At the end of August, autumn was crisp and clear, with cloudless skies.

Ripe soybeans and sorghum are heavy, golden yellow and verdant red between the tall and low, as if a layer of colorful blanket spreads on the ground.

Zizhou Prefecture, which is hundreds of miles away from Yidu, is like a golden sea of ripe soybeans tumbling with the breeze.

The new magistrate Li Xu [i.e., Li Ruoxu] stood on the edge of a field with his hands tied, looking at this golden bean field, and his face couldn't suppress a smile. Soybeans are a good thing.

Although the soybean oil is rarely eaten, there is a bean smell in it, which cannot be taken away, and is more used for lighting, but the price of soybean cake is very expensive, and it is the best thing to feed livestock. The government is open to acquisitions, and the seasons are endless. Not to mention that soybeans can be used to make tofu, which is also needed by the Liangshan army in all seasons. Tofu, soybean paste, soy milk, bean skin, dried bean curd, bean sprouts and other soy products, to name a few.

The government's high-priced purchase called the people who planted soybeans after the summer wheat harvest this year, significantly exceeding the sorghum, and now the autumn grain harvest is imminent, and the people outside the city have gone out to happily usher in the harvest.

Li Ruoxu naturally will not sit firmly in the yamen at this moment, that is, the state officials still have to go to the local area to inspect and visit at this moment, how can the county officials who have just arrived here be so stabbed? What's more, his own personality is also pragmatic, when he was in his hometown in Zhaozhou, his younger brother Li Ruoshui was a senior in high school, and his eldest brother was sent to him, and the economy of this family was taken care of by Li Ruoxu. Although he will not work in the fields, he has a certain understanding of farming. If so, he will inspect the county border and be in Baishui Town today.

"Xianggong." A subordinate official rushed over, "Hurry back to Baishui Town, there are nobles in the town." ”

Li Ruoxu let out an "ah" and asked, "Do you know who is coming?" ”

"There was no complaint, only one of the person's entourage showed his official certificate, and he bluntly said that he had the same friendship with the minister." Everyone knows that this newcomer Li Xianggong is the first of today's science and technology scholars, so the noble man is not small.

Li Ruoxu was slightly stunned, and then hurriedly called back to the town.

The servant next to him quickly brought a horse, Li Ruoxu turned over on the horse, and took two officials with horses, one of whom was a township official of Baishui Town, and went straight to the town.

"Could it be...... Someone from Yidu? The rest of the officials were discussing, looking at the direction of the county master, and some people thought so. Earlier, when the summer grain harvest was abundant, Yidu also sent many people to inquire about the local situation.

Seeing that the three horsemen were soon gone, everyone had to shake their heads and continue to inspect the field. The topic of discussion turned to Li Ruoxu, the county master.

In today's science hall exam, Li Ruoxu ranked sixth, and it stands to reason that he will stay in Yiyi. But this master took the initiative to come to the place. Although everyone praised him for daring to do practical things, everyone knew in their hearts that Li Ruoxu must have been influenced by such a sentence by doing so.

Therefore, the official of the Ming Lord, the prime minister must start from the state department, and the fierce general must be sent from the army - Han Fei Xianxue.

It is said that this sentence will be printed in the preface to the next edition of the "Essentials of Governance". The king even said in person: Grassroots training is a necessary lesson for the growth of civil and military officials. Therefore, don't pick out the words, and talk about Han Feizi's 'true meaning' with the background of the times, Lu Qian said the grassroots plainly.

Li Xu rushed to the town on a horse and saw an acquaintance in front of the town office, Chang Tongye. The first person in this department, the champion and the first, hurriedly rolled the saddle and dismounted, flew closer, and said: "Li Xu is out of welcome. "Say goodbye. Always the same as the salute.

After the two of them saluted, Chang Tong signaled inward and went in with Li Ruoxu. At that time, how could Li Ruoxu not know who the person inside was? As far as he knew, he was in the position of secretary and superintendent.

Taking a deep breath and dressing up, the party continued to stride in.

"Li Xu." A soft call rang out as he stepped into the hall.

Looking at the face of the person in the hall, Li Ruoxu bowed directly to the ground and saluted: "Li Xu has seen the king." There were two people sitting beside him, the person on the right was Huang Xin, the envoy of the soldiers and horses of Benzhou, and the other was obviously a step higher than Huang Xin.

"Hurry up, get up." Lu Qian called Li Ruoxu to get up, looked up and down, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for many days, but you have lost a lot of weight." This person is the first person to ask to go down to the local government to be an official of his parents, and he is also the best person in the imperial examination, and he is one of the 200 people admitted who are of unknown origin, Lu Qian is deeply impressed by him.

"I have asked Huang Xin, you have not been in office for a long time, but you are so practical and practical, so good." Lu Qian's praise made Li Ruoxu ecstatic, but he was cautious, and no matter how happy he was, he didn't show it. When Lu Qian asked about the autumn grain, he cleaned up his mood, calmed his spirits, and said to Lu Qian one by one.

From the acres of autumn grain fields in a county, to the yield per mu of soybean sorghum harvest, and then to the next few days, the people were recruited, water conservancy was built, roads were repaired, and even the county school was set up, famous teachers were hired in the country, and students were recruited. 1510, bit by bit, relevant figures, plans, expenses, names, etc., are easy to come by, and there is no hiccups.

If it is said that Lu Qian's praise earlier was a little false, it was more for the sake of loyalty in the air column above his head, then now he is really happy.

"Okay, for the benefit of the party for the first term of office, it should be like this. You must know that you must be down-to-earth in your work, and you must not be vain. ”

Li Ruoxu arched his hand and replied respectfully: "As the head of a county, this is a matter of duty. ”

is still cautious and respectful, in the face of Lu Qian's repeated praises.

"Dare to ask the king, I have traveled through Baishui Town today, but I can stay here? Or go to the city of Zizhou? ”

Lu Qian called Li Ruoxu's two fundamental officials again, these two people already knew Lu Qian's identity, and when they saw Lu Qian, they were all trembling, and it took a long time to see calmness. A conversation with each other also made Lu Qian understand the current township officials and county-level officials. The two retreated, and Li Ruoxu asked. If Lu Qian stayed in Whitewater Town, he would have let people pack up and leave the courtyard early.

"I'm going to go out for a walk later, and I'm afraid I won't have time to leave today, so I'll stay overnight and leave tomorrow." Lu Qian pondered and said, he would go to see the recruits of the new barracks in Baishui Town later. This new barracks in Zizhou is just south of Baishui Town.

This is the follow-up recruitment of garrison soldiers, Tianhu Wang Qing is about to become impotent, the big war is coming in winter, the Liangshan Army has been expanding the garrison these days, and then selecting its elite to raise the reserve army. This is essentially a move towards the reorganization of the reserve army. "Don't bother, I'm not very particular about it, you don't have to bother with it. Just find a clean courtyard and be able to stay overnight. ”

Li Ruoxu retreated.

Lu Qian can talk like this, but he can't really act like this. He still summoned the township officials of Baishui Town and ordered them to quickly clean up the most exquisite one of the several courtyards in the hands of the town office, and make sure to tidy it up before dark.

Many matters are carefully interrogated and carefully arranged, lest they be inconsiderate. Lu Qian could only smile bitterly when he saw it, but he didn't stop it. Otherwise, I don't know how this person should be anxious at night.

It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was in the west.

In a tavern outside the boot barracks, several soldiers on leave were still drinking, and when Lu Qian arrived with Hua Rong and Huang Xin, he saw a man with a yellow frame and a red bar on his neckline, his eyes were red, and he slapped his palm on the table, "it, I don't want to mix with a flock of birds every day." ”

Yellow frame and red bar, this is already a first-class person in command. Lu Qian looked familiar, looked at Huang Xin, who lowered the felt hat on his head and said, "Brother, this person's surname is Zhao Ming'an, and he is the old man in the water at the beginning. Xu is brother, you feel familiar. ”

Everyone picked up a pair of seats and sat down, this hotel is not big, there are seven or eight sets of seats in it, all of them are red-sleeved tables and stools, a row of vermilion lacquer railings on the street, surrounded by three pairs of seats, just to look outside to see the scenery. Outside the eaves, two willow trees rise above the ridge of the roof, reflecting the shade of a pole tree on the pedestal.

Lu Qian and the others were sitting outside, and Zhao An and his group were inside.

The horses were led to the cold alley on the side of the store and tethered, and there were two flat-headed cars next to the side of the hotel, lined up. When the bartender saw that they were all riding horses, he hurriedly smiled and greeted them out.

This is naturally happy to deal with it, Lu Qian just sat down and squinted at Zhao An and the gang through the window. Listening to Huang Xin's words, it was Zhao An's old superior, who was rectified by Zhou Chunlai, and entrusted him with the big task of building a new camp.

He came to the boot camp to train the troops. That's it.

The person opposite Zhao An took a sip of a wine bowl, and lazily persuaded: "Zhao Tou, that's a recruit, and he will be included in the compilation in the future." Deputy Envoy Zhou said that no matter how good or bad these soldiers are, they will be incorporated into our battalion in the future. We have less than 50 veterans and more than 400 new recruits. ”

"Bird's soldiers, Lao Tzu has a headache when he sees them, and he doesn't look like a soldier in a military uniform, resisting a spear is the same as carrying a hoe, and Lao Tzu has a headache when he looks at it."

A person coughed, looked at the people around the wine shop, and said in a low voice: "I said Zhao Tou, because your loud voice has lost the old camp head, you have to change this problem." This hotel is full of people, and you can't make sure that the words reach the ears of Deputy Envoy Zhou, and you will be cut again. ”

"Yes. Maybe Deputy Envoy Zhou saw that you had a loud voice, so he exchanged you for a new recruit. ”

There seemed to be no one at the entire wine table who was with this Zhao An, and Lu Qian laughed when he heard it.

"Fuck your fart." Zhao An glanced at these subordinates fiercely. It's a pity that he is not a serious type himself, and he is full of affection and righteousness in front of his brothers, and his majesty is a little worse. "A flock of stupid birds, a few clever ones, are just like a bird's beak in their spare time, selling good boxing sticks, but they are useless when they really play. Seeing a paper tiger, it can also scare this guy to spread away with **. Lao Tzu can beat them a hundred. When the recruits remembered it, they made him angry.

A strong man on the left hand said, "Commander, why don't you find Deputy Envoy Zhou and say that although our Zizhou is peaceful, the world is not peaceful." Seeing the battle in the sky, there is no guarantee that the western army will come. You are a top-notch hero in the Zizhou army, and you should lead good soldiers, let's return to the old camp, who should be this group of soldiers. The strong man who spoke was called Huang Lang, a mountain man from Laizhou, who made a contribution to the battle of Dengzhou, and studied in the Wuluo Academy for three months, and was sent to the Zizhou Army as a deputy commander.

It should have been a spring breeze, but it was expected that the commanders were unlucky, and his deputy commanders were also unlucky. Although this state and county are going to expand the battalion head, this newly promoted official should be the top tank. But I expected that Zhao An didn't know how to "lift" like this.

Huang Xin said to Lu Qian: "Deputy Envoy Zhou easily pushed this guy to the Wuluo Academy for further study. "Zhao An himself is a commander, and after some further study, he turned around and became a deputy soldier and horse envoy," As a result, Zhao An is an old cow who is not on the sleeve, so he insists on not going, but Deputy Zhou is not light. ”

As far as Huang Xin is concerned, Zhou Chunlai can be said to have done his best to Zhao An. It was Zhao An who couldn't make it himself.

Over there, Zhao An held back for a while, and suddenly deflated: "Lao Tzu is a training recruit, and he won't read that bird book." ”

The other people at the wine table shook their heads together and said in unison, "Then you still complain a lot." ”