Signing in during the Republic of China: Starting from a foot patrol

Chapter 175

A new county magistrate came from Jiangdu County, and apart from causing some fluctuations among the wealthy gentry, ordinary people did not care about this matter at all.

Anyway, when the officials come, it is nothing more than a few things, adding taxes and taxes, squeezing oil and water, scraping land.

After so many years, everyone has become numb.

Love it, anyway, if you can have a bite to eat, and you can still live, it's enough, and you don't want anything else.

However, there was one person who seemed to be looking forward to it, this person was Bai Wenju, the eldest young master of the Bai family, a big household in Jiangdu County.

During the former Qing dynasty, the imperial examination system was abolished, but the Bai family still allowed Bai Wenju to receive a traditional private education.

In the view of Bai Wenju's father, Bai Futian, this imperial examination system has been practiced for thousands of years, how can it be said that it is canceled.

The emperor must have been deceived by the traitors around him, and when the emperor comes back, he will definitely restart the imperial examination!

It's a pity that Bai Futian didn't wait for the day when the emperor came back, and the Great Qing died!

Naturally, there is no point in studying the Four Books and Five Sutras again.

Therefore, Bai Futian entrusted a distant relative to send Bai Wenju to the Shangyang Academy in Dongjiang City, the capital of Lingnan Province, and later was admitted to Lingnan Higher College.

If Bai Futian could travel back in time, then he would definitely smack his own mouth at that time.

It was this learning experience in the new school that quickly broadened Bai Wenju's horizons, and the whole person underwent a fundamental transformation from the inside out.

Bai Futian originally thought that after graduating from college, his son would be able to go to the county as a foreign student to find a good errand, which also added glory to the Bai family.

However, when Bai Wenju returned to his hometown, the first thing he did was to take more than a dozen college classmates and burn the Bai family's cornucopia, five hundred acres of poppy fields.

Hearing this news, Bai Futian directly covered his chest and fell, almost not coming up in one breath.

Bai Wenju himself was impassioned, saying that opium misled the country and destroyed our people, and that such poisons should be completely eradicated!

He wants to follow Tan Gong's actions back then and eradicate opium, starting with his own poppy fields!

Bai Futian almost went crazy, he felt that his son was hysterical and possessed by demons, he first drove away several of his son's classmates, and then invited a witch god to exorcise his son.

As a result, not only was it unsuccessful, Bai Wenju seemed to be more ill, he directly stole the IOU of usury in his family, and then burned it all in front of the tenants and poor peasants in the village.

Bai Futian collapsed directly, and this time he didn't believe any witch god man, and directly announced in front of the whole clan that he would not recognize Bai Wenju's son and drove him out of the Bai family.

At the same time, Bai Futian also asked the doctor to prescribe a few tiger and wolf medicines, and asked the queen of the village to find him a few yellow flower ladies with big hips.

In a sentence from later generations, Bai Futian's trumpet practice is wasted, and he is ready to practice trumpet!

After Bai Wenju was expelled from the Bai family, he did not stop there, but continued to promote his set of ideas in Jiangdu County.

Although the gentry are extremely disgusted with Bai Wenju, Bai Wenju is Bai Futian's son after all, even if he is driven out of the Bai family, it is a matter of people's families.

The son of the people, people can beat and scold as they want, outsiders want to touch Bai Wenju, believe it or not, Bai Futian directly brought the clansmen to kill the door.

Therefore, everyone regarded Bai Wenju as a buzzing fly, simply turning a blind eye, out of sight, out of mind.

Although Bai Wen made great efforts to promote his idea of 'eradicating opium and saving our people', few people in the county bought it.

Therefore, when Lin Hongfei came to Jiangdu County, Bai Wenju had a new idea in his heart.

Bai Wenju felt that Lin Hongfei was the same age as himself, and he was from the capital, and he naturally had received a new education, and he would definitely agree with his ideas.

If you can get Lin Hongfei's support, you will definitely be able to eliminate all the opium in Jiangdu County!

So, with this thought, Bai Wenju came to the gate of the county office one morning to ask the guards to see Lin Hongfei.

The guards standing guard at the gate were the disciples of Jilu brought by Lin Hongfei, and they did not dare to delay and immediately reported to the captain of the guard.

The captain of the guard briefly chatted with Bai Wenju to confirm that this person was not a threat, and then reported the matter to Lin Hongfei.

"Bai Wenju?"

"Huh!"

"I was trying to get to know this person, but I didn't expect him to take the initiative to send him to the door."

"Invite him in!" Lin Hongfei said with great interest.

Soon, Bai Wenju was taken to the living room by the guards, and Lin Hongfei looked at the thin and handsome looking peer in front of him, but there was a hint of tenacity between his eyebrows, and then smiled:

"Young Master Bai, it's been a long time!"

Bai Wenju stretched out his right hand: "Hello, County Magistrate Lin!"

Lin Hongfei did not hesitate, shook hands with Bai Wenju, and then motioned for the other party to sit down.

"Young Master Bai, listen to the guards, you have something important to talk to Lin about, I don't know what it is?" Lin Hongfei said with a smile.

Bai Wenju simply took out a wad of paper full of handwriting from an old briefcase he was holding in his arms, and then placed it in front of Lin Hongfei.

"County Magistrate Lin, since the previous dynasty, foreigners have introduced opium into the country, plundered our national wealth, and destroyed our people's health."

"These evil things, which are harmful and useless, must be eradicated completely."

"This is the anti-drug plan of Jiangdu County that I personally compiled, and I hope that the magistrate of Lin County can implement it and completely eliminate such vicious things in Jiangdu County!"

Lin Hongfei did not rush to answer, but picked up the plan and roughly browsed it, then gently put it down, and pushed it towards Bai Wenju.

"Young Master Bai, although your plan is quite reasonable, have you ever thought that about sixty percent of the cultivated land in Jiangdu County today is planted with this thing."

"How many people are waiting for this thing to blossom and bear fruit, cut the pulp and sell it for money."

"Now this season, if I shovel this thing, it will be too late to plant any crop."

"At that time, these people will not be able to cut pulp and sell it for money, nor can they grow land and grain, and how they will live this winter, it will be difficult for them to starve to death."

Bai Wenju was not a fool, his eyebrows furrowed, and his voice was obviously much colder: "County Magistrate Lin, in this way, are you against this matter?"

Lin Hongfei smiled: "No way, this matter is related to the food and clothing of these people, I have to be cautious!"

Hearing this, Bai Wenju stood up and put away his anti-drug plan while sneering with disdain: "

Hehe, speaking of which, isn't it still the [million Caogong clothing and food department]."

"Do our countrymen suffer less in this regard, for the sake of the interests of this time, the future of the country is buried!"

Bai Wenju packed up his things, turned around and was about to leave, and before leaving, he said to Lin Hongfei in disappointment and anger:

"County Magistrate Lin, I thought you were from the capital before, and you are the same age as me, I thought you were different from those rat-eyed and selfish people."

"Now it seems that a person's nature has nothing to do with his hometown, learning, or age!"

When Lin Hongfei heard this, he said angrily, "Young Master Bai, you are scolding me in front of me."

"Believe it or not, I slashed you!"

Bai Wenju was not afraid, and laughed loudly: "Lead the knife into a fast, live up to the young man's head." "

Bai's head, waiting for Your Excellency to take it away at any time!"

Hearing this, Lin Hongfei didn't hold back, and burst out laughing: "Hahaha!

Of course, he was not laughing at Bai Wenju, but the poem quoted by Bai Wenju.