Xu Dongsheng was quite impressed with Zhao Qingyan's martial arts skills.
If it weren't for his wife by his side, he would be considered a master.
With his wife around, he was relegated to the category of brother-in-law, a weakling.
Xu Dongsheng now has absolutely no good impression of the people in Lianhua Village.
A bunch of greedy bastards. Even without Wang Yuanfeng's unscrupulous help, these people are inherently no good.
The village chief's calm demeanor and lack of intervention just now...
I knew that these villagers had done this many times before, and even the village chief thought it was normal.
Xu Dongsheng toured the entire village and, together with his father-in-law, inspected the land conditions.
To govern a region, one must first understand its basic economy.
During the agricultural period, the most important thing to understand is the land condition so that cultivation can be carried out in a targeted manner.
Upon learning that the land in Lianhua Village had been planted with the same crop for several consecutive years,
Moreover, production declined year after year, and Zhao Minggeng and his son-in-law realized the problem.
None of the lotus-loving women in this village actually put their minds to farming.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have been planting the same crop year after year without realizing it was affecting their yield.
However, you can't blame them, since their skills lie in moral blackmail and thick skin.
Why work hard to earn money when someone gives you money for free?
Only a fool would do that.
Even with low grain yields, the county magistrate was able to help apply for tax reductions and exemptions; that's why Wang Yuanfeng is such a good person.
He truly devoted himself to the people, but he didn't use the right methods.
It unleashed the full extent of the evil in human nature.
The investigation and visits conducted by Zhao Minggeng and his son-in-law were not simply a matter of showing up briefly and calling it a day.
They inspect the soil quality of almost every piece of land, including paddy fields.
In particular, the row spacing in paddy fields was all documented in their records.
After inspecting the fields, they looked at the mountains and determined the exact amount of woodland in Lianhua Village, as well as the main trees and other crops in the woodland.
After making detailed notes, the group rode away on horseback.
The village chief wanted to invite the county magistrate to his home for a meal, but he didn't even have a chance to say it.
The magistrate's horse galloped away, leaving everyone else in the dust.
After the village chief saw off the county magistrate, the old women who had previously stopped Xu Dongsheng at the village entrance to demand money surrounded the village chief.
"Village chief, you have to stand up for us!"
In the past, my grandson's rice porridge was all fed with rice bought with money given by Magistrate Wang.
Now that Magistrate Wang has been transferred, where am I going to get money for my grandson's rice porridge?
When Granny Li said this, she didn't blush at all.
Upon hearing this, the village chief became furious.
"Your grandson's rice porridge?"
Let me ask you, how old is your grandson? He's four years old this year, and he's already got all his teeth.
Are you going to starve to death if you don't drink rice porridge?
Or are you saying that your whole family would starve to death without the county magistrate's subsidy?
Magistrate Wang has been transferred. If you want money, go ahead and follow him to another county. I won't stop you.
Why do they all have such big faces?
It's only because Magistrate Wang falls for your tricks that he was tricked by you people.
The magistrate of Xu County who came today is the top scholar of the previous year, a man of extraordinary talent.
He was able to lead the entire county to prosperity because of shameless people like you.
Whether our Lianhua Village will be within the area under the county magistrate's jurisdiction is still uncertain.
Then you'll see other villages getting richer day by day, and you'll be envious.
After finishing his speech, the village chief went straight home, too lazy to deal with all this annoying stuff.
He now feels a chill run down his spine just thinking about the magistrate's ambiguous smile when he looked at him.
That's not the expression of a young man in his early twenties; it's clearly the expression of a cunning old fox.
He is very afraid now, because of the villagers' greedy nature.
If we anger the county magistrate, he might not be able to help his villagers make money, which would be a huge loss.
Seeing that the village chief had left, the women who had been blocking the village entrance all waddled home.
Over the years, each of them had managed to get some benefits from the county magistrate, more or less.
Therefore, many families do not put much effort into farming.
After all, if you can have money without working, why bother working yourself to the bone? Yes, that's a very correct idea.
Therefore, the wasteland rate in Lianhua Village is very high.
At the same time, the harvest was also the worst in the entire county.
Zhao Minggeng and Xu Dongsheng visited the village very quickly.
In a single day, one might have to visit more than ten villages. This pace nearly drove the registrar crazy.
I used to envy others who were dressed in fine clothes and rode in high spirits.
Now that he actually rode the horse, after half a day, the insides of his two thighs were rubbed raw and bloody.
Especially when the county magistrate was riding a horse, he would speed up, making it even more difficult for the registrar.
Xu Dongsheng and Zhao Minggeng had actually noticed the registrar's discomfort long ago, but they were just waiting to see how long he could hold out before speaking.
Surprisingly, this person actually pulled through.
He didn't complain or cry out in pain. If it weren't for the two steps he took when dismounting that revealed his discomfort, it would have been very difficult to notice his problem.
Xu Dongsheng wasn't an exploitative man who would never be satisfied. Before sending the registrar home, he tossed the anchor a jar of ointment.
"Here, take this. It's for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. After you get home, clean the wound and apply some ointment."
Don't wear pants to bed at night; let the air circulate, and your skin will dry out overnight.
Be careful not to tear it.
Tomorrow, I'll have someone else accompany me on the inspection tour. You just stay at the yamen and organize your notes.
I have a plan for when that time comes.
The registrar accepted the ointment and expressed his gratitude.
It's just a pity that I can't go on the patrol with the adults tomorrow.
He served under the previous magistrate for six years, and aside from witnessing the magistrate being moved to tears by the people's cries, he also shed tears himself.
I've never seen him so thoroughly understand the entire village's situation, just like a new county magistrate.
How many children are in a family, how many are boys and how many are girls, and what are their ages? Whether they are related by blood or not, all these details must be clarified.
Regarding manpower, does the whole family work in the fields?
Even within a family, there are different classes; some are lazy and others are hardworking and diligent.
All of them have been registered.
Every piece of land is inspected, and the name of the corresponding owner is written down.
I've never seen anyone so meticulous.
Sure enough, in the near future, those families who were lazy and did not take good care of their fields did not receive the high-yield seeds provided by the county government.
Because of this matter, quite a few people went to the county government office to cause trouble.
As a result, they were all arrested and given free meals for a few days.
But they weren't left idle either; those troublemakers were dragged out of the city to reclaim wasteland.
Even with the help of an old ox, the vast expanse of wasteland was enough to exhaust them.
The so-called "reclaiming wasteland" refers to wasteland containing a large number of stones, grass roots, tree roots, and even various reptiles.
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