In addition to returning to the palace from time to time to accept Guo Peng's orders, Guo Jin is also holding the position of a county magistrate to govern the people of a county.

Relying on his small group, he is now quite familiar with governing a county, and there is nothing jerky about it.

How to understand the instructions of the superiors, how to implement the instructions of the superiors, and how to communicate with the township heads, village chiefs and ordinary households at the grassroots level, Guo Jin is already quite familiar with it, and he will no longer be confused.

For example, the decree on the control of saline-alkali land.

Instructions from the higher authorities that the excessive use of water from water conservancy projects to irrigate the land would lead to salinization of the land, which would render part of the land unusable and reduce food production, so this was a very serious problem.

The imperial decree called on everyone to collect a large amount of rainwater on rainy days and water the land with clean rainwater.

In a year where rainfall is not abundant, it is necessary to pay attention to the use of rotation fallow farming, not to reuse a piece of land for cultivation, and to give the soil time to accumulate fertility.

Such a decree is not difficult to understand, but it is a matter of great importance, related to agricultural production, and is the most important matter that officials need to pay attention to.

To carry it out to the localities, it is necessary for him to personally go to the countryside and enter the villages, village by village, and provide guidance and confirmation.

The news was passed on to the village chief, and then he went to the village with the village chief to talk to the village chief face-to-face, and then held a propaganda meeting for all the farmers.

At the propaganda conference, Guo Jin needs to communicate with those peasant households who have only received basic literacy education, know only 1,23,400 words, and have never read a book, and answer their various questions in the most straightforward and understandable vernacular.

The kind of crepe sentences that are usually written when writing articles and decrees are not suitable for this kind of occasion.

"The water flowing on the ground, there are all kinds of things in the water, everyone knows, there are fish in the water, there are shrimp, these are all things that can be seen, but there are some things that cannot be seen in the water, don't look at it clearly, but there are some things that cannot be seen, there are many things in the water.

We can't see these things, but when they go into the soil, they stay, and the water is sucked up by the crops, or dried up by the sun, but those things don't disappear with the water, they stay in the land, and they accumulate slowly.

At first, it was not much, but day after day, as the water flowed into the land, it accumulated more and more, more and more, and more and more, and in the end, the land would become like this, and there would be no food. ”

Guo Jin showed a piece of white soil with a salinized surface to the farmers, and the farmers nodded after seeing it.

"That's what it looks like."

"I hadn't thought about why this was the case."

"After it becomes like this, it will be really difficult to farm, and you will not be able to grow anything."

The farmers are talking to each other.

Then Guo Jin went on to preach.

"Maybe you have to ask again, how can food grow without watering the land with water? This question is very easy to explain, water, not only on the ground does water, doesn't it rain in the sky? Do you know where the rain comes from? ”

Guo Jin asked a question.

Farmers, look at me, I'll look at you.

A bold peasant shouted, "Maybe it was sprinkled by a man of God in heaven!" ”

Another bold farmer shouted, "Why don't you say it was peeing down?" ”

Then the whole group started laughing.

Guo Jin couldn't help laughing.

"Okay, okay, don't laugh, don't laugh, listen to the county!"

The village chief covered his face and laughed a few times, but finally held back, and then stopped the villagers from continuing to laugh.

After the scene stabilized, Guo Jin began to continue preaching.

"We all know that solar energy evaporates water and can dry the ground until it dries out, but the water that is steamed dry does not disappear, but is steamed into water vapor and floats back to the sky, and when there is enough water vapor in the sky, it becomes rain and rains."

When Guo Jin said this, many people looked puzzled, saying that it was difficult to understand such a fact, and even those village and township chiefs were often not sure that what Guo Jin said was right.

Guo Jin was not surprised.

"Don't believe me? Think about it, you have to use water when you cook, right? When the rice is steamed, it will emit that white steam, right? Where does that qi come from? ”

Villagers, look at me, I'll look at you.

"Steamed water?"

A bold villager asked.

"That's right! It's steamed out of water. ”

Guo Jin smiled: "You guys, go back and try, get a jar and light a fire to boil water, and see if there will be white gas, that gas, that gas, is water gas, this white gas is floating, you can't see it, right?" But it doesn't disappear, but it goes back to heaven, and when it accumulates enough, it will become rain. ”

The villagers were very surprised by this, and the discussion was very lively, and the scene was very lively for a while.

Then Guo Jin told everyone that in the future, when it rains, they should put more water tanks at home to receive water, and when it rains in the sky, it is the cleanest water, and it is best to use it to water the ground.

After talking about this matter, I talked about the bad year and the lack of rain.

If there is little rain and the year is dry, there is nothing to be done, and people cannot decide the affairs of the sky, and if it does not rain in the sky, they cannot do anything.

But it's not something that can't be helped.

In arid and windy areas, the field substitution method is adopted, in mountainous and hilly areas, the terraced field method is adopted, and in the vast plain areas, the land rotation system needs to be fully implemented.

In the current context of a small number of people and a large amount of land that has not yet been cultivated, it is not impossible to implement land rotation.

Guo Jin is shouldering the responsibilities of being the crown prince, and on the other hand, he is also shouldering the responsibilities of the head of a county, responsible for the hundreds of thousands of households under his jurisdiction, and doing his best to implement the decree so that they can live a stable, stable and relatively well-fed life.

In short, it is important to be able to eat.

After preaching in this village, Guo Jin has to go to the next village, and the schedule is very tight.

"Bo Yan, how many villages do I need to go to?"

Guo Jin asked Lu Yi, who was following him.

"There are still twenty-five, Childe, if you are tired, you can rest a little."

Lu Yi replied.

"Don't be tired, it's all state affairs, since you say you want to go, then you have to go, there can be no exceptions to this kind of thing."

Guo Jin shook his head: "Father has never said that he is tired year after year, as a prince, do I have to retreat from just governing a county?" ”

"Childe's determination is understood."

Lu Yi nodded, and then began to arrange the next itinerary for Guo Jin.

Lu Yi has been by Guo Jin's side.

As his very capable deputy, when Guo Jin needed to study by Guo Peng's side, he took over the county affairs and helped Guo Jin share the pressure.

That is to say, this master is not a dog-headed military advisor, but a genuine military advisor with a relatively high level.

So after getting along for a long time, Guo Jin felt that in the small team that Guo Peng selected for him, there was enough help for him in terms of administration, and the first one was Lu Yi, and Lu Yu had to go to the back.

Although Xiahou Shang practiced martial arts and studied military affairs, compared with Cao Zhen and others, Xiahou Shang liked to read more and was calmer, and he could barely be counted as one.

The rest are led by Cao Zhen, who have the courage to ascend first, and they are more suitable for military development, and fighting and killing are what they are good at.

Engaging in administrative work still requires some patience, some carefulness, and the ability to sit still and hold back your impulses.

At this point, Lu Yi is the best.

Therefore, many times, if Guo Jin has doubts about administration, he will ask Lu Yi for advice, and Lu Yi can always provide him with good advice.

Earlier, when Guo Jin's small team took over the county affairs for the first time, the first to stabilize was Lu Yi, and now, Guo Jin feels that Lu Yi is not only a talent who governs a county, but also manages a county well.

Later, it is not impossible for a state to enter the central government to hold important powers.

Guo Jin also remembered Guo Peng's evaluation of Lu Yi.

Guo Peng believes that Lu Yi has courage, insight, courage, and good vision, and with a little training, he will inevitably be Guo Jin's important assistant in governing the country in the future.

is even more capable of governing the country than Lu Yu brought out by Guo Peng.

Guo Peng has such a high evaluation and expectation of Lu Yi, which Guo Jin did not expect.

In the daily relationship after that, Guo Jin paid close attention to Lu Yi and found that Lu Yi did have superior insight and decisiveness in many things.

There are some things that Guo Jin can't draw conclusions to immediately, but Lu Yi can quickly come to a conclusion and suggest that Guo Jin do so.

In the process of getting along with Guo Jin and the people at the bottom, some of the communication problems encountered by Lu Yi gave Guo Jin advice and helped him solve them.

Guo Jin gradually felt that Lu Yi was smart and capable, and he was more sure of Guo Peng's accurate vision of people.

After Lu Yi had just defected from Yangzhou to Guo Wei's regime, he arranged Lu Yi by his side and trained him as an important minister by his future successor.

What's more worth noting is that Lu Yi doesn't like to show his face to show his talents.

Lu Yi prefers to suggest to Guo Jin in private, never show it on the surface, and not let others think that he is a very smart person and pay attention to him.

This style makes Guo Jin feel very happy.

Because as he grew older, Guo Jin gradually didn't like Cao Tai and Xiahou Heng very much, and those people still got along with him in the same way they got along when they were children.

often calls his cousin Bo Yao, and sometimes when he gets together to drink and have fun, he likes to hook up with him.

There were even times when he drank too much alcohol and called him by his nickname.

Although everyone shouted like this when I was a child, it's not like a child anymore, is it?

Guo Jin is also a father, and many of them have married wives and had children.

Why is it still the same as before?

If this aspect can be understood, this group of partners does not respect his opinion very much when handling affairs, which really makes Guo Jin very unhappy.