Guo Zongxun left Kaifeng and went to Yecheng...... At this time, Yecheng still has a name, called Yedu!

Before Guo Wei ascended the throne, he once served as the defender of Yecheng, commanding the Hebei Army and resisting the Khitan.

But over the years, especially after the recovery of Youzhou, the front line of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been greatly pushed north, and the heavy troops of Yecheng have withdrawn.

When more than 100,000 people settled in Yecheng, the people complained, scolded the soldiers for being shameless, cruel to the people, and doing misdeeds...... But after the men and horses withdrew, the people found that trouble was coming.

More than 100,000 garrisons, plus war horses, need to consume countless food and materials every year, many merchants gather in Yecheng, and there are many workshops in the city to supply the needs of the army.

Soldiers who have military pay in their hands and go to taverns and tea shops to spend money are true, but they do bring prosperity.

The army withdrew, and the world of Yecheng immediately fell into depression, and a large number of young people had nothing to do...... It just so happened that due to the construction of the northern Yellow River, the young people of Yecheng went to work in the river, and some went to the Yongji Canal to engage in shipping.

Three years ago, there was a drought in Yecheng, and the yield of the fields was reduced by more than half, and then the locusts came again the next year.

The ancients did not lack methods to deal with locust plagues, such as capturing, driving away, digging ditches and burying them, and even taking advantage of locusts' phototaxis to set fire to them...... But frankly, none of these measures are enough to eliminate the locust plague, especially when the locusts grow wings and start taking off, and in one night, they can travel dozens of miles. Everywhere you go, almost all the green plants are inevitably killed.

Yecheng's disaster prevention was not done very well, and it waited until the locusts took off before taking hasty action, and as a result, the grain harvest was out again the next year.

At that time, he was still fighting in the Western Regions, and all parts of the country drew grain and sent it to the Western Regions. Yecheng alone needs to allocate 200,000 stone of grain from Beijing and Tibet to relieve the victims.

You can ignore it elsewhere, Yecheng can't ignore it, and you don't dare to ignore it!

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, Yecheng has been an important military town, with fierce folk customs and a large number of warriors. However, most of these people are old-style martial artists, starting from Guo Wei, two generations of emperors, and about 70,000 old troops have been dismantled before and after...... These guys returned home and became local bullies.

If you want to say how capable they are, that's not necessarily. They will never dare to kill people and sell goods, and they will never dare to rebel. But these people can make trouble, they can toss, and they say at every turn that we have fought with our grandfather, and we have a friendship in a pair of pants, and we have been stabbed for our grandfather, and if we dare not take care of us, we will go to the capital to beat the drum and sue the emperor!

In fact, these people didn't even know where the drums were, but that didn't prevent them from arguing with the magistrates......

All in all, Yecheng is a stinky, hard, and poor unlucky place, and you can't afford to mess with it!

"His Highness really has the courage to put himself in such a place!"

Fu San exclaimed: "I really didn't expect that three years of time could change so much. ”

Ye Hua chuckled, he felt that Guo Zongxun had already had something extraordinary, such as suggesting that Guo Xingge go to Khotan back then, and Lu Duosun wanted to push him to take over the big seal, but the little thing pushed out wittily, and by the way, he also tricked Lu Duoxun.

Bit by bit, Ye Hua saw it in his eyes, especially what pleased Ye Hua was that Guo Zongxun could realize the cultivation of talents, the importance of education, and the problems in rural areas...... All of them made Ye Hua feel very pleased.

"The amount of water a barrel can hold depends on the shortest piece of wood...... Capital is like a surging river, coming from the sky, rushing down, and sweeping everything and everything. The whole society will be ruthlessly reshaped, and all the laws will be rewritten. In contrast, the most vulnerable and powerless are the peasants, the rural ...... If this shortcoming is not filled, when tens of millions of farmers raise their hoes, no matter how powerful the empire is, it will collapse in an instant! ”

"And there is no new education, there is no way for the people to adapt to the changes of the times, and the more new things we come up with, the more harmful things will eventually become harmful things!"

When Ye Hua said this, his fist slammed into the stone table, and his joints were bruised...... A month ago, Peng Hai's wife and children were sent to the capital.

Han Tong, a man who was beaten with iron, a person who couldn't cry after being stabbed a few times, talked about what happened to Peng Hai, he was heartbroken and cried bitterly.

From the beginning of the war against Jiangnan, Peng Hai actively raised military rations, in addition to the main class, he also used parity to provide food, to help the imperial court purchase materials, and the travel expenses were borne by him alone.

Peng Hai told the other brothers that he could have today was all due to the court, and even if he returned his life to the court, he would not complain.

Before and after, he alone raised 15,000 stone of grain for the imperial court, and when he fought against the Western Regions, he also sacrificed ten pack horses at a time...... How much output can a thousand-acre farm, Peng Hai can be said to spare no effort.

But just a year ago, the imperial court levied grain again, Peng Hai had no inventory, and the officials ran to his house and forced him to borrow grain from other farms.

He used his credibility as a guarantee, but the imperial court took the grain and did not give him money...... A delay is a delay of half a year. Other brothers came to the door several times, but Peng Hai had no choice but to borrow money privately and repay the brothers' food.

In order to borrow the money, he secretly mortgaged the property.

was expecting the imperial court to return the grain money to him and redeem the land, but as a result, Peng Hai waited for a bunch of bonds.

The scribe of the yamen told him that there was no money, only this, love or not!

Peng Hai is crazy, he has always believed in the imperial court, wholeheartedly, doing things for the imperial court, working hard and complaining, how can the imperial court treat him like this.

The scribe said disdainfully: "What, not convinced? This is what the champion Hou means, you don't just look down on Hou Ye, what will happen to the end, you can do it yourself? ”

Peng Hai came home from the Yamen, and it was dark all the way, and he didn't know how to walk back!

Hou Ye, isn't Hou Ye the most distressed martial artist? Don't you care most about the brethren? How could he be? Did Master Hou really do it? How can these bonds be exchanged for money?

Peng Hai's questions were unanswered, and when he went home, he found a group of people surrounding his home, his wife and children were kicked out of the room, and the child hugged his mother's thigh, crying.

In a word, if you don't pay back, take away the farm house!

Peng Hai looked at his son on the ground, his eyes were red, when Lao Tzu was killing people in front of the battle, you didn't know where it was! In a fit of rage, he picked up a shovel and split two people in a row.

His slaves, as well as his good brothers and fellow villagers, rushed to the thugs together......

"Master Hou, this is Peng Hai's suicide note, he said that those laws that harm the people are definitely not done by Master Hou, they are all people below who have a black conscience. So he led the villagers to kill the Linzhou County Order, and slaughtered the imperial history who urged food and wages. To kill an official is to rebel, and he pays it with his own life. He won't make trouble for Hou Ye, he just begs Hou Ye to take care of the other brothers more, and he will die without regrets! ”

Ye Hua carefully read Peng Hai's suicide note, he didn't understand anything, he didn't complain, but he also regarded him as one of the murderers in his heart...... And indeed it is!

Not only the bureaucratic system, but also the whole society needs to be reformed.

Without a complete change, tragedies like Peng Hai will emerge one after another!

Advanced financial tools are simply not understandable to ordinary people.

Just like Peng Hai, he got the bonds, how much is it worth? How to redeem it and where to sell it? The remote Linzhou didn't know anything at all, and in his eyes, it was an IOU from the imperial court that could not be honored. He didn't have the ability to ask the court for debts, so he could only be a puppet and get angry, and blood was splashed.

As for what will happen next, it is not in his mind at all!

"It has to be quickened, it has to be overhauled...... Don't think that by fighting a foreign war and grabbing territory and wealth, you will solve the problem. Impossible! ”

Ye Hua said angrily: "I have laid down the Western Regions, made a lot of companies, and launched stocks...... But these dividends belong to a small number of people after all. And it is all the people of Dazhou who bear the pressure of war! If you can't really release the dividends to the ordinary people, the use of troops abroad will only cheapen a few people, which will definitely not work! ”

Ye Hua's attitude is becoming more and more firm, he is not alone, behind him, there are huge emerging interest groups that have been cultivated in the past ten years, and he must take care of thousands of "his own people" like Peng Hai.

Everything is on Guo Zongxun's body, if the little guy can succeed in Yecheng, he can tear a hole, if he can't do it, Ye Hua will only go into battle in person!

Little Guo Zongxun doesn't know how important his mission is, the little guy just wants to make Yecheng better...... Guo Zongxun's first shot was the Ordnance Workshop Cooperative.

Unexpectedly, he did not start from the countryside, but first took action in the city.

It turned out that those family workshops that had become decayed due to the withdrawal of the army were back in operation, dozens of workshops, hundreds of old craftsmen, and they united first.

Guo Zongxun named them "Hebei Industrial Group", which is very atmospheric, but in fact they can only undertake a little task that other workshops look down on...... For example, saddle stirrups, military uniforms, shoes and hats, musketeers' armed belts and other gadgets.

But that's all it takes, and that's good.

As the city began to gain popularity, Guo Zongxun chose ten villages and set up agricultural cooperatives, and each family, according to the amount of labor, land, and livestock, produced the grain, deducting the basic rations, and selling it, as the property of the whole village, everyone jointly decided how to use it......

"Your Majesty, the minister wants to impeach the prince!" Lu Yuqing took the lead in attacking the Golden Palace, "The prince set up a cooperative in Yecheng, and the imperial court originally levied taxes and grain from every peasant household, but now it has become a cooperative!" And in each cooperative, some Diao people were elected to contradict the government...... These people are neither official nor civilian, nor civilian, nor military, what are they? The old minister implored His Majesty to issue an edict immediately to cancel the cooperative! Otherwise, all localities will follow suit, and there will never be peace in the world! ”