The big family in the county knew about the matter of coming to Xinjian County earlier than the common people.

    "It is said to be a young jinshi." The person in charge of the Bai family stroked his greasy beard, and a group of them were eating roast whole lamb in their yard. One piece of meat, one mouthful of oil.

    "Young Jinshi? Will it ruin our good?"

    They don't like young jinshi, they don't know how high the sky is, they think that they can speak on this land when they are admitted to the jinshi and become a court official.

    Bah!

    In this place in Dingsha County, even if he is a dragon, he has to be coiled, and if he is a tiger, he has to lie down.

    "The little boy who hasn't even grown his hair, can't even understand what we say, but he goes back after gilding."

    "That's right, a district magistrate, why are you afraid of him? Well, the horse thief outside the customs doesn't recognize him, what magistrate does not know the county. Hey, eat meat and eat meat. Mutton is nourishing. After eating the meat, look for it again. The two orchids are happy and happy."

    Several people laughed, eating meat and drinking alcohol.

    In the yamen at this time, An Yinong was opening the brochures sent by the county magistrate, and they were stacked more than one meter high. They were all about the county's population, taxation, criminal cases, and so on.

    He wants to extract the information and classify it so that it can be easily searched later.

    

    Just after he finished speaking, four blue-gray shadows appeared in the lower hall, all of them were ghosts wearing turbans and scholars.

    "Student Wei He/Zhang Xuefeng/Huang Tianshi/Liu Ming see the magistrate."

    An Yinong hadn't reacted yet, Gu Zhengzhong appeared next to him holding a wooden box: "Leave trivial matters to them, the master who has been a master for more than a hundred years, these things will always happen."

    "Sir." An Yinong stood up, closed the book in his hand and threw it aside, and walked over in three steps. His two hands were lightly held on Gu Zhengzhong's hands, the lights in his eyes flickered, and his expressions and movements were written with surprise.

    "I miss you so much."

    Gu Zhengzhong wanted to say that there were outsiders (ghosts), but those rules melted into a pool of spring water the moment he touched his eyes. How could Yi Nong be wrong? It was these four ghosts that appeared out of time.

    "Cough." Gu Zhengzhong glanced at the four dazed little ghosts, and the four master ghosts immediately lowered their heads. Think about it, don't worry, he separated another transparent wall.

    An Yinong noticed his movements and asked him in a low voice, "Sir, do you miss me?"

    "I miss you so much." This kind of straightforward love words made people embarrassed, and the tip of Gu Zhengzhong's ears turned red.

    "How much do you think?"

    "Daily letter to comfort love."

    This answer was quite satisfactory, An Yinong turned to talk about something else: "Why is Mr. here? I thought it would take a few days to see Mr.. If I know that Mr. is coming , I don't work with lights to pass the night."

    At this time, as if remembering something, he took a step back: "Sir, stay away from me, I haven't washed, and I'm covered in dust."

    "Crack, snap, snap." The system silently applauded: The host is amazing, not a word about 'like', but every sentence is cherishing and loving.

    And he obviously expected Gu Zhengzhong to come here early, and he can be so genuinely 'surprised'. If his acting skills are used in his career, it is no problem to get a few movie stars.

    Gu Zhengzhong was really distressed, but he didn't say sweet words, but said pragmatically: "This box is the weed with glue at the root that Yinong is looking for. In addition, I brought you some The available staff will give you a list in a while, there are people available, even if they are dispatched."

    "The county government is full of other people's minions and ears, and I am missing people." An Yinong said happily.

    Gu Zhengzhong pointed at the four little ghosts with their heads bowed: "These four people are masters, they are used to sorting documents, just leave it to them if you have something, don't tire yourself."

    An Yinong was a good man, he turned around and bowed: "I will work you all."

    The four ghosts were flattered: "Don't dare."

    So the four ghosts were working, and the pages were flying around.

    "If farmers want to know the local situation, they don't have to ask the businessman." Gu Zhengzhong went outside for a walk and brought back more local "informed ghosts".

    These little devils are male and female, old and young, commoners and powerful. They were warned before they came, so they are also very obedient at this moment, and they basically know everything and say everything.

    I thought it was just a simple bully colluding with the local government to oppress the people, but the more I heard it, the more terrifying it became.

    "Poor mountains and bad waters make troublesome people... The ancients do not deceive me." He paced around the room, and finally sat down. On his table were some files that had just been sorted out, and some files from the ghosts' mouths. Secretly asked.

    There are indeed four big households in Dingsha County, Jin, Bai, Wu, and Su. The four are related to each other by marriage, and they jointly monopolize the water source of Dingsha County.

    It is a local feature to ask for money for water. Another feature is that there are two double taxes, one for the government, one for the bullies, and one for the double tax, and the common people are miserable.

    This is not the biggest problem, the biggest problem, one is the serious land acquisition.

    The ten big landowners with the most land can actually occupy 80% of the land in the entire area of ​​Dingsha County, and all the other farmers and herdsmen are left to share the remaining 20%, resulting in More than 60 percent of the people do not have their own land, so they can only work as farm laborers, renting land for which half of the harvest is paid.

    In addition, there are too many horse thieves and road robbers outside the border, which pose a serious threat to businessmen and herdsmen, and also makes Dingsha County an 'isolated island', unable to get out or enter.

    Thirdly, the local people lack common sense, do not obey the law, and act extreme.

    Dingsha County actually came to the magistrate who wanted to change the county seat, but this magistrate touched the interests of some people in Dingsha County—a privately dug copper mine.

    Copper mines are not allowed to be dug by private people, but the people in Dingsha County are poor, they have no other way, they are like wolves who have been starving for many days to guard their bones. The magistrate knew about the mine, but before he could do it, he let the people from Dingsha County discover it.

   

    In addition, Dingsha County has a tradition of sending 'brides'? Every March, a young and beautiful woman is chosen and sent out of the city to be dedicated to the horse thieves as a 'filial piety'.

    These are not forced by others, but the choice of Dingsha County people. They choose to sacrifice others to fulfill themselves.

    "Do you still care?" Gu Zhengzhong asked. As soon as An Yinong entered the officialdom, he encountered such a realistic and dark problem. He didn't know whether it had affected his determination.

    "Turn! Why don't you?" An Yinong turned his head and looked directly at Gu Zhengzhong, "I don't care, the people here will be ignorant for generations. poverty!"

    Punishment will not make these people wise and kind. Punishment and poverty alleviation go hand in hand, so that people here can choose to be a kind and rich person.

    If being a good person means being poor, 90% of the people in this world will choose to be a rich evil spirit. This is human nature.

    "The people of Dingsha County are poor. First, because they have no land, no livestock, and no means of production, they can only work for others. The wages are low and often unavailable. Second, the poor local environment is also a reason. Not only can the water and soil fail to produce good food, but there are also bullies, horse thieves and bandits eager to try in the dark."

    An Yinong was pacing the room, thinking.

    To change Dingsha County, the first thing is to clean up the surrounding villains that will affect him, such as bullies, horse thieves, bandits and big landowners.

    One is to create a friendly environment, and two, it can also shock the people here, let them know that the new magistrate is a worse character than a bully. Moreover, building construction requires money, people, land, and materials. Suppressing bandits and killing bullies and clearing landlords can just **** a wave of blood.

    "Jin, Bai, Wu, Su." An Yinong tapped the table with his finger, and there was no anger on his face, even though he had just learned about the many tragic murders that took place on this land.

    The Wu family and the Su family are just vassals. Although there are also crimes and crimes, there is no life lawsuit yet.

    The focus is on gold and white.

    "They have more money, more land, and more people. But I am short of money, land, and people. You say, this is not a big piece of fat dangling in front of my eyes ?"

    These two companies have been operating in Dingsha County for a hundred years. There are thousands of strong thugs. I heard that they are still connected with horse thieves.

    An Yinong walked halfway around the house, he turned around: "There is a garrison nearby, right?"

    Gu Zhengzhong did not answer, An Yinong said to himself: "The eldest son of the Jin family is an official in the garrison, and wants to mobilize these people..."

    "You say," he rubbed his chin: "If I promise those officers and soldiers that I will share half of the money copied from the Baijiajin's house as military pay, will they be tempted?"

    I don’t know if the garrison is tempted, but An Yinong is tempted. A lot of money is needed for poverty alleviation and infrastructure construction, and this money cannot fall from the sky. the gift'?

    He, the 'evil force', has already taken a fancy to the assets of the two 'evil forces' of the Jin family and the Bai family, and wants to use the garrison's empty gloves, the White Wolf.

    In the next few days, An Yinong stayed in the backyard of the county government office during the day, or recited poetry, played the piano and painted, and often read the spring flowers and autumn moon in his mouth, and did not go out easily.

    But at night, he learned about the situation through those local ghosts, and sorted out the information from previous years.

    According to his request, these little ghosts must find out the situation of every household in Dingsha County, including their population, fields and livestock, whether there is disease, whether it is difficult to use water, etc.

    An Yinong marked one by one on a map of Dingsha County, which village has more poor people, which village has less available land, and which village needs to flatten the village to dominate the landlord.

    He did all this work at night with the lights on, and no one knew about it.

    Most people in the county government have already voted for those two companies. They saw An Yinong wearing a blue shirt and reciting acid texts all day, and they reported back, saying that the young magistrate was a fool who only Knowing the Four Books and Five Classics, reading and reading is dead.

    Jin and Bai are secretly happy, these brainless scholars should be fooled. Therefore, they have never had the trouble of looking for a new magistrate, and Dingsha County is quiet, as if they have never changed magistrates.

    In less than ten days, An Yinong has basically sorted out the distribution of forces in Dingsha County, including the surrounding horse thieves' nests and key personnel, as well as the gold and white family wealth storage places.

    He also got a letter from Jinbai to the horse thief.

    Afterwards, he wrote a secret letter, attaching the correspondence between the Jinbai family and the horse thief, hoping that the special case would be handled and the local garrison should be mobilized to clean up the pests.

    At the same time, he finally went out, dressed in an out of place scholar's uniform, with a silly and sweet expression on his face, walking around the street with Tian guard and the county magistrate who acted as a translator. You have to take a look at the things you want, ask questions, communicate with local merchants in mandarin with gestures and gestures, and look like a big fat sheep.

    Seeing him, the merchants on the street have different expressions. They seem to know his identity and speak more cautiously.

    Annun noticed their eyes twinkling, looking at who in the crowd.

    It seems that in the ten days he was in the county office, everyone here has been 'warned'.

    They wanted to block his ears and eyes so that he could only see what they wanted An Yinon to see and hear.

    He pretended not to pay attention, and continued walking with a fan. This is the season for melons and fruits to go on the market. He saw melons and fruits in Dingsha County on the street, as well as cattle from Dingsha County that the businessman said earlier.

     

    As for whether it is specific or not, it is hard to say.

    Dingsha County's melons and fruits are sweet and juicy. Although small in size, the quality is very high. But the most surprising thing is the cattle in Dingsha County.

    The cow with black short horns is said to have only been raised for more than a year. It has short and fine hair, and the meat is red and white. It can see the beautiful marble texture, and it tastes faintly sweet.

    He bought a basket of melons and fruits, and ate beef roasted with local special spices, and only spent a dozen pennies, and then continued to admire the characteristic border towns.

    As a border town, Dingsha County has a different scenery from the Central Plains.

    There are often businessmen on the street leading camels. There are two long-faced and slender-waisted hounds beside the businessman. From time to time, an alien with a high nose and deep eyes can be seen, and there are many buildings on both sides. A masterpiece of fusion of Chinese and Western civilizations.

    An Yinong curiously observed that Dingsha County has sufficient sunshine and little rainfall, so the buildings here are mostly made of mud bricks. The local people collect ores to make pigments, which are painted on the walls to decorate. These decorative patterns are very strange and interesting.

    He also noticed strange plants, like succulents, on the roofs of local houses.

    "Oops~" He was about to take a closer look, when he suddenly heard a coquettish cry from a woman, and saw a white and beautiful woman softly fell in front of him, with one hand gently pressing Ankles, face raised at a forty-five degree angle.

    "Young Master~" She bit her teeth lightly, and the standard Mandarin appeared in her mouth.

    "Oops!"

    An Yinong was also frightened, he stepped back three meters: "Girl, men and women don't kiss, don't damage my innocence."

    Passers-by:…

    The woman on the ground:…

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