"I wonder what you two can do?"

Guo An stopped and asked following the words of Ning Deyou and Qi Nong.

Seeing this, Ning Deyou's face was overjoyed, and he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Qiyu County Zun, there are more than 10,000 households living outside the city, and more than 800 hectares of fields!"

Even if the county leader took me and others to inspect 300 acres of fields every day, it would take a year to inspect them again.

Inspecting the tedious and menial work of inspecting the household registration of the fields and acres, the county respecter only needs to instruct me to wait for the household officials, how can I bother the county lord every day?

Moreover, the county lord has already deigned to personally go down to the village to inspect, and the grain chief, the lieutenant chief, and the chief of the first division of each district need to come forward to meet the county zun.

The county can take this opportunity to have a detailed and in-depth understanding of the situation of the acres of households in each village! ”

Hearing this, Guo An smiled slightly, "This official went to the village this time, just to take advantage of this period of leisure time in the yamen to understand the living conditions of the people under my Wanping County, and it is not too interesting. ”

Ning Deyou and Qi Nong's faces stiffened slightly.

Guo An looked up at the group of farmers who had been following behind them and kept a distance from them, and sighed lightly.

"However, since these farmers already know that the official and you are coming, let them come over and ask about something!"

At this time, the faces of Ning Deyou and Qi Nong were tight again.

However, in front of Guo An, the two of them couldn't make any small moves, so they could only order a servant to invite the chiefs and grain chiefs in the distance.

"Xiaomin Wang Shilai to see the county honor!"

"Xiao Minning Daguang see the county honor!"

"Small People......"

The people who came were all a group of old men over sixty years old, Guo An didn't want to provoke for no reason, so he hurriedly returned the salute slightly.

"Guo An of Wanping Zhi County has seen all the elders!"

"Guo County Zun is the magistrate of Wanping County, don't do this!"

"Exactly, Guo Xianzun has tormented the old man and others......"

The old men were all shocked by Guo An's actions, and their faces were full of panic.

"Although I am a magistrate, I am only higher than you in terms of official position. And here, you are the younger elders, and when you see the elders, it is time for the younger generations to see them! ”

Guo An hurriedly replied, these elderly people are not only the overlords of the villages, especially those grain chiefs, but they can also go directly to Beijing to find the old Zhu for an interview, which is not easy to mess with.

Immediately, after another humble, I returned to the topic.

"I don't know if the county is here this time, but what are you doing?"

An old man with a kind face asked respectfully at Guo An.

Guo An explained in a harmonious voice: "Guo An is fortunate to be valued by His Majesty and all the officials, and was hastily appointed as the magistrate of Wanping County. However, Guo An's talent was shallow, for fear that Wanping County would not be well governed, so he took Ning Hufang and Qi Hufang, and brought the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Book to have a good understanding of the situation of the villages and villages under the rule of Wanping County.

In this way, it is good to start to govern Wanping County. ”

"I see!"

All the old men breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

"Guo Xianzun has just taken office, so conscientious, tireless, for the sake of tens of thousands of people in my Wanping County, the people of my Wanping County are blessed!"

"As long as you don't let the people poke Guo An's backbone in the back, Guo An will be satisfied!"

Ning Deyou and the old men couldn't help but change their faces.

"Guo County's words are serious, like Guo County's respect, a good official who loves the people like a son, I can't wait for my love!"

"Exactly, exactly. The people of Wanping County are not fools, and they know good officials......"

"Haha, thank you elders for your love!"

Guo An laughed very happily, then stopped being verbose, and asked directly to the old man who spoke first, "I don't know how many acres of land are in Ning's family now?" ”

"Called Guo Zhixian to see a smile, the old man is the grain chief here, and he has the most acres of land in his family, with a total of ten acres of official land and twelve acres of private land!"

Guo An nodded slightly, and continued to ask: "I don't know how many acres of land are in the family of the person with the least acres of land here?" ”

Hearing this, a trace of doubt flashed in the eyes of Ning Daguang and Ning De, but this Guo An had the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Book in his hands, and they couldn't hide it if they wanted to.

"Back to the county, the one with the least acres of land is the pillar family, a family of four, only three acres of official land and two acres of private land!"

"With only five acres of land, is it enough for their family of four to feed for a year?" Guo An asked again.

"Returning to the county, how can we untouchables eat enough, as long as we don't starve to death, we will be lucky!"

Ning Daguang laughed at himself.

"What if there is no food to eat?" Guo An continued to ask.

"If you don't have food to eat, you eat wild vegetables, you eat tree roots, and you go down to the river to catch fish, and you have something to eat. Or, they can also work for some large families for a short time, and finally have to sell themselves to some rich and powerful families......

However, Beiping Mansion is fortunate to be granted by King Zhongshan, and basically every household has official land to cultivate, so there will really be no starvation to death! ”

It seems that he really sees that Guo An, the newly appointed magistrate, doesn't understand anything, and Ning Daguang has nothing to hide.

"Hoo ......"

Guo An exhaled slowly and asked again: "I don't know if there are ploughing cattle in Ning's house, what farm tools are used to plow the land on weekdays?" ”

"Qiyu County, the old man's family only has two ploughing oxen, as for the farming tools used for ploughing, they are all some plows, cocoons, axes, rakes, shovels, rakes, hoes, sickles, these farm tools ......"

Ning Daguang explained in detail.

Guo An listened in a daze, some understood, and some did not.

"Guo An is ashamed, he has only cared about learning classics since he was a child, but he is not very familiar with these farm tools, I wonder if Guo An can see these farm tools?"

What a strange magistrate!

There are a few people in Ning Daguang and Ningde, all of whom are stunned, and some of them don't understand the newly appointed Xiaozhi County.

However, the legs of the people who were already standing were trembling, and they were very happy to go back and rest for a while.

"This is the old man's honor, please come here from the county!"

"Ning Lao is polite!"

It's just that before Guo An and Ning De walked to Ning Daguang's house, they saw a somewhat familiar official running over from a distance in a panic.

Before he walked in front of Guo An and Ningde, he had already begun to shout, "County Zun, County Zun, something big has happened!" ”

"What makes you so flustered?" Guo An asked.

"County Honor...... County ......"

The official turned red, took a few deep breaths, and hurriedly said: "Just now, the official of the political envoy has passed down an edict, and His Royal Highness King Yan wants all the prefectures and counties under Beiping Mansion to reclaim 10,000 hectares of land within two years!" ”

"Cultivating 10,000 hectares of land in two years?"

Guo An's face changed.

As for Ning Deyou and Qi Nong and others on the side, they opened their mouths wide!

"Ten thousand hectares of fields, how is this possible?"

"10,000 hectares, how can I reclaim these tens of thousands of people in Wanping County alone?"

Ning Daguang and Wang Shilai and other old men were also full of sorrow.

……