Xuzhou, Xiapi, after the first month.

Since Yang Xi broke through and rebuilt Xiapi City, three rivers crossed, a railway track runs through the north and south, the development is extremely rapid, the population has reached more than 300,000, and it has become an important town in Xuzhou.

Lu Dai, the governor of Xiapi County, is a native of Hailing, who is fifty years old, but his spirit is not diminished.

Since Yang Xi issued the decree for the election of the county magistrate, Lu Dai has not slackened at all. Yang Xi knew this Lu Dai, why he handed over Xiapi to this person, because he valued this person's ability.

Lü Dai was supposed to serve in Eastern Wu, and he worked hard all his life to open up territory for Sun Wu, and made great achievements. In the first year of Taiping (256), Lü Dai died at the age of ninety-six.

If you can live to be ninety-six, you are really an old birthday star.

After the election of the county magistrate at the end of last year, the post of county magistrate of Xiapi County was taken by a man named Sima Kui.

Lu Dai didn't know who Sima Kui was, he only knew that Sima Kui had been registered in Xiapi four years ago and had the status of a citizen of Xiapi County.

There are so many people with the surname Sima in the world, where could Lu Dai think that Sima Kui is Sima Yi's fourth brother.

Even if you know, you won't mind, Zhuge Jin is still Zhuge Liang's brother.

Besides, although Sima Yi is somewhat well-known, he is not famous all over the world at this time, Lu Dai has heard of his name, but he has only heard of it.

Originally, there were hundreds of counties in Chenhe District, and Yang Xi would not check the names one by one, but Pi County was a big county, and Yang Xi was still more concerned, so he took a casual look.

Yang Xi saw that it was a person surnamed Sima, so Yang Xi entered Sima Kui's name into the science and technology tree.

This input was incredible, and Yang Xi was taken aback.

"Sima Kui, the word Jida, Sima Fang's fourth son, Sima Yi's fourth brother. Shi Cao Wei official to Taichang, Feng Dongwu City Marquis. After his death, he said that he would wear it. ”

Yang Xi almost scolded.

Knowing that it was one of the Sima Badas of the Sima family, Yang Xi became vigilant.

So Yang Xi looked at all the elected county magistrates from beginning to end, but fortunately found nothing else.

Yang Xi thought as he tapped his fingers on the foot of the table.

This Sima Kui was elected through the normal procedure, and this is the number of votes counted by solid data.

"I have to investigate Sima Kui, what the hell is going on! Is it true that you came to my Chenhe District to do things, or do you have other purposes! ”

Yang Xi met with Tian Feng, the minister of the Ministry of Clean Government, and ordered someone to check the election in Xiapi County to see if there were any problems.

Of course, it is impossible for Tian Feng to investigate in person, and there is no need for Tian Feng to personally go out in person for the affairs of a county, so Wei Zhongdao went on the road.

Wei Zhongdao took two staff members of the Ministry of Integrity to Xiapi County. When he arrived in Xiapi County, Wei Zhongdao did not enter the city, but walked casually outside the city.

Although the population of Xiapi City reaches 300,000, but the countryside outside the city is also sparsely populated, Wei Zhongdao walked along the bank of the Surabaya River for three or four miles, only to see a stone carved boundary monument by the river, on which the word "Liuzhuang" is engraved.

"Brother Wei! In front of Liuzhuang, from the administrative level, Liuzhuang is a pavilion, this Liuzhuang has a small half of the fertile land, belongs to the Liu family, because the Liu family still has some people in this area, so when the election, it accounted for most of the votes, the head of the Liuzhuang pavilion is from the Liu family, its name is Liu Yan (don't think too much), should we go directly to ask him? ”

Wei Zhongdao thought for a moment and said, "No! We are making an unannounced visit, not an open investigation, just take some farmers and inquire about it, and we must start from the bottom to be accurate. In this case, let's go to a farmer's house for a meal first. ”

Wei Zhongdao and the three of them continued to walk forward, and saw a farmer netting fish in the river, tying a fishing boat rope, and it was estimated that there were forty or fifty catties of size in a pair of wooden barrels.

Wei Zhongdao went up and greeted: "Uncle! What a good harvest this morning! ”

It's really good, you can net dozens of catties in the morning, according to this calculation, fishing is a good business, and you don't have to pay taxes.

The fisherman saw that although Wei Zhongdao and the three of them were dressed plainly and were also ordinary cotton clothes, they had an extraordinary temperament, and they immediately did not dare to slack off, and replied: "It has been really good in the past few years, since there is this son's net, the fishing efficiency is much higher, and now it is normal to have about 80 catties a day. ”

"Childe.com?" Wei Zhongdao was a little inexplicable.

The fisherman said: "This gentleman seems to be a big man, but this boy's net is used by the river, you don't even know." In recent years, the fishing net we have used is said to have been improved by the child, and a lot of hard pendants have been added to the tail, so that the fish can be locked by the tail of the net after entering the net, and it is not easy to escape. ”

Wei Zhongdao realized that this fishing net was improved by Yang Xi, although he was a ranger in the world, he did not eat the fireworks of the world, and he robbed the rich and helped the poor with money and goods, where do you know this.

The fisherman saw Wei Zhongdao's face relieved, and knew that he really didn't understand, so he explained it in detail, and Wei Zhongdao also listened carefully, and then proposed: "Uncle! Today's fate, I see that you are lucky to fish, your family must not be able to eat so much, it is better to sell some to me, the three of us did not have breakfast today, you give me processing, by the way add some rice, how about I give you money? ”

As soon as the fisherman heard that he was buying fish, he readily agreed and took Wei Zhongdao and the three of them back to his home.

The fishermen's house is not far away, only two miles away from Surabaya.

When they arrived at his home, Wei Zhongdao and the others found that the brick house where this ordinary fisherman lived had a hall, a stove house and three rooms, and there was a wooden staircase about one meter wide next to the stove house leading to the second floor.

This is simply a wealthy family, where would you dare to think of such a thing before.

The fisherman's family had a wife, two sons and a daughter, and when they saw a guest coming, they were also extremely enthusiastic, and immediately dragged the fish to kill them.

Wei Zhongdao actually wanted to eat fish, and he had already chatted with the fishermen about some trivial matters.

Chatting and chatting, Wei Zhongdao shifted the topic to the changes in the world today.

"Yes, the virtue of the prince is indeed unmatched in the world, such as the current election, the mayor, the pavilion chief, and even the county magistrate are all elected by the people, and the lives of the people are indeed turned upside down." Wei Zhongdao seemed to talk about it unintentionally, but in fact, he looked at the fisherman with his spare eyes.

The fisherman's hand tightened slightly, and he relaxed randomly: "That's true, take our Liuzhuang as an example, the pavilion chief Liu Yan, who has been in office for two terms, has done things for the people and spared no effort." ”

Wei Zhongdao nodded, and suddenly, the fisherman, who was only four or five years old, interjected: "Yes, Pavilion Chief Liu also sent a stone of grain to our family last year." ”

As soon as the little boy interjected, the fisherman's face suddenly became nervous, and he scolded loudly: "Xiaohu, you still don't want to help your grandma make a fire!" ”

"Oh!" As soon as the boy heard the reprimand, he really turned around and went into the stove house.

Wei Zhongdao only smiled: "The child is still young, but you are too strict, uncle." ”

"The adults talked, but the children shouldn't interject, and it made the gentleman laugh."

Wei Zhongdao heard from this person's words that he was hiding something, and he was afraid that it would not work if they took the initiative to say something, but there must be a problem in the middle, but I am afraid that other farmers also have this attitude, it seems that they need to use another strategy to understand the situation, but it is really not possible, so it will be hard.

(End of chapter)