There are seven counties in Wuzhou Province, the west and north are mountainous, and the east is hilly near the sea, although there are three counties near the sea and have a long coastline, but only Dongyang County has a natural harbor.

Guyi County and Qingzhou have shallow water and many reefs, ships are easy to run aground and hit the reef, and the hydrogeological conditions are not good, so it is impossible to build a large port.

Among the seven counties, Yuntai County, Dongyang County, and Guyi County in the north do not produce much grain because they are mountainous and hilly.

The grain producing areas of Wuzhou Province are mostly concentrated in the four counties of Fengqi, Qingzhou, Fuzhou and Changguo.

Ren Pingsheng was half-lying in the car, looking at the draft of the Wuzhou Provincial Chronicle that had just been compiled in his hand.

It took more than a year to take a look at the first draft of the previous provincial chronicles, county chronicles, and county chronicles, and then through visits and surveys, so as to have a more comprehensive understanding of Wuzhou's economic, political, zoning, resources, and humanities history.

Next, after the compilation of this new Wuzhou Provincial Chronicle is completed, it will be printed and distributed to every official at and above the department level in the province.

It is also convenient for the officials of Wuzhou to have a framework for the development of the entire Wuzhou, so that they can have a reference and a target when formulating various policies in the future.

"This is the transformed Xuanyuan Sword?"

Xiao Wan, who was sitting next to Ren Pingsheng, slowly pulled a sword out of the sheath, and as the sword came out of the sheath, a soft golden light was suddenly revealed, and she carefully looked at the long sword in her hand.

The sun, moon and stars, mountains, rivers and plants on it appear more profound with the golden light, when the long sword is all pulled out and held in the hand, the painting engraved on the sword body is like a mirage, faintly reflected in the void, full of divine breath, and it is really recorded that the sword of the holy way with a golden body is similar.

Ren Pingsheng once deliberately arranged the appearance in front of people, as well as the statue in the square in front of Qingcheng Railway Station, and the sword in his hand is like this.

Although Ren Pingsheng has never really used this sword, the image of this sword has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and has a very important symbolic meaning.

"This is based on the way the Dragon Sword is made, and it is transformed. However, I've added a new alloy to it to make it even sharper. ”

Ruan Tang stretched out his hand, and the Dragon Sword suddenly "buzzed", broke free from Xiao Wan's hand, and fell into her hands.

He took out a steel wire and gently knocked it on the blade, and the steel wire was easily broken into two, and the incision was very smooth.

"With such a level of sharpness, even if you wear three layers of armor, you can't stop it at all!"

Xiao Wan picked up the steel wire that fell into the car, looked at the fracture, and said in amazement.

Ruan Tang waved his hand, and the Xuanyuan sword "poofed" into the sheath, and said very arrogantly: "Among the ten thousand armies, taking the head of the enemy general is like probing the bag and taking things." ”

Xiao Wan hung the Xuanyuan Sword on the hook of the carriage.

"Where did you go?"

Ren Pingsheng put down the book, leaned on the cushion, opened the curtain and looked outside.

The spring breeze is steep, blowing into the carriage with a bit of coolness.

Outside, there are thousands of miles of fertile fields, and the green wheat seedlings have grown ears of wheat, blowing with the spring breeze, like green waves.

Inside the puddle, there was the sound of frogs croaking.

The breath of spring ripples everywhere.

"Master, you have already entered the boundary of Yunyao County in Fengqi County."

Forget Shu took out a cantaloupe from the scented green sandalwood box in the carriage, cut it on the small square table, and gave Ren Pingsheng a piece.

The box was frozen by Xiao Wan's condensation of some ice cubes, and the cantaloupe was very sweet and sandy, which Ren Pingsheng brought from the earth.

"I heard that Yunyao County is rich in pears."

Ren Pingsheng said.

"It's a pity that now is not the time for the pears to bear fruit."

Ruan Tang said regretfully.

She fiddled with a palm-sized pistol in her hand. However, the shape of this pistol is very different from that of ordinary firearms, the barrel is very thick, and there is a faint arc light inside.

Relying on the electromagnetic ability, she gradually groped for the creation of a pulse pistol, but this required a pulse induction field to generate a high-energy, high-density electromagnetic pulse, but this required a sufficient energy supply, which led to the gun made by Ruan Tang that could only be used by herself.

The only advantage is that when using the pulse pistol, you can reduce mental consumption, and the attacks you hit are more concentrated, so the power is also greater.

There was a sound of horses' hooves, and Han Jun patted his horse and came to the side of Ren Pingsheng's carriage: "King, in front is Daxizhuang in Yunyao County, a large village with a population of more than 1,000 in Yunyao County. ”

"Well, let's go check it out."

Ren Pingsheng said.

Daxizhuang is a big village, there is a west family in it, is the landlord of this big west village, in the past occupied most of the land of the entire west village, almost half of the people are tenants of this west family.

This time, we measured the acres of land and checked the hidden households, and measured more than 2,000 acres of hidden fields that had not been filed with the government, and more than 200 hidden households.

Before Ren Pingsheng got out of the car, he saw a group fight outside!

And it's a fight of hundreds of people.

A large number of men, wielding hoes and shovels, beat round on the production embankment.

That's really a fist to the flesh, take it seriously!

Ren Pingsheng saw several people who fell to the ground, bleeding from their heads, motionless and did not know whether they were alive or dead.

"Is this a water grab?"

In May, the wheat here is almost ripe, and in order to increase the yield of wheat, it is necessary to water the grout again.

In the war on the production embankment, it is likely that people from two or even several villages are grabbing water here to water the land.

"a few people!"

Ren Pingsheng pointed to the side where the battle was fighting.

"Yes!"

Han Jun said to the two guards: "Wu Hui, Zhang Mou, you two go and stop it." ”

"Yes!"

The two guards clenched their fists in response, and then, like two disarmed shells, trampled on the ground a few times, and then they had already crossed a distance of several hundred meters, and fell into the brawling group, and with their force, after quickly subduing the leaders of the villages on both sides, they stabilized the situation.

The reserve officials who were observing the government in various departments took the opportunity to inquire about the cause of the brawl.

"Lord Wang, this is Daxizhuang, Wujiazhai and Zhangjiabao, and the three villages are collecting water."

"Because the water volume of the Mohe River in Fengqi County is low this year, after the water release at the gate, it was blocked by Daxi Village in the upper reaches, and the water flow could not go downstream.

After asking the reason for the reason, Zhang Huai'an came up to report on behalf of the reserve officials.

He is a college student who is about to graduate from Yuntai University this year and won the first place in the national examination.

This year is the first year of the national examination, and because there is an extreme shortage of officials in various local yamen, the acceptance rate of the national examination is extremely high this time, and most of them are admitted. However, most of these people were thrown into various local yamen to observe and study politics, and after half a year of internship, they will soon become regulars.

There are less than 100 people who really stay in the various departments of Wuzhou to observe and study politics.

"Why did you fight?"

Ren Pingsheng asked.

Zhang Huai'an was stunned for a moment and said: "Because Daxizhuang blocked the flow of water, the downstream villages could not water the ground. This season is an important time for wheat filling, and once the time passes, the wheat yield will be affected and the yield will be reduced. ”

"Blocking the flow of water, this is the superficial cause of the fight, what is the deeper cause?"

Ren Pingsheng asked again.

Zhang Huaian suddenly realized that this was the prince testing himself, his brain was activated, and he quickly began to think about the reason.

After a moment of silence, he said while thinking, "I think there are three reasons. ”

"First, in the government, because the water conservancy facilities are not perfect, the villages can only count on the flow of the Mo River, the sluice gate is too high, the government has not maintained, once the flow of the Mo River is small, the water level is lower, it is difficult to draw water out, can not meet the needs of the villagers for watering."

"The second is in the village, where the method of intercepting water is simple and crude, and there is no consideration for how the people in the downstream villages will water it."

"Third, in the villagers, the sense of law is weak, and the consequences are not fully considered, resulting in a fight of hundreds of people, causing the loss of more than a dozen lives."

Ren Pingsheng listened to Zhang Huai'an's thoughts and walked forward with everyone.

At the same time, his telekinesis surged out, and in an instant, it had enveloped a radius of 10,000 meters, and several surrounding villages had entered his perception.

The reason for this kind of armed struggle is that in fact, the grassroots power is in the hands of the gentry and landlords, and the tentacles of the imperial power law cannot be extended.

The common people only listened to the elders, gentry, and landlords of these villages, but did not know what the law was.

If you want to cure it radically, the law must go down to the village, and the eyes of the grassroots town government must fall to the village. ”

Ren Pingsheng said.

"However, taxes, conscription, conscription, etc., all need the support of these gentry and landlords who have prestige in the village······"

Zhang Huai'an asked thoughtfully: "Is the prince saying that we should move the government further down and enter these villages?" ”

"Of course not, after all, administrative capacity is limited, and if the village is also established, the population supported by the treasury will skyrocket by an order of magnitude."

Ren Pingsheng shook his head.

On the earth, with the productivity of the earth, at the village level, villager self-government is adopted. With the productivity here, it is absolutely impossible to support so many officials to eat financial meals.

"If we want to grasp the power at the grassroots level, the first is to strengthen the influence of the town-level government and build a unified ideology in the village-level units. The second is to set up special violent institutions to effectively enforce the majesty of the law in these villages controlled by the gentry and landlords. ”

Ren Pingsheng said the reason why he came down to investigate this time.

Under the coverage of Fang Cai's mental power, Ren Pingsheng clearly saw that in the village, the acres of fields and the acres of fields counted in Yunyao County were not counted, and the number of people was not far from the registered population.

Either the magistrate of Yunyao County and the local gentry colluded, or the local gentry and the officials of the government deceived Yunyao Zhixian.

In any case, the police system must be established as soon as possible, and the officials at the county and town levels must have a major change of blood as soon as possible, so as to completely get rid of the influence of the local gentry.

"Huai'an, when you are observing the government in the Ministry of Justice, what you see is mostly personnel appointments, personnel adjustments, etc., which is a work of pondering people.

Regardless of the central government, governance is made up of people. When a series of figures such as land, population, resources, finance, and taxation are formed, it is difficult to distinguish between the virtual and the real among these figures, and after they are summed up by the central government, it is actually difficult to distinguish them clearly.

Sometimes, when it comes to the evaluation of local officials, they have to go everywhere to see if they have been deceived.

The size of the country, on the one hand, to maintain the unification of the country, will inevitably require the authority of the imperial court and the unified leadership of all localities. On the other hand, the day-to-day operation of the entire system should be dominated by local yamen.

The balance between the central government and the local government is very important, and if it gets out of control, it will cause division and destruction.

This requires a solid system to maintain, and the introduction of systems and policies is not out of thin air. In the future, after you become a regular in the Political Research Office, when formulating policies, you must conduct detailed research and comprehensive consideration. ”

Ren Pingsheng instructed.

"Your Highness's teachings, students remember."

Zhang Huaian hurriedly said.

The convoy did not delay too much in Daxi Village, hurried along the main road, and arrived in Yutai County in the evening.

There is a Huaxian Lake in Yutai County, covering an area of more than 8,000 hectares, spanning Fengqi and Changguo counties, and is a land of abundant fish and rice.

The reason why I came to Yutai County in a hurry was because I got a report that several villages in Yutai County were going to hold a sacrifice today.

It is necessary to pay tribute to the boys and girls to the water dragon king of Huaxian Lake, in order to obtain a year of good weather and good weather.

After learning the news, the county government and the local town government have sent people to do the work several times, but the village is unmoved, and the sent officials are pushed out of the village.

When Ren Pingsheng arrived, the young magistrate was waiting on the outskirts of Huaxian Lake with the local mayor, dozens of officials, and hundreds of temporarily conscripted militiamen behind the county lieutenant.

"What is the situation with this Water Dragon King?"

Ren Pingsheng summoned the secretary and asked.

"Back to the prince, it is found that this water dragon king is a water dragon in this flower fairy lake. Since the beginning of this year, many fishermen who have fallen into the water have been rescued, and fish and shrimp will be driven to the places where fishermen haunt, so that fishermen have gained a lot every time they put their nets down. ”

The secretary said: "However, since the reputation of the Water Dragon King, after the investigation of the local government, the number of missing people in Huaxian Lake has risen this year, and in just five months this year, 247 people have been buried in the lake, which is more than 20 times that of the same period last year." ”

"It seems that most of this missing person is related to this water dragon king."

Ren Pingsheng speculated.

"A monster, pretending to be a god and deceiving the people to sacrifice, is really bold!"

Xiao Wan got out of the car, felt the rich water vapor of Huaxian Lake, and her intuitive body was comfortable.

Closing her eyes, the blue points of light around her were cheering, swarming towards her body, and as she ran the technique of the Cloud Dragon Eating Qi Post, it entered her meridians, and formed a dark blue cloud in the dantian.

These are water elements, or water aura, but they are not water vapor. Xiao Wan can mobilize these water elements and attract water vapor between heaven and earth to cast spells.

After storing enough spiritual energy in the dantian, even if Xiao Wan returned to Earth with Ren Pingsheng, she would be able to cast water spells more easily.

"Let's go check it out, too."

Ren Pingsheng greeted and said.

Ruan Tang was wearing a black horse-faced skirt at this time, with a hat on her head, and a thin veil hanging down to cover her face, which could reduce a lot of trouble.

Xiaowan dressed up as a man, but the bulging bear made her appearance not very successful.

The west bank of Huaxian Lake was very lively at this time, gathering three or four thousand people. There are gongs and drums, as well as dragon and lion dances, people sing and dance, it looks particularly lively, and everyone's face is beaming.

Only the boys and girls were beside them, and the young parents had tears on their faces.

"There are six pairs of children, what a foolishness!"

Zhang Huaian sighed.

In the university, there is also a basic knowledge of the transcendent mystery, and after systematic learning, these graduated college students know that today's aliens, goblins, ghosts, etc., will not be like the majority of people, and treat strangers and monsters as immortals. (End of chapter)