The splendid years of a talented lady

Chapter 361 The danger of being an official (2)
"I'm not very good at combing my hair. It probably looks like this. Look in the mirror." Su Xiazhi leaned behind Min Lansheng, and looked at the small bronze mirror with him: "It really looks like..."

Min Lansheng in the mirror is a cold beauty with bright eyes and kind eyes, with a dusty temperament and a feminine appearance, which makes him feel strange.

Slowly turning her head to look at her, Min Lansheng asked in a deep voice, "So similar?"

Su Xiazhi nodded: "If you don't speak, and put on the black black clothes that the woman is wearing, you will look more like her!"

Staring at herself in the mirror again, Min Lansheng looked at it for a while, then stretched out her hand to untie the woman-like bun on her head, looked at Su Xiazhi in the mirror and asked, "How old is she? Have you asked her if she knows?" my name?"

"I can't tell how old she is." After making another assessment based on the person's appearance in her mind, Su Xiazhi still couldn't guess her age: "In her 20s? At most, she can't be more than 30 years old... ..."

"And she doesn't seem to have any sense of your name. I asked her twice, and she only said that she knew you, the county magistrate of Ping County, Tanhua of Jinke."

"Hehe!" Min Lansheng said with a chuckle, "It seems that everyone here knows these two things..."

"It's true!" Su Xiazhi turned around and sat on his lap, and then immediately realized that with such a big belly and her own weight, the scholar's slender legs would suffer.

"It's okay." Sensing that the lady seemed to be hesitating to get up, Min Lansheng stopped her: "Where did the lady meet this person?"

"Bodhi Temple, in the Bodhi Temple not far from the town, I heard Shoucheng call her Master Mingche."

"Is there someone with the surname 'Ming'? Is this the dharma name she practiced?" Because she didn't communicate much with Mingche, Su Xiazhi didn't know if this name was her own.

"There is a 'Ming' surname." Min Lansheng thought for a while and said: "There is a family named 'Ming' in Fu County, but it has been an official for several generations. It seems that until now the Ming family is also a big official in the frontier, but the government The county is their ancestral home."

Having said this, Min Lansheng stopped, and fell into deep thought...

He has almost no memories of before the age of one or two.

It was only later that I learned some bits and pieces of past events from my father's words.

His father once said to him: "Our Min family's ancestral home is in Shanxia Village...for my father, I once went to Fujun to teach..."

There is another sentence: "How come your child grows more and more like your mother? But your sister is not so similar to her..."

"Mother..." Min Lansheng murmured to himself in a daze.

"Miss, let's go and see her when my husband takes a bath next month..." The scholar suddenly said with a feeling, but found that the lady who was sitting on his lap had already left the house...

After [-] days of busy work, the county government office is almost always sitting and doing errands on weekdays. Everyone lost a lot of weight and came back to report to the county magistrate!

Min Lansheng made a total of the number of people registered in Ping County, and Min Lansheng knew it.

It is completely different from the serious expression with a calm face when sending these people out on errands, the county magistrate has an unprecedentedly kind attitude, and he did not hesitate to praise the dozen or so people who participated in the errands, and personally wrote The booklets asking for rewards for these people were sent to the prefectural yamen in front of them.

"Do you all know how important this number is to the common people?" Min Lansheng patted a few account books on the official case with his right hand and said emotionally: "Forty percent, forty percent of the tax, if it is all distributed on the heads of the common people, you and I How will these people be worthy of them!"

"So, everyone did a good job this time!" He seemed a little excited, and when he spoke, his eyes kept looking down the hall, making it easy for the people standing in the hall to think that the adults were looking at him when he was talking.

Such an adult is completely different from him who is usually cold and cold. He is a parent official who sincerely seeks the well-being of the people.

He was excited for his subordinates to do something that the previous county magistrates hadn't figured out, and such enthusiasm made him look more flesh and blood.

In the same way, his emotions also affected those coolies who had broken their legs and worn out their mouths.

Unlike the complaints when he was on business, the current Liufang Dianshi is very fortunate to have done this by himself.

Although the process is difficult to explain in one word, it is indeed something that should have been done a long time ago to find out the population distribution and number of Ping County.

And after 20 days of hard work by these people, they can reduce the taxes of the whole county by [-]%, which is really something to be proud of!

Min Lansheng gave these people a three-day rest period. What they originally thought would take a month to complete could be completed in 20 days. These people also worked hard.

These are all his subordinates. Since they need to be used, they must be properly raised. Min Lansheng can learn the way of relaxation without a teacher.

After sending away the crowd like running mud monkeys, Min Lansheng almost immediately recovered his cool look.

He returned to the public case and sat down, writing quickly with a pen. This notebook was to be reported to the Ministry of Household Affairs and was related to the people's livelihood in Ping County, so he wrote very seriously, pausing from time to time to carefully choose the words, lest the words would be inaccurate. Dayi delayed things.

It is now June, and the booklets have been sent to Beijing, and in the hands of those adults in the household department, it will take time to be approved. It will take at least three or four months to go back and forth, and it happens to be the end of the year. It was time to collect taxes again, and he had to hurry up.

"My lord, are you looking for me?" Mr. Zhao came in from outside the lobby, with a stream of heat on his body, as if he had just returned from going out.

"When it's hot, don't go out if you don't have important things to do." Min Lansheng put down his pen, looked up at him and said.

"Thank you for your sympathy, the humble official knows!" Master Zhao bowed and saluted, and said politely.

"Copy out another copy of these account books and send someone to the government office of the prefecture. As for these originals, you have to keep them well, and don't let outsiders know about them except this official!"

"Yes." Reaching out to take those account books, Master Zhao didn't say much, just took them and left.

"Brother Zhao Luan." The county magistrate's low voice came from behind, and it seemed that he had something very important to say.

(End of this chapter)