Chapter 107: Inventory
The state government, the governor of Hao Wu Bozheng led his subordinates to check the household registration, this is a very heavy task, so the helpers he brought from home played a role, and the sorting of the household registration can get three very important figures: the number of people who are enslaved and paid rent, the number of fields, and how much grain, grass, cloth, and hemp can be paid for rent.
Don't drive Xu Shao is counting the situation of the autumn grain in the warehouse, when the time comes, both sides will check the actual grain and the grain that should be handed over, you can know whether it has been fooled, and the deficit of the underharvest should be found to be responsible, if there is that household that has not paid, it must be recovered, of course, if there is an excess of the excess part, it must also be returned.
The sound of crackling abacus sounded from time to time, several abacus masters were counting, officials went in and out, moving files around, and for the sake of fire prevention, the inventory work was carried out during the day as much as possible, so as not to accidentally walk the water at night.
"Lang Jun, this household is not right." A person walked to Hao Wubo with the dossier and pointed to the contents and said, Hao Wubo took it and looked at the other volume of the directory on his case, which was the 'black list' handed over to him by Shi Yu Wenwen.
The contents of the household registration include the name and age of the head of the household and his family, as well as the rent of the household, the land received and the family assets, etc., and Hao Wubo compares them one by one: one is the name, birth time, age, identity, household type and household of the head of the household, etc., and the household category refers to the private household, the military household, the monk and temple household, or the miscellaneous household (refers to all kinds of households that serve the government such as subordinate households, Gongle households, etc.)
The second is the situation of the entire population (including slaves and maids) in the household, that is, the relationship with the head of the household, gender, surname or name, age, and changes (birth, death, marriage, marriage, migration, etc.); The third is the total population, including the dead and married population, and the number of people exempt from servitude and rent adjustment among the existing population.
Fourth, the number, color and size of the household's livestock; fifth, the amount of grain, grass, cloth, and hemp that the household pays rent for; The sixth is the situation of the household receiving land (including the number of acres. Accepted. Not accepted. Ma Tian, Zhengtian, and Yuan Zhai); The seventh is the location of the acre.
Hao Wubo paired the contents of the two sides and found that there was indeed a discrepancy in the contents of the household registration on file with the official office: the head of the household bought ten acres of land, and the daughter married and the eldest son married but the file was not changed in time.
The marriage situation involves the increase or decrease of the Dingkou, the change of the land affects the amount of rent payment, and if the content of the household registration cannot be updated in time, it will accumulate and lead to changes in the income of the government.
This 'black list' is a magic weapon that Yu Wenwen gave him to check the household registration, it is said that at the beginning of this year, he asked people to inquire about the content of the news of each household in Xiyang City, and Hao Wubo specially asked people to copy a few copies to proofread the file, and today he sorted out the whole day and found that there was indeed a situation where the content was changed in a timely manner.
"Lang Jun, is the hour not early, is it sealed and checked again in the next day?" The man asked. They are all servants of the Hao family, so they can't change their titles for a while, and Lord Lang asked them to follow Shao Langjun to the post, so as not to be fooled by the little officials and make jokes.
The Hao family has been an official for many years, so the ability of the servants to deal with affairs has also been exercised, and Uncle Hao Wu has the opportunity to go out of office, and it is just the time to increase his knowledge, and sometimes those dirty tricks in the officialdom are just heard and may not be deeply touched, and only by experiencing it himself can he have some understanding.
"Have dinner first, rest for a while, and continue." Hao Wubo thought for a while and said, the household registration file should be fireproof, so the most important thing to tidy up at night is to be careful with the candles, and he ordered someone to hold the lamp to avoid mistakes.
Looking out the window, Uncle Hao Wu muttered to himself: "Heizong is also checking the granary day and night now, that work is much more tiring"......
In the north of Xiyang City, the Bazhou official warehouse is crowded, and the new Bazhou driver Xu Shaozheng is leading the people to point the warehouse.
There are three types of official warehouses: state and county warehouses. Military positions, often close positions. Among them, the state and county warehouses are responsible for collecting the people's land endowments and depositing the land rents handed over to the governor's office. The officials' rice is also stored in it, and the military town warehouse is stored with military grain, and the regular closing is to adjust grain prices, which not only prevents "grain cheapness from hurting peasants" but also prevents "grain from hurting the people", and grain storage in good years and disaster relief in years of famine.
There are two kinds of warehouses, one is the warehouse that stands on the ground, and the other is the warehouse dug under the ground or in the mountain, the south has a lot of rain and rich groundwater, so it is mostly a warehouse, and the north is dry and mostly a warehouse, and the official warehouses in Bazhou are all warehouses.
Because of the autumn harvest just past, Xu Shao first went to the scene to check the state warehouse, where the field rent paid was stored, so the matter was very important, if there was a mistake, even the rice distributed to the officials became a problem, the military warehouse was arranged by the state Sima Yang Ji to arrange people to check, and the regular closing was mainly to check the account books.
Check the warehouse first to see the structure of the granary, a leaky granary is not moisture-proof in the more grain, the more wasted, the people work hard to harvest the grain in the unqualified granary, it will not take long to be moldy and damp, all played.
There are three official warehouses in Bazhou, all of which are of a unified system, each granary has three rooms, the warehouse is about seven zhang high, covering an area of about two acres, the wall is a brick structure, a five-flower gable, the wall is three to four feet thick, the wooden warehouse is very high, the roof is an earthen kiln, and the roof is a heavy eaves type of Jiuji Mountain.
The eaves are provided with a row of wind floors, and the exhaust floor is equipped with ventilation windows that can be opened and closed, and several ventilation slats are arranged vertically to the outward slope, and the gap between the slats is only one finger wide, which does not affect the ventilation in the warehouse and can prevent rainwater from splashing into the warehouse and can also prevent birds and birds from entering.
The warehouse is a civil engineering structure, and the roof truss is a "human" herringbone beam, which is made of girders, purlins, and rafters with riveting legs. The standing timber columns in the warehouse are all frame structures made of wooden columns.
The warehouse is close to the blue brick wall, and the wall and the wooden column are firmly combined with an iron saw, so that the wall and the column are combined as a whole, and the wooden planks are embedded between the columns to form a one-foot-thick moisture-proof sandwich layer.
Lay thick wooden planks three feet away from the ground, and there are beams and pillars under the wooden planks to support the formation of a ground pavilion, and the upper part of the ground is the ground of a blue brick warehouse, and there are ventilation holes half a foot square at certain intervals on the wall base.
The ground floor isolates the grain stored in the silo from the ground to prevent moisture from seeping up and down and allows air to circulate up and down between the ventilation holes, doors, windows, and blinds on the roof.
Xu Shao turned around a few times in the granary to determine whether the granary structure meets the requirements of grain storage, and then it is to calculate the warehouse capacity, the sandwich wall and the ground pavilion are the warehouses that can accommodate thousands of stone grain, each warehouse has three rooms, each warehouse is seven feet wide and nine feet wide, six feet deep and four feet deep, and about two feet high.
According to this size to calculate the warehouse capacity, and then check the warehousing and outbound accounts, Xu Shao's father, Yuezhou Thorn History, Xu Faguang transferred veterans from Yuezhou Cang to help him check, these old officials are granary 'rats' into fine 'cats', so they are clear about those tricks.
Due to the needs of use, the warehouse adopts a dense plane column network layout, and there is a groove on the column to place the ram plate to divide the space at will to form a small and independent room, which is convenient for storing and managing rice, beans, grains and other grains according to the type and dry and wet.
Xu Shao is the veteran of Chaku who asked Yuezhou to command people to spot check the grain storage, looking at the mountains of grain in this warehouse, he is really a little dizzy, he sees his father governing the state on weekdays, it is very easy, and now he knows how troublesome it is until he participates in it.
They inspected the corners of the granary that were not easy to pick and place on weekdays, and the preliminary inspection results were okay: the complete use of stone and sand to pass off as grain was not found for the time being, and the rice mixed with gravel was found from time to time.
In the past ten years, Bazhou has experienced several wars and turmoil, so it is normal for the management to be chaotic, and according to the preliminary inventory, it seems that these officials in charge of the granary are still 'conscientious'.
In the war years, as long as the heart of the granary is dark, it can be 'disposed of' by casually reporting fire, flooding, rat eating and insect bites, as long as the accounts are done well, it can be said that they are not afraid of checking, and as for the grain in the regular closing warehouse, it is easier to do the accounts.
When the price of grain is low, a large amount of grain is purchased and put into storage, that is, 'rice', so that the grain price can be raised, so as not to "hurt the peasants", if the grain price is too high (generally a disaster year), a large amount of grain will be sold, that is, 'rice', to lower the grain price, so as not to "hurt the people".
It stands to reason that grain should be bought at a low price and sold at a high price, but in fact, black-hearted officials often make things like buying high and selling low, and it is also called "because of lack of experience, so I paid the tuition", such a cat will be reflected in the accounts, but it needs to be checked by veterans who are proficient in this way and are familiar with grain prices.
The price of rice is different from year to year, from January to January, from year to year, in a year of abundance, in a year of perennial, or in a year of disaster, whether there is a natural or man-made disaster such as war or plague, and even when an enemy army appears outside the city, the price of food varies from day to day.
The officials who do the accounts can be said to be fanciful, if it is a layman, check the accounts, basically and listen to the book of heaven, in addition to nodding nothing, can not interject anything, after listening to a long speech, it is common to be confused by stamping and drawing, of course, this loss is the government, not an individual, so many people even if they see it, but after having a 'meaning' in their hands, they also turn a blind eye.
"Lang Jun, it's getting late, the granary is not easy to light too much, please seal the warehouse first and check it tomorrow." A domestic servant beside him said that the granary is more fire resistant than any other place, Xu Shao nodded when he heard this, and then turned to the soldiers who followed him and said:
"Team Zhang, I'm tired of you leading everyone to be on duty tonight."
"Lord Xu, don't worry, I will definitely look at the granary tonight!" The soldier clasped his fists and saluted and said, their team of fifty people are all soldiers of the new army, and they followed Xu Shao to the granary to help according to the order of Yu Wenwen, the commander of the army, and his duty is to watch the granary so as not to make trouble.
Xu Shao has now left the New Army to serve as a state adjutant, but they are still used to calling the original name 'Lord Xu', and their task is to guard the granary, lest someone set fire to the 'fire dragon burning the warehouse' and wipe out the deficit.
"That's it for today, and it's going to go on tomorrow!" Xu Shao shouted loudly, although he looked tired, he was still full of fighting spirit, "Seal the warehouse and lock it!" (To be continued.) )