In this regard, Zhu Yunxi and his entourage are naturally as good as flowing.

It just made Zhu Yunxi have a trace of doubt in his heart, the disappearance of the road guidance system is naturally to facilitate the development of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, if you are in Daming, it is difficult to even get out of the village.

Don't think about the development of this economy, it will be good to cultivate the land for a lifetime.

But with the disappearance of the road guidance system, followed by the problem of public security, the Ming Dynasty does not need so many troops, but perhaps...... There is a need for more vigilantes and guards to keep the city.

This is the current dilemma that Daming is in, one problem is solved, and another problem will soon pop up again.

Just because, all of Zhu Yunxi's new policies have not touched the root of the Ming Dynasty!

It is still a stage of treating the symptoms but not the root cause, so it is natural that there will be many problems.

The near-modernization of a country is often an extremely difficult process, and it is necessary to pay the price of blood and fire, and Zhu Yunxi wants to make a peaceful transition, and the difficulty of this is naturally self-evident.

What's more, the road to modernization in the Ming Dynasty naturally faces many barriers.

But now is not the time to think about this, Zhu Yunxi and his party put down their weapons and walked into the city.

Chengcheng County is a very small place, and it seems that you can see the other side of the city wall along the road in front of you, but it still takes a little time to actually walk.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The drums sounded.

Zhu Yunxi followed the sound and looked at it, it seemed to be the direction where the county government was located.

Obviously, this is a report from someone, and the county order here is being promoted.

Zhu Yunxi immediately became interested.

"Let's go, let's see."

Passing over a group of people who were watching the excitement, Zhu Yunxi relied on the advantage of his small size and successfully squeezed in.

In the lobby, the local prefectural magistrate is sitting tall.

The officials on both sides looked serious.

Below, a somewhat simple person was kneeling on the ground, looking at this, it seemed that his feet were a little weak, but he still persisted, one hand clenched desperately.

"Who's in the hall?"

"Come and report to the official, what's the matter!"

A lazy voice sounded, and it seemed that the county magistrate sitting in front of him had not woken up yet, and even stretched his waist.

I can't keep my spirits up.

"Gift...... Your Excellency! ”

"Zhang Lisheng, a grass farmer, wants to sue the elders of Zhangjia Village and withhold the grain from the fields to buy the fields!"

"Cheating, shoddy, short of catties and two, and mixing sand into the grain!"

"The grain that was originally promised was less than seventy percent in my hands!"

Zhang Lisheng said sadly.

But Zhu Yunxi, who was in the crowd, couldn't move a little and ransomed the grain in the field? Where does this begin?

And why does this matter have to do with the clan?

Zhu Yunxi was puzzled, so he had to inquire about the people around him, and then he made the truth of the matter clear, it turned out that in the territory of the Shaanxi political envoy, the imperial court ordered the land to be nationalized, to compensate the people, originally used silver, but the Shaanxi political envoy is different in many places.

But it's food!

But if it is to use grain, it will be even counted, as long as it is sufficient grain, it will not be regarded as a disadvantage to the people.

But these guys are connected with the local clan forces.

The grain promised to the people was indeed distributed, little by little, but it was distributed to the clans, and the grain that passed through the hands of the clans was suddenly reduced by thirty percent.

Replacing new grain with sinking grain, and then mixing sand into it, or even missing two catties, are all very common operations.

And these thirty percent of the grain naturally can't be eaten by all the clans.

Some of them must have flowed back into the hands of local officials, but after this level, local officials can completely shift the responsibility to the clan.

They did send the food in full.

It's just that the clan itself is deducted, even if it is really investigated, these clan forces will definitely bite to death.

Then push out a person to top the pot.

As for the whereabouts of the real grain, it is naturally impossible to find out.

Therefore, at this moment, Zhang Lisheng seems to be suing the clan elder, but in fact, it is the local officials in the hall who are complaining!

Sure enough.

The county magistrate of Chengcheng County, who had not yet had much interest, sat up all of a sudden.

Tilting his head, he looked down at Zhang Lisheng.

His face gradually became cloudy, and this scene reminded Zhu Yunxi of a classic sentence - who in the hall dared to sue the official!

It's ridiculous, but it's pathetic!

"So, are you sure that the clan elder in Zhangjia Village, where you are located, has deducted the grain?"

"Is there any evidence?"

"This official can remind you, don't slander good people here with empty words and white teeth! I heard that the patriarch of Zhangjia Village has always been kind to people and willing to help! ”

"How could you do such a dirty thing?"

It is naturally clear where the county order of Chengcheng County is going.

If you are smarter and less stubborn, you will know that no matter what, you will definitely not win.

The clan elders of Zhangjia Village and this county order are obviously in the same group!

Communicate in tandem and work together!

At the gate of the county office, many people couldn't help whispering, and whispered one by one: "Are you still willing to give?" That old guy in Zhangjia Village is just eating people and not spitting out bones! ”

"Although we also distribute food in other places, we have only deducted 20%."

"Only him, starting with thirty percent, if he encounters orphans and widows or the like, only half of them will be deducted, it will be his conscience suddenly!"

"Who's to say it isn't? I've heard that there are really people in Zhangjia Village who are forced to live. ”

"Not only did I not receive a cent of the grain sent by the imperial court, but I also took away all the land from other people."

"It was decided by the government."

"Shit! Where does the government have this power? Didn't the "People's Daily" say that the government's acquisition of land is just a change of 'ownership', and the land is still used by everyone. ”

"It won't change at all!"

"It's just these guys colluding to collect money together and force people to death!"

Zhu Yunxi listened to it very unpleasantly.

The imperial court ordered that the local government should distribute silver to redeem the land and take the land into state ownership, but when it came to the territory of the Shaanxi political envoy, it suddenly became grain.

But if it is changed into food, forget it.

At least it won't cause dissatisfaction among the people, but the purpose of these guys distributing food is to make it easier to deduct from it.

After all, silver can't play that many tricks.

As much as it is, a little carelessness is a big crime to kill the head!

Zhejiang Chengxuan announced the lesson of the political envoy department, but they have learned it.

Don't dare to play so boldly.

At this time, Zhu Yunxi also understood why Shaanxi has reported 'drought' one after another in recent years.

This is because such methods will inevitably lead to a shortage of food for the government.

So you have to bring in food from outside, but these guys are Pixiu who only get in and can't leave, and expect them to pay for food themselves?

That's delusional!

That's why they put their minds on the relief food of the imperial court.

Anyway, this part of Shaanxi is often plagued by disasters.

This is already a common thing, as long as you have eaten enough relief food for several years in a row, you can replenish the food in the granary.

Wouldn't the silver originally allocated by the imperial court go into their own pockets?

And the grain that has returned can still be used as an extra income, isn't it beautiful?

Anyway, the Shaanxi Political Envoy is located in a remote area, and it is not easy to be found after a few years of hard work.

It's just that I didn't expect that the drought for several years made Zhu Yunxi think of Li Zicheng, who also started in Shaanxi because of years of drought in the future.

In order to prevent such a change, Zhu Yunxi ordered someone to come down to investigate.

But it was only after such a check that I discovered the actions behind these local officials in Shaanxi, and in order to swallow the silver into their own pockets, they really spent a lot of thought!

However, for officials in Shaanxi, eating disaster relief grain has long been a norm.

From time to time, disasters have to be reported.

But you still don't know if it's really a disaster or a fake, because sometimes the local disaster is really affected!

True and false, false and real, unpredictable.

In the final analysis, the boundary of Shaanxi is too far away from the political center of Daming! Whether it is Yingtianfu today or Beiping in the future, it is in an extremely eastern position.

In the later Qing Dynasty, this kind of eating disaster relief grain was still extremely common.

And the reason is that the emperor is far away and the people are poor, and the local officials are almost no different from the emperor of the soil in this kind of place!

However, these problems can be perfectly solved after Daming has a train.

The shortening of the distance represents the expansion of the scope of imperial power, and when the road is built to the countryside one day, it is time to completely break the iron law that the imperial power does not go to the countryside!

Just now......

The county order of Chengcheng County can still be used locally.

The power of the various clans still has great influence in the countryside.

"My lord! This is the food that the grass people receive! ”

I saw Zhang Lisheng take out a small cloth bag from his arms, and then poured it out in front of everyone, dark yellow beige, mixed with coarse yellow sand.

Obviously, this is old and rotten grain.

It's mixed with sand!

"With this kind of food, even if the grass people receive a thousand catties, ten thousand catties are useless!"

"Let's judge, can you eat this?!"

Zhang Lisheng asked.

Everyone was immediately excited, and they obviously didn't know how many years of old grain they had put away! There may even be some rice inside that is rotten!

How else to eat?

The price of this batch of rice is only less than one-tenth of the original new grain!

Unless it really can't survive anymore, who would eat rice like this?

"Silence!"

Bang!

Shocked.

The county magistrate of Chengcheng County looked annoyed and accused: "You Diao people, do you want to rebel?!" ”

Subsequently, he pointed the finger at Zhang Lisheng.

"And you, Diaomin, I don't know where you got such a pile of things to stain Lord Ben's eyes."

"How could this official ever distribute such food?"

"For the patriarch of Zhangjia Village, the official also gave him thousands of instructions, how could he be like this?"

"It's clear that you, the Diao people, deliberately got the clan elder to frame Zhangjia Village!"

"Come on, hit me hard!"

"Then put him in prison, and the official wants to let this unknown Diao people know who is in charge of Chengcheng County!"

The county order of Chengcheng County did not wait for Zhang Lisheng to defend himself.

The conclusion was made.

Without saying anything, Zhang Lisheng was about to be put in prison, and Zhu Yunxi watched this scene at the yamen.

I couldn't help frowning.

Just a county order, it's really a big official!

Shaanxi's political envoys and officials were corrupted.

You can see it!

"Your Highness...... Shall we ......?"

(End of chapter)