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When many people were recruited, Yan Kai asked them to repair the county government office and the dilapidated temple together.

With dozens of people on one side, it was much faster to do it.

As for Zhou Tong, who was going to do the census, the two of them came back with people.

There is no way, there are just too few people.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were four families and one neighbor, five neighbors and one guarantee, five guarantees and one li, and five li and one township.

There are one hundred households in one mile, and there are only more than 600 households in Kuoding County. It turns out that there are actually two townships.

Now that some people have run away, Zhou Tong counted and found that there were only almost [-] households left.

The population is more than 2400 people, including less than 2800 people in the county seat.

There is not a single big household in the entire Kuoding County.

There is no way, we are too poor, what are the wealthy people doing here? Look at these hardships. Haha, why don't you come to your door every day to cry and borrow food?

It's no wonder that Magistrate Niu was here with only two maids and four servants that day.

At first, Yan Kai wanted to check whether Magistrate Niu was exploiting the people here. After asking around, he found out that there was no trace of oil or grease here even if he put his hand into the water.

Magistrate Niu really didn't exploit the people much other than not taking matters into his own hands. The main reason may be that he had nothing for him to exploit.

"How is the situation at home?" Yan Kai asked.

"It's not good!" Zhou Tong said, "It's been too cold this winter. As soon as it gets cold, I get hungry quickly. Many families say that food is at the bottom. I heard that a new county magistrate has come, and they all ask if they can get some food from the county." I’m borrowing grain from the granary.”

Yan Kai smiled bitterly, there is a shitty amount of food in the county's granary.

Changpingcang, also called Shecang, was originally a small granary set up by the Tang Dynasty below the county level. Its function was to stabilize grain prices and adjust for shortages.

But now the rats in Changpingcang in Kuoding County are crying when they go in.

The main warehouse is used to collect taxes and grains. Last autumn's goods were all handed over to Dengzhou. This spring's goods have not been confiscated yet, and they are empty inside.

Now I am pointing at Zheng Zhixun to buy more food.

Fortunately, Yan Kai still has a lot of money, and there are not many people in Kuoding County, so he can afford to support her even temporarily.

In fact, the live broadcast mall sells rice directly, and he can buy enough to feed these people for many years.

But he didn't believe that Li Shimin didn't send people to keep an eye on him. If he conjured up so much food for no reason, he might be taken back to Chang'an in two days.

All he can do is withdraw some copper coins to buy supplies in this era.

Anyway, those people used to only see how much money the Yan's Restaurant made every day. Only he, the bookkeeper, knew exactly how much money he made.

"Let's do this. You take another trip and ask at least one representative from each family to come to the county seat the day after tomorrow."

"What are Mr. Yan planning to do?" Zhou Tong asked curiously.

"We have to find a way to make everyone eat full first!"

Zhou Tong hesitated and asked: "Mr. Yan, actually I don't understand why you have been helping the people of Yangping Town in the past. Now in Kuoding County, even though you are the county magistrate, but..."

"But why do I seem to care about these people, right?"

Yan Kai knew that Zhou Tong, a boy from a wealthy family, had never suffered hardship since he was a child, and that his family was actually born to be on the opposite side of the common people.

Continuously exploiting the people and appropriating their property is what the aristocratic family should do.

So what Yan Kai was doing now was different from what he had been exposed to since he was a child, so he asked this question.

In fact, Yan Kai didn't know how to explain it. Could it be said that if you achieve great things, you can benefit the world? I don’t seem to be that noble either.

He could only say with a wry smile: "Just do something within your ability. Do you think that if you were the county magistrate, you wouldn't want the people below to talk about where people are dying of hunger and where people are freezing to death all day long, right?"

"Or maybe there are people begging you to lend them food every day. If you really don't want to watch them starve to death, you can't bear it in your conscience."

"So it's better to just let them do it themselves so that I can have enough food and clothing, so that I can have an easier life in the future."

Although Zhou Tong didn't fully understand, he still nodded thoughtfully: "Don't worry, Mr. Yan, I will take people to inform the county people right away."

The next day Zhou Tong took people to inform people from door to door, and Zheng Zhixun also came back from Dengzhou.

There were several carts of grain coming back with him.

"Buy so much?" Yan Kai asked in surprise.

Zheng Zhixun shook his head and said, "Almost half of it was bought, and the other half was given by Governor Chunyu."

"A gift from the governor?" Yan Kai was a little confused.

It stands to reason that Magistrate Niu should have returned to Dengzhou by now. Could it be that he has not been sued?

Chun Yunan had no need to send him food to please him.

"Well, the governor said that the people in Kuoding County are suffering. The original county magistrate, Magistrate Niu, was a bastard. He asked Mr. Yan to clean up the mess, so these grains were paid for by him personally."

"Or is it a private song?" Yan Kai was even more confused as to which song Chunyu Nan was singing.

Zheng Zhixun actually didn't think about it on the way back.

"Forget it, having more food now is a good thing after all!" Yan Kai patted him on the shoulder: "You have worked hard on this journey, go and rest first."

"Okay!" Just as Zheng Zhixun left, a voice came from behind Yan Kai.

"I didn't realize it. This county magistrate's official robe suits you quite well!"

Yan Kai turned his head and saw the mysterious woman standing behind him again.

Of course, now he also knows that this woman is Li Shimin's.

"Why are you here again?" Yan Kai frowned, he was in such a remote place, why could he still see this woman.

"Hey, what are you talking about? Little brother!" The woman smiled slightly: "You haven't thanked me for these food matters, and you started to dislike me?"

"Thank you?" Yan Kai understood immediately: "Did you find Chun Yunan?"

"Yes, you are quite clever!" The woman walked around Yan Kai and said with some disgust: "Why are you still so short?"

"Thank you!" Yan Kai ignored her teasing and directly thanked her.

"Huh?" the woman asked strangely, "Aren't you curious why I went to find Chun Yunan, and what did I say to him to give you this food?"

"What are you curious about? You belong to the King of Qin. The King of Qin is about to ascend to the throne of emperor. Chun Yunan is a subordinate, so naturally he must follow the King of Qin closely."

"I've already come here, and if you can still follow me, it must be King Qin's instruction. So as long as you reveal this to Chun Yunan, I'm afraid he will be scared."

Yan Kai saluted the woman again: "So I would like to thank you on behalf of the people of Kuoding County. I just don't know the heroine's surname."

The woman looked at Yan Kai with sparkling eyes: "No wonder...my surname is Huang Mingrong, you can also call me Sister Ronger."

Yan Kai rolled his eyes, this woman must have heard too much about shooting condors.

Fortunately, although she is mysterious, she has no ill intentions towards him. She should be the person Li Shimin sent to monitor and protect him.

But shouldn’t such people be in the dark? Why did she jump out immediately?