Chapter 192: Ben Hou is not a local tyrant

"Master Hou..."

Zhao Xin hurriedly ran into the tattered yamen, and Chen Cao and Yu Shimin had just returned from inspecting the Puxi fields on the other side.

"How's it going?"

Zhao Xin glanced at Yu Shimin, who was standing on the side, Yu Xiancheng was still interested, and hurriedly saluted and retreated without participating: "Master Hou, things are in order, as Lord Hou expected, Huang Shijing's house gathered all the 40,000 displaced people in Qingpu and Huating together, saying that it was the imperial court edict to repair the county seat of Shanghai, not only to manage food and housing but also to manage wages, and the displaced people were happy for a while, and they had already come, and they would arrive at noon at most." ”

The distance between Huating County and the current Shanghai County is only thirty miles, and the displaced people who have been suffering for many years have to run to come when they hear this voice?

"Go and unload all the grain on the ship, put it on the dock in Pudong one by one, and let Jinyiwei and Zhang Fengnian send people to guard it, if there is an impact of homeless people, it will be killed."

"Okay, how should Master Hou's plan be implemented?"

Chen Cao patted the dust on the python robe: "Smash it with money, Lao Tzu is not a local tyrant, if Suzhou Mansion hears this movement, Yang Weizhi will definitely move all the displaced people in Suzhou Mansion over, you say, how much food do hundreds of thousands of people have to eat me every day, and how much food do we have to prepare to fill this hole?" ”

How much? Based on the simplest ten cents a day per person, it takes at least 10,000 taels of silver a day, not counting those who eat and take.

"Huang Shijing wants..."Zhao Xin said, gesturing on his neck.

"Eh..."Chen Cao knocked Zhao Xin: "You kid don't always fight and kill, sometimes you do things with this kind of corrupt official, that's a good thing, don't you think Zhang Heming is like this?" As long as you have money to take and have no worries, it's a trivial matter to let Huang Shijing give me a concubine, and it's a big deal to marry another one if you have money..."

"What Master Hou said makes sense..."

"Zhao Xin, you come here, I will teach you to sing a song, you are responsible for teaching those people and making them sing..."

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There were a little more than 40,000 displaced people, all of whom came from northern Shaanxi, and the Qin dialect of the loess slope made Chen Cao's ears uncomfortable, but under the threat of the bright long knives and muskets of the Jinyi Guard and the Jiading team, they never went further in the position of the white line.

"Ben Hou is the Ming Dynasty Dingwu Marquis Chen Cao, Ben Hou said the first sentence, the imperial court did not open a warehouse to release grain, and Ben Hou has no obligation to help you, but..."

Chen Cao raised the earthen megaphone in his hand: "Ben Hou thinks that you are also human beings, and you are also the people of the Ming Dynasty, although the imperial court did not relieve you, but Ben Hou can't bear it, so he is here to pay out of his own pocket, open a warehouse and put grain, listen well, each person can receive a corn steamed bun, a bowl of gruel, three times a day, on time, and also, you must queue up to receive, who dares to cut in line..."

'Bang...'

There was a thunderclap on a sunny day, which frightened the homeless people and shrank their heads one by one.

"The musket is your final destination..."

"Line up and get ready to put the grain..."

Eating is a good thing, now these hungry homeless people are scrambling to grab the place, judging from their previous acceptance of the imperial court's disaster relief, if they are ranked last, it is very likely that they will not be able to eat thick gruel and steamed buns.

Besides, in the past, the imperial court only provided disaster relief, only gruel, where did the steamed buns come from for people to eat.

Ten porridge sheds were placed on the wharf in Pudong, neatly arranged in a row, and there were Jinyi guards and family guards standing guard at the white line in front of each porridge shed.

Chen Cao and Zhao Xin stood in the distance of the porridge shed together, Chen Cao frowned and watched as those scrambling to pour the freshly cooked porridge into their mouths, and some even poured the hot gruel directly into their clothes, and then stood in the back to line up again.

"Master Hou, you didn't say anything..."

"Say what?" Chen Cao turned his head to look at Zhao Xin: "At this time, talk to this group of peasants in northern Shaanxi about the kindness of the imperial court?" Or do you want them to simply be grateful to me? Or take the opportunity to win people's hearts?

Don't you see the people who have been in line two or three times? Look at the old and weak people behind this column who are still holding their children and waiting for the people in front to go faster, but those few still keep cutting in line? ”

"My subordinates are going to get them out..."

"Don't worry..."Chen Cao looked at the scene in front of him calmly, and then smiled: "This person's flashpoint is not enough, what you do or say is in vain, if you want the people to remember you, it is not to buy people's hearts when you have enough food, if this is the case at the beginning, these people will go to other places after they are full, because they think that once there are more people, the court will not abandon them, and I want to get something for nothing..."

Zhao Xin nodded thoughtfully: "So Master Hou didn't talk about the construction of the city." ”

"Well," Chen Cao touched his bare chin: "If you don't clean up those moths, these people can't use them, they are born strong in Shaanxi, if they use it well, it is a sharp sword, if they don't use it well, maybe they will cook you and me..."

Sun Chuanting's Qin army beat Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang scurried around, although they were from Shaanxi at the same time, but they were almost killed by the countrymen who were official and military and almost jumped into the river, even if Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army was formed, there were many Shaanxi refugees.

"Why didn't they rebel with those people?"

Chen Cao is also thinking about this question, perhaps it is somewhat the same as the speculation of later generations, related to the innate feudal servility system, or connected with the great crime of rebelling against the nine clans, so that some of these people are willing to risk killing their heads to get rich.

Then it is not difficult to see from the rebellion of the exiles in the late Ming Dynasty that the failure of those exiles is still because their composition is completely different, just like the people who eat and take in front of Chen Cao now, they all like to get something for nothing, and run away after breaking through the city, if Li Zicheng can implement feudal landlordism under his rule before taking Beijing, whether the Manchus can unify China is a big question mark.

Just like what Chen Cao said back then, when the people lose confidence in the life of the court in front of them, they will choose to rebel, elect a new emperor to come out, and then live their feudal life after establishing a new dynasty, but at least after the world is reshuffled, there are only a few who have fallen to the benefit.

"Master Hou, how many days?"

Chen Cao stretched his waist: "Put it for three days in a row, and after three days, after the emotions of those who have suffered losses have accumulated, Ben Hou will give them an important lesson in life." ”

Chen Cao has not been idle in the past three days, he and Li Maocai, who came with him, planned land in Puxi together, although there are many rice fields in Puxi, but they are all hidden fields of the local landlords in Qingpu, and they are all good paddy fields, and although there are many fields under the rule of Shanghai County, most of them are not cultivated.

"How many are there in this piece?"

Yu Shimin has become the acting magistrate of Shanghai County, and Chen Cao's official document also went to the Nanjing Magistrate's Department, and after three days at most, Yu Shimin can get the official document from the Nanjing Magistrate's Department appointing him as the magistrate of Shanghai.

"Back to the Hou Ye, Puxi side from the south of the Wusong River tributary traversal, all the way to Chuanshabao Tianye is under the jurisdiction of Shanghai County, but there is no one in the county, these lands are ownerless wasteland, only Chuanshabao has 4,000 acres of Weisuo field;

Even if those fields are removed, there are nearly 40,000 acres of land available in Puxi. ”

"It's only 40,000 acres?" Chen Cao shook his head: "It's too little, Li Maocai, this side of Puxi Wharf is at least three miles away, and then the field is at most 30,000 acres, how many cement houses can be built?" How many people can it accommodate? ”

"How many homeless people does Master Hou expect?" Li Maocai turned around and saluted.

"It's going to be a hundred thousand..."

Li Maocai held the drawings in his hand, now he is not a big old man, the chief engineer of the entire senior construction team: "According to the lower officials, it is possible to settle 100,000 people, but the house has to be built into a two-story building, and now the steel bars refined in the workshop according to what Hou Ye said are enough to be used as gravity columns, and it is no problem to withstand a two-story building." ”

"How long do you think it will take to build these houses?"

Li Maocai frowned and thought for a while: "If you look at the progress of the workshop, it will take at least five years..."

"If 100,000 people help, how long do you think?"

"If you come quickly, two years is no problem."

Chen Cao knew it in his heart, and then looked at Yu Shimin, the alternate magistrate: "Lord Yu, whose paddy field is Hengduan here in Puxi?" ”

"It is a field in Qingpu County, and the owner is a head of the original Nanjing household department, and several of his descendants have been promoted, and the tenants in Qingpu have contributed it."

Yu Shimin didn't hide it, he also knew how this kind of thing could be hidden from Dingwuhou, who was born in Jinyiwei.

"There are so many fields in a small principal, but the preferential treatment given by the dynasty to the scholars out of kindness has become an excuse for them to gnaw at the Ming Dynasty." Chen Cao pointed to the ground in front of him as he spoke: "Circle it three miles away from the wharf, and set up this place as a construction area for the workshop, and this area will be militarized in the future." ”

Li Maocai interjected and asked, "Master Hou is going to move the factory here?" ”

Chen Cao shook his head: "A new workshop will be opened here, just in case." As he spoke, he pointed to a harbor in the north: "It is circled separately over there, and the size of the place is according to the Longjiang Shipyard, and it will be a new shipyard in the future." ”

"Master Hou..."Zhao Xin, who came by boat, hurriedly ran to Chen Cao's side after coming ashore: "It's a commotion..."

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"Okay, adults, don't eat this baby for two days, you don't have to eat, you can't stand it, adults are okay, let's stutter again..."

After Chen Cao came ashore, he stood in his original position, and at this moment, an old man with two four or five-year-old boys was begging the captain of Fangzhou to get them another steamed bun or a bowl of gruel in front of a porridge shed.

"Go away and go away, Master Hou has an order, three meals per person a day, each meal is only a bowl of gruel and a steamed bun, old man, I personally took it three times for your family, what's the matter, do you want to die?"

The old man in northern Shaanxi cried and said: "The adults are good, the food of the foreheads has been taken away, and it will not work if you don't eat this baby, the adults are good, give them a cushion of food tomorrow, please..."

The old man knelt down with his two little grandsons and kept kowtowing to the captain, but the captain who put the porridge received the order and stood behind the cauldron indifferently.