Straight man of steel

Chapter 333 That's it?

"Then tell me what law you broke?"

Mei Gao's patience was almost worn out, so he ignored Zhang Yuan and shouted at the cook with a louder voice.

A small person is a small person after all, and he couldn't help being frightened, and his whole body collapsed to the ground.

If you offend the official, will it end well?

The residents in Du County were all migrant laborers who were levied during the construction of Taixue. How can the construction of these large buildings be shortened while maintaining quality and quantity? The only thing that can be done is to squeeze the people.

Not to mention the tombs of other emperors, there are also many bones buried under the rammed earth of Taixue.

Some people didn't die of exhaustion or illness, and the cause of death was very simple. They offended supervisors or foremen.

Those low-level officials can easily kill ordinary people, but now Meigao, the county lord, is much more powerful than those low-level officials.

It can be said that Mei Gao is a character on the cloud, while those officials are on the ground.

The difference between Mei Gao and Zhang Yuan is actually not that big. If Mei Gao is a character on the cloud, Zhang Yuan is at most standing on the cloud above Mei Gao’s head. As for the characters above the sky, they are Liu Che and the big man. The prime minister, the general, etc., the doctor censor is not qualified enough.

It is conceivable how scared the cook is now, one word can determine life and death.

"The villain doesn't know that he violated that law, he just knows that he has done something that shouldn't be done."

As the cook said, many people know that murder is a violation of the law. If it is really said that it is a violation of the law, let alone a big man, many people will still be unable to tell after thousands of years.

"Then tell me what you did that you shouldn't have done?"

Meigao had never tried such a case in his daily life, and indeed he did not have enough experience, so he had to talk nonsense for such a long time before he finally got to the bottom line.

"Little man, there is still a piece of land in my family that I haven't had time to dispose of. Can my lord spare my life? I will never dare to do anything else."

That's it?

After listening to Zhang Yuan for a long time, he realized that after such a waste of energy, the result was like this.

Mei Gao also understood that there was a big oolong, and he really thought what a big thing happened.

"County magistrate, what is the general punishment for this situation?"

Zhang Yuan didn't know how to solve this kind of thing. He wanted to farm the land when he was in Shu County, so he bought the land after asking someone else to change his identity.

Mei Gao scratched his head, he really didn't know how to deal with this matter.

In other counties, the reason why most people don't farm is because they are forced by those landlords.

Even if you don't want to farm the land and want to do some business, you can sell the land quickly, but now there are so many wastelands around Du County.

Wouldn't it be nice for the big family to go directly to open up wasteland?

Why spend this money to buy land.

"Tai Xue Ling, the lower officials feel that they should order the inn to close down."

Mei Gao thought for a while and said to Zhang Yuan.

But Zhang Yuan doesn't need this answer. What Zhang Yuan wants is to continue to operate and produce real economic effects.

It was not easy for the people in Du County to find other ways out, and if they were allowed to go back to farming, they would return to the original single economic model.

Thousands of years later, those who honestly farmed the land did not see many people who made a fortune, and it is even less likely that there will be any now.

A single agricultural economy can only stagnate the economic level of a place.

Take an example from later generations.

There are farmers farming everywhere in the Central Plains. One province feeds one-third of the country's people. According to common sense, the people in this place have already made a fortune, but what?

The planted rice is collected by those companies at the cheapest price, and then these companies package and sell it to the outside world, and the nutrients on the rice grains are also taken out separately to make nutritional products.

Farmers earn the lowest amount of money, and these processing companies earn the most money.

The situation is not static. When the era when channels are king, the big earners will become various channel providers.

In short, no matter what era it is, farmers earn the least money and are the most bullied.

When troubled times come, these ordinary people are manipulated by those in power to fight everywhere. In peaceful times, ordinary people suddenly lose their role and continue to return to the bottom to provide nourishment for the upper class.

Is Zhang Yuan an ordinary person, maybe not in the eyes of others, he is a high-ranking official, a big man who looks pleasant to the county guards everywhere, and a top talent that the emperor always asks when he needs it.

But Zhang Yuan felt that he was an ordinary person, and his experience as a small worker in Zhuo's Workshop was engraved in his bones.

"Is there no other solution, the inn must be shut down?"

Zhang Yuan asked Mei Gao aloud, not only to revitalize the economy, but also to help this cook who is so ordinary but has a longing for a better life.

Mei Gao didn't realize it all at once, he thought the cook had offended Zhang Yuan, otherwise why would an official with two thousand shi have called the county magistrate for such a trivial matter.

After all, if Mei Gao hadn't been found for this matter, and Zhang Yuan would have acted as if he didn't know about it, there would still be so much trouble.

"There is a way, but it's a bit difficult."

Zhang Yuan really moved his mind to help this family. It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish. If the family really became rich by building an inn, it could also play a representative role in Du County.

To know what Du County is, this is one of the favorite places for literati in the next 1000 years.

Now that Taixue has settled in Du County, it has blessed Du County with a strong literary atmosphere that is not found in other places.

In recent years, it has been said that Qilu, the land with the most prosperous literary style, is not as good as Bashu. A Sima Xiangru from Bashu can stand up to a bunch of literati, but now the Taixue is in Du County, and the place where the Han literary style is most prosperous will only be Du County.

Whether it is literature or classics.

As long as Du County becomes a place where literati flock to, Zhang Yuan will set up some special tourist attractions, copy a few poems from later generations, and put a few stone monuments and pavilions outside the city.

Properly able to engage in tourism economy.

Helping this family is only the first step.

"Tell me how difficult it is. I am here today. As long as it is not beyond my ability, I will help this family."

"It's hard to say, but it's easy to say.

Since Taixue ordered you to open your mouth, the matter is simple. You are also a senior official, and the official knows something about the situation in Lantian.

Your majesty has not given you the upper limit of the closure of the land, you can buy this land with your own money, as long as the land is not abandoned, it is in compliance with the rules. "

(End of this chapter)