Chen Maosheng has been dismissed by Wen Yu from his inspection post because of his dereliction of duty. He should have been sent to prison, but Wen Yu only fined Chen Maosheng two hundred taels of silver.

For ordinary people, the money a family earns in a year is only about twenty taels of silver, and two hundred taels of silver may kill them.Although his one-year salary from a nine-rank inspector was only twenty taels of silver, Chen Maosheng was overjoyed when he heard the news, and he almost regarded Wen Yu as a reborn parent.

The crimes he committed cannot be solved in a year or two in prison, not to mention that no one knows the situation in Yi Xin Prison better than him.But this is not what he fears the most these days. After all, when he was on duty, he was not good at the government servants and county soldiers under him.

Chen Maosheng has been an inspector for ten years, and the bribes he received, the Chen family's reward was not to mention one thousand, but it would have been eight hundred. Although it is a bit painful to take out two hundred taels of silver all at once, it is still better than being in prison.many.

As for the current patrol inspection, Wen Yu has promoted a young man from the original county yamen without rank, although he is young, he is actually six or seven years older than Wen Yu.

This person's name is Xiang Datian. Although his name sounds rustic, he is actually a scholar, a scholar who passed the examination four years ago.He was on duty in the punishment room of the sixth room of the county government, and was a clerk.

Although he is a scribe, but looking at his appearance, he looks like an ordinary farmer in the countryside. His complexion is tanned and yellow, and there are many rice dumplings in his hands. Wen Yu can tell at a glance that he is the same as himself.Chop wood for a living.

But the reason why he was chosen was not because of sympathy, but because he accidentally discovered that most of the interrogation work in prison was done by this person instead of Chen Maosheng. In addition, he was extremely powerful, and he was necessary for inspections such as arresting thieves and interrogating adulterers.His skills may be even more proficient than Chen Maosheng.

It's also good to block the tongues of those who secretly ask if they can buy officials.

In the dark night, Wen Yu sat in the study, frowning.

Today, after the county government got off work, Chen Maosheng brought a box of money in front of Wen Yu. He thought that she didn't intend to use the money as treasury money, but put it in his own pocket.So when Chen Mao was born, he was cautious, and cleverly avoided the sight of other people in the county government.

"Chen Maosheng, what do you mean?" Wen Yu looked at a box of white money in front of him, and frowned slightly: "Since you have worked in the government for ten years, you must know the process of handing over the fine.How am I."

Chen Maosheng was smiling obsequiously, but the expression on his face suddenly froze.He even dared to look at Wen Yu several times, mother, this Lord Wen really didn't mean what he thought.

"My lord, here, if you don't accept the money, you will confiscate it?" His lips were murmured for a long time before he could say this.

"Could it be that I didn't make it clear enough at the beginning. Even though the merits and crimes are taken away, you still have to be punished, so you are punished to hand over the salary you have earned in the past ten years, as an example to others."

"My lord, I think you are..." He said halfway, and stopped under Wen Yu's increasingly cold eyes.

I don't know if Wen Yu gave him that illusion, Chen Maosheng took a deep breath, "My lord, I dare to say something, if I offend you, please don't punish minor crimes."

His gaze didn't seem to be fake, Wen Yu even saw the genuine concern in it.Wen Yu frowned slightly, but still nodded, and uttered a few words: "Go ahead."

Although Chen Maosheng has only been in contact with Wen Yu for a few months, he has already figured out that Wen Yu is a person who keeps his word. Now that the adults have said so, he doesn't have much fear in his heart.

"Master Wen, although you are the magistrate of a county and in charge of the entire county, you are still new to the officialdom." Chen Maosheng licked his lips, hesitated and continued: "You should have heard that an upright official in the officialdom oftenThey are all very rare, very few."

Wen Yu seemed to be choked up in his heart. Could it be that he was persuading himself to keep the two hundred taels for himself, and Chen Maosheng must have lost his mind.

"My lord, before I came to Yi Xin, I actually lived in other counties under the jurisdiction of Qingchi Prefecture. At that time, our county magistrate was also an upright official, a very good official, but he died within a year. But our localThe common people know that he was killed because he blocked the way of others."

Why are his words so familiar, Wen Yu's eyelids twitched wildly, and her body felt cold for a while.

Chen Maosheng said with special emotion: "I remember that the county magistrate's family members also disappeared. I don't know if they were also killed. My lord, I know from then on that the real upright official will not live long."

"What's the county magistrate's name?" When Wen Yu said this, even she herself was a little surprised, it turned out that her voice was so hoarse.

"It's been more than ten years, and I can't remember clearly. My lord, is there any problem?"

"Where did you live?"

Chen Maosheng thought that Wen Yu had listened to his words, so he gestured excitedly, "Dongtai, the small one is originally in Dongtai County, which is just one county south of our place. It's about a hundred miles away. If I hadn't reallyIf I can't get along anymore, I won't come here to join Chen Xiangkun, nor will I do such a wrong thing. But, my lord..."

He yelled a lot of words behind him, but Wen Yu hadn't listened to a single word, Dongtai County, Dongtai County.

Wen Yu's eyelashes trembled, and he interrupted the chattering Chen Maosheng: "Go back, I won't punish you. Remember to send this box of silver to where it should go."

Locusts are often referred to as grasshoppers. In her previous life, when she was a child, she also climbed up a tree to catch grasshoppers. When she caught enough, her mother fried them. Although the appearance was difficult to swallow, the taste was surprisingly good..So Wen Yu was very puzzled at the beginning, the locust plague caused so many people to freeze to death without food, why no one caught the locusts to eat.

But she is too narrow.The fried locusts are crispy and delicious with seasoning and can be taken as a snack.However, if a commoner who has never eaten locusts eats a meal, it will definitely be very difficult to swallow.

Even if the hungry people put aside the psychological restrictions of the gods and took the initiative to catch locusts to eat, there were not many cooking methods in ancient times. At most, they boiled them with water. How could they be delicious?Compared with the modern fried grasshoppers mixed with various seasonings, there is a huge difference.

What's more, Daqi still doesn't have these seasonings, and even the salt that modern people eat every day is an expensive item for the common people. The common people who have no grains and grains can't afford to buy them, and they are not willing to eat them.

For them, instead of eating locusts, they might as well choose to dig grass roots and bark to eat.

Wen Yu once asked an old man how he survived the cold winter of that year, what he said still makes Wen Yu feel sore in his heart when he thinks about it.

He told Wen Yu with a smile, and he said: "Son, do you know? I am old and I know best how to eat bark and grass roots to get full. You can't eat them raw, you won't be full like that.It must be boiled and soaked in water, so that this thing will become very large, and our whole family will be full."

When the previous government faced the locust plague, it did not take any action. As a result, the locusts ravaged for three full months, and the whole country had almost no crops. They starved to death on the streets and died in houses. The population dropped sharply, and the government and the public were furious.The actions of the founding emperor of Daqi to overthrow the previous dynasty are what people want, and gold and stone are the way to go.

In the next two weeks, Wen Yu secretly met with all Yi Xin's medicinal material suppliers one by one. She negotiated a deal in the form of tax cuts and subsidies.

On March 24, a brand new notice was posted on the bulletin board outside the county office wall.The contents of the notice spread throughout Yixin County in just one morning.

Early summer is approaching, and locust plagues strike.After the tragic locust plague last year, the people in Yi Xin couldn't help trembling when they heard the word locust.

Now that the news of the locust prevention came, everyone behaved very differently, even a little eager to try, gearing up, looking forward to the arrival of the locusts.

After all, it was clearly written in black and white on the bulletin board outside the county government office: one hundred cash for a big locust, and fifty cash for a liter of small locust.More importantly, the last item on the notice was clearly marked: On March 30th, the deworming medicinal materials will be sold in various medical centers and pharmacies in Yi Xin County, at twenty cents a bag.This price is even cheaper than ordinary medicinal materials.

Although there were no high-efficiency insecticides and pesticides in ancient times, there was already a certain amount of pharmacological knowledge. The formula of insect repellent medicinal materials appeared as early as in the "Agricultural Policy Encyclopedia·Locust Chapter" written by the predecessors.However, locusts have not been seen once in more than ten years, not to mention that these medicinal materials are expensive, and not many people will choose to spend money to buy them.

The price is so cheap that it is worth the cost of medicinal materials.Even the poorest people in Yi Xin can buy a bag or two.As soon as the news came out, not to mention ordinary people, even those businessmen and rich gentry who had some spare money in their hands were eager to make a move, thinking of buying more and then reselling them to make a fortune.

Before they could be happy for a few days, on the morning of March 29th, the county government issued a new notice: Each household is limited to two bags based on their household registration information, and the excess bags must be purchased at the original price of one tael per bag.

The next day, there were almost long queues in front of the major medical centers and pharmacies.

In the next ten days, Wen Yu ordered that the government servants take turns to go to various villages in the county to preach the precautions on how to eliminate locusts, which must be implemented in every household.

Everything has been prepared, and now we are waiting for the locusts to come, so Wen Yu squeezed his sore eye sockets.

A ray of sunlight came in from the east window, and was screened into mottled patterns by the hollowed-out window grilles. The bright light spots fell on the words on Wen Yu's office copybook, which happened to be "everything is going well".

Wen Yu stroked these words lightly with her fingers, and silently said "everything will go well.".

On April 23, the locusts arrived, and the sky was dark for a moment, and a group of hungry locusts swept away the crops.

But this time, things have changed.

Six days later, the locusts left Yi Xin and headed northwest, where the Huns lived.

At this time, the bounty received by the captured locusts has exceeded three hundred taels of silver, and nearly a thousand catties of locust corpses were burned.

On the first day of May, two days had passed since the plague of locusts. Wen Yu looked at the household statistics and found that compared with last year's nearly 2,000 mu of disaster-affected farmland, this year it was only more than 300 mu.She finally breathed a sigh of relief, her eyes were as bright as stars, and she laughed heartily.

"Magistrate Wen, your letter has arrived." The boy knocked on the door of the study with a loud voice.

"Come in, just put the letter on the table."

Wen Yu didn't raise her head, and continued to look at the blueprint in her hand, which was a rough drawing of the construction of the Changfeng Mountain Canal.When the last county magistrate was in office, more than half of this large project had been carried out, and now it has been excavated for so long.She went there to inspect it yesterday. If it goes at this speed, it will be put into use in a few months.

Wen Yu went to the table at the gate and took the letter under the lamp. The sender was Xiao Minggang.

General Xiao, she wrote to ask about the situation last month, and the reply she got back then was that he was still in a coma.Now this letter, could it be that Yin Junfu woke up.

Her thick eyelashes trembled, and she couldn't wait to open the envelope. Sure enough, a gleam of joy flashed in her eyes. Yin Junfu had been awake for a while.

The day after tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, do you want to visit him?Sui Ning is only thirty miles away, Wen Yu looked at the official document on the case behind him, and hesitated.

Two days later, the Dragon Boat Festival.

In the early morning light, Wen Yu had arrived at the gate of Sui Ning City.

She yawned with obvious tiredness on her face.

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