Xingzhou officials and gentry spared no effort to drive away Zhao Junchen as soon as possible.
Especially when they found out that Song Qili suddenly got "seriously ill", they all had a bad premonition in their hearts, but now there was no turning back, so they had no choice but to fight to the death, and even used all possible means.
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After Zhao Junchen promulgated the five announcements, the Xingzhou officials and gentry were indeed overwhelmed by Zhao Junchen's mobilization, but they still squeezed out some time and energy, secretly stumbling upon Zhao Junchen.
The first is to send people everywhere to spread rumors.
Since Zhao Junchen issued the announcement, Xingzhou officials and gentry have frequently hinted at rumors that Zhao Junchen will never be able to spend enough money to support the people to buy rice at low prices in three days. What Zhao Junchen promulgated is just to
It’s just the people in Hu Nong.
These rumors have indeed aroused doubts in the hearts of the people, but Zhao Junchen had predicted this a long time ago, so he specifically added in the announcement that if the people participated in the trouble, their qualifications for purchasing food vouchers would be revoked, so even if the people were worried
Although there are doubts, the situation can still be maintained stable.
The second reason is the deliberate negligence of the Xingzhou government.
According to Zhao Junchen's announcement, each citizen can only receive one grain purchase voucher at most, and each voucher is limited to purchasing half a stone of rice. However, when the Xingzhou government issued the grain purchase vouchers, they deliberately failed to register and screen them, so
A large number of people took advantage of the loophole, and many people received multiple vouchers.
In this way, after three days, Zhao Junchen will have to spend more money and food to cope with the panic buying of the people, and there will be no chance to successfully tide over this difficulty.
Regarding the Xingzhou government's actions, not only Zhao Junchen was very aware of it, but even a dull person like Liu Zimin discovered the anomaly and repeatedly warned Zhao Junchen. However, Zhao Junchen ultimately chose to sit on the sidelines and had no intention of doing so.
put one's oar in.
In Zhao Junchen's eyes, the Xingzhou officials and gentry were not only trying to be smart, but also digging their own graves!
Finally, he deliberately prevented Zhao Junchen from redressing his grievances at the Xingzhou Tongzhi Hall, and even wanted to take the opportunity to beat him up and deliberately embarrass Zhao Junchen.
In the eyes of the Xingzhou officials and gentry, Zhao Junchen personally sat in the Tongzhi Hall to uphold justice for the people in order to take the opportunity to collect evidence of the crimes of the Xingzhou officials and gentry, and then use these crime evidence to settle accounts with them in the future, which can be said to be the biggest concern.
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Naturally, the officials and gentry of Xingzhou were unwilling to let Zhao Junchen realize his intention smoothly, so they took the initiative to arrange for a large number of people to go to the Xingzhou Tongzhi Hall to complain and redress their grievances. However, the targets of these complaints were Xingzhou Tongzhi Liu Zimin and
The new agricultural reform policy implemented by Liu Zimin.
Obviously, the Xingzhou officials and gentry also understand the principle that "human energy and time are limited." In their view, as long as the common people stand up to accuse Liu Zimin and the new agricultural reform policy, Zhao Junchen will not only embarrass himself, but also
There was no time or energy left to collect evidence of the crimes of Xingzhou officials and gentry.
In fact, the last plan of the Xingzhou officials and gentry succeeded successfully.
Under their instigation, some people came forward to complain about the various tragedies they had encountered due to the new agricultural reform policies. On the contrary, these people who really needed to express their grievances were pushed aside and took away all the focus and attention.
However, the Xingzhou officials and gentry did not know that such changes in the situation were also expected by Zhao Junchen!
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Zhao Junchen's justice for the people in Xingzhou Tongzhi Hall was held in public. Anyone who could squeeze into the scene could watch the specific process of Zhao Junchen redressing the grievances of the people.
When Chaoge Lao personally took charge of redressing the grievances of the people, this kind of thing was very rare, and naturally attracted the attention of countless people, so even though most of the people were busy queuing up to receive rice porridge and vouchers, they came to join in the fun.
The people still packed the entire Xingzhou Tongzhi Hall.
In the end, out of desperation, Zhao Junchen had no choice but to leave the Xingzhou Tongzhi Hall and choose a spacious place outside the government office to publicly redress the grievances of the people. More and more people came to listen, and at one time it was as high as three
There were so many five thousand people that Zhao Junchen had to stand on a high platform and hold up a homemade simple loudspeaker to shout to the people.
When Mr. Chao Ge held a loudspeaker to judge grievances in front of thousands of people... When Li He rushed to the scene, he saw such a strange scene!
"Hey! This Zhao Junchen really can come up with something new every time!"
After seeing such a strange scene, Li He couldn't help but feel happy.
"It's indeed a new trick, but it's also really inappropriate!"
Qiu Hong shook his head repeatedly, not particularly agreeing with this sensational approach.
Later, with the help of several followers, Li He tried his best to squeeze towards the front of the dense crowd, trying to hear as clearly as possible the specific process of Zhao Junchen's decision to redress the grievances of the people.
According to Li He, he was born in good health. Even at the age of sixty, he still has good legs and strong energy. Compared with young people, his eyesight is much worse. This statement is obviously not a boast.
With the help of the three attendants and the fact that the people saw that Li He was well-dressed, a Confucian scholar, and had an extraordinary temperament, he seemed to have a good background, and he was still quite old, they were unwilling and did not dare to argue with him.
, so after all the hard work, Li He was able to squeeze into the front position smoothly.
After squeezing into the front position, Qiu Hong was already sweating profusely, panting, and his eyes were distracted, as if he had lost half his life. However, Li He was only slightly tired and soon regained his breathing stability, and then
Then he turned his attention to Zhao Junchen on the high platform.
At this time, under the secret arrangements of the Xingzhou officials and gentry, more than ten people came to Zhao Junchen to complain and complain. The target of their accusations was still the new agricultural reform policy implemented by Liu Zimin.
"Master Qingtian, you must uphold justice for the grassroots and others!"
"The grassroots and others are all self-cultivated farmers in Xingzhou. They had already sown rice seeds in the fields and spent a lot of effort. However, the government suddenly sent officials and forced us to give up farming rice and plant sweet potatoes, corns, and sweet potatoes instead...
But we have never heard of these things at all..."
"The grassroots people have exhausted all their savings in order to sow millet. How can they have any spare energy to plant other crops? This is to force us people to death..."
Hearing the excited complaints from more than a dozen people, Zhao Junchen turned his head again and glanced at Liu Zimin coldly, but Liu Zimin still did not dare to raise his head and look at Zhao Junchen.
Since today, Zhao Junchen has heard similar accusations several times, but every time he hears these accusations, Zhao Junchen will still feel secretly angry because of Liu Zimin's stupidity.
But after several similar accusations, Zhao Junchen was already familiar with it and knew exactly how he should deal with such a situation. He first took a sip of herbal tea to moisten his throat, and then raised his homemade simple loudspeaker.
, shouted loudly and asked: "Is your farmland good or bad?"
"Oh, it's bad land."
"It has just been four years since we opened up wasteland..."
"A small family owns more than 80 acres of farmland, and only ten acres are considered fertile land."
After hearing the answer, Zhao Junchen was not surprised at all. If these common people had fertile land, they would have been robbed by the gentry.
So, Zhao Junchen loudly said again: "If it is bad farmland, then the government's approach may be a bit rough, but it is also to implement the imperial decree, and there is nothing wrong with it! According to the latest agricultural policy of the imperial court, all bad farmland in Xingzhou, including mountain fields,
, all the abandoned fields must be replanted with new crops such as sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn!”
Before the people could get uproar and get angry, Zhao Junchen shouted loudly again: "This decree is not only mandatory, but also a great gift from the imperial court to the people of Xingzhou! But the Xingzhou government is pushing for this decree.
At that time, the great benefits of this decree were not explained clearly at all! People, don’t just focus on opposing it, first listen to me explain the specific benefits to you!"
Afterwards, Zhao Junchen took a deep breath and shouted louder: "First of all, sweet potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes are new crops selected by the imperial court together with the divine farmers from all over the world. Their grain yield is much higher than ordinary rice and wheat.
Especially the harvest from bad fields is often more than seven or eight times that of rice and wheat! And the output is stable, unlike rice and wheat, which are not easily affected by the weather! As long as these new crops are planted, everyone will never go hungry again!
Secondly, the imperial court did not have enough seeds for new crops, so it only selected a few places to promote them first, and Xingzhou was one of them! In order to dispel the doubts of the people, the imperial court also provided various discounts for the first year of cultivating these new crops.
Not only are seeds distributed for free, but grain taxes are also exempted! Only you can enjoy these preferential policies. Once these crops are widely promoted, there will be no such benefits!
Finally, the imperial court has contacted major commercial banks in advance and reached an agreement with them. When new crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes mature, they will come to buy them one after another. There is no need to worry that these new crops will rot in their own hands!
Because the yield of these new crops is extremely high, the imperial court has also given everyone two ways to sell them. Either they can be sold according to eight coins of silver per mu, no matter how much, or they can be sold according to one penny and three catties. You can do whatever you want.
Choose the way that’s best for you!”
After a pause, Zhao Junchen raised his voice again and said loudly: "An ordinary family of five cultivates about one hundred acres of land. As long as everyone cultivates new crops in accordance with the imperial decree, the output of just ten acres is enough."
If you live at home and sell the remaining new crops to the merchants, you can get at least seventy or eighty taels of silver! Seventy or eighty taels of silver! People, how much silver can you finally get after you have worked hard to cultivate rice and other crops in the past years? "
After shouting, Zhao Junchen's voice was already a little hoarse, and he had to drink tea again to moisten his throat.
Because people kept coming forward to express their opinions and publicly accuse the new agricultural reform policy, Zhao Junchen had repeated these contents many times in the past day. However, after hearing Zhao Junchen's emphasis again, it still caused an uproar among the people around him.
No matter how intensively cultivated an acre of bad land is, with good weather and good weather conditions, you can only harvest about one stone of grain at most. In fact, it is often only about eight bushels. If God is not good and disasters continue, there will be no harvest, and then forget about the grain tax.
Living on your own, the remaining grain would be forcibly bought and sold by the local gentry. One stone of grain could often only be sold for half a tael of silver.
But if you choose new crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, etc., you can earn a minimum of eight coins per acre!
What's more, if what Zhao Junchen said is true, the harvest of new crops in bad fields is seven to eight times that of rice, then selling based on weight must be more income!
This huge income gap naturally shocked all the people.
But while the people were shocked and discussing, they were still dubious and did not fully believe Zhao Junchen's statement.
After all, although the scene described by Zhao Junchen is very tempting, there are too many uncontrollable variables in it.
Are the yields per mu of new crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes really seven or eight times higher than those of rice and wheat?
After these new crops are mature and harvested, will the imperial court really arrange for major grain companies to come to Xingzhou to purchase them?
Even if major grain banks came to purchase it, would the purchase price really be as high as eight dollars per mu of output?
In the eyes of the people, the credibility of the imperial court was not high, and Zhao Junchen was a stranger with no credibility, so naturally they would not easily believe Zhao Junchen's one-sided words.
While the people were talking about it, Zhao Junchen had finished drinking tea to moisten his throat. He raised his homemade simple loudspeaker again and said loudly: "People, I have just said that sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn
It is easy to grow other crops, unlike rice and wheat. They are delicate and are always affected by soil quality and weather. Now, because of a civil uprising in Xingzhou, the timing of planting rice and wheat has been delayed. There will definitely be no harvest this autumn, but
There is still time to sow sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other crops, so if you try it, you will definitely not suffer..."
As Zhao Junchen finished speaking, another discussion arose among the people.
That’s right, we’ve already harvested nothing anyway, so why not try a new crop?
While the people were talking about it, Zhao Junchen directly dismissed the complaints of the more than ten people on the grounds that the Xingzhou government was executing the imperial decree.
But the matter was far from over. After Zhao Junchen dismissed the complaints from the previous group of people, a new group of people soon appeared and complained to Zhao Junchen. The content of the complaint was also Liu Zimin's perverse actions and the new farmers.
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Therefore, Zhao Junchen once again repeated what he had said not long ago, patiently explaining the court's preferential policies and the advantages of new crops to the people.
Then, the exact same process was repeated four or five times, until it got dark and the spectacle finally came to an end.
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But after Li He witnessed this with his own eyes, his expression was thoughtful, with a hint of admiration in his expression.
"After all, I underestimated Zhao Junchen's methods! The depth of his plans is really amazing... It seems that he has won the Xingzhou game undefeated!"