It is not difficult to be a magistrate in Makino.

The most difficult task was not to do government affairs or to reconcile the relations between the tribes, but to try to integrate the traditions of tribal autonomy into local administration.

Yang Zhaolong was lying on the couch, a maidservant girl was beating his legs and pinching his shoulders on the couch, and he was lying comfortably, stretching out the hand on the edge of the couch and holding a porcelain lotus suction cup with a unique shape and bright color.

The cup was filled with chilled blueberry juice, and it was massaged comfortably to hum, and from time to time I took a sip of a drink mixed with pulp, which was so pleasant.

Li Yuxi sat on the couch, not knowing what to say...... This is not the first time he has entered the county office, nor is it the first time he has entered the Muye County office, but the first time he was invited by Yang Zhaolong to the side hall of the Muye County office, who would have thought that this county magistrate actually put a bed in the middle of the side hall?

This is not a back hall with higher privacy, this is the side hall on the left side of the middle hall, which is usually used for meeting guests, although it is not as unappreciated as the front hall, and it is not as formal as the middle hall, but this county government hall of Yangzhi County is also too informal, right?

Especially when he sets up the bed, he only puts one, he hums and chirps on the couch, not to mention the serious Taishi chair in the hall, even the chair is crossed with his feet closed, and the visitors have to open it by themselves, the whole mountain king's style.

There were no tables or chairs on the floor, but five pairs of low tables were placed upside down, and in front of each of the desks was a woven carpet with the names of the Iroquois divisions.

Obviously, in the past, the people who came in this side hall were all the leaders of the five departments of the Longhouse Alliance, and when they came, they were allowed to sit on the ground.

Li Yuxi couldn't help but wonder: When others came, Yang Zhixian was also humming on the couch.

"Brother Li has worked hard from afar, and the plums offered by the Mohawk Department are very delicious when I pound the juice and ice it, taste it...... Well, comfortable, go down. Yang Zhaolong snorted twice halfway through his words, and then smiled comfortably at Li Yuxi: "I hope Brother Li doesn't blame, Yang climbed the mine and traveled to the big lake yesterday, and his whole body was sore, this county is not good!" ”

He still sighed.

From Fujian, Nanyang to Dadongyang, Li Yuxi has never seen a county official who is more comfortable than Yang Zhaolong!

Which county official in the world is not so busy that his feet don't touch the ground?

The tobacco tycoon responded with a smile: "The magistrate really loves the people like a son, and it is good to visit the people frequently, but you also have to pay attention to your health." ”

"Don't say these polite words, what is Yang like as a county official, can I, Yang Zhaolong, not even have this bit of self-knowledge?" Yang Zhaolong, who was lying on the couch, said, and gave a very pertinent definition of himself: "This Muye is not like me or me!" ”

"The magistrate of the county ...... words"

Before Li Yuxi finished speaking, Yang Zhaolong had already sat up from the couch, and threw it with a porcelain straw made of flowers and leaves, rhizomes, and the cup was fixed in mid-air, and was carefully placed on the table next to the couch by the maidservant, and the magistrate poured bitter water.

"The county is in ruins, the military government is set for major things, and the chiefs of all the ministries are autonomous for small things, Yang has nothing to do all day, even if he sees the disadvantages in the county, there is nothing he can do, this trick is in the - all the ministries perform their duties, Yang has to do something to talk to the leaders of the ministries one by one, and there is no cure for this disease."

Li Yuxi listened and pondered, wondering what the county asked him to do, but the more he listened, the more confused he became, so he had to ask: "That county respectfully recruited grass people, is this for this?" ”

He believes that everyone has a meaning behind every word they say, even if it is nonsense and small talk, you can see the emotions in the speaker's heart. He didn't believe it, Yang Zhaolong brought him here to watch him massage and drink drinks, and listen to him complain about right and wrong.

"With Yang and without Yang, they are all the same to Makino, but Brother Li is different!"

Sure enough, immediately following Yang Zhaolong, he changed the topic to Li Yuxi, and said: "Your Excellency's paper mill, flue-cured tobacco factory, and cigarette factory are the pillars of Muye, and even the iron factory and mine of the military government have a lot of reliance on Brother Li. ”

"There are some things that Yang can't solve, but Brother Li can solve them."

"Many industries need workers, but Brother Li is unwilling to hire Iroquois women." Yang Zhaolong sat upright on the couch with his legs crossed, crossed his arms around his chest, and asked, "Why is this?" ”

Although Yang Zhaolong is not an orthodox scholar, he will also have the idea of benefiting one party for the official as a magistrate, and since the people encounter such a problem, he has to solve it.

But Li Yuxi didn't seem to want to solve it, but said with a wry smile: "Longhouse Alliance...... If the county respects such trouble, the grass people can give 12 million, 24 million, 36 million Tongbao, and the county government will match with various departments to solve the county's urgency. ”

These words made the smile on Yang Zhaolong's face fade quickly, and he said, "I'm not asking for money. ”

To tell the truth, Li Yuxi does have the ability to breed goods, and Yang Zhaolong also admires it, but it is meaningless to raise money, the silver of the entire North Asia has been put away by his brother-in-law, and the Tongbao used to pass through the Great East Ocean to Daming Port in Spain is all printed by his brother-in-law.

What's more, this magistrate who defeated Banzhou has no concept of wealth itself.

"Why, is it because they don't work well?" Yang Zhaolong was a little unhappy, he shook his head and said: "I think they are very industrious in the mine, this county should not let women go to the mine to dig stones and extract ore, they want to work, and Muye should take out a job." ”

Li Yuxi didn't know how to explain to Yang Zhaolong, so he simply changed the topic and asked, "What is the county lord that the businessman is most afraid of?" ”

"There are no skilled craftsmen in the manufacture of goods? Difficult to travel on the road to transport goods? Officials at the top and bottom are greedy? No, the head of the sect university, Zheng Wang Shizi, once said to the grass people that Shang Jia is proficient in arithmetic, and the grass people think so. ”

Li Yuxi spread his hands and said: "It doesn't matter if there are no skilled craftsmen, then you only need to calculate the investment geometry, and when and what month you will be born as a skilled worker; Difficult roads? That's just the cost of shipping; Officials at the top and bottom are greedy? Not only is it okay, but sometimes it is even better to do things, Li only needs to know where to send money and how much money he wants to send if he wants to do something. ”

"A problem can be solved, these expenses."

Li Yuxi paused, looked at Yang Zhaolong and said: "The cost will eventually be counted in the cost of each pack of Muye tobacco, sold to Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands, and the money will be counted on those buyers, the more you spend, the more expensive the cigarette will be, because this is a specialty of the Ming Dynasty, only Muye can do it, and all problems are not terrible." ”

"The terrible thing is that there are no rules, and the Iroquois are very strange, they have discussed everything, and the grass people have talked to the Mohawk head and negotiated the matter of the tobacco fields, and it is only ten years before they come to the door to talk again, because they think it is not appropriate after discussion."

Li Yuxi looked very distempered when he said this, and then said: "Let's talk again, and after talking again, it will be ten years later, because a child in the tribe has become an adult, and he feels that what happened before is not appropriate, so he pulls everyone to talk again." ”

"That's true for Mohawk, it's true for Haifasha, workers...... It is also true that they can come today as they see fit; Tomorrow if you think it's not suitable, I'll come and talk to you again, don't listen to the command and don't control, trade is arithmetic, Li needs to know the profit and loss, and calculate in advance before he can set the charter. ”

"They don't have a charter, and they don't listen to it, so what else can the grass people do?"