At the end of the eighteenth year of Hongwu, it was an unprecedented busy and tiring. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When Zhang Chang's new house was about to be successfully built, he found that the east wall was crooked, not because of the inferior quality of the project, but because the bottom of the floor tiles were not compacted, and they were crushed into empty by the bricks on the top.

However, in addition to listening to the "Great Message" every Wednesday and Saturday, another decree was handed down from the prefecture and county, saying that it was to re-measure the land. This matter had to be sent down from the grain chief to the chief of Lijia, so the whole village was busy again, and went to the grain chief one by one to re-register the names of the fields.

"Is there any difference between this atlas and the yellow album?" Zhang Zhaohua was called to him by the grain chief to record the data of the land.

"See for yourself. The grain chief pointed to the atlas in his hand, which was a pattern issued by the Kaifeng Prefecture, and strictly ordered all prefectures and counties to draw according to the regulations on the atlas.

"Are we going to paint like this?" Zhang Zhaohua opened this atlas and saw that the drawings on it were staggered in size and shaped, like fish scales, and were a simple map of every piece of land in a small county town, and he was surprised: "It will take a lot of work!"

"We only need to draw every inch of land from the southeast to the northwest of the jurisdiction according to the requirements and hand it over to the county government," the grain chief chose a very fine pen and dipped it in ink, and said, "There are officials in the county who will stitch together the pictures." ”

Zhang Zhaohua somewhat understood, the grain chief drew the land in the area under his jurisdiction in order, just like the grain chief is doing now, to mark the font size, but also to indicate the size of each piece of land, and submit it to the county government, the county government officials will summarize these things, abbreviate them with a ruler to complete a county's fish scale atlas, each county county map album handed over to the state, the state official compiled the map again, and then handed it over to the government, and then handed it over to the political envoy, even if the fish scale atlas of a province is completed.

"This gives you an intuitive impression of the land, which you can understand at a glance," Zhang Zhaohua said, "unlike the Yellow Book, which only records data." "The fish scale atlas is more meticulous than the soil fields registered in the Yellow Book, and the soil fields registered in the Yellow Book are detailed with the old management, new income, expulsion, and the real number is four pillars, which makes it difficult to imagine, but if you look at the atlas, for example, if you want to know the population and livelihood of a county, you only need to open the atlas and compare the amount of land drawn on the atlas and the population base recorded, you can roughly guess whether the county is barren or rich, and even the proportion of population growth and decline can be speculated.

"The emperor is very angry that the rich people in the two Zhejiang places evade forced labor and conceal their land properties," the grain chief frowned and said: "The emperor wants to measure the land, but he killed a group of officials not long ago, and the officials are withering. ”

"What then?" Zhang Zhaohua said.

"The prisoner of the Guozijian was sent to inspect the prefecture and county," said the grain chief: "This time the overseer is either here to help draw the map." ”

Saying that, he said: "Take the four solstice pictures of Zhangchang, and I'll take a look - forget it, read it to me, how many acres of mulberry and elm are there?"

Zhang Zhaohua read: "Two hundred and fifteen acres of mulberry trees and three hundred and thirty-two acres of elm trees. ”

Zhang Zhaohua because of some experience in auditing in the previous life, all kinds of data labeling is very clear, she classifies the soil fields of each village, and the advantages and disadvantages of the land are placed on both sides, and when classifying, she uses a red pen to draw out the square circle size numbers marked on the paper, and finally registers at a glance.

She didn't spend much time on this, and soon filled out a detailed four-pillar list of Yongcheng and the surrounding villages and towns, and when the grain chief saw that she had finished it, he took the paper and compared it carefully, and found that there was no mistake in the slightest.

"It's good to fill in the land," the grain chief praised, "it's a girl." ”

"It's also up to you to teach me well. Zhang Zhaohua said with a grin.

The grain chief drew a picture and asked Zhang Zhaohua to put it on the edge of the charcoal basin and bake it slightly, and he had to look at it again.

"I heard from your father that your brother is ready to marry a wife," said the grain chief, "the bride is a good one, and she has prepared a lot of dowry." ”

In mid-December, the Zhang family sent a bride price to the Zheng family in Dingjiaji. This time, the bride price is a pig, a sheep, two geese, a tea, three catties of dates, five pieces of cloth, ten sides of sesame seeds, four boxes of four-color sugar (rock sugar, orange cake, winter melon sugar and golden cocoon), and ten taels of silver.

The dowry gift is sent over, which is a make-up. Originally, Zhang Qi and the Wang family both thought that the Zheng family was poor and should have no makeup, so Zhang Qi had already started to do the furniture, bedding and pillows at home, and he could rush out before the year-

Unexpectedly, the Zheng family sent the girl's makeup on the second day of the dowry, not only bedding, red cabinet on the front table, flower hangers, thick noodle racks, hard mattresses, soft mattresses, embroidered pillows, descendants' treasure buckets (toilets, foot basins, buckets), side mats, white silk bedsheets, etc., and even sent a stone mill.

When the dowry was sent, the whole village was a sensation, not to mention the girl of an ordinary farmer, it was said that a big family married a daughter, not only Zhangjia Village, from Dingjiaji to Zhangjia Village more than ten miles of road, all the way there were villagers who heard the news and came to see it, and when they arrived at Zhangjia's house, there were more than 100 people before and after, all of whom came to see the dowry.

I have heard about the affairs of the Zheng family, but I didn't expect that the girl of the Zheng family would earn so much dowry for herself without saying a word!

Zhang Qi and the Wang family discussed marrying a woman, where would they think of this! It is also thanks to the kindness of the Zhang family, when he was hired, he did not think that he would cut corners because the other party's family was poor, but sympathized with her family, and gave a lot of gifts and silver -- now seeing the bride's dowry being carried home one by one, the Wang family was so happy that his mouth couldn't close together, and even Zhang Qi smiled at the corner of his happy eyes, saying that the Wang family would look at people.

The bride also brought the stone mill that can make money, and in the future, there will be more income in the family, and the days will only get better and better, and she will wake up with a smile when she dreams.

"Grandpa, you don't know, my new sister-in-law is very thoughtful," Zhang Zhaohua smiled and said, "Originally, I said that I had to take my wife to marry, but in fact, it was just to test the truth." Sure enough, it scared off many people, all of whom were disgusted with the old lady's drag, only our family was the one who took a fancy to her, and promised her to take the old lady to our Zhangchang. ”

As a result, the day after the Zheng girl sent the dowry, she went to the county government to transfer ten acres of official land, and happened to be at the foot of the mountain behind Dingjiaji, and donated the ten acres of land to Dingjiaji, only asking the villagers to take care of her mother-the local chief of the village accepted her love, and the chief also designated several families to take turns to support her mother, so she could marry with confidence.

This pile of piles came down one by one, and the arrangement was thoughtful and proper, Zhang Zhaohua loved this new sister-in-law very much, and chattered in his mouth every day.

Speaking of another thing is particularly interesting, since Zheng's dowry was sent, Widow Ma's house was suddenly full of guests and people came and went, and the people who came to the door were inquiring about Lan Lan openly and secretly, Widow Ma didn't understand at first, and then she was so angry that she picked up the broom to drive people away, saying that her Lan Lan was only five years old, so early to inquire about the marriage, what do you want to do, do you want to be a child daughter-in-law?

"It's time to get married soon, but it's a pity that you don't make the main marriage. Zhang Zhaohua said regretfully.

"My old bones, where can I stand for two hours!" The grain chief laughed and said, "Let Brother Geng'er marry your master, it's the same as me." Besides, I have a big gift for your family. ”