After the end of the year, Chen Lin had returned to Hanzhong County for several months, and in a blink of an eye, he had reached the fourth year of Hanzhong Ping (187). After returning to Hanzhong, Chen Lin devoted himself to rectifying the affairs of the county, and continued to increase the mutual market exchanges with the Bashan Yi people, Zhou Tai also led the hundreds of brothers to settle in Hanzhong, Zhou Tai was still a military waiter, leading 500 foot soldiers.

On this day, Chen Lin was discussing with Jia Xu and others, Jia Xu said: "My lord, last year, Hanzhong County had a bumper harvest, which has basically met the food needs of the county. When a room of people heard Jia Xu say this, their faces were full of joy, and Juncheng Yanpu was even more happy and happy. Chen Lin was also in a good mood, and said to everyone: "This is the work of everyone working together, especially the planting is indispensable. After Chen Lin finished speaking, he took the lead in getting up and toasting to Yan Pu, Yan Pu hurriedly stood up and saluted back, and said in a crying voice: "The garden is just a frustrated scholar, and the lord has been appointed as the county prince of Hanzhong, and he is terrified in his heart, and he doesn't want to do his best every day, so as to live up to the trust of the lord." The lord made what he had learned useful, and he was grateful. After speaking, he kowtowed heavily to Chen Lin again.

Sitting down again, Chen Lin said: "You should be prepared for danger in times of peace, don't be careless, we are in charge of the life and death of 400,000 people in the county, no matter how small things are, they are big things, on the contrary, as long as I am united in Hanzhong County, no matter how big things are, you must remember to remember." Chen Lin's words made everyone admire. Chen Lin also said: "When I returned to Hanzhong from Yizhou Mianzhu before, I saw that there were soldiers and horses from Liangzhou fighting on the Yinping Trail. My Hanzhong County is surrounded by mountains on three sides, it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack, now Yangping County in the north guards Yangping Pass, and there is Xi County to monitor the Qinling Meridian Valley, Bashan in the south is where the Yi people are, since the beginning of the mutual market and the relationship with the Yi people has become increasingly good, there are three counties in the east for defense, but there is no guard on this difficult Yinping trail, I don't know what you have to teach some? ”

As soon as Chen Lin finished speaking, Jia Xu knew that Chen Lin just wanted to protect Hanzhong County, but Jia Xu was thinking about how to make Chen Lin use Hanzhong County to occupy all aspects of the advantage in the future, thinking more about offense than defense. Yinping is also a day or two away from Nanzheng Hao, Jia Xu remembered that Chen Lin ordered the establishment of a county in Yangping, so he said: "Lord, if you follow Yangping's move and set up a county in Yinping, now Hanzhong County has hundreds of people from other places to vote every month, if you arrange these people to settle in Yinping, it will become a county in a long time." ”

As soon as Jia Xu finished speaking, Yan Pu shook his head and objected: "No, the barren land of Yin Ping is not enough to support the people, and the people from other places first came to my Hanzhong County because they yearn for the scene of Hanzhong. ”

Jia Xu said that the establishment of a county in Yinping made Chen Lin quite moved, but what Yan Pu said was not unreasonable, for a while Jia Xu and Yan Pu had their own opinions, and Chen Lin couldn't make up his mind, so he had to announce the matter and discuss it again. On this day, Chen Lin was idle and had nothing to do, and he was thinking about Yinping's affairs, and he was upset, so he said to Huang Yan: "Huang Yan, go, go out and walk." "Then he went out of the house with a few guards and looked around. Seeing that everyone on the street was smiling, Chen Lin was in a slightly better mood, and unconsciously walked out of the city gate and walked towards the countryside farmland. At this time, it is an important time before planting grain in the new year, many people are busy in the fields, and the overturned cars made by Bi Lan's master and apprentice can be seen everywhere on the vast and boundless fields, which are distributed on both sides of the water's edge, constantly turning the water up the canal, rolling and flowing to the farmland in the distance, and the young children are chasing and playing in the fields, which is a good idyllic scenery.

Chen Lin smiled and said to Huang Yan: "Huang Yan, such a scene, even if you are a farmer here, it is not bad." Huang Yan smiled: "The eldest young master, others should be leisurely farmers just because there is the eldest young master guarding them, and the eldest young master should work harder and harder to benefit more people, if the people of the world can be like this, then the eldest young master might as well return to farming." After hearing this, Chen Lin sighed and stopped talking. Now that the Han Dynasty is revolting and rebelling everywhere, there are a few places as quiet as Hanzhong County, and it is not easy to ask the people of the world to be like the people of Hanzhong.

As he walked, Chen Lin saw a family of five plowing a one-acre field in front of him, a huge buffalo and a young man pulling forward, an old man pushing a plow behind him, and a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law behind him seemed to be beating a large piece of soil, and a five or six-year-old child was making trouble. Everyone in the family sweated profusely, but they couldn't stop the joy of their hearts. Chen Lin stepped forward for some reason, and the family also found Chen Lin and several people, seeing that all of them were mighty strong men, knowing that they were not ordinary people, the child seemed a little scared and hurriedly hid behind his mother.

Chen Lin stopped in the sky, smiled and said to the man standing in front of him: "Old man don't panic, I am a native of this Nanzheng, seeing that the old man's family is happy, I can't help but disturb, it's hot, it's better to rest, drink saliva, talk to me, disturb, I don't know if it's convenient." The old man had seen more of the world, knew that Chen Lin was not an ordinary person, and did not dare to be disobedient, so he replied to Chen Lin on the ridge of the field, but the women, children and children watched nervously on the other side.

Chen Lin didn't explain when he saw this, the people were afraid of the rich and the officials, and since ancient times, the people have always been afraid of the powerful. Chen Lin said: "Don't panic the old man, there is no malicious intent, how many people are in the old man's family?" Perhaps it was Chen Lin's kind attitude that infected the old man, but the old man was not flustered at this time, and he had something to answer and said a lot of things at home. It turned out that the old man was also a local, and there was no land, Chen Lin re-measured a lot of land after he came, and promised that whoever opened up the wasteland would be whoever, so the old man's family of five had four acres of land, and this acre was the most fertile. Last year, the family worked hard for a year, and they accumulated a lot of white flour, which made the old man's family, who had always been hungry and cold, happy, and held back their strength to raise these few acres of heaven this year, and the days were quite interesting. The cattle in the sky are rented, and the cattle of the Hanzhong County Government will be exchanged for rent with grain in the coming year, which is the affairs that Yan Pu is presiding, and Chen Lin is not surprised when he hears about it. In the end, the old man smiled and said: "Hehe, this county keeper is really good, since he came, we have a good life, originally this plow was pulled by two oxen, but the dog has some brute strength, so he rented one less, and saved a lot of rental money, hehehe." ”

Chen Lin could see the old man's sincere smile, and for the first time, he knew that the plow was pulled by two oxen, which really cost a lot of material resources. Chen Lin suddenly became interested in the plow, and walked down the field regardless of the wet mud, surrounded the plough to watch, making the old man, Huang Yan and the others full of puzzlement. Chen Lin looked at it carefully for a while, and saw that the clods of soil turned up by the plough were huge, no wonder the two women were beating just now, otherwise how could such a large piece of soil be planted.

Chen Lin suddenly had a whim and shouted to Huang Yan: "Come and pull the plow by one person, how about trying this plow." Frightened Huang Yan and the others, he hurriedly rushed over and said, "Young Master, here, how can I use you to do this work." Chen Lin smiled: "I want to see how this plough is, come, less verbose." Huang Yan was helpless, so there was a strange scene on this field, Chen Lin was pushing the plow, one person and one ox were pulling, and several big men around were at a loss to follow. After a while, Chen Lin was sweating profusely, stopped and gasped and said, "Laborious, laborious, where is Master Bi Lan's apprentice, called?" Huang Yan hurriedly ordered people to rush away, and Bi Lan's master and apprentice had been in Nanzheng.

Chen Lin returned to the ridge to talk to the old man, Chen Lin's actions also made the old man confused, about half an hour Bi Lan and Ma Jun rushed over, and when they saw Chen Lin, Chen Lin didn't stop him and knelt down: "Meet Lord Taishou." When the old man and father and son next to him heard this, their ears smoked, and they hurriedly knelt down tremblingly, Chen Lin had sharp eyes, supported the old man, and said with a smile: "Old man, the ground is wet, no courtesy." The old man was speechless.

Chen Lin didn't care, but said to Bi Lan and the others: "Mr. Bi, come and see this plow." Bi Lan said: "This is the straight plough that I have always used in the dynasty, and it is the cultivation method of two oxen lifting the bar, I don't know what's wrong?" Chen Lin said: "I don't understand, but I think this plough is too laborious, and the clods of soil that have been turned over have to be broken by manpower, which is time-consuming and laborious. Bi Lan kept looking at the plough, but the little horse said out loud: "Master....Master, this... This clod of soil..."After talking for a long time, Chen Lin realized that this horse was trying to make a thing, and it was much faster to break large pieces of soil in the shape of several gears than to beat them one by one with a wooden stick. As soon as Chen Lin heard this, he could immediately solve a problem, although he didn't know what the effect was, but he finally had an idea, Chen Lin was very happy, and immediately ordered Bi Lan's master and apprentice to deal with the problem of cultivating tools.

After Chen Lin gave the order, he returned to the edge of the ridge, and the old man wanted to visit him again, but he was stopped, Chen Lin: "Old man, disturb, as long as you work hard, the official will ensure that everyone has enough food and clothing." After saying that, he turned around and left, Huang Yan and the others hurriedly followed, leaving only Bi Lan's master and apprentice and the sergeant who was ordered to protect Bi Lan's master and apprentice. The young man asked the old man, "Father, is this really too guarded?" The old man patted the man's head and shouted: "Vertical son" turned to look in the direction of Chen Lin's departure, and said in a low voice: "This is my lord, Chen Taishou, who loves the people like a son." ”

Only on the second day, Bi Lan sent someone to report that he had solved the problem of turning over large pieces of soil and made a new farm tool, named "rake". Chen Lin was overjoyed, and immediately rewarded Bi Lan's master and apprentice with one hundred taels of gold, and at the same time ordered Yan Pu and Bi Lan to work together to use this for the whole county. Yan Pu also hurriedly came to visit, and said: "Lord, Mr. Bi is really a miracle, I have seen it in the garden, and it is really more than twice as fast as the previous farming, but Mr. Bi said that the plough that the lord said is laborious, and there is no way to solve it, I hope the lord will forgive the sin." ”

Chen Lin laughed: "Mr. Bi has made a great contribution, how can he punish him." Also, before Zhizhi said that the matter of setting up a county in Yinping, a certain intention has been decided, and a county is set up in Yinping, and Zhizhi is fully responsible for related matters, and the time limit for the prisoners sent to Xiuguandao when Hanzhong was pacified has expired, and Zhizhi can choose some of them to go to Yinping to settle down, presumably one of his sinners, and he does not dare to be too picky. ”

Yan Pu knew that Chen Lin was good at asking everyone in advance and listening to everyone's opinions, but once it was decided, no one could say that Chen Lin would be moved, so Yan Pu had no choice but to take the order and start arranging the construction of Yinping County and the appointment of officials. In this way, three months later, Hanzhong had one more county: Yinping County. It is located in the west of Dingjun Mountain, at the entrance of Yinping Trail.