There was a person at the door of the Ji Mansion, but it was a middle-aged official, and this person was Yu Zhi.

"Please come into the house and speak. The people inside had already heard it and hurriedly greeted them: "I'm sorry, the master is not here." ”

Yu Zhi just smiled: "It doesn't matter if your master is not there, we just informed you that we just received an order from the county, saying that all the gentry who donate will be sent to be tax collectors, and the money received will be regarded as wages, and there will be a fixed amount." ”

Speaking of this, Yu Zhi smiled, he was an old official, but he sighed in his heart, he had calculated, if the three roads were connected to the card, the back and forth carriage and horse could collect ten taels of silver a day.

After these three roads were built, it was 5,000 taels of silver and 3,000 stone of grain, which added up to 8,000 taels of silver, that is, less than three years, and the cost was out.

And this official road will be closed for ten years, and maybe it will be repaired again.

If you don't want to make a way to make money, whether it is a clerk, a gentry, or the government has an income, although it is not big, but it is a long stream, and even I am more active.

At this moment, Ji Ge, the housekeeper inside, came out, this is a tall middle-aged man, his demeanor is oily, and he knows that he is a person who is familiar with accidents at a glance, he smiled and said: "Although the master is not here, but you are here, you must drink tea before leaving, otherwise the master will come back, and I will have to ask for sin."

said, just smiled: "It's so cold, please come in, there is no store here, and you have to warm up when you leave." ”

Yu Zhi was indeed cold, and smiled when he saw this: "Then disturb it." ”

Then he saw someone say something, trotted away, and brought tea.

Yu Zhi asked, "Who will go to your house this time?"

"It's my son, how can the young master go?" Ji Ge carefully served the tea, and said with a smile: "My son can lift a stone lock at the age of sixteen, people, if he has some ability, he is easy to get sick, so he sent him to learn the rules from adults, so as not to cause trouble!"

Yu Zhi laughed and said, "Don't worry, when you come, you can always teach some rules." ”

A pot of tea, a few snacks, and two tax collectors ate it, then waved his hand and smiled: "I am used, so you can talk to your master, don't delay, we have to notify other families!"

When he went out, he saw a middle-aged woman come in, this person was thirty-five or sixteen years old, with a bun, still seeing the graceful charm, frowning and saying, "What is the matter?"

"Madam, it's still what I said last time, this time it's to urge the tax collector......" Ji Ge whispered cautiously: "Madam, don't worry, I'll go and see if it's the same as the government said, and I can come back with the money...... Don't worry, the money won't be less, and I'll beat him up if I don't have a penny!"

"Oh, I see, that's good. The woman was finally satisfied, and said, "You are doing a good job, and when it is cold, I will bring you some charcoal, and you will have a warmer life!"

"Thank you, ma'am!" said Ji Ge quickly.

The sun casts on the ground, and on the wide road, chariots and horses run side by side, and people sit on ox carts, all of which are caravans, coming and going, walking on this newly built road.

The construction was ordered to begin, and countless materials such as sand and gravel were consumed, but the official road was quickly completed, and the road was wide and flat, and the three carriages galloped side by side from above without looking too crowded.

Caravan deliveries are not easy, and wide roads are needed.

"Come on, come on, charge according to the goods, pay for a car, pay for it!" A young man dressed as a tax collector shouted when he saw the caravan coming.

This tax collector is a member of the Li family, and according to the proportion of capital contribution, the Li family can send a taxpayer every year to collect taxes for a week, and one-third of the money obtained is obtained by this person.

Since the construction of the road, checkpoints have been set up on the road, and only after collecting money can they be released, which is for caravans, and ordinary people are not among them.

Road tolls have existed since ancient times, and a caravan is not much for a penny, and the caravan is willing to take this road, which is spacious and flat.

"Look, I have a total of five ox carts, and these are five copper coins, so take them!" the caravan leader stepped forward and said to the tax collector standing in front of the checkpoint, looking very respectful.

For extraordinary real people, not to mention these temporary tax collectors, even the officials are like ants, but they are all people who are struggling in mortal dust, relying on selling some goods to support their wives and children.

"Well, that's right!" The tax collector looked at the expression of the caravan leader in front of him, he was very useful, nodded, turned the five copper plates in his hand, and said, "Let go!"

The leader thanked him and shouted at the caravan behind, and suddenly the caravan moved, and one car after another followed.

Every day, every day, this is the charter.

Merchants are in a hurry to try to be stable, if the road is easy to walk, the merchants who sell things will pass here, they will stay for a day or two, to see if there are business opportunities, there are more people coming and going, and for a time the Nankou ferry terminal to the Jizilin market is prosperous.

The real person ordered the construction of three roads, and the one in front of him was one of them, the second one has already started, and the third one is coming soon, and people come every day to see if they are starting to recruit people.

The real person ordered the road to be repaired, and the treatment given was not thin, and the first road was completed in just a few days, and there were already several times as many workers waiting to start work.

It's almost the New Year, and I want to do some work, and I won't be in arrears of wages for building roads, so I paid rice and wages on the day of road repair some time ago.

These are small circumstances, but they have changed the lives of many people.

Chengping Road.The appearance of the cave here is the same as the atrium, surrounded by a red stone wall, dotted with stars, and the spirit flows, as if the stars in the sky, embedded in it.

These stone walls are all spiritual jade, which is integrated with the earth's veins, and the heavenly phenomena and dragon veins are guided by the joint efforts of the earth immortals, so that this cave mansion is one level higher than other caves, and the cultivation speed in it is twice as fast.

On the jade couch in the middle, an old Taoist was sitting upright, swallowing aura, and the slightest golden mist was filled, but this person was a real person in Chengzhuang.

The real person of the earth immortal who can live in this kind of cave is extraordinary, he is a disciple of this generation of Chengping Dao master, and his own cultivation is an earth immortal.

On the opposite side of the jade couch, on the stone wall, a red dragon is faintly formed, and if you look closely, you will find that several large seals are embedded in it, forming a piece with the stone wall.

The red dragon was in constant motion, like a living creature, but the seals were fixed.

The luck in the red sky is overflowing, circulating, coming and going, gathering into one, this is the convergence of the decline and rise of the whole island, these are projected from the void with the Heavenly Immortal Dharma, and the truth comes to this world.

The Tao is in the world, and the luck is revealed, and it is true, but now it is very stable, and it is difficult to increase and decrease, showing a stable direction.

After completing his cultivation, Chengzhuang Daoist opened his eyes, stepped down, and began to carefully observe the direction of his luck, but he only walked a few steps, and felt a little: "Huh, there is a trace of change in the county seal of Chenmen County?"

In the red stone wall, some spiritual weapons float and vomit, among which ten large seals, each is different, but connected in one place, the clear and distinct, the luck flows, this is the air luck seal of the ten counties of Chengping Road.

And there is one, the flow of luck, the slightest pale white slightly increased, although it is very subtle, but for three hundred years of pruning and shears, has basically remained the same, but it is a little conspicuous.

Chengzhuang Taoist looked at it, but thoughtfully, in the past, in order to earn merit, build roads and bridges, or rectify the rule of officials, there would also be signs of this, but this kind of thing could not last, and it would fall to the normal level after a while.

This increase in luck must be the same.

The increase in luck is a rapid increase for the founders, but after three hundred years, there are very few such things in the ten counties of Chengping Province, which is the result of multi-generational real governance.

Just like a piece of land, if it is first cultivated, it can be quickly effective, but after a period of cultivation, the fertilizer and moisture are in place, and the cultivation is fine enough, it is basically impossible to increase grain production.

"Anyway, it's always good to have more luck. Chengzhuang Daoist glanced twice, received his magical powers, and did not look at the seal in the stone wall, but still remembered it in his heart: "Maybe you can add a little evaluation." ”

Chenmen County, the county magistrate Bo Qinxiang came in, and there was a heavy pavilion hall inside, hidden among the cypress cedars, indescribably solemn, awe-inspiring.

After standing at the door, a Taoist boy came out: "My lord, the real person has orders, please come in as soon as you come!"

Qin Xiang entered the hall with his head bowed, and as soon as he entered the door, he only felt that the warmth was very comfortable, and the real person in his heart would enjoy it, so he hurriedly saluted: "I've seen a real person!"

"You've arrived, please sit down and talk!" Wang Cunye said lightly, blowing a piece of paper, but he had just written some, and asked after putting it down: "How did the gentry and the people react?"

Qin Xiang was originally sitting, but when he heard the words, he got up and listened, and said: "Yes, they all talk about it, saying that the real people will build roads and repair roads as soon as they come, which is very convenient, and they all say that the merits are immeasurable?"

"After collecting the money, there is still a bit of merit, not to mention immeasurable. Wang Cunye smiled: "But I'm not for merit in the first place, if I do something more, I should do something convenient?"

Qin Xiang had been guessing Wang Cunye's intentions, and when he heard this, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, as if he had caught some traces, but he couldn't think of it for a while, and then he thought about it and said: "Yes, the gentry are very caring for the real people, and they all want to continue to follow!"

Speaking of this, my heart suddenly sank, and I secretly thought: "So that's the case!"

"You go back, and then gather with them, and say that the three boat mills in the county, I want to place an order for fifty fishing boats, and if you are willing to follow up, you can follow up. ”

"My lord, what are you?" "This is an island, and it is naturally easy to fish, but the fishermen are still very poor, and now there are fifty more fishing boats at once, what does it mean?"

"You go down and do it," Wang Cunye said with a smile.

Qin Xiang heard this, so he had to respond, but when he saw that Qin Xiang was leaving, he stopped again, and said: "The boat workshop you just mentioned, you invited all three families to come and gather them in the official workshop to make it together, and also recruited workers, and ordered a hundred iron pots from the county, to be the largest, you go down to check, if you have a random hand, don't tolerate it, just punish it." ”

"Yes!" Qin Xiang hurriedly responded, and when he saw that Wang Cunye was speechless, he retreated.

(To be continued)