The official had already received the orders of Lord Zhizhou, and when he saw that Du Jinning was young, he wanted to give her a dismount. If Du Jinning's attitude is softer, then what awaits her next is to become more difficult.

And now, seeing that she didn't seem to be a soft person, and there was still a kind of official authority on her body, the official didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore, and said: "Lord Zhizhou and the two Tongzhi adults went to see the rice fields outside the city today, and they are not in the yamen. I don't know ...... you, sir."

He stared at Du Jinning, waiting for her reaction.

Du Jinning's face was expressionless, only slightly bowed: "Oh." As he spoke, he lifted his feet and walked inside.

The official was a little confused: This reaction is wrong.

According to his thoughts, Lord Zhizhou knew that she was coming, even if he didn't go to the city gate to greet her yesterday, he should have waited in the yamen today. Now he ran out of the city, apparently to give her a dismount.

This Lord Du was admitted to the Jinshi and became an official at a young age, and he must be arrogant, and after hearing the news, he was either so angry that he brushed his sleeves away, or after he was angry, he endured the anger and went out to find Lord Zhizhou back.

But now, with an understatement of "oh", I just walked straight inside, what is this for?

When he came back to his senses, he chased after him directly.

In ancient times, the hierarchy was strict, and the layout of the yamen was also very exquisite. When Du Jinning was in Gui Province, he went to the prefect's yamen, which was smaller than the prefect, but it was much the same.

She first glanced at the office of Zhizhou and Tongzhi, and saw that the door was locked, so she didn't go there, but walked around the yamen one by one, and every time she went to a department, she would stand at the door for a while, and when the people inside saw the official uniform on her body clearly, and didn't dare not salute her, she nodded lightly and walked to the next yamen.

After walking around the yamen and letting everyone see her, she walked outside without saying a word.

The official who had been following her saw this scene, and became more and more confused, not knowing what Du Jinning's move meant.

To tell the truth, because these local officials do not need to implement the system of recusal of the official's place of origin, they are basically locals, and their relationships are intertwined. Not to mention Du Jinning, it was the first time that Lord Cao of Zhizhou arrived, and he also suffered a lot of dark losses in their hands, and he was almost set aside. Later, he relied on various means to gain a firm foothold.

Zhizhou doesn't give face, let alone a young acquaintance like Du Jinning.

She is like this now, one by one Yamen to stand for a stop, and she doesn't get close to everyone, she doesn't even say hello, and the fight is sufficient, what does it mean?

When Du Jinning got out of the yamen, he got into the carriage directly and instructed Wang Fulai: "Go to Zhuangzi outside the city." ”

Yao Shuqi hurriedly gave Wang Fulai directions.

Du Jinning was planning to go to Zhuangzi, so he came out early in the morning with Yao Shuqi. When Du Jinning entered the yamen just now, Yao Shuqi also acted as a long-term entourage and followed Du Jinning into the yamen for a walk.

The land bought by Yao Shuqi was more than ten miles away from Runzhou City, and the carriage went out of the city and had another meal, and then it arrived at Zhuangzi.

This Zhuangzi is equipped with 200 acres of land, and it was originally owned by a landlord. There is also a house on the Zhuangzi. Yao Shuqi bought it all.

Although the tenant farmers on the Zhuangzi did not sign the deed of sale, they have been tenant the land of the original landlord to plant. Suddenly there was a change of proprietor, and the proprietor took a kind of rice seed that they had never seen before, and told them to raise seedlings now, and those who were disobedient would no longer give them land, and they were all terrified.

At this time, when he heard that the owner was coming, the head of the village led the head of each household to welcome the village.

Du Jinning took off the official court in the carriage and changed into regular clothes. At this time, he was dressed in a moon-white brocade forging robe, full of the appearance of a beautiful son. Seeing that the new owner was such an offspring, the hearts of the tenant farmers were cold.

It's not reliable at first glance.

Du Jinning saw the sad faces, turned his head and asked Yao Shuqi: "You have explained to them the matter of double cropping rice and Zhancheng rice planting, right?" ”

"Explained. But they had never heard of it, let alone planted it, and they were uneasy, for fear that there would be no harvest and that there would be a famine next year. Yao Shuqi said.

Du Jinning nodded, walked to a dirt slope and stood still, and looked around at the people present. Originally, there was still some "buzzing" discussion because of Du Jinning's young and handsome, but it stopped with the glance of her gaze.

"I know what you're worried about." Du Jinning didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point, "Then now you have two choices, one is to share someone else's field to plant; If you don't want to go, then you can sign a contract with me. If this year's grain harvest is less than two stones and one acre, I will not only not charge you rent, but also subsidize everyone with fifteen taels of silver per household. If the grain harvest per mu is between two and three stones, I will not charge rent, but I will not subsidize it; If there is more than three stones of grain harvest per mu, I will collect twenty percent of the rent. ”

Seeing everyone's expressions of disbelief, she said: "We can directly sign the contract and press the handprint, and go to the government to make a red deed." ”

"But ......," she raised her voice, "if you want to cultivate my fields, you must do what I command, and do everything I ask." This should also be written in the contract. If you don't do what I ask, not only will you have no harvest and subsidies, but you will be driven out of Zhuangzi immediately. ”

Everyone was excited when they heard the original conditions, and they calmed down at once.

They look at me, I look at you, and no one can make up their minds. In the end, everyone's eyes were focused on Zhuang Tou.

The head of the village is equivalent to the head of the village, although there are also the owners who designate them, but most of the heads of the village are selected spontaneously by everyone.

This Zhuangtou's surname is Song, he is in his fifties, with a tough body and strong spirits.

He cleared his throat and said to Du Jinning: "We naturally believe in the Du Dong family's character, not to mention that they have made a contract. If the grain is not harvested and everyone can't eat, I believe that the Du Dong family will definitely compensate us according to the contract. ”

"However, old man, on behalf of everyone, I would like to ask, if the grain harvest is not harvested this year, will the Du Dong family still have to farm according to their own ideas next year? Du Dongjia is raising seedlings now, what kind of double cropping rice to plant, where did you hear this statement? ”

Du Jinning glanced at Yao Shuqi.

Yao Shuqi immediately stood up and said with a smile: "You still don't know who our owner is, right?" The owner is this year's new champion, and is now sent by the emperor to Runzhou to be a fellow intellectual, with six official ranks. Although the owner is young, he has been studying agriculture, and last year proposed to regenerate rice, which increased the yield of rice fields in the capital by more than 50 percent...... "He blew Du Jinning's achievements in agriculture well.

After Yao Shuqi finished speaking, Du Jinning said: "If everyone thinks I'm unreliable, you can not tenant my field." This matter is not forced. ”