Lu Ning didn't go in the direction of the small bazaar, after all, you could see from a distance that there were soldiers in twos and threes, Red Tiger soldiers, no one should know him.

Leading Su Xiaoxiao from another dirt road around the village to the foot of the Donglu Mountains, looking at the lush mountains, Lu Ning smiled: "Look for your little friend, if you are bored in the future, bring three knives to play with her." He pointed to it, "There are several families in the mountains and forests, and your little friend lives on it, and her name is Shan'er." ”

Su Xiaoxiao was stunned and shook her head hurriedly, "No, don't go!" Naturally, she thinks that she has no right to make friends, let alone make friends with Aunt Yamanomura, where to start?

Lu Ning smiled: "I just have something to ask these mountain households." He looked at Su Xiaoxiao again and asked, "Are you tired?" ”

Su Xiaoxiao, who has been cultivated as a cash cow since she was a child, is pampered and even delicate in her life, and generally large families will sigh to herself, but like many noble ladies, she is naturally weaker, watching her follow her on foot, and she has walked for two or three miles, listening to the breath of this little girl is a little tired, just struggling to support.

Su Xiaoxiao hurriedly shook his head.

Lu Ning had already walked in front of her, squatted down, and said with a smile: "Come up, I'll carry you on my back!" ”

Su Xiaoxiao was startled, so how dare you?

Lu Ning couldn't help but say, with both hands back, he pulled Su Xiaoxiao's body onto his back and said, "Hold my neck." ”

Su Xiaoxiao didn't dare to disobey, but she didn't dare to really hug her master's neck, as if she was trying to kill her master, she carefully stretched out her hands and pinched Lu Ning's shoulders and shirt.

Lu Ning grabbed her knees, stood up, and ran up the mountain road, the trees on both sides swished backwards, but Su Xiaoxiao didn't pay attention at all, her head was dizzy, after all, only the slave carried the master, and there were juniors who carried the elder Venerable, and now he seemed to be riding on the master, but it was too unusual......

Lu Ning stopped suddenly, but he arrived in front of several fence yards on the hillside, in the fence yards of these grass houses, there were chickens and ducks, there were vegetable patches behind the courtyard, and there were some small mountain beast skins hanging in front of the grass houses, and there were a few bundles of mountain firewood.

"Ah,......" In the fence yard where Lu Ning stopped, a thin little girl happened to come out and wanted to carry Shanchai on her back, and then she saw Xiaoxiao who was being put down by Lu Ning, and she was immediately overjoyed, ran out and smiled: "Are you coming to see me?" He looked at Su Xiaoxiao and said, "Your clothes are different from last time, but they are still beautiful!" ”

Going up the mountain to the countryside, Lu Ning and Su Xiaoxiao both wore linen clothes, and when they came to this land of five mountains, Lu Ning recently liked to wear linen clothes and pants, which were breathable, not hot, and easy to move, so he asked Su Xiaoxiao to dress the same as himself, more casually.

However, Lu Ning and Su Xiaoxiao's linen clothes and pants are naturally not common things, they are all carefully woven and bleached, and Lu Ning wears them like casual clothes in later generations, but Su Xiaoxiao is a blue and white knee-length plaid skirt with light white cloth pants and pink embroidered shoes, in Lu Ning's eyes, it is like a doll with a dignified and ancient charm, and it is even more indescribably cute.

Nowadays, plaid cloth is really very time-consuming and labor-intensive, with bleached and dyed wiring of different colors woven into a neat lattice shape, plus artificial, this linen cloth is not cheaper than ordinary silk, even if white is the natural color of this linen silk chosen, but it is still extremely laborious to make hand-woven cloth into a lattice shape that looks about the same size.

"Shan'er, who's coming!" The door of the grass hut was opened, and a young woman in coarse cloth clothes came out, and she was stunned when she saw Lu Ning and Su Xiaoxiao.

Lu Ning smiled: "I heard that there are hunters here, I'll take a look at the mountain goods." Then he asked, "What is the name of Madame?" ”

Hearing that she came to see the mountain goods, the young woman was a little happy, and hurriedly said: "Come, please come in, my surname is Wang, and my wife can't afford it!" ”

led Lu Ning into the hospital, introduced him to the sun-dried mountain goods, all of which were fungus mushrooms, and asked Lu Ning if he would accept animal skins.

Shan'er was originally going to go down the mountain to sell firewood, but then she chatted with Su Xiaoxiao.

In fact, where does Su Xiaoxiao and her have a little common language? But for the first time, there was a girl who was about the same age as herself chatting with herself, Su Xiaoxiao listened to her questions, some didn't know how to answer, and some explained to her seriously.

Lu Ning also chatted with the Wang family and asked: "I heard at the foot of the mountain that you people were originally from He Village, but they were driven out of the village by Li Zheng of Qianhe Village, so you had to be a mountain household, but really?" ”

Wang was stunned for a moment, then looked at Lu Ning suspiciously, looked at Su Xiaoxiao again, and asked, "Look like you don't look like a barbarian, and you are leading a little barbarian girl?" Inquire about these old things? Who the hell are you? ”

Little brute girl? Lu Ning was stunned for a moment, and then understood that maybe because Xiaoxiao's skin was too fair, which was different from the women she usually saw, and the clothes she was wearing, she would think that Xiaoxiao was a barbarian girl, after all, it was rumored that there were barbarian girls with extremely dark complexions and extremely white complexions.

Lu Ning said with a smile: "I am friends with the newly sent township history, if Li Zheng is unfair, the township history can appeal to the county department, you should have heard of it?" ”

The village-level structure, Lu Ning naturally thought about it for a long time, after all, this is a big problem in the era of underdeveloped communications.

Moreover, if the imperial power can really extend to the countryside and mobilize its power to the countryside, in fact, in terms of the population of China, it is in the current era of cold weapons, under normal circumstances, no war should have been lost.

In the former Tang Dynasty, there were villages, li, and townships, not to mention the villages, 100 households were the li, and 5 miles were the townships, that is, by 500 households, a township was formed.

The five Li Zheng are in charge of township affairs together, and Li Zheng will also take turns to go to the county government to be on duty.

He even gave Li Zheng the power to try and decide cases, but he quickly took back the judicial power, because Li Zheng was often the patriarch of a powerful clan, and it was impossible to handle the case impartially.

It is precisely because these are the local squires of their hometown, no matter who is the son of heaven, for them, the world is no different, the countryside has always been a pool of stagnant water, and the imperial power is difficult to touch.

And even in Jiangbei, because of the war, most of the squires were impacted, but after a long time, large clans will always be formed, and it is always these clans that have a real dominant position in rural affairs.

However, it would be inappropriate to say that there are officials at the township level, and they are rogue officials, that is, people from other places come to make township orders and move regularly.

Each township is equipped with a township order and a bunch of officials, and the financial burden is too great with today's productivity.

If there is only one village commander, then in the countryside, is it not necessary to be swayed by these squires? Moreover, if there is any problem, the township order is all behind the black pot, even if there is no problem, when the township order really understands the local situation, I am afraid that it will take a few years of hard work, and it will not be far from being transferred.

Lu Ning thought about it for a long time, and since last year, he began to implement the township history system.

Or a hundred households for the li, five miles for the township, five li is managing the township affairs, but each township, send a township history, the township history is strictly speaking, more like the lowest level of imperial history, regardless of the specific affairs, but all the township affairs will be involved, that is, to watch, so, I am not afraid that the Li Zheng will wear small shoes to smash the black pot over, and if the Li Zheng people act unfairly, the township history can appeal to the county department.

The history of the township is supported by the township where the township produces ten stone rice every year, and the county department runs two monthly materials.

The source of the history of the township is that those who are not included in the provincial government for the time being can voluntarily register with the provincial bureau and be assigned by the provincial department, and basically will not serve in their own state.

In this way, if the village history is in the countryside for a few years, the probability of entering the department will be greatly increased.

Moreover, the experience of the history of the countryside is a very valuable experience for these officials or future officials, and the officials of the Central Plains today are qualified officials who know how the peasants want to know what the situation in the countryside is.

Last year, Lu Ning even did the first batch of township history to experience it, and he felt a lot.

And now, Wang Hanshi is in Daozhou, is promoting the new policy, of course, Hunan Province sent to Daozhou's township history, is not a lifting people, now lifting people is not enough, Hunan Province recruited the township history, most of the provincial officials of the province, sent to other states and counties after the disruption, but because they know that under the new policy, the chances of officials who have done township history to be selected as officials will be greatly increased, so the officials are also eager for this drudgery.

Yongming County is in the position of Wuling, there are many households, there are more than 3,000 households in the village, compiled as Yunshan, Yunping, Wende, Xie Mu, Yongchuan, Chongfu, Xinghua Seven Townships, Xie Mu Township, where the former He Village is located, has been renamed Chihu Township.

The history of Chihu Township, I heard that he was from Hengzhou, Lu Ning naturally didn't know it, and now he is talking nonsense.

Wang looked at Lu Ning suspiciously, and hesitated for a moment.