"Master, the government in the countryside wants our hometown to tear down the fence."

Mo Xiaobei was woken up early in the morning by a servant who came from the countryside, and he said with displeasure: "Just tell them that it's not easy to dismantle, how can you dismantle such a big enclosure?" Slowly, I'll go for some activities. Mo Xiaobei didn't believe it at first, but just asked people to prepare a red envelope.

"They say... If they didn't dismantle it themselves, they would send someone with gunpowder to the door. ”

"Huh?" Hearing the word gunpowder, Mo Xiaobei jumped out of bed directly, and there was no longer any anger to get up. "Then I heard that the rebellion in the west also started with the gunpowder bombing track? If the government really sent someone to blow up the fence with gunpowder, wouldn't it be regarded as a thief? I just got in touch with the government, and I'm about to lose my life? ”

Before he could think about it, Mo Xiaobei received another invitation from the official office, saying that he was inviting the "good gentry and businessmen" in the city to "blow the wind and talk about policies".

The invitation from the government is actually similar to the summons, Mo Xiaobei packed up a few times and hurried to go, if he went late, he would become "the target of the public". As soon as I arrived, I saw that people in Kunming City who still had a little energy were sitting here, they were either old-fashioned, or shrewd and capable, and even a few old ladies who had died, and they looked a little childish, but Mo Xiaobei thought carefully in his heart, but found that there was no one in Kunming who did not have a soil fence outside the city!

Sure enough, as soon as the Yunnan prefect walked in, he began to talk about this issue directly. Some people thought that "the new official took office with three fires" and wanted to receive filial piety, so they said that they could "donate" some of them.

But the prefect waved his hand and resolutely rejected the proposal of these people. "This is Your Majesty's will, not for me to decide, I hope you can understand the holy will." As a young Zhuang faction who had personally taught the subject by the emperor, the prefect showed great respect for the emperor.

After speaking, the prefect, who looked to be less than thirty years old, bowed heavily to the southwest.

The meeting was dismissed, and there was a lot of discussion outside the yamen. Mo Xiaobei's eyes were quite bright, and he once again became a leader and asked to meet the prefect alone. Mo Xiaobei still has this face, even if it is for the sake of his family's property, the prefect has to see it.

"I don't know why Mo Gong came to see me? If you give gifts and ask for help like the bureaucrats of the old days, then you can go back. "The new prefect has been training in Ava for more than a year and has a decent face. Mo Xiaobei knew at a glance that it was not the old-style bureaucracy before the retreat of the Ming army--- although the staff officers also received some "benefits", but compared to the old bureaucrats who could not move tens of hundreds of taels of silver at every turn, they were negligible.

"No, no, where do you dare to fight this crooked idea! It's just that the earthen fence of my house is too difficult to dismantle, and I use Sanhe soil to make the wall......"

The more he listened, the more unhappy the prefect's face became, and just when he was about to open his mouth to interrupt, Mo Xiaobei changed his words. "Therefore, I request that the government buy gunpowder and dismantle the fence under the supervision of officers and soldiers, and the cost will be borne by my family. You don't need to spend a penny of public money. ”

Isn't this a pillow that someone brings to you for sleep? The eyes of the prefect who had never been in the world lit up, and he forgot the dogma that joy and anger are invisible. Such a family opens a breakthrough, and other people's fences will be easy to handle. After a period of compliments to each other, the prefect calmly accepted this windfall--- of course, all of it went to the treasury of Yunnan Prefecture, and now the slightly larger industrial towns under the rule of the imperial court are looking for opportunities to issue bonds, he personally feels that bonds are to quench his thirst, so Yunnan Mansion only issued a small number of bonds, or was just contracted out as an anonymous name for a good fate.

But in any case, the financial pressure is real, and these five hundred taels of silver can really make Kunming last a few more days!

Two days later, the prefect sent people to set up a platform in front of the Mofu Gate, and invited those people from yesterday to watch the ceremony. You respect me a foot, I respect you a foot, the prefect splashed ink on the wooden board on the platform, and wrote down the four big characters of "the sage of the countryman in this world", and immediately someone went up to make a plaque, and engraved the prefect's childish level ink on the wooden board and coated it with powder.

"Yesterday, Mo Gong told me that because the earthen fence is not easy to dismantle, he wants to ask the officers and soldiers to go to the countryside to use gunpowder to dismantle it, and he pays for gunpowder and the opening fee. Mo Gong is high-spirited and bright, and the official is really admired. But I won't force you, just dismantle it within a month, and if you need gunpowder, the government can send troops to help you, and you don't need to pay for it. ”

At that moment, someone jumped out to talk about the bandits, "My lord... It's not that the grass people don't want to demolish it, it's the grass people's house, the bandits are so rampant, there is no soil fence, maybe that night..."

"No wonder so!" The prefect looked distressed, "Didn't you say it earlier!" Is this a person who does not understand the feelings of the people? ”

"Don't dare, don't dare," the man thought that this trick would work, and sighed in his heart that the young prefect was said to be not from the right path, so "there is no hair on his mouth, and he can't do things well." ”

"So, where do you live?"

"I live in the city, but my ancestral home is in Wanxitun in the west."

"Then I will go and communicate with the Kunming garrison after I go back, and see if I can send some troops over to the security and rectification."

Law and order! Hearing this, everyone present was shocked, every time this law and order was dispatched, it was at least two companies of troops, and hundreds of rifles were drawn into a line, and it was terrifying to look at. Several of them have an inexplicable relationship with the bandits--- although the bandits are also farming in the mountains, but everyone knows that they can't feed so many people, once they are caught alive, what should they do if they are implicated in their relationship with their own family?

But the helpless words have been spoken, and at this time they can't take it back, so they can only helplessly respond. This prefect is also a rectum, and the yamen went to Kunming to guard without going back, and the "southern officials" in the mouths of these gentry do not sit in a sedan chair, and the itinerary can be seen at a glance.

"Alas, it's difficult for a good woman to cook without rice," in the face of this officialdom's new request, the garrison snorted, and then rejected the prefect with a large list of military secrets, and the prefect was also interested, so he arched his hand and left.

The garrison sent the prefect away, and immediately asked the king of Jin in person--- it is ridiculous to say, the deputy head and the prince sound like a heaven and an earth, but as the deputy head of the Kunming garrison, he is a direct subordinate of the king of Jin.

"Okay."

Li Dingguo listened to the guard's statement and broke the charcoal on the table.

"In this way, I will immediately ask the Yunnan Metropolitan Division to allocate materials for you, not only Wanxitun, but the entire territory of Yunnan Prefecture, all of which must be uprooted."

"Yes!" The garrison snapped a stand.

Therefore, flying horses were sent from Kunming to the city gates in all directions, and orders were issued to mobilize the field troops of the whole province at the same time, trying to force the bandits from all over the country to either force out of Yunnan, or annihilate in the province--- of course, it is naturally better to annihilate in the province, if they flow outside the province, then maybe they will eat the food and salary of the captive court, and the leaders will become the general or hundred generals of the Qing army.

The staff officers who handed over the work to the prefect's yamen did not have time to rest, and they were engaged in non-stop busyness day and night. However, compared with dealing with civil affairs, the work is still simpler.

(End of chapter)