What he smelled at the tip of his nose was the scent of his lover mixed with the blood of the weapon. This smell revived the animal wildness in his body.It's just that the soft and cool touch on the lips left after a slight touch, and the cold fragrance left with it.

An Yinong rubbed his lower lip with his thumb, and smiled with narrowed eyes: "Shy?"

Gu Zhengzhong, who was stagnant in the air, covered his face with a fan, his eyes were bright red, he was not usually gentle and refined, but he was full of evil spirits.

In just two seconds, the arrow had reached the bandit leader.

The bandit leader had long been used to the speed of the arrows shot by the young general on the opposite side. He didn't expect the last arrow to be so fast and fierce. It almost came to him in the blink of an eye, and he couldn't avoid it.

"Ah!" He only had time to utter a short cry, and the next second, he was shot through the eye by an arrow, and the arrow emerged from the back of the skull.

"The bandit leader has been executed, why don't you put down your weapon and surrender quickly?" An Yinong shouted loudly as he rode his horse. The horse thieves didn't believe it at first, but when they looked back, the boss fell to the ground a long time ago, and he didn't know how many times he was trampled by the horse.

The horse thieves suddenly lost their heads and didn't know what to do for a while.

"I, we surrender!"

One, two, three... As more and more horse thieves put down their weapons, the battle came to an end.

"Tian magistrate county is really beyond my expectations." Taking the head of a horse thief among thousands of people, such a credit, put on the soldiers under his tent, is enough to be promoted to a small official, but it is not easy to look at these things with old eyes in the future Literati.

"It's also because the general commanded well that I was lucky enough to kill the thief leader."

The two of them complimented each other, and the bridal sedan chair carried others.

"General, I would like to borrow a troop of your soldiers." When the time was about to pass, An Yinong put forward his idea.

"Borrow troops?"

The general was a little hesitant, he didn't know what An Yinong was doing with the borrowed troops.Who knew that An Yinong directly shook out a piece of paper. This action was the same as the action of shaking out the wealth distribution map of the Jin family and the Bai family before. The corner of the general's eyes twitched, and a gust of cold wind blew across his back.

"There are ten households in the county, not to mention helping the tyrants, they owe my yamen tax money for a long time, and I have to get them back today." An Yinong smiled very softly: so much land and so much money, no How about some blood?

It just so happened that all these big landlords committed crimes with him, and some of them killed a few in homicide cases, isn't it too much?It's not too much to kill a person and then raid a house, right?

half a month later.

"Work! Work fast! Are you not full?"

The supervisor threw his whip on the ground. If the adults hadn't told them not to whip and hurt these prisoners, he should have thrown the whip on these prisoners.

"Hmph, you guys have today too." Looking at these former horse thieves who were crying and piling up wasteland, the supervisor thought of his grandfather who died because of the horse thieves, and felt a sense of joy in his heart that his revenge had been avenged.

Changing the direction, the supervisor came to a young man with a warm kettle in his hands. In this early winter weather, the young man took off his coat and rolled up his trousers to open up wasteland.

"My lord, are you tired? Would you like some water?" The supervisor was full of hospitality, not only because the person in front of him was their new magistrate, but also because the wasteland that had been developed would be sold to the county at half price in the future. of the poor.

The overseer himself was a poor man.

An Yinong glanced at him, took a sip from the kettle, "You are the one from before..."

"Li Jian, back to my lord, I used to dig mines for the Bai family, and you brought people to rescue us all, and even burned our deeds of sale." Speaking of this matter, Li Jian's eyes There are faint tears.

Many of them here are miners who were taken away by the Jinbai family to dig copper mines.At that time, in order to keep secrets, the miners lived in the most difficult environment. Not to mention having enough food and clothing, it was a good thing not to be beaten.

The death rate of the miners is very high. Most of the miners will die within three years after entering the mine.

Li Jian, who is in his 20s, looks like he is in his 30s. He thought he would die in it, but he didn't expect that one day the new magistrate would bring a group of people down from the sky, rescue them all, and give them compensation , Let them go back to buy property, get married and have children.

But Li Jian didn't leave, he wanted to follow his savior.So later I signed up to be a supervisor. In addition to supervising these horse thieves and thugs, I also occasionally help with work.

After An Yinong drank the water, he returned the kettle to the supervisor, and picked up the hoe to continue working.He worked so carefully that others were ashamed to be lazy.

This is the wasteland of the Bai family before. The soil in this land is not bad, the degree of desertification is relatively low, and there is a small stream nearby, which can be used for irrigation. Therefore, An Yinong chose to open up wasteland and turn the wasteland into cultivated land during the winter slack. .

The main force in the land reclamation were thugs and horse thieves from the Jinbai family, neither of whom had major faults.

An Yinong promised that if he worked hard, not only would he get some wages, but his sentence would also be reduced.In theory, they could be free if they did this for three years—certainly before he left office, anyway.

These prisoners were dubious about this, but if they didn't work, they would have nothing to eat, so they still chose to work.

The captives raised their hoes high to break up the frozen soil, and someone would pick out the stones and pile them aside.Then a group of older captives smashed the soil into pieces and mixed it with vegetation and manure made from cow and sheep dung.

On the edge of the wasteland, there were also temporary mud-brick huts, each of which could accommodate fifty or sixty captives, all crowded together.The smell is a bit smelly, warm.

With so many people, only two teams of soldiers guarded them, so naturally someone was eager to move.

The captives have escaped three times, and they were found out and captured three times inexplicably. The chief culprit was killed, and other crimes were added.After three times, these captives gave up and decided to work obediently. Anyway, there is still food and a place to sleep here.

An Yinong worked for a long time, and went back when it was getting dark. The Jin family and the Bai family were arrested. The big landlord in the county should be killed and punished, but there is still a lot of things waiting for him.

"How many blacksmiths have you recruited? All the ironware found in their homes have been melted down and remade into farm tools. How are the brick kilns and tile kilns built by people? Let the merchants go outside to transport logs for foundations and pillars. , have they shipped it?"

The newly recruited master replied as he walked: "Six blacksmiths have been recruited, and now they mainly make blades on the plow, hoes and small iron parts on the spinning wheel. Workers for repairing brick kilns and tile kilns have also been recruited. It will be built in half a month. The businessman has also taken the deposit to transport the wood to the southwest."

An Yinong nodded, quite satisfied with the efficiency of this new subordinate.

The main prisoners of the Jinbai family have all been executed, and their relatives have also been sent to prison for search one by one. Those with less serious crimes can still be released, and those with serious circumstances will be exiled directly.

The family wealth of these few families was gathered together, even if half of the gold and silver were distributed to the garrison, the rest would be enough to buy most of Dingsha County.

Afterwards, An Yinong took the army to walk around the houses of various big landlords, killed three and kept five, and harvested a large amount of land, livestock and other supplies.

With money, people, and land, An Yinong's plan can finally start.

The first step is to divide the land.

The land harvested from these big landlords added up to 10,000+ mu, and they were divided into three equal parts according to the top, middle and bottom.Among them, [-] mu will be reserved for raising cattle and pasture, and the rest will be sold to ordinary people at [-]% of the market price (rich peasants and landlords are not allowed to participate in the transaction), and the money for buying land is allowed to be settled in three years.

As a result, Dingsha County used to have less than 30.00% of the middle peasants (their own family has enough land, self-sufficient without renting other people's land), and now it directly rises to [-]%.

The previous 80.00% of poor peasants (who own a small amount of land or have no land and must rent land from other people’s homes) has been reduced to 30.00%.

There are also some middle peasants who have become rich peasants (need to hire others, but they have to work in the fields themselves).

The second step is to open up wasteland.

Land reclamation is to allow poor people who have neither land nor money to buy land to own their own arable land, solve their hunger problem, and stabilize their hearts.

Therefore, the wasteland developed will be sold to them at half the price of the inferior fields.

The third step is to build government welfare housing (for the poor in the county).

In An Yinong's plan, a welfare housing community is a small new village.Those people living in dilapidated houses in the slums live in it, and they have a home that can shelter from wind and rain.

Of course, this also means that they have to move out of Dingsha County, and their household registration must also be transferred outside the city.

When food and clothing are satisfied, he will be able to spare manpower to develop cash crops and economic animals in Dingsha County, as well as build roads and re-plan Dingsha County.

The food needs to be eaten bite by bite, and the road needs to be walked step by step. It is too far to say that now, and what is before him is the matter of opening up wasteland.

It has entered the early winter season, and I heard from the local old man that it will only snow for a few days, so he takes the time to open up wasteland every day.

If it is not possible to open up a thousand acres of wasteland before the snow falls, many poor people will not be able to get arable land next spring.

An Yinong and the master said as they walked, they entered the county town and took the main road.

Winter is here, but Dingsha County is a bit lively. You can often see food shops selling a bowl of mutton soup for three Wen on the street. A little local spices are sprinkled in it. After drinking it, you will sweat all over, let alone how comfortable it is.

It happened that An Yinong was hungry right now, so he chose a restaurant at random, and ordered a bowl of mutton soup and a piece of cake, and the master also ordered one after seeing this, and they sat down on the side of the street.

"Your mutton soup and noodle cakes." Things were served soon, An Yinong picked up the cakes, tore them up bit by bit and threw them into the mutton soup where two pieces of mutton could not be seen.

"The shopkeeper is good, today's mutton soup is quite a lot." A herdsman walked into the shop selling mutton soup with a string of money. A few slices of roast lamb and a pie.

"Those two companies are down, the water is free, and the price of mutton is also lower." The shopkeeper laughed.

In fact, the most important thing is that the government has compensated the money collected this year for every shop that had charged double taxation.

Moreover, the previous sheep were all purchased and sold by the Jinbai two companies. They charged low prices and sold them at high prices, and the cost of buying them back was expensive.It's good now, the government has unified pricing, and both sellers and buyers benefit.

"Our new county magistrate has courage. After so many years, I never thought that the Jin family and the Bai family, who were more arrogant than the emperor's old son, would be uprooted like this. I went to the execution site and saw the Jin family with my own eyes. People from the Bai family, as well as horse thieves, were killed," said a diner.

"No, thanks to our county magistrate, the land that was robbed of my family has come back, and I bought two more acres. The mother-in-law said that I will raise a few more sheep next year."

When they talked about the changes in Dingsha County during this period, their smiles never stopped.

The 10,000+ mu of land was allocated to the common people, and almost every household has a few more pieces of land and a little more confidence in their lives.

The diners were full of emotion: "I didn't expect our county magistrate to look like a white-faced scholar, and do things so vigorously. Good! We in Dingsha County can be regarded as meeting a capable person."

There were some good ones in the former county magistrate, but unfortunately, they couldn't beat the Jinbai family, and their lives were killed in vain.

An Yinong bowed his head and ate his dinner in silence. He was now dressed as a herdsman with a thick hat, and people walking on the road did not recognize him.

The common people in Dingsha County are really easy to be satisfied. An Yinong just moved the two families down, let them share a few acres of land, regained the freedom to fetch water and a little more money, their faces are already full of smile.

After dinner, he went back to the county government office alone, and walked through the back door, which was opened by concierge Wei Gaoshou.The Jin family and the Bai family were all down, but he still didn't leave. Such a master was so willing to guard the door for him.

His friend came to him: "Why are you bothering?"

Wei Menfang held his knife: "This place is good, I will retire here."

An Yinong returned to the backyard. Just as he took off his hat and took a sip of hot tea, the county magistrate knocked on the door and came in, holding a stack of booklets in his hand: "My lord, the overcharged taxes of the Jin family and the Bai family have already been paid."

"Yeah." An Yinong nodded, "I heard from the old people in the county that there will be heavy snow this year, and we will send people door-to-door to notify them so that they can strengthen the house and collect firewood in time."

The county magistrate took a new task and stepped down.Ever since An Yinong brought the garrison into the city, the old men in the county government haven't stopped.

But this kind of busyness just stabilized these people.Everyone is worried, worried that the county magistrate will settle accounts with them in the past, but since they are still used now, does it mean...the past is not to blame?

The county magistrate smiled and went to the front yard, ready to pack up and go home. He didn't want to meet two acquaintances as soon as he went out.

These two people don't wear yamen uniforms anymore, they took them off in front of the county magistrate, and recently they wanted to put them back on, and they found a lot of people.

"My lord..." They walked over with apologetic smiles on their faces, holding gifts in their hands.

"Don't! I'm not going to take off my official robes and leave. You two... Hey, your luck is bad. There's nothing you can do." No, he himself is like a bodhisattva crossing the river.

After walking far away, the county magistrate looked back and flicked his sleeves: "Unlucky."

The two former yamen servants just watched the county magistrate avoiding them like the plague, and then thought about the mess in the house and the mocking eyes of others, and felt regretful in their hearts.

You said, why didn't they persist in the beginning, why did they pretend to be smart?

One of them shook his head and gritted his teeth: "The Jin family is gone, but his mother-in-law's is still there. I'll go find him!"

The other stood there blankly for a moment, stretched out his hand and slapped himself with a 'slap'.

"Old Liu, Lao Liu, isn't it good to wear a yamen servant to do yamen servant work? Going to praise the stinky feet of the Jin family, let alone get rid of your job, now it's impossible to buy land, and the mother-in-law can't get along with her." , It's so cheap! Hey!"

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