Chapter 117

In the five-year general evaluation, the eight items of the local officials' examination were carefully and strictly inspected.

During Du Heng's tenure in Qiuyang County, during his five-year tenure, the county's household registration increased from 360 households in the twelve villages to 450 households, and the urban population increased from 400 households to 500Twenty households.

The total population increased by 210 households.

In terms of population increase and decrease, it was rated as excellent.

The population of Qiuyang County increased, and a large area of wasteland was reclaimed.Encouraging farming and mulberry farming, sowing fertile fields, adding more than 500 mu of land, and the three-year period has become a formal land.

In terms of reclamation and division of acres, it was rated as excellent.

With the growth of population and land, the taxable land property has increased from the number of ten thousand taels to the number of hundreds of thousands.

In terms of access to the money valley, it is still rated as excellent.

In addition to the three basic assessments of household registration, land, and taxes, there are five assessments for local officials, including water transportation and water conservancy, robber lawsuits, civilized imperial examinations, supervision and inspection of subordinates, and local public security.

In the past few years, Du Heng has built water conservancy, reorganized official roads, suppressed bandits, and investigated corrupt officials. Except for the fact that the civilized imperial examinations were a little lacking and did not have any major achievements, he was rated as good, and the rest were rated as excellent.

In addition, the examination results in each of the past few years have been excellent.

"how is it going!"

It was already the twelfth lunar month when got the results of the general election exam.

Before being transferred, local officials can go back to their hometown once. After the general election, Du Heng and Qin Xiaoman have been waiting for the test results.

No matter where the new appointment is, the appointment will be after the Lantern Festival of the next year. For this reason, the young couple hope to get the letter of appointment and dismissal as soon as possible.

The sooner the result is obtained, the sooner the county affairs can be handed over properly and the county can go back to Luoxia County for the New Year.

"Why is the document so long this time, I have to turn the pages!"

Qin Xiaoman looked at the items listed very clearly, wishing to record everything in the past five years of Zheng Ren.

He didn't like to read densely packed words, and after a few glances, he didn't see the final result of the evaluation, so he could not help but impatiently urged Du Heng to turn the page quickly.

Du Heng had no choice but to say, "Tell me to reflect on the past five years, but it won't work. Turn it over, turn it over."

After one page of eight exams, a new page of paperwork is attached.

Based on the results of the eight examinations for officials of our dynasty, the ruling is as follows:

Du Heng, the county magistrate of Qiuyang County, cleared the fields and checked the household registration properly during his five years in office.

With the unanimous opinion of the Ministry of Officials, he was promoted to the post of magistrate of Xijiang Prefecture.He will take office on the first day of March of the following year, and he must not slack off to take office late, so respect this.

"Prefect!"

Qin Xiaoman saw that there were a lot of official words on the document, and he extracted the most important two words on the left and right. He quickly pulled Du Heng and asked, "Which rank is the magistrate?"

"Positive fourth grade."

"I mentioned two products at once?!"

Du Heng rubbed his hands for a while: "I'm also a little surprised. I originally thought that I would be promoted to a judge or a co-prefect, and then go to a slightly richer state capital, and my official career will be much more secure."

"Perhaps His Majesty thinks that your hut is really well-built, and wants to promote you as a magistrate to all counties." Qin Xiaoman patted Du Heng's hand with a smile: "It's cheap and good-looking!"

Du Heng squeezed Qin Xiaoman's hand: "Don't make fun of me."

Qin Xiaoman patted Du Heng's hand away: "Then where is the new Xijiang Mansion?"

"It's not too far from our Jintuan Mansion, it's close to Suzhou and Hangzhou. It takes more than half a month to get there from Luoxia County."

Qin Xiaoman felt relieved: "It's all right now, so let's prepare to go home."

Du Heng closed the paper: "Okay, it's time to go."

...

"This little wooden horse is going to be taken away. Cuju and colored balls are also packed up."

"The two little orchids that I just learned to draw are going to be taken away?"

I heard that this year can go back to Luoxia County to celebrate the New Year. Tan Ce and Chengyi are very happy. In a blink of an eye, it will be five years. Dad's rest time for the New Year is not long, and the family is reluctant to part when they go home to celebrate the New Year.Haven't been back all these years.

Although Tan Ce was only two or three years old when he first came to Qiuyang County, and Chengyi was only five years old, counting the days in Luoxia County, he has not been the head of Qiuyang County.

But where was born, have playmates, uncles who can ride horses, and everyone treats them very well.Even though the memories in Qiuyang County are gradually enriched and colorful, still haven't forgotten hometown where was born and raised.

The two little guys knew that their father had arrived and would leave sooner or later, so they packed up their things in advance so that they could take them home together.

It took only two hours for Tan Ce to pack his things. He had nothing to pack, only a few wooden Guan Gong swords, small red tasseled guns, and some messy things played by little boys since he was a child.

He threw them into the box together, and there were two big boxes stuffed in all kinds of things. He thought he had enough things, but he clapped his hands and slipped into his brother's room.

Chengyi has already packed three big boxes, and the room that was originally tidy and cozy is now turned into a pile of debris.

"I put away all the pages my brother just learned to write. Since I want to go home, I will take everything back."

Tan Ce had no choice but to say, "I'm not a master of calligraphy and calligraphy. Those two characters are worthless, so why do you still occupy the box?"

Chengyi pinched the tip of Tan Ce's nose: "I think my brother wrote very well."

"Okay, okay, it's been a long time to clean up, come over and have a cup of warm tea to rest."

Chengyi was afraid that his servants would clean up his things, so he didn't dare to distract himself, so he didn't drink tea, Tan Ce had nothing to do with him, so he had to bring the tea to his mouth.

"I knew I was going back earlier. It was right when Yunduo sent so many things over here, but now I have to move back home."

"Yunduo is also full of heart."

"My brother is always right."

Du Heng and Qin Xiaoman saw that the boy's room was bustling in and out, so they poked their heads in and took a look.

"How's the tidying going?"

"Daddy, when are we leaving? Have you got the paperwork?"

Du Heng rubbed Tan Ce's head, his youngest son was already up to his waist.

"Come down, I discussed it with your little dad, and I will leave for my hometown in two days. Luoxia County is prone to snow at the end of December. If you catch the snow, it will be difficult to go with a lot of luggage. Take advantage of the good weather these few days, let's hurry up."

"That's great! I can't wait for the snow to fall. It's been a long time since I've seen snow! When I go back, I will build eight snowmen in the garden with my brother!"

Tan Ce jumped up happily.

Both Qin Xiaoman and Du Heng laughed.

"Okay, you can pile up to 800 at home, and you can do whatever you want!"

Du Heng handed over his official duties and collected his belongings. It was already the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and he was going to leave on the morning of the eighteenth.

On the 17th, a large family of country gentry who had been in contact with each other in the county came to say goodbye.

Feng Xiaohu pulled Tan Ce and cried until his nose was bubbling, and Tan Ce stabbed it with a big knife unscrupulously.

The two were supposed to fight another 300 rounds before parting ways, but Xiaohu was seen by Chengyi as a cat with tears and snot in his nose, and he was defeated before the fight and cried even louder.

On the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, before dawn, the house in the county government office was brightly lit, and as soon as the luggage was loaded into the car, Du Heng and Qin Xiaoman hugged a drowsy little boy alone.

The morning breeze was a bit chilly, and the two quickly got into the carriage.

Du Heng glanced at the Qiuyang county government office that had been running for five years, and was silent in the slightly whitish morning light. The gate that had been passed in and out many times in five years stood standing behind the gate of Yi, watching the successive magistrates.come and go.

He was a little lost in thought until he was tapped lightly on the shoulder.

Du Heng smiled slightly and put down the curtain: "Let's go."

The wheels of the car were rolling, and they drove slowly on the bluestone streets where only the breakfast pavement was covered with white mist.

"grown ups……"

"grown ups!"

Suddenly there were shouts one after another, Du Heng and Qin Xiaoman looked at each other, and quickly lifted the curtain of the car, approaching the city gate, the originally lonely street was full of people.

The common people carried cloth and cotton on their backs, and they did not know how long they had been waiting at the gate of the city against the wind.

"parking."

Du Heng quickly stopped the carriage, lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage.

Seeing this, the common people on the road knelt down one after another, holding up the things they brought in their hands: "My lord, accept the small gift prepared by the big fellow and take it away!"

"What are you doing, get up!"

"If there were no adults who were upright and upright, and leaders who were competent, Qiuyang County would still be a land of tigers and wolves full of bandits and black merchants. How could there be peace and prosperity today?"

"I am serving in Qiuyang County. It is my duty to let the common people live a stable and peaceful life. All this is what I should do. Now that I see the prosperity of Qiuyang County, I can leave with peace of mind when I am transferred.gone."

"Get up, get up!"

Du Heng went to help the common people kneeling in front of them.

"Let's have a good time in the future."

"I left early, and I didn't publicize the day when I left the county. I didn't want to bid farewell to the big guys. I didn't want everyone to come anyway."

"Everyone is smiling. It's almost Chinese New Year. It's a great day. I'm happy for you. Qiuyang County has a bright future. You should also be happy for me to be promoted."

The leading few ordinary people wiped their eyes and smiled with tears in their eyes: "My lord said that there is always a banquet in the world. The life in Qiuyang County has become prosperous, the common people live and work in peace and contentment, and your lord is also promoted. It was originally a happy event.You should be happy."

Qin Xiaoman held hands behind him and looked at these familiar or unfamiliar faces, his heart was touched softly.

When he was a child, when his father was still alive, he also told him about the situation of the common people seeing off the upright officials.

Whenever he talks about his father, he always has longing eyes and admiration. When he was young, he was ignorant and didn't know what he meant. He only felt that his father's eyes were too deep.

He never thought that one day his husband would become the kind of good official his father always talked about.

Qin Xiaoman patted the heads of the two cubs: "Okay, let's go back to the car."

Du Heng glanced back: "Everyone go back! Go back! The mountains are high and the roads are far away, so I won't bid farewell to you. It's too much trouble."

He took a deep breath and turned back to the carriage.

"My lord, the journey is smooth!"

The wheels turned again, and the common people followed closely: "Anping Heshun!"

Du Heng waved to everyone in front of the car window: "I have written it all down, let's go back!"

Tan Ce and Chengyi were completely awake, looking at the people behind the carriage wiping their tears and waving goodbye, their hearts were a little heavy.

After watching for a while, the easily sad Chengyi plunged into Tan Ce's arms, buried his head and couldn't bear to watch anymore.

After leaving the city, I thought that the tranquility had been restored, but I didn't expect that the villagers in the village had already been waiting on the official road.

"My lord, safe journey!"

"Still in good health!"

Every one or two miles, you can see more than ten village households, either smiling and blessing, or tearing down their clothes.

It was not until was almost out of Qiuyang County that the people who saw me off were no longer seen.

Du Heng's eyes were also slightly red, the twelfth lunar month was cold, but his heart was extremely hot.

In the past five years, Qiuyang County has been a worthwhile trip.

He was full of emotion in his heart, but he had never felt so relieved like at this moment, he couldn't help stretching out his arms to wrap around his husband and two children.

"No matter where we go in the future, as long as the whole family is together, there will be nothing to worry about."

The carriage drove to the depths of the green mountains, and so far it was another journey of mountains and rivers.

——End of the text.