"Hehe, isn't this almost ambushed? Anyway, all the departments of Jiangnan County are also going to Beijing to send Bing Jing, and they happen to be mixed together. Liu Wenzheng has already made up his mind.

"Well, you just go back to Bai Qing to arrange, by the way, Wenzheng, I heard that the emperor is going to give Jiangnan County, is there such a thing?" Xiao Chen said.

"Yes, the official documents of the household department will come down in a few days...... The good days of Gangnam County are coming to an end. Liu Wenzheng sighed.

"Jiangnan County is so rich, it's not a problem to add some money and food, right?" Xiao Chen said.

"My lord doesn't know that under the years of war, no matter how rich Jiangnan is, it is actually time to reduce taxes for them and let them recuperate...... The risk of killing chickens and taking eggs! Liu Wenzheng hesitated, but still said what was in his heart.

It's exactly what Duanmu Nanfeng said.

As an official of the household department, Liu Wenzheng is well aware of the economic situation in various parts of the world, and naturally knows the current dilemma that Jiangnan County is facing.

However, although he is well aware of the pros and cons of this, he cannot influence this kind of national policy.

Liu Wenzheng left, and Chen Jisheng walked over again.

It's okay to find Xiao Chen, it's just chatting.

Because Chen Jisheng is a criminal official after all, he has always been in simple terms and rarely shows up.

Under Wen Shanchang's careful treatment, he can basically walk freely now.

It's just that it's uncomfortable to stay in the house every day, so I came to chat with Xiao Chen when I had nothing to do.

Although it is still inevitable to quarrel occasionally, it is becoming less and less.

Of course, he still refused to admit that he would have a similar temperament with this little eunuch...... It's just to relieve his boredom.

"Why doesn't your old man sleep so late, this is homesickness?" Xiao Chen is also very casual when talking to him now.

"I'm still sleeping a fart, I've slept all day!" Chen Jisheng was extremely depressed.

"Hehe, you old man has to get used to this way of life, and when you go home, isn't it just to sleep when you have nothing to do every day?" Xiao Chen gloated.

"There are still ten acres of thin fields at home, the old woman is too old to do it, and the son is sick in bed all the year round and can't do anything, only relying on the daughter-in-law to run the family business, but it is also difficult, I am embarrassed to be idle after I go back? If you can't say anything, you have to go down to the field. Chen Jisheng said.

"I'm strange, you're a second-class master, what kind of life are you living!" As soon as he said this, Xiao Chen got angry, "It's no problem for you to be honest and honest, but you can't ignore your family!" I can't take care of my family, and I still talk to me all day long! ”

"I didn't say that you have to be a corrupt official, and the Bing Jing Tan Jing sent below every year is not old or young, right? This is something that the emperor knows to acquiesce, everyone accepts it, but you don't want an old man! ”

"What charcoal respects Bingjing, in the final analysis, it's not all about squeezing the hard-earned money of the people! Even if I, Chen Jisheng, am poor and starving to death, I will not be an official who drinks the blood of the common people! Chen Jisheng slapped the table and shouted.

"Okay, okay, you're angry, I don't want to quarrel with you, you're a good official, I'm a bad person, right?" Xiao Chen was going to die of sorrow.

"You're not a bad person, but you shouldn't go with the flow and be with the light." Chen Jisheng said.

"I'm just a eunuch, a royal minion, what if I don't go with the flow? Are you as stupid as you to brush the emperor's tiger whiskers? Xiao Chen said angrily.

"I wonder, how can a person like you be a eunuch?" After Chen Jisheng became acquainted with Xiao Chen, he kept wondering in his heart, this kid has a liver and gallbladder, knowledge, and more literary talent, it is too exaggerated to say that he is a pillar of the country, but he can definitely be regarded as a scholar, how can he be a eunuch?

"I'd love to!" Xiao Chen said.

"I'll treat you unfilial boy who has no interest!" Chen Jisheng was furious, and wandered around the house looking for belongings, ready to teach him a lesson for Xiao Chen's father.

"You old man, save it!" Xiao Chen hugged him and walked out.

"You let me go, it's not a formality!" Chen Jisheng got his feet off the ground and struggled desperately.

Suddenly, there was a soft snap, but when the two were entangled, a silver ingot of twenty taels in Xiao Chen's arms fell to the ground.

"What are you doing with such a big amount of silver?" Chen Jisheng broke free, bent down to pick it up, and carefully blew away the dust on it.

"Big silver? This is the minimal. Xiao Chen said with a smile.

"Oops, I'm going to be angry!" Chen Jisheng directly put the silver into his arms and muttered out of the door.

"Hey, that's my silver, you give it back to me!" Xiao Chen chased out, but Chen Jisheng lowered his head and quickened his pace, and disappeared as soon as he slipped away......

This old man!

Xiao Chen couldn't help but be happy.

After resting for a few days in Gangnam County, the group continued on the road.

After a day out of Jiangnan County, the road gradually became difficult and bumpy, and I gradually met some people with children and daughters, ragged clothes, all with vegetables on their faces, and their expressions were bitter.

"Who are these people? Do you go out for business or visit relatives and friends? Xiao Chen looked at it curiously on the horse.

"This is a refugee, Weizhou County suffered a locust plague last year, there was no harvest, in the early spring of this year, the green seedlings fell, and they were washed clean by a big flood, and the people had nothing to eat, so they could only come out to find a livelihood." Liu Wenzheng on the side.

"In fact, it is to flee, this is still out, some old, weak, sick and disabled people can't walk, I'm afraid they will starve to death." Ye Baiqing said with a frown.

"Master, give me a stutter, right?" Suddenly, a white-haired old lady on the side of the road knelt down and kowtowed to Xiao Chen.

"Do we have any dry food with us? Fetch some for the elderly! Xiao Chen hurriedly dismounted and ran over to help her up.

Wei Yuntian hurriedly fetched some dried meat pastries and sent them over, and when the other refugees on the road saw it, they all flocked together, knelt down on the road, stretched out their thin hands, and wanted to beg for something to eat.

"What? Get out of here! Seeing this, a thousand households sent by the local guards were furious, slapped their horses forward, picked up the leather whip in their hands, and beat them indiscriminately.

The refugees could not dodge, many of them were hit by his horse, and when they were hit by the whip, there was a blood stain on their backs, and they hurriedly got up and fled in all directions amid the crying.

The soldiers under Qianhu also stepped forward together, shouting and scolding, punching and kicking.

"Stop it!" Xiao Chen's face turned pale, and he rushed over and pulled the Qianhu off the horse, and when he raised his foot, he kicked it violently.

"Who told you to hit them!" kicked the thousand households and rolled on the ground, crying dad and shouting mother, and he couldn't understand his hatred.

Zhuge Xiaosheng and Ye Baiqing hurriedly hugged him away, and ordered the soldiers to retreat quickly, and let them distribute all the dry food they carried to the refugees.

But they had places to take care of them along the way, so they didn't carry much dry food, which was just a drop in the bucket for hundreds of refugees.

Seeing the refugees who had not received the dry food looking at him together, Xiao Chen couldn't bear it in his heart, and asked the local officials who followed him why they didn't set up a porridge field for relief?

A few officials said that there are too many refugees, and our local people still can't eat enough, how can we take care of them?

Besides, now the imperial court is tightening the grain collection, and the little grain stored in the local area over the years has long been transported away, and the grain depots are basically empty......