Today, the sun is shining brightly and the sky is blue. It is a good weather.
Some of the dormitory leaders in various places have not yet joined the job, and some are still in prison.
Only a few places are working.
Yu Qian and others said goodbye early in the morning and went to their own villages.
Jiangning County, Qilin Township, Tangjia Village.
Yu Qian took the map and asked all the way, and finally found Tangjiacun.
This is a large village with acres of farmland, and you can't see the edge at a glance. Walking towards Qilin Mountain, you see a village at the foot of the mountain with many private houses.
What's even stranger is that more houses have appeared on the mountainside. Looking from a distance, there are many pavilions and roads paved with bluestone bricks, making it look like a small town.
"That's not right. The brochure given to me by the Imperial Master shows that there are only 300 households in Tangjia Village, and there are more than 1,000 people. It looks like there are definitely more than 300 households, and it won't be more than multiple times."
Yu Qian looked at the booklet in his hand and couldn't help but exclaimed.
The three Cixi Guard soldiers next to him are Du Guang, Wang Qiang, and Wang Li.
Wang Qiang asked curiously: "Could it be that the information is wrong? Shouldn't it be?"
Yu Qian said: "It may be that the government has not managed this place for a long time, the people born here are all tenant farmers, and the household registration list has not been updated for a long time."
Wang Qiang: "That makes sense."
Yu Qian smiled and said: "No matter what, let's go over and find out the situation first."
Yu Qian and others walked through the farmland towards the village, and entered the village soon.
The gate is very grand, and the three characters "Tangjiacun" engraved on the archway give people a sense of time.
Several villagers in simple clothes were walking on the road, copying and singing songs to each other.
There is an ancient well in the center of the village. The water is crystal clear. A few old hens are flapping around the well and pecking for food. The sycamore tree next to it leans on the house in front of it. A breeze blows by, and the leaves of the sycamore tree rustle. And ring.
Yu Qian and others were wandering around the village and were recognized immediately.
"that whoever"
An old man pointed at Yu Qian and shouted, "Aren't you the district chief?"
"It's me, it's me." Yu Qian smiled and said, "Old man, do you recognize me?"
The old man smiled and said: "I know you, I happened to go to the city to see my daughter that day, and I met you talking about the dormitory area. It's good to come. I'm looking forward to your coming."
Yu Qian was overjoyed when he saw this, walked over and whispered: "Old man, what do you call me?"
The old man said: "My name is Tang Erniu."
Yu Qian said: "Uncle Tang, let me ask, what is the population of Tangjia Village?"
The old man calculated it and said: "Basically speaking, there are probably 10,000 people."
Hearing this, Yu Qian was surprised and said, "So many people?"
Uncle Tang: "Most of them are tenants from outside. We don't have so many local people named Tang."
Yu Qian roughly understood and asked, "Uncle Tang, where is your house?"
Uncle Tang pointed to his house, "There."
Yu Qian looked over there, it was great, it was in the center of the village.
The house is quite big. With the courtyard, it is about six feet long and five feet wide. The location is also very good. It is perfect as a dormitory district government office.
In addition, this old man seems to be very supportive of the dormitory policy.
He will definitely agree to sell it to himself.
Yu Qian whispered: "Uncle Tang, do you support the national policy of She District?"
The old man said: "Support, a hundred supports."
"That's it"
Yu Qian said: "Sell me your house and I'll pay you fifty taels!"
In order to make people interested, Yu Qian directly quoted a high price.
Fifty taels is quite a lot. You can buy a small yard in a relatively remote part of the city.
The old man wondered: "What do you want with my house?"
Yu Qian said: "It is the yamen of the dormitory area, used to provide office work for the dormitory area."
The old man shook his head like a rattle, "This won't work. I've lost my house. Where will our family live?"
Yu Qian said: "When the time comes, I will grant you a piece of land. You take the money and build a new house yourself. It can be bigger than this. How about it?"
The head of the district is actually the head of the village. He can grant land to the villagers and plan the village. What Yu Qian said is true.
Uncle Tang waved his hand: "No, no, how can we sell the house passed down from our ancestors?"
Yu Qian asked again: "By the way, old man, do you have a son at home?"
Uncle Tang: "Yes, three sons."
Yu Qian said: "What are you doing?"
Uncle Tang: "Plowing the fields."
Yu Qian tempted again: "Uncle Tang, how about this...as long as you are willing to sell the house to me, I promise to arrange an official job for one of your sons and eat the royal food?"
The errand that Yu Qian was talking about was the dormitory members. The dormitory members were originally selected from people in the village. Now is the critical period. Using a position as a bargaining chip is also a helpless move.
Uncle Tang's eyes lit up: "What's the errand?"
Yu Qian said: "House members will receive a monthly salary of two taels of silver. Depending on performance, there will also be a year-end bonus at the end of the year."
After hearing this, Mr. Tang was a little moved.
As long as the house is sold, the son can get an errand, get fifty taels from selling the house, and get a piece of land to build a new house for himself.
After thinking about it, the old man shook his head: "No, I won't sell it."
Yu Qian asked strangely: "Old man, don't you support moving the community into the countryside? You have to support the work."
The old man said: "I support it, but I won't sell the house."
Yu Qian: "."
This old man is a thief.
Yu Qian originally wanted to give up and ask another family.
But thinking about it,
The ones suitable for the Yamen location are the few suites in the center.
The old man spoke kindly and supported himself.
If you can't even get one villager to support you, let alone the rest.
Thinking of this, Yu Qian said doubtfully: "Old man, the conditions I gave are not enough? You raise it!"
Uncle Tang shook his head: "It's not that I'm greedy, the main thing is that I don't believe that you can grant me land and provide my son with official errands."
Yu Qian took out his official seal, pointed to his official uniform, and said, "Old man, I am an official of the imperial court. Why don't you believe me?"
Uncle Tang smiled, pointed to the mountain, and said: "What you say here doesn't count. It's what Master Tang on the mountain says. If you can get Master Tang to talk, I will sell you the house without saying a word." "
Let Mr. Tang speak.
Yu Qian twitched the corner of his mouth, isn't this nonsense?
I'm here to take away the power of Mr. Tang. Can he speak?
At the same time, he also knew what the problem was. The government here had ignored it and it had become an autonomous region. Mr. Tang on the mountain was the local bully and was in charge of this place.
"Young man, I'm busy. Let me know when the shelter area will be built. We will call the villagers to support you then."
The old man carried the hoe and left the village while talking, probably to plow the fields.
Yu Qian: "."
Hey, if you don’t sell your house to me, how can I build it?
Yu Qian felt a headache.
The first step now is to establish a Yamen. Only when the Yamen appears in the village and can be seen by the villagers can it show its authority.
The problem is, now I'm stuck on the first step.
Then, Yu Qian tried to knock on the doors of the houses in the center of the village and asked the people inside if they wanted to sell their houses, but he was kicked out directly.
"What happened"
Wang Qiang noticed something and said: "To be honest, if I had sold the house with such good conditions, no one would be tempted by such good conditions. Did Mr. Tang say hello in advance? Or does it mean that the villagers don't trust him at all? us?"
Yu Qian frowned and said, "Both."
He is also a little helpless now.
Wang Qiang asked: "What should we do next?"
Yu Qian said: "Go to the mountain and have a look."
Wang Qiang and others looked towards the mountain and said, "Master Tang is afraid that he is targeting us. Is there any danger?"
"We have to break into the dragon's den and the tiger's den."
Yu Qian smiled and said: "Sooner or later, we have to go. We are sent by the imperial court. Do they dare to kill us? It would be a good thing to kill us. The imperial master can use this as an excuse to flatten this place! We will die. It’s worth it.”
Wang Qiang shouted: "I'm so scared, let's go and have a look!"
That's it.
Yu Qian led three soldiers through the village and walked a few miles to the foot of the mountain, preparing to enter the villa halfway up the mountain.
"For what?"
At the foot of the mountain, several strong men in black blocked Yu Qian's way.
"Oh, let's go up and have a look."
Yu Qian didn't want to reveal his identity, because he would definitely not be able to get in if he revealed his identity.
"Let's go, let's go, you can't go in here."
The strong man waved his hand and drove Yu Qian and others away.
"It's so majestic, why can't I let you in?"
Wang Qiang's eyes widened. He was so angry that he immediately took a few steps forward, planning to argue with them.
Yu Qian hurriedly stopped Wang Qiang to avoid conflict.
Then, Yu Qian smiled and said: "Well, may I ask, why can't I enter?"
The strong man said: "If you can't enter, you can't enter. This is Master Tang's home. No one is allowed in. Is there a problem?"
"No problem, no problem goodbye"
Yu Qian cupped his hands, took Wang Qiang and others and turned around to leave.
He suddenly felt that bringing three soldiers was still too few. If he brought 300 soldiers, they would probably take him seriously.
Returning to the village again, Wang Qiang said angrily: "Damn it, you bitch, this is taking over the mountain and becoming the king, right? Returning Master Tang's home, the whole mountain belongs to him?"
Yu Qian said: "Keep your voice down. You are right. All the houses on the mountain probably belong to Mr. Tang's family."
Wang Qiang helplessly cursed in a low voice: "Big dog."
Everyone has a hatred of rich people, and this was also the case in ancient times.
Wang Qiang thought that in his hometown, he only had a broken house, and the entire mountain belonged to him. It was unpleasant to think about it.
Wang Qiang asked: "What should we do now?"
Yu Qian was silent.
What to do, he didn't know what to do.
Now the yamen can't even buy a piece of land, and you can't see anyone from the Tang family.
Yu Qian didn't think about it for a while, so he could only say: "Let's go back to the inn first and think about it."
Ever since,
Yu Qian and others returned the same way and returned to the county town.
"Hey, Yu Qian, are you back?"
"Liu Quan, are you back too?"
"Ah, why are you all gathering again?"
Good guy, after returning to the inn, I found that many people also returned to the inn.
Everyone laughed awkwardly and then gathered together to eat.
After some inquiries,
I found that everyone encountered the same problems.
That is, when you get to the local area, you can't buy land for the construction of the district yamen, and the villagers won't sell it.
Everyone fell into silence
Suddenly, a voice came out, breaking the calm.
"Brothers, one villager has agreed to sell their land to me."
The dormitory chief of Xiaodong Village said with a smile.
Everyone: "????"
everyone is sad
Brother, how are you doing?
Everyone asked: "What's wrong with you??"
The headmaster of Xiaodong Village laughed and said: "As soon as I entered the village, people from the village gathered around me. I said I wanted to buy land for ten taels of silver. As a result, everyone was rushing to sell it, so I chose the best location. Ask to buy it. When I come back this time, I will report to the county magistrate and apply for the allocation of silver to build the Yamen."
One person asked strangely: "How can it be so easy for you?"
The man asked strangely: "Is it difficult? People in the village are eager for me to go there and lead everyone to get rich. The village is really poor. It is very poor. They are all shabby thatched houses. Many families have sons in their thirties. , I am still a bachelor, and I can’t find a wife. The village written in the brochure has fifty households and about a hundred people. When I went there, I found that most of the people had moved away, and there were only five or six households left. There are only about ten people in the whole village. They are all old, weak, sick and disabled. Tell me, how can we develop the population without even a single young person?"
"etc."
Liu Quan asked: "You said there are only about ten people left in your village?"
The village chief of Xiaodong Village nodded: "Well, there are fourteen people in total. I have asked, and all the farmland in the village has been annexed by the next door Tangjia Village. The remaining farmland is uneven and no one else can look down on it. Women can Those who are married are all married off, and those who cannot leave are also poor. I think in a few years, the village will be almost gone."
Hearing this,
Only then did everyone understand why it was so easy for Xiaodong Village to become the district chief.
The feeling is that this village is simply a small village, with only a few households. There are no rich and powerful families in the area. They are all farmers.
They were eager for the district chief to come in quickly and make them rich.
No wonder people are eager to sell houses to them. In the village, houses are not worth ten taels of silver at all. If they sell a mud house for ten taels, don't everyone rush to buy it?
"Brothers, don't envy me either."
The head of Xiaodong Village smiled bitterly and said: "I don't even know how to develop this village. The rest are old men and old ladies. Several young people in the village have gone to set up workshops and work as helpers. I don't even know." How to develop Xiaodongcun.”
Hearing this, everyone nodded.
Yes, I only saw the thief eating meat, but I didn’t see the thief being beaten.
The frontline work is easy, but the later work is not. How to develop such a small population is a big problem!
In this way, the scene became silent again for an instant.
Soon, it was getting dark, and more and more district heads came back from the village.
Don't think about it, they were all frustrated and came back to ask Yu Qian.
As for Yu Qian, he is now one of the top two and doesn't know what to do.
His Tangjia Village was the most troublesome village in the county.
He can't even handle it himself and has no time to worry about others.
"Yu Qian, is there any way?"
Everyone asked Yu Qian from time to time.
Yu Qian shook his head and said there was nothing he could do.
"Dear guests, the food is here."
The waiter of the restaurant brought a big pot, dropped it on the stand, and placed it on the ground.
In that pot, there are all kinds of vegetables, potatoes, corn, eggplant, pork, fish balls, a mess of stew
"What kind of dish is this?" Yu Qian asked with a frown.
The head of the dormitory from the north smiled and said: "Yu Qian, you are from the south and I don't know. This is a hanging pot. I asked the store to make it specially. There are many of us, so it is best to eat around the hanging pot. You can try it. It should taste good, and the various ingredients will be more fragrant when mixed together.”
"Hanging pot."
Yu Qian picked up the bowl and chopsticks and took a bite of the dishes inside. It tasted really good.
He smiled and said: "The taste is good, but the presentation is not very good. Just stew it in one pot."
Yu Qian's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had been inspired by something.
He stood up suddenly, stared at the hanging pot, and became more and more excited as he thought about it. He loudly said: "Brothers, I have a solution!!!"
(End of chapter)
