A month passed quickly, and the official road in the county was almost repaired, and it looked much better and wider than before.

After the conscription, sure enough, there was still more than half of the money they had donated before, and it was said that they still used it sparingly, so they could have so much left.

The rest of the money, Li Bokang was useless for a while, so he temporarily put it in the yamen.

However, he figured that it wouldn't be long before the money would be put to good use.

This time, they repaired the road very smoothly, and there were no casualties or anything like that, which is also very good.

It's just that this time a lot of grain in the yamen has been used, and the county can't receive much grain tax every year, but now almost half of the grain stored in the yamen is used up all at once.

Therefore, their county government is now poorer.

And the result of informing his immediate boss Weizhou Governor about this matter also came out.

In fact, there was no big punishment, but the letter scolded them, saying that the prefect of Weizhou was almost on the verge of despair for them.

Every year, they have less tax, and many times they can't collect it all, and sometimes they will apply for grants from above and so on.

Therefore, the prefect of Weizhou never thought about what he could get from their Miyang, as long as they didn't ask him for things and money, it was already very good.

This also led to the fact that although Li Bokang wrote a book this time, he just gave him a scolding, and by the way, he also expressed his idea of asking him not to ask for things and money from their government in the future, their government is very poor and has no money or food for him.

Because the prefect didn't say anything else except for a scolding, Li Bokang didn't take it too seriously, and his mind was now in other places.

Now the official road in their county has been repaired, although it is not very good, but it is also very good, if it is necessary in the future, it will be repaired in the future.

If it doesn't work, he will let people repair it every year in the future, and then slowly expand it.

Now that the problem of the road is solved, he is thinking about solving other things.

For example, they talked about finding special products before, or finding seeds with high yields, etc., he wants to develop Miyang, and now building roads is only the first step.

These facts will take time to find out, but he doesn't want to wait just now, and he wants to find some other ways and means that can help while he looks for those things.

This thought, not to mention, he really thought of a way to help.

When he went down to the towns and villages, he saw that many people were working purely with manpower, so he wanted to ask if he could buy some cattle, and if each village and town was divided, one cow or two cows per village.

And it just so happened that there were still dozens of taels of silver left from the silver they had raised before, and that money should be able to buy a few cows back.

It's just that he also knows that even if he can buy a few cows at that time, it will not be enough for every village and town to get it.

In this way, because of the uneven distribution, the village chiefs and mayors of various villages and towns will definitely find him to make trouble, which will cause him a lot of trouble.

In addition, even if they really divide cattle in each village and town, it will definitely not be enough, and how to distribute them in the village will be a problem again.

Thinking about it in the end, he was a little skeptical that the method he had come up with would be useful.

In the end, after he decided to give up this idea, he was still a little reluctant to think of this method in his heart, and then thought of so many suggestions that Yang Xue had given him before, so he took this question to discuss with Yang Xue again.

Yang Xue felt that it was not good when she first heard his idea, but she felt that there were too many people and too few cattle, and when the time came, it would not be to help but to add to the chaos.

However, when he saw Li Bokang's eyes looking at her, he hesitated a little.

She could tell from the look in his eyes that he was reluctant to do this.

Therefore, when all the negative words came to her mouth, she couldn't say it, and she couldn't spit it out or swallow it in her mouth, and she felt very uncomfortable.

In the end, there was no way, she sighed deeply, and there she discussed with Li Bokang about buying cattle.

At the end of the day, they both felt that this was not a good idea in every way.

However, in the end, she said, "Why don't you try it, if it doesn't work, you will sell it again." ”

Li Bokang finally agreed, he really wanted to try whether this method was feasible or not, and he always had to try it to know if it was not.

Then, they discussed how many cows they could buy with their money, and how much it would cost them to spend a cow.

There were eighty taels of silver left from the money they had raised, and if each cow was calculated at fifteen taels of silver, they would only have enough money to buy five cows.

They have a total of six villages, two towns, and one county seat in one county, and they all have to be evenly distributed.

In this way, they would have to buy nine cows before this time, and their current money can only buy five, and they are still short of the money for four cows, sixty taels of silver.

Although sixty taels of silver is not much for them now, it is a bad start if they always pay for it.

Both of them know that this is not the way to go, they can't set this precedent, they have a clear distinction between public and private, and they can't just hang it up.

Yes, it's good that their family has money, but they can't use their family's money to support the people in this county.

Of course, Li Bokang is the county magistrate of Miyang, and it is not wrong for him to be responsible for the people of Miyang, but this does not mean that he will always use his family's money to support the people of this county.

Not to mention whether he is willing or not, it depends on whether she is willing or not, even if she is willing, then how long will it take to raise this, she doesn't think that their family can always support the people in this county.

The most important thing is whether the people in the county will appreciate what they have done, not to mention whether they know it or not, even if they do, then the result may not be what the result will be.

After all, not everyone in this world is grateful.

In case the time comes, let others think that you are a county magistrate and your family has money, you have to spend money to support them.

Or if your family has money, you don't care about it.

In this way, in the end, they become thankless.

Of course, their county government does have some foundation, but that foundation is also very thin, not to mention that he has used a lot of public grain before, so he has to keep some family funds in case of emergency.

So, they had another problem with buying cattle.

In the end, Yang Xue asked him to tell the officials of the yamen that he wanted to buy cattle.

Then he casually told them that the county government did not have enough money, so he borrowed a hundred taels or how much money from his family, and wrote an IOU when the time came.

Anyway, the people in the county government know how much money they raised before, and there will be no other problems.

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