By late October, the temperature was no longer capricious and everyone had to wear thick clothes.

The river water is as clear as a mirror and the cool breeze blows, waving waves. A keel water truck by the river explores into the river water. The water truck rotates slowly in the wind, and the river water falls into the canal.

On the avenue near the river, several fast horses surrounded two tall carriages, heading against the warm autumn days, and rode along the road by the river, rolling up dust and grass chips.

A young scholar was sitting in the car with his eyes closed and resting, while a little girl like a porcelain doll leaned on the carriage and slept. Her slender eyelashes formed a sharp contrast with her fair face.

These are naturally Lin Junran's brother and sister. Although he has been in office for more than a month, he has been staying in Leizhou City. Except for two passes by Suixi County, the other three counties under the jurisdiction of Leizhou Prefecture have never been inspected as prefect.

Now the matter in Leizhou Prefecture is handled almost the same, and the opening plan is proceeding in an orderly manner, and his mind is also active. First, he takes the opportunity to relax, and second, he checks the situation in the other four counties.

But it is not because he loves the people as much as his son, but because his plan to open the sea cannot be fought alone. The resources of the other four counties must be utilized. Even if it cannot build a port and open the sea like Dianbai County, it must also open the sea.

Exercise a little bit of force.

Although he now has a great official reputation, he is not numb by these praises. He has never forgotten his true mission. Whether he can succeed or whether his career can go further depends on his achievements in opening the sea.

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squeak……

It was just as I was thinking, the screams of the little golden monkey suddenly came from the roof of the car, and the carriage stopped suddenly.

oops!

Hu Niu leaned horizontally in the carriage and was hit by the inertia of suddenly stopping the carriage. Her little head hit the carriage in front. It didn't hurt much, but she screamed clearly, as if she would relieve the pain when she shouted like this.

Lin Xuran was about to sympathize with the little girl, but the little girl got up excitedly and got up excitedly and asked, "Brother, have you met a robber again?"

I have to say that his trip was not very smooth. He actually encountered a young robber in Suixi. It goes without saying that the robbers were beaten to escape in panic, and two were sent to the county prison.

middle.

Tiezhu was driving the train outside and reported the situation outside: "Young master, the car is trapped!"

Lin Weiran led the wild girl, Hu Niu, from the carriage with a hint of doubt, but found that the wheel of the carriage was indeed stuck in a newly dug channel. The channel was originally covered with thin stones, but it was crushed.

Hu Niu sat a little tired, patted her numb butt, and headed towards another carriage, asking the little rabbit to take out the pastry. Although the wheels of the car were trapped in the ditch, she didn't seem to be worried at all.

"Look! I just said no, the stone is too thin!" Under this earth dam, there were hundreds of ordinary people holding hoes and digging a canal there. An old man complained.

Lin Weiran saw that they were all dressed in plain clothes and there were officials next to him urging them to work, so he knew that these were all serving people.

"Old Man Liu, please lead a few people to help that young man!" A tall yamen officer probably saw that Lin Junran had an extraordinary identity and pointed at the complaining old man and ordered.

Lin Weiran saw all this and shook his head gently at the iron captain.

The Iron Captain originally wanted to lead the carriage out of the ditches, but when he saw Lin Weiran doing this, he ordered his subordinates. As for Ri Gang and others, they were enjoying meat buns next to him.

"I'm polite, what are you doing?" Lin Qingran asked curiously like a scholar.

"Uh... we are nearby villagers, who are building dikes and opening canals!" Old Man Liu wiped the sweat from his forehead and pointed to the lower body.

"How long will you take office this time?" Lin Qingran continued to inquire with curiosity. When he found that Old Man Liu was suspicious, he ordered to Captain Tie: "You also asked the old man to help us push the cart away. You go and let me go

The carriage is coming out!”

As he said that, he handed the old man the roast chicken again. When the old man saw the roast chicken, his eyes lit up. After some ruling, he also opened up and said, "I'm not sure, it will take another month this time!"

"So long?" Lin Weiran frowned slightly when he heard this. You know, there is no need to pay for the service of the Ming Dynasty, and the longer the time, the more people are cheated.

The old man pulled a chicken leg and bit it, pointing to the person below and said, "This is pretty good! Look at these more than a hundred people. There were only more than fifty people a few days ago, so we have to do two.

Months!”

"Why is this happening?" Lin Weiran suddenly felt some interest and continued to ask.

The old man wiped his mouth and sighed softly: "The military households in Ningchuan Institute are not suitable for service, and the gentry is not suitable for service. Only we households are responsible for service, but this is the picking of river mud, dredging, grass shoots, which one is

Living easily?"

"Why has there been so many people suddenly increased?" Lin Xuran asked in confusion.

When the old man heard this, he immediately smiled proudly and said, "It's not that our Leizhou Prefecture has a good prefect! He is not ruthless to the gentry, is a righteous official, and is willing to take charge of the people, the gentry and military households in Wuchuan are the same.

God has someone to serve!”

Lin Qingran touched his nose, but he did not expect that everything he did in Leizhou Prefecture would affect Wuchuan County, indirectly reducing the labor service for these people.

But looking at the happy old man Liu, he couldn't be happy. After all, there was still great unfairness in this corvee service, and it was also a kind of exploitation of the people.

One mile west of the county, Jianjiang and Ling, Luozhu River merges from Huazhou, and reaches 20 miles north of the county and retracts the Fushan River, flows through the west of the city, and reaches the south of the county, and is divided into three rivers, circling for several miles, and is combined into one

, go out of the door and enter the sea.

This is the origin of the name of Wuchuan County. The three rivers merge into the Wuchuan water, also known as Jianjiang. Different from the small rivers in Suixi, there is a large river, Jianjiang, which has nurtured tens of thousands of people in Wuchuan.

Wuchuan began in Ping'an County during the Jiaqing period of the Song and Yuan dynasties. Later, Pingding County was abolished and renamed Wuchuan County in the ninth year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty. This dynasty was under the jurisdiction of Gaozhou Prefecture and is now under the jurisdiction of Leizhou Prefecture.

When they learned that Lin Lei Gong was coming, the magistrate, county magistrate, zhubo and other officials of Wuchuan County stood on the official road early and looked forward very respectfully. In addition to these county officials, there were also Qianhu Office of Ningchuan

Wang Qianhu is also here.

Ding Yidao, the magistrate of Wuchuan, was uneasy. The incident was completely solved because the case of Cao Xiucai's murder of his wife was completely solved a few days ago. It was a case of wrongful judgment. Although this was a case of wrongful conviction in the separate inspection, his previous inaction was also a crime.

Now he had already found out that Lin Qingran came to Leizhou Prefecture to open the sea and actually had the power to depose them, such local officials. That's why he was very worried that he would touch the bad intentions of Lin Lei Gong and become the one who was killed.

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"Here you! Come!" A servant ran back quickly and said excitedly.

Ding Yidao's eyes lit up slightly, and he urgently asked for verification: "Is the Lord of the Mansion coming?"

"I... saw the carriage, I don't know if it was the Master of the Mansion!" The servant replied with some fear.

"You... can't do anything well!" Ding Yidao accused angrily.
Chapter completed!