In August of the fourth year of Zhang Wu, Chang'an.
Nearly three months have passed since Chang'an was requisitioned. The chief officials, assistant officials, and county officials from all over the country have also arrived at their posts and have been in charge for more than two months.
The season has come to August, which should have been the busiest time of the year. During this period, preparations for the autumn harvest and tax and grain payments after the autumn harvest should begin. However, this year, the emperor's kindness made the Guanzhong area tax-free for one year.
Even so, it doesn't mean that there is nothing to do.
On the contrary, compared to previous times, the entire Yongzhou Governor's Mansion was almost overwhelmed.
There is no way. There are four counties in Guanzhong and 46 counties. There are more than 200 novice officials. It is a miracle that there is no chaos. How can I still be idle?
In the past two months, various strange events have occurred in various counties and counties in Guanzhong, and some of them are even more ridiculous.
For example, some county magistrates actually wanted to plant rice in Guanzhong.
Well, if you are in a county along the river near the Wei River, Jing River or Luoshui River, with abundant water resources and complete water conservancy facilities, then Zhang Xi will forgive you if you do this.
After all, this is not unreasonable. It can be grown anyway, but I just lack experience and did not estimate that the yield of rice in Guanzhong cannot be compared with that of corn.
But you, a county magistrate of Anding County, actually want to do this on a small amount of cultivated land between mountains and forests. Zhang Xi immediately wondered whether the local magistrate had colluded with local aristocratic families to use this method to force the people to have a bad harvest. , so as to annex the land and hide Dingkou.
For this reason, Zhang Xi specially asked Ma Su to go to the county and conduct a personal investigation. Finally, he came to the conclusion that the county magistrate was simply stupid and stubborn, and he just had his own way.
This matter was such a big deal that Ma Su felt ashamed.
After all, it was Ma Di who single-handedly handled the matter of recruiting scholars in Chang'an. Although Liu Bei had the final say on who would be admitted, there was such a big movement in recruiting scholars in Chang'an, and Ma Di even started to choose such a complete thing. I wonder if there is really anything wrong with the similar system of recruiting scholars that I have implemented in Yuexun County.
Could it be that such a system of selecting officials can only select officials at most, but not chief officials?
After all, when officials make mistakes, there are chief officials above them who can tell the truth. If the chief officials of one place make mistakes, it will affect the people of the whole city.
Now in the Chengdu court, Zhongshu Lingke is studying with various ministries whether Yuexun County's recruitment system can be used as a supplement to the imperial examination system. If this matter spreads to Chengdu, wouldn't it be an excuse for people to attack! ! !
But fortunately, this is just an example. The officials who came out of Chang'an's recruitment this time did not do well.
For example, Li Shi, the magistrate of Suyi County, Liu Hui, the magistrate of Chiyang County, Wang Yi, the magistrate of Hu County, and Wang Ci, the magistrate of Qixian County, are all considered to have outstanding abilities. They are basically familiar with government affairs within two months of taking office, and they are also qualified to stabilize the local people. Officials.
The only thing that is not harmonious is that these four people are all descendants of big families in Shu. Li Shi is the eldest grandson of the Li family in Shu, Liu Hui is the younger brother of Liu Yin, and Wang Yi and Wang Ci are descendants of Shu. A descendant of the Zhongwang family.
So, really these days, even though Zhang Xi wants to improve the status of the children from poor families, in terms of real talent and practical knowledge, in the end, the children from aristocratic families have the upper hand. The gap here really cannot be reversed in ten or twenty years. Came here.
In the final analysis, Zhuge Liang still had the foresight. As expected, we should not rush into these matters.
As for the affairs of local officials, Zhang Xi did not have the time to take care of them in detail. Since there were problems with the administration of local officials, he would leave them to Jiang Wan to deal with.
After ten years of experience in local governance, Jiang Wan is now truly established. He is mature, steady, and experienced. It is most appropriate for him to be responsible for the execution and supervision of government affairs.
As for the county magistrate who made the mistake, Zhang Xi never thought of completely denying it. After all, Zhang Xi also knew that the officials in Guanzhong today are all this type of idiots. They have no experience in governing the local area. Making mistakes is not terrible. As long as it can be corrected in time.
There is no tax pressure on the people this year, and the government is also improving the resettlement of the people and the implementation of land as soon as possible. There is still a certain error tolerance rate. Jiang Wan will come forward to guide and solve the problem. It is best for the county magistrate to correct it. If he refuses to repent, Then just punish him.
As for Chen Zhi, during this period he was busy confirming the land ownership of people in various places. He was also responsible for drawing the fish scale atlas and reconstructing the government's land ownership archive.
It was the most appropriate thing to leave this matter to Chen Zhi.
First, Chen Zhi is very attentive. He can get an impression of many things just by taking a quick look at them. It is really not something that ordinary people can do if local officials or aristocratic families want to hide it from him.
Secondly, Chen Zhi's identity is unusual. He is the grandson of Xu Jing. After being a famous scholar, all the aristocratic families in the Guanzhong area, no matter who they are, even if they don't give him face, they still have to give Xu Jing some face, and let him come forward to follow him. When dealing with major aristocratic families and clarifying the land ownership of these people, at least there is no need to worry about causing too much controversy and conflicts.
Thirdly, although Chen Zhi looks handsome and elegant, he actually has a lot of evil in his belly. He is not the kind of person who sticks to the rules. When it is time to use some means, he is better than Jiang Wan. You can do it.
Finally, and most importantly, Chen Zhi now knows very well who his future depends on.
Although Xu Jing is a famous person in the world, he is not from Shu after all. He is just a famous person who took refuge in Shu and has no foundation in Shu.
What's more, Xu Jing has been dead for two years, and his reputation cannot always protect Chen Zhi. As time goes by, the protection brought by Xu Jing's reputation will only become weaker and weaker. Chen Zhi must find the right person in advance. opportunity to show off your talents.
But now, there is a ready-made opportunity in front of him. Zhang Xi not only has a high status, but is also willing to use a young boy like himself who is not yet thirty years old, and he has become a governor. Although he is only a right-hand man. Long history is considered a deputy position, but it is also a long history.
If he didn't seize the opportunity to show off his abilities, then Chen Zhi would be out of his mind.
Therefore, although today's Chen Zhi is more motivated by his own selfishness, he works really hard. In two months, he has clarified the ownership of the land in Beidi County and Anding County, and the most troublesome thing is left. The land ownership situation of Zuofengyi and Right Fufeng counties.
To be honest, this is really not easy.
Guanzhong is too big, and Man Chong's original migration behavior involved too many areas. In addition, Liu Bei divided the three counties of Longxi, Tianshui, and Guangwei into Qinzhou, abolished Nan'an County and merged it with Longxi County, etc. A series of actions led to Guanzhong's The administrative system was a bit chaotic for a while. Chen Zhi's ability to clarify the land ownership of the newly merged Anding and Beidi counties in Yongzhou in such a short period of time is a full manifestation of his talent.
As for You Fufeng and Zuo Fengyi, they were the most severely affected by the military disaster at the time, and they were also the key areas where the Manchong people were relocated. Almost all the original local officials in these places were taken away by the Manchong inward migration, and most of the people were also taken away. Even if To clarify the ownership of the land, we couldn't even find a village elder who could testify. Three families came out to claim that the land was their own. It was really chaotic.
The things here cannot be clarified in a day or two. In fact, if you have to clarify the ownership, you can't do it in three to five years.
Therefore, Chen Zhi has his own views on this.
According to Chen Zhi's idea, since the people in the two counties cannot prove their ownership of the land, but they insist that they own the land in the two counties, there is no need to prove it.
The population loss in the two counties was too great.
Youfufeng is better. Among the fourteen counties, at least the four major counties of Wuzhangyuan, Wugong, Meixian, and Huaili have suffered population losses that are not too great and can be considered well-documented.
But Zuo Fengyi was the focus of Manchong's relocation at the beginning. Almost all the people in the thirteen counties were moved away. Even if the people who have moved back to Zuo Fengyi now, at least half are not Zuo Fengyi's original people.
Some people don't even have the right accent, but insist on saying that their ancestors lived in Zuofengyi. This is just to take advantage.
Therefore, Chen Zhi suggested to Zhang Xi that all the people living in Zuo Fengyi should be relocated to You Fufeng, and resettled in the remaining ten counties of You Fufeng where the people were relocated, so as to enrich the local population and resettle the land on site. .
As for land ownership, there is no need to clarify how much land they originally have. Just allocate reasonable land according to the estimated production needs of each household's population.
To put it simply, if your family has five people, and the food you need for a year requires the output of ten acres of land, then you will be given ten acres of land, no more, no less.
In this way, it is inevitable that some people will temporarily form families in order to get more land. However, in this era, as long as they can survive, people who have such cleverness are forced to have no choice. Even if they are allowed to take advantage of it, it is a helpless move.
The key point is not to let the aristocratic families eat and occupy more, and give them as much land as they say they have.
I will naturally give you as much land as there are in your family. If you want land, you must first truthfully report the number of children in your family to the government.
This is tantamount to a disguised census of the families of these aristocratic families.
The Han Dynasty recognizes the private ownership of slaves, but the problem is that even if they are slaves, they are still human beings. They need their masters to pay taxes and bear the corvee for them. Otherwise, why would these aristocratic families hide their servants?
Doing this will certainly cause dissatisfaction among a large number of Guanzhong families, but the question is, are there any influential families in Guanzhong now? !
Some also asked Man Chong to take him to the customs.
The Northern Expeditionary Army of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty has not withdrawn to Chengdu yet, and can be turned into a counter-rebellion army at any time. Even the remaining gang of Guanzhong aristocratic families, even if they have ten courages, they will not dare to really rebel.
Moreover, moving these Zuo Fengyi's aristocratic families to You Fufeng will on the one hand frighten those aristocratic families in You Fufeng, and at the same time provoke a confrontation between Zuo Fengyi and You Fufeng aristocratic families. Zuo Fengyi's aristocratic family came to Right Fufeng. , although I know that you are forced to do so, but given time, when you gain a foothold in Youfufeng, won't you still have to rob the interests that originally belong to our Youfufeng family? !
Now that the emperor of Han Dynasty is in great power, we can't do it, but it's not a problem to do something about you, the aristocratic families who migrated here from the down-and-out Zuo Fengyi, right? !
(End of chapter)
