Ma Meng took a farmer and walked into a car to the outside of the inspection camp. Looking at the towering village gate in front of him, he hesitated for a moment.

Whenever he went to the county yard, Ma Meng was as comfortable as returning to his own home. In the yamen, from the guards to the servants, from the head to the archer, all of them were familiar with him, but when he came to the inspector village, he felt uncomfortable. Of course, there were also people in the village who called him brothers, but only a few soldiers, who really had real power, and were not familiar with him. The inspector village controlled public security within a radius of hundreds of miles, but the matters around the village were rarely taken care of and rarely dealt with people like Ma Meng.

He forced himself to cheer up and let a soldier guarding the village gate go in and report it. Ma Meng followed him into the village.

When he arrived at Du Zhongxiao's door, Ma Meng sang No. Chai Xin, who was guarding the door, could give him an order and lead him in.

Du Zhongxiao looked at Ma Meng standing in front of him. He had white face and black beard. He was not vicious, but like a merchant. He said to him: "The land around here is flat and there is no one else's house. It's a pity that it is deserted. The state agreed to guide water and open fields in this area. The list of documents has been posted, so that the Lizheng came to obey the order. Why have you delayed these many days?"

Ma Meng bowed: "I returned to the government because I had some business in the city and never returned to the village, so I was delayed."

Du Zhongxiao nodded and said, "Since that is the case, I will not cure you for negligence. However, you must do your best to reclaim wasteland later."

Ma Meng hesitated for a moment before saying, "I don't care about the officials. There were people around me, but they were flooded every year, and there were no harvests in the fields, and they were moved away one after another. There were rivers between the two rivers, so it was really not easy to clear the land. Apart from the wharf, there are only dozens of families in my village. Where can I find someone to open the land? I also ask the officials to give me mercy. This is really difficult to deal with."

Du Zhongxiao looked at Ma Meng with a expressionless face and said lightly: "It is natural that you don't rely on you to open up the land. The government will recruit people. However, you have money to contribute money and strength to this kind of local affairs. You are the only big local household, and you have to take more responsibility in front of the local area. Except for a few households who fish, there are many people in your village who don't have to do anything about production. How many people are there? How many people are there? I have to recreate the book in the past few days."

Ma Meng hurriedly bowed: "Officials, don't listen to the idle people's nonsense. The people in my village don't work for production, so where does the food, clothing and expenses come from? Xiaomin is a very small person in this area. There are many businesses on weekdays, and most of the people in the village help me. Our business families are not as good as ordinary farmers. If they don't work, they will lose more food and clothing a day, and they are afraid they will find it difficult to get out their hands."

Du Zhongxiao said: "You are a registered householder of the imperial court and a tax servant, how can you refuse? Don't say it, I will send someone here and go back to the village to order Qi Dingzhuang. When the land is opened and people are hired, I will make arrangements."

After hearing this, Ma Meng couldn't help but feel anxious. He sent his farmer to open up land, not only business cannot be done, but many things must be exposed. He hurriedly said: "The officials are merciful. If the people in my farmer are allowed to serve, the people's business will definitely not be done. Not only will the people's food and clothing be damaged, but the people in the farmer cannot cover their belly. It is really difficult for them to work and eat for a day."

Du Zhongxiao looked at Ma Meng, closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then said, "Since that's the case, you can discuss this matter again. However, the people in your village are not suitable for service, but they need to pay money to hire someone to do it. In the past two days, we will count the households first, and then set the amount to pay. - Jin Kongmu, you arrange the capable personnel to go back to the village with Li Zheng, and count the households in his village again. Do not make any mistakes."

Ma Meng wanted to say something else, Du Zhongxiao just waved his hand and asked them to go and go back quickly.

Ma Meng couldn't help but complain. There were many people in his village, and there were even more people like Song Sigong who had committed crimes. How could he dare to let someone go to the village to check? I had countless thoughts in my mind, thinking about how to fool them.

Jin Shu summoned two entourages who were familiar with officials, and then asked the village leader He Kun to ask for a few soldiers, and followed Ma Meng back to the village.

Seeing Jin Shuzhao busy, Ma Meng stubbornly stepped forward and said, "Kongmu, this matter is not urgent. Most of the people in my village do various businesses outside, and there is no one at home. Why not let me go back and arrange it and wait for a day or two before counting it?"

Jin Shuzhao Ban raised his face and said, "This matter is urgent, and the officials are urging him tightly. How can we delay it? Don't say it, if I order people here, I will go back to the village. It will be better to determine how much money you are exempted from service."

The exemption law in Wang Anshi's reform in history mainly refers to the servants who work in the yamen, such as the front of the official yamen. However, temporary recruitment of civilians to repair dikes and lands has always been recruitment and employment. Ma Meng did not want the merchants to serve, so he had to pay for the money and the government would hire people to do it.

Ma Meng laughed and walked aside to the side and said to the visitor of the village: "Go back quickly and let the people in the village be prepared and the government checked." He said this, and lowered his voice: "Mr. Song Si and his men in the village will be sent to the reed marsh in the north first. Remember, give it to the delivery quickly!"

The shopkeeper agreed and hurriedly left the inspection camp.

Du Zhongxiao saw it in the room and sighed secretly. He could probably guess that there must be some people in Ma Mengzhuang who cannot see the light. If someone is sent to follow him now, he will be able to grasp some handles. But he has limited people and is powerless, so he can only watch here.

A village with more than 100 households can easily pull out one or two hundred young men and dare not provoke them easily. Ma Meng is not a criminal, so Du Zhongxiao cannot send all the soldiers in the inspection village. He dares to give orders, but the village leader He Kun dares not accept orders. If something happens, the army cannot explain. What's more, there are only more than 100 soldiers in the inspection village, and more than half of the people patroll outside on a daily basis, so where can there be soldiers to be sent?

When Du Zhongxiao proposed to reclaim the land, the first thing he had to solve was the problem of insufficient manpower. The people who recruited land were all manpower that he could directly control, not just for work. A few farms were spread around him, so he could see the horses firmly and then he could calmly investigate him. Du Zhongxiao was different from ordinary officials in this era. Only when he had enough power in his hands could he feel at ease.

These days, he always remembers Tao Shiqi's calmness in killing his enemies on the street. He doesn't believe that such a person will recognize the wrong person and kill the wrong person. Killing someone will pay for his life, and there is nothing to say. All he can do is to figure out the matter and prevent him from dying inexplicably.

In addition to the judge who takes charge of everything, the official position is actually relatively relaxed, and his main job is to litigate the criminal prison. Du Zhongxiao came to the county to supervise the transportation of the canal, and the task was even more single, and there was actually not much to do. Without Tao Shiqi's case, Du Zhongxiao would not propose to reclaim the land. He would like most people to easily wait for time here and wait until his term of change of land.

After slowly walking back to the case, Du Zhongxiao sat down and flipped the official documents on the case. This is the general situation of the Bian River boatmen and boatmen recently counted, with a large number of people. These manpower was the first thing Du Zhongxiao had to use. After Yongcheng, there were no boats in the northern section of Bian River in winter, and tens of thousands of official and private boat workers had nothing to do for three months, commonly known as winter. These three months were difficult for them. Even if the wings of the canal transport had food and rice, it was only enough to make a living. The food problem of these people was a major event in the court, and Du Zhongxiao's reclaiming fields was considered to be a sharing of the court's worries.
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