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After thinking about it, he took the gold bar from Zhou Zhenghao's hand, bit it with his teeth, and scolded: "It's really gold, Zhou Zhenghao, how many people have you pitted over the years?" So rich! ”

Zhou Zhenghao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Boss Xu take the gold bar. He reluctantly glanced at the gold bar in Boss Xu's hand, got up from the ground, and was about to go to fetch water again.

Zhou Zhenghao has bribed many officials with money and goods over the years, and he subconsciously feels that as long as he spends money, things will be fine. He also had to fetch water for his thirsty grandson.

Who knew that Boss Xu suddenly shouted loudly: "Zhou Zhenghao escaped!" ”

"Zhou Zhenghao entered the village to steal water!"

In the small village, there was a sudden sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping. Zhou Zhenghao, the enemy of Xujia Village, was not caught by Jin Guogong? Escaped to Xujia Village? Still stealing water? One by one, the doors were slammed open, and one by one the men rushed out with hoes and poles in their hands, and after looking at the door for a while, they rushed towards the well.

Zhou Zhenghao pointed at Boss Xu, so angry that he couldn't speak: "You... You... How do you disobey the rules? ”

Boss Xu scolded: "To hell with your rules of oppressing the people! Jin Guogong is here, we Huai'an people don't talk about your set of rules anymore! ”

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Li Zhi looked at the thousands of peasants kneeling outside the city, and didn't know why these people were running and kneeling.

Several strong peasant men grabbed Zhou Zhenghao and handed Zhou Zhenghao to the tiger army behind Li Zhi.

Three gray-haired villagers walked up, the first of whom was on crutches and looked to be in his seventies. The old man who was the leader walked in front of Li Zhi, bent his knees, and trembled and wanted to kneel, but was held by Li Zhi.

"The old man is exempt!"

The old man grabbed his crutches and stood up straight, and said, "Grandpa Guo, this week Zhenghao is a well-known bully in Huai'an Mansion, and he wants to escape to Yangzhou while the city is in chaos. Grandpa Guo came here to punish these bullies, and we arrested Grandpa Guo and handed them over to Grandpa Guo. ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "The folks have worked hard! ”

The old man at the head looked at Li Zhi on crutches, thought about it, and suddenly threw the crutches again and fell to his knees. The two old men behind him also knelt down when they saw this posture.

Li Zhi was stunned, but he didn't know why these old people knelt down again, so he could only help them again.

The old man at the head refused to get up, but just raised his head and said, "Since Grandpa Guo has conquered Huai'an City, don't leave!" We, the people of Huai'an, all hope that the grandfather of the country will enter Huai'an and return Huai'an to a bright future. ”

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, and only then did he understand why these peasants came to kneel to him.

The people of Huai'an also hope to live the same good life as the people of Shandong.

After Li was implanted in Shandong, the living standards of the people in Shandong changed year by year. First of all, the heavy field endowment has been lightened. Because Li Zhijun leveled the field endowment, the original field endowment of three or four buckets per mu became eight liters per mu, and the peasants' income increased a lot at once. This increase in income suddenly made the poor people in Shandong change from not having enough to eat to having enough food to food and clothing, and they could eat meat to make new clothes during the Chinese New Year.

Li Zhi also opened up water conservancy in Shandong and continuously expanded the area of peasants' cultivation. The new fields irrigated by these water conservancy facilities have not only increased the income of the people who planted the new fields, but also increased the per capita cultivated area of other farmers by vacating the old fields vacated by the farmers who planted the new fields. There are more fields to plant, and the income of farmers in Shandong is getting higher and higher every year.

Not to mention the impartial enforcement of the law, the courts are iron-faced and selfless, protecting the property rights of small farmers, so that those who try to annex small farmers dare not show their heads. Farmers can rest assured that they can store fertilizer in their fields and build ditches and canals for irrigation, without worrying that their fields are too fertile and too good to be targeted by bad actors.

Under the combined effect of various factors, the income of the common people in Shandong has been rising year by year, and it is a conservative estimate to say that the average increase in peasant incomes in the past four years is 50 percent.

Unlike other counties in the southern part of the country, Huai'an is a direct border with Shandong. Although the squires and civil officials boycotted Li Zhi's Shandong Daily, after all, it was too close, and news from Shandong always reached Huai'an Mansion through private visitors. The people of Huai'an Mansion all know that Jinguo Gong has benefited the people of Shandong.

The people of Huai'an Mansion even learned about the situation in Tianjin from visitors from Shandong, and they knew that the people of Tianjin were even richer.

The people of Huai'an dreamed that the Duke of Jinguo would go south and enter Huai'an.

Now the army of Jin Guogong is really here, but unfortunately it is not here to govern Huai'an. The people of Huai'an heard that the Duke of Jin Guo was ordered to go south to arrest the rebels, and muttered in their hearts, didn't the Duke of Jin Guo just come to the road?

If the Duke of Jinguo could stay, the people of Huai'an would no longer have to be oppressed by the squires, and they could live a carefree and peaceful life.

Therefore, taking advantage of the limelight of Zhou Zhenghao's arrest, the peasants in the countryside gathered outside Huai'an City, asked Li Zhi not to leave, and begged Li Zhi to bring Huai'an into his jurisdiction.

Li Zhi looked at the peasants kneeling in a large area and was silent.

However, as soon as Li Zhi turned his head, he found that the citizens watching the excitement at the gate of Huai'an City also knelt down. The citizens are better informed and better understand how the people of Tianjin and Shandong, who follow Li Zhi, are changing with each passing day.

"Grandpa Guo is not going to come and go, let the people of Huai'an rejoice!"

"Grandpa Guo take care of Huai'an, those gentry are really bad!"

"If no one cares about Huai'an, Huai'an will definitely be in chaos like Henan and Huguang!"

Li Zhi thought for a while, and did not speak among the people standing on his knees.

Zhong Feng saw that the people pulled out such a posture, and immediately said: "Commander, you see that the people are like this. If you don't enter Huai'an to save the people from fire and water, you really can't talk about it. ”

Zheng Kaicheng said worriedly: "But the Son of Heaven strictly ordered us not to occupy Nanzhili for a long time, if we disobey the holy decree, I am afraid that the Son of Heaven will be disappointed and make unpredictable moves." ”

Li Laosi took a breath and said, "However, the hearts of the people of Huai'an are also from the heart. As soon as we are gone, the gentry will make a comeback, and the people will be doubly avenged. How can the proprietor sit idly by and watch the people be bullied by the gentry? ”

"Although Huai'an is a large mansion in the south of Zhili, it is actually close to Henan, and there have been frequent disasters and famines over the years. If the owner doesn't care, I'm afraid it won't be long before it will be as chaotic as Henan. ”

Li Zhi looked at the people who were kneeling on the ground and nodded.

"The people of Huai'an, you must not save them!"

"We played the Son of Heaven, built a tax bureau in Huai'an, and set up a court, so that the people of Huai'an would no longer be bullied by the gentry. But we don't run newspapers, we don't have officials, we don't build schools, we don't collect business taxes, we don't station troops. I believe that the Son of Heaven will understand our good intentions when he reads our recitals. ”