The normal tax work of Changshe County ended in the first year of Zhongping, fourteen years ago, it was also the last glory of the Han Empire and the beginning of the era of great decline, that year Huangfu Song Zhu Jun burned Changshe here, defeated hundreds of thousands of Bocai Yellow Turban Army in the west, ensured the stability of Luoyang Chang'an, thousands of people defeated hundreds of thousands of people, almost defeated the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in one fell swoop.

But Huangfu Song Zhu Jun was brilliant, the destruction was finished, patted his ass and left, but what was left was a mess of the Changshe, the previous Changshe county magistrate Wang Ding had abandoned his official position and fled back to the state two months before the invasion of the Yellow Turban Army, and then it was more than a year, and the imperial court did not appoint a new county magistrate, and the Zhong family and the Han family were the two local tyrants who survived the catastrophe.

Changshe County now has no yeoman farmers and civilians, and all the land in the county is concentrated in the hands of seven landlords such as Zhong, Han, Liu, Zhao, and Xu, and the first two occupy as much as eighty percent of Changshe's land, and the remaining five surnames are dependent on these two families.

It's no wonder that the county magistrate Yong is listless, he is a broken jar, he is a symbol sent by Cao Cao to rule here on behalf of the Cao family, in fact, there is no right at all, and often he can't send it down, and he has to look at the face of Zhong Yu, the head of the Zhong family.

But without his help, everything has to rely on Wang Hou and Cao Hongjie themselves, or men and women work together without getting tired, only find out the tax book of the first year of Zhongping, and in two hours, they will re-do the field book, although the booklet is not what it used to be, it can be regarded as having a general understanding of the Changshe area.

After finishing the work, it was more than nine o'clock in the middle of the night, and Cao Hongjie did not leave, once he was in bed with Wang Hou, but this girl's big sword was put between the two, and this night, Wang Hou continued to be inferior to the beasts he was hard to force.

Now it is customary to go to bed early and get up early, and as soon as the sun goes to work the next day, Wang Hou got up, rode on a horse with the booklet he had made yesterday, and slipped out of the city.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion and the warlord melee at the end of the Han Dynasty brought about the devastation to the society can be seen, next to the four villages near Changshe County, one of them is completely dilapidated, the village is empty, the fields are overgrown with wild grass, and even the bones of Sen Sen can be seen in the fields, next to the county, not to mention the villages that are relatively far away from the periphery and more dangerous.

However, when it was said that it was to settle the accounts of the land and calculate the number of people, Wang Hou did not really call out the people from village to village to count the number of people, but only asked who the land belonged to, looked at how big it was, turned around and left.

The food in this era is really too bad, originally carrying some copper coins, Wang Hou also planned to eat some snacks in the county, but it was not easy to find a small restaurant, not to mention how long the meat was hung, at first glance Wang Hou saw the pork muscle texture, a grain of white rice, which was obviously infected with parasites.

Pork and dog meat in the Han Dynasty meat food is still very popular, after all, beef is not allowed to eat, mutton is delicate, and only these two animals are common and easy to feed, but the ancients have very bad habits of raising pigs, the toilet is built on the pigsty, people go to the toilet, pigs eat dirty things, in this way, pork tapeworms are passed from the sick to pigs, people eat pork with insect eggs, once the parasites are transmitted back to people.

lost his appetite at a glance, led Cao Hongjie, Wang Hou reluctantly went out of the city to buy some eggs, and the dry steamed buns he brought with the car were soaked in hot water to soften, and then scrambled eggs, and a meal at noon was dealt with again.

In the afternoon, Wang Hou simply stopped checking the field, took the account books, and went straight to the Zhong family of Changshe in the east of the city.

The gap between the rich and the poor in this era is fully revealed in front of the Zhong Mansion, from the entrance of the county government to the east, a glance, it is all Zhong Mansion, the courtyard wall of his house is almost not as high as the courtyard wall of the Changshe, Wang Hou, who is used to living in later generations, was given a five-entry mansion by Mr. Cao, and he has already farted, but when he compared it to this Zhong Mansion, his house is about the same size as a chicken nest.

The main gatehouse of the Zhong family located in the cross street is even more tall and majestic, and it is also heavily guarded, there is also an arrow tower on the gate building, four strong men wearing homespun clothes are holding bows and arrows and looking at it, and four guards wearing armor and cloth hats are holding halberds on both sides of the gate.

Eight strong men, just watching the door and playing every day, for Wang Hou, who is short of manpower, it is simply a naked show of wealth.

And it didn't seem to be guarding and playing at the gate gate, far away, the man on the gatehouse had already raised his bow and arrows, and asked in a vigilant voice: "Who is coming?" Why dare to trespass on Zhong's lintel? ”

It stands to reason that Wang Hou is a "Qin Mission" after all, he arrived at the county government yesterday, as a village elder, Zhong Yu should personally go to visit one or two at the ceremony, he didn't pay a visit to him, and he made such a show for Wang Hou, but unfortunately, now Wang Hou just has no temper! This Zhong Yu is the former Huangmen squire, and now Zhong Yu, who is supporting the Zhong family, is still an official of Shaofu Shangshulang, and the news from Guo Jia is that the next year, Cao Cao still has the plan to appoint him as the captain of the school, which is a rank of two thousand stones, and the official is a first-class crushing person, Wang Hou had no choice but to step forward in person and clench his fists heavily.

"Under the Prime Minister's subordinate Cao Guan Wang Hou, he was ordered to check the fields and land in each county, and asked to see Zhong Gong on official business!"

"Wait outside!"

With an arrogant shout, an archer above ran straight down the gatehouse, holding his arms, Wang Hou waited helplessly under the gatehouse, but after waiting for a while, the words of the archer who came up again made Wang Hou almost vomit blood.

"The head of my family said that my Zhong family's Xinlan room does not entertain Bao fishy disciples, and the king ordered the official to inspect the field books, and since he went to the yamen, my Zhong family has always been a book!"

The arrogance of the Zhong family can be seen, no wonder after Zhonghui and Deng Ai joined forces to destroy Shu in the future, Zhonghui and Jiang Wei launched a rebellion, and in the end they were cleaned up by the Sima family.

"Wang is leaving!"

Pulling the indignant Cao Hongjie, with his subordinates, he turned around and left.

However, after not walking a few steps, Wang Congge, who was leading the way on horseback in front, suddenly turned over and dismounted, hurriedly came to Wang Hou's side, and stretched out his hand to point forward: "Master, someone has been spying on the street corner just now, do you want to bring that person back to the master?" ”

Wang Hou, who heard these words, didn't blink his eyelids, and hummed slowly.

"No need, the next one to go to the Han family depends on whether the Han family is smart or not!"

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Is the Han family smart?

This can't be seen for the time being, but it is even more rude than the Zhong family, the Zhong family in the east occupies a small half of the city, and the Han family in the south also occupies a small half of the city, but this time there is no one who even goes in to answer, a guy wearing a scarf and a black dark coat who looks like a scholar shouts directly on the gate building.

"My Han family is a scholarly family, non-honest and honest people are not allowed to enter, and those who abandon the family are still exempt from respect, and they will be embarrassed to leave the province early!"

Wang Hou rebelled against the prince's clothes and was crossed out from the genealogy of the Wang family, if he had been replaced, he would have been dismissed and dismissed, but Cao Cao has always retained him, Guo Jia still lives in Wang Hou's mansion, and no one who really does practical things in Xu Du dares to say anything about it, even if Dong Chengzhi and his ilk have said bad things behind their backs, seeing that Cao Cao doesn't care, this matter will not be mentioned for the second time, but I didn't expect it to be taken out here and sarcastic in person.

In this era, when he mentioned being expelled from the family in person, but if he was particularly insulting, Cao Hongjie's face was so angry that his face turned red, and he was about to go up to find this Han family with his sword, who knew that Wang Hou's face didn't tremble, and his face was still as usual, but he just raised his voice and shouted again.

"This official and prime minister belong to Cao Guan Wang Hou, who asked to see Han Yun and Han Gong on business, and I hope to report it!"

But let him shout, the soldier on the door turned around and left after shouting, and no one paid attention to him at all.

These two number one families set an example, and the remaining five small families with the surname did not give Wang Hou face, and they left three families in the afternoon, and none of them opened the door.

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Bang Dang!

Xiao Ping's chest seemed to be angry, and the sword was thrown on the couch, and Cao Hongjie was panting with anger.

"A group of greedy and treacherous moths, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but they are unstoppable! The hypocrites who are greedy for the country's land taxes are angry with me! ”

I couldn't swallow this breath, and grabbed the sword suddenly, and the girl jumped up with anger on her face, rushing out and shouting angrily.

"I'll go back to Xudu, find Xiangfu and ask the tiger and leopard to ride to break open the gates of these houses, measure the land one acre at a time, and see how they can deny it!"

However, he didn't go out, and the collar of this girl's clothes was dragged back by Wang Hou, and she sat down on the couch, he snorted lazily.

"What's the hurry!"

"Today, the bastard of the Han family insulted you like this, you are not in a hurry!"

It turned out that this girl was not only angry because the errand did not go well, but also because she was angry with herself, seeing her angry little face, Wang Hou couldn't help but be stunned, and the next moment, she was smiling and dragged her back, and dragged her to sit on her lap with a smile.

"Actually, what the Han family said today is not bad, they are indeed gentlemen, and my Wang Hou is a villain who has been removed from the clan!"

"You can't be a little good!"

"Don't worry! What's so bad about villains? The humane Hades is easy to deal with the imps! Besides, we came out this time to peep around and make small reports, and the field naturally had to be recovered, but it wasn't a real knife or a real gun to find it, and there was a way to make them uncomfortable! ”

"What's the solution?"

Wang Hou's influence is really not small, this time even the "Clan Chronicles" book given by Mr. Cao is compiled on paper with threads, in the column of the long society, Wang Hou is splashing ink, under the list of the Zhong family of the long society, the word "lower grade" was prominently mentioned, as for the Korean wave Zhao Xu and other families, they all filled in the word "cold door" on the evaluation.

"Send the book back to Xudu, don't report it to the prime minister first, give Guo Jia Guo a sacrificial wine first, let's wait here for three days, three days later, Zhong Yu and Han Yun will have to cry and shout to come to the door to beg the two of us!"

"Are you so sure? What if they don't come? ”

Looking at Wang Hou's treacherous smile on his face, Cao Xiaoniu also became excited and asked curiously.

"If you don't come, we'll go to the next county!"

I thought Wang Hou had some lofty ambitions! Cao Hongjie, who heard this, rolled his eyes again.

"You! It's hopeless! ”