Liaodong County Shoufu

Lu Desheng was writing an excerpt, which was a request for moving the county guard mansion to Houcheng, and was ready to be sent to the Son of Heaven in Chang'an after it was written.

He writes quickly, and the whole article is full of the necessity of moving the house.

When he finishes writing, he puts down his pen.

Guo Chunsheng on the side said worriedly, "My lord, is there something wrong with changing the plaque?" It's not that you can't change it, but you should first write an excerpt and ask the Son of Heaven for instructions. ”

The Liaodong County Keeper's Mansion was built after the first county keeper of the previous prefecture selected a place and asked the imperial court, and the imperial court agreed. Later, I also moved for other reasons, but before I moved, I must make it clear to the imperial court and ask for instructions.

"You have a point, aren't I just asking for instructions?" Lu Desheng said a little lazily.

Guo Chunsheng: My lord, are you sure that you are asking for instructions, not cutting first?

"My lord, I mean you changed the plaque so quickly, what if you don't agree to it?"

Lu Desheng sneered in his heart, "He will agree." "How could he not agree?

At the beginning, when the new emperor agreed to his release and put him in Houcheng, Lu Desheng was a little suspicious that the new emperor wanted him to die in Houcheng.

You must know that the border between Houcheng and Xianbei Grassland is the front line of war every year, how dangerous it is.

He wanted to release Pingzhou, it would be best if he could be in Liaodong County, but in the eighteen counties of Liaodong County, the new emperor arranged for him to be in Houcheng, so he had to doubt the intentions of the new emperor.

Lu Desheng once felt that he thought too badly of people, and when he came to Houcheng to meet his daughter, he couldn't help but express the doubts in his heart.

Then the girl told him with certainty that his suspicions were correct, and that the new emperor had indeed sinister intentions in sending him out to Houcheng.

At that time, he was angry, what kind of thing is Song Mo? Compared with the first emperor, it is more than a star and a half!

Guo Chunsheng was puzzled, why was Lord Lu so sure that the Son of Heaven would agree to him moving the Liaodong County Shoufu to Houcheng?

Lu Desheng snorted lightly, could he tell him that the Son of Heaven wanted him to die in Houcheng?

In addition, "I decided to install the county guard mansion in Houcheng in order to reassure the people, why didn't the emperor agree?" ”

Song Mo, he'd better agree.

If you don't agree, don't blame him for throwing the pot at him!

Guo Chunsheng shook his head, "My lord, you are too willful. ”

Lu Desheng said to him in the left ear and out of the right ear, not willful, is he Lu Desheng? If he thinks carefully in all aspects, the Son of Heaven is afraid that he will not be able to sleep.

Guo Chunsheng is even more worried, the adults cut first and then play, even if the intention is good, but the emperor is only fifteen, and he is willful, so he doesn't care if you are trying to calm the people's hearts, so he doesn't agree. Wasn't Lord Lu slapped in the face? How to explain to the people?

If that's the case, the person who wants to give an account to the people is not him, but the Son of Heaven! Lu De said in a triumphant heart.

He wrote the excerpt, directly used the post station, and sent it to the Son of Heaven in Chang'an as quickly as possible.

For the people of Houcheng, the day after the change of the plaque of Houcheng County, a closely related event occurred, which was that after the county keeper took office, he issued the first decree to levy conscription and build roads.

Lu Songli recently looked at the Dali Law, only to know that Dali stipulates that men are sixteen years old, and after they become adults, they are all obliged to serve in forced labor, and the age span is forty-four years.

Every adult man has to serve a month of forced labor every year.

She knew that compared with later generations, the various taxes and levies in ancient times were very heavy. In many dynasties, the tax on land was around one of ten taxes. Fifteen taxes one, twenty taxes one, and thirty taxes are all uncommon, and only strong dynasties, that is, prosperous times, dare to set it so low.

Lu Songli remembered that she had watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which the taxes of Shu Han were really heavy.

At that time, the policy implemented by Shu Han was 'three Ding draw one, four six tax', three Ding one means that if there is a male in the family, one will have to join the army, and the 46 tax means that 40% of the farmer's harvest should be handed over to the state.

You can imagine how hard the people lived at that time, but there is no way, it is good that the people in troubled times can ensure the safety of their lives, and the happiness index is not required at all.

Lu Songli is ready to build a road, starting from Chen Village, which borders Wuxian County and Liaoxi County, connecting Liaoyang and Wangping, and finally ending at Houcheng.

On the basis of the official roads of the four counties, they were widened, connected, and leveled.

In fact, at this time, it would be nice to have cement or asphalt.

But she thinks about it, asphalt is refined and decomposed from oil, even if it is, there is no such condition, but cement can still be thought about.

She knows the general composition of cement, living in an era of rapid infrastructure development, and their generation can often come into contact with cement on a daily basis.

Probably the ingredients are known, but the specific proportions are not known.

But there's no rush in this matter, wait for her brother Lu Mingzhi to make the paper.

Moreover, at this time, they are still too weak, and it is not the time to take out the cement.

Lu Songli felt that this was the time when the people of Houcheng had the most good impression of her father, and this year's conscription had not yet served, and the road construction should go smoothly, and the people should not have too much resistance.

Lu Songli guessed correctly, their conscription and road construction went smoothly.

After Geng Yuan went home, after thinking about it, he always felt that he couldn't just forget it. So he personally visited several landlords in the same circle.

After a period of discussion, they unanimously decided to send someone to probe Lu Desheng's tone and ask him if he needed silver for the construction of Liaodong County or Houcheng.

Geng Yuan: The person they entrusted was none other than the local Guo Chunsheng.

Lu Desheng: "What do they mean?" ”

Guo Chunsheng knew their intentions, and said in his heart, if you knew today, why bother in the first place?

"My lord, they probably want to lend you money."

Lu Desheng was about to go crazy, but was intercepted by the little girl, "We know about this, trouble Master Guo." ”

Guo Chunsheng saw that the situation was wrong, so he hurriedly retreated, leaving the battlefield to the Lu father and daughter.

"Girl, why don't you let your father refuse them?" Before that, Lu Desheng must have refused without saying a word.

You looked down on your brother before, but now your brother wants to make you unaffordable. Before he bowed to others, they gave him two or three thousand taels each! Look down on anyone.

Lu Songli hurriedly persuaded, "Dad, we can't get along with money." ”

"You're still short of money?" Isn't the son-in-law attacking Wangping's Black Dragon Village? I fought Heifeng Village before, and I pulled back a lot of silver, but I haven't spent it yet, right?

Lu Songli sighed, "Dad, it was just a Hou City that cost money to build, but now it is an entire eighteen counties of Liaodong County waiting to be fed, so it's not okay to prepare some money." ”

Lu Desheng was dumbfounded.

Next, for Geng Yuan and other wealthy landlords in Houcheng to take the initiative to borrow money, Lu Desheng did not refuse to come.

The girl said, if you want to do big things, you have to be morally clean, and now there are still a lot of places where Houcheng and even the entire Liaodong County have to spend money, and people trust them and are willing to lend them money to develop, why do you want to refuse?

Of course, Lu Songli also agrees with some of her father's ideas. For the treatment of Geng Yuan's batch of people, compared to Lan Bingrong, who was the first to donate generously, waiting for the opportunity, under the same conditions, it is inferior.

Lan Bingrong took the risk of taking real money to play with them, and if he made the right choice, he should be rewarded.

When Geng Yuan and the others came to the door with the silver, Lord Lu's disregard for their previous suspicions and smiling faces greeted them, which made their hearts relax.

These people are very generous in borrowing money this time, as much as 20,000 yuan, and as little as 10,000 yuan.

Boxes of silver were carried into the government one after another, and finally everyone took away an IOU stamped with the big stamp of the county guard of Liaodong County.

This time Lan Bingrong didn't come, Lu Desheng took the initiative to make up an IOU for him with the big stamp of the county guard of Liaodong County, and then arranged for someone to send him home.

When Geng Yuan and the others saw it, their hearts were sour. But they also know that they are one step slower, and it is normal for Lord Lu to look at Lan Bingrong differently.