Chapter 107: There is no worst, only worse
Yun Zhao does not think that he is a born rebel, he can even be regarded as a muddling through.
After coming to Ming Dynasty, Yun Zhao found that if he didn't do something, it would be impossible to live a stable life.
When troubled times come, it is best to prepare in advance. This is responsible for yourself, your family, and the nation.
In the past, when Yun Zhao was beaten to death, he would not link his personal destiny with the destiny of the nation.
After arriving in the Ming Dynasty, as a prophet and Illuminati, if you do nothing, it will be a disgrace to your life.
It can be inferred from this that all prophets and forefathers are actually painful, contradictory, and sad.
It is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. When a disaster strikes, it is necessary to push the taller person out of the bullet hole. However, when you sadly find that you are the tallest person Sometimes, if you don’t want to resist, you still have to struggle.
Yun Zhao very much hoped that officials in Shaanxi could learn from him and lead the people to build water conservancy projects, lead the people to fight off bandits, lead the people to plant new crops, and give the people a hope of survival.
For this reason, he tried his best in a short period of time to give these people hope.
If they really take action, this country will slowly get better.
Yun Zhao doesn’t mind hanging out in a peaceful world of the Ming Dynasty. Maybe he will really take the exam and come back with a top score to make his mother happy.
It’s a pity that they only want food. What’s even sadder is that they don’t even have the courage to forcefully ask Yun Zhao for food. They only dare to place their hopes on Yun Zhao as a reasonable person and a conservative person. Above the well-behaved people.
Being able to go out of the city to see with their own eyes whether there is food in Lantian County is the best they can do.
A local official does not even dare to come down from his own territory. What does such an official want him to do?
At this time, Yun Zhao even hoped that they were a group of people with a strong sense of territoriality. Even if you wanted to control the people like cattle and horses, you would still have to drive these cattle and horses to work in the fields with your own hands, right?
What's going on with everyone hiding in Xi'an City?
Just for safety?
Because of the incident at Shaohua Mountain, Zhang Lili didn't even dare to send people to Lantian County to escort the grain. He very much hoped that Yun Zhao could organize the young people in Lantian County to transport grain to Xi'an. For this reason, he I would like to be exempted from the corvee in Lantian County.
This was another way of giving in, and Yun Zhao accepted it.
This year’s summer harvest, Lantian County received a total of 35,000 tons of grain.
Last year's summer tax, Lantian County received 3,100 dans of grain...
As in previous years, the people would rather pay the money as required by the whipping law than to Pay grain, but after several years of disasters,The people no longer had money to pay taxes.
This is not a good phenomenon. Yun Zhao is ready to change this situation where money is useless.
Lantian County's grain transport team, under the arrangements of Yunhu, Yunbao, Yunjiao, Yunxiao and others, marched toward Xi'an in a mighty manner.
There were no blind bandits trying to steal Lantian County’s official rations along the way.
The ten-mile-long grain transport convoy quickly became the talk of everyone on the Guanzhong Plain.
Everyone who saw the grain transport convoy was filled with happiness, even though the grain did not belong to them.
Zhang Daoli, the prefect of Xi'an, took the officials of Xi'an Prefecture ten miles out of the city to meet the grain transport team.
Even the Prince of Qin’s Mansion, which usually has no interest in the outside world, sent subordinate officials to greet the grain transport team for the first time.
Yunhu enjoyed the treatment of riding a horse into the gate of Chang'an for the first time.
When the grain transport team entered Xi'an, the sensation this time was no longer the rural people, but the citizens of Xi'an. The soaring grain prices had long made them miserable. This time they finally saw it. A large amount of food has entered the city, and they only hope that with the food, the high food prices in Xi'an can become cheaper.
According to last year's agreement, Yun's grain store also received three thousand tons of new grain. Before the grain was put into storage, Yun's three grain stores were surrounded by the people of Xi'an.
Shopkeeper Yun, who has been selling condiments for more than half a year, could not help but burst into tears when he saw so much food for the first time.
Grain stores should sell grain, not bullshit seasonings. Although the business of selling seasonings is not bad, and they can get some cattle and sheep from the Mongols and Uzbeans, but, like this After all, business is not his main business.
Each store brought in a thousand tons of grain, which was bought up by the people without being stored in the warehouse. Therefore, Yun's Grain Store only opened for half a day.
Even so, Yun's Grain Store has become a legend in Xi'an. After all, at this time, the only place that could sell large quantities of grain was Yun's Grain Store.
The 35,000 tons of grain transported into Xi'an really gave people in the city a glimmer of hope.
When Yunzhao transported 35,000 tons of official grain and 3,000 tons of private grain into Xi'an with great fanfare, even people like Hong Chengchou, who were full of doubts about Yun Zhao, immediately brought the goods to Xi'an. Yun Zhao was eliminated from the list of major suspects in the Shaohuashan case.
After all, such a wealthy county magistrate would not risk beheading himself for ten thousand dans of grain. It is not worth it. If Yun Zhao were more ruthless, he would seize another 10,000 dans of grain from the people. It's not too difficult.
The only thing Zhang Daoli did right this year was to make Zhang Tianxiong the magistrate of Shangnan County.
For this reason, Zhang Tianxiong presented 500 shi of the best grain to the Xi'an bureaucrats headed by Zhang Daoli.
As a gift to Yun Zhao, he presented a thousand tons of newly produced wheat, plus three thousand taels of silver, one hundred taels of gold, and an ancestral pearl the size of a longan.
And promised that after the wealthy people in Xiangyang Prefecture move here, some earthen rituals will be sent to them. It is said that they are a new type of vajra cake, each weighing two kilograms.
Yun Zhao was naturally happy to accept these filial piety, and even sent Yun Bao and Yun Jiao to Zhang Tianxiong to form a Shangnan County regiment to support him!
Just this summer, the boundary markers in Lantian County were once again moved wildly. However, the people of Lantian County did not want outsiders to move the boundary markers outwards anymore. Therefore, fights over the boundary markers broke out from time to time. occur.
Yun Zhao issued three orders and five orders to warn the villagers not to move the boundary markers without reason. Otherwise, they would be punished with fifty large boards and large shackles to be displayed to the public for three days.
After a village elder led the villagers to move the boundary marker, he tied his hands and came to the county government office to plead guilty. He claimed that he would rather be beaten to death by the county magistrate than to fight for a way for the villagers to survive, and offered sacrifices to the villagers. The Book of Ten Thousand People written by them.
Seeing that all the people who came to accept guilt were old, weak, sick and disabled, Yun Zhao had no choice but to withdraw from the court, and submitted the Wan Min Book written by the common people and his own confession to Zhang Lili, the prefect of Xi'an, and returned home himself. Wait for ginseng at home.
After Zhang Lili obtained the Wanmin Zhezi and Yun Zhao's confession, he reported it to the Chief Envoy overnight, who then delivered the two items to the capital via courier.
"This time, Magistrate Yun will definitely be reprimanded by His Majesty."
Since the full amount of food was delivered to Xi'an Mansion, Zhang Lili was very willing to come to Lantian County again.
You can also enjoy the newly ripened new grains at Yun's with peace of mind.
"Ah? Being reprimanded by His Majesty, isn't it..." Yun Zhao was a little panicked. Although the emperor didn't have much ability at this time, there was still no problem in killing him, a small county magistrate.
Zhang Lili saw that Yun Zhao was a little panicked, so he smiled and waved his hands and said: "Xiao Zhi, there is no need to panic, there is no need to panic. In this world, an official can only be considered a real official after being reprimanded by His Majesty. You have I don’t know, except for Mrs. Qin in Shuzhong, who among the civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty has not been reprimanded by His Majesty?
It is because of being reprimanded that you are regarded as one of the officials of the Ming Dynasty
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My old mentor said, you are too young and too capable. It is not a good thing to be elected at this time. You can practice in Lantian County for a few more years, raise people and be popular, and live a few years. , when you achieve greater achievements, then it will no longer be a matter of first or second level."
Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "I don't want to be promoted, I just want to know. Should I care about the people who moved the boundary monument?"
Hearing this, Zhang Daoli laughed and said, "Well, why don't you care? Can those people pay taxes to the court when they are under the jurisdiction of others? ?”
Yun Zhao frowned and said, “This will break the rules.”
Zhang Lili laughed even harder, took out his handkerchief and wiped the tears from his laughter and said to Yun Zhao: "The entire Guanzhong has been abandoned by the imperial court, and you are here to tell me the rules?
Xiao She, I haven't received a salary for more than a year. Although I don't lack the salary money, butYes, if the court doesn’t give it, it’s the court’s fault.
You took me to see the newly built water conservancy projects and new grains a few days ago. Do you think I don’t know your intentions?
Do you know that there is no way I can copy what you did in Lantian County to Xi'an Prefecture! "
"Why is this? "Yun Zhao said in confusion.
Zhang Lili took a sip of wine and said lightly: "Your Yun family has lived in Lantian County for hundreds of years, and I have been an official in Xi'an Mansion for four years.
So, as soon as you are a child, you can respond to everything in Lantian County. What I said in the main hall of Xi'an Mansion will no longer be listened to after leaving my lobby.
The disadvantages of Shaanxi are not the famines or the bandits, but the officials... A long time ago, the officials in Shaanxi stopped doing practical things.
The common people had no leader and were exploited by the government. The squires had long lost their respect for the government.
Everyone is selfish and has no public conscience at all.
Not to mention that the Chief Secretary of Shaanxi Province has encountered such a big disaster. Even if there is a slight disturbance, there will be a tremor and everyone will panic...
Haha, drink, drink, this They are all drunken words and cannot be considered true! ”
Yun Zhao watched Zhang Lili drink one glass after another, and finally he was so drunk that he had vomit all over his body, but he still wanted to drink.
It can be seen that , this magistrate, who is known as the 'Clay Bodhisattva', is really in pain.
Yun Zhao has experienced this kind of pain before, and he calls this pain - incompetence! >
Obviously he is not a qualified magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture, but he sticks to that position and refuses to let others do it.
His conscience tells him what he should do, and his reason often tells him what he should do. Do.
The power of conscience can never be an opponent of reason, which makes his life both debauched and miserable.