I walk the career line in dog blood

The big households in the county knew about coming to Xinzhi County earlier than ordinary people.

"It is said that he is a young Jinshi." The person in charge of the Bai family stroked his oily beard, and a group of them were eating roasted whole lamb in their yard.One knife and one piece of meat, and the mouth is full of oil.

"Young Jinshi? Will it ruin our good deeds?"

They don't like young Jinshi. They are young and energetic and don't know how high the sky is. They think that if they are admitted as Jinshi and become imperial officials, they can speak in this land.

Pooh!

In Dingsha County, even if he is a dragon, he has to coil up, and if he is a tiger, he has to lie down.

"A child with no hair yet, he can't even understand what we say, but he will go back after being gilded."

"That's right, a county magistrate, why are you afraid of him? Hmph, the horse thieves outside the customs don't recognize him. He doesn't know the magistrate. Hey, eat meat and eat meat. Mutton is nourishing. After eating the meat, find two orchids to have fun."

A few people just laughed, eating meat and drinking so much fun.

In the yamen at this time, An Yinong was flipping through the brochures sent by the county magistrate. The stacks were more than one meter high, and they were all about the county's population, taxes, criminal cases, and so on.

He wants to extract the information inside and classify it for later search.

"Cough, cough, cough." He waved the dust in the air, and then wiped the book cover with a wet handkerchief, "This depends on the Year of the Monkey?"

He had just finished speaking when four blue-gray shadows appeared in the lobby below, all of them were scholar-like ghosts wearing turbans.

"Student Wei He/Zhang Xuefeng/Huang Tianshi/Liu Ming will meet with the magistrate."

Before An Yinong could react, Gu Zhengzhong appeared next to him holding a wooden box: "Leave trivial matters to them. After being a master for more than 100 years, these things will always happen."

"Sir." An Yinong stood up, closed the book in his hand and threw it aside, and walked over in three steps at a time.Both of his hands were lightly held in Gu Zhengzhong's, the lights in his eyes flickered, and surprise was written on his expression and movements.

"I miss you so much."

Gu Zhengzhong originally wanted to say that there were outsiders (ghosts), but those rules melted into a puddle of spring water the moment he met his eyes.How could Yinon be wrong?It was these four ghosts who appeared out of season.

"Cough." Gu Zhengzhong glanced at the four dazed little ghosts, and the four master ghosts immediately lowered their heads knowingly.Don't worry about it, he created another transparent wall.

An Yinong noticed his movements, and asked him in a low voice, "Do you miss me, sir?"

"I miss you so much." This kind of blunt love words made people feel embarrassed, and the tips of Gu Zhengzhong's ears turned red.

"How much do you think?"

"Letters every day, to comfort lovesickness."

This answer is quite satisfactory, and An Yinong turned to talk about other things: "Why is Mr. here? I thought it would take a few days to see Mr. If I knew that Mr. was coming, I wouldn't light a lamp to get rid of it." Long night."

At this time, as if remembering something, he took a step back: "Sir, stay away from me, I haven't washed yet, I'm covered in dust."

"Crack, crack, crack." The system applauded silently: the host is amazing, he didn't say a single word of 'like', but every word was cherished and loved.

Moreover, he clearly expected that Gu Zhengzhong would come here early, and he would be able to "surprise" him so sincerely. If his acting skills were used in his career, it would be no problem to win a few movie stars.

Gu Zhengzhong really felt distressed, but instead of sweet words, he said pragmatically: "In this box are the weeds with gum at the root that Yi Nong was looking for. Besides, I brought you some useful hands, and I will give you some help later." A list, available, despite the errands."

"The county government is full of minions and eyes and ears of others, and I am short of people." An Yinong said happily.

Gu Zhengzhong pointed at the four little ghosts who bowed their heads again: "These four are masters originally, and they are used to sorting out paperwork. If you have anything to do, just leave it to them, don't tire yourself."

An Yinong practiced kindness like a gentleman, he turned around and bowed, "I'll thank you all."

The four ghosts were flattered: "Don't dare."

So the four ghosts went to work, and the pages of the book flew around.

"If Yinong wants to understand the local situation, there is no need to ask the businessman." Gu Zhengzhong went for a walk outside and brought back more local 'informed ghosts'.

These little ghosts are male and female, old and young, commoners and powerful. They have been warned before coming, so they are also very obedient at this moment, basically knowing everything without saying anything.

I thought it was just a simple bully colluding with the local government to oppress the people, but I didn't expect that the more I heard it, the more terrifying it became.

"Troublemakers come out of poor mountains and rivers... The ancients never deceived me." He paced around the room, and finally sat down. On his desk were some files that had just been sorted out, as well as secrets that were asked from the mouths of ghosts.

There are indeed four big families in Dingsha County, Jin, Bai, Wu, and Su. The four families are related to each other by marriage, and they jointly monopolize the water source in Dingsha County.

It is a local characteristic to ask for money to fetch water.In addition, there is another feature of double taxation. The government collects one heavy tax, and the bully collects one heavy tax. The double tax and one tax make the people miserable.

This is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that land acquisition is serious.

The ten big landowners with the most land can actually occupy 80.00% of the land in Dingsha County, leaving all other farmers and herdsmen to share the remaining 20.00%. As a result, more than 60.00% of the people do not have their own land and can only work as farm laborers. , to rent land that needs to pay half of the harvest.

In addition, there are too many horse thieves and robber bandits outside the pass, which pose a serious threat to merchants and herdsmen, and also make Dingsha County an "isolated island", unable to get out or get in.

Thirdly, the lack of common sense among the local people, disobedience to the law and discipline, and extreme behavior are also reasons.

Dingsha County actually came to the magistrate who wanted to change the county, but this magistrate touched the interests of some people in Dingsha County-a privately dug copper mine.

Private digging of copper mines is not allowed, but the people in Dingsha County are poor, they have no other way, like a wolf that has been starving for many days and clings to its bones.The county magistrate knew about the mine, and before he could do anything, the people in Dingsha County discovered it.

The whole county concealed the actions of local bullies, and there were no dead bodies.

In addition, Dingsha County still has the tradition of sending 'bride'?Every year in March, a young and beautiful woman is selected and sent outside the city to be dedicated to horse thieves as 'filial piety'.

These are not coerced by others, but are the choices of the people of Dingsha County. They choose to sacrifice others to fulfill themselves.

"Do you still care?" Gu Zhengzhong asked. An Yinong encountered such realistic and dark problems as soon as he entered the officialdom. He didn't know if this had hurt his determination.

"I don't care! Why don't you care?" An Yinong turned his head and looked directly at Gu Zhengzhong, "I don't care, people here will be like this for generations. Why do troublemakers come out of poverty? Because of poverty!"

Punishment will not make these people wise and kind. Punishment and poverty alleviation go hand in hand so that people here can choose to be kind and wealthy.

If being a good person means being poor, 90.00% of the people in this world will choose to be a rich evil ghost.This is human nature.

"The people in Dingsha County are poor. First, because they have no land, no livestock, and no means of production, they can only work for others. The wages are low and they often cannot get them. Second, the local environment is bad. There are bullies, horse thieves and bandits lurking in the shadows."

An Yinong paced the room, thinking.

To change Dingsha County, the first thing to do is to clean up the surrounding villains that will affect him, such as bullies, horse thieves, bandits, and big landlords.

One is to establish a friendly environment, and two, it can also deter the people here and let them know that Xinzhi County is a character worse than a bully.Moreover, construction requires money, people, land, and supplies. Suppressing bandits and killing bullies and clearing landlords can just suck a wave of blood.

"Jin, Bai, Wu, Su." An Yinong lightly tapped the table with his fingers, and there was no anger on his face, even though he just learned about the many inhuman tragedies that happened on this land.

The Wu family and the Su family are just vassals. Although they have committed crimes, they have not yet sued for life.

The focus is on the gold and white families.

"Their family has a lot of money, a lot of land, and a lot of people. But I am short of money, land, and people. Tell me, isn't this a big piece of fat dangling in front of my eyes?"

These two companies have been operating in Dingsha County for a hundred years, and there are thousands of strong and strong thugs. I heard that they have connections with horse thieves. How easy is it to get rid of them?

An Yinong walked half a circle in the house, he turned around: "There are troops stationed nearby, right?"

Gu Zhengzhong didn't answer, An Yinong said to himself again: "The eldest son of the Jin family is an official in the garrison, and he wants to mobilize these people..."

"Tell me," he rubbed his chin, "if I promise those officers and soldiers that I will share half of the silver they stole from the Bai family and the Jin family as military pay, will they be tempted?"

The garrison does not know if he is tempted or not, but An Yinong is tempted. A lot of money is needed for poverty alleviation and infrastructure construction, and the money cannot fall from the sky. Isn't that the only way to rely on...'the gift of nature'?

His "evil force" has already taken a fancy to the assets of the two "evil forces" of the Jin family and the Bai family, and wants to use the garrison empty-handed to white wolves.

In the next few days, An Yinong stayed in the backyard of the county office to work during the day, or recited poems, played the piano and drew pictures, often recited the spring flowers and autumn moon, and did not go out easily.

But at night, he learned about the situation through those local ghosts, and sorted out all the information from the previous few years.

According to his request, these little ghosts had to find out the situation of every household in Dingsha County, including their population, fields and livestock, whether they had diseases, whether water was difficult, and so on.

An Yinong pointed to a map of Dingsha County and marked which village had a large number of poor people, which village had less available land, and which village needed a Pingcun overlord.

He did all this work at night with lights on, and no one else knew about it.

Most of the people in the county government had already voted for those two families. They saw An Yinong wearing a green shirt and reading sour essays all day long, so they reported back, saying that the young county magistrate is a fool who only knows the Four Books and Five Classics, and he is dying of reading. .

The gold and white families secretly rejoiced, it would be best to fool such a brainless scholar.Therefore, they have never troubled Xinzhi County, and Dingsha County is quiet, as if they have never changed their magistrate.

In less than ten days, An Yinong had basically sorted out the distribution of power in Dingsha County, including the lairs and key personnel of the surrounding horse thieves, as well as the places where the family wealth of the Jinbai family was stored.

He also got a letter from the Jinbai family to contact the horse thief.

Afterwards, he wrote a confidential letter, attaching the correspondence between the Jinbai family and the horse thief, hoping to do something special and mobilize the local garrison to clean up the pests.

At the same time, he finally went out, dressed in an incompatible scholar's attire, with a silly and sweet expression on his face, wandering the streets with the guard Tian and the county magistrate who was acting as a translator, and had to take a look when he encountered something of interest. Asking questions, communicating with local merchants with hands and feet gestures in Mandarin, like a big fat sheep.

Seeing him, the vendors on the street had different expressions, as if they knew his identity, and their speech became more reserved.

An Yinong noticed that their eyes were flickering, looking at someone in the crowd.

It seems that during the ten days he has been in the county government, everyone here has been 'warned'.

They wanted to block his ears and eyes so that he could only see what they wanted An Ennon to see, to hear.

He pretended not to notice, and continued walking while waving his fan.It was the season when melons and fruits were on the market. He saw melons and fruits from Dingsha County on the street, as well as the cattle from Dingsha County that the businessman had said before.

A yamen servant stood beside the cow, holding a piece of beef in his hand. His existence was to show that the cow died unexpectedly and was not deliberately slaughtered.

As for whether it is true or not, it is hard to say.

The melons and fruits in Dingsha County are sweet and juicy. Although they are not big in size, they are of high quality.But the most surprising thing is the cattle in Dingsha County.

It is said that the black short-horned cow has only been raised for more than a year. Its hair is short and thin, the meat is red and white, and the beautiful marble texture can be seen. It tastes faintly sweet.

He bought a basket of melons and fruits, and ate beef roasted with local special spices, which cost only a dozen yuan, and then continued to admire the characteristic county towns on the border.

As a border town, Dingsha County has a different scenery from the Central Plains.

There are often businessmen leading camels on the street. There are two long-faced and thin-waisted hounds beside the businessman. From time to time, you can see a foreigner with a high nose and deep eyes. Even the buildings on both sides are also masterpieces of the fusion of Chinese and Western civilizations.

An Yinong observed curiously that Dingsha County has plenty of sunshine and little rainfall, so most of the buildings here are made of mud bricks.Local people collect ore to make paint and paint it on the wall for decoration.These decorative patterns are all kinds of strange and interesting.

He also noticed strange plants that looked like succulents on the roofs of local homes.

"Oh~" He was about to take a closer look, when he heard a woman's coquettish cry, and saw a fair-skinned and beautiful woman falling softly in front of him, with one hand gently pressing her ankle, her face raised at a 45-degree angle .

"My lord~" She gritted her white teeth lightly, what came out of her mouth was standard mandarin, her eyes glistened with water, she was very affectionate.

"oops!"

An Yinong was also frightened. He stepped back three meters: "Girl, don't hurt my innocence."

Passerby: ...

The woman on the ground: ...