After death, I became the cannon fodder of the three protagonists

Chapter 242
Xiao Jin fell asleep for a while, and a yamen servant ran in outside and asked all the county magistrates to go to the door to receive the order.

He opened his eyes and stood up, because of his position, he was the first one to reach the door.

Other magistrates who were one step behind: "..."

Sure enough, he is a thoughtful person, and at this time he does not forget to make a good show in front of Hanlin Chengzhi.

The magistrate stood in the middle, looked back and left, and saw that everyone had come, so he nodded slightly to Su Yi.

Su Yi immediately opened the imperial decree and read it out.

The prefect and county magistrates all know the content of the imperial decree, and this will be a process. After the reading is finished, everyone kneels down and kowtows.

"My minister accepts the decree, long live my emperor."

Su Yi handed the imperial decree to the magistrate with both hands, but his eyes fell on Xiao Jin, "Master Xiao, the Holy Majesty asked me to ask you, how is the improvement of the soil quality going? Is there a charter for the follow-up matters?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes fell on Xiao Jin.

Xiao Jin bowed his hands as if he hadn't noticed it, and said, "Master Huisu, I summoned eight deep-plow plows and eight oxen from Haiyan County, and sent them to Luoshan Village. Together with manual deep-plowing, work has started for several Days, the number of acres of deep plowing has reached several acres.”

This is good news, Su Yi nodded in satisfaction, and the other magistrates also breathed a sigh of relief.

But who knew what Xiao Jinhu was talking about, so he changed the subject and said with a look of embarrassment, "It's just that it's the spring plowing season. Although the coastal county has enough manpower, it doesn't have enough farm tools. Besides, it needs a lot of tools and manpower to open the canal..."

The faces of the magistrates and magistrates changed, they were deeply afraid that Xiao Jin would ask Su Yi to ask them to borrow tools but they would shirk him.

After all, this matter has not yet been fully revealed.

Fortunately, Su Yi just beat and beat them, and didn't intend to make too much trouble, otherwise Xiao Jin would be in trouble at that time.

He nodded slightly, with a solemn expression, "You have heard the order of the Holy Majesty. Now that Luoshan Village is in trouble, I hope that the county magistrates will help and ensure that the improvement of the soil quality goes smoothly.

When the project is completed, you will naturally add to your political achievements. I remember that you have served in Yaozhou for as short as four years and as long as seven years. It is time to go further. "

Although Su Yi was ordered by the Imperial Academy, he did not need to go out to read out all the imperial edicts, especially since he was over forty years old and had been ill several times. In recent years, the Holy Majesty only arranged for him to read out the imperial edicts of the capital.

It's just that this rule was broken last year.

Fang Shiguan's reinstatement, rewarding Gu Su's family, and supporting Xiao Jin are all related to the improvement of saline-alkali land.

Officials in the court are all good people. If you can see clearly that the Holy One attaches great importance to this matter, there is no need for this official to continue.

Except for Xiao Jin, all the county magistrates just stood up, and knelt down in unison, "Your official understands, and I will definitely live up to the entrustment of the Holy Majesty."

Su Yi nodded in satisfaction, with two smiles on his face.

As the night was getting dark, the magistrate took a step forward as expected, smiling, as if Su Yi's beating just now had nothing to do with him.

"Lord Su, it's getting late. The officials have already prepared a banquet in the Chunfeng Tower to clean up the dust for you. Shall we go over now?"

Su Yi didn't refuse, he would still give the face he deserved.

"Well, let's go."

The magistrate breathed a sigh of relief, and quietly winked at the master behind him. After a while, someone came over carrying a sedan chair.

Su Yi was not polite, and got into the sedan chair directly, and they still took them to Chunfeng Tower.

The other county magistrates got up after he got into the sedan chair, their faces turned pale, and they were already thinking about writing letters to their backers.

Let's see if we can operate in secret when this matter is completed and rewards for meritorious deeds, and change to a richer place to become an official at that time.

The next day, Su Yi went back home, but Mu Si did not go back with him.

The county magistrates discussed with the prefect and Xiao Jin for a whole day in the study of the magistrate's yamen on the improvement of soil quality.

Although they did not agree with Xiao Jin's method of opening the canal, they could not ensure that there would be no possibility of seawater backflow when digging the reservoir, and the method proposed was full of loopholes, a fantasy.

Xiao Jin calmly pointed out the shortcomings of their method, and bluntly said that if his method does not work, he will bear the consequences himself, and the others looked at each other and gave in one after another.

All they asked for was Xiao Jin's guarantee.

They want to share the credit, but if something happens, it has nothing to do with them.

Xiao Jin was also too lazy to argue with them, as long as they didn't hold back, everything else didn't matter.

After finalizing the matter of opening the canal, it is time to discuss the issue of manpower.

Emperor Jingyong emphasized agriculture. Since the founding of the Great Yong Dynasty, when building bridges and roads, opening canals for irrigation, and even building canals, the days would try to avoid farming and harvest seasons.

Now it is the season of spring plowing, and the matter of expropriation of labor needs to be carefully considered. It must be mandatory, but it should not be too much to avoid causing public grievances. Moreover, this matter needs a lot of money to handle it. Where does the money come from?
Xiao Jin was released as an official for the first time, so he didn't know much about these things. When he heard these questions, he was still a little confused.

The main reason was that the villagers in Luoshan Village were too active. Before Xiao Jin settled the matter, they couldn't wait to ask the village chief several times when the work would start.

Later Xiao Jin started talking about starting construction, and they didn't even think about wages or anything. They only thought about doing things for themselves, so they started with a hoe.

So at this meeting, Xiao Jin heard the county magistrates talking about it, and suddenly felt that the villagers in Luoshan Village should also be paid wages.

Although they own the field, they will benefit from it in the future, but now almost every household in Luoshan Village has started construction, and the family is struggling to make ends meet.

If this goes on like this, when the project is completed, they may not even have the money to buy the seeds.

Xiao Jin thought silently, and he had already made up his mind. When the time comes, let the people in Luoshan Village stop working first, and wait for the farm tools from other county governments to arrive, and then put them all into labor labor.

Think of him as the county magistrate of a coastal county who is partial to the people in his jurisdiction.

Of course, this matter cannot be disclosed to the outside world. He just stood aside, silently, and left the issue of money to other county magistrates to ponder.

If you want credit, you can't really do nothing.

The other county magistrates naturally knew this too. They were indeed familiar with this kind of thing, so they were willing to take care of it, and they drew up the regulations in a short while.

The improvement of soil quality is a major event that is beneficial to people's livelihood. At that time, local merchants can be called to raise donations. After the matter is completed, a merit list will be set up in coastal counties, and their names will be engraved on the merit list according to the ranking of the amount. .

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and merchants have low status. Whenever they encounter such things that can gain a good reputation, they are particularly active, especially when they will send the list to the Holy Master. It is hard for them not to be moved by such an honor.

And this way, you don’t have to worry about money anymore.

And enough money, other things are basically nothing, the people are not fools, what they work hard for a year, isn't it just to have enough food, earn a lot of money, and have a good year then.

Although this is compulsory labor, but with good wages and enough food, they wish they could go by themselves.

(End of this chapter)