Li Zhi looked at the Shanxi workers who were crying and said nothing for a long time.
Li Zhi did have some sympathy for these Shanxi workers.
After time travel, Li Zhi was determined to save the suffering Han people. After his career flourished and he managed one town and nine provinces to what it is today, Li Zhi even hoped to lead the Han people to expand the territory of the Chinese nation to the whole world, so that the people of the Yan and Huang descendants could
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Although Li Zhi traveled through time to Jingbianfang, Tianjin Acropolis, for the traveler Li Zhi, he never considered himself a native of Tianjin, nor did he put the social status of the people in Tianjin Acropolis, or Tianjin Town, before other people in the Ming Dynasty.
Although Li Zhi follows the unwritten social rules of seniority, he also gives more benefits to those who have followed him early. For example, Li Zhi attaches great importance to seniority when promoting officials and never directly promotes newcomers who have just joined his force.
This method made the officials under Li Zhi feel relatively safe and increased the loyalty of the entire team.
But what Li Zhi did not expect, and what he did not want, was that the first-come, first-served culture would spread to the local area. Li Zhi did not expect that the residents of Jinghai County who joined his forces first would be so repulsive to newcomers. The income gap between local residents and immigrants has become so huge.
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The income gap is not a small problem. Once economic problems become acute to a certain extent, they become political and social problems. The conflict between local residents and migrant workers has changed from money to cultural hostility. The problem is no longer money.
So simple, it even directly caused people like Yang Dalang to lose their wives.
Everyone must have a wife. Without a wife, he cannot reproduce offspring. Without offspring, his bloodline will be cut off after his life ends. Yang Dalang lost his wife in Jinghai County, which made his four years of life in Jinghai County very difficult.
Failure would be worse than living a hard life in Shanxi.
It can be seen from Yang Dalang that workers in Shanxi work hard in Jinghai County, but they do not get as much as they seem. Behind the increased monthly money is the loss of social status, dignity and even mating rights.
Amidst the antagonism between outsiders and locals, the culture of Jinghai County is highly distorted. The Prince's Shrine, which was supposed to be used to express gratitude to Li Zhi, has changed in this cultural atmosphere and turned into a way for locals to cultivate local protectionism.
The hotbed of emotions has become a tool to strengthen the unity of local people and strengthen the exclusion and oppression of outsiders.
Therefore, the Yang brothers finally projected their full anger on Li Zhisheng Temple, which represented the local people's sense of superiority, and angrily chopped down the statue of Li Zhi.
One town and nine provinces are developing rapidly, and the gap between the development level of other parts of the Ming Dynasty is also getting wider and wider. In the foreseeable future, because of Li Zhi's strict management, Tianjin, Shandong, Henan and Jianghuai Province will become more and more industrialized.
The higher the level, the more and more migrant workers from other provinces will come to work in one town and nine provinces.
If the relationship between outsiders and locals is not properly handled, the economic development of one town and nine provinces will bring not happiness, but hatred.
Li Zhi looked at the people in Shanxi who were crying in confusion and said: "The migrant workers in Shanxi are indeed aggrieved."
Upon hearing Li Zhi's words, the eyes of civil leader Qiu Kedu flashed brightly, and his hands trembled violently with excitement.
I never expected that the prince would say that the workers in Shanxi were aggrieved.
Will the prince help Shanxi workers?
When the people kneeling on the ground heard these words, they suddenly raised their heads and looked at Li Zhi expectantly.
Will King Qi change the current situation of migrant workers suffering?
He Ganyi, the magistrate of Jinghai County, opened his eyes suddenly when he heard Li Zhi's words.
He knelt on the ground with a thud and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the people of Jinghai trade fairly with Shanxi workers and employ people according to the law. What grievance is there?"
Li Zhi frowned and looked at He Ganyi.
With a wave of his hand, Li Zhi shouted: "More than thirty lives were lost in Jinghai County, which intensified the conflict between locals and outsiders. He Ganyi bears the main leadership responsibility. Come on! Capture He Ganyi! Investigate carefully."
The guards around Li Zhi rushed forward, held down the magistrate of Jinghai County, and dragged him down.
The other officials around Li Zhi were so frightened that they could not speak.
Li Zhi wants to help migrant workers, suppress local protectionism, and change the local political structure of one town and nine provinces?
Gao Ligong, Cai Huaishui and others looked at each other for a while, not daring to speak.
Although these officials promoted by Li Zhi are all qualified, they are not great talents in running the world. They do not have the sentiments of family and country like Li Zhi who have the world in mind. These people were all born in Tianjin Town, and from the bottom of their hearts they hope to safeguard the country. The interests of local people in Tianjin.
Li Zhi is unhappy now, and Gao Ligong, Cai Huaishui and others dare not speak. But it is impossible for them to want to see outsiders suppress the local people and obtain more dividends from economic development.
Finally Li Xing stood up.
"Brother, the people in this town and nine provinces are his subjects. The migrant workers are the subjects of the emperor. There is an essential difference. The local residents have neither stolen nor robbed. If brother helps the outsiders this time, I am afraid he will It hurt the hearts of the people in one town and nine provinces."
Li Zhi looked at Li Xing, nodded, and said: "The local people in Jinghai County, including the local people in one town and nine provinces, have not done anything illegal. I cannot accuse them."
"I will not force the locals to give up benefits to outsiders."
The Shanxi people kneeling on the ground were very disappointed after hearing what Li Zhi said. They originally hoped that Li Zhi would come up with policies to help them, but they did not expect that Li Zhiming said that he would not let locals give up benefits to outsiders.
In the final analysis, the conflict between migrant workers and outsiders is a matter of interests. It is because the locals fully occupy the benefits of economic development that the migrant workers are in such a miserable state. If the locals are not forced to give up the benefits, what is the status of the migrant workers? Can it be improved?
Why does King Qi say one sentence to the left and one to the right? Who is King Qi helping?
Li Xing was also stunned when he heard Li Zhi's words.
Li Zhi didn't seem to be prepared to offend either side. He didn't know how Li Zhi decided to resolve the conflict between locals and outsiders.
No matter how you look at it, the wisdom of the Ming Dynasty cannot resolve this contradiction.
Seeing everyone looking at him in confusion, Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "Bring me the map."
The guards quickly rummaged through the items and found a cloth map two meters long and wide. Li Zhi waved his hand, and the guards raised the map high and opened it in front of everyone.
Li Zhi looked at the map for a long time.
"In the future, migrant workers will no longer need to crowd into densely populated areas to become second-class citizens. The migrant workers are also Han people, and the Han people can use their own hands to build new cities in sparsely populated areas."
For a long time, Li Zhi drew a circle on the desolate saline land north of Dagu Port in Tianjin.
"We are going to build a special zone here! The name will be Beizhen!"
