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Chapter seven hundred and seventy fourth

The city of Bianjing changes every day. Once you get favor and power, you will lose your ambition and run away overnight.

After you finished singing, I will appear. It was the mansion that was as glorious as Ding Wei Lei Yungong back then. After they died or were exiled, they no longer had the prosperity of the past. Weeds were all over the ground. I don’t know how many times they changed, and who moved into the mansion of the past.

Not to mention the house of Taizu Dynasty.

The craftsmen didn't understand why the house, which was still bright and brilliant, was smashed like this, and then they made a small door smaller than ordinary people's homes...

What a waste!

According to Liang Chuan's instructions, the Han Mansion changed each large wing as small as possible and then made into upper and lower partitions, so that more residents could be accommodated.

Liang Chuan had thought that buying a house in the city would be enough to buy a large manor outside, so that there would be more people to support.

But there were thousands of lonely people in the world, and then all of them came, and his nursing home would be abandoned.

It would be better to say that Bianjing City is a barrier. If you draw a circle, Liang Chuan will try his best to help the people in the circle. People in the world can only rely on the court.

Liang Chuan was rushing to make progress frantically because now this matter is not just a charity, but Xia Shu had longer-term plans behind it.

Whether this system will go smoothly when Chen Xichun enters the palace this time!

Chen Xichun is already pregnant. If he cannot speed up the progress and delay it for another two months, Chen Xichun's belly will appear. At that time, everything will be too late. Not only will Chen Xichun not be able to enter the palace, but he will miss the dragon seeds of the official family, Xia Shu may not be able to protect himself.

Liang Chuan was willing to spend money. He renovated three houses with ten thousand coins without blinking his eyes, and the money was spent like this.

Wang Lin, the contractor of Bianjing City, took over the project and dispatched countless craftsmen from all directions. He had heard of who Liang Chuan was, but Liang Chuan changed this good house to such a ghost look, and he couldn't figure out what it was for!

He moved very quickly. In five days, he mobilized more than a thousand craftsmen and spent more than 20,000 yuan on materials. He incredibly transformed three luxury houses into three slums.

For a moment, this became the topic of conversation after dinner.

The private money that was pried out from Xue Gui and Zhan Zhirong's mouth was left at Liang Chuan's hands, and it took several days to spend almost clean and clean.

Money creates efficiency, and the progress of the project depends on the speed of payment.

Liang Chuan asked someone to write a plaque - Jujiayuan. The day after the house was repaired, he hung the sign up.

The second house is functioning as a free hospital, not only giving medicine to treat patients, but also providing hospitalization functions similar to wards. This house has an Anjifang brand.

The third one is a real nursing home, and finally a sign of Luze Garden was hung.

The audiences of these three welfare homes are different, but they also have similarities. They are all aimed at the poor. Although they are of welfare nature, they are not the background of public institutions, so there are still some thresholds.

It’s okay for Anjifang. The prices of medicines in ancient times have not reached the sky-high price, and Anjifang has no way to treat those serious diseases. Its function is more to give some psychological comfort to those who even look down on the disease, treat minor diseases, and distribute some minor diseases that treat headaches, cervical pain, and diarrhea for free.

If these wanderers are given free ginseng and winter insects every day, Liangchuan will not be squander enough even if he has a mountain of gold.

If the only advantage of this welfare system that Cai Jing founded was the Luze Garden system, which is more like a ancestral hall in some areas of southern China. When some families have grown old, the medicine and stones fail to make the restoration, they will move people to the hall of the ancestral hall, allowing time to slowly take away the elderly.

Speaking of which, this tradition feels like a dross, and it is quite cruel to the elderly, but in fact it is more rational than excessive medical treatment. Because all the elderly who move to the ancestral hall have children taking turns to guard the side, which is more meaningful than dying from old age or dying on the operating table.

Luoze Garden is the last part of the road to bringing old people who are about to die but have no one to take care of them in the garden.

The Han people value the popular things that are alive, and the funeral things that are after death. If they don’t even have a decent ritual when they die, it means that they are quite poor when they are alive.

Not only that, the most important function of the Luze Garden will also provide the deceased with a resting place, erect a monument, and engrave the past, so that they will not be lonely ghosts.

Even if he wanted to get this, Xia Shu was really impressed by Liang Chuan!

If the nursing home will be attacked as an image project and a face-saving project, and a group of idle people who speak good words for themselves, will anyone who is willing to handle the funeral of these lonely ghosts still accuse them of being a ill-gotten plot? This is purely expenses and there is no benefit at all!

That night, after a meal in Xia Mansion until midnight, Liang Chuan saw Xia Shu’s figure. His eating habits were indeed gentle, and his appetite was really amazing. He never put down his chopsticks after picking them up, which was no different from a starving ghost.

After sweeping half of the table of dishes, Liang Chuan ate half full with the dishes in front of him, and the rest were just regarded as full.

The key is that Xia Shu never talks about business affairs when he eats, and he can only wait until he finishes his meal and drinks before he starts talking about business affairs.

After dinner, I poured a few cups of aged wine. The skills of this wine are different from modern times. They have no alcohol smell, but have a strong fruity aroma. The taste is mellow, and Liang Chuan couldn't help but drink two more cups.

The aged wine is mellow and it still makes people slightly smoky after three rounds.

Liang Chuan suddenly spoke with the intention of drinking: "Will you recommend this welfare system to the court? If you rely solely on the power of the people, I am afraid that it will not last long at that time!"

Xia Feng glared at him. It was his rule not to talk about business at the dinner table. He was unwilling to ruin his mood for eating. He did not respond to Liang Chuan a word and continued to drink and eat.

Liang Chuan was defeated, his mood turbulently, and immediately put away his out-of-compulsive expression and said in his heart that he almost forgot his identity and status.

After drinking and eating, Qiu Fu served another pot of tea. It took them half a day to drink each other.

Xia Shun can do whatever else, but he will not give up until this process is completed.

The room was very quiet, and Qiu Fu didn't dare to stay at home after entering the tea. He gave Liang Chuan another wink and retreated.

"Wine is good wine, and drinking too much will cause big trouble."

Liang Chuan listened roughly but didn't take it to his heart. Later, he found something was wrong and savored Xia Shu's words carefully, and then he realized that there was something in his words.

"Why, don't you understand?"

Liang Chuan said: "I would like to give you advice!"

"The plans you mentioned are rare and good, but you need to further verify and come up with a safe and practical plan. If you make a mistake in one mistake, it will be irreversible. Things in the officialdom are also the same. If you are greedy for too much, you will often formulate policies that are not well-designed because of the small details and are in a hurry to implement them. When you go to the local area, you will become a bad law to harm the people."

Liang Chuan sighed: "This is indeed the reason."

Not to mention the distant past, Fan Zhongyan wanted to reform in a few years, and in a few decades, after the rise of Wang Anshi, an outstanding representative of the new generation, they began to implement new policies.

When the Qingmiao Law was implemented at the grassroots level, the grassroots officials imposed on the people when they saw that it was profitable, and asked them to rent seedlings and take the opportunity to collect usury!

Xia Shun's short sentence revealed the dark and unchangeable unspoken rules of the officialdom. Can this fat man come out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood, fight wits and courage with those corrupt officials, and climb to their current position through the hurdles and deaths. Will he not understand their tricks?

"If I don't give this policy to the court, do you think the government will implement it or not!"

"The government governs the world with kindness and filial piety. This move is a great benefit to the people. He will definitely implement it, otherwise it will not damage the reputation of the government."

Xia Feng snorted and said, "Once I promote it, those mediocre scholars will first scold me for being charmed, followed by fake public and private, using the national wealth to satisfy the interests of a very small number of people. Finally, this policy is implemented below, and you can calculate what it will be like?"

Liang Chuan pondered for a while, and the candle was shady, and Xia Feng's face looked extremely ferocious.

Liang Chuan didn't speak.

Xia Shu grinned and said, "This is a system that benefits the people. When it comes down, it will become a corruption feast for corrupt officials!"

Shocked, Liang Chuan said anxiously: "Where does this start!"

"If the local officials implement it, they will definitely be supplemented by strict law examinations. If local officials do not implement it well, they will definitely hold them accountable, which will lead to two consequences!"

“Which two?”

"Since this system is forcibly implemented, it is better to be with others than others. Those who can enjoy this benefit are either relatives of local officials or local bullies and landlords. The poor people have no one and no way out, and they will never have the opportunity to enjoy the emperor's grace."

"Besides, local officials who are honest and arduous in their minds really promote it. When those ordinary people see that the court has cheap prices, who would be willing to farm? It is not as comfortable to enjoy the rice and food of the court!"

Xia Shuo said to the end, and his tone of his own speech was rising. Although he was also greedy, he believed in using money to do things. He usually went with those who wanted to make progress but had no one to serve the country. At least greedy for their money would not make the people desperate.

These officials only see money, so they will not care about the lives and death of the people. Moreover, they have seen too many such officials, and even corrupt officials like him wish they could swallow those who oppress the people alive.

Human nature cannot stand the test. The Han people have survived for thousands of years too hard. Many people cannot expect them to work hard all their lives, let alone be honest, even if they have no shortage of food in their homes.

Xia Shun knew not only these officials, but also the people.

In fact, as Xia Shu had expected, Cai Jing founded the earliest welfare system in history, leaving only a name for himself.

The court strongly recommended the welfare system, and local governments could only implement it, but did not stipulate how many people each nursing home would have to raise. In some counties, tens of thousands of people could accommodate thirty people. It was completely unpractical to drink the drop in the bucket.

Moreover, the thirty people who can enter are all related households. The nursing homes are not porridge. It is said that the national treasury is spent, and every meal is no worse than a restaurant. Most of the remaining money is greedy by local officials.

Can they not like this system? They like to die! The people hate this system to the core, causing even more public grievances!

"How to prevent this phenomenon?" There is no way to ask them to declare property and property of the nursing home. Even if the declaration can provide false information, it is impossible to verify it!

"You can use the system of guilty punishment!"

"What system is this?"

Xia Su thought about something that happened in Bianjing City a few years ago, and said: "A few years ago, I heard that there were countless refugees in the Great Desert in northern Shaanxi, and many people fled to Henan. There was a man in the capital who also accumulated virtue and did good deeds and gave the refugees free of charge."

When Liang Chuan heard this story, he seemed to have happened somewhere, and he couldn't remember it for a while.

"That man also has quite a way. The porridge he used was all bran. He was not a person who was so hungry that he would eat it. As a result, he added some sand and soil to the bran. This method even scared away those idle people who were mixed with refugees and wanted to eat for nothing. They were really clever!"

Liang Chuan almost fell to the ground. Isn’t this talking about himself!

"It's not good for adults. At that time, I heard that it was an emergency rescue. In addition, the number of refugees was too large and the time was short, so the people came up with this bad plan. This nursing home must be run for a long time and also gave it to others. Isn't this a sin?"

Xia Shu snorted coldly and looked at Liang Chuan and thought to himself that you have done everything, why are you still pretending to be here?

"It is unnecessary to eat soil, but they can eat bran! This thing cannot be hungry even if it is not eaten well. The price is several times cheaper than corn, which is the most suitable!"

Liang Chuan really admired Xia Shu. His ability to learn from others is really strong. He thought of the disaster relief method himself, so he could use this nursing home.

"Sir, haven't you said anything about the punishment of guilt?"

"It's not simple? Anyone who is admitted to the hospital for free will sign a contract with them. Anyone who finds that they have a house and a property in their homes will be confiscated. If the people in the yamen get your contract, they will sue you. How can they not want this big advantage?"

"What if no one goes to sue? Don't worry, I will discuss with Kaifeng Prefecture and reward the confiscated property to the whistleblower. With this stimulation, everyone in the world is staring at those who pretend to be poor, which is hundreds of times better than you who check it yourself!"

Liang Chuan was startled and said in a panic: "Sir, so shameless!"
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