After time travel, he devoted himself to helping his father with his career.

Mingjia stayed in the main courtyard until dinner, and then left with her brother Mingjun. Xiao Qingshan has also finished this round of work and resumed his daily life of going to the office and going back to the backyard to eat.

Mingjia seemed to be very concerned and asked her brother, "Brother, will there be any tests at the county school soon?"

Ming Jun thought for a moment and replied: "There won't be any at the beginning of the month. I guess there will be a unified test in the middle of the month, and then there will be annual leave."

Ming Jia's lips twitched when she heard this. It turned out that there was a final exam so early!

When they reached the fork between the two study rooms, Ming Jia grabbed Ming Jun's sleeve as he was about to leave, "Brother, don't leave! Since you haven't taken the test, come and help me read the account books!"

Ming Jun and Ming Jia entered Ming Jia's study with a confused look on their faces, and saw two large stacks of account books. Mingjun looked at Mingjia and asked what was going on.

"As you can see, there are more people this year, and the accounts for the year have been sorted out in advance." Mingjia pulled his brother to sit on the chair next to him.

Mingjun also knows so many account books, and his sister doesn't know when she will be able to read them all by herself. After Ming Jun sat down, he took the abacus and account books and looked at the account books together.

Mingjun was taught the abacus technique by Accountant Li himself. In the first few months after Shiqulou opened, when Mingjia hid her identity from her parents, it was inconvenient for Mingjia to go out, so Mingjun always found opportunities to go out to Shiqulou. Send letters and read account books.

The two brothers and sisters were much more efficient when they worked together. By the time it was time to take a break, they had already read almost 30% of the account books.

The next day, Mingjun went to school in the county, while Mingjia continued to read the account books. After reading the account books all morning, Mingjia almost went crazy.

Mingjia put down the pen and thought for a while, then took out a piece of letter paper and picked up the pen again to write a letter to Accountant Li and Chi Hua.

Looking at the time, there was still a little time before lunch, so Mingjia decisively chose to rest. "Grandma Yan, stay in the study while I go find my master!"

Mingjia put on the cloak as she spoke, and Mrs. Yan quickly agreed.

After the big gathering, all the information and statistics have been filed, and the remaining work is Huang County Cheng's. Huang County Cheng has been doing these jobs for several years and is very comfortable with them.

Therefore, from now on, except for Huang Xiancheng, who still has some work, the entire Quxian leadership team has begun to drink tea and fish every day.

When Ming Jia arrived, Xie Boyuan was playing chess with himself. Mingjia walked over and sat directly opposite the chessboard, holding a chess piece in his fingers, "I'll play a game of chess, master."

When Xie Boyuan saw that Mingjia was coming, he smiled and nodded, indicating that it was time for Mingjia to make a move. "Why do you have time to look for me today?"

While observing the chess game, Mingjia answered the master's question seemingly unintentionally, "Yesterday, I was doing needlework with my mother in the main courtyard. I accidentally talked about the escape, and then remembered Uncle Shen Qi's experience of coming all the way from the capital... "

At this time, Mingjia happened to fall down and stopped talking. Mingjia raised his head and looked at Master with a smile, "Master, it's your turn!"

Xie Boyuan put away his probing eyes, holding the chess piece in his hand, but looked at Ming Jia and said: "The day after Shen Qi arrived, I wrote a letter back to the capital. In fact, Shen Qi sent the letter back to the capital on the way."

Xie Boyuan observed Ming Jia's expression. After all, they had been together for three years, and Xie Boyuan was already very familiar with the little girl's expression.

Xie Boyuan saw Ming Jia's eyes looking down, her mouth tightened and her brows raised. Was this a sign of disbelief or dissatisfaction?

Xie Boyuan continued: "In fact, the imperial court distributed relief food to the northwest states, but the refugees were afraid of the war and left early. Now they can only rely on relief from the states along the way."

Unexpectedly, Mingjia's disgusted expression became even more obvious. Expecting the imperial court to send relief food, these people may not survive until the relief food arrives, and they will all starve to death.

Mingjia still trusts the judgment of the people more on this point. Regarding the situation of the court, Mingjia is more distrustful.

Xie Boyuan put the chess pieces directly back into the chess box and stopped playing. He had to talk to Ming Jia about this matter. Xie Boyuan is optimistic about the future of both Mingjun and Mingjia, and he does not want Mingjia to have a bad view of the court.

"Sichuanzhou is a state that has been severely affected by the disaster. Thanks to the last few light rains in summer, people have also harvested some grain. The records I personally went to the fields to record are about 50% of the production in previous years."

After Xie Boyuan finished speaking, he looked at Mingjia. If Mingjia didn't agree with the data, he could directly take Mingjia to adjust the data.

Mingjia recognized this data. Mingjia had seen the records of the grain output statistics at that time. When Xie Boyuan saw Mingjia nodding slightly, he continued:

"The four northwest states are all tax-free this year and do not have to pay the 10% tax. This means that grain production will be reduced by 40%. Sichuan Prefecture was less affected by the war, while other states were more seriously affected. Some villages suffered more than half of their casualties."

Xie Boyuan also felt a little sad when he said this. War is always cruel. What he is going to say here now is even more cruel.

"Since the soldiers on the grassland entered the city for a short time, they only had time to grab some gold, silver, jewelry and valuables, as well as the grain stored in each house. They did not have time to harvest the grain in the fields."

Hearing this, Mingjia had already started to frown, because Mingjia thought of what the master was going to say next. Seeing Xie Boyuan's somewhat sad expression and his somewhat depressed tone just now, Mingjia caught what the master was about to say.

"So, in fact, for many states, there will be a lot of ownerless grain that can be harvested? In other words, if these refugees finish harvesting the grain, plus the relief grain from the court, they can definitely survive the winter safely."

Xie Boyuan knew that Ming Jia could understand what he meant. Xie Boyuan added: "Next year's spring plowing will be subsidized by the court. It has even issued a decree to provide grain seeds for free."

Ming Jia's expression froze, and she suddenly remembered that this Emperor Liang was a wise king praised by future generations! These disaster relief measures are very good, but...

Seeing that Ming Jia's expression was still hesitant, Xie Boyuan couldn't help but add: "Moreover, most of those who fled when the war first started have returned to their hometowns. Now most of them only appear after the autumn harvest."

Ming Jia didn't understand the difference, so Xie Boyuan picked up the chess pieces again. He paused gently and said with a smile: "It means that some refugees collected food and sold it at high prices. They had money in their pockets and did not want to buy high-priced food locally, so they went to other places."

Mingjia couldn't help but blurt out: "Isn't it important that fallen leaves return to their roots? They left when they said they wanted to leave!"

"Hey! Because of the war! They are also afraid of the war. After all, these people are villagers seriously affected by the war!" Xie Boyuan became even more sad when he said this.

Mingjia also understood, but Mingjia still wanted to retort, "That's not all! There are always those who really can't survive, and they really run away hungry,"