In Jiangyuan County, Yongzhou, in the cold winter, Lin Da's family hid at home and shivered, and the two children on the side were so hungry that they cried, but what can they do about crying, they have no food, the rice bowl is about to bottom, if they finish eating a meal, what will they do in the future?

"The child's father, the child is so hungry that he can't stand it, what can I do?"

"child, grab a handful of rice from the rice bowl at night, I'll go out and look for it again, and see if there are any wild vegetables to find a little."

The child can't coax the child well, Lin Da is also irritable, and finally decided to grab an extra handful of rice at night, their daily ration is a little bit of rice, plus wild vegetables, tree roots, or rice bran boiled, boiled into a pot of paste, just like that, everyone can only eat one bowl, and they can't afford to eat more.

"Daddy, be careful, it's snowy outside."

"I see, hey"

Lin Da sighed, put the only two old clothes in the family on his body, he had no winter clothes, he could only wear a few more single clothes, pushed open the door, outside was the white world, the cold wind blew, Lin Da shivered.

There is a chicken coop at the door of his yard, looking at the chicken coop Lin Da is angry, originally his family would not be so poor, if you want to blame the court, what kind of poverty alleviation plan has been made, saying that it is to give chicken to the people in the village for free.

At first, they were still full of joy, but in less than two months, everything changed, the official sent to their house to check the situation of the chickens, found that they were too thin, and told them that they must raise more than four catties in six months, otherwise they will be fined and imprisoned.

But there is no food to feed, so what kind of insects, earthworms are not enough, after all, they have more than 700 chickens in one village, how can there be so many insects and earthworms to feed, forcing them to only use rations to feed.

And they are quite good, some people accidentally raise chickens to death, then the sin is great, and they must be compensated, and they are not allowed to buy from other places, they can only buy from the poverty alleviation program, and the price is too expensive.

Wait until six months have passed, those officials will come to collect the chickens, regardless of the size of the chicken, but it is different from what was said before, each according to four catties, a catty only collects twenty wen, small enough to make up, their ten chickens, they have to pay forty catties of live chickens, but ten add up to only thirty catties, missing ten catties, and finally only give him four hundred wen, even the food money for feeding the chickens is not enough.

This is equivalent to him helping the government to feed the chickens in the past six months, and he has to post it upside down if he doesn't earn a penny, so he doesn't even have enough food for the winter, and he doesn't know what to do, after all, the grain harvest will wait for next year, and there is still so much time, do you have to go to the landlord to borrow grain?

"Lin Da, Lin Da, wait a minute"

"Village Chief, what's the matter?"

Lin Da was just about to go out when he saw the village chief calling him, and he stopped.

"Lin Da, aren't you a chicken farmer, go to my house quickly, the official is here"

"What, again, is this the life of our whole family?"

"It's not like they're looking for trouble this time, they've brought a lot of things, go quickly, don't be stunned, I'll call someone else"

The village chief shook his head, this time there were a lot of people sent by the officials, and they also brought a lot of things, it didn't look like they were looking for trouble, otherwise there was no need to bring so many things.

Lin Da didn't believe it, but he didn't dare not go, so he had to go to the village chief's house.

"Lin Da, you're here"

"Third brother, what's going on, what did the official say again?"

"Good thing, good thing"

"What a good thing, what good can an official errand do"

"It's a bad thing that the official is here, but this time it's the eldest princess who is here to help us make the decisions."

"Who is the eldest princess?"

"I don't know, I heard that it was the emperor's daughter, and she did this poverty alleviation plan, but those traitors didn't listen to the eldest princess, and those bad things were all done by traitors, and now the eldest princess is here to be the master for us and wants to give us money."

"Can there be such a good thing?"

Lin Da didn't believe it, they had always paid money to the government, how could there be any reason for the government to give them money, so the eldest princess was not from the government.

Lin Da squeezed into the house, saw more than a dozen people over there, and two officials, and when he saw Lin Da, he asked, "Are you a chicken farmer?"

"Yes, sir"

"What's your name?"

"The villain's name is Lin Da"

"I'll check it, oh, I found it, Lin Da, there are four people in the family, ten chickens are raised, and the recovery is thirty catties, I should have given you two thousand four hundred Wen, but I only gave four hundred Wen, and then I made up for you two thousand Wen, which is converted into two taels of silver, right?"

"What, sir"

"Take the money first, sign and draw it, and someone will explain it to you later"

The clerk was a little irritable, took a piece of silver, cut off two taels, weighed it correctly, and then stuffed it into Lin Da's hand, urging him to sign and draw the pledge.

The word can't be written, then you can only press the handprint, after the press someone pulled him to the side, told him what was going on, in general, that is, the eldest princess originally wanted to use the poverty alleviation plan to help the poor, but because of the corruption of the staff, so that the poor not only did not benefit, but became poorer, this is all done by those officials to hide from the eldest princess, and now the eldest princess is the master of the poor households, and the money that was embezzled by the officials has to be made up.

"In the past six months, you have suffered, and the eldest princess feels deeply remorseful for this, so in addition to making up for the silver you deserve, the eldest princess also gives you a New Year's gift, inviting all chicken farmers to come here to receive it, you can get ten catties of rice, one catty of oil, and two catties of meat"

The staff continued, and then took them to a room, which was full of oil, rice, and meat, all divided and the same weight.

Lin Da couldn't believe all this at all, as if it was a dream, the government not only really gave him money, but also gave him supplies.

"You all remember, this is for you from the eldest princess, and you will have to remember the eldest princess in the future."

When receiving rice and meat, some people kept repeating, these were all given by the eldest princess, and Lin Da remembered in his heart, it turned out that the great good man was the eldest princess.

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In Jiangyuan County, Shen Liuyun and Li Sheng are seated here, and there are more than ten account offices behind them, which are constantly counting expenditures, and materials and silver money are concentrated here, and then decentralized to various villages.

"Lord Shen, how do you feel about these days in the countryside?"

"Mr. Li, it seems that your people are not corrupt, why is this?"

Shen Liuyun asked, he already knew where he had failed, but he didn't know why the people Li Sheng was looking for didn't seem to be corrupt, and why his people were so incorruptible.

"What's so difficult about this, as long as the rules are well established, they naturally don't dare to be corrupt"

"Please Mr. Li for advice"

"Okay, I'll tell you, first of all, we have to screen people to recruit people, only find those who are honest and responsible, don't want those who are splashy, and don't allow my relatives and friends to stuff people in, recruit good people, explain the rules to them clearly, do things under my hands, I won't treat them badly, the wages that should be given to them, not a penny less, and do this hard, and the daily meals must be better, so that the morale will be high.

I also want to tell them that after the matter is done, I will send someone to visit those poor households, and if I find anyone who has filled their pockets, then don't blame me for being unkind, not only will all the wages be recovered, but also send them to see the officials, on the contrary, if they do a good job, I will give a sum of money as a reward afterwards, and usually send a few people to keep an eye on them, they naturally dare not be greedy, even if they dare, they dare not be greedy."

"It's so easy"

"Is it simple, Lord Shen, things are simple, but none of them are difficult to do, just these thousands of honest people are hard to find, we spent half a year, from tens of thousands of people little by little to screen out, not to mention anything else, you have so many relatives, friends and classmates, they want to arrange some people to come in, can you stop it?"

Li Sheng smiled and said, rules are things that can be said in two sentences, but can it really be so simple, without a reliable team, nothing can be done, and he knows too much about policies and countermeasures.

And there is another key thing in this matter that he didn't say, that is, the accusation, all the staff can secretly accuse him, which allows everyone to become a supervisor, as long as it is not a false accusation, the person who complains will also be rewarded, as long as a few people are investigated and punished, and a chicken and monkey are killed, then it will be effective.

"So you knew half a year ago that this matter was going to fail"

"This is nature, someone has no last resort, and has known it for a long time"

"Dare to ask who it is"

"Guess what"

"Understood, Liuyun is ashamed"

Shen Liuyun was stunned for a moment, and instantly understood, whoever brought up this matter would have guessed it.

"Don't be ashamed, we used to be like this, but it's different with the eldest princess, the rewards and punishments are clear, and doing things has its own benefits"

"Dare to ask Mr. Li, will you still do this poverty alleviation next year?"

"Do it, why don't you do it, this thing is made with silver in our hands, and something will happen in your hands, if we don't do it, why should we waste these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in vain"

Li Sheng replied, they not only have to do it, but also do it better, these tens of thousands of poor households in Yongzhou will be the most loyal supporters of the eldest princess in the future, and let more people know that they will have happy days with the eldest princess, this is the origin of prestige, not for this, what do they waste time and energy for.

"Can Liuyun continue to do this?"

"Lord Shen still wants to do it?"

"Yes"

"What about your official position?"

"Hang it first, you won't arrange things for me anyway, forget it if you don't have it"

Shen Liuyun gritted his teeth, even if he made meritorious service this time, he would have to be refrigerated for a few years, if he couldn't keep his official position, he didn't care, he remembered what Yao Ce told him, he would get up from where he fell.