Chapter 207: The situation is miserable and seeks to break the situation

According to the household registration records some time ago, there are 4,422 people in Yizhou area. They have not been re-inquired for several years, and they don’t know if it is more or less.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan thought they could see novel clothes, but when they met the locals, they found that the clothes they wore were similar to those they saw along the way, but they were a little troublesome in communication. Most people could not speak official languages, but they were better than them. One person could have multiple languages, including dialects.

People who usually have a lot of contact with outsiders in the local area, their fluent official language makes Zhang Zhong praise him so much.

"Why do I listen to what he says like a routine? I should say that formalism is not acceptable when I meet an official."

Zhang Xiaobao hopes that the other party really praises his father.

"I don't know who your father is. I'm good at talking clichés and don't offend people. It seems that when the Red Army crossed the snow-capped mountains, there were mountains here. When I came down to take a look, it was so cold? Can I freeze people halfway?"

Wang Juan took a few deep breaths and found that it was not uncomfortable. She did not have the altitude sickness she had imagined before.

Zhang Xiaobao also looked around and found that Li Xun, who was standing next to him, had thought of something, and looked excited, knew that there was no need to worry for the time being, and looked at the mountains in the distance and said:

"The Red Army shouldn't have much time to stay. They had already left without the strength and were frozen to death on the mountain. The most important thing is that many people don't know how to survive on the snow-capped mountains and can't find such thick clothes. Okay, let Hu Zi and the others go up and climb up without any trouble."

The two sides spoke verbally and began to walk towards the government office. Looking at the road under their feet, all the people who came here for the first time felt sad for the locals. It would be fine if the mountains were connected to the mountains. It seemed that it had rained yesterday or the day before yesterday. In addition, the water vapor here was always heavy. If you step on it and lift it up, it would immediately sink several pounds, all of you mud.

The older people of the Zhang and Wang family, as well as the three old men of Old Man Bi, enjoyed the treatment of a slide rod. Zhang Zhong refused to let someone carry it. He usually used to exercise and found a stick to support him and chatted with the locals along the way. He didn't know that he was here to organize the logistics and was preparing to learn about the situation of the locals to help improve his life.

The locals just had to cooperate with the answer, and they didn't expect any official to let them live a good life. Generations of people have long been used to this kind of thing.

"Wait." Old man Bi sat on the slide rod. As soon as the person carrying the lift was about to start, he stopped and looked at the big ship docked on the shore, waiting.

"What are Long Ze looking at?" Old Man Yao saw Old Man Bi stopping, and he also called out and turned his head to ask.

"Xiao Bei and the others have not come down on the boat. The Zhang and Wang families will never throw their kids away. Let's see how they go?" Old man Bi pointed at the boat and said curiously.

Now Old Man Zhang stopped, and the three old men waited together. Before they could wait for too long, the little guys' house was pulled down from the boat. However, unlike what they saw before, the bottom was not the ground-off shelf, nor the big wheels when they were traveling before, nor the small wheels that were pushing and playing in the yard.

The house has changed to a large chassis. The house is in the middle of the chassis. There are four people standing on the left and right. Under the board of the house are three things that the old man doesn't recognize. They should be iron plates connected horizontally, forming an oval chain connected front and back?

"Grandpa Bi, are you feeling uncomfortable? Then I'll find a doctor for you right away." Zhang Xiaobao wisely stopped talking to Wang Juan, and came to Old Man Bi's approach to observe the three old men's faces and asked.

Old man Bi stared at Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's shoes. After hearing Zhang Xiaobao ask, he nodded and said, "Yeah, I feel uncomfortable, I feel sorry. If someone has something good, I won't tell me, my heart..."

"Is it cool?" Zhang Xiaobao continued, lifting his foot up with a pair of "short spikes, grab the ground well, don't worry about sliding the ground, or you can make a pair for you?"

"What's going on with Xiao Bei's house?" Old Man Bi really couldn't guess how many technologies the Zhang and Wang families still haven't come up with. Whether they came up with new technologies depends on whether they need them, but they may not need them now, and don't others need them either?

Zhang Xiaobao looked at the house that was stuck in the place where he was turning, and said in annoyance: "The technology is not yet mature. Look, it's stuck. When the technology is mature, then find a way to apply it elsewhere. Grandpa Bi, don't worry, my home does not keep this thing secret, my home only keeps it confidential about technology that has no direct relationship with people's livelihood and national strength."

Zhang Xiaobao really has no idea of ​​keeping this chain confidential. Let’s study it. I guess I won’t think of applying it in a short period of time. First of all, the iron in the chain is too expensive and unprofitable unless the iron smelting industry keeps up.

Old Man Bi was satisfied after hearing Zhang Xiaobao's words, and his heart was no longer cold. He carefully observed Zhang Xiaobao's shoes, "There are nails in front of you."

"Yes, if there are nails behind it, it will be tiring. It is very convenient to use it for striking the mountain. I will give you a pair when you settle down."

Zhang Zhong didn't care about the family team, so naturally there were people from the inner courtyard to take care of him. He asked about the local grain harvest, what was missing in daily life, and health questions.

Every time the locals answered, Zhang Zhong kept it in mind. After staying there, he asked his son and daughter-in-law to find a way to solve the problem. He knew very well that he did not have the ability, and he would know if he listened to the locals' answers.

Every year, I plant some millet in relatively flat places at the foot of the mountain, and grow vegetables from the hillside. As the year is good, there will be a harvest. Some of them will be kept for themselves and some will be carried out to exchange for salt.

The clothes are made of hemp planted by oneself. If the year is not good and it rains heavily for several days, it will be gone.

I don’t raise chickens and ducks or pigs at home. I go to the mountains to cook them. When I come back, I eat the meat, make the skin into clothes, or I also take it down the mountain to exchange for daily necessities. It’s better to say that the road is too difficult to walk, and there are not so many boats, so there are only three boats in the whole place that can go back. There are people who rely on water to fish, but the boats will not dare to go down, and they will overturn.

When I am sick, I will hold on first, or find some herbs on the mountain to take. Few people go down to hire a doctor. They have no money and are too late.

If you don’t have money at home and don’t buy anything, you just change it. You can have more food and more fur at home. It will be easier for people like this to marry their daughter and get their daughter-in-law.

All kinds of things made Zhang Zhong very helpless, especially the locals who did not spend money and only exchanged trade methods, so he felt that he could not change it.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan did not put their thoughts on building Yizhou at all. After the war was over, they would have to be transferred elsewhere. There was no time to consider people's livelihood during the logistics arrangement.

Moreover, the situation here cannot be solved in a short period of time. Unlike Luzhou, it is gone and rebuilt, it is not like Shuzhou. It turns out that the foundation is good. The transportation in this place is inconvenient and the things produced are not valuable.

Especially the ideological issues of the local people, are they really willing to go down the mountain to get in touch with people outside? If they like and get used to their current life, can they force them to accept another way?

The road was just as Zhang Zhong was considering doing practical things for the people. Zhang Xiaobao thought about how to arrange logistics. Fortunately, the prefecture government office in Yizhou was not too far from the place where the ship was disembarked. Perhaps the previous officials also considered travel issues.

The city of Yizhou is very small, sandwiched between two mountains, surrounded by a small piece of plain terrain. A river flows through not far outside the city. The adobe wall is only half a meter high. It is said to be Guocheng. It occupies too small and does not include the plains. It is said to be an inner city. Such a city wall may even be better at jumping wild beasts.

Standing at a high point, you can see clearly the situation in the city. The messy houses and trees exist in the city. No matter how you look at it, there are no less than 4,000 people inside. It would be great if you can live in four or five hundred people.

There is no moat in the city, let alone suspension bridges. Even the city gates are made of thick wood, just like the fences of ordinary farmers' homes, with no soldiers guarding the door.

There were not many pedestrians entering and leaving. There were two groups of little kids with bare butts, holding small sticks and bows in their hands, and making noises in a group, probably playing war games.

When the teams of Zhang and Wang families slowly approached the city gate, the little kids reacted first and stopped their actions one after another. They were a little scared, a little restrained, and curiously with this big team, especially the team gradually came to the front house.

"The governor is here, come home quickly and tell the family to come out to greet him." The locals in the team walked a few steps to the children and instructed them.

The little kids didn't know what kind of governors, but only knew that a team came to see everyone. They looked at the beautiful house with a little reluctant look. They turned around and ran back yelled.

At this time, there was no governor in Yizhou, only one Sima and a few minor officials sent to him. Therefore, Zhang Zhong's appointment went very smoothly. There were only six yamen runners in the yamen, two old ones were covered in white hair, and one of the four remaining people was a lame. At first glance, two big boys who were not as old as fifteen years old.

Only one looks good from the outside, but he stumbles as soon as he speaks.

Zhang Zhong held a large rusty seal in his hand and asked the man who was about to finish his hunchback next to him, "Fang Sima, is this the prefecture of Yizhou? How should my family be placed?"

Fang Sima was very grateful to Zhang Zhong who came. Now that he had something to do, he finally didn't have to work hard and not please him. He didn't know how big a mistake the governor Zhang made. Such a large family was sent to such a faraway place.

When he heard Zhang Zhong’s question, his whole body trembled and coughed for a while. He took a breath and replied: “What the governor Zhang saw was everything in the prefecture. The locals divided the villages by themselves. Usually, the villages solved the problems themselves. There were very few people who came to the yamen to do business. Of course, if there were any problems in the yamen, they could not even call the local people.

If a river embankment is built, then the villages will discuss it. When the family makes time, they can send a few people to help. The adults' family is halfway up, demolish the city wall to the west, repair the house for the adults, and rebuild a city wall further away after the house is repaired.

I saw that there were many people in the adult family and I thought I could not use the people from each village. Oh, if the adults wanted to eat some mountain delicacies, I would send someone to the nearby villages to tell me that they would give face and could send some newly hunted beasts for the adults to taste."

Zhang Zhong was speechless for a moment. What does this mean? Returning to Sanshui County to be a county magistrate is a hundred times better than being a governor in Yizhou. At least in Sanshui County, you can see yamen runners running at any time. Now the six people are preparing to retire.

After putting himself in the position of governor of Yizhou, and after carefully savoring it, Zhang Zhong reached out and patted Fang Sima on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work in Sima."

Fang Sima's eyes were red with emotion. Finally, it was not easy for someone to understand his own difficulties.

Zhang Zhong sighed for a while and had to do what he should do, at least the house had to be repaired, otherwise where would he live? Fortunately, his family was different from other officials, so he brought a total of eleven people from the yamen and continued to give orders, and the people from the Zhang and Wang families were busy.

A tent was built up, and teams of people walked out, some were responsible for building roads leading to the river, some went up the mountain to cut trees, and the people from Team Zero were divided out half, holding crossbows in their hands, and not having a single shotgun gun on their waists. They stayed at the surrounding commanding heights and observed back and forth with a telescope.

Old Man Bi and Old Man Yao's family also came to help. Everyone understood that they could not count on others at this time, and the people in the village listened to the Xuan Dynasty and did not listen to the order.

The chef of the Zhang family also dug a hole to cook with a pot, and everything seemed orderly.

Now it was not only the eleven people in the yamen, but even the people watching the fun were moved. They didn't know what literacy was. They only knew that the people brought by the new officials were extraordinary and did not need to be specifically instructed. They all looked for their own work, busy but not messed up.

People in the village have to wait for others to arrange things to do well. This group of people settled down under their noses. What exactly does the new official do? The general who fought?

Others are busy, but Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are idle. The people of the two families can quickly take over all positions in Luoyang Capital without their command. If this little thing is not done well, it will be embarrassing.

Originally, the two of them were planning to draw the military map of this place, but they saw that they didn't live there, so they decided to wait for two days to say that there was no war here.

What we need to do now is to establish good relations with the locals. Even if we don’t plan to stay here for too long, we may be able to use it when organizing logistics in the future.

Under the protection of more than a dozen guards, the two men called out the seven little guys from the house and prepared to take them to the people, with candy and salt ready.

Liu'er, Xin'er, Weiwei, and Xiaoman also joined in. Li Xun wanted to join in the fun, but was arranged to rest immediately to adapt to such weather as soon as possible. There was a doctor next to him. As long as Li Xun looked a little uncomfortable, he had to treat him immediately.

When they arrived at a new place, the little guys seemed a little scared. When they saw their brothers and sisters right next to them, they returned to their previous liveliness. They held hands and ran behind their elders and sisters.

The little kids who had been playing near the city gate saw a group of people coming out of the team, including smaller kids. They were wild and forgot to be afraid, and they also met them, very close to them, and looked at the group of people curiously, especially the clothes worn by Zhang Xiaobao and others, which made the little kids envious. Even if they had no knowledge, they knew that the clothes were expensive.

"Xiao Bei, this difficult task is left to you." Zhang Xiaobao pulled out his sister and grabbed another handful of candy, which meant that Xiao Bei would give it to someone.

Since Xiao Bei gave the eldest and the young man a candy, he has fallen in love with this activity. He often gives other people things in kindergarten, and has the best popularity.

Looking at the candy her brother took out, she immediately knew what she did. She stretched out her two small hands and trotted her hands in front of the group of little kids who were older than her. The little kids were indeed not afraid.

"Candy, please~you~eat~candy!" Xiaobei raised his arms, raised his little face, and invited seriously.

The little kids are really not as afraid of things as other children. When they see this little boy delivering things, even if they don’t understand what she says, they know that the things on their hands can be eaten because other people who haven’t come here are eating them.

The person closest to Xiaobei took a piece, took off the skin like Zhang Xiaobao, and brought the things inside to his mouth. After tasting the sweetness, his eyes immediately narrowed. The candy paper on his hand was also flattened with great care, and carefully pinched it in his hand, looking happy.

The other kids also came over to get the candy, one piece of each person. When the sugar in Xiaobei's hand was almost the same and there were still two pieces left, no one came to get it. It was difficult to get the number of people, so Xiaobei's hand could only hold these.

Xiao Bei, who gave the food, was very happy. Seeing that others wanted to eat one, hesitated and suppressed the idea again. The brother and sister did not allow them to eat more. They had already eaten two pieces on the way here just now. They could eat two pieces today, so they had to stay for the evening.

When Xiaobei, who had given the candy, turned around and was about to leave, the little kid who had eaten candy had grabbed him. When Zhang Xiaobao was about to respond at any time, the kid took off a necklace that was tied around his neck that he didn't know what was tied, and put it around Xiaobei's neck. Then he smiled friendlyly at Xiaobei and asked Xiaobei to leave.

"What is this? Just put it around my Xiaobei's neck? Oh, the rope is full of sludge. How long has it been since I took a shower? This is... teeth? Xiaobao, look, what animal teeth are."

When Xiaobei came back happily, Wang Juan pulled her closer and looked at the thing that was wrapped around Xiaobei's neck, and complained in a low voice.

"It should be the wolf teeth. Maybe it's the wolf teeth that the child killed himself. They set up traps to kill. I don't believe that he can kill the wolf when facing the enemy, and even wear it. Didn't you see others staring at us? I'm really taking it down. I guess the friendship will end.

After taking a look, Xiao Bei will become our image ambassador. He hugged her and when others saw the things on her neck, they would think they would be more kind. He would send salt over and half a pound of a baby, so they naturally knew what to do."

Zhang Xiaobao looked at the ornament and greeted him. The guard next to him gave half a pound of salt to the small bag. With Xiaobei's public relations, the little kid there was not afraid of adults. He curiously took the small bag that could not see what was inside. He opened it and pinched it out with his hands to taste it. After he showed an expression of more surprise than eating candy just now.

People living by the beach, let alone giving him half a pound of salt, even if they give him half a ton, they won’t feel anything, especially in areas where salt is used, there is no shortage of salt.

It would be different if the people here were replaced. There is well salt in Chengdu, but the good well salt is not for local people to eat casually, but is used for money. Compared with sea salt, the same follow-up process will taste different. It is much better than sea salt and has a higher price.

There are no salt wells in Yizhou, so how can I get so much salt to eat? After tasting the salt, the little kids found that the taste is much better than before. Those who are smart will know immediately that if you want to change the salt in this small bag with fur, you must at least take out five good sheepskins.

The salt I received was simply not as good as the salt in my hand. The salt in my hand was white and thin, and it didn't have a bitter taste in my mouth until I ate it, and I don't know where they found it.

The little kids are not like adults, and they also know that some things cannot be collected. Even if they hold salt bags, they are reluctant to return them even if they understand that they cannot ask for other people's things for nothing. At worst, they can go home and find other things to exchange for each other.

The smart little kid said a few words to others, put the salt bag tightly on his chest and ran towards the home. Other kids didn't dare to stay outside for too long, for fear that the salt in their hands would be gone, so they ran home one after another.
To be continued...