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

But he bought the same filling today as the previous two days, so how could it not suit his taste?

Xu Zhubu frowned. In the past, she loved eating these buns the most and would always finish all three buns. But today, she only ate half of one and stopped.

When Shen Zheng saw that Xu Zhubu frowned, her heart began to beat, but then she understood him.

Yes, he was forced to run so far to buy the buns, spending both money and effort, and now he doesn’t want to eat them, so of course he will be unhappy.

Shen Zheng quickly picked up the buns on the table. She shook her head and said, "No, this bun is as delicious as before!"

But she had something on her mind today. After eating two buns, she couldn't fit the third bun in the oil paper bag no matter what.

She pushed the third untouched bun to Xu Zhubu, and after thinking for a moment, she said, "Xu Zhubu, how much are the buns these days? I'll go back to my room and get them for you. From now on, you don't have to help me carry buns in the morning."

Hearing this, Xu Zhubu didn't look up at him, but just looked at the bun that she pushed over.

Shen Zheng felt a little guilty and explained, "Now that a temporary cook has come to the public kitchen, it's not good for us to eat alone every day. Let's have breakfast together with everyone."

At this time, Xu Zhubu raised his head, his face as usual, and nodded to Shen Zheng: "Listen to my lord, you don't have to pay for the buns."

After saying that, he picked up the third bun and stood up.

When Shen Zheng heard him say that he didn't need to pay for the buns, she thought to herself that that was impossible, so she quickly asked, "You have to pay! How much money?"

Xu Zhubu didn't even turn his head back, just said "no need" and walked out.

Shen Zheng sat on the stool and thought for a moment, then decided that he should give it, so he went back to his room and took out fifty coins and put them on the table in the book room.

"Even if a meat bun costs five cents, fifty cents will definitely be enough," she muttered to herself.

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When Shen Zheng walked back to the backyard of the county government office, Xu Zhubu, Li Hongmao and others were already waiting there.

She told everyone in detail the plan she had discussed with Xu Zhubu that day. Now, in order to put it into practice, they had to call the head of each village to come.

The town where the county government is located and six villages are divided into seven groups. Every day, one group of people comes to collect food coupons to buy food, and the cycle is exactly seven days. This can also solve the problem of congestion.

When Xiao Yuan heard that they had to go to the village, he volunteered: "Sir, I will go to the carriage and horse shop to rent a horse and go directly to the village to inform the village head!"

Shen Zheng nodded in agreement and told Xiao Yuan: "Tell them to come after noon and don't delay."

After Xiao Yuan left, everyone started to get busy according to their respective division of labor.

The illiterate constables helped cut the paper, and then Zhao Xiu and Xiao Zhan wrote the unchanged format on the cut food coupons.

Xu Zhubu and Li Hongmao were responsible for organizing the household registration information so that when county residents arrived, they could directly check it and fill in the missing information on the food coupons.

Shen Zheng was in charge of the final stamping process. Everyone was so busy working that they completely forgot about the time. It was not until Aunt Yuan came to call them for lunch that they realized it was already noon.

Xiao Yuan came back just in time for lunch. He said that several people had left after he notified them and they should be here soon.

At this time, the first people to arrive outside the county government office were Wu Lizheng from Shanghe Village and Zhou Lizheng from Nanba Village. They each drove an ox cart, and when they saw each other, they got off the cart and greeted each other.

After the two exchanged greetings, Li Zheng Zhou was the first to ask the question in his mind: "Li Zheng Wu, what do you think the county magistrate wants us to do today?"

Wu Lizheng stroked his few remaining whiskers and said calmly, "If the county magistrate called me, it must be a good thing. Let's go in and find out."

When everyone from the county government came out after lunch, they saw the two village heads waiting in the yard. Shen Zheng stepped forward and asked them to rest for a while, and then announced today's affairs when everyone arrived.

The two of them answered yes repeatedly and sat down quietly aside, fearing that they would disturb what was happening in the county government office.

About half an hour later, the six village heads arrived one after another.

Shen Zheng directly asked a few people to sit down in the yard and handed them the prepared food coupons.

Several village heads held up the papers with "food coupons" written on them and examined them carefully. The front of the food coupons had a fixed format, with the village name, grain buyer, and grain weight all blank.

On the back of the food coupons was written:

"Food coupons cannot be transferred, cannot be claimed by others, and cannot be used to bully fellow villagers to take other people's food. Anyone who does the above will be disqualified from purchasing grain this time, and the autumn harvest tax will be doubled."

The village heads were confused after seeing the food coupons. Did it mean that they would have to buy food from now on?

Zhou Lizheng from Nanba Village was the youngest among the others. He asked, "Sir Shen, I don't understand what this 'food coupon' means?"

Shen Zheng signaled Xu Zhubu to explain to them, for the simple reason that she had explained enough in the past two days.

After listening to what Xu Zhubu said, several village heads felt dizzy. Were they dreaming?

Eight cents a pound of rice, how could they dare to dream of this in the past? Even if the villagers could not afford eight cents of rice, they could still avoid starvation by buying old rice and white flour at five cents a pound.

Wu Lizheng of Shanghe Village held the food coupons in his hands with trembling hands and choked up, "Are you saying that the food prices will be like this before the autumn harvest this year?"

Their Shanghe Village is considered to be the worst-off village in the entire Tongan County. Most of the villagers are middle-aged and elderly people, and there is a shortage of young labor. Every year, their stored grain is the first to be eaten up.

After they had eaten up their stored food, they would dig up wild vegetables to fill their stomachs and then wait for the autumn harvest the following year.

Shen Zheng answered him confidently, "That's right. The county government and the grain store owner Hu have already reached an agreement."

After hearing her answer, Wu Lizheng suddenly fell to his knees, crying: "You are a living Bodhisattva! Thank you so much, sir! Thank you so much, sir!"

It's not surprising that Wu Lizheng reacted so strongly. As the head of a village, he watched his villagers go hungry year after year but he could not do anything about it. Perhaps he was the only one who knew the bitterness in it.

The other village heads were awakened from their dreams when they heard Wu Lizheng's crying. They all looked at the small piece of paper in their hands in disbelief.

Then several people knelt on the ground and expressed their gratitude to Shen Zheng: "Your Excellency is dedicated to the people. We thank you on behalf of the villagers!"

Shen Zheng really couldn't stand their big fuss, so she stepped forward to help them up and told them her conditions.

"If the villagers want to buy this subsidized grain, they must promise to plant at least one acre of rice per household this spring. The rice seedlings will be provided by me personally, so in addition to the normal land tax, the villagers must also give me 10% of the harvest. Do you have any objections?"

How could the village heads have any objections? They all said they had no objection.

This condition wasn't even a condition at all, they were so happy when they heard it!

Isn't this just using grain to pay for capital? The grain shops and landlords would take even higher commissions. For free rice seedlings, 10% of the harvest is nothing!