Chapter 476 Saving People from Disaster
Old Zhang immediately got excited and said loudly: Of course I do. Who doesn’t want to get rich overnight and have money to spend every day?
Immediately, he quickly covered his mouth with his hands and looked at Zhao Yulin with confusion and embarrassment, as if he was examining whether the third young master in front of him was fooling the people.
Oh, the old man was so excited that he blurted out the top-notch adjectives commonly used by country folk.
Hu Lan said with a smile that the Third Young Master was going to be the chief of Huaxi Village and lead the whole village to make money and get rich. But there was one thing, that is, everyone had to listen to the Third Young Master and do whatever he said.
Old Zhang and his wife were stunned and looked at Zhao Yulin in surprise without saying a word.
It turned out that the Third Young Master really wanted to help them find a way to make money.
Zhao Yulin said with a smile: You didn't expect that, did you? Go and tell the villagers, if you follow me, Zhao, you may not get rich overnight, but at least every year will be different. Every family will have money to spend, and we will make every village live a good life.
When Old Zhang heard him speak so seriously, he knew that his joy was not for nothing, so he pulled his wife up, made her kneel down and kowtow hard.
Zhao Yulin and Hu Lan rushed forward to help him up, and asked how they could do it. They said it was too embarrassing for the Yu couple. Kneeling was not a custom in the New Song Dynasty, and from now on they were not allowed to kneel to anyone.
Old Zhang said excitedly, "Let's follow the Third Young Master and do whatever the Third Young Master says."
Zhao Yulin took a sip of tea and said that the first thing was that he and his wife and a group of officials from the court wanted to come to the village to discuss matters, but they had no place to stay. Could this yard be vacated to be used as an office?
Old Zhang’s wife immediately frowned and muttered: There are eighteen families living in this yard, where should they move to?
Zhao Yulin pointed to the slopes on both sides and said, "How about we build new houses according to the size of each household and double the return so that everyone can live in new houses?"
It is hard to imagine that eighteen families live in such a small yard. Every household must be extremely crowded.
Old Zhang paced back and forth in front of the house, rubbing his hands, thinking. After three rounds, he stood in front of Zhao Yulin and said, "That's what we will do. They will all move out, and ask the third young master to lead Huaxi Village to prosperity."
Zhao Yulin smiled and said that was right, and he could rest assured. That was all we had to discuss today. The police chief still needed to consult with the neighbors. We were not going to act arbitrarily, and we had to have everyone agree before we could do it, right?
Old Zhang was even happier and kept saying yes, yes, and let's discuss the matter together.
Zhao Yulin and Hu Lan said goodbye and left.
After getting on the Chengwen official road, Zhao Yulin pointed at Huaxi Village and said what a wonderful place it was. It was only two miles away from the official road, but it was a secluded place, a paradise on earth.
Hu Lan kissed him happily on the cheek and asked: Brother, how can you be sure that Zhang Dubao will follow us?
He said: "People are poor but their ambitions are not poor, and the common people are honest and simple." This is called starting a fire. When Old Zhang saw the prosperous Guanghua New Village on the other side of the road, he must have had an idea long ago, but he just couldn't do anything about it.
Now that our Chief Steward Hulan is going to help them find money, of course they will be happy to follow us.
He asked Hu Lan to first join the Ministry of Personnel and start as a deacon, to be the general manager of Huaxi Village, in charge of the reform of Huaxi Village. Each department would then select some deacons to come and assist in the work, and strive to completely change the face of Huaxi Village within three years.
The little girl was delighted. She stamped his face to confirm it, then sat on him and leaned on his chest, pretending to be dead.
Wow, how can one bear this?
Haha, he found that Hu Lan had changed. He was no longer domineering and capricious, but more graceful and gentle.
As soon as they returned home, they went into the study and got busy. Zhao Yulin had to plan ahead and put the reform strategy of Huaxi Village on paper first.
It was chilly in spring outside Yanmen Pass. Hulan's two elder brothers, Dameng and Hubili, were seeing off their two younger brothers. Hubili even brought his family with him to gather 50,000 troops and a large number of new weapons imitating the Shenwei Army for them.
After a deafening mobilization speech by Brother Da Meng, Xu Liewu led his troops to set off.
After Mengge and Hubili learned that the Shenwei Army was repairing the Cunjin Dike north of Kaifeng, they knew that it was only a matter of time before Shandong was lost. Faced with their large number of troops with low combat effectiveness, they thought of the tactic of marching west. Mengge believed that his royal army was weak against the Shenwei Army, but it was no problem to defeat the barbarians in the Western Regions.
Da Mengge firmly believes this.
The various states further west in the Western Regions fought each other, and they were still in the castle era. Their military strength was very weak, and they could not compare with the great battles in the Central Plains involving hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.
Seeing the large number of advanced weapons in the Central Plains, the Shenbi crossbow with power booster alone was amazing, and there were even hot air balloons flying in the sky dropping bombs. He did not hesitate to call Bili to equip his little brother with 20,000 elite soldiers. Once they got there, they would definitely be invincible.
However, at the foot of the Altai Mountains, Guiyou, the son of the grassland empress, was leading an army of 100,000 back to the east. He was coming back to inherit the Khan throne.
Your friend's army started their nomadic journey last autumn and returned. When they reached the Altai Mountains, the men and horses were exhausted and the cattle and sheep were emaciated. They set up camp there to rest and eat the weak cattle and sheep. When winter passed and spring came and the grass came out of the ground, the army set out again to return east.
Guiyou was anxious, thinking about the throne of the king, and wanted to fly back immediately. If he also had the hot air balloon army made by Hubili , he might really dare to take the hot air balloon and fly back to the grassland king's court to take over the throne.
So, despite the fact that the horse was thin and there was no fodder, and the icy road was difficult to travel on, your friend set off again.
During every migration, many people and animals fell down. This grassland belt spanning Eurasia was littered with nothing but scattered cow and sheep dung and white bones emitting phosphorescence.
In Chengdu, Zhao Yulin was still busy. Hu Lan asked the servants to light the stove in the study. The couple worked late into the night, writing quickly.
It was late at night, so I went up to him, put my arms around his neck from behind and told him to take a rest as it was already very late.
Zhao Yulin said there were still many things to do. The personnel structure for the reform of Huaxi Village had been established, but how to change it was a big question and it was difficult to do.
The little girl gently massaged his shoulders and neck before leaving, and Zhao Yulin continued writing furiously.
After a while, Hu Lan brought him a bowl of bird's nest porridge. The couple ate it one bite at a time and continued to work.
Suddenly, a guard in the yard ran quickly and shouted towards Zhao Feiyan's room: My Lord, urgent military report, the emergency military report is here.
Soon, Zhao Feiyan dressed neatly and came to Zhao Yulin's study with a military newspaper.
He asked what was the hurry?
Zhao Feiyan handed him the military report and said: Yang Daquan of Liangzhe has gathered a group of bandits who refuse to give up their independence and have rebelled, and have already started fighting with Shi Gong's people.
Zhao Yulin took the letter and read it. It turned out that the officials in Lin'an were divided into two factions: one faction, headed by Shi Zizi, wanted to negotiate surrender with the New Song Kingdom, while the other faction, headed by Yang Daquan, continued to rule as a king.
Right now is a time of transition, and Yang Daquan raised his arm and gathered those gangsters together to rebel against Shi Zizi's army. They rushed into the house of Xie Lingyun's third brother, killed Xie Laosan's entire family as a sacrifice, and then besieged the Lin'an government office, intending to kill all of Shi Zizi's gang and rebuild the Lin'an small court.
The letter was sent by the Minister of War Miao Gui from Jiankang Prefecture.
After reading it, Zhao Yulin said there was no need to worry about anything else, as Brother Miao would definitely take care of it.
But the murder of Xie Laosan's family by Yang Daquan was no small matter. Xie Lingyun must be heartbroken, and he had to think carefully about how to deal with the aftermath.
Feiyan told him: The Ministry of Personnel arranged for Xie Lingyun's eldest brother to take over as the prefect of Qiongzhou. The journey was not too far. She planned to send someone to bring back the eldest brother of the Xie family and tell him the truth, so that the eldest brother Xie could comfort Xie Lingyun.
Zhao Yulin nodded and thought it was okay.
Xie Lingyun fled to Lin'an this time, and Xie Laosan was indecisive and delayed the trip, so Xie Lingyun should not be blamed. However, it was his idea for the Xie family to flee to Liangzhe after all, so Xie Lingyun could not help but feel sad and blame himself.
If Zhao Feiyan let the eldest son of the Xie family know first, it would be much easier to do ideological work on Xie Lingyun.
He asked Feiyan to put aside the matter of Xie Laosan's family being exterminated for the time being and called together all the officials to discuss how to deal with the Liangzhe Incident.
Zhao Feiyan immediately went out to make arrangements.
At dawn, Zhao Yulin took Hu Lan to the No. 9 courtyard to hold a meeting. The little girl sat upright in the last chair and listened.
After Zhao Feiyan reported the incident in Lin'an Prefecture, she asked for advice from the officials.
Hua Yue of the Censorate was the first to say that we have authorized the garrisons around Liangzhe to act at their discretion. Now that changes have occurred in Liangzhe, it is a great opportunity for our New Song army to unify and recover Liangzhe. We should urge the army to move eastward to complete the complete unification of Jiangnan.
Then other people spoke one after another, and their opinions were highly consistent with Hua Yue's.
Zhao Yulin agreed with the opinions of the gentlemen, thinking that we are thousands of miles away from Liangzhe, and the military reports are only about the battle situation three days ago. The specific measures should be left to the soldiers at the front and Minister Miao of the Ministry of War.
He fully agreed with Hua Gong's opinion and immediately launched a campaign to recover Liangzhe. The Central Council urged the armies in the south of the Yangtze River to march towards Lin'an Prefecture one after another, eliminate all rebels who dared to resist and save the people from danger.
All the gentlemen nodded.
The Minister of Personnel, Fan Gong, suggested that the King of Feiyan directly write an article in the Chengdu Weekly, ordering the three armies to march into Liangzhe and complete the great cause of recovery.
Zhao Yulin thought it was feasible, and estimated that the military operation in Jiankang Prefecture had already been launched, so he asked Feiyan to announce it in the newspaper and inform the whole world.
Zhao Feiyan immediately nodded in agreement and asked everyone to discuss the second topic: Everyone has seen the Huaxi Village Reform Draft copied with a brush, and the ink on Huayue's hand is not yet dry.
Zhao Yulin said apologetically that he had visited Huaxi Village yesterday and that Du Baozheng was eager for change. He was thinking and writing a draft last night and would present it to you all now.
When people heard that he was so dedicated to the pilot reform of a village, it showed that he had thought it through carefully.
Mr. Fan said: Commander Zhao has spared no effort for the sake of a village, he must have some unique ideas. It’s not a big deal, let’s try according to Commander Zhao’s strategy, if it doesn’t work we can change it back, how about that?
