Wearing a county magistrate to build infrastructure

After leaving Xu's house, Tang Zisheng went to Mo's house again. Uncle Mo and Aunt Mo were all at home, and Tang Zisheng was warmly invited in to sit for a while after delivering things.

"So, Empress Tang, are you going up the mountain to find something this time?" Uncle Mo asked after he understood Tang Zisheng's intentions, still smoking his pipe.

"Exactly, it's just that the road on the mountain is hard to find. If Tang Mo and I hadn't been led by brother Xu before, we might have spent the whole night on the mountain, and we might have become food for tigers and wolves."

Tang Zisheng also had to sigh that he was lucky. After all, there were no nature reserves in ancient times, and it was normal to encounter some dangerous wild creatures.

"That's the reason, but on the mountain behind our Baihe Village, there are only wild boars and blind bears, no big bugs and wolves. Moreover, they usually move in the depths of the mountains and forests. As long as they don't go too deep, they will be fine."

Uncle Mo said it easily, but Tang Mo, who was standing aside and listening to their conversation, was sweating all the time. He thought that Master Hou was lying, but he didn't expect that there really was a beast.

The wild boar has heard that a big one weighs two to three hundred catties, and it is no better than a tiger or a wolf, let alone a blind bear.

"Then is Uncle Mo familiar with the way up the mountain? If not, Uncle Mo can recommend some hunters to us, and we won't let them do it for nothing."

Tang Zisheng was not intimidated by wild boars and Xiong Xiazi, and the mountain people naturally had ways to deal with these wild animals.

Otherwise, if one day you don't pay attention, the wild boar and the blind bear come out and hurt the girl who went up the mountain to collect firewood or dig wild vegetables, then you will regret it.

"I don't need anyone else, I can take you up the mountain. Our Mo family used to hunt for a living, but when we came to my place, we didn't teach the two children to go up the mountain for the sake of safety."

As Uncle Mo said, he turned around and took a bow from the house, which seemed to be quite old.But it has been preserved very well, which shows that the people who used it at the beginning cherished it very much.

"If that's the case, I'll trouble Uncle Mo." It's good to have someone take care of him. In fact, he is not completely incapable of self-protection. In the past, in order to pretend to be in front of others, he went to the gym when he was free and learned from a martial arts coach. several hands.

It's just that it's okay to beat ordinary people who don't have much force value, but if they really meet Lian Jiazi, they will only be dealt with.

"What's the trouble? I haven't gone up the mountain for a long time, and my bones are going to be loose. Today is just the time to move around." Uncle Mo packed up his things and seemed to be planning to leave immediately.

"Tang Mo, go back to the carriage and watch, don't let someone steal our carriage." Tang Zisheng knew that he was going up the mountain today, so he changed into clothes suitable for going up the mountain, but this time he didn't plan to take Tang Mo with him.

One is dangerous, and it is useless to bring such a half-grown boy. Two, they drove the carriage this time, and the carriage was counted at the entrance of the village. He was still not at ease, so he just asked Tang Mo to look at the carriage, killing two birds with one stone.

Tang Mo moved his lips, and finally only nodded in agreement.

Now the young master's idea cannot be changed just by talking about it.Moreover, he really couldn't help if he went, and he might add trouble to the young master. It was the first time that Tang Mo, who was so self-aware, went back to the entrance of the village first.

Uncle Mo took the things for going up the mountain, said a few words to Aunt Mo, and walked towards Tang Zisheng, "Mr. Tang, let's go."

"Ah."

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Baihe Village is surrounded by the river in front and green hills in the back. The terrain of Xizhou is complex, with many mountains and hills. Cang'er County is trapped in mountains, and the mountains are even more long and towering.

Different from the barren hills at the other end of Shizi Road, the hills in Baihe County are lush with trees and there are countless wild animals, but there are not many hunters in the mountains that can catch them.

Tang Zisheng followed behind Uncle Mo, taking a long wooden stick and knocking around to see if there were any snakes or traps left by the hunters.

"Tang Housheng, what kind of thing are you looking for? Tell me, I have been walking on this mountain for many years, and I am familiar with everything around here." Uncle Mo spoke in front.

The mountain behind Baihe Village is huge, and if you walk from the mountain, you can go to other villages in Cang'er County, so if you are looking for something, you have to have a goal.

"I'm looking for several crops that grow in the soil, one is like vine grass, and the other is slender with stems. But they are pulled up from the vines, and there are a lot of fruits underneath."

He knows potatoes and sweet potatoes. When he was a child, his grandma's house specially planted them, and he helped harvest them when the farming was busy.

It's just that there may not be any on this mountain now, after all, these things are all transmitted from the outside, and he just went up the mountain with nothing to do to try his luck.

Sure enough, after Tang Zisheng finished speaking, Uncle Mo shook his head and said, "I know all the things that grow in the mountains. I haven't seen the two kinds you mentioned. I'm afraid I will return without success today."

"I'm just here to try my luck. If I can't find it, forget it." Tang Zisheng secretly wiped the sweat from his brow, obviously he has been exercising every day during this period.

But this physical strength is still not as good as Uncle Mo who has been going up the mountain all year round. "By the way, Uncle Mo, how is the grain output in the field now?"

"There have been years of drought, and water needs to be transported from the river to irrigate, but there are few people in the village, and there are few people who can take care of the food in the field. It is good to be able to eat enough."

"Then why not build a canal that can be used for irrigation?" Tang Zisheng knew that although there is a saying that the poorer you are, the more you can live, but if you are really poor, even if the children are born, they will not be able to support them.

In today's era, human trafficking is allowed, and those who cannot support their children can only sell their children for food rations.

"Haha." Uncle Mo laughed at Tang Zisheng's words, "You must be used to living in Nanzhou. The land here is different from that in Nanzhou. The land here is higher than the river. Can't go back up."

That's right, the hilly areas are mostly terraced fields, and the water storage requires a lot of rainfall, or the water storage pools are built on the mountains. Now that there are years of severe drought, it is impossible to expect water from the sky.

"Is there no other water source in the mountains?" Apart from the water in the sky, there is only water on the ground, and mountain springs are also a way out for irrigation.

Uncle Mo sighed, "There should be some, but the mountain is not easy to enter, and most of the springs are hidden in the deep mountains. If it weren't for a dozen or so experienced hunters to enter the mountain together, it would be very easy to lose life."

But people are not so easy to gather. There are two or three hunters in each village. Naturally, the source of water will not be able to do this.

It would be fine to find a dozen or so men in the village, but they have never been to the mountains, even if they are physically strong, they are not as experienced as the hunters.Especially those who are married to other people are not willing to take risks from the pillars of the family.

This is the only way to live this day.

"I should ask the county government for help in this matter."

Among the six houses in the county government, the workshop was in charge of industry, responsible for farmland, water conservancy, and engineering repairs. However, Tang Zisheng thought again, just relying on the workshop in the county today, let alone the number of people, it is in charge of the workshop. I'm afraid Gong Shu is not willing to take on such troublesome things.

"In the county, it's good that they don't collect too much corvee tax, and they are counted on to help. Officials in the county are not good people."

Tang Zisheng grinned his teeth, although he knew that Uncle Mo was referring to the people who worked in the Cang'er County Yamen before.But now he is also an official in Cang'er County, and he was shot in the knee for no reason.

"Uncle Mo, don't say that. Now that there is a new county magistrate in Cang'er County, if you ask the village chief to go to the county, things may have different results."

Tang Zisheng tried his best to clear himself up, but he will make big moves in the county in the future, and the consequences of unpopularity will be different from what he expected.

Unexpectedly, Uncle Mo shook his head, "Cang'er County has changed several county magistrates in the past ten years, and the village head passed by the previous two times. But you can imagine the result of Tang Housheng. Instead of spending time in the county, it is better Go to other villages to persuade them. After all, the drought is going on, and the life of other villages may not be easy."

... Tang Zisheng never expected that the credibility of the county government has been lost so far, and it may take a lot of time to regain this credibility.

Afterwards, Uncle Mo led Tang Zisheng to walk around the outskirts of the mountain again.There was nothing to be gained except a few chestnut trees.

Fortunately, Tang Zisheng had already prepared in his heart, so he could only send people out to look for it, to see if he could find the merchants who had traveled across the ocean, in case he bought these things from them.

"Uncle Mo, forget it, it's getting late, let's go back." Tang Zisheng was also tired after leaving, and he had to go back to the county office early to support Miao's inspection.

"Okay." Uncle Mo really couldn't lead people further, otherwise, let alone Tang Housheng, even he might be involved.

It was easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down. Tang Zisheng supported the wooden stick in his hand, and his legs trembled slightly as he walked down. It seemed that he would not be able to go up the mountain tomorrow.

"Wait." Uncle Mo suddenly became vigilant, he took the hatchet pinned to his waist, and listened to the movement nervously, "The wild boar in the mountain may have come out, let's go around it."

Tang Zisheng was puzzled, what kind of luck was he, that the wild boar, who hadn't been out for a long time, just happened to meet him when he was going up the mountain?

But just when he was about to leave with Uncle Mo, there was a sudden exclamation in the distance, followed by an extremely loud crash, as if something hit a tree.

"No, someone has encountered a wild boar." Uncle Mo's expression turned serious, and he tightened his grip on the hatchet again, "Mr. Tang, you wait here, and I will save people."

Before Tang Zisheng had time to agree, he saw Uncle Mo disappearing into the woods in a few steps. The people who were still in the mountains at this time should be people from Baihe Village. Uncle Mo went because he was afraid that the villagers would be in danger.

Tang Zisheng wanted to help with all his heart, but with his not-so-strong arms and legs, if he went there, he would be delivering food to wild boars.

But if he had to wait here, he was really anxious. Just when Tang Zisheng was at his wit's end, he saw the hemp rope that Uncle Mo left on the ground when he left.

This hemp rope is used to trap wild animals. It is thick and strong. Wild boars like to run amok. This rope is a good way to deal with wild boars.

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Xu Qingcheng was hugging the tree trunk at this time, thinking in his heart that it was unlucky, he had lived in Baihe Village for 17 years.

Except that Uncle Mo hunted a wild boar one year and saw the appearance of a wild boar, this was the first time he saw it in the mountains.

Seeing wild boars coming towards him from a distance, Xu Qingcheng remembered what Uncle Mo had told him, that when encountering wild boars, he couldn't run away, so he climbed up a thick tree and lit a fire to scare it.

It's just that Xu Qingcheng didn't bring flint and steel when he came out today, so he could only climb up the thickest tree and hug him tightly.

But the wild boar didn't seem to intend to let him go, it had already crashed into the tree several times, if it continued to crash, the tree would probably be hit.

"Beast, look here."