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There was heavy snow in Anlu County, with snow covering as thick as a foot, but only a light snow fell in Jiangxia County. Between the daisy mountains and clear waters, it was like the hair of a half-old woman, with only a little frost on her face.

The 80,000 troops evacuated Anlu County and rested in the Xiakou military camp. However, Liu Jing did not immediately return to Chengdu, but instead took this opportunity to inspect Jiangxia. Early that morning, Liu Jing slowly approached the terminal of Qichun County.

Tao Zheng, the governor of Qichun County, had already led a group of officials to welcome the arrival of the prefecture at the dock. Tao Zheng was originally appointed as the chief of Qichun County. Before the New Year, after Qichun County officially belonged to Jingzhou, Tao Zheng was officially promoted from chief of Qichun County. He stayed in Qichun County for four years.

He had a good reputation in Qichun County. When he was about to be transferred to the position of Nanjun, the elders of Qichun County did not allow him to leave and forced him to stay in Qichun County. Liu Jing also saw his political achievements very clearly. After his year of governance, Qichun County gradually became the fifth grain-producing county in Jingzhou, second only to Xiangyang, Jiangxia, Nanjun and Changsha, and even surpassed Lingling County.

To this end, the General's Office specially sent people to Qichun County to conduct an undercover investigation. Only then did they know that the population of Qichun County has increased from 10,000 households to more than 10,000 households, nearly 200,000 people, and the population mainly flows from Lujiang County and Yuzhang County. In Qichun County, the people who moved from Yangzhou have their own land, and each household has more than one acre of land. The government provides plowing ox free of charge and can be exempted from labor. The government provides food and accommodation for children to study, which has attracted a large number of people in Yangzhou to move in, and the population has increased sharply.

At the same time, the Dow Trading Company transferred all its warehouses to Qichun County, and the fleet was docked in Qichun County. The government could get a lot of income every year, and ordinary people could easily find jobs and earn money.

In fact, the rise of Qichun County was mainly due to the financial resources of the Tao family to support Qichun County. This is something that the Jingzhou officialdom knew very well. Tao Zheng also obtained the achievements that others could achieve in ten years. However, as long as Liu Jing acquiesced, no one would say anything about this special performance. After all, Qichun County has indeed risen and has not been faked.

Liu Jing quickly walked off the board, Tao Zheng led all the officials to greet him, bowed and bowed together, "See the governor of the state"

At this time, several guards behind Liu Jing laughed out loud. Only then did Liu Jing realize that more than a dozen officials were wearing old white-washed official robes, and some were patched on them, which obviously had been discussed.

Liu Jing was both angry and funny, and said to everyone: "Don't worry about how to greet me, I'm just here to visit my uncle, please feel free to you."

Everyone looked at each other's official robes, which was indeed a bit too much, and everyone was embarrassed to laugh.

Liu Jing turned over and walked towards the county town surrounded by everyone. The last time he entered Qichun County was many years ago. He signed an agreement with Sun Quan to jointly deal with Cao's army. The Battle of Red Cliff broke out. In Liu Jing's memory, Qichun County was dilapidated and messy, and the ground was muddy, but at this time, Qichun County made his eyes lit up.

The rows of houses are neat and orderly, and are obviously newly built. They are covered with trees on both sides, the ground is covered with bluestone slabs, the streets are wide and clean, and most of the children on both sides are white and fat. Every household has doors open, placing incense tables at the door, and kneeling to welcome themselves into the city.

Tao Zheng saw the praise in Liu Jing's eyes. He explained a little embarrassedly: "About four years ago, I gathered all the county people to discuss. Everyone set rules. All the houses were the same. Trees and flowers were planted in front of and behind the houses. Garbage was not allowed to be thrown around at will, and there was no urination or drowning everywhere. The stone slabs in the streets and alleys were paved together by the people of the county, and the stones were not much money. After several years of hard work, Qichun County changed a lot. Immigrants who moved from Yangzhou did not want to leave after entering the county town."

Liu Jing is really satisfied with the scenery of the street in front of him, especially likes this kind of cleanliness and tidyness. He asked again with a smile: "What if you violate the rules, I mean, you are changing the dirty and messy habits of some people."

"It's very simple. The rules are decided by everyone. Every household presses their handprints. If they don't follow them, they will be punished severely. The first time they are beaten in public as a warning. The second time they commit another crime, the whole family will be expelled from Qichun County and rushed to the nearby villages to live in. No further entry into the city. However, so far, only a dozen people have been beaten, and no family has been driven out of the city. Everyone likes this cleanliness and refreshing, so they will consciously maintain it."

Liu Jing nodded, but he still had to admit that Tao Zheng was indeed very capable, not just because he was his uncle.

In fact, Liu Jing has always been very concerned about the development of the Tao family in the officialdom. Now the Tao family is no longer just a businessman, but has gradually gained weight in the officialdom. In addition to Tao Zheng as the governor of Qichun, Yang Liang, the governor of Yinping County, is also Tao Sheng's brother-in-law. In addition, four or five Tao family brothers have served as county officials. Even Tao Sheng himself was named the marquis of the town for the Tao family's outstanding contribution to the Jingzhou army.

However, what satisfied Liu Jing the most was that the Tao family brother was low-key and pragmatic, and had no bad deeds of oppressing the people. Instead, he was respected by the villagers and was honest and self-disciplined in the officialdom. Of course, this was related to the wealth of the Tao family. They only paid money from outside and were disdainful to make money from their families. Tao Zheng was a simple and pragmatic good official, and he was highly praised every year.

Liu Jing walked into the county yard and exchanged a few greetings with everyone. Everyone left tactfully, only Liu Jing and Tao Zheng were left in the room. Liu Jing smiled and said, "This time I came to Qichun County, mainly to discuss something with you, or to be precise, I want you to do something."

Tao Zheng did not forget the etiquette because he was Liu Jing's uncle. He bowed respectfully and said: "Please ask the governor of the state to give instructions, and the minister should obey it."

Liu Jing nodded, pondered again and said, "That's right, I plan to transfer you to Chang'an and serve as the governor of Jingzhao County and the Chang'an Order. Can you accept it?"

Even though Tao Zheng was mentally prepared, he was still shocked and became the chief official of Chang'an. He knew what this meant. In the past, Cai Yan served as the governor of Xiangyang and the chief of Xiangyang, and later Dong He served as the governor of Shu County and the chief of Chengdu. However, Dong He is now one of the five prime ministers. He will move the capital to Chang'an in the future and he will be the chief official of the capital. Tao Zheng was not happy, but felt great pressure. He knew the weight of this position.

After a while, he whispered: "I was worried that I was not capable enough and finally disappointed the state governor."

Liu Jing stood up and patted his shoulder, meaningfully: "You need to understand that if there was no high position of the Tao family, the future Han princess would probably be unstable."

Tao Zheng was shocked. He suddenly realized that Liu Jing was trying to establish a foreign relative for his sister. He was moved and frightened. "Thanks to the provincial governor for his attention to the Tao family, I was worried that I would lack qualifications and that the appointment of Chang'an Order would make people criticize him."

Liu Jing laughed, "Do you think anyone would criticize me?"

"I understand, I will never let the state governor down."

Liu Jing nodded, "That's right. Yi Ji will take over the post of Qichun tomorrow or the next day. After you hand over, you go directly to Chang'an. Jia Xu will read out my appointment in public."

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Liu Jing only stayed in Qichun County for two hours. After lunch, he took a boat to the Jiangxia copper mine on the other side of the Yangtze River. Lu Tongshan has always been the largest copper mine and gold mine in Jingzhou and even the entire south. It is also the source for the casting of Jingzhou coins and copper materials, and it plays an important role in the entire Jingshu regime.

At present, there are 6,000 troops stationed in the copper mine, about 100,000 people engaged in mining and smelting here. Except for more than 10,000 people who are labor recruited locally, the other 80,000 are criminals and prisoners of war from Jing and Yi states. It has been the rule of Jingzhou for many years. Whether it is Cao's army or Jiangdong army prisoners of war, if they do not want to join the Han army, they will need to serve in the mine for a year, and will be released and returned to their hometown after the expiration of the term.

However, as the Han army and Cao army signed a reconciliation armistice agreement, the surge in prisoners of war will be reversed. As prisoners of war are constantly released, the number of miners will decrease. Liu Jing visited the mine this time because of this reason.

Compared with eight years ago, the current Green Tongshan has changed a lot. It turned out that a small river was used to transport ore, and at most it could only sail stones. However, the river channel is widened and deep, and the cargo ships that can sail five stones have greatly enhanced the ore capacity. They do not even need to transfer to Xisai Lake and transport it directly to Xiakou.

However, what is transported out now is not the ore, but the rough copper billets and gold nuggets that have been smelted in the mine. Jiangxia County built a smelting site in the mine five years ago. Dozens of blast furnaces are here to refine rough copper ingots from the ore day and night, and then transfer them to Xiakou for further refining and minting.

Accompanied by Deng Zhi, the mining supervisor, and Zhang Yi, Liu Jing entered the vast miner's camp. Deng Zhi served as the mining supervisor last year, responsible for the mining and smelting of the entire copper mine and the management of miners. Zhang Yi led 6,000 garrisons to be responsible for the security of copper mines and monitor prisoners of war.

The miner's camp covers an area of ​​thousands of acres and is surrounded by panel walls. There is a sentry tower every step. It is very vigilant. There are five thousand large tents in the entire miner's camp. The tents are neatly arranged and the roads are spacious and clean. They are divided into ten districts for management, and each district is divided by a one-person-high wall.

Deng Zhi walked, and introduced to Liu Jing: "Qi Bingzhou Governor, there are currently twenty people living in each large tent. One long one works every day at sunrise and rests at sunset. One day off every ten days. The work and rest are very regular and the public security is also good. During the period when Wei Chen was appointed as the mining supervisor, there were no riots, only two escape incidents occurred, and the remaining people were arrested, and the service period was extended to five years according to the punishment measures."

Liu Jing nodded and asked again: "How about the food?"

"The food is similar to the army. You can eat enough and eat a meal of meat every day. According to the rules, these prisoners of war also have monthly money, one ounce per month, and when they are released, they will be converted into gold and paid. Almost every person can earn a pound of gold and go home, and the same is true for criminals."

At this time, they came to the East District, which was the release area. All prisoners of war who were preparing to release their period would move here a month ago. They were composed of a thousand camps, with only ten people living in each tent, and most of the time, only five or six people living in it, but this time they were all full.

This is the largest release since the establishment of the miner's camp, which will release 14,000 people at one time. This is because after the Han army occupied Guanlong, all the prisoners of war from Guanlong were released. There were less than a thousand prisoners of war in the real life, and the rest were prisoners of war from Guanzhong or Longyou.
Chapter completed!