Chapter 178 Corrupt Officials

Zhao Yu thought for a while and said, "In addition, this king thinks that the wasteland can be cleared!" ”

"Wasteland? This requires a lot of money, and does the prince have land that can be cultivated on a large scale? Qian Yanyuan didn't have any scruples, and opened his mouth to question.

Zhao Yu put his finger on a certain place on the map and said: "Guangling salt can be cleared!" ”

Qian Yanyuan was stunned and said, "Could it be that the prince wants to fight the Guangling Salt Grassland?" ”

Zhao Yu nodded and said, "That's right!" ”

Dried salt appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and now sea salt is basically boiled salt. This boils naturally fuel! In order to have sufficient raw materials, Guangling Salt is located in the lower reaches of the Mi River, and the area of the Mi River below Guangling Salt is not allowed to be cultivated for grazing wild grasses. There are as many as 370,000 acres!

I saw Zhao Yu draw a circle on the map, and said: "370,000 acres of grassland, 320,000 acres of reclaimed land!" Based on the calculation of 30 acres per household, it can be based on about 11,000 households, and three people in one household are enough to settle 30,000 people! In addition, the salt works were relocated to the vicinity of the mouth of the Mi River. ”

Qian Yanyuan said: "Lord Wang, the forage is gone, what's the use of moving the salt farm?" ”

Zhao Yu smiled confidently and said, "Who told you that salt can only be boiled?" This king has his own way! In this way, it can be used according to other salt farmers in the salt farm. ”

"Lord Wang, that's just it, there are about 140,000 people!" Gongsun Xuanxu reminded.

Zhao Yu pointed to the map and said, "Yizhou!" Yizhou has just been plagued by Mengshan bandits, many fields are deserted, and it is still possible to relocate seventy or eighty thousand people there! It is still possible to rent out official land to refugees, and the tax should not be too low, otherwise those large households will have opinions, so they will rent it out according to three out of ten taxes. ”

Gongsun Xuanxu smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid the prince doesn't know, that field has already been occupied by the big families nearby!" Even Cheng (Lin) Jixiang bought 10,000 acres of fertile land in the local area! ”

Zhao Yu sneered: "How can this king not know the truth? It's just that what if someone fornicates with the bandits? ”

Gongsun Xuanxu and Qian Yanyuan were shocked, and Qian Yanyuan persuaded bitterly: "Lord Wang, I'm afraid that I want to push the big families and scholars on Jingdong East Road to the opposite side of you!" This is absolutely unacceptable! It's just tens of thousands of untouchables, so why bother! ”

Zhao Yu was furious. "How is this a pariah? Have you never heard of what Tang Taizong said: 'The people are the water, the king is the boat, the water can carry the boat, and it can also overturn the boat.' 'Words?' Speaking of untouchables, this king's ancestor is just a thief with an army, and the Ru family is just a mud-legged family! Why is it cheap? ”

(The thief with the army refers to Zhao Kuangyin's father, Zhao Hongyin, who was born as a soldier and had tattoos on his face.) The mud leg refers to Qian Yanyuan's great-grandfather, Qian Biao, who was born as a farmer. ）

Qian Yanyuan was speechless, and stood aside with a flushed face.

Gongsun Xuanxu said: "The prince is finally recognized by the Jingdong Lushi clan because of the disaster relief at the moment. In doing so, I am afraid that it will be an enemy both inside and outside! ”

Zhao Yu shook his head and said: "What the scholars and big families say is not profitable! As long as this king can bring them benefits, how can we care that this king should take away their land? What's more, not all of the fields in Yizhou this time are occupied by large households on Jingdong East Road, more than half of them are large households remaining in Yizhou, so it is much easier to deal with them! It is relatively easy to avoid some powerful and large households, and to get 70,000 or 80,000 people of land in this way! ”

Gongsun Xuanxu saw that Zhao Yu had made up his mind, so he stopped talking.

To do this, you have to be able to withstand the pressure, and you have to do it well. After all, although this collusion with the Mengshan thieves cannot be said to be made out of nothing, it is definitely not ironclad evidence. When the Mengshan thieves were powerful, many big families secretly sent people to send money and food to the Mengshan thieves as protection money, praying that he would not suffer from their own yards, and some big families helped the Mengshan thieves sell their stolen goods.

It's just that no matter which one, they only have limited contact, these big families are not stupid, and they know that this world is still the world of the Song Dynasty. No matter how much the thief is, he can't get rid of the word 'thief'.

Thinking about it, Zhao Yu was stunned that he didn't think of anyone. After pondering for a while, he asked Gongsun Xuanxu to come and asked: "This king wants an official who can withstand the pressure and has the means to deal with those big households, do you have any recommendations?" Or do you know that there are such people there? It doesn't matter if the position is a little lower, as long as you have the ability! ”

Gongsun Xuanxuan was stunned and said: "Such a person really knows that there is a poor way, I'm afraid that you don't want to use it!" ”

As soon as Zhao Yu heard that there was such a talent, where did he still care about Gongsun Xuanxu's words? Hurriedly asked: "Sir, don't sell it, just say who it is!" As long as this thing is done, what is there that this king does not want? ”

"Former Laizhou Jimo County Zhixian Yang Zhun!" Gongsun Xuanxu said directly to the point.

Zhao Yu was stunned when he heard this, touched the fluff that had just grown on his lips, and muttered, "Why does this person sound so familiar?" Looks like I've heard about it there. ”

Gongsun Xuanxu couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and said, "Lord Wang, you have naturally heard of him!" Wang Ye can remember that two months ago, someone reported that Yizhi County embezzled 30,000 stone of food for disaster relief, and in addition, he owed a huge amount of money during his term of office to build dangerous buildings and bridges. ”

Zhao Yu nodded and said, "This king knows, and for this reason, this king also personally asked the general judge (Shiheng) to investigate it personally!" The corrupt official that Mr. said couldn't be this guy, right? ”

Gongsun Xuanxu nodded and said, "Exactly!" After a general investigation, this person not only embezzled 30,000 stone of grain and sold it to the destroyers for hoarding, but also cut corners in the buildings, roads and bridges built during his two years in office! In the most serious case, the stone bridge that cost 800 guan to build actually collapsed after a month and a half, causing 12 casualties to 12 civilians and passers-by. ”

Speaking of this, Gongsun Xuanxu continued: "The prince also specially wrote a memo for this purpose, and he wants to send this person to the Dingbian Army!" ”

The Dingbian Army is located on the border of Western Xia, and Zhao Yu sent this guy there, which was actually a disguised execution.

Zhao Yu said with some amazement: "Sir, aren't you playing this king?" If such a corrupt official is not killed, it is not enough to make the people angry! ”

Gongsun Xuanxu said very confidently: "Poor Dao has already said before, Lord Wang, I'm afraid you don't want to use it!" It's just that the prince, you say there is nothing you don't want to do? The poor road was just said, how can the prince blame the poor road now? ”

Zhao Yu thought about it carefully, it was really like this!

It's just that Zhao Yu thought about Yang Zhun's experience carefully, and he couldn't agree that Gongsun Xuanxu's recommendation was not a joke on himself.