North and South groceries

Changle County is a small county. The entire county seat and the villages and towns under its jurisdiction have a total of about a thousand households and a population of several thousand.

As a county magistrate, Luo Yong's political performance is not judged by the level of economic development, but by the increase in population. This population is calculated by the number of households. At home, Luo Yong's political achievements did not increase.

This kind of algorithm is quite unscientific. It is difficult for a county magistrate to achieve significant results in just a few years.It is said that many county magistrates will cheat and cheat on these figures in order to get promoted.

The previous county magistrate of Changle County didn't consider the issue of promotion, so he didn't make a fuss about it. However, his previous term left a big hole. How many years has it been? County Magistrate Tan He also failed to fill the hole, and now that it was Luo Yong's hand, Luo Yong had no choice but to continue filling it.

"Two households in one thousand, 460? Tsk, how many households can we actually have in this county?"

After those people from the county magistrate ran away, the county government office was empty, and Luo Yong was not familiar with the business here, so he invited the former county magistrate Tan Weng to help.

"There are 570 households in this county, plus the villages and towns under its jurisdiction, 180 three households, a total of [-] households." County magistrate Tan remembered these things very clearly.

"When Tan Weng first came here, how many households were there?" Luo Yong couldn't help asking.

"Well, there are less than a thousand households in total." Among them, there are dozens of households withered.

Tan Weng has been working here for five or six years. Thanks to the peace of the world these years, the business exchanges between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions have developed, which has brought a lot of living water to their small town, so that their population here can also grow. Although the increase is less than [-] households, the overall quality is much higher than before, and many families are full of children and grandchildren.

But even so, the holes in the more than 200 households are still not easy to fill, unless Luo Yong also plays tricks on it, or there is no hope of promotion, at least in Tan Weng's view.

For this matter, old man Tan felt quite guilty. After all, this was a mess handed over from him, but this kind of thing was considered an open secret. How could he, a low-level official with no background, dare to stab such a big one? Hornet's nest.

"Tan Weng doesn't need to worry, I have my own method for this matter." Luo Yong said with a smile.

"What can you do?" No matter how powerful Li Shi Luo Sanlang is, can he conjure people out of thin air?

Naturally, Luo Yong can't conjure people out of thin air, but people have long legs. Even if the household registration management is stricter these days, the population is not completely static, but the flow rate is quite slow.

The so-called trees move the dead and the people live, people go to high places and water flows to low places. As long as the local economy develops, there is no need to worry about the population. Therefore, development is the last word.

The current situation is basically like this. There are hundreds of households in such a small county. Except for a few wealthy households, most of them are still struggling to make ends meet. Among them are families in various difficulties, the disabled, fools, and orphans. , the elderly without children to support... Now all of them are under the control of Luo.

The so-called parental official, Luo Yong, who was a parent for the first time, really couldn't see the people in his own land starving and freezing, so he asked someone to build a grass shed next to the tofu workshop, and gave out cakes every day.

The cake is a miscellaneous cake made of bean dregs and some miscellaneous grains and wheat bran, and there is also a hot soup made of lamb bones and dried vegetable leaves.

The government specially hired two women to make cakes and distribute cakes at the tofu shop, and spread the word that no matter who they are, no matter whether they are from their county or not, as long as they are hungry, they can eat.

In the next few days, every day in this small Changle County was like a festival. Many people went to the government-run tofu shop to eat Zamian pancakes, especially the half-sized people in the town. Going to eat again, I can still eat two meals in the morning and evening.

There are those in the city who are always paying attention to Luo Yong’s movements. At this time, I don’t understand it. It’s okay to give away tofu during lectures. What is the purpose of making people eat and drink for nothing every day?

"Then what exactly is Luo San planning?"

"Who knows, Yuemo is going crazy because he wants to go back to Beijing."

"Did he think that as long as he invites people to eat and drink for free, he can earn himself a good official name?"

"If it spreads out, I'm afraid it will make people laugh to death."

"Tsk, I'm still too young after all, so I'm impatient."

Regardless of what these people say, what should Luo Yong do? These days, he mainly takes Apu and the others around, teaching those restaurants and guesthouses how to make tofu dishes.

Tan Weng is helping with matters in the palace. Although there is a shortage of manpower, there is nothing wrong with it. After all, it is neither a busy season for farming nor tax collection, and there is no war in the frontier, so the palace is relatively quiet.

As for those servants, just leave it to Qiao Junlin to take care of them. It's not difficult to let those people take care of them.

Originally, everyone was very happy with such a high salary, and Luo Yong handed over the responsibility of their food to Qiao Junlin. If Qiao Dalang was in a good mood, they could eat delicious food and spicy food. If Qiao Dalang was in a bad mood, they would have to eat chaff. It only took a few days for Qiao Junlin to talk about the dishes among these people.

Occasionally, there were one or two jumpers, Qiao Junlin didn't need to use his privileges, and directly suppressed them by force.He also practiced fighting in such things as a child, and later received formal training in Chang'an City, and also learned a lot of experience from the nomads. Although he was not a martial arts master, he was still able to deal with a few thorns.

Luo Yong saw him beat up people a few times, and recalling his handsome, gentle and polite appearance as a good student in Chang'an City, he thought that this kid's skill at pretending should not be underestimated.

Here, Qiao Junlin knocked him down with a stick, looked back at Luo Yong, and asked, "What do you think?"

"It's nothing." Luo Yong smiled.He didn't want to be beaten.

"Boss, shall we still practice?" The guy on the ground got up, stood far away, and asked Qiao Junlin.

"Come here first today, and come back tomorrow." Qiao Junlin casually put the stick on the ground and said.

"Hey." The man responded, and ran away without a trace.

Practicing against Qiao Dalang, although the skills can be improved, but the process of being beaten is really not pleasant, it's okay to suffer a little flesh and blood, the main reason is that it is too embarrassing.

"Do you want to practice?" Qiao Junlin asked Luo Yongdao.

"No need." He didn't want to be hit by a stick and run around in the yard.

Just as Qiao Junlin was about to say something, the two heard a commotion outside.

When I went out to look, it turned out that it was at the tofu shop near the public residence. A tall and strong young man just came and was sitting at the cake distribution place, eating and munching.

"How many have you eaten?"

"Looking so tall, it's good to sell some tofu."

"In the past two days, more and more foreigners have come here to eat cakes."

"Magistrate Luo, look..."

While the crowd was chattering, someone saw Luo Yong and Qiao Junlin coming together and asked him for his opinion.

"Xu encountered some difficulties for a while, don't embarrass him, just go about your own business." Luo Yong looked at the tall young man who was swallowing the pancakes, and said to everyone.

Everyone wanted to say a few more words, so they heard the new county magistrate say again: "I have already stated that anyone can eat the mixed noodles pancakes, so how can I not keep my word?"

Although there were some people present who thought it was wrong, they didn't say anything after all, at most they sighed in their hearts that this new county magistrate is really pedantic, with such a good nature, he will not be chewed to the bone in the future.

In the days that followed, Luo Yong and the others were still busy going in and out every day, and the tall and strong young man also found a broken yard in the city and lived there. Basking in the sun under the wall.

Many people in the county were very displeased with this young man from a foreign country, but considering Luo Yong's attitude and his size, he was not a good match, so no one moved him for a while.

People see this tall and strong young man sandwiched between a group of old people and children, eating free rice cakes at the tofu shop, day after day.

As for the young county magistrate Luo, who was known as the coffin board, his patience seemed to have no limit.

One day, when Luo Yong was advising a guest house on how to manage it, the shop owner asked him why he tolerated such a lazy foreigner eating and drinking at the tofu shop.

"It's just a frustrated young man. If I can't even tolerate him, how can I tolerate people from this county?" Luo Yong said.

Tian Xingjian, a gentleman strives for self-improvement.The terrain is Kun, and a gentleman carries things with virtue.

As the parent official of this place, what Luo Yong sees now is more the suffering and hardships of the local people, and what he thinks about the most is how to improve the lives of the local people, instead of picking on people's problems all day long.

If you really care about it, at least a small half of the population of this county can be thrown away directly, and the first to bear the brunt are these rich merchants who have no clear connection with the previous county magistrate and others.