Chapter 312 Why Don’t You Move?
The empire has been in a bleak state for the past few years, and the Khan of the grassland urgently needs a victory to boost morale and grab some things to recover. He asked Yelu Chucai to keep a close eye on it, and asked the King of Lu in Shandong to send troops to support Kouqiu Buhua, and he must defeat Meng Gong and take down a few cities for him.
Secretly, the Khan sent a secret letter to Kuoduan, asking his prince to pay close attention to the actions of the Shenwei Army.
Once Zhao Qi'er dispatched troops to rescue Meng Gong, he would find the right opportunity to kill him without mercy and bite off a piece of Zhao Qi'er's fat meat.
Zhao Yulin was in the room recalling and thinking about the content of writing "Three Character Classic" when Chen Chen sent someone to ask him for help.
There was actually a weaving and embroidery workshop in Jinguan City that refused to move. It demanded from her ten years' compensation for lost work time and a hundred times the value of the land. The reason was that his workshop had a history of a hundred years and its time-honored Shu brocade was in short supply, so she had to double compensate them for the losses caused by their relocation.
Oops, there’s a nail household.
Zhao Yulin arrived at the relocation site, and Wei, who was in charge of the relocation, told him angrily: This family is too unreasonable. They have gone back and forth more than ten times, counted the toilet behind the workshop as the main house, and also made compensation for the courtyard, but they just refused to move. They have really run themselves ragged and talked their mouths off.
Chen Chen said that this would delay Master Liu Yuru's surveying and mapping, and everyone was waiting for him to return home. She would call on the garrison brigade to forcibly demolish the house.
Zhao Yulin waved his hand and walked into the workshop. He found that it was indeed a workshop with some history. He began to think about how to deal with this matter.
The usual method is that the relocated households ask for a price, and the demolition team pays the money. Otherwise, they send out patrols and guards to surround and forcibly demolish the house.
In this case, either a huge amount of compensation will be paid to the household to be relocated, or the stubborn household will be arrested and the demolition will be forced, which may even lead to murder.
While Wei Rensheng was still trying to reason with the shopkeeper, the old man and the guards in the shopkeeper's family were holding sticks and standing around the shopkeeper menacingly, as if they were ready to fight the officials to the death.
He found this scene a little funny. It was true that there were also nail households in ancient times.
Chen Chen said that everyone was willing to relocate, and only this family was causing trouble. It was really the new society of the New Song Kingdom that was protecting them and taking advantage of them.
Mr. Qiu told him: This time the court is building houses, repairing workshops, and making new looms that are both good and fast for them, but they are still not satisfied. If it were still the previous dynasty, they would have been scared to death as soon as the officers and soldiers arrived.
Zhao Yulin also felt that he could not allow the people to ask for exorbitant prices, but it was not a bad idea to keep this workshop as a memorial of Jinguancheng's weaving and embroidery.
After calling Wei Rensheng over and giving him some instructions, he asked everyone to go to the relocation office to discuss the matter.
Over there, Wei Rensheng started working.
The boy went over and said to the shopkeeper: See, the one who just came was the third young master, the third young master of the Zhao family, the commander of our Shenwei Army.
The old man said he didn't want to move and wanted to leave the house as it was.
However, he would instruct the city defense and patrol not to make a living by weaving and embroidering here. A workshop is a workshop, you can only weave and embroider here, and take the finished products to the market to sell, understand?
After Wei Rensheng explained the rules clearly , he told the demolition crew to leave, leaving the shopkeeper standing there stupidly.
This guy originally thought that his workshop was big and had been in use for a long time. He thought that the imperial court advocated freedom and equality and Chengdu Prefecture was so rich that he wanted to extort more people to build a more grand workshop. He didn't expect that after the third young master came to see it, he didn't want to move anymore and wanted to keep his workshop.
What should I do? We agreed that everyone would move out, so why is he the only one left behind?
Zhao Yulin had a sip of tea in the relocation office, and only said after Wei Rensheng and others came in that the relocation should indeed take the protection of historical relics into consideration.
It would be fine if this workshop was not moved. It is located at the west end of the city and is not in the center, so it will not have much impact on the future layout of the houses.
He said: Even if his family agrees to move out, we must calculate the compensation according to the unified standard for demolition, and never give more . One day, we will take over and maintain it well, leaving it as a weaving and embroidery exhibition hall of our new Song Dynasty.
When everyone heard him say this, their eyes immediately brightened up.
Yes, why spend so much money?
He told Mr. Qiu that anyone who dares to be a stubborn stubborn person in national road and pass construction projects involving military and public facilities must be dealt with severely, and if necessary, thrown into jail.
Everyone immediately felt confident and looked at him happily.
Zhao Yulin said goodbye and left. Before he had gone far, the shop owner went to find Wei Rensheng to argue with him. He asked why he didn't move to his house when he had agreed to move.
They are willing to move.
Wei Rensheng told him that the Third Young Master had said that he should respect his family's choice and not move. He was asked to go back and renovate his yard and workshop, keep them tidy and clean, and not bring shame to the New Song Kingdom, as this would be our capital in the future.
The shopkeeper was dumbfounded after hearing this.
Damn, they really won't move. He originally wanted to ask for more silver, but now he doesn't have even a tael.
Not only that, in the future, this place will become a heavily guarded capital. Who will he do business with? He must also spend money to make the house beautiful, otherwise it will damage the national dignity.
The shopkeeper was silent for a while and then said that he accepted the demolition team's opinion and wanted to take the money and leave.
However, Wei Rensheng said that the price had changed and they could only relocate according to the initial amount. The third young master did not allow compensation exceeding the standard and demanded that everyone be treated equally, otherwise he would be sorry for the brothers and sisters who had already moved away.
Now the shopkeeper was furious. He had been so kind as to cooperate with the government in stopping the construction and relocation, but the one doing the demolition was still unlucky and refused to give him the final high price, but only the relocation fee approved for the first time.
The shopkeeper slapped the table, stood up and left.
He really didn't move.
At night, he made an appointment with two workshop owners, Zhang and Wang, who had already moved, to go to Qintai for a drink and to inquire about the news.
After three cups of wine, this man poured out his grievances, sighing about the reputation of his old brand. The Third Young Master refused to add a cent and demanded the same price for relocation as they did in the beginning. After enduring for such a long time, he ended up losing both his wife and his army, which was a huge loss.
The shopkeeper surnamed Wang advised him to move. After they went to Cuiping Mountain to see the new tools, Guigu's master was already trial-making a new type of loom. This loom was easier to operate, and the weaving and embroidery speed was more than ten times faster.
If he didn't move, the government would definitely not allow him to use the new machine.
The shopkeeper surnamed Zhang also advised him to move. Wenjiang had a ready-made workshop with access by land and water. Compared with Chengdu, it was just a matter of changing the place to weave and embroider.
I heard that the Agricultural Affairs Bureau has gone to Dayi, Wenjiang to arrange matters related to mulberry planting and silkworm breeding. They will vigorously support farming and silkworm breeding. The raw silk production in Chengdu will surely increase in the future. If you don't update your looms, you will definitely not be able to catch up with us, not to mention those big households. Their business will surely drop sharply.
The shopkeeper was depressed and went back home drunk.
As soon as it was daybreak, he ran to the demolition office, knocked hard on Wei Rensheng's door and shouted that he was going to move out according to the originally calculated amount.
But Wei Rensheng said it was no use. He rubbed his sleepy eyes and came out to tell the shopkeeper that the third young master had a rule that a one-day delay would result in a fine of five hundred strings of cash, and that even if we agreed to start moving today, five hundred strings of cash would still be deducted.
Damn, I lost again.
The shopkeeper's eyes turned red, and he stamped his feet hard and said, "If you want to deduct it, then deduct it." He accepted it and moved.
Wei Rensheng laughed and said that's right. The third young master said he knew the shopkeeper wanted to move.
The shopkeeper was signing and stamping his seal, and when he heard Wei Rensheng talking, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood. It turned out that the third young master knew everything, what a fairy, he is really a fairy.
Zhao Yulin was tortured by Chen Chen last night and was dizzy. How could he know that this workshop couldn't bear it and finally moved? Haha.
However, when Master Liu Yuru was planning the construction of Jinguan City, he actually preserved this old workshop, along with the looms inside, intact and turned it into a weaving and embroidery exhibition hall, but that is a story for another time.
He was reviewing documents in his study and reading short reports from various departments to understand the situation. As it was almost noon, Feiyan sent someone to ask him to go to the government office to meet the foreign envoy.
As Zhao Yulin got into the carriage, he felt that the young woman was being mysterious. She didn't even tell him which country the envoy was from.
What do you want him to see?
He came to the exquisite small hall of the government office and saw Duan Xiaolin, dressed in Dali clothes, sitting inside. Then he suddenly realized that it was his relative who had arrived.
Zhao Yulin sat down, greeted him with a smile and asked Mr. Li what he needed to discuss.
Li Gong said that the King of Zhennan came to collect taxes from Xinshi. The war started at the beginning of the year, delaying the transfer of tax revenues between the two countries. The officials thought that Dali was plotting against Dayi in Xinsong, and the rebellion in Yazhou had caused great suffering to the people, so they wanted to stop the tax revenue from Xinshi.
Duan Xiaolin said that the troubles in the prefectures and counties of the upper country were caused by the people of Dali, but it was also a domestic matter. Dali had already returned the two prefectures of Jianchang and Huichuan, and both countries were damaged, so they should not bring up the taxes of Xinshi anymore. They still hoped that the upper country would fulfill the alliance agreement and pay Dali what it had earned.
Zhao Feiyan explained to Zhao Yulin that Duan Xiaolin, as an envoy from Dali, had come to Chengdu to find the Ministry of Rites early in the morning. Only then did Zhao Yulin understand the whole story.
He thought for a while and said that everyone should make concessions. New Song should pay 50% of the tax revenue of the new town in Dali, and the rest should be directly deducted from Dali's previous loan. Dali could not keep borrowing money from New Song without paying it back.
In this way, both countries can give an explanation to their officials and people.
Mr. Li thought it was a good idea. Originally, the New Song Dynasty had occupied two prefectures of Dali, and the people were happy. They didn't care whether or how the taxes from the new city were divided.
Now that the Dali Kingdom has asked to take back their share, we cannot just give it to them easily.
Zhao Yulin's method not only allowed them to get back their tax share, but also allowed Xin Song to recover the loan, thus killing two birds with one stone.
Duan Xiaolin was also very satisfied. He had not expected to get this money, but he did not expect Zhao Yulin to give him half of it right away, and use the rest as compensation to reduce their loan.
The girl was happy in her heart, but she agreed with reluctance.
The two sides reached an agreement and went to the restaurant to eat together.
Zhao Yulin asked him: Why didn't you say hello when you came? Where is our girl?
