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At the beginning of the year, a new chief secretary came to the county, which caused an uproar in Yingshang County. Although the main book is only a nine-grade official position, no matter how you say it, they are all serious court officials, and they are even more auxiliary to the county order in the county, and their status is very important, but the new master book, who is not a weak crown in his real year, is still just a young man.

How does a young man have the ability to assist the county order in overseeing the affairs of a county?

No one is optimistic about this young man named Zhao Pu, even if he comes from the famous Luoyang Academy--the world's views on Luoyang Academy are not unified and controversial.

But with the passage of time, the views of Yingshang County on the new chief bookkeeper have gradually changed.

In the spring, Zhao Pu led a group of small officials to check the irrigation facilities along Yingshui, and visited the squires and villagers along the way, and Zhao Pu did not return to the county seat for a whole month. Shuttle between the fields and rivers during the day, and live in the village at night, the only thing that remains unchanged is that this Jiupin official always has endless words and discussions with farmers and squires, and there is no official frame to speak of.

A month later, Zhao Pu returned to the county seat and closed his door for three days.

Three days later, with an official document in hand, he went out of the city again, went down to the countryside, organized thousands of people, and began to repair the water conservancy and irrigation facilities in an orderly manner according to the plan he had drawn up.

The busyness of just one month has made most of the farmland in Yingshang County receive sufficient water supply.

In the summer of this year, the rainfall was not sufficient, but in the autumn, Yingshang County enjoyed a bumper harvest, and the grain output was more than 30% more than in previous years.

After the autumn harvest, Zhao Pu gathered the people again and burned straw in the farmland. He also led the people to cut down some branches, level them with the straw, and then pile up fine soil on them, then set the branches and straw on fire, smoke and burn the fine soil, and finally return the fine soil to the farmland.

He also made full use of the manure in the county town and the excrement of every household in the township, so that the farmers sprinkled it on the farmland in an orderly manner, and he even asked the farmers to spread the wheat straw and other things that they did not need into the pigsty, and after many days, the wheat stalks were trampled by pigs and sheep day and night and nourished by the dung, turning into black, stinking and smoky things, and then putting them into the farmland -- many times, the manure and manure were in line with the planting process of the crops.

Zhao Pu told the farmer that this can make the land more fertile, and can also make the crops grow better, which can ensure that the grain income in the coming year can increase by two or three percent.

The villagers were convinced of this, because Zhao Pu had already proven his erudition and talent.

As an outstanding student from the college, Zhao Pu did not only persuade farmers to teach agriculture, but he did not just take action in agriculture this year.

After busy with the improvement of water conservancy facilities in the spring, Zhao Pu already had an understanding of the output of Yingshang County, and also knew the special products of Yingshang County.

About a month later, Zhao Pu took a group of officials and errand servants and drove several donkey carts full of Yingshang County's specialties to Yingzhou Prefecture to sell.

Although Zhao Pu is not very old, but the knowledge is not small, the literary style is even more extraordinary, he and Yingzhou businessmen, the rich to promote the special products of Yingshang County, will write a few articles, tout, but also do not hesitate to borrow historical celebrities and cultural allusions, with cultural and historical heritage to increase the added value of special products, coupled with Zhao Pu's flexible brain, and proficient in business knowledge, in the packaging, varieties, patterns of means emerge in endlessly, often attract businessmen, rich people admired, was deeply attracted.

When Zhao Pu returned to Yingshang County from Yingzhou, the special products on the donkey cart had been sold out, and it was already full of materials needed by Yingshang County, and more importantly, he successfully attracted many businessmen to return to Yingshang County with him, because these businessmen saw the value of Yingshang County's specialties, and they should have large-scale acquisitions to establish a long-term supply and demand relationship.

In order to facilitate the exchange of merchants, after Zhao Pu returned to Yingshang County from Yingzhou, he persuaded the county magistrate to use a lot of manpower and material resources to renovate the Yingshui River to facilitate the navigation of merchant ships, and to expand the wharf outside the county and build supporting facilities for merchants to come and go, rest and eat and drink.

So Zhao Pu is not satisfied. Yingshui communicates the hinterland of the Central Plains and Huaishui, is an important navigation channel, just turn over the river channel of Yingshang County, and it seems that the change is too small, so he asked for a letter of introduction from the county order, and personally went to see the Yingzhou Thorn History, saying that the Thorn History of the Thorn has greatly renovated Yingshui......

After seeing the tax income brought by the prosperity of the merchants, Zhao Pu went to Shouchun to investigate. Shouchun is not only a military strategic place, because of its special location, communication between Jianghuai and Huaibei, there is the status of a transportation hub, there are more merchants here, the market is more prosperous, and the merchant ships on the Huaishui are connected, the scene is very lively.

After conducting a "thorough study" of Shouchun's commerce, Zhao Pu returned to Yingshang County and immediately persuaded the county magistrate to build a new market at the intersection of Yingshui and Huaishui, and build wharves, warehouses, hotels and other facilities.

With the efforts of Zhao Pu, the cargo transit and distribution base at the intersection of Yingshui and Huaishui soon took shape. Because the market is located in the middle of Huaishui, and Yingshui connects the hinterland of the Central Plains with the relationship between Huaishui, once the market is completed, it attracts a large number of businessmen to come here.

Zhao Pu mobilized two teams of sword archers from the county to guard the market day and night, under his unified management, the rent of the warehouses and shops here was cheap, the order and safety were all high, and the servants did not dare to embarrass the merchants, and soon became famous, attracting a steady stream of merchants to rest, transfer commercial goods, and buy and sell goods.

For this reason, Yingshang County even had to set up a household cao yamen here to manage commerce and collect taxes.

The prosperity of the market immediately led to the development of the surrounding villages.

In order to establish a good business environment, Zhao Pu formulated rules, on the one hand, to prevent small officials from filling their own pockets and putting their hands into the money bags of merchants, on the other hand, to put an end to unhealthy competition among merchants, and then to crack down on thieves to loot...... No matter how big or small, Zhao Pu is unified and coordinated.

Just the prosperity of business has made Yingshang County's taxes increase significantly, which is not three or two percent, but is expected to double in a few years, which can make Yingshang County happy to close its mouth.

The market had just been built, and Zhao Pu, who couldn't stay idle, set his sights on the handicraft industry again.

In the era of male ploughing and female weaving, in addition to helping with farm work, laundry and cooking, women were weaving and making clothes, and the surplus could be used to buy some money and subsidize the family. Zhao Pu found that there is also a lot to be done at this point.

Luoyang Academy taught him a lot of knowledge that could be applied to the world and also broadened his thinking.

In the era of male farmers and weavers, there were not many families who could afford a loom, and those tenants and poor peasants did not have this qualification at all, and only middle peasants and even rich peasants had this capital. Even if they were a middle peasant or a rich peasant, the loom at home was not used all the time, because the women's chores were actually very numerous.

Zhao Pu felt that this was really a waste of too much material and manpower.

Zhao Pu's method is to buy looms from the county, and then distribute them to the villages and villages, build special houses, build unified weaving workshops, and then count the women in the villages and villages, divide them into shifts, and let them take turns to weave in the weaving workshops throughout the day.

This brings the most out of the loom and manpower.

As for some women who don't know how to weave, don't worry, the craft can be taught.

And those middle peasants and rich peasants who have looms at home can also move their looms to the weaving workshops, which can be regarded as weaving workshops at a discount.

The woven cloth is then sold to the county by the weaving workshop, so that the possibility of women being bullied when selling cloth is eliminated, and the money obtained is distributed to the women according to the working hours and output of the weaving workshop.

The weaving mill does not withhold a single copper plate.

It seems that the county government only contributes and has no income, and it will not be able to make ends meet, but when the cloth arrives in the shops and is sold, the government has to collect taxes, so this is a virtuous circle.

In this way, not only the amount of cloth in Yingshang County has increased dramatically, but the lives of the people have also improved.

This is already quite a rural cooperative.

Zhao Pu still felt that it was not enough, he remembered Huang Guangshi, so after the weaving workshop appeared for a while, he sent people to learn the weaving process of Huang Guangshi, and then taught it to the women who weaved cloth......

Of course, what Zhao Pu did in Yingshang County was not all smooth sailing.

In the process of suppressing land annexation, Zhao Pu encountered a lot of trouble. This trouble came from a retired general, who had many meritorious deeds when he joined the army, and had achieved the position of Du Yuhou, commanding thousands of men and horses, and returning to the field after being injured, and the court also had a reward.

When such a person returns to the township, the natural forces are huge, and the county order does not dare to offend.

However, it is the custom of the people of the time to buy land and property, and this name is no exception.

When Zhao Pu handled the case, he was not only resisted by the county order, but also by the temptation of bribes and gifts from Du Yuhou, but he was never moved. In the end, Zhao Pu's own house was burned down by Du Yuhou, and he was threatened and even beaten, almost hanging by a thread, but he never flinched.

The branch of the criminal department in the county sided with Zhao Pu -- at this time, the county order no longer had the duty to decide cases, just as the political envoy did not have the power to decide cases.

This matter was finally stabbed into the state, and from the state to the province.

The provincial criminal branch and the Yushitai branch were furious at the same time, and sent powerful officials to Yingshang County together.

The matter was finally settled, and Du Yu was punished.

Zhao Puming Yangzhou County.

After dealing with Du Yuhou's case, it was already winter.

Zhao Pu was still not idle, he once again used the material and manpower of the county to build academies and education in the countryside. According to Zhao Pu, Cang Liao knows etiquette and has enough food and clothing to read the sage books.

Zhao Pu made a bold decision that all school-age children should be enrolled in the academy, and those whose parents did not allow their children to study were deemed guilty and were imprisoned. Not only that, Zhao Pu also asked the academy to teach adult men and women to read and read etiquette, and encouraged the people to be cultural people.

This is the only thing that Zhao Pu has done in Yingshang County with only money to pay and no money to earn. But when Zhao Pu was doing this, he was more attentive than anything else, and he even set an example by taking time out of his busy schedule to teach courses at the academy.

He said that people who don't know the etiquette of poetry and books are different from beasts.

He said that the reason why Datang is Datang is not only because all industries are prosperous and the country is strong, but also because every Tang person knows right from wrong, knows black and white, knows etiquette and righteousness, and knows how to serve the country.

It is also thanks to Zhao Pu's development of agriculture, commerce, and handicrafts in Yingshang County that the county can support such a huge educational undertaking.

By chance, Zhao Pu revealed in a casual conversation that the ultimate purpose of his efforts in agriculture, commerce, and handicrafts was to establish education.

He is a student who came out of the academy and understands the importance of education. If the Tang people are the foundation of Datang, then cultivating generations of Tang people is the foundation of Datang.

Zhao Pu is a scholar, and he has made meritorious contributions, virtues, and words.

Although he is young, in this winter, he has begun to sum up the political experience of this year, and write the "Book of Persuasion of Agriculture", "Book of Persuasion", "Book of Persuasion", "Book of Persuasion" and "Book of Persuasion", so as to constantly correct and improve his level of government.

No one knew that Zhao Pu had stopped outside the simple academy in the countryside, quietly watching the children in the academy, and under the leadership of his husband, they were reading seriously and devoutly. Often, after losing his mind, he found that the back of his hand was wet—it was his own tears.

Zhao Pu knew that this day was not easy. Yes, he gradually knew.

A thousand years ago, a thousand years later, there is a voice that has been echoing and has never stopped:

What is the matter with my generation of scholars, reading the books of sages?

Zhao Pu is not alone, in the land of Datang, groups of students who came out of the academy are doing the same thing as him.

And this is the romance of the scholars in the second year of Dingding.