Wang Zhe walked out of the street leisurely.

As soon as I got out of the street, I saw a bustling crowd of carriages and horses on the street, and horse-drawn carriages stacked with all kinds of materials were running around, and all the people looked hurried. The dilapidated and idle shops on both sides have also been sorted out and occupied by many people, all kinds of restaurants, tea shops, grocery stores, have hung out their own characteristic signboards and flags, standing at the door of the guy boss, one by one car back their own voice, trying to pick up the merchants who come and go to me. If it weren't for the detachment after team, the soldiers with guns under their armpits would walk neatly through the streets to maintain law and order.

There are even some elderly people, waving brooms in their hands, cleaning the cow and horse dung on the streets, so that the dirty streets that were originally cleaned by themselves have become neat and clean.

Such a scene made him feel that this was not a troubled era, but the advent of a prosperous era

Seeing this scene, Wang Zhe couldn't help nodding secretly, and sighed: "Enough food and clothing to know etiquette, the people have food and drink, and they actually take the initiative to clean the streets." ”

As a result, Uncle Zhang scoffed at this statement: "I haven't seen the effect of Confucius's preaching, but that Pan Feng took out a lot of copper coins, but let these old people go to the streets to clean up one after another, in my opinion, Confucius's preaching is still not as direct as copper coins." ”

Wang Zhe was surprised: "Could it be that these old people were all hired by Lu Peng for money?" ”

Uncle Zhang, who was always out to check for news, nodded in surprise: "Of course it was hired for money, or who has the heart of a saint?" ”

"But is all this money out of Lu Peng's pocket?"

Uncle Zhang despised it again: "I can see clearly, Lu Peng is a profiteer, not like a scribe at all, what he says must be profitable, he levied the so-called income tax on all the merchants and shops in the city, and then took these taxes, hired so many people, and did some boring things." ”

This surprised Wang Zhe very much, collecting taxes from businessmen, which was originally an unprecedented thing, but it did not cause the merchants to strike and rebel because of the tax collection, which was even more unprecedented.

And Lu Peng braved the world's disapproval and collected the taxes from the merchants, but did not use all of them to support his army, but hired a group of old and weak to clean the streets, such a move is simply incredible.

With full of suspicion, he walked to the door of a tea room, and the little two inside ran out diligently, and when he looked up, he immediately turned over and knelt down, claiming that he had seen the eldest master.

Wang Zhe was surprised: "Do you know me?" ”

This little second hurriedly replied: "During the siege of the city, my brother and I responded to your call and took up arms to be the townspeople, fortunately, the adults were brave, God blessed, let us keep the county, and our two brothers also survived, and then the army of the Lu En people entered the city and gave each of our brothers a reward of 1,000 yuan, and at the same time, our family also got the favor of 1,000 yuan per person, and got the grace of the adults, and let us go back to the countryside to farm." ”

This Wang Zhe knew that he didn't need to be verbose, waved his hand, let this former subordinate get up, and then knelt down at a table by the window, and the little second immediately sent a pot of tea and soup, and there were a few snacks.

Looking at the teahouse, although it was simple but very clean, Wang Zhe couldn't help but wonder: "I agreed with Captain Lu to let you go back to your hometown to cultivate those barren lands, why did you start this business?" The people take food as the sky, and the people take the land as the main thing, isn't this putting the cart before the horse? When the winter comes, you have no food, how can your family live? When he said this, Wang Zhe was already worried.

In their view, not paying attention to agriculture is to forget the fundamentals, and to seek death is to seek death.

"Lu Peng is still young, how can he get it like this? No, I have to talk to him and don't ruin Pinggu. With that, the tea soup was no longer drunk, and Wang Zhe got up and left.

Seeing that the eldest master got up to leave, Xiao Er hurriedly knelt down to send him off, Wang Zhe walked out of the store, and he didn't forget to throw a few copper coins to Xiao Er.

Angrily walked into the original county office, but saw that all the documents in and out were soldiers, Pan Feng was sitting in the open lobby and writing hard, and the official documents in his hands were like flowing water, and they were processed in a blink of an eye.

Regarding Pan Feng's ability, Wang Zhe originally thought that he was a military man, but it was just perfunctory, but he took the approval document in the hand of a small official who left in a hurry, and looked carefully, it turned out to be a middle and middle distance, and there were some different opinions, which had to make Wang Zhe look at Lu Peng's subordinates with admiration, could it be that Lu Peng's subordinates were all capable people who could write and martial arts?

Seeing the original county commander Wang Zhe coming, Pan Feng hurriedly stood up to greet him, and the two greeted each other politely, Pan Feng naturally let Wang Zhe continue to sit in the main seat, after all, this county commander did not step down, although he controlled the real power of Pinggu, it was still not right.

Of course, Wang Zhe didn't sit in the seat, he sat in the guest seat, then looked left and right, and couldn't help frowning: "The general is responsible for the transfer of materials, and the guards of Pinggu, does this government affairs have to be handled by the general himself?" ”

Pan Feng smiled bitterly and said: "It's not that we are short of manpower, I, a soldier who only knows how to fight and kill, can only wear multiple hats." ”

"Is the general busy?"

Pan Feng smiled bitterly and said: "It's difficult, but I'm also lazy now, and I don't care much about many things in government affairs, so let it be." ”

Wang Zhe was a little angry: "Spring sowing has been delayed, summer grain should be rushed, if you don't organize the people to rush to plant summer grain, recultivate those abandoned land, and there is no harvest in autumn, then how should you spend this winter?" This is irresponsible to the people. ”

Looking at Wang Zhe, who was still worried about the people, Pan Feng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It seems that the original county magistrate still cares about the people.

When his lord left, he explained that he must ask this county lord to come out of the mountain at the right time and contribute to his group, it seems that this may be there.

So he hurriedly reported to the former county commander: "We are practicing this policy, the original land that has lost its owner in the war, control the hands of the government, and no longer sell it to the family and the people, we have sent familiar men a few days ago to contract the abandoned land outside the city to the more than 10,000 people in Pinggu according to the number of ten acres per person, in accordance with the principle of life, first exempt from all forced labor, no longer levy harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but only collect 100 catties of grain as land rent, and other land, Wait until there are people returning home in the future, or refugees from other places to prepare, so that more displaced people can be resettled in the future. ”

Wang Zhe thought about it and nodded lightly in agreement with this good method.

(End of chapter)