Can you live forever

Chapter 271 Struggle Together, Eclectic

Hai Rui talked about the benefits of the company's fields and storage.

But the child's words made Hai Rui not know how to answer the question. The child asked, "The food in this field belongs to the public, so can the village chief not be tempted?"

"If the village chief took the money and food from the public, how is it different from the dead old master Huang?"

Hai Rui patted the child's head silently, but he couldn't answer for a moment. He didn't say anything about selection and supervision, because it was useless. Those in power had more initiative than those under governance.

What he wants to do is to be more convenient and stronger.

If you take all the money and food at once, the people below will definitely rebel, but if you cut your flesh slowly, after 20 years, people will get used to it, and after their power is formed, who would dare to oppose it?
After a long silence, Hai Rui said, "At least now that we are in charge, everyone's eyes are on us, and money and food can't escape."

"If the reservoirs and ditches can be repaired, it will benefit from decades of use."

"right?"

The children nodded. It is not that there is no shortage of water at the seaside. Seawater cannot be used for life and irrigation. They also need water conservancy projects. The children accepted this statement, but the villagers did not necessarily accept it.

Hai Rui continued to work for them, teaching the village secretary how to work, organizing villagers to do things, and handling accounts.

Then organize the young and middle-aged people in the village to train the militia, patrol the village, and maintain law and order. It should be noted that the war in Annan is not over. Many places have counterattacks and counterattacks, and they need to protect themselves.

Hai Rui felt a deep sense of exhaustion in Haisha Village with just over a hundred households.

It's not so much that Annan is too far behind, it's better to say that there are too many things to do, and after making a good start, Hai Rui feels that any mistake or perfunctory step is a waste of money.

He hopes to establish a set of operating mechanism that can maintain fairness for at least 200 years, so as to be worthy of such a thorough land equalization.

"Sea teaching instruction!"

At night, all the members of his working group gathered to look for Hai Rui. This happened every time these days. When dealing with the work in various villages, Hai Rui was always the last one busy.

It is said to be teaching, but in fact it has no real job.

It's just that General Zhao saw that Hai Rui was capable and talented, so he let Hai Rui take charge of the land equalization work for the entire Qinghua Prefecture. Logically speaking, this kind of work should belong to the category of "master book", but Hai Rui felt that he was not the master book. It should be teaching.

Not only is it in charge of teaching, it is also responsible for the education of students in a place, but also to teach the people how to protect their interests.

In fact, Hai Rui does not want to be in charge of the work of equalizing the entire Thanh Hoa prefecture. It is not a matter of ability, but of walking on thin ice. He hopes to cultivate each village deeply, and be familiar with exploring good methods.

However, time does not allow, and conditions do not allow.

Although there were some civil servants in the Southern Expedition Army, they were a minority after all. In Annan's case, the scholars must be landlords, who would die and run as often as they wanted.

Although Li Weining was able to attract some people, he himself "betrayed all relatives".

The elders of the Hou Li Dynasty directly abolished Li Weining's emperor title and re-appointed a young emperor. In this case, where can scholars help them?

We had to choose some literate people from the army and some capable people from the common people to carry out land equalization and construction.

The team members all came back, Hai Rui declined Haisha Village's invitation to have him for dinner, and led the team back to Tsinghua Mansion. In the original mansion office, he ate a piece of pancake and continued to light the lamp to deal with official duties.

Qinghua Mansion is now guarded by General Zhao.

He was too lazy to take care of these trivial matters, so he left them all to Hai Rui. On the surface, Hai Rui was only in charge of Juntian affairs, but in fact, he was already in charge of government affairs.

He is only 22 years old now, and he has no experience in many things, so he can only work harder and harder in the past few days.

The land equalization started in early May, and now in early June, Hai Rui has lost a lot of weight in a month, and his dark eyes are already heavy, but he dare not delay government affairs for a moment.

How to ensure the military rations of the troops in the local area?The army is fighting on the front line, how to transport food and grass?
Although there is enough grain in Annan's grain depot, there is no need to collect grain from the people, but how much is the price for organizing people's transportation to make up for the delayed harvest?

Only fear of hurting the common people in the slightest, just now I put my heart and soul into every word.

At the time of Chou, he just stopped writing and rested at his desk. After sleeping for more than an hour, he woke up with the sound of a rooster crowing, supported his heavy head, applied clean water to his face, and continued to deal with government affairs.

At this time, a bowl of hot porridge was brought up.

It's a little eunuch.

At the time when Tsinghua Mansion was captured, there was not even a prince, but there were many eunuchs. If a non-royal family raised eunuchs, it would be an arrogance and they would be beheaded, but in Annan, those rich and powerful families were obviously not afraid.

It's not enough for them to keep domestic servants, they need to raise some eunuchs to take care of the rear house, the master can save face without worrying about it.

Pay attention.

They all brought back the old eunuchs from the palace and offered them with high salaries to teach the rules of the mansion, so that they could show their style.Those who are not particular about it just want eunuchs to serve them.

The army broke through the Tsinghua Mansion, and actually sorted out more than 800 eunuchs...

How many people will die in this private castration?

Let's not talk about the darkness of the past, but these eunuchs obviously couldn't divide the fields, even if they were allocated fields for them to cultivate, they would not have the strength.

I arranged to do some work in the government first, and then make another arrangement when I have time later.

This little eunuch named Gui An was assigned to take care of Hai Rui's daily life, cooking, washing clothes and so on.

"Hehe, thank you."

Hai Rui took the hot porridge with a smile and thanked the little eunuch, but Gui An respectfully kowtowed to Hai Rui. doing what?"

Gui'an said: "The servant has been with the lord for more than half a month. The slave and maid have seen what the lord has done for the people of Annan. The parents and brothers in the family have also shared the land, so I express my gratitude to the lord."

Hai Rui sighed and shook his head, "I just did what I should do."

Guian said: "Your Excellency is the only official I have ever seen who thinks about the people. Even the wages of the corvee are determined according to the price after visiting and asking for opinions. I am afraid that the people will suffer a penny loss and stay up ugly every night. Just go to bed, and wake up at the hour."

"The servant girl can only look at her distressed, but she can't even help at all."

"I can only kowtow to my lord, please don't refuse me, my lord."

Hai Rui saw that the young eunuch looked thirteen or fourteen years old, but he was quite smart and knew a lot. Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in his mind, and he asked, "Have you ever read?"

Gui An said: "I have read it. The former magistrate said that the eunuchs in Ming Dynasty all study, so they also want us to study, so that we can have a meeting."

Hai Rui hurriedly asked, "Have you all read it?"

Gui'an replied: "More than half of them have read books and know how to read."

Hai Rui was a little excited, grabbed Gui An's shoulder and asked, "Would you like to help me equalize the land?"

Gui An did not answer, but said hesitantly: "I heard that the servants of the Ming Dynasty... hate eunuchs the most."

Hai Rui patted Gui An on the shoulder and said, "That's right, they hate eunuchs the most, because the emperor can't control the court, so they can only use eunuchs to fight them. When they scold the eunuchs, they are actually scolding the emperor."

"I didn't understand these things before. When I came to Annan, I watched those officials and gentry being tried, and saw the joy of the common people being allocated fields."

"I will understand everything."

"Don't worry, I'm not a scholar. I'm a soldier of the Southern Expedition Army. Are you willing to help me, and we will become comrades-in-arms together?"

(End of this chapter)