Yanrong gave birth to a big fat girl to Li Hu, who is said to be seven pounds and eight taels. This is the first child of the Li family's generation, but unfortunately it is not a man. However, Li Xiao, who got the information, was still very happy.

"Huzi, approve you to go back to accompany Yanrong during the two-month vacation. Our family doesn't like that, it's the same whether it's a boy or a girl. "Li Xiao must remind me that the patriarchal mentality is serious in these years. Because I gave birth to a girl, there are many people who can't stay at my mother-in-law's house.

"Forget it! Don't go back, now the troops are recruiting. There is a shortage of people everywhere, and I am now the battalion commander. At this time, leave the troops back to see your daughter-in-law? Then my backbone will be punctured! Li Hu's head shook like a rattle.

"Go back and take your soldiers well, and then go back to see it when the Chinese New Year comes." patted Li Hu on the shoulder, in the end he has grown up. At the age of sixteen, I know that I am responsible, which is not easy.

The ripening of potatoes has made Li Xiao's popularity reach the extreme. The people of Jinan Mansion have great admiration for this governor who is vigorously promoted. When he went out with the Liao army, his chest was held high.

Those guys who were ready to see Li Xiao's jokes were sad. The grain that yields 1,000 catties per mu has never been seen since ancient times. How can this be true, but the potatoes piled up like a hill in the ground are real.

Let the family buy some back, whether it is steamed or boiled, there seems to be no adverse reaction after eating. By all indications, this is a high-yielding grain that has never been seen before.

Those who can mix with the landlord are generally not idiots. Fools also know that the more grain that comes out of the field, the better. So the landlords began to buy potatoes on a large scale as grain for the next year. And this trend is spreading far away.

Everyone knows that Jinan has a high yield of grain, and even after hearing the news from distant Zibo, someone specially sent a family to purchase some potatoes. As a result, although the potatoes have a bumper harvest this year, the price has been speculated to be extremely high. The farmers who cultivated the official fields were coaxing, and their nostrils were facing the sky, and they looked like no one was in sight. bitten to death, a pound of potatoes twenty big children. Whoever dares to reduce the price, the big guy will go to pick up his house. Let this family sleep in the wilderness!

Wu Changshi came to ask, saying that it was what should be paid according to the taxes this year. He said that the farmers had a bumper harvest of potatoes, and whether the tax on official land should be increased this year. I gave it back, and the people had a hard time. This year is just a little better, and the rent will be raised. Look at the people who are still bare-assed, how do they have the heart to increase rent. When he finished eating, Sun Chengzong was still snorting angrily.

"He is a feudal lord, and it is his merit to make the treasury full. The bare-ass people are none of his business, and all he thinks about is getting promoted. If you look at the officials around us, not all of them are virtuous.

On the surface, the mouth is full of people, but which stomach is not a male thief or a female prostitute. For more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, there were only a few officials like Hai Rui and Yu Qian. Corrupt officials are like carp crossing the river, in the final analysis, this is human nature. Li Xiao didn't care about the dishes. Things like embezzlement and engaging in performance projects are not only Ming officialdom. Throughout the history of China, no matter which emperor is in power, there is no shortage of such things.

To put it bluntly, corruption is a human thing. Officials with high morals like saints are a rare breed in all dynasties. In the founding era, there were wars and turmoil, and the situation of lack of materials was better. But once after several generations of cultivation and recuperation, this kind of thing becomes more and more intense after the material abundance is great. Even the imperial power has no way to do this kind of thing, because it depends on officials to govern the world. The huge bureaucracy is like a gluttonous beast, constantly devouring the people's fat and ointment. Eventually, pushing the country to the brink of collapse.

This is the reason why every two or three hundred years there is a system collapse in China.

To put it mildly, the emperor actually stood with the people in this struggle. The huge bureaucracy stood in opposition to them, and as far as the emperor was concerned, the whole world was royal. The emperor is the boss, and he naturally wonders if these bastards are greedy for Lao Tzu's money.

So the emperor will fight corruption, and then the officials will revolt. Then there will be chaos in the country, until the rebellious officials change bosses. The world is peaceful, those who should be greedy continue to be greedy, and those who should enjoy privileges continue to enjoy privileges. Hello everyone, hello and hello, after a few hundred years, and then the cycle will continue to repeat.

"You kid is a little negative, what's wrong?" Sun Chengzong looked at Li Xiao with some doubts, talking like this is not like Li Xiao's usual attitude, and things are abnormal compared to demons.

"Mao Wenlong sent news that something happened in Liaodong. Some of the county officials we appointed have played the same game again. I asked Mao Wenlong to kill a few, there is the front line, and there is no chaos. ”

"Liaodong is just better, and it really can't be done like the mainland. It's okay to kill a few shocks! ”

"Old Sun, I have a stupid idea, I don't know if it will work. Do you give a detailed reference? Li Xiao suddenly put down his rice bowl and looked at Sun Chengzong very formally.

"It's a big deal for you kid to speak so formally. Let's say, the old man can still bear it. Sun Chengzong also put down his chopsticks.

"So, I thought that we used to let each village choose its own village head. Now I think about how many representatives each village should elect according to the proportion of its population. Then the representatives of the whole county came out together and elected a county ordinance in the whole county. Do you think this is possible? ”

Sun Chengzong thought for a while before he spoke: "It sounds good, this candidate is all selected by the big guys, it seems to be a good way." But have you ever thought about whether the people elected by the villagers have a public heart? In case there is a rich man here, he secretly stuffs money or other benefits into these delegates. Wouldn't it be that whoever has a lot of money will be the county magistrate? Take the official as a business, so do you say that he can get his book back after he takes office?

After such a person becomes an official, will he still think about working for the welfare of the people? It's pretty much the same for your own benefit! Besides, our villagers are stupid and the people are not wise, and now there are actually people who privately give money to their fellow villagers, and then everyone elects him as the village head.

The people are short-sighted, they don't understand that you are giving them rights. They will only think that the vote in their hand is worth how much food. Is it a good deal for a sheep or a piglet? As for whether the village chief will be corrupt and accept bribes after he is elected, it is not within their scope of consideration at all.

The method you mentioned has to wait until the people's wisdom is enlightened. Only when the people know their rights can they exercise them. The day ......! Hey! The old man believes that it is difficult to do it without one or two hundred years of work. ”

Sun Chengzong's words made Li Xiao very discouraged! This is a man who has grown from a teacher to a teacher of the emperor. Huan Hai has been up and down for decades, and his vision and experience are so old. The set of dishes needs to be domesticated, at least the people must be civilized and know their rights.

There is not a single literate among the 100 people in the people today. When a notice is issued, it is necessary to send a special person to read it from village to village. It is very difficult to make them understand that their suffrage is not a pig's cub or a lamb's.

The ruling system that has been formed over thousands of years, although there are problems of one kind or another. But this system can still run normally, if you rush to change the operating system, it is likely to cause the hardware to mismatch and crash. The consequences of the failure of political reform are not to be imagined by Li Xiao.

The unrealistic set of things was completely thrown out of the clouds by Li Xiao. It's better to think about it, how to govern Shandong well.

Heze was hit by the disaster, and naturally many homeless and destitute people appeared.

Someone from the government posted a notice, and a man with a goatee who seemed to be very learned shook his head. Tell everyone that if you want to have something to eat, you can go to Liaodong. As long as you arrive in Liaodong, you will be given land, and as for the house, you need to build it yourself. When spring comes, the official family will distribute bricks and stones to cover yourself.

Anyway, there is no food to eat, and you can enjoy the meals of the official family all the way from here to Dengzhou. When you arrive in Dengzhou, there are free boats from the official family to take. The most attractive thing is that when you get to Liaodong, you can get fields. In addition, the tax is exempted in the first year, and the tax is halved in the second year.

This is a strong attraction for the poorest to own their own land. Even when they weren't plagued, they never dared to think about it. Now that there is such a good thing, many people are even grateful for this flood in their hearts.

Li Xiao only wanted to restore the population of Liaodong as soon as possible, which is now truly vast and sparsely populated. Compared with the Yellow River, which likes to play with the dragon swinging its tail, the Liaohe River is much more honest. Except that the north bank of the Liao River is often flooded, the south bank is generally good. Now that the north shore is under the control of the Houjin, the problem of flooding needs to be considered by Huang Taiji, not Li Xiao.

Shandong's population is too rich compared to Liaodong. The whole of Shandong is full of more than 20 million people, and Li Xiao feels that immigrating to Liaodong is not a big problem.

There were people who followed the ranks of the government to the north to Dengzhou, and then took a boat to Liaodong to set foot on that unknown land. There is a popular saying among the people, called Chuang Liaodong.

Li Zhongzi arrived in Heze, since he heard Li Xiao say that mosquitoes and flies are the source of all epidemics. He implemented strict epidemic prevention measures in the local area!

More than a dozen toilets were built in each settlement, and anyone caught defecating in the open was punished until the next one was caught.

If the victims wanted to get food, they had to wash their bodies clean. Every day, people patrol the porridge field, and whenever they see a dirty ghost, they will beat it up and drive it out. Many people feel that they have never been so clean even before the disaster. Everywhere there was news that drinking raw water would cause the disease. Out of fear of the plague, the old people began to discipline the younger generations from drinking raw water. If you want to drink it, you have to boil it and let it cool.

After strict prevention, there was finally no major epidemic in Heze. At the same time, Heze also lost nearly 100,000 people. They are all destitute people who have broken their families, and they have no way to survive but to try their luck in unknown places.

Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde have cleared out the bandits near Mount Tai and are taking advantage of the victory to advance into the Yimeng Mountains. It is the lair of many bandits, and it is also the key to the success of the bandits.

After more than half a year of suppressing bandits, Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde suddenly fell in love with this promising job. Both guys have solved the problem of the official position of the general, and many of their subordinates have been promoted. The most reassuring thing for them is that they have never been in arrears. When it comes to paying money on a monthly basis, Li Xiao has always been a man of his word. This day is much more comfortable than the seven or eight months of arrears under Sun Yuanhua.

Not only wages are paid on time, but bonuses are also paid on time.

After the review of the prison army, a head is five taels of silver. This is the official price of the Ming military, and this is the price of the Tartars or the Mongols who committed crimes. When you meet the leader on Li Xiao's list, it will be amazing. It ranges from ten taels to one hundred taels, and the higher the ranking, the more valuable the head is.

So much so that several bandits were desperate and wanted to surrender, but they were finally beheaded by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming. Surrender? What about Lao Tzu's winnings? Your heads are all related to the silver of the white flowers.

Li Xiao's methods once again confirmed a law, as long as a thing has something to do with the wallet, it will attract enough attention.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming became addicted to bandits, and plunged into the Yimeng Mountains. Don't talk about anything else, you have to get the New Year's money out first. Throughout the year, the wife and children at home always have to make one or two new clothes.

There was news from the family that many of the descendants of the family had gone to work in the factory. There are two taels of silver a month, and two taels of silver. If you save for half a year, you can say that you have a good family business.

For those who are young, the official family has also set up a school. The children of these officers and soldiers are free to enter the school.

Read! This is the dream of many people's ancestors, who can read and write with a pen, who will dare to work hard with a knife. After the news came back, many killers didn't believe it was true.

When they received the letters from the children, many men who did not howl with knives and axes cried like dolls in the month holding the letters. Lao Tzu's family is about to produce a scholar!

Usually at this time, the guys who know the two characters in the barracks will be particularly popular. A lot of people rush to stammer, just to be able to listen to what the children's letters are about.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming gradually discovered that this army seemed to have changed unconsciously. Now, if they encourage these killers to rebel again, it is estimated that it is more likely that they will be killed first.

Of course, the rebellion here refers specifically to Li Xiao. If the Ming Emperor rebels, it is estimated that these killers will still support the boss. Because in the barracks, Li Xiao and Emperor Daming are two different things.

The brothers thought about it carefully while drinking, and it seemed that this disagreement began at the time of the payment. When the soldiers walked up to the quartermaster and gave their names. The quartermaster would send the money directly to the soldiers, and then tell him that it was the silver that Li Dashuai had given him.

Over time, the phrase "I am Li Dashuai's soldier" gradually became popular.