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Zhu Chongba in the late Ming Dynasty Volume 1 467. The problem

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    The red lady was originally full of incomprehension, but now after Ma Xiaotian and Zhu Yuanzhang explained it successively, she finally understood that Li Zicheng's "not paying for food" was just an empty talk and could not be realized at all.  She couldn't help but said with deep worry: "Oh, this is not good. People like me don't understand that this sentence is a lie. After all, there are many people who won't see it through, right? Then everyone will be exposed."  He lied."

    Xu Renjie said with a smile: "Don't worry, there are not many people stupider than you." His playful smile became a habit, and there was no Xue Hongqi around to make fun of, so he turned the target of teasing to the red lady.

    Ma Xiaotian became anxious as soon as he saw it. He quickly stood between Xu Renjie and the red lady, and said urgently: "Brother Marshal please don't don't" He said goodbye for a long time, but the last half of the sentence could not come out.  It turned out that the half sentence was "Don't take advantage of the red lady", but saying this in front of the red lady was too outrageous, so I had to force myself not to say it.

    The red lady was at a loss and said with a smile: "Nothing else? After you finish what you have to say, don't hesitate, it's disgusting!"

    Ma Xiaotian scratched his hair and then went crazy!

    Xu Renjie laughed loudly, slapped Ma Xiaotian hard on the shoulder, and said in a voice that only Ma Xiaotian could hear: "This woman is more than innocent and cute, but she is more mature and sensible, but not as good as my sister Xue Hongqi, who is like me  An older person would not take action against such a disturbing little girl."

    After hearing this, Ma Xiaotian nodded with sympathy and said: "That's true, it is indeed more worrying than Sister Xue Hongqi. Although Sister Xue Hongqi is not very good-tempered, she never makes people crazy.  But she is still young, and with a few more years of experience, she will not be worse than Sister Xue."

    "What are you talking about?" The red lady felt the eyes of the two people turning on her, and she seemed to faintly hear Xue Hongqi's words, and thought to herself: Are you comparing me to Xue Hongqi?  Thinking of this, she felt a little weak. She really didn't have the confidence to compete with Xue Hongqi.

    Ignoring the nonsense of his men, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "What the Red Lady said is not unreasonable. If Li Zicheng uses this trick, many people will soon be deceived. The next question is, we have to compare with Li Zicheng.  Who is more popular and loved by the people is not a simple matter."

    The leaders lead the way.

    Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "We want the people to know that although you don't need to pay food if you follow Li Zicheng, if you follow our Zhu Jun, even if you pay food, you will get more income than if you don't pay food."

    ¡°Yes!¡± Everyone responded in unison.

    Most human beings are profit-seeking. If you can let the people know that life is better on the side that receives food than on the side that does not, the people will know how to weigh who they should live with.  This principle is very simple, but it requires a lot of effort.

    First of all, they have to promote advantageous crops and fight against natural disasters or barren land. Then they have to ensure that the officials are honest and do not disturb the people, so that the people can grow food in peace and security and not be blackmailed when paying taxes. These are all kinds of things.  , it is far more difficult for Li Zicheng to spread the word "not paying for food" and then take advantage of big households.

    "However, Li Zicheng's approach was sweet first and then bitter. He was powerful for a while, but he would eventually be in bad luck.  Zhu Jun's approach is to slow down the water and go deep, first bitter and then sweet. You may suffer a lot in the early stages of establishing the system, but when such a system is fully operational, it can ensure that the people really live a good life.

    Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said: "Generalissimo, go out and gather all the rich households in the city. Tell them about Li Zicheng's sinister intentions of taking advantage of the rich households. Give them a blow on the head and wake them up. Tell them that the consequences of not paying the grain will be  Their property was taken away by Li Zicheng."

    Xu Renjie clasped his fists and listened to the order, and then asked: "Is it only for the rich to listen to, not the poor?"

    Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "The poor people can't listen, because the rich eaters will not eat them. It doesn't harm their interests, but they can make them refuse to pay for food. They have no reason to object, so they can't listen to anything."  Words, if you tell them about it, it will be in vain.¡±

    Xu Renjie nodded and said: "Understood, I'll go then." He quickly went to summon the wealthy households and held a meeting for them.

    Zhu Yuanzhang said to Ma Xiaotian again: "Secretly arrange people to go around the city, arrest and kill the people who spread this children's song. Do it cleanly and don't let anyone know that it was our Zhu Jun people who killed him, so as not to be cold."  The hearts of people all over the world."

    Ma Xiaotian also clasped his fists and said, "Yes, I'll go right away."

    Zhu Yuanzhang turned to the red lady again and said: "Go and remind Bai Yuzhu that the matter of corn seeds is urgent, and ask him to transfer the team from Baishui that we used to promote potatoes and let them take over the government affairs of promoting corns.  , this matter is the most important thing in the spring of next year.¡±

    redThe lady also hugged her fists and hurried away. It was rare to see her obey orders so obediently.

    Zhu Yuanzhang asked for a small ingot of silver from the soldiers nearby (he himself never carried any silver with him), walked towards the children who were singing children's songs, and said with a warm smile: "Children, here is a ingot of silver.  Do you want it?"

    The children were stunned and took two steps back, not daring to come to pick her up or speak.

    Zhu Yuanzhang said: "If you don't sing the children's song just now, this ingot of silver will be yours."

    Several children were overjoyed and nodded quickly. The youngest Wuzi said happily: "Okay, if you don't want to sing, I won't singUncle, is this the children's song you are talking about?" After saying that, he started to sing: "If you want to be in trouble,  If there is toilet paper, don¡¯t tear up my ragged mat; if you need to urinate, if there is a chamber pot, don¡¯t draw a map on the bed; if you need to fart, if there are cans, don¡¯t blow smoke under the quilt¡­¡±

    Zhu Yuanzhang laughed dumbly and said softly: "It's another song."

    The child said: "Oh, you are talking about the song "Opening the City Gate to Welcome King Chuang"?

    Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "Hey, stop singing and take the money."

    "Okay, no more singing." Wuwazi took the money, and a group of children cheered and ran away without a trace.

    Although these children stopped singing, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that such bribery would only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. After all, they would not stop until next spring, when corn is planted in the fields and the people of Guangyuan know the benefits of Zhu Jun.  The thought of following Li Zicheng was that if Li Zicheng led his troops across the border within this time, it would be a serious matter.

    He told his confidants with an ugly face: "Let's go back to the Yamen."

    In the next few days, Zhu Yuanzhang opened warehouses to store grain to help the people survive the cold winter, trained soldiers to adapt to mountain fighting, and tried to prevent the hateful children's song from being introduced into his territory. In just one  Within a month, more than a dozen of Li Yan's men who were sent to spread children's songs were killed.

    Through bribery, persuasion and other means, the children and wealthy people in the city finally stopped talking about this issue.  The children could be bribed with a small amount of money, but the rich were not so easy. With Xu Renjie's sharp talk for a long time, they finally understood Li Zicheng's intention to take advantage of the rich.  Only then did fear appear on his face, and he made up his mind that he would never take refuge in Li Zicheng.

    On the other hand, after Bai Yuzhu returned to Shaanxi, he hurried to Xi'an to find two priests, Li Leisi and Anwensi, and asked them about it. Sure enough, in the southeastern coastal area of ??the Ming Dynasty, corn had already taken root and sprouted for many years.  .  It is not difficult to get seeds, and there are countless farmers who know how to grow corn. As long as they are willing to spend some money, this matter is easy to do.

    At that moment, Li Qingshui quickly ordered Xia Er to make an extra trip to transport the corn seeds all the way back. He also mobilized all the officials from Baishui and asked them to prepare to work in Guangyuan tomorrow spring.

    Speaking of which, this kid Li Qingshui is doing great things now. He is the chief envoy of Shaanxi, and he is no longer the chief envoy of half of Shaanxi, but the chief envoy of the whole Shaanxi. Millions of people in Shaanxi are working hard under his  Under the management, everyone basically had enough to eat, which gave Li Qingshui a sense of accomplishment. As a scholar, isn't it the pursuit of "cultivation, family order, country governance, and world peace"?  Now that he sees that his ideal of retribution has been achieved in the two steps of "cultivating himself and harmonizing his family", and that the latter step is being realized step by step, he, a thief official, is becoming more and more interested.

    As soon as he heard that Sichuan was included in the next goal, he became very motivated. He thought to himself that now he has finally left Shaanxi and headed towards Sichuan. If this continues, he might even be able to achieve "governing the country and bringing peace to the world" in the blink of an eye.  accomplish.

    Every time he thinks of this, his energy surges!  At this time, if he was asked to return to the court and become a useless scholar of the Donglin Party, he would be unwilling to do anything.

    After such a change in his mood, he often went to chat with the two generals Da Cao and Xiao Cao. After these two generals were placed under house arrest by Zhu Jun, they enjoyed good food and drink, but they refused to let them go and were unwilling to surrender.  Both sides just kept spending it.  Li Qingshui felt that this was not a problem, so he often told the two generals about Zhu Jun's good deeds, and took the two generals for a walk around the countryside. Sometimes Li Qingshui went out incognito to inspect his government affairs.  Or when he goes to the surrounding counties to inspect the work of his subordinates, he will also bring the big and small cao with him.

    Seeing the prosperity of Shaanxi today, Ercao could not help but lie.  Especially Cao Cao, he always believed that soldiers only need to obey orders and defeat all the enemies of the court one by one. Then the world will naturally be at peace and the people will live and work in peace and contentment.  But later he was taught a lesson by Zhu Yuanzhang, saying that he was just a sword without a will of its own, and it would turn into a bad sword if held in the hands of a bad person This sentence has always had a profound impact on him.

    Follow Li QingAfter looking around for a long time, a certain belief in his heart began to slowly change. Occasionally, he couldn't help but think: Will defeating all enemies really allow the people to live a good life?  Baishui Zhuba obviously only occupies a small part of Shaanxi, and there are obviously many powerful enemies around him. Why are the people in his territory living so happily and peacefully?  It seemscertain problems are not caused by the enemy, but really come from the imperial court itself

    (To be continued)
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