Chapter 248: Fighting in the alley
They talked about the income from their land, and a few of the people talked about the recent decrees issued by the imperial court.
Chen Mu deliberately slowed down when he passed by those few people, and heard them say.
"Or I'm short-sighted, when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince allowed women to enter the court as officials, I thought about it, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was afraid that he would be confused by a certain demon girl, so he would come up with such a bad idea."
"Now that I see that those women are no worse than men, I realize that I am thinking things too simply."
"Also...... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has set up the so-called training government in our state and county, so that the people in our state and county have more ways out. ”
"There are a few people whose families have little grain and land and can't afford to feed their children, so they all send their children to learn crafts in the Nafu Yana."
"And they learn the craft very quickly, I heard that the arrangements of the imperial court have come down in the last two days, and I don't know how the imperial court will arrange them, do you say that they will be arranged to enter Beijing?"
"It's impossible to enter Beijing, I see that the adults of the Ministry of Industry have built several mansions in the west of our town."
"Most of them are used to accommodate those craftsmen who have just learned something, and I heard from my distant relatives who worked in the county government offices that those government offices seem to be specially used to allow those craftsmen to make a living and work."
"I don't know what the use of the government arrangement is, in our county, whether it is iron-making, tea-making, or cloth spinning craftsmen, there are enough."
"What's the use of arranging these people to spin so much cloth and make so much tea?"
"That's right, if there are more fabrics and tea, then the fabrics and tea leaves piled up in our hands are not valuable?"
"No wonder those rich merchants in our local area are not happy, but they are not happy, and they dare not disobey the orders of the imperial court."
"I don't know what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince plans to do after this decree of the imperial court is issued?"
"Hey, it's impossible to make our days miserable, some time ago, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince set up the Ministry of Agriculture, and told us the method of preventing and controlling insect plagues."
"There are also farmers around Meicheng who have started to raise chickens and ducks, raise some pigs, cows, etc., and many farmers are living better and better."
"I guess even if there is a problem with that decree, our life will not be too difficult."
The farmers have gained more income, their lives are more steady, and they are bolder.
Although he didn't know the bottom of the new decree issued by Chen Mu in his heart, he didn't have much resistance.
After all, the biggest voices of civil resistance are those merchants.
After all, they are the ones who have been touched on key interests.
After understanding the difference in attitudes between farmers and merchants, Chen Mu nodded secretly.
Fortunately, he first promulgated a decree to improve insect infestations and water conservancy facilities in various places, which can be regarded as stabilizing the hearts of private farmers.
After the promulgation of the decree involving merchants, he continued to study and ponder how to open up trade routes in various places.
In this way, those crops and cloth tea can be circulated, and those merchants do not have to worry about the backlog of goods in their hands and cannot sell, resulting in losses for them.
But opening up trade routes doesn't happen overnight.
During this period, he had to dig mountains and build bridges, Chen Mu thought about it, and decided to think of individual ways to appease merchants in various places.
Thinking like this, Chen Mu raised his hand and touched his chin.
As soon as he bypassed an alley, Chen Mu suddenly heard a shouting and scolding sound in front of him.
Chen Mu stopped and looked up at the front.
How can you get into trouble wherever you go?
Chen Mu frowned, and thought secretly in his heart.
In the future, when the problem of people's livelihood is solved, the behavior of people everywhere must also be restrained, and don't fight and brawl when there is nothing to do.
Chen Mu thought about it like this, and shook his head secretly, and when he approached the place where the scolding and fighting sounds came from, Chen Mu raised his head and glanced into the alley.
Seeing that the two young people were being violently attacked by several big men with bulging muscles, Chen Mu was stunned when he saw this, and saw that one of the two young people had been beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, vomiting blood, as if he was seriously injured.
Chen Mu immediately glanced at the guards standing behind him, and when everyone saw this, they rushed up and pulled the big men away.
The big men were pulled away by the guards, and they pointed at the young men and kept scolding.
Chen Mu frowned, turned his head to listen carefully, and heard the big men pointing at the two young people and scolding.
"You borrowed our family's money before, and said that you would pay it back in the spring of this year, but you didn't pay it back, resulting in our family's land being deserted."
"We don't even have the money to buy seeds, and now we finally wait until your family has some harvest, and you say you want to pay us back the silver, but this question has squandered the silver again?!"
"You two shit! Not to mention the money that your father left for you, and squandered all the money for farming? Are you worthy of your wife?! ”
The two young men finally staggered up from the ground after noticing that someone had pulled the big men apart.
The older one raised his hand to wipe his nose, took a sip, and then glanced at the guards who had pulled away the big men, and then frowned and rolled his eyes.
As for the younger one, he nodded and apologized to a few big men after getting up, looking extremely cowardly.
The young man looked up and looked around again after seeing the guards of several big men open.
Seeing Chen Mu, Meng Qing and the others standing outside the alley, he staggered to Chen Mu's side and knelt down with a thud.
This young man was the one who was beaten more badly, and Chen Mu saw that this person was shaky, and he looked like he was about to faint.
He frowned and winked at the guards behind him.
A guard stepped forward and pulled the young man up.
The young man clutched his chest and said in fits and starts.
"Thank you, thank you...... A few adults came to the rescue, if it was too late...... If it's a little later. ”
"I ...... My eldest brother is afraid that he will be beaten to death by that group of people, and as for the silver, I ...... I'll definitely give it back to them, thank you to the adults for saving our lives! ”
Chen Mu couldn't help frowning when he heard the young man say this.
He also heard the words of those big men, and knew that those big men were also forced to get angry, so they blocked these two young people in the alley and beat them violently.
After all, I borrowed other people's money, and I delayed it again and again, and I never paid it back.
And listening to the meaning of the two big men, the two young men still squandered the silver.
Instead of keeping the money in his own hands, he was going to use it for later use.
This is even more difficult to say.
Chen Mu shook his head a little helplessly, and only said to the young man.