In the blink of an eye, Chengwu County in the spring of this year can be described as a smooth wind and rain, to get the wind and rain, Li Mao took out a sum of money from the public treasury and the private treasury, and handed it to the new Chengwu County Commander Liu Ming'an, so that he could buy rice seeds and ploughing cattle and distribute them to the homeless people, so as to resume farming and stabilize the people's livelihood. Liu Ming'an, the new official, was anxious to burn three fires, and was worried about the lack of charcoal, but it happened that Li Mao sent it, and he was overjoyed, and personally led hundreds of officials and gentry with heads and faces in Chengwu County to send a plaque to the military town of Gushan Town, with the words "iron bone benevolence" written on it.

Sending Liu Ming'an away, Li Mao returned home drunk, Su Qing went to Jimin Hospital to find Mrs. Ge to change the dressing, only Xiaoru was at home alone, since Su Qing came back, Xiaoru took the initiative to take a back seat, not only did she not dare to provoke Li Mao openly, but she also pretended to be confused about Li Mao's hints, she was in awe of Su Qing, and she was in awe of her bones.

Su Qing was not in Li Mao's guts, he grabbed Xiao Ru's waist and dragged him into the room, Xiao Ru struggled twice, and after finding that his efforts were in vain, he gave up and took the initiative to cooperate with Li Mao. The game of stealing her man under the nose of the third lady who she has always been afraid of is tense, exciting and addictive, and Xiaoru's cheeks are red like a flower. Seeing that she was excited, Li Mao was also excited, and after a little bit of force, Xiaoru shouted excitedly.

Li Mao hurriedly stopped moving, covered Xiaoru's mouth, pricked up his ears to listen to the movement in all directions, everything was calm, Li Mao breathed a sigh of relief, let go of his hand, because of this change, the two of them were not interested, cleaned up, and were busy with their own work.

At dusk, Su Qing came back from Jimin Hospital, the wound on his forehead had been treated by Mrs. Ge herself, and the accompanying Meng Shi was carrying a bunch of tonic medicines in his hand, and his eyes looked at Li Mao with an indescribable weirdness. Li Mao coughed and said with a smile: "Giving birth to a son is already destined by God, if you can't rush it, if I'm not in a hurry, don't worry." Su Qing glanced at him and said triumphantly: "Mrs. Ge said, how many children are there in my life, in both husband and wife, my body is either barren and refuses to produce, but what about Xiaoru, you two are messing around, and what are you messing with?" Who is responsible? Li Mao suddenly blushed.

Su Qing saw that he was embarrassed, and hurriedly reassured: "That's it, I can't blame you, the ancients said that sometimes fate will come after all, and there is no time in life to force it." Just go with the flow. After speaking, he glanced at Xiao Ru, who was serving the tea on the side, and said with bad intentions: "I am not in Gushan Town during this time, Xiao Ru takes care of you diligently, with merit and hard work, I plan to send her to you to be a roommate, what do you think?" ”

Li Mao frowned and said, "What's wrong with Su Qing today, just say something inexplicable." Su Qing said: "What, you refuse to accept her?" That's okay, Mrs. Ge has been busy with the hospital recently, and she has no time to take care of Mr. Ge, so it is better to give Xiaoru to Mr. Ge, serve the soup in the morning and evening, and also see your virtue of respecting the virtuous and talented. Xiao Ru couldn't help but shudder when she heard this, and she couldn't avoid it, and looked at Li Mao with a blank eye.

Su Qing's intention was to test himself, Li Mao knew this, he was in a good mood today, so he played with Su Qing, he smiled, turned around and beckoned to Xiaoru, and said: "Why are you still stupid, Mrs. lifted you, shouldn't you kowtow and say thank you?" Xiaoru cried out with a "wow", knelt on her knees and begged with tears in her eyes: "I have served the lady since I was a child, I don't know what mistakes I have committed, and the lady wants to drive me out of the house?" I was born as a member of the Su family, and I died as a ghost of the Su family, and I would rather never marry for the rest of my life than go out of the door of my mother's house. Su Qing snorted and said coldly: "Since you know that it is from my Su family, do you dare to listen to what the head of the family says?" ”

Xiao Ru was stunned and was speechless. Su Qing's nurse Meng Shi smiled: "Doctor Ge is a virtuous and talented person, and the reputation of Jimin Hospital is now known even to the people of Liangjing, is it a disadvantage for you to be his concubine, why are you so ignorant?" Xiao Ru shouted: "Aunt Meng, I have no grievances with you, how can you bear to push me into the fire pit?" Meng Shi was surprised: "Ah, it's strange, why did you push it into the fire pit for you to be a concubine for Doctor Ge, such a good fire pit, the old lady is thirty years younger, and she has already rushed to jump." Hahaha...... Yo, what are you doing? ”

In Meng's laughter, Xiaoru suddenly knelt to the left, grabbed a pair of scissors from the dustpan on the low pier and cut her hair. Xiaoru ate a push and fell to the ground, whining and crying on her head. Su Qing stood up with a cold face and wanted to leave, but was pulled by Li Mao, who motioned for Meng to help Xiaoru up.

Meng Shi put the scissors, pressed a handful on Xiaoru's forehead, and scolded with a smile: "I look at you as a very smart child on weekdays, but you are an authentic bastard when you make a mistake, what is your identity, can you become a sister-in-law after cutting your hair?" As he spoke, he lowered his mouth and lost his eyes, Xiao Ru was like an enlightenment in an instant, and hurriedly knelt down and begged Su Qing: "For the sake of my service since childhood, don't drive me out, I can spin, do laundry, cook, and sweep...... You let me do whatever I want. Su Qing replied lightly: "You are so capable, how can I bear to drive you away." After that, he instructed Meng Shidao: "Don't look for the cook, let Xiaoru hold it first." ”

Meng replied: "This is not appropriate, the cook has already found it, the contract is decided, if it is regretted and it will damage the reputation of our family, Lang Jun's study is missing a sprinkler, let her wear the guilt in the study and make meritorious contributions." ”

Su Qing's cold gaze swept towards Meng, Meng quickly lowered his head, and this gaze moved to Li Mao, who had already put his hands behind his back and pretended to admire the paintings on the wall. Su Qing sneered and replied lightly: "You guys look at it." Pushed Li Mao away violently and walked out with his head held high.

Meng Shi glanced at Xiaoru, didn't say anything, and hurriedly followed. Li Mao looked at Xiaoru's cloaked appearance, reached out to support him, and said with a smile: "You girl usually looks at the top clever person, why did you make a mess today?" Xiao Ru pulled a handkerchief from her sleeve to wipe her tears, stuffed the handkerchief into her hand, and said: "The third lady has a knife mouth and a tofu heart, and there is no malice, don't hate her." ”

Xiaoru calmed down at the moment, thought about it for a while, and realized that it was indeed her own impulsiveness, Su Qing and Li Mao were just arguing with her, how could she really give her to Ge Rixiu? After feeling sorry for herself for a while, Xiao Ru smiled and nodded vigorously.

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Liu Mingan is not a vegetarian person, and he has nothing to do with the words "love the people like a son", but he is an old official who is familiar with the rules of officialdom, and he knows very well what he should do and what he should not do after the disaster, so he temporarily restrained his greed, and put on a clean and capable posture at the beginning of his tenure, first, he was not in a hurry to be corrupt and bribe-taking, and second, he settled down to do a few things in a down-to-earth manner. Under his advocacy, the gentry and wealthy merchants who survived the disaster had the money to contribute their strength, some seeds to produce seeds, and some of them were suspicious of cultivating cattle, so he ran from place to place, went to the capital to go to neighboring states (counties), cried his father and told his grandmother, collected a sum of money, and then entrusted someone to purchase a batch of eliminated horses and mules from the Pinglu army at a low price, and distributed them to the farmers who returned to their hometowns as needed.

He also divided the county's 98 townships into 11 districts, learned from Li Mao's practice and took care of all the officials in the county, drove all the county officials out of the city to the township, recruited the homeless people to return to their hometowns, rewarded the good and punished the bad, and urged the people to carry out farming to save themselves.

Because of the effective measures, hundreds of peasants returned to their hometowns every day, and Li Shigu, the observer of Ziqing, asked the imperial court to give Chengwu County and other disaster-stricken areas preferential treatment of exemption from two taxes for one year.

After the Middle Tang Dynasty, there were three directions for local income tax revenue, one was to stay in the state, the second was to send envoys, and the third was to provide for the upper state.

The part of staying in the state is used to support the army (state army) and maintain the operation of the local bureaucracy, and the second is used for local public welfare expenses and stored in Yicang for the year of famine. In addition to the expenses of the shogunate such as maintaining the festival and observing, the main part of the envoy was to support the army. Part of the supply was sent to Chang'an to supply the expenses of the palace, bureaucrats, and the army.

Due to the specific situation of each feudal town, the proportion of the distribution of the three is also different. In the southern feudal towns with relatively strong central control, such as Huainan and Liangzhejiang, the political situation is stable, the local areas are rich, and at the same time, the garrison is small, and the proportion of supply is relatively large. The northwest feudal towns with strong control of the imperial court, such as Fengxiang, Lingzhou, Zhenwu and other places, due to the need to defend Chang'an, stationed heavy troops, frequent wars, coupled with the barren place and less output, the part of the imperial court for the imperial court can almost be ignored, not only that, the imperial court also has to pay a large amount of garrison expenses every year, and even the local daily expenses also need to be allocated by the imperial court.

In addition, in the Central Plains feudal towns with strong central control, such as Xuanwu, Yicheng, Xusi and other towns, due to the need to prevent and curb the three towns of Hebei and Ziqing, they stationed heavy troops, and most of the local output was left in the towns to supply the army, and the supply was not much, but because the localities were relatively wealthy, there was no need for the central government to allocate military expenses and local expenditures.

As for the three towns of Hebei and Ziqing, which are in a semi-independent state, ninety percent of the income tax is withheld in the place, either not to make an offering, or to make a symbolic offering. During the time when Li Zheng was in power, Ziqing provided a symbolic tax to the imperial court every year, and when Li Na raised troops to rebel, he once cut off the supply, and recovered after the chaos. After Li Shigu took over as the envoy of Jiedu, he still maintained the offering, but the amount of the offering was so small that it could be ignored. Because of this, Chang'an's attitude is very happy, Li Shigu asked for exemption from two taxes a year, and the four prime ministers had a total of one year and the people's livelihood was difficult to recover, but fortunately it was exempted for three years, and the Son of Heaven was even more loving to the people like a son, Zhu Criticism: Exempt for five years.

When the holy decree arrived in Dawu County, the people carried lanterns and paraded the streets, singing the praises of the Son of Heaven, but it was a pity that Liu Ming'an, the county commander, was sick due to overwork, bedridden, and could not enjoy with the people. By March of this year, most of the displaced people in the four townships had returned to their hometowns. Only a small number of people who are accustomed to the field refuse to return to their hometowns, and they still gather in the mountains, forests, and rivers, openly raise banners, and become thieves.

Zhenyuan's nineteen-year anti-bandit action is only symbolic, tens of thousands of troops gathered in Caozhou, the target is Gushan Town, the suppression of bandits has never been the focus, except for the bandits around Caohu Lake have been impacted to a certain extent, the bandits in other places are unscathed, and they are still growing. The reason why Li Mao did not start to suppress bandits a year ago was that the disaster was serious that day, and the livelihood of the displaced people was lost, and it was easy to suppress the bandits, and it was difficult to reassure the people.

Secondly, Gushan Town has just experienced a civil strife, and the morale of the army and the people is unstable, especially after the division of troops, the situation is even more critical, and Li Mao needs time to integrate the interior.

After a winter's hard work, the interior of Gushan Town has almost run in, which coincides with the wind and rain, and the politics are harmonious. Liu Ming'an's three fires were burned in a timely manner, and with the time of day, the livelihood of the displaced people in Chengwu County was settled, and it receded like a flood.

The water is clear, the backyard is stable, and there is no need to worry about sending troops at this moment, and there is no fear of accidentally hurting the good people.