Hearing the old farmer's words, Zhu Youzhen fell into deep thought. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Youzhen has been in and out of the people of the capital frequently in the past two months, and he knows the income of the people in the capital. The capital is known as the foot of the Son of Heaven and is the richest and most prosperous place in the world, but in fact, the people are equally poor. In the capital, the average employee income is only about one or two or eight yuan. This is still the wages of men, and if women go out to do chores, they are paid even less.

If the couple can earn three taels of silver a month, they are already a medium-sized family in the capital. Such a family can support two children and barely make ends meet. This is already better than other prefectures and counties in Beizhili.

Farmers near the capital have lower incomes, and it is common for them to suffer from cold and hunger.

As for the farmers in Tianjin, the couple can earn 90 taels of silver a year. In other words, the income of a peasant exceeds the income of a middle-sized family in the capital.

No wonder these people live in such decent houses, no wonder these people don't have patches on their clothes.

Zhu Youzhen pondered for a long time and asked, "Fellow villager, your income is so high, aren't you afraid that traitors will covet you?" Will there be a bully of the people? ”

When the villager heard Zhu Youzhen's words, he laughed and said, "The governor doesn't know, we have a court in Tianjin!" ”

"The judges in our court are all upright people, and they don't recognize people but only reason when they start a lawsuit. Even if we, the small farmers in the countryside, went to fight the officials of the city hall, the judge was not biased in the slightest, and he was really impartial. ”

Zhu Youzhen sighed and said: "Judges are also human beings, and if they are human beings, they are biased, how can all judges be impartial and selfless." ”

When the villager heard Zhu Youzhen's question, his eyes widened, and he couldn't answer.

A middle-aged man next to him came up and said, "My lord, I don't know, there is a discipline inspection team in the prince's territory. The discipline inspection team keeps an eye on judges and bureaucrats, specifically looks for the pigtails of these officials, and often fines them and demotes them with salaries, and if something really goes wrong, they will be shot. So none of our judges dared to bend the law for personal gain. ”

"The head of the discipline inspection team is Wang Ye's brother-in-law, who is specifically staring at the officials of the discipline inspection team. And the head of the discipline inspection team was stared at by the prince again. ”

"Our prince, the king of Tianjin, is a selfless person, with him staring, no one in one town and six provinces dares to cheat. Haoqiang, who is rampant and domineering in other places, shrinks like a grandson in one town and six provinces. ”

Hearing the people's explanation, Zhu Youzhen understood. Tianjin officials are honest because Li Zhi has strong authority, the system is perfect and tight, and more importantly, Li Zhi leads by example, so there is such a situation.

Seeing that the people loved Li Zhi so much, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but ask: "The king of Tianjin is an excellent prince?" ”

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's inquiry, the middle-aged man smiled and didn't answer, as if Zhu Youzhen had asked a stupid question.

The old man next to him said, "Lord Governor, do you still need to say this?" Before the prince was the master of the people of Tianjin, we didn't even have enough to eat, and we didn't have cotton clothes and quilts in winter. The family has only one pair of pants, and whoever goes out wears them. Every year there are people in the village who freeze to death and starve to death. ”

"Later, the prince leveled the field endowment, and clarified the field endowment that the gentry pressed on our small peasants, and we were well fed and clothed at once."

"Now, life is even better! Governor, look at our village? I think that even the small landlords of Shuntianfu are not as rich as the people in our village? We all have four or five children in each family, and we have a very busy life. ”

"This is all the good life that the prince has brought us!"

Hearing that the old peasant prince was long and the prince was short, Wang Chengen was a little unhappy and asked: "You worship the prince so much, can you have the Holy Son of Heaven in your eyes?" ”

Hearing Wang Chengen's words, the farmers were stunned.

After a long time, the old farmer said unhappily: "This official is not good to speak. The prince gave us such a good day, shouldn't we thank the prince? Over the years, the prince has fought in the south and the north, destroyed the Tartars, annexed Korea, defeated the thieves, and defended the world of the Ming Dynasty. I think not only we, the peasants, should thank the prince, but even the Son of Heaven sitting in the Forbidden City should also thank the prince. ”

Hearing the old farmer's words, Wang Chengen's face panicked, and he looked at Zhu Youzhen, the son of heaven.

This old farmer actually said that the Son of Heaven should also thank Li Zhi, which is a big rebellion.

Obviously, hearing the old farmer's words, Zhu Youzhen's face sank and darkened.

Nodding, Zhu Youzhen stopped talking to the old farmer, and turned over on the horse. Surrounded by Dongchang Fanzi, Zhu Youzhen left the village and went to Fanjiazhuang.

The old farmer looked at Zhu Youzhen, who was leaving in a daze, and felt that he had said something wrong, so he stood there speechless with his eyes stared.

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Outside the gate of Fanjiazhuang, Li Xing, the governor of Tianjin, led two retinues to greet Zhu Youzhen outside the west gate.

Li Zhi heard that the Son of Heaven came to Tianjin dressed as the governor of other provinces, and knew that the Son of Heaven wanted to see the most real situation in Tianjin, and he didn't want to be bowed and kowtowed everywhere. Therefore, Li Zhi did not go to Fanjiazhuang to greet the Son of Heaven, after all, it was really unreasonable to greet a second-grade governor as the king of the dignified county.

And now that Li Zhi is the king of the county, the people will bow down wherever he goes, which will also affect the Son of Heaven to observe the people's livelihood and people's conditions.

So Li Zhi asked Li Xing to guide the Son of Heaven to visit Fanjiazhuang on his behalf.

Of course, in order for the Son of Heaven not to go wrong in his own territory, Li Xing arranged hundreds of personal soldiers disguised as ordinary market personnel to protect the safety of the Son of Heaven at any time.

The Son of Heaven met Li Xing, who welcomed him, to the west of Fanjiazhuang, and was very satisfied with Li Zhi's arrangement. Under the guidance of Li Xing, the group slowly marched into Fanjiazhuang.

At the west gate of Fanjiazhuang, the Son of Heaven saw the wall of Fanjiazhuang, which was several miles long, and stopped his horse.

"I heard that Fanjiazhuang used to be only a hundred households, and I don't want to build such a big city now. How many people are in this city? ”

Li Xing arched his hand and said: "Now there are 270,000 workers, craftsmen, students, merchants and peddlers in the city. ”

Zhu Youzhen took a breath and said, "Wouldn't that be bigger than the Tianjin Acropolis." ”

Li Xing replied: "Tianjin Acropolis has also expanded over the years, and a large number of private factories have been settled. Now there are 230,000 people in the Acropolis, which is smaller than Fanjiazhuang. ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded, pointed to the low city wall of Fanjiazhuang, and asked, "Why is such a big Fanjiazhuang only built such a low city wall." ”

Li Xing replied respectfully: "Holy Lord, Tianjin Town is strong and strong, only we can beat others, and no one can hit Fanjiazhuang." This wall is now only decorative, to prevent thieves, so it is not particularly built so tall. ”

Hearing Li Xing's words, Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua glanced at each other, and secretly said that the Tianjin governor had a big tone.

Only I beat others, it is impossible for others to beat me, even the new army of the Son of Heaven's Jingying does not have such great courage.

However, as the division commander of the Tiger Army, Li Xing was not abrupt at all when he said this. Looking at the world, the Tiger Army is indeed sweeping in all directions.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the young Li Xing, pondered for a long time, and finally nodded.

Accompanied by Li Xing, Zhu Youzhen rode into the gate of Fanjiazhuang.

As soon as he entered the city gate, the Son of Heaven saw a large round ball flying in the sky. The round ball flew in the sky more than ten feet high, and a huge flag was dragged on its tail, and the banner read "Sanyuan Street Lion Building Opening Welcome".

Zhu Youzhen stopped the horse, and a puzzled look appeared on his face: "Li Xing, what is flying in the sky?" ”