behind me is the earth.

There are a total of seven counties in Wuzhou Province, with mountains in the west and north, and hills in the east. Although three counties are near the sea and have a long coastline, only Dongyang County has a natural harbor.

In Guyi County and Qingzhou, the water is shallow and there are many rocks, ships are easily stranded on the rocks, and the hydrogeological conditions are not good, so it is impossible to build large ports.

Among the seven counties, Yuntai County, Dongyang County, and Guyi County in the north, because there are many mountains and hills, do not produce much grain.

Most of the food production areas in Wuzhou Province are concentrated in the four counties of Fengqi, Qingzhou, Fuzhou, and Changguo.

Ren Pingsheng was lying halfway in the carriage, looking at the draft of Wuzhou Provincial Chronicle that had just been compiled in his hand.

It took more than a year. It was presided over by Liu Shu, the Secretary of Civil Affairs, and recently compiled by the Political Research Office. Based on the collection of previous provincial annals, county annals, and county annals, the first draft was completed through visits and investigations. Ren Pingsheng took it to read In order to have a more comprehensive understanding of Wuzhou's economy, politics, division, resources, humanities and other history.

Next, after the compilation of this brand new Wuzhou Provincial Chronicle is completed, it will be printed and distributed to every official of the official department level and above in the province.

It is also convenient for Wuzhou officials to have a framework for the development of the entire Wuzhou. When formulating various policies in the future, they can have a reference and be targeted.

"Is this the modified Xuanyuan Sword?"

Xiao Wan, who was sitting next to Ren Pingsheng, slowly drew a sword out of its sheath, and as the sword was out of its sheath, a soft golden light suddenly appeared, and she carefully looked at the long sword in her hand.

The sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, plants and trees above all appear more profound with the golden light. When the long sword is pulled out and held in the hand, the painting engraved on the sword turns out to be like a mirage, faintly reflected in the void , full of sacred aura, it really looks like the golden sword of the holy way in the record.

Ren Pingsheng once specially arranged to appear in front of people, as well as the statue on the square in front of Qingcheng Railway Station, and the sword held in his hand has such a shape.

Although Ren Ping never really used this sword in his life, the image of this sword has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and has a very important symbolic meaning.

"This is modified from the manufacturing method of Youlongjian. However, I added a new alloy to it to make it sharper."

Ruan Tang stretched out her hand, and You Longjian buzzed suddenly, broke free from Xiao Wan's hand, and fell into her hand.

Take out a steel wire and tap it lightly on the blade, the steel wire is easily broken into two, and the incision is very smooth.

"Such sharpness, even wearing three-layer armor, can't stop it at all!"

Xiaowan picked up the steel wire that fell into the car, looked at the break, and exclaimed.

With a wave of Ruan Tang's hand, the Xuanyuan Sword went into the sheath with a "chuckle", and said very proudly: "Among the ten thousand armies, taking the head of an enemy general is like picking something out of a bag."

Xiao Wan hung Xuanyuan Sword on the hook of the carriage.

"Where did you go?"

Ren Pingsheng put down the book, leaned against the cushion, opened the curtain and looked outside.

The spring breeze was chilly, and it brought a bit of cool air into the carriage.

Outside is thousands of miles of fertile fields, the green wheat seedlings have grown wheat ears, and as the spring breeze blows, they rise and fall like green waves.

Inside the puddle, there was a frog's "croak croak croak".

The breath of spring is rippling everywhere.

"Master, you have already entered the boundary of Yunyao County in Fengqi County."

Wang Shu took out a cantaloupe from the fragrant green sandalwood box in the carriage, cut it open on a small square table, and gave a piece to Ren Pingsheng.

The box was frozen with some ice cubes condensed by Xiao Wan, and the cantaloupe was cold, sweet and sandy, which was brought over by Ren Pingsheng from the earth.

"I heard that Yunyao County is rich in pears."

Ren Pingsheng said.

"It's a pity that now is not the time for pears to bear fruit."

Ruan Tang said regretfully.

She was fiddling with a palm-sized pistol in her hand.However, the shape of this pistol is very different from ordinary firearms. The barrel is exaggeratedly thick, and there is a faint arc of light inside.

Relying on the ability of electromagnetic force, she gradually groped to make a pulse pistol, but this required a pulse induction field to generate high-energy, high-density electromagnetic pulses, but this also required sufficient energy supply, which led to Ruan Tang making this A gun, only for her own use.

It's a bit tasteless, but the only advantage is that when using the pulse pistol, it can reduce the mental consumption, and the attacks are more concentrated, so the power is also greater.

There was a sound of hoofbeats, and Han Jun patted his horse and came to the side of Ren Pingsheng's carriage: "Your Majesty, in front of you is Daxi Village in Yunyao County, a large village with a population of over a thousand in Yunyao County."

"Well, let's go have a look."

Ren Pingsheng said.

Daxizhuang is a big village, and there is a Xi family in it, who is the landlord of this Daxizhuang. In the past, it occupied more than half of the land in Daxizhuang, and almost half of the people were tenants of this Xijia.

This time, we measured the acres of land and checked the hidden households. We measured more than 2000 mu of hidden fields and more than 200 hidden households that had not been registered with the government.

Before Ren Pingsheng got out of the car, he saw a group fight outside!
And it was a battle of hundreds of people.

A large number of men, wielding hoes and shovels, beat the production embankment in circles.

That was really punching to the flesh, serious and serious!

Ren Pingsheng saw several people lying on the ground, bleeding from their heads, motionless and lifeless.

"Is this grabbing water?"

In May, the wheat here is about to ripen. At this time, in order to increase the yield of wheat, it is necessary to water the grouting water again.

Fighting on the production embankment, it is likely that people from two villages, or even several villages, are fighting for water to irrigate the land.

"Go to a few people!"

Ren Pingsheng pointed to the side where the battle was fought.

"Yes!"

Han Jun turned to the two guards and said, "Wu Hui, Zhang Mou, you two go and stop them."

"Yes!"

The two guards clasped their fists in response, and then, like two fired shells, they stepped on the ground a few times, and then they had crossed a distance of several hundred meters and fell into the fighting group. After quickly subduing the leaders of the villages on both sides, the situation was stabilized.

The reserve officials who were watching the affairs of each department took the opportunity to step forward to inquire about the cause of the fight.

"My lord, this is Daxizhuang, Wujiazhai, Zhangjiabao, the three villages are collecting water."

"Because the water volume of the Mohe River in Fengqi County is low this year, after the gate was released, it was blocked by Daxi Village upstream, and the water could not flow downstream. The people of Wujiazhai and Zhangjiabao villages united and came to Daxi Village. Negotiated, then fought."

Zhang Huai'an, who was an observer of the Political Research Office of the Department of Civil Affairs, came up to report on behalf of the reserve officials after asking the reason.

He is a college student who is about to graduate from Yuntai University this year, and got No.1 in the national examination.

This year is the first year of the national examination, and because of the extreme shortage of officials in various local yamen, the admission rate for the national examination this time is extremely high, and most of them are admitted.However, most of these people have been thrown to various local yamen to observe politics and study. After half a year of internship, they will soon become regulars.

There are less than 100 people who really stay in the various departments of Wuzhou to observe and study politics.

"Why are you fighting?"

Ren Pingsheng asked.

Zhang Huai'an was taken aback, and said: "Because Daxizhuang blocked the water flow, the downstream villages could not irrigate the land. This season is an important time for wheat grain filling. Once the time passes, the wheat production will be affected and the production will be reduced."

"Blocking the water flow is the superficial reason for the fighting. What is the deeper reason?"

Ren Pingsheng asked again.

Zhang Huaian suddenly realized that the prince was testing him, his brain was activated, and he quickly began to think about the reason.

After pondering for a moment, he said while thinking: "I think there are three reasons."

"One is in the government. Because the water conservancy facilities are not perfect, the villages can only rely on the water flow of the Mo River to irrigate the land. The gate is too high and the government has not maintained it. Once the water flow of the Mo River is small and the water level drops, it will be difficult to divert water to meet the needs of the villagers. water needs."

"Secondly, in the villages, the method of intercepting water sources in the villages is simple and rude, without considering how the people in the downstream villages water."

"Third, in the villagers, the legal awareness is weak, and the consequences are not fully considered, resulting in hundreds of people fighting, resulting in the loss of more than a dozen lives."

Ren Pingsheng listened to Zhang Huai'an's thoughts, and led the crowd forward.

At the same time, his thought power swarmed out, covering a radius of [-] meters in an instant, and several surrounding villages came into his awareness.

"The reason for this kind of fighting is actually that grassroots rights are in the hands of gentry and landlords, and the tentacles of imperial power and laws cannot reach in.

The people only listen to the elders, gentry, and landlords in these villages, but they don't know what the law is.

For a radical cure, the law must go to the village, and the eyes of the grassroots town government must fall to the village. "

Ren Pingsheng said.

"However, regardless of taxation, corvee, conscription, etc., we all need the support of these prestigious gentry and landlords in the village..."

Zhang Huai'an asked thoughtfully: "Does the lord mean that we should move the government down further and enter these villages?"

"Of course not. Administrative capacity is limited after all. If villages are also organized, the population supported by finances will skyrocket by another order of magnitude."

Ren Pingsheng shook his head.

On the earth, with the productivity of the earth, villager self-government is adopted at the village level.With the productivity here, it is absolutely impossible to support so many officials for financial meals.

"To grasp grassroots power, one is to strengthen the influence of town-level governments and build a unified ideology in village-level units. The other is to set up special violence agencies to enforce the majesty of laws to these villages controlled by gentry and landlords. among."

Ren Pingsheng explained the reason why he came down to investigate this time.

Under the cover of just now, Ren Pingsheng could clearly see that in the village, the number of farmland acres did not match the number of farmland acres counted by Yunyao County, and the number of people was also quite different from the registered population.

Either the magistrate of Yunyao County was colluding with the local gentry, or the local gentry united with government officials to deceive the magistrate of Yunyao County.

In any case, the police system must be established as soon as possible, and the officials at the county and town levels must undergo a major change as soon as possible to completely get rid of the influence of the local gentry.

"Huai'an, when you watch politics in the Department of Civil Affairs, what you see are mostly personnel appointments and personnel adjustments, etc. It's a job of thinking about people.

Governance, no matter where it is located, is made up of people.When land, population, resources, finance and taxation, etc. form a series of figures, the real and false figures among these figures are often difficult to distinguish clearly after they are aggregated to the central government.

Sometimes when the Department of Civil Affairs involves the assessment of local officials, it is necessary to go to various places to see if they have been deceived.

Dajing's territory is so large, on the one hand to maintain the great unity, it will inevitably require the authority of the imperial court and the unified leadership of all regions.On the other hand, the day-to-day operations of the entire system depend on the local yamen.

The balance between the central and central lands is very important, and once it gets out of control, it will cause division and destruction.

This requires a solid system to maintain, and the introduction of each system and policy does not come out of thin air.After you become a regular in the Political Research Office, whenever you formulate policies, you must conduct detailed research and comprehensive consideration. "

Ren Pingsheng asked.

"Your Highness taught, students should remember."

Zhang Huaian said quickly.

The convoy did not delay too much in Daxi Village, hurried on the road, drove along the main road, and arrived at Yutai County in the evening.

There is a Huaxian Lake in Yutai County, covering an area of ​​more than 8000 hectares, straddling the two counties of Fengqi and Changguo, it is a land of fish and rice rich in products.

The reason why I hurried to Yutai County was because I got a tip that several villages in Yutai County were going to hold a sacrificial activity today.

Boys and girls should be tributed to the water dragon king of Huaxian Lake in order to obtain a year of good weather.

After hearing the news, the county government and the local town government had sent people to do several tasks, but the village was unmoved and pushed the servants out of the village.

When Ren Pingsheng arrived, the young magistrate was leading the local mayor, dozens of yamen servants, and the county lieutenant with hundreds of militiamen who had been conscripted temporarily, carrying flintlock guns on the outskirts of Huaxian Lake. waiting.

"What's the situation with this water dragon king?"

Ren Pingsheng invited the secretary to ask.

"Reporting to my lord, according to the investigation, this water dragon king is a water dragon in the Huaxian Lake. Since this year, he has rescued many fishermen who fell into the water, and even drove the fish and shrimp to the places where the fishermen haunted, so that every time the fishermen dropped their nets, They all gained a lot.”

The secretary said: "However, since the reputation of the Water Dragon King has been established, after investigations by the local government, the number of missing people on Huaxian Lake has increased this year. In just five months of this year, 247 people have been buried in the lake. This is the same period last year. More than 20 times of that."

"It seems that most of the missing persons are related to this Water Dragon King."

Ren Pingsheng speculated.

"A monster pretending to be a god and tricking the people into offering sacrifices is really audacious!"

Xiaowan got out of the car, feeling the rich water vapor of Huaxian Lake, and felt her body feel comfortable intuitively.

Closing her eyes, the blue light spots around her were cheering, swarming towards her body, and as she performed the "Yunlong Shiqi Tie" exercises, they entered her meridians and deposited in her dantian. A faint blue cloud formed in the middle of the sky.

These are water elements, or water aura, but not water vapor.Xiaowan can mobilize these water elements, and induce the water vapor between the heaven and the earth to cast spells.

After storing enough aura in her dantian, even if Xiao Wan returned to Earth with Ren Pingsheng, she would be able to cast water spells more easily.

"Let's go take a look too."

Ren Pingsheng greeted and said.

Ruan Tang was wearing a black horse-face skirt at this time, with a bamboo hat on her head, and the tulle hanging down covered her face, which could save a lot of trouble.

Xiao Wan dressed up in men's clothing, but the bulging bear made her appearance not very successful.

The west bank of Huaxian Lake was very lively at this time, probably three or four thousand people gathered.There were gongs and drums, and dragon and lion dances. People sang and danced. It looked extraordinarily lively, and everyone was beaming.

Beside the boys and girls, the young parents were weeping with worry on their faces.

"A total of six pairs of children, how stupid!"

Zhang Huaian sighed.

There is also basic knowledge about the supernatural and mysterious side in the university. After systematic study, these graduates know that there are aliens, goblins, ghosts and the like today, and they will not treat aliens and monsters as ordinary people like ordinary people. Fairy to look at. (end of this chapter)