Liu Daojie was stunned, he never expected that this young magistrate would speak so directly.

But that's fine!

Everyone is more worry-free, and they don't have to bother to figure it out.

Liu Daojie pondered for a moment, "The student thinks that since Zhang Zhixian valued education when he was in Beijing, why didn't Zhixian start with education?" ”

Liu Daojie is also a scholar, and as a subordinate official of Zhang Junping, the magistrate of the county, it is normal for him to call himself a student.

"Taking indoctrination as the first fire of this official when he first arrives in Muping County, it's okay!

And what about the second fire? Zhang Junping nodded and continued to ask.

"The people's lives are inseparable from farming, and the students believe that water conservancy and wasteland should be reclaimed!"

"Hmmm! With the construction of water conservancy and the reclamation of wasteland as the second fire, Master Liu's words are old and serious!

And what about the third fire? Zhang Junping nodded with a smile, expressed his recognition of Liu Daojie, and continued to ask.

Liu Daojie was speechless, you didn't pay attention to it at all, I want to think about it?

Obviously, Liu Daojie has also done his homework before, so as soon as Zhang Junping asked, he opened his mouth and said, "Repairing bridges and repairing roads is also a move for the benefit of the people, the official roads in Muping County are in disrepair, and students think that the official roads should be repaired!" ”

"Hahaha! Master Liu is really talented!

These three articles are all the words of the old Cheng Mouguo, and this official thinks that all of them are feasible!

It's just that whether it is the construction of academies, the work of education, or the construction of water conservancy to reclaim wasteland, or the renovation of official roads, there is a lot of money, and the county has so much financial support in the account? ”

"This ......" Liu Daojie didn't expect Zhang Junping to look at the problem so tricky, and pointed out the key points in it at once.

Yes, the three governance principles pointed out by Liu Daojie, or the three fires, are all very good, and they are all good governance, but these are all based on sufficient financial support.

Otherwise, it is not good government, but tyranny.

If Zhang Junping wants to increase the people's taxes in order to implement these three articles, then it will become a tyrannical expropriation.

It is estimated that someone will soon stab the imperial court, and there will be a royal history to impeach him.

"This, there is some money and food in the county, and there is no problem with Mr. Fu to restrain him, but the words to build the academy are not enough!" Liu Daojie had no choice but to answer truthfully.

"Hmmm! Some people say that money is the root of all evil, but this official wants to say that money is a good thing!

Nothing can be done without money! Zhang Junping was not disappointed.

It is already good to be able to leave him money in the account to pay the salary of the teacher.

"County Lieutenant Wang, how many Xiang troops are there in the county, and there are township soldiers?"

"Back to Zhi County, the Xiang Army has a battalion of infantry troops, with a total of four hundred and seventy-five people!"

"And what about the villagers?"

"The township soldiers are also a battalion, four hundred and eighty-two!"

"So among the villagers, how many young and strong people are there? How many are the old and weak? ”

"This ...... This one.........

Please know the county atonement, the subordinates don't know! ”

"Alright! It's okay today, Master Liu, let's go and inspect the township soldiers together, right?

Young and strong geometry, old and weak geometry, you can know it at a glance! Zhang Junping did not ask Wang Bo, but said to Liu Daojie, the chief bookkeeper, with a smile.

"This ...... Since the county is interested, the students should be accompanied! Liu Daojie hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

He never expected that Zhang Junping would play his cards so unconventionally, and at the beginning of his tenure, he didn't care about anything, but actually went to see the township soldiers first.

Township soldiers, that is, a group of militiamen, what can they see?

Zhang Junping led Liu Daojie, Wang Bo, Sun Xu and others to the barracks.

Dengzhou was one of the very important treaty ports in the Song Dynasty, as a county below Dengzhou, and near the sea, so Muping County also had a garrison.

And there are quite a few, a battalion of van troops, and a battalion of township soldiers.

According to the full number, it is a thousand.

The barracks were empty, except for a few veterans leaning against the door basking in the sun.

"Beat the drums!" Zhang Jun ordered calmly.

After the drum sounded three ways, less than a hundred people came.

"County Lieutenant Wang, how do you explain this?"

"This ...... This one...... The other soldiers have all gone to spring ploughing......" The sweat on Wang Bo's face came down, and he explained with a sigh of relief.

"Spring ploughing? Wang County Lieutenant bullied me for not understanding the time of the day and not understanding farming? Zhang Junping asked with an expression on his face.

"This ......"

"County Lieutenant Wang, I don't embarrass you, I understand that as a local army, the Xiang Army is often sent to do some sundries that do not belong to them, such as helping a big man do some chores at home or something!

So I'll give you an hour, and you'll call people for me, can you do it? ”

"Yes!" Wang Boyi gritted his teeth and said.

"Remember, what I want is that neither the Xiang army nor the township soldiers are missing!" Zhang Junping reminded softly.

As a local regular army, in addition to the border, the Xiang army in other places actually plays more of a role in helping local officials.

For example, like Liu Daojie, as the chief bookkeeper of Muping County, his family has thousands of hectares of fertile land, and he must have asked Xiang Jun to help his family work.

These are unspoken rules.

Zhang Junping knew and understood, and did not plan to trouble Wang Bo on this.

Wang Bo led the order to lead people to gather the Xiang army and the township soldiers.

Zhang Junping sat in the tent and chatted with Liu Daojie about the topic just now.

"Master Liu, how many official fields are there in the county? How much wasteland is available for reclamation? ”

"There are 14,963 acres of official land in the county!

There are more wastelands, and if they can all be reclaimed, there will be hundreds of thousands of acres!

It's just that these wastelands are either by the sea or by the mountains, and they are relatively barren, and even if they are reclaimed, they are difficult to cultivate! ”

"Difficult to farm?"

"In these places, even if they are reclaimed, there can be three or four buckets of harvest per acre of land, not to mention paying taxes and grain, even if you don't pay taxes and grains, it is not enough capital!"

By the sea, there is no harvest.

Saline!

These three words came to Zhang Junping's mind.

Repulsion refers to saline-alkali land.

The sea erodes the land, causing the land to become salinized and turned into a wasteland where only weeds grow and no crops grow.

There is also the hillside land, such a land, irrigation is extremely inconvenient, basically relying on the sky for food, and there is no way to guarantee the harvest.

Zhang Junping didn't speak, recalling in his mind the prevention and treatment methods of saline-alkali land that he had read in the library in his previous life.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Junping had a plan in his heart, and said with a smile: "In that case, let's go outside the county tomorrow to take a look at the wasteland eroded by the sea!" ”

"Students should be accompanied!"

"It's so good, let's go to the scene to see how many places there are, and we can have a plan!

Whether it's to divert water from the river to irrigate the land, or to grow other crops!

For those fertile fields that have not been eroded by the sea for the time being, we must also find ways to prevent them! ”

"Can this place of repulsion be prevented?"

"Of course, it can be prevented, and the reason for the formation of halogen rejection is that the coastal halogen is eroded by seawater like the local area!

There is also a depression, which is formed by the swamp because of poor drainage! ”