On the road from Xi'an, Shaanxi Province to Mokou, Shanxi, Ji Qingwen has walked three times, and he has already mastered it easily, and he has arrived at the edge of the Yellow River after walking for three days. I found a ferry boat to cross the Yellow River overnight, and when I arrived at the town of Mokou, it was only the morning of the fourth day.

At this time, the disaster situation in Shanxi Province has been greatly alleviated, and the town on the edge of the Yellow River crossing has slowly returned to its former prosperity, and the pedestrians coming and going have gradually become denser, and the cries on the street are not loud but also one after another......

Ji Qingwen had a heart in his mind, and he didn't have time to tour the town, but went straight to the mansion of Li Yan's father, Li Jingbai.

There were many ragtered victims gathered outside the Li Mansion, and when they inquired, they learned that the Li Mansion would take out some dry food to give food to the victims at noon every day, so these people waited here early for the meal to start.

Ji Qingwen was not a victim who came to beg, so he didn't have time to wait for the door to open, so he stepped forward and knocked on the door of Li's mansion, and after reporting his identity, he called Menzi to inform Li Yan.

When Li Yan heard the news that Ji Qingwen was coming, he was overjoyed, and immediately went out in person and welcomed Ji Qingwen, Li Yuanyin and Duo Jiugong into the Li Mansion.

The owner of the Li Mansion is still Li Yan's father, Li Jingbai, so Ji Qingwen inevitably wants to visit him.

Li Jingbai, the former secretary of the military department, was originally a member of the eunuch party, and he was bound to be punished in the incident of Emperor Chongzhen's liquidation of the eunuch party at the end of last year. But Emperor Chongzhen saw Ji Qingwen's face, opened the net, and deliberately let Li Jingbai go, so that he could spend his old age in peace.

Li Jingbai knows this.

Therefore, although he still looked down on Ji Qingwen, a miscellaneous official from a high background, his attitude was much better than before, and he warmed up for a while, and left Ji Qingwen to eat in the house, which can be regarded as fulfilling the friendship of the landlord.

After resigning from Li Jingbai, Ji Qingwen hurriedly asked Li Yan to take him to the study, and told Li Yan in detail about what had happened in Shaanxi in the past two months, and asked him to come up with an idea for himself, thinking about what perfect way to properly dispose of these more than 2,000 hot potatoes.

This question really stopped Li Yan.

I saw him standing up silently, turning around the study again and again, and the folding fan in his hand unfolded and closed, closed and unfolded......

After a long time, Li Yan finally said: "There is no way to get the best of both worlds, but at most, there is only a seventy percent chance that it can succeed......"

"Seventy percent? Enough, enough. Ji Qingwen hurriedly answered, "I'll be thankful that I'm fifty percent sure." Brother Li, what can you do, then teach me quickly! ”

Li Yan asked: "Brother Ji, let me ask you first, if these more than 2,000 chaotic people are brought to Suzhou, can you settle down?" ”

Ji Qingwen thought about it carefully, guessed what Li Yan meant, and replied: "It's not impossible to arrange it." I thought that it was not a long-term plan to sell all the silk to Zheng Zhilong alone, and I had to recruit a few more maritime merchants to come over. In that case, the small wharf of the small fishing village in Songjiang Province would not be useful. Therefore, I thought of finding someone to rebuild the wharf here, even if I couldn't catch up with Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Ningbo, I could park a few more ships. ”

Li Yan had already heard Ji Qingwen's plan, so he continued: "To repair the dock, you need manpower. Suzhou is expensive labor, a person needs at least one tael of silver a day, thirty taels a month, and a thousand people are thirty thousand taels of silver. And these chaotic people in Shaanxi are very cheap, and they don't need to give out silver, and it's good to give them enough food to eat. Brother Ji, is that what you mean? ”

Ji Qingwen nodded one after another and said, "That's right, that's right." That's what I'm going to do. Listening to Brother Li's words, it is really enlightening, so how about working hard for Brother Li to draft a Taoist chapter for me and send it to the emperor? ”

Li Yan said: "It is not a simple matter to transport the victims of Shaanxi to Suzhou. At that time, Emperor Taizu moved to enrich the central capital (Fengyang) and moved to rich households in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, causing many people to die. The figure of more than 2,000 people is not too much, and it is not too much to say less, I don't think the imperial court will necessarily agree with Brother Ji to do this......"

Li Yuanyin also interjected: "The migration population involves a fundamental national policy, and after Emperor Taizu, the imperial court has also done it several times, all of which have caused chickens and eggs to be beaten and chicken feathers everywhere. ”

Ji Qingwen's eyebrows, which had just stretched out, tightened again, and said, "It's been such a good circle, why did you go back to the same place?" This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what the hell is going to do? ”

saw Li Yan with a smile on his face and said, "Brother Ji, what are you anxious about?" We only need to be 'real', not 'famous'. More than 2,000 people are not migrants, but exiles! Exile, Brother Ji, do you understand? ”

Ji Qingwen was stunned when he heard this, but before he could react, Li Yuanyin was taken aback.

I saw him stand up from his seat and say, "Mr. Li, exile has always been distributed only from rich places to poor places. Most of the people of Shaanxi have committed crimes, and most of them have been sent to Yunnan and Guizhou in the southwest, and they have never heard of being sent to Suzhou...... No, it's not a distribution, it's clearly taking them to happiness! The court will not agree! ”

Li Yan sneered: "Commander Li really understands the law. However, I remember that the "Da Ming Law" only stipulates the distance of exile, but does not explicitly stipulate the place of exile, let alone the criminals in Shaanxi are not allowed to be exiled to Suzhou. Commander Lee, am I right? ”

Li Yan's words were not wrong at all, so that Li Yuanyin couldn't refute them.

But Li Yuanyin still felt that this was too unbelievable, so he said: "For more than two hundred years in the Ming Dynasty, it has always been such a convention. I'm afraid that Lord Ji will break it for a while, and it will attract the attack of countless imperial historians. ”

Li Yan raised his eyebrows and said, "Conventions are meant to be broken. What's more, it was not Brother Ji who broke the convention this time, but the current emperor. If the imperial historians want to have something to say, they will say it to the saints! ”

Ji Qingwen's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked, "Brother Li, what do you mean by this, tell me clearly." ”

Li Yan said: "What I mean is very simple. This asked Brother Ji to draw up a recital of the request, saying that Brother Ji did not know how to deal with the victims of more than 2,000 people, and asked the emperor to decide. Then write a clip in the recital, or write a letter for the old supervisor Sun Chengzong to play on behalf of Chen, explain the ins and outs of the matter and the cause and effect as thoroughly as possible, and finally make it clear that the emperor will send an edict to send more than 2,000 people, all in the name of exile, to Brother Ji, and then Brother Ji will take them to Suzhou. ”

Li Yuanyin said faintly: "I'm afraid that the emperor is a wise holy lord, and if we play such a careful game with him, the emperor may not be able to agree......"

Li Yan said: "Just because the emperor is not the kind of cowardly lord who abides by the old rules, we can play such a concert." ”

Ji Qingwen thought about it - he felt that if he didn't play the chapter, then the chaos of more than 2,000 people would undoubtedly rot in his own hands; If it does, the emperor may not be able to approve it, but as long as it is approved, then more than 2,000 troubles will become more than 2,000 cheap laborers - this business is worth doing.

So Ji Qingwen said: "Although Brother Li's idea is good, this article is more important. Then please ask Brother Li to write and draw up the chapters, clips, and letters, and there are a few better chances of winning, isn't it? ”

Li Yan nodded, took the ready-made pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, sat on the table and wrote the music freely, while saying: "Brother Ji, I can write the music for the emperor on the surface; But the clips in the cantata and the letters to Inspector Sun must be your own handwriting. I've prepared it, you can copy it......"

After Li Yan finished writing these few points, Ji Qingwen took a look, and sure enough, he saw that he had written his plan in a reasonable and reasonable manner, so he happily sat down, and after transcribing it with his unsightly brush words, he dried the ink and sealed it.

Li Yan said again: "These documents are very important, and people with ulterior motives can't peek at them, fortunately, Brother Li also has a few hardcore in the imperial court...... In my opinion, you can't take the ordinary path, you must send a trustworthy person to the Beijing Division, and send it directly to the hands of Inspector Sun or Xu Shilang (Xu Guangqi, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites), and let these two adults go directly to the imperial front, that is the perfect strategy. ”

Ji Qingwen couldn't help but praise when he heard Li Yan's arrangement: "It's still Brother Li's heart, so I will do it according to Brother Li's method." I also have trustworthy people here, so I worked hard to go to Beijing for a trip, he is an old man, and he will definitely not go wrong. ”