farmer's daughter

Chapter 642 That's Their Root
Chapter 640 Three That's Their Root

County magistrate Yang was very excited.

Why aren't you excited? I've never been to a high-ranking official in this place where the birds don't shit. Even the officials in the management have never been here, because they all know that this place is poor, and they can't get anything if they come here. It may be upside down.

In addition, this county magistrate Yang is straightforward by nature, and he is also a peasant boy who passed the exam by himself, so he has no background at all in Beijing.Therefore, it has been ten years since he was placed in this county as the county magistrate!It hasn't moved in ten years.

But in the past ten years, County Magistrate Yang has been recognized by the people here. He wholeheartedly helps these poor people and finds various ways to make them survive.Even when the people under his command went out to do short-term work, he helped to take the lead.Not to mention that he doesn't do business, this county is so poor that everyone just wants to have enough to eat, and no one thinks about anything else.

Now, having Prince Rui come in person, this is a great thing!County magistrate Yang knelt down to thank him, he had never been so sincere!

Xuejian hurriedly supported the county magistrate Yang and said:
"You get up first, I saw it again along the way, you are indeed poor here!"

While talking, a yamen servant ran in and shouted:
"Master Yang, Master Yang. They were sent back again."

County magistrate Yang stood up in embarrassment, walked over and scolded in a low voice:
"What's the name? The prince is here, so don't make a loud noise. Just let it go when it's back. Anyway, we don't care if it's so wide. Sigh!"

Hearing Magistrate Yang sigh, Xue Jian said with a smile:

"Master Yang, why are you sighing? Do you have anything to say?"

Magistrate Yang turned around in embarrassment and said:
"Last month, the Futai master said that some places in Suoyang County should also be assigned to our county. Originally, I wanted to hand over a village that extends from our side to their side. You see Isn’t it that we don’t have production here? I thought we must give the people something to eat. They have good land over there, so it’s good to allocate a little bit to the people. When I went out, I even drew over nearly 1 mu of wasteland on the Suoyang side. I said that I had experience in managing this kind of land. Let me take care of it together. There is no human habitation on the [-] mu of land. I have nothing to do with it. I didn’t agree, and asked someone to hand in the official document. No, it was returned again.”

Xue Jian raised her eyebrows, laughed and said:

"Master Yang, if I give it to you, you will accept it. And harvest it. This land can't grow crops, but it can do other things. When you make a fortune in the future, don't give it to them when they come to ask for it. , just say I said it."

"What can you grow here? Prince, what do you think this land can do?"

Master Yang accepted it casually.Only then did he react.What Xuejian said is useful.

Xue Jian said with a smile:

"I'm not sure yet. I'm going to look around. Are you familiar with the parts of your county?"

Master Yang stood up straight and said in a deep voice:

"Prince, I dare not say anything else. I dare say that I have traveled every mountain and every road in our county."

Xue Jian slapped the table and shouted:
"Okay! Find two more people who are very familiar with this county."

The county magistrate thought for a while and said to a yamen servant:

"Go and invite old man Gu from Gujia Village outside the county seat. There is also old man Chen from Chenjia Village. If you want to say that you are familiar with this county, these two old men are probably the only ones you are familiar with."

Xue Jian nodded and said:
"What do they do?"

The magistrate said:
"Old man Gu was a shopkeeper when he was young, and he went around as a matchmaker when he was older. He may have traveled all over the county. Old man Chen helped people repair and build houses when he was young. In his middle age, he drove a carriage for a few years. , when I’m old, I’m helping people deliver letters everywhere. The main reason is that these two old people are very flexible.”

Xue Jian nodded, let's talk about it when we come, and see if it's okay then.Xue Jian said to another yamen servant:
"Find a bigger board and put it on a table. Bind wooden strips around the board, and then find some sand and stones. No big rocks, just the size of your fist, any shape is fine."

Although everyone didn't know what Prince Rui was going to do, he did what the Prince ordered immediately.

Then Xue Jian asked Fu Jinghao to help him tie up his sleeves, so that his sleeves would not be dragged and it would be difficult to do things.Then he said to the county magistrate:
"Have you ever seen a sand table?"

County magistrate Yang said in a daze:

"What sand table?"

Xue Jian came to the courtyard of the county government office, posed a few times with some sand and stones on the side:
"Look, the sand is the land, and the stones piled here mean that this is a mountain. Wait a minute, can you narrow down the general situation of this county to this sand table. In this way, what does a county look like? Just look at it."

The county magistrate originally twitched a little bit at a prince playing in the sand, but after hearing Xue Jian's words, he was shocked. Why didn't he think of doing this?
After being stunned for a while, the county magistrate also squatted down, waved his hands a few times, and said:

"Well, this is the section of the road to the Prince's Zhuangzi, and this is the mountain villa. Prince, see if I mean this?"

Xuejian looked at magistrate Yang in surprise.laughed:
"Wow, you are really good! Yes, that's what you mean. In this case, wait a minute and you will show some of the situation in your county. I want to see what the whole county looks like. Especially the side, and, Even the place that was returned to you just now is displayed."

County Magistrate Yang smiled honestly and said:

"no problem."

Xuejian said again:

"When we came, we passed a village. I went to have a look. That village is called Heishuigou, you know?"

Magistrate Yang sighed and said:
"I know, that's the most troublesome place in our county. You can't grow anything on the land there, even drinking water is a problem. I've been trying to persuade the people there to move away, but there are dozens of families who don't want to move, saying it's the ancestral grave. It's all there. That's their roots!"

Xue Jian nodded and said:

"Yes, although they were also relocated there, for them now, that is their hometown! The water there is really not edible, I went to check it. I will take the water away to make something to try , if it works, you will send it. If it doesn’t work, I will also try to change the situation of the land here, at least so that everyone can grow crops! As a farmer, there is no land to plant, no harvest , then you will only starve to death. Don't worry!"

With Xue Jian's words, County Magistrate Yang was overjoyed, and immediately knelt down again, not only he knelt down, but also other clerks and yamen servants knelt down.If Youxue sees these words, the county will be saved!
Xuejian called out hurriedly, just as some government servants had prepared their things, and did them according to Xuejian's requirements.Two bullock carts also picked up the two old people. When they heard that the prince was here, the two old people knelt down and saluted again!But looking up, the prince is still a little girl, and his heart is not at ease!
(End of this chapter)