I'm playing tricks in Daqin

"No, this is my own child, it's really me..."

Hearing that Chen Youniu dared to quibble, seeing Li Wei's wink, Li Renhe stepped forward, grabbed the child in his arms, and kicked him.

After the guards pressed Chen Youniu to the ground, they picked up a burning branch from the fire and approached him in the face.

"No, no, I'm telling the truth, she's really my child!"

Until now, Chen Youniu still dared to speak hard, and Ma Minjun, who was full of embarrassment, said angrily: "Hit him hard, let's see if he dares not tell the truth!"

Not everyone can be a hero. Seeing Chen Youniu's panicked expression, Li Wei frowned, "I want to wait a minute, this is really your child? Are you going to kill your own child?"

"Yes, it's my child. I have already given birth to two daughters, and this is the third one. The family really can't afford to lose money, so they can only kill them."

As the only daughter of the rich and powerful, Ma Minjun, who has been loved since she was a child, obviously has the potential to become a feminist fighter. Upon hearing this, she said angrily, "If you give birth to a daughter, you will kill her? Why don't you kill me if you give birth to a son?"

"How can I kill my son, he will be a strong laborer when he grows up..."

There are no entertainment items in the countryside, and when the inner guard said that there is a lot of fun to watch, the people from before also came over.

The face lost in front of the people will naturally be recovered in front of everyone. Seeing them coming, Ma Minjun excitedly began to accuse Chen Youniu of his crimes.

But what she didn't expect was that after hearing what Chen Youniu was doing, all the people looked indifferent.

"You, what are you... Aren't you angry?"

An old man shook his head and said, "I thought it was a big deal, that's all? It's okay, let's go, the pigweed hasn't been shot yet."

"Wait a minute! Chen Youniu is going to kill his own daughter! Are you all indifferent?"

"Then you come to raise it?"

"I, I haven't left the cabinet yet, how can I raise..."

"Then you don't have to rely on your words to keep your back pain away. If you die a daughter, the whole family will have food to eat. If you raise it up, all the children will starve to death. Don't you noble people have nothing to play, and you are being teased when you have nothing to do?" us."

Looking at the people who had just dispersed, Ma Minjun was completely stunned.

Killing one's own daughter, in the eyes of Ma Minjun, seemed a horrific crime, but in the eyes of these people, it was nothing more than a trivial matter? "Let Chen Youniu go."

Once out of trouble, Chen Youniu said: "It's nothing, I'm leaving too. If you don't want me to kill you, then I will give my daughter to you, which can be regarded as a way for the child to survive."

After finishing speaking, Chen Youniu turned around and ran away as if running for his life.

"This... what is this?"

He thought he could become a hero to punish rape and eradicate evil, but everyone didn't care, but he meddled in his own business, and Ma Minjun was extremely depressed.

Li Wei remembered that he had seen a memorial at the beginning, and it said "To live, not to raise, to be buried on Moshang."

With these words, Li Wei, who was looking at the memorial, was only angry at the behavior of giving birth and abandoning it in the wilderness. Now seeing it with his own eyes, it seems that the ground in front of him is full of dead babies.

"Wait a minute!"

Hearing Li Wei's shout, Chen Youniu's body trembled in fright, and he turned around and knelt on the ground, begging for mercy. He still hasn't figured out what was wrong with him, but if he is unhappy for a while, he might just let his subordinates kill him. vented his anger.

Li Wei frowned and asked: "Even if you want to kill, there are many ways. What do you mean by throwing the child into the fire?"

"There is a fairy master who said that my family's geomantic omen is not good, and I am haunted by evil spirits. There are always female ghosts who come to my house to reincarnate and reincarnate. That's why I keep giving birth to daughters. He did it and asked me to burn this girl alive. Frighten other innocent souls."

"People who return to Yuandao?"

"Yes."

"Take your money?"

"The villain is a poor man. He doesn't have any money. He scraped together and borrowed a lot of houses to come up with a hundred catties of grain."

"get out."

Hearing this, Chen Youniu, who was afraid that Li Wei would repent, got up and ran away at a faster speed.

Ma Minjun also felt the anger in Li Wei's heart, and asked tentatively: "You, what's wrong with you?"

"Beasts! What a bunch of beasts. They just want to cheat a hundred catties of grain, but they still want to kill others. If Guiyuan Dao stays for one more day, I don't know how many more people will die in Daqin!"

Before convincing fishermen to jump into the sea to feed sharks, and now coaxing people to kill their own daughters, Gui Yuandao has completely broken through Li Wei's bottom line and successfully boarded the No. 1 in Li Wei's heart.

"That's right, Gui Yuan Dao is a beast!"

Li Renhe also gritted his teeth and agreed.

Li Renhe, who grew up in the grassland, has no awe of life, but he knows that in this era, population is the most important factor in determining the strength of a country.

Repeated battles resulted in serious population losses. Li Wei repeatedly issued decrees to encourage births, but Jinghuai County continued to kill the people. In Li Renhe's view, this was a disaster for the country. They are all the people he wants to kill.

Frightened by the outburst of murderous aura from the surrounding guards, Ma Minjun asked nervously, "Here, what should this child do?"

"What are you going to do?"

"I am asking you."

Ma Minjun muttered.

"I have to leave Jinghuai County sooner or later, what can I do?"

"Then I will keep her. I can't let her be sent to the wolf's lair just after she got out of the tiger's mouth."

Nodding his head, Li Wei said appreciatively, "Okay, then you can keep it."

"What did you say? You really push it cleanly. Give the child to me, are you still a man!"

At this time, Ma Minjun was like a resentful woman holding a child and begging for an explanation from a heartless man. Looking at Li Wei, she couldn't help but shudder.

"I let you raise it, but I didn't say I don't care about it. Seeing that the people are so indifferent, there must be a lot of parents who killed their children in Jinghuai County. I am going to build an orphanage. I will provide the funds, and you will be responsible for recruiting people." , manage the orphanage."

The orphanage is not a prestigious name, even if Daqin has never had such an organization, Ma Minjun can guess the purpose of the orphanage from the name, "I can help you, but I will manage... Can I do it, or Forget it, find someone to take care of it."

"Do you think that an orphanage opened by a clan from the capital of the country will be trusted? If you are the dean, you will have the brand of Marquis Wenyang, and the common people will trust it even more."

"Okay, I'll be the dean. I don't know if I can do it well, but I will let the children grow up."

"It's not enough just to grow up, but also to let them have a skill, let them read and write, and make a difference in the future."

Hearing Li Wei's words, Ma Minjun couldn't help curling his lips. In this era, there is no concept of compulsory education. Reading is a big expense. I haven't heard of any poor family that can afford to support scholars.

However, since Li Wei said bold words, he couldn't pour cold water on him, so he immediately nodded in agreement.

After such a commotion, Li Wei was not in the mood to go on inspections anymore, and hurried back to the city with Ma Minjun to prepare for the opening of the orphanage.

Naturally, no one dared to procrastinate on what the Son of Heaven wanted to do. Even if Tian Baoping didn't understand what Li Wei was going to do, after getting the order, he wrote the notice as soon as possible, ordering the servants to go to Jinghuai as the son of the chief assistant. Posted all over the county.

When Li Wei wrote the orphanage education plan himself, Li Renhe came to report and Zheng Xiangze asked to see him.

"Hehe, I thought he didn't want to see me again in this life, let him come in."

Before anyone entered the study, Zheng Xiangze's anxious voice came in first.

"Master Li, you asked Mr. Tian to post this notice? What are you going to do!"

"What am I going to do? Isn't it clearly written on it? You are from the imperial examination, so you can't even understand sentences that ordinary people can understand?"

"I, I can understand, but what do you mean by allowing all the people in Jinghuai County to send their children who can't support them to the orphanage? Just send a child and give them five buckets of food?"

"I don't want to see Jinghuai County full of babies who were abandoned by their parents and died."

Li Wei said coldly.

"Do you know how much this will cost, can you show it?"

"You don't have to worry about money. If I dare to say it, I can do it."

Seeing Li Wei's resolute attitude, Zheng Xiangze could only change his words: "Okay, I won't interfere with you, what kind of orphanage you can run, as if you can't run it in Jinghuai County!"

"why?"

"Why? Master Li, do you really not understand or are you pretending to be confused with me? I, Zheng Xiangze, have no grievances or enmities with you, why are you pushing me so hard?"

This time it was Li Wei's turn not to understand, and he asked with a puzzled face, "What does it have to do with you when I run my orphanage? If it's done, it's also your achievement."

Chapter 675 The Best Way to Eliminate Poverty

After carefully looking at Li Wei for a while, and confirming that he did not appear to be a fake, Zheng Xiangze said: "It seems that you really don't know how to be an official. Do you know that the imperial court conducts investigations every year?"

"Naturally know."

As for the inventory, I am afraid Li Wei did not understand it better in the whole Great Zhou Dynasty. This is that he brought the methods of later generations to Daqin, and made statistics on the population and economic situation of Daqin.

"Now that you know it, then you should know that in the inventory, the people are divided into the upper, middle and lower poor households according to their property and population. The property is fixed. If the population increases, the per capita will decrease, and the middle households will also If you become a poor household, you will also become a poor household.”

With a "snap", the writing brush in Li Wei's hand fell directly. At this moment, he had already thought of a terrible conjecture.

"You, you mean, the poor died a lot, and when the peace was settled, there would be more middle households quitting?"

Zheng Xiangze showed a teachable smile, and said cheerfully: "This is natural. A family without land works as a tenant for the landlord and earns two taels of silver a year, which is equivalent to [-] copper coins. If there is a husband and wife in the family They have six children and their monthly income is less than seventeen cash per person at the time of assessment. They are absolutely poor.

But if there are only three children in the family, each of them will have an income of 27 cash per month. When the assessment is made, they will be the next household. Let me put it this way, do you understand? "

"Understood, I only now know the reason why your Jinghuai County ranks among the best in the inventory every year."

Li Weiqiang said while holding back his anger.

"When your orphanage is opened, the poor people send their children in, but the person is not dead, the household registration is still there, and they will be included in the inventory. How much impact will the inventory this year have? Besides, the orphanage is really opened, mud legs Children will scramble to send their children in.

At that time, I am afraid that [-] to [-] children will not be able to handle it. If the news spreads, what face will our county officials have?What if the imperial court sends an imperial envoy to investigate?Let me make it clear that your orphanage is related to the future of all officials in the county, and it must not be established, at least not in Jinghuai County. "

"If you go to other counties, the household registration has nothing to do with your Jinghuai County. Instead, it will let you off the burden? You are really a capable official of my Daqin, and you have realized the most effective way to eliminate poverty."

"It's natural..."

Before he finished speaking, Zheng Xiangze felt a pain in his forehead, and he fell off the chair directly.

Touching the ink on his forehead, Zheng Xiangze finally understood what hit him, and said angrily, "What are you doing?"

"It's my way of saying 'appreciation'."

In Jinghuai County under the rule of Zheng Xiangze, all kinds of written reports are beautiful, and he has indeed found the "most effective" way to let Jinghuai County bid farewell to poverty

The solution is to eradicate the poor, if the problem of poverty cannot be eradicated.

In Zheng Xiangze's perception, as long as the poor die and the rest are rich, Jinghuai County's economy will naturally prosper.

"I am an official of the imperial court, how dare you treat me like this!"

"Fortunately, you still know that you are an official of the imperial court, and you have brutally harmed the people under your rule. Are you worthy of this official uniform and the imperial court?"

With a cold snort, Zheng Xiangze said arrogantly: "I am willing to bear such a crime for the sake of the court."

"Oh, then I still want to hear your high-spirited talk."

"Looking through the history books, which dynasty didn't the rebellion of the people hurt the vitality, ruin the foundation, and finally destroy the country? In the final analysis, there are too many muddy legs. If they all die, there will be no poor people. There will be no rebellion."

Li Wei was completely stunned by Zheng Xiangze's remarks. After a long pause, he said: "You don't want to let the people live a good life in this way, but prevent the people from rebelling in this way?"

"Since ancient times, there has never been any dynasty or country that has been able to maintain a clean government. Sooner or later, there will be a day of decay and collapse. My method is the real solution to the root cause. Why do the poor rebel? It is because they have no food to eat. Why do they have no food to eat? It is because there are too many poor people and too little land. If there are fewer poor people, everyone's land will also increase. As long as they have something to eat, they will not rebel.

Only in this way can the country of my Great Qin last forever. You, a son of the clan, don’t even understand local government affairs, so you just point fingers here and act recklessly. You know that you are harming the court! "

Now Li Wei has completely learned how powerful scholars are, and how shameless things can be said righteously from their mouths. On the contrary, he has become a sinner for trying to improve people's livelihood and save the people from suffering.

Li Wei couldn't help thinking that when he was in later generations, he had read in a book that the literati in the late Ming Dynasty scolded the uprising people, why they didn't starve to death at home, and actually caused trouble for the court. a wonderful world.

Li Wei, who was trembling from anger, said viciously, "Get lost!"

"My dignified governor, you first attacked with the inkstone, and now you utter evil words. Don't think that you are a son of the clan and a special envoy of His Majesty. I can't do anything to you. Just wait, I will go back and impeach you!"

Zheng Xiangze, who came to negotiate this time, didn't bring anyone with him, knowing that he couldn't make sense with Li Wei, and Zheng Xiangze, who was afraid that he would suffer a disadvantage, dropped his harsh words and left directly.

"Your Majesty, actually... what Zheng Xiangze said makes sense."

"What did you say?"

Seeing Li Wei getting angry, Li Renhe hurriedly knelt on the ground in fright, "Your Majesty, on the grassland, if there is food, young and strong eat first, children and women eat second, and old people eat last. Without young and strong, there will be no food." Way to protect the tribe, not getting enough food.

Without women, children cannot be born, and without children, the tribe will have no new warriors, and only the elderly are the most useless and the first to be discarded. "

Li Wei naturally knows, not to mention the grasslands where the living environment is harsh, even in today's Daqin, there are many places where men eat dry food and women drink water. I don't think about it until I can eat enough.

"In the past, I could only be a keyboard warrior and scold the street on the Internet, but now that I am here and become the emperor, I can't just scold the street. I want to change the world and give the poor a way to live! I want to make Qin no longer have people Starve to death, and no one will kill their relatives because of poverty!"

At this moment, Li Wei seemed to have truly realized God's intention for him to come to this land. Now that he was sitting on the dragon chair, he had to do something for the tens of millions of people in Daqin.

Li Renhe's Qin language is not yet proficient. For the "keyboard man" and "online" that he didn't understand, he just regarded it as Qin's slang, so he didn't ask much, but Li Wei's last sentence made him Can't help but feel excited.

His father was originally a warrior in the tribe and had three women. Li Renhe also had twelve brothers and sisters. I watched my mother starve to death with my own eyes, and being able to live to this day is also a blessing from the gods.

In order to survive in the cruel grassland, Li Renhe could only put away the emotions in his heart, use killing to forget the grief, and use death to frighten the enemy to save himself. Now after listening to Li Wei's words, Li Renhe remembered his lost relatives again.