The couple in the last days traveled to ancient times, farming and storing grain and meat in the war

Those who returned home began to bring packages of silver and grain; those who settled down followed their respective village chiefs to the villages to settle down and open up wasteland.

Only when I arrived at the Dengping County Government Office could I finally breathe a sigh of relief.

After working for so long and everyone was so tired, Xiao Yan took out some money from his own pocket and treated everyone in the yamen to a good meal.

Naturally, the wealthy people who contributed to these matters were also invited to have a meal.

Not to mention the people in the yamen, even the wealthy families felt more proud.

Because of Xiao Yan, even a small yamen runner walking on the street was respected by the people more than before.

Naturally, everyone in the yamen followed Xiao Yan and obeyed his orders.

Other rice in this world cannot be planted until February, but the weather is not so cold now, so the high-yield rice that Jiang Ningning has grown can naturally be planted now.

Because rice is not picky about the barrenness of the land, in order to get more land to grow rice, Jiang Ningning bought more land, all of which were poor and low-quality land.

Especially those fields that have been reclaimed not long ago are extremely cheap, and one or two taels of silver can buy one acre.

Anyway, Jiang Ningning bought more than 2,000 acres of low-quality farmland.

Together with the existing fields, Uncle Zhou's family could not take care of them all. Jiang Ningning had no choice but to treat these fields as a farm of the family and assigned a manager, who hired people from the surrounding villages to take care of them on a daily basis.

People from the surrounding villages no longer have to go out to look for work, as Jiang Ningning's family alone always has job opportunities for them.

So, they planted more than 2,000 acres of high-yield rice, and used the high-yield rice that Jiang Ningning harvested last time as seeds.

Jiang Ningning would naturally pretend to go into the fields to think and take a look.

The Xiao family built a large soy product workshop in the village at the end of September last year. They no longer sell the products themselves. Instead, they rely on restaurants, vendors, vegetable sellers, etc. to purchase the products, and they just deliver the goods to them.

Jiang Ningning thought that it couldn't be just the Xiao family that developed, the Jiang family and her natal family, the Sun family, also had to develop.

Only by developing together can we have complex and deep roots.

Jiang Ningning taught the Jiang family how to do the braised food business and naturally lent them some capital.

Both meat and vegetables are braised, and because the taste is better than others, not only many people buy from the stall, but also some restaurants and hotels ask the Jiang family to deliver braised food to them every day.

Soon, the Jiang family had their own braised food shop.

The Jiang family was naturally grateful.

At Sun's mother's home, which is also the original owner's uncle's home, Jiang Ningning taught them how to make rice noodles, all kinds of rice noodles.

Once the rice noodle business started, it was very good. He hired some people and soon had his own rice noodle shop.

Sun's family was naturally extremely grateful.

At the beginning of February, Xie Jing set off and took a boat to the capital. Because Dayan would have an imperial examination in March this year, Xie Jing went to take part in the examination.

In order to avoid any delays on the road and to prevent himself from getting over the local climate, Xie Jing naturally had to get used to it as soon as possible.

Last year, Xie Jing and Xu Ji often went to the county government office to help Xiao Yan. In addition, they always discussed current affairs and people's livelihood with Xiao Yan, a man with "advanced thinking". Naturally, their knowledge was further improved.

However, Xu Ji had not passed the imperial examination yet and could not take part in the metropolitan examination. Only Xie Jing, who had passed the imperial examination, could take the exam.

The old scholars in the county are old, so naturally they have not participated in any imperial examinations for a long time.

Since Xiao Yan was already an official, Xie Jing was the only one in Dengping County who was allowed to take the imperial examination this year.

It was only February 18th when Xie Jing arrived in the capital, and on that day, Emperor Li also received a memorial sent to the capital by the acting prefect of Yuzhou.

The content of the memorial is naturally a summary of the work done on those fleeing famine in the north from the second half of last year to the beginning of this year.

Naturally, the governors of other states also submitted memorials to report the matter in their respective states.

Emperor Li was fine with the memorials from other states, but when he saw the one from Yuzhou, he was stunned.

I rubbed my eyes in disbelief and looked again.

After confirming that he had read the numbers correctly, he said, "Dengping County alone actually took in nearly 20,000 starving people. They didn't let any of them starve to death or freeze to death. They even gave them the most money and food, allowing them to return home. This Xiao Yan is truly capable."

The Prime Minister and others happened to be nearby and were also extremely surprised.

There were so many starving people, but not a single one was allowed to starve or freeze to death. How does that mean?

Only Lord Liang Yuanrui still had his head lowered, his expression unchanged.

He had always asked people to pay attention to Dengping County. It was Xiao Yan who was recommended by him. Moreover, he was really concerned about the situation of the people in the north. Naturally, he knew the situation in Dengping County earlier than the emperor.

"It's worth rewarding! It's worth rewarding!" Emperor Li said it twice, but he didn't say how to reward it.

The senior officials present did not dare to ask.

Emperor Li was really happy. The other person not only had a brain and could come up with solutions, but was also really capable.

What's more, because of Xiao Yan, he built a palace and also collected so much silver from Yuzhou.

It can be said that Xiao Yan can not only help him solve practical problems, but also make him have money to spend.

Monarchs naturally like such ministers.

Of course there must be a reward, but he discovered a problem last year, otherwise he would have rewarded Xiao Yan and promoted him when he killed Yao Yifeng and others last year.

Last year, he suddenly discovered, no, it should be that he suddenly thought that Xiao Yan, a scholar, also got the first place in the exam, and Xiao Yan, a juren, also got the first place in the exam. Isn't this a good candidate to get the top three places in the exam?

Although he was the emperor and could do whatever he wanted, he still wanted to be known as a wise ruler.

But it has always been a good thing that people don’t call him a tyrant, but in fact no one really thinks that he is a wise ruler.

Even though he is said to be wise, I don't think he is really a wise ruler.

Throughout history, people inside and outside the government have believed that only under the rule of a wise ruler can one achieve the highest honors in the imperial examinations.

It has been many years since anyone in Dayan passed the imperial examination and won the top three places in the imperial examination.

He needed someone to pass the imperial examinations to announce to the world that he was a wise ruler.

If Xiao Yan was promoted, not to mention that he had not been in office for long, it would be best not to promote him. Even if he was promoted, there would be no need for him to take the imperial examination again.

Although the Great Yan Dynasty did not stipulate that officials were not allowed to take the imperial examinations, after all, once one became a high-ranking official, there was really no need to take the exam.

It's not like he's just a small county magistrate, so he can continue to take the imperial examinations.

What's more, those who came from the Jinshi degree of Dayan were all at least seventh-rank officials, while the county magistrate was only ninth-rank.

Let Xiao Yan continue to participate in the imperial examination...

The more Emperor Li thought about it, the more feasible it seemed to him.

However, he was previously overwhelmed by the snowstorms here and there, and he didn't think about this anymore.

Now that he thought about it, although he felt it was a little late, after all, the imperial examination would start in a few days, it might not be a bad idea to let others try.