The prince fell silent after hearing this.
He originally thought that with the current prosperity of the country, the local areas should be more prosperous, but it turned out that after uncovering the truth, there were so many incompetences.
"Why don't you join the army?"
The prince asked again at this time.
Luonan, a commoner in Xiuning, replied: "Back to my parents, I am afraid of death and dare not risk my life, so I can't become one!"
"Besides, the emperor is doing well today. He has exempted the world from the corvee. The price of food and salt is also much lower than before. Therefore, as long as I don't think about getting a wife and having children, I have no problem supporting myself."
"After all, although big shops and workshops are inaccessible, making it difficult to find jobs that make big money, some outsourced chores that can make a little money are everywhere. Although the money you earn is not much, it is not enough to fill your stomach. The problem is, I can still drink some wine and eat some chicken, duck and fish every now and then."
As he spoke, Ronan patted his slightly bulging belly and said, "Well done, Your Majesty, you have allowed me to live like a god!"
The prince had a sullen face, and then said: "I think you are quite clever. If you answer some questions from this county, I will reward you with one or two silver coins."
"You asked!"
Ronan hurriedly bowed.
The prince then asked again: "Is there any concealment of population in Xiuning County?"
"Yes, I have!"
"Isn't this a common thing? Why do you ask?"
Ronan asked.
The prince said "Oh" and said, "Why hide it?"
"It's not that I deliberately want to hide it, but it's just to make money. There are rules in every district now. Whoever wants to register as a household must first pay the household fee, which is one tael for a boy and five cents for a girl. Many people want to save this money. No more going to the house.”
"After all, you are exempted from corvee, so people don't have to ask you to register. Instead, you ask them to register you, so that you can have the opportunity to go to school, serve as a soldier, join the government and run a business, including entering the palace to become a queen or a father-in-law. Only then can you be seen as a human being.”
"I didn't rush to register because I didn't want to pay!"
"Furthermore, every time our local chiefs and village chiefs make up the yellow list, they fill in their household registrations randomly, filling in fake population numbers. It looks like there are a lot more people on the yellow list, but in fact there are really new ones. As for the population, he didn’t register much.”
"As a result, many people like me can only continue to work part-time for the rich, and some even continue to be slaves!"
Ronan said.
As Luonan said, if a new Han Chinese is registered in the yellow register, it means that he will receive the corresponding rights granted by the imperial power of the Tianxian, which means that he will be treated as a human being.
for example.
If a Han nationality registered in the Yellow Register was killed by a country, the imperial court would have reason to directly declare war on that country.
Because according to the new etiquette, this is already against etiquette.
Because of this, the local bureaucracy is not active in the people's registration, and even blocks it. After all, they have to be seen as soon as they get there.
The common people are not active in fighting for political rights and are not in a hurry until their feet are burned. This has led to many new residents not registering, allowing local officials to hide a large number of people.
The prince nodded after hearing this and understood the reason. After being shocked in his heart, he asked Ronan which Jiali was causing such chaos. Then, he actually asked Ronan to give him a slap in the face. Two silver dollars.
And Ronan naturally left the county government with gratitude.
The prince then called Zhang Yunsheng over and ordered:
"Take my ticket and go to the house to check if there is a person from Wucheng named Ronan on the list. If not, ask them to register."
"Dong Weng Rongzhen."
"It is not appropriate for Dong Weng to decide on such a small matter such as household registration. If Dong Weng forces a small citizen to register a household at this time, they will say that this is not the time to make up the household registration, so they will refuse to register others again, and they may not protest at that time. Let Dong Weng himself be impeached by the official, and you will be impeached for your disorderly conduct."
Zhang Yunsheng hurriedly tried to dissuade him.
The prince raised his eyebrows after hearing this: "This county doesn't even have the power to grant a household registration to a common person?!"
"Don Weng, calm down!"
"Even if you want to register a common person, you can only say hello in private, and you must not go through official procedures."
Zhang Yunsheng continued.
After hearing this, the prince was silent for a long time, and then said very discouraged: "Okay! Mr. Zhang, tell me, am I, the county magistrate, really unable to do anything?"
"I still say the same thing, you can only wait until the eunuchs need you to do it, then you can do it."
Zhang Yunsheng replied.
After hearing this, the anger in the prince's heart that had just been suppressed suddenly rose again: "Then what is the difference between this county and a dog that obeys their orders at any time?!"
Zhang Yunsheng was stunned for a moment. He did not expect that the prince would be so angry.
After a while.
The prince himself calmed down the atmosphere first: "Well, that's it, what's the use of being angry?"
Then, the prince asked Zhang Yunsheng again: "Mr. Zhang, what do you think if this county submits a secret report to His Majesty?"
"Your Majesty must know."
"It's just that it's impossible for Your Majesty to promulgate a strict decree and let the whole world completely change this situation."
"For example, if Dong Weng reported this matter, even if His Majesty was furious and ordered Fu Fu to investigate strictly, Fu Fu would still be unselfish, and then Fu Fu would really cut off the heads of many Jia Shu Li chiefs and even county officials. Head, so that the population, shops and fields of Xiuning County are not falsified and are reported truthfully."
"But can this guarantee that Xiuning County will not do this after the new head of Jia Shu Li and officials are replaced? Can it be guaranteed that other places will also be clarified in this way?"
"So it can't be changed."
"Since it can't be changed, Dong Weng doesn't need to risk his own future for this!"
Zhang Yunsheng spoke earnestly.
The prince couldn't help but glance at him and asked: "Why do you want to get involved in my future? Your Majesty already knows about me because of this. Don't I have a future?"
"Dong Weng's words are wrong!"
"Not to mention, His Majesty is busy with many things, and it is easy to forget you. Even if he remembers you and promotes you, the country officials all over the world already know how you gained His Majesty's favor, so they will wait until you are promoted to another place. At that time, what awaits you will be that the local bureaucrats and rural eunuchs will become even more uncooperative and even make things more difficult for you. They may even resign or even move away when you come, instead of retreating as a strategy to advance!"
"As soon as you came to this place to serve as an official, the tax revenue and population of the place were greatly reduced. In the end, the evaluation was extremely poor. Even if you were Jian Zai's heart, His Majesty would not be able to take care of an official who had an extremely poor evaluation! "
"Of course, it is even more impossible for His Majesty to let Dong Weng directly serve as the ruling minister because of this matter. This will make the world dissatisfied and damage His Majesty's own prestige."
Finished.
Zhang Yunsheng glanced at the prince helplessly.
The prince continued: "But what I submitted is a tip, and they may not know it."
"How many people did Dong Weng bring to Xiuning? What these people do every day, they have already sent people to ambush around and keep an eye on them. As long as Dong Weng sends people to report, they will definitely find a way to find out the content."
"Even if they can't find out, they don't know whether the informant was reported by Jin Yiwei, Dongchang, a loyal eunuch who couldn't bear to report it, or Dong Weng, as long as His Majesty orders Xiuning County to be investigated , If you want to chop off the heads of some corrupt officials in Xiuning County, then they will naturally suspect their neighbors of stealing the ax and think it was Dong Weng who did it!"
"By then, Dong Weng will still not get a single word of praise, and he will still be regarded as an enemy by the bureaucrats and eunuchs."
Zhang Yunsheng said.
The prince sat on the chair in frustration: "You can't even file a lawsuit. So, does this mean that this county can only be a dog of their wealthy gentry?!"
"If you don't want to be a Dong Weng, you can just choose not to ask them when they need a Dong Weng, but that will also give you a name of mediocrity."
"But if Dong Weng still wants to make progress, the best way is not to express his loyalty to His Majesty, nor to ask for help from any high-ranking minister, but to show his favor to the local eunuchs!"
"In this way, they can cooperate with Dong Weng and be willing to invest money and land for Dong Weng to develop the county's industry, and even let the capable ones among their own children work for Dong Weng, and use their own connections to work for Dong Weng. In this way, Dong Weng is in vain. It has made political achievements and added a lot of new population and food, and the superiors will recognize it and will not pursue it seriously. "
Zhang Yunsheng said.
The prince nodded: "We are like light and dust, right?"
Zhang Yunsheng cupped his hands and said, "Dong Weng Mingrui!"
"That's it for today."
"I'm tired."
The prince said and returned to his room, looking at the Xiuning map in front of him in a daze for a long time.
Finally, the prince reluctantly picked up the list of eunuchs in the county and read it again. While reading, he couldn't help but murmur:
"The Wang family currently has three Jinshi, two of them have become officials, one is an official in the court, and there are five people who have been promoted. They are married to the Hu family, the commander of the Xin'an Guard..."
"It's really impressive!"
…
"master!"
"Our people came back and reported that an idle man named Ronan was called to the county government tonight!"
Xiuning clan, Wang family.
The slave Lai Shunze quickly came to the country eunuch Wang Huan that night and reported something.
Wang Huan was a Jinshi in the eleventh year of Wanli. Now he has returned to his hometown as the right minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs in Nanjing.
Wang Huan frowned after hearing what Laishun said.
"What's the point of meeting a common man and a common man?"
then.
He said to Wang Dabin, who had served as the governor of Guizhou: "This county magistrate has great ambitions!"
Wang Dabin nodded: "Otherwise, I wouldn't have recruited an idle guy to ask questions."
"It's normal for young people to have ambitions. However, I hope he has a noble person to remind him, or the staff he hires can make him more sober, otherwise he may not be able to go far in the officialdom."
Wang Huan shook his head as he spoke.
Wang Dabin echoed: "Yes, but the master he hired is not young. When he was serving as Ying Tianfu to the old Shen Pavilion, this person had been an old staff member of the Shen Pavilion. He was quite qualified and could spend a lot of money to hire him. Such a staff must not be simple!"
"Although when you come to this place, you have to be coiled up even if you are a dragon, and you have to lie down even if you are a tiger, but if he is really a well-established and sensible person, it will be a good thing."
"As far as I know, the previous magistrate of Wuyuan County, a neighboring county, obviously has a good background!"
"Otherwise, he would not be able to set up a steam engine processing factory in Wuyuan, which would allow the village officials in Wuyuan to share a lot of profits. Then the Feng Shui dispute will be resolved. In this year's competition, Wuyuan actually produced two Jinshi!"
Wang Huan continued.
Wang Dabin nodded: "That's right. I hope our county magistrate also has a strong background and can bring us greater industry."
…
After reading the list of rural eunuchs, the prince did not think about bringing any new investment opportunities to these powerful eunuchs. He was still thinking about how he should solve the problem of false reporting of local population, fields and industrial scale. , and couldn't help but sigh:
"If I hadn't been appointed as the county magistrate, I really wouldn't have known how complicated the place would be. But what should I do? Will my father help me?"
"Your Highness!"
"Shen Ge always has a book to give to His Highness."
At this time, Sun Zhonghe's voice came from outside. (End of chapter)
