On the third day after Zhang Bang, a Hu guy named Nari Su finally came to the county government to apply for a job and passed the assessment of the county government, and was hired as an official catcher in the yamen. In order to encourage him, Zhou Ming personally sent him clothes and a sword. At this moment, the Hu people cheered, and many young and strong guys came to apply, and the hot scene, the young men of Jinguo who were infected were also enthusiastic.

In this way, within a day, the head of the county government was recruited quickly. Many Hu people or descendants of the Hu people found errands in the county government by virtue of their abilities and were treated equally, so that Zhou Ming, a county order that treated Hu and Jinguo people equally, began to be sung in the villages where Hu people gathered. Lin Taohua was very proud of this, claiming to reward Zhou Ming well, but Zhou Ming seized the opportunity to love and pity him.

At the end of September, the letter of marriage of King Bozhigede of Igil Khan was delivered to Kyoto of Jinguo with great speed, and after some heated discussions, the Emperor of Jinguo agreed to Bozhigede's request, and the date of marriage was set for the spring of next year.

At the same time, after Zhou Mingqing checked all the files of Wu Lunke, he was ready to go to the villages with the county Cheng Miaosheng to personally verify them. After hearing about this, Lin Taohua, who originally planned to go to Baizhou Mansion in the near future, quit, even if Zhou Ming said that he would always bring Tsing Yi to Lin Taohua, who was worried about her husband's safety. The lady had to follow him to the countryside, and Zhou Ming couldn't change her decision after working for half a day, so she could only compromise in the end and let her follow the white mandarin girl disguised as a man.

After the autumn harvest, the grain has been put into storage. According to the harvest reported by each village, Zhou Ming's first stop was Yangjiaping, which had the best harvest.

Yangjiaping has a gentle terrain and relatively fertile land, which is one of the most wealthy villages in Wulunke.

When Zhou Ming and his entourage arrived, it was already evening, and the smoke curling in the village looked peaceful.

"Little brother, we are pedestrians passing by, and it is inconvenient to travel at nightfall, I wonder if we can spend the night?" Zhou Ming stood outside the courtyard gate of a family and asked.

The little brother who was chopping firewood in the yard was about his early twenties, and after hearing Zhou Ming's voice, he glanced up, and then lowered his head indifferently and continued to chop wood.

Miao Sheng saw that this little rabbit cub didn't give face to the county magistrate so much, and he was going to have a good theory with him as soon as he crossed his long legs.

Zhou Ming stopped him and said, "Xu is inconvenient, don't disturb the people, let's change it." ”

"Hmph." Miao Sheng snorted coldly and retreated.

Zhou Ming was about to turn elsewhere, when an old woman suddenly walked out of the room and stopped him very politely.

"Don't go, please come in."

"Mother, now that the world is chaotic, what do you leave them for?" The young brother said with an unhappy face.

The old woman said: "When anyone is out of the house, we can help when we can." I look at these people with outstanding temperament, not like bad guys. ”

The little brother snorted coldly, "The word bad guy is not written on his face, what can you see." ”

Lin Taohua smiled, stepped forward and bowed, and said, "Little brother, we are indeed not villains, we will leave early tomorrow morning for the night, and we will never cause you trouble." ”

The little brother saw that the little boy who was talking was not very old, he looked better than a woman, and he seemed to be a young master from a rich family who came out to play. He pouted secretly, it was really the same fate. They don't necessarily get enough to eat when they get up early and run late for food, but these people are born with a golden spoon in their mouths, and they eat, drink and have fun from childhood to adulthood, God is really unfair.

"Brother Xiao, go and clean up the bed in the room for the guest." The old woman pushed him.

Although Xiao Ge'er said that his face was not good, he decided to stay with them for the night, turned around and cleaned up the two wings, and then said that he still had something to do, and let them arrange their own bags.

Zhou Ming nodded a few times in thanks.

Lin Taohua and Bai Yuan went into the house to rest first, and Zhou Ming and the three of them said a few words to the old woman before entering the house to settle down.

After cleaning up slightly, Zhou Ming saw the old woman struggling to carry water from the window, so he went out to help.

"Auntie, this bucket is heavy, so you can rest if your legs and feet are inconvenient. Is it to be poured into the kitchen tank? Brother Xiao is not here, or I'll come. Zhou Ming said.

How could the old woman let the guests work, so she hurriedly dissuaded her, but she was not in good health, so she could only watch Zhou Ming go back and forth a few times and fill the water tank.

"Seeing that you are polite, I didn't expect you to really have strength. Hehe, you're tired, let's eat some millet porridge. What about your companions? Let's call for some hot food and rest. The old woman greeted him with a smile.

Zhou Ming thanked him and called Lin Taohua and them out for dinner.

Sitting on the small stone bench in the courtyard, Zhou Ming picked up the bowl and took a sip, only to feel a musty smell in his mouth. He looked intently, and the millet in the bowl did not seem to be new rice, and many millet grains still had insect bite marks on them. He didn't speak, and quietly ate the porridge in the bowl.

Although Lin Taohua was squeamish, she could understand the situation, and she also ate a bowl with a smile, and cleverly served a bowl to the old woman, and told Bai Yuan to go to the snack box and take a lot of oil dumplings for her to taste.

She was handsome, smiling, and sweet-mouthed, and in a short time the old woman was smiling.

Zhou Ming saw that the atmosphere was good, so he said to the old woman gently: "Auntie, my family is in the grain business, and I heard from the people in the county town that Yangjiaping had a bumper harvest of grain, so I brought my brother over to collect some grain." ”

The old woman didn't doubt him, and said with a smile: "Hehe, I just look at a few young masters who don't look like children from poor families, but they are really rich and noble." ”

Zhou Ming said with a smile: "The family has made a little business, and it can't be called rich, and there is barely a surplus to eat and clothe." ”

The old woman seemed to be an extremely smiling person, and after listening to Zhou Ming's words, she said that he was too modest, and then sighed: "It's just that you are afraid that you will run away in vain this time." ”

Zhou Ming was surprised: "Why? ”

The old woman said: "Alas, our Yangjiaping is indeed a good place, and the harvest has been good in eight or nine years in ten years, but after paying the imperial grain for rice, there will be no new rice." You can also see the rice we eat, insects eat rats bite moldy and discolored, this kind of colored rice we can eat ourselves, you want to do business, but you can't. ”

Zhou Ming said: "I heard that in the past two years, there have been frequent bandits and troubles in Baizhou, and the imperial court has ordered a reduction of 20% of taxes in order to appease the border people, why do you still need to pay so many taxes and fees?" ”

The old woman said, "We countrymen who only know how to work at the court do not know. However, when we pay the tax per mu of land every year, we will pay sixty percent of our harvest when we add up to seventy-seven-eighty-eight. Every family is like this, and it can't be faked. ”

"In the past, there was still some new rice left, and in the past two years, several large grain merchants in Baizhou Mansion would come to harvest rice every time the new rice was on the market, and Li Zheng said that the new rice was left at home for horse thieves and Hu people to worry about, and it would cause trouble, so we asked us to take the remaining new rice and replace it with old rice with these grain merchants. This way, where can we still have new Miyo in our hands. ”

"Do you know if you have changed the new rice? Rizheng was a little too worried about doing this. Zhou Ming felt that Li Zheng's approach was very strange, so he acted and asked.