Chapter 571: Leading a Tour

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In the evening, after Lu Peng arranged a yam feast for the generals and officials, everyone went back to rest.

The demoted generals were not treated according to the standard of surrender, and they were arranged according to the specifications of the officials from various localities who returned to report on their work. There are no physical restrictions, and they are given plenty of freedom to move around each other without interfering.

After a day of rest, Lu Peng arranged for them to go around the country, and squeezed out time to be a tour guide in person, introducing themselves to them, ah, no, it is our foundation, our development stamina, and our bright future.

First of all, start with Youzhou City.

Early in the morning, Lu Peng stood on the street, cheering and shouting around for people to gather, doing his duty as a tour guide. Then everyone will gather, everyone will line up according to the size of the original or current officials, and under the leadership of Lu Peng, they will set off from the Youzhou Mansion and go west on the street, and their goal is the Hubu Square.

The wide and tidy streets, as well as the old people who clean the streets at ease, the dense shops, the thriving trading business, the wealthy people and pedestrians, some of them are brightly dressed, and some are also patched with patches, but even these clothes with patches are washed clean, tidy and refreshing, from this point it can be seen that people's upward mentality, not the so-called broken jars and broken.

In the market, people who know each other see each other, they all smile at each other, give courtesy to each other, and then continue to hurry, which is a bit of the kind of sage expects, the fruit of food and clothing to know the etiquette.

There are no homeless beggars in sight on the streets, some of them are busy people.

Everything is so harmonious and beautiful, everything seems so rich and serene.

He couldn't help but sigh: "The wealth of Youzhou is indeed the crown of the world, and Guotai Min'an is perfectly reflected here." If this is the case in the world, then those of us who are dedicated to the people will also get our wish. ”

Lu Peng smiled and quipped: "I have always admired Mr.'s straightforwardness, but today I saw that Mr. is not kind, and he is definitely suspected of talking nonsense with his eyes open and being idle and having nothing to do." ”

As soon as these words came out, Frustrated was a little embarrassed, but this kind of easy-going also made Frustrated feel close, and it was really rare for the subordinates of the superior team to be like this.

"In fact, Mr. said so about me, and what he definitely thought behind his back was that my face project was really good, because according to everyone's common sense thinking, since the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, but now, even if everyone is recognized as a peaceful and prosperous era, such as the rule of Wenjing that is advertised through the ages, but it has not achieved that there are no homeless people on the road, no beggars on the streets, and I can't see a beggar here, so it can only show that I am doing a face project."

was told what he thought, and those Wenchen led by Fu Zhi couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, because everyone really thought so. In fact, even if there are some beggars on the street and some homeless people on the road, from the perspective of the overall situation, Lu Peng is indeed unparalleled in the world.

Then Lu Peng patiently explained to you: "First of all, I have developed Youzhou for a long time, and I have used various means, including the use of blood, fire and violence, to the point where the cultivator has his land, and the land rent I collect is pitiful, except for these rents, the people do not bear any forced labor, so of course, the people's lives are comfortable and rich." ”

"But the lord does not levy labor, so how should many government projects be done?" Zhao Xin poked his head out and asked suspiciously.

"Itself, our government tries to reduce the projects done for the government as much as possible, such as the construction of yamen, the construction of palace buildings, and other unnecessary projects, and once these projects must be done, then we must use the method of employment, take out money and food, and hire the people to do the work."

"What about a project like dredging of the river?" Such a project was conscripted for free in all dynasties, and it was also said in a grand manner that it was taken from the people and for the people. And if a court can make those conscripted people not bring their own dry food, it is considered a good government.

Lu Peng said as a matter of course: "Such projects that benefit the people have been vigorously promoted, but the manpower I use is still employed." ”

Everyone was amazed, because although such a method no longer disturbs the people and labors the people, the expenditure must be astronomical, which is absolutely unaffordable for the current government and even the entire imperial court, can a small Youzhou afford it?

If this is the case, it can only be two situations, one is that Lu Peng is bragging, and the other is that Lu Peng didn't care about people's livelihood at all, and he didn't do these things at all.

Lu Peng saw everyone's thoughts, and the accompanying Youzhou officials also saw it, but everyone didn't bother to explain here, and explaining here can only be a war of words, and they can't really convince them at all, if they want to convince them, they have to rely on their on-the-spot investigation in the next few days.

So Lu Peng turned the topic to the question of not having a beggar just now. "In Youzhou, we do not provide free relief to homeless people and beggars, but rather provide them with jobs and jobs that can support them."

At this point, Lu Peng actually doesn't need to explain, people all over the world are snorting at Lu Peng's hard-hearted policy of resolutely not helping the people, and stubbornly implementing his method of cash-for-work, everyone thinks that this is Lu Peng's stinginess and his nature in the eyes of money.

At this point, the officials of Bingzhou and Yizhou felt more deeply, and they didn't know whether to laugh at Lu Peng's stinginess or his stupidity in losing the hearts of the people.

In Bingzhou and Yizhou, in order to implement his method of cash-for-work, Lü Peng did not hesitate to hire the people to build 10,000 barracks for the ten soldiers he left along the way, and then worked hard to build these barracks with wages, and then hired the people to demolish him again.

And in order to hire those old, weak, sick and disabled, he just let these people walk ten miles and walk back, and then give them wages, which is simply to smash their heads with money, and the people get their wages, and no one really thanks Lu Peng, because in the eyes of the people, this is not Lu Peng's charity, but what they deserve after paying. In the eyes of outsiders, this is definitely not as good as the method of giving money to buy people's hearts.

But Lu Peng still does it, and he never gets tired of it.

Fortunately, Lu Peng later seemed to see that this method was simply ridiculous as a fool and a bastard, so he began to hire people and homeless people in various places, began to dig up the nests, and then dug out the nests that had been built with all his hard work and money, and distributed them to those homeless people for free.

However, in this way, it is prevented that those people who have been homeless because of the war will freeze to death in the wilderness in winter, and it is precisely in this way that new simple villages and towns with Diwozi as the main building have reappeared in the places where Bingzhou and Yizhou, which have been destroyed by the war several times.

So as soon as Lu Peng said that he would work for relief this time, everyone was stunned.

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