Making money, taking exams, and raising a family in rural imperial examinations

When Lin Ze promulgated new policies in Qingshan County to try to reform.

On the other side of the capital, the emperor is also promulgating one imperial decree after another to establish a 'Supervision Office' to investigate and crack down on official corruption in various departments and ministries. The members are all fledgling young people with a strong sense of justice.

The officials didn't take the Supervisory Office seriously at the beginning, but soon one after another was dismissed by the Supervisory Office, the emperor strongly supported the suppression, and suddenly began to panic and act with their tails between their legs.

In addition, the emperor also issued several imperial decrees, the content of which was aimed at the trade and business between Daji and various countries. Many of them supported the businessmen's exchanges, which greatly attracted businessmen from other countries to come to do business. The tax revenue on the body has increased sharply by more than a few.

Most importantly, the "Qingshan County Road Construction Effect" memorial played by Duan Wensai aroused the emperor's interest and appreciation. He felt that transportation was indeed a good idea to promote prosperity, and immediately issued an imperial decree, asking officials from all over the country to start advocating road construction.

However, in order to prevent officials from all over the country from taking advantage of this opportunity to labor the people and collect money, they specially dispatched "supervisors" to supervise the progress of road construction.

In addition to the support from the national treasury, most of the funds for road construction are donated by merchants from all over the country. Merchants don’t donate for free. The imperial court will record them according to the size of their contributions. discount.

For a while, the merchants were willing to donate generously, and the common people cheered to actively participate in the imperial court's call for road construction, and volunteered to work as coolies...

After many actions, the courtiers could understand the emperor's mind.

Undoubtedly, at this age, His Majesty seems to have ignited the ambition to show off when he just ascended the throne.

Although such a majesty is a bit fierce, they also like the prosperity of Daji. Only when Daji continues to be strong, their descendants can enjoy the wealth and honor they have left behind from generation to generation.

The only disadvantage is that His Majesty does not establish a crown prince, nor disclose the identity of the 'prince', and let the 'prince' play outside, it is a bit absurd, how can the royal blood flow outside!

Lin Ze didn't care what these ministers thought. Anyway, he was very happy to hear the emperor's decree.

The teacher is a teacher, he is always strong and strong, his demeanor is still the same, his work efficiency is as high as him, and he has not lost his face.

I believe that with the cooperation of their teachers and students, within ten years, Daji will undergo earth-shaking changes.

The emperor acted resolutely, and Lin Ze naturally couldn't hold back. He immediately put the cocoa bean raw material on the agenda, and prepared to let Wang Maozi and a few Nanyang slaves set sail for the Nanyang territory.

Chocolate is a munitions item for the army. There should be no unexpected delays in this matter. Not only must he grasp the source of the purchase, but he must also find a way to transplant it on the land of Daji. For such an important thing, self-sufficiency is the most assured .

Cocoa beans are tropical plants. Although rice cannot be planted everywhere, it is still possible to find suitable places in some areas. This is left to the emperor to send someone to look for it. He just needs to use his mouth.

Lin Ze had already selected the candidate to go to Nanyang. At the beginning, the Nanyang slaves led the way. Apart from Wang Maozi, there were a few servants with him.

Before leaving, Lin Xiaolian came to find Lin Ze, wanting to go to Nanyang with Wang Maozi.

Shan Gao and Lu Yuan's family are naturally worried, but Lin Xiaolian is very determined. Apart from not wanting to be separated from her husband, she also wants to go outside and follow the world.

Lin Ze thinks that she and Wang Maozi have only been married for half a year, which is the time when they were newlyweds. Will not encounter too much danger.

After thinking about it, Lin Ze agreed to the request. As long as Lin Xiaolian can endure the hardship, he will not insist on keeping her at home. Women are only physically weak and their brains are no worse than men.

In this way, the family can only agree if they are worried.

On the contrary, Chen Shuju knew that her daughter was going to Nanyang so far away, so she ran to Lin's house and cried in the dark. She couldn't bear it because she was afraid that Lin Xiaolian would never come back. Nanyang is a wild and ferocious place in the eyes of Daji people. ah.

Although there is still a son of Lin Jianwen, she will not be left alone in her later life. Now the government has clearly stipulated that sons who do not provide for the elderly will be arrested. No matter what, Lin Jianwen has to feed and drink for her.

But after all the previous incidents, Chen Shuju had completely lost confidence in her son, and all her expectations were on her daughter, so naturally she was reluctant to let Lin Xiaolian run away.

In the end, Chen Shuju was actually a little cautious. She was living alone now, and she really wanted to go back to the Lin family. She hoped that Lin Sangui and Jiang Rongniang would be soft-hearted and come back to live a good life.

But how is this possible, in the end holding her daughter crying her eyes are swollen, no one is pitiful, so she can only leave in despair...

When everything was ready, Wang Maozi wore the hat of "Daji Going Overseas Envoy" and led the people to set off towards Nanyang.

And just two days after the big ship headed for Nanyang left, a happy event happened to the Lin family.

Ah Yu is pregnant again!

This news made the Lin family feel dumbfounded. They looked forward to the stars and the moon, and finally hoped that their eldest grandson Fulang would have another child.

Despite Lin Ze's attitude and brainwashing, the family didn't dislike Lin Dongdong, and they never urged Zhang Yu to conceive again, let alone say anything to make Lin Ze take a concubine.

But in their hearts, the Lin family still hoped that Zhang Yu would be able to conceive another child and give birth to a son. After all, they were ancients, and they felt from the bottom of their hearts that it was the son who would inherit the incense.

It’s just that it’s well-known that elder brothers are not easy to conceive. Seeing that Dongdong is already two years old, and Zhang Yu’s stomach hasn’t moved yet, the family members can only get angry with anxiety.

As a result, the good news came without a word, and the old lady Lin ran into the house immediately and kowtowed to the ancestral tablet.

However, this news is not a surprise to Lin Ze and his wife. The birth of this baby is what they expected.

Lin Ze didn't really care about his offspring. He didn't expect much from his children. Compared with his children, he cared more about Zhang Yu. He was very worried about problems in giving birth to children due to poor medical care in ancient times, and having too many children was right. The health is not good.

But I can't stand it. Zhang Yu is very active and wants to have another little monkey. If there is nothing to do, he will tempt him to make a baby.

Men are animals that think about their lower body. No matter how strong Lin Ze's concentration is, he can't stop his wife from being too attractive.

Therefore, under the husband and wife life of Hexie, he promised Zhang Yu to have another child in Beijing before, and the stomach came naturally. What kind of little brother is not good at conceiving a child is just a cloud under the couple's "effort".

Zhang Yu's belly grew very fast, and it took two months before she started to feel pregnant, but this baby was not long after it was found out, and it took less than two months for it to blow up like a balloon.

At that time, Lin Ze was so scared that he thought he was pregnant with a 'monster', but in a panic, he called the doctor over to check his pulse.

Hey, now I know that Ah Yu is pregnant with twins!

The family was overjoyed when they found out, and the elders couldn't close their mouths with laughter. Having many children and grandchildren is a well-known blessing in this era.

However, Lin Ze thought it might be due to Jiang Rong's natal genes.

I heard that the previous generations of the Jiang family had twins, and when they came to them, Brother Jun also gave birth to twins. Now it is normal for him to let Ah Yu have twins.

"It's really possible, not to mention the previous generations, it's my brother's daughter, I heard that she gave birth to twins a while ago..."

After Jiang Rongniang heard the words and thought about it, she felt that what Lin Ze said was very reasonable. It might indeed be inherited from her ancestors. Their Jiang family did love twins.

"But this is still Ayu's strength, the baby grew up in Brother Yu's belly."

At the end of the story, Jiang Rongniang praised Zhang Yu again.

She likes Zhang Yu very much, her son-in-law. Lin Sangui often tells her that her son is able to be as successful as he is now, thanks to brother Yu's persuasion. In the past, his son was fascinated by other unscrupulous women and did not do business. But since consummating the house with Brother Yu, the whole person has changed, and he has become more sober and sensible.

With Lin Sangui's popular science, Jiang Rongniang naturally thinks Zhang Yu is good, and often pulls Zhang Liumei to say that the other party has given birth to her a good husband.

Jiang Rongniang praised Zhang Yu, Lin Ze was happy to hear it, and didn't feel that his status was lower than his wife's.

Ah Yu worked so hard to give him a baby monkey, which is really amazing.

However, what Lin Ze is most worried about is the issue of production safety. Even if he has experience once, this time he still dare not be sloppy. Being not as good as him...

There are also fathers who often communicate with their babies through their stomachs, and their relationship will be better in the future, like Lin Dongdong was like this at the beginning, and he became particularly attached to their husband and wife after he was born.

Lin Dongdong knew that his father had a little brother, and he watched Zhang Jue's stomach curiously every day. He was very curious why his brother was hanging on his father's belly like a "ball". Brothers run and jump to play with him.

And with a younger brother, he can no longer sleep next to his father at night, which made Lin Dongdong very disappointed. After coaxing Lin Ze for a long time, he was "tricked" by a large box of chocolates before accepting that he could not sleep next to his father. reality.

But there is no father and father to sleep with him, and 'Brother Rong' to accompany him!

Lin Dongdong, who was determined not to sleep in the small bed by himself, turned his head and hugged his small pillow, and ran to Zhang Shidan's dormitory on his chubby legs. He refused to leave, and even bribed Zhang Shidan with his own chocolate. Dan's roommate asked him to stay.

Lin Ze couldn't laugh or cry when he found out. As expected of his son, he knew how to 'bribe' people when he was only two years old.

In the end, he couldn't resist the crying of the child, so he had no choice but to agree to Lin Dongdong to stay with Zhang Shidan, thinking that the child was still young and it would only be a few months, so let's wait until Ah Yu gave birth to the second child.

As for Lin Ze's chest-beating and stamping when he saw a certain apprentice leading his son to propose with a shy face in the future... let's not talk about it now.

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Time goes by, time flies.

Seeing Ah Yu's belly getting bigger day by day, Lin Ze felt that time passed faster than he imagined.

Because the little brother gave birth at seven months, the baby was formed earlier than the girl's belly, and now he is twins. Even though the family has controlled nutrition and diet according to the doctor's advice, Ah Yu's belly is still growing very fast.

In just five months, it seemed as if she was about to give birth, which made Lin Ze anxious and worried.

However, Ah Yu's complexion and body feel are still good. Except for a bigger belly, other aspects are more energetic than when Huai Lindong moved. He can walk, move, and even run two steps. It seems that this child is better than Lin Dong. The movement is more resistant to tossing.

The doctor said that the child is in good health, and it is very likely that there are two boys, because only boys have such good physique.

The family members were delighted again, and used any good things on Zhang Yu, and started making baby clothes early, and treated Zhang Yu carefully like an ancestor, which made Zhang Yu very helpless, and now he even went out. I can't move around freely.

But thinking about the doctor saying that this baby might be two boys, he himself became more careful. The little brother is no better than the girl, and every time he conceives is a blessing from God.

Even Lin Dongdong was very happy when he heard from his grandparents that there would be two more strong little brothers in the family to protect him.

Because in the little guy's mind, "protection" is equal to carrying a bag of snacks and riding a horse. Every time Zhang Shidan said something like, "Brother Rong will protect Dongdong", he would buy him a lot of delicious food and fun, and play behind his back , to help him with the toys; Li Sheng and Guo Zian did the same.

So in Lin Dongdong's understanding, the grandparents said that there are two more little brothers to 'protect' him, that is, there are a lot of delicious and fun things, let him ride a horse, and immediately, he doesn't hate his younger brother taking away his father's bed Now, I began to look forward to the birth of my brother...

In the whole family, Lin Ze may be the only one who doesn't care about the baby in his stomach the least, and is so full of attention on his wife, that everyone has a baby that is a gift from him to make soy sauce!

Lin Ze was worried, but life still had to go on, especially with the piles of official duties on the Yamen side.

During the implementation of the three previously issued policies, various small problems finally appeared smoothly from the beginning. The difference in the thinking of the times will naturally lead to various loopholes and conflicts in the applicable modern policies here.

So in the past few months, he has not made any new moves, but has been constantly improving the loopholes in the policy based on the environment, events, and situations.

For example, in teaching elementary school to read, there is a conflict because of the age of the children.

In modern times, adults are considered adults at the age of 18. Before the age of 18, everyone only cares about studying and does not care about making money. But here, people are considered adults at the age of [-] or [-], and they have to start getting married and take care of family life.

In the village, children have to go to work in the fields with adults when they are almost 12 years old, and they are considered to be half of the labor force of the family. So, how can the common people keep all the children studying.

If you read well, you may continue to pay for it, but if you do not read well, it is not a waste of money to continue to go to school!

Therefore, in response to these contradictory loopholes, Lin Ze had to make changes and add various incidental policies.

Compulsory education is still a nine-year system. Children start kindergarten at the age of three. Regardless of whether their grades are good or bad, they must study until they are 12 years old. Abbreviation.

In order to reduce everyone's financial burden, the yamen has set up a special "government talent agency". All ordinary people who want to do part-time jobs come here to report, and anyone who wants to find workers from outside also comes here.

Doing so seems overbearing and unreasonable to modern people, but it was normal in the ancient times of power.

In this way, it can be managed to solve the black-hearted businessman's oppression of illiterate people in the contract, and legal and standardized management and workmanship. When he thinks of ways to develop the economy of Qingshan County in the future, he will have a place to find people directly, which is the best of both worlds.

In addition, in order to encourage the people to pay attention to education, and not to arrange marriages for children so early, Lin Ze also issued many incentives and preferential terms.

For example, children who graduated from Manchurian elementary schools normally, those with excellent grades, the government will give priority to introducing them to work; for everyone to concentrate on starting a career, and to discuss marriage after the age of 16, the government will give new marriage subsidies. The common people have the feeling of taking advantage of nothing for nothing.

As a modern Lin Ze, I really can't see the phenomenon of getting married and having children at the age of [-] or [-] in ancient times. These children are not yet fully developed at this age!

To be honest, there were many difficult girls and brothers in ancient times, and this is a big reason.

He would like to directly stipulate the rule of getting married after the age of 18, but it will not work. After all, the life expectancy of ancient people was affected by various factors, and the average age was shorter than that of modern people.

All in all, Lin Ze's heart is broken because of these things. It's not good for him to do these things, but since he is in the position of "Master Sasuke", he naturally needs to be more considerate of the people.

This is the difference between officials and common people. You have enjoyed the respect of the common people, court offerings, and other privileges. Naturally, you have to do things for the common people.

After the policy was promulgated, it took several months of bumps and bumps before the various loopholes were perfected, and the people were fully adapted to accept it.

Seeing that the situation was all right, Lin Ze finally issued another order to go out——a county-wide population census.

Why the sudden census?This is naturally in preparation for the next planned demolition and development.

He doesn't know about other places for the time being, but he has observed the terrain distribution of Qingshan County a lot. In fact, many places can be integrated and specially planned for farming, breeding, planting and so on.

But these places are either abandoned because the people in the villages don't have enough manpower, or they are completely uninhabited, and the layout of houses and commercial streets in the towns is also very chaotic, and they really don't care about management and development.

Due to such a distribution, it has directly led to the poor life of the people living in remote villages, unable to come out of the mountains at all, how can they work to make money and become rich.

Therefore, it is imperative to move what should be moved, to demolish what should be demolished, to re-divide the land, and to arrange the people to live in groups.

Therefore, before the formal demolition plan, a population census is necessary to prevent mistakes in compensation at that time, so that the subsequent work can be carried out.

Duan Wensai was attracted by Lin Ze's ideas and the bright future he described. Young people are full of enthusiasm and want to make a career out of it. Although Qingshan County is small, they do practical things here without any constraints. outside carefree.

In addition, Brother Jun likes this place very much. After careful consideration, Duan Wensai submitted a memorial to the imperial court for his application for staying in office. Anyway, the capital is still complicated now, and many things are not clear. He might as well stay here and follow his uncle. Learn more.

After the discussion meeting with Lin Ze, the officials of Qingshan County, headed by Duan Wensai, started to act immediately, ordering their subordinates to do things.

With the fate of the previous big tigers, everyone is very obedient now. Anyway, in just a few years, they will work with their tails crossed tremblingly.

The various departments were in place, and the officials began to go to the towns and villages to carry out the census.

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Sanhe Village.

This is a village at the foot of a mountain,

It is said that they rely on mountains to eat mountains and rely on water to eat water, but although this Sanhe village is located at the foot of the mountain, it is very unfortunate that the mountain they are next to is a rocky mountain, and the surrounding fields are very barren. Work again to supplement the family income.

But their village is too far away from the town, so it is very inconvenient to do part-time work; next to it is a rocky mountain with no animal or plant products, and the only work they can do is to knock rocks and coolies, so every family here is very poor.

But the poor are poor, but there are still many trivial things in this village.

"You bloody bastard, I can't do a good job even if I ask you to wash the clothes. I spent a lot of copper to make this cotton coat the year before last, and it was ruined just by washing it for you. You are trying to get revenge on the old woman, right? !"

"Grandma, no, I didn't break it, it broke when I got it..."

"Bah, you wash the clothes at home, not who you ruined? It's fine if you can't lay eggs. Even if you can't do this well, what's the use of our family marrying you back! Fortunately, your parents dared to ask for it. I don't care about so many dowries, you have to find a way to pay me a new one!"

"But you are in charge of the money in the mother-in-law's house, I, I, I don't..."

"If you don't, just find a way! Don't think I don't know that you asked my son to give you private money!"

"Mother, Cui Cui really has no money, I hand over all the money I earn from working to you."

"Shut up! When you grow your wings and become stiff, do your best to help your daughter-in-law talk, right?"

"No mother, I..."

There was another burst of shouting and noise from the Bai family in the village.

The neighbors around were eating and listening at the door with their rice bowls. Although they sympathized, they were obviously numb to listening, and they didn't dare to care about it. The old lady of the Bai family is a powerful one. Home.

In fact, it is much better now. In the past, the daughter-in-law of the Bai family was beaten directly. Now the government has stipulated that it is not allowed to beat the wife and daughter-in-law. No one dares to touch the law.

The old lady of the Bai family didn't take it seriously last time, so she was arrested and locked up in the government for a few days, and she didn't dare to do anything again when she came back.But I still don't like my daughter-in-law's natal family. At the beginning, the dowry was much more, and the dowry was less. Now that they haven't given birth to a grandson for many years, they have changed other ways to deal with it.

You can't but you can scold, the old lady of the Bai family is a powerful character when she hits the young, and there are many ways to work around it.

The villagers shook their heads, but there was nothing they could do. They could only sigh that every family had scriptures that were difficult to recite.

The Bai family was making a fuss when a pair of officials suddenly walked in at the entrance of the village. The house of the Bai family was directly opposite the entrance of the village, and the officials heard the movement as soon as they came.

Immediately, several officials frowned and kicked open the gate of Bai's house, sternly reprimanded,

"What is this family making a fuss about! Are you abusing your daughter-in-law and brother-in-law again?!"

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When rectifying the officials of Qingshan County, Lin Ze, the official clerk of each department in Qingshan County, also rectified from top to bottom.

All those scrounging for money were kicked out, and the remaining and newly recruited clerks were all of good character and fact-based. In order to encourage everyone to work hard, he also set up many reward conditions in terms of wages.

For example, every month, how many people who touch the law will be rewarded; how much money will be rewarded; there are no mistakes in the work of the month, and the record is good, and the accumulation of excellent evaluations will be used as a promotion assessment; mutual supervision and reporting of bribery and bribery; Well, give rewards and so on.

Therefore, the current yamen officials are an unprecedented batch of good yamen servants who "do things for the people".

"Guan Guan Guan Ye, no, no, I didn't hit my daughter-in-law! I didn't do anything! I was just talking about her, she ruined the clothes and said she was normal, I didn't hit my daughter-in-law!"

The officials kicked them away aggressively, which shocked the Bai family members in the yard, especially the old lady Bai, whose face turned pale at that moment, and immediately shook her head to explain.

Last time, she was caught in a government prison to receive 'education' because of beating her daughter-in-law for a long time.

Although I don't like my daughter-in-law now, I really don't dare to do it anymore. I can only live with the habit of swearing and other aspects. I don't even dare to give more work. I am afraid that people will say that she abused her daughter-in-law. , and then arrested to 'reform education'.

God knows that the people who manage the reform and education now are Zhang Goutou and others who were tossed by Lin Ze for two full years. These people have learned from Lin Ze how many ways to deal with people without seeing blood...

"Master, my mother-in-law really didn't hit me."

Although the daughter-in-law of the Bai family was scolded and wronged all day long, she still helped to explain and didn't want to send her mother-in-law to prison again.

Anyway, that is her husband's own mother. Although she has been treated badly these years, she has not starved and frozen her. The mother-in-law doesn't like her, so she can only blame her natal family for deceiving her husband's family by treating her like a livestock. She has not even given birth to a daughter after being married to her husband for many years. It is much better than other people who have directly divorced their wives if the Bai family did not drive her away.

Seeing her intercede and expressing her position, the old lady Bai's face turned better. Finally, the daughter-in-law here still has some brains and conscience, otherwise she will definitely decide to divorce her later.

"The law on the protection of daughters, brothers, infants, young children and the elderly promulgated by the government includes not only physical beatings, but also harsh verbal abuse and hard work! You can decide whether you have violated the law. The government will investigate. Now we After registering, people from the Women's Federation will come later, and you will cooperate with the interrogation and investigation, there are no rules, and the government's laws are not just for show!"

The officer ignored the explanation and took out the small book and started to register.

In order to prevent the girls who have been abused for a long time from having slavish thoughts, and the abuser coercing and intimidating to hide the facts, Lin Ze added a special policy, which is to prevent these things from changing from the obvious to the dark and not being fundamentally resolved.

People from the Women's Federation will come to investigate again, or go to the government to 'receive education'. The old lady Bai is really crying. Why are there so many wicked mothers-in-law in the village who are caught every time they are unlucky...

Neighbors gloated over their misfortune, especially those girls and brothers who were already married. Every time they saw this, they felt happy and grateful to the adults who issued the decree.

Li Zheng rushed over after hearing the news, and greeted him respectfully.

"Gentlemen, I am Lizheng from Sanhe Village. May I ask if you are here today, is the government issued a new law?"

In the past, the officials came to the village every year when they collected taxes, but now they come here every few months. Every time they come, it means that there is new news from the government, and everyone has started to get used to it.

"There is no new law for the time being. We are here this time under the order of Master Lin to conduct a census of the population of each village. Time is limited. Please also ask Lizheng to call out all the villagers, old and young, to record them."

Now that the yamen has been rectified and strictly managed, the officials are no longer as arrogant as they used to be to the common people, and their attitude has improved a lot.

The census of population is not difficult to understand. The imperial court will conduct population and household registration statistics every ten years to prevent each family from reporting the head tax if there are too many people.

But now it is not time for statistics, so why is there a census again?

The villagers couldn't figure it out, but the officials didn't dare not cooperate with their errands. If they had any doubts, they still informed each other and quickly called the family members out to line up for the roll call and census registration.

The situation of this census is very different from what I thought. It is not only necessary to check the number of people in each family, but also to check the registration status of the couples and marriages between husband and wife.

Many management systems in ancient times were not as perfect as modern ones. For example, in the case of marriage, it was settled by the dowry and marriage as evidence. Most of them would not go to the yamen for formal registration, because it would cost money.

Anyway, from everyone's point of view, the matchmaker talked about the marriage, the chapel was hired, the elders witnessed, and after a series of procedures, Li Zheng wrote the marriage letter. What is this not a serious marriage?It was also recognized by the imperial court in the past.

However, the official registration is different. All marriages that have not been registered in the Yamen must be made up, otherwise they will be punished.

It is the same for the elderly including dozens of years old, all of them have to go to the Yamen to re-register.

"My lord, my old lady still needs to apply for a new registration at such an advanced age? The head of the family and I even have grandchildren. Isn't it a husband and wife if we don't register? Isn't this nonsense!"

Naturally, the people didn't understand, so they yelled on the spot, feeling unreasonable.

Going to the yamen to re-register requires money, and you have to go to the town, what a hassle, they seriously say that the matchmaker is going to the whole village to witness, why waste money to go to the yamen to register, they are not those big masters, doing business You need your wife's name and identity to handle affairs and escape business registration.

"This is stipulated by the above. Do it within one month. If you don't do it, you will receive the punishment notice at your own risk!"

The official post didn't explain too much, and just let everyone do things.

In fact, they didn't know how to explain it, and the higher authorities didn't tell them why the census was done like this. They also found it very troublesome and confusing to re-do the marriage registration.

The official authority was suppressed, and everyone complained in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say any more.

Nowadays, the government is really saying the same thing. Unlike before, when things were done with thunder and rain, the current government says that if you don’t cooperate with the work, you will be dragged to work as a coolie, including women and brothers. Who cares? How dare you not listen!

"But don't worry, Mr. Lin has adjusted the fee for marriage registration in the yamen in consideration of everyone's financial situation. Eight copper coins are enough for a couple, and no extra fees will be charged..."

That said, everyone feels better.

In fact, the biggest reason for not going to the yamen to register is not for fear of trouble, but for fear of paying money. In the past, it cost more than [-] yuan to register once. It's better to save a few more meals of meat.

After some tossing and roll call, the officials immediately packed up their things and rushed to the next village after the census of the village here, without making any extra stops. They have a time limit for doing things. punished.

Before leaving, the official sent a notice to Lizheng to count the land owned by each family and so on.

After the officials left, the villagers also gathered to discuss the sudden "population census".

Although I don't know what the purpose of the government is, but I can't be idle, doing these things must have a purpose and meaning.

After a lively discussion, everyone's ideas are quite unified,

"...It is estimated that the government may issue some new announcements. Master Lin did not say that our Qingshan County is now a 'new policy and actual administration point' hand-picked by His Majesty. The simple meaning is that any new imperial decree will be implemented here first. Checking the population registration this time, there must be a new law.”

"I guess so, but I don't know what the law is."

"It must be a good thing. Mr. Lin has only been in office for half a year. Isn't the notice issued that time good for us? Mr. Lin is a good official who really cares about our common people. It must be a good thing. Let's just wait."

"That's right, since Mr. Lin took office, our life is getting better and better. Anyway, if we want to work now, we don't have to worry about not being able to find it and being cheated. Go directly to the 'government talent agency' to report and wait for the news, really. Convenient and comfortable..."

The villagers discussed happily.

With previous good news examples, I am looking forward to the new news from the government. Unlike before, when I heard the government said what to do, I immediately went home with a sad face and counted how much money I had left in my wallet, and sighed...

The old lady Bai listened to the discussion of a group of villagers, and when she got home, she didn't have the heart to worry about her daughter-in-law anymore, and began to think about it in her heart.

She is an old man who has lived half her life. She has more knowledge and experience than young people. She is also a woman who is alone with her eldest son. She has no skills or brains to do it. She is keenly aware that this government census must not be that simple. .

But she couldn't guess why it wasn't simple. After all, even the yamen servants didn't know it. An old woman like her could at best have a keen sense of smell.

But she vaguely felt that this census would change the whole life of the family.

Thinking carefully and tossing and turning for half a night, the old lady Bai decisively dug out the money at home the next day, changed into old clothes without patches, and was ready to go out.

"Mother, where are you going? Our village is far away from the town. Although the road has been built, the ox cart at Uncle Wang's house is not going to the market today. I'm afraid your body won't be able to bear it at your age..."

The daughter-in-law of the Bai family was fetching water from the well in the morning, and when she saw her mother-in-law was about to go out, she couldn't help but say something more.

Although the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not good, and her mother-in-law is very fierce to her, but her natal family ignores her, and her husband's family is her only support, she still works hard to be filial and please her mother-in-law.

It was this hard work that kept her from being divorced for many years without a child. Old lady Bai's concern for her daughter-in-law was very useful.

Thinking about how dangerous it is for an old woman to walk such a long way to the town, in case no one sees her when she falls to the ground out of breath along the way.

After thinking about it, I looked at my daughter-in-law's stomach that hadn't moved for five or six years, and simply waved her hand in greeting.

"Then you go with me, and find a doctor to take a look at it. You have a stomach too. You have been married to Da Zhuang for so long that you don't even have a girl to lay eggs. I don't know how your natal family raised you! You have to be an old lady." Spend money to see the doctor, if your mother dares to come to our house to borrow food later, I will take a fire stick to greet my old lady! Go back to the house, change clothes and leave..."

The old lady Bai's mouth has been poisonous since she was young, and her speech is ugly.

"Okay, mother, wait a minute, I'll change clothes right away."

The daughter-in-law of the Bai family has long been used to it, so she didn't take it seriously, and hurried back to the house to change her clothes.

The mother-in-law is a bit evil, but after all, when she was sick, her husband's family didn't throw her back to her natal family to ignore her, and she didn't starve to death and sell her when there was a disaster, and she couldn't give birth to a child, let alone divorce her. It is more than enough, and now I don't beat her anymore, she is very satisfied.

Anyway, if the daughter-in-law is turned into a mother-in-law, the mother-in-law will not live as long as she is, and when the mother-in-law is boiled to death, she will be as bright as the clouds and see the moon... Of course, the mother-in-law must never know this idea.