Chapter 3 Harvest (VI)

Without strength, you can slowly accumulate strength.

As long as you persevere in one direction, sooner or later there will be the day when sand gathers to form a tower.

And that would be his own power, not a gift from anyone, and of course, it would not be easily deprived of by anyone.

Thinking of this, the bitterness on the young man's face gradually dissipated, and replaced by a ray of warm sunshine.

"This boy is definitely not a thing in the pool!" Seeing Ning Ziming's face with his own eyes, the expression on his face changed from bitterness to expectation, and his eyes changed from anxiety to calmness. The imperial envoy Zhang Yongde quietly praised him in his heart. "I thought Jungui's praise for him was to create momentum for his friends, but now it seems that Jungui may have underestimated him!"

Before coming to Lijiazhai, he had imagined the other party's reaction after seeing the imperial edict and the mansion report many times. The calmest one might also show some disappointment to the Guo family.

After all, with his father-in-law Guo Wei's current status and strength, just by increasing the intensity of his operation, he can ensure that Shi Chonggui's throne is listed in the confidential category that only a very small number of senior officials are allowed to know, rather than appearing in the palace newspaper with such a big fanfare.

As long as the operation intensity is increased slightly, the court can issue an edict to find someone, and determine Shi Yanbao's identity in a roundabout way so that he no longer has to continue to hide his identity.

However, Guo Wei was unexpectedly cautious this time, and always controlled his own influence under the premise of not damaging the royal interests. In this way, from the other party's perspective, he could not help but wonder whether he would be willing to provide shelter to the young man. If Zhang Yongde had been in a different place with Ning Ziming, he might have made a big fuss immediately, and then he would always cut off his mat and break off diplomatic relations with Chai Rong and the Guo family behind Chai Rong.

However, Ning Ziming, who was standing in front of him at this moment, was extremely calm and indifferent, as if he had already realized it. Even if the imperial edict and the contents on the mansion were incredible, it would not have a severe impact on him.

"Is there anything else other than sending an order to Dingzhou when I came to Dingzhou this time?" Ning Ziming smiled and quietly turned the topic to another place. "If not, you might as well stay in the mountain village for a while. It's about to fall snow. The Taihang Mountains behind the snow look magnificent!"

"No, no, it's still unnecessary! Brother Ziming doesn't need to be polite to me!" Zhang Yongde was suddenly called the word "Phe" and was a little uncomfortable. He was stunned for a moment and waved his hand with a smile. "After passing the imperial edict, Brother Yu has to rush to Taiyuan to meet Liu Jiedu, so, so I don't delay too much here. Brother Yu is resting here for one night today and will have to set off tomorrow morning!"

"Since I have official duties to hold my brother, I don't want to force me to stay. Next time I hold my brother, come back again, please be sure to pause for a while, so that I can do my best to be a landlord!" Ning Ziming smiled again and whispered an invitation.

"That's natural. If you have the chance, you will definitely come and disturb Brother Ziming!" Zhang Yongde grinned and nodded with a dry smile.

Because of Chai Rong's relationship, he and Ning Ziming cannot be considered outsiders. However, when they call each other's words of prose, they feel an indescribable awkwardness. Therefore, they are not very interested in each other. After completing the necessary exegesis, they hurriedly left early the next morning.

Lijiazhai, which had been bustling all day long due to the arrival of the imperial envoy, quickly returned to tranquility. He discussed, trained, repaired the warehouse, sowed winter wheat, and from top to bottom, everyone's life became monotonous and dull again. On the surface, there was almost no change in the village. The only difference from before was that the Juyi Hall, which originally handled the affairs of the Lianzhuang Club, had a plaque secretly changed, and in a blink of an eye it became the official office of the Three Prefectures Inspection Office.

As for the rest, the house is still as big as the original size, and the guards at the door are still the original pure young people. The plum blossoms planted casually in the corners of the wall have already grown bones. When next spring comes, they will bloom with colorful flowers.

They are the most free. They just care about the hot and cold weather and never have to care about who is sitting on the golden chair in the lobby?

In the dullness, the first snow fell.

According to the practice of the Northern Kingdom, every year at this time, all outdoor labors must be completely stopped. Men, women, young and old will be driven back to the house by the whistling cold wind, put on thick cotton coats, fur coats, guard the brazier and keep the winter with their family. However, this year, the situation is a bit special. Anyone who holds an official position in the newly established Three State Inspection Office will lose the qualification to hold the winter, regardless of height.

But everyone can't complain behind their backs about the inhumanity of the inspector. The reason is that the first group of people from Taihang Mountains arrived, with a scale of more than 5,000. If everyone is busy waiting for winter but cannot settle them in time, a small part of these five thousand people will turn into a hard corpse in the storm of winter.

Although the Lianzhuang Association has completely become a patrol yamen, officials at all levels are still the original group of rural children. Although the simplicity and kindness in their bones have been suppressed, they have not been destroyed, and their hearts have not been stained by the officialdom. Suddenly, they saw so many ordinary people like their parents and brothers trembling in the cold wind. How could everyone remain indifferent? Almost without any mobilization from Ning Ziming, they used all their strength to arrange the people who came from afar to the uninhabited village on the banks of the Qingshui River.

Although those deserted villages were extinct because of military disasters last year, most of the houses and courtyards were basically intact, and they could be relocated as long as they were carefully cleaned up. The people from Taihang Mountain were not very picky. Seeing that there were ready-made old houses to live in and large areas of land that could be watered for cultivation at any time, they were overjoyed! In addition, they worked hard to cooperate with every order from the inspection office. Even if some orders were difficult to understand, they were still executed.

As a result, although all the officials in the inspection office were busy, their achievements were quite impressive. Almost half a month later, more than twenty new-looking villages were added along the banks of the Hanshui River. The wild wolves and dogs that were entrenched inside and around the village were cut and killed. The waist-deep dead grass was also cut off and bundles were thrown onto the roof, dressing up the originally dilapidated roof with golden light and a new look.

While cleaning up the new home for themselves, the people were also organized by the inspection office to repair the country roads connected to the main roads, so that every village had roads leading to nearby villages and county towns, rather than being isolated outside.

As Hu Yancong expected, when the county magistrate Sun Shan saw that he suddenly had more than 20 villages and thousands of people under his rule, he was not angry that the inspection office exceeded its authority, but was so happy that he couldn't stop. Before Ning Ziming wrote a letter to explain the cause and effect of the matter to him, he personally brought gifts and thanked him. He also promised that in the next three years, the county magistrate would not collect a grain of rice or a penny of taxes from the refugees. Not only that, all refugees would

The land they reclaimed is temporarily owned by the reclaimer as long as they do not have the original land deed to come to ask for within three years, and the amount is not limited. After three years, each household can retain up to 15 acres of ration fields and pay taxes according to the law. If the land reclaimed by someone exceeds 15 acres, the extra part must be returned to the government. However, this household has the right to rent the plant from the government first, and the land rent share will be included in the market.

In addition, the county government will allocate special funds to build a school in every five nearby villages. The teachers in these five villages are responsible for the gift of the hiring, but the hiring fee and the monthly rice and grain of the teacher will be paid by the county government. After the school is completed, the people of each village can send their children and nephews to study, and there is no difference in teaching!

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All these benefits can be seen by the naked eye. Yi Guzhu gave 1455. However, from arriving until he left, he did not ask about the origin of these refugees at all!

"This man surnamed Sun is indeed born with a piece of official material!" Watching the figure of county magistrate Sun Shan riding a blue and white mule, gradually moving away under the yamen runners, Li Shun'er, the leader of Lijia Village, commented. "Just just moved his tongue, he gave away most of the gratitude of the refugees. Looking back, the court can invite another good result!"

On the night when Ning Ziming and others rescued Tao Sanchun, although he was scared to death, he was also in disguise. He was jointly recommended by Chai Rong, Zhao Kuangyin and Ning Ziming to become the leader of Lijia Village. Every day, he used the names of the three brothers to swagger across the market. No matter where he went, someone would take the initiative to flatter him.

However, Li Shun'er's appetite was no longer something that a mere village leader could satisfy. These days, he saw more and more people following the three brothers. Deep in his heart, his expectations for his future are getting higher and higher. When he couldn't sleep alone at night, he always secretly vowed to hold the three brothers' thighs and never let go! In the end, he would either die without a burial place, or he would ascend to heaven!

"Isn't that what are the common people's concerns most? First, land, second, the future of their children and grandchildren. He made the decision to distribute land to the people, paid for school, and sold all the "good" that were easiest to sell! Leave all the difficult things and offensive things to the inspection office!" Guo Xin deeply agreed with Li Shun'er's point of view.

This time, he was ordered to escort Zhang Yongde to Lijiazhai to announce the imperial edict. After the errand, he was no longer responsible for protecting the latter and returning to Bianliang. Instead, he stayed with Ning Ziming as an external contact person of the Guo family. It just so happened that Ning Ziming didn't have many talents to use, so he simply let him be the head of the personal army, providing protection for himself at any time and giving advice.

"This dog official not only wants to express his merits to the court, but also likes the benefits of land reclamation!" The third person who stood up and expressed dissatisfaction with county magistrate Sun Shan was Tao Dachun, the eldest son of Tao Zheng. As a local hero who has read books and often goes out to broaden his horizons, he analyzed Sun Shan's thoughts the most thoroughly. "Why should the wasteland that others have worked hard to bring back to the government after three years? Why didn't the original presidency come to ask for the land deed within three years? Where is the foundation of the land deed? It's not in his county yard! Even if the original owner of the land and the immediate relatives of the original owner die, as long as he tries his strength to find it, how can he not even find a relative who is turning around? Then, based on the deposit in the yamen, he will forge a land deed and come to the door to ask the land reclamator for the case. How should the case be judged? Isn't it his mouth?"

"This..." Ning Ziming said to Li Shuner and Zhou Xin before, as a provocation and laughed at it. However, Tao Dachun's analysis changed his face in an instant. He had no experience in the officialdom, but he never expected that behind Sun Shan's active behavior of showing goodwill, there was still such a sinister thought hidden.
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