The prefectural government of Kawaguchi Prefecture is busy.

Because there are ten thousand taels of silver!

What is the concept of 10,000 taels? 1,000 copper for one tael of silver, five copper for a pound of rice, there are more than 20,000 loads of grain here.

This is 20,000 quintals that the entire prefecture of Kawaguchi Prefecture cannot hand over in a year, so this prefecture is the lower prefecture that has been abandoned.

The officials, who had been in charge of standing in the halls, arresting, detaining, urging errands, collecting grain, and releasing prisoners, as well as going to the streets to collect some protection money when they had nothing to do, were divided into 14 teams, each team of 50 people, and sent them to 140 pavilions in 14 townships, brought grain and farm tools, and scattered them to the people's homes.

First of all, a notice was posted, saying that the county had ordered all the peasant households and people in 140 pavilions in the county's 14 townships to collectively go up the mountain to reclaim the fields, and that as long as each household reclaimed more than two acres of paddy fields before next year's spring ploughing, they would be able to get cattle and grow grain in the coming year.

When the errand officer led the villagers up the mountain to survey the terrain, look for water sources, dig stones to build dams, open canals to divert water, and redistribute the area for reclamation, each villager went up the mountain with his family, and during the reclamation period, the county government subsidized a small amount of grain to each household.

The day has become colder, into winter, two more months is the big year, after the New Year at most rest to the tenth day of the first month, then continue to reclaim the wasteland, before February try to complete the reclamation of the area, and then after a month of irrigation to soften the soil, burn grass to take ash and base fertilizer to nourish the new soil, select the land to cultivate seedlings, and prepare for the ploughing in spring in March.

Time is tight, and the task is heavy.

Most of these officials who have nothing to do on weekdays are from generation to generation, all from the market, many scoundrels, often rely on the power of the officials, tie up with the officials, and connect with the bad curtains, evil officials, etc., extortion, scourge the people, for the evil township, called "Ya beetle" by the people, it is really a big harm to the local officials, the people have no good impression of these officials from ancient times to the present, and they hide when they meet, as if they have seen the plague god.

And these officials in front of them made the villagers awe-inspired, never saw such a hard-working, diligent and approachable official master, tirelessly followed the villagers to climb the mountains and wade through the water, eat and sleep, eat and live in the mountains, just to help the village to reclaim the fields as soon as possible, the villagers were moved one by one and shouted that the county master was the lord of the sky, and these officials who fell from the sky were regarded as relatives.

Although they are like being beaten one by one, these high-spirited officials actually have suffering, and the county magistrate Ye asked them to make a military order, if they can't make a difference before the spring ploughing in March next year, they will be fined three years of silver, they just want to keep their money.

Ziyu was wearing a farmer's clothes, with a hat, followed by Hua Weeping in the same costume, the two walked in the mountains, looking at the villagers who were busy and forgot to wipe their sweat, they were all happy, the more tired they were, the more energetic they were, and their hearts were happy.

"Is Youwen gone?" Hua Wai found a bluestone and sat down, and walked for a long time, and her calves were very sore.

Ziyu turned her head and secretly blamed herself, only caring about herself watching the hot villagers in front of her, forgetting that Yin'er might be tired of walking, she came back and pulled Hua Cian up, wiped the bluestone with her sleeve, and then pressed her to sit down again: "Well, I left early in the morning, and now I should be out of Liangchuankou!" ”

"Isn't Dongping Kingdom living on fishing along the coast? How can there be cattle for sale there? "Hua Cry is very incomprehensible, how could Ziyu let Youwen go to Dongping Kingdom to buy those more than 3,000 cows, speaking of which, there should be fewer cattle in Dongping Kingdom than in Nanping Kingdom here.

"Hehe, Dongping Country does not produce cattle, but it borders with Beijiang State, and Northern Xinjiang knows how cheap a cow is there." Ziyu took off the hat and put it aside, raised his hand and gently brushed Hua Weeping's forehead, wiping off the fine beads of sweat, climbing a mountain in winter can make people sweat, looking at Hua Weeping with a distressed face.

"You won't let Youwen go out from Liangchuankou, pass through Dongping Kingdom, and go to Northern Xinjiang Country to buy cattle, right? Which one can't go back and forth for a year or two? Hua Cry was a little surprised.

"My stupid Yin'er, how can I buy it in Dongping Kingdom, because the people of Dongping Kingdom like to eat beef, they will buy cattle from Northern Xinjiang and come back, but let the cattle dealers in Dongping Kingdom earn a little silver, saving us a lot of time, counting, Youwen can come back in about a month, if you can't buy so many quantities at one time, Youwen can have three months, go to Dongping Kingdom three times, and plough in the spring next year, this cattle will definitely be divided." Ziyu sat down, stretched out his hand to wrap his hand around Hua Weeping, and held her in his arms.

"The people of Dongping Kingdom have fish to eat, why do they still eat beef? Good cows, kill and eat them, who are they! Hua cried and shrank, not daring to hug Ziyu or push away.

"It's not that you will like to eat what you produce, just like the woodcutter who works hard to collect firewood, he doesn't burn it, and picks it up to sell it to the big families in the city, the people who raise silkworms and make silk and silk don't wear brocade, and the salted fish we eat are all from Dongping, and they can't eat so much, so it's different to sell them to more needed places, and they can be exchanged for higher value, so the people in Beijiang will also sell cattle to Dongping, so that they like to eat beef, so that the cattle dealers in Dongping will continue to go to Beijiang to buy their cattle, this is Shangjia, wait, We in Kawaguchi Prefecture will also be able to find a way out, produce things that are not available elsewhere, make others like them, and then beg us to buy them, provided that the people reclaim their own fields! Ziyu looked at Yin'er in his arms, his mind was a bright avenue in the future, he admired Yin'er very much, he could think of the roots, the field is the root of the people, he had also thought about how the people could have their own land, but he only thought about the direction of spending money to buy the fertile land in the hands of the eunuchs, but Yin'er could think of going up the mountain to reclaim the land by himself!

If you talk about mountains, it's not that you haven't seen them, they are all planted with dry crops, including grain and red millet, or planting fruit trees, melons and vegetables, these can't replace the main grain of rice, and to grow rice, it must be paddy fields, no one will associate paddy fields with steep slopes and deep valleys, but Yin'er has opened up a ray of world for his thinking.

Hua Wai was loved by Yu and made her sad.

If it weren't for the embarrassment of that day diluted by 10,000 taels of silver, and the two days of being busy with big things and not touching the ground, maybe Ziyu would have asked to marry her at that time, Ziyu's love for her made her always feel that she would fall in love with him if she couldn't hold on, so good Ziyu, where to find it, but the person in her heart has always occupied, and there is no way to put Ziyu in.

"Myeonghyun doesn't plan to go back with this 10,000 taels of silver, right?" Hua Wei always thought that he had cheated Myeonghyun, afraid that he would come to the door one day when he came back to the door.

"This matter, I also have some doubts in my heart, he will definitely not go back to the silver, but the mountain land in Liangchuankou is indeed not worth so much silver, on the surface, it seems that Minghyun is to ask the county government to sign the land deed, the house deed, and let the county government come forward to find out the bandits hiding in the mountains, but in fact, think about it, for a person with a family background, there is no need to build a manor in such a dangerous place, where is there no good land with silver?" Ziyu Zhengse said.

"Let me tell you, when I came to Kawaguchi County, I met Myeonghyun who was chased and killed, and he almost died, did he spend money to find you to suppress bandits in order to take revenge on those who chased and killed him?" Hua Cry thinks this is very likely, a person with a background in life, he can't get up after being killed, he loses face, and it is natural to get back to the field, isn't the hobby of these sons and brothers just competing for face?

"So serious? Was it really hunted down? With his background, there are still people who dare to chase and kill, it seems that Kawaguchi Prefecture is more dangerous than I thought! At first, Ziyu thought that Myeonghyun was deliberately exaggerating Hua Wai's life-saving grace in order to set it up, but it turned out that he really saved his life.

"What background? Myeonghyun is the son of that big official? Hua Cry still doesn't know what Myeonghyun's identity is, Myeonghyun never mentions it, and she can't ask in person.

"I don't know what his specific identity is, but he wears a gold medal with him, and he can also ask for approval from the imperial court to the mountain land of Liangchuankou, this identity is not like an ordinary official son!" Ziyu is carefully recalling every detail of her contact with Myunghyun.

"Could it be the prince? Wrong wrong! Now Emperor Wen is in his fifties, and he doesn't have a son, this is a well-known thing in the world, maybe Minghyun guy got a fake gold medal to fool you, hahaha! Hua Wai thinks it's very possible, no one can tell the real gold medal when it is taken out, the main thing is what the real gold medal looks like, no one has ever seen it!

"No matter what Minghyun is, he has no ill will towards us, so don't suspect him too much, at least it looks like he's still helping us now! Help the people of Kawaguchi Prefecture, my son Yu has to thank him for this! Ziyu secretly smiled at Yin'er, this girl is really weird in her heart, and she can think about Minghyun in that direction.

"That's a joke! Myunghyun is actually pretty good, I like him a lot. ”

"Yin'er can't like him!"

"Why?"

"Yin'er is already mine!"

“......”

Before the two of you could finish a word, there was a commotion in the mountains not far away.

Ziyu hurriedly got up, pulled up the flower cry, and ran over.

More than a dozen people gathered in front of a stone pile, all looking nervous, two officials came out of it, saw Ziyu, hurriedly ran to him, and hurriedly said: "Lord Ye, just now a farmer chiseled a stone and was shot in the eye by the gravel, what can I do?" ”

Ziyu was shocked, and hurriedly approached to break through the crowd and squeezed in, there was a person sitting in the gravel pile on the ground, covering his eyes with one hand, and drops of blood flowed out from between his fingers, which seemed to be not lightly injured.

That eye seems to be unsaved, if he can't be treated immediately, he may not have his life, Zi Yu was a little flustered in his heart, after all, he didn't think about it before, and he didn't know what dangers there would be in the stone reclamation here, not to mention, he thought of taking Lang Zhong with him in advance to treat the injured in time.

If someone dies today, this huge reclamation plan may be aborted because of the people's fear of fragile life, and for a while, a cold sweat broke out on Ziyu's head!

"Get out of the way, get out of the way." Hua Wei walked in out of nowhere, clutching a handful of herbs and a bamboo tube filled with water.