It snowed again in the middle of the night last night.

When I woke up in the morning, the courtyard of the county government was already covered with snow.

Zhang Yue got up gently, gently put the warm girl's body in his arms on the pillow, and covered her with a quilt.

I got out of bed and began to dress.

Unexpectedly, Chun Yuwen was awakened.

"Husband...... The concubine came to serve her husband and dressed...... Chun Yuwen immediately got up, put on his pajamas, and began to dress Zhang Yue.

It has to be said that the court ladies are almost impeccable in terms of serving.

Even Zhang Yue couldn't refuse such enjoyment.

"This degenerate feudal life...... Zhang Yue sighed while closing his eyes and enjoying the service of the beautiful woman.

Chun Yuwen always looked at Zhang Yue with admiration, and gently dressed her husband.

"The concubine is at home, and she has already sent a letter...... Chun Yuwen gently tied the ribbon for Zhang Yue, and reported softly: "Someone should come in the next two days to send the things that the husband needs......"

"Hmm!" Zhang Yue nodded noncommittally, then opened his eyes, looked at the girl kneeling in front of him, looked at her fair and ruddy little face, looked at the rich admiration in her eyes, and laughed softly: "Wen'er can deal with this matter by herself......"

Chun Yuwen listened, bowed his head slightly, and said, "The concubine knows ......"

but the heart was full of joy.

After several years in the court, she had already understood that in this world, a woman like her could have a good result.

You can't rely on your looks.

Israel serves people and drinks to quench thirst, but after all, it can't last long.

Only a man who can help himself can have a good ending.

And medical skills are her only pride and specialty.

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Out of the door, Zhang Yue woke up Hu Jian, who was on duty at the county office, and then took the officials to the street and began to inspect.

At this time, it was still early.

The workshop garden has not yet started, and the entire Xinfeng City seems to be still asleep and has not woken up.

But, there are already people on the streets.

Snowplows hired by the county government push deer carts and shovel snow from the roads into the deer carts.

There is also the sound of carrying tofu brains and selling along the street, which can be heard in the distance.

At the corner of the street not far in front of the county yamen, a man pushed a deer cart and stopped panting.

A woman dressed in a burlap robe, carrying a child on her back, one in her arms, and a small honeycomb coal stove in her hand, followed the man step by step.

Maybe it was at the destination, the man unloaded the deer cart rope from his shoulder, looked back with a smile, looked at the woman behind him, and slightly reached out to remove the snowflakes from her sideburns.

The woman grinned with joy and chuckled, and the feeling of happiness immediately overflowed the world.

Zhang Yue looked at it, and a slight smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

This kind of human warmth is what he loves to see the most.

It's a pity that he probably won't feel it in his life.

An unnoticed man had unloaded all the contents of the deer cart.

But it was a large stove made of clay, which looked very heavy, maybe one hundred and eighty pounds.

It took a lot of effort for him to get it off.

Then, he laid a wooden plank flat on the deer cart, and a ball of dough that had already woken up was slammed on the plank.

The woman began to shout, "Sell the bread in the service!" Hot pancakes for only five dollars a piece! ”

Zhang Yue listened and laughed, he already knew what they were selling?

But it was a scone cake like a pot helmet that Zhang Yue once offered to eat today.

This kind of snack, which was very famous in Hubei in later generations, traveled through time and space, appeared on the streets of Xinfeng before the Western Era, and became a popular breakfast food like tofu brain.

The people and industrialists in Xinfeng City are very fond of this kind of food.

It's just that......

Serving cakes? Sounds weird.

But Zhang Yue still turned back to Hu Jian and said: "County Lieutenant Hu, go buy a few cakes, I will feast with you!" ”

Hu Jian listened, immediately smiled and nodded, and led people forward.

The couple obviously knew Hu Jian, and when they saw Hu Jian, they were very enthusiastic, and in the end they didn't even want the money, Hu Jian had no choice but to drop dozens of five-baht coins and ran away with people.

handed the bought cake to Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue took out one and touched it in the palm of his hand, it was indeed a pot helmet.

The pot helmet that has just been baked out is very hot, and the pot helmet made by this couple is full of weight, one is almost three taels (about 60 grams), and there are actually some meat fillings in it, although it is pork filling, the taste is just general (contemporary pork, the best is free-range, but the kind is too expensive, and captive pork is cheap, but because it has not been castrated, it tastes very fishy, it is civilian food), but the leeks sandwiched are very refreshing.

Zhang Yue ate several bites in a row, nodded slightly, and said, "Not bad!" ”

Then he divided the other 'pot helmets' in his hand to the left and right.

Everyone eats and walks.

"Does County Lieutenant Hu recognize that couple?" Zhang Yue asked.

"Yes!" Hu Jian replied: "Four months ago, the lower officials tried their case......

"It's also a pair of poor people......" Hu Jian recounted straightforwardly: "The husband is Wang Dalang of Nancheng, and the woman is his wife......"

"At that time, the merchant Jia Wang of Nancheng sued the couple for owing their son a principal of 5,000 yuan and an interest of 30,000 yuan, and asked the lower officials to punish the heirs of the couple and make them slaves and maids......

"What did the county lieutenant say?" For civil lawsuits, Zhang Yue has always been indifferent.

Of course, the files of the county governor's yamen will be reviewed on a regular basis.

However, in a small case like this, as long as there is no follow-up re-litigation, under normal circumstances, there is no qualification to even enter the file.

Therefore, it is normal for Zhang Yue not to know.

"According to the law, it is blameless to repay the debt...... Hu Jian said softly: "Of course, the lower official sentenced his husband and wife to repay the money......"

"But...... It's just five thousand principal......"

"Because I borrowed money at that time, it was for the purpose of burying my father!"

"Spring and Autumn Prison, the original heart is convicted...... Hu Jian chuckled as he spoke.

Zhang Yue listened, turned his head and glanced at Hu Jian deeply.

"I didn't expect that the people of the Legalist family were so cute...... "Zhang Yue chuckled in his heart.

took Hu Jian and others around the county.

Xinfeng City is only a small county town, no more than four or five miles long and two or three miles wide.

Among them, more than half of the area is occupied by the workshop garden, the official office, the Taishang Emperor's Palace, the temple, the military camp, the county school and other buildings.

The residential areas left for the common people are pitifully small.

Especially after the prosperity of the workshop garden, the population of Xinfeng gradually increased.

The original urban layout has become too crowded.

Zhang Yue looked around the city, then climbed the tower and looked at the plains in the distance.

"Xinfeng City must be expanded!" Zhang Yue said: "While it is still winter, tear down the southern city wall and extend the city to the mountains and wilderness in the south......

"What does Lieutenant Hu think?" Zhang Yue turned his head and asked.

"I'm afraid it's too late in time...... Hu Jian hesitated: "There are only twenty days, it is the first month of spring, and it is not appropriate to start construction......

Zhang Yue listened, falling silent.

Spring is a special season for the Zhuxia civilization.

This season, all things sprout, this season birds and beasts pregnant cubs, this season spring ploughing and sowing.

So, spring is the season of raw.

Generally speaking, as long as there is no active provocation by foreign enemies, the Han army will stop its external expansion activities in the spring.

The folk hunters will also put their knives and guns into storage in the spring, and the horses will be released in Nanshan and no longer hunt.

The government will take the initiative to reduce activities and requisition people's manpower, so as to facilitate the people to devote all their energy to production and life.

But Xinfeng is a little special.

Because now Xinfeng is already an area with wheat as the main crop and the workshop garden as the main source of income.

Therefore, the spring of Xinfeng has the opportunity to build up the earth.

Moreover, it was just a matter of tearing down the walls and expanding outward for several miles as a dwelling.

But......

After thinking about it, Zhang Yue knew that he still couldn't do it now.

Because, it is impossible for others to understand and will not understand his thoughts.

It doesn't matter if the rotten people talk about him and attack him, I'm afraid that these guys will shoot map cannons.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue frowned slightly.

The expansion of Xinfeng City now seems to be imperative.

Because, after more than half a year of operation and prosperity, the entire urban area has been overwhelmed.

Merchants from the south to the north gathered more and more workers.

All this makes this small county town no longer overwhelmed.

Zhang Yue only inspected the urban area and found that there were a large number of thatched houses in various houses, and there were dilapidated houses everywhere.

Street sanitation is also not optimistic.

After all, there are now more than 20,000 people living in this city, including craftsmen, officers and soldiers, and soldiers.

It also regularly welcomes thousands of businessmen from all over the world.

All kinds of household garbage and human and animal manure are becoming more and more difficult to clean up.

The city's infrastructure, on the other hand, was built 100 years ago.

Transformations are needed to have a sustainable future.

Otherwise, by the end of the summer, the city will become a kingdom of flies and mosquitoes.

At that time, dysentery was rampant and epidemics were everywhere.

Xinfeng will become a dead city!

Stinky City!

After pacing two steps slightly, Zhang Yue suddenly thought of an idea, and the corners of his mouth immediately smiled.

"The government really can't ......"

State-led behavior must be political.

But what about private?

For example, the expansion of Xinfeng Castle was handed over to the merchants, who hired craftsmen and laborers to start the work.

In this case......

said that no one can blame Zhang Yue and Xinfeng.

Businessmen don't know etiquette and morality.

But......

Who will do it?

The Yuan family?

It doesn't seem to be feasible, because this matter is clearly going to be blamed by people.

If Zhang Yue forcibly stuffed it to the Yuan family, which made others see it, wouldn't it make people think that he Zhang Zizhong was a ruthless and unrighteous person who even cheated his disciples?

That's not great!

It is still necessary to cultivate a businessman who specializes in doing these things and may be scolded.

But where to find such a suitable candidate in a short period of time?

Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel a little worried.

At this time, a county official came to report: "Shizhonggong, Chen Xiancheng is back......"

"Oh......" Zhang Yue nodded, looked at him and asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

"There is a guest who came to Xinfeng with Chen Xiancheng......"

"This is a guest's name ......"

Zhang Yue took it and opened it in his hand.

But I saw that it was written in Juanxiu's handwriting: The surviving Yang Sun, ask Zhang Gongyi in the service.

Zhang Yue looked at it and suddenly laughed.

Is this a drowsy coming, and someone will come to deliver a pillow?

Then Yang is indeed a very suitable candidate!

The ancestor of their family is the strongest infrastructure madman in the Han family, Wuqi Houyang Chengyan once created a miracle of building the basic urban area of Chang'an City in June!

Even if they only leave half of their ancestors' skills, they can undertake the task of Xinfeng expansion.

It's just that......

Zhang Yue blinked his eyes: "It seems that Yang Sun's family has some ambiguous relationship with Huo Guang......"

The gossip parties in Chang'an City are everywhere.

There is hardly anything these guys dare not talk about.

All kinds of peach-colored gossip and court secrets are spread through the mouths of these people.

Even the Son of Heaven and the Crown Prince have been written into paragraphs by these people.

Huo Guang's matter, of course, is not exempt from vulgarity.

Therefore, Zhang Yue also heard a little about the entanglement between the widow of the Yang family and Huo Guang.

If this is really the case, the Yang family may listen to some of his opinions, but they will definitely not take the blame for him.

But......

Pinching the greeting post in his hand, Zhang Yue suddenly thought of another possibility.

What does the widow of the Yang family really have to do with Huo Guang......

Yi Huo Guang's temperament, is it possible for her to come out and show her face?

Don't look at the history books, Huo Guang and Yi Yin are equally famous, and they are domineering and leaky.

But......

At present, this Fengche Lieutenant is a rather reserved and low-key person.

Even at the court meeting, if Zhang Yue didn't look carefully, he couldn't find the shadow of this Fengche captain.

In the present, Huo Guang is a typical example of obscene development and obscurity.

Huo Guang in the history books only began to gradually reveal himself after the death of today's son.

How low-key is he?

For example, there is an idiom in later generations called "no learning without skill".

And Huo Guang is the hero of this idiom.

For more than ten years, he has been painstakingly creating his own modest, low-key and unlearned character to the outside world.

How can a flaw be revealed in a woman?

Thinking like this, Zhang Yue laughed.

It's a little interesting to that Yang Sun.

A woman who dares to use Huo Guang's power to fake the tiger?

How is this different from dancing on the tip of a knife?

Huo Guang is not a good man and a woman.

The powerful ministers who can make Emperor Xuan feel that they are 'like thorns in the back', no matter how low-key and restrained they are, how can ordinary people take advantage of them?

Anyway, in the entire court, only Huo Guang used other people's things, and there has never been a thing where others can use Huo Guang.

After thinking about it with his eyes closed, Zhang Yue said: "Go and tell Chen Xiancheng to invite the guests to the living room for a while, and I will return to the ...... later."

"No!"

The little official took the order and left.

Zhang Yue looked up at the front, and at this time, the dark clouds in the sky quietly dispersed, and a ray of sunlight pierced the clouds and scattered onto the city tower.

"Interesting...... Zhang Yue laughed softly: "It's so interesting!" ”

A woman who dares to take advantage of Huo Guang and can still be alive?

It's not that you're lucky, it's definitely something outstanding!

Either way, Zhang Yue appreciates it. If the other person is smart enough, so much the better!