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In the end, Magistrate Niu gave in.

Just like what Yan Kai said, he is reasonable, and he can be unreasonable.

How does this work? Yan Kai really asked someone to go to the room to snatch out the official seal, but he had no place to sue.

Because this thing should have been handed over in the first place, and if it gets too big, it's you who will be the one to blame.

He himself was a scoundrel, but he didn't expect that the new Yan Kai would be even more scoundrel than him.

"Get these away and I'll give you my official seal!"

"Okay!" Yan Kai waved his hand, and the Zheng family's guard behind him skewered the broken car with a stick and left.

Magistrate Niu covered his mouth and nose, went into the room, took out a box and handed it to Yan Kai.

Yan Kai and Zheng Zhixun checked it to confirm that it was the official seal of Kuoding County, and then left with the people.

"Yan Kai, you are making my house smell bad! Are you going to ignore it?" Magistrate Niu shouted from behind.

"Open the window for ventilation, it will be gone in a moment!"

"Damn it, it's such a cold day, why don't you ask me to open the window for ventilation!"

Yan Kai no longer took care of Magistrate Niu, thinking that he would soon leave Kuoding County and return to the capital of Dengzhou.

At that time, I don’t know how he will arrange himself for Chun Yunan.

Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty was not the Sui Dynasty, and the governor had no right to appoint or remove county magistrates. At that time, he could only take one step at a time, and the soldiers would cover up the water and the earth.

After getting the big seal, Yan Kai is now considered justified.

"Have you finished reading the household statistics?" Yan Kai asked.

Zheng Zhixun first nodded and then shook his head: "I looked at the statistics, but the records were too messy. According to records, there are more than 600 households in Kuoding County, with a population of more than 3000. But I heard from the county government officials that the situation this year is not good. Well, many have fled."

The people of the Tang Dynasty needed a place to stay when they wanted to leave their place of residence, but when life and death were really at stake, who could care about that?

Therefore, it’s hard to say how many of the more than 600 registered households are left.

Yan Kai never expected that there are so many people in one county. There are more than [-] people in each class of the middle school he attended, and there are more than ten classes in each grade. In total, the people in the six grades of the middle school are more than the entire population of the county. .

But it’s okay, there are fewer people and it’s easier to manage.

"Where is the land?"

"There is quite a lot of land." Zheng Zhixun said: "Our dynasty implemented the land equalization system. When a man reaches adulthood at the age of 18, he is granted 100 acres of land, including 80 acres of subdivided land and 20 acres of permanent land. The county currently has 11 acres of cultivated land."

If it had been in the past, Yan Kai might have asked, with more than 600 households and 11 acres of land, each family owning almost 200 acres, how could there be so many people fleeing famine.

But having lived here for a while, he knew that these 200 acres of land were not all good farmland. Yongye Field was generally used to grow cash crops such as mulberry and elm trees.

Those who grow grain usually have 150-160 acres, and the average yield per mu is about 6,7 or [-] buckets of grain.

Things are not going well this year. It is estimated that one acre of land will only produce about 4 bushels of grain.

Counting a family of five, two adult men would only need about 200 bushels of grain from 600 acres of land.

But you still have to pay taxes. In the early Tang Dynasty, taxes were not heavy.

"Gaozu Ji" records: Each adult man is allocated one hectare of land and pays 20 bushels of millet and 30 bushels of rice every year, which is 50 bushels of grain.

If you pay 200 dou for 100 acres of land, don’t think that the remaining 500 dou are all for the common people’s family.

Because after the tax, there are also: two pieces of silk a year, two feet of damask, one-fifth of the cloth, three liang of cotton, and three pounds of hemp.

Most of these things can't be produced in such quantities at home, so they have to sell grain to exchange them and pay taxes in exchange.

After a few trips back and forth, there was not much food left at home.

In the end, there was really nothing to eat, so I had to flee to the prosperous areas of Guanzhong to see if I could find a way to survive.

Returning to the county government office, Yan Kai looked at the county government office that had begun to be repaired and handed over the government officials.

"Just leave the repairs to the people I brought here. You can go down there and check how many households and people there are in Kuoding County."

These government officials looked at each other and could only nod in agreement.

Yan Kai sent Zhou Tong with them, firstly to prevent them from being lazy, and secondly to prevent these government servants from going downstairs to act arrogantly.

There is a ruined temple in the county, but all the Buddha statues inside are gone. It is said that they were smashed by someone during the previous dynasty.

Yan Kai thought for a while and simply renovated this place to accommodate people like Li Dazui first.

Chen Hong was the one among the cooks who had a particularly loud voice when announcing the names of dishes. He shouted around the county at the top of his lungs.

"Is there anyone who knows how to do masonry work and wants to work? We are hiring!"

Soon someone heard the sound and came out.

Looking at Chen Hong's face, he hesitated and asked, "How do you recruit people?"

"Take care of two meals a day and get two copper coins a day!"

As soon as these words came out, the people next to him were stunned for a moment, then looked at each other, and then suddenly rushed towards Chen Hong with their hands raised.

"I, I'm capable, hire me!"

"I'm doing a good job in making bricks and tiles. Recruit me and recruit me!"

"I can also do some carpentry. I only need a copper plate. If I can't manage the food, I'll be fine!"

This winter is not over yet, and every family's food tank has bottomed out. It is not easy to find a job that can provide two meals a day and pay for it.

Chen Hong was squeezed and backed away repeatedly. He could only point to the ruined temple and said: "Our adults are over there. You go over there and ask the adults if they want you!"

Fortunately, his voice was loud enough, and these people all ran towards the ruined temple after hearing his words.

Yan Kai looked at the people he saw, there were about fifty or sixty of them, including women and young men.

Everyone looked at him with sallow complexion.

"Okay, let's all stay and help!"

Yan Kai finally relented. Now these are the people under his rule. No matter what, people can't starve to death again.

These people were a little disbelieving at first, and then they cheered when Zheng Zhixun came out and revealed Yan Kaixin's identity as the county magistrate and promised to pay his wages first before working every day.

"Zhixun, take a few people with you and go to Dengzhou to buy some food first."

They did bring more food, but it would definitely not be enough when there were more people.

Yan Kai opened the restaurant and made some money, but when he left, he refunded all the membership fees that were not consumed by the members. If he couldn't find anyone, he also left the membership fees at Yan's Restaurant. When someone comes later, please ask Zhen Quan and Meng Shen. The two returned the money to others.

He brought the rest of the money.

Now, I just think of it as an early investment.

The land here is actually pretty good, the water resources are abundant, and it's close to the sea.

As a time traveler and with a golden finger like a live broadcast room, if I can't build this place into the first county in the Tang Dynasty, I will lose.