Chapter 15: The Birth of the Law Beast

In the face of disaster, the strength of the collective can be best reflected.

And the collective strength of Lantian County has always been incomparable.

More than 400 collapsed houses in Yushan City were re-established two months after the disaster.

The bricks and tiles in Yushan City are ready-made, and the wood is from the county seat, as for the people...... After Lian Yunzhao personally participated in the construction of the house, it was not difficult to rebuild the long row of bungalows with a herringbone beam and column structure that could accommodate 2,000 people in two months.

The bricks and tiles from the ruins were picked up, the remaining adobe was soaked in water and the foundations were re-raised, and each house had a courtyard separated by a wooden fence, in which the more industrious families had planted fruit trees.

In the past two months, there has been no military struggle in Lantian County, but the rectification movement has not stopped, and Yun Zhao is ready to engrave the belief of the Lantian family on the hearts of every Lantian person in this reconstruction work.

The house is built, the red bricks and green tiles are good-looking, row by row, one by one, the red brick gatehouse is not tall, but each family has one, if the lintel is hung on the small plaque of "filial piety home" or "glorious home", the owner will look up when he goes out, and feel superior.

In the world of the Ming Dynasty, it is pure dreaming to want people to give up the concept of hierarchy, my family eats Zangzi noodles with meat noodles, and your family eats Zangzi noodles with tofu noodles to take out and compare them, talking about equality is nonsense.

The houses in Yushan City have been built, and the houses in the rest of Lantian County are naturally in full swing.

Most of the houses that collapsed in this earthquake are adobe houses, old houses, and most of the newly built houses in recent years have been made of wood and masonry, and not many have collapsed.

When the new house was being built, the big guys worked together, but after the house was built, the government announced the distribution plan, and the whole country was in chaos.

In the past, everyone took pity on the families whose houses collapsed in the earthquake, and after the houses were built, they thought that these families would owe the government boss a sum of money...... When the big guy heard that the people of these houses could build houses as long as they paid a small amount of bricks and timber, and only needed to pay 30 yuan to the government in a month, and after ten years, the house would be owned by the family, and after ten years, more than 12,000 houses collapsed in Lantian County.

Only this time, there were no casualties.

Yun Zhao had just taken a sip of tea after returning from the construction site, and the new secretary Yang Xiong brought a document for Yun Zhao to sign and seal.

"Why are there so many houses that need to be rebuilt?" Yun Zhao hurriedly glanced at the last stats, and was a little speechless.

"Three hundred and sixty yuan a year, three thousand six hundred yuan for ten years, five taels of silver, renting a house and living in it make a lot of money, this is how the people settle accounts, they are very simple."

Yun Zhao slumped in his chair and smiled bitterly: "Isn't there a smart person who calculates an account?" ”

Yang Xiong said with a smile: "There are naturally smart people, but they were knocked out of their teeth by the people, and then they didn't dare to be smart." ”

"Don't they know that after concentrated settlement, there is a lot more land under cultivation, and the foundation area of their own residence is actually shrinking?"

"I know, but we built a brick house, not to mention beautiful and sturdy, with a reasonable layout, with a yard in front that can be used as a grain field, and a backyard where pigs, chickens, and latrines can be raised...... The most important thing is that the house has become a red brick house! ”

Yun Zhao frowned and said, "Explain this truth clearly to the people, otherwise, we will need to build more houses." ”

Yang Xiong looked at Yun Zhao's face carefully, coughed in a low voice and said: "Construction, in the past few years, the bricks and tiles accumulated in our brick kiln have been piled up, and the wood cut by the people from the Qinling Mountains has been piled up for six years, and this time these materials can be consumed."

Bricks and tiles are originally soil, Lantian County kiln mouth is numerous, the population is large, as long as these kiln workers are ordered to make bricks and tiles day and night, they can turn the soil into money, wood grows in the Qinling Mountains, countless, as long as you order people to go into the mountains to cut down, and finally turn the bricks and tiles, wood into the real wealth of my Lantian County, which is of great benefit to my Lantian County.

If possible, the lowly government suggested building more houses. ”

Yun Zhao looked up at Yang Xiong and sighed: "Everyone says that the graduates behind Yushan Academy are always inferior to the first three classes, I don't think so, but now it seems that this is indeed the case." ”

Yang Xiong was not ashamed when he heard this, and bent down to salute and said, "Please teach the senior." ”

Yun Zhao said in a low voice: "Your suggestion is actually very good, you can earn back the benefits we have given to the people of Lantian County over the years in this way."

It seems that the people have houses, we have gained money, the people are satisfied, the government is satisfied, only the earth is suffering, and the potential of the earth is infinite, and we can take it endlessly.

There is nothing wrong with that.

If the earth takes the initiative to give it, of course we can do it, but unfortunately, it is not the earth's gift, it is our selfishness and lust that drives all this.

As long as we are involved in anything, a good thing will always turn into a bad thing.

Today, you Yang Xiong are satisfied with taking 3,600 yuan from the people and the surplus land from them, tomorrow, you will feel that the money is too slow to come in this way, and the 3,600 yuan will become 36,000 yuan, and you will build a bungalow into a small building in order to save more land...... In short, there will always be a way to get money from the people.

In this way, you will find that the duties of the government have changed, and it is itself a group that manages the people, helps the people, and protects the people, and when he has a desire for profit, he becomes a group that grabs benefits from the people.

What is the difference between such a group and the current government of the Ming Dynasty?

You have taken the same course, so do you think that Xu Wu can't think of such a way to collect money when he thinks about them?

The difference between their views and yours is that they believe that the change in people's lives is a gradual process, and that people want better houses because their lives have changed greatly, so they take the initiative to pursue better houses, more delicious food, and more decent clothing.

We are the government, we can only guide them to pursue a better life, and all changes are made by the consciousness of the people, not by using stratagems on them.

All our schemes should be used on our enemies, so that they can feel the power of their schemes, and feel the pain of being calculated by us.

Instead of using stratagems against our people through the information we have, such a victory is meaningless, and one day the people will understand, and then we will lose the most precious human heart, and nothing is more important to a government than the human heart, and if we lose the human heart, even if our storehouse is full of the wealth of the whole world, it will be harmful to our cause.

For the time being, the people of Lantian County have just escaped the fear of famine, and we need to accumulate more wealth among the people, so that the people will believe every word we say, believe that they will get an unprecedented better life by following us and accepting our rule.

This is the purpose of our rectification of Lantian County this time. ”

Yang Xiong listened to Yun Zhao's words, and after being silent for a long time, he said in a low voice: "I still insist on my own opinion, but since the county lord has already made a fate, I will frankly inform every Lantian County person of this matter in the form of a document, so that they can make a choice." ”

Yun Zhao smiled when he heard this, pointed at Yang Xiong and said: "You are taking advantage of the situation, you are borrowing the general trend that my Lantian County Government has cultivated in the past ten years, you should put aside your identity and personally go to the people to tell them this truth, and see how they will react." ”

Yang Xiong said with a smile: "The lowly post only has a pair of eyes and a nose, I'm afraid it can't withstand the beating of the people, and the lowly post still thinks that it will be better to use the government's notice to inform the people." ”

Yun Zhao waved his hand and said, "In that case, you can try it, remember, be fair and confess!" ”

Yang Xiong smiled and took the document after Yun Zhao's approval, and said: "Lu Xiangsheng is now in Dali County, he does not contact the government, he takes two old servants, and treks on the land of Guanzhong with two feet. ”

"What is he doing?"

It is said that he was writing "Ghost Language", Xu Wuxiang read part of it, saying that Lu Xiangsheng thought he was dead and a ghost, but this ghost was still a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, so he walked all the way from Jingshi to Lantian County, recorded what he saw and heard along the way, what he thought, and wrote it in the form of a song, hoping that the emperor could see it......

Alas, he is too pedantic, even if he gives the emperor a book of heaven at this time, I am afraid it will not help, the danger of the Ming Dynasty is in Zhengde, neglect in Jiajing, and appear in Wanli. ”

Yun Zhao smiled, got up and patted Yang Xiong on the shoulder and said: "You are too pessimistic, there are always some people in this world who will live as gods, look at my Chinese history, this kind of number is not counted, Lu Xiangsheng insisted that there is still hope for the Ming Dynasty, then, there is nothing wrong with him working hard for this."

Remember, there is nothing wrong with anyone's efforts, there is nothing wrong with people trying to live a good life all their lives, and there is nothing wrong with people who are brave and loyal to their country, and it is these people who make our history look wonderful.

Of course, it would be a big problem to try to be a traitor like Fan Wencheng, but this is also his own choice, since he has made his choice, then, one day when he is judged by the world, he will not be able to cry out for injustice! ”

Yang Xiong nodded, shook his head again, and went out thoughtfully with the paperwork.

He has been studying in Yushan Academy for eight years, and he has long formed his own worldview, and he still can't fully accept these new, advanced ways of thinking that Yun Zhao is talking about today.

Yun Zhao knew that as long as this guy came up with an idea that could refute these theories, he would debate it again.

Yun Zhao actually doesn't care about the house, because the current situation is generally beneficial to the people.

The construction cost of five taels of silver was originally a loss, but the surplus land could be returned to the government for secondary distribution.

Land in Lantian County is expensive, and even though Yun Zhao has vigorously called on people to open up wasteland, so much so that the cultivated land area of Lantian County has tripled in the past ten years, but unfortunately, the population here has increased more than tenfold.

No matter how much fertile land people cultivate, in the end, it will always be insufficient.

And the hallmark of being a true Lantian County person is to get a piece of land that can be cultivated......

This requirement is not official, the officially recognized workers, merchants, and craftsmen are all from Lantian County, but the people still insist that the people who have a piece of land are the real locals.

It is hard to imagine that a wealthy man would personally lead his family to plough a piece of land only two acres in size.

It's hard to imagine that this guy with a caravan would collect what he thought was the best dirt on his way to business, eventually take it home, steam it, and then scatter it on his own land.

The land of the people of Lantian County is extremely precious, and it is basically impossible to obtain the land in the form of buying, but as long as it is a newborn whose parents are registered, regardless of gender, he (she) will automatically obtain a piece of land.

Nowadays, the newborns in Lantian County are allocated only one acre and three points of land.

This is one thing that can't be helped, the land resources are constant, but the population is skyrocketing, fortunately, the people of Lantian County do not need to rely on the land to eat, and more commercial activities support the livelihood of the people of Lantian County.

It is because of this that disaster reduction and relief activities in Lantian County have become profitable.

Lu Xiangsheng squatted in the field, pinched a handful of soil, then let go, checked the soil in his hand, and thought to Xu Wu: "The moisture is very good." ”

Xu Wuxiang pointed to the wheat that was about to be harvested in the field and said, "At this time, you should look at the wheat field to judge the moisture, instead of grabbing a handful of soil." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "I'm not pedantic, I want to cultivate my way of seeing things." ”

"Look at the roots?"

"Yes, look at the fundamentals, for many years, my eyes have been obscured by floating clouds, and now I want to re-understand the world through my hands and feet."

Xu Wuxiang smiled and said, "What did you see in Dali County?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng thought for a moment and said, "I see equality. ”

"Where did you see that?"

Lu Xiangsheng took out a proclamation from his arms and handed it to Xu Wuxiang, "Your Lantian County Government respectfully tells the people. ”

Xu Wuxiang took the proclamation and glanced at it and said, "This is an announcement to prevent people from destroying their own houses in exchange for disaster relief housing. ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said: "Just this announcement, it shows that Lantian County has not deceived and concealed anything, and so on, everything you do to the people is selfless." ”

Xu Wuxiang shook his head and said: "It's not that you say everything, the means are still necessary, and it's not a good thing to tell the people everything."

You must understand that it is not a certain person who rules Lantian County, but the "law"! It's not Yunzhao, it's not Confucianism, the government is the rule, it's the truth, and it's the last reliance of the people.

These explanations in Lantian County are based on the "law", not on some kind of truth, and not on the embodiment of the benevolence and righteousness of scholars to govern the world.

The reason why we make a fair comparison between the disaster relief houses and the original houses of the people, and finally give a more fair number, is that according to the laws of Lantian County, it must be said. ”

Lu Xiangsheng smiled, sat on the edge of the ditch, washed his hands, and then stood on the edge of the wheat field and said, "A big disaster, does it have no impact on Lantian County?" ”

Xu Wuxiang said coldly: "In the past ten years, Lantian County has suffered six droughts, one flood, and this time the earth dragon turned over, a total of eight disasters. ”

Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while and said: "It's no different from many states and counties in Henan!" ”

Xu Wuxiang frowned, took out a piece of paper from his arms and read: "This is the place where we are most proud of Lantian County, we use facts to tell the people of the world that people can conquer disasters, as long as everyone is united, the great disasters can also be carried over, since ancient times, our ancestors have relied on this ability to survive in this land with difficulty."

What our ancestors could do, we can do.

This time the Earth Dragon's turnaround is just a small thing, we have suffered worse things in the past, and even more unfortunate things will happen in the future.

It doesn't matter, as long as we live, we can turn over again and again, and in the end, we will still be the masters of this land.

Mr. Lu, welcome to Lantian County, which is still the land of Daming, and will be the land of Daming in the future.

There is nothing wrong with the Ming Dynasty, the sun and the moon are bright, and we are the light!

It is the emperor, the scholars, the local tyrants and gentry who are at fault, and each and every one of us.

And Lantian County is a place where mistakes are being corrected!

Our self-reliance is not to be an emperor, a magnat, or a rich man, but to self-repair, self-awakening, and self-rejuvenation in the Ming world.

The Zhu Ming Dynasty is not the only master of this land, each of us is, and this land belongs to each of us.

Mr. Lu, Lantian County belongs to all the people of the Ming Dynasty and to every Han family.

In the past ten years, we have accepted all the people who come to Lantian County, whether they are royal relatives or relatives, scholars, scholars, merchants, farmers, handicraftsmen, even beggars can live well here!

Because, this is their land, and they have the right to live here. ”

Lu Xiangsheng waited for Xu Wuxiang to finish reading it impassionedly before he reached out to ask for the letter, frowning and said, "How can you bring out my belief?" ”

Xu Wu thought and said: "This is arranged by the county honor, if I want to read this sentence to you at the right time and at the right time, the effect will be better." ”

Lu Xiangsheng put the letter into his sleeve, looked at the field with his hands behind his back for a while, and thought to Xu Wu: "The law is nothing, the Ming Dynasty takes the pig as the external manifestation, what does Lantian use as the external manifestation?" ”

Xu Wu thought and said, "Lu Xiangsheng! Lu Xiangsheng, who has suffered hardships, said that the Lu Xiangsheng in the past was like a jade, like a meteoric iron, such as a grain valley, and now Lu Xiangsheng is like a white jade, like a divine soldier, like a grain ear hanging his head, which can be of great use. ”

Lu Xiangsheng looked up at the sun and said, "It's low!" ”

Xu Wuxiang immediately said: "Like the rising sun, like the tide of the sea, like the ......"

Lu Xiangsheng stopped Xu Wu from continuing to brag, retracted his sleeves with both hands and said, "The status of the law is low. ”

Xu Wu thought: "It's not low......"

Lu Xiangsheng looked up to the sky and yelled at the blue sky: "It's low! ”

Xu Wuxiang also said loudly: "It's not low." ”

Lu Xiangsheng stared at Xu Wu and thought: "In the past, when Yao was the emperor, he raised a hedgehog in his palace, and whenever the hedgehog met a treacherous official in the palace, he would use his horn to knock over the treacherous official, and then eat it.

Xu Wu thought, you tell Yun Zhao that I want such power. ”

Xu Wuxiang smiled and said: "Fortunately, you are in my Lantian County to take on the responsibility of the pig, if you are in the Daming Palace, you may be strangled to death."

This is the statement of duty of you, the chief justice, see for yourself! ”

As he spoke, he took out a thick document from his arms and handed it to Lu Xiangsheng, turned around and left, Lu Xiangsheng grabbed him and said, "Are you leaving?" ”

Xu Wu wanted to pat Lu Xiangsheng's hand away and said: "Before this, you were a distinguished guest, and my local official naturally wanted to accompany you to show respect, now, the summer harvest is imminent, we are colleagues, I am a busy mess of official business, where can I have time to serve you."

Your servants and subordinates are waiting for you at the pavilion, and you are also busy building your official office, I think, you don't have time to rely on my Dali County anymore. ”

After speaking, he really left.

Lu Xiangsheng shouted at Xu Wuxiang: "My hedgehog can really eat people!" ”

Xu Wuxiang waved his hand from afar and said, "You can't even eat my hair in this life!" ”

The rectification campaign will always bear fruit......

This is the reason why Yun Zhao appointed Lu Xiang to be promoted to the rank of justice.

For now, Lu Xiangsheng is the most suitable person for this position that Yun Zhao can find, whether it is from his nature, or his family background, or his experience, and the fearless determination he has shown, this person is the best choice, and in addition, he himself was unjustly imprisoned, although he survived with a very dishonor, which gave him a further understanding of the judicial system of the Ming Dynasty.

Lantian County can no longer grow wildly, and needs orderly and purposeful development.

In the final analysis, time is on Yun Zhao's side, no matter how the various forces outside develop, it is impossible to be faster than Lantian County.

Give Yunzhao another five years, and a Lantian County with a complete system will stand in Guanzhong.

Lu Xiangsheng read the book in the pavilion for five days, and when he opened the door and went out on the sixth day, he said to his young subordinates: "Go back to Lantian County." ”

He had many subordinates, a full sixty subordinates, twelve scribes, one hundred and sixty fully armed armor soldiers, three hundred war horses, ten carriages, and thirty thousand new silver dollars, and six blank appointment papers signed by Yun Zhao without their names written on them.

This was the first large-scale decentralization of power in Lantian County, and it was also the first time that Yun Zhao had so easily handed over an extremely important department to an outsider who was not a Lantian bandit or from Yushan Academy.

"Your arrangement for Lao Lu is good!"

Hong Chengchou, who had been relieved of military power again, fell on a chair opposite Yun Zhao, and his words were light and light, but his eyes did not leave Yun Zhao's face.

"I didn't arrange it, he sent himself to this position, the position of the chief judge is in addition to him, if you can find a more suitable person than him, I will lose."

Yun Zhao's hands did not stop, and he quickly reviewed the documents and handed them to Yang Xiong, who was guarding the side.

After handling the business, Yun Zhao added tea to Hong Chengchou's teacup, sat beside him and said, "What's the matter, I can't hold it?" ”

Hong Chengchou pointed to the location of his heart and said, "I can't stand it here." ”

Yun Zhao said: "I heard that you are going to be the commander of the nine sides. ”

Hong Chengchou said: "I can't take it, I don't want to go to Liaodong ......"

Yun Zhao smiled: "If you can leave it, then come to me, but you can only serve as the county commander of a certain county." ”

Hong Chengchou smiled, picked up the teacup and said, "A word is a certainty." ”

Yun Zhao took the map and pointed to Qingshui County: "Go here?" ”

Hong Chengchou shook his head and said, "Keep it for me." ”

Yun Zhao frowned and said, "Why don't you come over now?" ”

Hong Chengchou smiled, pointed to Jingshi and said: "I want to follow the same path as Brother Jiandou, and come to Lantian County after I die, which can be regarded as a new life." ”

"A beginning and an end?"

Hong Chengchou sighed and said: "There must be a beginning and an end, if you can't even do this, you will look down on me, at that time, you may not be willing to hand over a county to me."

I'm not afraid to go to the battlefield, and I'm not without fighting Jiannu, but Liaodong - in fact, it's not the world of the Ming Dynasty anymore.

I asked His Majesty to give a lesson, hoping that the heavy troops would stick to Shanhaiguan, and I was willing to be demoted to the post of Shanhaiguan Commander-in-Chief to be the last barrier to defend the imperial city, and I was reprimanded by Your Majesty.

That's what I really want to do, to build a steel line in three years, and then build on that solid line and gradually push north......"

Yun Zhao was taken aback and said, "You want to give up the north of Shanhaiguan?" ”

Hong Chengchou shook his head and said: "There is chaos there, the subordinates are not the same, the generals do not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals, the generals have all their own ghosts, and there are a thousand strategies in the stomach of the civil officials that sound righteous but are actually useless."

The Manchu Qing were sparsely populated, and even now the whole clan was less than 500,000 people, and if they gave him some land, they would need more soldiers and horses to defend it, and as long as their soldiers and horses were scattered and stationed, they would have every chance to break through.

If they don't divide their troops, then this land is still ownerless, and it doesn't make much sense to give it up or not.

This is not the case for my Ming Dynasty, every time the defense line is advanced to the north, the consumption will increase by thirty percent, and after three hundred miles, the consumption will increase by half.

Defeating the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not an overnight thing, my Ming Dynasty has a vast territory, but it is weaker than the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Liao Liao accounts for seventy percent of my Ming Dynasty's military expenditure, and there is no progress every year...... Alas! ”

Yun Zhao shook his head after hearing Hong Chengchou's words and said, "You came up with this idea, the emperor didn't cut off your head, and he is already considered a saint." ”

Hong Chengchou laughed and said: "I can't bear to throw the silver into Liaodong for decades!" Everyone carry it until the day when they can't bear it, and then accept my strategy, and you will find that it is too late.

It's just that, by doing so, it will cheapen you, and your battle line will retreat even more! ”

As Hong Chengchou spoke, he drew a line with a brush on the map that Yun Zhao hung on the wall, which was very close to the line that Yun Zhao had drawn a year ago.

This line starts from Lantian City and goes all the way to the Yangtze River.

After Hong Chengchou drew this line, he staggered away, as if he was drinking wine and not tea just now, Yun Zhao understood his mind very well, when a person wants to get drunk, he will get drunk with anything.

He avoided Lu Xiangsheng and left Yushan City on the first day of Lu Xiangsheng's entry into Yushan City, and did not return to Xi'an, but left Tongguan and went to Henan.

He came to Lantian County for only one purpose - to find a home for his heart that has no sustenance, and to prove to this destination that he still has use value.

Hong Chengchou is a person who does not believe in affection, perhaps because officials have not had much confidence in affection after being a long-term official.

In his eyes, if a person wants to be valued by another person, the only criterion for consideration is to have use value.

He measured it for a very long time, only Yun Zhao was the most comfortable here, and the one on the map was his letter of surrender.

Yun Zhao and Lu Xiangsheng sat all night on the newly repaired stargazing platform of Yushan Academy, and neither of them was in the mood to speak that night.

There are two small square tables in front of the two, and there are the same dishes on the table, one meat, one vegetarian, one soup, one bowl of rice, and one jar of wine.

didn't say anything, but the food was eaten cleanly, and the two jars of wine accompanied the two from the starry sky until the sun came out, and the red glow was everywhere.

When the wine is drunk, people are not drunk, and some wine is originally drunk and sober.

"Lu Xiangsheng is dead, and from now on I will be a magic beast named - Hedgehog."

"In the future, the justices of Lantian County will have only one name, and their name is - Hedgehog!"

"Can the pig fight against Yao Shun?"

"Not at this stage, after all, in the legend, the hedgehog is a fierce beast raised by Yao."

"When can I hit it?"

"When everyone in the world thinks that the emperor cannot be lawless."

"It may have been a little late then, and the sin of sin had already been created."

"Overthrowing the emperor always requires an extremely heavy price, and Lantian County is no exception."

"You are not a selfless person."

"So, don't take me as a saint, my name is Yun Zhao, my nature is a wild boar spirit, I want to use my nose to arch a door of light for everyone, and pierce the gatekeeper with my fangs, so that the people of the Ming world have a chance to see what the other world is like."

"Are you sure that world is better than our current world?"

"I don't make promises, I'm just letting everyone see, and if it doesn't work, it's not a big deal to go back."

Lu Xiang ascended the Jade Mountain, and on the third day, he beheaded Gao Pei, the magistrate of Suide County, in the name of the hedgehog!