Kaifeng Prefecture City, Governor's Office.

This is a newly arranged Governor's Office. Because the Governors in various places are not permanent officials, the Governor's Office will arrange and arrange them after the Governor's Office.

night.

In the courtyard where Zhang Hao lives.

"Hu Junyuan, the commander of Henan Jinyiwei, paid a visit to the Governor!

Your Majesty has issued an order to fully obey the orders of the Governor during his tenure as Governor."

Hu Junyuan, the commander in charge of Henan Jinyiwei, has been in Kaifeng Prefecture for some days and is waiting for Zhang Hao to arrive.

He received the order from the commander-in-chief of the Jinyiwei, and also a secret decree to ask him to come to Zhang Hao to obey Zhang Hao's instructions in everything.

Zhang Hao said, "Since it was arranged by His Majesty, I will not be polite to the commander."

Hu Junyuan said respectfully: "It depends entirely on the orders of the Governor."

Zhang Hao nodded and said, "I need information from all the seventh rank and above officials in Henan. At the same time, the Jinyiwei needs to secretly investigate their property and evidence of their crime."

Hu Junyuan was slightly stunned and thought to himself: I am worthy of being a person valued by the emperor, and his ideas are the same as those of the emperor.

He said: "Governor General, Your Majesty has asked us to do this for a long time. A lot of information and evidence have been found, and then a little bit of sorting out will be sent to the Governor General."

Zhu Youjian was already doing it, which saved Zhang Hao a lot of trouble: "Well, then give me the information and evidence of crimes that have been found, and continue to investigate if they have not been investigated.

In addition, I will also give me other official information without any evidence."

Zhang Hao wants to see if there are any talents that are worthy of promotion.

"Abide by the order!"

Hu Junyuan said respectfully.

On the second day, officials from the Ministry of Revenue and Ministry of Works came to pay a visit to Zhang Hao.

The six ministries have branches in each province.

Su Xuefa, the head of the Ministry of Revenue in Henan, said: "Governor General, the Ministry of Revenue has already ordered the officials of Henan Ministry of Revenue to cooperate with the Governor General, and the Governor General should give orders if there is any matter."

Yu Yanqiao, the head of the Ministry of Works, also made a similar statement.

This was all ordered by Li Shimin.

Zhang Hao said politely: "That's all the hard work for you."

The two of them shook their heads repeatedly: "It's not hard work, they are all working for the court. This is our responsibility."

Zhang Hao smiled and said, "You should know a lot about the Henan officialdom. Tell me about the situation. I am just a newcomer. I should understand it first."

Although these two people are from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works under the jurisdiction of Li Shimin, it is not up to the conclusion whether Zhang Hao can trust him or not, but to see, so some things will not be explained to them clearly.

In the next ten days, Zhang Hao basically checked the information of these local officials in the Governor's Office and some evidence of guilt.

The prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture, Tian Zhengyu, brought the main officials of the prefect to visit Zhang Hao a few days ago, saying that he had gone to other places to check the snow, which had been delayed for some time.

Zhang Hao smiled and did not expose them.

Finally, after Zhang Hao waited for nearly twenty days, the main officials of the Third Division came, and Governor Ma Defu and others also came.

Zhang Hao smiled and said to them: "You are so dedicated and responsible, it is a blessing for the people of Henan. I hope you can have a beginning and an end and continue your efforts."

Everyone could hear that Zhang Hao was sarcastic, but they didn't care because they were united, and Zhang Hao was just alone, to see who could fight against whom.

Zhang Hao continued: "It seems that you are all capable people, so I won't talk too much. Now you need a few things to do!

First, organize manpower, patrol all places, cooperate with the Ministry of Works to transport the snow to reservoirs and ponds in various places. It is likely that there will be less rain next year. We must make good use of the snow in winter!

The second thing is to let all landlords sign contracts with tenants, strictly stipulate the land lease share, lease term, etc. The tenant has the right to decide what crops to plant during the land lease. As long as the tenant pays the land rent on time, the landlord has no right to interfere... This matter is led by the Ministry of Revenue. You have to cooperate fully and must be implemented. If anyone is perfunctory or ineffective, I will never let go of it. You may already know that this official has dealt with many people in Shanxi.

Third, I will issue the final order to all landlords. Starting next year, I must abide by the court's policy of promoting corn, potato and sweet potato planting. Whoever does not abide by it will be dealt with. This is not a joke. Don't think about perfunctory and make trouble. At that time, I will do nothing when doing things. If I don't believe it, I can try it. I have already said it, and there will be no chance to regret it. I will consider it clearly. Your Majesty has given me the power to take action first and then report it!"

Many people present hesitated and hesitated. But looking at the eyes of the people leading the way, it seems that it is hard to have a choice.

Zhang Hao continued: "The three things that I just said must be completed before the beginning of spring and cannot delay spring plowing!"

At the same time, Zhang Hao asked someone to pass this order to officials in Shandong and Hebei, and asked them to do things according to the order. Zhang Hao would go over to inspect the situation, and whoever was perfunctory and could not do anything, he would deal with it.

It is easy to do the first thing and the second thing, but it is hard to say how effective it is.

But this second thing makes these people worry and difficult.

Because they involve the interests of landlords, they are landlords themselves. Isn’t this unhappy for themselves?

And it is already winter, and it has been snowing in Henan long ago, and it is getting heavier and heavier. Isn’t this a tossing person to do things in a heavy snow!

They hated Zhang Hao even more.

The key is that Governor Ma Defu takes the lead and thinks about how to stumbling to Zhang Hao and how to cooperate with him. They gathered together to target Zhang Hao, but they didn't believe that Zhang Hao would dare to kill all of them.

Zhang Hao was not idle and took the lead in doing these three things.

He protected Chenliu County under the protection of Qianhu Yuan Zhenyu and others, and asked the officials of Chenliu County to do these three things. He chose a town to promote these three things.

First, find the local officials and ask them to summon the landlords and tenant representatives from the town to discuss.

In less than half a day, more than a hundred people came, including more than a dozen landlords.

Zhang Hao said to them: "I am the Governor Zhang Hao, who comes to govern the place according to the emperor's will. Now a new contract of landlords and tenants will be implemented.

A contract notarized by the government. This contract will clarify the tenant's time limit for renting land, share of land rent, and other rights and responsibilities.

After the tenant signs the contract, he has the right to decide what crop to plant. As long as the landlord pays the land rent on time, the landlord cannot interfere, and he cannot recover the leased land before the contract expires..."

The landlords were stunned. Isn’t this harming their interests to protect the rights of tenants?

Some landlord was angry and said, "Governor General, we can take back the fields and not rent them to plant them ourselves, right?"

They can completely change the way they can let others farm, such as by hiring.

Zhang Hao said directly: "You can take back the land and plant it yourself, but as long as you find someone to help you farm, no matter what method it is, you must sign a relevant contract. I believe that farming is much more expensive than renting land to farmers than renting land to farmers. You can calculate it yourself."

Of course, the landlords will calculate. They will hire people to farm temporarily. Not to mention whether it is easy to find a farmer during the busy farming period, but they have paid a lot of wages, so they will definitely not have enough land to rent for tenants.

They just don’t want to sign a land lease contract to limit the power of tenants.

Zhang Hao continued: "Next year, all landlords must follow the court's policy to plant corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. If you don't plant it, or you have no tenants on the excuse, the court will collect your fields. You can think clearly about how to weigh the trade-offs.

To be honest, the year ahead will not be very good, and there may even be major disasters. Planting corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes will only have benefits but no harm to you.

In any case, the court will not allow anyone to delay the fight against the disaster."

Many landlords are inspired by reason and emotion.

But many landlords are behind the interests of officials, and the attitude of those officials is their attitude.

Some landlords are willing to sign contracts with tenants, while others say that they will take back the land and will not rent it, and will hire people to farm themselves in the future.

Tenants who have lost their rented land will definitely cause trouble. Many officials and landlords have this idea to take back the rented land and let tenants who have no land cause trouble.

However, Zhang Hao had a solution: "Don't worry about tenants who do not have land rent. The government will arrange for you to solve your survival problems at the latest in the beginning of spring.

Henan will open many workshops and start some projects. There will always be a place for you to support your family. I will do what I say!"

The promise was given to temporarily settle the tenants who had lost their rented land.

A few days later, the people heard that the magistrate of Chenliu County was arrested by the Jinyiwei for corruption. The county magistrate temporarily took over the position of the magistrate and began to do all his efforts to do the three things Zhang Hao ordered.

"Don't be afraid, he's just scaring people!"

The officials were somewhat shaken, and Governor Ma Defu kept appeaseing them.
Chapter completed!