Chapter 1279 Unacceptable
Impossible! Fake! It's all fake!
How could Jingnan be so peaceful with birds singing and flowers fragrant? It should be dark and full of corpses!
The magistrate of Taiping County could not accept all this. He gritted his teeth and coughed, and said very heart-wrenchingly: "Ahem, Zhu Ping'an actually spent so much money in order to coax ignorant refugees to come to Jingnan"
Wang Meng, Peng Cheng and Zhang Wenbo heard this and nodded subconsciously. They didn't believe it either, or maybe they didn't want to believe the scene in front of them.
Xu Hai and Tan Lun looked at the scene in front of them with serious faces and complicated expressions, but did not respond to the Taiping Magistrate's words.
Zhang Guyi glanced sideways at Taiping Magistrate, his eyes full of sarcasm, as if he was looking at an idiot.
With mixed emotions of shock and suspicion, the group continued to move forward along the flat official road in Jingnan.
After walking about a mile, I saw another crowd gathering in front of a high platform. On the high platform, there was a person dressed as a subordinate holding a strange trumpet-shaped iron plate and shouting. The voice was quite loud. , the transmission was very far, Xu Hai and the others could hear it clearly from a distance of more than 20 meters. There were many guards under the high platform maintaining order.
“Dear fellow villagers, our Jingnan organization provides work-for-relief. To put it simply, as long as you participate in the construction of our county government project, the county government will pay you wages, no less than 20 yuan per person per day, and you will be able to work. It's done every day; don't worry, the old, weak, women and children can also do light work such as washing and cooking, and the wages are the same; children under ten years old, and people who are sick, There are also elderly people over 60 who can eat for free every day even if they do not work. If they do some light work within their ability, they can still receive wages. Our engineering area provides three meals a day, breakfast is 1 cent and lunch is 2 cents. Money, dinner is 1 penny, it’s a big meal. If you want to open a small stove, it’s a little more expensive. You can eat meat and vegetables for 2 pence more.”
"We are currently focusing on six major projects including the East Lake Project, the City Wall Project, the Anti-Japanese Fortress Project, the River Dredging Project, the Wasteland Reclamation Project, and the Home Reconstruction Project. The wages are the same. You can choose one of them to participate. After selection, , report to our officer below, Just follow the officers to the corresponding flood refuge areas for resettlement. "
"Of course, when you come to Jingnan to participate in the work-for-relief work, you must abide by the rules. First, obey the discipline and follow the instructions. , you are not allowed to cheat or cheat. Once you find cheating or cheating, you will be punished depending on the situation. If you commit the crime three times in a row, you will be kicked out and will not be used again, no matter who you are or what the circumstances are. Also, when you go to a flood refuge area, you must pay attention to hygiene, wash frequently every day, change clothes regularly, and stay in designated places. Convenience, don’t defecate anywhere, dear fellow citizens, please don’t You can underestimate this hygiene. There are many people in our flood refuge area, and the flood has not subsided. If we don't pay attention to hygiene, it will easily lead to plague, which is no joke."
The assistant on the high platform is holding an iron plate. Trumpet, impatiently preaching to the people who were escaping.
Work-for-relief! Twenty cents a day! Observe the rules and pay attention to hygiene
For Xu Hai, Tan Lun and others, all this is very fresh and thought-provoking, and the truth is endless after careful consideration.
Especially when they heard about hygiene and preventing the plague, Xu Hai, Tan Lun and others couldn't help but glance at Taiping Magistrate. The disaster victim resettlement area built in Taiping County probably ignored this point, which led to the plague. By the way, the resettlement area for disaster victims in Taiping County is not the flood refuge area like Zhu Ping'an, right? ! It's just that I don't even know how to copy. I just copied the gourd and learned only the superficial knowledge but not the essence. As a result, I caused a plague! A project for the people turned out to be a project that harmed the people.
Taiping County Magistrate had a guilty conscience, but when Xu Hai, Tan Lun and others saw him, he couldn't help but blush.
"Ahem, since ancient times, food relief has been distributed directly to the people to show the court's grace. Zhu Ping'an actually forced the refugees to work and charged money for meals. Doesn't it show the indifference of our government?! This Isn’t it forcing the people to dissociate themselves from our court?”
After blushing, the magistrate of Taiping criticized Zhu Ping’an’s work-for-relief policy. As the initiator of the impeachment of Zhu Pingan, he had no choice but to continue on the road of "Zhu Hei".
No one answered Xu Hai and others, not even Wang Meng and others.
In fact, Zhu Ping'an was not the first to use work for relief. "Yan Zi Chun Qiu" has a record of "Yan Zi provided relief to the people due to the war of sleeping on the road due to hunger in the Qi Dynasty." In the Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan recruited workers to build temples and also used work for relief. It's just that Zhu Ping'an's work-for-relief approach is a step up from the ancients. It is epoch-making and pioneering in both scale and form.
The magistrate of Taiping criticized Zhu Ping'an's implementation of "relief for work" as showing that the court was cold and heartless and that his butt was too crooked.
Three miles further, we saw the bustling East Lake Engineering Area. The reason why we know it is the East Lake Project Area is because there is a tall flagpole erected in the project area. There is a cloth hanging on the flagpole, which reads "East Lake Relief for Work Project Area". It occupies a huge area and cannot be seen from a distance. When we got to the edge, we roughly estimated that it was at least ten or twenty miles away, and there were fifty to sixty thousand people inside digging, loading, and transporting earth. Although there were many people, the project area was not chaotic at all, and the organization and planning were actually orderly.
There are five carriages spaced dozens of steps apart on the lake slope. Boxes of copper coins on the carriages sparkle in the sun; there is a planned kitchen area in the lake area, where hundreds of women and children are preparing lunch. , the fragrance of rice floated far away; inspired by copper coins and food, fifty or sixty thousand people scrambled one by one and sweated profusely.
A huge artificial lake has begun to take shape, with upper and lower lakes vaguely visible.
Everything is full of hope, everything is so vibrant!
Compared with other Jingnan areas that have been ravaged by floods and struggling desperately, the contrast is sharp, like heaven and hell.
Xu Hai and others stood on the edge of East Lake, looking at the heated scene inside East Lake and were shocked.
"Why did Zhu Pingan dig such a big lake? He was wasting money and abusing people's power."
The magistrate of Taiping once again criticized Zhu Pingan.
"Well, it makes sense. Zhu Ping'an's move is quite suspected of wasting money and abusing people's power." This time Peng Cheng responded to the Taiping Magistrate, looked at the Taiping Magistrate encouragingly, and nodded slightly.
Yes, I just managed to catch it.
"Old man, may I ask, why are you digging such a big lake?"
Tan Lun saw an old man passing by carrying a bundle of food on his back, and stopped the old man politely and asked curiously.
"Haha, you are from out of town. What is this Zhugan Lake for?" The old man was talkative. After being stopped by Tan Lun, he put down the firewood on his back and wiped it with his sleeves. He sweated and said with a smile.
"I'm really wise. Hey, isn't this called East Lake? Why is it called Zhugan Lake?" Tan Lun cupped his hands and replied.
"Haha, the official name of this lake is East Lake, but we all call it Zhugan Lake privately. The reason why we call it Zhugan Lake is because our county magistrate, the old man, uses a bamboo pole to climb over mountains and ridges, and to wade in rivers. , stepped on our Jingnan three or five times, and then figured out the reason why our Jingnan often suffers from floods. It seems to be the terrain or something, Xiao I don’t understand either. Anyway, after the county magistrate found out the cause of the flood, he chose this place and used bamboo poles as a boundary to circle the boundary of the East Lake, so we privately called it Zhugan Lake. The lake can protect Jingnan from floods for a hundred years. When the river water surges during the flood season, the floodgates are opened and released into the lake to store water for floods; During the period, the accumulated lake water will be returned to the river to irrigate the farmland. You tell me whether our county magistrate is a god! We ordinary people say that we will build monuments, statues and ancestral halls to express our gratitude. Our county magistrate disagreed no matter what. We agreed privately that when our county magistrate gets promoted, we Let’s erect monuments, statues and build ancestral halls for the magistrate. Not only do we express our gratitude to him, but our descendants must also remember the kindness of our magistrate and pay homage to him every year.”
The old man was full of respect for Zhu Pingan in his words. In his eyes, Zhu Pingan was on the same level as a god.
“What?! Let’s erect a monument, a statue, and build an ancestral hall for Zhu Ping’an?! Give him thanks and commemorate him, and worship him every year?!”
Hearing this, Taiping Magistrate, Wang Meng and others, like It was as painful as swallowing a fly.
Was there any mistake? ! Zhu Ping'an colluded with grain merchants, drove up grain prices, and accepted bribes. Shouldn't he be spurned and cursed by you? ! Why are you still giving thanks and commemorating it? We even need to erect monuments, statues and build ancestral halls for him? ! Even if you refuse? ! (End of this chapter)