Chapter 258 Asking the Ghost (Part 1)

Seeing the scene just now, the victims quickly organized themselves, and each hundred households were divided into groups. Cai Xiang suddenly understood and said, "This is benevolent politics. (", watch the latest update of this book)"

It is about to be assigned to the construction site or later, and more than 30,000 people gathered together. After all, they are from outsiders, from more than a dozen prefectures and dozens of counties. When they arrived in Jiangnan, they became alone in a foreign land and became an orphan.

Let them organize themselves, have close friends, have good relationships, form a hundred households, or work, or break up the distribution in the future, and they will be together. With acquaintances by their side, they will not feel lonely when leaving their hometown.

However, this detail often causes officials to neglect.

However, there has never been such a state that has shared so many victims of extreme poverty.

Zheng Lang said lightly: "Cai Zhijian, let me ask you, how much arable land can a household in my dynasty have?"

Not very easy to answer, Cai Xiang stammered and said, "It's about thirty acres."

"Why do I give so many polder fields to the people?"

“It’s motivation.”

"It's not only an incentive, but at this time last year, I advocated it, but who dares to guarantee that it will definitely succeed?"

Cai Xiang nodded silently.

"Without a heavy land, it will not inspire people to participate, but they don't know the future. They bring their own tools, bring their own dry food, and even abandon their own winter wheat. Some poor people have no food to eat, eat only two meals a day, and work on empty stomachs. In the end, I couldn't stand it, so I provided a dinner. This is also an unprecedented gamble. Only I know the winner and the loss. If they win, they will have a future life. If they lose, because they come to work in winter, and if they are serious in the second year, some people will not be able to survive. Do you think they will be more than twenty acres of land? "

The reason is very simple, no one has ever thought about it.

Cai Xiang doesn't know how to answer.

"This is the reward they deserve. Later, seeing the benefits of Dawei, one family continued to spend more than 50 acres of land, more than 60 acres of land, or more than 70 acres of land? Fill all the lakes in the country into flat rivers, and each household could not be divided into so many fields. Moreover, the large households occupy more land. In fact, I am also providing disaster relief."

"what?"

"Since last year, various wealthy families have attracted thousands of retail investors and floating tourists. I deliberately asked, most of them are Jianghuai disaster victims. If there were no such disaster victims in the imperial court, I would not build a lot of dikes this year, and it would be enough to accommodate the people promised last year. I will build it again next year, and it can be allocated. It is impossible for each family to have 60 mu and 70 mu, and for each family of five or less, and for more than 50 mu, which is enough to allow them to live a life of food and clothing. I have also mentioned this to other magistrates that they will learn from me in the future and cannot let each household divide it into 60 mu and 70 mu. This is

As a special reward for the starter, what should I do now? If I give them for forty acres and are not convinced, the court will impeach them. If I give them sixty acres or seventy acres, where will so much arable land be produced? And set a worse example, what should I do in other states? The same victims, why are the victims of the Jianghuai River only tenants? These people eat well, wear warm clothes, live comfortably, have more fields, and have bright prospects in the future, and don’t even have to work. The court must pay them dozens of dollars a year? Where is the fairness?"

Cai Xiang and Song Xiang could not answer.

"I have a series of arrangements to express the support of the local indigenous people for me and benefit them. However, the victims came over, and there were 7,000 households. It turned out that there were only 30,000 households in Taipingzhou. In order to make them live a better life, they could only arrange them one after another. Will the indigenous people feel fair?"

Another question that they cannot answer.

"The people have not thought about it yet, but they will wake up sooner or later. Once they wake up, these victims will take it for granted and do not hold a grateful heart. Will other tenants and indigenous people have hatred? I have nothing to do in my office, but what about the next one? The victims were brought by you. If you see them, even if you are happy to include the income of all the people in Taipingzhou into them, you have thought about the future? You three are very knowledgeable and may enter the two palaces in the future. You should not have such a shallow vision..."

"Who dares to enter the two palaces, but I have something to do with it. Can you ask?" Cai Xiang said.

"ask."

"Why did you resist the imperial order?"

"It's not a resistance. The court wants to force me to speak first, because things are getting bigger and bigger. The East Mansion may participate. As long as I ask, I will intervene one after another in the future. May I ask, who can intervene in Taipingzhou now! Who has the ability to intervene!"

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Extremely arrogant.

But the three of them couldn't tell me, who could? Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, or Fan Zhongyan, and he could build water conservancy, but it seemed that Fan Zhongyan could not suddenly create more than 700,000 yuan in money.

"We must look at the problem to a broader perspective. If I make a successful demonstration and other prefectures follow suit, don't add more. One state will increase the production of one million hu every year, and more than a dozen states will increase the production of one million hu, which can support three to four million people. If a state can increase the tax of 50,000 hu, it can bring a million hu of taxes to the country, ten million hu in ten years and ten million 10 million in a hundred years. Why not support it and deliberately restrain it?" There is another thing that I didn't say, I originally wanted to take advantage of the Dafeng harvest next year to conduct an experiment on the exemption law in Taipingzhou, because the disaster victims' affairs may not work.

The amount of more than 700,000 yuan was also unwilling to accept it.

After saying that, go back.

Cai Xiang lowered his head and thought for a while, and whispered: "We were wrong... the lofty heart..."

Today, Zheng Lang's words made Cai Xiang feel distorted.

Looking at Zheng Langsong's ordinary green robe away and looking at the official uniform on his body, Cai Xiang suddenly felt that the official uniform was very dazzling.

Jia Changchao didn't think so much. It was my job and he finished it.

An order was immediately issued, and anyone who could provide unknown purchase of sulfur in firecracker workshops in various states would not be asked about the crime. Therefore, the real murderer of the arson case in the mouth of the river was rewarded with a thousand coins. If others could provide clues, they would also be rewarded with a thousand coins.

No one will report it if there is no reward. Even if it is not a good thing, it is possible that Taipingzhou will have to argue with the imperial court again, so I will make it on my own for it.

A few yamen runners were drawn and sent this order to other states. The ships from the river may not be sulfur from Taiping Prefecture.

Then sit and wait.

Zhao Tongzhang also brought the yamen runners to mobilize the victims and transported them to the distance one by one.

...

No one has come to report it yet, but a murder occurred in Taipingzhou.

It may not be that there is a half-tenant farmer named Ding Laosan in Dingjiazhuang, Wu and Hu County. His family has six or seven acres of land and rented more than twenty acres of land from him. Because Dingjiazhuang is close to the lake, he can fish for fishing and subsidize some household income, so the family came here for years.

But some time ago, Ding Laosan got some money from somewhere and began to become extravagant.

Buy a pound of meat in three or two days, cook some side dishes, and drink a few pots of old wine.

For ordinary Song Dynasty farmers, this kind of life is already a very luxurious one. If he develops according to the normal trajectory, he will also arrange 4,900 households to be arranged this year. If he gets dozens of acres of polder fields, his life will only get better and better.

But just yesterday, while he was fishing, he somehow fell into the water and drowned.

His wife was dissatisfied and ran to Wu and complained to Hu County. My husband was good at water, so how could he fall into the water and drown? He was murdered by someone else.

County Magistrate Wang was surprised that if a good person drowns, he will not drown if he is good at swimmers? Besides, your husband likes to drink, or he is drunk or has leg cramps, he can drown.

His wife was dissatisfied and said that he had obtained some money some time ago, and he had about a dozen dollars. He didn't know where he came from. After coming back the day before yesterday, he said that I could get some money soon. Something happened the next day after that.

So this must be a murder.

County Magistrate Wang had to take the yamen runners and offenders to go for a autopsy. The body was normal, his stomach was filled with water, his whole body was swollen, and he was full of signs of drowning.

After another test, there was no injury on the whole body, nor any signs of poisoning.

County Magistrate Wang said: "Where do you say someone is murdered, but is it injured?"

The woman was dissatisfied and came to Taipingzhou City again and continued to appeal.

Zheng Lang took the yamen runners down.

First let the offender be an autopsy, the result is the same as the result of County Magistrate Wang’s judgment.

He continued to send people around to inquire carefully. In front of Dingjiazhuang was Huze, and not far from the left was one of the three central dikes surrounded by Zheng Lang. There were about 400 hectares, and the cultivated land might be less than 300 hectares. Not small, but it was far less than Jingmin dikes.

The accident happened in the center of the lake. I don’t know where the accident happened. Later, the Ding family found a boat and floated into a reed. The body happened to blow to the Xinwei dike with the west wind. The dike had not been built, but the victims had been sent to weed.

In addition to the victims, there are 5,000 people in Taiping Prefecture, which drives the enthusiasm of the victims. Later, there are also 10,000 local people who may enter one after another.

Hundreds of people were also stationed in this area, and one of them saw Ding Laosan's body.

Several fishermen also saw Ding Lao San fishing and greeted each other. They seemed to have drunk alcohol, but they did not drink too much and spoke very clearly. So Ding's wife shouted injustice.

Zheng Lang asked again: "Li, you said your husband died in a desperate situation and was murdered by someone. Then I ask you, who gave you wealth?"

"I don't know either."

How to investigate this case? Even if it is really a murderer, or a drowning person, it is impossible to identify. Moreover, Zheng Lang did not download "Xiaowen Lu" at that time, so he didn't understand this.

Look at each other with County Magistrate Wang.

It’s best not to sue, and that person is not too busy to get busy? He doesn’t even have time to eat. It’s not that he is irresponsible, but he is really murdered. Just one suspicion, one drag, and so many officials in one state, one county and two places are here. What’s the point?

But you must not ignore it if you sue it.

So I sent people to look for clues everywhere to see if other people fishing on the lake saw any abnormal things happening.

The final clue is concentrated in a place called Huang Chaidang.

Someone saw Ding Laosan sitting on the bow of the boat and drinking. After drinking, he started to cast a net and said, "I won't have to catch fish next year."

It makes others envious.

Only eight thousand households were arranged, not all fourth-class households and fifth-class households were arranged. There were also many. The fifth-class households were at least 4,000 households because they were hesitant and did not register. Later, they were suspended when registering and there was no arrangement.

Therefore, Zheng Lang said something that is unfair to local residents.

If there are no these victims, a few medium-class dikes will be reclaimed in the future, at least fifth-class households will be able to arrange them.

This news once again confirmed that Ding Laosan did not drink too much wine, but according to the fishermen, it is not easy to say that the wind was very strong and the wind was strong and the waves were high. It was difficult for people to stand firm on the bow of the boat. If they fell into the water, or were tripped by some water plants, or had their tendons pulled, they could die. In this case, no water quality was effective.

In the afternoon, another fishermen saw it, but the boat was already parked by Huang Chaidang at that time. They all thought Ding Laosan was sleeping, and they didn't ask, but they didn't expect that the person had drowned in the blink of an eye.

Zheng Lang asked County Magistrate Wang to go back.

It was getting dark, and I sat on the bow of the boat for a while and came to Dingjiazhuang again. Ding's wife took two teenagers and Ding's mother crying. Zheng Lang comforted her and said to the offender: "You open the coffin again and test it more carefully."

"Here."

However, in this detailed test, I had to pry open my teeth. I was afraid that the family members of the deceased would be sad to see it. Zheng Lang asked them to avoid it and sent two yamen runners to guard the relatives of the spirit shed. He himself talked to other villagers and asked carefully whether he had heard Ding Laosan tell him where his dozens of money came from?

Shake your heads one by one.

Let them think about it again.

If it was really a murder, this would be an important clue, but no one knew it.

He couldn't help but frown.

The truth of the case is not like a murder, but a drowning case.
To be continued...