The red lady was originally full of incomprehension, but now after Ma Xiaotian and Zhu Yuanzhang explained successively, she finally understood that Li Zicheng's "not paying for food" was just an empty word, and it was impossible to realize. She couldn't help but said with deep concern: "Oh, this is not good, people like me don't understand that this sentence is a lie, and there are many people who won't see through it, right?" Then everyone is going to be deceived by him. ”

Xu Renjie said with a smile: "Don't worry, there are not many people who are stupider than you." His hippie smile became a habit, and there was no Xue Hongqi to joke about, so he turned the target of the joke to the red lady.

Ma Xiaotian was anxious when he saw it, and hurriedly went to a stop between Xu Renjie and the red lady, and said hurriedly: "Generalissimo big brother...... Don't you ...... Don't ......" he said goodbye for a long time, but the second half of the sentence didn't come out, it turned out that the half sentence was "Don't hit the red lady's idea", but this was too Meng Lang to say in front of the red lady, so I had to bear it and not say it.

The red lady was dazed and smiled: "What else? When you have something to say, don't spit out, it's disgusting! ”

Ma Xiaotian scratched his hair, and then went crazy!

Xu Renjie laughed, slapped Ma Xiaotian on the shoulder, and said in a voice that only Ma Xiaotian could hear: "This woman is more than innocent and cute, but she is more mature and sensible, but she is not as good as my Xue Hongqi sister, an older person like me will not make a move on this kind of uneasy little girl." ”

When Ma Xiaotian heard this, he nodded with concern and said, "That's true, it's really much more worrying than Sister Xue Hongqi." Although Sister Xue Hongqi's temper is not very good, she has never made people crazy. But...... She's still young. After a few more years of training, it will not be worse than Sister Xue. ”

"Say what?" The red lady felt that the eyes of the two of them were turning on her, and she seemed to faintly hear Xue Hongqi's words, and thought: Wouldn't it be comparing me with Xue Hongqi? Thinking of this, her heart was a little empty, she really didn't have the confidence to compare to Xue Hongqi.

Ignoring the nonsense of his subordinates, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "What the red lady said is not unreasonable, Li Zicheng's trick is used, and many people will soon be deceived, and the next problem is. We have to compare ourselves with Li Zicheng. Who is more popular and loved by the people is not a simple matter. ”

The leaders nodded in unison.

Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "We have to let the people know that although we don't need to pay food with Li Zicheng, we follow our words from Zhu Jun." Even if you pay for food. They also earn more than they do without food. ”

"Yes!" Everyone responded in unison.

People are creatures. Most of them are profit-seeking, and if you let the people know that life is better on the side that pays for food than on the side that doesn't. The people will know how to weigh who they should live with. It's simple, but it's a lot of effort.

First of all, they must promote advantageous crops and confront natural disasters or barren land, and then they must ensure that the officials are clean and clean, and do not disturb the people and harm the people, so that the people can grow grain with peace of mind and not be blackmailed when paying taxes.

However, Li Zicheng's approach is sweet first and then bitter, and he is majestic for a while, and in the end he will be unlucky. Zhu Jun's approach is to be bitter first and then sweet, and he may have suffered a lot in the early stage of establishing the system, but when such a system is perfectly operational, it can ensure that the people really live well.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said: "Generalissimo, you go to the activities, gather all the rich households in the city, tell them Li Zicheng's sinister intentions to eat the big households, give them a blow to the head, and wake them up." Tell them that the consequence of not paying food is that their property will be taken by Li Zicheng to eat. ”

Xu Renjie clenched his fists and listened to the order, and then asked: "Isn't it only for the rich, not for the poor?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "The poor people can't listen to it, because the big eaters won't eat them, and it won't harm their interests, but they can make them not pay food, and they have no reason to object, so they can't listen to any words, and it's in vain to talk to them." ”

Xu Renjie nodded and said, "I understand, then I'll go." He hurried to gather the rich men and give them a meeting.

Zhu Yuanzhang said to Ma Xiaotian again: "Secretly arrange people to go around the city and arrest and kill the people who spread this children's rhyme." Do it cleanly, and don't let anyone know that it was our Zhu Jun's people who killed it, so as not to chill the hearts of the people of the world. ”

Ma Xiaotian also hugged his fists and said, "Obey, I'll go." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to the red lady and said: "Go and remind Bai Yuzhu that the matter of corn seeds cannot be delayed, and ask him to transfer the team from Baishui when we were promoting potatoes at the beginning, and let them take over the government affairs of promoting corn, which is the most important thing in the spring next year." ”

The red lady also hugged her fists and hurried to go, it was rare to see her so obediently obeying orders.

Zhu Yuanzhang begged for a small ingot of silver from the soldiers next to him (he himself never carried silver), walked to the children who sang nursery rhymes, and said with a smile: "Children, there is a silver ingot here, do you want it?" ”

The children took two steps back, not daring to come and pick them up, nor to speak.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "You don't sing the children's song just now, this ingot of silver is yours." ”

Several children were overjoyed and quickly nodded, and the youngest five children said happily: "Okay, if you don't sing, you won't sing...... Uncle, is this the children's song you are talking about? After speaking, he opened his mouth and sang: "If you want to, there is straw paper, don't tear my rotten mat; If you want to pee, you have a night pot, and don't draw a map on the bed; If you want to fart, there are cans, don't put stuffy smoke in the bed......"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled dumbly and said softly: "It's another song." ”

The boy said, "Oh, are you talking about opening the gates of the city to meet the king?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "Good, stop singing, take the silver." ”

"Okay, don't sing anymore." The five children took the silver, and a group of children cheered and ran away.

Although these children stopped singing, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that this kind of buying was a palliative rather than a cure, after all, it would be necessary to wait for the spring next year, when the corn was planted, so that the people of Guangyuan knew the benefits of Zhu Jun, and they would rest their thoughts of following Li Zicheng.

With an ugly face, he commanded his henchmen, "Go, go back to the yamen." ”

In the next few days, Zhu Yuanzhang opened a warehouse to release grain to help the people survive the cold winter, while training soldiers and making them adapt to mountain battles, while trying to find a way to block the abominable children's rhyme from entering his territory, and in just one month, he killed more than a dozen of Li Yan's subordinates who were sent to spread children's songs.

Through bribery, persuasion and other means, the children and rich families in the city finally stopped talking about this issue. The children can buy it with a little money, but the rich families are not so easy, relying on Xu Renjie's three-inch tongue to talk for a long time, it is not easy for them to understand Li Zicheng's idea of eating big households, these rich people have fear on their faces, and they have made up their minds that they must not take refuge in Li Zicheng.

On the other hand, after Bai Yuzhu returned to Shaanxi, he hurried to Xi'an to find the two priests, Richard and An Wensi, and inquired about them, and sure enough, in the southeast coastal area of the Ming Dynasty, corn had already taken root and sprouted for several years. It's not hard to get seeds, and there are so many farmers who know how to grow corn that it's easy to do if you're willing to spend a little money.

At that moment, Li Qingshui hurriedly ordered Xia Er to make one more trip, transport the corn seeds back thousands of miles, and transfer all the officials of Baishui to prepare to work in Guangyuan tomorrow spring.

Speaking of Li Qingshui, this kid is now terrible, he is the political envoy of Shaanxi, and he is no longer the political envoy of half of Shaanxi, he is the political envoy of the whole of Shaanxi, and millions of people in Shaanxi are basically full of food under his conscientious management, which makes Li Qingshui have a sense of achievement. Now that he sees that his ideal retribution has achieved the two steps of "self-cultivation and family", and the next step is being realized step by step, he is becoming more and more interested in the thief's official.

As soon as he heard that Sichuan was included in the next goal, he was very energetic, thinking to himself, now that he has finally walked out of Shaanxi and towards Sichuan, if he continues to develop like this, he will not be able to achieve even the two articles of "governing the country and peace in the world" in a blink of an eye.

Every time he thinks of this, he is so motivated! At this time, if he was asked to go back to the imperial court to be a waste scholar of the Donglin Party, he would say that he would not want anything.

After such a change in mood, he often went to chat with the two generals Da Cao and Xiao Cao, after these two generals were under house arrest by Zhu Jun, they ate and drank well, but they just didn't let them go, and they were unwilling to surrender, and the two sides kept consuming. Li Qingshui felt that this was not a problem, so he often told the big and small two Cao about the good things that Zhu Jun had done, and took the two generals to take a walk in the four fields.

Seeing the prosperity of Shaanxi today, Er Cao couldn't help but lie about it. Especially Da Cao, he has always believed that soldiers only need to obey orders and defeat all the enemies of the imperial court one by one, so that the people will naturally live and work in peace and contentment. But later he was taught a lesson by Zhu Yuanzhang, saying that he was just a knife without his own will, and if he held it in the hands of a bad person, it would become a bad knife...... This sentence has always had a deep impact on him.

After following Li Qingshui to look east and west for a long time, a certain belief in his heart began to slowly change, and occasionally he couldn't help but think: Can defeating all enemies really make the people live a good life? Baishui Zhu Ba obviously only occupies a couple of Shaanxi, and there are many strong enemies around, why are the people in his territory living so happily? Seemingly...... Some of the problems are not caused by the enemy, but really come from the court itself...... (To be continued.) )