Guo Zongxun left Kaifeng and headed for Yecheng... At this time, Yecheng also had a name, Yedu!

Before Guo Wei ascended the throne, he served as the reign of Yecheng, governed the Hebei Legion and resisted the Khitan. Yecheng was once a military city and a place of prosperity for the Great Zhou Dynasty, and his status was very important.

But over the years, especially after the restoration of Youzhou, the front line of the Great Zhou Dynasty was greatly pushed northward, and the heavy troops in Yecheng were withdrawn one after another.

When more than 100,000 people camped in Yecheng, the people complained, scolding the soldiers and gangsters for being shameless, harming the people, and doing whatever they wanted... But after the people were removed, the people found that trouble was coming.

More than 100,000 troops, plus war horses, need to consume countless food and supplies every year. Many merchants gather in Yecheng, and there are many workshops in the city to supply the army's needs.

Soldiers have military pay, and they will go to taverns and tea shops to spend. They are evil guests, but they can indeed bring prosperity.

When the army withdrew, the world of Yecheng immediately became depressed, and a large number of young people were idle... It happened that because of the construction of the North Yellow River Road, the young people in Yecheng went to the river to work, and some people went to Yongji Canal to engage in shipping.

When the cities of the Great Zhou Dynasty were generally developing, Yecheng showed a depression. This was not a big deal. Three years ago, there was a drought in Yecheng, with more than half of the land yields. Then the next year, locusts came again.

The ancients did not lack ways to control locust plagues, such as arresting, driving away, digging trenches, burying, and even using the phototropism of locusts to set fire to burn... But to be honest, these measures are not enough to eliminate locust plagues, especially when locusts have wings and start taking off, they can move dozens of miles overnight. Wherever they pass, almost any green plant cannot escape.

Yecheng did not do a good job in disaster prevention. He waited until the locusts took off before they acted in a hurry. As a result, the food was completely harvested the next year.

At that time, he was still fighting in the Western Regions, and all regions were transferred to the Western Regions to send them to them. Only Yecheng needed to allocate 200,000 stones of grain from Beijing and Tibet to help the victims.

You can ignore other places, but Yecheng cannot ignore them, and you dare not ignore them!

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, Yecheng has been a military city with a strong folk custom and a large number of warriors. However, most of these people are old-style warriors. Starting from Guo Wei, two generations of emperors, they have sacked about 70,000 old troops... These guys returned to their hometowns and became bullies in the local area.

If we talk about how capable they are, it may not be necessary. They will never dare to kill people and rob people, or rebel. But these people can make trouble and make trouble. They always say that we have fought with Taizu, and they are in a pair of pants. We have been knives for Taizu, and if we dare not take care of us, they will go to the capital to beat the drums and complain to the emperor!

In fact, these people didn't even know where Dengwengu was, but it didn't prevent them from challenging the local officials...

In short, Yecheng is a bad and stinky, hard and poor place. You can’t help but you can’t afford to mess with it!

"Your Highness is really courageous to put himself in such a place!"

Fu San exclaimed: "I really didn't expect that three years of time would change so much."

Ye Hua chuckled. He felt that Guo Zongxun had long been extraordinary. For example, he suggested that Guo Xingge go to Khotan back then. In addition, Lu Duoxun wanted to push him to take over the seal, so the little thing pushed it out cleverly, and also tricked Lu Duoxun.

Ye Hua saw every bit of it, and what made Ye Hua feel particularly pleased was that Guo Zongxun was able to realize the cultivation of talents, the importance of education, and the problems in the countryside... all of them made Ye Hua feel very happy.

"How much water can a wooden barrel hold depends on the shortest piece of wood... Capital is like a surging river, coming from the sky, rushing down, sweeping everything. The whole society will be ruthlessly reshaped, and all the laws will be rewritten. In contrast, the most fragile and powerless are farmers, the countryside... If this shortcoming is not made up, and tens of millions of farmers raise their hoes, no matter how powerful the empire is, it will collapse and disappear in an instant!"

"And there is no new education and no people can adapt to the changes of the times. The more new things we bring out, the ultimate harm will become something that harms people!"

Ye Hua said this, his fist hit the stone table hard, his joints were blue and purple... A month ago, Peng Hai's wife and children were sent to the capital.

Han Tong, a man who was so stunning, would not cry even after being stabbed several times. When talking about Peng Hai’s experience, he was heartbroken and cried bitterly.

Since the war against Jiangnan, Peng Hai has actively raised military rations. In addition to the regular classes, he also provided food at a fair price to help the court purchase supplies. He alone bears the travel expenses for the trip.

Peng Hai told other brothers that he could have what he is today, all given by the court, and even if he gave his life to the court, he would not complain.

Before and after, he raised 15,000 stones of grain for the court alone. When fighting against the Western Regions, he also offered ten pack horses at a time... Peng Hai spared no effort to produce a thousand acres of farm.

But just a year ago, the court collected grain again, and Peng Hai had no stocks. The officials ran to his home and forced him to borrow grain from other farms. Peng Hai gritted his teeth and came three thousand stones of grain.

He used his credibility to guarantee it, but the court took the grain and did not pay him the money... It took him half a year to delay it. The other brothers came to the door several times, but Peng Hai had no choice but to borrow money privately and return the brothers' food money.

In order to borrow the money, he secretly mortgaged the land.

He was hoping that the court could return the food and redeem the land, but after waiting, Peng Hai waited for a bunch of bonds.

The clerk in the yamen told him that there is no money, only this one, do you want love?

Peng Hai was crazy. He always believed in the court, devoted himself to the court, and worked hard and could not bear the burden of his gratitude. How could the court treat him like this?

The clerk said disdainfully: "Why, don't accept it? This is what the champion marquis means. Don't just look down on the marquis. What will happen? You can do it yourself?"

Peng Hai returned home from the yamen, and it was dark all the way, and he didn't know how he got back!

Marquis, don’t Marquis feel sorry for the warriors the most? Don’t you care about your brothers the most? Why did he do this? Is it really the Marquis doing it? How can these bonds be exchanged for money?

Peng Hai had no answers to his questions. When he returned home, he found a group of people surrounding his home, his wife and children were driven out of the room, and the child hugged his mother's thighs and cried loudly.

In a word, if you don’t pay back the money, you will take away the property and houses!

Peng Hai looked at his son on the ground, his eyes turned red. When I was killing people in front of the formation, you didn’t know where you were! In a rage, he picked up a shovel and chopped two people in a row.

His slaves, as well as his friends and fellow villagers, rushed towards the thug together...

"Marquis, this is Peng Hai's suicide note. He said that those laws that harm the people must not be done by the Marquis. They were all under the slander. So he led the villagers to kill the county magistrate of Linzhou and the censor who urged food and wages. Killing officials is rebellion, and he repays them with his own life. He will not cause trouble to the Marquis, but only asks the Marquis to take care of other brothers, and he will die without regrets!"

Ye Hua carefully read Peng Hai's suicide note and didn't understand it. He said he was not complaining, but he also regarded him as one of the murderers in his heart... In fact, this is indeed the case!

It is not only a problem with the bureaucratic system, but also the need for reform in the entire society.

Without a complete change, tragedies like Peng Hai will emerge one after another!

Advanced financial tools are simply not something that ordinary people can understand.

Just like Peng Hai, he got the bonds, what is the value? How to exchange them and where to sell them? The remote Linzhou knew nothing at all. In his eyes, it was an IOU given by the court that could not be fulfilled. He had no ability to ask the court to collect debts, so he could only be an angry man and blood splattered three feet away.

As for what will happen next, it is not within his consideration!

"We must speed up and make complete reforms... Don't think that fighting foreign wars and seizing territory and wealth can solve the problem. It's impossible!"

Ye Hua said angrily: "I conquered the Western Regions, created many companies, and launched stocks... But these dividends belong to a few people after all. But those who bear the pressure of war are all the people of Dazhou! They cannot truly release the dividends to ordinary people. Using foreign troops will only make a few people cheaper, which is absolutely not feasible!"

Ye Hua's attitude is becoming more and more firm. He is not alone. Behind him, there are huge emerging interest groups he has cultivated over the past decade. He must take care of thousands of people like Peng Hai, who are "his own people".

Everything is lies with Guo Zongxun. If the little guy can succeed in Yecheng, he can tear a hole open. If he can't do it, Ye Hua has no choice but to go into battle himself!

The little Guo Zongxun still doesn’t know how important his mission is. The little guy just wants to make Yecheng better... The first shot Guo Zongxun fired was the Ordnance Workshop Cooperative.

Unexpectedly, he did not start from the countryside, but took action in the city first.

It turned out that the family workshops that had become declining because of the withdrawal of the army, re-operated. Dozens of workshops and hundreds of old craftsmen joined forces first.

Guo Zongxun named them "Hebei Industrial Group" with a very generous name, but in fact they can only undertake some tasks that other workshops don't like...such as saddles and stirrups, military uniforms, shoes and hats, and musketeers' armed belts and other gadgets.

But just that, it's good.

As the city began to gain popularity, Guo Zongxun chose ten villages and established agricultural cooperatives. Each family, based on the amount of labor, land, and livestock, the grain produced was deducted from basic rations, and used for sale. As the property of the whole village, everyone decided together how to use it...
Chapter completed!