Two days later.

In the newly built Pizhou General Administration Office, Yang He was wearing casual clothes, and a cadre was sitting in front of him. Chen Qiuao was also guarding the iron armored guards at the door of the official residence.

At this time, he was discussing the matter in Pizhou with everyone.

After receiving the air and cleaning, according to the rules, the specific official duties must be discussed with him in three days.

At this time, the pace is very slow, and parents and officials are very leisurely. Their main task is to recite poems and music, and most of the official affairs are handed over to their subordinates, or their staff and teachers.

This is the norm in the officialdom at this time, just like Su Dongpo. If he was busy all day long, there would probably be famous works such as "Nian Nujiao. Nostalgia for the Red Cliff" that have been passed down through the ages.

But Yang He was not idle.

Compared with Suining General Administration, Pizhou General Administration is much larger, with a construction area of ​​nearly 3,000 square meters. It has a lobby, two halls, back halls, etc., inner flower hall, curtain hall, official residence, and elegant back garden. The scenery is very good.

Sure enough, the treatment of a seventh-rank official is better than that of a ninth-rank official.

After Yang He took office, according to his official treatment, the state yamen also gave him a Zangdian, two disciples, six Zao Li, two husbands and one groom.

However, Yang He looked at these people, and they were no longer "relatively simple" than Suining. These people who were matched were all treacherous and slick Zaoli Gong.

Yang He asked them to stay in the second hall of the lobby. His nearly 100 iron-armored guards took turns to stay in the Lian Zongfu Office, where they were guarding the gates and inspecting the government office.

However, they were soldiers, not servants. They naturally could not let them do the work of serving tea, water, cleaning, etc. Fortunately, they brought Deng Menzi, so they placed them in a wing room in the back hall, and usually did some tea-filling and cleaning, sending letters and running errands.

Yanghe can also serve as a follower when traveling, carry a worship box, cushion and clothing, etc.

The official residence is very large and the courtyard is full of trees. After Deng Menzi poured tea, he cleverly left the hall.

Yang He always felt that he had a promising future and his name was also good, Deng Jingshi.

On the Huanghuali official hat chair, Minister Yang, Han Guaner, Luo Xianjue, Zhang Songtao, Zhang Chugong, Zeng Youyou, Qian Sanniang and others sat, and everyone was focused and listened to Hu Juye, the head of the intelligence center in front of him, who reported some information from Pizhou.

Then behind Hu Juye, there was a thin young man standing with a kind face and a warm and kind smile on his face, but it was Liu Dayou.

After joining the intelligence center a few months ago, his status has steadily increased. Now he can follow Hu Juye and enter this core conventional venue.

"About Pizhou, the brothers from the Intelligence Bureau have tried their best. They have explored a lot in the past two months. The key points are three, green skin, private teeth, bandits..."

Hu Juye was holding a small notebook in his hand, and he was talking so hard.

"By the way to tell, Pizhou, there are many people!" Hu Juye said, "Not like Xin'anzhuang, Suining County, Township Kaka, the intelligence agency estimates that there may be more than 100,000 people in Liancheng and Lianguanxiang. What... 'Gathering the city and chaos', when there are more people, there will be more rogues."

Hu Juye glanced at the notebook, said rudely, and said elegantly without knowing it.

Yang He glanced at him and nodded slightly. At the beginning of the country, Pizhou households were 47 miles away, but after hundreds of years of reproduction, the population must have increased a lot, especially after the opening of the canal.

Although the documentary list is unclear in this regard, there are traces to follow. For example, the recent statistics are "Huai'an Prefecture Chronicle. Gongfu Chronicle" during the Tianqi period. In the fourth year of Tianqi, it recorded that there were 9,977 households in Pizhou and a population of 100,387.

I don’t know if these are included in the hidden households, and if not, the population will be even greater.

Although in the Chongzhen year, there were many population losses due to various reasons such as war and famine, Pizhou was generally stable and the influx of foreign populations, the estimated population was around 100,000.

"How much green skin is there in Pizhou?" Hu Juye said loudly, "The locals said it was flooding like the water of the Yellow River. The intelligence institute investigated roughly, and there were hundreds of people in the city, including all sides of the city, and there were many evil beggars who were involved in the fraud."

"These green skins have no skills, no permanent property, no occupation, and there are people who have them. They are often crowded with them, playing boxing and using sticks, and the people suffer a lot."

"These are still small characters, ordinary rogues. The most well-known ones in Pizhou are four sticks, gambling sticks, lawsuit sticks, media sticks, and burial sticks!"

Hu Juye was a slight and slightest statement. According to him, there were many casinos in Pizhou, and hundreds of people gathered to gamble. Even if you bet, stick heads often lure good people to do evil. Many people fell into their skills and lost their fortunes. In the end, they had to sell their wives and children, and their families were destroyed.

Whenever they can't afford to pay, they will take action.

There are also lawsuits, which are not ordinary lawsuits, but false accusations and extortion.

There are strange people behind these lawsuits, and they are often associated with the competition inside and outside the city.

Whenever there is a murder case, each lawsuit is like a treasure. He ordered the rush to come to the door to admit his corpse and then find a good family who is afraid of trouble, thinking that strange goods are absent.

These people regard those with clever teeth as official certificates, collude with yamen runners, and are arrogant and unsatisfied, they gather many people and come to the door to fight and rob, and then again and again, and countless families are destroyed.

Now it is more popular to come to the door to fight and then rob, and then go to the court to call for life and repay blood debts.

In short, these lawsuits reverse right and wrong, change the black and white, and the people suffer in a great way. Even if ordinary lawsuits are intervened by these people, the plaintiff and defendant will often lose their family.

Media Sticks are not mediators, but robbing widows and selling widows and trafficking women. These people often collude with the beggar sects and often grab widows. Many widows are weak and often robbed. In the end, they don’t know where the media struck media went, let alone privately abduct women and young girls.

This is actually a great harm to the customs and people's hearts, and the local people hate it to the core.

Finally, there is a burial stick, that is, the local tyrant and villain Qing Pijiu, and some gangs are connected with each other. Whenever they are buried, they will seek refuge and bury them and ask for property. If they cannot satisfy them, the deceased will not be buried. Many kind-hearted people stay at home for years.

The people cannot afford to live or die, and cannot be buried in peace. The local people also hate these burial sticks to their core.

"There are also too teeth, especially private teeth, which is extremely harmful to the common people!" Hu Juye said indignantly. Because Yang He explained that the intelligence needs to pay more attention to the bottom, he also used his strength to get the intelligence office. At this time, he was indignant, as if he had been blackmailed by the teeth.

"These private teeth are used as thugs with white and green skin. They are either scholars or yamen runners. They are either gentry or market sticks. I am young and young, and these people are domineering. I think the official teeth are evil enough. Compared with them, they are all the same as the world."

He also cited a local woman, Gong Qigu, as an example, saying that under these private extortions, the local common people could not survive at all.

These people can also be counted as the green skin, and their feet are similar in their legs. They are all used as ruffians to control some porters with sticks.

In short, Pizhou has a lot of green skin sticks. The intelligence department roughly estimates that the number of active green skin people alone is as high as thousands.

Everyone took a breath of air conditioning, and Luo Xianjue murmured: "So much?"

He is from Yongcheng, Guide Prefecture, and there are also green-skinned land sticks there, but obviously the number and variety are not as numerous as Pizhou, which sounds so shocking.

Minister Yang snorted: "Needless to say, just like in Suining, kill them all!"

Yang He said in a deep voice: "Have the intelligence agency analyzed the source of these green skins? Do they have many locals or foreigners?"

Hu Juye quickly looked through it, but fortunately, there were records and analyzed in this area on his notebook.

He said: "It is said that there are many people from outside the country in Pizhou, but most of the leaders and backbones are locals. Their sources are mainly farmers and bad people from all over the country. Pizhou is a major road for the canal transportation, and many outsiders are many people. Many people cannot find work and become scoundrels. Local green skin is mostly settled, and many gentry and businessmen are in poverty and become evil young people. Many leaders and backbones who are cheating are also the leaders and backbones. There are also many small merchants who cannot survive at any time and become green skin."

Everyone was surprised. It turned out that Qingpi came like this and thought they were born to be lazy and reluctant to work.

After the Intelligence Institute's analysis, everyone also knew a lot about the causes and origins of these green skins and their vision was to a higher angle.

Yang He also sighed. He saw the cityscape and customs of Pizhou City these two days. Overall, although Pizhou City is prosperous, the gap between the rich and the poor is too large. The rich are bright and beautiful, while the poor are poor and poor, as if there are too few middle-class people.

This huge gap between the rich and the poor will definitely cause many problems. Especially the children of gentlemen and businessmen will go bankrupt and become members of urban rogues, which will be even more harmful.

Because they have certain experiences, just like the literati join the bandits, the harm of bandits will increase.

Zhang Songtao snorted: "Local green skins are rampant, so the government has no control?"

Hu Juye said: "It's true. I heard that the magistrate Su issued a lot of notices to prohibit rogues, but it was useless. Local gentry also built nanny halls, Tongshan halls, Qiliujiao, etc., and it was useless to try to deter scoundrels from extortion."

He sneered on his face: "You must know what many thugs do. It turns out that these gentry were raised. Now these people are in trouble and are bitten by evil dogs."

Yang He sighed and stood up. In fact, he had been paying attention to the rogue green skin problem in the late Ming towns for a long time, and also knew that the governments in various places took various measures to curb the spread of this trend, but it was useless.

Because to put it bluntly, this is actually a system problem! It cannot be restrained just by trying to restrain it.

Because they manage business affairs with the thinking of agricultural society, they will naturally achieve half the result with twice the effort, and even gain nothing.

In the late Ming Dynasty, many places were already very prosperous, with commerce flourishing, especially the scale of cities and towns, and the scale of cities and towns expanded rapidly.

But this kind of expansion is not a good thing, because at this time the Ming Dynasty was still a small peasant economy, with no independent and professional urban management system, or even that kind of thinking.

A large number of people enter, but management cannot keep up, and the resettlement of urban population cannot keep up, and the population flowing into urban areas has difficulty making a living. What should I do?

The vagrants who are lazy and hateful in the inner world become scoundrels, and they oppress the good people, causing some people to fall into evil, and this continues to be a vicious cycle.

This is also one of the reasons why the merchants were not liked and suppressed by the past dynasties, because the rulers subconsciously did not like the business society, which was too far from their ruling ability.

The Ming Dynasty also suppressed merchants for nearly two hundred years, until the mid-Ming Dynasty. Notes from people of the times also claimed that this period was the golden period of good customs in the Ming Dynasty and was widely praised by literati and officials.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, merchants could no longer suppress them because officials and gentry themselves became merchants. However, reading notes, officials and gentry themselves did not like this era.

This is also the reason why everyone yearns for the three generations of governance. It is pure and simple small peasant economy, and it is easy and convenient to manage it.

And tooth.

Thinking about this, Yang He also sighed.

At first, tooth is meaningful, for example, when information is blocked and the goods are scattered, some foreign merchants are inconvenient to purchase and sell, so the intermediary of tooth shops appears, making it convenient for both convenience.

For the people, when you go shopping, you are afraid that you will encounter problems such as profiteering as inferior products, lack of silver, and even encounter fake silver and fake money. At this time, you also need the agent as a yaman.

Especially for some people, if there are big deals, such as buying cows, horses, mules, etc., you are more afraid of encountering inferior goods and need tooth.

Even if the tooth man has the rule of "successful three and breaking two", he will get a commission of three percent from the buyer and a commission of two percent from the seller, many people are actually willing to pay this money.

For the government, they also need tooth.

In this era, many prices were assessed by the dentist. Merchants paid taxes and prohibited items were required to be supervised by the operation of dentists.

It can be said that all aspects of society are inseparable from Teeth.

But because of monopoly, Yaren has too much power and has gradually deviated from the intention of the intermediary.

The fangs do not need capital, but they hold fish in naked hands and make money from nothing. They bully the market with semi-official status, monopolize the market, deceive customers and goods, default on payments for goods, etc., which has long formed serious interference obstacles to market operations and must be changed.

As for private teeth, it has no meaning to become a place where villains are concentrated, so it can be wiped out.

...

Yang He asked Hu to continue talking about bandits. In this regard, Hu's Employment Information Institute didn't know much about it. His Information Institute is only in the early stages of development, and can only explore the bandits in Guanxiang and the suburbs, saying that the bandits gathered as thieves, and half of them were unemployed vagrants.

It is also said that this aspect is very deep, and the intelligence institute only knows that many powerful households are raising bandits, or they are bandits themselves.

The fast-track responsible for public security also has big problems. Some people themselves are the backers of the bandits.
To be continued...