On the fifth day of November, Wang Chengen stood in the farmland on the outskirts of Tianjin, looking into the distance. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the winter wheat has been sown for three months, and the wheat seedlings are already three inches tall. The fields are full of green wheat seedlings, lush green. Looking at the past from Wang Chengen's point of view, he only felt that the entire land was green on the plains of Jinghai County, fifty miles south of Fanjiazhuang.

There are few peasants on the ridges, but there is a small village far away. At this time, it was noon, and according to the customs of other places in the Ming Dynasty, the peasants ate two meals a day, and did not eat lunch. But Tianjin was rich, and the people ate three meals a day with the encouragement of the newspapers. At this time, smoke curled from the chimney of the small village.

There was a small river to the east, which was only half a zhang wide, but the farmers had dug square holes in the river. On the top of the pothole, a dragon tail cart carrying water is erected. Wang Chengen saw a shepherd boy in new clothes sitting lazily reading a book in a thatched hut, and the old cow next to him kept pulling the dragon's tail cart to carry water.

The smoke of cooking in the distance, the studious shepherd boy, the leisurely watermill and the green wheat fields all converge to form a picture of a rich and leisurely farmhouse.

Li Zhi looked at Wang Chengen and asked, "How are the nobles and the countryside under the rule of the widows?" ”

Wang Chengen took a breath, arched his hand at Li Zhi and said, "Your Highness, this is really a blessed land in the world!" is Tao Yuanming's paradise, and it is nothing more than that. ”

When Li Zhi heard Wang Chengen's praise, he was very proud and laughed.

Li Zhi waved his hand and introduced to Wang Chengen: "The nobles don't know that six years ago, this wheat field was not originally a field, but a wilderness outside the city. Because of the high terrain and inconvenient irrigation, there are no farmers to cultivate here, so it has always been abandoned. ”

"In the past, Tianjin was chaotic, and the difficult thing of cultivating Xintian was often occupied by Haoqiang for various reasons as soon as Xintian was opened, and no one would do it."

It was only when the widow established a court and affirmed the inviolability of private property rights that the peasants were moved to the wasteland. Later, 21 farmers in the vicinity scraped together 117 taels of silver, bought this wasteland at the town hall, dug a canal, erected a waterwheel, and made 4,000 acres of wheat fields on this wasteland. ”

"Now the wasteland bought for more than 100 taels of silver has become fertile land worth 10,000 taels."

As a time-traveler, Li Zhi can proudly declare that he has given the rule of law that only came to life in later generations to this 17th-century town and seven provinces.

Once the rule of law is established, social order will be protected, and all kinds of evils will not be swept away.

"Do you know the nobles? That is the power of the rule of law. The court upheld order in Tianjin, clarified private property rights, and the people understood that no one would come to snatch the big cake, so they would spontaneously reclaim new fields. ”

Hearing Li Zhi's words, Wang Chengen seemed to understand, this is the power of law change. Once everyone in the society abides by the law, there is no need for the government to shout hard, and the people will develop agriculture and industry and commerce. When the people are rich, the country will naturally be strong.

Every time Wang Chengen came to Tianjin, he would deepen his understanding of the social changes brought about by Li Zhi's reforms. As for the prosperous rural market formed by the change, it also had a stronger impact on Wang Chengen's values again and again.

It is indeed a good policy for the Son of Heaven to follow the example of the king of Tianjin.

However, Wang Chengen did not come this time to observe the effectiveness of the rule of law, but to buy cheap grain.

Wang Chengen arched his hand at Li Zhi and said, "Your Highness, does Your Highness know the predicament of Shaanxi?" ”

Li Zhi smiled.

Han Jinxin has an eyeliner in Shaanxi, and of course Li Zhi knows about the grain in Shaanxi Province being siphoned off by Li Zicheng.

"Why did the nobleman ask me?"

Wang Chengen arched his hand and said: "Your Highness, the imperial court has the heart to provide disaster relief but is unable to buy food, and this matter can only rely on Your Highness." ”

Li Zhi smiled and asked, "The Holy Lord won't let the widow pay, right?" ”

Wang Chengen hurriedly said: "No, no!" The saint heard that the spring wheat harvested by His Royal Highness the King of the County in Liaodong was cheap, and he hoped that His Highness could be cheaper... It is hoped that His Royal Highness can sell a batch of spring wheat to the imperial court at cost price to solve the urgent need of Shaanxi. ”

Hearing Wang Chengen's words, Li Xing, who was behind Li Zhi, burst out laughing.

Everyone looked at Li Xing.

Li Xing said jokingly: "The previous time the imperial court came to Tianjin to buy cannons, saying that as long as Brother Wang sold the new cannons and flowering shells to the new army, the new army could wipe out the thieves. Who knew that after the cannon was bought, the thieves not only captured Henan, but also entered Shaanxi. ”

As a result, the imperial court urgently transferred the royal brother to the thief. Brother Wang had just beaten down the thieves and recovered Henan, and the court said that the last knife to eliminate the thieves should come from the imperial court, and they insisted on not letting my tiger army enter Shaanxi, and let the new army in Beijing come to grab the merit. ”

"As a result, the new army of Beijing entered Shaanxi, but it was trapped in the central county by the thieves with rain warfare, and they couldn't advance or retreat, and they came to Tianjin to ask for equipment for rain battles and night battles."

When everyone heard Li Xing's words, they couldn't help but be a little amused. The Son of Heaven painstakingly trained a new army, hoping to rely on this new army to establish prestige, and even disregarded the merits of snatching the merits of the Tiger Army. However, when the new army really took it out and used it, it asked Li Zhi for assistance everywhere, which was really unbearable.

"It's not easy, it's not easy to overcome the shortcomings of the rain battle and the night battle, occupy Shaanxi, but there is no food to help the victims, and I want my brother Wang to help!"

When Wang Chengen heard Li Xing's ridicule, his face immediately turned red and he was speechless.

Before he came to Tianjin, what he was most afraid of was this Li Xing. This Li Xing relied on Li Zhi to be his brother, and he had always spoken the most unabashedly. Moreover, when Li Xing saw that he was about to take advantage of the situation to take Shaanxi, he was stopped by the Son of Heaven, and he has always been angry about the Son of Heaven's merit-grabbing behavior.

Li Xing laughed and said: "I think it's better to let my Huben army pretend to be a new army to attack Shaanxi, and announce it to the world in the name of Jingying, but it will save some trouble!" ”

Li Xing's words made Wang Chengen's face red, and he couldn't wait to find a hole to get into.

Li Zhi looked at Wang Chengen's face, and shouted at Li Xing: "Presumptuous! Li Xing, you are presumptuous in front of the angels again! Do you know how to talk to the nobles? ”

Li Xing heard Li Zhi's scolding, bent down and arched his hand, and said, "Brother Wang has taught you a lesson!" ”

Taking a few steps back, Li Xing retreated to the back of the crowd and stopped talking.

Wang Chengen saw Li Xing retreating, and his face looked a little better. He sighed, looked at Li Zhi with blank eyes, and waited for Li Zhi to say yes or no.

Li Zhi smiled and said slowly: "Tianjin does have this cheap grain. Saving Shaanxi Province is not a difficult task for Tianjin. ”

After a pause, Li Zhi said, "It's just a nobleman!" The nobles don't know about Tianjin, and now the generals under the widow are fighting in the south and the north, and they have made great contributions! However, their official positions only stay at the level of chief soldiers and governors, and they cannot live in the marquis, which is indeed a pity! ”

Wang Chengen heard Li Zhi's words and understood.

Li Zhi asked the imperial court to exchange the title for cheap grain.

This is forcing the court to sell officials!