One day at the end of September, a large group of people came to the county government of Donghu County, Nanzhili Province and Prefecture, all of them rode horses, old and young, as if there were officials and soldiers. The county commander Lu Fang did not get the news in advance, and was very surprised to hear the report of his subordinates, and immediately changed into official clothes and went out of the government to greet him, muttering as he walked who was sacred. When I came to the front office, I saw an official about forty years old with a white beard standing in front, and behind him was a military attache of about the same age and an older scribe. It seems that this group of people is led by this middle-aged official, and the others are just his entourage or friends.

Lu Xian Ling looked at it and asked, "Xiaguan Donghu County Commander Lu Fang, may I ask who this adult is?" ”

The middle-aged official said: "This official is Qian Qianyi of the Ministry of Rites, and he was sent by the Beijing Central Supervision Yuan to learn about the problems that happened in Guixian County a while ago, and these people are also from Beijing, but you don't need to know who they are." ”

Of course, these three people are Yang Lian, Liu Qiao, and Qian Qianyi, and Tianqi heard that they were all idle, so he wanted to find something for them to do. Thinking that these three people have good abilities, and the relationship between the three of them is still passable, such a person is sent out to make people feel at ease, at least they will not be squeezed out by Wei Zhongxian for meaningless trivial things☆ Lian and Liu Qiao were both excluded by Wei Zhongxian a few years ago, and then they were reused, during which Liu Qiao also escorted Yang Lian, which can be regarded as a friend in distress 'Qianyi also joined the Donglin Party not long ago, he is a slow person, and Yang Lian and Liu Qiao are late to talk to each other.

The tasks of the three of them have a certain relationship with the positions of the three of them, and Liu Qiao's task is to check the Jinyi Guards in several provinces near Nanzhi to see if they abide by the local system and whether they are bullying people in the local area. After the Apocalypse collected the money and grain from the provinces to the Ministry of Households, each province sent some Jinyi Guards, whose duty was to supervise the soldiers to guard the Fan Treasury and the grain depot, and later Tianqi recruited and trained a group of eunuchs, so that they could go to the provinces to garrison with the Jinyi Guards, supervise each other, and also assist the affairs of the Great Iron Company to be carried out throughout the country.

After Liu Qiao returned from Sichuan, Tianqi thought he was very useful, and immediately promoted him to his position and asked him to inspect the Jinyi guards in various places, but he couldn't go with great fanfare, and he could only see the truth by the way' Qianyi's task is to inspect the training of officials in various state capitals, although official training is the head of the Bo Academy, it also belongs to the Ministry of Rites, and Qian Qianyi's inspection is also the right intention, and a while ago, the local government reflected that those trained people were not competent, and even came up with strange words about handling general affairs as special affairs, Qian Qianyi came with a purpose this time.

Yang Lian's task is to find out the reason why the county order, the county supervisor, and the auxiliary political officials are all unqualified. Now that people are more deserved, it seems that everyone can't do things, which can't get rid of suspicion in the employment of officials, even if there is an emperor who forcibly implements the auxiliary system, which makes the situation evolve into a situation where there are many dragons and no water, but Yang Lian and others are embarrassed to put the blame on the head of the apocalypse, he must come to find the real cause and solve the problem.

The three of them thought that Yang Lian and Liu Qiao were both second-grade and third-grade officials, and it was too shocking to say that it was difficult to find out the real situation, Qian Qianyi Wupin Langzhong went to a county to find the seven-pin county order and the six-pin county supervisor for questioning, plus Qian Qianyizi was easy to speak tactfully and was not easy to offend people, so the three decided to let Qian Qianyi come out and the other two would not reveal their identities. They clearly said that they were sent by the Jingzhong Supervision Yuan, and the people in the county probably wouldn't have the courage to hide anything. Thinking that the county supervisor of Donghu County was the original inspector of the imperial history, he was directly under the management of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and knew Yang Lian, so he didn't look for him and directly went to the county magistrate, and wanted to find the county magistrate after getting the county decree.

Who knew that as soon as Qian Qianyi talked about solving the problem that happened a while ago, Lu Xianling immediately looked very dazed, he first asked Qian Qianyi and others to go into the county government to sit and watch tea, and then asked the officials to find a few people to take care of Qian Qianyi and the others' horses, and by the way, find someone to arrange the food and lodging of a group of people. After the arrangement was made, Lu County Ling asked: "Lord Qian said that to solve the problems of this county, there are many things in Donghu County every day, which one does Lord Qian refer to?" ”

Yang Lian couldn't help but be a little angry when he heard it, your county magistrate and county supervisor and a few auxiliary officials couldn't cooperate and something happened, and now even the emperor in Beijing knows that you are pretending to be stupid here now, you really don't know what to live or die ☆ Lian originally wanted to reprimand Lu County Order, but then thought that he didn't show his identity and scolded people loudly, and seeing that Lu County's expression didn't look like a fake, he had to "hum" heavily 'Qianyi smiled slightly: "It seems that Lu County Commander is very forgetful, you Donghu County has been writing continuously in the past two months, said that the affairs of the county were not easy to handle, and the auxiliary political personnel were helpless to ask the Government Council and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to make ideas, and now they have forgotten? ”

When Lu Xianling heard Qian Qianyi say this, he suddenly realized, patted his forehead and said: "My lord almost forgot about it if he didn't mention it, but it has been two months since the imperial court came up with a charter, so it has already been resolved in order not to affect other matters in the county." ”

Qian Qianyi folded his eyes and asked, "Have you solved it earlier?" Since it is so easy to solve, what does it mean that you have written to the court one after another? Think everyone is too idle to tease us? Moreover, the problems you raised and the deficiencies in the form of solving the problems have aroused the concern of many people, including the emperor, even if you have solved them, let's talk about the specific process, otherwise we will not be able to pay the difference when we come. ”

Hearing that even the emperor was concerned, Lu Xianling smiled bitterly and said: "It is a dereliction of duty for the lower officials to disturb the emperor, but this matter was really difficult to solve at first, and then there was no way to come up with a solution that was not a way." ”

It turns out that two months ago is the season of rice harvesting, in the north there are still many places in the drought, Donghu County lives by the lake, there is no shortage of water, there is no shortage of grain, the village will be busy for two periods of time a year, that is, the sowing season and the harvest season, God does not wait for anyone, so everyone says that it is a rush to plant and harvest, which makes people feel that rural people are very busy all year round, in fact, in addition to the cultivation and harvesting season, everyone is still very idle. In the past, it was nothing at this time, everyone, you help me, I help you, and I will concentrate on collecting what should be harvested and planting in the field at home, but now it is different, because there is a shortage of people in other places.

Since the big iron company set up a mine in the country and other businesses, Donghu County came to buy the right of people in an endless stream, originally there was a mine next to Donghu County, the big businessmen used to be quietly engaged in now after buying a qualification is opening brightly, attracting a large number of people to come to work. In the past, when the food was tight, the whole country was not allowed to plant silkworms in private, Donghu County was no exception, and some of them were punished for not listening to the greetings, and then the situation improved, and everyone tactfully pleaded with the apocalypse, saying that food is necessary, but silk is also indispensable, there was the Silk Road in ancient times, and now it is suddenly uprooted, so that the Ming Dynasty has no silk, which is indeed a little unsightly. Apocalypse is not pedantic, and he agrees with everyone for the time being, but with some restrictions.

Originally, it was not allowed to plant infiltration silkworms because the grain gap was too large, but now in order to restore the infiltration silkworms, it is necessary to plug the grain gap, first of all, to ensure the local and surrounding areas of grain reserves. After discussing with Xu Guangqi and others, Tianqi decided that no matter which county guarantees the county's three-year grain reserve after paying the tax, it can properly carry silkworms, and the guarantee of the county's grain is not enough, and if the surrounding neighboring counties do not have a one-year grain reserve, they are not allowed to plant silkworms. Even if you are cautious, try to choose the fields in front of the house, behind the house, and on the slopes of the hills, and it is forbidden to restrict paddy fields in dry fields.

The big households in the provinces south of the Yangtze River began to feel that there was nothing to do with it, and then they thought of high-yield new varieties of grain crops with flexible brains, and immediately went to the Bo College to find Xu Guangqi to support them. After a year or two of experiments and popularization, many counties in the southern provinces have reached or are close to the conditions of the apocalypse, and they have taken the lead in eating sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, and other grains that are not easy to store and keep in order to reserve enough grain.

After the grain reserve reached the conditions, the large households immediately applied for planting silkworms, and at the same time raising silkworm cocoons, various silk reeling machines and equipment were also produced in large quantities, and many silk factories also sprung up in various parts of the Yangtze River. They did this to have some smile impact on food production, but at this time the Ming Dynasty had already passed the food crisis, and the Bohai Naval Region military to civilian construction of many large fishing boats in the joint fishing, by the majority of people with their own body to do experiments to prove that more meat can eat less food and the stomach is not easy to be hungry, this is indeed an important discovery.

In the past, everyone didn't eat much meat, and a person had to eat three buckets of rice to stop his hunger, but later, as long as he could eat pork or fish, one bowl of rice would fill people's stomachs. Some people analyze that it is because there is more oil and water in the stomach and it is not easy to digest the food, whether this is reasonable or not needs to be verified, but it is an indisputable fact that the grain produced every year is indeed more than the grain eaten, and even if many places in the northern provinces are affected by drought and grain production is reduced, the transfer of grain from the south is more than enough, and now the soldiers on the border are strong and strong, and the guys in the hands of the soldiers are easy to use, and they are not afraid of the Jurchens and Mongols to rob them.

At the same time, the industry is also a thriving scene of agricultural harvest every year, which is a good thing, but there is a problem with the shortage, that is, there will be a shortage of labor in the busy agricultural season, when something happens, you say you want to take care of this side, I say that that there is also very important, and I have to hand over the contradiction to the court to solve. The imperial court did not have time to solve the problem, so it dragged on for two months, and after two months, the busy agricultural season had passed, and the natural problem was solved.

Hearing everything, Qian Qianyi said with a smile in his eyes: "It turns out that the key to solving the problem of Lu County's order is to delay, this is not a secret, as long as you have been an official for two years, you will do this trick, and if you don't drag on big things and small things, it will be over in the end, the question is what to do next year?" Has Lu County made you think about it? ”