Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 161 Wei Xiaobao ransacks his house

Following Jiang Li, the magistrate of Jiyang County, Wang Daoqiu came to the current Jinan government office, an ordinary courtyard that looked like a small household at first glance.

Seeing Wang Daoqiu frowning and staring at the small courtyard, Jiang Li hurriedly explained: "Sir, when the bandits entered the city a few days ago, they robbed all the government offices and high-ranking households, and then set them all on fire. So now we have no choice but to choose this small courtyard, which is located in the center of the city, surrounded by streets and has convenient transportation, to temporarily serve as the government office."

It turns out that it was after all the government offices in the city were looted and burned by bandits that the Jinan government office temporarily moved to this small courtyard!

Thinking about it further, the gangsters' daring to kill these high-ranking families in Jinan and the King De's family in such a way is to eliminate the two biggest reactionary forces in Jinan.However, the bandits killed King De and these wealthy families in Jinan, robbed them of all their money, and burned their houses down, but what about their fields?Now I have to ask, Zhang Liangwei, the acting prefect of Jinan.

With this in mind, Wang Daoqiu followed Jiyang County Magistrate Jiang Li and entered this simple Jinan government office.

When he came to the government office, Jiang Li called a clerk and asked: "Master Futai, are you up and on duty now?"

"Return to your lord, the lord of Futai is not up yet!" Hearing Jiang Li asked Zhang Liangwei if he was up, the clerk hurriedly replied.

As soon as the scribe said that Zhang Liangwei was still sleeping, Jiang Li had an idea in his mind.The governor Wang Daoqiu has arrived, but Zhang Liangwei, the acting prefect, is still sleeping.What was even more irritating was that he, Zhang Liangwei, had ordered himself last night to go to the gate of the city earlier this morning to arrange a welcome ceremony for the governor.

Mader, buy some leather!Let Lao Zhi get up early and go to the city gate to arrange the welcome ceremony, but you slept in late!Thinking of this, Jiang Li felt like 1 idiots in his heart towards Zhang Liangwei who was still sleeping.

But in front of Wang Daoqiu, the governor, Jiang Li couldn't show it off.So he said to Wang Daoqiu: "My lord, let the scribe go and notify Magistrate Zhang. I will take you to the living room to drink tea!"

"Um"

Wang Daoqiu said "hmm" and agreed.Seeing that Wang Daoqiu agreed, Jiang Li hurriedly sent his clerk to inform Zhang Liangwei that the governor had arrived.

After dispatching the scribes, Jiang Li took Wang Daoqiu to the guest hall of the government office.Wang Daoqiu and Jiang Li drank tea for a while in the government office hall. Zhang Liangwei, the acting magistrate of Jinan, ran over in a hurry. When he saw Wang Daoqiu sitting on the main seat in casual clothes.He was a little unsure about Wang Daoqiu's identity.After all, Wang Daoqiu is too young, and he is still wearing casual clothes.

So Zhang Liangwei, who was not sure about Wang Daoqiu's identity, cast an inquiring look at Jiang Li.When he saw the look in Zhang Liangwei's eyes, Jiang Li immediately understood, and he immediately said: "Master Magistrate, this is the Governor King, please come and greet me!"

I don't think Jiang Li, a county magistrate who came from the imperial examination, would be frivolous about Meng Lang in such a matter!So as soon as Jiang Li finished speaking, Zhang Liangwei hurriedly paid homage to Wang Daoqiu.He also apologized to Wang Daoqiu for his failure to do a good job in reception.And then he said a lot of flattering words about Wang Daoqiu, saying that Wang Daoqiu was a young genius who passed the sixth grade at the age of eighteen.It is said that Wang Daoqiu is the pillar of the imperial court, and he will be made a marquis and prime minister one day...Anyway, it’s just some old official flattery.

Wang Daoqiu was fed up with Zhang Liangwei's shamelessness, but out of etiquette, Wang Daoqiu endured his nausea and listened to Zhang Liangwei's flattery.

Waiting for Zhang Liangwei to flatter him, licking a very mean face, and waiting for Wang Daoqiu to praise him.Wang Daoqiu said: "Master Zhang just said a lot of flattering words, no matter if he is sincere or not, he is still suspected of flattering Shangguan. This time, I, Wang Liangzhen, was trusted by His Majesty and the court, and I was ordered to come to Shandong to deal with the civil unrest in danger. I feel that I am young and inexperienced, so after arriving in Shandong, I have to reflect on myself every time I encounter a problem, and I am trembling every day, as if walking on thin ice, fearing that if I do something wrong, I will let down the people of Shandong, and let down my Majesty and the princes of the court. To be honest, I, Wang Liangzhen, don’t have much talent, I just know how to read and take exams. So the flattery that Zhifu Zhang said to me just now has passed.”

"Hey, Governor, you are too humble. If Governor..."

Upon hearing that Wang Daoqiu modestly said that he was only good at reading and good at taking exams, Zhang Liangwei immediately began to flatter him again, explaining from both theoretical and factual aspects that Wang Daoqiu was a genius and a good official who served the country and the people.

Listening to Zhang Liangwei's continuous flattery, Wang Daoqiu couldn't bear the nausea anymore. When he finished speaking, especially when he heard Zhang Liangwei say that he was a clean and good official, Wang Daoqiu couldn't bear it anymore.

So Wang Daoqiu interrupted Zhang Liangwei's flattery and said slowly: "Zhifu Zhang, actually I never think that I am a Qingliu, let alone what is good about being a Qingliu. I live above the temple, and there are many Qingliu officials around me. The impression given to me by those so-called Qingliu officials is that although they will not collude with evil and evil, they have rigid ideas, refuse to reform the old and make new innovations, and dare not be the first in the world." "And these Qingliu's judgments of others are either black or white, and require Others must adhere to the principles of nature and eliminate human desires. However, if the water is clear, there will be no fish, and if the people are clear, there will be no disciples. If a person is not a saint, how can he have no shortcomings? Therefore, I feel that those pure people are too extreme and too stubborn in their dealings. They are only suitable for promoting officials, maintaining laws and regulations, and cannot preside over local government affairs, let alone preside over the overall situation of the government."

"On the contrary, those who are not tolerated by Qingliu, who are poor in character but have little protection in terms of conduct, may have various problems in personal conduct and living habits, so that the censors will definitely check them out and denounce them. They But they have the imperial court in their heart, and they are not afraid of the powerful, do not avoid the blame, do not flatter themselves, do not pretend to be hypocritical and deceive the emperor, and put the country, the country and the people above their own personal reputation. These people are the best for the country. To the people, an official who is useful to the people is to be a follow-up official. Therefore, my ambition as an official, Wang Liangzhen, is to be a follow-up official, not to do some nonsense."

What, bullshit Qingliu!Wang Liangzhen actually added the word "shit" in front of Qingliu.This, this, this, this is not playing according to the routine!Don’t all the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty like to think of themselves as clean-blooded people, and think of themselves as sages with high moral character?But this Wang Liangzhen?
Wang Daoqiu's non-conformity and false talk made Zhang Liangwei not sure how to answer the conversation next, and he stood there looking stupid for a while.

Seeing that Zhang Liangwei was fooled by him, Wang Daoqiu continued: "To be honest with Zhang Zhifu, after the Japanese official asked the entourage to stay at the post station outside the city yesterday, I myself took my personal bodyguard and went to the city incognito for a private visit, so now Jinan I still have a general understanding of the situation in the city. Now the royal family of King De in Jinan City and various high-ranking families in Jinan have been massacred by bandits, and all the official treasury has been robbed by bandits. I am now I just want to ask you, has the government investigated and controlled the fields and farms of the royal family of King De and those high-ranking families in Jinan outside the city now?"

Wang Daoqiu asked face to face about the Dewang royal family who had been wiped out by the bandits, as well as the local wealthy families in Jinan, and their most important inheritance - land, which made Zhang Liangwei a little nervous.However, as an official, he still maintained the air of an official and said righteously: "Uh, sir, are you talking about those farms? To be honest with the governor, my government has sent people to those farms before. I went down to check it out, and branched out to the local squires to take care of those farms for the time being."

"I don't dare to hide it from the governor. After an investigation by our Jinan Mansion, it was found that King De's own sect has more than 59 hectares of land, and the other small sects of King De's family together have more than [-] hectares of land. Also, they were massacred by bandits this time. The local [-] large households were destroyed, and they had a total of more than [-] hectares of land."

"But it's not yet certain whether any of these wealthy families have men who escaped from the hands of the bandits this time. Therefore, it is not easy for Jinan Prefecture to deal with these farms. After all, if those wealthy families really have any men this time, The men in the family escaped from the hands of those bandits. If they come back to inherit the family business in a few days, our Jinan government will still have to return those acres to them. "

When Zhang Liangwei, the prefect of Jinan, said these words, he was talking about being selfless.But Wang Daoqiu listened to what he said, and there were 1 things in his heart.

Shandong in the Ming Dynasty only had six prefectures in total, and the jurisdiction of each prefecture was roughly equivalent to two or three prefecture-level administrative units in later generations.As the capital of Shandong Province in the Ming Dynasty, Jinan Prefecture has a large jurisdiction, which is equivalent to the four prefecture-level cities of Jinan, Tai'an, Binzhou, and Dezhou in later generations. It currently governs four scattered prefectures and 26 counties, with an area of ​​3 people. More than square kilometers, and most of these areas are still the Great Plains of North China that have been developed into farmland.

Jinan Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty covered an area of ​​more than 3 square kilometers, most of which was plain land that had been developed into farmland.Although Wang Daoqiu does not know how many acres of cultivated land there are in Jinan Prefecture, he can roughly calculate it. According to the current Jinan Prefecture's area of ​​more than 3 square kilometers, 3000 square kilometers are cultivated land, which means that Jinan Prefecture has [-] million acres. arable land.

In ancient times, one hectare of land was one hundred acres. According to this calculation, the Dewang clan that Zhang Liangwei just mentioned had more than 59 hectares of land, the Dewang small clan had more than 8000 hectares of land, and the 240 households in Jinan that were massacred A large family has more than [-] hectares of land.Then these three items added together are about [-] hectares of land, which is [-] million acres.

Jinan Prefecture now has at least 3000 million acres of cultivated land. The leading group of Dewangs and 59 local high-profile households occupy only 3000 million acres of the 240 million acres of cultivated land. Their proportion is exactly 59%. eight.The royal family of King De who was sealed in Jinan Prefecture, and the [-] richest families in Jinan, only control [-]% of the arable land in Jinan. How is this possible?

It is necessary to know that any of the current vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, their princes, princes, princesses, and many side royal families, their piles of dragons and grandsons surnamed Zhu, occupy at least the amount of cultivated land in their fiefs. All account for more than half of the total local cultivated land.That's not to mention the local wealthy families.

So now Zhang Liangwei said that the royal family of King De, plus the 59 wealthy local households in Jinan, only accounted for [-]% of the total cultivated land in Jinan. This is obviously worse than in The Deer and the Cauldron when Wei Xiaobao ransacked his house and took the money. There are even more rebates!He is not erasing zero, he is blackening the first number before zero.

This Liang Wei is greedy and fake as an official, obviously a standard match for an official of a certain big country!Therefore, Wang Daoqiu looked at this piece of comfort now, and the more he looked at it, the more annoying he became, and his heart was already killing him.

Wang Daoqiu wants to kill Zhang Liangwei right now. However, considering that the area involved is so wide and that it is such obvious wealth as cultivated land, Zhang Liangwei will not settle the entire Jinan officialdom and clearly divide the money to the officials. I believe that he will now He didn't dare to tell lies with his eyes open like this in front of himself, the governor of Shandong.

Thinking that the entire Jinan officialdom may be rotten now, in order to prevent these people from jumping over the wall in a hurry, they made themselves the governor of Shandong for the sake of money and their own lives.Wang Daoqiu talked nonsense about Zhang Liangwei in front of him, pretending not to know anything.

In this way, Wang Daoqiu and Zhang Liangwei pretended to be false again, and asked Zhang Liangwei to summon all the officials of Jinan Prefecture, so that everyone can talk about the banditry, the losses caused to Jinan Prefecture, and discuss the next step of Jinan Prefecture. of reconstruction.

(End of this chapter)