Chen Kan's tone was almost questioning, which made Su Zhen a little stunned for a while.

After a while, Su Zhen suddenly smiled bitterly and said, "My lord doesn't know, the matter here is quite complicated, and the lower officials are worried about this matter." ”

"What do you mean?"

Maggie suddenly said angrily: "What's so complicated about this, where is my brother wrong, it's obvious that those Hui people are at fault first, I think you Ming officials are all fools!" ”

As soon as Maggie said this, several Ming officials beside him suddenly became unhappy.

We didn't do anything, we were scolded when we first came to Yunnan, what kind of thing is this?

Chen Kan frowned, he was also an official of the Ming Dynasty.

Maggie's words hit too widely, and everyone was a little speechless for a while.

Su Zhen smiled helplessly, he didn't want to deal with a toast woman like Maggie, but he was sure that he was unhappy.

He arched his hand at Chen Kan and said, "The adults will know in a while." ”

While several people were talking, the county government was already close at hand.

Just as they approached the county office, a group of people heard a quarrel coming from the yamen.

However, the sound of the quarrel was a local dialect that Chen Kan and others could not understand.

Hearing this voice, Su Zhen arched his hand and said: "The next official is just trying this case, but unfortunately, there is no progress." ”

Chen Kan said thoughtfully: "Go in and have a look!" ”

Leaving the large army at the yamen, Chen Kan took Maggie, the three imperial historians, Fang Xu and Zhang San, two personal guards, and followed Su Zhen into the yamen.

In the yamen, the two sides were scolding each other in local dialect in the air, and the officials of the county government held water and fire sticks to block the two groups of people, and each of them had an irritated look on their faces.

The two waves of people who scolded each other, one of which was about a dozen people, led by a young man who looked quite masculine and strong, and the young man's appearance was somewhat similar to Maggie.

The other wave was a little larger, dressed in robes and white turbans, and wrapped the whole person tightly, and they were all dressed in similar clothes, so that it was impossible to tell who the leader was.

However, Chen Kan did not look at them, but was attracted by the row of corpses placed in the county office.

Su Zhen pointed to the row of corpses on the ground and said with a wry smile: "My lord, this is the reason why the lower officials took them into the county office, there are more than one deaths." ”

Chen Kan's face became solemn, there was a case of human life, it was a big case, and there was more than one life.

If it had been placed in Jingshi, such a case would have been transferred to Dali Temple or the Criminal Department for acceptance.

"Silence!"

Listening to the two groups of people greeting each other in local dialect, Su Zhen shouted.

At the same time, the officials put the water and fire sticks in their hands on the floor tiles, forced by the prestige of the county government, the two sides temporarily fell silent, and then looked at Su Zhen at the same time.

Just now, Su Xian Ling was asking them about the cause of the incident, and he was suddenly called away by Mending, saying that the Qin of the imperial court had arrived.

When they saw a young man standing next to Su Zhen, they all stared at Chen Kan.

The imperial court's Qincha, is this young man?

The young man who looked like Maggie saw that Maggie was also standing beside him, and his eyes suddenly softened.

The two siblings immediately began to talk in a vernacular that Chen Kan didn't understand, and Maggie pointed at Chen Kan as she spoke.

After talking for a while, Chen Kan noticed that there was a hint of suspicion in the young man's gaze looking at him.

Su Zhen asked Chen Kan to move a stool and put it next to the position of the county order.

Then he turned his head to look at Chen Kan: "My lord, please take a seat." ”

Chen Kan came to the stool and sat down, nodded to the young man, then looked at Su Zhen, and responded, "You continue to interrogate." ”

But Chen Kan's words caused Maggie's dissatisfaction.

He glared at Chen Kan, pointed at Su Zhen and asked, "Didn't you say that your officials are older than them, why didn't you ask them to let my brother go?" ”

Chen Kan said lightly: "I have made it very clear to you when I came, if your brother violates the law of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for me to protect him, now you see, there are seven lives, and this official needs to be responsible for these seven lives." ”

Maggie asked rhetorically: "The dead are all pigs, what is the matter with your Ming law?" ”

Chen Kan: "......"

He wisely chose to shut up.

He can see that these toasts are used to acting as powerful on weekdays, and they don't take human life seriously at all, even if five of the seven corpses lying on the ground are their people.

But Chen Kan's ignorance made her very unhappy.

As soon as she wanted to summon the tiger, she heard Chen Kan say lightly: "If you dare to let the tiger hurt people, your tiger may not be able to get out of the county government alive today, and it just so happens that the official's wife is about to celebrate her birthday, and she needs a tiger skin to make a big coat." If you don't believe me, you can try! ”

Chen Kan originally planned to reason with her, but he found that he was wrong, ridiculously wrong.

So he simply started the unreasonable mode.

When the woman heard this, she looked back at Chen Kan, her eyes full of stunned after being deceived.

Chen Kan continued to mend the knife and said: "If you want your brother to go home safely, you have to listen to me, the law of the Ming Dynasty will not wronged any good person, nor will it let go of any bad person." ”

"You ......"

Maggie's eyes suddenly filled with a mist of fog.

She now feels deep regret that she has disobeyed Daddy's teachings.

Sure enough, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are very cunning.

knew that she should have taken someone directly to the county government and snatched his brother back.

The conversation between the two was listened to word by word, and he glared at Chen Kan and said, "My sister said that you came to administer justice to us, and now it seems that you are also a confused official!" ”

Chen Kan rolled his eyes, pointed to the seven corpses in the middle of the hall and replied: "You can see clearly, it was you who got the human life first, we just tried this case according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, if you are innocent, this official will naturally give you justice." ”

He said angrily: "What else is there to judge here, they robbed our ancestors of the canals used to irrigate the fields for generations, and you should judge them if you want to." ”

Tusi, who was pointed at by the young man, said angrily: "You fart, that canal was obviously dug by us, and you forcibly took it away, we just want to get our things back!" ”

"You ......"

“……”

After two sentences, the two sides began to argue again, and at first they used the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, and after arguing, it became a local dialect.

Chen Kan was one head and two big, and hurriedly gave Su Zhen a look.

Su Zhen was also full of bitterness, if these people in the hall were Han people and dared to roar like this in the public court, he would have already started to fight with a killing rod of ten rods per person.

However, these people are all Tusi people, and they have always disobeyed the discipline of the government, so he doesn't dare to fight.

Once he dared to make a move, the two toasts would suddenly abandon their hatred and unite against the government.

Who calls them Han people outsiders, what is the Ming Dynasty, these toasts have no concept, they only know whose fists are big and who is reasonable.

"Silence!"

The hall was shocked, and the public hall was suddenly quiet.

Su Zhen's face became serious, he picked up the confession in his hand and asked for half of it, and decided to cut through the mess quickly.

After all, Lord Chincha was sitting next to him, and it was not a matter for them to keep arguing in the court, and he couldn't leave an incompetent evaluation in Lord Chincha's heart.

He shouted, "Mana Aza, where is Marbelle!" ”

Hearing Su Zhen's serious voice, one of the two waves of people reluctantly walked out.

Mana Aza is the young man who resembles Maggie, and Marbelle is a man dressed like a terrorist.

When the two of them came out, Su Zhen asked, "Maggie Aza, you said that the canal outside the city was the first to be dug by your Aza clan?" ”

Mina nodded, "Not bad!" ”

Seeing that Maggie was sure, Su Zhen turned his head and asked, "Ma Bao'er, you said that the canal dug by the Aza clan has long been blocked, and the new canal was re-dredged by your Hui clan on top of the old canal?" ”

Ma Bao'er responded: "Lord Huixian Ling, that's exactly the case." ”

Seeing that both of them confirmed their confessions, Su Zhen asked, "Since the canal was built by the people of your two clans, and the fields of your two clans are not far away, why don't you want to share a canal?" ”

Ma Bao'er arched her hand and said: "Lord Hui, originally our clan was willing to share a canal with them, but Aza and they were too domineering, and they blocked the canal halfway, so that our fields have no water, and our fields are far away from the sea, please administer justice for us!" ”

Minna retorted, "That's the aqueduct we built, so why should we use it for you?" ”

"You fart, your canal has been blocked a long time ago, that's the one we dredged."

“……”

"Silence!"

Seeing that the two were about to start a war of words again, Su Zhen hurriedly slapped the table with a startled wood, and then showed a wry smile at Chen Kan.

Chen Kan nodded, he knew that Su Zhen was explaining the ins and outs of this case for him.

It doesn't sound like a big deal, it's just two clans fighting for a canal, such things are common in the Central Plains, and it's normal for clans to fight for water canals and land for life and death.

Not to mention that in a remote place like Yunnan, there are many mountains and few lands, and the toasts can fight each other for the ownership of a tree.

It's not a big deal, but for the county government, this kind of case is the most difficult to handle.

If the canal is awarded to one party, the other party will be dissatisfied, if each of them plays fifty boards, it will be with the mud, and the problem cannot be solved.

Of course, the main thing is that both sides have caused human deaths.

No matter what kind of lawsuit, once human life is involved, the nature will change all of a sudden.

It's no wonder that Su Zhen has a headache for it, let Chen Kan come, I'm afraid it will be difficult to break a reason.

However, Chen Kan still saw a lot of things from this case.

The first is that the two Tusi forces have begun to accept the mediation of the government, instead of bypassing the government and directly fighting for victory by force as before.

That's a good start.

However, considering that Tonghai County was originally a pilot county set aside by Mu Sheng to experiment with land reform and return to the stream, Chen Kan still has reservations about whether other parts of Yunnan have changed.

The second is that Chen Kan understands the inducement for the frequent outbreak of conquests between the Tusi, mainly because of the word profit.

In the case of the dispute between the Aza Tusi and the Hui Tusi, the interest they fought for was the canal.

This can also show that Tusi is not a group of completely uncivilized savages as imagined by the princes of the court, and they are often shirtless and shouting rebellion.

In fact, they already have a highly developed civilization, although there is still a gap compared to the Central Plains, which is known as the state of etiquette, but it is undeniable that their civilization has reached the level of the feudal clan system in Chen Kan's view, at least much more advanced than those peoples who still rely on fishing, hunting and nomadism in the grasslands and the white waters of Montenegro.

"Let me say a few words!"

Chen Kan spoke, and everyone's eyes instantly looked at him.

Everyone knew that this young man was a great official sent by His Majesty the Emperor.

Although the people of Tusi did not understand the concept of the Central Plains Emperor, they could see from the attitude of the county order towards this young man that this young man's words would definitely work.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were looking at him, Chen Kan spread his hands and said, "Since you are earning a canal, why don't you open a canal again?" ”

"Two canals, one for each family, there is no need to fight, what do you think?"

As soon as Chen Kan said this, everyone's brows suddenly furrowed.

Su Zhen smiled bitterly and said, "My lord, this ...... It's easy to open another canal, and Xia Guan hasn't thought about it, but the key is, who will open it? ”

Chen Kan smiled slightly, pointed to Manaaza and Ma Bao'er, who were arguing endlessly, and said, "Naturally, they will open it!" ”

"Why?"

The two of them frowned at the same time, this young man was afraid that he was not a fool, why did he ask them to open an extra canal?

Chen Kan smiled slightly, and raised his hand to signal a few people to be calm.

Then he said lightly: "Why don't you let this official settle an account for you?" ”

As soon as he heard this, Su Zhen suddenly became interested, and arched his hand at Chen Kan and said, "I don't know what kind of account the adult wants to calculate?" ”

The Mana brothers and sisters and Ma Bao'er also looked at Chen Kan suspiciously, they didn't quite understand why they were talking about the canal well, and now they were talking about the accounting.

This young adult, doesn't he understand what it means to open an extra canal?

If this canal was to be dug so well, he still needed to say that they would have dug it a long time ago!

Chen Kan looked at the few people confidently, as if he hadn't seen the look of doubt on their faces.

Of course, he knew how difficult it was to open a canal, especially in this era of relying on manpower to dig, and a canal several miles long required at least hundreds of strong laborers to dig with hoes for a month.

And now spring ploughing is imminent, in this era when the grain output is not high, every strong labor is a very important existence, who wants to give up the farm work at home at this time to dig a canal.

However, the mountain people have their own tricks!

Chen Kan said lightly, take the map of Tonghai County.

When Su Zhen heard this, he immediately got up and left, he also wanted to see if this young Lord Qincha had any way to persuade the two toasts to open another canal.

After a while, Su Zhen put the map of the county seat on the table and invited Chen Kan to sit in his place.

Chen Kan was also not polite, spread out the Kanyu map, beckoned to Maggie, and asked, "Where are your canals and land?" ”

Although Maggie was puzzled, she stretched out her slender finger and gestured on the map.

He said: "The land is precious to us mountain people, so our canals are dug along the foot of the mountain, and as for the land, this piece belongs to our Aza clan, and this piece belongs to their Hui clan. ”

Chen Kan nodded, called Ma Bao'er and asked, "Is what she said true?" ”

Ma Bao'er nodded with some hesitation and said, "That's the case." ”

Chen Kan looked at the place pointed out by Maggie, with an inexplicable smile on his face, and then said lightly: "Since this is the case, it is even more imperative to build another canal, not only your two clans must participate in the construction, but the county government must also make some efforts." ”

"Oh?"

"What do you mean?"

Su Zhen sat up straight and quietly waited for Chen Kan's next words.

Chen Kan didn't sell it, took out a piece of arrow from the table, pointed it on the map, and said lightly: "You see, the land of the Aza clan is close to the lake, and the land of the Hui clan is close to the foot of the mountain. ”

Maggie asked, "Is there anything wrong with that?" ”

Chen Kan shook his head: "Of course it's no problem, but with such a large piece of land, there is only one canal, which is obviously not enough." ”

Chen Kan had observed when he first entered the city that most of the land outside the city was dry land, and only a few were paddy fields.

So the goal was simple, to persuade them to work together to build another canal, connect it with another, dig a small channel from the field, and bring water from the lake into the fields, and change the dry fields into paddy fields.

Maggie disagreed, "Of course one canal is not enough, otherwise we wouldn't have bothered to fight." ”

Chen Kan looked at her with a smile and said, "That's the case, but if you can build another canal from the foot of the mountain on the other side, connect it with the original canal in an arc, and turn all the dry fields into paddy fields, then it shouldn't be a big problem to increase the grain production of Tonghai County by 30%, right?" ”

Without waiting for Maggie to speak, Su Zhen nodded and said, "If all of them can be converted into paddy fields, it will naturally be no problem to increase grain production by 30%. ”

Chen Kan continued: "Everyone, please see, there is only such a small canal that leads water down the foot of the mountain to the fields, but even so, you are still fighting for this small canal, and even if you fight, there is still only a limited amount of irrigation. ”

"But what if we open another canal from the other side of the mountain."

"Open the canal, the annual grain production can increase by 30%, if you don't open it, you continue to fight for a canal to fight for life and death, there is still so much food every year, do you calculate this account yourself, is it worth it?"

"This ......"

As soon as Chen Kan's voice fell, several people's faces showed a contemplative look.

If it were just to say, Chen Kan's plan was very feasible.

Because the topography of Tonghai County is placed here, it is a low basin in the south and high in the north.

On the lower side is Qilu Lake, and on the higher side, all of the land belongs to the two Tusi, and if a canal can be opened along the foot of the mountain to wrap the entire farmland, it will undoubtedly be beneficial to everyone.

Even the county will no longer be short of water.

But again, why did they want to open this canal?

Especially when the land was close to the lake, Aza Tusi pointed to Ma Bao'er and asked, "We have already opened a canal, why don't we let them dig it?" ”

Chen Kan's face remained unchanged, and he said lightly: "Because this is a good thing for everyone, and as I just said, the county government should also be involved." ”

Maggie asked thoughtfully, "How can the county government participate?" ”

Chen Kan glanced at Su Zhen and said lightly: "It's very simple, the county government pays for it, you pay for it, in order not to delay the spring ploughing, each of you sends 200 people to participate in digging the ditch, and the county government compensates them with ten copper coins every day." ”

Hearing this, Su Zhen's face changed, and he said in a low voice: "My lord, this is not appropriate, right?" ”

Chen Kan said slowly: "What's wrong, you withhold so many taxes every year, don't tell me, the county government has no money." ”

"This ...... The county still has some money, but it's all for precaution......"

Su Zhen was halfway through his words, and hurriedly changed his words: "All that money is used to develop local people's livelihood and prevent natural and man-made disasters. ”

Chen Kan shrugged and said, "Could it be that in the eyes of Lord Su, building water conservancy is not the development of local people's livelihood?" ”

"Of course!"

Su Zhen replied, and then was stunned.

Chen Kan continued: "Changing dry land into paddy fields, grain output will increase by 30%, Tonghai County's taxes can also be increased by 30%, and Zhongxian County is expected to be changed to Shangxian County. ”

"I ......"

Su Zhen's face was a little tangled, obviously the big cake painted by Chen Kan made him a little moved.

Chen Kan turned his head to look at Aza and Ma Bao'er and asked, "What do you think, this is a major event for Fuyan's descendants." ”

The two glanced at each other, and they both saw a hint of heartbeat in each other's eyes, if there is a county government to cover for them, it means that they will be able to harvest thirty percent more grain every year in the future, where to find such a deal?

So, they turned their heads to look at Su Zhen with a tacit understanding.

Now it's not that they agree or not, but it depends on whether Su Zhen, the county magistrate, is willing to cover for them.

After all, no matter which of them pulls out 200 strong laborers, it means that their grain production this year will be reduced, and they will starve to death.

Seeing that Su Zhen was still entangled, Chen Kan patted him on the shoulder, and then said lightly: "I pointed it out to you, as for whether to do it or not, you can figure it out yourself." ”

At least in Chen Kan's view, this is something that is beneficial to all three parties.

However, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are all officials who are well versed in the golden mean, and it is impossible for Chen Kan to force them to do what they want.

Su Zhen was a little entangled, if he did what Chen Kan said, it would mean that the materials intercepted by the county government last year would be squandered in a short period of time.

There are 200 people in a family, that is 400 people, and 10 cents per person, and the daily expenditure is four yuan, which is almost equivalent to his monthly salary.

And such a large amount of work cannot be completed in a year and a half.

In a year's calculation, it was nearly 1,500 yuan, such a large amount of money, he felt his scalp tingle just thinking about it.

Besides, he doesn't know how long he will be an official here, what if this hole can't be filled?

"My lord, this matter is very important, can you let the lower officials discuss it with their colleagues in the county government?"