It may be that Liu Xian took a cooperative attitude towards the county order Yang Jie to send people to house arrest and surveillance. Therefore, they did not immediately take any sabotage action against Liu Xianbu's soup kitchen. Basically, they watched Liu Xian's people do some actions under their noses, but they didn't stop them.

In fact, these landlords and tyrants have no experience in governing a county, and they have no intention of governing at all, so they don't know what to do when they exercise their official duties and powers on a daily basis.

In fact, I really want to say that there is really a lot of work that Yangshi County wants them to do, and basically everything has to start from scratch, with a lot of complicated and trivial matters.

But these all revolve around the people of Yangshi County. To put it bluntly, it is the problem of clothing, food, housing, transportation and farming of the people of Yangshi County.

In this ancient era, the people were mainly engaged in agriculture. In the aftermath of the chaos, it is natural to solve the immediate problems of the people first. Then we will consider the question of resuming production in the future, such as how many people are left now? How many more fields can be cultivated? What do I need to prepare for the seeds of the crop? How much to prepare? Is it necessary to excavate water conservancy? Do you want to buy farming tools? Also, do you need to go somewhere else to buy a batch of cattle, mules and horses, etc.?

These are just the most basic official duties, and there are also tattered and tattered counties everywhere in this Yang County, which need to be repaired and so on.

Many jobs, Yang Jie and other government officials, none of them mentioned and asked to be handled.

The only thing they can and want to do is collect taxes from the people. However, what kind of tax can Yangshi County collect now? Let them collect it, and it doesn't matter if they can receive it or not, but there is no project for them to collect.

Now in the entire Yang County, no one cultivates the fields, so there is no way to collect the land rent and grain tax. Now all the shops in the city are closed, and no one is doing business, so there is no way to collect the merchant tax.

However, they soon became depressed as well. Because Huangfu Song sent an order to the imperial court to exempt Yang County from the land tax for one year. This makes it impossible for them to even collect taxes such as land rent from the people.

In this way, these officials in Yangshi County are basically eating, drinking, and having fun, waiting for the dream of making a fortune.

Yang Jie also agreed that Wen Shen would stay temporarily, and promised Wen Shen to go to the villages below Yangshi County to learn about the situation in each village and town. But Suo Qi will accompany a team of people, called protection, but in fact, he wants to keep an eye on Wen Shen, on the one hand, to urge Wen Shen to hurry up and inspect the situation in the villages and towns below, and on the other hand, he is worried that Wen Shen will run away.

The villages and towns below Yangshi County are similar to what Liang Ji and Yu Jin saw around Liulin Village. After the turmoil, some villages were slaughtered, some villages were also hit by epidemics, and very few villagers survived, and the people in those villages were basically cut off from food.

If there is no rescue from the government, those villagers will basically wait to starve to death.

Wen Shen naturally did not go alone, in addition to Suo Qi personally bringing fifty people as "guards", there were also people borrowed from Liu Xian. These people successively fed back the situation of each village to Liu Xian, and then Liu Xian sent a certain amount of grain to each village according to the situation of each village.

The current situation in Yang's County makes Liu Xian the county commander of Yang's County. As the county magistrate of Yang's County, Yang Jie and the rest of the officials would not care about the lives of those people at all, so now only Liu Xian would send manpower and food to rescue and relieve them.

According to Liu Xian's meaning, in fact, it is best to move the villagers of those villages to Yang's county. In this way, the county seat of Yang can be restored to a truly large county with a population of more than 30,000.

But in practice, it is not very feasible. The main reason for this is that Liu Xian himself is not the county magistrate of Yangshi County, and he has no power to move the people of those villages to Yangshi County. Even if he could, Liu Xian would not have the right to use the places in the county and the houses that were no longer inhabited. If those people all migrated to Yangshi County, they would not be able to settle down after they came.

In this way, there is no choice but to send people to those villages, rescue and relieve those villages, and at the same time govern those villages.

This has to borrow the power of Wenshen, the county prince.

When the county magistrate of Yangshi County did not care about the life or death of those villages, the county had the responsibility and obligation to undertake the task of governance. Of course, there is also the power to appoint some personnel.

Ordinary villages, in fact, in this Eastern Han Dynasty, have always had a set of governance plans, and they are also very detailed.

For example, under the county seat, there is the township. This township refers to a township, or a larger village or town. Strictly speaking, Liulin Village can actually be set up as a township.

Anyway, not only the county seat, but also the townships under the county seat, there will also be official positions appointed by the government.

The official position of the township, the big township is "ranked", the small township is "Sifu", and the hundred stones are paid. This is equivalent to the mayor of the town in the future. They rule over the whole village. Responsible for understanding the situation of the villagers. Arrange the order of service. Investigate the wealth and poverty of households, determine the amount of taxes they pay, and assess the difference in their ranks. For the people at the grassroots level, this is also a relatively important official position.

In addition, there are three elders, and these three elders are the township officials who are responsible for educating the people. Generally speaking, it is held by three respected elders in the local township. They don't have a fixed salary, but they all have filial piety. In all villages, there are filial sons and virtuous grandchildren, virgin martyrs, scholars who give up their wealth to save the needy, and scholars who are models for the people, and the three elders of the township officials must hang a plaque on their doors to commend them and encourage their good deeds.

In addition, there are wanderers, townspeople, and pavilion chiefs.

They are responsible for patrolling the township to check and prohibit adultery and illegality; Responsible for the collection of taxes in the township; Responsible for catching thieves.

Finally, there is the li, the tithe, and the wu.

This is the village chief, and some places will also be called Likui. As for the meaning of Shiwu, it means that the chief who is responsible for managing the ten families of the people, and the chief of the five families. This chief and military commander are the same as the names in the army, but the meaning is different, one refers to the natural number of individuals, and the other refers to the number of household registrations.

Now, Yang Jie, the county magistrate of Yang's County, although he did not really govern the people, he did not forget to appoint these township officials. He appointed all the landlords and tycoons who supported him, and almost everyone was not in vain, and everyone had the name of an official position.

Liu Xian didn't care about these, and directly asked Wen Shen to reappoint them, and appoint these township officials in the local towns and villages.

Only in this way will it be possible to have truly effective governance of those towns and villages. At most, it is to let them not disclose their official titles for the time being, but they can do the actual work of these official positions.