That night, Lu Xuanbo, who had been secretly accompanying him, met Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan in a carriage and horse shop in Puyin City.

"King Qiyu, the matter explained by the king has been ordered to find out, the implementation of Ma Zheng in Puyin County has indeed taken a crooked path, the county order Gui Danian, the county lieutenant Wenpan and a group of officials and Wang Feng, Ji Yan, Zhong Ming and a large number of local rich and wealthy businessmen colluded with each other, disobeyed the relevant regulations of the imperial court Ma Zheng, lent the livestock that was originally going to be lent to ordinary farmers to these rich families and wealthy merchants, and obtained a large amount of bribes from these rich families and wealthy businessmen, and the two sides also had a secret agreement, these rich families and wealthy businessmen after getting a large number of livestock, How much profit should be shared among them every year, only a few of the peasants who are quite wealthy receive livestock, and none of the other peasants have borrowed it! ”

Zhao Junsheng's face turned pale after hearing this, "These people are so bold!" What about the county? Didn't the county participate? Ma Zheng of the imperial court went down the wrong path when he arrived here, and the benefits that he originally brought to ordinary farmers were taken away by the government in collusion with rich families and wealthy businessmen. ”

Lu Xuanbo said: "The county is called Jiao Yan, half a year ago when the Ma Zheng was implemented, he happened to be appointed by the imperial court to come here to be the county minister, for the county order, the county lieutenant and the rich and wealthy businessmen collusion against the relevant regulations of the imperial court, Jiao Yan had strongly opposed, but this person was weak and could not be stopped at all. Recently, Jiao Yan is being investigated for dereliction of duty by officials appointed by the Taishou Mansion, and it is difficult for him to protect himself! ”

"So, at this time, there are people in the Taishou Mansion of Beiping County involved? Or is it that there are people in the Taishou Mansion who support Gui Danian, Wen Pan and other cadres? ”

"There should be, the one who ordered to send someone to investigate Jiao Yan was the Taishou Mansion Cheng Guan Xin, the Taishou Song Yu liked Huang Lao's way, and he was mostly studying Taoist books and alchemy on weekdays, and most of the government affairs were handed over to the Mansion Cheng Guan Xin to deal with!"

Hua Mulan was very angry after hearing this: "These people are too bold, and that is too guarded by Song Yu, who doesn't care about government affairs, and throws all government affairs to the county Cheng, and goes to find immortals by himself and asks, what's the use of him doing this Taishou?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Why is it useless? Isn't it so easy to ask the immortals? If you don't have enough money, how can you search for a unique Taoist book, and how can you buy a large number of medicinal stones to refine pills? He sat in the position of the Taishou and did nothing, and someone below naturally sent him money for him to visit the Dao! ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Junsheng asked Lu Xuanbo: "Does Song Yu know about Guan Xin?" Or is what Guan Xin did at his behest? ”

"At present, it has not been found that this matter is instructed by Song Yu, but the minister thinks that Song Yu is a county guard, even if he doesn't care about anything, he will not know about the ghost under his hands? The minister will not believe it under any circumstances! The minister thinks that Song Yu is not unaware, it is very likely that he is pretending not to know, he just needs someone to confess to him, even if something happens, he can use the reason of being deceived by his subordinates to get away with it and clear up for himself! ”

Zhao Junsheng thinks that Song Yu's methods are not very clever, once something happens, it is not so easy for Song Yu to clear up the involvement, at least one charge of negligence and lax control of subordinate officials cannot escape, if Guan Xin and others shake out the things that often confess to him, they will also be crowned with the crime of accepting bribes.

Zhao Junsheng asked Mulan: "Now it seems that I am afraid that the entire Taishou Mansion is rotten, Mulan, how do you think this matter should be handled?" ”

Hua Mulan said: "Let's listen to Cui Hao's thoughts first!" ”

"It's good!" Zhao Junsheng agreed, and sent someone to call Cui Hao from the next room, tell him about the situation, and ask him for his opinion.

Cui Hao thought for a while, arched his hand and said: "King, the minister thinks that the best way is to find someone to complain to the Assassin's Mansion, first, you can test the attitude of the Assassin's Mansion, see if the Assassin's Mansion knows about this matter, and see the reaction of the Assassin's Mansion; Second, this will not expose the king's current position, if the king's current position is known by the local government, the king will not be able to see the true situation of Ma Zheng's implementation! ”

After hearing this, Mulan said, "Looking for someone to complain to the Assassin's Mansion?" Who to look for? In the case that their own interests have not been greatly violated, who of the common people will dare to sue those corrupt officials at the risk of retaliation? ”

Cui Hao smiled and said: "It's easy to do this, if the king and the princess allow it, the ministers will handle it!" ”

Hua Mulan looked at Zhao Junsheng, Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while and agreed.

Zhao Junsheng said to Cui Hao: "Does Duke Cui know what the intention of this king is to implement horse administration? ”

Cui Hao thought for a while and said: "From the minister's point of view, the king's intention is to have two aspects, the first is to disperse the burden of raising horses for the court to the people, so that the people can bear part of the burden of feeding military horses for the court; The second is to let the people get benefits and increase their income in Ma Zheng! ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a smile: "Cui Gong can see it, he said it almost equally, half of it was right, and the other half was also right, but it didn't say the essence!" ”

"The horse breeding part in the horse administration is divided into two parts, the imperial court built its own large horse breeding farm, to solve half of the imperial army's demand for military horses; The other half of the military horses are provided by the people, the people raise horses for the court, and after selling them to the court, they get the remuneration they deserve, share the burden of raising horses in the court, and also share the risks, even if the horse farm established by the court has problems and cannot provide the necessary military horses for the imperial army, then the people can still provide military horses for the imperial court! ”

"Let the people raise horses and livestock, and while they raise horses for the imperial court, they can also raise other livestock to obtain income and improve their lives, the original intention of this king is to shorten the gap between the rich and the poor between the common people and the rich, wealthy businessmen, and magnates, and alleviate the contradictions between all levels of society."

"Do you think that the rich and wealthy people spend their days delicacies from the mountains and the sea, while the common people do not even have wheat bran to eat? Leave you here, do you want to think why those people eat meat and drink wine, and why you don't even eat wheat bran? Why is God so unfair? Since God is unfair, why don't you be willing to cut your body and stab this day? Change the dynasty and be your own master? ”

Cui Hao heard that cold sweat broke out on his forehead, could it be that what Zhao Junsheng said was the true thoughts of those low-level mud legs? Although he is the top wise man of this era, he is also from a wealthy family, and the limitations and background of the times determine that it is impossible for him to consider problems from the standpoint of ordinary people.

Zhao Junsheng said: "There is nothing to change the dynasty, no dynasty with any surname can rule the country forever, the east and west rule the country for two weeks and eight hundred years, but in the end, it is the countries competing for hegemony, the whole people are miserable, the longer the turmoil in the world, the greater the damage to civilization!" ”

"You are also a person who is familiar with history books, think about it, which dynasty was not the first ordinary people at the bottom to reach out and push before the fall of the dynasty? Why should the people be the first to reach out and push? I can't live anymore, there's no way, the people in power won't let me live, and I'm going to push you down before I die, as for who gets the world in the end, who can manage a lot? ”

Zhao Junsheng stopped at this point and asked, "Cui Gong, what do you think is the responsibility of the ruler?" ”

"The minister thinks that he should govern the world well and let the people live and work in peace and contentment!" Cui Hao replied.

Zhao Junsheng said: "This king thinks that this is not only the case, but the ruler should try his best to keep the people well fed and clothed, so that social stability can be relaxed, contradictions between all strata can be eased, and the old can be relied on and the young can be supported······ When the people can eat and be clothed, they will want more, they want to read and write, and they want to participate in political affairs, so the responsibility of the ruler is endless, and the policy must be adjusted according to the development of the times! Some emperors have unparalleled martial arts in the world, and in the end there is no opponent, thinking that according to the current national policy is already the best, can make their rule long-lasting, in fact, the root of the curse has long been buried, no decree is always correct, if you do not realize this, it is not far from the time of the demise of their rule! ”

"How easy is it to let the people of the world be fed and clothed? There are two ways to solve the problem, the first is to reduce the wealth of the powerful and the wealthy, and distribute the wealth to the people through a certain method, so that they can live, the powerful and the rich naturally refuse, if the ruler does it to them, the power position is unstable, so it is necessary to curb the use of power by the powerful and the rich to concentrate the world's wealth in their own hands, You can't wait until the situation is out of control, then it's too late! The second way is to find a way to develop and utilize the land, and now through the intensive cultivation of our farmers, one acre of land generally produces 500 catties of grain, so can we find a way to double the yield? Is there any? The king thinks that there should be a way, but we haven't come up with it yet, so we should encourage the people to work hard to find a way, and there is a great chance that the animals will be crossbred so that their offspring can obtain the advantages of both sides, so can the grain also increase the yield through this method? ”

"Therefore, this king believes that the primary purpose of the ruler to govern the world is not to maintain his own rule, but to benefit the people, and a stable world can enable civilization to develop more rapidly, which is the responsibility of the ruler!"

These words made Cui Haodi Zhao Junsheng's cognition one step deeper, he only knew that Zhao Junsheng was born as a military general, and after listening to Zhao Junsheng's tirade, he remembered that the person in front of him was also a scholar before.

On February 28, Zhao Junsheng and his entourage came to the city of Lunu in Dingzhou Prefecture, and the next day a farmer ran to the yamen of the Assassin's Mansion to beat drums and cry out grievances.

"Look at the excitement, look at the excitement, someone ran to the yamen of the Assassin's Mansion to beat the drum and sound the grievances, go and see it!" A ruffian ran from the street, shouting and shouting all the way, and the people along the street became curious and came to the gate of the Thorn Mansion.

Zhao Junsheng and others were also dressed in civilian clothes and stood outside the gate of the Thorn Mansion to watch the excitement, Hua Mulan looked at the farmer kneeling in the middle of the lobby and asked Cui Hao: "Cui Gong, are you looking for this farmer?" He's quite bold, isn't he afraid of being beaten to death by Dingzhou Assassin Shi Zhang with a killing stick? ”