The sixth brother is no longer the first brother, he knows how to relieve hatred without living up to the truth.
So while he tortured Xiong Qitai and others with harmless torture, he immediately flew 800 miles to the capital to report to the capital to prevent evildoers from filing a complaint first.
Forbidden City, Wuying Palace.
Zhu Yuanzhang was reviewing the important memorial sent by the prince, and asked casually: "Is there any letter from Lao Liu?"
"Back to my father, I have it." The prince took out the secret from his sleeve and reported: "I am planning to report it to my father."
"Why don't you take it out quickly?" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a scolding look at the boss: "We are not concerned about that brat, we are worried about the situation in Jiangxi. Can he handle it?"
"You two are exactly the same. You are very worried about each other in your heart, but you never say a soft word." The prince sighed, handed the secret report to his father and said: "The sixth child has already investigated the case clearly, and the murderers have also been brought to justice.
By law.”
"So soon? How many days has he been here?" Zhu Yuanzhang took it in surprise, put on his reading glasses and looked at it carefully: "I thought it would take a few months to make any progress."
"Yes, Lao Liu is fast." The prince also praised, and then said in a low voice: "According to what he reported, Jiangxi's officialdom is already rotten."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at it, his face gradually turning green, obviously irritated by what Lao Liu reported. After reading, he slapped the table heavily and cursed angrily: "The governor of a province openly killed the imperial envoy, isn't it bad?"
So thorough?!”
"Yes, Liu Shenzheng, a high-ranking official of the province and the pillar of the country, was brutally killed by his superiors. It is also shocking in the history books." The prince sighed.
"Hey, how should we explain to Mr. Liu?" Zhu Yuanzhang said extremely depressed: "At the beginning, we wanted to let Liu Lian go to Jiangxi, but he didn't agree, saying that his eldest son was not good at making a living and this trip would be dangerous.
"We also laughed at him that the older he gets, the less courageous he becomes. My son has gone out for training many times, but he dare not let him go out when he is thirty. At that time, we also swore that if there was an emergency, we would give him a son.
That’s it. This is great, how can we compensate him?” Boss Zhu was confused for a while, then thought about it and said:
"How about adopting Lao Qi to him?"
"Dad, are you going to compensate Mr. Liu for having an old son, or give him a little daddy?" The prince said, dumbfounded: "The day before yesterday, I went to Uncle Chengyi's house to express my condolences to Mr. Liu, and he didn't blame my father for saying that.
It was the path Liu Lian chose himself."
"Well, what Mr. Liu said makes us feel even more uncomfortable." Zhu Yuanzhang held up his hands with both hands and said with a jade belt around his waist: "When you go back, draw up an edict and charge all those involved in the case with treason against the Jiu Clan! The murderer Xiong Qitai, Ma
Qing, Liu Kong peeled off the skin and pulled out the grass, and hung it on the top of Nanchang City forever as a warning to others!"
"Yes." The prince nodded, sighing in his heart, these are thousands of lives. But the big head of the mouse pulling the shovel is still behind. He took out the memorial that Liu Lian asked Lao Liu to forward and gave it to him.
Father looked at it.
The content of the memorial is very similar to the letter written to Lao Liu, but there are no exclamations and complaints. Of course, there is no last sentence...
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In the Wuying Hall, you can hear the curl of cigarette smoke and the drop of a needle. You can clearly hear Zhu Yuanzhang's heavy breathing.
After reading Liu Lian's memorial, Zhu Yuanzhang leaned back on his chair, looked up at the caisson on the top of the palace, and murmured: "Boss, after reading Liu Lian's memorial, do you know how difficult it is to do something?"
"Yes." The prince sighed with emotion: "Corrupt officials, squires and elders, and the unique Zhengyi in Jiangxi. These people are intertwined and colluding. Officials who want to do something, faced with this monolithic situation, can easily
He is badly beaten and bleeding, but at worst he is like Liu Lian, risking his life."
"It's really difficult." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, sat up straight, and said with renewed fighting spirit: "But it is precisely because of the difficulty that we men have to bite off this hard bone and cannot leave the problem to future generations. Those who were born in the deep palace and grew up in
The future emperors of this woman will not have this ability, nor will they have this courage!"
"Indeed." The prince nodded and said: "All dynasties and dynasties were established by the founding of the country and only maintained by later generations."
"Therefore, Jiangxi's Yellow Book and Lijia must be piloted successfully and then be implemented nationwide." Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly: "We don't mind killing a river of blood. If more people die in Jiangxi, there will be fewer deaths in other provinces.
Some."
"Father, you should try to kill as few people as possible." The prince urged: "Most of these people are not born bad, they are just selfish. Anyone in that position will do things that harm others and benefit themselves. But as long as they move their nest,
They can also become good citizens who obey the law and abide by the law."
"You mean like the great immigration from Shanxi, there will be another great immigration from Jiangxi?" Zhu Yuanzhang touched his increasingly rounded cheeks and thought: "These two provinces are really similar, with more mountains and less land, and a dense population. There are many
Problems all arise from this.”
"Yes." The prince nodded.
Jiangxi has a dense population of 12 million, ranking second in the country. However, Jiangxi's cultivated land area ranks at the bottom of the country.
It is indeed similar to the situation in Shanxi. Both provinces are mainly mountainous. You can find a mountain col to set up a stronghold without having an army and thousands of troops to rush in. It is an excellent place to save your life in troubled times.
Therefore, at the end of the Song Dynasty and the end of the Yuan Dynasty, people from other provinces fled here one after another and formed villages to protect themselves, resulting in a sharp increase in the population of the two provinces.
But after the world was at peace, those villages all over the mountainous areas became the bastions of the gentry and clans against the government. The situation of hidden households in Jiangxi was so rampant precisely because of the special geographical environment, which gave those big households an opportunity to fight against the imperial court.
courage.
The prince's level is really high. He saw the crux of the problem at a glance and gave a solution: "Huguang, which happens to be adjacent to it, is vast and sparsely populated. The whole province only has a population of four million, and because of the war, a lot of land was abandoned. If we start from Jiangxi
Relocating part of the population to populate Huguang will not only solve the overcrowding problem in Jiangxi, but also allow Huguang to quickly repopulate."
After a pause, he smiled again: "And by the way, the resistance of Lao Liu's implementation of the Yellow Book Li A will be much smaller. It can be said that it kills three birds with one stone."
"Well, your method is not bad." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "Whoever dares to rebel will be sent to Huguang. The rest will be sure to be honest and obedient."
In fact, Boss Zhu has been thinking about this problem for a long time. Jiangxi's filling of Huguang is easier than Shanxi's large-scale immigration. First, it is close; second, the waterway is smooth; third, the geographical conditions of Huguang are far better than Jiangxi in the Taiping years, so immigration
The difficulty is much less.
Just to migrate and immigrate is not just to throw people over, but also to provide them with travel expenses, seeds, cattle, farm tools... so that they can take root as soon as possible and live and work in peace and contentment. This costs a lot of money.
If it weren't for the ability to print money now, Boss Zhu wouldn't even be able to withstand the large-scale immigration from Shanxi. Now it's really beyond his power to open the Jiangxi dungeon.
"It's just the expense, where do you plan to settle it?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked the prince.
"I don't know either, but I believe someone can solve it." The prince replied seriously.
"Ah, boss, you have learned bad things now." Zhu Yuanzhang understood, and the two men smiled at each other.
