Chapter Sixty-Nine: Seeking Survival and Wandering People
Zheng Sheng felt that this Xie Zhou was too unkind, and after Guo Yi dealt with the troubles in the spring breeze, this person turned around and left, and the enthusiasm of Guo Zhubo suddenly disappeared.
Zheng Sheng coughed, Guo Yi turned his head, bowed his hand to Zheng Sheng wordlessly, and went to the county office.
Zheng Sheng looked at his back that seemed to be more hunched, and he was also very emotional.
Zhao Lian said that he was sick, leaving Guo Zhubo to support this mess. The county's grain was not ready, Xie Zhou came over to mix it again, and Guo Yi had to transfer people to repair the house.
There is less than a month to go, and it is really too difficult for him to raise eight thousand stones of grain in such a short time!
Zheng Sheng returned to Qing Meiju. Looking at this big restaurant, he thought that he couldn't really accept Qingmeiju as a compensation for drunken incense. Guo Yi wanted to "give" Qing Meiju to him, Zheng Sheng didn't want to guess, as long as he bought it at a reasonable price, he was worthy of Guo Yi.
So, he asked Ren to send someone to invite Zheng Wen to come over and deal with the purchase of Qing Meiju. Then he asked Ren to find a tooth boy, he wanted to buy a house in Shunyang.
Ren was surprised, "Buying a house? Is the prince planning to live in Shunyang in the future? ”
Zheng Sheng shook his head, "It's just to buy a place to live in temporarily, you can't live in a restaurant every time you come to Shunyang, right?" ”
Ren was ordered to go.
Then, Zheng Sheng went to the backyard and went to see Huang Chongru again.
Huang Chongru looked at Zheng Sheng's unhappy face, and his heart jumped.
"The one who helped you burn the drunken incense house is really Liu Yu's person?" Zheng Sheng asked in a deep voice.
Huang Chongru was silent for a moment, "The one who helped me was a person in Shunyang's way of survival." ”
"But he's not Liu Yu's man, right?" Zheng Sheng asked.
Huang Chongru said in a deep voice: "Since the prince has found out, then I have nothing to say." Yes, the people who helped me did not belong to the side of Heavenly Master Liu Yu. ”
"Don't you forget what you promised me? Tell me about Shunyang, and I'll let you go. ”
"I told you everything you want to know. And there is no deliberate hiding of anything. Huang Chongru said stubbornly.
"Then tell me who is the person who helped you burn the drunken incense house?"
Zheng Sheng didn't know what Li Ju had to do with these people and Zheng Ming. So, taking this opportunity, he wants to ask clearly.
After this incident, Zheng Sheng planned to cut off all the tentacles that Zheng Meng stretched out into Shunyang, and if there was a threat in the spring breeze, he would also think about what to do.
Huang Chongru was silent, he shook his head, "There's nothing to say. He is indeed a man in the spring breeze. In the spring breeze, Li Ju is at odds with Liu Yu, and he wants to use our strength to recapture Shunyang and survive. ”
"So, what you told me is what Li Ju is telling you?" Zheng Sheng finally understood that Zheng Miao and they had almost no power in Shunyang City, and Huang Chongru was able to understand Liu Yu's affairs in such detail, it turned out that it was Li Ju's credit to these people!
Huang Chongru nodded.
"You promised Li Ju to help him regain the way of survival, and in return, the people in the spring breeze are also helping you?" Zheng Sheng continued to ask.
Huang Chongru continued to nod.
"You're doing it yourself."
Zheng Sheng went back to the room, and he was thinking about whether he wanted to contact the people in the spring breeze. Test their attitude towards themselves.
If these people are left to their own devices, they will either be taken in by Zheng Meng for their own use and used against him, or another heavenly master like Liu Yu or Xie Yili will appear and reunite into a single force and cause trouble.
In the final analysis, this way of survival is a great hidden danger. On the side of the couch there is no room for others to sleep soundly. If he doesn't do it, these people may become an obstacle to his future.
As Liu Wei'er said, since the survival path has lost the constraints of the headquarters, the survival road in various places is no longer the original survival road.
She's sad and sad, isn't that because of that?
Xie Yili's Nanyang Survival Road was used as a murder weapon, and in the end, it was the end of the lackey's cooking; Liu Yu mixes well, but he has also become a prisoner.
Zheng Sheng thought about all the people he came into contact with, Wu Yunlu, Liu Wei'er, Qi Er, Xie Yili, Qi Mazi, Xie Siyi, Liu Yu, Liu Yang, Li Juzai, Liu Shangsheng, etc., they have good people, bad people, poor and evil people, there are chivalrous people who walk the world alone, there are greedy officials, and there are poor people, it is simply a small society.
They or their predecessors were originally Wudou Mijiao, outcasts, and poor, but now they have become all kinds of people.
"If I can eat enough, how can Qiang Man beat me!" Zheng Sheng muttered this sentence in his mouth, "The reason why the homeless people are homeless is because they want to live!" ”
In order to survive, these people can only find their own way, so they gradually embark on different paths. If he can help them, will they be his help?
What does he rely on to fight against Wuhu? In addition to their own reliable army, the support of the common people is also very important! If he can help them survive better, these people will surely become his staunchest supporters!
So, how can you help them?
The most important resource for the people is land.
However, he doesn't have land, Zheng's Grange, and he can't be the master!
He suddenly remembered that he had seen the lush forest in the north of Songyeju, thinking about what Zheng Ba had told him, that there was still a lot of land in China in this era that could be reclaimed into fertile land!
Why didn't the government arrange for the displaced people to open up the wasteland and settle them?
Zheng Sheng couldn't understand, he thought about the trembling children, and felt more and more that he needed to help them.
The point is, how can he help? Do you really want to open up the wasteland? How to open up wasteland? Without the permission of the state, it seems that the common people are not allowed to open up the land at will? There are also manpower and material resources needed to open up wasteland, what should I do?
Zheng Sheng fell into deep thought.
Ren Ju's efficiency was good, and that night, he reported to Zheng Sheng that he had found a courtyard in Dongyangli, north of the city, and asked him if he wanted to go over and have a look.
Zheng Sheng didn't care about this, anyway, he didn't live in this house often. He has never been very elaborate about the house, the house is just a house, as long as he can live in it.
Ren Ji said this.
Zheng Sheng thought of another person, "Do you know who Liang Zou Hou is?" Zheng Sheng was a little embarrassed, in just a few days, he encountered two such embarrassments, Shi Man reconciled Zhou, they reported their origins, Zheng Sheng didn't know who they were. He was annoyed by the feeling.
"Huh? Liang Zou Hou? The Marquis of Liang Zou is the author of Jinan, so the Liangzhou Thorn History Xie Xiu, and the current attack on the title of Liang Zou Earl is the Loose Cavalry Standing Attendant, Yuzhou Thorn History Xie System. When Xie Xiu was the assassin of Liangzhou, his performance was the first in the world, so he was famous all over the world. Xie and his two brothers are honest and self-reliant, and they are also very famous. ”
Zheng Sheng suddenly realized that the grandfather and uncle of the dissolver were all high-ranking officials! No wonder Guo Yi was careful not to offend at all.
"Shizi, why did you suddenly mention this person?" Ren was puzzled.
Zheng Sheng told him that he knew about Zhou.
"Xie Zhou? The housekeeper of the King of Shunyang? Ren Ji nodded, "Shizi, the Xie clan is definitely worthy of deep friendship." If there is a chance to ......"
Zheng Sheng waved his hand, "I want to make friends, but the people who are relieved don't even look at me, how can I make friends?" "Why is it that Master Qiu and Ren Ju are like this now, and they want him to befriend this and that?
Ren Ji had no choice but to go down and continue to work on buying a house.
Putting aside these trivial matters, Zheng Sheng already had a rough plan to implement in his heart.
He went to visit Liu Wei'er again, and the injury on the little girl's arm was not serious, and the toxicity of the aconitum poison hurt her even more.
The doctor asked her to recuperate, and Liu Wei'er could only stay in her room honestly. When Zheng Sheng came in, she was reading a book.
Zheng Sheng glanced at it, "Sniff, what are you looking at?" ”
Liu Wei'er showed him a book of poetry, and asked, "What is the matter with the son of the world looking for me?" ”
Zheng Sheng scratched his head, a little difficult to speak, "Sniff, are you willing to go to the west of the city to meet the people who seek to survive again?" ”
Liu Wei'er put down the book and said in a low voice: "What does the prince want me to do?" ”
"I want to help them." Zheng Sheng explained his thoughts to Liu Wei'er, "The people in the spring breeze have been living very hard, and I want to ask the Taishou of Shunyang County to give them land so that they can truly live in peace." ”
Liu Wen'er was silent for a while, and said in a low voice: "Shizi, you must have been distracted again in Master Qiu's class." ”
Zheng Sheng looked at her very embarrassed, what do you mean by this? I'm obviously discussing something important, but I'm going to expose my shortcomings when I turn around?
"Shizi, you must not have heard well about the land occupation system." Liu Wei'er said in a low voice, "The land occupation system means that anyone can declare to the local government, and after registering the household registration, each household can be allocated 100 acres of land. ”
Zheng Sheng nodded awkwardly, he really didn't seem to have a good class, when Qiu Fuzi talked about the land system of the Jin Kingdom, he didn't listen carefully, and thought about it.
However, after listening to Liu Yan'er's words, Zheng Sheng was even more puzzled, "Why don't the displaced people report to the government?" Could it be that the government does not have enough land? Isn't it okay for the people to go to the reclamation themselves and then declare it? ”
"Shizi, it's not that the county government doesn't have land, and it's not that they can't reclaim the land. Instead, the displaced people are not eligible to apply for land from the government. The exiles will be asked by the government to return to their hometowns. As for why the displaced people were repatriated to their hometowns," Liu Wei'er pursed her lips and smiled, and said in a low voice, "You definitely didn't listen to Wan Yun well in the discussion class." ”
Zheng Sheng's expression froze, he was despised by the "Xueba" again, but fortunately he was thick-skinned, "Then you tell me about it again." ”
Liu Wei'er said in a low voice, "Wan Yun said, 'Of course, the government of one place also wants to absorb displaced people and increase local taxes, but if there are more people in this place, there must be fewer people in another place. The court would not let this happen. If there is a disaster in a place and the people run away, won't the world be in chaos? Moreover, when people flee from their hometowns, they are displaced people. If there are more people, it is easy for the people to change. I think it makes a lot of sense. ”
Zheng Sheng also agreed with Wan Yun's idea, "Aren't the people in the spring breeze all homeless?" Why weren't they repatriated? ”
Liu Wei'er said in a low voice: "Shizi, there are many people who want to live, but not all of them. There are also a lot of local people. In the spring breeze, it should be both! ”