The day is getting hotter and hotter, the sun is setting, and the heat is still churning on the ground. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xu Ping was dragged down by his teeth, he couldn't eat watermelon, he couldn't drink the sour plum soup to relieve the heat, and he didn't even dare to put ice water in his mouth. I had no choice but to take a big pu fan in my hand and keep shaking it.

Xu Zheng was in a good mood, drunk, shaking his head, smacking his lips constantly, reminiscing about the food he had just eaten in his stomach. Today, the old brothers came to the party, the watermelon was eaten, the barbecue was eaten, and the fruit wine chilled with well water was also drunk in large bowls.

Xu Ping only felt that his hair was covered with heat, and after greeting him in his parents' room, he hurried back to his study.

Literati Yaxing, outside the study is a bush of bamboo, and there is a pool of living water, the hot air is blocked here, and the room is much cooler. There are a lot of buildings in the south of the room, and the sunlight does not shine into the room, and the room is cool.

Sitting down at the desk, Xiuxiu brought a basin of cold water, Xu Ping washed his face, only to feel that the heat had faded, and he let out a long breath. The Central Plains is not as good as Lingnan, even if the weather is hot, as long as it is in a cool place, you can escape the heat, and there is no need to do any water-cooled air conditioning. That thing is too damp and not good for the body.

picked up the pu fan and fanned it a few times, only to feel that the body was comfortable, Xu Ping asked Xiuxiu: "Did anyone reply to the post sent out the day before yesterday?" The day after tomorrow, June 20, is closed, but it is the day of the party. ”

Xiuxiu said: "There are a lot of returns, the officials will wait, I'll take a look." ”

Xu Ping nodded, leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes, enjoying this comfortable time.

Xiuxiu took the reply post and stood aside and read it to Xu Ping one by one.

Not surprisingly, Han Qi, Wang Su and Ji Ying, who were the fastest in the same year. The group of officials in the pavilion who were bored every day also replied, and their language was respectful, their status was too far from Xu Ping, and they couldn't help but come without big things. As for the officials under Xu Ping in the Third Division, they are also very active.

Most of the miscellaneous scholars in the back have a higher status than Xu Ping, and some people don't come, but they all have posts back to explain the reason. When it came to the two system of ministers, Li Shu and Ding Du, the intellectuals of the Sheren Academy, all said that they would attend the meeting, and even Yan Shu and Mei Xun of the Hanlin Academy also came, and only Zhang Guan, who had recently been recruited into Beijing and entered the Hanlin Academy, said that he could not take out something to do.

A few years ago, because of the charcoal price turmoil, Zhang Guan, who was then the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, mishandled it and was demoted out of the capital to serve in other places. Everyone knows that he is an honest man, he is really not good at handling political affairs, and he is talented and proficient in economics, and he was recruited back in less than a year. The skyrocketing price of heavy snow charcoal is the first thing Xu Ping showed after returning to Beijing, and it just so happened that Zhang Guan made a stepping stone, but I am afraid that he still has some mustard in his heart, and it is reasonable not to come.

Listening to Xiuxiu's reply, Xu Ping was a little confused, half of the middle and upper-level officials in the court have arrived, and his popularity looks good! Why can't you feel it?

But I don't know where Xu Ping's current identity is, the emperor is regarded as the most reliable team after the pro-government, and he has a good way of doing things, and he has a lot of credit. Not surprisingly, Xu Ping has a bright future in the officialdom, just waiting for the group of old people who are now in charge of the government to retreat, and that is his world. usually feels that no one is close to him, firstly, because it is still the old people who are in power now, and they are all on the opposite side of Xu Ping invisibly, except for young officials in official affairs, no one is on Xu Ping's side openly. The most important thing is that Xu Ping himself goes to the yamen every day, and when the time comes, he goes home honestly to live his own little life, and he doesn't have contact with people in private matters, so what kind of friendship can he have?

Now that he has finally opened his mind, he knows that he wants to have fun with his colleagues in his spare time, and he will naturally seize this opportunity if he has a heart. Not to mention what kind of friendship you have climbed, at least it will not leave any negative impression.

Xiuxiu finished reading the reply, put it away, and said to Xu Ping: "Official, there are really a lot of people who come the day after tomorrow, you have to raise your spirit tomorrow, don't slack off others." ”

"What do I need to raise my spirit? In the past few days, I have eaten and played at home, I am tired of playing, I sleep, I wake up and eat, I haven't had such a comfortable day for many years! If I continue like this, I feel like I'm going to be lazy. ”

Xiuxiu couldn't help but smile: "On this kind of day, how many people can't envy it!" People often say that a good life is a day for the gods, isn't that it, why are the officials still not satisfied! ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "You don't know, people who are so lazy will be abolished!" ”

After packing up the reply, Xiuxiu took out two more letters and handed them to Xu Ping: "This one was written by Mr. Li, who lived at home a year ago, what kind of letter was written by the Mengzhou General Judge, and the officials will take a look at the reply to him if they have time." ”

Xu Ping took the letter and looked at Li Jing first. He was sick himself, and he should have sent a letter to greet him. But that's how the traffic was going on this year, he got the news, and then he wrote a letter to send it, and so many days passed at once.

When Li Jing saw Xu Ping's news from the Di newspaper, it was no longer as sensational as fainting and falling off the horse on the way to the court, and the tone in the letter was relatively relaxed, and he first asked Xu Ping's physical condition.

Later, he said that he had gone to Fangcheng County to take up a post, talked about the situation in Fangcheng County, and asked Xu Ping's suggestion.

Fangcheng County is located in the mountains, sparsely populated, is a lower county, and is not often abandoned. In fact, most of the mountains there are small dirt mountains, there are many hills, there are also quite a few plains, water resources are abundant, and there is a lot of arable land to develop, but the key is that the population is too small. Nothing can be done without people, whether it is to reclaim wasteland or build water conservancy, we must first achieve a certain population density. During the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties of Jingxi Road, the war continued, and the population loss was too severe, not to mention Fangcheng County in the mountains, and many plain areas were also full of abandoned land.

After entering the Song Dynasty, due to the sparse population, a large number of people moved from Hedong Road to western Beijing, and the recovery of the population around Luoyang still relied on the migration of the population from southern Jinnan. Relying only on the natural recovery of the locals is even more desolate.

Relying on the knowledge of his previous life, Xu Ping can do a lot of things, but he can't do anything if he lacks people, and he can't conjure people out of thin air. Since the Song Dynasty basically did not restrict the migration of peasants, the more barren and backward the place, the more unable to retain people, and the more people there were, the more unable to develop, forming a vicious circle.

In this case, Xu Ping didn't have a good strategy for a while, so he had to put the letter aside and reply after thinking about it.

Li Shen also saw Xu Ping's illness from the Di newspaper and wrote a letter to greet him. At the end of the letter, the current situation in Heyin County was discussed. Jiang Dayou's case has not yet been tried, but his eldest daughter-in-law has remarried. His daughter-in-law is not very old, and she has a large dowry, and she has given birth to a son to show that she can give birth, and this kind of woman in this era is not worried about marrying at all. It is often still a hot item, and many wealthy families are rushing to ask for it.

The land of the Jiang family was divided into cattle cooperatives and farm tool cooperatives according to Xu Ping's proposal at that time, and according to the differences in the main means of production, it was actually a rural mutual aid cooperative, which was exactly what Xu Ping thought at that time. (To be continued.) )