Apocalypse was also amazed by this.

Qian Longxi felt a little sour in his heart.

Because he once said in front of the emperor that Xia Yunyi can only be regarded as the first cool official.

Therefore, he didn't want to see Xia Yunyi's Suizhou would be really good.

But now, the small villages in Suizhou that he passes by now look very "living and working in peace and contentment", how can this not make him melancholy?

Apocalypse himself had a rare smile: "I finally saw so much smoke." ”

"Yes! It was as if he had smelled the smell of rice. ”

Sun Chengzong also said with a smile, and said: "This way, I have only seen so many villages with cooking smoke here in Suizhou!" ”

Tianqi nodded: "It seems that the new deal is not impossible to implement." ”

Zhang Gui also followed: "What Your Majesty said is that the key is to look at the person. ”

And Qian Longxi has been silent.

At this time, Qian Longxi, who was the most careful observer of the surrounding environment, suddenly found that there were many homeless people in the woods in front of him, all of them were in tattered clothes, and many children were still bare.

"Why are there no displaced people?"

Qian Long Xiru found the treasure, hurriedly asked a rhetorical question, and excitedly pointed to the place where a large number of displaced people gathered: "Your Majesty! You see, there are a lot of homeless people in the woods over there, even more than Yongcheng looks! ”

"Wouldn't it? Could it be that Xia Yunyi is also colluding with the local gentry to exploit the people? ”

The second assistant, Zhu Guozuo, asked first, and then he also came over.

Apocalypse also squinted and said, "There are indeed many homeless people, but why are they hiding in the forest?" ”

Qian Longxi glanced at Zhang Gui and said, "Maybe someone wants to cover up Mizhang, because they learned the news that His Majesty was going to Suizhou in advance, so they didn't let the homeless people gather on the avenue, and sent some people to create a false impression of living and working in peace and contentment in the village, in order to deceive Your Majesty." ”

Sun Chengzong didn't say a word.

He didn't dare to jump to conclusions anymore.

After all, Wu Xing hit him too hard.

But Tianqi asked Sun Chengzong: "Does Mr. think Xia Yunyi will also be this person?" ”

Sun Chengzong thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to believe that Xia Yunyi is not such a person, and no longer has a prejudice against him who is from a noble background and is only recommended by his relatives, like most Qingliu!" ”

Apocalypse nodded after hearing this.

Zhang Gui said at this time: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks it is appropriate to call those homeless people to ask. ”

Then the apocalypse commanded some of the exiles to come.

It didn't take long for Jinyiwei to bring a few homeless people over.

Apocalypse personally asked a homeless man named Gao Zenghe: "Where are you from?" ”

Gao Zenghe replied: "The grass people belong to Yongcheng. ”

"It turned out to be Yongcheng's."

Apocalypse muttered to himself.

Then, Apocalypse asked the first-class people, "Where are you?" ”

"Yongcheng's."

"What about you?"

"Yongcheng's."

"You?"

"Yongcheng!"

"Is there a local area in Suizhou?!"

After asking around, Apocalypse asked out loud.

After a while, no one answered.

And because of this, Tianqi glanced at Qian Longxi.

Qian Longxi's own face gradually froze, and he sneered: "How can there be no local people in Suizhou? ”

Zhu Guozuo said: "It seems that these homeless people are all from Yongcheng, we misunderstood Xia Zhizhou." ”

Zhang Gui nodded: "So you can't live with the heart of a villain, as a gentleman, it's better to think about the good side of people first." ”

Qian Longxi's face was a little unbearable when he heard this.

And Sun Chengzong breathed a sigh of relief, thinking: "Fortunately, I didn't rashly have prejudices against Xia Yunyi this time, otherwise, I don't know where to put my face." ”

"Why are you staying in the woods?"

Apocalypse asked these homeless people again.

Gao Zenghe, a homeless person, replied first: "There are many wild vegetables and bark in the forest, and the roadside has not been picked and peeled!" ”

Only then did Tianqi and the others discover that the trees next to the official road had indeed lost their bark, and they were all bare along the road.

Suddenly, the emperor and his ministers, who were usually well-dressed and well-fed, realized why the homeless people were all burrowing into the woods.

"It seems that the locals don't eat wild vegetables."

Apocalypse said.

Sun Chengzong also said: "In other words, the people of Suizhou are very solid, and they do not eat wild vegetables and bark for a living, it seems that this Xia Yunyi is really well governed." ”

"The Point Guard Is Here"

"Go to Suizhou City immediately!"

Apocalypse immediately commanded.

Immediately, Tianqi and his party continued to rush to Suizhou City.

And along the way.

Tianqi and his party still saw a lot of homeless people, but they found that the closer they were to Suizhou City, the more Suizhou local officials were organizing these homeless people to go to a fixed place to receive porridge and bathe and accept the registration of the government.

"They're actually handing out cotton clothes to the homeless!"

Sun Chengzong was even more like he had discovered some wonder, and couldn't help but open his mouth first.

Zhang Gui said at this time: "Your Majesty, at present, the cotton clothes in Xishan are unsalable and worthless, and the Suizhou officials have ordered tens of thousands of cotton cloths in bulk in the name of the government to use them as relief. ”

After hearing this, Tianqi said: "Rao is so rare. ”

"Yes, at least it shows that the treasury of the Suizhou official office has a surplus, and it can directly send clothes to the displaced people to ward off the cold! This way, that's what I'm doing here. ”

Sun Chengzong sighed.

After about half an hour, the apocalypse arrived in Suizhou City.

Because everything was simple, Xia Yunyi did not organize the people to carry the road in the loess, nor did he disperse the people along the street, but only took a cadre of officials and gentry to meet him outside the ten-mile long pavilion.

As soon as he saw Xia Yunyi, Sun Chengzong was the first to show a smile, and he now has a good impression of Xia Yunyi.

The same is true of the apocalypse, and he asked Xia Yunyi with a smile: "How is the new policy implemented in Suizhou?" ”

Xia Yunyi arched his hand and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister does not dare to lie, now after the implementation of the new policy in Suizhou, it has indeed achieved a surplus in the treasury, the people are not hungry and cold, and even the population has increased, and the taxes and grains handed over to the court have also increased." ”

"Take me to see it."

As he spoke, Tianqi asked Xia Yunyi to bring him to the treasury first.

Soon, Tianqi saw that there were many newly built granaries in the treasury, so he asked Xia Yunyi: "How much grain is there here?" ”

"More than 260,000 stones."

Xia Yunyi replied.

"So much?!"

Apocalypse was amazed.

Sun Chengzong was equally surprised.

"Back to Your Majesty, because eighty percent of the fields in Suizhou have been owned by the gentry, and now after the implementation of the new policy, most of the tax grain is also collected from the gentry, so a lot of tax grain has been increased, and after a proportional part of it is retained in the state treasury, the treasury naturally has a lot of surplus."

Xia Yunyi replied.

Tianqi nodded after hearing this, and then looked at Zheng Shanwei and these gentry: "You are also willing to accept such a new policy, no complaints?" ”

Zheng Shanwei and the gentry all looked at each other and did not speak.

Seeing this, Tianqi said: "It's okay, the speaker is not guilty, you can say what is in your heart, I won't blame!" ”

Zheng Shanwei thought about it and said first: "Back to Your Majesty!" The ministers can be rich and noble, and they all depend on the grace of the country, and now the new policy of the imperial court is also for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and the ministers are naturally willing, not to mention paying grain, even if they are willing to do it for the country! ”

After hearing this, Sun Chengzong first sighed in his heart: "This is what I think of as a gentry, and he should have the consciousness of being loyal to the monarch and serving the country!" ”

In fact, Zheng Shanwei is saying this now, also because he is really scared of Xia Yunyi, after all, those who dare to oppose the new policy have been cleaned up, and the gentry who are still alive are very shrewd, even in front of the emperor, they will no longer dare to say that they are not satisfied with the new policy.

Qian Qianyi was very dissatisfied after hearing this, and said in his stomach: "How can you say that, doesn't this new deal disturb the people, isn't it contrary to the ancestral precept of treating scholars well?!" ”

Tianqi asked Xia Yunyi again: "Didn't you say that your Suizhou is also in a big drought this year, why did I come here today and find that the entire Suizhou is still a bumper harvest, which is very different from Yongcheng, which also suffers from a great drought?" ”

Xia Yunyi replied: "Back to Your Majesty, this is all because of the concerted efforts of the people of Suizhou, so they have overcome this drought and ensured a bumper harvest this year." ”

Sun Chengzong took the initiative to ask for instructions at this time: "Your Majesty, do you want to hear what Xia Zhizhou did specifically?" ”

Tianqi nodded, and then instructed Xia Yunyi: "Answer the doubts of the elder pavilion!" ”

"Yes!"

After Xia Yunyi agreed, he said: "Back to Your Majesty, the ministers asked the gentry to donate grain, and the people contributed to add a few canals, so the drought was overcome. ”

Sun Chengzong asked, "It's just that the gentry donate?" ”

Xia Yunyi replied: "Yes! ”

"Do they really want to?"

Apocalypse asked.

Zheng Shanwei was busy inviting merit at this time: "Your Majesty! I'm willing! ”

Apocalypse asked again, "Why would you be willing?" ”

"Because Xia Zhizhou will give us the honor card of the glorious household of disaster relief, we are willing to exchange food for this honor that belongs to the entire family."

Zheng Shanwei did not explicitly say that the honor of the glorious household of disaster relief was forcibly given by Xia Yunyi and others, and in order to make the emperor happy, he said against his will that these people actively donated food for the sake of honor.

Tianqi was full of disbelief after hearing this, and only asked Sun Chengzong: "Does Mr. think it is credible?" ”

Sun Chengzong was very willing to believe it, and laughed heartily, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the gentleman is in profit, and the villain is in righteousness, and the minister has to admit that Xia Zhizhou is the real gentleman, not Wu Xing, a hypocritical villain!" The reason why Wu Xing's implementation of the new policy failed was because he talked about benefits with the gentry and took the wrong path at the beginning, and did not give honor to the gentry and guide them with righteousness like Xia Zhizhou, so he made the government harmonious! Now it seems that everything really has to be seen to see the truth, the minister was wrong in the past, Xia Zhizhou can be my first capable minister in the Ming Dynasty! ”