Saint Immortal Way

The yamen of Qingping Road has been built, and there are two stone lions standing outside the gate, with red walls and red gates, quite majestic.The yamen happened to be built on the most prosperous Zhujin Street in Taiping City. Whenever people passed by, they would unconsciously look at the newly built yamen.

The common people in Qingping Road have been curious for a long time, because they heard that this yamen is the place where the old man tried cases for the people, but for several days in a row, people did not see the old man in the yamen.

Outside Taiping City, on the banks of the Luo River, the boss Luo Jun is directing craftsmen to build a huge pier. This pier is built with ashlar, and it has not yet been completed. There is also a temporary structure a hundred steps above the pier. On a wooden pier, teams of laborers are busy unloading several large ships.

The husbands carried big bags one by one, which were unloaded from the boat and then moved to the rows of warehouses in the newly built dock for stacking.

"Whoa..."

An older laborer was not relieved, and the big bag fell, spilling the yellow and orange rice grains on the ground. Many people saw it and were slightly taken aback.

Some have already begun to ask what it is, but anyone with some knowledge will say that it is rice.

After moving the rice, a mouthful of large wooden boxes began to be moved down, and each mouthful required four big men to carry two wooden sticks to lift it.

"Grandma, what is it in here? Why is it so heavy? Could it be that there is an iron block?" A big man gritted his teeth, spit, and cursed in a low voice. [

He had already moved nearly a hundred bags of grain, and now he had to move wooden boxes, which almost exhausted him to death.

In such a distraction, the big man staggered, and the wooden box fell to the ground with a clang. Perhaps the wooden box was not strong at first, but a board underneath turned over, and the white silver coins, which made people's eyes hurt, leaked out.

When some people saw it, their eyes turned green, and they threw themselves on the ground to shoot Yinyuan Tongbao.

This silver dollar tongbao is about the size of a thumb, and it is quite finely made, with lifelike patterns on it. This kind of silver dollar tongbao has recently been circulating in the market and is very popular because it is more convenient than Broken silver is much better.

Luo Jun, who was working as a supervisor, frowned when he saw this situation, and waved his sleeve at Luo Lin beside him.

Luo Lin had already rushed out of the crowd, and with a wave of his hand, he surrounded a group of green battalion soldiers nearby. Luo Lin shouted: "What's the matter, you troublemakers, you don't want to live anymore. This is the official banker. If you steal one, you will be sent to the army!"

Soldiers from the green battalion held spears and viciously grabbed laborers who robbed them of silver.There were seven workers in total, all of whom were young and vigorous. Some older workers beside them did not participate.

Under the awe of the green camp soldiers, no one dared to trouble these silver dollar Tongbao anymore.

Seeing Luo Jun coming up, Luo Lin hurriedly saluted and said, "Senior brother, what should we do with these people, they all have the guts to snatch our silver dollars, are they going to be chopped off?"

Luo Jun glared at Luo Lin, who smiled shyly, and said, "Should I be sent to the army, or given dozens of boards?"

Seeing the shabby clothes of the frightened silver robbers, Luo Jun couldn't bear it. These people are all beggar-like characters. They are hungry and full on weekdays. If it weren't for his pity, they would not be able to work as coolies on the pier today.

But it's better to be a coolie than to have nothing to do!

Glancing at the workers at the entire dock, they all looked at him with some fear, Luo Jun's heart trembled, he knew that he couldn't be lenient, otherwise everyone would follow suit, so what's the deal?

"Snatch the official money, act boldly, give me ten boards per person, and then tie a silver dollar tongbao, and throw them out of the dock workers' gang. My dock workers gang doesn't need such unruly people!" Luo Jun waved his sleeves , said coldly.

"Yes, my lord!" [

The green battalion soldiers immediately kicked the man down and beat him with a big stick. For a while, the seven laborers cried and cried for their father and mother. It was only ten times, and it was not serious, but it was certain that they would lie down for half a day.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, seven laborers were expelled from the dock, and each of them made a silver dollar tongbao.

"No, my lord, I don't dare anymore, let me go back to the Gongbang?" A worker quickly knelt down, and the other workers also knelt down and begged, and everyone on the pier looked awe-inspiring.

Luo Lin stepped forward, pointed at their noses and cursed: "Go, go, the wages of the dock workers are high. In addition to food and drink, they also pay a silver dollar Tongbao every ten days. This is the treatment of most of them. You don't know Thanksgiving, work honestly, only thinking about stealing and playing tricks, I can't tolerate you here, get out of here!"

As he spoke, he was about to go forward to drive them away, and when the seven unlucky bastards were driven away, Luo Lin turned around and shouted to everyone at the pier: "Everyone has seen that there are more than a dozen labor gangs established in the Yamen, and they are now registered. There are already more than [-] people. These people, as long as they have a lot of strength and work honestly, they can support themselves. After working hard for half a year, they will be able to share a few acres of land. When the time comes, they will receive free seeds. You can go back and farm the land well, you will have no worries about food and clothing in the coming year, and you can even marry a wife!"

Luo Lin took a sip of water, and then shouted: "This is the grace of our yamen. If anyone doesn't know what to do and doesn't work hard, then my family and I will kick him out. Can you hear me clearly?"

The people were awe-inspiring and silent.

"Do you hear clearly?!" Luo Lin yelled angrily.

"Listen clearly!" The workers hurriedly responded in unison.

Satisfied, Rowlington waved the whip in his hand, and said, "Okay, let's do the work. After the goods are finished, come to me to collect the money!"

The laborers were very happy when they heard that they would receive the money, and they worked hard.

Luo Lin came to Luo Jun happily, and said with a smile, "Brother, how are you doing? Did I do a good job?"

"It's a little bit..." Luo Jun chuckled, and then sighed: "Although it's a bit harsh at the moment, there's nothing we can do about it. Who told these people not to know the rules? There's no such thing as a circle without rules, they just have to understand Only by following the rules can you know awe, and everything you do in the future will be twice the result with half the effort!"

"Senior brother is right!" Luo Lin said.

"Just now, order the seven people to go down and let them go to the kiln to burn bricks. They are all poor people, so don't push too hard!" Luo Jun ordered in a low voice.

Luo Lin nodded, and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, senior brother, I have already ordered you quietly!"

"Well, well done!" Luo Jun showed a smile on his face, and then looked up at the workers at the dock, all of them were much more honest.

Luo Jun walked aside, sat down, and studied the map of Qingping Road. After a while, he marked a road to be built.

"Do you want to build another gravel road?" Luo Lin was surprised.

"Well, the official road must be cultivated. What we are doing now are all necessary things... Hehe, after inspecting the Qingping Dao, it is really a waste of time. I will help many poor people with work in lieu of relief. !"

Luo Lin snapped his fingers and said, "Now we have created several labor gangs in one go, including dock gangs, brick kiln gangs, logging gangs, rock-breaking gangs, road repair gangs, shipbuilding gangs, boat running gangs, water conservancy gangs, and house gangs. It has gathered a lot of popularity, and a lot of money has been spilled, if this continues, will the yamen die of poverty?"

"Don't worry about this. There are only ten yamen in Nanhai Kingdom. Before I took office, the teacher promised me 100 million taels of silver. The silver will be shipped in one after another. There will be no shortage. With this silver, I can do many things!"

Luo Jun summoned the officials who measured the land and got to know the situation of the land.

The land situation is very good. The whole Qingping Road includes three big islands and hundreds of small islands. It can be said that the land is sparsely populated, and the land is fertile and the rivers are criss-cross. acres of fertile land.

In fact, the population of Qingping Road is not large, mainly concentrated in three big islands, and the population is only over [-] according to preliminary statistics.

Qingping Road, after all, is not a place with a large population. If you want to talk about a place with a large population, you have to count Zhongjing Road. The entire Zhongjing Road surrounds Shengshui City with a radius of thousands of miles. There are many tribes and a population of tens of millions. Zhongjing is also a rich place. There are many noble families, after all, they have been governed by the Water God Xuanming Palace for many years, if there is no population and important cities, it cannot be justified.

"Hurry up and hire idle workers to reclaim fertile land, and then find a way to divide up the land and stabilize the people's hearts. The most troublesome thing now is how to teach them to grow rice!" Luo Jun frowned.

"Brother, we can only wait for the lord to send some expert rice growers to deal with this kind of rice. What else can we do?" Luo Lin spread his hands. None of the South China Sea islands grow rice. Most people don't even know rice.

"We can only wait. If we want to find experts in rice cultivation, we can only send them from Yanzhou and Hezhou. I can get [-] or [-] people from Qingping Dao, and then send them to other places in Qingping Dao. That's barely enough. !” Luo Jun pondered for a while, and ordered to return to the yamen.

He got into a carriage and staggered towards the city gate.

On both sides of the road, many people can be seen digging ditches and fields, and horse-drawn carriages are driving from the pier to the city. The whole Taiping City is much more lively than when we first arrived.

Luo Jun even saw some private merchant ships unloading their goods on the river bank not far away. Those goods, including cloth, porcelain, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, etc., were rare luxury items in every aspect.

Luo Jun was quite satisfied. These businessmen, traveling all over the world, managed to do business in Qingping Road. The prosperity of Taiping City depended largely on their efforts.

For example, there are all kinds of cloth, most of which were transported by water from the Great Kuang Dynasty. The Yamen has recently distributed a lot of money. Pots, flour, and refined salt are popular.

The carriage slowly drove into the city gate. This city gate also looks brand new, because it was repaired only yesterday. Inside the city gate, a street leads straight through. On both sides, wooden buildings are being built in full swing, and piles of wood are piled up. The craftsmen yelled, their hands and feet were very quick.

This is a "commercial street" built by the yamen. It is a disguised form of distributing money in the name of building things to benefit the people. The rich commoners will exchange money for oil, salt, food, cloth, etc.

If the commercial street is built, it can be sold to merchants who travel north and south, and they can make a fortune. In short, the money in their hands is transferred around through various means, and it is constantly passed through the hands of civilians, businessmen and themselves to reflect the beauty of money.

After these days of practice, Luo Jun already feels that he has touched the way to govern and enrich the people. As long as he guides and moves a little skillfully, he can play a huge role, making the governance of the people enter a virtuous circle, and all kinds of mysteries , It's not just the word "drive profit".

The word "seeking profit", if used skillfully, is enough to govern the people and secure the people, and if it goes a step further, it can enrich the people.

To serve as an official and benefit one party is easy to say but not difficult to say, how wonderful it is!

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