Chapter 409: Fuse 1

The school starts to calculate one of my concerns. Some new ideas and new ideas are slowly instilled into their hearts through their watering and teachers, and slowly blossoming and bearing fruit.

The first group of students were basically young, and they were in that rebellious period. They were full of too many questions about some of the cultures and customs that had been passed down for thousands of years. Is it right or wrong? It can be said that they are relatively confused now. At this time, these new ideas and new concepts are like a guiding light in the dark, giving them a direction. They will stay in this city for up to four years. Four years will be a drastic change for a city under reform, and all these changes will undoubtedly become the best model.

Sometimes I feel like I am engaged in pyramid schemes. When these officials come to me, I can be considered brainwashed.

After the school started, I did not relax. Now the school only trains officials, and the school that trains ordinary people is now planning to start construction. The training here mainly involves young people over the age of fourteen, and the main content of the training is some necessary production skills, such as cast iron, textile, construction, etc., which allows them to have a skill to fundamentally solve the employment problems.

And on that day, I was reviewing the drawings, but Ded hurried in and shouted loudly before he could even get there: "City Lord, hurry up! Something big happened!"

I was shocked, withdrew my gaze from the drawings, and hurried out to the door. I saw Dade running in from outside with sweat on his head. As soon as I saw it, I bent down and gasped. I waited for a while. After calming down a little, he raised his head and said, "Something happened soon?"

I asked someone to bring him a cup of tea and asked, "What happened, please explain it clearly!"

Ded took the teacup and drank the tea inside, and said, "The people outside the city are causing trouble. Now hundreds of people have surrounded a wealthy family. Our soldiers have been transferred over, but the other party is all people who rely on farming for a living, and the soldiers have no way to do anything.

I was a little puzzled at this time. Since the city was rectified last time, the city has been relatively peaceful. With the issuance of some public security regulations, fighting and fighting in the city rarely happens, let alone the people are born to besiege wealthy families. Some problems must have happened, or what the wealthy families did, which aroused public outrage from the people, and then the people are siege.

So I asked, "What's the surname of that wealthy family?"

Dade immediately said, "Sir, Shi!"

I am quite familiar with this surname. The information given to me by the newly established Ministry of Agriculture was based on the detailed information from this person. This family was the largest landlord in the area, owning large tracts of land, and there were as many as thousands of farmers who rented his land. The situation of besieging the Shi family this time was probably because they had a conflict with the farmers who rented their land.

I thought about it and just go and have a look. After all, whether it is a city or a country, agriculture is the foundation of the country. These people who have been digging food in the land in the past dynasties not only support themselves, but also many others, but their lives are at the lowest level. Unlike merchants, if they want them to have enough food and clothing, the best way is to work hard in the land. So I hurriedly said, "Let's go and have a look!"

After saying that, he asked someone to prepare the horses and head straight out of the city.

In order to give me plenty of room for development, both countries only came to the city they occupied and even if they had their borders, the rest of the land belonged to my jurisdiction, so the land I owned was relatively wide. Except for part of the hilly areas that followed the mountains and mountains behind the imperial city, the rest were all fertile fields. The hilly areas were mostly in the south of the city, and most of them were fertile fields in the north of the city.

The place where the incident happened this time was in the north of the city, only thirty miles away from the north of the city. On the way, many fields had already planted wheat, green and growing quite gratifyingly, but the houses located beside these fields seemed very dilapidated, giving people a feeling of life. It formed a strong contrast with the vibrant wheat in the fields. I felt a little uncomfortable to see these. Every year, these farmers harvest bad food, but they have no land. After they collect the grain every year, there is not much left. If they encounter a good harvest, they can barely live with porridge. If they encounter a bad harvest, they don’t even have a rice or two. They work hard all year round in the fields, but they can’t eat a meal or two. The fundamental reason for all this is that they don’t have their own land. In addition to paying the harvest to the landlord, they also have to pay the treasury.

Thinking of this, I also felt a little guilty. I took action on many industries in the city's general reforms, but I have not yet involved this country. This is also my dereliction of duty, and I hope I am still in a hurry.

As I sighed, I turned my head and looked at Dyde on the side. His face also looked a little bad, and I don’t know what he was thinking.

Not long after, we approached the Shi Family Courtyard that Dyde mentioned. The walls were exposed. Just looking at the outside walls, you can see that the house was definitely not a house. There were many people outside the walls, including some people wearing white scripts, which made them particularly conspicuous. Outside these people, there were soldiers affiliated with the Public Security Bureau. They were generally responsible for the security issues in this area.

Seeing those eye-catching whites, my heart couldn't help but sink, and I had an ominous premonition in my heart. It was definitely not an easy thing for the people to siege the Shi family, and it was likely that someone would die.

So as soon as I squeezed my legs, the horse immediately accelerated and ran towards the people, and Ded followed closely behind me.

As I got closer and closer, I also vaguely heard the crying from the crowd, which made me feel very bad. I knew that this time the matter must be quite a matter of time.

The sound of horse hooves attracted the soldiers on the periphery. After seeing who the person was, one of them immediately came up to meet him, and two soldiers were holding the horses.

After Dyde and I arrived, we immediately got off the horse and handed the reins to the soldiers who were leading the horse, and asked at the same time, "What happened!"

The person in charge first gave a tribute before saying, "Qi Zhui, it seems that the matter was because the family could not pay the rent, and was beaten to death by the person sent by the Shi family to collect the rent!"

I frowned slightly and said unhappily, "It seems?"

The manager showed a hint of helplessness on his face and said, "The people are very wary of us, so when we asked, many of us were unwilling to tell us, probably because this surnamed Shi had a strong backstage in the court. These people were afraid that we would be with him, so they were unwilling to pay attention to us!"

I looked up and saw that the besieged people were holding some hoes, shoulder poles and other things in their hands, and they were angry, as if they were trying hard, so they asked again: "What guys in their hands?"

The manager immediately said: "At first they said they wanted the Shi family to pay their blood debts, but because we felt it in time, we did not take action. Now we just surrounded him and asked the Shi family to give him a message!"

"What about the Shi family?"

I asked quickly.

"Shi Family has been shutting out since we came, and no one has come out, and he refuses to hand over the murderer. However, the people say that the murderer is Shi Chengxian, the son of the Shi Family. He is this famous evil young man!"

I nodded and said to Dyed: "Let's go and have a look!"

Dade nodded, his face was very gloomy. After I dug him into the city, he would be responsible for the procuratorate and compile relevant laws. Now he has not been in office for a long time, and this happened, which made his face very unpredictable. At the same time, Dade was upright and had a clear distinction between good and evil. He was most disgusted with such things as bullying people with power, and even more so he was very angry now.

The manager saw that we were about to step forward and immediately stopped him, and said anxiously, "City Lord, Dean Dai, the people's emotions are very unstable now, and you will be in danger when you go like this!"

I snorted coldly and said, "I am the city lord, they are my people, and my family. How can I be afraid of my own family!"

After saying that, he turned around and left, and Ded followed us tightly.

He was helpless in the affairs and asked someone to follow him immediately.

Some of the people around us have seen us coming. They don’t know who these two people are wearing strange clothes. First, they have worked in the fields for many years and have hardly seen me and Dade and me. At the same time, the straight Zhongshan suits like Dade and I are very popular in the city. Many people have followed suit. Now our dress is considered ordinary.

As we were approaching the crowd, the two soldiers immediately rushed forward and separated us in a way, which allowed Dyde and I to walk in smoothly. The closer we got, the louder the crying sounded, and it seemed very desolate in some cold seasons.

The people around them were just glaring at the soldiers forcibly separated them. After all, a concept had long been buried in their hearts: the people would not fight with officials.

After passing through the crowd, the gate of the Shi Family was. I have to say that this gate was more grand than the gate of the General's Mansion in the capital. Two stone lions next to the gate of Zhuhong were staring at the person in front of him.

But now on the ground in front of the gate, there is a simple stretcher. The stretcher covers a man with a coarse white cloth. Perhaps because the cloth is shorter, a barefoot covered with soil was exposed outside the cloth. Although the other foot is wearing shoes, the shoes are already very torn.

Next to the stretcher, four people were kneeling, one of whom was a woman of age, the other was a girl, and the remaining were two young children. And I heard the desolate cry, which was what they made.
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