In Chapter 354, Situ Qingtian issued a decree, and the people and villagers had a good winter
"Everybody, get up!" Situ Jin was a little angry, he just wanted to come and see, he didn't want to be alarmed, so he didn't even wear an official uniform, but he still let these people spoil their original intentions. But he didn't expect that although he didn't like it, these people who served were so happy that their faces bloomed.
There was a big man, who looked nearly forty years old, with a muddy sweat on his face, and kowtowed to Situ Jin three times in a row with his head lowered, "Lord County Order, Lord Qingtian, I am a rough person, I can't say anything, I will give you a tablet when I go back, and burn incense for you, you are a great benefactor of our family!" "This man has bad parents in his family, several sons live with him, and even a group of grandchildren. In previous years, not to mention that they were full, they couldn't drink enough water. But now he is on duty with several sons, not only is he full of food every day, but he has also saved a lot of food in a few days. In previous years, even the New Year was not so happy.
Now as long as they can endure hardships, not only can they eat well, but they can also earn money for their families, and the county magistrate is merciful, and he will let them go home for the New Year at the beginning of the lunar month, and they will only use it to serve again after the first month. These good things are all thanks to the blessings of the county magistrates. Although these people are coarse, who is really good for them, and who is a corrupt official, they know in their hearts.
"Yes, what the big man said is right, I also kowtow to the Qingtian lord!" Someone stood up, and these ordinary people who got benefits also stood up.
"The mother-in-law took her family to open up the wasteland and plant forage, and we worked hard here, and now we not only have food in winter. When the forage is harvested before the snowfall, you can go into the city to exchange for silver, and there is finally hope for this year! This is all thanks to the blessing of the great master of the blue sky! Situ Jin's eyes were red, in fact, he didn't do anything for these people. All they got was exchanged for physical strength, but these kind people compared him to the blue sky and to a god. How could he not be moved.
"Alright, it's cold on the ground, everyone get up quickly, you just have to do a good job. After the turn of the year, the official will run village schools in each village, and invite Xiucai Gong to teach children to read and write in each village. This day will only get more and more prosperous! Situ Jin's words were like a thunderclap, which shocked everyone and no one made a sound on the spot for a long time.
This idea was thought of by Situ Yan, and she has always believed that people should not be poor. It is necessary to read and write. Gather the best of all families. Although these people can't really learn anything, at least they won't be deceived. And those poor talents who only know how to live by chewing books every day can also earn some silver, and subsidize some household expenses or something. Otherwise, it is useless to be a scholar, and it refers to these people.
By the time these service people recovered from the shock, Situ Jin had already walked away, and the service people kowtowed to the sky a few more times before getting up. And even worse, they even cried on the ground. They have waited and waited for all these years. God finally opened his eyes and gave them a clean official.
Situ Jin returned to the inner courtyard of the county government, his eyes were still a little red, Gongsun Yu thought that Situ Jin had suffered something, so he couldn't help but be anxious, and only after asking, it turned out that his eyes were just moved with tears.
"Jin Lang, I've heard you say before, Yan'er Wen can be Anbang, Wu can set the country, I thought it was just your love for your sister. Now I know that Yan'er is a well-deserved living daughter Zhuge ! Even I admire her very much! But I look at Yan'er, I don't like merit, I don't fight for fame, even if it is her own idea, but she never makes a noise, and I don't know what she is thinking in her heart, it's really hard to understand! ”
"Yan'er has said before that she only asks for peace from her relatives in her life, and she is worthy of her heart in doing things! Fame and fortune are like dung for her! Situ Jin has long admired this sister in his heart, but he also regrets that the little sister was born as a daughter.
"Yes, if Yan'er was born as a man, I'm afraid that the world is hers!"
"Yu'er, this can never be said again, you must know that this wall has ears, so as not to cause trouble for the little sister for no reason!" Gongsun Yu was also emotional, but he didn't check it for a while, so he said something out of bounds. After being reminded by the minister, he hurriedly covered his mouth and nodded.
"Hey! If Yan'er is really born in the body of a man, she is afraid that the fortune and misfortune will be unpredictable, take the emperor as an example, Yan'er is still suspicious of her as a daughter now, if it is a man's body, I am afraid that Situ Mansion will be destroyed again! "This is really not Situ Jin's alarmism, with Emperor Wu's attitude towards Situ Mansion, there is really such a possibility.
Gongsun Yu also nodded in agreement, she now thinks that Situ Yan can be a daughter is really good, although her first love was robbed, but now her life can be regarded as a husband and wife raising their eyebrows together, I don't know how many people are envious. And Situ Yan is his sister-in-law, which is more intimate than his brother-in-law.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is the same as in previous years, but this year it is a festival in the General's Mansion, Situ Yan personally cooks and cooks, and the family licks their stomachs to admire the moon.
"Yan'er, you can support me, if you continue to eat like this, I won't need the New Year, I will eat fat!" Gongsun Yu rubbed his stomach and complained happily.
"My sister-in-law is too thin, and she is in charge of government affairs these days, and she is even more busy from morning to night, not to mention eating these, even if she eats big fish and meat every day, she will not get fat!"
"You'll be relieved of my heart, by the way, Yan'er, I want to hear you play the piano, the song of that day is still hovering in my head!"
Situ Yan has no ambition to play the piano today, the emperor's will has not yet arrived, she is busy with affairs every day, even if it is a holiday, in order to be happy that the family can eat, she is also busy from morning to night, and now there is no leisure to play the piano.
"If I haven't practiced for a long time, I'm already rusty, why don't you play and sing a song for my sister-in-law?"
"With you in front, how dare I get an axe, aren't you laughing at me!"
"Sister-in-law is a famous talented woman in the capital, I am just a monkey jumping out of the cracks in the stones, how can I compare with my sister-in-law, besides, you look at my brother's gaze, how much tenderness is like water in it, sister-in-law will never dial my brother's Yaxing!" As soon as he said that Situ wanted to hear it, Gongsun Yu couldn't help but be moved, thought about it for a while, and nodded in response.
The maids around him were busy preparing, and Gongsun Yu's piano skills were slightly higher than Situ Yanlai's. But the meaning of the words is very different, but Situ loves the house and Wu, and he is also fascinated by it. And Duanmu Xuan's eyes didn't take his eyes off Situ Yan's body. I didn't pay attention to what Gongsun Yu played. And Li Sanlang couldn't hear anything good or bad, anyway, in his opinion, except for the little sister, no one could play well.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, I waited until the Double Ninth Festival to look forward to the emperor's holy decree, as Duanmu Xuan expected. The emperor also agreed with his suggestion, and even gave him a good award, but this matter was a secret in the army. So it didn't make a big deal of it. but some cloth, gold and silver.
And Duanmu Xuanquan pulled these rewards into the county government and handed them over to Situ Yan, "I have received this merit for Yan'er, but I don't accept this reward!" ”
"This Emperor Wu is really stingy, and he will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver for such a big merit. Thirty horses of cloth. It's not enough to stuff your teeth! "Situ Yan will not be polite to Duanmu Xuan, she doesn't care about her name, but she will not let go of any benefits. Anyway, things were in her pockets, and it wasn't so easy to get them out.
"Yan'er, your appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and I don't know if you will be able to support you with the business of the Guogong Mansion in the future?"
"Who wants you to raise. I can feed myself on my own! "Situ Yan is not an ancient woman, she is at home with her husband and children. Not only can she support herself, but she can even feed her family.
"Yan'er, I know that you are very good at business, but it is natural for a man to support his family, you don't want me to support you, I have nothing in my heart!" Duanmu Xuan's face was aggrieved, other people's women are all soft and weak, but his sweetheart is stronger than men. But he fell in love with such a little woman, and he couldn't even extricate himself.
"Brother Xuan has heard such a sentence, yours is mine, mine is still mine!"
"Yan'er, you talk crookedly again, but although this is vulgar at first, it really makes some sense when you think about it, anyway, I am all yours, and as for those things outside the body, they are naturally yours!"
"Duanmu Xuan, you are playing poor again!" Situ Yan was really angry with Duanmu Xuan, as long as there was no one around, he would tease her, how could she be tempted by such a person in the first place.
"Okay, Yan'er is not angry, I don't say it! In two years, Yan'er will be the first, and I will definitely send ten miles of red makeup and a hundred dowry gifts to welcome you! ”
"Don't, wealth is not exposed, if you really have that mind, just load ten boxes of gold and send it to me!" This is the first time Situ Yan has responded to Duanmu Xuan, but it really doesn't sound very comfortable. However, Duanmu Xuan still had a smirk on his face.
The emperor's decree has been issued, and Duanmu Xuan sent someone to negotiate the conditions with the Turkic guards on the second day, and finally exchanged a thousand stones of grain and 10,000 taels of silver for the scorched land of Yishui Henan. The Turks retreated to the north of the Yishui River, and the two armies were not allowed to invade each other.
When the conditions were met, Duanmu Xuan sent the grain that Situ Yan had prepared to do his hands and feet to the Turks, and the Turks retreated to Yishuibei after getting the grain and silver.
"Brother, the Turkic soldiers have retreated, you immediately send the people who serve to dig a ditch outside the fortress, maybe you can get the water before the dry season!" Situ Yan has been busy these days, and the biggest thing in her heart now has her eyebrows, and her frowning brows have loosened a little.
"Ziheng came early in the morning to deliver the letter, and I have already sent someone! It's just that as soon as the people on the service heard that they were going to the fortress, they couldn't afford to kneel, for fear that they would not return! It's hard for my brother to be reluctant to be strong, but it's a little harder? ”
"There's nothing difficult about it, people die for money, birds die for food, as long as my brother says to those people, those who dig ditches outside the fortress, for every ten meters they dig, they will be rewarded with a pound of black noodles, I believe they will definitely go!" As Situ Yan expected, as soon as Situ Jin made this decree, nearly 100 people were willing to go outside the fortress that day, and after three days, the people who went out were not killed by the Turks, and more and more people were willing to go out. On the contrary, those who remained were in the minority.
Finally, before the first snow in winter, the water of the Yishui River was introduced into Beiping County, and even the moat was stationed outside the city, and then the canal was led from the moat to the villages, but now it has entered the dry period, and the water flow was cut off in two days, but it made people see hope, but they were afraid that it was snowing in winter, and the villages still organized the villagers to dig their own ditches. The common people rely on the sky for food, rely on the land to survive, and such a big thing as water diversion and irrigation is a major plan for their livelihood, even if they don't need Situ Jin's order, these people are willing to do it.
"Sister-in-law, what has my brother been busy with these days, why didn't he even come back for lunch?" Situ Yan has not seen Situ Jin in the county government during the day since the beginning of winter, and there is no one in the day, and he only returns home when it is dark.
"Jin Lang took the grain to inspect the villages, some lonely and widowed old people, no children and no daughters, I am afraid of these Huimin decrees, so they have not got the slightest benefit, seeing that it is winter, I am afraid that these people will not survive!"
"I forgot about it, but my brother was thoughtful!" Situ Yan didn't really forget it, but there were too many things in her hands, so she was negligent. As soon as the first snow fell, all the forage in the field froze to death, and there was not much that could be harvested, but it was more or less an addition to the family. Recently, the shops in the city have also become lively, and every family in the village has surplus grain and money, so they naturally want to buy some things for their families, which has not had a good New Year for many years.
Although Situ Jin levied business tax on the merchants, business was booming every day, and no one cared about the small money. In fact, these merchants are also praising the Situ County Order. And this rumor naturally reached the ears of Rashi.
Jizhou Rashi is the Seven Princes Party, and has a lot of connections with the Guogong Mansion, and Situ Jin is the uncle of the prince of the Guogong Mansion, even if this relationship is aside, Situ Jin can be regarded as adding a sum to his political achievements, and he is very happy in his heart, and he sent someone to ask Situ Jin to come to the house before entering the moon.
"Zhong Xian just goes, although this Jizhou history is a little more famous, but he is not a bad person, and he has taken refuge in Zichu as early as the beginning of the Seventh Prince's ascension, he can be regarded as our person, and he will not make it difficult for you!" Duanmu Xuan held a wine glass and drank wine while comforting Situ Jin.
Situ Jin only learned today that this Jizhou Rashi is the person of the Seven Princes, which shows that he is still not concerned enough about these politics, "I'm not worried about myself, but he even invited his little sister, but he didn't invite Ziheng to come over, I don't know why?" ”
"This person is good at using women, but he underestimates Yan'er too much, Zhongxian doesn't need to worry about Yan'er, with Yan'er's intelligence, that old fox has to have less skin if he doesn't plant it!" Duanmu Xuan was not worried about Situ Yan at all, this person would never dare to use any means against Situ Yan, at most, he would just let his wife and daughter say a few good words for him.
But Situ Yan was born with no good impression of such a person, but she was afraid that this person would lift a stone and hit her own feet.
"No matter what, I will write in twenty days at most, and I will reply in half a month!" Jizhou Rashi Mansion is located in the county seat of Xindu, and it is more than half a month away from Beiping to go back and forth.
"Zhongxian don't take my junior sister with you when you go, you and Yan'er can ride a horse, but you can go faster, I will send Mo Yu to protect you, and there will be no mistake with Chiyu by your side!"
"It's good! It's not too early today, but you're tired of listening to me here! ”
"You and I are brothers now, and we will be relatives in the future, don't you listen to foreign words!" Duanmu Xuan took the wine glass and drank it all, then got up to say goodbye.
Early the next morning, Situ Jin and Situ Yan immediately beat their horses and headed towards Xindu County. (To be continued.) )