In the county town, Liu Baiyu, under the guidance of Zhang Tianhong, went to meet with the officials of the third and sixth divisions. Liu Baiyu generously rewarded each of them with a penny of silver. However, there were no county magistrates or chief ministers because Guan County Magistrate

Not angry that the two men were so different from each other that they provoked a civil uprising and drove them away, leaving the position of county magistrate and chief minister vacant. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Dianshi, the dirty man in Liu Baiyu's eyes, was the county magistrate.

He is actually the second in command...

It has always been an unspoken rule in China's officialdom that if two people have a special relationship, they should go through the back door instead of the front door. Zhang Tianhong was no exception. He went straight to the back door of the county government office. In order to show his closeness, Zhang Tianhong naturally did not use the official title, regardless of the etiquette.

shouted:

"Brother Guan Xian! The capable person I found for you is here! Why don't you come over quickly to greet him?"

"No matter how talented a person is, he can conjure grain out of thin air? Brother, don't comfort me. It's a small thing to dismiss an official. If the people are replaced by a corrupt official, I'm afraid there will be wars everywhere!" This man seemed to have drunk some wine.

, he spoke a little stumblingly, and the anger in his words was beyond words.

Brother! You are a dignified county magistrate, not a young man in his twenties, how can you act like an angry young man! When you encounter a problem and don’t want to solve it, you only know how to scaremonger?! Liu Baiyu was shocked by the words of the county magistrate Guan.

, before I even met him in person, I just slapped him with an unreliable label.

However, what Liu Baiyu didn't know was that due to the promotion of eight-legged essays, scholars in the Ming Dynasty were fond of big words and ignored practical matters. Angry youths like Guan County Magistrate were more practical. If Liu Baiyu had seen the Donglin Party talking nonsense,

Many gentlemen who don’t know anything about practical things will probably understand that it is true that the country was governed by angry youths in the late Ming Dynasty. The reason why Guan County magistrate failed in his official career was because he was not angry enough - you should scold him a hundred times.

Juhunjun, traitors and so on, how can you say that no one can conjure food out of thin air? How can this be done???

However, to Liu Baiyu's surprise, when he and Zhang Tianhong went in, they did not see an angry young man with high morale. Instead, they saw a literary young man smelling of alcohol, with his back to Zhang Tianhong and Liu Baiyu, and they were talking to themselves.

Pour it for yourself and drink it to relieve your sorrow.

"Hahaha! I heard Brother Zhang keep saying that you are such and such, sharing people's worries, and being the backbone of this county. It turns out that you are not as well-known as you are when we meet! What a huge disappointment!" Liu Baiyu felt that normal communication would be impossible when talking to such a person.

, so I had no choice but to take a sideways approach.

"Hmph, I can stand and talk without pain in my back. There is a saying that a clever woman cannot make a meal without rice. I did some calculations and figured out that even drinking porridge would cost several kilograms of brown rice..."

"If you ask me, you are just trying to disturb yourself. These refugees are not from this county, so they can just be kicked out. Isn't this the case in several neighboring counties? Each family sweeps the snow in front of their door, and doesn't care about the frost on other people's tiles, right?

Besides, these days, any official who can take care of his own land is a good official, sometimes you have to learn to pretend to be deaf and dumb!" Zhang Tianhong advised him.

"To put it lightly, they are all Han people, just like you and me! They are not Fanbang Tatars. How can we let them fend for themselves? Besides, these refugees are left alone and are coerced by evil cults such as the White Lotus Sect. But

It was another catastrophe. The Wenxiang Sect Rebellion seemed to be still in front of my eyes. In just six months, there were millions of dead bodies! I can still see it clearly..."

"Here, can you, a county magistrate, still care about the cabinet minister? If something happens to the immigrants, as long as it doesn't happen in this county and everything is fine in the county, no one can blame you..."

After hearing Zhang Tianhong's words, Guan County Magistrate nodded in agreement, but Liu Baiyu was not taken lightly - after reading about the Ming Dynasty county magistrates, prefectures and so on, who committed suicide after the city was destroyed, he still felt that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were very responsible.

Very courageous - I never imagined that once I put myself in someone else's shoes, the truth is to defend the city, and whatever the commotion outside is, it won't be a big deal!

"We still have to find a way. Let's count the few we can save. I'll let the gentry seal the borders of the county..." In fact, Magistrate Guan Zizi Dao said this as an afterthought, because there were refugees in neighboring counties.

Regarding the gangs, many gentry had already privately sealed the border, otherwise there would be more than this number of refugees coming to the county.

"After all, we need some money and food. There are only 500 kilograms of rice in the county warehouse! I'm afraid this autumn harvest will not be good. With so little rain, I'm afraid it will be another bad harvest... Oh, I don't know what's going on with God.

"In recent years, there have been only major and minor disasters, but few good years. After more than ten years, even if Zhuge Liang is the first and second-in-command, there is nothing Zhang Zifang can do!" Magistrate Guan sighed, and tears fell unconsciously.

"I'm talking about County Magistrate Guan. Brother Zhang Tianhong has always praised you as a good official. Now it seems that you are not worthy of your reputation. You don't even understand basic government affairs. Alas, I really feel sad for the people of this county. You are so good in their eyes."

Official, in fact, I haven’t even entered the door to become an official!”

Liu Baiyu squinted his eyes and said, he has clearly seen that Magistrate Guan is a proud man, and getting along with him slowly may not necessarily convince him, but if you take the wrong approach, you may get miraculous results!

"To put it lightly, the output of this land is a certain amount! I don't have the ability to turn stone into gold..."

"Who told you that the output of the land is fixed? The land is good or bad, and the talent is good, but drinking water irrigation, flood control and other things are also very important. Could it be that as a Confucian scholar with extensive knowledge of the past and the present, even the Zhengguo Canal came out, Guanzhong became

Don’t you know that Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms and unified them in the fertile fields thousands of miles away?"

"Of course I know this! But you are just talking on paper! Do you know how many stones, how much labor, and how much it costs to build such a canal?"

"You know what? Don't tell me that you can calculate earthwork and other things. Isn't that all done by the master?"

"This... I can still do simple calculations, but you can't blame me. These more complicated earthworks are all secret methods that have not been passed down by the master. Even the Gonggun princes in the dynasty, in addition to Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua and other Western learning masters, also

How many are good at it!?"

"I heard those masters boasting about the magic, but actually there is a shortcut..." Liu Baiyu took out a [Government Affairs Complete Book] from his sleeve, found the relevant page, turned to that page, and handed it to Guan

County magistrate.

"What is this ghost symbol written vertically? I can't understand it!"

"There is a digital exchange table at the front of the book. A three-year-old child can remember it at a glance. Don't tell me that you don't know..." Liu Baiyu despised the intellectuals of this era.

"Nonsense, I can tell at a glance that 1234 corresponds to 1, 2, 3, and 4! What is this xyz?"

"Do you know this is called the unknown?"

"Unknown numbers? That is, unknown numbers? What's the point of mixing unknown numbers with known numbers!?"

"This is called algebra. Do you know algebra?"

"Algebra? It is said that only Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua and other Western experts know it..."

"How can it be so high-end and classy? Let me tell you about algebra. If you have no problem with your intelligence, you should be able to do it..."

Liu Baiyu unscrupulously changed a few genius mathematicians to a level with no problem in intelligence, and secretly tested the IQ of County Magistrate Guan...

"Huh, it's just a layer of window paper, it will break if you poke it, but this algebraic method is really fast and not easy to make mistakes! Thank you very much, Brother Liu!"

Magistrate Guan is a bit arrogant, but he has great admiration for people with real talents and practical knowledge, and is willing to submit to him at any cost:

"Thank you so much, Brother Liu. This [Encyclopedia of Government Affairs] is indeed written by everyone. It is comprehensive and easy to understand! Can you lend it to me for a month?"

Magistrate Guan's face turned red when he said this. Although Liu Baiyu exchanged this book from the plane merchant system, in this era, this kind of snow-white paper from modern times was enough to collect even if the Ming Dynasty ignored the knowledge on it.

, such a thick book is directly worth more than a hundred taels of silver.

And if you include the systematic knowledge in it, it would be extremely valuable. Magistrate Guan looked at the author of this book and found that it was an unknown person - layman Qingshan.

Which scholar’s ​​painstaking work is this? Magistrate Guan thought for a long time, but he still couldn’t figure out who the Qingshan layman was. Although Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua and other Western scholars might know something about it, they could not figure out this complicated calculation.

To speak so concisely and to combine it so well with actual government affairs is far beyond their ability.

However, although the author of "Encyclopedia of Government Affairs" is a peerless genius, Liu Baiyu's attention is not very good. No matter how good the water conservancy is, what's the use? How can the Ming Dynasty still have the money to repair water conservancy? Even if they have this money, they still have to pay attention to it.

We need to find some officials who are good at getting things done without plucking their feathers. Even if they have both, how can those high-ranking officials who read as empty words but are actually useless be able to organize so many refugees?

"Alas, after all, water from afar cannot quench the thirst of the nearer! These are all things that take time. It would be great if there were any shortcuts!" When Magistrate Guan said this, he also smiled bitterly and felt that he was being whimsical. That's right.

Technology and per-acre yield are constantly increasing, but that is the result of thousands of years of continuous accumulation. Expecting pie to fall from the sky is not the moral cultivation principle of Confucian disciples.
Chapter completed!