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409. Cricket

At this moment, in Changle County, Wu You and Wu Gao had arrived in the county with the tea merchant team.

Tian Chonghu still stayed in Liangzhou. Luo Yong wrote to him earlier, asking him to wait for him in Liangzhou City first. After a while, he asked him to follow him back to Chang'an City.

Luo Yong was also busy with the canal matters, while his disciples were preparing for the opening of the new grocery store in North and South.

Luo Yong chose the address of the shop early in the morning. In a residential area near the main street in the city, several shops on the street brought houses to the houses. They exchanged land with several families, knocked down the houses and flattened the vegetable fields, and built a large house on it.

Considering that Changle County mainly deals with caravans, most of the people who come here to buy goods are wholesale, so this shop is built very large and spacious everywhere. There is also a large open space square around the shop, which is convenient for customers to park camels, horses and vehicles.

This shop is also in the form of a courtyard house. There is a shop in front and a living area and warehouse behind. The shop in front has two upper and lower floors, and there is only one floor in other places.

When building this new store, Erniang lent them a lot of money to allow it to use the most advanced reinforced concrete technology nowadays. In the front shop, the floor between the wholesale shopping area on the first floor and the food and leisure area on the second floor is the reinforced concrete floor.

To get to the snack food area upstairs, you don’t need to enter the shop downstairs, you can go up directly from a few stairs outside.

Most of the houses in Changle County are only one floor. Standing on the second floor of this shop, you can see a residential area around and the streets not far away, which is quite a bit like climbing up to see the distance.

These things are basically done by Luo Yong's disciples. Luo Yong rarely asks about them. He has been quite busy recently about the matter of that canal.

In the story book of "Snow Lingqu", this canal was dug out by the claw of the snow spirit beast. However, in the real world, people have to spend countless money, financial resources, even blood, sweat and life on such a canal.

At that time in spring, rocks rolled down from the slope, causing several civilians to be injured at the construction site. The injured had been transported to the city for treatment. Fortunately, everyone was hiding in time and no one died.

After this incident, no one dared to take it lightly. Later, the weather became warmer and in the spring plowing season, many people from farmers went home to farm. Luo Yong them attracted a lot of people from surrounding towns to replenish them.

These newcomers had some thorny heads, which were very noisy.

The young man named Xia Yan, who had been with Du Gou from Laizhou to Changle, has been helping Du Gou with the canal construction for more than half a year. The later civilians were picky and dissatisfied with the arrangements and even almost fought with Xia Yan and others.

After Luo Yong heard about this, he arranged for Bai Qi and others to go there. It took a lot of effort to get the project progress back on track.

A few days later, Luo Yong talked about this with Tang Jian, but Tang Jian said, "This little thing can make you feel so troubled. Why don't the Chang'an County Magistrate do it?"

"Then how can I bear to give up?" Luo Yong said with a smile.

Luo Yong, the current Changle County Magistrate, has a grade of seventh rank, and the Chang'an County Magistrate is the grade of sixth rank. In this moment, he has surpassed: the seventh rank, the seventh rank, the sixth rank, the sixth rank, and the four ranks, which means that he has been promoted to level five at once, and he is also a Beijing official.

For a poor child of a humble background, this is not a chance that he often has. After hearing the news from Chang'an City, the emperor seemed to be planning to use Luo to fight against those gentry members this time?

However, according to Tang Jian, the emperor's old man must start to make plans for his son.

The new crown prince was still young, but the old emperor's health was getting worse every year. The gentry was powerful, and there were many old and powerful ministers in the court. Not to mention the new crown prince, sometimes even the emperor himself felt difficult.

Under such circumstances, the emperor wanted to entrust Changsun Wuji, but he was worried that Changsun Wuji would hold great power and be tyrannical in the future, which would make his son have no real power. After all, no matter how close his brother-in-law was, he would not be as good as his own son.

So this time he asked Luo Yong to go back, not only to give Luo Yong a chance to be promoted to the court, but also to check and balance. Although Luo Yong is a tough guy, no matter how he looks, he doesn't look like a person with evil intentions. His youngest son has a good temper and should be able to tolerate Luo Yong.

Luo Yong came to Tang Jian when he had time, just to hear him talk about the matter about Chang'an City.

Speaking of which, the 108 fangs in Chang'an City are truly under the jurisdiction of Chang'an County Magistrate, among which the fifty-four fangs on the west side of Zhuque Street and the fifty-four fangs on the east side are under the jurisdiction of Wannian County.

Earlier, when Luo Yong was an assistant teacher in Chang'an City, most of the places where he lived and walked on weekdays were located in the west of Chang'an City, that is, in the jurisdiction of Chang'an County.

Wannian County to the east is mainly a living area for rich people. Ordinary people rarely go there without any trouble. Even in the East City there, there are not many people. The prices of goods sold in the market there are generally relatively high, and ordinary people cannot afford them.

The county magistrates of these two counties have completely different working conditions. The Chang'an county magistrate wants to die of busyness, but the Wannian county magistrate is very leisurely. Even if there is any friction between the aristocratic families, they have no reason to go to the county magistrate to complain.

However, according to Tang Jian, the county magistrates of Wannian County are usually held by respected elderly people. Ordinary people cannot be appointed. Generally, young people who want to be promoted will not go to that position, after all, they cannot achieve any political achievements.

If you want to be promoted, you still have to be the magistrate of Chang'an County. However, this position has been cheating countless people throughout the ages. Many people not only fail to get promoted, but have gained a reputation for being incompetent in this position.

It’s like the Luo family who cheated two Chang'an County Magistrates one after another. With such a dark history, Luo Yong went back to be the Chang'an County Magistrate this time. No matter how badly he was cheated, no one would sympathize with him.

But even so, Luo Yong never had the idea of ​​retreating. As the saying goes, wealth and honor are sought in danger. Since he has entered the officialdom, there is no reason not to go to a higher level.

The higher the status and the greater the energy, the more he can do.

After leaving Changle Academy, Luo Yong went to the clinic. Most of the people who were injured in the accident had recovered and returned home at this time, but the remaining two people are still living in the clinic.

Both of them were from farmers under Changle County. One was smashed with a leg bone by a stone, and the other was swept by a broken wood, scraping the skin and flesh, and then became suppurated and had high fever and became sick.

When Luo Yong was over, the two were sitting on the street in front of the clinic to enjoy the cool air. Several workers from the city came to chat with them.

As the few people were talking, they saw Luo Yong coming, and quickly greeted him. Now everyone in the city knew that the county magistrate Luo would be transferred away soon and go back to Chang'an City to be the county magistrate. Although he was reluctant to leave, he was honored.

Luo Yong saw that rice wine dried tofu was placed on a stool among them, and said, "This dried tofu is a hair product, so the injured should eat less."

"I just want to be greedy and can't stay idle." One of the injured people laughed and said embarrassedly. Regarding dietary taboos, the medical officers in the clinic also reminded them that they were greedy and ate some secretly, but they were caught by the county magistrate.

"Is the appetite okay?" Luo Yong asked with a smile. As long as he has a good appetite, he can usually eat, there is usually nothing serious.

"It's okay." The two of them lived in this clinic to recuperate. They ate with the people in this clinic. In addition, there was a few cents of nutrition every day. Today they bought rice wine and dried tofu.

"Don't eat too much wine."

"Hey."

"Can the county magistrate sit for a while?"

"I won't sit down, I'll go to the new shop to take a look."

"The county magistrate is away."

"good."

After Luo Yong left, the people sat down and continued to speak.

"Do County Magistrate Luo come here often?"

"I have to come here every few days."

"He is also very busy. He usually just came over and took a look and left quickly."

"Earlier, the clinic here lacked a few medicinal herbs, and it was the magistrate of Luo County who asked the Zhao clerk to buy it from Liangzhou City."

"Tsk, that price must not be cheap."

"The price is very expensive, and ordinary people can't afford it."

"I heard from the medical officer here that when the Luo County Magistrate first took office a few years ago, there were not a few medicinal materials in this clinic, and they were bought one after another over the years."

"Not even talk about anything else in the past few years, I don't know how much money I have filled in just buying these medicinal materials."

“…”

Speaking of the situation when Luo Yong first took office, these people were also sighing.

They were talking, and just now, a servant who was following Luo Yong returned, took two paper bags, and divided a bag with the two wounded men, saying that the county magistrate asked him to deliver it.

"What is this?" It smells very sweet.

"The Tao is crickets, which are a kind of cake. They will be sold in the north and south groceries later. Today I will try to make a batch." The servant said.

Cricket? The name of this cake is a bit strange.

Although it was a little confused, they did not ask much. After the officer left, the few people opened the paper bag and looked carefully. There were pieces of cakes the size of copper coin, and the yellow and orange colors smelled very sweet. The few people shared a few pieces, and then the two wounded put away the things and refused to divide them any more.
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