Infrastructure masters in the red building

After the recompilation of the Fish Scale Book was completed, Wuyuan County's autumn Fu this year has been piled up in the county government's warehouse.

As a matter of fact, because of the "Zhangtian" work in Wuyuan County this year, the tax base for calculating the land tax has not been fully determined, so the Liu family has not received a grain of grain from the small households that grow grain in the county. .However, the Liu family, as the person in charge of the "Bao Zheng", must put the food and taxes into the county government's warehouse within the specified date.

Liu Minghua's expression was serious, and he witnessed several coffers of the county government put the unhulled rice into the warehouse one by one.Among the rice put into the warehouse, [-]% of the food consumption is also included-these food consumption will not be sent to Yong'an Prefecture, but will stay in Wuyuan County as the salary and grain of these county officials.

Born in front of Liu Minghua, a group of young county officials were still laughing and "kicking Dendrobium".They are obviously not professionals, and sometimes they can even kick Hu to the ground, spilling rice all over the ground, and have to start all over again.

Liu Minghua shook his head secretly when he saw it, thinking how could there be such a naive person in the world who is so easy to coax--the magistrate of the county just dumped what originally belonged to you, and then said that it was given to you by the court.

However, he didn't know that in the hearts of these young county officials, there was still a big difference between what the court gave and what he secretly reached out for.

It's just that these grains were actually "advanced" by the Liu family and some big grain farmers in Wuyuan County.According to the customary rules of "Bao Zheng", as much grain and tax as the Liu family sent to the county government, it will also receive as much grain and tax from the people.At that time, the Liu family will also perform the tricks of "grain consumption" and "kicking dendrobium with tip" in front of the people.

Will it be the same then? ——Liu Minghua thought secretly.

I don't know how long it took, but all the autumn poems here have been put into storage and will be shipped on September [-]th to Yong'an Prefecture. They must be delivered before September [-]th, otherwise the county magistrate's evaluation of the year will be affected.On the first day of October, the food and taxes of the entire Yong'an Prefecture will be transported to Beijing together. If this date is delayed, Zhizhou's evaluation this year will also be affected.Local officials from top to bottom, no one dared to underestimate the matter of grain requisition.

Liu Minghua checked the county treasury, and then signed on the treasury account.This is the autumn Fu of Wuyuan County.

Afterwards, the Liu family recalculated the amount of grain that each farmer needed to pay according to the acres of land recorded in the newly obtained fish scale book, and then collected the grain from various places and filled it back into the Liu family's own warehouse.

As soon as he left the county treasury, he saw Liu Lixing jogging all the way over, and leaned closer to tell him a message: "Grandpa, I saw that Jia Fang Jia ordered Mr. Yuan to prepare a large number of blank land deeds, and now they are all placed in the government office."

Since Liu Lixing picked up his mother and sister last time, his behavior in other aspects has been relatively normal, so that Liu Minghua can't find any faults, so he can only use this nephew as his right-hand man to help him get acquainted with the county's money and grain affairs.

At this time, Liu Minghua heard the news from his nephew and grandson, and felt that the other party was really making a fuss. He shook his head and said, "This is too common. You know, we have just passed the land! It is normal for the county to issue land deeds according to the new Zhang's property. "

Liu Lixing immediately showed an expression of "then I'm relieved", said goodbye to his uncle, and went to help prepare the land deed.

Liu Minghua turned to the county government again, and saw Jia Fang, Yuan County Magistrate, Li Shiye and others talking in the flower hall. Seeing Liu Minghua, these people stood up together, cupped their hands and said to him: "Scholar Liu, Good job!"

Jia Fang seemed to be the most excited, and said with a smile: "The efficiency of the Liu family is really second to none in the county to complete the whole county in such a short period of time!"

Liu Minghua immediately looked confused: "This...is a matter of duty, what credit can I say?" He glanced at the fish scale book that he newly compiled in the middle of the flower hall, and he was proud: In the end, I still have to use the fish scale book compiled by my family.

After praising Liu Minghua, Jia Fang never looked at him again, and discussed with Yuan Hua on his own: "What do you think of the county lord? I will issue another round of land deeds according to the number of acres of land and the size of the square circle drawn on this fish scale book." ?”

This land deed is also a bit particular. The land deeds bought and sold by the people are called white deeds, and the land deeds that have been bought and sold at the government are called red deeds.

But as time went by, the people had many sales, mortgages, and pawn transactions that did not go through the government, and the white deeds in the hands of the people did not match the files left by the government.

Usually, after a detailed land survey, the government issues another round of land deeds, which is to check the government files with the private files again and get back to the same starting line.

As Liu Minghua said, this is common practice.

Unexpectedly, after Yuan Hua nodded in response, Jia Fang said again: "Let every grain household confirm whether the land boundary and the number of acres on the fish scale book are true. After they are true, let them draw a deed."

Liu Minghua raised his head suddenly: "Lord Jia!"

He was completely shocked by Jia Fang's unexpected move: Liu's family has lived in Wuyuan County for many years, and has survived many officials. There has never been any official who has taken the initiative to confirm the property with those unruly people.Who dares to believe the words of the unruly people?

Jia Fang let out a "hmm" and asked, "What's the matter?"

Liu Minghua immediately said: "Master Jia can't trust me, Liu Minghua. I can't believe that my Liu family has been working day and night for the past two months, and I can't believe the results of Zhangtian that would take others two years to complete. I can't believe this fish scale book in front of you."

Jia Fang sat on it, leaned back, his eyes gradually narrowed, and stared at Liu Minghua silently.

Beside him, Yuan Hua and Li Youwei immediately grinned, as if to say: How can you talk to adults like this?

Liu Minghua couldn't help but secretly regretted it, and came to his senses: the young man in front of him was not his grandnephew. He usually looked easy and approachable, but in fact he was a member of the second rank, and he secretly pretended to be a prince.How can I question other people's decisions?

Jia Fang said unhappily: "So what if I can't trust you? Who said that I have to trust you as a scribe?"

Liu Minghua could only bow his head to be scolded, Yuan Hua and Li Youwei, sitting on Jia Fang's left and right respectively, repeatedly persuaded: "My lord, don't be as angry as that villain."

But Jia Fang slapped the table: "Originally, this official just said that, but now the more I think about it, the more I feel that something is wrong - there must be something wrong with this fish scale book, so I will send an order to call all the scribes in this county. In this county government, everyone divides each village and each village into a share, and copies the fish scale pictures of each village and each village in this booklet, and tomorrow will bring a blank title deed to the people to confirm."

"If the common people are sure, let the common people sign the land deed with their fingerprints, and then they will pay according to this. If the common people say it is wrong, then I'm sorry, and they will measure the ground again. The actual amount shall prevail, and the land deed shall be issued first. Then update the Fish Scale Book."

After Jia Fang finished speaking, he still didn't forget to say to Liu Minghua: "I don't want to be so troublesome, but if others ask, I will say that I was provoked by you Liu Shuli." After he finished speaking, he raised his arms , clasped it on the back of the neck, put on a comfortable posture, lay on the chair, looked up to the sky, and snorted, "You have to fight against me..."

Liu Minghua was extremely wronged: when did he want to fight against the second-rank official?

Here Yuan Hua persuaded Jia Fang: "Master Jia, isn't this delaying the progress of autumn grain collection?"

Jia Fang was still rascally lying on the chair, and said, "Isn't all the autumn grain put into the warehouse? Besides, it's not my job to collect grain."

It is quite normal for a boy of sixteen or seventeen to say such angry words.

However, he turned Liu's name under his breath, and it was his Liu family's "Bao Zheng" who gave Master Jiedu the opportunity to "torture".

Yuan Hua, together with Li Youwei, winked desperately at Liu Minghua, signaling him to leave quickly, so as not to make adults angry again.

Liu Minghua had no choice but to leave resentfully, completely forgetting that when he stepped into the flower hall for the first time, all he heard were praises.But until now, he still didn't quite believe that Master Jiedushi would confirm the amount of land with those ordinary people one by one.

Doesn't this mean almost all the fields in the county have to be measured again?In the beginning, Zhangtian was troublesome in the county, so it was all given to the Liu family. Why is it that they are so energetic now that they are willing to take the effort to go to Zhangtian?

Liu Minghua is not very worried about handing over the fish scale book to the grain households for confirmation. Whether it is "Yintian" or "Gujiji", they have already colluded with the head of the household, and they will definitely admit it when they take it.

There is only one thing, that is, "Feisa", which divides the land tax into parts and distributes it to the fields of other farmers.When checking the fish scale book, farmers can see that there is an extra field in their own field, but it is not of such a scale.If some farmers refused to admit it and demanded to negotiate with the government, things would be bad.

As Liu Minghua walked, he quickly recalled which households had used "Feisa" on their fields. When he got home, he quickly wrote down all the names of these households, and immediately started writing letters, asking these households to be careful and suppress them. The farmers near them should be their own business.

Liu Minghua finished writing the letter in a hurry, wrote the cover, sealed it with wax, and then handed it to his own servant, telling him to leave the city immediately and deliver the letter to these households.

The servant of the Liu family calculated the distance and knew that he would not be able to return at night, so he couldn't help cursing inwardly.

It happened that when the boy was going out, the boy's neighbor came out and asked him what he was going to do. As soon as the boy said that, he was immediately laughed at, and said: "Who still runs to send letters by itself now?!" , Tell me about the post office.

The boy's heart moved, and he said with a sad face on the surface: "Our master said, it's not allowed--you have to send it yourself!"

But in fact, the boy secretly sent the two letters with the farthest addresses to the post office, and asked someone to hand them out.He went to the other nearest ones in person, and when he came back before dark, he sneaked to the only kiln in Wuyuan County, spent half the night at the kiln sister's place, and did not make a pair of kilns until dawn the next day. The way I came back, I went back to pay the job.

Liu Minghua didn't care about this either—after all, the households in "Feisa" needed to suppress them themselves. If they couldn't compete with the ordinary people around them, what was "Feisa" for?

From the second day onwards, Wuyuan County really started to check the scale book with vigor and vitality.The clerks of the county government, including Liu Minghua himself, were all sent to the village.

Their work has become extremely complicated: while checking the fields, collecting autumn grain, and filling out the land deeds.

In Wugong Township under the jurisdiction of Wuyuan County, Liu Minghua met Master Hu who had made a special trip to visit him in the county.This Mr. Hu is a country gentry who owns a large piece of hidden land—his field was opened after the first farm in Wuyuan County in the early years. He kept it from the village and never reported it to the county. Later, he met Liu Shilin, the Liu family's master of money and food, can see at a glance that there is a problem with the fields in Wugong Township.

Therefore, Master Hu's fields were all registered in the fish scale book held by the Liu family, and they were directly marked as "hidden fields".

This time Zhangtian, Mr. Hu did not wait, but went directly to the Liu family to place it as soon as he received the news, promising to give the Liu family considerable benefits, in exchange for these hidden fields of his family are still "Yintian".In addition, the Hu family also helped to advance part of the "Autumn Fu" in the Wuyuan County warehouse that was about to be transported to Yong'an Prefecture.

Seeing Liu Minghua, Master Hu and him tacitly agreed, and then went to other county officials to directly confirm the contents of the fish scale book, and received the title deed.

And Liu Minghua was busy with verbal lawsuits with a dozen farmers—these farmers were all "flying" because of a nearby large grain household, and each household added two mu to the fish scale book. ground.Obviously there is no such land, but they still have to pay the grain tax according to this. The farmers will not do anything, but they will find out the big grain farmer and ask him to make it clear in person, or they will really hand over the two acres of land. Write the title deed immediately; or modify the fish scale book, according to the real one.

Liu Minghua shook his head silently, thinking that these big grain farmers who played "Feisa" had clearly reminded them, but they didn't know how to work hard on these farmers, and now they deserve this trouble.

The confirmation of fish scale books and the issuance of new land deeds in Wugong Township are very difficult. Liu Minghua spent four full days here, and finally every family is willing to make a deposit and fingerprint. The paperwork, the new fish scale book and the archive of the title deed are ready to go back.

Unexpectedly, a fast horse came over at this time, saying that he was looking for all the chiefs in this township.

Liu Minghua had a premonition, and vaguely felt that something was wrong.He made a decision at the moment, instead of leaving with other colleagues, he stayed in Wugong and listened to the county's plans for the matter of Qiufu and Zhangtian.

"The county lord said that the measurement and confirmation of the fields here in Wugong went smoothly, thank you for your cooperation!" The county official who came to summon the messenger said loudly.

However, Liu Minghua felt that something was wrong. It was not the county magistrate Yuan Hua who used words such as "smooth" and "cooperation" on a daily basis, but the Pingnan Jiedu envoy who fell from the sky and suddenly came to intervene in their county. Jia Fang.

"However, the magistrate of the county feels that the rate of land utilization and reclamation is not high in the local area of ​​martial arts. I am afraid that the land will be abandoned. Therefore, farmers in this county are allowed to occupy any unowned land they find. The county will immediately issue tenants. The land can be leased to you for planting without paying any price.”

Liu Minghua was shocked, he took a step forward and asked, "What?"

"What did you say? How is this possible? Is this Master Jia's idea? How could he...?"

Never thought of it! ——Why is this person so ruthless and unreasonable?Obviously he looks like a very kind and amiable young man, and his appearance is so handsome...but he actually, unexpectedly——

He actually ordered that all the "hidden fields" registered outside the fish scale registers be directly confiscated and handed over to all farmers in the same village to cultivate?

What's the point of this? !

While talking, the people from the county pasted a redrawn picture of fish scales in Wugong Township on the wall beside the door of the chief's house. "Here, this is all the land in Wugong Township that already has owners. The Jiedu envoy, Mr. Jia, has already said that he will take over the property rights of all the unowned land, and rent it out to farmers in the township for free, without renting money. As long as the grain tax is paid once a year..."

Hearing this moment, Liu Minghua's ears buzzed: It's Jia Fang, it's really Jia Fang...

And the most ruthless thing is that he did not directly hand over the land to other farmers, but first plundered the land under his own name, and then let the farmers plant it.

The county official seemed to have heard the discussion below, and immediately said loudly: "You don't believe it, haven't you heard of Taoyuan Village? Then the entire Taoyuan Village is the territory of Mrs. Jia, and all of them are rented out to the villagers in the village for free. ——What is the status of the family, what kind of land do you want? Do you understand the land in the world?"

"I said, I have posted this picture, and you still don't rush to occupy the space?" The county magistrate who rushed over said loudly, "Go directly with the boundary stone, first come, first served, and occupy the space. Then everyone discuss it carefully, after this night of effort, you should be able to discuss and come up with a result, right?"

"Wait tomorrow morning, someone from the county will come to sign the lease for you!"

When the visitor gave an order, many farmers shouted immediately, ran and ran home, called the family and children, lit torches, picked up the tools, hugged the boundary stone, and rushed to the hidden field of the Hu family.

No one is a fool, except for the "Flying" incidents that were brought out earlier, there are so many hidden fields in Mr. Hu's house, who wouldn't be envious?Besides, you don’t need rent money, you don’t need to pay for the land, the land can be planted by yourself—then what are you waiting for?

Now that the boss has asked them to occupy it, are these peasant households a bastard if they don't take advantage of it?

Seeing the farmers from the same village rushing towards his hidden field with people, farm tools and dogs in the dark, Mr. Hu shook his beard and was about to cry.He hurriedly came to Liu Minghua: "Uncle Liu, Uncle Liu, please say something, say something..."

What else can Liu Minghua say?

At this moment, he kept grinding his back molars, and kept saying, "Good job Jia Fang, good job Jia Fang..."

The Liu family had done all the tricks, thinking that his family had taken advantage of Wuyuan County, and ended up giving Jia Fangyin such a knife.

Everything they did before, now proved to be useless.All the manpower and energy I put in was wasted, and the benefits I received had to be returned to everyone one by one.

What is it called?This is called losing his wife and losing his army, this is called making wedding clothes for others, Jia Fang worked so hard to make wedding clothes for him!