"Are you compassionate and compassionate?" Duan Ling sighed. Sometimes he was a little bit resentful. How could Nan Chen's great foundation be tossed into such a state when it got into his own hands? Although Mu Kuangda didn't say it, they must have known each other well, and they all had this idea.
"Sir?" Fei Hongde said beside Duan Ling.
Duan Ling looked at the children under the city, and asked the general to instruct the guards to let him go first. He also warned that people must be patrolled during the winter to avoid accidents when burning charcoal for warmth. "
Duan Ling and Fei Hongde went down the city gate all the way, Zheng Yan brought the horse over, but Duan Ling waved his hand to signal no need, and wanted to call a car for Fei Hongde to sit, but Fei Hongde said, "I just want to go, sir, why don't we go together? How about the snow scene?"
Duan Ling nodded hurriedly and replied, "That's exactly what I meant."
Yecheng is much better than the dilapidation it was when he first arrived. Duan Ling was a little surprised and asked, "Why are the houses all repaired?"
"Lord Colonel asked to make up." Wang Zheng replied, "Before the winter, the Colonel personally led the soldiers and checked door-to-door once, and then asked Mr. Yan Di to travel separately with his subordinates, so as to make up all that could be helped to avoid winter. Freeze to death."
Duan Ling nodded, and Wang Zheng said, "Everyone is grateful to you and the Colonel in their hearts."
"Ashamed." Duan Ling said, "I don't even know about this. This prefect is supposed to be in a daze and care about his own business."
"My lord has been in politics for a few months and solved the urgent need for money and food. If it weren't for the charcoal and food of the lord, no matter how well the house was replenished, it would be of no avail." Sun Ting said, "This has been the best winter in Yecheng in ten years. "
"But it's not enough." Duan Ling thought about it and said, "Look at these people, they have to settle down. It's a difficult task to get the spring."
Duan Ling and Fei Hongde walked in front, Zheng Yan accompanied him, and the others followed intelligently.
"I'm thinking, why the world has become like this." Duan Ling said to Fei Hongde, "On the day of the palace exam, the question asked by Your Majesty was a question and strategy. In terms of military and national territory, if I think about it now, Your Majesty will definitely treat me as a child."
Zheng Yan said: "It is very difficult to see this. In fact, in that palace exam, few people had the foresight as you."
"But it's definitely not just a matter of national territory." Duan Ling said to Fei Hongde, "In other words, the invasion of the northern Hulu to the south is just a key point for the full-scale outbreak of domestic problems."
"That's right." Fei Hongde said with a smile, "It has been more than two hundred years since the founding of China, and it has reached a turning point full of thrills. Even if there is no series of wars such as the Battle of Shangzi and the Southern Invasion of the Yuan Dynasty, there will definitely be a difference. catastrophic occurrence.”
"Yes." Duan Ling nodded. During the days when he came to Yecheng, he always thought about why the Yuan people, Liao people and Han people always had to fight, and if one day they didn't fight, could they get better. Gradually, he finally understood Li Yanqiu's palace exam questions.
In fact, the responsibilities of him and Li Yanqiu were even heavier than the previous emperors.
"Dayu was founded 317 years ago." Duan Ling said, "then it was destroyed by the southern invasion of the Huns, wars broke out in the Central Plains, the states were divided, the founding of the country, the ancestors ruled the world and the collapse pattern was established. At the end of five hundred years, there are also short-lived dynasties of 20 to 30 years. Although everyone talks about 'eternal generations', they all know that in this world, there has never been a court that lasts forever."
These words are really outrageous, but what came out of Duan Ling's mouth is the truth, and no one can blame him.
"His Royal Highness is a sensible person." Fei Hongde said with a smile.
"That's why." Duan Ling said, "I don't know where Da Chen's illness is. Please teach me."
Fei Hongde replied: "Land. Dachen's problem, in the final analysis, is still a land problem. It is a top priority to bring this huge country back to life and support it for a few more decades to resolve the land dispute."
Duan Ling said: "But I can't reform. Now Da Chen can't move casually. Once he moves, he will collapse completely."
Fei Hongde said: "Indeed, unless the entire country is overthrown and started from scratch, the nobility in Jiangnan and Jiangbei will never give up as soon as they hear the word reform. Throughout the dynasties, anyone who disregards local wishes and decides to carry out reforms will never give up. No good results."
Duan Ling was silent for a long time, unable to carry out violent reforms, but also wanted to change this country and save it from the fate of destruction, what should I do
"I always think about it." Duan Ling said, "now the conflict between Liao and Dachen is not as intense as it was more than ten years ago. When Yelu Zongzhen was in power, he could at least ensure that there would be no war for ten years. Although Yuan people like to go around. Robbery, as long as proper precautions are taken, one day, the war will end."
"But even if there are no more wars, the country is still very dangerous." Duan Ling looked at the people of Yecheng. It was foggy in winter. After nearly half a year of recuperation, the city has gradually regained its vitality. There are shops on both sides of the road. Markets also gradually formed.
"What do you think about this?" Fei Hongde said, "This old man has traveled to many places and talked to the emperors and officials of various countries. In fact, everyone has no definite solution for the future."
"Life is only a hundred years." Duan Ling smiled and said, "It's not easy to keep yourself alive for a hundred years without making any mistakes. What will happen to the world after death? There is no way to deal with it. Ordinary."
Fei Hongde also smiled and said: "The so-called birth year is less than a hundred, and I always have a thousand years of worry, that's exactly what it is."
Duan Ling said: "When I was a child, I read "History of Yu", and when Emperor Yu said, 'I want this world to have a way of running on its own, just like a car, even if no one is driving it, it will walk along the road'. "
"Li Qingcheng is indeed a man of great talent and strategizing." Fei Hongde replied, "The ability of the emperor in the end of the Great Yu Dynasty is unparalleled."
"But in the end, he didn't think of it." Duan Ling said, "The prosperity of the domestic era was actually invaded by foreigners, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Central Plains, and inevitably fell into a broken place."
Fei Hongde didn't answer, just followed Duan Ling and walked slowly on the long street.
"I'm thinking." Duan Ling said, "Is there a way to make this country's wealth and food less dependent on land?"
Fei Hongde replied: "This is a good way."
Duan Ling said: "The land is only needed for food and clothing, and 70% of the world's cultivators have nothing to do except to cultivate the land to produce food, and they are tied to the land all their lives, and they will be bullied by the nobility, landlords, and tyrants. , was taxed by the imperial court."
"Exactly," Feihongde said, "but if you don't farm, what do you want them to do?"
"When I was studying politics with the shepherd," Duan Ling replied, "combining the harvests over the years, I found a phenomenon that in many cases, there is enough food to eat. Forty adults can farm and feed most of the people in the north and south of the Yangtze River. More Many have no land, or are lazy, or want to work, but have nothing to do, and become refugees."
"This is a direction." Fei Hongde said, "I have read from historical books that during the prosperous era of Great Yu, industry and commerce were prosperous, and the Central Plains were stable. But as long as there is output, there will be consumption. If there is no consumption, The two industries of industry and commerce are still difficult to gain a foothold.”
"We have several neighbors right now." Duan Ling said, "I think we might as well try it. Why don't we try Yecheng? What do you think of Mr. Fei?"
Fei Hongde laughed and replied, "Very good, wait until I go to draft the proposal, and then I will show you the proposal."
Duan Ling said: "Let's come together. If we can make Hebei County come alive, and then slowly spread it to Jiangnan, there will be many obstacles in the process, but as long as the direction is right, there should be no problem."
Nearly 20,000 refugees have just poured into Hebei, and within one year of next year, Duanling will use Hebei's resources to support the extra 20,000 people, and the original residents of Yecheng and Hejian will develop the local area at the same time. industry and commerce, try to revitalize Hebei County before leaving.
Before dinner, Duan Ling went to see the city gate again. The refugees were entering the city. Wang Zheng sent people to guard them and placed them in the ruins of the old city of Ye City. He ran an inland river in the city, and sent people to guard and patrol to prevent unscrupulous people from sneaking around in the city.
Many of the refugees still carried money, so Duan Ling ordered to mortgage the official price first, in exchange for food for these ordinary people who went south, and received some deer antler, ginseng and other items.
That night, Duan Ling and Fei Hongde began to draft a series of proposals for the spring. If it were another person, this winter would be over, but Duan Ling was different.
He had to admit that he had learned a lot in just one year of following Mu Kuangda—governing a city was like smelting a sword. no idea. But he can do Duan Ling.
First, distribute the preparatory matters. According to the land account, the actual arable land area in the spring is counted, and the yield is estimated, and then the yield per mu in the past year is divided into three, six, nine and other fields. The good thing about Yecheng is that the arable land is all owned by the government, and there is no gentry control. It was only because the Liao Kingdom fought a battle that year, and the Yuan people took turns to attack, and the landowners were swept away and fled to the south.
To eat enough, we have to open up wasteland, so we need to coordinate the fields and estimate the output. In addition to agriculture, fishing, forestry, fruit trees, hemp, mining and other industries also require very complex planning.
Fei Hongde, on the basis of his years of experience, listed industries from all over the world that could support the foundation of a city, including processing, brewing, smithing, textiles, refining, handicrafts and other industries, which were almost all-inclusive, and considered The topography and raw material origin are listed in order of priority from high to bottom.
When Duan Ling saw Fei Hongde's report, he couldn't help but feel fortunate that he had such a think tank. Fei Hongde is not greedy for money, he just needs enough money, and he can't eat much, and occasionally has two drinks with Zheng Yan. Duan Ling didn't even know how to thank him.
Before I knew it, Wu Du had been gone for seventeen days, and it was already the twelfth lunar month. Duan Ling was still worried, but when a Huaiyin army sent a letter to Zheng Yan, he came back with a letter from Wu Du. Inform Duan Ling that he is going all the way south to track down the assassin's clues and do something by the way.
Why did you go to Huaiyin? After Duan Ling received the letter, he felt a little more at ease. Perhaps the matter of Baihutang was over, and Wu Du was required to handle it.
The letter said that on the day of Duan Ling's birthday, he would definitely come back in time.