Three-thirty-nine, is it easy for me to live?

Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly: "There are thirty-six battalions in the west of the mountain, and many county orders have died, and the officials can't find anyone who is willing to go there to be an official...... So I thought of you, an abandoned son whose grandmother doesn't hurt and your uncle doesn't love, transferred you out of the safe area of Shaanxi *xi, which has been calm, and then threw you into the very dangerous mountainous western territory...... Tsk, a good calculation. ”

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Cao Baoxiang screamed "oops": "No, no...... It's impossible to ......" Although he called it impossible, he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang's was very reasonable, it could be too reasonable, he simply guessed the thoughts of the officials of the ministry, although Cao Baoxiang was not smart enough, but how could he not understand such a truth?

He screamed a few times, fell to the ground with his whole body limp, and suddenly cried in a low voice: "Impossible...... How can this be? I was also raised by my mother's biological parents, is it easy to live? I have been struggling for so many years, and I finally saw a way out, why is it a dead end? The people in the ministry are so ruthless...... Throwing me into the whitewater is just trying to kill me, right? If it weren't for the fact that I met you, the eldest brother, and replaced by Wang Zuo or something, I would have already returned to the underworld...... This time, the officials actually want to throw me to the west of the mountain to die? Who am I messing with? Woo......"

Yang Hong glanced at Cao Baoxiang deeply a few times, and there was a sympathetic look in his eyes.

"Why should I be sent to death? I obviously didn't hurt anyone......" Cao Baoxiang lay on the ground and cried bitterly, his face was stained with mud, and his whole face was covered with tears.

"Don't cry...... Yang Hong patted him lightly on the shoulder: "The court doesn't allow people......"

"Wow...... Cao Bao rolled on the ground: "I'm not alive, I have nowhere to live...... Let me die......"

"Actually, the way to live has always been under your feet!" Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "I have been observing you all these years, although you have the shortcomings of being greedy for life and afraid of death, and sloppy and slapping horses, but ...... You are not a useless person, you have no background in the court, you rely on your own ability to complete the imperial examination, and you get mixed into a county order, which is enough to show that you have talent...... It's just that...... You've been hoping for a fluke and want to wait for a three-year transfer, so ...... Your heart is still in the court, and you haven't really given it to me! I don't need unintentional people, so I hold you down, so that you can't do anything, your talent can't be played, and you can only live in a nest. ”

At this point, Zhu Yuanzhang's tone turned stern: "I'll give you a way to live, that is, stay and do things for me wholeheartedly...... I don't dare to make you prosperous and rich for the rest of your life, but I can promise one thing: I will never send my own people to death! ”

"Ah......" Cao Baoxiang heard this, no longer rolling on the ground, but stretched out his limbs, lying flat on the ground, I don't know how long it took, he finally sighed deeply, then turned over and got up, shook his official uniform, and said: "Xiaguan Cao Baoxiang, in the future, it will be driven by adults." ”

"Good!" Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said: "Many years later, you will know that today's decision is correct, go back, carefully sort out the business that was abandoned before, from today on, I will let you be a real county master." ”

Cao Baoxiang is gone, his back is a little sluggish, staying under Zhu Yuanzhang is not the result he wants most, but at the moment it is the closest result to the goal of "surviving", he still has a lot of unwillingness, but he has no choice. In troubled times, not everyone has the ability to control their own destiny, so they have no choice but to go with the flow, but they want to have a better life.

Xia Erduo didn't understand what they were, and he couldn't figure out what the relationship between these people was, but fortunately, he was a relatively simple person, and he didn't know if he didn't know, anyway, no one wanted to harm him, he was now the county leader of the three counties, and he was admired by the people of the three counties, and he was very happy to live, and there was nothing to worry about.

Next, Xia Erduo began to teach the people how to store taro, in fact, the storage method of this thing is not a very rare method, the easiest way is to throw it directly in the cellar, as long as it is done to prevent rats. In ancient times, there were no refrigerators, refrigerators or anything, and both large families and poor people were in the habit of digging cellars, and every household stored grain in the cellars. Potatoes can generally be kept for about a year when thrown in the cellar, and there are two kinds of potatoes that we can buy in the farmers' market in later generations, one is called new potatoes, which is actually the fresh potatoes harvested that year, and the other is called old potatoes, which are actually potatoes that were harvested last year and stored for a year.

When the people of Baishui heard that Xia Erduo could store this thing in the cellar, they were immediately happy and sad, and of course they were happy that the storage method was very simple. The worry is that the cellar is too much, can not put so many potatoes, because in previous years only put one or two stones of rice in it, I did not expect this year's harvest is thousands of pounds of potatoes, the cellar can not fit ah...... Several old peasants hurriedly ran home, shouting loudly: "Son, nephew, come and help me dig the cellar......"

There was a beautiful widow in the village who also collected more than 1,000 catties of potatoes at home, and she couldn't put them in the cellar, but she didn't have the strength to dig the cellar at all, so she had to sit on the edge of the field and cry: "Oh my God, if you harvest too much grain, it will become a trouble...... How good it would be if you hadn't died......"

After crying a few times, I saw Wang Er coming with a shovel: "This sister-in-law, I'll help you dig it!" ”

This fellow with an excessive sense of justice, who had just been helping a poor family with insufficient people to harvest potatoes in the nearby field, heard the widow crying, and came to his own help. He didn't think about anything, but another female worm rushed out of the ground next to him, it was Yingshanhong, this guy punched Wang Er back a few steps, and shouted: "Widow, you can help too?" ”

"Hey, I'm not going to help if it's not a widow!" Wang Erdao.

"You...... You...... How can you do that? Ying Shanhong shouted, "You are not allowed to help her." ”

"Hey, why don't you have any sympathy for this stinky bitch? I don't help her, who helps her? "Wang Er is not happy.

"Me! I'm going to help her! You go far for me! Yingshanhong said helplessly.

Wang Er spread his hands.

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From the end of June to the beginning of July, Baishui, Chengcheng, Dali three counties, have harvested a large amount of taro, the people are all smiling can't close their mouths, when Zhu Yuanzhang promoted potatoes, many people still have doubts, worried that this will make everyone starving, but in the face of the facts, all doubts have disappeared.

The tax of Baishui was originally collected according to the two seasons of chun fu and autumn fu, and it is still summer, of course, there is no need to pay tax, but the rich families and squires who have harvested a lot have taken the initiative to pay taxes in advance, anyway, now the tax is the same as the autumn settlement and tax payment...... You can't hide the money you should pay, so it's better to do it simply, anyway, you can't put it in the cellar!

This year, all the rich families and squires who planted potatoes paid taxes at the rate of ten taxes and two, although the tax rate was reduced from ten taxes to three to ten taxes two, which seemed to be one percent lower, but in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang collected back several times more grain than in previous years, and there were many poor people who did not need to pay taxes, and they were also grateful to Dade to take out part of the harvest and take the initiative to send it to the county seat.

In the past, it was Li Chujiu's job to deal with these taxes, and Cao Baoxiang just pretended to be a "tumbler" and watched there, but this time it was different, Cao Baoxiang suddenly burst out with great enthusiasm for work, no longer as before, but took out the enthusiasm of the imperial examination that year, and worked hard.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't misunderstand him, he didn't have a backstage but didn't get into the officialdom, he was by no means incompetent, he just didn't have the opportunity to play before, but now that Zhu Yuanzhang gave him the opportunity, he fully demonstrated the real ability of a person who can jump over the dragon gate and skip the difficulty of the imperial examination.

Every day from the beginning of the rooster's song, Cao Baoxiang was promoted to the director, all kinds of civil disputes and tax affairs piled up like a mountain, he tried to deal with it hard, at the beginning of a lot of jokes, because he lacked practical experience, but after dealing with dozens of things, his learning ability was reflected! Just kidding, he was able to pass the imperial examination with his own strength in such a difficult way, he didn't buy the examiner, and he didn't have a big official to help him when he corrected the test papers...... He fought his way out of his own ability, how could these simple folk things be difficult to defeat him?

Cao Baoxiang's strength is really amazing, it turns out that many things that give Li Chujiu a headache can be easily solved in his hands, so that Li Chujiu can retreat behind the scenes with peace of mind and engage in his financial management, and no longer have to take charge of many folk trivial matters that should not be taken care of by him.

Whitewater City bursts out with a positive and happy atmosphere.

In this happy and peaceful atmosphere, the end of July and the beginning of August came again, and it was the season of sowing potatoes in autumn...... The fields are full of busy figures.

Zhu Yuanzhang took Cao Baoxiang and walked casually in the field: "How? In the past month or so, can you be happy with this county order? ”

"Hmmm! Happier than I've ever been in years. Cao Baoxiang breathed a long sigh of relief: "Thanks to your support, the lower officials' admiration for you is like a surging river......

"Stop! Don't be a sycophant, this habit must be changed. Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.

"Yes, the lower officials must change it." Cao Baoxiang said again: "Under the wise leadership of the adult, this kind of human behavior has no room for survival at all, and it must be corrected, and the lower officials are bathed in the ...... of the adult."

"Huh?" Zhu Yuanzhang glared at him, and he quickly shut up.

"By the way, when will the next county magistrate come to hand over to you?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked casually.

"The letter is...... Early August...... I guess it's coming soon. Cao Baoxiang smiled, and there was a taste of schadenfreude in his laughter: "If he knew what he was coming to, he was afraid that he would be so scared that he would cry by now." ”

"You think everyone is as unproductive as you?" Zhu Yuanzhang also smiled.

"This ...... Cough...... In front of adults, the lower officials are indeed very unproductive, just like ants, so the lower officials have to follow the adults, listen to the teachings of the adults all the time, and ...... in the wise leadership of the adults."

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't cry or laugh, this guy ...... Not again...... (To be continued.)

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