The Legend of the Farm Girl

Li Muwen was also shocked. He couldn't help but ask, "Can you write this poem for me?"

Yunfang nodded and said, "Of course." Yunfang took out a pen and paper and wrote down the poem.

Without looking at Li Muwen's stunned expression after receiving the poem, Yun Fang began to think about the next step to take step by step.

The situation in Liangzhou is complicated, but Yunfang feels that with the comprehensive knowledge in her system, any difficulties can be properly solved.

The only variable is that the people who want to stop them use force. These people are seriously lacking in force, so if someone really wants to kill them, it can be said to be easy.

But Yunfang felt that it had not reached that point yet. Li Muwen was a newly-minted Jinshi, and no one knew what kind of person he was. Everyone would wait and see for a while.

This period of time gave Li Muwen and Yun Fang the opportunity to develop themselves. If they wanted to achieve something in their official career, Liangzhou would be a stepping stone. Only by governing Liangzhou well and solving its external and internal troubles could Li Muwen truly catch the emperor's eye.

The ten days before arriving in Liangzhou cannot be wasted. The forty people who were bought at a high price cannot be left to develop on their own. Starting last night, Yun Fang learned in the system how to stimulate the potential of these forty people so that they can obey her and give full play to their abilities.

Fortunately, a lot of the business knowledge that Yunfang has been learning over the years is about personnel management. Combined with what she learned last night, Yunfang made a plan.

Every night when they arrived at the post station, Yunfang would gather these forty people together and let them practice rope darts. Yunfang kept observing these forty people. Although they were all from farmers' families, each of them had his own characteristics. Time was pressing, and even if her judgment was not necessarily accurate, Yunfang roughly divided these people into several categories.

After arriving in Liangzhou, she needed someone to gather information, someone to interact with others, someone to protect Li Muwen, and someone to develop business and build power.

After three days of observation, she divided the forty people into four categories. She asked Li Muwen to teach martial arts to the ten people who were to protect Li Muwen, and teach the ten people who were to gather information to read. She taught the ten people who were to deal with people etiquette, and taught the people who were to develop business simple business knowledge.

Because Yunfang and Li Muwen were in their carriages most of the day and could not teach them, Yunfang rearranged the carriages for everyone.

Each of the four types of people was arranged in a carriage, and the luggage was evenly divided among the ten carriages. In this way, they could learn from each other during the day what Li Muwen and Yun Fang gave them at night.

Even though Yunfang and Li Muwen had a short time to teach these people and the progress was slow, before arriving in Liangzhou, these forty people had undergone tremendous changes compared to when they had just left the capital.

These forty people also felt the host's intention to train them, and became more and more confident that they could accompany the host to build a new life from scratch.

Li Muwen is also the sixth-rank governor of Liangzhou. As long as they are willing to work hard, they will be able to achieve something in the end.

They wasted some time on the road and it was not until the tenth day after their departure that they entered the territory of Liangzhou. It was still two more days to reach the capital of Liangzhou.

As soon as they entered Liangzhou, Li Muwen and Yun Fang saw that Liangzhou was indeed as described in the travel notes, and the environment was even worse than they had imagined.

The land is barren, the climate is harsh, and it is almost May, but it is still very cold. However, most of the people they see are wearing thin and worn clothes and have haggard faces.

Li Muwen and Yun Fang's hearts sank deeper and deeper. Their road ahead was more difficult than they had imagined.

On the twelfth day after their departure, Li Muwen and Yunfang brought the 40 people they had bought to Liangzhou City. The city wall of Liangzhou City was particularly majestic and out of tune with the surrounding short houses, because this was a border and a city wall to protect the country.

Li Muwen had already changed into his official uniform, took out the imperial edict and official seal, and sat upright in the first carriage.

There were several soldiers guarding the city gate. They leaned lazily against the gate, chatting idly, and paid no attention to the pedestrians coming in and out.

However, when they saw Yun Fang's long procession of carriages and horses, the officers and soldiers looked at each other, stepped forward with greed on their faces and said, "Who is in the carriage? Why don't you get off and be inspected?"

Normally at times like this, people in the carriages would give some silver to the officers and soldiers for fear of trouble, but no one got off the carriages, and no one took the silver.

Just when the officers and soldiers were impatiently about to overturn the carriage, Li Muwen asked, "I see there are many people coming and going, why are we the only ones who need to be inspected?"

The leader of these officers and soldiers was Yuan Dali. He shouted angrily, "Who do you think you are? You come to ask us. We think you are suspicious, like a Hun spy. Get off the car right now."

After saying that, he actually got into the carriage and opened Li Muwen's door.

Seeing Li Muwen in official uniform, Yuan Dali was so scared that he fell off the carriage, and another soldier hurried forward to help him up.

And asked him repeatedly: "What's wrong?"

At this time, Li Muwen also walked out of the car with Yunfang.

When they saw the official uniform on Li Muwen, the officers and soldiers knelt on the ground.

Yuan Dali, who had come to his senses, kowtowed and said, "Please forgive me, sir. I was blind and disturbed you. Please forgive me."

It was the first time for Li Muwen and Yunfang to be worshipped like this. They felt very uncomfortable inside, but the most important thing at the moment was how to deal with the situation at hand.

This is Li Muwen's first time on the Liangzhou stage. How he will sing this play will depend on how it opens today.

Li Muwen had already discussed with Yun Fang on the way that in Liangzhou, they would slowly develop their own power, and their power could only come from the people.

The kneeling people did not cause any trouble to the people coming and going. Li Muwen knew that they just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make some money because his convoy had ten carriages.

So Li Muwen just scolded them seriously, and after they promised to be on duty seriously in the future, he called them up.

Unexpectedly, these officers and soldiers did not quickly move away from them, but came closer and said, "Sir, you must be the newly appointed second place magistrate Li! My name is Yuan Dali, and the captain has already ordered me to welcome you at the city gate. Sir Li, please come into the city quickly, and I will lead the way for you."

Yuan Dali had indeed known that a newly appointed prefect would be arriving soon, but he had never expected that the new prefect would arrive in such a simple carriage with only ten carriages. You have to know that the previous prefect had twenty carriages to carry the luggage, and was followed by many servants and guards.

After that, he asked people to open the city gates, and smiled and invited Yunfang and Li Muwen to walk with him, shouting as they walked, "Li Muwen, the new governor of Liangzhou, has just arrived in Liangzhou, and everyone on the street is avoiding him."

Because they were going to enter the city gate, the forty people on the carriage got off and followed Li Muwen and Yun Fang into the city of Liangzhou Prefecture.

The people of Liangzhou were not interested in who was the prefect. When they heard someone shouting, some people ran away and hid without hearing clearly what was being shouted.

Those who heard it clearly would not come closer, but just looked at him and wondered in their hearts how long the new prefect could last.

Li Muwen and Yun Fang were also looking at everything in the city and found that it was not much better than outside the city.

This poor city is like a painting that has experienced many vicissitudes of life, filled with a strong atmosphere of loneliness.

The streets are dusty and filled with the smell of poverty. The bumpy road underfoot seems to be silently telling the hardships of life.

The low and dilapidated houses are closely connected. The thatched roofs of most of them are dry, yellow and messy, and some even have big holes, left to be mercilessly eroded by wind and rain.

The shops on both sides of the street were deserted, the wooden signs were shaky and the words on them were blurred. Occasionally, a few ragged pedestrians hurried by, their faces were haggard, and their eyes were full of helplessness and confusion about life.

The children's thin bodies shuttled through the streets, with sadness on their faces that did not match their age.

The open shops were dotted with simple stalls selling a few cheap items.

There is a stale smell in the air, it is the smell of poverty and hardship. People in the city are struggling to survive under the heavy pressure of poverty, struggling on the edge of life. The whole city is shrouded in dullness and despair.

On the way, Yunfang also saw a dilapidated well. The windlass was already rusted, and the moss around the well witnessed the passing of time.

Not far away, a few skinny old trees had twisted branches, as if showing people the difficulties of life.

Yuan Dali brought Li Muwen to the prefectural government office. The government office consisted of two parts. The front was the working area with a lobby and a second hall, which were used for hearing cases, handling official business, daily office work, and meeting guests.

At the back is the living area, which includes the prefect's residence, study, garden stables, etc.

Everything was built on a large scale, and one could see that the materials used were fine. It was obvious that the governor of Liangzhou must have had a very glorious time, but now it is very dilapidated.

Yuan Dali brought Li Muwen and others to the government office. Yun Fang wanted to ask Yuan Dali some more questions, but Yuan Dali knew nothing about them. He then said he had something else to do and left.

Yunfang had no choice but to arrange with Li Muwen to clean up the prefectural mansion inside and out.

After putting the luggage away, he sent people to the street to inquire about the news. This prefectural government should have clerks and yamen runners, so why didn't any of them show up in the government office now?

Even if the prefect has not taken office, they should still handle affairs while in office!

This is also the first task that Yunfang assigned to the ten people to find out things. Yunfang asked them to come back in two hours. Whoever can find out more can be the leader. This is the promise Yunfang made to these ten people.

As for the rest of the people, Yunfang and Li Muwen took them to the warehouse to sort out the Liangzhou files. The files from the past five years should all be in the prefect's warehouse.

They should be able to find some of the information they want in these files.

Except for Yunfang and Li Muwen, the other thirty people did not know many words, so they could only be divided into groups of five and try to recognize them, and the progress was very slow.

The vast majority of them have to be sorted out by Yunfang and Li Muwen.

When the person who went to inquire about the news came back, Yun Fang and Li Muwen only got a little information.

The entire Liangzhou had five counties and one prefecture. The five counties were named Yuzhong County, Guzang County, Xiutu County, Luanniao County, and Jialiang County.

Five counties surround the city in the shape of a five-pointed star. The city is not directly close to the Xiongnu border, but is located at the only way to enter the pass. It can be said that one man can guard the pass against ten thousand men.

There were large armies stationed in Guzang and Xiutu counties, with records showing that each county had 30,000 troops stationed there. Most of the people living in the counties were military households, and they did not have to pay taxes. The county magistrates of the two counties were under the management of the prefect and were also under the orders of the general.

The other three counties do not have garrisons, but their populations are not large either, with only 10,000 people in each county. The population of the provincial capital is larger, at 50,000.

You have to know that although the land in Liangzhou is barren, it covers a large area. If each county has only 10,000 people, the output will never make the people so pale and thin. There must be other reasons.

The entire Liangzhou had a recorded population of about 80,000, many of whom did not have to pay taxes. In addition, Liangzhou had suffered from severe droughts for years, and not only had all the taxes been used for disaster relief, the imperial court also had to allocate funds to Liangzhou.

Li Muwen and Yun Fang looked at each other and knew that the water here must be very deep and they could not dig deep for the time being.

There is not much other useful information, and the files only record some trivial lawsuits.

Yunfang and Li Muwen could only wait for the people who came to gather information to come back and hear what they had learned.

The ten people included both men and women, who sat around a table in the second hall and reported to Li Muwen and Yun Fang the information they had obtained.

Among them, Yunwu heard the most and most complete information.

"Except for the two counties where the army is stationed, the other three counties in Liangzhou are controlled by three families, namely the Song family, the Zhou family and the Tang family. These families have countless servants and tenants, and they only need to pay rent, not taxes.

There are very few scholars in the whole Liangzhou, and there is only one way for everyone who wants to study, and that is to go to the family schools of the three families.

Therefore, the scholars and candidates in Liangzhou could only come from the three major families, and they therefore had a large number of tax-free lands.

Many people in the city said that if they could no longer make a living in the city, they would sell their land to him and become tenants, so they would not have to pay taxes.

This is what Yun Wu said to Yun Fang. The information that other people asked was either useless or just some trivial matters in life, such as where are the wells? How many are there? Yun Fang felt that if she wanted to train these people, she still had a long way to go.

Yun Wu went on to say, "In addition to this, I also found out that there were actually two families in the city that almost monopolized the entire city's land. However, the previous prefect took action to rectify the situation, destroyed these two families, and redistributed the land to the people." Yun Wu stopped talking at this point.

Yunfang was a little surprised and asked, "Then what?"

Yun Wu said, "Not long after that, the army came and surrounded the entire prefectural government. The previous prefect was sentenced to death for treason and the rest of the government was dismissed. Our master was the first official sent to the prefectural city after that incident."

Yunfang didn't expect there was such an inside story. Why didn't Tong Renchu ​​tell them this when they were in Beijing? Did he not know, or was there something hidden in this matter?

Yun Fang wanted to discuss with Li Muwen again. Facing the ten people who were trying to get information, Yun Fang said, "Then Yun Wu will be the leader among you from now on."

Then he let everyone go back and rest.