Since his daughter has moved his mind, Governor Chen no longer insists on driving away his daughter, let her go, he is silent and begins to talk about idle stories: "The master of Yu Zhai is young and promising, and the old man is deeply admired!" How are your parents at home? ”

The prefect began to touch the bottom of the family, and Yu Xiang had already thought of the wording: "I was adopted by my master since I was a child, and I didn't see my parents. ”

"Oh, to be able to cultivate an outstanding talent like you, your master must not be simple, dare to ask your master's name?"

Dizzy! Yu Xiang said in his heart, this lie is getting bigger and bigger, how can I have a master, so he said: "My master is empty." "'Empty' means nothing, but Yu Xiang didn't expect that there is really such a character as an empty man on the rivers and lakes, and he is still a martial arts master, and later he really wants to accept Yu Xiang as an apprentice, that is a later story, not to mention it for the time being.

"Oh, your master's martial arts must be extraordinary, how can your master usually teach you martial arts in addition to martial arts, but also teach you to learn literature?" Governor Chen still remembered the letter that Yu Xiang wrote to him, and the handwriting on it made even Governor Chen ashamed.

Yu Xiang wanted to dilute his image as a pseudo-martial arts master in people's minds, so he replied: "My master mainly taught me to practice literature, and rarely taught me to practice martial arts, and my font name was taken by my master." ”

Governor Chen was interested: "What is the font size of the owner of Yu Zhai?" ”

Yu Xiang hurriedly replied: "The villain word 'Congwen'." "In the Ming Dynasty, only scholars and people with status took the name, and Chen Zhifu always thought that Yu Xiang was a martial artist, so he didn't ask in detail at the beginning.

"Congwen is young and handsome, how old is he now, have you ever been married?" Governor Chen got to the bottom of it.

In ancient times, among officialdom, literati often called each other by name, which seemed cordial.

Yu Xiang replied: "The villain is twenty-six this year, and he is not married yet!" He felt a little awkward, as if he had returned to the scene of the blind date.

When Governor Chen heard this, he was very happy, such a young talent, unmarried, and his daughter were really a good match.

After finding out the bottom, Governor Chen began to get back to business: "I heard that Congwen gave two copper coins to each of the villagers outside the mansion, yes or no?" ”

Yu Xiang's heart tightened, and he didn't know what the prefect meant by asking this, so he hurriedly replied: "Lord Hui, those neighbors followed the team early in the morning until noon, but I am afraid that they are already hungry, and they will give each person two copper coins, just hoping that they can buy food to eat!" ”

"Of course, of course, the lord of Yuzhai is kind-hearted, and the government admires it very much." The prefect paused and said: "The world is difficult now, and I don't know how many people can't eat a full mouthful." Even when we ate official dinners, we ate the last meal and the next meal. Over the years, Gu Batian has been forced to buy and sell, for the sake of harming one party, but I am afraid that there is no shortage of gold, silver, money and grain, if these money and grain are used to help the people, so that more people's lives will be improved, wouldn't it be beautiful? Master Yuzhai, you say yes and no. ”

Yu Xiang heard the meaning of his words, he was fighting Gu Batian's property, and as expected, Yu Xiang had already thought about how to deal with it, and said: "It is a blessing for the people that Governor Chen's mansion thinks about the people, but Gu Batian did not leave much food, and in this self-defense war, there are eleven young men and women in my village who died in battle, and these people are all old and young, and they need silver and two pensions." The silver obtained from Gu Batian is far from enough to comfort the bereaved families of these heroes, I wonder if Governor Chen can give some silver taels to solve the difficulties of these families? ”

"This-" Governor Chen was speechless for a while, as for how much food Gu Batian had, he didn't have the bottom, Yu Xiang had already blocked all the news, and even the matter of Mu Jiazhai's distribution of bereavement rewards and silver, Yu Xiang strictly ordered it not to be spread.

Seeing that the prefect was like this, Yu Xiang had a bottom in his heart, it seemed that the prefect didn't know much about Gu Batian's family background, so he accepted it when he saw it, and said: "Since the prefect is in difficulty, the villain has to find a way by himself." ”

Governor Chen is not easy to fool, he knows that Yu Xiang just doesn't want to spit out the food that he eats in his mouth, so he has to put this matter aside for the time being.

Governor Chen changed the topic and asked: "Is it true that this government has heard that Congwen wants to build a new village and realize the dream of a new village?" ”

Yu Xiang replied: "What my lord said is very true, I have named the ancient village Zhangjia New Village, and plan to build a new village group with Zhangjia New Village as the center, so as to realize the dream of the villagers to have a house to live, food, clothes to wear, and pay taxes, this is my dream of a new village." ”

Miss Chen was serving tea and water, while listening carefully to Yu Xiang's words, when she heard that Yu Xiang had such great ambitions, she couldn't help but take a look at Yu Xiang, it seems that this big hero is both literate and martial, not comparable to ordinary rivers and lakes, and Yu Xiang's image is even taller in her heart.

Governor Chen nodded and said: "This is a very realistic idea, from the young talents, not only to build a new village, but also to assume the responsibility of the construction of Dongshuanghe Town, this government wants to ask you to collect taxes from Dongshuanghe Town, what do you think?" ”

Hum! still mentioned the tax issue of Dongshuanghe Town, since this is the case, it is better to take the opportunity to make a request, so he said: "Thank you for your love, it is okay to collect taxes, but the name is justified, and it must not be collected in vain, which makes the people's resentment boil." ”

Of course, Governor Chen could hear the meaning of his words, so he followed Yu Xiang's words and said, "How about appointing Congwen as the mayor of Dongshuanghe Town?" ”

Governor Chen's Mansion kills two birds with one stone, on the one hand, it can allow Yu Xiang to do things and collect taxes in his name, and on the other hand, it can also gradually train him to enter the officialdom, paving the way for his prospective aunt to enter the officialdom.

Although Yu Xiang did not know the deep meaning of the prefect, he was also very satisfied with this arrangement, with this official position, the construction of the new village can mobilize more resources, and it can be justified in doing things.

Yu Xiang was still more concerned about the annual task quota, so he asked, "How much tax should I pay every year?" ”

Governor Chen said: "It is still according to the amount of taxes levied in Dongshuanghe Town before: one hundred and fifty taels of silver, and two hundred stones of grain. "This amount is the highest in other administrative districts of the same kind, and Governor Chen doesn't want to scare away Yu Xiang because of the lion's big mouth.

Hearing the prefect report this amount, it was the same as the data counted before, and Yu Xiang was able to accept it. However, he did not want to pay for food, because in the coming drought, only food was the real thing to live, and the silver was only afraid that it would become less and less valuable.

So Yu Xiang said: "Lord Chen, this amount is acceptable, but there is a requirement below." ”

Governor Chen said: "What are the requirements, just talk about it from the text." ”

Yu Xiang said: "Within two years, all the taxes in Dongshuanghe Town will be converted into silver and paid, which will be converted into four hundred and fifty taels of silver every year. ”

Governor Chen calculated in his heart that according to the current payment of one hundred and fifty taels of silver and two hundred stones of grain, it would be converted into about three hundred and fifty taels of silver, and wouldn't it be better to have an extra hundred taels of silver at this time! Governor Chen even wondered if he had seen the wrong person, was Yu Xiang a fool at this point!

However, Governor Chen pretended to be deep and said: "It is laborious and laborious to carry the grain, so it is a good way to convert it into silver, in order to support Congwen, this government agrees." ”

Yu Xiang smiled secretly in his heart, if you get cheap, you will still sell well, but I am afraid that in less than half a year, you should regret it. This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

Governor Chen's mind was like this, much smoother than expected, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Yu Xiang saw it in his eyes, so he wanted to further talk about the idea of building a new village, so as to ask for people, materials and policies, which was the main purpose of this trip.

Yu Xiang asked: "I have a set of ideas for the construction of a new village, I wonder if adults are interested in listening to it?" ”

"Of course I am willing, from the text, this government listens to it."

Yu Xiang then talked about the circular agriculture, water conservancy construction, village appearance construction, cultural construction, commercial construction, and security construction of the new village, and heard that the government was in the clouds.

Although Governor Chen couldn't understand it all, he was still amazed by Yu Xiang's novel conception, and he felt that Yu Xiang's ideas revealed a fresh energy, which was completely different from the decaying and declining apocalyptic atmosphere of that era.

Chen Zhifu is well versed in the way of officialdom, he is faintly worried that Yu Xiang will be attacked by the stubborn forces of the imperial court, those vested interest groups are most afraid of the emergence of new things to threaten their vested interests, once they discover new affairs, they will often do whatever it takes, will have a potential threat to them in the bud of fresh affairs, in a sense, the bud of capitalism in the late Ming Dynasty was stifled by these people, and the Ming Dynasty was buried in the hands of these interest groups.

Governor Chen reminded worriedly: "Congwen, before the construction of the new village has achieved obvious results, it must be low-key and not publicized. ”

Yu Xiang could hear that this was the prefect's caring and considerate words, so he replied sincerely: "Thank you for the reminder, the villain should remember the reminder of the adult, and be careful everywhere in the future." ”

The prefect nodded in satisfaction.

Yu Xiang continued: "My lord, there are two requests below, and I hope that Lord Wan can help. ”

"Oh, if you have any requests from the text, just put it forward, as long as it is something that the government can do, you will never push it."

"The first request was to ask an adult to help buy sweet potatoes and potatoes."

Governor Chen's heart was relieved, since it was a purchase, there was no pressure. He said: "There are sweet potatoes, the imperial court transferred some from Fujian last month, as public food, everyone is still not used to eating for a while, and is planning to forcibly distribute it, if you want to buy it, then it is better." Take as much as you want. ”

Yu Xiang was overjoyed: "I want all these sweet potatoes." ”

The prefect nodded and continued, "But this potato is not available in this house. ”

Yu Xiang said: "Thank you, my lord, I still want some talents who understand agriculture, water conservancy, iron smelting and military training, I don't know if the prefect can borrow them?" ”

Governor Chen was shocked and said: "The construction of your new village, agriculture, water conservancy and iron smelting are still in the past, but what use do you want to train the army?" ”

Yu Xiang replied: "If it is not peaceful today, if there is no military strength that can resist bandits and bandits, if you want to build a new village, I am afraid that it will be just a piece of paper, not to mention that it cannot be built, and even if it is completed, it will be looted, I want to build a new village self-defense force to resist bandits and robbers." ”

When the prefect heard this, he felt that his words were reasonable, and said, "In this way, the prefect is too worried. There are a few talents in this house, but they have strange temperaments, and if you think they are available, you can take them away. ”

Yu Xiang said happily: "That's great! ”

Governor Chen added: "However, their salaries can be settled by you in the future." ”

Yu Xiang replied happily: "No problem! ”

Governor Chen took a breath and thought to himself, finally throwing these stinky and hard stones out.