Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

Day two.

When Wei Qiqi arrived at the field, they were talking about something. When she got closer, she found out that the farmer was really eager to plant the crops and was actually asking the government for seeds of the crops he wanted to plant.

The place they arrived at was an area with many fields in Yizhou City.

"Wait a minute, old man. Hey, you calculate your father's fortune. I don't know what it is like. We are also waiting for the higher-ups to give us some. Can't you just prepare your land first?"

The clerk was also being harassed to no end, and even his words seemed to be venting his anger. But he didn't touch her or do anything else, he just spoke louder.

"Since you want seeds, finish the other things you have on hand first. I..."

"Madam Wei is here——"

"The governor has arrived—"

"The tenant envoy has arrived—"

The chief messenger repeated this three times, causing the people in front of him to turn around. Confusion flashed across their faces at first, but they quickly reacted and knelt down in fear.

Their short robes touched the ground, and for a moment they could not distinguish the dirt on the ground from the clothes on their bodies.

Wei Qiqi, who was standing in the front line of everyone, signaled to the chief emissary to have everyone stand up. The crowd of people kneeling on the ground below stood up one after another in an uneven manner only after hearing the chief emissary's command.

These people bowed their bodies, lowered their eyes, and faced the people who came with great respect.

No one even dared to look up at the person coming.

Only some people with quick reactions noticed something was wrong. How could a lady be ranked ahead of the governor and the tenant governor?

"From now on, in compliance with the order of the city lord, another notice has been issued, which states that the land tax and the levy will be divided into one unit, meaning that the land tax and the levy will be combined into one unit, and there will be no additional taxes for the increase in population in the future!

You can do it without any hesitation. As long as the city lord is alive, Yizhou City will implement this policy!"

The people below didn't understand what this meant, and they all lowered their heads and looked around. Seeing that they didn't understand, Wei Qiqi spoke up, "What the tenant administrator meant is that if a household registered now has more people in the future, the previous decree will not be used."

"In the future, the extra children born will not be taxed."

Someone who understood what was said looked up suddenly, only to see a lady hidden behind a veil.

"This...this lady, is this true?"

The person asking the question was a man whose clothes were a little too long. His face was embarrassed and flushed, but he revealed the temperament of a scholar.

Wei Qiqi understood that he must be a scholar and nodded immediately.

"Today, the tenant envoy and the provincial governor are here. The people in charge of agricultural affairs and finance are here. If you don't believe the identities of these two ambassadors, you can go to the government office to confirm it."

The man in slightly longer clothes withdrew his gaze from Wei Qiqi upon hearing that, and looked at the people on both sides of Wei Qiqi. Upon closer inspection, he found that it was the governor he had met once before!

Before he could speak to confirm, the village chief, who was supported by others, walked to the front of the crowd tremblingly and saluted to the tenant administrator: "I greet the tenant administrator..."

"I, Gao Hao, have offended the two ambassadors. Please forgive me."

As soon as these two words came out, the farmers present could no longer suppress their joy, and men, women, young and old, whether they knew about it or not, jumped up and celebrated.

"Really? Is this really true?"

A person in the crowd jumped up and loudly confirmed the news with the people around him.

After receiving positive feedback, he immediately ran away: "I have to tell other people in the village, I have to tell other villages!"

"Our good days are coming!"

"us………"

The man looked like he was married, but he acted as happy as a child.

Even though I tried my best to restrain myself in front of the adults, I couldn't suppress my cheering and excitement.

The old village chief didn't know what was going on. He just looked at the young people in his village so happy and bent down in even more panic. He wanted to say something to the adults, but the person next to him whispered a few words into his ear.

I saw that his eyes gradually lost their turbidity and were filled with a few rays of light, and the whole person seemed to be a few years younger.

But after all, he had seen the world, and he calmed down after a while. He remembered what the person next to him had just said.

He looked up at the woman at the front of the huge group of officers and soldiers and the ambassadors on both sides, and walked up slowly with a cane: "I heard them say that her surname is Wei."

"Madam Wei, I wonder if you have come here to do anything else besides the land tax..."

"I brought some useful farm tools. You are familiar with the population of the village, so you can confirm the number of people with the people who are doing the statistics. Now, because there are not enough tools, I can only put one in each village, one curved plow and two hoe plows.

I will continue to send you farm tools later, but let me make it clear that except for the first three items, you have to pay for the rest. You can check them out yourself when the items are delivered. How do you think?"

As Wei Qiqi was speaking, Huo Xiuwen had already asked someone to bring the things up from the back.

The curved plow is large and requires two or three people to carry it, while the plow is easier as one person can carry one.

There was a piece of land right next to them, so Wei Qiqi demonstrated to them, "Everyone is here, so you can just keep an eye on it."

"This is called a hoe plow. One person pushes it on one side and two people pull it on the other side. They work together to quickly turn over the soil. We no longer have to work hard turning the soil with a hoe like before."

What she said was simple and easy to understand, and then she cooperated with Huo Xiuwen and another person.

Under Wei Qiqi's operation, the frozen soil that had been frozen for a whole winter was turned over like a piece of paper, revealing the roots of weeds.

The farmers' attention was quickly attracted to the turned land. They saw that the woman called Madam Wei was working together with two other people and had plowed out a long line in a short time. Doesn't that mean they could plow a field in just one morning?

"Yi Liu, you and Yi Xi come down, let's try it together."

After Wei Qiqi finished demonstrating the plow, he prepared to show them the curved plow.

The curved plow was carried to the field as she requested, and everyone followed Wei Qiqi's movements and formed a circle around it, staring at it intently.

"This is a curved plow. It is easier to use than a hoe plow."

As she spoke, she showed people the curved plow. Yiliu and Yixi pulled the plow in front while she pushed it from behind. Although it was strenuous, the curved plow was easy to control in terms of direction and exert force, and was much easier to use than a harrow plow.

Everyone around them could see how hard they were struggling, but since these weak girls could make the curved plow move so fast, wouldn't men who were much stronger than them be able to move even faster?

Thinking of this, everyone stared at the curved plow in their hands with even more intense eyes.

These farmers couldn't understand this complicated machine, nor did they know the names of the things Wei Qiqi mentioned, but they knew whether something was useful and whether it saved trouble.

"If these two things were paired with livestock, the progress would be much faster than the current pace."