Eighty-Five: Youth's First Bloom (2)

The inexplicable exam made Jiang Pengji secretly suspicious, her eyes swept across Liu She's face, and then she half closed her eyes.

It seems that there are more secrets hidden in this cheap father than she imagined.

It's just that she doesn't just eat dry food, so Liu She's move is probably not just as simple as teaching and testing, but as if to verify something.

"I've studied this place in Hu County carefully. If you want to save your life, it's not difficult."

After all, it was the place where my father took office. Although the original owner Liu Lanting had no impression of his father, he was full of admiration and eager to know everything about him, so there were many books and materials related to Hu County's culture and customs in the study.

"The people in Hu County are tough, and bandits are common. Because the gentry and officials are colluding and exploiting the people, they naturally hate the officials sent by the court. And because of the special situation, most of the officials in Hu County are hereditary. became a kingdom within a kingdom."

Jiang Pengji has always had a violent style, she never complicates things that can be simple, saving her life and going to Hu County is actually very simple.

Liu She's eyes were shining brightly, and the confusion and hesitation on her face seemed to have dissipated a lot because of this, "Why is it not difficult?"

"Leading more than three hundred people in the nursing home, and ten carts of money, rice and grain. Don't be in a hurry to take up the post, and go to suppress the bandits first." Jiang Pengji said with a smile, her eyes reflected the candlelight, shining brightly, and one couldn't help but be addicted to this. With a confident look, "The people of Hu County are tough. How can Xiao Xiao be subdued by just a letter from the imperial court? Only by intimidating soldiers and convincing people with force can people be afraid and make people dare not act rashly."

"Strong soldiers are always forged in blood. First test them with Xiaobo's rogues. If you can sincerely surrender, you can recruit them. If you resist, you can kill them. The benevolence of women is taboo. If necessary, you even need to kill them all. It is the name of iron and blood."

Those are rogues, no matter how ruthless you are to destroy them, others will not be able to find fault.

The seemingly nonsensical move is actually to secretly absorb tough and available people and expand one's own strength.

Liu's second family has a big business, enough money and food, enough for Liu She to play like this for a year or two, and all those country gentry officials who tried to sharpen their knives, colluded with bandits, and assassinated him were all too frightened to speak or even move an inch.

"However, it is too powerful to be feared and suspected by the court officials. Some of the subdued rogues can sneak into the mountains in disguise and continue to be his "rogues". Hu County is gradually eating away."

Jiang Pengji didn't think through these thoughts carefully.

It was just her first reaction.

After fighting for many years, this has become an instinct, prioritizing the use of force to solve problems.

For the tough bones of Hu County, if you don't come to be ruthless, if you don't completely scare them, you won't be able to subdue them at all. Although Liu's second wife is rich, it is impossible to fully support these "military forces", so it is a good way to increase income and reduce expenditure by feeding on the enemy.

Jiang Pengji approached slowly, Liu She's eyes almost became brighter and brighter, she pretended not to see, her eyes drooped slightly, "The reason why Hu County is so poor and terrible, one is *, and the other is natural disasters, * can still be solved , but natural disasters are not easy to deal with.”

Liu She seemed to let go of something, and asked with a smile, "Ke Lanting, it seems that he has already made up his mind."

"I have observed that Hu County is so barren, one of the reasons is the severe drought and lack of water, which makes a large area of ​​land dry and unable to grow crops." Jiang Pengji gestured to Hu County on Kun Yutu, "However, the land of Hu County Underneath is the water flowing freely."

Jiang Pengji carefully read the information collected by Liu Lanting, and that little girl seemed to be obsessed with it, always thinking of becoming a stalwart man like her father. It's just that the problem of Hujun was placed in front of her, but she was puzzled and didn't know where to start.

For Jiang Pengji, this was not a difficult problem.

As a genetic warrior, she needs to adapt to various war environments, and she has to learn all the knowledge related to combat, maybe one day she can save her life. Back then, he even accepted to survive in the wasteland, and was thrown unarmed into the notorious place of the abyss of death.

There were a thousand people who participated in the training, but she was the only one who survived in the end.

It is not suitable for human survival, and the food, air, and water sources that humans need are extremely difficult problems.

Except for some common sense knowledge she learned from books, her survey of the mountains and water flow was accumulated during life and death struggles.

Combined with the miscellaneous collection of humanities and customs in Hu County, there are a lot of content describing the mountainous terrain, but I found some clues.

"Of course, underground water sources can't alleviate the drought in the whole Hu County." Jiang Pengji's pale fingers moved to a big river near Hu County. This big river is known as the mother river of Dongqing, but the embankment collapses all year round, and the waterlogging continues. .

There is a shortage of water in Hu County, but in some places there is so much water that people drown.

Floods and droughts, it is really hard to tell which is more fatal.

This is a multiple-choice question of dying of thirst or drowning, no matter which one you choose, you will die, but in different ways.

The people born in Dongqing are also unlucky, and they don't have a quarter of an hour to live in peace all year round.

"First excavate the underground water source, after easing the disaster a little, gather the people, and use manpower to lead the branch water source into the river in Hu County."

The main river cannot be moved lightly. If there is another year of waterlogging and the big river erupts, maybe the blame will be thrown on Liu She's head. But the water leading to the branch is no problem, and it can reduce the project and shorten the time, and the branch is closer to Hu County.

After hearing this, Liu She smiled and asked, "This plan is feasible, but Shen Ke is just a corvee, how can the common people bear it?"

Corvée, to put it bluntly, is unpaid manual labor. There are many Shen Kes, and there are often life lawsuits, and they cannot mobilize enthusiasm.

Jiang Pengji thought for a while, and said, "Why is this so difficult? It is enough for the common people to be responsible for three meals and coarse grains for a little remuneration. In addition, a promise is required that when the construction is completed in the next day, the wasteland will be reclaimed, and the government will provide farm tools and cattle. Agricultural tax can be reduced or exempted as appropriate.”

With remuneration, can enthusiasm be the same as unpaid labor?

Money reward is the driving force and direction of progress.

Hu County is a rather strange place, Dongqing has very little control over it, and various laws and regulations are just talked about.

If Liu She can stabilize Hu County and write a letter to reduce or even reduce exorbitant taxes for several years, that would be a breeze.

Take the imperial court's order as a favor for yourself, and the reputation and prestige of the people belong to yourself, which is a good deal.

Liu She asked, "Such a huge project requires countless money, where did it come from? What's more, corvee labor has its own regulations. If it is really implemented, it will not only face the pressure of insufficient money, but may also be forced to pay for it. Joint impeachment."

If he really did this, maybe a charge of treason against a minister would be covered. (To be continued.)