After Xu Qingfeng took office as the magistrate, everything was according to the old system, and he did not take the initiative to do anything.

The new official took office with three fires, and with him, it was as if it did not exist.

Every day in the county government is reading and writing, more like a reader, rather than an official.

The people he brought with him often went out to the bazaar, chatting with the people of the city and the sinners outside the city.

This is also to understand the situation in Gumu County.

When he first arrived, the county's chief secretary Chen and County Lieutenant Luo were a little worried, afraid that this new boss would not be easy to mess with, and that their positions would not be guaranteed.

In particular, this newcomer to the county is not a jinshi from a poor family, and the entourage is accompanied by dozens of people, which is obviously a large family.

Such a person is the most difficult to get along with.

Unexpectedly, after the people came, An An didn't find their stubble.

Every time we meet, I am also kind and pleasant, and my attitude is very good.

After getting along for a long time, I gradually relaxed my heart.

Mingxiu was quite positive, and took a fancy to a place to build a Taoist temple and a city god temple, so he told Xu Qingfeng that he circled this place and prepared to build it.

Once you have chosen the location, you have to ask the craftsman who can build the house to discuss the specifics, how much materials are needed, and how much labor is needed.

All Taoist temples in the world are one specification, there are drawings there, and there is no need for Mingxiu to design it himself.

However, the specifications of the City God Temple are different, some places are built very large, and some places are built very small, and there is no certain standard.

After estimating a rough idea, Mingxiu began to turn into a relationship.

One merchant after another asked and asked them to donate money to build the temple.

Several bigwigs in the county were also visited by him to ask for donations.

In the end, Xu Qingfeng, on behalf of all the officials and people in Gumu County, donated 5,000 taels of silver to build this temple.

The cost of a Taoist temple and Chenghuang Temple in a county town does not need to be so high, and at least half of the donation of five thousand taels of silver will go back to Xu Qingfeng.

For the rest of them, Mingxiu can still fall a little.

During this time, Liu Qing was not idle, and went outside every day to learn about the living conditions of the people in this area.

No one in this world can see his existence, which makes it convenient for him to want to know about the life of other people's families.

There were hundreds of households in the city, and within a few days, he had already understood almost everything.

I've heard a lot of selfish things.

Then he went out of the city to learn about the lives of the criminals.

The life of the sinners was not easy, and everyone was given a lot of land, but those lands did not belong to them, but to the imperial court.

They farmed here, and two-thirds of the harvest was handed over to the imperial court.

It is not just about growing grain, but also in some places where grain cannot be grown, cash crops such as cotton and linen are planted.

There is no silkworm raising.

Maybe it's because most of the people here are poor and can't afford to wear silk.

A person has to plant twenty or thirty acres of land, and only by planting so much land and planting so much land can they have enough to eat and buy some necessary daily necessities.

The world's food production is too low.

They grow rice, and there is only one season, and the yield of one mu of land is usually one or two hundred catties, and the good ones can reach three hundred catties, but that has to be good land.

Two-thirds of it will be handed over to the government.

It is said that it is two-thirds, but in the actual collection, it is often necessary to collect more.

If the land is planted less, or if it is not planted well, then even it will not be able to feed itself.

Plant one season of rice, and then another season of rape, so as to ensure the food oil of the border army.

The harvest of rape is even lower, that is, the seeds are sown by hand, and how much can be produced depends on the will of God.

When the farm is busy, they have to work in the fields, and when the farm is not working, they don't have a few days to rest, they have to do forced labor, build roads, dig ditches, and so on.

Anyway, the government can find enough work for them to do.

Most of them are singles.

Some may have wives and children in their hometown, but when they come here, they will not be allowed to return to their hometown for the rest of their lives, and they can also be said to be singles.

There are also some wives and children who come with them, and the government will not stop them, but are happy to see them.

But after all, it is only a minority, and ten families may not be able to find one.

Many of the good people in the city are a single person.

But this is not the case outside the city.

Those bachelors are often five or six people who build a house and live together, which is considered a family.

Dozens of families come together to form a village.

It's not that these people have any abnormal hobbies, but there are often thieves who haunt them, and the government is not able to protect them, so they must live together to protect each other.

Those who don't do so are often gone.

This also made it easier for the government to collect grain, and the government hoped that they would all have the ability to protect themselves.

After all, they are also important production tools, and the government is reluctant to let them go for no reason.

Liu Qing wandered around those villages for more than ten days and found that most of the criminals did not have much resentment towards the imperial court for relocating them, which made him feel quite surprised.

After listening to their chats, I realized that most of these migrated people were from poor families, and some of them embarked on the road of crime, just for a bite to eat.

Some of them didn't commit any crime at all, they just couldn't live anymore and went to beg, and then they were exiled here.

If you have a few acres of land at home, you will not break the law easily.

Most of them are people who have no land to plant, and when they get to this place, everyone can have a large area of land to plant, although two-thirds of it has to be handed over to the government, but they can still get some, and they can't make a fortune, but it's no problem to fill their stomachs.

In Liu Qing's view, this only meets the most basic survival conditions.

But in the eyes of most people here, being able to eat enough every day is already a rare happy life, much better than the life they had before they were exiled.

Moreover, after the previous magistrate came over, he also gave a policy that made them feel excited - in addition to planting the land allocated to them by the government, they could ask for famine, and the grain grown from the land was only collected by the government in the first three years, and after three years, the government only received one-half.

This policy greatly stimulated their enthusiasm for farming, and let them see that good days beckoned to them.

- As long as you are diligent enough.

Some people even began to calculate how much more money they could open up and how long they could save money for a daughter-in-law.

- They sometimes go to the county seat to buy things, knowing that there are merchants there who do this kind of business, and they only admit money, not guilt against the good people, and if they give enough money, they can also marry their daughters-in-law.

Where there is hope for the future, there is motivation.

This is the government's way of improving their production tools, so that they will willingly burn their own lives and produce more food for the imperial court.

But they were grateful to Dade for it.

This made Liu Qing extremely depressed - it was obviously a group of people who lived a very hard life, and what was it like to be exploited, but he was still grateful to Dade and felt that he was doing well.

This made it a little more difficult for him to develop his faith.