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

Two days later, the county government bulletin board was bustling with people.

Outsiders who don’t know the situation might think that Tongan County has the custom of celebrating the New Year in advance.

"Two notices! What do they say?"

"Is there any need to think about this? Don't you know that the notice board in our county can be renamed the Good News Announcement Board? Nine out of ten things posted there are good news!"

Hey! That's quite true.

You should know that the notice boards of other county governments are either about catching wanted criminals or increasing taxes, just like the roll call list of the King of Hell!

Only Tongan County set a precedent among many county offices, and the bulletin board basically "reports good news but not bad news". Therefore, whenever a new notice was posted next to the county office, it would be surrounded by crowds of people in a short while.

There is no way, who knows what good things are waiting for them on the notice? Of course, they have to be more proactive!

The county's literacy campaign has begun to show results. In a notice with hundreds of words, county residents can at least pick out the few words they know and read them.

"...Tong'an County! I know these three words 'Tong'an County'! Where is our county written on it?"

"You need me to tell you? Who among you here doesn't know the three characters 'Tong'an County'?"

The first character they deliberately learned was “沈” (Shen) - you know what, this character looks good no matter how you look at it.

The 234th and 24th characters are "Tong'an County".

No one asked them to do so, but they asked themselves to do so spontaneously. If anyone did not recognize the three words "Shen" and "Tong'an County" of Lord Shen, they would be holding back the county!

The county residents stood head to head, looking solemnly at the notice, and said with all their "lifelong knowledge": "...sweep...sweep what? Sweep the floor? And...hiss, there are no more words I recognize!"

"Three hundred! These two words should be 'three hundred'! Three hundred what? Who knows the word that follows it? It looks quite simple!"

Someone answered: "Three hundred people? We need to recruit three hundred workers!"

In fact, he didn’t know the character, but he felt that it was very similar to the character “人” (person). Maybe it has the same meaning as the character “人” (person).

"Oh——"

The county residents were immediately excited. “Is Lord Shen going to recruit so many people to work again? What does he need us to do this time?”

"It must be a big deal if so many people are needed! Who knows, Lord Shen might have some magical method!"

While they were discussing heatedly, someone spoiled the mood by saying, "That doesn't look like the character '人'. The character '人' only has two strokes, and it doesn't look the same as this character."

"Ah... this..." The county residents were at a loss for words. "Then let's not make blind guesses. It would be bad if it got to outsiders' ears."

They knew how powerful rumors were, and they never talked nonsense about county affairs, for fear of damaging the reputation of the county and Lord Shen.

Everyone waited and waited, and after about half an incense stick of time, Zhao Xiu and Xiao Yuan finally came back from the yamen.

"What's this for?" Zhao Xiu was half a head taller than many people, but the next moment he saw that the notice had been changed. He asked in confusion, "New notice?"

“Make way, make way, make way—” The county residents spontaneously made way for them and asked expectantly, “Captain Zhao and Constable Yuan seem to be able to read, right?”

Can you two recognize words?

They recognized it, but they still couldn't recognize it completely. Some of the more complicated and unfamiliar ones still made them scratch their heads. But for now, reading a notice should be no problem.

"Let's take a look." The two of them walked forward with seven parts curiosity, two parts confidence, and one part trepidation.

"Recruit..." Zhao Xiu looked at the notice, read only one word and stopped, with a puzzled look in his eyes.

"Recruiting people!" The county residents knew the meaning of the words and knew that there was indeed a job opening in the county just by hearing the word "recruiting"!

"Captain Zhao, could you please tell us what kind of people you are recruiting?"

Zhao Xiu read the notice from beginning to end again, and then he understood Shen Zheng's intention - the adults always think about the people.

If he had never been out of Tongan County and had never seen clean and tidy streets, he might not understand Shen Zheng's approach - hiring people to sweep the floor, isn't that a waste of money? What's so good about sweeping the floor?

But he had been to the capital, and had seen streets without dust, cow and horse dung, or odor. He even didn't have to wipe the stool with his sleeves before eating at the street stall.

He had indeed secretly envied and fantasized about it - when would Tongan County be able to be like this?

But he never thought that this day would come so soon.

With a smile on his face, he said in a loud voice: "Recruit cleaning staff to sweep the streets and alleys in the county and discourage uncivilized incidents! For example, someone might sneak into the alley to urinate... Never allow this. If you are caught, you will..."

"So what?" Some people actually began to secretly get nervous.

Zhao Xiu smiled evilly: "Publicly report this to everyone in the county, so that everyone knows that this person is not clean and pees and defecates everywhere!"

ho-

As the saying goes, a man lives by his face and a tree lives by its bark. Who would want to be famous for peeing randomly?

That's really - so embarrassing!

It is indeed undesirable to pee and defecate everywhere, but the county residents still feel that there is no need to hire people to clean up.

As long as Lord Shen doesn't let them do these things, who would dare to do it?

"Since that's what Lord Shen wants, it must be for our own good. But I don't think it's necessary to hire people to sweep the lanes. We can just sweep the lanes where we live!"

When the other county residents first heard this, they all thought it made sense, but after thinking about it, they felt it was not right.

"What should we do with those alleys that are not populated but are bustling with people? How should we divide the work?"

Hiss——this is another problem.

It’s not that they are selfish and stingy, they just fear that dividing the money will be troublesome and time-consuming.

"What are you going to divide? You don't need to divide." Zhao Xiu interrupted them at the right time: "I just said that we are recruiting people to clean the town. The town has decided to recruit ten people for the time being. They will clean three times a day, morning, noon and evening. The salary is 300 coins a month. There is no age or gender limit."

"What?!" The county residents almost popped their eyes out when they heard this: "Even sweeping the county floor gets paid? And there's 300 coins more?!"

Compared to digging canals, sweeping the floor is nothing?!

Digging ditches is pure physical work, and the only time to rest during the day is at mealtime.

But sweeping the floor in the county is quite different - for people who are used to doing heavy physical work, sweeping the floor is not tiring at all.

And they only need to sweep the streets three times a day, morning, noon and evening. According to the area of ​​the town, ten people are needed, and each person is responsible for two or three streets, which means each sweep takes about half an hour to an hour.

By this calculation, I only have to work two or three hours a day, and I can even go home to cook before mealtime, and then go out to sweep the floor again after dinner.

This, this, this...

The county residents couldn't understand why Lord Shen made such an arrangement. Wasn't this allowing them to take advantage of the county again?