Chapter 393
The villagers who took chemical fertilizer on deferred payment wept tears of gratitude.
Before this, villagers had heard from outsiders that the new prefect was a good one—but they'd never seen it firsthand. The factory wasn't built in their village, they'd never met the prefect, and the fertilizer wasn't free—they still paid for it with their own money. Aside from that cement road, most people just said, "Heaven has eyes—we finally got a good one who won't crush us commoners," and left it at that.
The people in the neighboring counties didn't hold Fang Zichen in the same reverence and affection as those in Pingxiang Village or Anhe Village.