Gu Zhixian didn't know that the secret had been known, and he and Daxing Zhixian met at the door of the mansion, and the two colleagues entered the mansion with a broken face and hand in hand.

The prefect of Lu first opened the autumn grain book of Daxing County, and after a few cursory glances, he turned directly to the last page. In the last column, there is a line of big characters: 311 villages in Daxing County, a total of 20,000 stone has been reduced.

The production was cut by half!

Lu Zhifu glanced at Daxingzhi County with the eyes of the dead man.

It's winter, and Daxingzhi County has chosen to get his clothes wet, only hoping that Wanping's situation will be worse.

With even more apprehension, Lu Zhifu opened Wanping's book. After "five thousand stones" came into view, the prefect of Lu had a feeling of the rest of his life after the catastrophe, he twisted his beard and said: "The production has been reduced by five thousand stones, Lord Gu has worked hard." ”

Zeng Zhixian not only oozed beads of sweat on his forehead, but his palm was also sticky. Wanping has more than 100 hectares of dry land than Daxing, and it is clear that the yield should be reduced even more! This, how is it possible? Gu Zhixian didn't pay attention to Zeng Zhixian, just frowned, glanced at the prefect of Lu, held back for a moment, and still spoke.

"My lord, it's not a decrease, it's an increase."

Lu Zhifu was stunned for a moment, grabbed the grain book and took a closer look, and sure enough, the words "increase production" were written on it. With doubts, the prefect of Lu took a closer look at the specific grain. The paddy fields are basically flat, the wheat and soybeans are basically not harvested, and the corn yield per mu is two stones.

The reason for Wanping's increase in production has been found.

When Zeng Zhixian heard about the yield of corn, he immediately retorted: "Impossible! Corn is drought-resistant, does not like water, and it is impossible to have such a high yield this year. ”

Gu Zhixian said calmly: "If Lord Zeng doesn't believe it, you can go to Wanping's house to confirm it." ”

Zeng Zhixian didn't speak, the prefect of the road was solemn, and said with a straight face: "I want to confirm, this mansion will go in person." ”

After visiting non-stop for six days, all the prefects heard were the news of "reduced production", and those farmers were uneven: "Our Lord Gu clearly said that one mu can produce two stones, four or five buckets, but in fact it is only two stones, one or two buckets." ”

Therefore, this visit is not so much to verify the authenticity of Wanping's grain tax, but to say that the prefect Lu personally gave the people an explanation. Governor Lu kept telling everyone: "You have earned this year, and other people's families are still hungry!" ”

said this to more than 100 households, and the prefect of Lu also found that something was wrong, although these people were complaining, they did not have a trace of dissatisfaction. On that day, I heard a person say proudly: "I can learn a few words of comfort from Lord Fu, which is enough for me to say for a lifetime." ”

Knowing the truth, Governor Lu just wanted to cry......

The manly man bleed without tears, so he had to swallow the blood and tears very generously and encouraged everyone: "If Wanping can increase production by 30% next year, the government will personally patrol the fields in January!" ”

As soon as the military transfer in the north came to an end for the time being, Emperor Yongle did not rest, thinking that Shuntianfu was in front of him, so he asked people to announce the visit of the prefect of Lu, and said: "How much stone grain has Shuntianfu received this year?" ”

Lu Zhifu hurriedly said: "Shuntian Mansion has a lot of rain this year, and the tax grain is only 80,000 stones. Among them, under the rule of Wanping, the yield of corn increased by 5,000 stones. ”

"Oh?" Emperor Yongle became interested and asked, "That corn is actually a drought and flood to ensure harvest?" ”

Of course, there is no such good thing, listening to the explanation of the prefect of Lu, Emperor Yongle wanted to go to the farce of Shuntian at the beginning, and let people pass on Gu Zhixian. The Wanping County Office was even more advanced than the government office, and half an hour later, Gu Zhixian entered the palace. When he came out again, he had been promoted from the seventh grade Wanping Zhixian to the Shuntian Tongzhi from the fifth grade, and took office on the same day.

As for Song Haitang, who has made great contributions, His Majesty the Emperor is so busy, how can he have so much time to take care of this, and the Lu Governor took the initiative to take over the work of rewarding Song Haitang.

Gu Zhixian, no, it should be said that it is Gu Tongzhi, after he was promoted, he immediately recruited the county Cheng Zhangping, handed him the order of the official department, and said: "Take a closer look." ”

Zhang Ping took it respectfully, glanced at it a few times, and his two hands suddenly trembled, almost shaking off the order.

Gu Tongzhi said: "The Holy Lord originally sent another magistrate to the county, and it was the official who ensured that you sat in this position." Brother Zhang, I'll leave it to you. ”

In the end, Gu Tongzhi's vocal cords choked, full of reluctance. Under his infection, Zhang Ping was also in tears, because he said: "Don't worry, my lord, Xia Guan has fought for his life's future, and he must protect Wanping." ”

Seeing his heroic posture, Gu Tongzhi smiled: "It doesn't have to be like this. This official is now a Shuntian Tongzhi, in charge of agricultural affairs, and there will be many days of meeting in the future. ”

Zhang Ping, whose tears had not dried on his face, looked at Gu Tongzhi sadly.

Gu Tongzhi was in a good mood and didn't care about the gaze of his subordinates at all. The next thing is the handover, Gu Tong knows: "Because I will go to the government office tomorrow, wait for you to gather people, and we will hand over overnight today." The backyard of the county government will take a few days to vacate for you. ”

Zhang Ping didn't agree.

The handover was onboarded, both sides were busy, and the Gu family didn't care about celebrating, and was busy packing up and relocating. I lived in a place for four years, I didn't feel it on weekdays, and I knew that there were a lot of things when I packed up, and it took three or four days to clean up, and I hurriedly moved back to Xinghua Temple Hutong and temporarily squeezed together with the three rooms.

When He Fu came to the backyard of the county government, the Gu family had long since disappeared. gave all the money in his pocket to the porter, and He Fu realized that the Gu family had moved back to Xinghuasi Hutong for two or three days.

Asked how to walk in the alley of Mingxinghua Temple, he trotted all the way into the alley. Menzi knew him, so he smiled and said, "Brother Fu is also here to receive the reward?" ”

He Fu was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "What reward?" ”

"Don't you know that our adults have ascended to the same knowledge?"

After He Fu was stunned and said his joy, Yang Menzi passed the word for him, and only said: "Haitang was taken away by the people of the government." ”

After a while, Gu Yao led Zhang Quan's family out, waiting for the carriage, Gu Yao comforted him: "Don't worry, it should be a good thing." ”

As she expected, half an hour later, Song Haitang walked out in a daze with the official characteristics of the Ming Dynasty. It wasn't until Gu Yao stepped forward and gave her a big hug that she came back to her senses.

How greedy is Hefu...... He also wanted to hug his daughter-in-law and said.

Gu Yao, Song Haitang, and He Fu returned to the alley of Xinghua Temple and told everyone the news, and the laughter of the Gu family could be heard three miles away.

Glancing at Mrs. He, who was grinning silly, Gu Yao said deliberately: "Sister Hanxiang, go and prepare a table to wait for the table, we have to celebrate for Granny He's granddaughter-in-law." ”

Mrs. He is really happy, if it wasn't decided in advance, with Song Haitang's current official status, how could the He family be worthy? She smiled: "My granddaughter-in-law, I will pay the money." ”

Rarely, Song Haitang blushed.

Zhang Sheng went north again, and this time, he went with good news. I hope that Gu Tongzhi's promotion can make Old Man Gu better. Gu Tongzhi was promoted, this is a critical juncture, the old man, but there must be no mistakes.

Although Gu Xi did not follow, he was busy at both ends.

The second and third rooms are already crowded together, plus the old man is brought over, how can it be crowded? But buying a house doesn't happen overnight. was worried, Xie came to find Gu Yao.

"We've got a house and we'll be moving in a few days."

Whether it was rented or bought, but it was not said.

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