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Regarding Zhao Ran's suggestion, the two most powerful people in Long'an Prefecture still need to think carefully, but the problem of soaring food prices in Guyang County must be solved immediately. For this reason, Zhang Yunzhao and Feng Zhifu specially asked Xuanyuan Guan and Sichuan Bu
The government secretary's office wrote a letter urging people to collect food for disaster relief.
However, due to the three consecutive years of the Ming and Xia wars, the grain stocks controlled by the Sichuan Chief Envoy Si Yamen could no longer meet the demand, and there was a huge gap between the allocated disaster relief grain and the needs. And because the autumn harvest had not yet begun, the real drought had not yet begun.
It turns out that except for Long'an Prefecture, the disaster-stricken Baoning Prefecture and Kuizhou Prefecture did not even send any warning to Chengdu, so the Chief Envoy Si Yamen did not pay enough attention to this.
Zhang Yunzhao went to Chengdu in person and met with Li Yunhe of Xuanyuan Guan Supervisor. After the two talked for an hour, Li Yunhe promised Zhang Yunzhao that Xuanyuan Guan would come forward to find a way to transfer grain from southern Sichuan and eastern Sichuan to northern Sichuan. As for purchasing grain and seeds
The money needs to be raised by Xizhenwu Palace on its own.
Farmers in this era do not have much savings, and their ability to resist disasters is very weak. Basically, as soon as the autumn harvest comes, they will have no rice to cook. It takes at least half a month to bring grain from other places into the country, but the disaster will not wait.
People, farmers cannot harvest food from their land, so they can only use the charity money they just borrowed to buy food at high prices. Even if they buy food, they will never be able to survive this winter. If this situation is allowed to continue, Zhao Ran
Interfering in lending money to young people will become a joke.
Perhaps Zhao Ran can increase the lending intensity of charity funds and increase the amount of loans per household by three or even five times, but he can figure it out with his toes. The consequences of this will continue to increase food prices. Zhao Ran
No matter how much money is invested, the final result will be in vain. Farmers will still not be able to buy enough food, but the gentry will make a lot of money.
And if Zhao Ran had stopped doing nothing, then after the farmers had spent all their charity loans, they would still have to borrow usury from the gentry, and they would still not be able to escape the outcome of their fields being annexed.
Zhao Ran was helpless. He had thought about it before. Once he took action on his own, he would definitely encounter a lot of resistance. But what he didn't expect was that the first counterattack from the gentry made him very anxious.
In the Jin's Mansion in Guyang County, Zhao Ran was sitting in the flower hall, accompanied by the Jinxian Lieutenant on the main seat.
Zhao Ran took a small sip of the fragrant tea in the cup until the tea cup reached the bottom, but he still didn't see any sign from Jinxian Lieutenant. So he had to say: "Jinxian Lieutenant, the current situation is really too long to wait. I wonder if you can still
What are you hesitating about?"
Jin Xianwei sighed and finally said: "Zhao Fangzhu has great kindness and compassion. Jin has nothing but admiration for him. If there are any young people who want to make things difficult for Fangzhu, Jin will definitely try his best to eradicate them."
To protect the safety of the Fang Master. I didn’t expect that the Fang Master would do such a big thing, which was beyond Jin’s ability. It really made Jin feel very uncomfortable.”
Zhao Ran said: "Pindao has already discussed this matter with Magistrate Kong. With Magistrate Kong protecting us, what should Captain Jin have to fear?"
Lieutenant Jin Xian leaned back, leaned on the back of the chair, rubbed his forehead with his fingers, and said feebly: "You can't say that. Jin regarded Fangzhu Zhao as a close friend, so he confided in him with sincere words and looked back to Fangzhu.
Don’t blame me, Mr. Jin, for being timid. Mr. Kong is not a local, and to put it inappropriately, he only serves as an official for one term. He only wants to have excellent performance and make money for young people. He can be promoted elsewhere. Even if he does poorly, he will be damned.
After returning to his hometown after serving as an official, he will still enjoy the rest of his life. But Jin is different. Jin is from Guyang County and will never be promoted in this life. If he offends these wealthy gentry, not only will he not be able to serve as county captain, but he will also be unable to do so.
It will bring harm to the family members, and then where will there be a place for the Jin family in Guyang County?"
Zhao Ran calmed down and said: "Where did Jinxian Lieutenant's pride go? When the Zong clan was wiped out, Jinxian Lieutenant didn't shrink back? Is the Zong clan considered a big family in Guyang? If we join forces, won't we still be wiped out? In this way, no matter what happens,
No matter which house we take down, no matter how many houses we take down, Pindao will only take 30% of it into the charity fund, and the remaining 70% will belong to the Jinxian Lieutenant. What do you think? These evil gentry are making ill-gotten gains, and they are attracting money.
It’s the people’s blessings and the people’s anointing, and stealing them is all merit and a good thing in compliance with God’s will. Why is the Jinxian Lieutenant hesitating?”
Jin Xianwei smiled bitterly and shook his head: "This is two different things from Zong Weiwu's case, how can they be compared? Although hoarding is unjust, there is no such article in the laws of the Ming Dynasty. Besides, Zong Weiwu shoveled it away, and no one
I would say that they are both ugly and ugly, but now these big families are all connected by the same spirit. If you disturb one family, it is equivalent to fighting with all of them! I am afraid you also know that none of the leading families is easy to get along with. Zhang
There is a relative of the Jiao family who is serving as a minister in the court, the Jiao family is related by marriage to the Luotui official of Chengdu Prefecture, and someone of the Zhou family is an official in Shaanxi. Although he is only a county magistrate, he is the same year as the governor of the province, let alone the others.
, with these few alone, if the trouble is really overwhelming, how can you and I be able to handle it? I am afraid that even County Master Kong and the Song Supervisor cannot handle it!"
The several large households pointed out by Jinxian Lieutenant are very particular. They all have people in Wujiyuan, and they are all well known to Zhao Ran: the Zhang family has Zhang Ze, who has now left with the original guest Dong Zhikun; the Jiao family has
Jiao Tan, Zhou and Zhou Huai were all Zhao Ran's roommates when he was a layman in Wujiyuan, and they still keep in touch with each other now. The reason why I named these households is to tell Zhao Ran that these large households are intertwined.
The entanglement is very deep, and if it goes wrong, it will affect the people around you, so it is best not to act rashly.
In fact, there are some things that Jin Xianwei didn't say. For example, many of the upper-level lay relatives of Wujiyuan are also big households in Guyang County. However, because they take into account the reputation of the Taoist priests, most of these lay relatives act reasonably and are not like
Other wealthy gentry were so arrogant and domineering, especially during the youth money crisis, because they were suppressed by Wujiyuan, they did not dare to blatantly participate in hoarding.
Zhao Ran understood County Lieutenant Jin's concerns, but he had already reached a consensus with County Magistrate Kong that he must seek a breakthrough from the wealthy gentry and large households, so he patiently persuaded: "These big households you mentioned, even the poor Taoist will not touch, and the poor Taoist also understands
The risks involved will definitely not be met head-on. Pindao and Kong Xianzun have already discussed it. As the saying goes, we will choose a household with an unstable foundation and kill the chicken to show the monkeys to scare them.
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"Would you like to hear the details?"
"What do you think of the Long family in the south of the city?"
Lieutenant Jinxian was a little confused and asked: "Long family?"
Zhao Ran nodded: "Yes! Pindao has found out clearly that no one from the Long family has been an official for twenty years. The most recent official was the chief registrar of a county in Guangxi 23 years ago. In the past twenty years, the Long family has come to
There are several talented people out there, but none of them won the exam. He doesn’t know how to restrain himself, but is jumping up and down at this moment. Isn’t he a killable chicken?”
Jin County Lieutenant was very clear about the background of the Long family, the big landowner in the south of the city. When Zhao Ran mentioned it, he immediately understood that this was a soft persimmon that could be pinched. After thinking about it, he asked: "Song Supervisor and Kong
Have all the county officials approved it?"
Zhao Ran smiled and said: "The secular family of the Song Jianyuan had a feud with the Long family for land. That was during the seventeenth year of the Song Dynasty. At that time, the Song Jianyuan was still a Taoist boy in the Jingtang Hall. Since then, the relationship between the two families has been at odds; as for Kong,
County Lord, he wishes that all the big families in the county would spit out their fields, not even a mere Long family. Can Lieutenant Jin feel relieved?"
The captain of Jin County breathed a sigh of relief: "In this case, let's take action on the Long family! Well, just now Master Zhao Fang said... 70%?"
"Yes, I am three and you are seven!"
"Okay! In that case, Jin will also do his best to benefit the hometown! Fangzhu Zhao will wait a moment..." After saying that, Jin County Lieutenant got up and went back to the back hall. After a while, he returned with a yellow paper list.
In the flower hall, he handed it to Zhao Ran: "Master Fang, please take a look."
Zhao Ran took it and took a look, dear, it listed numerous crimes committed by the Long family in the past five years, from forced land purchase to frame-up, from suspected murder to insulting a good family, there are all kinds of crimes, no less than twenty or thirty. After reading,
Afterwards, Zhao Ran was speechless for a long time, and glanced at the complacent Jinxian Lieutenant, secretly saying: It turns out that you have been memorizing dirty information. It seems that I... I need to be more careful in the future.
No matter what, being able to convince Jin County Lieutenant to cooperate fully can be regarded as opening a breakthrough. With this black material, it will be justified to rob the Long family.
After discussing the details of the action, Jinxian Lieutenant seemed to be in a good mood and said with a smile to Zhao Ran: "Zhao Fangzhu's move can be said to kill two birds with one stone. It not only knocked down the mountain and frightened the tiger, but also avenged the secular family for the Song Supervisory Academy. I think it will definitely be in the future.
The future is limitless. I don’t know how the Long family could offend Master Zhao and end up in such a disaster."
"If you're to blame, it's just that his boss didn't choose a good name!"
Jinxian Lieutenant was stunned: "Isn't your name a good choice?"
Zhao Ran gritted his back molars and said fiercely: "What do you think is a bad name for him? If he insists on calling him Long Aotian, he really doesn't want to live or die!"
Jinxian Lieutenant: "..." (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!