Since Zhou Yang sat in the position of Tongzhi in Jiaozhou, Tongzhi was originally the deputy of Zhizhou, with a lot of official affairs, plus the civil affairs of the Grange in the land of Sanfu, he was busy all day without touching the ground.

However, Zhou Yang's helpers around him have gradually increased, he has taken the position of Tongzhi in Jiaozhou, and since the first month of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, countless major events in Shandong have always had the shadow of Li Meng, the general of Qinglai, behind them.

Nowadays, officialdom is the world of Jiangnan people, and many provinces are in chaos, Shandong scholars, there are fewer and fewer ways out of the discipline, even if you pass the exam, when you are assigned an official position, you are not a Jiangnan person, so naturally there are not too many good places to choose.

If you go to Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan, you will be cut off by the rebels on the day you can't keep it, but after ten years, you have to find a way out for yourself, otherwise you are really unwilling

Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Jinan Prefecture, was arrogant and domineering, and there were officials from the Shandong Governor and the Political Envoy Department Yamen there, so they didn't want to collect scholars at all, and most of the work to be done by civil officials had their own special yamen to handle.

In the past, Liu Zeqing, the former general soldier of Caozhou, was vulgar and ruthless, and he had always only made friends with prominent Yanzhou officials and celebrities in Beijing and various places, and he was quite rude to local literati, and there were discussions about Liu Zeqing's appearance being killed, Liu Zeqing's favorite concubine was a famous prostitute back then, and there were many people who were killed when they talked about this matter, and there were also articles written in Jinan Mansion criticizing Liu Zeqing's brutal behavior in Caozhou.

At present, the general army of Shandong is huddled in Jinan Mansion, and Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Caozhou, was raided by thieves and disappeared, so there is only Li Meng who has this choice.

Zhou Yang was originally a lifter, but now he doesn't have any qualifications, so he sat on the same knowledge of Jiaozhou, and he is also a local official as a local official. Ning Qiangui is just a shabby talent who is a master for the salt administration inspection, and now, even if the Laizhou prefect meets him, he has to call Sheng Ning Shibrother, after all, the Laizhou prefect orders not to leave Ye County, this Ning Qiangui is the prime minister's financial master.

Zhou Yang and Ning Qiangui were just literati in Jiaozhou City. Just because he followed Li Meng, he has such a situation now, so if he is in the past, how far can he go.

There are quite a few literati who have this idea, and there are many people who take refuge for a while, but Li Meng's Jiaozhou camp is different from ordinary places, and the literati who are needed here must be able to do practical things, rather than understand the rules of officialdom and the master of thick black land. As a result, among the people who came to the scholars, those who came from a good background were appeased, but a few people from poor backgrounds who were known as not doing their jobs in the township were selected.

These literati are not in the name of the staff of the generals, but as the master of Jiaozhou Tongzhi Zhou Yang, they handle official affairs together.

In the middle of May in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the weak still had to wear cotton jackets at night. With only two light rains in three months, and no rain has even fallen since the beginning of the first month in Dongchang and Jinan, it seems that this year's drought is worse than last year's.

Li Meng was rare in the Li family manor, in the study of the inner house, looking at the proclamations sent from everywhere, in modern times, in the financial escort company, he hated writing a security log every day, and thought that he was a soldier and an escort. I also have to do these paperwork work, and I have a headache when I look at the tables and figures, who wants to come to this ancient world, the status is much higher than before, but what I hate must be seriously paid attention to.

The grange in Tuntian is still constantly investing, and Li Meng has no profit to make in the salt transportation trade with the Zheng family, and every boat of smuggled salt earned silver must be exchanged for grain and daily necessities and put into various granges.

At present, there are more and more people in the Tuntian Grange. The continuous drought made those peasants who wanted to survive a good year completely dead, bankrupt, and had no way out, and then they could only enter Li Meng's Tuntian Grange to survive, and by May, there were already more than 30,000 people in the Tuntian Grange. And Zhou Yang reported the situation. The number of people will continue to increase.

At present, Li Meng is completely dependent on commerce and trade and the private salt business in Shandong to maintain the operation of the army, but fortunately, there is a harvest in the tuntian grange. Otherwise, Li Meng will soon fall into bankruptcy.

After reading several proclamations from various places, Li Meng couldn't help but feel a little emotional, thanks to the fact that there was no pollution and over-exploitation of natural resources in this era, the land of Denglai was still a vast and sparsely populated remote place in the Ming Dynasty, and many lakes, rivers, and ponds had relatively abundant water.

Even though the water level dropped a lot due to the severe drought, the tuntian granges in various places still dug ditches and diverted water for irrigation under the guidance of experienced officials to ensure the growth of crops.

Thinking that I am in modern times, the Yellow River channel on the Dongying side even has an invisible water situation during the dry season, because from the middle reaches, water is used everywhere, or quoted, or irrigated. Many places with the name of rivers are only bare rivers, and it was only after coming to this era that Li Meng was quite surprised to see that there was such a big river and boats sailing, and it was not strange until recently.

These abundant lands do not overuse the source of groundwater sources, ensure the irrigation water at the tuntian, and ensure the growth of crops, so although the silver money available for turnover is getting less and less, Li Meng is not in a hurry, because the harvest is imminent, and it can be turned around immediately.

Every time there was a catastrophe, the peasants were displaced in various places, the turmoil was frequent, and the powerful took the opportunity to annex the land, and after the contradictions intensified, what the government did was to send troops to suppress and exterminate them.

If you gather manpower in advance to repair water conservancy, tidy up the fields, and relieve the poor, even if you carry out this tuntian policy like yourself, there will probably be no such situation in the world, Lu Xiangsheng is in Beizhili tuntian, relieving hundreds of thousands of poor people, and harvesting countless grains, which shows that this method is not impossible, but some people do not do it.

Having said that, this Chongzhen is the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and there are a lot of absurd and abnormal things in the next room today, and it is normal to have this kind of situation.

Incidentally, when Li Meng crossed the Yangtze River, the river was more than ten miles wide, and when he crossed the river in modern times, it was only three or four miles wide, and the amount of water in ancient and modern water systems was already very different.

If you mobilize to give weapons, it is estimated that 40,000 soldiers will always be mobilized, but it should not be used at the moment, so it is better to let these people receive basic military training in the village protection team now, and specialize in production.

Thinking like this, Li Meng was a little relaxed, the harvest was imminent, and the effect of Tuntian was really fast, and a guard outside shouted in a low voice:

"Avoid!

Li Meng in the room could also hear this low voice clearly, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but bring a hint of a smile, the guards of the personal guards cannot be missing, but the guards and the female dependents of the inner house are different from men and women after all, so when the female relatives enter and exit, they see it from a distance, and there are special rules to avoid it.

The avoidance outside was actually a notification to Li Meng in the house, someone was coming, it was already dark, and there were big lanterns lit between the corridors of the house outside, and there was only one person who came over during this time period, Li Meng's wife Yan Ruoran.

"It's very cold this weather, you just ask the people to send it over, why bother to run this trip yourself."

Li Meng complained loudly, and stood up to greet him, Yan Ruoran was already dressed as a young woman now, her head and clothes had changed, but there were not too many decorations, and she looked quite plain, hearing Li Meng complain, Yan Ruoran smiled lightly, put the small drawer in her hand on the bookcase, and replied:

"The concubine made some snacks and sent them to the master, so come here to have a look."

Open the food drawer, pick up a piece of dim sum and send it to your mouth, it tastes good, and more importantly, the happiness and Manchu feeling that arise spontaneously.

In modern times, Li Meng often listened to colleagues with families showing off, saying how virtuous his wife was, how happy he was at home, etc., and he heard quite envy that day, but Li Meng also believed that in modern times, to find such a gentle and virtuous woman, this is after all the late Ming Dynasty era of male supremacy.

Li Meng didn't know that the servants in the entire inner house sighed not how blessed he was, but that Yan Ruoran married a good husband, although Li Meng was a machismo, but after all, he had been influenced by theories such as equality between men and women and respect for women in modern society, and these things were expressed, that is, a good man and a good husband who knew cold and hot, and knew how to hurt people, Yan Ruoran naturally felt happy.

Mu Yunyao was a little anxious, the girl has obviously had a lot less contact with herself since Li Meng got married, Mu Yunyao thought to herself, the main room must be out of play, but according to the first-come, first-served relationship, at least the second one!

Gu Hengbo and Liu Ru are quite at ease, seeing that Li Meng and his wife get along, as well as some actions on weekdays, this Li Meng is at least a very good man in the inner house, anyway, the ownership has been determined, so stay in this house with peace of mind, and sooner or later there will be a day to give himself a name.

"I heard that the three girls of Mu Yunyao take the things from the Di newspaper and the Tang newspaper to let you make the decision."

Li Meng took a sip of sweet soup and asked Yan Ruoran with a smile, Yan Ruoran heard this, covered his mouth and laughed a few times, and replied:

"It's all childlike nature, and the woman's family is the right way to run the inner house, and the concubine only can't answer, and the three of them disperse."

"Madam, you are one year older than Yun Yao, it's really hard for you."

Li Meng said pityingly