After walking around the courtyard, Lu Chen came to report that Village Chief Jiang wanted to see him.

Qian Chunhua was wondering why he wanted to find her.

As soon as Village Chief Jiang came in and saw Qian Chunhua, he knelt down and said, "Greetings, County Magistrate."

Qian Chunhua was stunned. This was the first time someone knelt down to worship her after she was conferred the title of county governor, except for the day when the imperial edict was announced.

On weekdays, everyone in the mansion is their family member and there is no need to kneel down.

When I came to the village, all the people I met were old friends from Huanghualing. They didn't even know they needed to kneel down.

so……

Qian Chunhua had no awareness of the problem and cheerfully thought it was normal not to kneel down.

Now that Village Chief Jiang was kneeling down, she was surprised.

However, I have seen Qian Chunhua before on TV, so I quickly calmed myself and raised my hand calmly, "No need to be polite."

Only then did Village Chief Jiang stand up.

"Look at the seat."

As Qian Chunhua's voice sounded, Village Chief Jiang sat on the chair below Qian Chunhua.

Qian Chunhua looked at Village Chief Jiang and asked doubtfully, "Village Chief Jiang, who are you looking for...?"

Village Chief Jiang didn't dare look directly at the county magistrate. He lowered his head, looked at his shoes, and said, "Excuse me, county magistrate, do you have any special arrangements for the fiefdom?"

Qian Chunhua was stunned. What did Village Chief Jiang mean by asking this question?

Not getting an answer, Village Chief Jiang continued to ask, "County magistrate, regarding the land in the township, are we going to follow the practice of previous years and plant crops at will, or will it be arranged by you, county magistrate?"

So this is what it meant. Qian Chunhua was confused.

She thought it was better to have less than more, so she said directly, "Let's just follow the usual practice of previous years."

She now has a lot of money in her hands, but she doesn't have the spare time to arrange what to do for the villagers in her fiefdom, nor does she have the time to bring the people in her fiefdom to get rich together.

If she has time in the future, she can give it a try.

After hearing the answer, Village Chief Jiang was silent for a moment, and suddenly fell to his knees with a thud. The sound was so loud that it scared Qian Chunhua and Lu Qin behind her.

"Please have mercy, County Magistrate." Village Chief Jiang kowtowed and said in a deep voice.

"What's the matter?" Qian Chunhua's expression gradually became serious.

Village Chief Jiang kowtowed again before slowly telling the story.

As Village Chief Jiang spoke, Qian Chunhua understood why Village Chief Jiang asked him for help.

When he was granted the title of county lord, Qian Chunhua learned about his fiefdom.

Although Taoyuan Township is called a township, it is actually only the size of a village.

That’s why Village Chief Jiang is called Village Chief instead of Li Zheng.

Including the newly assigned refugees, Taoyuan Township has 63 households and a total population of 326 people.

But the cultivated land area is only 400 acres.

This also includes the one hundred acres of land in the upper part of the village of Zhuangzi in Ruiyun County.

In this era of low yields per mu, such a large population would all starve to death if they relied solely on the harvest from the fields.

Moreover, due to the natural disaster last year, every household had to empty their savings to buy expensive grain in order to survive. Now they don’t even have money to buy seeds.

This year’s crops haven’t been planted yet, and I’m afraid it will take several more months before the harvest. But now, no one can hold on any longer. If this continues, we will all starve to death.

So there was a scene where Village Chief Jiang came to ask for help.

"As the village chief, what are your plans?" Qian Chunhua planned to listen to Village Chief Jiang's ideas first.

Village Chief Jiang prostrated himself on the ground and said in a loud voice, "I ask the county government to make unified arrangements and advance the money to buy seeds for the villagers. After the harvest, the villagers will return the cost of the seeds."