Zhu Youzhen frowned and asked, "What did he do?" ”

Wang Chengen carefully handed over to the Son of Heaven the report of the Tianjin Governor Cha Dengbei and Li Zhi's self-defense, and said: "He copied the house of Liu Bingchuan of Huguang Patrol according to the imperial history, and killed Liu Bingchuan's father and eldest brother!" ”

Zhu Youzhen took the two recitals, first read the recitals prepared by Cha Dengbei, and said coldly after reading them: "This Li Zhi, does he regard Tianjin West Road as his backyard?" He is a military general, who gives him the power to deal with civil plagiarism and beheading? ”

Chaden Bei was originally a clear stream, but he was refuted by Li Zhi, and he hated Li Zhi in his heart. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Cha Deng's recital avoided the important and trivial, and deliberately described Li Zhi's wanton behavior, which made Zhu Youzhen very unhappy.

Wang Chengen saw that the face of the Son of Heaven was different, and he stood aside and didn't dare to speak.

Zhu Youzhen took a breath, opened Li Zhi's recital and looked at it. After reading Li Zhi's self-defense recital, the unhappiness on Da Mingzi's face eased a lot.

"It turns out that Li Zhi is not only for personal gain, but also for the development of military fields, so he has a dispute with the Liu family! These 100,000 acres of new fields can be handed over to 12,000 stones of Tuntian every year! Not bad! ”

Wang Chengen saw that the Son of Heaven was no longer gloomy, and said: "Emperor, this Liu family is really vicious, a family member who patrols the imperial history actually robbed the people of 90,000 taels of silver!" Li Zhi even found out Xiaomin's title deed, which seems to be conclusive evidence. After a pause, Wang Chengen said again: "Emperor, this Li Zhi has not embezzled more than 70,000 taels of goods from his family, and has been packaged and shipped over, saying that he wants to enrich the emperor's internal funds. ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded and said, "It's a lot of silver." ”

Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Youzhen's face and said, "Emperor, how to deal with this Li Zhi?" ”

Zhu Youzhen was silent for a moment and said: "This Li Zhi is sympathetic to the country's lack of finances, and he has done everything possible to expand his income, and his intentions are not bad. It's just that his way of doing things is too arrogant! If you say kill, you will kill, and if you say you will raid your home, you will raid your home! He doesn't have any rules in his eyes! ”

After thinking about it, Zhu Youzhen snorted coldly and said: "However, now that the flames are everywhere, it is the time to employ people, but I can't punish him!" Otherwise..."

Wang Chengen asked, "Emperor, how do you reply to Li Zhi?" ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and said, "Good words soothe him, so that he doesn't want to make another incident." ”

Wang Chengen asked again: "What about the Huguang Patrol according to Liu Bingchuan?" ”

Zhu Youzhen remembered what the magistrate had just said, sighed, and said: "If you make all the officials honest, why is the world unhappy?" The imperial history is originally a speech official who supervises hundreds of officials, how can he guard and steal himself? Let Li Zhi hand over the evidence in his possession, and the three divisions will interrogate. If it is verified, he will take Liu Bingchuan's office! ”

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On May 14, the Son of Heaven's decree was sent to Fanjiazhuang.

Li Zhi held the holy decree of the Son of Heaven and was very happy - regarding the matter of beheading the Liu family, the Son of Heaven not only did not punish Li Zhi, but also comforted Li Zhi with kind words. It was only at the very end of the decree that he said, "If there is another such matter, it is advisable to report it to the department and deal with it." ”

And the evidence that Li Zhi collected that the Liu family breached the law was also asked by the Son of Heaven to be sent to the Criminal Department. Obviously, the Son of Heaven is going to organize a triage to deal with Liu Bingchuan.

This time in the fight with the Liu family, Li Zhi won a complete victory.

Now seeing the fate of the Liu family, other landlords are afraid of Li Zhi and dare not come forward to oppose Li Zhi. Each family gave up land for Li Zhi to build an irrigation canal, and the irrigation canal went very smoothly. It is believed that in another month and a half, by mid-June, all the irrigation canals for 100,000 mu of dry land will be built. When the winter wheat is sown in July and August, the dry fields can be irrigated with water wheels.

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The scorching sun of May is like fire, baking the earth. Except for the noisy chirps, I can't hear any other sounds in the four fields.

The weather was too hot, Li Zhi took off his official robe and put on short clothes, took two family members to travel in a light car, and rode a horse to inspect Xintian in Jinghai County. There he saw that the first peasants were still building irrigation canals, and Li Zhi gave six cents of silver a day to the men and women who helped to repair the canals, which was calculated to earn one or eight cents a month. When the peasants are idle, they have nothing to do, and they can earn money by working on the construction site of the irrigation canal of the general, which is very cost-effective.

Most of the second group of farmers are also building irrigation canals, but some are also starting to work on the newly cultivated fields, hoeing and plowing the fields.

Li Zhi walked all the way down the riverside path and saw that the farmers were in full swing, and there was a thriving scene everywhere. Li Zhi was in a good mood, as if he had seen a bumper wheat harvest next year.

With the addition of these 100,000 mu of wheat fields, Li Zhi's annual land rent income is at least 35,000 stone of grain, worth 70,000 taels of silver, which is very considerable. Moreover, there are now 20,000 peasants in the territory, and these peasants can organize themselves to carry out engineering construction in their spare time, which is a very cheap human resource.

Walking closer to Xin's shop, Li Zhi saw a group of farmers gathered around a young man squatting on the ground. The young man was paddling his hands on the field, talking.

Li Zhi was curious for a moment and walked over to listen.

"There are grass roots under this kind of reed meadow, and if you don't get rid of the grass roots, there will be a lot of weeds, and it will rob the wheat of fertilizer. Before reclamation, the weeds are usually cut or set on fire, and then the shuttle plow is used for deep ploughing! Then use zigzags to rake the ground, and finally the horse picks up the grassroots! This can't be cleaned, but also with irrigation! After plowing and raking the grass roots, before the underground rhizomes germinate, they should be irrigated once to drown the remaining grass roots. ”

The young man seemed to be very experienced in land reclamation, guiding the other farmers in the crowd. The peasants were also very convinced, and one by one they stood by and listened carefully.

When the young man had finished speaking, he got up and walked to another field. The peasants around him seemed to follow the teacher's students, and one by one they followed him to another place.

Li Zhi also walked over.

"In this kind of land with long-standing grass, we need to pay more attention to getting rid of the grass roots. The point of harrow tillage is to leave the soil in a loose state so that the grass roots can rot underneath the soil. When raking, the grass root soil should be turned into the lower layer of the soil to let the grass roots rot faster. Before sowing, use a round harrow to plow shallowly, if you mix some alfalfa when sowing wheat, the harvest will be better! ”

Li Zhi was curious when he saw that this young man was right, and that the other farmers trusted him so much. He asked a peasant on the outskirts of the crowd, "Who is this man, and why is everyone gathered around to listen to him?" ”

The farmer glanced at Li Zhi and said, "This is the little brother of Liujia Village, he is literate and has read agricultural books, and he farms much better than us, we are listening to him teach us!" (To be continued.) )