The autumn harvest has begun, and it is impossible for Su Tiancheng to stay in the county government all the time, Liu Zhongji's opinion has been discussed with Sun Chuanting, and Sun Chuanting agrees very much, so that the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion will participate in the autumn harvest in batches, especially the families of the sergeants who rent official fields, they are all watching with their eyes, looking forward to the sergeants going home to help.

Besides, such an arrangement has the nature of humanistic care, and the sergeant is grateful in his heart, and he is more willing to be loyal to the Jiangning battalion, which is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.

As for organizing the new sergeants who entered the Jiangning camp to participate in the autumn harvest, Sun Chuanting did not object, most of these sergeants were from peasant backgrounds, even if they were former court sergeants, most of them were tun soldiers, and they were very familiar with the farm work in the field.

The consumption of the Jiangning battalion is undoubtedly huge, more than 9,000 soldiers, and more than 5,000 war horses, just grain and grass, it is not simple, it is very difficult to maintain such a huge expense, Sun Chuanting is also amazed at the wealth of Jiangning County, and the county government can maintain the operation of the Jiangning battalion alone, it is really not simple.

There is also a problem, the salary of the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion is too high, which has caused some small fluctuations, which is a later story.

Zhu Xianxin, who had been staying in the backyard of the county government, made a request at this time, and learned that Su Tiancheng was going to the countryside to check the situation of the autumn harvest, and she also asked to follow to take a look.

Su Tiancheng agreed without hesitation.

The last time we chatted, Su Tiancheng asked Zhu Xianxin to go out to take a look, take a walk in Nanjing City, and relax, but Zhu Xianxin still didn't go out, she was really afraid of being impeached. was afraid of making trouble for Su Tiancheng, which made Su Tiancheng very moved, regardless of whether Zhu Xianxin accepted unusual teachings or not, but she was her own wife, and she would rather be wronged for herself. I don't want to add a trace of trouble, this affection, I need to cherish it.

The preparation is very simple, Su Tian planned to hire a carriage, Zhu Xianxin and Chunping, take the carriage, and ride a horse with Wang Dazhi, Su Pingyang and others, but I didn't expect Zhu Xianxin to also think about riding. In this way, Chunping also needs to ride a horse.

Considering the problem of influence, Su Tiancheng finally insisted, Zhu Xianxin and Chunping took a carriage, anyway, they went down to check the situation of the autumn harvest, it was not a very anxious matter, the officials of the county government understood their responsibilities and did not dare to be sloppy in the slightest.

learned that Su Tiancheng was going to the countryside to check the situation of the autumn harvest. Sun Chuanting, Sun Yuankun and others were not very relieved. An excluded the fifty people waiting for the camp, followed all the way, Su Tiancheng was not easy to refuse, he went down to check the situation of the autumn harvest, there was no private visit to Weifu, and there was no need to grasp too much information.

The climate is still hot. But Zhu Xianxin and Chunping, who were sitting in the carriage, were very happy, and they were surprised to see what they saw along the way, Zhu Xianxin didn't even know rice, maize and sweet potato. If it weren't for Su Tiancheng's patient explanation, she would definitely make a joke.

Along the way, Su Tiancheng talked with many farmers, and he didn't have the slightest arrogance.

Every farmer who met Su Tiancheng was respectful, and they must kowtow to Su Tiancheng, and then answer many questions, and they were grateful to Su Tiancheng in their hearts.

Su Tiancheng's main purpose is to see what the situation of the poor households in the village is.

After he arrived in Jiangning County, he carried out a series of measures to stimulate economic development, and it should be said that the effect was obvious, but Jiangning County is so large, 250,000 households, 650,000 people, among the counties in Daming, it is a typical boss, according to the current situation, the county that can have 100,000 households is called Shangxian.

More than seventy percent of the people in Jiangning County are peasants, that is to say, there are more than 400,000 peasants, and the number of households is more than 150,000.

Three days later, Su Tiancheng and others came to a village far away from Jiangning County.

Many lieutenant chiefs and leaders, including the gentry and wealthy families in the village, were waiting at the head of the village under the leadership of the county officials.

Su Tiancheng was also direct, straight to the point, saying that he came to the village, mainly to see that the poorest farmers, the chief, the head of the first and the rich gentry in the village should not hide it, speaking of their own family, if there are any unstable factors below, the officials in charge of this autumn harvest will suffer, in fact, they will also suffer, as the magistrate of Jiangning County, if the farmers below have no food to eat, they are about to starve to death, this is unreasonable.

The reason why Su Tiancheng cares about this village is because it is Su Ertong who is responsible for supervising the autumn harvest here.

Su Ertong has grown up, but for more than a year, he is very familiar with government affairs, doing things wholeheartedly, never talking about the price, as a workshop warden, the thing he directly comes into contact with is farming.

Su Ertong was originally born in the Su family, speaking of which, except for doing some things such as serving people, he basically did not have contact with the outside world, and he didn't understand many things, but after arriving in Jiangning County, he studied modestly and learned from many tenants many times, as if he had become a soil expert in agriculture.

Su Tiancheng saw all this.

Such a subordinate is the most reassuring to him, so in his heart, he wants to reuse Su Ertong, and in the future, he will put Su Ertong in a more important position.

Su Ertong took Su Tiancheng, Zhu Xianxin and others and went straight to the most difficult family in the village.

The situation of this family is very special, the woman has three children, the eldest child, but ten years old, the youngest is only six years old, there are two father-in-law and mother-in-law in the family, when the man chops wood, he fell down the mountainside and became a cripple.

Such a family, even after a few hundred years, is also a typical poor family.

If it weren't for the constant support of the other sons and daughters of the parents-in-law, the family would not be able to sustain itself.

In the countryside, if there is a lack of labor in the family, it is fatal, there is no one to do the work in the fields, no one can go out to earn money, and the old people are too old to do too much heavy physical work.

The village is already taking care of the family.

The woman saw Su Tiancheng and Zhu Xianxin and others coming, and hurriedly came out with the child, and the two old men also came out.

Hearing the introduction of the lieutenant and the head of the county, the people who came were the magistrate and the county lord, the woman and the two old men hurriedly knelt down, and the woman asked the three children to kneel too.

Before Su Tiancheng could move, Zhu Xianxin and Chunping next to him moved, Chunping stepped forward first and helped the woman up, Zhu Xianxin helped up the two old men, and as for the children, Su Ertong also helped to help them up.

The woman looked very panicked, a little speechless, she had never seen so many officials, let alone the county magistrate, as for the identity of the county lord Zhu Xianxin, she didn't understand very well.

After a few words of small talk, the woman's emotions finally relaxed, and before she could start speaking, she shed tears.

From the woman's intermittent words, Su Tiancheng understood, it turned out that this family had received Su Ertong's special care, and the family's cultivated land, because of her husband's illness, had already been sold, and there was almost no way to live.

No wonder the old people, women and children are still cleanly dressed.

Zhu Xianxin took out a piece of silver and handed it to the woman.

This ingot of silver was twenty taels.

After leaving this family, Su Tiancheng made a request to Su Ertong and others.

"Such a family is very typical, just to give the support of the silver two, can not solve the fundamental problem, or to fundamentally find a way, I see that the women in the family, can do a lot of things, older children, also need to bear the burden of the family, Su Ertong, you and the county businessmen contact, go directly to Wan Chenggui, let the women and children, enter the shop to do things, let the merchants take special care, housework, the elderly can still do, in this way, at least can solve the life problems of the whole family."

"Let's see if there is still such a situation in the village, make statistics, the county government will coordinate, these particularly difficult farmers, the county government must take into account that many businessmen in Jiangning County are expanding their business scope, after the statistics come out, the county government and the businessmen will coordinate and arrange more children from these poor farmers' families to go to the shops to do things, at least to be able to support their families."

"Su Siyi, you are directly responsible for this matter, and require all villages in the county to count the situation, not to starve to death, not a simple sentence, there are many things, need to be done well, it should be the county government to find a way, can not be pushed to the head of the official personally, Su Ertong personally took out the silver to help the poor farmers, this practice is very good, should be commended."

Su Pingyang hurriedly shook his head.

"My lord, Ertong should do this, he doesn't need to be commended, if he doesn't do it well, what kind of face does he have to follow the young master to do things."

Zhu Xianxin was very generous, Su Tiancheng was a little strange, when the two were on the side, he thought about asking, but before he could speak, Zhu Xianxin spoke.

"Husband, the concubine thinks that this woman is really good, maintaining such a large family, I don't know how much Lu Dao has suffered, and being able to persevere, the concubine is really admired. That Su Ertong looks so small, he is really capable of doing things, the concubine really admires her husband, and the people around her are so powerful. (To be continued.) )