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

"Oh - Xijiao? Everyone knows that your Xijiao official school is very powerful. Even the officials of the Ministry of Rites have to give three pieces of face to Master Deng..."

Before Wan Suan finished speaking, he was interrupted by another person: "Master Deng is a good person. You are going too far. You'd better not make such irresponsible remarks."

"Master Deng may have been a good person before, but later his private school in the western suburbs was favored by the emperor. How can you guarantee that he was not blinded by greed?"

"Nonsense! Master Deng has been teaching and educating people for decades, and his students are all over the world. If he was blinded by greed, why would he wait until now?"

The scene became chaotic for a moment.

The female student who spoke earlier was also pushed to the side of the carriage.

The soldiers of the Yulin Army immediately protected the four corners of the carriage to prevent any malicious people from mixing in the crowd.

Hua Duo looked at Shen Zheng and said, "Sir, do you want me to help clear the way?"

Shen Zheng looked at her machete.

"No need." Shen Zheng bent down and stood up, then picked up the black gauze hat placed aside and put it on his head. "The people from Jingzhao Prefecture haven't arrived yet. Since I'm here, I have to go down and say a few words to calm the people. You just follow me."

Hua Duo nodded, said nothing more, and followed her out of the car.

There are many high-ranking officials in Beijing, but on the streets, the most common official uniform is still green.

Most high-ranking officials behave in a low-key manner. Except when they attend court, they wear casual clothes most of the time. On the contrary, those minor officials of the sixth and seventh ranks like to wear official robes on the streets to show off, acting like they are worth two and a half thousand.

As soon as Shen Zheng appeared, everyone around her fell silent, as if she had drugged everyone to make them mute.

"Would you like to hear what I have to say?" Shen Zheng stood on the car board, several heads taller than everyone else.

"The official is here!"

"She eavesdropped on us!"

"It's over, it's over!"

The crowd suddenly became boiling. The few people who had cursed the most fiercely just now dived into the crowd and wanted to take advantage of the chaos to run away. However, there were people everywhere around them and they couldn't squeeze out at all.

"She's a female official!" Someone discovered the blind spot.

"How many female officials do we have in the Great Zhou?"

"One...one?"

"Is it one?"

“It seems like… right?”

"So she is...?"

"Shen Zheng?!"

"What Shen Zheng? You should call him Lord Shen!"

"Lord Shen!" The people knelt on the ground.

Shen Zheng saw their actions.

She understood that the people did this not out of respect for her, but because she, as an official, had heard all the words they had just spoken in anger.

They were afraid that she would call the soldiers and have them arrest them, and then all of them would be thrown into jail.

This is the official, this is the people, this is the class.

The people knelt on the ground, trembling.

In their hearts, the fear of being sent to prison completely overshadowed their curiosity about the first female official.

"Everyone, please stand up first." Shen Zheng lowered her eyes and said, "I am Shen Zheng, and I am also an official appointed by the court, but I will not ask anyone to arrest you."

The words were earnest, but no one dared to move.

Shen Zheng sighed, "I did listen to what you said, but I swear, even if His Majesty was here today, I would not send anyone to arrest you."

The people were all thinking that she was lying - if she really didn't want to be caught, why didn't she quietly leave on the car, but walked out of the car to talk to them?

It was quiet for a long time, with the only sound around being the rustling of leaves in the breeze.

After a while, a man stood up.

It was the female student who spoke just now.

The female student stood in the crowd, surrounded by people prostrating themselves on the ground. She was the only one with her knees straightened. There was no one standing next to her to block the wind, and a corner of her green collared dress was blown up by the wind. On the wall not far behind her was the emperor's edict.

Shen Zheng was standing on the carriage, wearing a green official robe and a black hat with small ears. She was looking at the female students, and also looking at the imperial edict through the female students.

The two of them stood straight and looked at each other silently, but deep in the female student's eyes, there was excitement and admiration that could hardly be suppressed.

"I am Ning Yan, a student of Xijiao Academy. Nice to meet you, Lord Shen!" Ning Yan performed a standard student salute.

Shen Zheng nodded in return, looked at the crowd and said: "I am paid by the state, I dare not deceive you. Even if someone from Jingzhao Prefecture comes later, I am willing to mediate for you. Please stand up first and listen to what I have to say."

The people secretly raised their heads.

I thought to myself - female officials really do sound more pleasant than male officials.

She knew what they were afraid of and spoke gently and politely, convincing and reassuring people.

"Everyone, please stand up." Ning Yan helped, saying, "Who is Lord Shen? Why would he make up stories to deceive us?"

Everyone thought so.

Just looking at the woman with a big knife on her back next to Lord Shen, she is a ruthless character. If Lord Shen really wanted to do something to them, would he have to speak to them in a nice tone for so long?

Once someone took the lead, the people became bolder and stood up in groups of three or four.

Only then did they dare to take a good look at this legendary female official.

Not as rumored.

Without superhuman powers, it seems that one cannot fly over rooftops and walls.

She is not stunningly beautiful, but she is just so pretty that you can't take your eyes off her.

She just stood quietly on the car, her back straight and her eyes clear, allowing them to look at her.

In the crowd, the little girl who was still in her mother's arms looked at Shen Zheng and giggled: "Auntie, you are wearing beautiful clothes."

Seeing her maid speaking her true feelings, the woman smiled shyly at Shen Zheng and tapped the tip of the maid's nose and said, "This is Master Shen. You cannot call him Auntie. You must follow your mother and call him Master Shen."

"Aunt Shen." The little girl twisted and turned in the woman's arms, "I want to wear Aunt Shen's beautiful clothes, too!"

"You child!" The woman patted her butt, put her on the ground, and carefully apologized to Shen Zheng: "Master Shen, the child is young and ignorant..."

"No problem." Shen Zheng lowered her head and looked at the little girl's eyes, which were as black as beans. "When you learn to read and write in the future, you can wear this beautiful dress, okay?"

The little girl's dark eyes became brighter, full of desire for new clothes, "Okay! I want to study! I want to learn to read! I want to wear the same clothes as my auntie!"

Shen Zheng smiled at her, "So good."

Ordinary people rarely feel the "human touch" from officials, but at this moment, they suddenly feel that officials, it seems... not so inhuman?

The crowd was very quiet, but more and more people came over to watch the excitement.

"I won't waste your time. I'll make it short." Shen Zheng said, "Your Majesty is just as upset as we are about the emergence of a corrupt official like Lu Sichu in the court."

"Think about it. Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, you have reduced or exempted tenant rents, opened up mountains, forests, rivers and lakes, resettled refugees, restored household registration, dredged the canal transportation, and opened up border trade. What is the purpose of all these things?"