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Chapter 460 The Changed Li Dingguo
Lantian, the headquarters of the Secret Service Division.

As an intelligence department, Lantian's Secret Service Division has its headquarters very secretive. It is not all stuffed into the Lantian County Government Office like the Lantian Government Affairs Department, Commerce Department, and Agriculture Department. A relatively secluded place on a street, a separate department opened.

The head of the department is Bai Shoumin. Don't look at Bai Shoumin's good relationship with some high-level officials in Lantian. However, from Bai Shoumin down in the Secret Service, everyone keeps secret. Many people who come in and out usually wear black cloth to cover their faces, so they don't show it easily. .

Moreover, the staff of the Secret Service Division are also required not to be too close to their colleagues in any department in Lantian. After all, they are careful to sail for thousands of years. It's a matter of life and death there.

At this time, Bai Shoumin was reviewing official affairs at the Secret Service Headquarters. His main task was to sort out the important tasks submitted by his subordinates, and simply arrange for them to be executed directly. After sorting out, hand it over to Li Chaosheng for further instructions.

As for Class A missions, these are all heavyweight missions. For example, the "Crouching Dragon and Phoenix" project is Class A. As for what "Crouching Dragon and Phoenix" is, it is also very simple. It is Li Shichao, who is undercover Li Zicheng, and Wang Jiadong, who is undercover Li Dingguo. The first one is Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Cub, and the current Phoenix Cub Project is almost completed.

Li Dingguo has performed very well these days. He has traveled all over the villages and towns in Lantian to understand the local conditions. After hearing from the people in Lantian that the current life is beautiful, Li Dingguo’s values ​​have been corrected. Listen to the people below, Li Dingguo has now started to walk towards Lantian Academy.

I think that in the near future, there will be an extra transfer student named Li Dingguo in Lantian Academy. In addition, the intelligence also said that the journey between Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong was gradually promoted in the form of part-time jobs.

It's not that the two still need to put on makeup to hide their identities. It's because the two are poor now. They came to Lantian Pedestrian Street and ate a rather luxurious mutton skewer barbecue, and then they were bankrupt. The traveling of the family has become a poor traveler, and it seems that they can only rely on part-time jobs to make ends meet.

But this is also good, so that we can understand the people in the deepest way, and truly take root in the countryside, instead of floating on the water like Li Dingguo used to.

This is not a joke. Li Dingguo was indeed floating on the water before. Don’t look at him as a peasant rebel army. In fact, he is already considered a high-level member of the peasant rebel army. He is also in charge of the military. When I was a child, before the age of eight or nine, although I was able to help with farm work at that time, he didn't know what the farmers really thought.

The peasants who really lived on this land did not want to overthrow the emperor, then burn, kill and loot everywhere in exchange for a fortune. They actually cared more about how to live safely on this land.

For these people, the life in Lantian is already their dream life. Low tax burden, fair government office, well-developed water conservancy project, and harmonious neighbors are enough.

The low tax burden ensures that most of their harvest belongs to themselves, so that they can accumulate wealth, marry wives and have children for their children, representing the inheritance of the family.

A fair yamen represents fairness and justice, and it means that the common people have grievances and can redress their grievances normally, unlike before, when the common people clashed with the wealthy households, the wealthy households always win, and the wealthy households clashed with the landlords. Always the landlord wins.

But in the current Lantian, whoever is justified wins. Of course, the damn policy is still slightly biased towards the weak side. Li Chaosheng is very dissatisfied with this. He hopes to pursue absolute justice in the judiciary. Still gave up.

There is no way, the poor family accidentally poisoned a cow of the rich family by putting rat poison in the field. According to the law, the rich family must be compensated for a cow. As a result, even if the poor man loses everything, he cannot afford a cow unless he sells his daughter. Now, what should the law do at this time? Is it really necessary to force the poor to sell their children?
So at this time, we cannot judge according to absolute fairness and justice, that is to find a way to let the poor pay back part of it first, and pay the rest according to their ability.

If he really pursues fairness and justice desperately, he should confiscate the house of the poor, sell his daughter into a kiln, and repay the cattle of the rich. But if Lan Tian does this, is he still Lan Tian?Isn't this the evil feudal society of Ming Dynasty?

Although it is true that the landlord's family has suffered a loss in this matter, we cannot blindly pursue fairness and justice, and ignore some things that cannot be changed in reality.

This is the helplessness of absolute fairness and justice. Besides, there is no absolute fairness and justice in this world, only relative fairness and justice.

And such things are not one or two in Lantian, but many. There are countless such cases and similar cases in Lantian. For this reason, a bunch of professors in Lantian Law School and some judicial workers are trying to find a way to balance, But there are some things that cannot be balanced if they want to.

Therefore, the judiciary in Lantian is still improving, but compared with the current judicial environment in Ming Dynasty, the judiciary in Lantian can be regarded as fair and just, which is recognized by the common people.

Li Dingguo has learned a lot along the way, and he also got to know the businessman again. In the past, he always looked at the businessman the way a bandit looks at a fat sheep.

However, after visiting these days, he found that businessmen are not necessarily bad. On the way, he met a father and son businessman. What kind of business do the father and son do?

It is to transport mushrooms from a poor mountain village called Mushroom Village to the nearest market for sale. Although they have made some money, the father and son businessmen are very respected in the village.

They asked the people in the village why they respected this father and son. They can make money from you. For this mushroom, he charged you twenty yuan a catty, and he sold it at the market for thirty yuan a catty. The son earned ten Wen.

But the people in the village told Li Dingguo that they knew it, but they were willing to sell it to them. The reason was very simple. Shiwen, everyone has extra income, and can buy some daily necessities at a cheap price from the father and son, why not do it?

Li Dingguo asked again, why can't you sell it yourself?

After hearing this, the villagers laughed and said, the mountain road is rugged, how much it will cost to transport the mushrooms, and there is no way to get to the city, and the mushrooms are not easy to sell. The father and son can sell the mushrooms for thirty cents. Their skills, these people have gone, and some of them can't even sell for twenty yuan.

Even if it can be sold for more than 20 yuan, but after going back and forth, and going to the city to eat horse chews, after all, I didn't make a few more coins, so I might as well sell it to this father and son to commit suicide.

After all, these mushrooms are everywhere. If you pick them off, you can go to the entrance of the village to weigh them, and then you can see the cash. How convenient is that.

When Li Dingguo heard the practical explanations from these villagers, Li Dingguo realized that he was too narrow-minded before. The existence of businessmen is necessary. After all, not everyone is good at speaking and is used to business.

The merchants are there to check for omissions and make up for vacancies. Buying and reselling seems to be speculative, but without them, the mushrooms in Mushroom Village will rot in the village.

There are also the rhubarb apricots from Dali County that I just came to. If there is no Yuxian Tower, then these rhubarb apricots are just ordinary things. There are so many that even the people of Dali County can't eat them, and they end up turning into rotten apricots all over the place.

Moreover, in mountain villages like Mushroom Village, it is not easy to go to the city, and it is not convenient to buy something, but with merchants, they can almost buy what they need without leaving home. Convenience for merchants.

Thinking of this, Li Dingguo recalled Li Chaosheng's words: Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and commerce are interdependent, and one is indispensable. No matter who is missing, the world will not function smoothly.

He didn't understand it before, but now he understands a little bit.

It seems that I was narrow-minded before.

Li Dingguo's trip to Lantian can be regarded as a reshaping of his three views. This poor child has never lived a normal life since he was a child.

In his eyes, farmers should not pay taxes, farm and harvest, and play with their own, and don't need officials, because officials are all bastards in his eyes, and they should be dismantled.

In his eyes, businessmen are all those who make money from the country. During a famine, selling a bucket of rice for a sky-high price and forcing others to sell their sons and daughters is also a terrible death.

In his eyes, rich people and landlords are all bastards among bastards. They usually squeeze the tenants and use them to death, forcing the tenants to have no way to survive, while their own family's food is piled up like a mountain.

When he sees merchants wanting to rob, when he sees officials wanting to hack to death, when he sees landlords, he wants to open the cellar of the landlord’s house and distribute food to the poor. Make yourself a human meat bun.

But when it came to Lantian, everything became different. The officials here dare not say that they are impartial, but they are all fair and just. Any one of them is definitely at the Qingtian level in Daming.

The businessmen here are no longer making money for the country, nor are they hoarding for odds, but start a business that is convenient for the people, which brings great convenience to the people.

And the landlords here do not oppress the people, the officials are not overbearing, and they no longer worry about becoming stuffed buns when they stay in the shop. All of the above made Li Dingguo refresh his own cognition, maybe his cognition is really problematic.

Wang Jiadong witnessed Li Dingguo's changes from the beginning to the end, and he was very moved in his heart. Sure enough, practice can educate people. Thinking of this, Wang Jiadong looked at Li Dingguo: "How about it? Are we still leaving Lantian? Take the mountain road across the Qinling Mountains, and you should be able to go out."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo shook his head and said: "I want to go to Lantian Academy to listen to the lectures of the master there. I found that my cognition is too lacking."

After hearing this, Wang Jiadong said: "Then let's turn around. I heard that there are many masters with profound knowledge in Lantian Academy, and they never teach knowledge. Where did the lengths come from?"

After hearing this, Li Dingguo said: "Then let's go and listen to the gentlemen talk about this world."

Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong left and moved towards Lantian Academy, and the secret agent of Lantian also delivered the information to Bai Shoumin accurately.

But just as Bai Shoumin was about to leave, he heard a knock on the door. Bai Shoumin was taken aback when he saw a simple-looking man who looked like an old farmer walk in. He cupped his hands at Bai Shoumin and said, "Boss."

Bai Shoumin was taken aback when he saw the person coming, and immediately sat down. This person was none other than a farmer, one of the Eight King Kongs of his Secret Service Division.

Farmer is the chief of anti-reconnaissance in the secret spy department. What is anti-reconnaissance is to clean up all the secret spies sent by hostile forces in Lantian.

Lantian has developed very well in recent years. Whether it is business or military, it has shown good strength, especially military.

Therefore, Lantian has many military secrets, commercial secrets, and political secrets, and people in hostile forces need these secrets very much.

Therefore, in recent years, whether it is the rogues, the Ming court, the Tartars, or even the big pirate Zheng Zhilong in a safe corner of the southeast coast, they have all sent secret spies to spy on Lantian's secrets.

In recent years, the farmer has also made great achievements, cracked many major cases, and arrested many spies sent by hostile forces, such as secret spies sent by the Tartars to steal guns and artillery blueprints, and rogues to spy on the military movements of Lantian. They are spies, but the most difficult to deal with among these people is the Jin Yiwei sent by Daming.

Jinyiwei, as a veteran spy agency, still has two brushes, and its spying on Lantian is also significantly effective, but no matter how cunning a fox is, it can't beat a good hunter. There are not a few Jinyiwei who have instigated rebellion in Lantian these years, and today the farmer came to tell Bai Shoumin, he instigated another Jin Yiwei.

Bai Shoumin sat down, looked at the farmer and said, "Another one?"

At this moment, the farmer smiled and said, "This time, it is a big fish who instigated rebellion, and it is the Deputy Qianhu of Jinyiwei who sneaked into our Lantian."

"Deputy Qianhu, this is a senior official from the fifth rank."

Bai Shoumin said with a smile, and after hearing this, the farmer said: "And he also provided an important piece of information, that is, the Qianhu official who sneaked into Lantian this time is a person named Jiang Changge, who is currently disguised as the Lantian Yutong Company. The shopkeeper, and more importantly, this guy ran away from Lantian a few days ago, and it is said that he went to see the great eunuch Cao Huachun."

Bai Shoumin frowned slightly after hearing this: "Has he spied any important information about our Lantian?"

The farmer said: "There is no secret level, but they have recorded all the policies implemented by Lantian, and they have recorded everything."

"Well, I see, you go down first to appease this defector, and I will pass this information to the county magistrate."

(End of this chapter)