And Hai Rui, who is next to Tianjie, has already made his own decision.

Hai Rui neither went to the General Administration nor returned to Xishan, but re-entered the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"Hello."

When Hai Rui returned to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he found that Ning Jue was still sitting in the hall, as if waiting for him.

"Xian, the lower official wants to continue to investigate."

Hai doesn't understand, why they must be allowed to do evil in order to save the world by giving up one person! Isn't there a way?! Even if it can make them restrain and make the people suffer less sin! ”

To Hai Rui's surprise, Ning Jue responded without the slightest hesitation.

"Okay, I'll go check with you."

Ning Jue knew that Hai Rui couldn't change anything.

But it is precisely because Hai Rui knows that he can't change anything but still does it, so he is Hai Rui.

Ning Jue took the Chao Wat and the official seal, and ran to Xishan with Hai Rui.

In addition to dying, Ning Jue also hopes to call Hai Rui.

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When he left Jinling City, Ning Jue found that the villages on the outskirts of Nanjing had increased their cotton planting area this year.

As we got closer to Songjiang, the number of cotton fields gradually increased.

Just from the scene he saw along the way, Ning Jue knew that it was not just the Xu family's acres of land that had been replanted with kapok, at least a considerable number of ordinary people and heroes blindly followed it.

Since the new law, cotton prices have been rising day by day.

This is undoubtedly very tempting for farmers who have cultivated their fields all their lives and can only make dead money with a small harvest every year.

Set aside a few acres of land to grow grain, and the rest will be planted with cotton, even if something happens, it will not be the farmer who starves to death first.

It was also at the same time that Ning Jue entered the city, and news also came from Songshan, in order to compete for agricultural time, the gentry who switched to cotton became more and more blatant.

The kapok hoarded by the people in the early years was also collected by cotton merchants little by little, and finally transported to the wharves of various townships, and sent to various places through waterways.

There was a hot scene outside Xishan City.

During the period when Hai Rui was not in Xishan, the outside of the Yamen in Xishan County was also crowded with tenants who were bombarded out.

"The old parents are back! The old parents are back with Ning Yanxian! ”

The moment he saw Hai Rui and Ning Jue, the people gathered outside the county government stood up together.

This was the first time Ning Jue felt ashamed.

In a short time, a leading tenant fell to his knees before the two men.

"Old parents, Ning Lixian, the villagers can't survive anymore, the tenants in the village seem to be crazy these days, and they have returned our rented land, and they have blasted out the little ones without saying anything."

Hai Rui's brows furrowed.

"What have they done with so much land?"

"They are all rented to tenants and clansmen at a low price, and now each household in the village cultivates seventy or eighty acres of land at every turn, and they can't serve so many fields!"

The high yield of Daming farmland is based on intensive cultivation.

Hai Rui also knows that the limit of 50 acres of land cultivated by a family of five is the limit, and if each household is 70 or 80 acres, the grain yield per mu will drop by at least two to three percent.

This is still a normal year, and if there is a slight natural disaster, what was supposed to be a natural disaster that reduces production will also become a natural disaster that will not be harvested.

"Nonsense! Please also leave the name and surname of the tenant in the village, and after the county finds out, I will definitely give you an explanation! ”

Hai Rui angrily transcribed all the names and surnames of the tenants of each village.

By the end of the evening, Hai Jui had roughly transcribed the names and surnames of the tenants of several villages.

"Hello."

didn't wait for Hai Rui to speak, but only to find that Ning Jue was standing not far away looking at him.

I saw Ning Jue wave his big hand, and said in a loud voice: "Haixian Zun is sick, you few take care of Haixian Zun, without my order, you will never allow Haixian Zun to take a step out of the gate of this county ya." ”

"Hello! What are you doing? ”

Ning Jue arched his hand towards Hai Rui and said, "Haixian Zun, you are a good official, Ning wants to protect you for the people of the world." ”

After saying that, Ning Jue took the notebook in Hai Rui's hand and casually ordered: "Everyone, arrest someone." ”

"Catch ...... Who are you arresting? ”

"Catch them all, from near to far, no one will be left behind, tonight, I will see these tenants in the prison in Xishan County."

Rao is Hai Rui was also shocked by Ning Jue.

"Why are you stunned, why don't you go on an errand?!"

"Whoa."

"You Xian, this ......" Hai Rui looked at Ning Jue with a puzzled expression.

Ning Jue smiled and said, "Doesn't Haixian Zun want to do this? Since he is here, let the county see it clearly. ”

Hai Rui was speechless for a while.

In the evening, the officials of the county government came to the Xishan County government with one tenant after another.

Ning Jue crossed Erlang's legs and looked at the few people in front of him: "Ladies and gentlemen, have you thought about it, to explain or not to explain?" ”

The twenty or so tenants knelt on the ground, beads of sweat on their foreheads.

Ning Jue waited for a long time, but no one was willing to make a sound.

"Okay, then I'll beat you until you admit it."

After eating a few rods, the tenants were already clumped on the ground, wailing.

"You Xian, the little one knows that you dare to kill people, but the little one begs you, don't check it anymore, if you check it again, the eight mansions in Jiangnan will be in chaos immediately!"

The hard-mouthed mouths of these tenants are beyond Hai Rui's imagination.

When the Yuan people went south, as long as they could show half of the backbone, the Great Song Dynasty would not die!

All the officials looked at Ning Jue with a look at each other.

Apparently they had already made confessions before they were brought.

Hearing this, Ning Jue also changed his methods.

"Take them all down and bring them to trial one by one."

"Whoa."

After a short time, these tenants were escorted down, and when the first tenant was brought up, Ning Jue didn't do much entanglement, just perfunctory for a while, and then ordered someone to send the first tenant back.

Until the second tenant was brought out.

Only then did Ning Jue speak: "Master Sun, Master Sun, right?" ”

The tenant fell to his knees with a "poof", and still said as before: "Don't check again." ”

"Whoever recruits will live, and those who don't recruit will be killed, and they will all be recruited."

"Of course, if you don't recruit, the official really can't do anything about you, Master Sun can take a gamble."

"Master Sun has a stick of incense to think about."

After saying that, Ning Jue ordered someone to bring up an incense burner.

This is a typical prisoner's dilemma, no one wants to put their net worth and life in the hands of others, where have these tenants seen this, it seems that there is a choice, but in fact the most secure way is to recruit.

Until a stick of incense was burned, the tenant was already sweating profusely.

"Move! You Xian, the small ones can be recruited, but once you know about this matter, it must not be a good thing for you! ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it's okay, who let you vacate the field?"

"It's a businessman named Xiang Yuanbian."

Ning Jue's brows gradually frowned.

"Where did you know him?"

Master Sun shook his head and said, "The little one has never seen Xiang Yuanbian. ”

"So you listen to him like that?!"

"I don't know that the small family has acres of land, and it was donated to a person in a neighboring county more than ten years ago."

"The old man came to the day keeper some time ago, the court whipped the law, the silver and the money are not safe, saying that there is a way to keep the savings, that is, to lend the silver money to Xiang Yuanbian."

"After all, they have been friends for so many years, and the small one went to the weaving field of the Songjiang Xiang family to take a look, and it is really a big weaving field, even if it is the weaving field of Huating Xu Xianggong's house."

"The interest rate is lower, but it's better than a cheap day! And it is also a weaving yard, the Xiang family has so much cotton cloth, it is really not on the account, and the cotton cloth can be used to offset the account, and the small one has sent most of the savings to the Xiang family. ”

Hai Rui couldn't help but gasp when he heard this, hearing this, I am afraid that in the prefectures and counties of Xishan and Suzhou, most of the gentry have silver in the Xiang family.

Ning Jue continued: "What does this have to do with your Tengtian?!" ”

"For we are creditors! The Xiang family said that they would give priority to the kapok in our hands, and the price would be a little higher than that of the nearby village. ”

"What's even worse is that the surrounding villages have all changed to planting kapok, if you don't care about Xiang Yuanbian on 3721, so many families have invested heavily in kapok and no one has collected it, what is the difference between it and the murderous parents, don't say the little ones, even you can't survive!"

Ning Jue waved his hand and motioned for the servant to take the tenant down.

The next few people, who were also roughly similar to this Li tenant, couldn't resist confessing one after another.

Hai Rui, who was originally excited, was already sitting on the side in a cold sweat.

The chain of interests has existed since ancient times.

However, under the operation of high leverage, the original interest chain of only three or four sections is being extended indefinitely.

This incomparably long chain of interests will eventually become a whole.

And the final formation of this whole will have an organizational power that no feudal dynasty has.

It alienates everyone in the chain, and everyone in the chain benefits in the process of alienation.

It's just that at the end of these chains, the same ordinary people.

Ning Jue stood in front of Hai Rui.

"Does Hai Xianzun still think that if he continues to investigate, he can save the people from hunger and cold?"

"This is not saving the people, this is harming the people, if we continue to investigate, there will only be more wives scattered."

Hai Rui sat on the ground in amazement, and muttered with empty eyes, "...... But the saints didn't say that, and the sages didn't say it......"

"It is precisely because the sages have not said that the imperial court is doing it now, and the rebellion in the southeast cannot be stopped without soldiers, and the soldiers will die together, and the new sages will be strangled to death, these people will not only die in vain, but more people will die in the future."

Hai Rui was silent.

This is the second fruit of American silver.

In addition to creating a large number of displaced tenant farmers, the expansion of capital also gave rise to a new petty bourgeoisie and a so-called "middle class".

This group of "upstarts" no longer owns so-called constant property such as "land".

They had witnessed the displacement of landless tenant farmers, and they knew that one day they would be so miserable if they lost their jobs.

The rabbit dies and the fox is sad, and the thing hurts it.

The sense of crisis hidden deep in their hearts will force them to break free from the shackles of traditional rituals.

Later generations refer to this period of history as "enlightenment".

The West is not the West, and the stars came to the world in the seventeenth century.

How brilliant the brilliance of the so-called "sages" stars is that the impact on them at that time is shocking.

What really raised the sages to the throne of God was the bones of England in the late Middle Ages and the devastation of the French countryside, and the endless blood of the common people.

That night, Hai Rui became the first reader of the Ming Dynasty to willingly burn the "classics".

Hai Jui is not an "upstart", but he does have a conscience.

This is the "sage classic" that has penetrated into the bones of the people of the Ming Dynasty through the sea of corpses and blood for thousands of years.

A Yang Shen can't be broken.

One Ning Jue and one Hai Rui can't be broken.

If it is not a mountain of corpses, the sea of blood cannot be broken.

There are only two roads in front of Daming.

Or go back.

Or go forward.

(End of chapter)