Li Zhi looked at the Shanxi workers who were crying and didn't speak for a long time.

Li Zhi did have some sympathy for these Shanxi workers.

After crossing over, Li Zhi had the heart to save the suffering Han people. After the business flourished and the town and nine provinces were operated to the point where they are today, Li Zhi hoped to lead the Han people to expand the territory of the Chinese nation to the whole world, so that the blood of the descendants of Yan and Huang could multiply on the banks of every major river in the world.

Although Li Zhi traveled to the Jingbianfang of the Tianjin Acropolis, for Li Zhi, the traveler, he never thought that he was a native of Tianjin, nor did he put the social status of the Tianjin Acropolis, or the people of Tianjin Town, before the other people of the Ming Dynasty.

Although according to the unspoken social rules of seniority, Li Zhi also gave more benefits to those who followed him early. For example, Li Zhi was very seniority when he promoted officials, and never directly promoted newcomers who had just joined his forces.

Such a method made the officials under Li Zhi's command feel relatively safe and increased the loyalty of the entire team.

But what Li Zhi didn't expect and didn't want was that the atmosphere of paying attention to first-come, first-served permeated the locality. Li Zhi could not have imagined that the residents of Jinghai County, who had joined his forces first, would be so repulsive to newcomers. The income gap between locals and foreigners has reached such a huge level.

Income disparity is not a trivial problem, and once the economic problem is acute to a certain extent, it becomes a political and social problem. The conflict between the local population and the migrant workers has changed from silver to cultural hostility. The problem is no longer as simple as money, and it has even directly led to the loss of a wife for people like Yang Dalang.

Everyone has to have a wife, and without a wife, there is no way to reproduce. If you don't have offspring, your bloodline will be cut off at the end of your life. Yang Dalang lost his wife in Jinghai County, which made his four years of life in Jinghai County very unsuccessful, and it was even better to live a hard life in Shanxi.

It can be seen from Yang Dalang that the workers in Shanxi work hard in Jinghai County, but they don't get as much as they seem. Behind the increase in monthly money is the loss of social status, dignity and even the right to mate.

In the antagonistic mood between outsiders and locals, the culture of Jinghai County is highly distorted. The ancestral hall of Wang Yesheng, which was supposed to be used to express gratitude to Li Zhi, has changed its flavor in this cultural atmosphere, and has become a hotbed for locals to cultivate local protectionist sentiments, and a tool to strengthen the unity of locals and strengthen the exclusion and oppression of outsiders.

Therefore, the Yang brothers finally projected their anger on the Li Zhisheng Temple, which represented the superiority of the local people, and angrily cut down the statue of Li Zhi.

One town and nine provinces are developing rapidly, and the gap between the development level of other places in Daming is also widening. In the foreseeable future, because of Li Zhi's strict management, Tianjin, Shandong, Henan, and Jianghuai provinces will become more and more industrialized, and more and more migrant workers from other provinces will come to work in one town and nine provinces.

If the relationship between outsiders and locals is not properly handled, the economic development of one town and nine provinces will not bring happiness, but hatred.

Li Zhi looked at the people of Shanxi who were crying in confusion and said: "The migrant workers in Shanxi do have grievances. “

Hearing Li Zhi's words, the folk leader Qiu Kedu's eyes flashed, and his hands trembled violently with excitement.

I didn't expect the prince to say that the workers in Shanxi were wronged.

Will the prince help the workers in Shanxi?

When the people kneeling on the ground heard this, they suddenly raised their heads and looked at Li Zhi expectantly.

Will King Qi change the current situation of migrant workers' suffering?

He Qianyi, the magistrate of Jinghai County, heard Li Zhi's words and glared at him suddenly.

He knelt on the ground with a puff and said loudly: "Lord Wang, the people of Jinghai and the workers of Shanxi buy and sell fairly, and hire people according to the law, what grievances are there?" “

Li Zhi frowned and looked at He Qianyi.

With a wave of his hand, Li Zhi shouted: "More than 30 lives have been lost in Jinghai County, intensifying the contradictions between locals and outsiders, and He Qianyi bears the main leadership responsibility. Come! Take He Qianyi down! Investigate carefully. “

The guards beside Li Zhi rushed up, held down the magistrate of Jinghai County, and dragged him down.

The other officials around Li Zhi were suddenly speechless with fright.

Li Zhi wants to help migrant workers, suppress local protectionism, and change the local political structure of one town and nine provinces?

Gao Ligong, Cai Huaishui and the others looked at each other for a while, but they didn't dare to speak.

Although these officials promoted by Li Zhi are all competent, they are not great talents who have helped the country through the world, and they do not have the feelings of family and country like Li Zhi. These people were all born in Tianjin Town, and from the bottom of their hearts, they hoped to safeguard the interests of the local people in Tianjin.

Li Zhi is not happy now, and Gao Ligong, Cai Huaishui and others dare not speak. But they are unlikely to be willing to see outsiders suppress the local people and reap more dividends of economic development.

In the end, Li Xing stood up.

"Big brother, the people of one town and nine provinces are the people of big brother. There is an essential difference between migrant workers who are the people of the Son of Heaven. The local residents did not steal or rob, if the eldest brother helped the outsiders this time, I am afraid that it will hurt the hearts of the people of the nine provinces in a town. “

Li Zhi looked at Li Xing, nodded, and said, "The local people in Jinghai County, including the local people in other parts of the nine provinces in one town, have not done illegal things, and the widows can't blame them. “

"The widow will not force the natives to give up to the outsiders."

The Shanxi people who were kneeling on the ground were very disappointed when they heard Li Zhi's words. They originally hoped that Li Zhihui would come up with policies to help them, but they didn't expect Li Zhiming to say that he would not let the locals give benefits to outsiders.

In the final analysis, the contradiction between migrant workers and outsiders is a matter of interests. Because the locals completely occupy the benefits of economic development, it will make the migrant workers so bleak. If locals are not forced to make concessions, how can the status of migrant workers be improved?

How does King Qi say one sentence on the left and one sentence on the right? Who does King Qi help?

Li Xing was also stunned when he heard Li Zhi's words.

Li Zhi didn't seem to be ready to offend either side, and he didn't know how Li Zhi decided to resolve the conflict between the locals and the outsiders.

No matter how you look at it, the wisdom of the Ming people cannot solve this contradiction.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him suspiciously, Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "Bring the map." “

The guards hurriedly rummaged through the items and found a cloth map two meters long and wide. Li Zhi waved his hand, and the guards held the map high and opened it in front of everyone.

Li Zhi looked at the map for a long time.

"In the future, migrant workers will no longer need to crowd into densely populated areas to be second-class citizens, and foreigners are also Han Chinese, and Han people can build new cities in sparsely populated places with their own hands."

For a long time, Li Zhi drew a circle on the desolate saline-alkali land north of Dagu Port in Tianjin.

"We're going to build a special zone here! The name is called Beizhen! “