It is another one of the two major meetings in January. The main content of this time is the upcoming spring planting and the civil service examination that will be held tomorrow.
Man Bao didn't say anything about the two important matters. She was quietly looking to the side and back to look at Magistrate Guo.
Magistrate Guo raised his eyelids and looked at her, thinking she was looking at Magistrate Tang, so he gave Magistrate Tang a hard poke for her.
County Magistrate Tang was shocked and turned back to glare at him calmly. Magistrate Guo motioned him to look at Zhou Man with a faint look.
Magistrate Tang looked at Zhou Man.
Man Bao looked at them in confusion, not knowing what they were going to do.
When Magistrate Tang saw it, he immediately turned around and glared at Magistrate Guo.
Magistrate Guo:......
At the end of the court meeting, Magistrate Tang deliberately rubbed his waist and stood up, and said with a half-smile to Magistrate Guo: "County Magistrate Guo is very strong."
Magistrate Guo looked at Zhou Man, wondering what her look meant.
Man Bao coughed slightly and stepped forward with a smile on his face, "County Magistrate Guo, are you free at noon? I have been taking care of you for so many years. May I invite you to have tea at Qingfeng Tower?"
The Magistrate of Tang County on the side said quietly: "In all these years, I have never seen you invite me to Qingfenglou for tea."
Man Bao hesitated for a moment and then said, "Senior brother, will we go too?"
Magistrate Tang looked at her intently, and after a while he snorted and said, "I won't go."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Magistrate Guo was very curious about what Zhou Man wanted to do with him.
"Introduce me to Magistrate Xun?" Magistrate Guo's eyes widened in surprise. Do he and the magistrate of the next county still need to be introduced by Zhou Man?
Manbao smiled and told them about their plan to build a road.
County Magistrate Guo understood instantly, thought for a moment and then said: "We have always had a lot of laborers in Wannian County. I am afraid that the people will have objections to the sudden increase of a section of road."
He said: "After all, people from Wannian County rarely go to Yongzhou. Whether we practice or not, it won't change us much, and we can't go far from the existing official path."
Man Bao opened his mouth. He didn't expect Magistrate Guo to object. Building roads is a good thing.
"County Magistrate Guo, do you know how much the vegetables in Wannian County cost now, and how much the vegetables in Yueyang County cost?" Man Bao said: "Not to mention road construction, it will only bring more farmers from other places.
I don’t know how many people have been benefited as a by-product.”
Magistrate Guo smiled slightly, "Master Zhou is right, but the goods from Yueyang cannot come in. What they consume are the local goods of Wannian County. Yueyang wants to make money from Wannian County.
Shouldn’t they be the ones paying to build this road?”
"Yueyang County has already taken charge of a section of the road," Manbao said for a moment, feeling vaguely that something was wrong, so he changed the subject and said, "Why not, since Magistrate Guo has this intention, why don't you have an interview with Magistrate Xun.
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Magistrate Guo raised his eyebrows, a little disappointed that Zhou Man actually reacted.
However, building roads is indeed feasible, it just depends on how much trouble you have.
So Magistrate Guo nodded and decided to find someone else to deal with it.
Manbao breathed a sigh of relief and poured tea for County Magistrate Guo, "Mayor Guo, please have some tea."
It was a rare treat for Zhou Man, so Magistrate Guo naturally had a good taste of this tea.
Man Bao went back to the palace in a huff, and when it was time to go to the lower office, he ran to find Bai Shan and hummed: "They are all old monsters, they want to dig a hole to bury me."
Bai Shan listened to what she said once and said with a smile: "Serving orders are a big deal. If you can send them less, you should send them less. This road can connect your fiefdom, Yueyang County, Huangzhuang and Xincheng. It's a big matter. You think you are doing it?"
It's a fair journey for each person, but they also have to be willing."
He said: "County Magistrate Guo has the upper hand in this matter, so he will naturally get more benefits. You are right not to participate. Anyway, no one dares to expand the section of road claimed by you and Princess Mingda.
Part of it is left to the two counties to argue among themselves."
When Man Bao was in the middle, he noticed Magistrate Guo's bargaining intention, and had already planned to persuade her to persuade Magistrate Xun, so he urgently withdrew.
She is not a local official after all, so she shouldn't get involved too much in this kind of thing.
Local affairs were too troublesome, and she felt that things in the Imperial Hospital and the Imperial Medical Office were far less satisfying.
Although Bai Shan's time as an official was short, he came into contact with no less people than Zhou Man.
She has always been at the top. She came up with ideas about matters in the Imperial Medical Office and the Imperial Hospital. She also wrote the notes in front of important ministers like the Emperor and Wei Zhi. They discussed only large-scale matters and had no idea that the people below were going to discuss them.
It's more trivial things.
It is a matter of detail that the desk and chair that the Imperial Medical Office wants to buy should be purchased with money, or should it be purchased from other departments.
Bai Shan smiled slightly at her and said: "Ignore them now. We have already issued a service order on this section of our road. You are the feudal lord after all. Do you want to take the time to go to the countryside to see if they are in trouble?"
Upon hearing this, Manbao immediately nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go after I leave the office tomorrow. Let's hurry up and take the small road and we'll be there soon."
Regardless of whether Magistrate Guo agrees to build that section of the road, anyway, the three of them have already started to build the three sections of road that they originally planned.
Taking advantage of the fact that the farming season had not yet arrived, Xun County Magistrate wasted no time and notified the chiefs of each li to go to the county for a meeting that day. Then he selected the servants of Wuli and issued a ten-day service order.
In the Jin Dynasty, each household had to send a soldier to serve for twenty days every year, plus two days in leap years. This year is not a leap year. Now the Xun County magistrate issues service orders for ten days, so there will be ten days left in autumn and winter.
Usually it is not a life-threatening matter, such as the river embankment being destroyed, etc. A knowledgeable county magistrate will deliberately stagger the time when farming is busy, and basically serve during the slack time.
It is not yet the busy time for farming, so Xun County Magistrate issued a service order. Although the people below were a little dissatisfied, they still got ready.
The section of road that belonged to Zhou Man was naturally used by servants from Zhou Man's restaurant, and Zhou Man was responsible for the expenses of the servants.
Man Bao handed the matter over to Wu Lang and Zhou Lizhong.
This was the first time for Wu Lang and Zhou Lizhong to take on such a job, but Wu Lang had served in the military and probably knew what it was like to serve.
So I prepared food and vegetables early in the morning, and also bought some pork and gave it to the woman who was invited to cook. I watched her every day to cheer people up.
Everyone was still working when Man Bao and Bai Shan came riding in. Next to them, Wu Lang was waving his hands and standing in front of a big pot, turning vegetables.
Seeing Man Bao coming, he immediately handed the spatula in his hand to a woman, raised his feet and ran up, "Man Bao, why are you here?"
Man Bao got off the horse, looked at Fifth Brother, and said in surprise: "Fifth Brother, why are you like this?"
His face was gray and a lot darker. Didn't she just see him last night?
Is it because the lights are dim at night that I can't see black and white?
Wu Lang grinned and said: "I just moved a few baskets of mud with them, and now it's like this. You see, a lot of it came out in three days."
Man Bao came over and saw that the road had been widened a lot, and it could accommodate two carriages driving side by side. It was more than twice as wide as before, and even a carriage was stumbling along.