Chapter 201: Businessmen make trouble, showing both kindness and power (please subscribe!!) "And me! If anyone dares to take advantage of Sweet Potato, I will crush him with one hundred thousand Northern Expeditionary Army!!"

Xu Da knew very well the importance of 'sweet potato', which was comparable to the [-] Northern Expeditionary Army under his command.

Seeing this, Ouyang Lun quickly waved his hands, "Uncles, don't get excited. Sweet potatoes are very safe now. I'm afraid we are the only three who know the importance of sweet potatoes. Anqing and Miaomiao only know that these sweet potatoes are delicious. Others see such ugly ones." sweet potatoes, and don’t realize their importance.”

After hearing Ouyang Lun's words, Tang He and Xu Da relaxed.

"My nephew trusts us so much that he won't say anything anymore. Let's go to heaven and earth later and have a good meal. We must not get drunk and never come back!" Tang He said.

"Yes, the discovery of sweet potatoes is such an important thing, we must celebrate it and go to heaven and earth!" Xu Da nodded.

Forehead. Are you serious?

He also said that he didn’t come to ask me to wash my feet! !

What happened next is easy to guess. After eating the sweet potatoes, Ouyang Lun was carried by Tang He and Xu Da to heaven and earth again.

"Hey, I really have no choice but to do it!"

"My master is definitely a good person, but he was led astray by two princes!"

"We can't let the princess know about this."

In order to determine the planting of sweet potatoes, Ouyang Lun specially opened a piece of land in the backyard and planted sweet potatoes as seeds. As long as there are no problems in the autumn, large-scale planting can be promoted next spring! In the days that followed, Ouyang Lun watered and fertilized the sweet potato fields every day. After finishing his work, he went to the lake to fish. In the evening, he chatted and talked with Princess Anqing and Tang Miaomiao. The beautiful day passed again.

The days passed by.

The progress of the Great Wall and the New City is gradually taking shape thanks to the efforts of more than 100 million and nearly 200 million workers!

Regarding the memorial stone, Ouyang Lun left it to Xu Liangzai, the prefect of Peking, who spent a lot of money to quarry a whole piece of marble from the mountains. The original plan was to place the monument near the Great Wall, but then Ouyang Lun thought about it. think.

The monument was too remote on the Great Wall. Except for the day when it was built, there would probably be many people there, and no one would come to see it later. This was not in line with his expectations.

Then Ouyang Lun thought that this was Peiping, and it would probably remain the capital in the future.

Wouldn’t it be better if the monument was placed directly in the city? So Ouyang Lun ordered Xu Liang to find a prosperous place in Beiping City to erect the monument first.

Although there is no name engraved on the monument, as the monument is erected in Peiping City, it makes the workers and contractors on the construction site work harder! joke!

This is a monument erected in the city!

As long as the name can be engraved on it and future generations can see it, who wouldn't want such honor?

Those who are not yet qualified to be on the monument should work hard, strive to be advanced, and be qualified to be nominated on the monument. Those who have quotas do not dare to relax at all and work hard to improve their rankings. After all, it is easy for flowers ranked lower. You will be squeezed out, and if you take the ranking test, your name will appear in a more prominent place! In short, there is another wave of construction frenzy, and the progress of the project is surpassed time and time again! But not everything is so smooth.

Soon there was a big commotion in Beiping City.

The core of the problem is caused by the monument.

Although the height of the monument is an astonishing 50 meters, judging from the engraving plan promulgated, the number of people who can appear on the four sides of the monument will still not exceed 2000!

This is certainly more than the 1000-plus places originally planned, but there are still too many people to be on the list.

The most annoying thing is the wealthy businessmen who used to buy places. In order to be able to climb the monument, many of them traveled thousands of miles to Peking and paid tens of thousands in donations. But now they may not be able to climb the monument. How about this? Acceptable?

Originally, these businessmen had been living in Beiping City, so they immediately surrounded the Beiping government office and asked Xu Liang, the prefect of Beiping, for an explanation.

Seeing this, Xu Liang did not bother with these angry businessmen. He simply slipped away from the back door of the Peiping government office, turned a corner, crossed two streets, and came to the Chief Secretary's office in Beizhili.

"Master Ouyang, you have to quickly find a solution for me!"

Xu Liang found Ouyang Lun and quickly cried in mourning.

Ouyang Lun was coming out of the back garden. His trouser legs and sleeves were rolled up. His hands and feet were covered with yellow mud. He said angrily, "The sky won't fall. If you have anything to do, please tell me later."

"The thing about Mr. Ouyang is this. The monument has been erected. Although no names have been engraved on it, I have calculated that even if all the names are engraved on the monument, there will not be enough space!"

"I don't know who leaked the news to the wealthy businessmen who spent money to buy quotas. They were worried that the government would cut off their quotas in the end, so they surrounded my prefect's office early in the morning and asked me for help. I want to explain it." Xu Liang said with an innocent face: "I have tried my best to make this stone tablet bigger and taller, and the names are already as small as possible, but even so, it is still not enough to engrave all the names. I really have no choice. Got it!"

Hearing this, Ouyang Lun frowned and said, "Prefect Xu, what did you do about this? Didn't the list have been drawn up a long time ago? There are about more than 1000, and you also deliberately made the stone tablet larger. Why is there another quota now? It’s not enough. Could it be that you didn’t check it?”

Xu Liang became more and more aggrieved, "Master Ouyang, he really doesn't blame me for this!"

"The size of the stele and the quota have been decided a long time ago, but there have been changes later! One is that more and more wealthy businessmen are spending money to buy the quota! The other..." Xu Liang looked up at Ouyang Lun and murmured in a low voice: "Ouyang Sir, didn't you say a few days ago that all workers who were rated as advanced on the construction site should also be arranged to have monuments? That's 200 million people! Even if the selection standards are raised in various ways, how many can be selected every month? The advancement of hundreds or thousands of people, accumulated in this way, is naturally far exceeded."

Forehead. Ouyang Lun was stunned for a moment, this was really an oversight.

"Master Ouyang, I really have no choice but to think of a way!"

Xu Liang spread his hands and smashed them.

It's not like he hasn't thought of a solution, but he can't think of a perfect solution even if he racks his brain.

On one side are the wealthy businessmen who control huge wealth, and on the other are the workers who built the Great Wall for the Ming Dynasty. If it were in other places, officials would definitely choose the wealthy businessmen. After all, there are more benefits to doing so. The workers are not good at speaking and have no background. Even if they are dissatisfied, they will not accept it from the government. Any way.

But it was different in Beizhili, because Ouyang Lun, the chief envoy of Beizhili, obviously valued ordinary people more. As the prefect of Peiping, Xu Liang could naturally feel it, so he did not dare to make a decision easily and had to leave the matter to Ouyang Lun. to handle.

Seeing Xu Liang's look, Ouyang Lun roughly guessed what this guy was thinking.

It is indeed difficult to deal with the problem of insufficient quota, but there are still solutions.

The corners of Ouyang Lun's mouth raised slightly, and he said with a smile: "I thought it was something difficult, but this is it. It's simple!"

Then he waved to Xu Liang, "Please come here."

"Master Ouyang really has a way!" Xu Liang's face lit up and he immediately put his head over.

Ouyang Lun said softly: "That's it. That's it."

"Go ahead and do as I say, and I'll make sure no one makes trouble again over quotas."

The more he listened, the brighter Xu Liang's eyes became, and he nodded repeatedly, "Thank you, Mr. Ouyang, for your advice. I will make arrangements now!"

After saying that, Xu Liang saluted Ouyang Lun and left in a hurry.

Returning to the Peking Prefecture's Yamen, Xu Liang became quite calm and no longer as panicked as before. The Beiping Prefecture Magistrate had been waiting for Xu Liang for a long time.

"Sir, you are finally back. Those wealthy businessmen are about to rush in! What did the chief envoy say?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Ouyang has already given me a solution!" Xu Liang said confidently: "Go and open the door of the government office. I want to go to court to resolve the case. Let a few representatives of those wealthy businessmen come in, and the rest are outside the hall. Wait and see.”

"If you dare to act recklessly again, be careful of me hitting them!"

"It's your lord!" the judge from Peiping said with joy on his face.

boom! Xu Liang sat in the upper position, slapped the gavel heavily, "Ascending to the hall!"

"Mighty--" The two groups of government officials on the left and right in the lobby struck the killing sticks in their hands.

"Bring someone to court!"

Soon three wealthy businessmen were brought up.

Although the three wealthy businessmen looked ugly at the moment and wanted to make trouble, they did not dare to mess around when they saw the two rows of government officials and the high-ranking Xu Liang.

Sure enough, as Mr. Ouyang said, these businessmen often roar the most fiercely, but they are also the most cautious. They can be suppressed first in this lobby.

"Ahem. Who is there? Please tell me your name!"

Xu Liang said in a deep voice.

"Brother Xu, you don't recognize me anymore, I'm Hu Deren!"

"Master Xu, I just donated 10 taels to you some time ago. Don't you recognize me too?"

"Prefect Xu, didn't we go to heaven and earth to have a drink together?"

The three business representatives were all acquaintances of Xu Liang, but facing his former friends, Xu Liang patted the gavel again and said in a deep voice: "Above the lobby, I am an official of the imperial court, and I represent the laws of the dynasty. , fair and strict, personal emotions should be put aside!"

"The national law is ruthless, why don't you declare your name quickly!"

This shocking sound startled the three of them, and their hearts thumped, so they had no choice but to report it truthfully.

"Hu Deren, a common man and a businessman from Fujian!"

"Liu Liuliu, a common man and a businessman from Guangdong!"

"He Qiu, a common man and a businessman in Peiping!"

Xu Liang nodded, looked serious, and said: "As business representatives, why did you surround the government today? If you don't explain it well today, tell me one, two, three, I will give you a meal." Killing stick!"

Forehead. Hu Deren, Liu Liuliu, and He Qiu were all stunned.

I have no idea what kind of medicine is sold in Xu Liang Gourd, so I just pretend not to know them even though I know them, and now I am pretending not to know why they are here?

In this regard, Hu Deren and the others had no choice but to answer Xu Liang's questions.

"My lord, of course I am here for the monument quota!" Hu Deren said with a cupped hand.

"Yes, we donated real money and silver, but we heard that our names were not even on the monument! If so, wouldn't we have all been deceived!" Liu Liuliu said loudly.

Snapped! "How can we allow you, a cunning businessman, to make such a loud noise in the lobby?"

Xu Liang directly took out a command of arrows from the command box and threw it on the ground, "Here comes someone! Drag him down and hit him with ten sticks first to kill the mighty stick!"

Um! !

What! !

Before Hu Deren and He Qiu could react, Liu Liuliu was dragged down by two government officials, put on a wooden stool, and started to beat him.

Ah-ah--

Liu Liuliu's screams fell on the ears of Hu Deren, He Qiu and the businessmen who were watching, and everyone froze in place.

"Sir! You are so abusing the criminal law. If someone comes to the capital to read your book, you will not be able to escape the blame!"

He Qiu mustered up the courage to speak.

Xu Liang glared and said in a deep voice: "You dare to make irresponsible remarks about the court officials and the government? Haha, you have to pay for it too!"

"Come here, drag him down and beat him with ten sticks to kill the mighty stick!"

"Dog officer! I must go to the capital to sue you!"

"If you have a little temper, add ten more sticks!"

Following He Qiu's screams.

Hu Deren and other businessmen were all suppressed.

"Hu Deren, do you have any objections?" Xu Liang's eyes fell on Hu Deren.

"No, no, I don't have any objections." Hu Deren's head swayed like a rattle.

"By the way, I didn't hear very clearly just now, why did you come to the magistrate's Yamen?" Xu Liang asked with a smile.

"We have no idea about the quota for the monument. Everything is decided by the court and you, Mr. Xu!" Hu Deren said quickly.

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't leave the official lobby here at will, he would have turned around and ran away.

"It's best to have no idea! The imperial court has the final say on the monument, not you profiteers. If you think you can blackmail the government by giving some money, then you have made the wrong calculation!"

"Yes!" Hu Deren nodded repeatedly.

After a while, Liu Liuliu and He Qiu finished beating and were carried back by the government servants.

"Do you two still have problems? Do you still want to go to the capital to file a complaint?"

"No no!"

"Don't dare."

Hearing this, Xu Liang nodded with satisfaction, "Very good! Wouldn't it be better if we could do this earlier? We have to let me use some means!"

"Sir, can we leave?" Hu Deren doesn't want to stay any longer now. It's too dark in Peking and he wants to go back to Fujian.

"Are you allowed to go?"

Xu Liang said coldly: "As for the quota of monuments, our government has already figured out a solution. In addition to the main monument in the center of the city, there will be four additional auxiliary monuments in the east, west, north and south. The government will rank everyone according to their contribution and ranking. The first level can be engraved on the main monument, the second level can be engraved on the wall of the base below the main monument, and the third level can be engraved on four auxiliary monuments. This way, at least Tens of thousands of people will carve monuments, and no one who contributed to the North Zhili Great Wall project will be missed!"

"Are you still satisfied with this?"

“Satisfied satisfied!”

I thought it was totally out of the question, but now my name is guaranteed to be on the monument, regardless of whether he is the chief or the deputy!

disagree? Do you want to be beaten?

(End of this chapter)