It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 300

Jiang An, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly asked, "Sister Yan, you've thought it through clearly. Why did you quit?"

Why? Because she wanted to go home, of course.

But this reason couldn't be explained to the people of Dongshan Village, so Jiang Yan could only change the subject and urged them, "Hurry up and stop talking. If you delay any longer, the dinner in the cafeteria will get cold."

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By the end of January, most of the account books allocated to them by the government were gone.

It was not until the afternoon of February 6 that Jiang Yan took the paid monthly salary, said goodbye to Jiang Ying and others one by one, and then returned to Dongshan Village alone.

The Jiang Fu family seemed to have other tasks and were not in the mansion or in the city. Jiang Yan went to their house to say hello but did not see them.

Jiang Yan was puzzled: What errand took so long? He hadn't appeared since the day he returned home after the holiday...

Before the New Year, the long-awaited news from the capital reached Rongcheng County, saying that from the beginning of the new year, the reign title "Jianguang" was changed to "Jian'an".

With the unique advantages of being in the mansion, even though Jiang Yan and others were relatively marginalized temporary workers at the time, they would still hear more news than those outside, not to mention that there was no need to keep this matter secret.

Soon after the old emperor's death, the court drafted several reign titles for the new emperor to choose from. However, first the new emperor's biological mother, Concubine Wu, disappeared, and then the officials in the capital made things difficult, some agreed and some rejected. Concubine Wu also had no intention of deciding on a reign title, so the reign title could not be decided.

Later, Wu Xiang's son Wu Fusui was kidnapped. After much difficulty, he was exchanged back. However, Wu Bin, who was also returned with him, was either stimulated or her true nature was revealed. She unexpectedly used her identity as the new emperor's biological mother to unite with other court officials, and started an internal struggle with Wu Xiang to seize power.

This drama of the brother and sister falling out was a source of great amusement to the provincial governors and the people of the capital, and it occasionally stirred up trouble.

Until October last year, when Wu Fusui, who had been hanging on to his life, died, Wu Xiang seemed to have figured something out. He directly sent troops to imprison Empress Dowager Wu and others to end the dispute by force, and then he freed up his hands to handle subsequent matters.

What does the court events thousands of miles away have to do with Jiang Yan? A lot.

The reign title was changed and "all previous matters were completed", but no one in the court cared about Heding Prefecture which was suffering from a locust plague, and no money or food was sent to Rongcheng County as aid, so that Jiang Yan had to shake off two skinny followers after walking only two miles out of the city.

I didn't see this kind of situation when I went back to the village or the county town before. Is it because the weather is not so cold anymore that these people are starting to show up, or is it because they have eaten up all the food they stored after the winter?

But no matter what the reason, the root cause of all this is the court's excessive exploitation and dereliction of duty.

As for the imperial court, it was already on the verge of collapse, with only the capital city under its jurisdiction. Even if it wanted to, it was powerless... But what did that have to do with her?

Oh, by the way, I also have to denounce the governor Fang and the governor Lu of this prefecture. They are also troublemakers.

When would things stabilize outside so she could farm without worries? At the very least, Rongcheng County had to stabilize so she could fully practice "improving agricultural efficiency."

A few days after the Reunion Festival, Jiang Yan had another extremely clear dream.

She dreamed that she and her parents returned to her hometown and saw a winnowing machine in the brigade warehouse where most of the roof had collapsed.

Not only did she spin it around a few times, she also spent her pocket money to buy it and took it apart to play with it.

Although there was a high probability that the parts and structures in the dream were distorted, and she was ultimately unable to put it back together in the dream, Jiang Yan felt it was worth a try.

It's only February now and there's still time. If Jiang Shun and Jiang Qi, two excellent carpenters, succeed in making it under her "inspiration"... it will be another potential source of income.