Chapter 402: The Core of the Problem
"After I'm gone, a lot of things will depend on you. Now this Binh Duong area is said to have become a holy place, not only merchants, but also many ordinary people from outside have also moved here, thinking that the whole Binh Duong is thriving, and there is no need for any competent officials. It's just that I'm worried that there are fewer people who consume and even get rich, and the market will fall into a slump... Zhang Fan seemed to say this casually to Chen Fuhai, a young master of the money village who he had summoned.
In fact, at the beginning, Zhang Fan wanted to find a gentleman who didn't know anything in the real sense to be the Pingyang Taishou, but after careful consideration, he felt that this might not be safe and appropriate. If that is the case, then the person is likely to be elevated into a mascot, and must be a person who has a certain influence in this secular society, and whose IQ is not too bad, and can participate in the social system and the ruling system, only in this way may be more effective to test whether there are still any problems in the internal game of this society.
Although Chen Fuhai is only in his twenties, and his reputation is not very good, but because he has been very talented in many aspects since he was a child, he has been patiently cultivated by his family since he was a child, so he is not an incompetent person.
"Rest assured, the meaning of the Lord has been understood... ”
"Do you really get it? Tell me, what do I mean?"
"This... Oh, the Lord means ... It is to make Binh Duong as prosperous as possible, and not to look too far about the east and west. The Lord let him be in charge of such an important place in Binh Duong, which has already explained the intention of the Lord... "Of course, Chen Fuhai is not stupid, according to some of his previous experience, sometimes people can't say things too clearly, too much to save face, just understand.
Of course, Zhang Fan is also a person whose spiritual power perception has reached a considerable level, and after making a rough judgment, he still believes that this Chen Fuhai can understand his meaning to a large extent.
Not long after Zhang Fan left, the young Chen Fuhai walked out of the gate of the Chen family's money village like the stars holding the moon, at this moment, because of the order of the lord, even Chen Fuhai's parents and even the eldest brother can only regard themselves as juniors in front of Chen Fuhai's younger brother.
Chen Fuhai had a long aftertaste, but at this time he also said solemnly: "Don't worry, I, Chen Fuhai, am not a person who doesn't know the importance of rat belly and chicken intestines." My father and even my eldest brother used to be strict with me, but in retrospect, most of them were for my good. If it weren't for that, I don't think my reputation outside would have attracted the attention of the Lord. It will make the Chen family soar from now on... ”
On the first day Chen Fuhai moved into the county town of Binh Duong Prefecture, there was no big administrative action. It's just that in the front yard of the county town, I found two outstanding subordinates who were brightly dressed and could be said to be upper, middle, and upper, and did not look too much like people who did miscellaneous things, and were in charge of guarding the door. Moreover, the back door of the county town opens quietly in the evening, and it is tilted inward to a certain extent, so that it is easy to see that the door is not closed. There was no shortage of smart people in Binh Duong, and it didn't take long for someone to understand what this meant.
From the second night to the fifth night, many people in simple clothes came to the county town in an endless stream, including many guild presidents in the Pingyang area, and even some figures from the three sects and nine streams. Of course, there are a lot of boxes that don't seem to be very conspicuous. Except for a few people, these chests did not contain too conspicuous gold or silver, but were just some personal seals and even documents.
"Lord Chen, congratulations to Lord Chen. This is a contemptible person, and a little bit of the whole silk cloth line. The seal was delivered, and as much as Lord Chen needed, as long as we took it out, we could write as much as we wanted. Oh, outside the city, I have prepared a few secret cellars, if Lord Chen still finds it inconvenient, you can send someone to pick it up yourself if you are prepared... ”
"Lord Chen, please forgive me, our business is not as serious as the Li family after all, and the money we make really dare not say that we can rank in the top ten in this Pingyang City, but there are still some out-of-stocks, maybe there are no other industries... At this moment, two girls came up, and a girl who was no more than six or seven years old walked up. Although he is only a child who may not be of the age of enlightenment, his every move in his eyebrows gives people a different feeling. Although he looked older, about ten years old, he had a very peculiar figure, and in many ways he looked like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl. Obviously, none of them are simply beautiful and can be described.
Of course, Chen Fuhai knew all this: if these people really sincerely benefited themselves, it would be good to send some messengers to send letters at most. Coming to the door in such a pretended way is clearly expressing an attitude: it's okay to go up and down, if something happens, there are always eyes to watch, and no one wants to get out of the way.
It's just that at this time, Chen Fuhai has already made decisions in his heart about many things: "Thank you for your love, since this is the case, then I don't want to sweep away your happiness." In the future, we can take care of each other... ”
In this way, Chen Fuhai has won the trust of many people in a very short period of time, and has also obtained unprecedented benefits. It didn't take long for a few brick kilns to appear in a place not too far from Binh Duong, but not very close, and there were many restaurants and inns that were not very conspicuous. Since then, it is good to say that there has been some commotion in the lower ninth-rate places that ordinary people can't pay attention to, and more often there are new bandits in the countryside, and many people have been kidnapped inexplicably. Even if some self-defense forces have been established in some places, those who seem to be able to shoot ordinary bows and arrows at their bodies, as if they have armor, are completely unable to resist.
Pingyang also experienced turbulent times back then, and saw a lot of the world, and some people obviously guessed what was going on, and the vast majority of people chose not to be surprised. However, such a disappearance is not one in a thousand, but one in a hundred, or even one in dozens of miles, even in the countryside, which makes many people who have resettled down panic. The joy of learning about the abolition of public taxes and grains was swept away. The only thing that can make some people feel reluctantly consoled is that this disappearance did not last long, and finally gradually subsided, and after a month, the rumors were not as tense as they were at the beginning. It's just that Pingyang has changed somewhat since then, and the number of beggars on the streets has undoubtedly decreased to a great extent, and there are not even many beggars who dare to process. The second-rate people in the countryside who seemed lazy and idle became the hardest hit by the disappearance, and soon frightened many people into not daring to show their heads outside except for necessary labor. Of course, the children who used to play outside disappeared at this time.
In a valley not too far away, a large number of newcomers began to suffer from hellish ordeals. Many people were tied to special wooden poles and executed one by one!
"If you are disobedient, you will talk to each other? Do you not know your own situation when you come here? I can make you break your body into ten thousand pieces with one word. You've seen all those scenes during the day, right? Whoever wants to be like them, you can try it!"
At this moment, many men who were still a little bloody when they were outside were also stunned at this time, and those who had the courage to resist were either directly cleaned up or had been seriously injured in a special place. From the unique Thousand Tails Whip that doesn't make people easily and seriously injured and can't be beaten anymore, to the moment of torture that can deter many people, and even the way of execution. Soon, these men, who were mostly undisciplined outside, could only work obediently more at this moment, even if the living environment was bad, and they didn't know how much they could stay in such a place.
"Why do these people eat so much one by one?" said the foreman who was in charge of the slave labor when he was called by another person in charge.
The foreman, who was quite experienced and had been engaged in this business for more than 20 years, replied with a smile: "This... Hehe, this old man doesn't know anything. The food supply of the slave workers was actually exquisite. To make them work most efficiently, there have been some secrets that have not been passed down for many generations, and that is called thick new punishment of the old. It means that those who are new to this place, who have not done much work before, should be slightly more supplied. In this way, their working ability will be effectively improved during the exercise, and there will be no need for this in the next year. But it can't be too little, if their ability to work is too poor, then there will still be a phenomenon of eating more and doing less... ”
"I see, I hope these expenses will not be in vain... ”
"I just don't know.,Does the lord let these people do long or short.,How will the manpower be replenished in the future? What is the approximate situation? It's better to do things more accurately... ”
Of course, the increasing number of slave labor workshops throughout Binh Duong has also brought some immediate results. In the past, the prices of bricks, tiles, building materials, wood and stone, which had risen significantly due to the construction of county towns and county capitals in various places, began to drop significantly, and the same is true for brothels or some hidden such places, which can't help but make many people praise the merits of the new Taishou.
In a fairly hidden underground palace outside Pingyang County, although some people have talked about a lot of good things about the recent new weather, there are also many people who complain.
"A lot of expensive places, such as building materials and even prostitutes, have a lot less money. Even the most extensive expenses such as printing and dyeing satin quilts and clothes still seem to be a little too expensive, and I don't know when it will be like some other industries to have earth-shaking changes... ”
Hearing this, many chamber of commerce presidents were also at a loss: "This... Don't ask me about this, don't look at me as the owner of many people. It is not slave labor that is employed. If I treat those people a little harshly, and they don't point to us... At the end of the day, it's the countrymen who are doing too well. We've had to spend a lot more on this than before. If the public grain and public taxes had not been abolished, maybe there would not have been such a high price hike... ”
Hearing this, many people were a little silent, and it was clear that such an example was not an isolated case, since the world was peaceful, the safety of the countryside was not so serious, and after the burden was greatly reduced recently, many people had been a little restless in the long days.
Chen Fuhai knew everyone's thoughts, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Then we have to think of more ways." In the future, we don't have to buy and sell grain in the Binh Duong area, and we can buy and sell grain in more distant places, as long as it is not too far. Or, it doesn't have to be food, but other materials that require manpower? In this way, we are afraid that the surrounding peasant households will not be able to increase their prices? If we join hands with the top in various places, we are not afraid that we will not be able to bring down the price of grain, so that more people will come to the city to beg for a living... ”
When Chen Fuhai said this, he made a lot of arrangements: told some people in the industry: "If you want to make a big vote, you must first restrain those people under you, and first release water to raise fish? ”
In this way, when many places in Pingyang Prefecture deliberately stopped purchasing grain for some places near Pingyang, many local people soon faced great difficulties and had to go to the city to respond.
Under Chen Fuhai's arrangement, people who had just entered the city to make a living and even begged felt more or less that many things were not as difficult as they imagined, and it seemed that it was still easy to make a living in Pingyang. Especially if it's a good income even if it's begging. Soon, more and more people chose to send people into the city. The streets of Binh Duong, which seemed to be a little depressed for some time, seem to be bustling again.
Of course, everything in these days, Zhang Fan, who has not really left Pingyang, has begun to understand a little. Through the exposure of some things, Zhang Fan also began to see some key problems: no matter what kind of external ills, in the final analysis, it will fall into one thing, that is, the burden of ordinary farmers or workers, and the key behind this is actually in the hands of who is in the hands of the judicial system and even the judicial system such as the governance of the armed forces and even the prison. If we can make certain adjustments from these aspects, maybe it will help the game in the real sense? On the contrary, the popular election, which I had hoped for a lot in the past, did not play a big role in the game. In particular, there is no right to stand for election.
Soon, some of Zhang Fan's ideas were also roughly perfected: the militia joint defense on short-term duty duty acted as a security force, and not too many people had the right to choose. To a large extent, the general express should also be under the leadership of the compulsory service militia system. In addition, should prisons also be the responsibility of militias based on compulsory service?
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