In June, the grass and trees splashed vitality in the world with the most prosperous green. The official road to Fuluo County was occupied by wild weeds, leaving only a two-foot-wide path, with ruts showing people.

Two horses rushed along the vague official road. The birds in the grass were frightened and the stone bent their bows and shot arrows on the horse. From time to time, birds were shot down by him. The stone rushed forward with a smile. With a roll of the horse whip, the birds and arrows were taken into their hands. They pulled out the arrows and carefully inserted them back into the arrow bag. The wild birds shot were thrown into the bag beside the saddle. The bags were bulging and there were already a lot of gains.

"Young Master, when you arrive in Fuluo County, you can have a good drink of pheasant soup." Shi Tou smiled proudly and showed off to Jiang Anyi.

I have entered Fuyang County. June is the busy season. There are not many farmers working in the fields on both sides of the official road. I am rushing along the way, and there are not many people on the official road. Fuyang County is very deserted. Before coming, Jiang Anyi had already made full preparations and knew that Fuyang County is the easternmost part of Lizhou, facing the sea, and the territory is even more filled with seven mountains, two rivers and one branch of fields. It is a poor county.

This time, Jiang Anyi led a large group of people, and Zhang Keji was brought by him. This man had been a county magistrate of Huangren County, Huazhou, and was very familiar with his business. Jiang Anyi must have borrowed him. Xinfei took Siyu to the capital earlier, and Lingwei's name was to be hidden again after two months. Siyu's departure made Jiang Anyong feel lost and his family could not live without him. Otherwise, he would also want to follow his brother to take office. In order to comfort him, Jiang Anyi persuaded Master Hong Xin to accept him as a lay disciple and let his younger brother learn skills with the master. The happiest thing is Dong'er, but Xinfei left, but she can accompany Jianglang to Fuluo County. As for the high mountains and long roads, those are not a problem.

Zhang Keji proposed to be a county magistrate in a strange place. Without his own people, the third uncle asked his youngest son Huang Dongquan to follow his cousin to make a fortune. Jiang Anyi also chose sixteen clever servants from the Huang Er family, who were managed by Wang Niu, the youngest son of Wang Bo, and Zhen'er, Dong'er's girl Xier and several servants. The entire team had more than 20 people, and eight were trapped in the carriage alone.

Jiang Anyi first went to Jingyang Prefecture, Lizhou to meet with the governor Zhao Shulun, and then received the imperial edict from the Ministry of Personnel, and reported to the body and fish talismans. These are necessary items for taking office. The imperial edict was sealed by the Ministry of Personnel, and was used to confirm his identity when reporting to the government for filing and review. The official body recorded his name, hometown, age and physical characteristics. Jiang Anyi saw that his body said: medium figure, slightly dark skin, and scars on his right eyebrow; as for the fish talisman, the fish talisman was issued in the court, with Jiang Anyi's name engraved, and then his official position, Jiang Anyi found that his direct scholar in Chongwenguan was on it.

The meeting gift of ten bottles of perfume is quite effective. Governor Zhao always smiled, and people asked Fuluo County to find relevant documents on geography, population and taxation, which made Jiang Anyi know. Learning that Jiang Anyi brought his family to the post, Governor Zhao took the initiative to ask He Sima to send 100 officers and soldiers to escort him. There were many bandits in Lizhou.

Fuluo County is more than 270 miles away from Jingyang Prefecture. The mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk, and it is only 40 or 50 miles a day. Jiang Anyi was a little impatient and told Mr. Zhang and Dong'er to walk slowly. He rode a horse to Fuluo County with stones. There were rare people along the way, and Jiang Anyi was a little surprised. He remembered that the Fuluo County Chronicles records that Fuluo produces a lot of medicinal materials and produces tea and wood. It is said that June is the time to purchase medicinal materials, so why didn't there be many vendors along the way?

When approaching Fuluo County, the weeds were finally much sparse and became more and less popular. When they came to the city wall, Jiang Anyi looked at the county town he was in charge of. His first impression was that they were dilapidated. Not only was the city wall low, but they were also like a seventy-year-old man with his teeth scattered and notches everywhere. There were grass on the top of the wall, one bushes on the left and one bushes on the right, like a scattered chicken, which was very vulgar.

Shi Tou exclaimed beside him: "Young Master, is this Fuluo County? It's far worse than our Xinqi County." Jiang Anyi was unhappy and got off his horse and followed the crowds with charcoal to Fuluo County. Two yamen runners leaned on the city wall and talked, and the words came to slow down Jiang Anyi and listened carefully.

"Did you hear that? The county is going to change the great master."

"I heard from Chen Laoliu and the others that I only want the new master to be like 'Yan wants money'. He only cares about squeezing everything into his pocket, and he doesn't even give us a few cents to live. If there weren't some rules and regulations, who would be willing to be this person?"

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"Oh," two sighs sounded at the same time.

Jiang Anyi's heart moved. According to the "Da Zheng Law", the county was given a ruling (from the seventh rank down), one chief clerk (from the ninth rank down), one lieutenant (from the ninth rank down), one lieutenant (from the ninth rank down), and one small assistant officials such as recorders, officials, prisoners, doctors, etc. These people paid salaries. As for the clerks and yamen runners in the sixth ranks of the court, they did not give salaries, but each county provided corresponding subsidies according to the situation. Jiang Anyi knew that each of the minor officials and yamen runners in Xinqi County gave two taels of silver each year.

Of course, clerks and yamen runners do not rely on the few taels of silver from the yamen to support their families. Take Hou Qimaba as an example. The market tax collected in the market is no less than twenty taels a year, and there are fees collected from prostitutes, slaughterers, casinos, etc., not to mention lawsuits, land-based collusion and profitability. Jiang Anyi heard from Tian Shoulou that some minor officials could bribe nearly ten thousand taels of silver a year, and the county magistrate only had twenty-six taels of salary a year. This group of corrupt officials relied on the power of the government to do everything evil and savage the people.

The county town is relatively deserted, with few carriages and horses, and the shops on both sides seem to be inactive. The hawking sound is weak, giving Jiang Anyi the feeling that the whole city is like an old man who is about to die. The county government is in the center of the county town, facing north and south, with the eight-character gate tower, and the black painted gate is mottled, and several yamen runners sit in the corridor and joke.

Jiang Anyi did not go forward, and walked around the county government. He found a hotel at the back door of the county government. The sign "Yuehe Old Store" looked a little old. Jiang Anyi walked forward with a stone. Seeing that there was a business coming, the guy standing in front of the store came forward diligently and took the reins, and greeted: "Customer, hello, your eyesight, our Yuehe Old Store is the best old store in Fuluo County. It's not a small bragging. Back then, the store door was like a market, and you wouldn't be able to find a room when you entered the store at this time."

The shopkeeper came over and said with a smile: "Two, the rooms in the shop are divided into two types: A and B. A. A. A. A. 100-cent one night, B. 500-cent one night, and cross-yards, 500-cent one night, and the food is calculated separately."

Jiang Anyi looked at the store and found that the old furniture was a little old, but it was cleaned up. The materials used in the house were exquisite. The window lattices were carved with floral decorations. It was obvious that the luxury of the past was not expensive. In a residence like Xinqi County, Shi Tou understood the young master's intentions and rushed to say, "Let's book a cross-yard."

"Haole", the shopkeeper agreed and took the key to lead the way. Jiang Anyi saw that the store was large, with nearly a hundred guest houses on the upper and lower floors. This was not considered a cross-yard, but he didn't see many people staying in the hotel along the way.

Jiang Anyi asked in surprise: "Shopkeeper, if you don't live in such a big store, wouldn't it be a waste?"

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly, "I'm going to tell the truth, the waiter just now said it was the truth. If the inn was full of customers at this time five or six years ago, you would have to hire another person to find a place to stay. However, it has not been possible in the past two years, and the merchants will not come, so the guest room will naturally be empty. If this continues, the store will be sold out."

The yard was very quiet, with three upper rooms, and there were a few fruit trees in the yard. There were green fruits on the trees. There was a small pond in the middle, with lotus flowers blooming in the pond. Jiang Anyi nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Not bad."

The guy called water for washing his face, and Shi Tou handed the bag of birds to the guy, and told the guy, "Small stew soup, big braised."

Jiang Anyi asked Shi Tou to take out a string of copper coins and give it to the servant, and said with a smile: "Little brother, your surname? I have a few words to ask you, sit down and say."

There were fifty or sixty copper coins in a string. The waiter made a small fortune and put the copper coins in his arms. He smiled and said, "Uncle, the little one is Xu, and he is known as Xu Kuai Le. If you have something to ask, the little one will tell you if you know it."

"Brother Xu, I am a merchant who came to buy medicinal materials from Dezhou. I heard that the medicinal materials in Guixian are good and wanted to buy some, but I heard from the shopkeeper that the merchants have not come in the past two years. Is there no medicinal materials on the mountain?" Jiang Anyi asked as a merchant who was buying medicinal materials.

"Oh, the young master came from Dezhou and was not familiar with the local situation. I'm afraid he would have to take a walk this time." Xu Xiaoer sighed, "How could there be no medicinal materials on the mountain? It's just that the medicinal materials business has been taken over by Mr. Xu. The merchants from other places cannot receive medicinal materials, and fewer people come, so there is no business in the store."

"Oh, then I'm running away in vain." Jiang Anyi sighed, secretly remembering Mr. Xu, who bullying the market. Jiang Anyi thought in his mind that it would take three or four days for Mr. Zhang's brigade to arrive in Fuluo County. In the past few days, he would have to find out the situation in Fuluo County first so that he would not be blind.

Xu Xiaoer hesitated for a moment, looked at the string of copper coins and whispered: "Young Master, it is impossible for you to purchase medicinal materials in the county. From the great master to the yamen runners, everyone in the county has received the benefits of Mr. Xu. As long as the medicinal materials enter the city, they either sell them to Mr. Xu at a low price, or they will be robbed and smashed. The medicinal materials shops in this county are all surnamed Xu. If you really want to buy them, you can walk more in the mountains and maybe you can receive some, but be careful when entering the city and don't let people discover it. The city is full of Uncle Xu's eyes and ears. If you are discovered, the medicinal materials will be gone."

It seems that Mr. Xu is very powerful, Jiang Anyi asked: "Does the government care?"

"Official government? The government is a dog raised by the Xu family, which is almost the same as bullying the common people." Xu Xiaoer felt that he was speechless, gently slapped his mouth, and said, "Customer, I'm talking nonsense. I'll go cook for you now, you'll rest."
Chapter completed!