecture to retry it, and Hangzhou Prefecture sent it back to Jiande County, and in the end, Jiande County died of two violent illnesses, just expelling the prison boss!

Zhu Yidao was speechless for a long time. Daming is too big, with a population of tens of millions, and such a large territory, where can it be taken care of? There is a good saying, which doctor has not treated people to death, and which temple has not unjustly killed a ghost? Jiande County really shouldn't do things like this, but what can the people do to him? If you tell you, you will tell you, and the master who has the silver is the master! Now that everyone is dead, and the evidence is almost destroyed, with Lao Zhu and Li Hualong, can this case that is clearly an unjust case be overturned? Lao Zhu thinks that he is not Hai Rui, and he can only scold Zhang Liangcai twice.

When it came to this, the two of them looked at each other. Li Hualong suddenly pounced on Lao Zhu and shook Lao Zhu's neck: "It must be you!" It's definitely you! Your uncle's! You must have recommended it to the Cabinet, otherwise how would they know who I am?! I'm comfortable in Banshu as a big toast, why do you have to get me to this place? Lao Zhu reluctantly broke his hand away, pressed the pinched painful neck, and then swallowed it with difficulty: "It's not me...... It's Shen of the Ministry of Officials! He recommended you, and if you want to find trouble, you go to him! ”

Li Hualong is also out of options. Where did he want to pick up such a mess! The imperial court sent him to supervise the imperial history, which in itself made the Zhejiang officialdom very uncomfortable, what national policy, what changed rice to mulberry, what is wrong with the peace in the world! It's just a matter of implementing the national policy, and sending a civilian official who has fought a war! If he hadn't hidden his identity and checked below, he wouldn't have gotten any real information! When he first entered Zhejiang, he made his identity clear and asked the local county government to cooperate, except for the county lord's delicious and delicious hospitality, he didn't even let the county government take a step, even if he went to the toilet, he had to send someone to follow, which was like house arrest! He had no choice but to pretend that he had finished his inspection and wanted to return to Beijing to resume his life, and the county lord happily "escorted" him out of the county.

Old Zhu was dumbfounded. This patrol should have been carried out quietly, how could he reveal his identity? Whichever county it is changed to, people will be entertained, and they will not let him know the actual situation at all; Even if it was for him to know, it would have been arranged a long time ago! But fortunately, Li Hualong already knows the general situation, so the next step is easy to do, but the current situation is not complete, and we have to figure out how big the market for mulberry leaves is in Zhejiang, if half of the rice fields are allocated for mulberry fields, will the mulberry leaf market be saturated? The law of the market tells Lao Zhu that if the mulberry leaves increase in large quantities, then the price will inevitably drop significantly! At that time, the big silk farmers in Zhejiang will definitely buy mulberry seedlings in the hands of mulberry farmers at a very low price, and then the government will give grain to the people at a very high price, so the government and merchants can make a profit, and the only unlucky person can only be the common people!

Li Hualong's stomach growled, and Zhu Yidao realized that the sky had darkened, he smiled awkwardly, pulled Li Hualong and walked out, ready to find a restaurant to eat casually. As soon as he walked out of the door, a spy floated over like a ghost: "Lord Qianhu, the emperor's secret letter to you." ”

Well, I don't think I'm going to eat tonight. Lao Zhu could only take the secret letter and returned to the house, the spy looked at him and then at Li Hualong, didn't say anything, and quietly retreated. The content of MeSign is actually very simple, Wanli wants to know how the situation in Zhejiang is now, what kind of progress it has reached, and what difficulties there are, just say it! But Li Hualong has just arrived in Zhejiang, nothing has been carried out, and he himself has only experienced an attempted rebellion, but this matter must be known to the emperor! Lao Zhu pondered in his heart that he had to let the emperor know the real situation, and it didn't make sense to just listen to the official reports of the cabinet.

He looked up at the window, it was getting darker, dark clouds were mysteriously covering the land, and a heavy rain seemed to be coming. Li Hualong smiled and said that the farmers told him that there would be a rainy season in Zhejiang every time now, and the time was not long, and the rainfall was not large, which was a good opportunity for rice fields to grow