Of course, in addition to these things, the situation of their walking around the town these days, along the way, is an eye-opener for everyone. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Xuanfu Town is already very prosperous, although the capital is large, but beggars are all over the ground, the streets are full of homeless people, there are people who are starving to death everywhere, especially garbage everywhere, the city is full of dirt and ashes, but here is full of vitality, full of vitality and vitality, especially ruddy people everywhere.

And what do the people here say?

There is always a strange feeling, or they have a different momentum, that is a kind of confidence and high-spirited mixed momentum, all of them walk with their heads held high, striding meteors, without the numbness, humility, fear and pity that Li Banghua usually saw.

It seems that people here, up and down, all have a kind of hope, or a kind of dream.

Li Banghua carefully observed, after entering Xuanfu Town, the wide sand and gravel road was very smooth, and the main road was mixed with some lime mud water, which spread into the distance.

Although the road is wide enough for several horse-drawn carriages to walk side by side, it follows what the locals call "traffic rules".

Along the way, the villages of Tunpu are densely packed, and the planning is well organized without the slightest clutter.

These settlements are also full of prosperity, with all kinds of shops lined up one after another, and people and merchants constantly coming and going. It is really a smell of chickens and dogs, and the population is lush, if this is not the land of the Ming Dynasty, but another beautiful country without disasters and wars.

Li Banghua also observed that the drought here is not less severe than in other parts of Beijing. But there is a complete water conservancy everywhere. The gathering of special irrigation wells and waterwheels can ensure the harvest of grain, which makes Li Banghua awe-inspiring the strength of their grassroots organization.

In fact, natural disasters have been in all dynasties, in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, all kinds of disasters are not uncommon, especially in the Wanli period, but in the end they all survived, that is, at that time, the grassroots organization strength was still there, and the center of the court also had the ability to execute.

However, because of the abolition of the Lijia system, especially after Zhang Juzheng's reform, the grain was converted into silver. The whole Da Ming Li Jia Chang has become a cheap servant. The localities became controlled by the gentry, resulting in the real imperial power not going to the countryside, and all the countryside below the prefecture and county level took care of themselves, and anarchism was rampant. This is the real cause of financial bankruptcy.

As the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Metropolitan Inspectorate. Li Banghua vaguely understands the shortcomings in this. However, it is no longer possible to turn back.

All kinds of situations on the road also made the attachés and subordinates look amazed. I heard that Xuanfu Town was prosperous and saw it with my own eyes, and it was far more prosperous than I imagined.

In particular, the tranquility of this place has made many people's hearts pound.

Perhaps many of the people in the group live better than the ordinary people here, but that sense of security is far from being available elsewhere, so it is no wonder that so many people yearn for Xuanfu Town and continue to move their own people here.

Li Banghua's expression was even more solemn, and he thought: "This is the business of the king!" ”

What particularly shocked him was that the martial arts here were extremely prosperous, and many passers-by were wearing swords, but they were not talented people, nor were they patrol soldiers, just ordinary people.

Although the Ming Dynasty and the Han Dynasty of all dynasties acquiesced in allowing the people to have five soldiers, only armor, spears, crossbows, strong bows, etc., but in fact, it is still an unspoken rule, and there is no such blatant permission as Wang Dou.

Doesn't this mean that if Wang Dou has different intentions, he only needs to climb the heights and shout, and it is just easy to increase the number of tens of thousands of strong troops?

Li Banghua also heard that the people in Xuanfu Town were allowed to buy or own firearms, and the most conspicuous sign of the Jingbian Army was the sharpness of its guns.

How amazing is this? The more Li Banghua thought about it, the heavier his heart became!

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On this day, the carriage and horse honor guard walked to Huailai City, and Huailong soldiers prepared for Ma Guoxi to lead officials out of the city for ten miles to greet him, and set up a grand banquet to entertain him, and sent the ceremonial money.

In fact, when the carriage and horses walked through Yulin Fort earlier, Wu Zhi, the governor of Yanqing Prefecture, Yu Gui, the general of Nanshan Road, and Chen Jiugao, the chief soldier of the Mausoleum, also sent Yijin, although it was not much, but it was enough to make people cry, and finally met their own people, or their own family.

According to the old practice, when Qin sent down, the attaché extorted places all the way to just wait, and the officials who stammered were even more like a tide, and it was the first time that everyone encountered such an aggrieved thing in Xuanfu Town.

Fortunately, there are still loyal and righteous people in Xuanfu Town, unlike Wang Dou's faction, who is so fatherless.

It was Li Banghua who was also moved, although he still didn't accept money and politely refused all parties, but everyone's intentions still made him feel respected, which is the dignity that a court member should have.

Don't waste the ceremony! I don't take money, this is my backbone, but at least the dignity and humility, how can I not want it?

After all, Wang Dou started as a small soldier, and he was rude and incompetent, which is just bad.

Of course, he doesn't collect money himself, but it's difficult to manage it when people under him collect money.

In particular, a few eunuchs and Jinyi guards accompanied him, but considering Li Banghua's status as a poor officer, the DPRK and China sent someone to escort him, and he didn't take this abandoned member very seriously.

Now the old official system in Xuanfu Town actually says that there is no money and no money, and it is still rich when it is said that there is money.

In the continuous loss of the population of Xuanfu Town, the more people remain, they also apply to be changed to military households, Ma Guoxi and others have to pay taxes, it all depends on Wang Dou's face, to see if he will transfer a little money, otherwise, how can they have taxes and grain to hand over to the treasury?

The distribution of food and salaries by the imperial court to these officials was also intermittent, and if they relied on the income of the imperial court, they would have drunk the northwest wind long ago.

Fortunately, snakes have snake paths, rats have rat roads, and many officials are still "willing to die unyielding", so if Wu Zhi is tough, he will fight against Wang Dou to the end, but his family and clansmen have already transferred to the Wang Dou system, at least in their hands, they are also naturalized.

Then they set up shops and shops, but they also kept money and food in every day, and of course, their shops had to pay taxes, and at first everyone was unwilling, and after a long time, they became accustomed to it.

After all, even Wang Dou himself has to pay taxes, which is enough to gag many people's mouths. And his tax collection department is too good, it is still the Department of Civil Affairs, and now it is the ministry, the only department that can have an armed force, and it is called the tax police, which is really like a wolf and a tiger.

Wang Dou rarely uses violence in the town now, but soft violence is also terrible, just one of them is blocked, or the East Road Commercial Bank, or the Sanjin Commercial Bank pointed at a small finger. It's enough to bankrupt the small shop you opened. Go out of business.

And if they don't pay taxes, they don't have credit, and they can't participate in all kinds of money-making undertakings in Xuanfu Town, and they are excluded from the high-end class. So what outsiders don't understand. The idea of paying taxes is glorious. It is becoming more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is no exception in the old official system.

So they are living a strange life now, on the one hand, with Wang Dou becoming more and more prosperous. The less gray income of the officials, the cleaner the official treasury becomes, and the more dilapidated the official office is that it makes people cry.

On the one hand, the children of the family are widely involved in business, profiting from the development of Xuanfu Town, and their personal family life is becoming richer and richer.

Now these old officials and officials, especially the officials on the East Road, no longer care whether they go to the government or not, and whether they do things or not, because there are too few affairs and there is nothing to do.

The people are the upper officials, and they usually live a newspaper and a cup of tea, and they live a day of idleness, and even more and more officials resign and go to work in Tunbao under the rule of Wang Dou, which makes the officials more and more idle.

Many people have become an important source of customers for various teahouses and restaurants.

Yijin, paying for private individuals, Ma Guoxi and others are all arrogant, but the entertainment expenses were scraped together, and in the end twenty silver yuan was squeezed out, mainly because there was really no money on the official books.

When they saw Li Banghua, Ma Guoxi and the others all had a feeling of tears, how long has this familiar feeling not been? Even the eunuch with a few brocade guards secretly extorted money and food from Ma Guoxi and others afterwards, which also made everyone feel a sense of familiarity and intimacy.

Just recalling the past years, before I knew it, the world had changed.

Now everyone follows the tide according to inertia, but where will the torrent of the tide eventually lead itself?

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Like Ma Guoxi and others, Li Banghua almost choked up when he saw this familiar officialdom, the sky does not abandon the Ming Dynasty, and there are still loyal ministers and righteous people in Xuanfu Town, which is full of tigers and wolves, which is a blessing for the imperial court.

He and Ma Guoxi had a very happy conversation, although one of the two was a Donglin Party and the other was a Eunuch Party, but in the general context, there was no slightest estrangement.

And although the factions are different, Ma Guoxi admires Li Banghua's ethics very much, and he also knows about the affairs of the court, although he thinks that Li Banghua's way of doing things is to be discussed, but he is the heart of the country, and he can't do it himself.

In that case, he will only protect himself wisely, not like Li Banghua who does not hesitate to do so.

Similarly, Tsushima Guoxi has always adhered to the righteousness in Xuanfu Town, and his heart is towards the imperial court, and Li Banghua admires it very much.

After the banquet, the two had a small gathering in the living room and talked about the things that had happened all the way to the Qincha honor guard.

Ma Guoxi muttered: "It's not that the Marquis of Yongning deliberately made things difficult, the decree of Xuanfu Town is like this, it is his father-in-law...... When the governor of Xuan Daji entered the town, he also needed to check the documents, and the governor of Ji was dissatisfied at that time, but the Marquis of Yongning still did not change...... This is the case in Xuanfu Town, where the law is very strict. ”

Ma Guoxi has his own principles of life, and he also thinks that Wang Dou has done a good job in this regard, and he doesn't want to talk against his will, but he just ......

According to what he understands about Wang Dou, in fact, this person is very sleek, insisting on big joints, and tolerant in small details. Li Banghua seems to be not only doing things according to the rules, but also seems to be faintly hostile, and this matter may not be known to Wang Dou himself.

He sighed in his heart: "Lord Li has provoked the anger of the people." ”

What Li Banghua said in the cabinet, is it a secret? At least he Ma Guoxi knows it clearly.

And what kind of place is Xuanfu Town? In the hearts of many soldiers and civilians, they all regard Wang Dou as a Buddha born in ten thousand families and reborn parents. Li Banghua proposed to transfer Wang Dou away, and it was strange that the townspeople had a good impression of him, and the cold reception he received along the way, and even the rumors, could be understood.

It is not even surprising that there have been any violent incidents.

Fortunately, the laws in Xuanfu Town are strict, and this kind of thing will not happen, but it is normal for the soldiers and civilians to make things difficult.

At the same time, I was in a trance, and the general of the East Road back then had already stood at a height that he needed to look up to in a blink of an eye.

Li Banghua got up slowly, the meaning of Ma Guoxi's words was not finished, but he was able to reach a high position in the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, a very smart person, how could he not hear it?

He said indifferently: "This official knows that the matter of Xuanfu Town, and even the matter of protecting the mansion in the future, is more about what Yongning Hou thinks, but what the people under him think and what they will do!" ”

He said coldly: "From a selfish point of view, this official admires Yongning Hou, and I have no personal enmity or great hatred with him!" ”

He remembered that he had rectified the Beijing camp back then, he was painstakingly lonely, and he was only dedicated to the disadvantages of the country's court, but the losers complained one after another, and Zhang Daoze, the governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who was his heart, even took advantage of the slander, and finally said that the official handed over the rules and regulations, and he was dismissed and idle.

This is not the first time, I have been removed before and after, and I have been living at home for 20 years, how many 20 years have I been in this life?

And after he went, the future generations of the Beijing camp also took it as a warning, and they were appeased, and Rong Zheng did not dare to ask.

Whenever he thought of these things, he felt pain in his heart and lungs, and he was constantly worried about national affairs.

And all kinds of things that Wang Dou did, the difficulty will not be less than the rectification of the Beijing camp, especially the post station, Chongzhen was rectified at the beginning, and finally rectified out the thief Li Zicheng, and now it is handed over to Wang Dou, but it is so prosperous and developed, and the post officials also consciously safeguard the interests of each station, especially Wang Dou leads by example, which is really rare.

He said slowly: "The Marquis of Yongning is like this in Xuanfu Town, which is very remarkable, and the official is far inferior. ”

"It's just that, because of this, it's terrifying and terrifying......" (To be continued.) )