Zhang Xi is now the governor of a county. Finally, he no longer has to discuss with others to initiate corvee service, and he no longer has to be kicked out of the prefecture for a small share of the corvee.
It feels good to think about it.
Well, let’s not mention Zhang Xi’s feeling of being hopeless, let’s go back to the construction of Badong County.
Although Zhang Xi, the new governor, launched corvee services as soon as he came to power, he did not look like a good governor who was considerate of the people. But after all, he did not delay the spring plowing of the people after the spring plowing.
The time of corvee service is not long, only one month.
In fact, according to the law, if the local people are not serving military corvee, then the service time is more than twenty days at most. But sorry, these are troubled times, and even Cao Cao, who controls the court, has not strictly followed it.
Therefore, a month of corvee service is not a big deal to the people. After all, these days, it is about who has the right to speak and who has the biggest fist.
However, although this prefect is not particular and started a month of corvee as soon as he took office, he is in charge of the food.
Really, these days there are still officials who are in charge of corvee work. Even though the person in charge of the meal is only responsible for half a month's meal, that's still the person in charge of the meal.
How much food will be saved? During the lean period, maybe we can rely on this saved food to get through it.
In this year and month, the law stipulated that people serving corvee service were required to bring their own dry food. They could bring as many days of dry food as they served, and the officials did not care about food.
Because we generally don't serve across regions, we won't be too far from home, so we don't have to worry about the dry food spoiling. In the worst case, we can just ask my family to send it to me.
But this time, the government informed them that they only need to bring fifteen days of dry food, and the remaining fifteen days of dry food will be provided by the government.
In fact, Zhang Xi originally wanted to directly provide dry food for thirty days, but Xiao Deng Ai objected, saying that doing so would be equivalent to hiring ordinary people to work, not being a national servant.
Therefore, Xiao Deng Ai persuaded Zhang Xi that since he is a official of the country, he should abide by the laws and not abolish the establishment because of personal preferences. This will give a very bad start to future generations and will not be good for the country's reputation.
Zhang Xi, who was ashamed, was taught a lesson by his apprentice.
By the way, Zhang Xi always feels that little Deng Ai's current behavior is becoming less and less like a child. Sure enough, he is slowly growing up.
Zhang Xi immediately followed the good advice and only arranged a supply of dry food for fifteen days.
Because the corvee should have been about twenty days originally, the extra ten days were considered as extra levies by Zhang Xi. According to the rules, Zhang Xi should make up for the supply of dry food, which was regarded as hiring people to work.
The extra five days are considered overtime pay.
Xiao Deng Ai said he had nothing to say.
The purpose of persuading his master is to ask him to abide by the court's laws, but these are troubled times after all, and there must be alternative ways. If the master is willing to provide food, then so be it.
There is really no shortage of food in Bashu, but the food is not in the hands of the people.
In Zhuge Liang's words in "Longzhong Dui", Yizhou is like "the people are in love with the country and the country is rich but they don't know how to save money."
That is to say, this place should have been very wealthy, but Liu Zhang was so poor that he made the people's lives a mess.
In recent years, Bashu has had no external threats or natural disasters. It has a superior geographical location and good climate conditions. Theoretically, even if the people have no food reserves, they should still be able to survive the lean period.
But actually? !
Zhang Xiyi said that he would provide dry food for fifteen days. Good guy, people from all over the country, from old men to children, from young people to women, came to serve.
What Zhang Xi launched this time was not military service, but local service for one month.
In the Han Dynasty, it was true that both men and women were required to serve in the force, but at least they had to be over the age of the first master. What would children under the age of fifteen be doing when they came to serve? !
What? ! Can you move soil already? !
What a sin! ! !
And that old man over there, is he celebrating his birthday this year? !
thirty? !
I will be thirty next year. You see, we both look like the same age.
What? !
The depressed one from Zhang Xi.
If in a peaceful era, Zhang Xi would have to spray them to death if he encountered such people who ate and occupied too much, but forget it, this is such an unlucky world.
Fortunately, Badong County itself is a grain-producing area. There is grain. Although it is old grain, there is still enough grain to cope with the fifteen days of corvee.
As for whether there are people reselling the old grain in Badong County, Zhang Xi dares to say that such things are definitely inevitable in the county's granaries, but no matter how crazy a person is, if they don't even leave fifteen days of grain for themselves, When Zhang Xi killed him, he really didn't feel any guilt at all.
Facts have proved that no one dares to be so crazy after all.
But Badong County’s grain reserves are not too much.
Zhang Xi knew where the food had gone, but he didn't want to fall out with the aristocratic families in Badong County from the beginning. Zhang Xi always hoped to save some face for these aristocratic families.
Let’s pretend that we don’t know about this for now. Road construction is still going on, and Zhang Xi also took advantage of this opportunity to launch corvees to inspect various counties. Just in case, Zhang Xi asked Chen Dao for help. A hundred white soldiers were killed.
In fact, with Zhang Xi's current status, in this era, he can raise a group of private soldiers. As long as the number is not large, Liu Bei will turn a blind eye if he reports it to Liu Bei.
It's not that Zhang Xi has no money now, it's just that he hasn't been able to find the right time to do this.
Chen Dao just kindly reminded Zhang Xi that Zhang Xi wanted to borrow someone. Chen Dao readily allocated a hundred-man team and gave it to Zhang Xi to command.
Bai Jiebing's hundred-man team really has nothing to worry about now.
He took his soldiers with him and set out to inspect the counties. The first stop was Quren County in the west. After passing Quren County, he went north by land and entered Hanfeng County.
Quren County is approaching Yufu, but there is no fraud. The people mobilized by the corvee strictly followed the requirements and brought their own dry food for fifteen days, and the government has also prepared a fifteen-day food supply.
But when they arrived in Hanfeng County in the northwest, far away from Yufu, Zhang Xi realized something was wrong.
In Quren and Yufu counties, the people were all vying to do corvee work for the fifteen days of food. But when they arrived in Hanfeng County, the people doing corvee work all looked sad.
Zhang Xi frowned slightly and asked Deng Ai to find out the news. After a while, he got the answer.
The county magistrate of Hanfeng did not follow Zhang Xi's order to prepare a fifteen-day supply of food, but instead asked the people to prepare thirty days of dry food for the corvee service.
Now is the time when the economy is in recession. If the people are allowed to prepare a month's worth of dry food for the government to work, it would be surprising if the people would be happy.
A gap of more than ten days in dry food can often be life-saving in times of drought.
Zhang Xi immediately went to the county government office in Hanfeng County to ask what happened.
With Zhao Lei's lesson learned, Zhang Xi will not be so reckless now. Who knows if there is something hidden.
But the Hanfeng County Magistrate said there was no hidden secret.
"The common people perform corvées in accordance with the law and provide their own dry food. This county has never heard of the government providing food!"
Magistrate Hanfeng answered confidently.
Zhang Xi was puzzled, is this person so stubborn? !
Therefore, Zhang Xi asked cautiously again, "Has your county ever seen the official documents I issued?!"
Magistrate Hanfeng nodded, indicating that he had received it, and then said lightly, "This is a disorderly order, and this county will not accept it."
Zhang Xi nodded after hearing this.
It seems that there is nothing hidden, so that’s it, give me a call! ! !
No matter who is behind you, you still dare to disrespect your life without justifiable reasons? !
Do you really think that I, the county guard, came here to eat, drink, and go shopping and then go back? !
The Hanfeng County Magistrate did not expect that Zhang Xi would be beaten whenever he asked. How could a county magistrate treat local aristocratic families and scholars like this these days? It was simply insulting to the gentlemen.
The magistrate of Hanfeng County shivered.
Half angry, half beaten.
For no other reason, the surname of Hanfeng County Magistrate
Yan is a branch of the Yan family in Bajun.
Well, that is, a branch of Yan Yan's lineage.
The Yan family has considerable influence in Bajun. When Zhang Fei entered Sichuan, Yan Yan relied on family connections to help Zhang Fei pacify Bajun almost effortlessly. Therefore, the Yan family can be regarded as the heroes of Liu Bei's entry into Sichuan.
Although Magistrate Yan is only a branch of the Yan family in Ba County, this is Badong County, which is very close to the original family in Ba County. Magistrate Yan also inquired and found out that the new governor is a general under Liu Bei's account. He also has a good relationship with General Zhang Fei. Yan Yan, the head of the Yan family, also has a good relationship with General Zhang Fei.
For such a trivial matter, do you want to hit someone directly? !
As for why Hanfeng County did not comply with the regulations, it was because the granary was empty and there was no food to supply the people.
The grain in the granary had long been resold by Yan County Magistrate in collusion with local powerful people in Hanfeng County, with the intention of hoarding it while the supply was low.
Magistrate Yan didn't expect that Zhang Xi would hit him whenever he asked, especially after he called out his background and still didn't stop.
Yan family? !
Zhang Xi expressed that he was not familiar with it.
As for Yan Yan, although the description in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is very magnificent and the reputation of "The Decapitated General" is also quite majestic, he still surrendered in the end.
If you are like Zhang Ren, who would rather stay with your old master for the rest of his life than surrender, then I have my utmost respect for you.
As a result, he spoke so harshly that he finally surrendered.
Another one. Zhang Xi remembers that this Yan Yan will have no role in the future. The scene where Yan Yan follows Huang Zhong and the two veterans beat up Zhang He together was added to him by Luo Guanzhong.
Once the two sides are combined, Zhang Xi has nothing to fear.
He was beaten first, then detained aside, and then asked Xiao Deng Ai to help, and together they looked up the government decrees from the time when Yan County Magistrate was in power, and picked out some ridiculous things.
Then he inspected the countryside, conducted inspections, collected evidence, and finally inspected the granary. Zhang Xi laughed angrily.
Yes, it really can! ! !
With this granary, even if Magistrate Yan is Yan Yan's biological son, even if the lawsuit goes before Liu Bei, he will still be dead.
Not only Zhang Xi wanted him to die, but Zhuge Liang, Fazheng, Li Yan, and Yi Ji also wanted him to die.
"Shu Ke" clearly stipulates that those who keep granaries privately will be beheaded.
Yes, no matter what the reason is, it is a capital crime to put grain out of the granary without permission, let alone the fact that the magistrate is selling grain for profit.
As for the local tycoons who colluded with Magistrate Yan, Zhang Xi directly asked Bai Jiebing's hundred-man team to set off with the local defenders. If these people can't defeat the tycoons of a small county, then they shouldn't work under Chen Dao. .
Really, Zhang Xi is not afraid of offending anyone, whether it is the Yan family or local powerful people.
There are some things that Zhang Xi can be very tolerant and soft-spoken about, but there are some things that are not negotiable.
It's okay to disrespect the order. If you, like Zhao Lei, have legitimate reasons and consider the people, then even if Zhang Xi is surrounded and beaten in a group, Zhang Xi will not be angry.
But if you do not respect the emperor's orders just for personal gain, but also oppress the people and let the people blame the emperor. This kind of person will definitely die no matter which dynasty he belongs to.
Grasp enough evidence, arrest people, interrogate, and judge in one go.
Well, I haven't killed him yet, Zhang Xi decided to kill him only after autumn.
This Qiu Houwenzhan is really not stipulated in the "Shu Ke". The "Shu Ke" does not stipulate in such detail in this regard.
These are troubled times, and things like beheading are not so cautious. What's more, Zhang Xi, as the prefect of a county, has this right. There is no need to ask Liu Bei for instructions just to kill a county magistrate.
The reason why he didn't kill was that Zhang Xi wanted to see how the Yan family, or Yan Yan, would react, and whether there was anyone else supporting this local tycoon.
It is also commonly known as fishing.
