Xinfeng County, in Li Township.

Zhao Guo was wearing a thick coat and under the guidance of several followers, climbing up the steep Li Mountain. Standing on the top of the mountain, he stared at the land of Li Township.

Li Township is not big, with eight pavilions and three societies in total, and there are not many household registrations. The total household registration is only 535 households and a population of 3,000.

The smallest pavilion is even only twenty families.

The lives of the people and people here are completely in an era when they rely on the weather to make a living and get it with the flow.

God appreciates his face, and he can make good weather and the people can live their lives, otherwise...

It means selling children and daughters, placing their wives as land, or even betraying themselves to survive.

If it were in the past, the problem in Lixiang would be completely unsolvable.

But now, there is a turning point.

The largest landlord, Ma, in Li Township, has become the largest "Zhang Chui" in Xinfeng County.

Over the past month, the Ma family has taken the initiative to cooperate with the new traveling in Li Township, Qiangfu, to report the "sent-visitors" and "reverse travel" hidden by their own family. They also declared the hidden thousands of acres of land to the government and repaid the land tax and tuition that had not been paid this year.

Not only that, the Ma family also actively encouraged and preached the laws and policies of Xinxianzun at each pavilion.

With Qiangfu Zeng Sheng and others in Li Township, they mobilized more than 200 young and strong men to use their spare time before the autumn harvest to renovate the road leading to Xinfeng City in Li Township.

With the cooperation and cooperation of local tyrants, naturally, the matter in Lixiang will be much easier to deal with.

But……

"Water! The problem of water shortage in Li Township must be solved!" Zhao Guo looked at the scenery of Mount Li and sighed.

In the past ten days, he has visited and investigated Li Township four times.

In order to solve the problem of the people in Lixiang's low land output, he had several pairs of shoes.

but……

But I have never had any ideas.

Li Township has many mountainous lands, and more than 60% of the land is terraced fields on Mount Li.

There are so many difficulties in trying to divert water on the terraces on the mountain!

Even the small water conservancy plan by Shizhong Zhang was powerless to do anything about these fields on the mountain.

If this problem cannot be solved, the people of Lixiang will be poor for generations.

"It's necessary to solve the problem of the canal..." After Zhao Guo's back, Zeng Sheng, the current Qiangfu in Lixiang, was deeply moved when he heard this.

As a Tai student, Zeng Sheng has been in office for a month since he took office in Lixiang.

At the beginning of his tenure, this pride of heaven in the Imperial Academy in the past was also full of confidence and wanted to benefit the people and build a paradise through his own hands.

But soon, Zeng Sheng discovered that not much of what he learned in the book could be used for practical administration.

Even though he was in office, the people of Lixiang supported him, the new Rose Man, very much.

Especially when Zhang Shizhong reported to the emperor in Chang'an a few days ago, he proposed "building a well-off society and promoting peace" and received recognition and praise from the emperor, and listed Xinfeng County as a pilot project for the Han family to "reach peace".

Public opinion, the hearts of the people and the hearts of the people were all inspired at once.

In addition to the Ma family, more than a dozen other landlords, literati and even nobles in Li Township also expressed their willingness to build a well-off society for the Ming Dynasty, promote peace and do their best to do everything!'.

Ma Yuan even personally promised that the township officials could speak like him if they had any needs.

Even if he sells all his property, he will definitely support the "Shizhong Public Welfare to build a well-off society and promote peace."

Not only that, there are also nobles from Chang'an who also said that Lixiang is his second hometown and is willing to contribute money and people to "build a well-off society and promote peace" for Lixiang.

But the problem is that more than 60% of the land in Li Township is a terraced field on the mountain.

No matter how much money or supplies you have, you cannot move these land from the mountain, and you will not be able to move Mount Li away.

"I don't know when Shizhong Zhang will return..." Zeng Sheng sighed and looked towards Chang'an: "Shizhong Gong, the genius, may have a way to solve the problem of Mount Li..."

"Maybe..." Zhao Guo also sighed.

Since taking office as the commander-in-chief of Xinfeng Agricultural University, he has been running among the pavilions of various townships in Xinfeng, and the affairs of other townships are easy to solve.

Just this Lixiang made him unable to speak.

But the more this happens, the more he becomes quarrel with Lixiang.

Zhao Guo doesn’t believe it anymore!

The problem in Lixiang cannot be solved!

Even if he can't do it, isn't there any Shizhong Zhang?

Thinking of Shizhong Zhang, Zhao Guo felt at ease.

Zhang Shizhong presented the emperor in Chang'an, proposed the "Three Generations Theory" and issued a military order. In the third year, every household in Xinfeng achieved the goal of "fifty acres of land, two acres of houses, two mulberry trees, half acres of sunflower, fifty onions, and raising two mother pigs and ten chickens". In another five years, Guanzhong will achieve the goal of "fifty acres of land, two acres of houses, two acres of houses, and most of the world will be like this in twenty years!

As soon as this promise and declaration came out, not only did the scholars and officials of the Gongyang School feel excited and their minds were full of "storm".

People from other schools are also trembling.

Even officials like Zhao Guo felt excited!

The century of Han Dynasty's rise is the first voice to clearly put forward goals and plans!

Moreover, this plan is not very difficult to implement.

Perhaps, the stage of a well-off world or a peaceful world is too high and temporarily unattainable.

But this primary goal can be achieved by doing it seriously.

Even contemporary people can witness the results!

Just thinking about this, Zhao Guo’s heart was filled with fighting spirit!

Life is like a flash of time, and the dead are like this.

Since he was born in this world, he should always do something and leave something for his descendants. Thinking of this, Zhao Guo looked towards Chang'an with anticipation, thinking in his heart: "After Zhang Shizhong comes back, he will definitely be able to solve the problem of Lixiang!"

Since this Shizhong official dared to make such a vow before the emperor and the world, he would definitely have a way to solve the problem in Lixiang!

…………………………………………

Like Zhao Guo, Hu Jian is a little confused now.

He is now inspecting the county jail in Xinfeng County.

As the county magistrate in charge of Xinfeng Judicial and Criminal Prison, Hu Jian has been buried in Xinfeng's lawsuits since he took office.

Unlike Confucian officials, they are afraid of prison lawsuits.

Hu Jian attached great importance to prison lawsuits.

Since taking office, he has not only ordered the transfer of all past case files and reviewed them one by one, rehabilitating many unjust, false and wrong cases, released dozens of misjudgment and false accusations, and arrested more than 30 criminals who have been protected by protective umbrellas in the past.

Every time he cut a case, he would explain the detailed process and situation of the case to the officials on both sides, especially those young people assigned to him after the public examination.

This is also the Legal tradition.

As long as a Legal scholar becomes an official, he will soon be able to bring out dozens or even hundreds of middle- and low-level officials who are proficient in law and criminal proceedings.

As long as these people can have three or five of them.

A Legal bureaucratic organization with hundreds or even thousands of people will be revealed in ten years.

It is quickly able to balance the number and quality of people with Confucianism.

only……

Hu Jian always feels a little awkward.

I felt a little uncomfortable all over.

I have been in office for more than a month, almost two months.

He works overtime every day and has been working every month except for the rest of the day.

The briefings written were piled up more than one foot high.

There are hundreds of cases handled.

But the confusion and doubts in my heart are getting bigger and bigger.

Especially when Chang'an heard that Shizhong Zhang wanted to "build a well-off society and promote peace", he had more confusion and doubts in his heart.

He was a disciple of the Legal family and believed in the knowledge and principles of Shang Jun and Han Feizi.

But reality has a huge gap with ideals.

And he was born through family education, and he had no teacher to ask for advice, so he could only think about it himself.

This made him feel very uncomfortable.

"Maybe, when Shizhong Zhang comes back, I can ask him for advice..." Hu Jian thought to himself.

Legal disciples ask people from Confucianism or Huang-Lao School for advice, which is not a shame.

It can even be regarded as a tradition of the Legalists.
To be continued...