Chapter 446: Seize the fertile land

It seems that Chen Mu has made up his mind to support the development and establishment of the petitioning government.

This also means that it will be extremely difficult for them to try to do their tricks and buy off the officials in the government when they want to petition the government.

Chen Mu will inevitably send people to keep an eye on the officials in the petitioning mansion, and once they detect that something is wrong, then these big families who intend to make a move will also be caught by Chen Mu.

The officials immediately put their minds away, and three days later, the matter of the young man's report in Beijing had been dealt with, and Chen Mu asked people to publicize the matter.

The reliability of the petitioning government has been improved a few points, and there are also people in Beijing who are ready to move and want to join the petitioning government to report to the government.

This matter not only spread in the capital, but also spread to all parts of the territory of Great Xia.

The petitioning governments in various places were taken seriously, and Chen Mu was quite satisfied when he heard that the people's grievances had been quelled.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, not only has the case of the young man reporting to the petitioning government office been resolved, but the petitioning government offices in various places have also successively dealt with several cases related to the local family."

"Now it can be regarded as a limelight among the people, and the people believe in the petitioning government."

Seeing that some of his subordinates reported like this, Chen Mu nodded with satisfaction.

"In addition, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, when I asked people to coordinate and sort out the affairs of the government offices in various places, I also found one thing, which is related to the decree that opened up the trade route."

Hearing the other party say this, Chen Mu was stunned, he raised his eyebrows, and motioned for his subordinates to continue.

When the subordinate saw this, he told him the news he had learned.

It turned out that in the past few days, Chen Mu issued another decree after confirming that the opening of trade routes had been steadily promoted.

It is related to the villages around those trade routes.

Some trade routes, after being planned and opened, will use the people's fertile land.

In order to compensate the people, Chen Mu asked the prefectures and counties to allocate money to the people, or to find new fertile land for those people to settle in.

In order to prevent those officials from embezzling silver taels in private and seizing fertile land, Chen Mu also deliberately sent people to keep an eye on it.

As a result, he did not expect that there would still be people at this time who would do something against the good land and silver that the people should have obtained.

In addition, there are also people who take advantage of this excuse to seize the good land of the people, claiming that the adults of the capital want to expropriate the good land of the people to build trade routes.

"I learned from the petitioners in various places, and there are not a few such cases, claiming that most of the people in the capital who are determined to expropriate the fertile land are local landlords and merchants."

"They thought that it was not easy for those people to go to Beijing, and it was impossible to report this matter to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Therefore, those people united with the Zhou county magistrates in various places and seized the fertile land of those people, and those people only realized that something was wrong after the fields had been occupied for many days.

However, at this point, it was too late for them to regret it.

When Chen Mu heard what the other party said, his face immediately sank.

It's like a bully.

Chen Mu narrowed his eyes slightly, and immediately asked officials to send officials to those counties that built trade routes to deal with this matter.

Since the people have reported this matter to the petitioning office, it means that there must be many such things.

There are only a few people who can really have the courage to report to the official.

When his subordinates saw Chen Mu's order, they immediately responded, and as soon as they sent their subordinates, Chen Mu heard the sound of an announcement outside the hall.

It was Cao Lao who visited the palace.

When Chen Mu heard this, he immediately responded and asked Cao Lao to be summoned into the main hall.

Chen Mu's heart hung in the air, worried that Cao Lao came to meet him because he wanted to report to him about the abnormal weather conditions he had discovered.

But fortunately, the way that Cao Lao came to meet the report this time was not a matter of the weather, but another matter.

"What do you say? The young man who deceived the daughter of a wealthy merchant came to the capital, and he was ready to take refuge in the research government? What's going on here? ”

Chen Mu frowned in surprise.

The incident that Cao Lao entered the palace to report to him was related to what Senior Brother Cao had experienced some time ago.

At that time, Chen Mu happened to be in the city where Brother Cao was.

And the young man he spoke of was the negative man who deceived the daughter of a rich merchant.

When Cao Lao heard Chen Mu say this, he opened his mouth to explain.

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, I don't know the specifics, but it is a coincidence that my senior brother discovered this matter by accident."

"On that day he left our temporary mansion and wandered through the streets, when he stumbled upon a familiar figure, and upon closer inspection, he confirmed that it was the young man."

What surprised Brother Cao even more was that the young man was chatting and laughing with the two officials of the research government at that time.

"The young man and the two officials seem to have a good relationship, and my senior brother immediately told me about it when he noticed that something was wrong, and I sent someone to inquire again, and learned that the young man had brought a drawing depicting a special device."

Chen Mu had issued a decree some time ago, if someone could come up with an unbelievable instrument drawing, Li Mao and Lu Wen, who were officials in the research office.

After determining the value of the instrument depicted on the drawing, he could report the matter to him, and he would grant him the opportunity to enter the research office as an official.

This is equivalent to an exceptional hiring.

However, the premise is that the special equipment depicted on the drawings is of practical value.

Now as soon as he heard Cao Lao say this, Chen Mu immediately understood what Cao Lao meant.

It seems that the young man has obtained valuable drawings, but I don't know that the young man has long been familiar with the officials in the research office.

It was still with the drawings that I was familiar with the officials in the research office.

Chen Mu thought about it for a while, and directly asked people to call Li Mao and Lu Wen into the palace.

The two of them didn't know what was going on, after entering the main hall and listening to Chen Mu Daoming's story, Li Mao and Lu Wen were stunned for a moment, and then suddenly came back to their senses, the two of them had an impression of the young man.

"The young man you mentioned handed us a drawing a few days ago, and I saw that the drawing was indeed valuable, so I asked people to negotiate with the young man."

The young man said that he had developed the drawings himself.

Li Mao and the others also asked the young man about the ideas related to the equipment on the drawing, and the young man's answer also made Li Mao's people quite satisfied.

Li Mao and the others originally planned to investigate for a few days, so they reported this matter to Chen Mu.

As a result, he didn't expect that Chen Mu was the first to know about it.

Li Mao turned his head and glanced in the direction of Cao Lao, and when Cao Lao saw this, he immediately took a step forward, arched his hand and said.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, I asked my senior brother, that young man has no ability to study equipment at all, this matter is strange, I hope His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will consider it carefully."

"That young man is a person with a bad heart, and he definitely can't let him enter the court as an official, otherwise he is afraid that he will lead to the atmosphere in the government!"