About an hour later, the carriage carrying the three people had already left the east gate of Yuejing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It is said that it is out of the city gate, but it is still surrounded by dense houses, but it is much more chaotic than the orderly city, and the houses in the east and west are gathered together, and beyond the straight and wide gallop of the city gate, there are countless such settlements.

"The main reason why Lao Chen came out today is to take a look at these places." Quan Yun pointed to the chaotic settlements and said. "Your Majesty, in the past few years, the number of people in the capital has almost doubled, the city is overcrowded, and outside the city, it is not quiet."

Looking at this large area of settlements, Qin Feng was also a little speechless.

"I hadn't noticed that before."

Quan Yun smiled and said, "Your Majesty has a lot of opportunities, and such a trivial matter will naturally not be handed over to Your Majesty's desk." ”

Qin Feng glanced at Quan Yun and said in his heart, you guy is only afraid that he will deal with more things than me every day, is this laughing at me for not being diligent enough?

"What's the problem here?" He asked.

"It's a big problem!" Quan Yun said slowly: "Originally, there were large areas of fertile land outside the city, but with the large number of people gathering in Yuejing City, the city content is not small, so some people have built such a batch of houses outside the city to rent them out to outsiders who have no housing in the city or cannot afford to live in the city. ”

"This man has a lot of brains!" Qin Feng smiled: "I think it's a lot of income. ”

"Of course it's a lot of income, Your Majesty, don't look at these houses, it's very hot in summer and extremely cold in winter, but it's just such a small house, and the rent for a month is one or two silver."

"A tael of silver?" Qin Feng was a little stunned, the room that Quan Yun pointed to was really too small. He still knows the income of the people in Yuejing, as long as he is diligent, it is not too difficult to earn three or five taels of silver a month, but for such a small room, it costs one or two silver, which is inevitably too expensive.

"yes, a tael of silver." Quan Yun nodded: "But this kind of thing, the court can't control it, one is willing to fight, the other is willing to suffer, it's not a big deal." ”

"Then you're going out to see here today?" Qin Feng looked at the other party with some astonishment.

"Your Majesty, it's not because of this." Quan Yundao: "It's these places, which are the most chaotic areas in the city of Yuejing, with an average of one homicide every day. As for other small cases, there are countless of them, and Jian Fang, the deputy commander of the City Gate Army in charge of public security, is almost anxious about this, and will be reprimanded by the Criminal Department almost every month. ”

"How many people live here?" Qin Feng asked.

"Your Majesty only sees the area around the East City Gate, if you count all the populations of these settlements outside the Yuejing City, I am afraid that there will be more than 200,000 people. This is only statistical data, and I don't know how many black households are hiding in the meantime. If all of these are taken into account, 300,000 is more than enough. "Kwon Yundao.

Qin Feng couldn't help but be speechless, 300,000 people, this is a large county town.

"There are a lot of fish and dragons here, everyone has it, and in less than two years, it has almost become a big tumor in Yuejing." Kwon Yundao.

"Shousuke wants to rule this place?" Qin Feng asked.

Quan Yun nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty, the population of 300,000 is equivalent to the people of a large county town, if it is not included in the orderly order, in the long run, I am afraid that it will become more and more difficult to govern." ”

"What's the difficulty?" Looking at Quan Yun's slightly frowning brows, Qin Feng asked understandingly.

"Land." Quan Yun smiled bitterly: "The old minister has the intention to put this matter on the agenda this year, so he asked someone to check it, but it turns out that the land here is all owned by the owner, and these people are not ordinary people, so if you want to do it, it will inevitably get in the way." ”

"How many people are going to hear about it?" Qin Feng said with a smile.

Quan Yun smiled and spit out a few names casually, sure enough, they are all figures with heads and faces in Daming now.

Qin Feng didn't care, "When did Da Ming do things like this, if you think you should do something, just let go of your hands and feet and do it." Could it be that they still dare to blow up their hair? ”

"That's not what you say, Your Majesty." Quan Yun shook his head and said: "It's better to do things smoothly than to take some means, these places are all hens that these people can lay golden eggs, and it will be difficult for people to give up." If you force it to be implemented, these people will not obstruct it on the surface, but secretly make some stumbling blocks for you, then you can't stand it. If the court is okay externally, it would be easy to say, but now there are many external troubles, and this is an important place in Beijing, and the slightest wind and grass will shake the world, and the old minister has to be cautious! ”

Qin Feng's face couldn't help but sink.

"Your Majesty, don't say anything else, just say that these people are now relying on Yuejing to make a living, as long as someone with a heart releases some rumors a little, saying that the court is ready to expel them, it will be enough to cause an uproar." Quan Yun looked at Qin Feng's unkind face and immediately gave an example. "When the time comes, how will it be cleaned up? Repression? ”

If hundreds of thousands of people are in trouble, that's not a trivial matter. Qin Feng couldn't help but spit out a breath of turbidity, external enemies, sometimes it seems very simple, you are convinced, let's talk about it, if you are not convinced, then I will push it over, there is a fist to teach you a lesson and then come to talk about it, but it is much more troublesome to govern internally. They are all their own people, and suppression has never been a good choice.

"Shousuke wants to nationalize all these places and then re-plan an outer city?" Guo Jiuling asked.

That's exactly what I think. But if you want to nationalize, the first step is to redeem and sell back these lands, the land price of the capital, hehe, if it is just good land, it will be returned, but if the outside knows that the old minister has this idea, I am afraid that the land price here will soar to a terrifying level, and the imperial court simply cannot afford such a large-scale renovation and expansion project, and we can't afford the land price alone. ”

"Speaking of which, it's still money!" Qin Feng sighed: "Shoufu is right, this matter is really urgent. Although those people have hateful faces, this land belongs to him and is recognized by the state, and we must not take advantage of it, we cannot open such an opening, we cannot break the rules, we can only take our time. Let's put it aside for a while. But the law and order here must be well managed. ”

"Now it looks like that's all there is to it." Quan Yun nodded, if it was confirmed that there was no foreign war in the Ming Dynasty in the next two years, then Quan Yun would have the confidence to do this, but Qin Feng's previous two could not be determined, and his thoughts were immediately extinguished. The external troubles are uneven, and it is difficult to say that the internal treatment is incompatible!

"Lao Guo, the governance of public security in these places cannot only rely on the city gate army and the Yuejing City Government, the city gate army is now being reorganized, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the people are panicking. After the reorganization, the Yulin Army will become a regular field army in the Ming Dynasty and will no longer be responsible for local security. But if he put this matter on the Yuejing Mansion at once, he couldn't take it. If you leave it alone, I'm afraid it will become more and more chaotic. The Eagle's Nest will take this matter first, Tian Zhen's domestic division, you might as well concentrate on doing this thing after the year. Qin Feng commanded.

"Yes, I understand." Guo Jiuling said: "In this kind of area, there will always be some gangs in the rivers and lakes, as long as you find the right pulse, go down with a knife, catch this person, lock it up, kill it, and after rectifying a batch, it will always get better for a while, Tian Zhen is very experienced in doing this kind of thing."

"Let's fool around like this first, and when the imperial court has gone through this difficult period and has money in hand, let's go back and govern here." Qin Feng scratched his head a little and looked at this side of the area, the dense small houses, like abscesses on the intact body, no matter how unpleasant it was, no matter how he looked at it.

There was some discomfort in his heart, so he sank and suffocated, "Shousuke, let's go to the Luo River for a walk." It's breathable! ”

"The old minister should accompany him!" Quan Yun said with a smile.

The Luo River is a main passage for Zhengyang County to transport grain to Yuejing, it has long been frozen at this time, naturally there is no trace of the boat, standing on a high place, occasionally you can see someone in the thick ice of the Luo River to open a few holes, squatting there to fish.

"It's also laid-back!" Pointing at those people, Qin Feng smiled.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's not leisurely, but forced by life!" Quan Yun shook his head: "Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, if it weren't for the next meal, do you think someone would come out to drill holes and fish on this day?" ”

Qin Feng suddenly fell silent.

"Shousuke, do you think there are still many people like this in my Daming?"

As soon as these words came out, Quan Yun was also a little embarrassed, even if the Ming Dynasty was thriving, but after years of war, how could there be fewer people like this? Even here in the capital, I am afraid that there are not a few such people, let alone other regions.

"Yuejing City is like this, but I'm afraid of Yiyang, Wuling, Taoyuan, Kaiping, Fuyuan, not to mention these places. Shousuke, the officials in these places always have a fold to come up, this winter, I'm afraid that a lot of people are still starving to death, right? Qin Feng's tone became heavy.

Quan Yun bowed slightly: "Your Majesty, this kind of thing is indispensable over the years, even if it is Qi Chu, it cannot be an exception, Your Majesty has done well enough." But there are always shadows under the sun, Yiyang, Wuling, Taoyuan, Your Majesty has exempted them from paying taxes for three years, and over time, it will inevitably get better day by day. ”

"But in the process, there will still be a lot of deaths!" Qin Feng sighed, "Shoufu, I don't have the heart to go shopping, I'm going back to the palace." ”

Suddenly, Qin Feng turned around and walked back, on the desk, those folds piled up were originally the most annoying to him, but now, he had an urge to solve them quickly, or, if he approved a copy earlier, he could solve a problem earlier. Those things that originally seemed to me to be a minor disease of scabies, in the eyes of ordinary people, I am afraid that they are only major events related to their lives.