Yangzhou, in the state capital, Assassin Shi Weixuan sat above, and his hand was Shi Fangyanqian, the governor who had just turned back from Hangou and reported on his official business.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, Fang Yanqian took a sip of tea soup, he used to drink it often, but after tasting the faint tea in Liuhe County, the gentleman's guest store, and then drinking this tea soup, he couldn't help but wrinkle his brows and twist his mouth a little.

The thirst in his mouth was not quenched, but he added a little irritability.

When he looked up, he saw Wei Xuan's puzzled look, with a little puzzlement. Tea soup, in the past, banquets in the state mansion were always prepared, and Fang Yanqian was never seen like this: "When the farm is busy, the levy and conscription are indeed delayed, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no evil people's livelihood." But when the emperor was the vassal king, he was in Yangzhou, and the ditch was dredged and excavated, so it must not be taken lightly, and the construction period must be stepped up. ”

The governor of a state has to do everything himself.

"That's how it should be." Fang Yanqian said, knowing why Wei Xuan said this, probably because of Fang Cai's frowning, which made the other party misunderstand, "Although it is agricultural time, fortunately, Hangou is an ancient canal, as long as it is dredged silt, clean up water and grass and other debris, it can be completed in January." ”

Hearing this, Wei Xuan's slightly solemn brows were relaxed. Even if you are in the position of assassination and control the administrative power of a state, many things will be involuntarily. Today's saints are full of resources, but their temperament is gloomy and extravagant.

The first emperor upheld frugality in governing the country, and when the saint was a vassal king, or even a prince, he also adhered to this idea. But he was only one year old on the throne, and he built a new capital in Luoyang, and the counties under the state have been reporting continuously for months, and the number of displaced people in transit has been as high as thousands.

Wei Xuan became famous as a young man, and the ancestors of Wei Shi's family were already officials in the court, with such innate conditions, and they also had talents and insights. Zhou Shi Shi was an official, and inherited his father's title, with 4,000 households.

The duke's title and 4,000 food estates are really expensive.

After the Zhou Dynasty of Gaozu, Wei Xuan inspected the affairs of the border state, pacified the rebellion of the state, and when he served as the assassin of Zizhou, he pacified the rebellion of the mountain bureaucrats.

Knowing that the mountain bureaucrats are inexhaustible, the reason why they rebel is mostly because the border officials are corrupt and bent the law, and they are bullied, so they have the intention of resisting. Combined with force and persuasion, Wei Xuan put down the rebellion, and then the border state was peaceful.

Entering Yangzhou for the state of the history of thorns, coincided with the excavation of the Tongji Canal, millions of widows and servants digging ditches, the first emperor remembered the hard work of the people, and the labor of one year and thirty years was reduced to 20 days. It is to build the Great Wall of the border pass, which is also 20 days, and most of them are border barbarians.

Now the saint has dug the Tongji Canal, from March, to now, it has been four months, and the people of Hedong have been conquered. Although there is no shortage of grain in the land east of the river and there is a lot of land, the people are also rubbing shoulders, and there are more poor households in the prefectures and counties than in the counties of Huainan.

After four months of hard labor, I heard that every day there were servants who fell in the ditch. Some time ago, Wei Xuan even made a report, hoping that the saint would take care of the people's power and slow down the conscription of Tongji Canal.

But I only got some encouragement from the emperor, a few words of comfort and peace of mind such as loving the people, and a royal screen.

When the displaced people entered the country, Wei Xuan did not stop it, and most of them were resettled nearby.

Now that the ditch is being excavated and 100,000 dingfu is being levied, I don't know how many fields are going to delay the agricultural time. However, as Fang Yanqian said, this ditch is an ancient ditch, and it only needs to be dredged and irrigated, which is also a fortunate thing.

"Wei Assassin History, Xia Guan went to Liuhe County this time, but he found a few happy things." Seeing Wei Xuan pondering, Fang Yanqian knew that he should be worried about the matter of conscription, so he changed his words.

Ding Fu had already arrived at the ditch, and dredged and widened the ditch according to the instructions of the overseer.

"What?" Sure enough, Wei Xuan really stretched his brows, raised his interest, asked, suddenly remembered something, and frowned, "That Liuhe County Order, is it really a child?" ”

was a little contemptuous, and even called the word "child", but he didn't even pronounce the word Chen Ping. A person who relied on auspiciousness, won the emperor's holy favor, and became a county order, Wei Xuan inevitably despised and even slightly disgusted in his heart.

Pity for the people, but that is only the sympathy of the superior to the lower, and it is inevitably with the element of arrogance and charity. As a common citizen, his family has been a farmer for generations, and he has never entered a state and county school, just relying on his feathers and auspiciousness, he fell into the title of a county order.

Wei Xuan was born in a famous family, as a state assassin history, he can call his subordinate officials like this, but Fang Yanqian can't, between the famous family and the famous family, there is also a gap, Fang Yanqian's parents died early, he was raised in his uncle since he was a child, and he was passed on to his uncle House Zhen, which can be described as ill-fated, and he is not as proud as Wei Xuan, and then there is the Ding Fu who he saw in Liuhe County when he gathered to collect and send a hair, for Chen Ping, a young man younger than his own son, the praise is more: "There are three things." One is the food, there is an inn in Liuhe County, the name is quite good, the customer inn. With such a name, the literati and scholars looked at it and thought to themselves that they were gentlemen, so why not go in and take a look? ”

Wei Xuan stroked his beard and nodded, a little interesting.

However, the name is still secondary, and the interior layout is also elegant, but it is different from the restaurant next to it. The dishes are also fragrant and delicious, and I have never eaten them in the past. Fang Yanqian glanced at the thick and spicy tea soup on the table, "There is a second thing, which is tea." Different from the tea soup we drink on weekdays, it is made of boiling water from the clear spring in the mountains to make tea leaves, which is light and fragrant. ”

"Oh?" This time, Wei Xuan was surprised, and understood why Fang Yanqian frowned when he drank that tea soup, it was here.

"The last thing is that it is Liuhe Ling Chen Ping. It only took him three days to complete the collection time of the five-day Dingfu, distinguishing each li with a color flag, so that the Dingfu could find the length of the li, so that he would not be scattered and lose his square inch, which can be described as a good arrangement. Mung beans were also prepared to relieve the heat. In addition, every household in the county is Ding Zhuang, and Liuhe County originally had more than 7,000 households, 5,000 forced laborers, and more than 2,000 people, but Chen County's order was to arrange for the cultivation of the county's fields, so as not to delay agricultural affairs. After only one night's work, Fang Yanqian understood the matter of the levy of conscription in Liuhe County clearly, the first two things were just appetites, and they added a little to it, and the latter item was the reason for Fang Yanqian's admiration.

It was a clever trick to plough and sow the fields for the servants.

Sure enough, it was Wei Xuan, who was originally sitting on the top seat, his eyes flashed, and he looked at Wei Xuan: "Is there a hermit in Liuhe County?" ”

Hermit, synonymous with talent.

Fang Yanqian shook his head: "I haven't heard of it." ”

"Who came up with that idea?" Wei Xuan's head, this is also in line with the information in the state and county he has, a small Liuhe County, the nobility is not obvious, only one came to protect the child, but it is only a person who is trapped, a general, and he cannot be called a handsome hermit.

"Liuhe makes Chen Ping think alone." Fang Yanqian's tone was not without sighs.

"Oh?" Wei Xuan was shocked again, causing the servants outside to come in when they heard the words, and when they saw Wei Xuan's unhappy face, they retreated in panic, and the original contempt melted away, "A young man, Ju has such talent." (To be continued.) )