Yan Rong gave birth to a fat girl to Li Hu, who was said to be weighing seven pounds and eight taels. This was the first child of this generation of the Li family, but unfortunately it was not a boy. However, Li Xiao was still very happy after getting the news.

"Huzi, I'll give you permission to go back and accompany Yanrong during the two-month vacation. Our family doesn't like that. It doesn't matter whether you give birth to a boy or a girl." Li Xiao must remind you that in these days, the mentality of favoring boys over girls is serious.

Because after giving birth to a girl, there are many people who can't stay in their husband's house any longer.

"Forget it! I won't go back. The army is recruiting soldiers now. There is a shortage of people everywhere. I am now the battalion commander. Is it time to leave the army and go back to see my wife? My spine will be broken by someone!" Li

The tiger's head shook like a rattle.

"Go back and lead your troops well. We will go back and see you during the Chinese New Year." He patted Li Hu on the shoulder, he has grown up after all. It is not easy to know how to take responsibility at the age of sixteen.

The ripeness of the potatoes brought Li Xiao's popularity to the extreme. The people of Jinan Prefecture greatly admired the governor who promoted it vigorously. When he and the Liao army went out, their chests and heads were held high.

Those who were ready to see Li Xiao's joke had sad faces. A thousand kilograms of grain per mu had never been seen in ancient times. How could this be true? But the potatoes piled like hills in the ground were real.

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I asked my servants to buy some, and whether it was steamed or boiled, there seemed to be no adverse reactions after eating it. Various signs showed that this was a high-yielding grain that had never been seen before.

Those who can get through to the landowners are generally not idiots. Even fools know that the more food produced from the ground, the better. So the landowners began to purchase potatoes on a large scale as crops for the second year. And this trend was just right.

Spreading far away.

Everyone knows that Jinan has a high yield of grain, and even distant Zibo heard the news and sent servants to purchase some potatoes. As a result, although the potato harvest was bumper this year, the price was extremely high. Farmers who farm official fields

They coaxed each other, their nostrils turned upward, looking arrogant. They bit them to death, and a pound of potatoes cost twenty big bucks. If anyone dared to lower the price, the big guys would rip off his house and let the family sleep in the wild.

Go inside!

"Wu Changshi came to ask what the tax payment should be this year. He said that farmers had a good harvest of potatoes, and would the taxes on official fields be increased this year? I told him that the people were living a hard life. This year is just a little better.

Just increase the rent. Look at those people who are still naked, how can they have the heart to increase the rent." After finishing the meal, Sun Chengzong was still angry.

"He is a vassal, and it is his merit that the treasury is full. The naked people have nothing to do with him. All he thinks about is promotion and wealth. Look at the officials around us, they are not all of this virtue.

On the face of it, they are talking about it, but inside they are not male thieves and female prostitutes. In the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, there were only a few officials like Hai Rui and Yu Qian. Corrupt officials are like crucian carp crossing the river. In the final analysis, this is human nature.

"Li Xiao's careless pursuit of food, corruption, and performance projects were not only common in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. Throughout the history of China, no matter which emperor was in power, this kind of thing happened all the time.

To put it bluntly, corruption is something that is in line with human nature. Officials with high moral standards, like saints, have been a rare breed in all dynasties. In the founding era of the People's Republic of China, it was better when there were wars and lack of supplies. But once several generations of cultivation have passed,

, this kind of thing intensified after the material abundance became extremely abundant. Even the imperial power had no way to deal with this kind of thing, because the government had to rely on officials to govern the world. The huge bureaucracy was like a gluttonous beast, constantly devouring the people's fat and the people's anointing. In the end,

Pushing the country to collapse.

This is why China experiences a system collapse every two to three hundred years.

To put it bluntly, in this kind of struggle, the emperor actually stands with the people. The huge bureaucracy stands on their opposite side. As far as the emperor is concerned, the world is royal. The emperor is the boss, and he naturally

I will wonder if these bastards under my command are greedy for my money.

So the emperor will fight against corruption, and then the officials will resist. Then the country will be in chaos, until the resisting officials change their bosses. The world will be peaceful, those who should be corrupt will continue to be corrupt, and those who should enjoy privileges will continue to enjoy privileges. Hello everyone, I

Okay, another few hundred years will pass, and then the cycle will continue to repeat.

"You are a little negative, what happened?" Sun Chengzong looked at Li Xiao with some doubts. Such words did not seem like Li Xiao's usual attitude. When something happened, he was like a monster.

"Mao Wenlong has received news that something happened in Liaodong. Some of the county officials we appointed are playing the same tricks as before. I asked Mao Wenlong to kill a few. This is the front line and there must be no chaos."

"It's just better in Liaodong. It really can't be done like in the mainland. It's good to kill a few to shock them!"

"Mr. Sun, I have a silly idea. I don't know if it will work. Can you give me the details?" Li Xiao suddenly put down his job and looked at Sun Chengzong formally.

"It must be a big deal for you to speak formally like this. Tell me, I can still handle it." Sun Chengzong also put down his chopsticks.

"In this way, I think we used to let each village choose its own village head. Now I think, each village will elect a few representatives according to the proportion of population. Then the representatives of the whole county will come out together and choose a leader in the county.

Here comes the county magistrate. Do you think this method is feasible?"

Sun Chengzong thought for a long time before he said: "It sounds good. These candidates were all selected by the big guys. It seems to be a good idea. But have you ever thought about whether the people selected by the villagers have a public heart?"

. What if there is a rich man here who secretly gives money or other benefits to these representatives? Then whoever has more money will become the county magistrate? If he uses officials as a business, then what do you think he will do after he takes office?

Can you get the book back?

After such a person becomes an official, will he still think about benefiting the people? Benefiting himself is more important! Besides, our villagers are dull and immature. Now there are actually people who secretly give money to the people in the same village, and then everyone chooses him as the official.

The village chief.

The people are short-sighted. They don’t understand that you are giving them rights. They only think about how much food that vote in their hands is worth. Is it more cost-effective to have a sheep or a piggy? As for what will happen after the village chief is elected?

Not being able to take bribes is not something they consider at all.

The method you mentioned has to wait until the people are enlightened and know their rights before it can be implemented. On this day...! Hehe! I think it will be extremely difficult to do it without one or two hundred years of hard work."

Sun Chengzong's words made Li Xiao very discouraged! This is a man who grew up from a teacher to an emperor's teacher. He has been ups and downs in the officialdom for decades, and his vision and experience are so sophisticated. Dishui's tricks need to be tamed, at least the people must be enlightened and know their rights.

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Nowadays, among the people, not one person among a hundred can be found to be literate. To issue a notice, someone has to be assigned to read it in every village. It is very difficult to make them understand that their right to vote is not a piglet or a lamb.

Although the ruling system formed over thousands of years has problems of one kind or another, the system can still run normally. If you change the operating system rashly, it may cause hardware mismatch and collapse. The consequences of the failure of political reform, Li

Xiao Xiao didn't dare to think about it.

The unrealistic set of things was completely thrown out of the sky by Li Xiao. It is better to think carefully about how to govern Shandong first.

When Heze suffered a disaster, many homeless and destitute people naturally appeared.

Someone from the government posted a notice, and a man with a goatee who looked like he was very knowledgeable shook his head. He told everyone that if you want to have food, you can go to Liaodong. As long as you get to Liaodong, you will be given land. As for the houses, you need to build them yourself.

In the spring, the government will distribute bricks and stones and you can build it yourself.

Anyway, there is no food to eat, so you can enjoy official meals all the way from here to Dengzhou. When you get to Dengzhou, you can also take a free official boat. The most attractive thing is that you can be allocated fields when you arrive in Liaodong. And it is the first

The tax will be exempted for one year and the tax for the second year will be halved.

This is very attractive to the poor people, owning their own land. Even before the disaster, they never dared to think about it. Now that there is such a good thing, many people are even grateful for the flood.

Li Xiao just wants to restore the population of Liaodong as soon as possible. It is really a vast land and sparsely populated. Compared with the Yellow River, which likes to play with the dragon's tail, the Liaohe River is much more honest. Except that the north bank of the Liaohe River is often flooded, the south bank is generally

It's pretty good. Now that the North Bank is under the control of Hou Jin, the issue of flooding needs to be considered by Huang Taiji, not Li Xiao.

Compared with Liaodong, the population of Shandong seems too wealthy. The entire Shandong is packed with a population of more than 20 million. Li Xiao feels that immigrating to Liaodong with a few million people is not a big problem.

People continued to follow the government's team north to Dengzhou, and then took a boat to Liaodong to set foot on that unknown land. There became a popular saying among the people, called "Coursing Liaodong".

Li Zhongzi arrived in Heze. After hearing from Li Xiao that mosquitoes and flies are the source of all epidemic diseases, he implemented strict epidemic prevention measures there!

More than a dozen toilets have been built in each residential area. Anyone caught urinating in the open will be punished by having to dig out the toilet until the next one is caught.

If the victims want to receive food, they all have to wash themselves cleanly. People patrol the porridge every day, and if they see dirty people, they will beat them up and drive them out. Many people feel that even if they are not affected by the disaster,

It has never been so clean before. People everywhere are spreading the news that drinking raw water will cause diseases. Out of fear of the plague, the old people began to control the young people not to drink raw water. If you want to drink it, you have to boil it.

After that, it will become white when it is cooled.

After strict precautions, no major epidemic occurred in Heze. At the same time, Heze also lost nearly 100,000 people. They were all destitute people whose families had been ruined. With no way to survive, they had to try their luck in unknown places.

Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde have eliminated the bandits near Mount Tai and are taking advantage of the victory to advance into the Yimeng Mountain area. This is the lair of many groups of bandits and is the key to the success of the suppression of bandits.

After more than half a year of suppressing bandits, Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde suddenly fell in love with this promising job. Both guys solved the problem of serving as generals, and many of their subordinates were promoted. What made them most gratified was that,

Their wages have never been in arrears. When it comes to monthly payments, Li Xiao has always kept his word. This life is much more comfortable than under Sun Yuanhua, who often defaulted on wages for seven or eight months.

Not only are wages paid on time, but bonuses are also paid on time.

After review by the supervisory army, a head was worth five taels of silver. This was the official price of the Ming Dynasty military, and the price was the same for the Tatars or the Mongols who invaded the border. It would be a big deal to meet the leader on Li Xiao's list.

It ranges from ten taels to one hundred taels. Anyway, the higher the ranking, the more valuable the head is.

So much so that some groups of bandits were desperate and wanted to surrender, but finally their heads were chopped off by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming. Surrender? What will happen to my bonus? Your heads are all related to the white money.

Li Xiao's method once again confirmed a law, as long as something is related to the wallet, it will attract enough attention.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming got addicted to suppressing bandits and plunged into the Yimeng Mountain area. Apart from anything else, they first had to get out the money for the New Year. At the end of the year, the wife and children at home always had to make one or two new clothes.

Bar.

News came from home that many of the young people in the family have gone to work in factories. They are paid twenty taels of silver a month. After half a year of saving, they can find a good marriage.

For those who are younger, the officials also set up schools. For them, the children of officers and soldiers, it is free to attend the school.

Study! This has been the dream of many people for generations. If you can read and write with a pen, who would dare to do it with a knife? After the news came back, many assassins did not believe it was true.

When I received the letters from my children, many men who could stand up to their swords and axes without even uttering a cry held the letters and cried like babies in confinement. I am going to have a scholar in my family!

Usually at this time, guys who know two words in the military camp will be particularly popular. Many people come to catch up with him, just to hear what the children are talking about in the letters written by them.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming gradually discovered that this army seemed to have changed unknowingly. Now if they encourage these killers to rebel again, they are probably more likely to be killed first.

Of course, the rebellion here specifically refers to Li Xiao. If he rebelled against the Ming Emperor, it is estimated that these killers would still support the boss. Because in the military camp, Li Xiao and the Ming Emperor are two different things.

The two brothers thought about it carefully while drinking. It seems that this disagreement started when the soldiers were paid. When the soldiers walked up to the quartermaster and reported their names, the quartermaster would pay the money directly to the soldiers.

, and then told him that this was the money given to him by Marshal Li.
Chapter completed!