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

The rising morning light illuminated the Tongan County Government Office brightly, and also illuminated the faces of everyone present.

Yu Zhengqing had not expected that the people of Tongan County were so quick and efficient, weighing and screening seeds in one go. He could not help but sigh that if this kind of efficiency was applied to the officialdom...

The village heads slapped their heads when they heard this. They were so busy showing off the rice seeds to Lord Shen that they forgot about the yield per mu!

But they also came prepared, because they were determined to be the most trouble-free village heads and to be the right-hand men of Lord Shen!

Zhou Lizheng chuckled and took out a stack of straw paper from his arms.

"Sir, this is the per-acre yield calculated by each village. It records in detail how many households in each village planted high-yield rice, how many kilograms of rice were harvested per mu, and how many kilograms of rice were harvested in the entire village."

"Oh?" Yu Zhengqing raised his eyebrows. He really didn't expect that the village heads were so well prepared.

He suddenly thought of some of his subordinates in Liuyang Prefecture. They were just like frogs, jumping up and down at the touch of a button. They were not even as good as the head of Tongan County!

Yu Zhengqing took the thick stack of straw paper, flipped through it, and asked, "These words, they weren't written by you, were they?"

The village heads immediately straightened their backs and said, "Your Excellency, it was the students in the village who helped copy the records! The students also know arithmetic and counting, and they also helped calculate the specific output of each village!"

One of them was the most proud. As early as yesterday, several of them had already competed with each other, and the highest yield per mu... hehe, came from their village!

"Yeah." Yu Zhengqing nodded, "It's quite useful. It's worth it for Lord Shen to open a county school."

The village heads smiled. They knew that the prefect's words were unpleasant to the eyes, but his heart was the same as Lord Shen's, and he wished the best for them.

After Yu Zhengqing handed the straw paper to Shen Zheng, he said, "Let's go and take the rice seeds to the granary first. Can you bring some rice?"

paddy?

"I only brought the sifted rice seeds. There are not many carts in the village, so they can't hold all the rice." The village heads scratched their heads, not knowing what he wanted to do.

Yu Zhengqing nodded and called Zhao Xiu over in front of everyone. "You drive my carriage to each village and randomly pick two bags of unscreened rice from each village. Be quick."

Zhao Xiu was stunned when he heard this. He understood what Yu Zhengqing meant, but how could he, as a prefect, use his carriage to load rice sacks?

I'm afraid that everyone sitting inside will feel extremely itchy all over for a long time to come.

Even Zhao Xiu couldn't help rubbing his arms when he thought about it, secretly sighing that this prefect was a ruthless man.

Shen Zheng had the same idea, but Yu Zhengqing said it first, so she could only say to the village heads:

"Master Yu and I definitely believe in the rice seeds you screened, but as I said before, when we do things in Tong'an County, we must have a basis to follow and not be afraid of being found wrong. Screening seeds is a big deal, so we have to bring back some unscreened rice for comparison."

For someone like her who has seen rice seeds, it should be easy to distinguish the quality of rice seeds. However, except for Lord Shen and the people in Wang's farm, most people in the county have never seen rice seeds.

Shen Zheng paused, and then said, "As we are the first company to grow high-yield rice, we must also record the yield rate in detail, firstly to prevent others from taking advantage of loopholes in the future."

"The second one is..." Shen Zheng changed the subject, and everyone present was attracted to it.

She smiled brightly and said loudly: "Our rice seeds will be recorded in history books for future generations to see. Do you think we should record them completely?"

"Wow!" Recorded in history!

history!

That is recorded in history, passed down to the world. In the words of Lord Shen, it is high, great, and superior!

In the eyes of the people of Tongan County, only the emperor could be recorded in the annals of history! How could a bunch of peasants like them be recorded together with the emperor? That would be outrageous!

They thought so and asked this question.

Yu Zhengqing heard this with a complicated expression, "How shameless are you?"

The faces of the village heads and county residents froze. Did Lord Shen lie to them?

Impossible! How could Lord Shen lie to them?

The county residents were feeling wronged and pitiful. Seeing this, Yu Zhengqing did not say anything harsh, but just said:

"The emperor has a special historian to record everything, no matter his food, clothing, daily life or national decisions, everything is recorded in detail. How can it be the same with you? It is definitely not in the same book."

He seemed to have thought of something, frowned and asked: "You don't think... that the history book is just a book with everything written on it? The first page is about you, and the next page is about the decision made by the emperor?"

How is that possible!

When everyone heard this, they realized how stupid they had been.

Shen Zheng chuckled and consoled him, "Although we cannot be included in the same book with His Majesty, the achievements of Tongan County are real and there are many parts in the history book, and there will definitely be a place for all of us."

This is not bragging. Major events of people's livelihood like this will definitely be recorded. If recorded in detail, Yu Zhengqing, Shen Zheng and other representative figures in Tongan County will all be recorded.

Everyone suddenly realized.

Moreover, Shen Zheng had a bold guess, but she didn't say it out loud.

That is, Yu Zhengqing delivered the letter to the capital. After the emperor read the contents of the letter, it is impossible that he did nothing. When the historian recorded the emperor's words, deeds, daily life and decision-making, it is possible that he also recorded Tongan County.

But without everyone's names, it wouldn't be too detailed.

After all, for that personal historian, the emperor is the protagonist.

But after this incident, everyone was so excited and motivated that they all wanted Zhao Xiu to go home with them to get the rice.

Their own rice was taken away for record keeping, and their names might be recorded in the book - citizens of Tong'an County, Liuyang Prefecture, Great Zhou, Liu Tiezhu's family, rice...

Ahhh! Just thinking about it makes me feel so beautiful!

"No, we won't take yours. Captain Zhao Xiu will go to each village and randomly select rice from two households and bring some over."

Yu Zhengqing gave an order, shattering everyone's fantasy.

Zhao Xiu took the order, pulled Yu Zhengqing's car out, whipped the horse, and gradually disappeared from everyone's sight.

Everyone at the gate of the county government put their hands together and prayed silently in their hearts: Choose me, choose me, you must choose me!

Seeing their expectant expressions, Shen Zheng smiled softly in her heart and said to the head of each village, "Let's go and pull the rice seeds over first. I will calculate the average yield per mu when we get there."

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Tongan County granary.

The granary was located behind the county government office, separated from it by only a wall.

Several slightly old warehouses form a small courtyard, with a patio in the middle.

The warehouse has eaves at the front and back, and the walls are made of blue bricks. The steps of the warehouse are raised by about one meter, and there are air holes at the base of the wall.