In the summer of the first year of Yanhe, Xinwei (22).

On the third day after the off-road weight test, the interview process of the Xinfeng Public Examination officially began.

Standing in the main hall of the official office, Zhang Yue looked down at the dossiers of all the scholars who participated in the interview.

After the written test and cross-country weight screening, there are still a lot of people who can enter the interview process.

That's about 600 people!

And the officials that Xinfeng County actually needs to supplement, even if you count the gap in the township pavilion, there are only a hundred people at most!

Even if you count the possible number of eliminations in military training, the interview can only be about 150 people at most.

No matter how much it is, the people of Yixinfeng may not be able to afford it.

After all, in the Han system, the income of local officials, especially those at the grassroots level, was actually apportioned into the manuscript tax and the calculation of taxes.

In other words, the local officials' salaries are borne by the common people.

Although Hanlu is actually very lowly.

Zhang Yue calculated that the average monthly salary of Xinfeng officials (excluding temporary workers without establishment) was about 600 yuan, and the addition of 100 officials was equivalent to an additional 60,000 yuan per month.

Spread evenly to the 11,000 households in Xinfeng, they need to increase the burden of at least five yuan a month, which is sixty yuan a year!

Don't underestimate the sixty dollars.

When today's son issued an edict to increase the levy of the mouth tax, ordering the people to pay from the age of seven, twenty yuan a year for one person, and three yuan for the horse's mouth, which is twenty-three yuan.

It may seem slight, but it immediately accelerates the bankruptcy of the people.

Because for the peasants at the bottom, let alone twenty-three dollars, even if it is just an increase in the burden of one penny, it can quickly crush a family and destroy all a man's plans and expectations for the future.

Because, in fact, the income of the people on the land is simply not enough to support their families.

This is true even for a yeoman peasant class with a hundred acres of land, in the best of the best cases.

For those in later generations, this may be a little difficult to understand.

But in fact, if you think back to the rural families in the eighties and nineties, you can probably know why.

Even in those days, the main source of income for peasants was not land, but odd jobs and domestic servants.

In addition to paying taxes and public grain, the rest of the grain produced by the land is used for personal use as rations.

At that time, a child's tuition fee was at most about 200 yuan a year, but there were still many families borrowing money from place to place during the school season.

This was true even in the countryside of later generations.

Before the Common Era, there were not many opportunities for odd jobs, and the price of domestic workers was very low.

In fact, most of the income of a peasant family in a year is the money obtained by the wife and children, who work hard to raise silkworms and weave silk, and cut grass and cut wages.

Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, the status of women was very high.

At least above any feudal dynasty.

Han women had the right to inherit property and enjoyed a certain degree of marital autonomy.

The famous story, Wenjun ran at night, is a good proof of this point - Zhuo Wenjun bravely eloped with Sima Xiangru for love, and then the two were happily together......

His father, King Zhuo's grandson, even though he had a lot of money and thousands of slaves, could only cry out in vain.

Although this is just an example, it also shows that the status of women in the Han Dynasty was actually very high.

Moreover, the higher the social class, the greater the status and power.

You are like the old Liu family, and there are countless princesses who can be called feminist leaders even in later generations.

But how much does an ordinary peasant family get when they raise silkworms and weave silk, grow mulberry and plant hemp?

No more than four thousand dollars at most!

This is the highest income that Zhang Yue and Liu Jin learned when they inspected the Yushe and Xinfeng Township - the farmer's wife, in addition to raising silkworms and weaving cloth, also raised chickens and ducks very planned, and dug a small pond in front of the house to raise fish and shrimp.

Even if his wife is so capable, the income from selling silk, eggs, duck eggs, fish and shrimp a year is only 4,000 yuan.

It is precisely because of having such a capable wife that the small life of this family is quite okay.

But it's just enough to eat and wear.

If the burden of 60 yuan per household is suddenly increased now, Zhang Yue suspects that there will definitely be a large wave of bankrupt peasants in Xinfeng's township pavilion next year.

Therefore, Zhang Yue has been thinking of ways and excuses recently, and plans to spend the money of the future Xinfeng officials, including the officials who fight for food, from commercial taxes, especially industrial and commercial taxes.

Under the guise of Liu Jin, he played a game of stealing dragons and turning phoenixes.

But after all, this plan has not yet been implemented, and even if this plan is realized, the current tax revenue of Xinfeng industry and commerce cannot afford to operate such a large bureaucratic system.

Therefore, the size of this official must be limited.

"It's hard to be in charge...... Zhang Yue sighed, looking at the list in his hand, feeling a little melancholy.

At present, with Xinfeng's current financial revenue and the burden of the people, it is obvious that it cannot afford to support a huge bureaucratic system.

But his plan required him to have a large bureaucracy to carry it out.

"Try to find a way to open source!" Zhang Yue thought about holding his cheeks.

For the time being, he doesn't need to worry about these firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.

Because, in the official warehouse of the county government, there is now a wealth of 3,000 gold.

In the future, there will be a huge sum of 80 million dollars!

In the short term, Xinfeng's finances are still very abundant.

It was enough for him to build a large number of buildings and increase the number of officials.

It's just that it will be over sooner or later.

He has to find a way to start a money-making industry!

Closing his eyes slightly, in his mind, there are countless ways to make money.

Like glass, soap, flower water, and even mosquito repellent mosquito coils, you can make money by taking them out.

But the problem is - there are no craftsmen, let alone technical accumulation.

If you want to start these industries from scratch and make a profit, you don't have to think about it for three or five years.

And he's short of time right now.

"What's the fastest way to make money and doesn't require any technical accumulation?" Zhang Yue was thinking in his heart, and his brain was working with all his might, retrieving all the keywords that had been backtracked.

Suddenly, a word froze in my mind.

Then, countless related web pages, news reports, and historical accounts emerged.

"That's you!" Zhang Yue laughed.

He picked up his pen and wrote a word on the bamboo slip on the desk: soybeans!

Then he laughed.

In this pre-century era of technological desert, the situation of soybeans is extremely embarrassing.

First of all, this is true for all legumes, including mung beans and red beans.

Because of the outdated cooking technology and other related techniques, the taste of beans is extremely poor, and it is easy to bloate the stomach, causing constipation.

People shy away from them.

Even if Liu An, the king of Huainan, invented tofu, so that soybeans were finally developed and utilized.

But, who is Liu An?

Be a traitor to today's condemnation!

The tofu invented by the traitor will naturally not be promoted by the government.

As for another application of legumes - oil extraction.

No one knows, and no one tries it.

Oils and fats are not only daily necessities, but also consumer goods, and luxury goods.