Mang Shusheng's Ink Painting Practice

Chapter 126: Scary

Zhao Yifu asked the head of the Sun family to take the people from the five villages away and settle down accordingly.

It's amazing to say, originally there shouldn't have been enough manpower, but those who were granted land were unusually well-behaved and even helped to keep an eye on others.

The three hunters who were promised to be constables have already taken up their posts and taken on their responsibilities.

Although tenants who cultivated government-owned land regretted not getting their own land, the risks of cultivating government-owned land were relatively smaller, so it was still relatively safe.

The only ones who seemed unwilling to give up were probably the two families who went to visit relatives. They might not really be going to seek refuge with their relatives, but after seeing the remaining six families' property being taken away and being treated as refugees, they didn't dare to say a word and quickly packed up and left.

According to the head of the Sun family, several villages are already deserted.

Zhao Yifu thought about it and decided to go home.

After all, he came here with work, and there was no point in going to the remaining four deserted villages.

It wasn't that he was derelict in his duty, but based on his judgment of the degree of water pollution in the area, the situation in the village must have long been unsuitable for living.

If that's the case, why bother making another trip?
So he simply headed straight towards the next town.

"Sir, won't you stay a little longer?"

Instead, Sun Zhenghe was reluctant to leave. After all, he had been following Zhao Yifu during this period of time and felt that the county magistrate in front of him was simply a god!

This was Zhao Yifu's true self, and he was naturally reluctant to part with him.

Zhao Yifu comforted him, "Don't worry. I'll be gone for three months at the latest and will be able to finish my business and return to the county. I'll come to Fengkou Town to discuss this matter."

"After all, your water source pollution problem is actually not a small matter at all. I'm afraid it will affect the irrigation problem of the entire county."

Zhao Yifu still had a rough idea of ​​the matter in his mind.

He decided to sort out the affairs in the county first, and then consider the problems in the prison mountain.

I heard that there are people living in the prison mountain, but I don’t know how they deal with the problem of polluted water sources?
Zhao Yifu pondered for a moment and said goodbye to Sun Zhenghe. He also gave up his donkey cart and simply set off on foot.

He started working hard.

Relying on his extraordinary physical strength, he took less than half a day to run to the next town, and then called the head of Fenghua Town to cooperate in measuring the land.

The director was still dizzy and was dragged by Zhao Yi Fu to the edge of the field.

Then Zhao Yifu was seen counting on his fingers constantly, and from time to time he would ask the local people questions.

The land survey on the Fenghua Town side was completed before dark, and then the village chief was dragged away to draw a map.

The man there was a little old man, and his physique was not as good as that of the head of the Sun family. After being carried by Zhao Yifu with one hand for most of the day, he almost lost his life.

But when Zhao Yifu drew all the results of the day in front of him, he was suddenly speechless.

Zhao Yifu dropped his paintbrush, pressed his seal, and said, "I'll finish measuring all the farmland in the town in two days. The day after tomorrow, you'll come with me to measure the farmland in each village. We'll try to complete the work in your town within ten days."

At this moment, the head of Fenghua Village seemed to see his long-deceased parents waving to him. This level of work intensity was something he had never seen before.

According to Zhao Yifu's work schedule, he has to visit two villages a day!

The time spent on the journey alone is enough to make this place feel long.

"Please spare me, sir, please spare me. This old man's body can't stand this kind of torture."

The village head begged for mercy.

Zhao Yifu said nonchalantly, "Is it because of you that the progress of my entire Fenglin County's land reclamation has been slowed down?"

"That's impossible. If you can't do it, ask someone else to do it."

The head of Fenghua Village's face changed for a moment, but he finally gritted his teeth and said, "I am too old to be commanded by you, sir. Could you please let my son serve you in my place?"

Zhao Yifu was surprised when he heard this: "You want your son to be the village head? This is against the rules. After all, the position of village head can only be held by the elders of the village."

"Since you are unbearable to be driven, we can only ask the elders from other families to come."

The old man's face was sallow, and he could only say, "Since that's the case, I will serve you even if it costs me my life."

Zhao Yifu nodded, and then started working non-stop.

With the experience in Fengkou Town, Zhao Yifu was now able to deal with these people with ease.

Because when it comes to doing things, the root of all troubles is that people are needed to do things, but if people feel that they are no longer indispensable and can be replaced at any time... then the power of the scroll will appear.

Zhao Yifu's approach was to make people feel that he could handle everything without any help from others by using his own strength.

How is this possible?

If Zhao Yifu were to do everything, how could the interests of each family be guaranteed?
There is no way, I have to follow this.

But no one should think of leading Zhao Yifu by the nose, because they don't even have time to use any tricks before they are manipulated by Zhao Yifu.

After nine days, Zhao Yifu successfully completed all the work in the town.

Just a bit useless.

Not long after he finished his work and left, the old village chief collapsed and fell seriously ill...

But it doesn’t matter anymore. If the village head is gone, just replace him with a younger one. Anyway, few of these gentry have clean hands.

Zhao Yifu didn't have the energy to deal with them one by one. He would just set up the framework first and then deal with the internal coordination when he had free time.

...In this way, another three months passed, and Zhao Yifu had finally traveled all over Fenglin County.

The effect of this was very significant, as he completed the "census" and land survey of the entire Fenglin County.

In other words, he has all the conditions to complete the Fish Scale Yellow Book, and the next step is the "big printing" time.

Another benefit was that he gained more yang and spiritual energy than he could imagine.

Three towns, eighteen townships, and more than five hundred villages. Every time he arrived at a place, he would leave a drawing of the re-measured land... and this drawing of the land harvested countless yang and spiritual energy.

By the time he finished the work in the second town, he had already achieved minor success in his martial arts body.

After completing the work in two towns and ten villages, his martial arts holy body no longer accepted yang and spiritual energy.

It seemed as if a switch had been completely turned on in his body, and he was rapidly transforming under the blessing of the 'Shou Ren Fa'.

He also knew that in order to bring the Martial Arts Saint Body to perfection, it would require so much yang and spiritual energy, which was completely different from his previous feelings.

As for the yang and spiritual energy obtained from the remaining one town and eight villages, he temporarily collected them and did not use them.

Because it's time to work, he doesn't have time to get a new talent.

He still remembered the impact on his body when he activated the Holy Martial Arts Body last time, and he would not make the same mistake again.

Including the one month in Fengkou Town, he has been away from the county for four months now.

Theoretically, since he has been away for so long, he should be worried about whether he will be sidelined, right?

But now he has already taken control of the entire Fenglin County, and it is a control with unprecedented strength!

No one dared to contradict him in Fenglin County. As he visited one village after another, he established his complete authority in Fenglin County.

The price he paid was the permanent layoffs of four village chiefs, seven who resigned due to the overwhelming workload, and five who were dismissed due to suspected crimes committed by their clansmen. He had already changed fifteen of the twenty-one village chiefs in this entire cycle. Who wouldn't tremble at the mere mention of his name?
They are afraid that he will come and ask for their work if they have a disagreement, and they can’t stand it!
Finally, when Zhao Yifu returned to the county seat, the entire Fenglin County was celebrating.

Even the local tyrants who were originally arrogant and domineering did not dare to be presumptuous in the slightest, because they did not dare to let Zhao Yifu get any evidence against them.

When he returned to Fenglin County, the entire county was suddenly in a state of panic.

Because his reputation has spread thoroughly in the past four months, no one working in the county dares to be careless.

In this way, Zhao Yifu's county government agency's executive ability was fully stimulated.

"Sir, do you have any political arrangements to make this time you come back?"

Chief Clerk Li Liang asked respectfully.

He was a smart man who knew that official business came first in front of Zhao Yifu and there was no need to discuss personal matters.

Zhao Yifu calmly pulled out a picture from his sleeve.

The picture was spread out on the table.

Li Liang's eyes focused, and he saw an extremely beautiful color map of Fenglin County's topography!
This map is so accurate that you can even find all the wells and canals in Fenglin County on it.

Zhao Yifu quickly marked the picture.

Bridge signs were painted on each waterway, and roads were drawn for every village.

In short, this is a map that marks the locations where roads and bridges need to be built next.

Li Liang's scalp tingled as he watched the project. The scale of the project was beyond his imagination.

Zhao Yifu said, "Use the money in the treasury now to do it. When you get to the local area, ask the local gentry to contribute some grain. Then, during the next slack season, recruit laborers to do the work."

Li Liang looked at it and said with a tingling scalp: "I'm afraid this won't be completed in a short time."

Zhao Yifu said, "Try your best. This is your main task for the next three years."

What else can Li Liang say about this?
I could only grit my teeth and agree.

Zhao Yifu then asked, "Come back to me when the tax revenue comes in this year. Don't bother me at other times. I need to remake the Yellow Book of Fish Scales."

Li Liang responded, "Yes, sir."

In fact, if the county magistrate had an easier job, there would be no problem in leaving everything to his deputies.

The literati of the Great Xu Dynasty were generally more carefree after becoming officials.

But Zhao Yifu felt very uncomfortable.

He actually wanted to lie down, but as a career elite in his previous life, many things were deeply ingrained in his bones.

For example, when making a fish scale book, the traditional fish scale book is a rough land map corresponding to each household, and the rough area is marked on it, which is the land property of this household.

The government collected taxes every year based on this crude information, which made Zhao Yifu feel very uncomfortable.

As for the yellow book that serves as the "household registration book", it only records family information in text, which is really eye-watering.

After thinking about it, Zhao Yifu immediately came up with an idea.

First, fish-scale maps and population yellow books were made to mark the land plots according to the original traditional format.

He then marked the sizes of the plots in the fish-scale atlas in great detail, a workload that could only be handled by the ink-splashing technique.

The most important thing is that he marked and indexed the fish scale atlas and the yellow book, so that by following the marks on the fish scale book, one can quickly find the household head information in the yellow book, and one can also quickly find the corresponding fish scale book location in the yellow book.

Just this one step put him ahead of all local officials of that era.

But he felt it wasn't enough.

After all, according to the habits of the previous life, in order to deal with those stupid leaders who can't understand the data, the documents must be made with both pictures and texts.

So he copied all the land plots in the three towns, eighteen townships and five hundred and forty-four villages in Fenglin County.

If all these plot maps could be pieced together, it would be found that they could form a super large map of Fenglin County!
On this "Complete Map of Fenglin County," all the information from the Yellow Book of Fish Scales was also annotated...

Only in this way can he be considered satisfied.

In his previous life, he would have added a description of climate change, information on per-acre yield in various places, and so on.

Just like this, it’s already very ‘crude’!

When he finished all this, even though he had the ink-splashing technique to "print wirelessly", it still took about five days.

Fortunately, it's all done.

He found a large wooden box, put all the manuscripts into it, and then asked Lao Huang to come and take them away.

Only then did he feel greatly relieved.

However, he didn't know that sending this box of manuscripts almost made the elder in the Ministry of Revenue lose his breath...

……

"Lord Huang, how come you have time to come to my place?"

Mr. Yuewei greeted with a smile.

Huang Lin, carrying the large box of blueprints, said with a smile, "Help the young master carry some things to the Immortal."

Yuwei Jushi said modestly: "I am just a scholar, I dare not talk about being an immortal."

"If Lord Huang doesn't mind, you can just address me as Master Yuewei."

Huang Lin immediately said, "My humble servant has greeted you. I have brought the things with me and will take my leave now."

"If you need me from now on, just stomp the ground three times and call me."

Mr. Yuewei nodded in thanks. He now felt that it was the right thing for his sect to ask the heaven for a title for this land god.

After all, this land god knows his own position very well and is very capable of handling things.

Thinking this, he opened the box in a good mood, very curious about what Zhao Yifu, the rising star in the sect, had brought him.

He first flipped open the household registration book, and he understood clearly: "So it's the yellow book that was delivered. You were able to sort it out in such a short time. You are indeed a talented person in our sect."

However, after turning two pages, he noticed the many notes in the yellow book and quickly opened the fish scale atlas.

This sight shocked me and I was pleasantly surprised.

However, after the surprise, look at the rest of the stuff...

His face changed immediately, and he felt a chill running through his heart.

So volume? !

Originally, after receiving the Fish Scale Yellow Book, he only needed to keep it well and then report his achievements to the emperor and Zhao Yifu at the appropriate time. However, after seeing the results of this volume, he had no choice but to call the head of the sect over to discuss it first.

In his heart, Zhao Yifu had gone too far!
　Today's chapter: The elderly at home have a cold and there is no one to take care of the children, so I ask you to do it yourself.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)