Chapter 32: The Wanderer
Zhou Hanshan is the most respected person in Anmin County, and he showed his face in front of the emperor in the matter of writing for the people, so the new county order fell on his head, and Li Shimin also wrote the word "Anmin" by hand, stamped with the emperor's seal, as a congratulatory gift for Zhou Hanshan as an official.
At the gate of the county government, the eunuch who delivered the decree read the news in front of many villagers.
Zhou Hanshan studied hard for half his life, only got a showman, and made a living by teaching on weekdays, but he didn't expect that he could be an official in his lifetime, and even get the emperor's handwriting. After Zhou Hanshan trembled and received the holy decree and the imperial pen handwriting, he fainted happily.
At the same time as Zhou Hanshan's appointment decree, there was also Li Shimin's will to "act cheaply" to Li Chengqian. This shows that he handed over the mess in Anmin County to his son to deal with, which also contains the meaning of taking the school examination.
Although Li Chengqian was only nine years old, Leng Feng felt that he could handle this matter, so he simply let it go, sorting out the memories in his mind in the county government study all day long, and planned to compile it into a textbook.
"The matter of persuading the displaced people to go out of the mountain will be left to you, you are a respected old man in Anmin County, and you will definitely be able to speak among the displaced people."
Li Chengqian sat in the county government office and discussed ways with several elderly people.
The first evil was ambushed, and many master books and county officials had to be handed over to the criminal department for handling. Before the new officials were dispatched, Li Chengqian could only ask some old people in the county for help.
Zhou Hanshan pulled his beard and said: "It is easy to persuade the displaced people to go out of the mountain, but how to resettle is the problem. I'm afraid they won't have a place to live. ”
Li Chengqian knocked on the table, and the three dogs immediately pushed the door in.
"The owners of all the inns in the county town have come to see me, oh, by the way, and merchants from afar."
The legs and feet of the three dogs were very fast, and after a while, a dozen innkeepers and more than thirty businessmen entered the county office.
"It's not easy to be homeless, and they still live in caves in the cold winter. Lone plans to start collecting the homeless people from today, but it's too slow to build a house in the cold winter, so I'm going to discuss something with you. ”
The whole of Anmin County admired this prince very much, and the bosses and businessmen patted their chests and promised to obey the prince's orders.
"All inns, one household per house to collect the homeless to live, the lonely and widowed elderly are preferred, the caravan brings its own tents, I hope you quit the inn, if there are surplus tents, also set up, and collect the young and strong people among the homeless people to live. The cost of staying in the hotel and the use of the tent are all counted on the lonely. ”
An innkeeper hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Since we are contributing to the prince's efforts to collect the displaced people, how dare we collect money!" ”
The merchants also said that they did not dare to collect money.
"You just take it, Cui Buyun has been violently expropriated over the years, and I think you have also suffered a lot of persecution, and you have found a lot of money in the county office, but you have not handed it over, just to slowly return it to the people. Don't let Lone's mind go to waste. ”
Hearing Li Chengqian say this, the innkeeper and the merchants immediately smiled and took the order one after another.
Zhou Hanshan simply cleaned up, and then rode a donkey and took a few persecuted homeless people into the mountains to look for homeless people.
Li Chengqian drafted another notice to buy grain and cloth.
With the golden signboard, it is convenient to do anything, the people saw that there was a notice and immediately threw away the work in their hands to find a literate person to read, after understanding the meaning of His Royal Highness the Prince, the family had surplus grain to carry rice bags to the county seat, and the cloth that was not sold at home also held the cloth and the companion who carried the grain.
The grain merchants in the county town also threw away the price tags and beckoned the men to pull grain to the county office, and the owner of the clothing store instructed the men to pick out the thick materials and pull a wagon of cloth to the county government.
In just two hours, seven or eight piles of grain and several truckloads of cloth were piled up at the gate of the county government as high as the gate of the county government.
At this time, both farmers and businessmen were simple, and the owner of the Dongcheng grain store jumped to his feet and emphasized that his grain was only five cents a bucket, and he would not sell it if he had more or less. You must know that on weekdays, he opens a store and sells it for seven cents a bucket.
Li Chengqian issued his call to the people for the first time, but he did not expect the response to be so strong, and he gratefully said to the crowd who sent food: "Thank you for the homeless people who have no food and clothing!" ”
The homeless people who were frightened by Cui Buyun were reluctant to go out of the mountain no matter how Zhou Hanshan persuaded them, and they were anxious and planned to beat him with a wooden stick, if it weren't for a few members of the Xun team to follow, something would definitely happen.
Zhou Hanshan had no choice but to change to a homeless stronghold to persuade him.
There are a total of three outcrop strongholds around Anmin County, and neither of the first two strongholds has agreed to leave the mountain. The third stronghold is Lin Gensheng and them, fortunately, they know the members of the Xun team, and after discussing it for a long time, Lin Gensheng decided to take everyone out of the mountain together, not to seek tax exemption, as long as there is land to plant.
Hundreds of people followed Zhou Hanshan to the county seat, and the homeless people in the other two strongholds couldn't help but send two old men to follow the big team to take a look while despising these people for being stupid.
All the literate people were recruited by Li Chengqian to the gate of the county seat, and more than a dozen tables were lined up to record and distribute relief payments, and the cooks in the tents not far away were busy steaming rice and stir-frying.
The relief money is not much, only two per household, and the displaced people who receive the money are as careful as holding their dolls with copper coins.
The steamed rice is not white rice, but millet rice, and the so-called stir-fried vegetables are just some lard pork and stir-fried radish slices.
But this kind of meal made many homeless people cry on the spot.
Li Chengqian stood on the table and shouted vigorously: "Folks, the court was sorry for you before, but now it is winter, and it is not easy to build a house. ”
An old man trembled and lay on the ground and asked bitterly: "Master Guan, we don't care where we live, I just want to ask, do we have any land to plant?" ”
For farmers, land is everything, as long as they can farm and have a bite to eat, they are very satisfied.
Li Chengqian jumped off the table, helped the old man up, and then said: "Of course there is, not only that, the imperial court promised that no taxes would be collected within six years. Rest assured, everyone! ”
No matter how much he said it, it was not as good as actual action, and after arranging the accommodation of these homeless people, Li Chengqian personally took the young men of each family to see the land.
After looking at the fertile river flats, Lin Gensheng pounced on it, eager to take the ground into his arms.
It was determined that the county was indeed collecting the displaced people and distributing the land, and before dawn the next day, the displaced people around Anmin County all rushed to the gate of the county seat in a chaotic manner.
Li Chengqian had already made preparations, made an exception to open the city gate early, and distributed grain and meals at the city gate. After dawn, continue the process.
Looking at the homeless people who were smiling after eating, Li Chengqian finally let go of a big burden in his heart.