The little girl Chen Xiuxiu's crisp children's voice directly attracted the attention of Xie Zhenggang, Chen Zhi and others next to her.

Actually, they all knew that the county magistrate and Chen Yingying were sticky there, but they all pretended not to see it.

Xie Zhenggang and they hoped that the county magistrate could take down this stunning beauty, because at this time, the more people in the family would represent prosperity, and the county magistrate would be able to have a few more children if he could marry a few more concubines, and the adults of the thousand households would definitely be happy and couldn't close their mouths.

Chen Zhi also hopes that the county magistrate can take a fancy to his sister, because in his opinion, the county magistrate is already a great official, and it is simply a blessing for several generations to be able to climb such a relative, even if his sister can only be a concubine for the county magistrate, it is better than being a concubine for Lizheng Zhao Yan!

Therefore, everyone has a tacit understanding not to disturb these two people, and let them stick to each other as if they didn't see it.

However, the little girl Chen Xiuxiu's words almost hooked out their intestines.

At this time, except for the rich families, most people eat two meals, and they basically don't eat anything in the morning, and they are already hungry after working for so long.

Chen Xiuxiu's sentence "It's so delicious" is terrible, what is so delicious, everyone wants to eat it!

Zhang Bin saw that everyone was almost busy, and he showed a greedy look, and simply greeted: "Everyone has worked hard, let's take a break, come and taste the roasted sweet potatoes to see how it tastes." ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but run over, picked up a roasted sweet potato from the ground, followed Zhang Bin's example, peeled the skin, and ate it in a big gulp.

Wow, it's delicious!

Everyone was amazed, they really rarely ate such a delicious thing.

Zhang Bin smiled and stuffed the half-eaten sweet potatoes into the hands of the little girl Chen Xiuxiu, and picked up the remaining roasted sweet potatoes on the ground, and then squatted there and slowly peeled them.

Chen Yingying was about to drool at this moment, but she was embarrassed to rob her sister of food, and even more embarrassed to rob the county magistrate, so she could only stand there and watch.

After Zhang Bin finished peeling one, he immediately reached out and handed it to her, and said with a smile: "This is for you." ”

Yes!

Chen Yingying was taken aback, she thought that the county magistrate was peeling herself to eat, and she was peeling it for her for a long time.

She looked at Zhang Bin stupidly, and tears were about to fall.

Seeing that she didn't stretch out his hand, Zhang Bin had to stuff the sweet potato directly into her hand, and then picked up another one and peeled it.

He had just finished peeling this, and Chen Xiuxiu had already eaten the remaining half.

He handed the peeled one to Chen Xiuxiu again, and said with a smile: "Come, this is for you." ”

The little girl didn't know what it meant to be polite, so she hugged the sweet potato and stuffed it into her mouth, and the one she ate was called sweet.

At this time, there was a commotion outside, and Zhang Bin couldn't help but look back.

Good guy, Wu Shiqi was carrying a bookshelf and walking back, behind him, Zhang Cha and Zhao Ru followed with a big desk, followed by a large group of villagers, what tables, chairs and benches were carried a bunch of them!

Zhang Bin looked back at the ground again, there were just three roasted sweet potatoes left, he quickly picked them up and put them in the basket next to him, took some straw and covered them, and then said to Chen Xiuxiu mysteriously: "Is it okay to leave these for Uncle Wu and them to eat?" ”

Chen Xiuxiu hurriedly walked to the basket, nodded while eating, and said, "Okay, I'll help you watch it." ”

Zhang Bin couldn't help but smile and pinch her little face, and praised: "Well, Xiuxiu is really good." ”

Chen Yingying, who was on the side, couldn't help but feel distressed: "Lord County Order, don't you want to eat?" ”

Zhang Bin shook his head and smiled: "I drank a bowl of porridge in the morning, and I'm not hungry at this time." ”

With that, he stood up and greeted Wu Shiqi and the others.

When he went up to ask, he found out that the extra tables and chairs were used for eating, and Zhao Yan was afraid that he would not be used to sitting on the small bench of Chen Yingying's house, so he specially sent him a high chair and a large table.

Zhang Bin was not embarrassed by the courtesy of his subordinates, he directly asked Wu Shiqi to move all the tables and chairs in, and then beckoned Xie Zhenggang and others to throw all the cut potato pieces into the ashes and stir them.

At this time, he didn't want to bake potatoes to eat, the embers in the ashes had long been extinguished, and the reason why he wanted people to throw the potatoes into the ashes was to coat the surface of the potatoes with a layer of ashes.

This is done in order to sterilize the potatoes and to provide certain nutrients to stimulate the germination of potatoes.

Even if the seeds here were ready, Zhang Bin came to the back of the house again and personally commanded them.

Fifty laborers, two acres of land, the workload is actually not very large, at this time, the land is almost flat, Zhang Bin asked them to dig out a shallow soil trough every half step, half of the trough is piled with cow dung, half of the trough is spread with a layer of sand, and then sprinkled with a layer of plant ash.

Fifty laborers were quite fast enough to do such a little work, and before noon all the preparations were ready.

Zhang Bin looked at their smiling faces and hard-working looks, and couldn't help but sigh, the common people, it's really easy to be satisfied.

In fact, they didn't get paid to work here, Zhang Bin didn't give them a penny, and Zhao Yan didn't give them a penny.

Zhang Bin only promised that as long as they fully cooperated with the trial planting work, they would be exempted from labor this year.

He really didn't expect that he would exempt them from taxes for a few dollars of silver, and these people would be so happy.

For a few coins of silver to be happy like this, how bitter are the people at the end of the Ming Dynasty?

In fact, the labor in the Ming Dynasty was relatively heavy, and every family had to take turns to work for the imperial court for a month every year, and generally had to walk at least a few miles or even more than a dozen miles to repair bridges, pave roads, repair city walls, dig rivers or something, and those who were tired had to die, not to mention, they had to bring dry food.

Before the Wanli Dynasty, labor was not exempt, and every year each family had to contribute a laborer to work for the court for free for a month.

Naturally, the imperial court could not always have something to do, and then officials at all levels began to make things go blind, letting the common people plant private fields and build private houses, and some ordinary people were even directly dragged to build palaces and repair imperial tombs, not to mention the tiredness of the common people, and often delayed the agricultural time.

In the Wanli Dynasty, the situation improved slightly, when Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, implemented a series of reform measures in view of the serious loss of tax and grain transportation and the lack of actual benefits created by labor, and implemented a whip law to convert all fields and labor into silver and collect, so as to avoid the suffering of labor for the common people.

In other words, as long as a few coins of silver are paid each year, this labor can be exempted.

Of course, if the imperial court conscripts laborers to work, it can also be offset by labor taxes, but now it can't be done blindly, without a proper name, it is absolutely not allowed to recruit ordinary people to do private work.

Zhang Bin exempted them from labor tax and asked them to cooperate with the trial planting, these few dollars of silver are naturally nothing to him, but they are not small for the ordinary people at this time.

You must know that they have no land to live on, and they do not even have enough to eat, and they have no money left over all year round, and they deduct this land and labor tax from their rations.

Now, just doing some farm work in the village can be exempted from labor tax, and these villagers are naturally happy, which is a strong man's ration for nearly a month.

Half a day, fifty people, turning over two acres of land, for them, it is like drinking porridge, to launch a ruthless attack, they can dig two acres of land a day!