happy life through time

As the chief bookkeeper, his main job is to take charge of the documents and account books in the yamen. It seems that he is equivalent to the head of the county magistrate.

This matter is easy to say, but it is also difficult, after all, Tong Yan has never done it.

However, with County Magistrate He here, Tong Yan did not encounter any obstacles in the yamen, and the handover was done fairly well.

In the first few days, Tong Yan was doing handover work. His main job now is to sort out the paperwork over the years, and to see what happened in the metropolis above, how to solve it, what are the shortcomings, and so on.

Looking at the documents and the account books of recent years, Tong Yan found that Magistrate He had only been transferred to Heyang County for three years. His foundation was not deep, but because he respected the people and worked hard, he was able to settle here.

Looking at some of the cases he handled, Tong Yan frowned slightly, perhaps because this is a remote place, and they are all small cases, and most of them are related to money thieves, etc., they are considered small things, and can be counted as big things Yes, but none of them.

It can be called nothing.

Tong Yan also discovered that bandits have been entrenched in Heyang County for decades, which can be called deep-rooted. At first, the new magistrate of He County took office, full of enthusiasm, and fought against it for a while, but finally had to stop .

As for the reason, it is also related to the economic situation in Heyang County, in a word: poor!

Heyang County is poor, and bandits can help some poor families from time to time, so they are very popular. Magistrate He wants to fight them. For him, a new official who just arrived, it is obviously impossible to fight against the deep-rooted bandits , the common people don't do it, say they are grand thieves, how can we live without them, and finally we can only let it go.

Why is Heyang County so poor?

Tong Yan couldn't find the reason for a while. He came here not long ago, and he couldn't get a lot of information from the files here. It seems that he still needs to observe and study for more time.

During the few days Tong Yan was in the yamen, people came to ask about the salary every day, Tong Yan frowned, why hasn't the salary been paid for three or four months?

It seemed that such a thing had never happened before. I really couldn’t figure it out, so Tong Yan went to the county magistrate He. The magistrate He looked bitter, and said that although he was a little poor before, he could still pay wages to the people below every month. However, the former master, who returned home when he was old, actually took away all the court pay on the last day while he was busy.

Daring to embezzle the imperial court's money is a heinous crime, but for a serious matter, when he ran away, he met a bandit, who took the money for himself, and no matter what the county magistrate He did, he could not take it back. He wanted to report it, but was arrested. The magistrate, who was bought by bandits for some unknown reason, was detained. Now he has no choice but to default on the debt, but if this continues, it is not a solution!

"If Mr. He has private money, he can also take out some cushions. We will always find a way."

"Hey..." County magistrate He shook his head and sighed: "Since that's the case, let me tell you the truth. Although I am a county magistrate, I can only feed and clothe my family. If I have extra spare money, I would have taken it long ago." Out."

"In that case, why didn't you tell Master Hong?"

County magistrate He frowned slightly, and for some reason, there was a look of helplessness in his eyes: "My little sister, in order to let me gain a foothold in Heyang County, she married into the magistrate as a concubine, if I... "

People are selfish. If they can control themselves, they cannot control others.

Tong Yan sighed slightly, but he didn't agree with Magistrate He's approach: "Master He, even so, you can't..."

Magistrate He stretched out his hand, with a bitter look on his face, Tong Yan could only shake his head and sigh.

"Master He, since this is the case, I would like to know what kind of person this prefect is?"

Magistrate He nodded towards Tong Yan: "Since that's the case, I'll tell you. Cai Zhifu is cautious, loves women, smart, but lazy, and has no achievements as an official, but because of his ancestors Jide, and his brother is an official in the court, so in Heyang County, no one can shake him, so he occasionally has excessive behavior, and even has friendship with bandits, and we have nothing to do with him. One time, for unknown reasons, the magistrate Cai knew about the turmoil brought about by Mr. Hong in advance, and he escaped unharmed."

"In this way, there must be someone behind him pointing."

County Magistrate He nodded: "That's right, Zhifu Cai is a lazy person who doesn't do anything, but he has a counselor beside him, which was given to him by his elder brother, who is the Minister of the Military Department of Beijing, from the second grade... ..."

Magistrate He told Tong Yan about Cai Zhifu's affairs, knowing that Cai Zhifu could not move, Tong Yan even knew that Cai Zhifu's elder brother, the second-rank servant, turned out to be Li Maoran's man.

Tong Yan frowned. It seemed that this matter was not easy to handle. He was already on Li Subaran's side. When he didn't know everything, he still couldn't act casually.

Everything returned to calm. When Tong Yan knew that Heyang County was poor, he made a special trip to find out.

I found that although Heyang County is not as good as that treasure land of geomantic omen, it is considered to be in good weather, and there will be no natural disasters. Even if there are disasters, it will not affect much, but it is very poor. It's because the people don't have enough to eat.

Tong Yan spends two hours a day writing books, and the rest of the time is spent on the issue of "poverty" in Heyang County. Since there are few fields, he should turn his attention to other areas.

However, most of the people here are farmers. Their simplest idea is to have enough food and more fields to plant, so they think that the more fields the better.

Tong Yan was writing and drawing every day, when news came from Qingshui that Hao Qing and Hericium were rescued, Tong Yan just nodded and didn't speak.

There are too many things, so he made a table to count them, otherwise it would be very troublesome to look through them every time.

Tong Yan has the ability of photographic memory, so he recorded many things in Heyang County.It's just that this is not enough, he still needs more energy to solve the problem of poverty in Heyang County, what's more, the yamen servants in front of him haven't received their monthly money yet!

County Magistrate He was helpless, so he took out all his collections, but none of them were enough. Tong Yan looked at it, sighed, and offered a share himself. Magistrate He could only hollow himself out.

As a result, Tong Yan took Li Subaran's name card and went to visit Cai Zhifu.

Cai Zhifu saw that there was a famous card of Li Subaruan on Tong Yan, and opened the door of the house to welcome Tong Yan.

Cai Zhifu is a middle-aged man in his 40s, with a fat body. Obviously, even in a poor place like Heyang County, he can support people like this.

Tong Yan watched, walked in the door calmly, and bluntly stated the purpose of his trip.

"The student has met the prefect."

Cai Zhifu hurriedly came to greet Tong Yan: "No courtesy, no courtesy, hurry up, please sit down."

"Thank you, Lord Prefect."

Before doing things, you must first establish a good relationship with your superiors and subordinates, otherwise you will be hindered before you take action.

After chatting for a while, Tong Yan took out the pictures he had drawn in the past few days and handed them to the prefect Cai.

That's right, what he has to do is to solve the problem of food and clothing in Heyang County first. As for money, after the food and clothing are solved, people will naturally think about the problem of money.

And what he gave to Cai Zhifu was based on a kind of terraced field design that Heyang County came up with and was frequently used by later generations.

There are hills all around Heyang County, but because they are considered mountains and have no water source, they are all deserted.

But if it can be turned into terraced fields, it will solve the problem of lack of fields. As for the water source, Tong Yan's idea is to build a reservoir on the top of the mountain, which can be filled with water every rainy day. water used for irrigation.

Although Cai Zhifu is a lazy person, all things are left to the people below, and he just enjoys himself, but his mind is not bad. When Tong Yan came up with these designs, his eyes lit up, as if he saw that he could return to the capital scenery.

Seeing how impoverished Heyang County is, he gave up a long time ago, thinking that no matter how hard he tried, he would not get any credit, so he might as well be a lazy person. how was it.

Tong Yan's proposal also made him see hope, but it has not been implemented yet. He doesn't know if it can be done. After all, such things as terraced fields have never been realized.

Although a reservoir can be dug, but the reservoir is on the top of the mountain. How can the water be brought down the mountain? Is it really necessary for people to carry water? Tong Yan nodded when he said this. It wasn't hopeless, and from this look, he could see the key problem, but although he knew the solution, he didn't know how to do it.

I can only give a general outline of the water wheel diversion, as for how to make it, Tong Yan really can't draw it.

It's not that he doesn't want to paint, but that he really can't paint.

However, he was able to tell the general appearance. Even though Cai Zhifu didn't know if it could be implemented, he agreed to try it.

Tong Yan nodded, and soon went back to discuss the matter with He County Magistrate. Before that, he found a craftsman, but he didn't expect that when Tong Yan described the general appearance of the waterwheel, the craftsman knew it immediately, and said : "Isn't this just the overturned car that the little doll often plays with? Although it looks a bit bigger, it seems to be the same."

Tong Yan's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked him to make out the appearance of the overturned cart. Soon, the craftsman made a small overturned cart mainly made of wood.

Tong Yan saw the appearance of this small overturned car, and immediately told the craftsman what he thought, and the craftsman frowned: "Okay, I will try!"