Before Sang Luo asked Yin Zongheng's attitude, he received a letter from Xizhou, who went to the south to take up his post. It was not the first time that Sang Luo had received news from Xizhou, and she asked Bai Ling to arrange for someone to be by Xizhou's side to send her the news back to Xizhou on time.

Xizhou is a newcomer, and the days when he first arrived in the south are naturally not easy at all. Although he is only a small county magistrate, he is also a parent official. But it's such a parent official, when he first arrived in the south, whether it was the head of the shop or the master, neither of them was easy to deal with, and the eyes were like a sieve. When Xizhou first arrived in the south, let alone start work, it was difficult for him to even get the people who called the county government to do something.

However, Xizhou's ability is there, and half a month is enough for him to firmly control the manpower and the county government in his own hands. Once these manpower are mastered, external pressure will follow. Xizhou's pressure is actually not a big problem, and the most helpless thing for him is that no matter what happens to the local people, even if the family members die due to various accidents, the victim's family will not report to the official. Several times he offered to come to the door and offer to make decisions for them, but none of these family members who died accidentally agreed to it. There are even people who think that the county master is too much in charge. This is in charge of heaven and earth, and there are still people who care if they sue or not? It was the people of their family who died, and they were unwilling to sue the official, what happened to the county master?

Even Xizhou was a little powerless at first, mainly because he could beat the people in the county government, but he couldn't touch these people. In desperation, he could only go to the door often and patiently explain to everyone what the government would do for them.

Later, Sang Luo felt that he was too slow to move like this, so while persuading, he also asked him to hire a few well-known local scholars. These scholars, among others, were always more familiar with the law than the illiterate common people. At first, Xizhou just invited them to sit at the county office, or took out some unsolved cases accumulated over the years to listen to everyone's opinions. These should not have been told to outsiders, but Xizhou followed Sang Luo's advice and gave these scholars who had some status in the minds of the people a chance, and the most important thing for them to participate in it was to convey an attitude to them - the government during his tenure in Xizhou really wanted to do practical things for the people. Don't let them believe his words immediately, at least let them accept this fact subtly.

In fact, this practice does make these scholars pay more attention to the government. Especially since these people are all native-born locals, and the relevant people in the headless cases deposited there, they have basically heard of them, and even they know the parties involved. They haven't forgotten what the government was like in the past, and some of these cases even put together evidence, so that people can see what is going on at a glance, but it has become a backlog of unsolvable cases. The local people's complete despair of the government is also because of the slow accumulation of these things, and in the end they will be so indifferent. And now after this county official comes, not to mention anything else, just in this attitude, this county official has expressed enough heart-warming frankness.

It is precisely because of this that Xizhou has been slightly easier to carry out its work since then. When he had only been in office for a month, the first person finally came to sue the official. Although this case was only because the two families had a stalemate over trivial matters, they finally got into trouble with the county government because of the ownership of a few chickens. Of course, Xizhou actually understands in his heart that this is not a temptation? Therefore, he was very serious about solving the trouble for both parties.

Of course, such a trivial case could not immediately change the people's perception of the government, but at least they began to gradually accept the government. Slowly, when there was a dispute and the government needed to come forward, they also began to learn to go to the government.

However, Xizhou also knows how to do things, especially after Sang Luo reminded him. It was because he knew afterwards that the two families who came to sue the official first had a very hard time, and Xizhou did not take out his own money to help these people for a while. Because this is a temptation, if he does this, it will undoubtedly give some people who are not right-minded - this official is willing to pay for the sake of fame! If he had set such a precedent, he would have done things much more smoothly, but in the same way, it would have raised some people's ambitions. However, after this incident, Xizhou also began to speed up the process of increasing the income of the local people.

Xizhou is still a little younger, and he is also a serious and careful person, when there is something that cannot be solved, he will still write to Sang Luo to ask Sang Luo's thoughts and opinions. Xizhou was cultivated by Sangluo, and he is indeed very optimistic about this young man. Therefore, within the appropriate range, she is still very willing to help a group of Xizhou.

This time, Xizhou wrote a letter to find a way out for the local people.

Sang Luo played all kinds of people for the task, and it was actually a little troublesome for her to find a way out for her. But fortunately, she originally lived in an era of information explosion, and there were some things that she had never done and heard. If a small backward county wants to develop, it still has to start from its essence. She remembered that Xizhou mentioned that the local soil quality was not good, and most of it was sandy. This is also the reason why the local people have a hard time, ordinary farmers grow mostly grain, but it is not suitable to grow grain in sandy land. Suitable for some are sweet potatoes, peanuts and the like. Sweet potatoes can't be eaten as food all the time, and after paying taxes, they can barely make ends meet. Some families have a large population and a small land, and it is difficult to eat a full meal.

The sandy land is suitable for growing watermelons, which Sangluo knows. However, she had never been to that place, and she could only roughly mention her thoughts to Xizhou based on her imagination.

Sang Luo will join Yin Ningzhi, and maybe add a few more people who have a good relationship with her and have money in their hands to contribute together - the money-making Sang Luo will never miss - a large number of rented land for the local people, and the purpose is to grow watermelons in a large area. Although watermelons are only one season, not many people can grow them, and not so many people have the courage to risk starving their families to grow watermelons instead of food. However, this has also created a situation where watermelons are a rarity. The land was leased, and the people could get a sum of money. As for the taxes that need to be paid on those lands...... Sang Luo said that it was completely possible to let Xizhou write a letter, using "taking the local resources as the foundation and developing the economy of various places" as the reason, and imploring the imperial court to reduce or reduce taxes for one year or more. Regarding the operation of Bai and Yin, this matter is estimated to be successful.

In this way, Sangluo and the local people benefit both sides. After Sangluo leased the land, it was naturally impossible for him to farm the land himself, and the local people could still work in the fields. If the area becomes the largest place to grow watermelons, it will attract many businessmen. In this way, the local area will slowly begin to develop.

Of course, Sang Luo just gave such a suggestion, as for the follow-up matters, it should be up to Xizhou to solve it himself.

Sang Luo didn't know at this time how much of a consequence she casually gave Xizhou's few words of advice!