Some of the Embroidered Uniform Guards were dumbfounded. Some of them couldn't help but ask Xu Biao.
"Milord, didn't you say that you've been to Fuzhou Prefecture before and that it was very poor? Why now?"
Xu Biao was a little embarrassed and said with an unhappy expression,"We'll know what's going on when we go and take a look.”
Then…
Some of the Jinyiwei rode into Fuzhou Prefecture. As soon as they entered, they found four long lines at the city gate.
At the front of each line, there was a person sitting and writing something down with a pen in his hand.
Xu Biao and the others went up to listen, and the person at the front of the line said. "Official, our family's ancestors once had a top scholar, and it was only in Fuzhou Prefecture that they were famous. However, later on, the family fell into decline and has been reduced to a poor family.”
As he spoke, the person sitting down registered him.
"Evidence."
After saying that.
The other party immediately took out some paper deeds from his clothes. These were enough to prove that his family was from the Humble Class.
After the registration.
The officials did not even lift their heads. "Alright, next."
Xu Biao and the others didn't understand what he was doing.
He walked towards another team and heard another person say,"Official, our ancestors have always been carpenters. My grandfather once worked at the house of the previous magistrate.”
Xu Biao and the others seemed to understand.
The poor scholar's team was lined up with scholars, farmers, merchants, and businessmen.
And this long line was the 'workers'.
There were two other teams that went over to listen.
As expected.
They were all farmers and merchants.
Xu Biao looked at the people who had already registered and left in twos and threes. They were still chatting and laughing about what their families did.
At this moment.
Xu Biao couldn't help but rush up and ask,"What are they doing?" Why did they have to register the identities of all the citizens of Fuzhou Prefecture?”
The people he stopped sized them up and said,"You guys are foreigners, right? The notice on the wall is an order from our new magistrate.”
Xu Biao asked again," Why did he do that? Don't you find it troublesome?"
The man laughed and said,""It's troublesome, but as long as we register, the magistrate will give all of us work.”
Xu Biao stared at the other party in surprise and asked in disbelief,"This..." How is this possible?"
The other Embroidered Uniform Guards also felt that this was too strange.
"I've never heard of a government being responsible for finding jobs for the people.”
"Don't tell me that all of you commoners believe the words of that magistrate?”
The commoners said with certainty," Of course I believe it. The magistrate has already ordered people to put up the notice. How can it be fake?”
Xu Biao snorted and said," I'm afraid you don't know that the newly appointed magistrate of Fuzhou Prefecture is a corrupt official. It's already good enough that he doesn't covet your people's wealth. How can he do so much for you? Is that possible?"
Upon hearing this, the commoner from earlier was unhappy.
"Hey! How can you speak ill of our magistrate?”
The other commoners nodded and said," Yes, we have long heard that the magistrate is a corrupt official.”
"But he is a man of his word.”
"That's right. All of us commoners know that he is such a person.”
Xu Biao couldn't help but laugh again.
"How do you know that he is as good as you say?”
"Of course it's about what happened a while ago."”
"What happened a while ago?" Xu Biao asked curiously.”
The commoner replied," Ten days ago, there was a shop selling steamed buns on East Street. In the end, a group of people fought there that day and smashed his shop. All the steamed buns fell to the ground.”
"That group of people ran away after the fight.”
"In the end, the shop owner reported it to the magistrate. The magistrate ordered everyone who fought to pay ten taels of silver to the shop owner.”
"That's equivalent to half a year's worth of money from selling steamed buns.”
"That shop owner was overjoyed."
"Thus, the reputation of our magistrate spread.”
"Everyone knows that the magistrate is a good official who works for the people!”
Xu Biao and the others were also stunned when they heard this.
Then…
They heard the commoners beside them say,"Our magistrate is greedy for the money of the rich. How could he be interested in the money of the commoners?”
Hearing this.
Xu Biao was silent. Then, he thought of his duty.
Since the commoners all said that Meng Yin was a big corrupt official, then it couldn't be wrong. He would definitely be able to complete this mission.
After that.
He then asked the commoners what they had just said," Your magistrate wants to assign work to all of you. Why did he recruit so many people at once?”
It was indeed suspicious.
The entire population of Fuzhou Prefecture was not small.
So many tens of thousands of people, what right did Meng Yin have to say that he would assign work to everyone?
The commoner explained," Our magistrate said that he felt that Fuzhou was too poor. Small measures would be useless. We have to use drastic measures!" So "
At this point.
He seemed to have forgotten what he said after that.
Another person rushed to say," So, the magistrate said that he plans to build a large infrastructure.”
Xu Biao was confused and asked.
"What is a major infrastructure?"
However…
After he asked, the commoners also shook their heads and said," I don't know. Anyway, that's what the magistrate said. It sounds like he definitely wants to change the entire Fu Zhou government. That must be a good thing."”
"That's right, the magistrate won't lie to so many of us, we just have to listen to his orders.”
"In any case, he won't mistreat us commoners.
"The magistrate is really a good official. He wants to change the entire Fu Zhou government.”
Hearing that so many commoners believed in Meng Yin, but he was always puzzled by Meng Yin's words.
Xu Biao's lips twitched.
This group of commoners was also too naive. Could it be that they were not afraid that Meng Yin was lying to them?
"You don't even understand the meaning behind Meng Yin's words. Do you trust this new magistrate so much?" Xu Biao said somewhat speechlessly.”
"That's right, we believe in the magistrate.”
"Anyway, no matter what you say, the magistrate will definitely not harm me.”
"I also heard the magistrate say something. He wanted to let this group of unruly people have a taste of money.”
The commoners laughed and said,"That's right. Listen to how domineering the magistrate is!" Letting us commoners have a taste of money, isn't this a good official for the people?”
"Fuzhou has been poor for so many years. If it can really change, then the magistrate will be our second parent.”
"Yes, yes. There are eight of us in our family. We don't have much money in the fields in a year. But this time, the magistrate said that he would assign work to everyone.”
The commoners all had hopeful smiles on their faces.
It could be seen that they trusted and looked forward to Meng Yin's words very much.
Xu Biao and the Embroidered Uniform Guards were confused.
They still didn't understand what exactly Meng Yin's order meant.
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