Chapter 176: Illusion Vision
The scene in front of him gradually became illusory, with a white mist rising in the courtyard, and the surrounding figures looming. Ye Xingyuan knew that this was not a change in the weather, but a change in the heavens, and he was about to enter the deduction space of the strategy.
Ye Xingyuan was also encountering this kind of exam for the first time, and he was quite curious, looking around, he saw the mist steaming, and finally covered everything, but when it dispersed, it had already changed.
He was in a back office, with blue bricks under his feet, white walls on all sides, and a stack of official documents on the table in front of him, which was being blown by the breeze. The sunlight outside the window was dazzling, and through the small window, it fell to the ground and was mottled.
"Is this the illusion of strategy deduction? The change of heaven is so real!" Ye Xingyuan was amazed, he got up and circled around the case in front of him. I found that I was wearing a brown regular uniform and a black veil on my head, which was no longer the appearance of a blue-shirted scholar in the examination room, but the dress of a seven-grade official.
In the illusion, Ye Xingyuan's identity is a county magistrate, and the situation is not serious. But the so-called spark can start a prairie fire, it depends on how he deals with containment and nips in the bud this change that may overthrow a dynasty.
"I didn't expect that I hadn't been promoted in the exam, but I would first experience what it was like to be an official. Ye Xingyuan muttered to himself. If you are unmotivated, shaking the official authority at such a time is also an experience, and those who are not strong-minded may get lost in it.
However, Ye Xingyuan knew in his heart that this was an exam, so he took out a volume from the official document and looked at it carefully. I saw that the data in the article was detailed and the description was true, and there was no omission, and there was no difference between it and the official document of a real county.
Although the names and characters of the places are all fabricated, the relevant information and current situation are completely true. At this time, it is indeed the 2,728 years of the Xuanyuan calendar, the last twenty years of the Great Qian Dynasty, it seems that there is a lot of prosperity and prosperity, but there is already an undercurrent surging underneath.
Pingchuan County, located in the northwest. Due to the prolonged drought, the land was abandoned. The people have been displaced, and they have secretly gathered, echoing with the surrounding counties, preparing to leave their homes and flee the famine.
It's not that the county is unaware of the situation, but it can't do anything about it. Although the imperial court said that it issued an edict for relief, no materials were delivered, and there was no grain in the warehouse.
Although there is no time in this virtual space, if you don't deal with it as soon as possible. Naturally, the exile incident will intensify, and in the end, as in history, the imperial court will be overthrown. There is no doubt that Ye Xingyuan's exam will be a fiasco.
The key to Ye Xingyuan's strategy is to curb the displacement as much as possible when it first rises. As far as the provincial test is concerned, as long as his method can have a little effect, and can delay or reverse the situation a little, it is enough to make his strategy effective.
As for turning the tide, this is not something that can be done at the level of people. Even today's big guys in the DPRK and China are facing this situation. There may not be a proper solution, and after all, we have to try to walk on thin ice.
"There's still time to go. Ye Xingyuan finished reading the official document on the table and had a certain understanding of the situation in the county. Use a red pen to draw circles in several places, thoughtfully.
Dealing with displaced people. Ye Xingyuan has some experience, but there are still differences between the homeless people in this era and the Jingchu homeless people. After all, the Jingchu area was affected by the disaster, but it was only a few years. Moreover, the surrounding provinces are barely smooth, and they have not reached the point of desperation.
But Pyeongcheon County is different. The river has long dried up, and the people have been struggling for years. The most important thing is that there is no hope, Ye Xingyuan, who is familiar with history books, naturally knows that in the next few years, there will be a severe drought in the northwest, locust plagues will break out everywhere, and the displaced people will have no future at all.
Even if he can use some small means to appease everyone for a period of time, after all, it will be a symptom but not a cure, and without a steady stream of food to be delivered, it is impossible to help the victims in the northwest for a long time.
If Ye Xingyuan is in a high position, he may be able to find a way to mobilize the power of the whole country to relieve the disaster in the northwest. But his identity in this fantasy realm is only a county order in a corner of the place, what can be done to turn things around?
In the Gongyuan, the examiners who patrolled the field reported to Wang Xuezheng, "Lord Qiyu, the provincial test policy questions have been sent out, and most of the candidates have already hooked the heavens and begun to make a fuss in the fantasy world. ”
Wang Xuezheng bowed slightly, and his eyes unconsciously glanced at Ye Xingyuan in the examination shed not far away. Now his eyes are slightly closed, and he is sitting upright, obviously sinking into the illusion.
Do you think you are the best at dealing with the homeless people? This time, you will suffer a big loss! Wang Xuezheng's face was expressionless, but he kept sneering in his heart, and his eyes turned and fell on Qin Lin in the other direction. This candidate hated Ye Xingyuan to the core, and now he was also in the illusion, but there was still resentment on his face.
Of course, Ye Xingyuan didn't know anything about this, he took a group of people out of the county government and visited various townships. I saw that the seedlings were scorched and withered, the streams dried up, and there was not even a single grass in many places, and I couldn't help but sigh.
"My lord, there has been no rain in the county in March, but I am afraid that this year's harvest will not reach 20% of previous years. "In the illusion, Ye Xingyuan, the county official, is also equipped with a master, his face is wrinkled, and he worries about the country and the people all day long, but unfortunately he can't come up with any good ideas.
Ye Xingyuan smiled bitterly: "Where do you have to wait until then, the people in the township will run out of food, if the next batch of relief from the imperial court is not enough, within a few days, there will be changes." ”
The peasants are not stupid, knowing that this year's harvest is almost gone, and there is no relief, can they wait for death in the countryside? Now everyone can still eat wild vegetables and tree bark, and in a few days, these things will be eaten cleanly, can they really eat the soil?
Now that sporadic escapes have begun, if nothing else, once the news of the failure of the imperial court relief to arrive in time spreads, a large-scale outflow of people will inevitably break out within three days.
With Pingchuan County as the source, the surrounding counties echoed together, and finally the mighty and mighty, tens of thousands of displaced people crossed the border, and finally caused a great chaos that lasted for more than ten years, and the world was overturned.
The master said in a hurry: "Then the lord should go to the book as soon as possible and ask the court to release grain as soon as possible, if the displaced people go out of the county, it will be like a tiger out of the county, and there is no way to restrain it." At that time, not only was the future of the adults gone, but I was afraid that this big dry world would be shocked!"
Ye Xingyuan sighed again and said: "The people are like water, the king is like a boat, water can carry a boat and can overturn a boat, don't I know? But at this time, the imperial court is also in a hurry, the north is not stopping, there are demon sects in the south, and there are Haikou in the east, so I can't take care of it."
In the land south of the Yangtze River, the land annexed by the vassal kings, families, and gentry, and evaded finances and taxes, so that the treasury was empty, where could we take care of the chaotic people in this small northwest land?"
The Great Qian Dynasty is also unlucky, although it still looks like a behemoth at this time, but it is not peaceful anywhere, in order to suppress the demon clan, the north has to pay millions of soldiers, and the annual food and salary are essential.
There are so-called vegetable eaters in the south, holding high the banner of righteousness, coming and going between the water and the mo, and the court can't suppress it for a while. On the eastern side of the sea, there are all kinds of pirate demons, plundering ships, and sometimes even going ashore to sweep up, which greatly affects the income of trade.
As for the land south of the Yangtze River, it was originally rich, but because the court divided the kings, and enjoyed the country for a long time, families from all over the country married, and the relationship was intertwined, which did not occupy thousands of hectares of fertile land.
According to the rules of the Great Qian Dynasty, those who have meritorious service can be exempted from money and grain, so only a very small number of people need to pay taxes in the fertile fields south of the Yangtze River, and the country's finances are becoming more and more tight.
In this case, if the treasury has a little money and grain, it must first focus on other places, where it is the turn of the barren land in the northwest. Besides, although it can't be said that he is indulging in pleasure today, his temperament is also a little extravagant and extravagant, what is it that a few people starved to death in the northwest, and no matter how much he has surplus, he must first take care of the dignity of the imperial court.
Therefore, although Ye Xingyuan had already written the book, he also knew in his heart that it was impossible for this imperial court relief to come in a short period of time. Soon after, the displaced people rebelled, and the imperial court used this as an excuse to completely cut off the northwest disaster relief, but instead mobilized a large army to suppress it, probably in order to save such a sum of money and food.
At that time, the bigwigs of the DPRK and China probably thought that these mud legs in the northwest could not turn the sky upside down, but they did not expect that after more than ten years, one after another, the army was exhausted, and after all, they could not suppress these hungry victims. In the end, they became the climate and completely overthrew the towering 400-year-old Great Qian Dynasty.
Ye Xingyuan knew all these in his heart, but unfortunately, even if he said it to his master at this time, he was only playing the piano to the cow, even if he went to the imperial court, his status as a mere seven-grade person was simply indifferent and useless.
The focus of this strategy is that people are in this position, how to deal with the displaced people as much as possible, such a desperate situation makes Ye Xingyuan helpless for the time being.
I remember that when the displaced people rebelled, many magistrates in the northwest were even eaten by the hungry because of their harsh behavior on weekdays. Some of the timid ones hanged themselves in the yazhong, in short, there are not many people who can get good results, Ye Xingyuan doesn't want to fall into this kind of ending.
He thought for a while and said, "The relief has not yet arrived, and this matter is difficult to settle, but no matter what, since our generation is here, we must try our best to find a way." Master, let's visit the villagers and see what is going on in their minds. ”
Although there are thousands of displaced people, most of them are actually ordinary people, and on the eve of this great change, what did they think in their hearts, and why did they eventually develop into a rebellion against officials?
What history says is nothing more than the collective behavior of the homeless. But how could a cowardly peasant who is honest and cowardly dare to shoulder the mandate of heaven and do something that is easy to do? There must be a reason for this.
Ye Xingyuan didn't know what would happen to the villagers in Pingchuan County, but other roads didn't work, so he always had to try to read more and ask more questions, and after learning more about the situation, he would think about how to write this policy.
He was in a fantasy world, but he unconsciously felt compassion again. The sword spirit in the sea of consciousness buzzed, and the light flickered, if there was substance, but Ye Xingyuan himself did not notice it for the time being. (To be continued......)