Before you know it, the hectic autumn harvest is over. More than 10,000 stone of rice was collected in the camp, which not only completely replenished the grain and rice borrowed from Yongcheng County last year, but also had a surplus. Du Zhongxiao decided to leave 5,000 stones as a reserve, and the other 5,000 stones were sent to the state capital.

At this time, rice was not only grain, but also hard currency, and the 5,000 stone rice in reserve was of many uses.

On the grain field, Du Zhongxiao was behind a table, looking through the account books of the village. In the open space not far away, there are young people from the village who turn over the ears of grain bran there. The grain grass left after the rice is removed, which is called straw and is high-quality livestock feed.

Chang Wei stood at the table, stretching his neck to look at the account book that Du Zhongxiao was looking through. While watching, he despised Du Zhongxiao for being idle, what is there to see about these village accounts. But Du Zhongxiao looked, he must also watch it, otherwise his heart will be like a cat scratching.

After reading the account books, Du Zhongxiao said to Chang Wei: "The autumn grain has been harvested, and I will go to the state in a few days." You were sent by Zhizhou to inspect the autumn grain, and now that you have finished reading it, it is time to go back and hand it over. ”

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao took out a booklet and handed it to Chang Wei: "Although you have lived in the camp for many days, I have not paid attention to it in my eyes. After going back, the prime minister asked about the camp affairs, but I am afraid that you will not be able to answer. I have here a book of camp and field affairs, which lists all the affairs of the camp and field affairs in detail, and you can take it back and take a look at it, so as not to make a fool of yourself. When I get back, I'll show you the truth and hand in this booklet with me. ”

Chang Wei took the booklet over, flipped through it casually, and said: "I have seen everything in the field affairs, so why bother to look at everything." has been by Xianggong's side for many years, and the affairs of one or twenty villages do not have to be very careful. ”

He said this, but his hand clenched the booklet tightly and refused to hand it over.

Du Zhongxiao sneered in his heart. Because Chang Wei is doing things here, when he goes back to Xia Zhu and asks, he doesn't know anything and can't say anything, maybe it will affect Xia Zhu's impression of himself, so Du Zhongxiao gave him a coherent look. In a day or two, Du Zhongxiao will take it back and give it to Xia Zhu with his letter. In the letters, Du Zhongxiao will write down his comments on Chang Wei. This guy is really a strange thing that Du Zhongxiao has never seen in his two lives, and it is hard to imagine that Xia Zhu would lift such a person.

After the new rice was harvested, everyone in the village was happy and gathered at the warehouse on the edge of the grain field to receive the rice.

Du Zhongxiao asked people to collect the account books and walked over. Seeing Du Zhongxiao coming, a group of villagers greeted and saluted.

Standing at the door of the warehouse is a stone tablet that Du Zhongxiao asked every village to do in the field, which is written on the principle of collecting grain in the field. If the same bucket is used regardless of entry and exit, it is not consumed according to the actual number, and there is no dough in the flat bucket, and so on.

At this time, the local government collected grain, because the tax amount was set by the imperial court, and it had to be sent upwards one by one, and the local government had to bear the loss and transportation costs, so it used some extralegal means to overcollect it. Consumption is the norm, the imperial court allows an extra tenth, and the local economy is not good, and more and more are collected. Hu noodles refer to the part that comes out of the bucket when collecting grain, and the government will definitely have Hu noodles when collecting grain, and some places rely on the extra grain to support a county's finances.

The income is much higher than the tax amount of the imperial court, and the wasteland opened up is not included in the original tax amount, which is completely extra income in addition to the regular tax for the state. Du Zhongxiao abolished all the methods of stripping when collecting grain, which was also a means to attract people to come to the famine. The monument was erected outside the warehouse, first, to tell the servants and the people to handle it, and secondly, to try not to let the later officials destroy it.

Chang Wei followed behind, looking at the stone tablet and pouting. For Du Zhongxiao's practices for the sake of the people, Chang Wei is not used to it. Officials are sent by the imperial court, as long as the imperial court is satisfied, as long as the people do not starve to death, it is the official's political achievements.

After looking at the decimeter for a while, Du Zhongxiao turned around and saw Chang Wei standing aside, looking at himself for a while, and looking at the villagers who received the rice with disdain, his expression was a little obscene, and he was in no mood all of a sudden. said goodbye to Baozheng and took Chai Xin and others back to the yamen.

As soon as he entered the yamen, Chang Wei hurriedly ran back to his residence, closed the doors and windows, took out the booklet given by Du Zhongxiao and read it.

It is clearly written from the establishment of the camp, how to choose the land, how to control the salinity, how to recruit the people to reclaim, and even the technical details such as building houses. Chang Wei was overjoyed and slapped his thigh: "With this book in hand, I will definitely praise my ability when I go back!" Pity me for working hard these days, and I was counted down by that magistrate, it's not worth it! Good book, good book! ”

Before the words fell, he heard the voice of the foreign Qiu Shilong: "Brother, if there are any good things to show the brothers, why are you opening the door?" ”

It turned out that Qiu Shilong and the two saw Chang Weishen mysteriously, thinking that he had something good to swallow alone, so they hid outside the window and eavesdropped.

Chang Wei opened the door, let the two of them in, held up the booklet in his hand and said, "The camp and field affairs given to me by the magistrate are consistent, what is the use of you reading it?" ”

Qiu Shilong didn't believe it and said, "If that's the case, why does my brother close the door and the window? There must be good things that refuse to show us. ”

Chang Wei said hatefully: "Our own brother, how can we hide it from you? It was this booklet, Du Zhixian gave it to me, and I thought that he would definitely not write important things. Where did you think that this person was stupid, and it actually wrote the affairs of the camp and field affairs clearly——"

Hearing this, Qiu Shilong and the others lost interest. Said: "I'm tired today, my brother is drinking." ”

Chang Wei was on the rise, took some copper coins, and asked another person to buy some wine and meat.

At this time, it was late autumn, and the weather was cold at night, and after a sip of strong wine, the whole body was hot and dry, and it was extremely comfortable. The three of them were in Changwei's room, gobbling up, and they didn't know how much wine they drank.

When Chang Wei and the three of them were drinking and eating a large piece of meat, there was singing outside. It turned out to be Xiaoqing and Jingjing, who didn't know what to play outside, and on a whim, they sang the Wu song of their hometown.

One sang: "Brother Zhang, Brother Li, everyone is dragging together; One rest, two rest, confinement bend to Kyushu. ”

The other continued: "The confinement bends to Kyushu, how many families are happy and how many are worried?" ”

The singing is clear and beautiful, euphemistic and moving, as if people are in the water town south of the Yangtze River.

Chang Wei heard the singing, was stunned for a while, and suddenly said: "I have been away from home for many years, and I don't want to hear the local sound here." Alas, we drank here, without a person to accompany us, so desolate. ”

Chang Wei is from Xia Zhu's hometown on Jiangnan Road, and his father once followed Xia Zhu's father Xia Chenghao, so he looked at Xia Zhu differently. Over the years, as Xia Zhu has been an official in various places, especially in the north in the past ten years, he suddenly heard the hometown sound and couldn't help but feel homesick.

Qiu Shilong said drunkly: "This must be the two family tricks of Duzhi County, I don't know why they sang the song." ”

Hearing this, Chang Wei slapped the table: "That's right, there are still two housekeepers in the Zhixian family." We are also his guests, but we don't let these two girls come out to sing and accompany the wine, and we look down on people! Brother, let's go out, call those two girls, and sing a tune! ”

Qiu Shilong was taken aback: "Brother, that's someone from Du Zhixian's family!" Don't mess around! ”

Chang Wei said nonchalantly: "Two slaves, what a family!" How about letting them sing a tune! ”