Xuan took a group of staff members to tour the places.

Along the way, looking at the large tracts of abandoned land in various places, looking at the green wheat, looking at the rape flowers blooming all over the hillside, stopping from time to time to take a few followers to the people's houses to ask for water to drink, sitting under the low thatched huts and talking to the people.

Due to the bumper grain harvest in the past two years, the price of wheat has dropped to 1 quintal of 6 yuan of silver, and the price of rice has been reduced to 1 quintal of 5 yuan of silver, which is basically the same as in a normal year (while rice is 9 yuan of silver per quintal).

The benefits of the new policy are gradually being revealed, such as in Shunqing, Tongchuan, Bazhou, Dazhou and other places, where people are building reservoirs and roads every ten miles and eight miles.

Pointing to this reservoir, everyone seems full of confidence, and some even say that with the reservoir, we no longer have to worry about waterlogging, drought, if there is a drought, you can release water for disaster relief, if there is a waterlogging, this reservoir can store water for disaster prevention.

In addition, many prefectures have set up rice houses, and the snow-white rice and fine flour produced by the machine are the favorite of the squires, and some places even give it to the ordinary people as a high-class gift.

With the promotion of the machine rice business, it is also slowly reflected in the taxation.

The shopkeeper in silk pointed to the rice room and looked quite proud, although the rice machine cost 50 yuan of silver coins, the cost was recovered that year, and the tax of 20 taels of silver coins had to be paid every year.

Some shopkeepers are even more confident, is planning to build a rice room, the rice out of the machine, the flour is so delicious, now not only the big families like this machine rice, the machine is wheat, that is, many ordinary people also like to take it to process.

Approaching a machine rice room, the two little two were very busy, pointing to the rows of burdens in front, except for changing the belt in the morning and afternoon of two days, this machine rice room has never stopped since it was established.

I learned from the people that the past few years have been quite smooth, coupled with the vast land and sparsely populated areas, the cultivated area of each family is much more than in the past, and the average family still has enough to eat.

Some even said frankly that in the past few years, everyone was afraid of poverty, and in the past few years, everyone has been desperately accumulating food, except for the busy farming to eat better, and the rest of the time they are boiling gruel and making do with eating, so that they can leave a little food, and then they can suffer another famine year.

Hearing this, Yang Xuan sighed, his hands trembled when he was excited, and he sighed and said to the officials around him: "Hey, everyone says that our people are chaotic people, let's see, we people just need to be able not to starve, our people are really good." ”

Many people's eyes were full of tears, and some almost knelt down for Yang Xuan.

Sometimes, in order to experience the life of the people, Yang Xuan asked the people to help boil a little porridge, add a little wild vegetables, and look at the table full of salt, there is no taste of oil and meat, and he does not shy away from eating at the same table with the people.

After leaving, the entourage without exception settled according to one person 1 cent of silver, looking at the silver coins handed over, many people resigned again and again, everyone claimed that the prince can come to our ordinary farmhouse to eat is already a merit, how can everyone ask for the prince's money?

On this day, when he came to Anyue County, Lin Shitai, the magistrate of the county, went out of the city with a cadre of errands to greet him, and came to the yamen hall, where a cadre of people had already waited under the hall.

Lin Shitai, the county governor, introduced that Anyue has a population of 120,000, of which there are 3,000 people in the county, and there are a total of 1 square chief (called Fang in the city) and 8 markets, which is what we now call 1 town and 8 townships.

The main stewards of the county government are the county magistrate, the county magistrate, and the chief officer, and their responsibilities have not changed much compared with the past.

Now the financial and transportation rooms have been added, and its subordinate institutions have become three classes and eight rooms and each square and township.

The three classes include fast class, soap class, and strong class.

Like the current criminal police, the fast shift is led by a squad leader, and there are 6 officials below, mainly dealing with larger criminal and civil incidents.

The soap class is mainly responsible for internal affairs, mainly serving the county, the county, and the chief, with a total of 30 people, and their responsibilities are the same as in the past.

Functional departments such as officials, finance, people, workers, soldiers, rituals, punishments, and transportation shall assist the county magistrate in supervising the work of the following towns and townships, or shall be appointed by them to handle major affairs in the county.

In addition to guarding the four city gates, water and land points, it is also necessary to be responsible for the tax collection in the county, the person in charge is the head of the square (or warden), and more than 20 officials under its jurisdiction.

According to the population, transportation, the size of the market, and the difficulty of local governance, each township appoints different numbers of officials, the simplest is only 2 officials, and the more is 5, which are responsible for local land clearance, household registration, tax collection, etc., and assist Bafang to deal with related affairs.

In addition, each county also established a council, including a speaker and a number of councillors, who generally met during the agricultural slack to supervise the yamen.

Yang Xuan carefully calculated that if an independent court was established in the future, then the organizational structure of the large department would be established.

In addition, in some places, in order to improve the status of the local area, there is a phenomenon of false population reporting.

The government stipulates that townships and counties with different populations and different taxes will have different treatment and different departmental settings for the heads of the counties and townships.

For the townships with more than 20,000 people, more than 6,000 taels of land, more than 2,000 taels of silver coins, and more than 2,000 taels of silver coins, the town mayor is 5 percent more than the township head, and there are 4 officials, two are in charge of criminals, and two are in charge of money, while the ordinary market has only 2 officials.

Although some localities are a little worse, in order to increase the establishment of the yamen and increase the income of officials, they have gone so far as to increase the number of people who report and increase the number of tax returns.

In addition, in the past, the local yamen had no money at all, and the slightest disturbance in the local area needed relief from the imperial court, or raised donations from the locality, but now it is good, according to the division of the county into 2 into the government and 1 into the province, although Yang Xuan has been advocating the construction of roads and bridges, and the improvement of water conservancy, but some officials although they have a large basket of moral articles, but they have no administrative governance ability at all, and they don't know how to use the money.

That night, camping at a post station, Yang Xuan sat on a desk, picked up a pen and recorded his experience on a roll of white paper.

When the fountain pen has not yet appeared, everyone generally uses a small brush to make daily records, and the brush record is very troublesome, requiring the four treasures of the study such as pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc., and a person is also needed to help grind the ink when writing.

Although Yang Xuan recognizes many traditional Chinese characters, it is very inconvenient to write with a brush, which is far less convenient than using ballpoint pens and fountain pens in his previous life.

Although some fountain pens were modeled after the pen model of the previous life, they were particularly easy to scratch and of very poor quality.

The year before last, after the Western missionaries An Siwen and Li Sisi joined the army, they often met with each other, and sometimes even exchanged official documents, and saw that the font they wrote was quite small and did not look like a brush.

On this day, he deliberately tried to write in the lobby, and saw a small bottle of ink next to him, and a pen model with a duck's beak in his hand to write.

Just like writing calligraphy, writing a paragraph and then dipping it in a little ink to repeat it is quite troublesome, but because the pen is quite pointy, the font written is very small (relative to the brush). ）

Yang Xuan felt strange and took this pen model to write, although it was also very scraped, but it was much better than what he had built in the past.

Holding the pen to find the craftsman, everyone while playing and discussing, the nib is still in the Western duckbill mode, if you add a capillary tube to store the ink at the back, so it is much more convenient.

Originally, it was going to use automatic water absorption, but at this time there was no glass rubber process, only to inject ink into the pen barrel first, and then tighten the pen body, holding the brush to write.

It took another two years to imitate the modern appearance, compared to the fountain pen is still easy to scrape the paper, compared to the modern fountain pen, although the ink storage is still quite inconvenient, the ink delivery is not very even, but compared to the brush writing, compared to the original fountain pen used by Westerners today has been much better.

Anything is first from the aristocratic rich people into the general public, Yang Xuan used the earliest model, now after the official production of each pen on the market more than 2 taels of silver (2 quintals of rice, 4 quintals of rice), but the actual cost is less than 8 cents, it can be said that it is completely a profitable business.