Winter goes and spring comes, and it is the end of February of the 16th year of Jian'an.

Since the Sun and Liu families reached an alliance again, the cloud of war hidden above Jingzhou has completely disappeared. As time goes by, this long-torn and deserted state has slowly recovered from its extreme decline, slowly enriched its vitality, and showed a momentum to be renovated.

In decades of troubled times, all kinds of unimaginable atrocities swept the world and tortured the common people and Guizhou leaders to the limit.

Before the war, what else could they sing: "Hairs are like leeks, cut and resurrection; heads are like chickens, cut and chirp again." When the heads of the people were chopped off like leeks, and the bodies filled the road, the people had no requirements except survival itself. The songs sung became: "The soldiers are like a city, and people die like forests. The mouths of tigers and leopards are not as good as hungry people."

In such a chaotic era, it may be difficult for officials in charge of the government to make a difference, but it is easy for them to be worthy of their conscience. As long as they do not oppress and plunder, they can be praised by the people.

After all, Duke Xuande is known for his kindness. The abilities of the officials in various counties and counties he appointed may be different, and his governance ideas are different. But generally speaking, he can achieve the four words "political peace and legal affairs", not to mention that the military advisor and general ran around and checked for the missing items.

In the former Han Dynasty, Emperor Xuan once said: "The reason why common people are at peace in their fields without any worries and sighing is to calm the law of justice." Emperor Xuan's rule was just like this, what else can he ask for now?

This is enough.

The people have been tortured and have no demands.

This nation, these people who work hard are always like this. They do not blame the heavens, ask for help, rely on their own hard work and patience to endure unimaginable vicissitudes and sufferings again and again. It is as if wildfires cannot be burned out, and the spring breeze will be born again. This is the case in the past thousands of years, and it will be the case in the next thousands of years.

And their overturns, struggles and efforts fell on history books again and again, but only a few light words and words. Lei Yuan remembered two poems in his previous life: "A few lines of names in history, countless deserted hills in Beim." At that time, he felt the parallelism was elegant, and when he came to this life, he deeply realized that those who recorded history never took the suffering of the ants and people to heart.

So thousands of years later, later generations only remembered how heroes, how famous generals, how counselors, and how patriots were. And those who were outside the hundreds of names, millions of living people, were slaughtered and forced until their flesh and blood were stepped into mud, as if no one cared. Later generations sometimes read historical books and even praised them, either the hero's true nature or the decisive killing. There were actually some records that could not be explained in a few words, so they called it the white jade flaws.

Lei Yuan could not accept this idea.

Lei Yuan knew that he was not a saint, nor a great man, and could not change the world. But he was willing to treat the people around him as real people and let them live better. When he was the leader of the Lei clan in Lujiang, he tried his best to take good care of his clan members. Now he is the prefect of Yidu County, so he hopes to take good care of the military and civilians of this county as much as possible.

As for how to do it...

Lei Yuan believed that he did not have outstanding talents in governance. In terms of daily governance, he chose to trust his capable subordinates: including Xiang Lang, the county magistrate who was proficient in officials and promoted government affairs, Jiang Wan, the head of Le Township, who focused on appeasement of the people, and did not embellish the government, and Zhou Hu, who was instilled with the concepts of assets, liabilities, profits and losses, carried more and more bamboo slips with him.

He himself, through a series of specific government affairs, understands the practices of his subordinates, analyzes the reasons and backgrounds for their decisions, so that he can gradually enter the identity of the prefect and advances some special tasks.

In this process, the influence is mutual. Xiang Lang and Jiang Wan will also accept certain ideas brought by Lei Yuan from later generations, and then combine them with the reality of this world.

For example, now, Xiang Lang and Jiang Wan have accepted Lei Yuan's opinion and took out most of the income obtained by the county government from the Lexiang city in the past six months and invested it in large-scale infrastructure construction. The order of construction is still what he arranged in Lexiang: first farmland water conservancy facilities, second roads and bridges, then post houses and residences, and finally urban construction, including extremely important sanitary sewage discharge facilities.

According to Zhou Hu's calculations, this construction is expected to take five years. During these five years, every five-zhu coin of income obtained from Lexiang City will be spent again.

Xiang Lang and Jiang Wan could not imagine such a project. After all, since ancient times, the only correct way to implement Huang-Lao's Way and rest in troubled times was the only correct way to implement the Way of the People. When they first learned about this plan, Jiang Wan almost angrily scolded him as a way of inaction, and even the memorial to appeal to Xuande Gong over the level had been written overnight.

But after Lei Yuan's persuasion, they agreed to give it a try skeptically... and then they felt it was really fragrant.

Although the money and materials in the county temples were gone out in a hurry, many poor people were first rescued. While the rescue, the poor people, the barbarians and monks in the mountains were effectively organized and a large number of facilities were improved at an extremely low cost. Each of the improvements of the facilities quickly played a role.

Farmland water conservancy facilities, such as ponds, ditches, pools, water trucks, etc., will almost certainly bring about a bumper harvest this year. Even if the spring plowing has not yet been launched, people feel stable when they see these facilities. Among them, the people in Yiling, Zigui, Wuxian and other places are particularly serious. In the past few years, the military generals who fled from Yizhou have really lacked in the civil affairs direction; so the actions of the new prefect immediately made the people return.

The construction of roads and bridges attracted business travelers in Yizhou.

At the end of the 15th year of Jian'an, merchants from Shu came to the east through the Yangtze River. Most of their targets were Jiangling, and some brave people who intended to go directly to Wuhui after Jiangling changed their ships.

For this reason, Lei Yuan urgently sent people to repair several important passes along the Xiajiang River, and the county government came forward to collect some passing money to subsidize expenses. At the same time, he asked Liu He to recruit some wise municipal officials and let them be responsible for reception in the post office.

The tasks of these municipal officials are very simple. During the reception, I would like to mention: There is a big city in Lexiang County, which is a good place to trade with the Jingman and the great clans of Jingzhou. Once the other party expressed interest, the official road guided by the Hujingman Captain Hujingman was distributed on the spot.

In this way, according to the feedback from the Lexiang market, famous Yizhou products such as Shu brocade have begun to appear in the market recently. All the barbarians who claim to be after Panhu usually like five-color clothes. Therefore, as soon as the Shu brocade appeared, they were chased by the chiefs of Qu, who had gained a huge fortune through transactions.

It is said that some particularly exquisite Shu Jin was bid by several chiefs, and the final price was five times higher than expected by the merchants.

These few batches of people who went to Lexiang City were just small vendors and did not carry enough supplies. When they returned to Yizhou and came back, it was the beginning of a large-scale commercial exchange. Thinking of the wealth of the Tianfu Country, both Xiang Lang, Jiang Wan and Zhou Hu began to shine in their eyes.

At the end of January, news came again that Zhuge Liang also issued a document in Linying, requiring the city, government office, bridge, and road in various places in Jingnan. At this time, Xiang Lang, Jiang Wan and others were completely convinced, and everyone said that the views of those who are capable are similar.

So today, Xiang Lang pulled Jiang Wan to meet Lei Yuan. This was the first day when Lei Yuan re-handled his official duties many days later. Xiang Lang made full preparations and personally laid a huge map on the main hall of the county government, intending to start discussing the construction of the city.

However, Lei Yuan, who has always been energetic, is a little absent-minded today.

Xiang Lang said a few words, but he only responded to the answer.

"Prince, what are you thinking?"

"Ah? Ah?" Lei Yuan came back to his senses: "Oh, I happened to think of something else."

Xiang Lang said seriously: "Prince, what else can be more important than governing the official affairs of this county?"

"Of course not, naturally not." Lei Yuan smiled dryly.

Lei Yuan was indeed distracted just now. He saw Wu County on the map and Wushan again. Somehow, he thought of a happy married life in his mind.
Chapter completed!