"I don't want silver."
Xiao Mu said.
"Then what do you want?" Magistrate Liu was stunned.
He cast his eyes again on the young man's face.
Without money, what ambitions does a mountain villager have?
Xiao Mu continued: "If you bring the threshing machine back, you will definitely promote it throughout the county. Qinghe County's summer harvest this year will be the fastest in the entire state. This can be said to be a blessing to the people of the entire county. When the time comes, , Your Excellency will definitely be praised by the people in the county!
If you dedicate this utensil to the prefect, I believe the prefect will also record a great contribution to you. "
Xiao Mu listed the benefits that County Magistrate Liu could get one by one, which made Liu Mian feel a little embarrassed.
With these merits, he can get more than a few hundred taels of silver, and he can be promoted to an official position and receive an increase in salary just around the corner.
Looking at it this way, only one hundred taels of silver was given to the Xiao family, which was indeed too little.
"What do you want?" he asked again.
"Mr. Kong in the village is ill and a group of children have no books to study. I hope the county magistrate can send a teacher to the village and arrange the best doctor to treat Mr. Kong."
Arranging a doctor is a small matter, but arranging teachers to teach in the village is no small matter. He has more than ten villages under his jurisdiction, and there are five or six without schools. It seems biased to arrange teachers to teach in Qinghe Village alone.
"Is there any more?" Magistrate Liu pondered for a moment and continued to ask.
"If the prefect raises taxes this year, please ask the county magistrate to please the people and save three-tenths of our taxes in Qinghe County. The people finally have a good harvest, so everyone can take a break."
Xiao Changhe listened to Xiao Mu's words and nodded in agreement.
The villagers outside were impressed and surprised when they heard this.
Co-author Xiao Mu mentioned two items, each of which seeks the benefit of everyone.
"Xiao Mu is so righteous!"
"Usually I see that he doesn't have much contact with the big guys. Unexpectedly, when something good happens, all he thinks about is the villagers."
"Who says it's not the case? If it were me, I would definitely ask you for a hundred taels of silver to build two houses and marry a wife."
"It's a good thing it wasn't the thresher you made, otherwise nothing would have happened to us."
All the discussions reached the ears of a few people in the courtyard.
After hearing Xiao Mu's request, County Magistrate Liu laughed twice, patted Xiao Mu on the shoulder and said, "Young people are born with righteousness. If all the people under my jurisdiction were like you, wouldn't the world be prosperous!"
"The common people don't dare take it." Xiao Mu clasped his fists, "The reason why the common people make such a request is because the academy and taxes are closely related to the lives of the common people's families, and it is not a righteous move."
Seeing Magistrate Liu's hesitation, Xiao Mu reminded again:
"Soldiers are valuable and quick. If you are interested in dedicating this item, you should do it quickly to avoid being upstaged by others."
"This..." The county magistrate felt an unprecedented sense of urgency.
Xiao Mu is right. So many households in Qingshan Village use this thresher. There is no guarantee that they have not told relatives in other counties. If someone who is interested really learns from it and reports it in advance, he will not be able to take the credit. arrive.
It's all my fault that Li Zheng didn't report it in time, but it's too late now. The top priority is to report it to the state capital as soon as possible.
"I will try my best to do the two things you mentioned. If there are any changes in tax reduction, I will definitely try my best to fight for it."
"Wu Zheng, please take out a silver note and give it to the second son of the Xiao family. This is a special reward from me." Magistrate Liu was anxious to leave, so he agreed to everything in advance.
Xiao Mu took the bank note, bent down and clasped his fists: "Thank you, sir! The common people are waiting for your good news!"
Time was running out, and Magistrate Liu didn't even bother to go to the county government office and send a carriage over.
Li Zheng helped call Liu Er's oxcart, and the county magistrate rewarded Liu Er with a tael of silver. Liu Er pulled the thresher and followed the county master's carriage, escorting the thresher all the way to the county government office.
On the way back, the more Liu Mian thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
Since entering the Xiao family, all his thoughts seemed to follow Xiao Mu.
Xiao Mu first refused his reward, and then put forward his own conditions.
Although his two conditions are not excessive, they are not easy to handle either.
He remembered that he originally wanted to refuse to arrange a teacher for the village school, but Xiao Mu reminded himself that time was tight and he had to set off immediately...
In the end, he didn't have time to think about it, so he not only agreed to Xiao Mu's conditions, but also gave him a hundred taels of silver notes as a reward!
This young man...
Liu Zhixian patted his knee with one hand and sighed softly: It's really interesting!
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After sending the magistrate away, the villagers entered the hospital one after another to congratulate the Xiao family.
It is an enviable thing for an ordinary farmer to be appreciated by the county magistrate.
But the Xiao family is righteous, and those words just now made all the villagers have a favorable impression of Xiao Changhe's family.
"Brother Xiao, your three sons are really more promising than the other. The second son usually seems to be quiet, but I didn't expect that all of a sudden he would seek such a big benefit from the villagers."
"Yes, all our fellow villagers in Qingshan Village are grateful to you!"
"You're welcome, you're welcome!" Xiao Changhe responded one by one.
Xu Zhengxiang also felt bright on her face.
And I got both money and goodwill. This kind of good thing is really rare to come across.
Seeing that everyone was praising Xiao Mu, she pulled Ye Luoxin, who was standing behind her, in front of her.
"I am the daughter-in-law who is so lucky. Didn't my husband and Li Zheng tell me at the beginning that Luo Xin is a lucky person? I didn't believe it at first, but you see, we haven't been married for half a year, and there is such a thing in the family. The good thing is that I took advantage of my daughter-in-law!"
Li Cuihua had previously said that Ye Luoxin was a celebrity in Xiaodang Village and asked everyone not to get too close to her. If the plague really happened, there would be no room to reason.
Dare to talk about her family members like this, sooner or later she will regret it in her intestines.
Mrs. Zhao next door wore a mourning hat on her body. After returning the food, she never came to the Xiao family yard again.
When she heard what Xu Zhengxiang said at the gate of the courtyard, she also said to the woman beside her: "Hey, what Aunt Xiao said is true. I remember that a wild goose fell down on the day the second child of the Xiao family got married, right? Now there is a county magistrate. Visit in person.
Aunt Xiao, this daughter-in-law is really an auspicious person! "
"Who says it's not the case! Looking at it this way, Aunt Xiao's good days are still to come!"
"is not that right!"
All the women laughed together, but Li Cuihua was the only one who looked out of place.
"Isn't it just to meet the county magistrate? As for being so happy! I have no idea!" She rolled her eyes at Xu Zhengxiang in the courtyard from a distance.
"Auntie Xiao, that's not what you said."
Madam Zhao took over the words and said, "Your son was born as a scholar and now lives in the county. Can the county magistrate meet him casually?"
