Chapter Twenty-Five: Illusion! A knife that kills without seeing blood!

Specific things, Yun Zhao didn't want to meddle in the original.

However, the young Lantian regime did not have a deep foundation, and had not yet had time to sum up its own unique way of governing, so Yun Zhao had to use some of the experience in his mind.

A person's intelligence depends on the breadth of the message he receives.

To put it mildly, the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty at this time did not know much more about the world than the people in the Tang and Song dynasties, and it can even be said that they knew less.

In order to consolidate its rule, the Zhu dynasty ruthlessly restricted the free movement of the common people, and except for some special classes, such as scholars who could lead the way around the world, even the movement of merchants was severely restricted.

From birth to death, it is not uncommon for a person not to go thirty miles from the place of birth.

At this time, it is impossible to expect these illiterate and disaster-ridden people to embrace the new world enthusiastically.

Enthusiastic poets will praise the simplicity of the people, and good officials who want to lead the people forward will despair of the people who are too simple.

Simplicity represents stubbornness and immutability.

At this time, Daming has entered a new era that requires flexible operation of the brain.

The people have not kept up with the times, and this is the worst situation.

When the simple people learned that their supreme leader was coming, they welcomed Yun Zhao's arrival with the way of eating pot pulp.

The legendary county lord came, and the general soup and rice, water and wine were not enough to express the enthusiasm of the people, so they killed six pigs...... also cleverly invited a few elders to send them to Yun Zhao's place.

Ordinary pork was naturally distributed to the officials and black-clothed people who followed it.

In order to prevent the officials from misdividing the best thing - the pig's head, they deliberately marked the fat pig's head - so Yun Zhao naturally saw a pig's head named after the county honor.

Yun Zhao was very satisfied, this pig's head was the fattest, a circle larger than Feng Ying's pig's head, especially the pair of ears the size of a pu fan was Yun Zhao's favorite.

Xu Wu thought that there was no pig's head.

Therefore, his face was extremely ugly, and the faces of the other lieutenants from Lantian who did not have pig's heads were also extremely ugly, and some of them were already about to be angry.

They really didn't expect these stupid lieutenants to do such a thing unexpectedly.

Before Xu Wuxiang was about to explode into protective anger, Yun Zhao said that this was very good, especially this pig's head with the word "county honor" on its ears must be extremely delicious if it is cooked in enough heat.

As for the pig's head with the word "lady" on it, it is best to cut it open, boil the pig's head, and then take off the meat, a layer of meat skin, a layer of head meat, a layer of ears and tongue, wrap it in gauze, and press it with a bluestone slab overnight...... Tsk, with dipping sauce and sake, it tastes great!

In the following time, Xu Wuxiang kept wiping the beads of sweat on his head to want Yun Zhao to understand that these people were just stupid, and they definitely didn't mean to offend the county honor, not at all—they were just simple or stupid.

Yun Zhao smiled......

The cooks who ordered the army to cook the pig's heads, and specially invited the local elders to drink together.

At the beginning of the banquet, these local elders trembled one by one, and after drinking a few glasses of wine, they found that Yun Zhao was a kind person and always laughing and groaning, and their courage gradually grew.

Some people say that the new grain is not good, the potatoes do not grow big, the corn does not bear cobs, and the high-yield buckwheat is not high-yielding, but the sweet potato is a good thing, and it is common for an acre of land to be thousands of catties.

It's just that people who eat too much sweet potatoes are easy to vomit sour water, and they can't sell it, and the government can't do anything about it, so every family has saved a cellar of sweet potatoes......

Hearing them say this, Yun Zhao glanced sideways at the chief from Lantian who always said that there was not enough food to eat, and was so frightened that the guy shrunk his neck and stopped talking, hoping that those stupid turtles would not say anything that they shouldn't say.

When they calculate grain production, they have long included sweet potatoes in the vegetable category.

In Lantian, sweet potatoes can only be recorded at 10% of the price of the same weight of grain.

However, the Lantian people are really using sweet potatoes as vegetables, they prefer the leaves of sweet potatoes, and as for the sweet potatoes produced, basically except for feeding livestock, the rest are used to grind starch to make vermicelli.

And starch, vermicelli is to be entered into the commercial account......

As long as the number of sweet potatoes is smaller, then Lantian will have more food for the people of Hanzhong.

This is a hidden use policy, as long as Lantian does not find out, he can always receive subsidies, and the extra grain will become Hanzhong's savings, and with the savings, he can carry out commercial activities...... For example, turn all the sweet potatoes into vermicelli......

Yun Zhao decided not to sweep everyone's drinking, pretended not to know, and continued to drink with those locals who were the mayor for the first time.

There are 113,671 households in Hanzhong Mansion!

Before the thieves wreaked havoc in Hanzhong, there were more than 67,000 Dingkou in Nanzheng County alone, and Hanzhong Prefecture had jurisdiction over 11 counties of Nanzheng, Chenggu, Yangxian, Chuxian, Xixiang, Zhenba, Ningqiang, Luoyang, Liuba, Foping, and Baocheng.

In other words, in the more than ten years that the thieves were rampant, Hanzhong lost more than sixty percent of the population.

"I have made it very clear in the document that if the land of Hanzhong wants to truly restore its former vitality, it not only needs the support of Lantian, but at the same time, the sparse population is also a big problem."

After sending off the lieutenants, Yun Zhao and Xu Wu wanted to walk along the path in the back garden of the mansion, and when Xu Wu wanted to speak, his voice was low, and he even felt a little tired.

"What improvements have you made?"

"Gathering the population and attracting the population, before, Yang Xiong was in charge of this aspect of things in Hanzhong, and the results were remarkable. People in mountainous areas left the mountains and forests and began to gradually migrate to places with convenient transportation, abundant water sources and flat land.

It is precisely because too many people have come out of the mountains and forests that the development of Hanzhong has been stagnant.

Some people who came out of the mountains and forests did not even have a fig leaf, and some people who survived alone from the mountains and forests even forgot how to speak.

I thought there was something wrong with our policy. ”

"Oh? Tell me about it? ”

"We can't wait for the thieves to completely destroy some good places and then rebuild from the ruins, so we need too much time, too much money."

"So, don't you approve of what Zhou Guoping and the others are doing in Nanjing?"

"Yes!"

"Hey, I thought you'd object."

"What I oppose is to let Li Hongji and Zhang Bingzhong continue to wreak havoc on the Ming Dynasty."

Yun Zhao looked at the distant mountains and said: "It is not only Li Hongji and Zhang Bingzhong who are ravaging the Ming Dynasty, but also the emperor, the imperial family, officials, landlords, Haoqiang, giants, and clans.

You mean it's up to us to destroy these people?

It's nothing more than breaking some bottles and cans, and to be honest, I don't care! ”

Xu Wu looked at Yun Zhao and said, "Are you going to break the old world and create a new world with your own hands?" ”

Yun Zhao smiled: "I am willing to share my own power with the people of the world, do you think I will allow those old power classes to continue to hold power in our new world?"

Why?

Should those in power stay in power forever?

It's time for a change.

Xu Wu thought, you have become cowardly. ”

Yun Zhao pressed his hands on Xu Wuxiang's shoulders and said his thoughts earnestly, then left, leaving the sluggish Xu Wuxiang in the local area.

After Yun Zhao returned to the station, he was in a very bad mood, and he keenly noticed that those who had been determined earlier were slowly transforming.

This is not a good sign.

Xu Wu wanted to return home, but he was also restless.

He also suddenly found that his thinking seemed to be unable to keep up with Yun Zhao's thinking changes.

He doesn't admit that he's become cowardly, and he feels as if he's not changing.

When his gentle wife Adele brought him a cup of tea, he took a sip before complaining that today's tea was not delicious, so he heard Adele say: "The county is here, don't drink the tongue." ”

For some reason, Xu Wuxiang looked down at the comfortable and exquisite shoes on his feet, the green robe on his body, and the jade pendant hanging from his waist, and then raised his hand to touch the exquisite hairpin, Xu Wuxiang set off a storm in his heart.

At this moment, Xu Wuxiang is more like a prefect than a Lantian official......

Xu Wuxiang slowly raised his head and looked at his docile wife and said, "When the county is gone, you will take the children back to Lantian Manor and take care of them." ”

Adele was taken aback and said, "What should you do?" ”

Xu Wuxiang slowly took out the green jade hairpin from the bun and put it on the table, then took off the jade pendant and put it on the table, looked at his wife Adei calmly and said: "I have promised the country with my body, and life and death are idle things." ”

"Me, I can't take care of it?" Ah Dai saw that her husband's face was full of pockmarked pits, and the pain was about to distort, and she was a little scared.

Xu Wuxiang held Ade's hand and said: "It's my blessing to be able to marry you, but it's your bad luck, Xu Wuxiang was born poor, and when he met the county honor, he became a Dapeng with wings."

I, a Dapeng bird, can't just take care of my family, I have to protect the world with my wings open.

Since we got married, although we have no shortage of food and clothing, we are not rich after all, and I owe you a lot for this. ”

Hearing her husband say this, Ade's pretty face was slightly red, and she said in a low voice: "I just like ugly." ”

Xu Wuxiang smiled bitterly: "In order to get close to you back then, I did use some means. ”

"You mean that rabbit master named Zhang Ruoyu?"

"He is not a rabbit master, but a great husband, now, he is being the mayor of Xiangyang Gucheng County, I forced him to pretend to be a rabbit master, otherwise I am not half sure of winning your favor."

Adele laughed and said, "That's why you always follow me?" ”

Xu Wu thought: "It was I who suddenly discovered that I didn't seem to have come out of the false illusion of the year. ”

"Coming out now?"

"Come out, so, you have to learn to accept a real Xu Wuxiang from now on......"