Chapter 164: Raiding Homes and Releasing Grain to Treat the Displaced People
In the afternoon of the same day, Luo Yan didn't ask for the reason, and closed the grain store in the city to take people and take away all the measuring equipment. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info In the midst of a burst of applause from the people, several gentry who sent people to make trouble were all detained.
Hatred of the rich is a common feature in all eras, especially since these rich people have exploited themselves year after year. Seeing the gentry who shouted at them on weekdays, they would be taken to the prison one by one by the servants, and their hearts were happy. These days, the mood that has been made more and more depressed by the pressure of life is also refreshing at this time.
Many people do not hesitate to spend a few pennies and run to the tavern for a drink or two, just for this little bit of happiness in their hearts.
Now the gentry who can be defeated by a gang is He Mingde alone. If you want to completely beat these people, you have to find more crimes. controlled these gentry, and the next day Luo Yan released a notice to collect evidence that these gentry were evil. For a while, the threshold of the county government was about to be broken.
These people are in the countryside on weekdays, and they don't know how many evil things they have done. But no county magistrate has ever dared to arrest these people in prison. Luo Yan's hand has emboldened many people, and the things that dared to be angry in the past have poured out like a torrential rain.
This is convenient for Luo Yan. In the end, He Mingde was charged with several crimes such as murdering officials, instructing subordinates to make trouble, making fake measuring instruments, and killing slaves without authorization. The mansion was raided and the servants dispersed. Several other gentry also raided their homes, but they were not guilty of capital crimes. After all, some crimes are eventually offset by money. Luo Yan is also helpless about this, but the gentry who has no money is just a tiger with teeth extracted, and he must not have a good time in the future.
As a justifiable county magistrate, Luo Yan's status in Lantian soared for a while. In the following days, in order to completely suppress the remaining local gentry, Luo Yan distributed the grain in the granary according to the county middle school book, and distributed the grain in each township for half a day. According to the population, the share of one liter per person, distributed from house to house. A bucket of rice was restored to 40 yuan, which was more than 10 yuan lower than that of other counties.
This really made a few gentry unable to sit still. A few days ago, I desperately wanted to buy the grain in Luo Yan's hands, and I received all the price of almost 80 Wen for the bucket of rice, and suddenly limited the supply at this time, but I was optimistic about the 40 Wen of the head of the bucket rice, coming and going, how much money did I lose in the middle.
But we can't help but sell it, and if we can't sell this grain, and the harvest of that year is good, won't we die at a loss next year?
But I didn't expect Luo Yan to think about making these people better at all, and in the way of work-for-relief, the distribution of money suddenly changed to the distribution of food. This further meets people's food needs, so why don't you need to go to the rice shop to buy rice.
There's no way, let's reduce the price, how much does Luo Yanguan's grain sell, just drop it by one or two pennies, and someone will always buy it. However, what makes these people squirt blood is that as much as they fall, Luo Yan will follow suit. What's even more infuriating is that someone actually said that Luo Yan said to himself: If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't compete with the people for profit, he would directly send someone to wrap up their grain.
When Luo Yan asked the Drum Banner Army to withdraw all the soldiers from all the major roads in Lantian, Lantian actually became one of the lowest grain prices in many large counties in Jingzhao Prefecture.
If it weren't for the fact that all counties were blocking the displaced people at this time, there would be no way to enter Lantian County to buy grain, and I am afraid that the people from the surrounding counties would have to come to grab grain.
After doing the whole thing, Luo Yan breathed a sigh of relief. I've really been worried about myself these days. If He Mingde hadn't made such a stupid move, he would have had to play with these people for a long time. And the final gain, at most, is to recover all the money that was released before from these squires.
It's like now, directly to a few, and the remaining ones are just small fish and shrimp. The confiscated money and grain were also replenished from the previous granary and the treasury, and there was a lot more.
Leave a sum of money and food for spare, and privately give some benefits to the drum flag army and county officials. Only then did Luo Yan hand over the remaining money and grain, along with his own songs, to his subordinates to escort them to Chang'an.
Naturally, the ins and outs of the whole thing were explained clearly. Without Li Shimin's support, this would definitely not have been possible. Anyway, he didn't do anything wrong, everything was explained clearly, Li Shimin has the bottom, even if someone talks about this in the future, he can carry it for himself.
As for the money and food, it should be regarded as a return gift to Li Shimin. The amount is basically a little more than what Li Shimin sent down before. I have seen two layers of skinning, and there are so many left, which shows how rich these gentry are.
Escorting a large amount of supplies, it took a day for the brigade to arrive in Chang'an. Because these things were brought without consulting Li Shimin in advance, they were temporarily placed at the post station outside Chang'an City. After waiting overnight, early the next morning, the song was handed over to Li Shimin from Zhongshu Province.
These Tianlantian's movements were completely watched by Li Shimin. It's just that Luo Yan has been given the right to act cheaply in advance, and what Luo Yan did was not out of line, so even if Luo Yan said that he wanted to mobilize the Drum Banner Army, Li Shimin asked Du Ruhui to give the Drum Banner Army a special document.
In this case, now that Luo Yan has come to report the results, Li Shimin also wants to see what this kid says.
A good thing, Luo Yan didn't use the kind of prose of officialdom, but wrote it more like a legend. A few more words were mixed in the middle, which made Li Shimin very happy.
"Look, this kid Luo Yan really has some means. It's only been a month, and the gentry in Lantian have been cleaned up by him. If there were a few more Luo Yan in the world, how could these local tyrants and inferior gentry be as rampant as they are now. In front of Fang Xuanling, Li Shimin said happily.
"Your Majesty, Luo Yan's ability to handle things is indeed great. However, the murderous nature is also a little bigger. Fang Xuanling reminded Li Shimin intentionally or unintentionally.
It's not that he doesn't deal with Luo Yan, on the contrary, Luo Yan does this, which really makes him feel very relieved. But in the past half a year, Luo Yan has already had two lives in his hands. and they are entangled with the army at every turn, which is really incompatible with them as civilian officials.
"You're just too worried. If you take a closer look at the results of the punishment of these people, you will find that many people are actually going to lose their heads according to the law. But why did Luo Yan only kill one He Mingde? ”
"Your Majesty, are you saying that Luo Yan did this on purpose?"
"How could it not be? Didn't you already say his style of doing things, it's very murderous. But only in this matter did he kill the first evil. This is the handle he left for himself, and the courtiers can only criticize him for being too gentle, but they can't say that he has handled it too much. You know, He Mingde intended to kill him. It's not that Li Shimin understands Luo Yan's heart, but that Luo Yan said this matter very blatantly in the song.
Yes, I was going to kill someone, but this man deserved it. If anyone refuses to accept it, someone will assassinate him in the future and fail, and he will give others a way to live if he has the ability. It is important to know that the cases handled now will become the norm in the future and can be used as a reference. Whoever has not offended people, life and death feuds are not a rare thing.
Luo Yan saw this point and dared to write so arrogantly in the song.
Seeing Fang Xuanling's puzzled expression, Li Shimin handed him the song and said with a smile: "He is really the first person who has been open-mouthed in front of me since he entered the Qin Palace. Then he didn't say anything, and began to watch the other recitals.
As for Luo Yan on the other side, after successfully dealing with the problems of the gentry and food, the next headache is the gradually increasing number of displaced people outside the city.
It is now almost the end of May, and in another month, the harvest will be available. But in the last period of time, the people ran out of money to buy grain, and all the wild vegetables they could eat were also eaten, and the rest was to flee the famine. Outside the city, half a month ago, there was no one in sight, and those straw huts were placed there, and the city gate guards also stopped many homeless people in the past few days, and Hu Cao was temporarily sent to put porridge.
Now that the problems in the city are solved, the rest is to deal with the affairs outside the city.
Displaced people are not terrible, to put it bluntly, they are also ordinary people who beg for a living. But why are the officials so afraid? Without him, the homeless people can become outcasts if they don't do it well, and this is a hidden danger to public order and national stability. Second, the displacement can also bring plague. A large number of disorderly displaced people gather together, and they are all concerned about saving their lives, and they can take care of the problem of hygiene, so that one time will easily bring infectious diseases. Finally, there is the financial burden, which is also a big one. In some states and counties, the people under their own rule can't eat enough, so they can't take care of others.
For a number of reasons, displaced people are regarded as tigers in the eyes of officials.
This year, due to the famine, many projects of the Ministry of Industry have chosen to provide relief through work. Of course, this solves a lot of displaced people, but where are there so many projects that can resettle all the people in Guanzhong? Most of the people who fled the famine became the old, weak, women and children, and these people were more troublesome to deal with than the young and strong.
Because of these people, you want to do something cash-for-work, and you don't know what to do. There are so many things in the world that can be done by these people.
However, with the support of the confiscated family property of many wealthy gentry, they barely gave these homeless people a month to maintain normal life activities, and this family background is still there. However, these people should not be left idle. After solving the problem of food and clothing, and then being idle, something is really going to happen. Luo Yan has always been very kind to the people, but as an official, he can't help but be guarded.
But the homeless, the children let them read, and the teacher will find them from the homeless. Wouldn't it be better for them to do the sanitation during the day, the guard at night, and the patrol of the camp. Wouldn't this greatly reduce the work of the Lantian errand soldiers? These days, Luo Yan's big moves at both ends in three days, coupled with the grain release in the countryside, the servants are tired enough.
Thinking of this, Luo Yan couldn't help but feel relaxed. (To be continued.) )