jdhmnovel Chapter 575 Isn’t this bullying an honest person?
Chapter 575 Isn’t this bullying an honest person?
Li Shanchang stared blankly at Zhu Biao for a moment, then tentatively asked, "Your Highness, what do you mean by 'coordination'?"
Zhu Biao rubbed his forehead and sighed, "For example, if everyone's clothes are the same and are hung out to dry in the same drying yard, and someone takes the clothes of the Duke of Han, then the Duke of Han can only take the clothes of the Earl of Chengyi. This is called coordination."
"For example, someone took the name of Baoding Prefecture's donkey meat sandwich and put it in Ningyang County, calling it Ningyang donkey meat sandwich. This is coordination."
Li Shanchang blinked. "Isn't this blatant robbery?"
Zhu Biao paused for a moment, then sighed helplessly again: "It's outright robbery, but some people insist that it was a coordination without prior notice."
“The requests from these few scoundrels to transfer prisoners from Yangguang to Boye fall under the category of coordination with prior notice.”
Li Shanchang suddenly didn't know what to say.
You, Yang the Madman, coordinate the special products of other counties, and the students you teach are expected to coordinate the prisoners of other counties?
No.
Can prisoners really be managed?
Moreover, it involved coordinating prisoners from Yangjiang to Boye.
Good heavens, originally he was only supposed to be locked up for a few years before being released, but after Li Hui's coordination, it was turned into an exile three thousand miles away?
In other words, the territory of the Ming Dynasty was still quite good.
If it were South Korea or Annam, they could easily coordinate their exit from the country.
On second thought, Li Shanchang suddenly felt that something was wrong.
It's really weird.
Those county magistrates from Ningyang County—you can say they were bad, you can say they weren't good people, you can even call them inhuman, but you absolutely cannot say they were incompetent.
These guys are all incredibly cunning; they'll be thinking of coordinating prisoners from Yangjiang to Boye.
There must be something fishy going on!
Thinking of this, Li Shanchang cupped his hands to Zhu Biao and said, "Your Highness, Yangjiang and Boye are more than a thousand miles apart, and the laws of the court do not allow for the mediation of prisoners. Li Hui's actions probably have a deeper meaning."
After Li Shanchang said that, Zhu Biao immediately realized what was going on.
"I guessed it."
Zhu Biao said with a dark face, "Let alone coordinating across such a long distance... even neighboring counties have never exchanged prisoners. This memorial can be rejected directly."
"However, if his request to transfer prisoners was rejected this time, can the court directly reject his request to transfer civilians or other people to Boye next time?"
"After all, he submitted his memorial under the guise of building a reservoir for the people."
Zhu Biao sighed slightly, "The old saying goes that it's not easy to learn good things, but it's easy to learn bad things. That's absolutely true."
Li Shanchang was slightly taken aback, but Zhu Biao sneered, "Their good teacher once said that when you want to open a window in the wall but are refused by others, you can try to lift the roof, and then others will agree to let you open a window."
"Li Hui was worried that the court would not allocate enough people for him to relocate, or that there would be too few people allocated, so he submitted a memorial in advance, requesting the court to allocate prisoners for him."
"It's both a way of crying poverty and playing the victim, and also a way of making a difficult request first, so that the court can allocate more people to him for relocation later."
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Just as Zhu Biao, Li Shanchang, and others were pondering Li Hui's intentions, Yang Shaofeng, who was still lingering in Ningyang County, was also having a headache.
I did teach them the word "coordination."
But I had taught them how to mediate between prisoners.
Emperor Zhu glanced at Yang Shaofeng and said sarcastically, "These are all good students you taught."
"In order to get the court to allocate more relocated people to him, he actually thought of submitting a memorial to request the allocation of prisoners first."
"Tsk, they've all got quite the nerve."
"They even dare to scheme against us?"
Seeing Emperor Zhu's sarcastic and strange appearance, Yang Shaofeng immediately felt displeased.
What does it mean to dare to use your cunning against you?
How do you know that Li Hui wants more people to be relocated?
Those bastards are bad, not stupid. They dare to bring up the issue of transferring prisoners, but their ultimate goal is definitely not to get more people to relocate.
Similarly, don't bring up any alligator dragons.
Although this thing once appeared in Shandong thousands of years ago, by the time of the Ming Dynasty, it had become a household registration in Jiangnan.
Even if Li Hui is completely unreliable, he wouldn't cause such a commotion for the sake of the alligator dragon.
So, what exactly was that bastard Li Hui after?
After pondering for a long time, Yang Shaofeng suddenly exclaimed, "That bastard!"
Emperor Zhu was startled and glared at Yang Shaofeng, shouting, "You bastard!"
Yang Shaofeng said, "I'm talking about that bastard Li Hui!"
Emperor Zhu roared, "I'm talking about you! As our son-in-law, a prefect, and a garrison commander, what kind of behavior is this, all jumpy and alarmed!"
Lying in a big trough.
So, you're implying that being your son-in-law makes you super cool?
That guy named Ouyang Lun must have something to say!
While mentally ranting, Yang Shaofeng said, "What I mean is that Li Hui, that bastard, isn't after more migrants at all. His real target is laborers from Siam, Annam, and Burma."
It's still the window theory.
Li Hui knew he would never get any laborers from the imperial court.
After all, laborers are a scarce resource, and Boye County has almost no competitive advantage over Dengzhou Prefecture. Even if the imperial court wants to bring in laborers, it has to go through Dengzhou Prefecture first.
Therefore, Li Hui submitted a memorial requesting coordination among the prisoners.
Being rejected is certain.
They might even get a scolding.
However, the manpower shortage in Boye County will also be forced to be brought to the forefront.
Then another memorial was submitted, saying that the magistrate of Yangjiang County could help bring in a group of laborers from Siam or Annam.
What followed was perfectly logical.
I, Li Hui, helped the magistrate of Yangjiang find a way to raise alligators for leather to make shoes. In return, the magistrate of Yangjiang helped me get some barbarians who used to work as laborers in Boye. How dare your imperial court snatch people from my hands?
If the imperial court really had the nerve to snatch people away... just look at this: a county magistrate who cared about the people and wanted to build a reservoir for them was forced to submit a memorial to demand the return of prisoners, and he couldn't get the people from the imperial court either. He finally managed to get a group of laborers through his friendship with his classmates, but the officials in the imperial court still wanted to take them away.
Isn’t this bullying an honest person?
The more Yang Shaofeng thought about it, the more reliable it seemed.
But what does this have to do with me?
He was harming barbarians, not ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty.
But then Yang Shaofeng thought about it again and felt that something was not right.
Who said I have nothing to do with this?
Even if Boye County is short of laborers, can it be more short than Dengzhou Prefecture under my jurisdiction?