Chapter 1531: Governance

"To govern Daxing greatly and make our Great Ming capital have the atmosphere of a heavenly dynasty, we must govern commerce and govern the people. Some time ago, this official led you all to collect cleaning fees, and the merchants responded actively, paying fees voluntarily, making our Daxing yamen rich in money and grain."

"Since the silver has been collected, things must be done. This official heard that there are local ruffians running rampant in the streets, making it impossible for merchants to operate in peace, and making it impossible for commoners to shop in peace. There are even evil people stealing and kidnapping children, crazy and conscience-less, deserving to die."

"There are people breaking into houses to steal, people robbing in the streets, and people molesting good women in the streets. There are also people gathering local ruffians to bully others and not allowing people to do business. All kinds of such evil deeds are truly hindering the appearance of our heavenly dynasty. If the barbarians see it, they will think that our Great Ming, a dignified state of etiquette, is full of lawless criminals."

"Starting today, post notices, let the commoners come to file complaints, and this official will make the decisions for them. You all also recognize the local ruffians on the street; this time, grab them all in one nest. Whoever dares to leak information or release people privately will be expelled from the county yamen. If you want to be a hooligan and talk about some bullshit loyalty, then you go be one; don't get in this official's eyes in the yamen."

"Supervise each other; those who know and don't report are guilty of the same crime. If one case is discovered, punish it severely. The Five Cities Military and Horse Division is a bunch of useless people; the commoners have suffered too much anger. This official collected their silver, so I must do things for them."

"What? You say the silver was given by merchants? Damn it, slap his mouth! Without the commoners spending money, can the merchants' silver appear out of thin air? Huh? Your salaries, without the commoners paying taxes, can they be issued? In the final analysis, the silver we earn comes from the commoners."

"Don't think that just because you entered the yamen, you are superior to others. Do you feel that you have been much more majestic when you go out recently, and some masters have also given you smiling faces? Bullshit! They are afraid that I will find trouble for them, not afraid of you!"

"What kind of life did you live before, what kind of anger did you suffer? You know best. Letting you oppress the commoners and scrape silver, you couldn't even scrape it clearly. Damn it, I heard that there are people who are not promising, actually scrambling to grab copper coins from old men selling firewood in the city. Damn it, if I know about such things again, then wait for your death."

"Do you all understand?"

More than a thousand people gathered at the yamen entrance, looking at Wang Yan standing on the table in the field, and answered loudly: "Understand!"

Wang Yan waved his big hand: "Within the East City, this official does not want to see a single local ruffian. What are you still stunned for? Go grab people!"

"Yes!"

Thus, a bunch of yamen runners, helpers, and fire brigade soldiers scattered murderously to grab hooligans...

Wang Yan looked at the crowd scattering with satisfaction, then strolled back to the front hall of the county yamen, sat on the chair, and drank canned tea.

County Assistant Ma Defu approached: "Magistrate, these local ruffians cannot be grabbed up. We grab them on this side, and they run to that side, or they disappear. After a while, when the wind passes, they all come out again. Being lazy and hating work, bullying the soft and fearing the hard, is human nature; it is truly difficult to forbid."

Wang Yan glanced at him: "Old Ma, take the energy you used to find trouble for me with the Second Young Master Xu and use it here. It's just a group of local ruffians; can't you even deal with them?"

"If they disappear, aren't there commoners coming to complain? If commoners complain, then grab them. If they run to that side, then grab them to that side. I don't believe that the people of Wanping County, the people of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division, who dares to go against this official. Unless these ruffians flee the capital, they will all be grabbed. And the human traffickers, keep a close watch on them; if you find evidence, deal with them severely and fine them heavily."

"There is also one more thing. Within the scope of our Daxing, no beggar is allowed to appear on the street. Take a sum of silver to expand the shelter, settle the old and children, and find fallen scholars to teach the children to read and write."

"Magistrate, it can't be saved." Ma Defu looked heartbroken; he understood that the beggars on the street were not just a beggar's matter.

"You save them first; aren't I thinking of ways for other things? Old Ma, with more than two million taels of silver in hand, there are too many things to do. I remember that the previous statistics said Daxing had 390,000 people, let's count as 400,000. Even if silver is distributed per person, everyone can get five taels of silver. Spend these five taels of silver in a year; you won't starve, you won't freeze, and you can eat meat a few times and drink a few pots of wine. Old Ma, remember, there is no problem that cannot be solved. If there is, then there are only two reasons: one is that there is not enough silver, and the other is that the people are not good. Now that our Daxing cannot do things well, it can only be that the people are not good. Whoever is not good, deal with them, and things can be done."

"Maybe you can even earn silver. For example, those rebels who assassinated me, didn't you and I both have houses? I also got two good shops. The yamen also has ten thousand mu of salary land. What a good thing?"

"Magistrate, I am wronged."

Just at this moment, accompanied by a wail, an old woman walked in and knelt directly on the ground.

"Don't rush, sit down and tell me slowly, give her a seat."

Wang Yan slapped the gavel and ordered the clerk to make a record.

The old woman sat on the stool tremblingly and slowly told her story.

It turned out that her eldest daughter-in-law was molested by a hooligan, and her eldest son stood up and hit the hooligan, and then the hooligans gathered a bunch of people and beat the eldest son until he was paralyzed in bed. After reporting to the government, the government just lightly sentenced the hooligans to be locked up for half a month, fined some silver, and paid them one tael of silver to finish it. It has been five years since then.

Wang Yan shook his head repeatedly: "Listen, everyone listen, what kind of scum is this? Huh? It's simply unreasonable! Come here, grab all these people and throw them into prison, raid their homes, and scrape together fifty taels of silver to compensate this old lady."

"County Assistant Ma, investigate this matter carefully, and expel all the yamen runners and clerks at that time from the team. Who was the previous Magistrate? I want to impeach him! Damn it, it's finally my turn to impeach others; I will impeach him to death!"

Wang Yan stepped forward and personally helped up the old woman who was kowtowing: "Old lady, this is all what I, the Magistrate, should do. You can rest assured; this bunch of bastards definitely won't have a good end. I must torture them until they are half dead. Go, sign and press your fingerprint, and then take the document back and wait. After half a month, take the document and come over to collect the silver."

The old woman went to sign and press her fingerprint obediently and left with expectation.

And then, the next person came to file a complaint...

With this, the local ruffians in Daxing suffered a disaster.

The ruthless people with names and surnames were all grabbed. Those who resisted, Wang Yan directly requested the Capital Battalion to suppress them. Professional soldiers wearing armor and holding sharp weapons, no matter how trashy their training was, were not something these local ruffians could touch; it was a direct crushing, a massacre.

Every day, people could be seen crying and howling on the street, and the figures who were majestic in the past were all dragged and beaten like dead dogs. No one jumped out to find trouble for Wang Yan; they were all very honest.

At the same time, on the other hand, Wang Yan sat in the hall to interrogate cases all day, listening to many grievances. The officials, yamen runners, and helpers in the yamen were also purified in this process.

And the powerful families involved also bled in this process.

Can't do anything about them because the case files were burned? Someone filed a complaint, someone testified, then it could be handled. And it was handled whoever he wanted to handle. The powerful families also learned Wang Yan's madness; he truly dared to take people to kill their way to the door and beat people into rebels. He handled the people first, and what could they do if they checked the accounts later?

Those big hooligan leaders all had people supporting them behind them. Wang Yan didn't even need to frame them; with real confessions and evidence, he could involve the powerful families. The big families didn't want their own family members to suffer, and they didn't dare to assassinate Wang Yan again, so they could only spend money to buy peace...

And as Wang Yan said, as long as they were in the capital, as long as they were reported, it didn't matter if they were in Daxing's jurisdiction or not; as long as they ran out of the capital, they were all grabbed.

Such a large-scale crackdown on gangs, even mobilizing the Capital Battalion, naturally had a considerable effect.

People found that the people who used to gather to do evil and were feared in the past were all gone. Those who owed high-interest loans found that the homes of those people were all raided, and those who were disgusting to their neighbors were all very honest.

Walking on the street, the alleys were cleaned up by the old, weak, sick, and disabled of the cleaning department. Strolling in the market, there were no beggars pestering people for money, no hooligans staring at good women with thief eyes, and no organized gangs of stealing, robbing, and grabbing. People felt smooth and smooth, and they were happy when walking on the street.

Corresponding to this was the Daxing prison being full, and the shelter being crowded...

Wang Yan fanned his nose: "Damn it, how many times have I said it? Clean! Clean! Why is it still so smelly? Wash it for me again! Shave off all the hair that can't be washed."

After counting the people who handled the shelter, Wang Yan turned his head and said: "The silver has been allocated to you, and the manpower has been sent to you. Why don't you expand it? So many people gathered together; if an epidemic breaks out, can you be responsible?"

"It's not that I don't want to expand, this matter is too troublesome." Ma Defu also had a headache. He patted his head, "Magistrate, I know you are bold and fearless, but this time it's different. The houses nearby were bought by Li Fei's family long ago, and they even wanted to buy this shelter that already existed."

"Li Fei?"

"Prince Yu's mansion..." Ma Defu reminded, "I went to find Li Fei's family, but they wouldn't see me at all..."

"You should have said so earlier; you had to worry until you couldn't sleep and your hair fell out in handfuls?"

Wang Yan looked disgusted, then ordered the minor official following behind, "Go, send my post to Prince Yu's mansion, saying I will visit in the afternoon to discuss matters."

It wasn't that he was arrogant, but that he was already qualified enough now. Even though he was only a small sixth-rank Magistrate, he could exercise his Magistrate power in the capital, or even over-exercise it. In Daxing, he had the final say, and he earned several million taels of silver for the Jiajing Emperor. If he wanted to enter the palace, he just had to report it, and the Jiajing Emperor would definitely see him. Not to mention Prince Yu.

If he said when he would go, Prince Yu, unless there was a real big matter, would definitely not refuse. He would have to set up a banquet in the Prince's mansion, treat guests with courtesy, and entertain him, this good minister who could make money and do practical things...

Ma Defu's eyes widened: "Magistrate, think twice..."

"Think twice my ass. Prince Yu is the Emperor's own son. We gathered beggars and made the streets clean and quiet; this is the Emperor's great virtue. How could Prince Yu block it? You should have told Prince Yu clearly long ago; you had to drag it until the shelter stank. And you even implicated me in seeing Prince Yu. Don't you know I avoid Prince Yu and Prince Jing?"

"Then I should go?"

"So many people are watching; I didn't know, so that's fine. Now that I know, can I still let you go? That would make me, Wang Yan, arrogant and not put Prince Yu in my eyes. Acting like this, where does it put Prince Yu? And where does it put the Emperor? Without monarch or father, how can I hold myself?"

Wang Yan waved his hand, looking at the many old and young beggars being driven to boil water, and asked, "Anything else?"

"The prison is full, and many people are living in the open. In addition, these people are not good things; they fight all day long when gathered together, and have already beaten more than a dozen people to death. They also bribe jailers to inquire about news."

"No rush. I have my own arrangements."

Wang Yan ordered, "You send a document to the Ministry of Works, asking them to send manpower to Daxing to do road and water conservancy inspection and planning. In the whole territory of Daxing, existing roads that should be repaired should be repaired, and those that should be patched should be patched. Water conservancy should be re-planned to improve the water used for farming by commoners and increase the yield of farmland. Within a week, construction should start outside the city, and they should do a good job of planning and budgeting. Within a month, the planning and budgeting for roads and water conservancy in the whole territory of Daxing should be done, and at the same time, notify the Ministry of Revenue to request funding according to the 15% share we agreed on."

"The construction personnel who start work in a week will be the prisoners in the prison. Send a document to the Ministry of War and the Chief Military Commission, asking to mobilize the Capital Battalion soldiers to watch the prisoners work."

Ma Defu suddenly realized: "Magistrate, did you want these people to work from the beginning?"

"What good labor? Don't need to eat too much, and can be used to death. The sentence I gave them is at least two years. If they can survive, it's their tough life. If they can't survive, who can they blame?"

Wang Yan laughed, and in his mouth of 36.5 degrees, he said words of -273.15 degrees.

Should these big and small hooligans die? Many people actually shouldn't die.

But to govern the world, one must use heavy codes. Small crimes are judged heavily, and big crimes are judged to death, which can naturally ensure the stability and harmony of the capital for a period of time...

"Alright, hurry up and do things."

Ma Defu let out a long sigh: "There are too many things to do, and they can't be finished."

When Wang Yan first came, he thought Wang Yan was a person who grabbed power and wanted to grab everything, big or small. As a result, as Wang Yan unified the voices in the county yamen and gradually purified the team as the crackdown on hooligans progressed, Wang Yan had gradually let go of power.

So much so that his power as the County Assistant in charge of criminal law had increased sharply, and many things were decided by him. This made him happy, but also made him tired.

He didn't want such increased power. Walking through Great Ming, which yamen is as tired as Daxing? Not to mention having to get up early every morning, it has to end when the moon is in the middle of the sky at night. If it is not finished and things are accumulated, even have to stay up all night to make up for it.

For example, when grabbing hooligans at the beginning, they were grabbed intensively, and there were too many things to deal with. He slept less than two hours a day, which almost killed his old life...

But the result is indeed gratifying. The style of the entire capital has changed significantly, and he has a bit of a sense of accomplishment, feeling that he didn't read the sage books in vain and didn't serve as an official in vain.

On the other hand, he didn't earn less silver, and he didn't get fewer benefits. For example, the big house divided to him, for example, he could walk the accounts from the county yamen every day to buy vegetables, meat, and grain for his family.

Wang Yan, needless to say, is very luxurious...

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As for Wang Yan, that goes without saying; he is extremely extravagant...

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