Chapter 179: Runzhi Goes to the Countryside
The huge countryside, green mountains and green waters, birds singing and flowers, large areas of green everywhere, and all kinds of terraced fields of different sizes cross and horizontally, but it is also very cute.
"These are the lifeblood of the old farmers in the countryside."
Runzhi said to the Haozi beside him.
"Indeed, so many terraced fields are too important for these old farmers, but adults don't know that most of these people's fields are actually owned by those local landlords, these people are vampires, parasites, they never work, but they rely on the rent of such fields to live a luxurious life, which is in stark contrast to the fact that most of the farmers in the countryside are poor tenant farmers."
Runzhi listened, so he said:
"The people take food as the sky, and if these farmers are well fed and drunk at any time, it will be difficult for our entire Kyushu not to prosper."
Cheng Hanyun says:
"It makes sense, if even these tenant farmers are really living a good life, then there is no need to talk about other people, so it seems that we must make these farmers live a good life."
Runzhi listened, and nodded lightly in approval.
Haozi has always been very low-key, and he and Cheng Hanyun have followed Runzhi together, and they are very hardworking and hardworking, and they have won the trust of Runzhi.
Runzhi personally went down to the scene of the crime, this very beautiful countryside, to carefully study the ins and outs of this matter, and the purpose was naturally to strive to make such a vulgar and terrible thing never happen again.
"The prefect has come to our village!"
Many well-informed villagers have begun to pass the news on to each other among their friends and family.
Most of the villagers, naturally, took advantage of the time when they were fine, and they all came out to see the rare prefect who saw the dragon without seeing the end of the dragon.
This originally lonely and deserted village, because of the arrival of Runzhi, suddenly became very lively.
In this trip to the countryside, Runzhi also found a lot of problems, it turned out that the workshop gave a lot of money, and a large number of young people in the countryside actually went to the workshop to do things, and they all sneered at the traditional way of farming handed down by their ancestors, and most of the people in the village were old people, women and children.
Runzhi found that in these rural places, there are rugged and potholed mountain roads everywhere.
In the countryside, many poor peasants lived in the kind of crumbling wooden houses that would leak rain everywhere, and ate some coarse tea and light rice, often a bowl of boiling water, a bowl of rice with a lot of chaff, and these wild vegetables, dressed in shabby coarse linen clothes, came over like this day after day.
Runzhi is determined to change the hard life of this village, so poor and backward.
"We must work harder, be more diligent, let's work together to create a better day of Xinfu"
Runzhi said this to almost every villager.
According to the number of children, the elderly, and women in this village, Runzhi specially approved a certain amount of public funds to set up a special private school here, so that the children of poor families in this village can learn to read and write here for free. 51
At the same time, Runzhi also received millions of taels of silver funds in the name of building a palace for Yongzheng here.
Runzhi not only completed the construction of the palace flexibly, but also used a variety of technologies to solve many problems, so that the cost was almost minimized.
Runzhi deliberately used the remaining silver to help countless farmers in dilapidated houses improve their living conditions throughout Zhejiang, and at the same time introduced better grinding technology to farmers.
"My lord, I understand that this case was actually killed by the other party on the surface, but in fact it should be the intentional murder of the other party, and the real reason for the murder is caused by the accumulation of long-term grievances and disputes between the two families."
This rich man read the records of Runzhi's conversations with many farmers, and suddenly discovered a key to the case, that is, according to some anonymous witnesses, in fact, when the deceased was hit in the head at the beginning, before fainting, he actually said one or two vague words, and he was not dead at that time, and the other party's family directly threw the undead person into the canal, so that the deceased suffocated to death, in fact, all this was intentional by the other party's family.
"Murder, these people are really ruthless, it's terrible to have no culture!" Haozi suddenly shouted.
Runzhi listened, raised his head and said gently:
"You are wrong, not all uneducated peasants are like this, the vast majority of peasants are relatively honest, as long as they have something to eat. Speaking of culture, in fact, no peasant friend wants his children to have unlimited culture, but the reality does not seem to allow all peasant friends to have enough money to support their children's education and get this respectable cultural capital."
Cheng Hanyun listened, so he asked about this case:
"I wonder what adults want to do with this seemingly tricky case?"
Runzhi listened, smiled slightly, revealing a shallow pear vortex, which looked very comfortable.
I only heard Runzhi say:
"This is easy, the other party's family is wealthier, since it is a murder, then according to the disposal of the murder, be imprisoned for fifteen years, let him compensate the murdered family with 3,000 taels of silver, and wear filial piety for him, all the funeral expenses are borne by the family of the killing party, what do you think?"
Haozi and Cheng Hanyun said almost in unison:
"Your Excellency is wise!"
After hundreds of investigations and visits, Runzhi returned to the state capital Yamen with a large amount of direct or indirect evidence, and conducted an official and public trial of the two families around the case.
In this way, according to the trial results carefully considered before, Runzhi had already publicly announced it in front of everyone.
The people gathered around to see the excitement all started to talk, and they could only hear them say:
"Sure enough, he is a good official who is famous all over the world, for the sake of a case, so hard work, through a lot of ironclad evidence to convince both parties, it is really commendable"
"Most of these countrymen are actually very honest, and these few rat droppings do such things, it's like a grain of rat droppings hurting a pot of porridge."
"In fact, there is such a problem, mainly economic problems, you are afraid that you don't know that the deceased has begun to borrow money everywhere before he died."
"Those who advocate violence are often easy to be taken advantage of, and in the end, they are often swallowed by violence, so you still have to communicate with others a lot."