Wang Chengen carefully handed over the memorial of Tianjin Governor Cha Deng's report and the memorial of Li Zhi's self-defense to the emperor, and said: "He ransacked the home of Liu Bingchuan, the censor of Huguang, and killed Liu Bingchuan's father and eldest brother!"
Zhu Youjian took the two memorials and read Zha Dengbei's memorial first. After reading it, he became cold: "Does this Li Zhi regard Tianjin West Road as his backyard? He is a military general.
Who gave him the authority to deal with civil affairs and execute the gentry?"
Cha Deng Bei was originally a clean person, but he was refuted by Li Zhi and he hated Li Zhi in his heart. The memorial written by Cha Deng Bei avoided the important points and deliberately described Li Zhi's wanton behavior, which made Zhu Youjian very unhappy.
Wang Chengen saw the emperor's expression was strange and stood aside without daring to speak.
Zhu Youjian took a breath and opened Li Zhi's memorial and read it. After reading Li Zhi's self-defense memorial, the unhappiness on the face of Emperor Tianming softened a lot.
"It turns out that Li Zhi started a dispute with the Liu family not only for personal gain, but also for the development of military land! These 100,000 acres of new land can be turned over to the farmland of 12,000 dan per year! Not bad!"
Seeing that the emperor was no longer angry, Wang Chengen said: "Your Majesty, the Liu family is really vicious. A family member who patrolled the censor actually preyed on the common people and robbed them of ninety thousand taels of property! Li Zhi even found out the land deeds of the common people.
, It seems that the evidence is conclusive." After a pause, Wang Chengen said again: "Your Majesty, the more than 70,000 taels of property that Li Zhi confiscated from his house was not confiscated by Li Zhi.
My inner money."
Zhu Youjian nodded and said, "It's quite a lot of money."
Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Youjian's face and said, "Your Majesty, how should we deal with this Li Zhi?"
Zhu Youjian was silent for a moment and said: "This Li Zhi sympathizes with the country's financial shortage and does everything possible to expand my income. His intentions are beyond comparison. It's just that the way he does things is too arrogant! He kills when he says it and confiscates his house.
Just ransack the house! He doesn’t have any Ming Dynasty rules in his eyes!”
After thinking about it, Zhu Youjian snorted coldly and said: "But now that war is raging, it is the time to employ people, but I can't punish him! Otherwise"
Wang Chengen asked: "Your Majesty, how do you reply to Li Zhi?"
Zhu Youjian thought for a while and said: "Sooth him with good words so that he will not cause trouble again."
Wang Chengen asked again: "What about Liu Bingchuan, the censor of Huguang?"
Zhu Youjian remembered what the county magistrate had said just now, sighed and said: "If all officials are made clean, why worry about the world being unjust? The censor is the official who supervises all officials, how can he supervise self-stealing? Let the officials be honest and honest."
Li Zhi will hand over the evidence he has, and the three departments will review it. If it is found to be correct, Liu Bingchuan will be deprived of his official position!"
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On May 4th, the emperor's imperial edict was sent to Fanjiazhuang...
Li Zhi held the emperor's imperial edict and was very happy. Regarding the matter of killing the Liu family, the emperor not only did not punish Li Zhi, but also comforted Li Zhi with kind words. He only mentioned it vaguely at the end of the imperial edict.
: "If this kind of thing happens again, Chengyi will report it to the department for handling."
The evidence collected by Li Zhi that the Liu family had violated the law was also requested by the emperor to be sent to the Ministry of Punishment. Apparently the emperor wanted to organize a joint trial to deal with Liu Bingchuan.
This time in the fight against the Liu family, Li Zhi won a complete victory.
Now that they see the fate of the Liu family, other landowners are afraid of Li Zhi and dare not come forward to oppose Li Zhi. Each family has given up their land for Li Zhi to build irrigation canals, and the irrigation canals are progressing very smoothly. I believe that in another month and a half,
By mid-June, all the irrigation canals for the 100,000 acres of dry fields will be built. When winter wheat is sown in July and August, the dry fields will be irrigated with water trucks.
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The scorching sun in May was like fire, baking the earth. Apart from the noisy chirping of cicadas, no other sounds could be heard in the surrounding fields.
The weather was too hot, so Li Zhi took off his official robe and put on short clothes. He took two servants with him in a light carriage and rode a horse to inspect the new fields in Jinghai County. There he saw that the first batch of farmers were still building irrigation canals.
Li Zhi gave six cents of silver a day to the men and women who helped repair the canals, and he could earn one, two or eight cents of silver a month. During the off-season, farmers had nothing to do, so they could earn money by working on the General's irrigation canal construction site, which was very cost-effective.
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Most of the second group of farmers were also building irrigation canals, but at the same time some farmers were also beginning to work on the newly cultivated fields, hoeing and plowing the fields.
Li Zhi patrolled along the path along the river and saw that the farmers were working enthusiastically and there were prosperous scenes everywhere. Li Zhi was in a good mood, as if he had already seen the bumper wheat harvest next year.
Including these 100,000 acres of wheat fields, Li Zhi's annual land rent income is at least 35,000 shi of grain, which is worth 70,000 taels of silver, which is very impressive. Moreover, there are now 20,000 farmers in the territory, and these farmers can use it during their spare time.
Organized to carry out project construction, it is a very cheap human resource.
Walking close to Xin's store, Li Zhi saw a group of farmers gathered around a young man squatting on the ground. The young man was scratching the field with his hands and talking.
Li Zhi was curious for a moment and walked over to listen.
"There are grass roots underneath this kind of reed grass field. If you don't remove the grass roots, there will be many weeds, which will rob the wheat of fertilizer. Before cultivating, we usually cut off the weeds or set them on fire, and then use shuttle plows to plow deeply! Then rake the ground with zigzag rake
, and finally collect the grass roots with a horse! This can't be removed completely, and it must be irrigated! After plowing the grass roots, it needs to be irrigated once before the underground rhizomes germinate to drown the remaining grass roots."
The young man seemed to be very experienced in opening up wasteland and was guiding other farmers in the crowd. The farmers were also very impressed by him and stood nearby and listened carefully.
After the young man finished speaking, he stood up and walked to another field. The farmers around him were like students following the teacher, and they followed him to another place one by one.
Li Zhi also walked over.
"In this kind of land with many years of old grass, you need to pay more attention to removing the grass roots. The key point of harrowing is to keep the soil in a loose state so that the grass roots can rot underneath the soil. When harrowing, the grass root soil should be turned into the lower layer of the soil.
, making the grass roots rot faster. Use a disc rake to plow shallowly before sowing. If you mix some alfalfa when sowing wheat, the harvest will be better!"
Li Zhi saw that this young man spoke eloquently and that other farmers trusted him so much. He was curious. He asked a farmer standing around the crowd: "Who is this man? Why are everyone gathered around to listen to him?"
The farmer glanced at Li Zhi and said, "This is the good brother from Liujia Village, King Quewang. He is literate and has read agricultural books, and his farming skills are much better than ours. We are listening to his teachings!"
