So everyone spent a whole day in this small and simple inn in Xinfeng County, summarizing and counting all the investigation reports.

So, at noon the next day, Zhang Yue and Liu Jin saw a set of numbers.

According to statistics, the commoners and yeoman farmers in Xinfeng County only occupy an average of 31 mu of land, and the average yield of corn per mu is two stones.

In order to make ends meet, they had to rent an additional 53 acres of land per household, an average of 50 and a half acres.

In this way, in fact, the per capita income of the people of Xinfeng is only 63 stone of their own land income plus 48 stone of tenant income, a total of only 112 stone.

One thousand two hundred dollars.

This is the total pre-tax income of a family on land.

However......

According to the survey, the average yeoman farmer family has to pay about 3,000 yuan in taxes per year......

In other words, the peasants were left with a maximum of seventy stone of grain as rations.

Such a small amount of food, let alone maintain the normal operation of the family.

I'm afraid that even food rations may not be enough!

It is calculated on the basis of two stone of food per month for each adult man and one and a half stone per month for an adult woman.

This amount of food cannot even meet the basic food needs of a couple at the age of one.

Not to mention the old and the young.

Just looking at these statistics, including Zhang Yue, everyone was silent.

Because this is only average data, since it is average data, it means that there must be many, many families whose actual lives are far more difficult and difficult than the facts that these data can show.

Just looking at these data, it is not difficult for Liu Jin and Zhang Yue to understand why Xinfeng County's population has not increased for more than ten consecutive years, but has experienced negative growth in some years.

It's not that Xinfeng's population hasn't grown, but that the growing population is far from the speed of farmers' bankruptcy.

A large number of families went bankrupt and became slaves of others.

There are also many people who, in various ways, have fled, disappeared and hidden from the sight of the state.

"The hardships of the people's lives are unprecedented...... although Liu Jin has been prepared for this, he is still startled and said worriedly.

He remembered very well that just yesterday, the statistics of the Yuyu Society and Xinfeng Township were much better than this.

In other words, the problems of the other three townships in Xinfeng County are probably much more serious than the problems of the Yushe and Xinfeng townships that I have seen.

"These heroes!" Liu Jin clenched his fists and said fiercely.

At this point, all the remarks made up by his teachers have been discredited in his heart.

The benefits of the big clans, the relatives and relatives, and the straightness of the songs were all torn apart by the iron-clad facts.

The state has not yet attached importance to the big clans, and it has not yet engaged in the practice of hiding relatives.

The powerful have already forced the small people to this point.

If you really want to engage in kissing and concealment, don't the heroes swallow the whole Xiaomin even the belt meat?

"Look at these heroes, look at these scholars!" Liu Jin held another counted cloth in his hand and waved his fist.

On this cloth, the number of powerful landlords accounts for only one-fifth of all statistics.

However, they occupy more than eighty percent of the county's land and wealth.

However......

They pay less than 20% of the county's taxes every year.

In other words......

The powerful class of landlords, scholars, and doctors, who only accounted for 20 percent of the population, occupied more than 80 percent of the land and wealth in the county, while they paid less than 20 percent of the taxes and the obligation they undertook to serve as servants.

They passed on the rest to the miners.

Not only Gong Yu and others, but also in the investigation reports of more than once, we have seen the landlords, scholars, doctors and powerful people boasting and teaching to Gong Yu and others the so-called 'secret of getting rich', that is, how to dilute their taxes to the small people.

Liu Jin himself has personally heard several pot-bellied doctors boasting about their abilities in front of him.

Hearing this, Liu Jin couldn't wait to draw his sword and cut them down!

Now in the heart of the eldest grandson of the Great Han Emperor, the bad country is no longer a traitor, a warmonger, a businessman, and a Sang Hong sheep.

It's Haoqiang!

Moths of the Empire!

"Your Highness, please calm your ......anger first," Zhang Yue stepped forward and persuaded: "Today's business is to immediately use the information and text obtained from this investigation to immediately sort out and compile the 'Xinfeng Governance Plan' to present the ...... of the Son of Heaven."

"In this first chapter, the ministers thought that it should be called 'Xinfeng Investigation of Various Classes', to record the details of the investigation of the ministers and others, to describe the suffering of the people, and the urgency of the robbery, for His Majesty's reference......"

"In the second chapter, the minister thought that it should be named 'Xinfeng's five-year governance plan', and after the investigation and investigation of Xuchen and others, according to the actual situation of Xinfeng, the steps planned should be accurate to the quarter, detailed to the specific plan of each township, and list the purpose of the plan and the expected effect after completion......"

This third chapter is an appendix to record the land, burdens and population size of the people of Xinfeng...... Road conditions, water conservancy conditions, and the situation of the Xinfeng River Basin......"

In fact, this is to bring the daily copycats of later generations of government agencies to this pre-AD era.

Naturally, it's not just Liu Jin who has never heard of it.

Sang Jun, Chen Wannian, Zhao Guo, Hu Jian and other old officials were even more moved to listen.

Gong Yu and other students were even more happy.

"Qing Zhicai, as good as the power of ghosts and gods!" Liu Jin joked with a smile.

Everyone was even more convinced.

Gong Yu and the others are even admired by the five bodies.

When everyone was about to talk about other things, suddenly there was a knock on the door, and a Liu Jin's entourage shouted outside the door: "Your Highness, the family sent an envoy to look for Zhang Shizhong, do you want to bring him in?" ”

"Why is my father looking for Zhang Shizhong?" Liu Jin was stunned when he heard this, but he still nodded and said, "Please ...... quickly."

Not long after, a eunuch hurriedly ran in, and when he saw Liu Jin and Zhang Yue, he immediately bowed and said: "The slave maid has visited His Royal Highness the eldest grandson, and I have seen Zhang Shizhong......"

"How is it a lieutenant?" Liu Jin saw that there was something strange in his heart.

His father hadn't used any eunuchs for more than ten years.

Even the daily life in Bowang Garden is the appointment of literati.

So much so that in the court, many eunuchs gritted their teeth about this.

However, the festival and seal letter held by the other party in his hand could not be faked, so Liu Jin hurriedly said: "Why did my father order you to come?" ”

The eunuch bowed his head and said: "Yuyi disaster, the family is angry, has ordered the mobilization of the entire Bowangyuan guards, open the granary of Bowangyuan, transfer food for disaster relief, and ask the queen to mobilize the entire Changle Palace palace car to assist in transporting grain, however, the drought is still critical, in order to save the people's suffering, the family specially ordered the slave maid to ask Zhang Shizhong for help, please draw a water-absorbing vessel in the waiter, in order to save the disaster of Yuyi!" ”

When Zhang Yue heard this, he was also a little surprised, and asked, "Did the family really go to Yuyi?" ”

"Yes!" The eunuch nodded slightly.

And Zhao Guo, who was listening, was already in tears.

Since the prince arrived in Yuyi, he began to provide disaster relief, and the people of Yuyi finally escaped.

Although life may still be difficult and difficult after the disaster, at least this year can breathe a sigh of relief.

Then, he looked at Zhang Yue and secretly swore in his heart: "Zhang Shizhong, Zhao Guo will only serve the horse in this life!" ”

He will not forget that it was this young servant who acted righteously that moved the prince and went to Yuyi to investigate.

Since it was a disaster relief, Zhang Yue couldn't hide anything for himself.

Immediately, I found a cloth and drew a few mechanical drawings on it.

It is a kind of waterwheel structure map that was once popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the collection of the museum that he traced back to the later generations.

This is a kind of machinery that he has long traced and solidified.

Originally, it was intended to be used for Xinfeng, but now, the drought in Yuyi is critical, so I can't take care of it.

The eunuch took the canvas drawn by Zhang Yue and left immediately.

Obviously, he was even more anxious than Zhang Yue.

But this is not surprising, because this is the first time in more than ten years that the crown prince Liu has begun to appoint eunuchs to do things.

This is a very subtle signal, and for the eunuch himself, it is more likely to be a turning point in fate.

When it comes to fate and power, the eunuchs are much more motivated than the civil officials.

………………………………

After sending the eunuch away, everyone began to gather again to discuss how to complete the work that Zhang Yue had said.

Undoubtedly, this matter is complex and requires a precise division of labor.

At this time, the inn where Zhang Yue and others were located also attracted the attention of some well-intentioned people in Xinfeng County.

"Thou say...... A eunuch has just entered the inn in the south of the city? In the county government of Xinfeng County, Zheng Ke, the county magistrate who had been lying in the arms of the maid for a nap, immediately bounced like clockwork.

Since he took office two years ago, he has never left the county seat of Xinfeng County, and he rarely even leaves the gate of the county office.

What you want to eat, drink, sleep, and play.

The bureaucrats below helped him do it early.

In the past two months, especially in the last month, life has not been too comfortable.

First of all, he received an appointment.

The appointment said that he must complete all the preparations for the handover before the autumn and July, and he will be transferred to Hu County to continue to serve as the county commander.

Originally, there was nothing.

It's nothing more than a change of place to be an otaku.

But the problem is that the person who takes over is not small.

To serve the lieutenant to receive the new Feng order!

In the 100th year of the dynasty, how could there have been such a strange personnel appointment?

Not to mention, Xinfeng County will be allocated as the food place of the emperor's eldest grandson.

It's even more remarkable.

It is equivalent to the state announcing that Xinfeng County will be upgraded to a county directly under the central government.

After hearing about this, Zheng Ke was so frightened that he had no master.

These days, it's even harder to sleep.

The warehousing and official accounts of Xinfeng County, it can be said that he doesn't know what happened in the chaos.

But one thing is clear - now in Xinfeng's official warehouse, even rats can starve to death.

As for the treasury, he counted it yesterday, and there were about 5,000 yuan.

It's a mess!

And now this mess is about to be handed over to a mid-chamberlain.

What's even more terrifying is that there is the emperor's eldest grandson standing behind this servant.

Zheng Ke was already able to foresee that on the day of the handover, it would be difficult to see what kind of face the waiter would be, and if the emperor's eldest grandson knew such a situation, he would probably be furious.

Next......

Ti rode to the door, and Yushi impeached him......

The whole family went to the execution ground, which was almost the established drama of the criminal officials of the Han Empire in the past hundred years.

Zheng Ke didn't want to die, so he had to save himself.

There are several self-help schemes.

But over the past month, he's tried them all.

First of all, he asked for help from the Haoqiang family, big families, and businessmen in the county who had been respectful to him, and asked them to pull their brothers and take something out to fill the shortfall.

However, not a single bird did him!

On the contrary, some people hinted at him - the county respecter not only eats Hanlu, but he is ashamed of his father and Li Min, which is a pity...... This is actually a euphemism to tell him - Zheng Xianzun, it is better for you to commit suicide.

You're dead, and you're gone.

There was almost no one to say to his face, "I will raise your wife."

However, Zheng Ke doesn't want to die, he is still young, he is only fifty-one years old this year, and the seventeenth concubine he just married has not slept enough.

He had not yet tasted the majesty of the two thousand stone officials.

I really don't want to die, and I don't want to die.

Therefore, after the wealthy businessmen refused to help him, he hit the people again.

So he summoned the bureaucrats, intending to collect a wave of taxes before leaving.

But......

The people below, when they heard this, shook their heads like rattles.

Obviously, no fool would let himself die in order to help him - what are you kidding, this season to collect taxes? Is it long?

What's more, the emperor's eldest grandson and Zhang Shizhong are about to parachute into Xinfeng.

Up and down, they are busy whitewashing the peace and decorating the prosperous world.

Didn't you see, these days, the officials and officials in Xinfeng County are particularly active?

Even the city gates were cleaned, and even the rangers and ruffians on the streets were warned - the eldest grandson and the lieutenant general ruled Xinfeng, and those who dared to make trouble did not ask about the old feelings, and they were all strictly punished by the law!

Zheng Ke even heard that there were Xinfeng officials, in order to leave a good impression in front of the eldest grandson and Zhang Shizhong, who might come to Xinfeng Weifu at any time, not only dismissed the wives and concubines at home, but also let them hide in the countryside.

I even put on the old official uniform from a few years ago, and pretended to be in the yamen every day, even if it was a day off, many people chose to 'stick to their posts'.

There are also people who bring their old parents from the countryside to the city, serve them every morning and evening, and walk around with their old parents on their backs, as if they are exemplary sons of filial piety.

For a time, the entire county government was full of honest officials, festival scholars, and filial sons.

It's just that none of them are his friends with Zheng Ke.

Originally, Zheng Ke felt that he was almost dying.

The jar was broken.

However......

At this moment, when he heard about the matter reported by his subordinates, he suddenly realized that he seemed to be thirty years younger all of a sudden.

He immediately ordered: "Quickly find out the official uniform that I wore when I took office......

Then he looked at the delicate maid on his bed, frowned, and said angrily: "Quickly arrange all the female dependents of the official office to live in the annex in the county!" ”

He looked at the delicate curtains, screens, and furnishings in the room, and cried out, "Put away all the treasures and things of value!" ”

For a time, the entire county government was full of chickens and dogs.

Half an hour later, Zheng Ke wore a shabby official uniform that was almost out of color, a pair of tattered straw sandals, and led his subordinates straight to the inn in the south of the city.