Chapter 1219: Making You Uncomfortable (Part II)
It's very simple, and it's a matter of course at all, as long as it's an ordinary person, hearing about the current situation, how can they make this kind of decision, since they have looted 50,000 stone of grain from the people, then according to the number of people in the city, the 50,000 stone of grain will be divided equally among them.
However, this is just a method that ordinary people will think of, and as long as they are officials, they all know that if they really follow this method, something big will happen, after all, there is no difference between this Yongning Mansion and other state capitals, there are ordinary people in the city, and there will naturally be a difference between the poor and the rich, and with this difference, there will naturally be, ordinary or poor families have less food, but those rich and noble families will naturally have more food.
In this case, if we say that the 50,000 stone of grain that has been salaged are divided equally among them, it will not only be an unfair problem, but there may also be a lot of trouble.
And the reason why Zhang Fan decided this way is not because he wants to do anything to fight local tyrants and divide the land, although he also hates those people, but he understands that this is the process of the times, not that you alone can change, and even if you can change it, you can change it for a while, but you can't change it for a lifetime, and when he leaves in the future, he will return to his original appearance, and I am afraid that those people who are powerful because of this may also suffer because of this.
Zhang Fan naturally understands these in his heart, but he is still ready to do this, why, because if this is not the case, this kind of thing may still happen, and in this way, it is not ordinary people who are taking it, but those who have money, who knows how much grain they have in their family, it is difficult to say that if you want to send someone to see how big their granary is, how much grain will be sent to him.
In this way, these rich people can settle down, but Zhang Fan understands that if he really does this, there will be a more serious situation than the previous method.
However, this grain must not be distributed, so this kind of thing, Zhang Fan just took a moment from his head, weighed the pros and cons, and understood what to do, so he said this to Mao Zhengqing so surely.
However, what Zhang Fan said was certain, but Mao Zhengqing was a little afraid to agree, in comparison, he also understood what Zhang Fan said, but he would not take the overall situation into account so much, what he wanted to consider was that although the number of people is small, but the interests of people with a lot of power and money, even he may be able to understand it, if the people below make a fuss, the consequences will be absolutely unimaginable, but in this way, Mao Zhengqing will still give priority to the problems of these people, or give priority to his own affairs.
At this moment, when Zhang Fan said this, Mao Zhengqing naturally didn't want to agree, but the problem was that Zhang Fan's official position was bigger than him, and the power was specially restrained against him, even today's things, even if he Mao Zhengqing is the prefect of Yongning Mansion, Yongning's affairs should all listen to him, but now he has to listen to Zhang Fan's words, and he still has to listen to Zhang Fan's words, otherwise, if he annoys those people, it will only be the aftermath of the autumn, but if he annoys Zhang Fan now, he knows that he is about to have an accident.
Therefore, weighing the pros and cons, even if Mao Zhengqing is now, no matter how much he doesn't want to carry out Zhang Fan's orders, he has no reason to refuse now, he must carry out Zhang Fan's orders to him.
It's just that even so, Mao Zhengqing can see that Zhang Fan has already made up his mind, but he still hopes to see some hope, even if that hope is only extremely small, but compared to others, Mao Zhengqing is still willing to give it a try.
"But my lord...... Mao Zhengqing was afraid that he would not have time to talk to Zhang Fan, and missed his only small opportunity, so he hurriedly spoke, "If you do this, although you can solve the urgent need for a while, it is an injustice to the people in the city, if they make noise in the future, how can it be good?"
"Injustice, what's the injustice," Zhang Fan made a curious look and asked, "Could it be that in this Yongning Mansion, there are still that kind of large grain farmers who have hoarded countless grains?"
As soon as Zhang Fan asked, the cold sweat on Mao Zhengqing's face remained, not because of anything else, but because of a previous incident, before, when Xu Jie had just become a scholar, Gao Gong took over the position of the first assistant scholar of the cabinet, and that matter ended with Gao Gong's victory.
However, Gao Gong was not satisfied with that kind of victory, he was still angry with Xu Jie, and wanted to put him to death, but at that time, Xu Jie's return to his hometown and wanted to find trouble with Xu Jie, even if he really caught any evidence, he thought that Xu Jie's hard work was high, and it was impossible for Longqing to give him death seriously.
It's just that he didn't do anything, and Gao Gong was a little unwilling, so Gao Gong thought of a way.
After Xu Jiezhishi, if you still want to find trouble with him, you can only find trouble after him, but it is really not easy to find any trouble to make a person after Zhishi also be in danger.
Maybe for some people, it's easy to do this, after all, some people are not satisfied with power, even if they are forced to return to their hometowns, but he is still unwilling to accept the power in his hands, and with the previous power, he pulls the people in the court to manipulate something and the like, which also happens, if this kind of thing, it can find a way to put people to death.
But obviously, Xu Jie is obviously not this kind of person, although he said that he was Zhishi, but he has also reached the point of exhaustion, there is no way to Zhishi, and no one in the court knows that Xu Jie was already disheartened at that time, and after he returned home, he didn't have those thoughts at all.
If it is said that if it is a different person, Gao Gong will easily kill him by committing some trumped-up charges on that person, but Xu Jie can't do this, once Gao Gong dares to do this, there will definitely be someone in the court who stands up and speaks for Xu Jie, so that Gao Gong's lies will be exposed immediately, and even he himself is in danger.
So, Gao Gong thought of a different way, the best thing is to investigate something else, but in the process of investigating this matter, it was "accidentally" to investigate Xu Jie, so that he could unconsciously take revenge, and even if the time comes, other people suspect him, but there is no evidence to name the thing as he did, so it will be easy to do.
Therefore, Gao Gong thought of a way to measure the land and crack down on the local tyrants, the purpose was actually to make the final blow to Xu Jie.
At that time, Gao Gong was the first assistant scholar of the cabinet and had great power, so the article he promulgated was aimed at the whole country, but because his eyes have always been on Xu Jie's body, so in fact, the most severe implementation of this article is the three provinces of Nanzhili, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and in other places, he doesn't care, and because of this, many local officials also regard this as their own road to make a fortune, threatening those local people who have many good fields at home, and they are not too rich behind them, if they refuse to pay, then give them a good look, many people because of this, really made a small fortune.
After that, Gao Gong did not achieve his goal, did not kill Xu Jie, and in the end, Gao Gong even became a loser himself, and was expelled from the capital in embarrassment.
However, after taking over Zhang Juzheng, this article has not been abolished, and Longqing died, Empress Dowager Li took power, and Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, no matter what it was, he never said that he would abolish this article, so in fact, until now, this article has been implemented, but because Gao Gong is no longer in the court, it has long been ignored.
It's just that no one cares about it, and if they ask about these officials, they will definitely be able to remember it.
And now that's the case, Zhang Fan's words, so that Mao Zhengqing can't answer, if he said, there are really a few big families in Yongning Mansion, there are not only thousands of hectares of fertile land in the house, but also the granary at home is full, Zhang Fan will be able to punish him immediately.
You Mao Zhengqing, since you know this, why don't you do him, you don't do him, and you know these things, isn't this just saying, what is the relationship between you and that person, this is completely equivalent to not recruiting yourself, jumping into the fire pit by yourself, Mao Zhengqing may not understand some things, but he is not a fool, this kind of thing that is clearly equivalent to suicide, he can't do it.
However, at the same time, he didn't want to make trouble for himself, after all, he had already received a lot of benefits from those individuals, if he didn't ask now, would those people come to Zhang Fan to sue him at that time, saying that he had already taken their money.
After weighing for a long time, Mao Zhengqing figured it out, now he can only follow Zhang Fan, those people, when the time comes, he will go to explain to them, if they dare to go to Zhang Fan to denounce him, he Mao Zhengqing is done, and those people don't think about it, in this way, they should be able to suppress those people.
Thinking about this, Mao Zhengqing nodded at Zhang Fan and said, "My lord, the lower officials listen to the adults, and the lower officials will let them get 50,000 stone of grain from the granary and distribute it to the people in the city,"
"Well, that's right," Zhang Fan didn't know what changed Mao Zhengqing's mind, but he didn't care, "This matter should be faster, other people are hungry, otherwise there will be a fuss, and we won't end well,"
"Xiaguan understands," Mao Zhengqing said, "Xiaguan makes people ...... No, the lower official will take people with him personally," After speaking, Mao Zhengqing called a few people, turned around and left,