"Take a few grain store owners aside to take a break, it is not easy to accumulate wealth, but it is even more difficult to survive in this troubled world, you may scold our security army for robbing you of your wealth, but you yourself know very well how your property came from, how many people do evil in it, your life is life, a poor person's life is also life, now is the time for you to repay your debts." Zhang Chu was unmoved and continued to finish what he wanted to say.

People die for money, birds die for food, and every copper plate from the hands of the rich people carries the blood from their ribs, and most of the rich families send gold and silver, materials, land deeds, and house deeds and go home, leaving only a few stingy rich families who have not had enough property to be raided. The rich of the city were enveloped in an atmosphere of terror.

On the second day, the official posted a notice that Ma Zhi County was going to personally go to the court to inquire about the case and accept the complaint, and several clever people saw that the world had changed, and brought the case of being bullied by the rich and powerful to the court, and they all got a fair judgment from Ma Zhi County, and cut off the heads of several people in front of the county government. There are also some people who have been sent to the coal mine to dig coal, and whether they can come back depends on their own creation.

In the past few days, Ma Zhixian has been very busy, seriously adjudicating every case, studying the authenticity of the testimony of both sides every day, and what judgment should be applied in the end, and his life has become more fulfilling. He had almost forgotten that this Yanchang County was no longer under his jurisdiction. Zhang Chu explained to him that the trial of the case does not look at the rich and poor, and does not favor the poor because the security army enters the city, everything is based on the law, and what anyone else says does not count, Zhang Chu really did this, and all the cases did not interfere with him. Ma Zhixian compared the scene of the two sides fighting up and down in the past lawsuits, I really don't know if this bandit did the right thing, or if the good system of the Ming Dynasty was corrupted by those greedy people.

Zhang Chu also asked Ma Zhixian to sort out some laws that were urgently needed, saying that he wanted to look at them and make changes. In the future, everything will be implemented in accordance with the changed law. Ma Zhixian can't imagine what Zhang Chu will change the law into, but such an undisturbed trial has also realized his dream of being a Qing official many years ago, so the efficiency of Ma Zhixian's trial is getting higher and higher, and some people in the county gradually call him Ma Qingtian, and he is also intoxicated with his dream of being a clean official, and he is working hard.

Officers and soldiers were suddenly stationed at the dangerous points of the important road on the border between Yanchang County and neighboring counties, and they erected checkpoints to strictly check passers-by, saying that they were to guard against wandering bandits. However, they only inspected the property of the people who passed through the customs, and did not allow anyone who had no money to enter the country, and also informed them that there was a serious famine in Yanchang County and there was no food, and they would be starved to death if they entered the country. A large number of displaced people were stopped and turned to other counties.

This is Zhang Chu's determination to be a villain again, and he ordered to intercept the displaced people from all over the country who entered Yanchang County, and no one who had the ability to survive was allowed to enter. However, this time, the black pot was carried by Ma Zhi County, and several magistrates in neighboring counties soon discovered Yanchang County's sinister intentions, and the displaced people were completely dumped to neighboring counties, and the pressure on each county increased greatly. Angry, the magistrates of various counties scolded Mazizhou for not preaching morality and beggar-thy-neighbor, and doing such things that violated the teachings of the saints. People kept writing to Ma Zhi County, but Ma Zhi County was unmoved, and just tried the case seriously in the county office. Neighboring counties also discovered the benefits of this practice, and secretly sent people to intercept the influx of displaced people at the county border, but because the troops needed to be stationed in need of money and food, most of them could only be pretentious.

Zhang Chu is also under a lot of pressure to do this, and the Holy Mother is unwilling, but it is difficult to really cross this hurdle. In order to alleviate the pressure, Zhang Chu sent people to secretly recruit craftsmen, literati, and young people in neighboring counties far away from the checkpoints, and then secretly brought them into Yanchang territory, and the craftsmen were sent to the workshops. In order to alleviate the psychological pressure of the personnel at the pass, the guards can only be changed every three days, and they are constantly repaired, and the deputy captains of each team carry out propaganda and education, that is, the psychological intervention that later generations talked about.

Although the entry of displaced people has been reduced, the pressure on food is still very huge, and if the problem is not solved, the disaster victims in Yanchang County will also become displaced people, and it will be in vain to prevent the blockage. So Zhang Chu did another evil deed and checked the mu. This work was going on in the villages and towns that the security forces began to control, and Zhang Chu decided to extend this measure to the whole county, and the unowned land was immediately returned to the security forces. And vigorously publicize that only two taxes in summer and autumn will be collected according to the acreage, no other donations will be collected, and all kinds of labor will no longer be dispatched, and the prescribed tax rate will be much lower than in previous years, and the newly recruited literati and retained officials will vigorously carry out this work with the cooperation of the village security chiefs, of course, there are also some unwilling landlords who are unwilling to hand over the forcibly occupied land, and everything went much smoother after the cavalry of the security army came to take away a few heads. In their spare time, the poor peasant households are also thinking that if they can get more grain according to the tax method of the security army, they hope that the security army will be able to stay in power in Yanchang County for one year and pay one year less in taxes.

Zhang Chu's evil orders were one after another, and then another notice was posted, announcing that the rivers and barren mountains in Yanchang County belonged to the security team, and the landlords in the countryside scolded the security team for being insatiable. The land of others that had been confiscated before, and now there are no rivers and barren mountains. Although the rivers and barren mountains were not in the title deed before, they were mostly controlled by the landlords, and the landlords could always scrape some oil and water from them, and they were heartbroken for another loss of their own, but looking at the militia patrolling the village under the leadership of the chief of the guard, and the team of the security team that had been opened in the village from time to time, the landlords could only grit their teeth and endure.

The fields of Yanchang County are busy, and while the cold has not completely subsided, people are already trimming the land and digging ditches, some are employed by the security team to work on the land controlled by the security team, and some villagers who have their own land are being driven by the security forces.

The villagers greeted each other and discussed the situation of this year's farming as they worked.

"Brother, what are you doing with that piece of land, you haven't seen the water level of the river drop year after year, your land has long been unable to raise water, and the weather is so dry, planting is a waste of seeds."

"You don't know, the security army said that their commander will take out money and grain to build a silt dam on this river, which will raise the water level of the river, and can also silt up new land, and then my land will be watered again, and the crops will be no problem. I can get a little more food again. ”

"Is there such a thing?"

"It's true, I've seen the security forces choose the right place to build the dam along the river. In addition, I told you that they said that if anyone had the money to build a dam, then the newly silted up fertile land would be distributed to whomever I wanted, and if I had the money, I would have taken it out and built a dam for them, and it was fertile land by the river, and how much harvest would have been given to an acre of land. ”

"This is really a good thing, I hope this security army can last a few years in Yanchang County, and it would be good if they could build more dams like this."

"You don't know, the security army said that after the dam is completed, something called 'Friends of the Miners' will be installed on the dam, saying that it can directly lift water from the river to the high post, only need to burn coal without manpower and animal power, and can also carry water day and night."

"There is such a miraculous thing, I just walked through the fields of the security army and saw the ditches they had repaired, and laughed at them that they couldn't do farm work, and the source of the ditches was built on a high place, and even with a water wheel or something, they couldn't irrigate so many fields. It seems that what you said is true, and if I don't say anything, I will also repair the ditches in our fields, and maybe we can have a good harvest this year. ”