First Minister of Ming Dynasty

"At first glance, you are a foreigner, and the Zhu family's army is doing it by themselves. They came to clean it themselves, and told us that we must drink clean water, live cleanly, and eat hygienically. It will be fatal, you see, these sundries on the street are all cleaned up by them."

Liu Bowen was taken aback. The gang of red thieves said that the plague was related to the filth of these debris. There was such a statement in the medical books, but it was not certain, but it would be a good thing if they could be cleaned up clean and hygienic.

"So Zhu Jiajun will come to clean up every day?"

The man smiled, "There were too many piles at first, and it was not easy to deal with. Zhu Jiajun came here. Now it's all done by captives."

"captive?"

"Yes, it's the Tartar soldiers from the original Yuan court!"

"What? Captured officers?" Liu Bowen was really a little scared. He knew that Zhu Yuanzhang had captured many Yuan troops, but Liu Bowen felt that Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely use them to expand his strength and incorporate them into his subordinates.

No matter how you look at it, it shouldn't be used for cleaning!

"You didn't lie to me?"

The little guy rolled his eyes, "What are you doing lying to you? The former Yushi doctor Fushou is leading the work! Oh boy, our Generalissimo can really do it. Such a big official comes to clean up every day and push the sundries out of the city... ...Where else can you see such a fun thing except Jinling?"

Liu Bowen is stupid. It is true that apart from Zhu Yuanzhang, he will definitely not use it anywhere else.

The imperial historian Fushou!

This is a good official, a man of integrity, and he is loyal to Dayuan. The red thief broke Jinling. He didn't escape, and he didn't die for the country. After being captured, he was willing to come out to work, which is very strange. !

Did you see the wrong person?

Or is it that the Red Thief knows magic tricks and can take away souls?

When Liu Ji was thinking about it, some captives came out to work. They were dressed in navy blue clothes, lined up in a neat line, and came out chanting.

Looking at their faces, there is even a little excitement, and I don't know what they are happy about?

You are prisoners, don't feel ashamed!

For the first time, Liu Ji felt that his brain was not enough, and his three views were severely damaged.

Sure enough, it is a group of shameless people who have failed the grace of God.

No matter how talented Liu Ji is, facing this situation, he can only give such a conclusion.

But for these prisoners, this is not the case.

When they come out to work and perform well, they can be counted in points... This point will be regarded as the result of their transformation.If the points are high and the transformation is completed, the hard labor can be ended early and the qualification for allotment of land can be obtained.

Divide the fields one day earlier, and live a better life one day earlier.

Eat enough, wear warm clothes, and marry a wife to live.

Such a good thing, a fool would not want to do it!

Sure enough, this group of people worked extremely hard, and they were really not afraid of being dirty or tired. When it came to heavy work, everyone scrambled to do it, and no one was willing to lag behind.

With this enthusiasm on the battlefield, is it still possible for Zhu Yuanzhang to enter Jinling?

Liu Bowen couldn't understand how he was constantly being impacted.

However, Liu Bowen is a very conceited and talented person. In fact, from his experience as an official, it can be seen that it can be said that he was harmed by arrogance and aloofness.

Facing the situation that he didn't understand, Liu Bowen became more serious. He must find out, what secret method did the red thief use?

Let’s talk about the captives in front of them. When they come out to work, they can be lazy and escape, but all of them work honestly without any resistance.

There are only a few people, holding small notebooks, patrolling from one end to the other, and recording what they see. Who performs well, who performs poorly, and how to score them all depends on their pen.

It wasn't until noon that more soldiers from Zhu's army came over carrying bamboo baskets, steaming, and delivered them to the captives.

The food is really good. The mixed-grain steamed buns made of dough are not as sweet as the white flour steamed buns, but they are big enough to keep you full.

Two steamed buns the size of a fist, and a large bowl of vegetable soup made the prisoners feel like they were eating delicacies from mountains and seas... Liu Bowen swallowed subconsciously.

He is not a person who knows nothing, in fact Liu Bowen is also leading the army.

Although the number is not large, there are hundreds of people.

What worries him the most is the food!

Ordinary people can eat one meal a day, but those who want to go to the battlefield have at least two meals a day, and they have to be dry.

If you don't have enough food, let alone kill the enemy, you won't even be able to train.

Liu Bowen received Xiangyong, that is to say, he wanted to beg for alms from the powerful and wealthy households in his hometown, ask those landlords for help, and donate generously.

It's not good to beg for food, even if it's a fellow villager begging for food, it's just as uncomfortable.

Take the food of ordinary soldiers as an example, it is not as good as these prisoners.

Of course, maybe because he was out to work, Zhu Jiajun slapped his swollen face to pretend to be fat for his own face.

They won't have so much food, no!

Apart from comforting himself like this, Liu Bowen has any other ways to do it?

He didn't wait for Fushou, and the imperial censor didn't come to work, and Liu Bowen couldn't figure out the reason.

Maybe it's because Fushou himself knows how to be ashamed, scholars should pay attention to integrity, and he is a high-ranking official in the Yuan Dynasty, a scholar can be killed but not humiliated, he would rather die than obey!

If so, it is worthy of admiration.

Liu Ji didn't know what Fushou was doing. In fact, as a censor, Fushou had a good level of education, so he was called by Zhang Ximeng to participate in the judging.

Yexian Timur and others went with him.

Together, they worked wholeheartedly to select talents for the Zhu family army, and then let these people go to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty. Coincidentally, Liu Ji also participated in this exam.

This matter is simply full of dramatic effects, and the more I think about it, the more interesting it becomes.

Fortunately, Liu Ji didn't know, otherwise he might have fled directly. After all, Jinling City is too scary.

But even so, it was enough to make Liu Ji messy.

After watching the captives work, he stopped by the Qinhuai River. Regardless of whether he went along the way or not, when the cultural people came, they always went along the way. Otherwise, it would be embarrassing to come here deliberately!

It is a pity that Liu Bowen was rejected again.The boats on the Qinhuai River stopped, and the brothel was closed... After a little inquiring, it wasn't that Zhu Jiajun sealed up the brothel.

But after Zhu Yidou was killed, many of the boats belonged to the Zhu family, and many girls were bought by the Zhu family.They finally joined forces and submitted a certificate to Ying Tianfu.

The girls begged for their vindication and their freedom.

Who would want to do this kind of dirty work...if they were not coerced and lured by Zhu Yidou and his minions, they fell into hell.The big guy washed his face with tears. Every year, how many sisters were either tortured to death or died of illness.

I implore the Grand Marshal to make decisions for the big guys, and follow Yangzhou's example and block all the brothels.

This certificate has already been handed in front of Lao Zhu, and many other women have handed in blood letters.

Zhu Yuanzhang has already accepted the case and is discussing how to solve these women's affairs.

Yangzhou's experience has come out, and the direct seizure is of course clean and tidy, which is very satisfying.

But what happened next was troublesome.

This trouble comes from two aspects. First, many parents are unwilling to accept the girls from the brothel, and even if the parents accept it, people around them will point and point, unable to raise their heads and be a human being, and they are still the same all day long. Wash my face with tears.

Second, there are quite a few girls who are used to earning easy money, and they are unwilling to be asked to work as knitting ladies to support themselves.Some girls even seduced the soldiers of Zhu's army, trying to find a way out for themselves. Faced with this situation, Zhu's army was also in a difficult situation.

Is it that hard to do something good?

Some people even simply complained that since they don't know what is good and what is bad, then leave it alone and continue to open brothels and ruin them.

When the news reached Zhu Yuanzhang, it was obvious that someone had already started insinuating and complaining about Zhang Ximeng. After all, he made it up.

Regarding this matter, Zhang Ximeng was quite calm. If it was so easy to solve, someone would have done it long ago. Why did it last for thousands of years?

After thinking about it, Zhang Ximeng came up with his plan, to set up a silk workshop in Yingtian, train these girls, give them survival skills, so that they can make money dignifiedly with their own hands, and create more taxes and value for the Zhu family army.

When they improve, master a skill, and make money, they will naturally be able to get rid of the past, hold their heads high, and move on to a new life.

Ying Tian is still preparing the details and has not finally come up with a plan, but anyway, Liu Ji's plan to swim the Qinhuai River fell through.

It has been the third day since he arrived in Jinling, and the biggest news of Jinling City on this day is that the specific decree on dividing the land has finally been announced.

Compared with Chuzhou and other places, due to the developed silk industry in the south of the Yangtze River, the part related to mulberry and hemp fields should be greatly reduced, and taxes should also be levied on mulberry fields.

And heavy taxes were proposed!

Sangtian will be taxed twice as much as farmland!

The Generalissimo had only one explanation for this, that if you don't wear silk you won't die, but if you don't eat you will starve to death.

In this situation where there are still so many hungry people, using good land, planting mulberry trees, raising silkworms, reeling silk, and weaving it into gorgeous silk is only for the enjoyment of dignitaries.

Is this fair?

If it's unfair, let's correct it!

What a Zhu Yuanzhang!

Faced with this program of dividing the land, Liu Bowen was greatly shocked.

Reducing the number of mulberry fields and imposing heavy taxes, but not directly banning them, at first glance, this is Zhang Ximeng's style.

Undoubtedly, in this troubled world, abandoning food and investing heavily in cash crops is a dead end.A variety of grains is the kingly way among kings.

But it is undeniable that silk is indeed a great source of profit, and it will also become an important part of business taxes in the future... So Zhang Ximeng strongly advocated that there should be a way out.

Liu Bowen could even foresee that the price of silk under Zhu Yuanzhang's rule would skyrocket in a short time, even now!

But since I can afford silk, I don't care about paying a little more tax money. Anyway, it is considered as robbing the rich and helping the poor.

Liu Bowen felt more and more that Zhu Jiajun's various measures were quite meaningful, and the more he thought about it, it seemed reasonable, and he couldn't stop.

He reminded himself again and again that he had to sneak away before the results were released.

But he still underestimated Zhu Jiajun's ability.

On the seventh day of Liu Bowen's wandering around, as soon as he returned to his residence, a group of people stopped him.

"Liu Ji and Liu are all things... come with us!"

Chapter 179 One Sword Punishes the Heart

Guo Ying took four people with him, and took Liu Ji away directly, without any sloppy, silky and smooth.

The legendary living gods completely lost their effect when they arrived at Jinling's one-acre land.

Who on earth leaked his actions?

While Liu Ji was shocked, he was also full of confusion.He couldn't figure it out, where did he go wrong, and how did Zhu Jiajun find him?

"If you want to kill or cut, take it as you please, just let me be a sensible ghost!"

Guo Ying sneered, "There's no need to dress up as a hero. I've seen a lot of you. Don't worry, we won't kill people here, and your case will be explained."

After Guo Ying finished speaking, he took Liu Ji to the second hall of the yamen and stuffed him into a small room next to him, where there happened to be an IE person waiting.

When Liu Ji saw it, he immediately recognized that it was the boy.

"Let's take a look, is it this person?"

The young man came over, took a closer look, and then said, "That's right, that's the man. He spoke a foreign dialect, asked about the prisoners, and even talked about officers and soldiers... Did I make a mistake in the report?"

Guo Ying smiled, "That's right, you have done a great job this time, I will give you a sign later, go and get twenty catties of millet!"

The little guy was immediately embarrassed: "General, I, I don't want it, just go over there and drink some tea."

Guo Ying smiled, "Tea is for drinking, and millet is also for holding... life is always difficult, people who need it, you don't want him, and when something happens, some people don't bother to report it, understand?"

"Understood, I heard from Lord Jun that this is called Zigong Redeemer, I know, I'll go get the millet right away and cook porridge for the old people in the alley!"

The little guy happily ran away, Liu Ji was dumbfounded, he was sloppy that day, he asked a few things about the captives’ cleaning, and even leaked the news... But the problem is that even if they doubt him, they don’t necessarily confirm his identity, why? Just recognize yourself, and catch one right?

Moreover, there are so many people who came to Jinling. Could it be that just a few casual reports by one person immediately attracted the investigation of the Zhu family army? How many people will the Zhu family army use?

Totally out of line.

No matter how resourceful Liu Ji is, he still can't figure it out.

He wanted to ask Guo Ying, but Guo Ying had something else to do and left a long time ago... In this way, Liu Ji was locked up until the afternoon, during which time the soldiers even delivered a meal.

A large steamed bun with multigrain noodles and a bowl of vegetable soup were similar to what the prisoners ate.

Liu Ji tasted it, and although it was rough, but full, it was already hard to come by at this time.

I have to sigh again, even he remembers the abundance of Zhu's army's supplies, and he is not hungry.

After a while, a person came back, he happened to know, who is it?Old friend, Ouyang Su!