Village Flowers and Female Scholars

About a month later, the newly bought yard was finally finished, and Zhuang Wan and Xie Yan moved into the new house from the yamen.

According to the regulations of the imperial court, officials have five days off and one day off, and the daily on-duty time is from the hour of the morning to the sunset.

Zhuang Wan has always been strict with herself and is on duty on time, but she also leaves work on time when the time is up.

If there is no accident, this county magistrate will have to work for a lifetime, and he can't waste his life with all his energy.

After all, I still have beautiful family members like flowers at home, so it is necessary to enjoy life.

In such a huge courtyard with three entrances, except for a servant who does sanitation, there are only the two of them left.

During the day, Xie Yan went to the county government office to eat with Zhuang Wan, and when she returned home at night, she could cook by herself. Zhuang Wan liked her cooking, so she never hired a cook.

On weekdays, the two also have a division of labor, Xie Yan is in charge of cooking and washing dishes, and Zhuang Wan is in charge of washing clothes.

Looking at Zhuang Wan who was squatting beside the bathroom rubbing clothes, Xie Yan smiled and said, "If outsiders know that a dignified county magistrate has to wash clothes every day when he comes back from duty, I'm afraid he will be laughed out of his teeth."

Xie Yan is not idle, the emperor's agricultural and business common prosperity policy will come down soon, and she is preparing several agricultural product processing factories.

Nowadays, it is common to grow grain and rice here for only one season. The temperature in Zhongliangzhou is actually not too cold, and it is more than enough to grow rice for two seasons.

For this reason, Zhuang Wan set up a farming institute, which is under the overall management of Xie Yan. In the past few days, Xie Yan has sent people from the institute to various villages to promote the planting concept of two-crop rice and rice flower fish farming.

After planting two crops of rice and raising fish in the rice fields, within two or three years, every household in every village in Furong County will have surplus food, and no one will be without food.

For the idle people, gather them together and build roads for a fee.

To get rich, build roads first. Although there are no motor vehicles in this era, roads need to be built. In the future, there will be a bumper harvest, and the fish in the rice fields will always be sold outside the county to make dried fish.

Vigorously develop commerce, and then levy taxes on large firms. As for the land tax in the hands of farmers, it should be appropriately reduced, and the agricultural tax will be replaced by commercial tax.

For this series of new measures, Zhuang Wan got inspiration from Xie Yan and wrote to the emperor for instructions.

The Queen ordered Furong County to be built as a "National Pioneer Demonstration County", and Zhuang Wan was asked to implement these policies in the county, and then the Queen's commissioner evaluated the implementation effect of these policies, and promoted the effective methods nationwide.

So the two became very busy.

Other people's livelihood matters were fine, but what made Zhuang Wan a little bit powerless was that she, the county magistrate, had to try criminal cases in the yamen.

Xie Yan knew it and said: "Professionals do professional things, everyone's energy is limited, and few people are omnipotent. No matter how meticulous your thinking is, if you are distracted from handling cases, mistakes are prone to occur."

So Zhuang Wan set up a department in charge of handling criminal cases called the Judiciary Office, which is responsible for public security and handling cases.

In this way, she finally had the energy to break free and cooperate with Xie Yan to engage in people's livelihood and earn a lot of money.

Once the rice planting method catches up and the people have a good harvest of food, there will be a higher level of demand, to eat meat and to dress nicely.

After conducting field research, Xie Yan introduced the modern "one village, one product" policy. There are a total of ten towns and nearly one hundred villages in Furong County. product.

Villages and towns with many mountains grow mulberry trees and cotton, and mainly make clothes.

There are karst caves with beautiful scenery, and those with underground rivers are developed to create a cultural atmosphere. The previously written scripts are turned into scripts, and staged for interpretation, creating tourist attractions and driving the economic development of local villages.

To develop the breeding economy, to raise pigs, cattle and sheep, first of all, to accumulate in quantity, to lower the price of pigs, cattle and sheep, so that the common people can eat meat, and every household has cattle farming.

As for agricultural products, vigorously develop drying technology, including preserved fruit and air-dried pork and mutton.

Because storage and transportation were inconvenient in ancient times, if you want to sell your products to the whole country, you have to do so.

Including dried longan, dried mango, dried fish fillets and bacon etc.

Make these plans, and the next step is to do it.

Before the judicial office was established, Zhuang Wan never expected to meet an unexpected person.

That person was Fang Wenbo, who had a broken leg, and Cao Xiaotao, who was carrying a child on his back, was with him.

Fang Wenbo came to ask the county magistrate to track down the person who sneaked into his house to steal money and broke his leg.

He also came here a few times when Wang Renshou was still there, but he was dismissed hastily every time. Fang Wenbo has become a useless person now, and the whole thing is directly ruined.

But ever since Cao Xiaotao heard that a new county magistrate had arrived, he begged the village coachman to take him to the yamen regardless of the date.

Zhuang Wan in the high hall looked at the unshaven man lying on the ground below. If Cao Xiaotao was not kneeling beside her, she would hardly have recognized Fang Wenbo.

Seeing the other party's appearance like this, and thinking of how Fang Wenbo and He Youliang tried to misbehave Xie Yan time and time again, and Cao Xiaotao who was on the side was bullying Xie's siblings in various ways, Zhuang Wan didn't have much sympathy in her heart.

But after all, she is the parent officer of a county, so she can't show any inappropriate emotions.

Xiangmu patted, and asked in a deep voice: "Who is kneeling in the hall, and what appeal do you have, please tell me in detail."

Fang Wenbo became like this, but Zhuang Wan didn't know that Zong Jing did it.

Fang Wenbo and Cao Xiaotao knelt down after entering the door, not daring to look up at the county magistrate. When the county magistrate spoke, it was a female voice, so familiar. Both of them were surprised, and both raised their heads. .

What catches the eye is Zhuang Wan wearing a red official uniform and a black black gauze cap. The bright official uniform makes her lips redder and teeth whiter.

Fang Wenbo yelled uncontrollably, "Zhuang...Zhuang Wan..."

"Bold, how dare you call your lord by his name directly, and seek to beat him up." The yamen servant came forward with a board and was about to strike.

Zhuang Wan raised her hand slightly to let him back down.

Fang Wenbo was still sweating from the fright, and at the same time, under Zhuang Wan's bright clothes, he felt even more ashamed and embarrassed that he could not walk on two legs and was lying on the ground like a wild dog.

The former Zhuang Wan didn't pay attention to him at all, and now Zhuang Wan who is sitting on the high hall is even more unthinkable to him.

At this moment, he wished he could find a hole in the ground and secretly cursed Cao Xiaotao to find the new county magistrate.

He himself knew that the money had been lost for more than a year, no matter how capable Zhuang Wan was, she would still find it without clues.

But Cao Xiaotao didn't care, thinking that her husband could help the court suppress the bandits. Now that the money is gone, the yamen has to try their best to find a way to get it back. If they can't get it back, the yamen should make up for it. After all, her husband has done something.

Cao Xiaotao never expected that the newly appointed county magistrate would be Zhuang Wan, and hated why God was so short-sighted.

Zhuang Wan and Xie Jinniang have a good relationship, almost inseparable, and he and Xie Jinniang are rivals, so Zhuang Wan is not a good thing for him.

The jealousy on her face almost distorted her entire face.

But the matter has come to this point, she can't compete with Zhuang Wan, so she salivated her face and said: "It turns out that the county magistrate is actually from the same township, so please ask him to make decisions for us and my husband."

After speaking, he cried and told Fang Wenbo to report the bandits to rescue the left minister's daughter and get the reward. Later, someone snatched the reward and broke Fang Wenbo's leg.

Zhuang Wan said: "It is true that Fang Wenbo made great contributions in reporting the bandits, but now Prime Minister Zuo framed Zhongliang for taking bribes and perverting the law. His crimes have affected the whole family and have been beheaded by Her Majesty the Empress. Rescuing his daughter is no longer a meritorious service, and what should have been rewarded in the first place." It’s a reward too, now we can only talk about the stolen reward silver and your husband’s broken legs.”

How did Cao Xiaotao know the truth about the Tongshan bandits? Seeing that Zhuang Wan didn't mention Fang Wenbo's meritorious service, she was very anxious and wanted to argue.

But Zhuang Wan said: "You and Zhang Putou carefully talk about the situation of that person and see if there are any clues. After all, it has been nearly a year, and he might have escaped from our Furong County long ago."

Zhuang Wan left the matter to Zhang Butou and immediately withdrew.

The two couples who wanted to cry but had no tears were left behind.

evening.

Zhuang Wan, who walked out of the yamen, was relaxed, and she always followed the principle of going home from get off work on time every day.

People's livelihood matters are endlessly busy at one time. Attend work on time and do things in a down-to-earth manner, and combine work with rest.

As soon as she entered the yard, she could smell the tangy aroma of food, and Zhuang Wan couldn't wait to walk towards the kitchen.

I saw Xie Yan was cooking in an apron.

Zhuang Wan hugged her from the back: "What is fried, it smells so good."

Xie Yan made sweet and sour pork ribs today. When he was in Shangyan Village earlier, he made Dongpo pork himself, and this person liked it very much.

Zhuang Wan always likes sweet dishes.

Sure enough, smelling the sweet and sour smell of caramel, Zhuang Wan couldn't help swallowing.

"Let go of me, I'm in the way."

Zhuang Wan lowered her head and took a deep breath on her neck.

"I haven't seen you for a day, I miss you to death."

Xie Yan curled her lips and said, "I think what you're thinking of is my cooking."

Zhuang Wan hurriedly raised her hand to swear.

Xie Yan turned around and put her hand against her mouth and said, "I don't change my clothes, I don't wash my hands and eat."

Zhuang Wan smiled, turned around and fetched water to wash her hands.

After Xie Yansheng finished the dishes, he dried his hands, walked to her side, and reached out to take off her hat.

"This black gauze hat, the two on the back look really awkward. I will write to the emperor later to change the official uniform. It would be great if it can be produced in our county."

After putting down the hat, seeing Zhuang Wan's long hair hanging down, he tied her with a hair rope and said, "But your red dress makes your face really white, and the big hat makes your face look small."

"It's just that the clothes look good." Zhuang Wan looked at her with a half-smile.

Xie Yan leaned over, pecked her on the face and said, "You look the best, okay?"

"But no matter how good-looking you are, you can't hook up with others. You are mine."

Xie Yan snorted softly, raised her chin and turned to scoop up the rice.

Zhuang Wan behind her smiled dotingly, stood up to pick up the bowl she handed over, and said, "Don't worry, no one else likes a nerd like me except you."

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