My whole family has crossed with Goldfinger

Pingyang County is the smallest county under the jurisdiction of Yiyang Prefecture. The city walls are mottled and in disrepair. After entering the city, the shops on the main street are far less prosperous than other places. There are many pedestrians on the street, but you can look around , wearing the best, but also fine cotton.

All the way in, Xu Yinyin saw everything that showed one word, poor!

This is the poorest county that Xu Yinyin has seen in so many places.

It is said that it is a county, but it is not as good as other people's towns.

Look at the division into the four cities, southeast, northwest, and it's a little bit reluctant. It doesn't take an hour for a carriage to go back and forth, and the busiest main street is just a decent restaurant or a decent inn.

When passing by the county government office, looking at the gate of the county government office with more than half of its paint missing and the drum with a small hole in it, Xu Yinyin was even more speechless.

She thought there would be no taxes, but she didn't expect it to be so poor.

Why bother to come to this fief.

It's really hard for the emperor to argue with a group of veterans about this.

If you want to come to the emperor, you only know that Pingyang County is not big, but you don't know that Pingyang County is so poor?
Those ministers must know, or else they agreed in the end neatly.

For the sake of those ten shops, Xu Yinyin thought that she would not tell the emperor about it, and be poor if she was poor. If she wanted such a tax, she had to push it herself.

After all, it is her fief, the emperor will not take it back, and will not exchange it for her.

Well, you can't just see it as such a poor method.

That night, of course, I stayed in the most decent inn on the main street.

Early the next morning, Xu Yinyin went out to investigate.

After knowing that Pingyang County was awarded to her as a fief, she knew the county magistrate who governed this place.

The county magistrate is called Deng Qifu. He was born in a poor family. He was a fellow Jinshi in Chengde for 15 years. He served as the magistrate of Li County and Hui County successively. It's been five years.

Based on this point, it can't explain much, you still have to hear it with your own eyes and see it with your own eyes.

There are many small stalls in an alley around the corner from the main street, all of which are for eating. At this point, there are quite a lot of people looking for breakfast outside.

There are food stalls selling steamed buns, ravioli noodles, naan cakes and glutinous rice balls, etc. Xu Yinyin looked around and found that the prices are very affordable and the quantity is plentiful.

I heard that this alley is dedicated to food stalls, and it was planned by Deng Qifu after he took office. Before he came, the food stalls in the city were one here and the other, messy and not concentrated.

Concentrated in one place like this, everyone wants to eat whatever they want, so they come directly to this alley, which saves running around and increases the business volume.

I heard that Deng Qifu also specially built a charity home and a home for the elderly. The former takes in homeless beggars, street children and orphans, and the latter takes in widows, lonely old people, old people without children to support them, old beggars who are inconvenient, etc.

No wonder there were no beggars on the street, and I thought it was because the poor beggars in this county didn't stay here to beg.

These two places cost a lot, and most of the money in the county is used to maintain the livelihood of these two places, including Deng Qifu's own salary, which is almost all invested here. Therefore, the county government has no money to repair it in such a state. .

In the promotion of chili peppers last year, Pingyang County also received a lot of chili seedlings for the common people to plant. Knowing that the chamber of commerce would purchase chili peppers, Deng Qifu was very determined to sell some fields under the name of the county government that had not been sold and The wasteland was taken out and brought out by the common people, and pepper seedlings were planted.

Later, when the peppers were harvested, the Chamber of Commerce came to take away the peppers. Deng Qifu made the decision to distribute the money from these fields to the common people without leaving any money.

When talking about these things, those people are still looking forward to the planting of peppers this year. I heard that this year they have to buy peppers themselves, but they have no money to buy them.

A place with a lot of people has a lot of news, after walking around, Xu Yinyin also has a general understanding of Deng Qifu's style evaluation.

Among the common people, Deng Qifu's reputation is quite good, saying that Mr. Deng loves the people like a son, never puts on the airs of officials, never seeks the people's fat and anointment, and often uses his salary to subsidize the poor people-so much so that his life is better. He was extremely poor, except for an official uniform, his usual clothes were coarse linen, and his food was simple tea and light food.

Speaking of Mr. Deng, the common people admired and admired Mr. Deng repeatedly, saying that Mr. Deng is the Lord Qingtian, their reborn parents and so on.

In short, Mr. Deng is a good official.

If one person says so, several people say so, it can be said to be false, but if everyone says so, then there is no falsehood.

Judging from these deeds, this person is dedicated to the people and knows how to adapt.

After inspecting the character of the magistrate, Xu Yinyin then made a deep understanding of Pingyang County.

There are 46 villages in six towns under the jurisdiction of Pingyang County. They are backed by mountains, with few good fields and the best fields are only medium. Therefore, the grain production has never been high, but there are quite a few mountainous lands. After Deng Qifu took office, he took advantage of these mountainous lands. Let the people grow hemp.

The harvested hemp was sold to neighboring counties, and the income was not much, just a little money from hard work.

After getting to know more or less, Xu Yinyin went to the county government to reveal her identity, and met Deng Qifu, the magistrate of Pingyang County with a clear official voice.

He is about forty years old, and his whole person looks like two words: dark and thin.

Hei is really black, he doesn't look like an official, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is an old farmer who has been farming all the year round.

Thin is really thin, there is no meat on the face, the bones under the skin can be seen clearly, and the official uniform can't hold up a bit. I think he was not so thin when he took office.

After seeing someone, Xu Yinyin felt more confident.

This is a good officer.

Knowing that the person who came was the head of Jiacheng County, Deng Qifu quickly saluted and greeted him. At the same time, he also had some suspicions in his heart that Pingyang County is now the fiefdom of the head of Jiacheng County. He knew very little about the head of Jiacheng County. The county lord's temperament, the county lord has come all the way to the fief, and I don't know if he has any advice——

Pingyang County is poor and has little tax revenue. I don't know if it will cause the dissatisfaction of the Jiacheng County Lord. It will be bad if the people are angry at that time.

Thinking in this way, Deng Qifu was worried, and his face showed a little bit.

Xu Yinyin looked at it, and couldn't help laughing, this Mr. Deng was an upright person at first glance, and he couldn't hide things, no wonder he was disliked by the Shangguan, and he was assigned to such a poor county that doesn't shit.

"Master Deng, don't be restrained, sit down and talk."

"I just passed by this place and came in to have a look. There is no other purpose. It's just that I saw it with my own eyes. I didn't expect that this place is so poor."

Deng Qifu thought she was going to question her, so he couldn't sit still when he just sat down, "Master, the terrain in Pingyang County is not good, the grain production is not high, and the people's hard work for a year can only barely cover food and clothing. The situation, so the tax in Pingyang County has always been [-]% lower than other places, even the commercial tax, and Pingyang County is not as prosperous as other places, not many people are attracted, and business is not easy—”

In the future, the tax will be paid to the Lord Jiacheng. The Lord Jiacheng will not think that the tax is too small, so he should increase the tax——