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

Just these expenses alone are enough to discourage most families who want to send their children to school.

Do they really want their children to be like themselves, working hard in the fields, and relying on that one acre of land to fill their stomachs?

It is said that parents want their sons to become successful and their daughters to become outstanding. Who doesn't want their children to make a name for themselves through studying? But unfortunately, there are simply no such conditions.

But what does the county magistrate say now?

Tongan County will also have its own county school! Children can go to school!

Even if the tuition fee of our own county school is expensive, it can't be more expensive than that of Liuchang Academy.

But what Shen Zheng said next almost made these old guys cry on the spot.

"At that time, students studying in the county school will be exempted from tuition fees, and meals will be provided by the county school."

The village heads were startled. Before they could even exclaim, Shen Zheng said:

"But one thing is that students who come to the county school cannot be perfunctory just because studying is free. If they just want to get the name of a scholar or eat, they will be severely punished by the county school and bring disaster to their families!"

She thought that the rules should be established from the beginning, and if there were people who were idle and had evil intentions, her county school would definitely not welcome them.

The village heads nodded one after another. If people from their village acted like this, wouldn’t it be a discredit to the entire village?

What if the adults have a bad impression of their village and don’t take them out to play in the future?

At that time, let alone the punishment from the county school, they would not let that family go!

While the other village heads were still immersed in the joy of opening the county school, Village Head Zhou suddenly took a step back and knelt down towards Shen Zheng!

Shen Zheng was so shocked that she stood up immediately. Why are you kneeling again? What are you doing?

Before she went forward to help Li Zheng Zhou up, several other Li Zhengs saw what he did and quickly knelt down.

These guys are old enough to be her father! Why are they kneeling to her?

She hurried over and tried to help them up one by one.

But who knew that Wu Lizheng in the front row, although not young, was very strong, and she couldn't help Wu Lizheng up after pulling him.

She had to change her target and looked at Zhou Lizheng, who was the first to kneel down.

When she just stretched out her hand, Zhou Lizheng actually knelt down and rubbed it backwards!

Shen Zheng was a little anxious and asked them, "What are you doing? Let's talk about the matter. Why are you kneeling down? Hurry up and get up!"

Several village heads looked at each other and bent their upper bodies down.

They looked pious, as if they were really thanking the gods.

Seeing that they were about to kowtow again, Shen Zheng stamped her feet in anxiety. She even wanted to kneel down and kowtow to them!

After Zhou Lizheng bowed his head, he raised his head and looked at Shen Zheng. His expression was complicated and there seemed to be tears in his eyes.

"It is a blessing for all the people of Tongan County to be chosen by you."

Several other village heads repeated in unison: "It is a blessing for all the people of Tong'an County to be chosen by you!"

Shen Zheng looked at the expressions on their faces and couldn't help but freeze where she was.

This feels so strange, she thought.

They trusted her, they loved her, and they thanked her with all their hearts.

Shen Zheng also took a step back and bowed to the village heads.

"It is my great honor to be the magistrate of Tongan County and meet you all. Building our Tongan County is not just my responsibility, nor is it my wish alone. I hope that we can support each other and create prosperity together. Shen Zheng would like to thank you all in advance."

Several village heads bowed again and said in unison: "Thank you, sir!"

Shen Zheng wiped the tears from her face and said in a low voice, "Everyone, please get up first. We can sit down and talk about it later."

If everyone had knelt down and said a few more words, I'm afraid everyone would have cried today.

Several village heads supported each other and stood up, the expressions of emotion on their faces had not yet faded.

After everyone calmed down, Shen Zheng continued:

"What I just said about the county school is to let the students in the village know. If they are willing to guard the checkpoint, that would be great. If they are not willing, that's fine too. They can still study in the county school in the future. It's all voluntary."

Several village heads looked stern. The adults were so easy to talk to, but they were not!

If those scholars are unwilling to guard the checkpoints for the sake of their village and county livelihoods, then when it is time to register for the county school, they will have to pass through the village, and they will have to think seriously about it!

However, they only thought about it secretly in their hearts and did not say it out loud.

Shen Zheng thought about the checkpoint keeper’s wages again.

Although guarding the checkpoint means being stationed in one place, it requires negotiating with outsiders, which is a brain-consuming job, and the pay cannot be too low.

Moreover, guarding the checkpoint requires great dedication. If one gives hasty questions and lets in bad people, the loss will be huge.

She thought for a moment and said, "The wages for the guards are tentatively set at fifty cents a day. Do you have any objections?"

When several village heads first heard about this, they thought the wages were a bit high, but the threshold for being a checkpoint keeper was also relatively high, and not everyone could do it.

They bowed their heads and thought for a moment, then answered, "It's all up to you, sir."

Shen Zheng nodded: "Then you go back today and start taking care of this matter. Set up the team within three days. Is there any problem?"

"no problem!"

The village heads answered in unison that it would take them three days to go back and spread the good news.

The meeting was adjourned.

After Zhou Lizheng of each village returned, he summoned the clan leaders of each clan in the village.

As expected, the fact that a rice plant could produce more than a dozen ears of rice caused a sensation in the villages.

Now that the village heads are no longer in the county government office, they can take the villagers to the fields to verify the facts.

To their surprise, after careful investigation by the villagers, they actually found rice ears that had formed!

The county magistrate and Wu Lizheng really didn't lie to them! There really were more than a dozen rice plants.

The villagers burst into tears on the spot, muttering that meeting the county magistrate was a blessing that the people of Tongan County had accumulated for hundreds of years.

Some even went so far as to kowtow directly towards the county government office.

The village heads also carefully informed the villagers of the two issues discussed at today's meeting.

First, each village must strictly ensure the safety of rice. Villagers are not allowed to sell rice and rice seeds privately. They must also expand patrol teams and set up checkpoints.

The second is that the county will open a county school, and scholars willing to guard the gate will be given priority to be admitted to the county school.

The villagers didn’t have high expectations for the county school at first. They thought studying was too far away for them. Only those with a little financial resources dared to go there!

So they put all their attention on the patrol team. If they could be selected into the patrol team this time, they would gain both face and wealth!

Who knew that the head of the village said that the adults felt sorry for these peasants and waived all their tuition fees!

Doesn't that mean everyone can afford to read?

The villagers were immediately excited. What a blessing this was for them!

……

He Mingcheng’s family in Qingyuan Village.

He Mingcheng held a frayed book in his left hand and a handful of wild vegetable leaves in his right hand, preparing to feed the only two rabbits in his home.

"Mingcheng! Great news! Great news!"

His mother pushed the door open and walked in. The already dilapidated door was pushed against the earthen wall, and a large piece of mud fell off.