Don't make trouble, let's build infrastructure!

"Big sister, the magistrate is here!"

Granny Ni ran out of the house when she heard her natal elder brother's notice, and said, "Where are my uncle and his wife? His grandson is gone too. There's also my eldest cousin's family. Da Lang and his wife! Where are they?" "

Ni's daughter-in-law just washed the rice, and put the wooden basin on the ground: "I don't know, ask your son."

"You turned against you!" Granny Ni's eyes widened angrily, and she picked up a stick to beat her.

"Big Sister, Big Sister," the uncle quickly stopped him, "Leave this alone, the county magistrate is here, what should we do?"

"What else can I do? If I don't move, of course I won't!" Granny Ni said.

"Aniang, let's move, otherwise, what will Aye do?" Granny Ni's daughter said, and she pushed the older brother beside her, "Brother, say something!"

Granny Ni's son looked at his mother, then at his daughter-in-law, and finally said: "Well... I heard that the new house built for us in the county is made of cement."

"Ah!" Granny Ni cried, "Why did I give birth to such a useless son like you! Ah——!"

My aunt folded her arms and watched from the sidelines, bumped her man with her elbow, and said in a low voice: "Don't meddle, it's almost the Chinese New Year, why don't you go back early. Everyone in his Ni family has run away, what are we doing here? ?”

Before anything could be found in the Ni family's courtyard, a row of tall and strong yamen servants opened the way at the gate, and Tong Ran walked in with the little tiger in his arms.

"Grandma Ni, good morning, uncles and aunts." Tong Ran nodded.

"Dog officer!" Granny Ni pointed at him and cursed.

Tong Ran glanced at her, and immediately a yamen servant stepped forward, covered Granny Ni's mouth and dragged her aside.

"What else do you want to say?" Tong Ran coldly glanced at everyone present.Granny Ni's son looked dodgy, and his daughter-in-law protected her son and dared not look at Tong Ran.The Ni family's uncle pursed his lips tightly, and was about to speak, but was elbowed by his wife, and shut up embarrassingly.Old man Ni's eldest brother didn't come out, but was watching from inside.

In the end, Granny Ni's daughter stood up and said to Tong Ran, "My lord, we have something to say, but before we say it, can I see if I, Aye, are all right?"

"Yes," Tong Ran agreed, and he waved his hand, and two yamen servants immediately escorted old man Ni up.Old man Ni's mouth was gagged, his clothes were torn, and his face was a little swollen.His daughter looked at him carefully, and was relieved that she didn't find any injuries on his body.

The girl from the Ni family said: "If we agree to move, can the county magistrate let Aye go?"

"No." Tong Ran said, "He is guilty, how can I let him go?"

"Then how are you doing?" The girl from the Ni family raised her voice.

"Only your family can move out tomorrow." Tong Ran said.

The girl from the Ni family didn't say anything, waiting for his next words.

Tong Ran said again: "As for Old Man Ni, he has no law in his eyes, gathers crowds to make trouble, and ignores the county. According to the law, he should be sentenced to five years in prison, but the county reads that he is a first-time offender, and only fifty small punishments are given. If next time If you commit the crime again, you will be punished severely.”

The eyes of the girl from the Ni family turned red in an instant. She ignored the dirt on the floor, knelt down and kowtowed neatly and said, "Thank you sir."

Tong Ran didn't speak, but petted his little tiger.

The girl from the Ni family immediately understood what he meant, and pulled at the corner of her mother's clothes: "Thank you!"

"Why should I thank you?" Granny Ni scolded.Before she could finish speaking, Ni Dalang on the side had already knelt down with his wife and daughter, his aunt pulled his uncle and knelt down, and the Ni family knelt down one after another. Only Granny Ni was alone, which seemed abrupt.

She was so jealous that she stomped her feet and knelt down.

Tong Ran was finally satisfied, raised his eyes and said, "Have you figured out how many people are in the Ni family?"

"My lord, I have figured it out, there are four adults and two children in total." The girl from the Ni family said.

"What's the girl's name?" Tong Ran asked suddenly.

The girl from the Ni family blushed, she lowered her eyes and said, "The single name of the civilian girl is Xin, I am very happy."

Tong Ran nodded without saying anything else, and turned to Yuan San: "Execute in the place with the most people in the village, and let everyone watch. If there is any non-cooperation, I will beat his children too."

"Yes." Yuan San took the order and left.

"Wow—" the little tiger raised his head and roared.

Tong Ran rubbed its head: "Did you hear that? If you don't obey, you will be spanked."

"Wow!"

Old man Ni was dragged to the middle of the village to be executed. His mouth was gagged, and the iron rod was hit repeatedly, until his skin was torn to pieces.

"Tsk tsk, I just said that the Ni family shouldn't come here against the county magistrate, it's going to suffer a lot." said a villager from the third village who was also on the relocation list.

The neighbor from the same village gave him a white look: "That's not what you said a few days ago."

"Old man Ni will lose half his life in this fight."

"Let me tell you, this county magistrate looks young and kind, but he is really ruthless when he is ruthless. He dare not offend him."

"If you want me to say, we should move as soon as possible, and don't run into the county magistrate's bad luck anymore. There will be no good fruit to eat."

"Yes, yes, move as soon as possible, or you won't even get the compensation now."

"That money is worth what we have earned in a few years. It's enough, but it can't be like the Ni family, Amitabha."

Two days later, Tong Ran was approving documents in the study, and Sang Le came in to report: "My lord, the relatives of the Ni family have all dispersed the day before yesterday, and his family has all moved to a new house today, and the other families have also moved to a new house in the past few days. They were all cleaned up."

Tong Ran put down his pen, and a big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.He said briskly: "In this way, the affairs of the third village have finally got off to a good start. Don't waste the dung and water piled up in that yard, let someone shovel it and make compost."

Sang Le said with a smile: "The new Fu Tiangan also said the same thing, and he has already asked people to do it."

"Oh? Fu Xuan went to see it?" Tong Ran encountered Ni's affairs immediately after he came back, and he had no rest. After two days, it finally calmed down, so he didn't care about things, but he didn't know what Fu Xuan was doing.

"I've gone to see it." Sang Le said, "Fu Tiangan doesn't have the airs of a noble family at all, and he gets along very well with the people in various villages. Moreover, he changed the irrigation canals in several villages by himself, and the villagers' The response has been good too.”

Tong Ran became interested: "At that time, I was running out of time to organize canal repairs, but I didn't pay much attention to adjusting the old channels. Most of them were used directly. What adjustments did he make?"

Sang Le guessed that Tong Ran would ask, so he dutifully wrote them down, then took out his notebook and reported to Tong Ran one by one.

Tong Ran listened, making up the trend of the canals in each village in his mind, and nodded. Fu Xuan's adjustment is very practical, which can greatly increase irrigation efficiency and save water.

"Where is Fu Yu?" Tong Ran asked.

Sang Le said: "Fu Tiangan has been patrolling various villages recently, and he has been staying wherever he goes. Today, the five-day limit given to him by the adults has come, and he will probably be back."

Before Sang Le finished speaking, there was a knock on the door outside: "My lord, Fu Tiangan is back."

"Let him in." Tong Ran said loudly.

The door opened, and the little tiger jumped in ahead of Fu Xuan, and jumped a few times onto Tong Ran's desk.

"My lord." Fu Xuan cupped his hands.

Tong Ran touched the little tiger's fur. It had been out in the sun for a long time, and there was a warm smell on its fur, like a quilt that had just been dried. "You don't need to be too polite, just sit down." Tong Ran said.

Fu Xuan complied and sat down.

Tong Ran said: "Have you visited all the fields in the nine townships and one village?"

"My lord, I've seen it all. The method of digging wells and irrigated fields you devised is very ingenious and practical," Fu Xuan said.

"I heard from Sang Le that you have made some improvements, and the villagers like it very much."

"Hey." Fu Xuan patted the back of his head, "It's just a small skill, it can't compare to the craftsmanship of the magistrate."

Tong Ran smiled, brought a roll of drawings on the table, and asked Sang Le to pass it to Fu Xuan. "You must have been to the third village in Caogu Township. That village is in the mountains and there is very little flat arable land, so the county wants to build terraced fields there. Take a look at this blueprint."

Fu Xuan took it. He wanted to know what the terraced fields were, but Tong Ran motioned him to look at the blueprint first.

When the road was first built, Tong Ran thought about the terraced fields.The geographical environment of the third village is different from other places in Xiaoguo County, so digging wells to irrigate the fields is not suitable. Their biggest problem is that there is too little flat land, surrounded by hills.

Tong Ran has inspected the mountains there, they are all earthy mountains, and the geology is not too hard, which is very suitable for the development of terraced fields.

He has been drawing this blueprint for almost two months, and it shows his general idea for reclamation of terraced fields. Due to limited time and insufficient tools, he did not achieve a one-to-one ratio, but it should be as good as the final result. *It's close to ten.

The little tiger yawned, showing two short fangs.It had seen that drawing a long time ago, and Tong Ran hadn't marked it at that time, so it didn't quite understand it.

"Such a concept is really unheard of." Fu Xuan said.He was born in Fu's family, and he likes to hang out with various craftsmen. He thinks that he has heard a little about all kinds of crafts even if he has never seen them before, but this method of turning mountains into terraced fields like a staircase is unheard of even by him. .

Tong Ran smiled: "This is what I will do in the future."

"No wonder you want to move all the people from the third village to the center of the village, and boldly expropriate the current cultivated land." Fu Xuan suddenly realized.

Tong Ran asked him to look at the fields in the first village of Jiuxiang, and he followed his advice, and he did not leave the third village of Caogu Township behind.The situation in other places is good, but the third village has lost a lot of cultivated land because of the road Tong Ran wants to build.In addition, he also moved the scattered residents to a relatively concentrated house, which was much farther away from their original cultivated land. In this way, farming in the village would definitely become a problem.

He thought of some plans by himself, and originally wanted to speak to Tong Ran, but he didn't expect Tong Ran to conceive such a remarkable thing, it's really amazing.

"Then where do we start?" Fu Xuan asked.

"Don't worry, the road in the third village is still being repaired. The compensation I gave them for relocation is enough for them to have a good year. The terraced fields still need to be carefully planned. I want to wait until the next year to break the ground." Tong Ran said.

Now that the winter solstice has passed, and the first month is approaching, the workers must go back.Taking advantage of the next few days, it is better to stop the construction of the cement road, and the matter of terraced fields can only be postponed for a while.

But not doing construction does not mean that nothing can be done, Tong Ran thought for a while and said: "If you are free these few days, go to the third village to see more carefully, how the water sources are distributed there, and the soil quality on each mountain. What’s the difference, please send me a detailed plan in the next year, explaining how and where the terraces will be dug.”

When Tong Ran spoke, Fu Xuan's mind was already spinning.Because the situation in the third village was different, he took extra time to see it.There are many Zhuangzi who farm in the Fu family, and he is often dispatched by his father to prevent him from being an eyesore in Beijing, so he has some experience in farming and water conservancy.When Tong Ran said this, he already had some ideas in his mind, and immediately said: "Don't worry, my lord, just leave this matter to me!"

Tong Ran nodded in satisfaction.

For the next few days, Fu Xuan stayed in Caogu Township and ran around the mountains every day.Tong Ran also goes there often, but it is obviously impossible for him to focus only on the terraced fields.Being the county magistrate is no better than Tian Qiang, he has to pay attention to all matters big and small in Xiaoguo County.

After the relocation of the third village is completed, the main road in Xiaoguo County is finally almost completed.It starts from the west gate of Xiaoguo County, winds through Xiaoguo County, passes through the mountains, and reaches the third village of Caogu Township adjacent to Shanlin North Road, with a total length of more than [-] miles.

This distance is nothing in modern times, but it can be called a huge project in Dacheng.

Before the completion of the project, Tong Ran took the group of gunpowder workers to make a batch of firecrackers. On the day when the main road passed through, the sound of firecrackers rang from the county town all the way to Straw Mushroom Township, attracting people from all over the county to watch.

Tong Ran was also going to watch the fun, but Sang Le came to report that a person who claimed to be the county magistrate of Chongxian County in North Shanlin Road came to see Tong Ran.

"You ask him to wait in the main hall." Tong Ran said.

Chong County is the county next to them in North Shanlin Road, and it is possible for the county magistrate there to visit, but it stands to reason that the county magistrate is not allowed to leave the administrative area without authorization.What's so special about him coming at this time?

Tong Ran straightened his robes, put on his official hat, and went to the main hall.

In the main hall, Sang Le asked Hu Yan, the magistrate of Chong County, to sit down.As soon as his butt touched the chair, "Wow—" a tiger roared, and he stood up again in fright.

"This, is this a tiger?" Hu Yan stiffened his body.

"This is the tiger raised by our county magistrate. It won't bite, don't worry." Sang Le said with a little guilty conscience. The county magistrate's tiger will not bite people on its own initiative, but if anyone dares to provoke it, it will definitely Get a paw.

Hu Jin is afraid of cats and dogs, so he is also afraid of little tigers.The little tiger jumped onto the tea table next to his chair, and Hu Quan jumped up in fright, and hid directly behind Sang Le.

"County Hu?" Sang Le said awkwardly, this county magistrate is not too young, he is just a tiger cub the size of a cat, yet he is so scared.

"Cough." County magistrate Hu coughed lightly, "It's windy at this end, I'll sit on the other end." He said, took the teacup and went to sit on the chair at the other end.

The little tiger lay down on the coffee table, looking at the person in front of him with green eyes.This person is a magistrate, and it has never seen it.In Chong County, North Shanlin Road, the little tiger recalled it carefully. The local governor seemed to mention it when he came to Beijing to report on his duties. It seems that a new county magistrate was replaced last year.

How does this man who is afraid of tigers manage the county?The little tiger looked at him suspiciously.

The author has something to say: Tong Ran: Zai Zai is so cute.

Little Tiger: Whoa!I am mighty!

Hu Jin: Tigers are scary.

Little Tiger: Whoa!Tigers are afraid, useless!

Mingyue: So do you want people to love you or be afraid of you?You tough tiger! (top the lid and escape

Little Tiger: Whoa!