Half an hour later.

Outside Wanping County, in a wasteland outside Dingjia Village.

Here, it can also be called Ding's family.

Nie Zishi, Zhai Shanfang, Peng Shuilian and other officials followed Zhu Di to stand on a small hill.

All of them have wide mouths and shocked faces!

In the distance, on a wilderness overgrown with weeds and trees, hundreds of people were dividing the wilderness into pieces with iron pickaxes, iron catalpa, iron hoes, axes and other tools for turning the soil and cutting trees.

Then these people began to cut down trees and weeds, level the land, and cultivate the fields in the divided wilderness.

"His Royal Highness King Yan, these people ......"

Nie Zishi looked at Zhu Di on the left with a suspicious expression.

In Beiping Mansion, which did not have a prefect, he, the political envoy, was also in charge of the position of the prefect of Peiping Prefecture.

However, such a large-scale operation to reclaim wasteland, he, the political envoy of Beiping Prefecture, did not know anything about it.

Could it be that His Royal Highness King Yan learned in advance that these prefects of the prefecture were opposed to the reclamation of farmland, so he directly ordered the people under his rule to reclaim the wasteland?

Similarly, the new group of Zhizhou magistrates also looked at Zhu Di with a look of surprise, and their conjectures were the same as Nie Zishi's.

It's just that there is a precedent for Ma Zhengjiang, the governor of Tongzhou, and they can only secretly slander the old Zhu family in their hearts for being cruel and unkind!

"What kind of eyes are you?"

Zhu Di's face sank.

Nie Zishi smiled and asked cautiously, "His Royal Highness King Yan, are these people cultivating fields?" ”

Zhu Di scolded directly: "You don't have long eyes, why do you have to ask this king for such an obvious thing?" ”

"Your Highness forgives your sins, the lower officials are just a little puzzled, why are these people so active in cultivating wasteland? Even, even these old people and children are cultivating wasteland? Nie Zishi said suspiciously.

"Tsk......"

Zhu Di glanced at Nie Zishi with a mocking face, "As the political envoy of Beiping Mansion, this matter should not be your responsibility, why do you want to ask this king in turn?" ”

Nie Zishi: "......"

A helpless face.

In addition to what you Yan Wang can do in this matter, who else in the entire Beiping Mansion can have such great energy to make so many people, the whole family, men, women and children come out to reclaim wasteland?

"Humph!"

Without Nie Zishi to speak, just by the expression on his face, he could see that there was definitely nothing good in his mind.

Zhu Di snorted coldly and pointed at Guo An, who had been hiding among the officials.

"The magistrate of Wanping County is here, why don't you ask him?"

Wanping County Magistrate?

In an instant, Nie Zishi, Zhai Shanfang, Peng Shuilian and other officials lit up their eyes and looked at Guo An in the crowd.

"Hehe, Guo An has seen His Royal Highness King Yan, he has seen the domain, all the officials and colleagues!"

Seeing that he couldn't hide anymore, Guo An smiled and slowly saluted Zhu Di, Nie Zishi and the others.

"Guo An, as the magistrate of Wanping County, do you know what this matter is about?" Nie Zishi asked in a deep voice.

"Back to the domain, it seems that the people of Dingjia Village are dividing the wasteland for each family, and after the area division is completed, they will begin to reclaim the fields!"

Guo An replied honestly.

"Cultivating fields?"

Nie Zishi was angry in his heart, and hurriedly asked again: "It is hard work to reclaim the wasteland, why are these people so active in cultivating the wasteland?" ”

Guo An hurriedly said: "Don't worry! ”

Nie Zishi glared, pointed to the group of people below who were in full swing, and said angrily: "So many people are cultivating wasteland, and at a glance, the people of the entire Dingjia Village have come out.

At this time, these people don't hurry up to do some casual work and make more money. Now that all of them have come out to reclaim the wasteland, how can their family's food and money support the autumn harvest?

If not, what should they do? ”

Hearing this, Zhu Di's heart was also abrupt, and he hurriedly looked at Guo An.

"This ......"

Guo An's face turned pale suddenly, and he hurriedly turned around and bowed to Zhu Di and Nie Zishi.

"Back to Your Highness, Domain. In this matter, the lower officials are in a hurry. But agriculture is the foundation of the country, and all the food and drink of the people in their lives need to be dug out of the fields.

In a family, only the more fields and the better the harvest, the better the life.

Therefore, even if the people are hungry for a while, as long as they can reclaim a few acres of land for their families, they will make a sure profit! ”

Zhu Di nodded with a relieved face, he really didn't see the wrong person!

"What Guo Zhixian said is reasonable, but what does this matter have to do with this king?"

Guo An hurriedly bowed his hand again and said respectfully: "His Royal Highness is the King of Yan, and Beiping Mansion is His Highness's feudal state, so all the people are His Highness's people!" ”

"That's it!" Zhu Di nodded subconsciously.

Guo An continued: "Your Highness has the courage to plead with Your Highness, if these people in Wanping County are in a shortage of food at home due to the large amount of food when they are reclaiming wasteland, please ask Your Highness to borrow some food from the people of Wanping County to fill their stomachs.

The people of Wanping County can write an IOU to His Royal Highness and sign it!

As long as the new grain is harvested, the grain will definitely be repaid to His Highness.

If it can't be repaid this year, the newly reclaimed acres of land next year can also be planted with grain, and it will definitely be paid off to His Highness!

Moreover, the people of my Wanping County are also benevolent and righteous, every time they borrow a stone of grain, when the autumn harvest comes, they will repay His Royal Highness an extra bucket of grain!

If you borrow it for two years, then you will pay back two buckets of grain to Your Highness! ”

Hearing this, Zhu Di looked at Guo An in a daze, and was a little incredulous, "You want to borrow grain from this king instead of tens of thousands of people in Wanping County?" ”

On the side, Nie Zishi and the officials also looked at Guo An with surprised faces.

"Bold, do you know what you're talking about? You are just a small county, how dare you replace the tens of thousands of people in Wanping County and borrow grain from His Royal Highness King Yan? ”

Yan Wang Changshi Zhu Fu scolded Guo An directly.

"Please forgive your highness!"

Guo An did not defend himself, but honestly confessed.

Seeing this, Zhu Fu's tone froze, and then he arched his hand to Zhu Di angrily.

"Your Highness, the magistrate of Wanping County is extremely bold, please punish Your Highness!"

"No hurry!"

Zhu Di was curious about Guo An's bold move.

"Do you know that this king still has the three guards of Yanshan, as well as a number of palace guards and officials, tens of thousands of people to feed, and there is not much food.

Tell me, why does this king want to borrow grain from tens of thousands of households in Wanping County?

And if the people of Wanping County borrow grain, and the people of Daxing County and Miyun County want to borrow grain from this king, what should they do? ”

Guo An respectfully bowed to Zhu Di and replied honestly: "Your Highness forgives your sins, Xia Guan is only the magistrate of Wanping County, and he can only take care of tens of thousands of people in Wanping County."

As for the people of other states and counties, they are not in the scope of the lower officials! ”

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