The county is located in Liaoxi County, is one of the northernmost counties of Zhao State, the climate is cold in winter, the territory is mountainous and swampy, in the early years and often by the Hu people's infestation, the people's livelihood withered, the whole county adds up to only more than 5,000 people, basically live in the city or near the city.

It was not until the last two years that Zhao reduced taxes and reduced taxes, and the living standards of the people in the county improved slightly.

But that's about it.

In order to pave the official road in the county as soon as possible and promote local development, the new county order personally led the people to survey the route, formulate the road plan, and then submit it to the imperial court for approval.

Hei Jing followed the county order for a busy day, and when it was getting dark, he dragged his tired back home, and his son, who had just learned to walk, saw his father coming back, and trotted into his father's arms.

Hei was shocked to pick up his son happily and kissed him twice on the cheek, and the exhaustion of his body seemed to disappear at this moment.

"Let's eat first, I'll wait for you." The wife brought the hot meal to the kang.

This fire kang was still built under the promotion of the government, and at first everyone was quite reluctant to build it, but later I found that the fire kang was really easy to use. All you need is a handful of firewood, and it's warm all night.

With this thing, even the elderly don't have to worry about freezing to death in winter.

Moreover, Liaoxi County is vast and sparsely populated, with grass and trees everywhere, so there is no need to worry about no firewood to burn.

"Mother?" Hei asked in surprise.

"In the back room, I was just talking about you, so I'm going to call her." The wife said.

"I'll call you, you can rest for a while." Hei said in shock, and was about to get up, but his mother had already come.

Hei Wei hurriedly served his mother a meal, and the family sat together happily.

"Why did you come back so late today?" Mother asked.

"There is still one last bit of road left, and tomorrow is not worth running for another day, and the county order will take us to complete the survey." Black Surprise said.

"Isn't that going to be a road in a few days?" Mother said happily.

"It's hard to say, I heard from the county order that it still needs to be approved, and the official road is not under the control of the county, and it must be reported to the governor or even the imperial court for approval. Even if it is finally approved, construction will not begin until the beginning of spring next year. But the prefectural order will definitely find a way, so we don't need to worry about this." Black Surprise said.

"My mother believes in the county order, and she also believes in the imperial court. A few years ago, if it weren't for Zhao Guo, our mother and I would have starved to death." The mother looked at her daughter-in-law and said.

"My son also believes in Zhao Guo." Black Surprise said.

A few years ago, Hei Wei followed the army out to attack the Zhao State, and in the end, the army was defeated, and all the soldiers were left behind in the Zhao State and became prisoners.

At that time, Hei Wei had just gotten married, and he thought that his wife would run away because of this, and his mother would also die because there was no one to take care of him.

As a result, when he returned home, not only his wife was waiting for him, but his mother was also well taken care of by his wife.

His mother and wife said that in the past few years in Zhao State, every year Zhao State would send people to bring food to the house, although it was not much, but because the family was full of women, the amount of food was small, and it was enough to eat.

And because Zhao Guo sent people over, the neighbors knew that he was not dead, so they didn't dare to bully them too much, otherwise it would be difficult for the two women to survive in the troubled times.

Hei Jing is also extremely grateful to Zhao Guo for this, if it were not for Zhao Guo, his mother and wife would have died a long time ago, let alone have such a lovely son.

When the government recruited people, even though it showed that there was no salary due to the poverty of the government, Hei Jing still chose to sign up, and followed the county order every day from morning to night, enjoying it.

The government has not collected a penny of taxes for two consecutive years, and this year it has directly abolished the oral tax.

"Knock knock!" At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside, followed by the voice of the inner chief, "Is Saburo at home?"

Hei Wei is the third in the family, so everyone calls him San Lang.

Hei Wei hurriedly got up and invited the lieutenant into the house.

"Satocho didn't eat

Let's deal with two people at home." Black Surprise said.

"I've eaten it." The lieutenant waved his hand and looked at Hei Jing, "The main reason for looking for you this time is one thing, and I'm going to go to someone else's house after that."

"What's the matter?" Hei asked in surprise.

"Tomorrow, the township is going to gather the big guys and go to the city to resist the unified weights and measures and unified writing, will you go?" The lieutenant asked.

"What? Don't go." Hei was shocked to hear this, his face changed, and he said firmly.

Which weights and measures to use is not used, he was in Zhao State a few years ago, and he has always used Zhao State's weights and measures, and he has long been used to it, and there is nothing bad about it.

Moreover, the difference between the weights and measures of Yan and Zhao is not particularly large.

As for the unified script, it has nothing to do with him, he is illiterate at all.

"Are you from the Yu family, are you from the Yan family?" Li Chang's face sank.

"I'm not a Yan person, I'm a Zhao person." Black Surprise said firmly.

"Have you forgotten that your ancestors have been Yan people for generations, and they all lived in Yan Country?" The chief said angrily.

"Even if our ancestors have been Yan people for generations? What kind of life did we live before? Exploited by the government, suppressed by the squire, unable to eat and clothe, our family of six brothers and sisters, two froze to death, and two were killed by the Hu people, and now only me and my youngest sister are left. If it weren't for Zhao Guo, my mother and wife would have starved to death years ago. I didn't see you standing up before, but now that Zhao Guo has come over and reduced our taxes, you have to stand up and resist."

"Don't think I don't know, didn't you rebel against Zhao State because you secretly hid farmland and were discovered by the government and all of them were recovered? Don't talk about Yan Guo. If it was for the Yan Kingdom, you would have stood up as early as the time when the Yan Kingdom was destroyed, instead of waiting until now." Black Terror said loudly.

When Zhao sent someone to liquidate and re-measure the land, the chief and his family only reported 200 acres of land, and hid all the remaining thousands of acres of land, thinking that they could pay less taxes.

Who would have thought that Zhao Guo would not play cards according to the routine, since your family only reported 200 acres of land, then good, your family will only have the reported 200 acres of land in the future, and the remaining thousands of acres will all be turned into borderless land, collected as official land, and distributed to those landless homeless people.

After that, the governor kept reporting to the government and reported the mistake, but the government didn't eat them.

Now that you've made your choice, don't think about going back.

The Yu family also thought of other methods, such as uniting with all the squires in the county to raise grain prices, in an attempt to trigger a popular uprising and make Zhao retreat. As a result, the Zhao State Government had not yet made a move, and the Chamber of Commerce saw that it was profitable, so it transported a large amount of grain from other places to sell it to the squires.

In the end, all the squires involved in this matter went bankrupt and could only sell their property to pay off their debts.

As for directly inciting the people to rebel, it is even more impossible. If you can eat enough, a fool will rebel.

As for raising taxes privately, so that the people do not have enough to eat, in order to stimulate the contradictions between the people and the government, some people have done this, and the result is that all the three clans were killed, and the nine clans were pulled to fill in the edges.

As for the assassination of the county order sent by Zhao Guo, and the county squire once thought about it, but later gave up, that was the last resort, and he couldn't do it unless he had to.

Once you do this, it means that you will completely tear your face and there is no way back.

As a result, it didn't take long for the news from Liaodong that a county was killed and the entire county was purged.

The squire of the county was frightened into a cold sweat, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, they fortunately did not do this, otherwise they would have died.

Although they are a little miserable now, at least their lives are still alive.

Hearing Hei Zhen's words, Li Chang's face instantly became darker than the bottom of the pot.

"I've been a lichang for so many years, and I haven't treated Saburo badly." The lieutenant said.

Black Snorted twice, but didn't speak.

Although the governor has not helped their family over the years, he has not bullied them, which is already good.

However, this does not mean that the lieutenant is a good person, in fact, over the years, the Yu family has suppressed the local people and grabbed the land, otherwise there is so much land

Where did the land and property come from?

As for why they didn't suppress their family, it was just because they didn't have anything in their family that could make the Yu family look at it.

The only land is not fertile.

"You go with me tomorrow, and you don't have to go next time." The lieutenant said.

If it's someone else, it doesn't matter if you go or not. But Hei Jing's identity is more special, he has been following the county order during this time, and many people know him, if he stands up against it, it will be a huge blow to the prestige of the county order.

"No, no." Hei Zhen said decisively, "For the sake of so many years of friendship, I advise the chief not to go. You make a small fuss, and it's useless. There was a lot of commotion, and the imperial court directly sent the army to suppress it. Do you think that you hundreds or thousands of people are Zhao Jun's opponents?"

「…… That doesn't mean that the government will just take possession of our land." The lieutenant was silent for a moment before speaking.

Hei Zhen didn't speak, Zhao Guo occupied the land of the Yu family, and did not occupy his family's land, besides, how did the land of the Yu family come from, everyone knew it in their hearts, most of it was taken by force, what is there to feel wronged.

"You think about it again, and I'll come back to you tomorrow when I leave." The lieutenant patted Black Shock's shoulder, and without waiting for Black Shock's answer, he got up and left.

The next day, Hei Wei had just had breakfast, and the lieutenant came to him.

"Didn't I say I wouldn't go?" Hei said in surprise that he had planned that if the lieutenant continued like this, he would report to the official.

"Not what I said yesterday." The chief said embarrassedly.

"What's that?" Hei asked in surprise.

"The imperial court gave dumplings to everyone during the Chinese New Year this year, and the county asked us to send some people from each township to collect them, I thought you weren't familiar with the county order, so I thought about calling you to go over." The lieutenant said.

"You didn't lie to me?" Hei Zhen was a little unconvinced, for so many years, he had only heard that the imperial court had collected things from the people, and when had he ever heard that the imperial court had taken the initiative to send things to the people.

What's more, they have just been occupied by Zhao State for less than two years, and they have not even provided taxes to Zhao State.

"Really, it's all written in the newspapers, and it's in every household. It is distributed according to the person, two catties per person. You can't go wrong." The lieutenant handed the slander to Black Shock.

"I can't read." Black Shock didn't take the slander, "You're not going to resist the Unified Weights and Measures?"

"Most people don't want to go." Li Chang sighed, he didn't expect Zhao Guo to win the hearts of the people so quickly, many people didn't listen to him at all, and they also had to listen to the government.

"Old Yu, let's go." At this time, several nearby miles also drove ox carts over.

"The imperial court really makes dumplings?" Hei Zhen looked at the others, still a little incredulous, in the past, the government didn't cut them, it was good if they didn't knock the bones and suck the marrow, when did they send them food.

This kind of thing has never happened in the era of the sage praised by Confucianism, and whoever dares to say that Zhao Guo is not good in the future, and then talk about the restoration of Yan State, will be his black enemy.

"Of course it's true." The other lieutenants also said with a smile.

Hei Jing happily followed the lieutenant to the county, received dumplings according to the registered household registration, and after returning to the township, he had to send these dumplings door to door.

After the villagers receive it, they must sign the list or press their fingerprints, and the county will send people to check the dumplings in the future.

Under normal circumstances, no one will take risks for a few catties of dumplings.

"There are two bags left, take them home, you have a lot of family." After sending it, Hei Zhen saw that there were still two bags of dumplings left in the car, and said to the chief.

"Let's have a bag for each person." The lieutenant picked up the dumplings, handed a bag to Hei Jing, and sighed, "This Zhao State and Yan Country are really different, other countries have called, they are all tyrannical, and they can't wait to squeeze us to death, Zhao Guo first reduced taxes for a few years, and this is the New Year, and the dumplings are also given." If it weren't for the last resort, I really didn't want to go against Zhao Guo."

"If there is anything that is compelled, just look at it, maybe it will develop in the future

It's even better. If you go against Zhao Guo, it's hard to say whether you have a Yu family in the future." Black Surprise said.

"San Lang also knows that our Yu family is a big family, and there are more than 30 people in the clan and servants, and Zhao Guo left two hundred acres of land for our Yu family......" Li Chang sighed again, with such a little land, it is difficult to even provide food for everyone, not to mention other expenses.

"Well deserved!" Hei Zhen thought in his heart, but said, "In fact, the Yu family can be divided, and the government will redistribute the land to the divided family."

The lieutenant didn't speak, and the Yu family would not take this road unless it was absolutely necessary.

Splitting up means that the family is weakened, its influence decreases, and it may even collapse altogether.

And if some things are not handled well in the process of separation, the two families that are separated may even become enemies.

This is an unbearable blow for any family.

But these have nothing to do with black shock, he is going home to eat dumplings with his wife and children.

When his daughter-in-law was pregnant, he reported it to the government. After he was born, he went directly to the household registration, so their family received eight catties of dumplings at a time, and with the bag in their hands, it was ten catties.

Many children in the family are not registered, and they do not have as many dumplings as their families.

"Wait until the spring of next year, pave the way for the government, or renovate the Liao River, and you can earn another fifteen yuan a day......" Hei Zhen thought in his heart, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.