Chapter 163

This is not that Liu Yuanqiao deliberately poured cold water on Liu Bu, but that their Liu family is really facing a dilemma at present, that is, the disaster relief of Laizhou Prefecture.

So many refugees and refugees have poured into Laizhou Prefecture. They need a lot of food and clothing for disaster relief. For the Liu family, if they can carry it through, they will become stronger. If they can't carry it, it is estimated that the Liu family, which has been developing all the time, will reverse, and this is equivalent to doing a business, This is a huge deal. If they screw up, it is estimated that the losses will be very heavy. The Liu family, which has been developing strongly, will enter a reverse situation.

And at present, this move is still a clever move by Liu Yuanqiao. If he did not seize the post of governor of Laizhou and was not a local official, but assumed the responsibility of local officials, they would be even worse.

Now they have one advantage, that is, the Liu family is still rich and powerful. Now they have accepted the power of the government. They can use the power and system of the government to join their ranks of disaster relief, which makes them less helpless, nameless and confused than before.

They can use and use official resources to carry out comprehensive disaster relief, and make layout and arrangement from a higher level, so that there will be no situation in which the name is not correct, the words are not smooth, and the work is hard and thankless.

In the past, they made every effort to provide disaster relief, and a large amount of material investment will be said by others that they bought people's hearts and had bad intentions, but now it is different. People will say that this is what you Liu family should do. As local parents, if you do not develop local areas and provide relief to refugees, it will be a serious dereliction of duty.

Therefore, Liu Yuanqiao's move really reversed all the enemy's plans for them in the past few months.

Even if Zhu Dadian tried to pit their Liu family? Now he did turn these pits into stepping stones to climb higher. The other party intended to push him, but inadvertently turned them into acceleration.

Chen YingYuan also wanted to use them, but this kind of use made them fall into great passivity, but Liu Yuanqiao's sudden move also turned passivity into initiative.

It can be said that Liu Bu's father is a master of stratagem. A while ago, they were still quite difficult. They were a little at a loss and felt at a loss. However, Liu Yuanqiao suddenly broke all the difficulties in front of them.

Therefore, there is only one difficult thing for them. This is the relief of refugees. For them, this thing is like giving birth to children. If the children are born smoothly, they will be prosperous. If the children are not born or stuck there, the problem will be big.

Obviously, Liu's father and son found this.

Liu Yuanqiao said, "what do you think of disaster relief?"

Liu Buhe said: "the key to what else can be done for disaster relief lies in two points, that is, food and cloth. As long as they can wear, eat and live."

Liu Yuanqiao said: "this means a huge investment. If it doesn't sound good, it is equivalent to raising more than 100000 people. This is not something that our Liu family can afford."

Liu preached, "let's raise it. We can't afford it, but what if we invite people to work? They will produce some output value, which is different. They won't bring down our Liu family."

Liu Yuanqiao said, "that's what he said, but we're afraid that if we pull the field so large, we're afraid that no one will see the play."

Liu preached: "now Daming seems to have nothing but people."

Today's Daming gives Liu bu the feeling of population explosion. Although the population has not exceeded 100 million, it does give people a feeling of many people. It gives people a feeling that there are no idle fields in the world and farmers are still starving. In short, it is land annexation. It is extremely serious and has reached the point of being terminally ill, but the people are growing rapidly. These people have no food to eat, The problem is big. "What we need to do now is to find more places and more sites so that the people can eat and wear clothes. The problem is solved," Liu said

At this time, when an official governs a place, in fact, the things to be done are quite simple. The people's requirements are very low. They just ask for food, clothes and clothes to live. However, the officials and nobles do not agree with such low requirements. Since they are all such a dynasty, what is the significance of surviving?

Who is more rebellious than the transgressor?

Liu Yuanqiao was noncommittal.

Liu Buhe said: "our top priority is to organize and arrange these refugees. We can't blindly use the method of disaster relief. We need to use the method of arranging work and counseling. It's the so-called teaching people to fish is better than teaching people to fish. We must arrange them to work."

Liu Yuanqiao said, "it's not easy to arrange so many people to work."

Liu preached: "it's difficult for others, but it's not difficult for us. Now the most difficult thing for Daming is that the imperial court continues to apportion tax increases to us, and the government at all levels will further increase and apportion taxes. We can withstand its tax rate in the imperial court, but people can barely live, but the government's apportionment at all levels will be fatal."

The imperial court may just levy one or two silver from Shandong Province; However, the Chief Secretary of Shandong collected two liang from Laizhou government; Laizhou government levied three Liang on Jimo; Jimo collected four liang from other townships and villages; The gentry in all townships and villages collected more from the people, that is, five, two, six, two.

It can be said that Daming is the corruption of the whole court and the whole government system. The people can't live under such a corrupt system. They can only reopen a system so that the people can live.

When Liu Yuanqiao saw his son talking, he felt relieved and happy. He said, "what do you think?"

Liu Bu said: "As long as you can bear the pressure from the chief envoy, we will give you as much as the imperial court levies. Without apportionment and additional collection, the people can live. Otherwise, if they are allowed to apportion and collect at will, they will not be able to live. Even if we organize these refugees and the people, we will not know who we are working for and who we are most busy for It will eventually drag us down. "

However, Liu Bu found it difficult to think about it. If he didn't increase the fee, it would be difficult for officials to continue to talk. In officialdom, there were welcome and send, ice and carbon, and all kinds of common practices. Without these, he couldn't integrate into this circle.

Liu Yuanqiao said, "as long as you have power and confidence in your hands, you can speak hard. Only those who speak hard can refuse the unreasonable requirements above. How's your military training?"

When asked about this piece, Liu Bu had some confidence. He said, "give me another half a year, and we can say no to adults Chen and Zhu."

Therefore, Liu Yuanqiao made a decision on this matter. He said, "the next six months is the key, that is to say, our disaster relief is the key."

Liu preached, "yes! That's it."

Liu Yuanqiao said, "our father and son haven't had dinner together for a long time. Have a good drink tonight."

Liu preached, "call zining. We are a family."

When Liu Bu said this, Liu Yuanqiao was a little surprised. He was thinking whether the son was his play. He was too involved and couldn't distinguish the play from the reality. However, seeing that he was full of kindness and happy, he was thinking, is there no reason why he really likes the Zheng family's young lady?

He and Zheng Zhibao have an iron friendship, so he wants to form an alliance to continue this friendship in his next life. But even Zheng Zhibao knows that he is wrong, so he repeatedly hinted to Liu Yuanqiao: "I am only a daughter, and my things will be his in the future."

Since even Zheng Zhibao said so, Liu Yuanqiao knew that fat water did not leave outsiders' fields and had to be left at home, so he would let his son suffer some losses. The reason why he agreed to spend 10000 silver to buy ten thousand gold beauties was a compensation in his heart.

But now it seems that Liu Bu is very happy and doesn't suffer losses. How can we start? Liu Yuanqiao saw Liu bu happy and took the initiative to invite Miss Zheng to dinner. Naturally, he doesn't care. He said, "good."

Liu Yuanqiao entertained his son and future daughter-in-law here in the back hall of the magistrate's Yamen, but adult Liu came out in person and invited their important military division song xiance to dinner with Liu Fuqi.

Even if song xiance and Liu Fuqi have arms, they have made great efforts and helped him a lot at a critical time. Therefore, these are the only people who can eat today and eat at the same table with him.

The whole magistrate's county government knows one thing, that is, their magistrate Liu Yuanqiao. He is a very famous scholar. He is not as vulgar as the former magistrate. He likes whoring and is greedy for pleasure. He is on duty every day and then off duty. After off duty, he basically refuses the private dinner of local squires, Studying music scores and reading books in their own backyard is a typical scholar in everyone's mind and impression. Moreover, in his extremely high and cold place, the squires did not invite people to dinner. Even if they invited people to the government Yamen to talk about work, they were talking about work. At most, they drank a cup of tea. Few people would invite people to dinner.

So today's dinner, although the food is only a few local special recipes, it gives people a very grand and high-grade feeling.

Moreover, Liu Bu felt that he had miscalculated. His father was wearing official clothes. Even Liu Fuqi, song xiance and Zheng zining were in formal clothes. They attended the meeting solemnly. Only he himself was wearing Yanju white robes, and then came to dinner.

Liu Bu felt a little embarrassed when he saw everyone's appearance. He said, "why don't I go back and change my clothes and have dinner again.