"Your Highness, all craftsmen and laborers who enter the road construction team will be given a month's settlement allowance first!"

Guo An suggested to Zhu Gaochi, "In this way, those laborers and craftsmen who are waiting and watching dare to come out with confidence and go to work with the road construction team!" ”

"What the teacher said is reasonable!"

Zhu Gaochi's eyes lit up, and after answering, he gave the order.

Soon.

At the gate of Jingshi City, notices appeared again.

At the same time, at each city gate, there were also two people from the road construction team, erecting flags and shouting to recruit people.

With the issuance of a month's salary, the entire Jingshi was in an uproar again.

Which workshop or master's mansion recruits people, will first send money to settle down?

Thereupon.

Less than five days.

The road construction team once again had fifty more craftsmen and four hundred young and strong laborers!

Zhu Gaochi was overjoyed, commanded Guo Pinglin and others, and began to buy a large number of tools and equipment, and opened a cement sand and gravel workshop!

But the gentry and officials in Beijing are in a hurry!

"Your Majesty, Weichen heard that in the past few days, the road construction team set up by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has hired craftsmen and young laborers with a lot of money, which has made the people of Beijing panic and have no intention of serving the farmers!"

"Your Majesty, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince goes on like this, there will be a large area of farmland in Jingshi that will be uncultivated!"

"Exactly, Your Majesty, Your Highness's move has made the people of Beijing miserable, and the people's grievances are boiling......"

"Grievances?"

Zhu Di, who was listening with interest on his face, heard this, and stared directly at the imperial history, and said.

"Tell me in detail, why is there a lot of resentment among the people? The prince's road construction team provided a steady source of earning work for the landless people and paved concrete straights...... How can such a good thing lead to public resentment? ”

"Your Majesty, this ......"

Yushi Feng Zuo's face changed slightly, thinking of the Yushi who had just been demoted a few days ago, and couldn't help but regret it.

But the matter has come to this point, so I can only explain hard: "Your Majesty, you are the people of Jingshi!"

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has recruited a lot of young people and left these fields uncultivated!

Therefore, they ......"

"No one to cultivate?"

Zhu Di sneered again and said coldly: "Why don't they cultivate their own fields?" ”

Feng Zuo said again: "Your Majesty, they are all scholars, and they should take reading as their own responsibility!" ”

"If it's their mission to study, why do they still have so much land?"

Zhu Di sneered: "They occupy so many acres of land, so that those poor people have no land to cultivate, and they don't allow those poor people to do other work?" ”

"Your Majesty, there have always been some acres of land in the scholar's house!"

"Really?"

Zhu Di said: "Tell us, which ones are they?" I sent the Jinyi Guards to investigate, and if the fields in their homes were coming from normal and did not oppress the people, I sent them some tenant farmers! ”

Feng Zuo's face froze, and he sent Jinyi Wei to investigate, wouldn't this harm those families?

"Why don't you speak, thief?"

Zhu Di sneered, "The prince paved the cement straight road for the Ming Dynasty, benefiting the people of many state capitals, and when these thieves and officials are actually oppressing the people, forcibly seizing the acres of land, and enslaving those young and strong people who have no land, they still want to pollute the prince, it's really damned!" ”

Feng Zuo's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty Mingjian, Weichen is dedicated to the public, and there is no selfishness!" ”

"Selfless?"

Zhu Di smiled coldly, "Then why did those gentry in Shangyuan County send you so many boxes of property to Feng Zuo yesterday?" ”

Feng Zuo's face turned pale suddenly, and he knelt directly on the ground, kowtowing vigorously to Zhu Di, begging for mercy again and again.

"Your Majesty Mingjian, those gentry are all good families of the Ming Dynasty, and they are classmates with Wei Chen, and they have a very good relationship, and they often send some objects to each other as gifts in private!"

"Your gifts are all money?" Zhu Di sneered.

"What a traitor, at this time, you still have to deceive me, really when I sit in the palace, I am blind, and let these traitors deceive at will?"

As he spoke, Zhu Di looked at Yu Xin, the secretary of the household department, and Zheng Yi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, on the side.

These are all responsible for persuading farmers.

Therefore, this time, the officials who advised him with an anxious face were mainly these people.

"The gentry like to exploit the people, take away their fields, and then enslave them and let them farm for them.

How can I pity such abominable gentry?

If they are not punished, do they really think that they can rob the people of their fields at will, and then enslave the people to farm for them, and provide for them for generations?

Even, they can command me to protect the acres of land they have robbed? ”

"Weichen is negligent, and I ask Your Majesty to surrender!"

Yu Xin hurriedly surrendered his hand to the guilty way.

"Weichen is negligent, and I ask Your Majesty to surrender!"

Zheng Yi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, also pleaded guilty with shame.

Although the Zheng family where he belongs was given the reputation of the first in the south of the Yangtze River by Emperor Taigaozu, some branches of their Zheng family will also have some bastard children!

"Okay, okay, you guys are impartial, I still know it in my heart! You're just being fooled by the villains below! ”

Zhu Di waved his hand casually and said again: "This time, I will first punish you for a month's worth of money as a punishment!" ”

“……”

Yu Xin and Zheng Yi couldn't help but be speechless for a while, but they were still hurriedly grateful.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

As for Yushi Feng Zuo, he was like a dead dog, dragged down by the Han general, handed over to Jinyiwei, and slowly interrogated.

Zhu Gaochi is in charge of the Di Bao, and every issue needs some material for corrupt officials and evil gentry.

Zhu Di still attaches great importance to the money bag of Di Bao.

Paving cement straights, no one can stop it!

Zhu Gaochi took Guo Pinglin and two other deputies to start recruiting craftsmen and young laborers, and built cement workshops and sand and gravel workshops along both sides of the straight road!

It was mighty and immense, attracting the attention of the entire Ming Dynasty.

In less than half a month, there were already 200 craftsmen in the road construction team.

As for the young and strong force, there are more than 1,000 people.

It's March.

The acres of land around Jingshi have begun to enter spring ploughing.

As for the road construction team, it has also begun to follow the straight road near Jiangjun Mountain, cross the Yangtze River, and start paving in the direction of Xi'an.

The whole Ming Dynasty began to enter a busy season.

At the same time.

Some gentry, merchants, and scholars from all over the Ming Dynasty also stretched their necks and waited for the distribution of this issue of the newspaper.

It's just that.

To the surprise of some gentry, businessmen and scholars, they waited for more than one issue of Di Bao, but two issues, and even three or four issues!

"This ......"

Some of the gentry and merchants only looked twice at it and noticed that something was wrong.

"Among so many Di newspapers, only this one is the real Di Bao? The rest of these are all fake newspapers? ”

"Hiss......"

"How dare they have such the audacity to openly plagiarize the newspaper of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

"It's shameless, sven scum, treacherous to the extreme......"

"Plagiarism?"

"You see, many of the things and edicts in these palace newspapers are what were written in the last issue of the palace newspaper of His Royal Highness the Prince!"

"Especially this cement straight road, isn't it exactly what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wrote in the last issue of the palace newspaper?"

"Huh? Is it really exactly the same? ”

"It's not just a word!"

"And this imperial decree...... It was also written in the last issue of the newspaper of His Royal Highness the Prince! ”

"However, the Hangzhou gentry rhyme, the good thing is new!"

"Hmph, what's so strange about some affair between the gentry, or some pickled affair?"

"Yes!"

"Huh?"

Suddenly, a man seemed to have discovered something surprising, pointing to the middle column of the fake newspaper in his hand, as if he had seen something incredible!

"Shen Gong, Ming Gong, look, there are even advertisements in these fake newspapers!"

"Advertising?"

"Huizhou Zhangjia jade jewelry? There is also Hangzhou Lijia cloth ......"

"How dare they?"

…… (End of chapter)