Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

The girl was a little dazed as she spoke. It turned out that she knew all these things.

Shen Zheng and others did not urge her and waited quietly for her to speak.

It seemed like a while, or a long time had passed before the girl continued, "Dad has a lot of private land in the county. Some of those lands were donated to him by the rich merchants or landlords in the county, and some... were occupied farmlands of county residents, using the name of the county government. They are all top-quality lands, and the grain produced is said to be stored in the county government's granary, but in fact..."

Shen Zheng turned and looked at Yu Zhengqing.

He had told himself before that Luo Shihe and the county grain merchants had teamed up to drive up grain prices. Once the grain prices went up, he would be able to sell grain at a high price.

Shen Zheng lowered her eyes. Luo Shihe's plan was a brilliant one. It was another level of "taking from the people and giving back to the people."

She asked the girl, "Speaking of good farmland, every household only has a few acres. Their good farmland was inexplicably 'expropriated' by the county government. Didn't they file a complaint with the government?"

Before the girl answered, Shen Zheng seemed to have figured it out and asked, "But Wang Wu?"

"My Lord, it was Wang Wu. He bribed all the village heads who could be bribed, and put pressure on those who could not be bribed. His methods... were very dirty, so the county residents did not dare to go to the government office to make trouble."

The girl lowered her head. Every single one of these things clearly made her feel ashamed, but why did she not dare to speak out about it in the past?

When Shen Zheng heard this, she felt a burning pain in her heart.

The head of the village in each county is elected by the villagers and is a position that is highly trusted by the villagers.

In some places, the prestige of the village head is even higher than that of the local officials. The villagers respect and protect him, and will seek the head's advice when there are some difficult decisions to make at home.

The head of a village is equivalent to the head of the entire village.

If the head of the village treats the villagers sincerely and everyone in the village works together, then the village will surely get better and better.

This was the reason why Shen Zheng had previously wanted to incorporate the position of village head into the county government so that they could eat public grain.

She is worthy of the village heads in Tong'an County. After giving them public office, they will behave more disciplinedly, and with money in hand, they will be more motivated to do their work.

But now in Yonglu County, the village heads who were trusted by the villagers stabbed those villagers in the back. How unfortunate!

Shen Zheng closed her eyes, exhaled, and asked, "Anything else? Tell me all at once."

She asked out of anger, and she didn't expect that it was true.

Luo Kuangwen was stunned by what he heard. He stared at his sister blankly, waiting for her next words just like Shen Zheng and the others.

The girl said, "Except for the chief clerk, all other positions in the county government are filled by paying money..."

She added: "A constable gets ten taels of silver, a yamen runner gets five taels of silver, and those who don't do a good job are replaced once a year."

Shen Zheng was completely speechless, and laughed in anger: "Ten taels of silver for a year's oil and water, it is a fair price."

She asked again, "How do you know so clearly? They shouldn't tell you."

From the subtle expressions on her face just now, it can be seen that she is not favored at home, so naturally the less she knows, the better.

The girl's face froze for a moment, and she lowered her head and replied, "I overheard a conversation between my father and Wang Wu once, and after that, I began to pay attention to news in this area."

Her brother was still here, so she didn’t dare say that she had sneaked into her father’s study and “accidentally” found the account book.

She didn't know why, but she was obsessed with this news during that period of time. Even though she had found evidence, she couldn't do anything.

If she dares to do anything, she will be the first to die.

But at that time she thought her father was quite stupid. He would do bad things and leave evidence himself, and then hand the handle to others personally.

Seeing that she was having trouble speaking, Shen Zheng stopped asking and turned to look at Luo Kuangwen who was lying on the ground: "Did you hear everything clearly?"

Luo Kuangwen didn't look at Shen Zheng, but at his own sister, like a wounded little animal, who urgently needed her to lick his wounds.

"Sister, what you said... is it true?"

When the girl heard this, her eyes were instantly filled with tears.

When she confessed every word of her father's evil deeds, she felt that the huge rock pressing on her heart had finally fallen to the ground.

For the first time in these years, she felt her breathing was smooth and even the air was fragrant.

The rice in Tongan County is really fragrant.

But when she turned around and saw her brother's hurt eyes, a new boulder pressed down on her heart again.

She could no longer smell the fragrance of rice in Tongan County.

The girl wiped the tears from her face and said in a hoarse voice: "Kuang Wen, I told you a long time ago that you can always trust me in this world. I will never lie to you."

Luo Kuangwen looked at the girl and blinked, as if accepting the message in her words. After a moment, he could no longer hold on and burst into tears.

His father, the father he admired and respected, was a bully in the storybook!

How could he be a bully?

He has always wanted to be a hero in the storybooks. He should hold a sharp knife, climb walls and fly over rooftops, kill bullies with his own hands, eliminate harm for the people, and rob the rich to help the poor.

But why did he suddenly become the son of a bully?

How could he accept this?

He cried so hard that he was out of breath, and his shoulders were shaking violently. Even the man on top of him couldn't bear it anymore. He rolled his eyes at him and stood up.

Luo Kuangwen was completely immersed in his own world, his face was covered with spots of tears, snot bubbles, and dust from the drying dam.

Shen Zheng glanced at him without any sympathy.

Luo Kuangwen came to my house without any reason today, which was really stupid. Moreover, he had the intention to harm others at such a young age, as if a human life was as light as a grass to him.

This was the result of his daily exposure to the Luo family. Even though the Luo family kept him in a greenhouse, some things could not be hidden.

If you add the title of a corrupt official's family member to his name, no matter how naive he is, it would be difficult for him to arouse Shen Zheng's sympathy.

It is true that he is young, but in the village, children of this age already have the ability to distinguish right from wrong, and some of them can even support a family with their own little shoulders.

When she thought this, she was not praising the fact that her child had to endure hardships at an early age. On the contrary, she somewhat disapproved of it.

But if this family really has no other choice, should they stop the child from supporting the family? Some family situations are too complicated to be explained in a few words.

But now in her Tongan County, she would no longer allow such a thing to happen. Whether it was like the Luo family, who isolated their children from the outside world and kept them in a greenhouse, or like the poor families in the village, who turned their children into family labor at an early age, she did not agree.

Shen Zheng suddenly had an idea and wanted to discuss it with the village head.

As for how to deal with Luo Kuangwen...

Shen Zheng was in a dilemma.