Years later, after the county government was reinstated, the county rushed to stop the water conservancy project.
The Huang family attaches great importance to cooperation in the purchase of building materials by the county government. They also sent their own people to assist the workers in the workshop to collect stones and log. The embankment of the Minyin River was also repaired visible to the naked eye. He has arrived at Qiqiao Village outside the county seat.
The weather in Qiuyang County is warm, and spring arrives earlier than other places.
But at the end of January, you can see buds growing from the trees that have lost their leaves in late autumn and only their branches are left, like the plum trees that are rushing to the sun have already bloomed.
During the rest, the weather was warm and mild. Du Heng went to the village to see the construction process of the canal waterwheel, and went to Huang's quarry to see the quarrying.
Seeing that they ate a lot during the Chinese New Year, the two cubs, who were obviously a little chubby, especially Tan Ce, were already heavier than his elder brother.
Du Heng thought it was funny, and thought that Xiu Mu was not busy, so he took the cub out for a walk, thinking it was to reduce the long round body during the New Year's Eve.
In Kainian County, there is still some residual heat of the Chinese New Year, people come and go, and the horse-drawn carriages drive through the county streets a bit slowly.
Chengyi and Dan Ce lay together in front of the curtained car window, looking at the market outside.
Qin Xiaoman really wanted to bring the two cubs in and sit down quietly, but he was afraid that when he looked at the little things in the market in front of the window, the eaters would clamor to buy them.
However, Du Heng knew the boy's temper, and made an agreement three chapters in advance. If he saw something he wanted to buy in the market and clamored to buy it, he could not continue to go to the village.
The brats all agreed to just watch the fun and not buy it.
"Daddy, Daddy! Stop the carriage!"
Du Heng was quiet for a while, and hearing Chengyi's voice, he raised his brows: "Didn't you say you won't buy anything? Don't you want to go to the countryside?" Tan Ce quickly pointed
to Outside said: "That man is so pitiful, give him some money. Give him Dan Ce's lucky money."
Du Heng and Qin Xiaoman followed the sound and saw an old man begging on the side of the street. The ragged man looked more and more pitiful in front of the neatly dressed people in the aftermath of the new year.
He raised his hand to stop the carriage, and asked his servants to lead the two cubs to give alms.
Qin Xiaoman saw the two little boys put a handful of copper coins in the bowl of the beggars, and then several people gathered around to beg, he couldn't help sighing: "The business in the county is more lively now than when we first came to the county. However, beggars can still be seen everywhere in the county." Of
course Du Heng also knew, but there were many complicated things in the county, and not every problem could be solved immediately.
But these refugees who have no land to support must be resolved. It is a small matter to affect the appearance of the city in the county. A good population should be resettled.
"Let's do the same thing."
After entering the village, the little guy was very happy, and there was already a fresh smell of spring breeze and soil in the air.
Tan Ce sucked in the air with his mouth open, running up and down the field ridge, picked some white plum flowers for Chengyi to put on his hair, and then dragged him to the dry field with soft grass To catch a new grasshopper that's half the size of Littlefinger's finger.
Qin Xiaoman found a paper kite from nowhere, and the spring breeze gently raised the butterfly kite, and the father and son flew the kite in the open field against the spring breeze, having a great time.
Du Heng was about to pull the kite string, but an operator from the workshop hurried over.
"There is a troublemaker caught on the quarry. Master Huang heard that the Lord is here, so he wants to go and have a look." Du Heng's
brows tightened when he heard this, he said something to his family member, and hurried to the quarry with the operator.
"Lord Du is here!"
Du Heng had intended to visit the quarry when he came to the village this time. The village he went to was not far from the quarry, but he arrived in a quarter of an hour.
He got off the carriage, and the quarry became quiet after the noise.
Immediately, several people who were detained knelt down in front of Du Heng: "What's the matter with these people?"
Huang Wenguangli replied: "These people sneaked into the quarry last night, intending to put them in the shed. The explosives were ignited and thrown on the newly mined and polished stone slabs to damage the stones, but fortunately, the people patrolling the quarry caught him on the spot."
Du Heng saw that the leader kept his head down, he raised his chin slightly, and the county soldiers who detained him immediately Immediately pinch the troublemaker's chin and lift it up.
Looking at the familiar face in front of him, Du Heng frowned: "Yong Er?
" Do you serve on the field?"
Yong Er squinted at Du Heng facelessly, bumped into the iron plate twice, he was naturally in a bad mood, and he had no reason to quibble.
"Why do you want to come to the quarry to cause trouble?"
Yong Er didn't answer, the county soldiers behind him squeezed Yong Er's arm, and Yong Er gritted his teeth and said, "I just don't like it, I don't like people coming and going. What kind of water conservancy is being built. The gunpowder exploded the rocks and made such a noise that I couldn't sleep!"
"How dare you speak rudely in front of your lord!"
The county soldier became even more forceful.
Seeing that Yong Er's forehead was covered with cold sweat, but he didn't say a word of truth, Du Heng waved his hand: "Take him back to the South Prison and lock him in the innermost room. The sound insulation is good there, so no one can sleep. "
Yong Er opened his mouth when he heard the words, but he couldn't refute, and his muffled voice was pulled away.
Huang Wenguang saw that the crowd dispersed, he went up to Du Heng and said: "The Caomin feel that there must be someone behind Yong Er, but this local ruffian has a tight mouth, and the Caomin is useless and can't pry it open." Even if Huang Wenguang didn't say anything, Du Heng knew it in his
heart Well, a hooligan in the county, if he had nothing to do, would think of coming to the stone field, even if he refused to accept that he was detained by the county government first, he would not use such a method to retaliate against the county government.
Since he came to destroy the stone materials, he obviously came for Huang Wenguang. The stone materials needed for the construction of water conservancy had to be mined out of large stones, and then polished into the required shape of stone slabs and stone piers by craftsmen, which required a lot of manpower.
Yong Er blasted the polished stones to pieces, which would definitely affect the progress of the construction. When the county government was held accountable, Huang Wenguang would be the one to take care of it.
Fortunately, Huang Wenguang was very cautious when he received the purchase from the county government, knowing that some households would definitely not let him live in peace, not to mention that there was no conflict of interest that he faced directly, let alone a conflict of interest now.
He stepped up his patrol, and he really caught the restlessness.
Du Heng said: "Just look at this side, the county government will conduct a trial again." ...
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Yong Er was arrested!"
When Wei Hongming got the news, he was fighting with Yun Qingwen in his house .
Dazzling twenty or so, Fanghua is not there.
Yun Qingwen saw that the people of the same age around him had both children. He lost a child when he was young, and his body suffered some injuries. During the two years when he and Wei Hongming were in harmony, he spent most of his time recuperating his body.
Later, when he came to Qiuyang County, Wei Hongming exposed his true nature. He was arrogant and had a lot of quarrels with her husband, and went back to her mother's house to frighten Wei Hongming. Come back, the number of times is too many, this trick will no longer work.
Not only did Wei Hongming ignore it when he was annoyed, the Yun family also couldn't bear Yun Qingwen's fuss.
At the beginning, the Yun family was not optimistic about this marriage. Yun Qingwen's disobedience of etiquette and Wei Hongming's messing with Wei Hongming hurt the Yun family's affection. Neighbors often read jokes, causing the Yun family's reputation to suffer.
Every time Yun Qingwen went back to her natal family after quarreling, her words were not pleasant, and she was as unsteady as before she got married. Is not sensible.
They've been married for almost seven or eight years, but they still don't have a son and a half daughter, and their natal family gradually doesn't want to see each other.
Seeing that Yun Qingwen was already displeased with both sides, and his life was poor, and he came back from his mother's house at the beginning of the year and planned to live in harmony with Wei Hongming, so he had to give birth to a child no matter what.
But when he came back, he saw that Wei Hongming had taken in a new concubine during his absence. There were already seven or eight young concubines in his family, and there were countless other concubines. He immediately became angry.
Entering the door, I saw Wei Hongming reclining on the soft bed. In the past few years, the pampered place has long since lost the handsome and handsome scholar's appearance when he was young. Not to mention his chubby body, the original sharp-edged face now looks like a man with eyes, a mouth and a nose. The cutting board is average, so fatty that people don't want to look at it.
And Xia actually hooked up with that charming lady who was born in singing, and opened her mouth to let that charming lady feed the peeled grapes.
Looking at this scene, Yun Qingwen felt both angry and nauseated. Immediately, what a good life to live and have a baby approached him, and immediately threw his cup and smashed the cup.
"What are you doing! What's the difference between you and the shrew in the market!"
"You still have the guts to call me a shrew, and you don't even know what kind of bastard you are!"
The two began to accuse each other vulgarly. This battle hastily shrank and got out. Seeing that the two were about to make a move, the butler hurried in and stopped the two of them.
"If it wasn't for something more important, I'd have to give you two mouthfuls today! Hurry up and go back to your yard!" "
You think I still want to see your face!"
The two broke up unhappy.
It took Wei Hongming a while to recover, and asked the butler what happened.
He was already annoyed by Yun Qingwen, but he was even more angry when he heard that the people below him were so careless.
"Yong Er has been imprisoned for two months, and his brain has been shut down. He is so sloppy in doing things, and he deserves to die in prison when he is caught!" The housekeeper knew that
Wei Hongming was angry, and said: " Fortunately, Yong Er is a tight-lipped man, Huang Wenguang didn't utter a single word after torture for a long time, and Xia was imprisoned in the South Prison, but he is also a frequent visitor of the county jail." Wei Hongming breathed out a foul
breath : "He has a strict mouth. He has done things for me all these years. I know him. I'm afraid that the little magistrate will become suspicious of the Wei family.
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Wei Hongming suppressed his eyes, and sneered: "That's right. Even if the Xiaozhi County has doubts about the Wei family after hearing Huang Wenguang's words, so what can he do?" But a few days later, the county government issued a notice stating
that The water conservancy construction process was steady and orderly. The Huang family not only assisted and cooperated properly, but also caught troublemakers who intended to hinder the water conservancy construction.
The county government praised the Huang family greatly, rewarded the right to reclaim 50 acres of wasteland in the south of the city, and encouraged the big gentry in the county to follow the Huang family and contribute to the county government.
The big households in the county knew that it would be beneficial to have a relationship with the county government, but they didn't expect it to be so good.
Immediately after Linchun Nongsang, the Huang family recruited farm laborers to reclaim wasteland. Thinking of the poor harvest in the first two years of farming in the wasteland, they asked the county government for a 50-50 split.
For a while, many farm laborers flocked to Huang's family to open up wasteland for planting.
Many farm laborers who originally followed the Wei family could not bear the oppression. As long as they had not owed the Wei family money and land property, they immediately resigned from the Wei family and turned to work under the Huang family. It's better than taking 10 to 20% of the grain production from the ready-made land under the hands of the Wei family.
The Wei family doesn't regard farm laborers as human beings, but farm laborers who have other options are unwilling to devote themselves to it. Now that they have a new place to go, they will run away if they can.
In a short time, a quarter of the farm laborers under the Wei family left, and those who did not leave were those who had owed money to the Wei family under pressure and could not leave easily.
The county government also encourages the refugees who beg for food to resettle and set up their own households. Those who are willing to provide food and shelter to the refugees first in the county can obtain the corresponding wasteland reclamation qualifications according to the number of refugees, but the land reclamation is only the same as what they received from the land with farm laborers a few years ago. It can be divided 50-50 like the Huang family.
Interested people can enter the county government for assessment, and once they pass, they will be qualified.
The big households in the county will also plan to make a living. The land is the foundation of the people's livelihood. No family is willing to get more land on hand. Even though Qiuyang County is sparsely populated, there is no order from the county government, and ordinary people can't buy it. Not qualified to cultivate, but this is a long-term business, and many capable people want to try their luck.
The first ones were the households that the Huang family had a good relationship with. After the county government judged, several households got more or less wasteland reclamation rights.
At the same time, a lot of farm laborers flocked to the wasteland, and many of the farm laborers under the households who previously took the share of the high land output left.
Seeing that the spring sowing was about to come, the farm laborers who had been holding on tight suddenly stiffened their backs. Many big households in the county panicked and hurriedly recruited farm laborers again.
However, farm laborers and even refugees who need land have a place to go. Under such strict sharing conditions, whoever is selected will be planted in the fire pit, and there is no way to recruit new farm laborers.
The county government requires that after applying for the right to reclamation of wasteland, it must be reclaimed and planted this year. There are already not enough farm laborers at hand. These households not only missed the opportunity to apply, but also have to worry about the lack of manpower for spring farming this year.
A group of households headed by the Wei family went to seek Wei Hongming to discuss countermeasures.
Wei Hongming looked at the successive notices in the county government over the past year, and his liver hurt with anger.
This morning, it can be seen that the county magistrate has good ears and eyes, and he may have known about the farm laborer's affairs, so he joined the Huang family together, and now he is going to rectify the farm laborer's harvest.
"What are you afraid of? It's not like the farm laborers on hand have all run away. If you give more land to the remaining farm laborers, you can still farm the land. It's enough to survive this year's limelight."
"But the hired farmer didn't work day and night and could only cultivate those fields. There were too many hands, and the season for spring plowing and next planting was only those days. If the season was missed, the autumn harvest would definitely suffer. The loss at that time would still be... "The landlord lowered his voice and went on: "Zou's family is a small family. It is not as big as Wei Ju's family. They just watch a little bit of land and grain production to live..." But it is not the
landlord who sees the wind and runs away. The Wei family's property cannot be consumed by losses.
Wei Hongming was annoyed when he heard such words, but he still held back his kindness: "Then what do you mean?" "
Otherwise, let's lower the share of the land with the farmers, otherwise, it's really hard to attract people at the same time. The weather in the county is warm, spring plowing is early, and people need to be recruited as soon as possible..."
Seeing that Wei Hongming's face became more and more ugly, the landlord fell silent.
Hearing what his subordinates said, Wei Hongming knew that the Xiaozhi County had won. Didn't he do so much to break the original rules of the labor share in Qiuyang County? The share of the farmer must not be able to attract farm laborers.
"Since you have already made up your mind, why bother to come here together to discuss with me, just do it yourself."
Gathered because of profit, and now they have to separate because of profit, Wei Hongming knew that the general trend would not be able to stop these things It's a big family, if the fight is too rigid, I'm afraid of being bitten back, after all, it's easy to deal with one family, but it's hard to deal with a group.
Now the Wei family has lost most of the support from the Yun family.
But what annoyed him the most was that because these people lowered their share, he had to follow suit.
The division in the original county is different from that in other places, and it has lasted until now. It is because 80% of the people in this county are owned by the owner. higher.
Now once most of the bosses have lowered their share, most of the county's share is four or six. If there are three, seven, two, eight, it is a maverick, the same as before.
Dissatisfied with the farm laborers, they went to the county government to make a fuss. At first, the law does not blame the public, and once the order is placed, the county government will definitely deal with it.
After the crowd left, Wei Hongming's blood surged, and the tables and stools in the hall suffered a lot: "Du Heng really has two brushes, no wonder he was able to get rid of that old Jiang Zuowu, I really underestimated him!"
After Du Heng got everyone in the county to secretly reduce their grain production share, he wrote back letters to his classmates and seniors who had made friends with him in the study of the inner house, exchanging about life after leaving Bairong Academy.
"Finally I couldn't bear it any longer. Fortunately, the Huang family was the one who opened the door, otherwise the matter would not have been so easy."
Qin Xiaoman said, "I went out to buy vegetables today and saw that there were a lot fewer beggars in the market. Not much to see."
Du Heng smiled and said: "I have gone to the household to register and re-register, but those with hands and feet who can work are selected first, and there are still many old, weak, sick and disabled. But as many as can be resettled Settle them first, and after the spring plowing, we will know how much is left, and it will be easier for the county government to arrange for the old, weak, sick and disabled." The
group of refugees in the past was too large, and the county government really couldn't take it. Qin Xiaoman said cheerfully: "Now a large number of refugees have been resettled, which is rare in the county. The officials who come to the government to take the exam
in two days will have a better impression."
It's not just once every five years. In fact, there is an assessment every year. As long as there are no major faults or great achievements, or the court has special arrangements, there will be no change in the examination within five years.
And the inspection will not be as strict as the five-year general election. Generally, it is easier to look at the grain production, taxation and reputation of officials.
Because the second half of the year coincides with the autumn harvest, the local affairs are complicated, and it is inconvenient for the superiors to come and inspect. Usually, they come to evaluate before the spring plowing of the next year. When the county is relatively free again, it is the most suitable time to come to evaluate.
Du Heng was not a refugee resettled just to cope with the evaluation, it was just the right time.
Of course, if you have done practical things for the common people, if your superiors can appreciate you and get a good review, that is the best of both worlds.