At this point, Gu Yanwu finally revealed his original purpose, and said: "All the gentlemen are all scholars who are trusted by our emperor, and they are the talents who have been raised by me for a hundred years and only live and work in peace and contentment for this country." At present, our emperor is well aware of the poverty of the place, and has worked hard to raise 200,000 taels of silver and the corresponding equivalent grain and rice, just in order to repair the roads in Baoding Mansion in the first phase, and let the people survive this most difficult spring safely. ”

"Everyone understands that there are many pests among the officials, but even if the imperial history is honest and patrols the world, it is also full of manpower. For this reason, my emperor hopes that the scholars of the world will take on the responsibilities of my Ming heroes. Gu Yanwu said in a deep voice, and there was a penetrating power between his words: "Please think about it, what have we done for this empire after we have been favored by the emperor for a hundred years?" Instead of thinking, I waited for a hundred years of the emperor's grace, and when this will collapse, what more selfish interests can be excavated! ”

"It's really amazing, this mess is ...... peaceful" Behind him, the prefect Wu Yingke and the first assistant Huang Jingfang quietly came out with this sentence.

……

There was a slight silence in the venue, and when Gu Yanwu frankly told the truth about letting Xiucai go to repair the road, the frozen resistance in the hearts of everyone present quietly subsided.

Man, sometimes it's a strange creature. When calamity is only a rumor and uncertain, people become anxious and angry. But when the doom really became a reality and there was no doubt about it, it suddenly calmed down.

The matter of the new emperor wanting to show off the talents to serve has been determined to be beyond doubt, and the power is so hard to show, but everyone is no longer as angry as before. Because, after knowing this fact, the impression in the memory of another part of the memory is quietly reversing.

In the eyes of the talents, this is the new emperor's eyes, and he can't exploit the common people and wants to exploit the scholars. So what greeted the talents was to do heavy work in the wilderness.

But in Gu Yanwu's majestic and righteous words, everyone saw a different scene.

They are not used by the new emperor as coolies to fill the ravines, they are still deeply favored by the emperor and still valued by the saints. What they want to do is to prevent the 200,000 taels of disaster relief funds painstakingly squeezed out by the new emperor from being exploited in the hands of layers of officials, so that the people who really need help can't get these life-saving money.

In vain, the impression was reversed, and everyone was buzzing and talking, but there was no longer the excitement and resistance that had just been there.

Zhao Wenji was the first to bear the brunt, he looked at Gu Yanwu, and then looked at the left and right talents, strode forward, stared at Gu Yanwu carefully, and said: "Gu Jiang, if you scold me, I will not spare you!" Holy Lord, he really allocated 200,000 taels of silver for disaster relief! ”

Gu Yanwu slowly bowed his head and said with a smile: "Naturally, this is the case. Brother Zhao, the money and food are in the back office of the house, these days, I and these brothers behind me go back and forth to investigate the disaster victims. All of them were for this time the Holy God personally instructed: the cash-for-work action. Disaster relief has always been nothing more than giving porridge and burning corpses, and doing nothing more than tinkering affairs. But with such a negative move, how can such a powerful lord of the Holy Lord look at it? Hence ......"

Saying that, Gu Yanwu said the benefits of cash-for-work one by one.

Now the National Treasury Committee is really not short of silver, Zhu Cihong from the battle of Shengjing has obtained countless gains, as much as 20 million taels of huge sums of money equivalent to the highest consumption in the past Ming calendar years several times, that is, compared to Chongzhen's sixteen years of tossing the people to the death of the Liao salary is also more than that.

However, Zhu Cihong is well versed in the way of economy, and understands that it is not possible to solve the extremely heavy problems in the country by throwing out the silver, and the victims cannot be allowed to return to the national economic activities, these people are the burden, even if they can save the huge administrative costs of the Ming Dynasty without loss and directly distribute the silver to the hands of the victims, it can only create huge inflation, which in turn will make a mess in the face.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong had to buy supplies from the south, from Korea, from Japan, from Vietnam and even the whole world to save the country from the shortage of food, the stagnation of production in the war and disasters, and other crises.

If you continue to go around, this is not a simple buy, buy and buy can be solved.

Among them, administrative costs are unavoidable management costs. The existence of corruption, as well as the Ming Dynasty's historically poor administrative system and grassroots control, necessitated a new and viable route to disaster relief. Otherwise, the local bureaucrats, who have also suffered a lot from the successive disasters, will desperately devour the relief supplies.

Zhu Cihong is not under pressure on how to recast a clean and efficient bureaucracy. However, another hard injury bothered Zhu Cihong.

This is the bad traffic of ancient times.

The ancient world and the modern world are two very different worlds.

In modern times, it only takes an hour to travel from Baoding to Gyeonggi by high-speed rail, but in ancient times, it meant uneven roads, and potholed official roads made the cost of logistics and transportation soar a hundredfold.

A series of problems, such as poor law and order and poor grassroots control, all show the huge difference between the past and the present.

That's when cash-for-work came into being.

In Zhu Cihong's vision, it is too unreliable and fluctuating to bring the people back to the national economic activities in the midst of wars, disasters, landlessness and unemployment.

At this time, the bureaucratic apparatus of the empire should be mobilized.

On the one hand, it allows the people to get temporary jobs so that they can be unemployed, and they can regain their income with their working hands, so as to relieve themselves of the danger of poverty and death.

In both cases, rebuilding the official road is like desilting the patient's atherogized arteries and re-unblocking the blood, so that the heart of the empire's heavy army giant can quickly resume circulation and replenish the blood.

The three are to win over young scholars and recast the empire's grasp of the grassroots. Xiucai is different from lifting people, only has the privilege of being exempted from forced labor, and does not have the privilege of tax exemption. The reformist base of co-opting them as the new emperor would help deepen grassroots control, reduce administrative costs, and eliminate corruption without making the scholars feel that they were the ones who were losing their interests.

Fourth, the construction of the road to Jingshi is also an extension of the government's control. It is one thing to control the localities, but it is also one thing to eliminate bandits and rebuild public order......

In short, there are many advantages.

Gu Yanwu is eloquent, and after being Zhu Cihong's secretary for a period of time, he understood the meaning very easily, and said everything that should be said and what should not be said, which made Zhao Wenji stunned, and he often sighed for a long time

"In the next, I am convinced!" understood the cause and effect, and saw Gu Yanwu's sincere heart, Zhao Wenji no longer had a trace of resistance, bowed deeply, and said ashamedly: "The student is willing to join, not seeking any personal gain, not receiving half a penny, just seeking to use the student's hands to atone for today's disaster!" ”

Seeing this, Gu Yanwu's smile suddenly bloomed: "Why bother, why bother!" Hurry up, please! Knowing that all the talents have joined, the Holy One does not know how happy he will be, how can he add to the sin? ”

"In that case, you will join me to really do a great job of saving the lives of Li Min!" Gu Yanwu raised his arms and shouted, and 10,000 people shouted: "Empty talk misleads the country, hard work prospers the country!" ”

"Empty talk misleads the country, but hard work prospers the country!"

"Empty talk misleads the country, but hard work prospers the country!"

……

Taiyuan.

"Sun Sangouzi, cleaned carefully inside and out? Do you want to sweep the ground and look back at your skin! ”

"Where did Shang Qi go? This is enough for life, do you really not take Lao Tzu into account? Come on, rush to his house for me, if the fuck is in the green building at this time, see if Lao Tzu doesn't demolish its old house! ”

"Tell me everything inside and out! Whether I can keep this brand in Shanxi Jinyi Wei Qianhu is today! The person who was registered to receive the emperor's grain gave me a name, but all the living people on the book must be left behind, and they are all on standby in the brocade guard before noon! Otherwise, if you don't clean it up, your parents won't recognize it, and Lao Tzu's surname will be written upside down! ”

Taiyuan, Jinyi Wei Thousand Households, there was a panic inside. In the past, it was enough to make the gentry, people, officials, and generals in the city tremble, and the brocade-clothed guards and generals were all wolves and dogs, as if there was a military disaster in the brocade guardhouse.

The one who shouted was Wang Miao, who was just talking about how the business was in his own house most of the time, his face was pale, his eyes were weak, and his body seemed to be out of strength.

Finally, after noon, Qianhu's experience trembled and handed it to Wang Miao with the rookie roster. In the martial arts hall of the Thousand Households, the brocade guards who were sweating profusely and wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives at their waists were finally in place, Wang Miao looked at the people in front of him, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Here, all the people from the Jinyi Wei Thousand Households have arrived?" Wang Miao looked at the experience.

The experience is over: "Back to thousands of households, all of them have arrived." Even the guards shouted over. ”

"That's good...... That's good......" Wang Miao breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door. After looking at the past in confusion, he became angry in an instant: "Which family is Xiaoxiao, and when he saw my Jinyi Wei open the empty door, he actually ran over without waiting for the word to be transmitted?" ”

When Wang Miao heard this, he was so frightened that he almost lost his soul, kicked it hard, strode to the door, and sure enough, he saw a group of people coming, all of whom were also wearing brocade clothes and flying fish suits!

The difference is that the flying fish suit of this person in front of him is a four-grade official uniform. Obviously, this is the pacification envoy of the Jinyi Wei North and South Zhenfu Division!

"The last general, Wang Miao, a thousand households in Taiyuan, led the Jinyi Wei Fanzi in Taiyuan and a thousand households in Taiyuan, and knocked to see the envoy of Zhenfu!" Wang Miao came out with a stirring spirit and bowed heavily.

At this time, the experience also shuddered. Behind him, a brocade-clothed guard officer hurriedly saluted: "We knock to see the envoy of calming the envoy!" ”

In front of him, it was Wei Yunshan, the new envoy of Jinyi Weinan Town. After Zhu Cihong ascended the throne, Luo Yangxing wrote to step down as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, but he was still going through the procedures at the moment, and no one held this position for a while.

On the contrary, the north and south towns quickly had new candidates, of which the south town and the north were facing the country, and the north was facing overseas and the enemy area. Therefore, the envoy of the Fusi of the southern town is Wei Yunshan, and the envoy of the Fusi of the north town is Zhang Zhen.

When such a member of the brocade guard arrived in Taiyuan, Wang Miao naturally had to be frightened.

"Well, good. You're not bad, and the people are coming together. Wei Yunshan glanced at Wang Miao with a smile, and saw that Wang Miao was panicked in his heart, and said in a low voice: "It's all the calming envoys who teach well." ”

What made Wang Miao panic in his heart was that this was not the news that Wei Yunshan, the fierce god, had come out of the hundred households in Baoding to calm down. Wei Yunshan was ordered by the emperor to go to Baoding to act, but unexpectedly, there was no official inside, only a few small flag-level fans were sleeping in a daze. Wei Yunshan showed his identity, but he still waited in the hundred households until ten o'clock at night, and then he saw all the people in the Jinyi Wei Hundred Households. As for the final result......

Wang Miao couldn't help but shudder every time she thought about it.

Except for the first three who arrived within a quarter of an hour, the rest of them were all beaten down by Wei Yunshan to work as coolies in the coal mine. In the name of remodeling, you know, it is not an errand caretaker, but a coolie. It's just that the only thing that is comforting is that Wei Yunshan has not been removed from the roster, so that they can have a share in taking care of their wives and children.

"That's it! I won't talk nonsense with you, today I came on the orders of my emperor to carry out the Jingwei operation! Wei Yunshan glanced at it and said, "All the hundred-household-level guards will stay, and the rest will be on standby." ”

After saying that, the group came to an empty house. Wei Yunshan turned around, looked at Wang Miao who was following closely, and took a deep look: "After a while, the people from the Examination Department will come to conduct a loyal investigation, and they will pair up with each other to guarantee each other. If they can't get enough guarantees, the positions will be separated first, and the person will go back to continue the review. Now, passed, follow me into the conference room! ”

As he spoke, Wei Yunshan pointed at Wang Miao: "You and I are safe, follow me in first!" ”

A quarter of an hour later, a total of thirteen hundred households in the Thousand Households House came in again, and Wang Miao's heart trembled, knowing that the others were afraid that they would be more than lucky. It's just that the final result of the evil deeds is whether to go directly to the military law or to work as a coolie, then it is perhaps.

"The Jingwei operation is to bring the whole of Shanxi to the people who are still loyal to the empire and useful to the empire, as well as all important materials such as materials and account books...... Evacuate here! Wei Yunshan pointed to the two points of Datong Town and Baoding Mansion.

……

The carts of cattle and horses in Shanxi suddenly became in demand.

A good horse that was originally thirty taels and one taels could not be found now at a price of fifty taels, as if there was a pair of black hands controlling it, and not a single mule and horse on the market could not be found.

Ninety percent of the cart dealers closed their mouths one after another, and then they all disappeared from everyone's sight.

It wasn't until three days later that the rumors were revealed.

"Blacksmith Li actually moved away, this is the best blacksmith in Taiyuan Mansion!" A gentleman who came to build a saber stood at the door of a closed shop, wondering, and when he returned to the school, he felt even more strange in his heart when he heard the people's discussions: "It's strange, the teachings of our school are ......all gone" (to be continued). )