Ren Maocheng thought for a moment and said, "I heard that it was bought."
"Jiangsu and Zhejiang are all land, and transportation basically relies on ships. How fast is the railway? It is said that it can travel a thousand miles a day. It takes only a few days to get from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Sichuan."
Du Qi said calmly, "But if we go to them to buy land, will they give it to us?"
"What does Commander Si mean?"
"In fact, the court has long wanted to take action against them. Firstly, they own a vast amount of land. The rich have mansions, while the poor have no place to live, making the people suffer terribly. Secondly, from what I have seen from the movements of the Zhiyuan in recent years, I am afraid they are planning to reclaim the land."
Du Qi said, "Look at the government's policies from the past few years. They all require local governments to find ways to buy back land and rent it out to the poor as official farmland. But what about these people in Liangzhe Road?"
"Ohhhhh."
Ren Maocheng suddenly understood, his eyes widened, and he said, "So the dean deliberately let them go, so that he could find an excuse."
"Well, the Transport Commissioner's Office is busy with official business, so we have to continue working."
Du Qi said calmly.
"Yes, yes, yes."
Ren Maocheng laughed.
Anyone who can become a leader is not a fool.
The court’s policy changes in recent years can actually be clearly seen.
For example, what was the purpose of dividing the land tax into acreages, what was the purpose of redeeming government-owned land, and what was the purpose of reducing corvee labor and taxes.
Ultimately, it is actually to alleviate the increasingly acute land conflicts and the huge gap between the rich and the poor.
As early as the Western Han Dynasty, Minister Shi Dan saw the disadvantages of land annexation. Successive dynasties have always wanted to solve this problem, but it has never been eradicated.
Now that the imperial court is serious about taking action, these provincial governors are naturally very clear about it.
So what is their position?
Naturally, we have to stand on the side of the court.
Because all the senior officials who did not stand on the side of the court had been removed from their posts by the prefect.
So you naturally have to know how to choose sides.
It seems.
The governor is about to wield the butcher knife again.
Du Qi dipped the brush in ink, thought this to himself, and then began to work and approve official documents.
Soon, the attitude of the Transport Commissioner's Office was conveyed.
Still turning a deaf ear to it.
This instead aroused the anger of the people of Hangzhou Prefecture because it seriously interfered with their daily lives.
Therefore, many people waited until the demonstrators dispersed at night and then ran to the government office to curse.
Du Qi pretended not to hear.
There is nothing we can do about this.
If you want to make things bigger, you must make it even bigger so that the court can send troops.
So a few days later.
The number of people demonstrating has been increasing.
At the beginning, everyone was restrained, but by March 20th, more and more people had come to Hangzhou, with nearly 20,000 people flocking to protest.
Moreover, the matter became a big fuss on this day. Seeing that the Transfer Office had been closed for several days, the crowd who were originally just protesting started throwing stones and bricks.
Then, with a shout, some people actually stormed the government office. After being forced back by officials from the government with crossbows, they dispersed into the streets. Unable to vent their anger, which had been accumulating for days, they rampaged and smashed things everywhere.
Hangzhou suddenly became even more chaotic, and public security rapidly declined. With the first death, the first store being smashed, and even someone holding a torch, the situation suddenly changed.
It was not until this time that the Transport Commissioner's Office finally took action. Together with the other four offices, the Imperial City Office, and the Hangzhou Prefecture, all the yamen runners went out to arrest those who smashed, looted, and burned, extinguish the flames, and treat the injured.
A few days later, the letter from the Transport Commissioner's Office was delivered to Bianliang at an extremely fast speed.
(End of this chapter)
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