Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 86 Community Construction
An ordinary residential community has 12 buildings in total.

In order of the earthly branches.

In the community, sufficient distance is reserved between buildings.

This is to take into account the ancient people's house usage habits. They were accustomed to using yards. However, Yang Xian plans to build a modern small high-rise building. The house upstairs will definitely not have a yard.

Therefore, Yang Xian directly separated each small building from a large courtyard shared by the residents of the building.

If the shared large courtyard is divided into different areas, the residents will be able to grow vegetables and raise flowers without any problem.

In addition, there is a public activity center in the left and right areas of the entire community, and some public facilities are also located here, such as water wells.

Yang Xian plans to design it into something similar to a modern sports park in the future.

Of course, it will take a long time before the community is completely completed.

After all, it is building a building.

Once completed, a large number of people will flock to these new communities.

In addition to being able to attract and accommodate the immigrant population that poured into Yangzhou, if a large number of local people moved into these small high-rise buildings in the community, the vacant wooden houses would be repurchased by the court, and then there would be a new round of development.

But at this time, it's too early to talk about this.

Beijing.

The plan Yang Xian provided to Zhu Biao is indeed, for now, the best plan to curb corruption, bar none.

In particular, the final political review system can be said to be a move beyond this era.

But after all, it is a major event related to the fate of the entire country.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and finally decided to discuss it with several ministers.

Even though he had made up his mind to rectify the officialdom according to Yang Xian's plan, Yang Xian only proposed a general direction and framework, and many details still required someone to consult.

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he could not handle issues such as the appropriate assessment project indicators and bonuses for various government departments and officials themselves, such as which level of coverage of political review was most appropriate, and so on.

Just like when he led 18 men and eighteen swords all the way into Dingyuan.

After occupying Dingyuan and establishing a foundation, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that if he wanted to develop for a long time, it was not enough to rely on warriors like them alone. He was in urgent need of wise people to plan, so he found Li Shanchang.

Zhu Yuanzhang directly summoned Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen, Xu Da, Hu Weiyong, Lu Chang and other important ministers into the palace.

Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen met outside the palace, and they didn't know what Zhu Yuanzhang meant by calling them into the palace at this time.

The few of them glanced at each other, and after exchanging pleasantries, no one said a word. They just walked into the palace silently, and all the way to the imperial study room.

"Wei Chen, see Your Majesty."

"Wei Chen, see Your Majesty."

"No, no, I'll give you a seat." Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head, looked at the people in front of him, and waved his hand. "I specially asked you to come over today. I have nothing else to do. I just want to hear what good ideas you have for punishing corrupt officials."

After hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, everyone present became nervous.

No one in the court knew that because of the civilian riots in Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and launched a thorough investigation into official corruption.

These days, it can be said that there are a lot of killings.

If they knew about the four major cases that occurred in the early Ming Dynasty, they would know that Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of hundreds of people was completely childish.Li Shanchang thought for a moment and spoke first.

"Your Majesty, I feel that severe punishment is still needed for corruption in order to effectively kill this unhealthy trend."

As the Prime Minister Zuo of Zhongshu Province, Li Shanchang knew more. He knew that another group of corrupt officials would soon be dealt with.

As an old man who had followed Zhu Yuanzhang since the early days of the uprising, Li Shanchang knew his superior position very well. He knew that Zhu Yuanzhang deeply hated these corrupt officials, so he said this.

However, Li Shanchang also understood that killing to stop greed was not a good way.

"Your Majesty, the court has killed many corrupt officials these days. Just killing people and ransacking their homes cannot make up for the court's losses. Instead, we must arrest them from the source. Severe punishments are not effective in the eyes of the humble ministers. These corrupt officials deserve to be corrupt. Still greedy." Liu Bowen said.

Liu Bowen has always opposed torture.

In the original time and space, when he heard that Yang Xian was peeling daylilies in Yangzhou, he had already quietly drawn a clear line with his student.

This is also the reason why when Yang Xian's accident happened later, he was not involved.

"Then does Liu Zhongcheng have any good ideas?"

After being rebutted by Liu Bowen, Li Shanchang just asked lightly.

Although Liu Bowen opposed the use of severe punishment, he did not have any other good methods to curb corruption.

I couldn't explain why for a while.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Xu Da who was standing aside and said, "Tiande, please also tell me your opinion. Don't just listen."

"It's okay for me to lead troops to fight. Let's leave these matters to Han Gong and Liu Zhongcheng." Xu Da said with a smile. Although he had the title of Zhongshu Youcheng, Xu Da knew his position.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked Hu Weiyong and others again, but no one could make constructive suggestions.

Either they are repeating the same old tune, they are not trying to figure out what they mean, or they are simply making trouble.

In this way, it further reflects the importance of Yang Xian's policy.

"Okay, let's stop for a moment." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, looked at everyone present, and said. "Let me ask you a question, and you must answer it truthfully. Do you have enough salary given to you by the court?"

Why did Your Majesty suddenly ask this question?

Hu Weiyong's mind began to spin rapidly. Could it be that the emperor also had doubts about them?
The things I did before were obviously very hidden and clean, and there was no reason for them to be discovered.

The same is true for Li Shanchang. You must know that he just expanded his mansion not long ago.

Lu Chang was thinking, could it be that his secret purchase of the painting was reported to Zhu Yuanzhang?Lu Chang's whole body went cold when he thought of this.

Xu Da is magnanimous. After all, a warrior like him is not as delicate as civil servants like Li Shanchang in some matters. In addition, he has many rewards on weekdays, so he is indeed not short of money.

Among these people, only Liu Bowen is truly poor.

He took in everyone's expressions, smiled casually, and said: "Since your Majesty has asked this, then I can just say it directly."

"The salary given by the imperial court is almost enough for my daily expenses. Throughout the year, there is almost no balance."

Although Yushi Zhongcheng was a third-rank official, in fact, Liu Bowen was also awarded the title of Founding Yiyun Shouzheng Wenchen, Zishan Doctor, and Shangguanjun.

Therefore, Liu Bowen is actually a standard second-grade senior official.

(End of this chapter)