Gu Qi, she just wants to farm

Chapter 351 Workaround II

"Many fishermen catch more seafood every day than when they ventured out to sea before.

Without the risk of going to the sea, the income at hand has actually increased. The local people have gained the sweetness and naturally become more concerned about the tidal flats they leased. Even many farmers who were still hesitant to sign a lease agreement with the county government have begun to ask closed the door.

In just a few years, Linhai Town's seafood trading has become famous in Luosong County and even several surrounding towns and counties.

At Yin time every day, before dawn, there was an endless stream of hawker ships departing from the west wharf of Linhai Town to the counties and towns on the opposite coast of the mainland.

At first, these hawker boats only transported fish and seafood from Linhai Island. Later, pomegranates, loquats, and oranges on Linhai Island became famous one after another, and there began to be specialized boats for transporting large quantities of fruits from Linhai Island.

Although these wild fruits are not as expensive as fresh seafood, seafood has its own characteristics, and it cannot be stored for two days after it comes out of the water. Even if the seafood and fish products in Linhai Town are famous, only a few nearby towns can supply them. County, wanting to sell the goods further afield is powerless.

Of course, those wild fruits are different.

As long as the ordinary wild fruit is stored properly, it is not a problem to keep it for five or six days. With these long periods of time, the wild fruit in Linhai Town has gradually opened up the market. At first, it was only famous in Luosong Town, and later it was in Jin'an County They all have a reputation.

Especially pomelo and citrus, compared with the thin skin of loquat, which is easy to ripen and not easy to store, pomelo and citrus have the characteristics of longer storage and convenient transportation.

Gradually, Linhai gained some reputation not only in Jin'an County, but even in the entire Minzhou Prefecture and even the adjacent Lin'an Prefecture.In this way, the people who leased the mountainous land to plant fruit trees in the first few years also earned a lot of income. "
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As soon as Wang Hebin's words fell, He Yong couldn't help but nodded: "Wendan on Linhai Island has a unique taste."

He Yong is from Linhang, and Linhang is under the jurisdiction of Lin'an Mansion, so he has seen Wendan from Minzhou Mansion, among which Linhai Island is the most famous.

Liu Shouzheng heard the doorway inside, and asked: "So, the people under the jurisdiction of Linhai Town will live a very good life in the next few years?"

"Not just good."

Wang Hebin was in charge of taxes, labor and civil affairs. Before and after his tenure, he looked up the civil affairs of many places in the previous and current dynasties, and he had a deep memory of these special local policies.

"After the ten-year contract expired, most of the people who participated in the reclamation and renting bought their own rented land. In addition, the rest of the unleased wasteland in Linhai Town has become hard to find.

In the past, no one paid any attention to the free lease, but later, an acre of wasteland and mountainous land was enough to sell for a high price of two taels of silver. In the heyday, one mu of coastal mudflat land was even bought for five taels of silver, which was higher than the price of the neighboring medium-sized land. .

In addition to these mountains and tidal flats, Linhai Town's rich products and hard-to-find goods also attracted merchants, farmers, and helpers from several surrounding towns and counties to flock here.

In just a few years, the housing land in Linhai Town has risen again and again, especially the prices of shops and houses near the West Wharf of Linhai Island are several percent higher than that of the most prosperous neighborhood in Luosong County. "

Wang Hebin couldn't help feeling as he said: "Back then, Lord Xiao and the assistant officer of Linhai Town only delineated one-third of the wasteland in Linhai Town for free rent. Originally, they only intended to give the local people more It's a living business, and it's not bad if I can raise some taxes for the government after a few years;

No one expected that the earth-shaking events of the past ten years would make a small outlying island, which was originally remote and isolated across the sea from the mainland, become the face of the entire Luosong County. "

Naturally, all that can be said is on the bright side. Wang Hebin is even more emotional that in the following decades, the county magistrates who successively took over Luosong County just sold the remaining barren land and mountains in Linhai Town and its surrounding areas, which was enough to gather a large number of people. A large sum of money filled the expenses of the yamen.

Needless to say how much oil and trickery there is in it.

Just look at how many new officials who have just entered the official career in the past few decades have tried every means to seek transfer to Luosong County.

Knowing the state for three years, one hundred thousand snowflake silver.

Although the county magistrate of a small Luosong County does not have as much power as the magistrate of a state capital or a county capital, as long as the means are appropriate, it is not difficult to seek a family fortune during his term of office.

But what Wang Hebin really envied was not the wealth of the Luosong County Yamen, but the abundance of finances of the Luosong County Yamen; in any event that happened in other areas under its jurisdiction, the assistant officials in the Yamen could get money from the Yamen's treasury. Withdraw the required taels from silver.

Instead of being like him now, who is clearly a sixth-rank official and works in the county government office, but spends his days worrying about how many river workers and how much money will be needed to repair the embankment. Can't sleep at night.

He was obviously in his prime, with a lot of hair on his head that couldn't stop falling down, he was not as good as a mere seventh-rank magistrate, or even worse than those eighth-rank and ninth-rank assistant officials in the Luosong County Yamen's life.

Wang Hebin believes that he has always wanted to be a good official who is useful and supported by the people.It's just that it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.The yamen in Lushan County has been riddled with holes in the past few years. Even if the entire storeroom is scraped, there will be no money left.

Wang Hebin hid his heart from weeping, and Liu Shou didn't look very good on the front.

Wang Hebin was bitter, but at least he hadn't put his own money into it yet, and he, Liu Shou, was working as a county sheriff in Lushan County, and he really had to put a lot of money into it for political achievements and face.

Forget it, in the past two years, I have even brazenly used the contacts of the Liu family in Linhang to bring dozens of truckloads of relief food to Lushan County, and then I put down my body and walking to help others.

So much effort, exhaustion, and courage, but still almost give up all previous efforts and fall short.

After three years of hard work in Lushan County, Liu Shouzheng felt that his determination was as firm as a rock, but at this moment, he couldn't help but collapse.

They are also local officials, so why is there such a big gap between them.
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At this moment, Liu Shouzheng's mouth was bitter and his mind was cracked, while Gu Qi's thoughts were focused on the adjutant officer of Linhai Town in the Gaozu period who was mentioned by Wang Hebin many times but whose name was never recorded.

Compared to Master Xiao Guangping, who is well-known throughout the court, whose life experience is rich enough to provide the entire Dakang people with gossip and gossip for decades, Gu Qi thinks that assistant official is more interesting.

At least compared to the general new policies set by Xiao Guangping for Luosong County, the policy details provided by the assistant official of Linhai Town to the people of Linhai Town are more complete and systematic, which makes the development of Linhai Town far away in the next few decades. It is higher than other areas in Luosong County.

This is a real talent, and an understated one at that.

　Thanks for the reward of "Little cute can only meow"
　　
　
(End of this chapter)