Shangshu is a local official, in charge of the world's household registration, well fields, conscription, funds, goods and so on, the ministry is heavy, and there is almost no leisure time throughout the year.

This can be seen in the supply of materials for the duties of the hundred divisions, and the paper and ink materials consumed by the local officials of the household department far exceed those of other Cao divisions in Beijing.

Di Renjie, who is a local official and a waiter, is naturally no exception, and after entering the government, he sits at his desk all day.

As the head of the household department, although he does not need to go to the prefecture and the countryside to check the deceased, the daily documents handed over by the prefectures also need to be reviewed and approved as soon as possible.

The special season has reached the end of spring, and a short delay here may cause hundreds of thousands of people to completely miss the farming work. Di Renjie has been in the state and county for a long time, and the people's weal and woe are natural, and he works tirelessly to do things.

Although the current household affairs are busy, they are not clueless, at least the situation is much better than what Di Renjie had planned before he took over.

Since the second year of Tianzhu, the imperial court has moved Guanzhong households to enrich Heluo, but then it has not kept up with the households in time. Small people's homes are already thin on savings, and delaying a season of farming is almost a catastrophe.

Originally, in Di Renjie's imagination, now there should be starvation and death in Heluo, and the homeless people are uncertain. People are running around just to survive, but once they move, it will undoubtedly make the work of household registration difficult.

So when he first took over this work, Di Renjie was even ready that if the situation was too bad, he would apply for the army to enter the field and search for those wandering people if necessary.

This is not a cruel fish and meat people, only in the shortest possible time to settle the people into the wilderness, make up households and grant fields, in order to get the cultivation and mulberry production on the right track as soon as possible. If the people have a livelihood, they will naturally no longer be in chaos.

However, after really getting into the matter, Di Renjie found that the situation was much better than he originally expected. Although there are also problems of people fleeing and gathering crowds to cause chaos, the scale is not very large, and local states and counties can deal with it.

At the time of the official household registration, the number of households increased day by day was even greater than Di Renjie's expectations. Although he has also prepared to promulgate some policies to benefit the people, according to his past experience in governance, the speed and scale of the increase in the number of households far exceed the effect of previous experience.

There seems to be an invisible thread between these migrants pulling each other, and once naturalized, it will be the size of dozens or hundreds of households.

This is very unusual, because according to Di Renjie's past experience, this kind of large-scale household compilation is a gradual process.

After the destruction of the original production environment and organization, the government also lost its direct control over the households, and it was the most difficult to re-naturalize them and accept the management at the beginning. But as long as it is made to a certain scale, it will grow exponentially, after all, people have a herd mentality.

However, the proclamation submitted by the counties shows that such a curve growth is not reflected at all, and the scale is not small from the beginning, and then it is only a steady increase.

Di Renjie also thought about this, and one of the reasons for the temporary identification may be because most of the relocated people in Guanzhong Prefecture were military households, which were more organized and obedient than ordinary households.

However, this reason is not enough to fully explain it, and it must be known that even the soldiers on the battlefield, if their morale is low for a long time, there may be a large-scale rout at any time, not to mention these households who have already returned to farming and left their homes.

Di Renjie felt that there should be a certain amount of strangeness in this, but this is also a good thing, which greatly shortens the process of household compilation.

Originally, he expected it would take two to three years to complete the work of compiling the household records of the migrants, but according to the current trend, the work will be initially completed within this year. In this way, countless people will be able to live.

Although compiling a household register is only a preliminary solution to the problem, there will be more troublesome matters such as granting land and returning it to cultivation in the future. However, it is important to know that this resettlement is not only about the relocation groups, if these people are not organized into households as soon as possible and allowed to roam in the wild, it will also be a major damage to the agricultural production of Heluo itself.

Now that the situation is progressing gratifyingly, Di Renjie is not in a hurry to investigate deeply, and is ready to complete the most important household issue before doing anything else.

However, although the number of households is growing smoothly, another problem has come to the fore, that is, the number of adults in the household does not match somewhat, and in the newly created registers, there are a large number of households with only women and children and no men.

If you want to pursue this issue, it will be much more profound and the implication will be extremely extensive. Adult men are a valuable asset at all times, not only in the needs of the country, but also in the local tyrants and lawlessness.

If the people are not governed for a long time, there will definitely be a situation where the strong recruit the hidden forces. And if these Ding forces are only used for production, the hidden dangers are relatively small, and they are afraid that they will gather into a coward and run rampant in the countryside.

After realizing this, Di Renjie was also deeply worried. There are many reasons for the loss of Ding Li, perhaps it is that there is no hope for a livelihood and gathers people to become thieves, or it may be that the local tyrants recruit and use them as slaves, and it is not excluded that the yamen of various states and counties have made these Ding Li into slaves and undertook all kinds of official servitude.

Either way, digging deeper will implicate a lot. It is not something that Di Renjie can deal with comprehensively at the moment, and he is also worried that once it is completely revealed, it will anger some profit-making groups, and the situation will make waves again, and maybe even the current household compilation work will not be able to continue normally.

Therefore, Di Renjie also kept these things in mind, and after preparing to compile the household register, he sent a special envoy to the imperial court to investigate.

He was still carefully marking the paperwork here, and suddenly a series of footsteps sounded outside the official hall, and then he heard someone say joyfully: "Di Shilang, congratulations, congratulations!" ”

Several people entered the hall with laughter, Di Renjie put down the pen in his hand, raised his head and said a little puzzled: "May I ask everyone, how can I be happy?" ”

Everyone gossiped, and Di Renjie learned that it was his son Di Guangyuan who had newly authorized Zuo Qianniu Wei Cao to join the army.

"I heard that His Royal Highness the Acting King entered the province to report the vacancy, and saw Ling Lang's name in the staff book, and knew that Ling Lang told the story of injustice and rescue of the princes last year, and he favored it and selected it himself. Now that the edict has been issued, congratulations to Di Gong's successor! ”

Hearing everyone's congratulations, Di Renjie casually perfunctory, but the distracting thoughts in his heart came one after another, and when he saw that another official came to the hall enthusiastically, he hurriedly pointed to the backlog on the case, and said with a wry smile: "The deeds of the young people, how dare you go to congratulate the princes." There are a lot of cases, and I don't have time to talk about it, so please forgive me! ”

Hearing Di Renjie say this, everyone stopped bothering and got up to say goodbye. But after sending away this wave, people came to the court one after another in the name of Daohe.

Di Renjie was so annoyed that he simply asked people to close the yatang, sat in the hall, didn't even go to lunch, quickly finished the desk affairs, and then hurriedly walked out of the yatang, passed through the imperial city, and prepared to return to the palace.

Along the way, people kept coming in to congratulate them, and it was clear that the news had spread. Those who came forward to congratulate them, some of them just stepped forward to have fun, and some of them looked at Di Renjie's eyes were much more complicated.

Di Renjie naturally knew that although his son Di Guangyuan had a little deeds to boast about, he was not awarded a humble position, and it was not worthy of the people of the hundred divisions to congratulate him.

The reason why everyone has such a reaction is naturally because the acting king came forward, and the acting king is now gaining momentum, and his every move is eye-catching. Second, it should be suspected that there is any tacit understanding between Di Renjie and the acting king, otherwise why would he personally select and promote Di Renjie's son?

There are not a few people who have such doubts, and some people even asked vaguely on the street, Di Renjie was really at a loss for words, so he could only vaguely and perfunctory about it. Finally went out of the end gate, walked through the heavenly street, recruited the family members who were waiting here at home, and hurriedly went south along the heavenly street after boarding the car, not daring to stop and be interrogated.

Di Renjie's house is in Shangxian Fang, south of the Shendu City, after the car drove into the workshop, he saw many cars and horses parked in front of his house from a distance, Di Renjie suddenly felt that his head was big, and told his family to turn into Quxiang and return home.

"How did Aya get home at the back door? There are many relatives in the front hall to congratulate my brother on his new award! ”

After entering the house, Di Renjie had just gotten out of the car, and Di Guangzhao, the young son who had rushed to greet him after hearing the news, stepped forward quickly, and laughed loudly in his mouth: "Don't you know that Brother A's deeds have been heard by the famous king and appreciated, and he has ......?"

"Be quiet!"

Di Renjie just didn't want to be bothered, and when he heard his son's loud voice, he paused and reprimanded, and at the same time asked in a low voice: "Where is your second brother?" ”

"The second brother has received the news and has gone to the imperial city to receive the edict."

Di Guangzhao lowered his tone, and said with some resentment: "Brother is so happy, how can Aya be the same as a thief?" ”

"You know what!"

Di Renjie glanced at the young man, walked to the inner house with his hands behind his back, and at the same time ordered: "Tell the guests in the outer hall that there is no time to receive them today." When your second brother returned home, he came to see me. Remember, don't tell the guests I'm home, go! ”

After returning to the room, Di Renjie changed into home clothes, and then walked into the study room and sat down on the desk. He really didn't expect the acting king to come and recruit his son, but it made him a little embarrassed.

Especially when some old acquaintances met before, he said several times that the acting king was a hidden danger in the situation, and now this kind of thing is happening to give those people an explanation.

The power of the acting king has gradually become strong, and it is obviously in deep contradiction with the kings of the Wu family, which is what their old ministers of the Tang family are happy to see. However, the acting king is a talented and capable person, and if he is allowed to grow, the threat to the imperial heir may be greater than that of the king of Wei.

After the Great Zhou Restoration, whether it was to continue the Zhou Dynasty or return to the Tang Dynasty, the identity and temperament of the acting king were harmful to the world.

After the chaos, the country looks up to the monarch, only in this way can the world return to peace as soon as possible, the acting king is outside the mandate of heaven, once he enters the chaos of the heir, it will set off a new round of shocks, and it will consume the profound vitality of the world.

Of course, it's too long to think about that at the moment. Now Di Renjie is a little unsure whether the acting king is doing this just to muddy up the situation, or if he has other plans.