Volume 1 Chapter 19
Xu Hui finally relented to Zhao Mu, and the matter of more than 2,000 acres of land could start to operate.
Early the next morning, Zhang Bin ripped off the strip of cloth on his head and announced that the fall on his head was no longer serious and he could handle government affairs.
In fact, there was no injury on his head, but he accidentally bumped it, and even if he didn't care about it, the lump on his forehead would slowly disappear in ten days.
In the past few days, it is applied externally, taken internally, and it is to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and it is to refresh his mind, and the swelling on his forehead has long been reduced, and a little bruise can be seen at this time.
The reason why Zhang Bin recovered so quickly was naturally in order to deal with the matter of the two thousand lands as soon as possible, and after the morning hall, he ordered someone to inform Zhao Mu that he could come to buy the land.
Buying and selling land is not a simple matter at this time, because it involves the change of the Yellow Book.
The so-called yellow book is the household registration book of the Ming Dynasty, the household registration book of the Ming Dynasty can be much more detailed than the modern household registration book, the yellow book not only has the basic information of each household's hometown, Dingkou, name, occupation, etc., but also the detailed records of each household's fields, houses, vehicles and ships, and livestock.
This Yellow Book is not a joke, the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the Yellow Book, because the Yellow Book is not only a certificate of household registration, but also a basis for collecting taxes and conscription, it can be said that the Yellow Book is the basis for the Ming Dynasty to collect taxes, and it is the most fundamental document of the entire imperial court.
The same yellow book, in quadruplicate, the county government, the state government, the political envoy department, and the household department each have a copy, that is to say, after the land sale, the change of the information of the yellow book between the buyer and the seller is not only in the county government to change it, but also the yellow book of the state government, the political envoy department, and the household department have to be changed, and the degree of trouble can be imagined.
Of course, this time, the Ministry of Household Affairs has changed the original more than 2,000 mu of tuntian land into private land, and these fields belong to the Ministry of Household for the time being, so there is no question of revising the seller's yellow book, as long as the buyer's yellow book is amended.
After Zhao Mu was recruited, Zhang Bin went to the Huke Scrivener Office in the right front of the lobby, accompanied by the main Bo Huang Peiwen.
To his surprise, Zhao Mu was not the only one who came, but also the four lifters from this county!
These four should be Qian Qianyi's protégés, that is, Zhao Mu's donation objects after buying more than 2,000 acres of land.
Zhang Bin naturally knew these four people, and he also knew that these people were all from poor talents, and they didn't seem to have any other source of income except farming.
In other words, shouldn't lifting people be high, why do you still need to farm?
If the squire or the scholarly family is raised, there is naturally no need to farm, but a county can have several squires and tyrants, and there can be several scholarly families, and their descendants may not be able to pass the examination.
After the middle lift, it is not the end of the imperial examination, there are Jinshi above, only the gold list nomination, Jinshi and the first, can be promoted step by step and become a high-ranking official, so most people will choose to continue to participate in the imperial examination after the lift, to win the fame of the Jinshi, and few people will directly enter the career as a lifter.
Born in a poor family, and has not entered the official career, in addition to farming, what else can you rely on to make a living?
Therefore, it is not surprising that people are raised to farm the land, at least in the early Ming Dynasty.
However, in the late Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing basically disappeared, because they had another way out, that is, apprenticeship.
Worshipping under the court officials will not only be of great help to their future careers, but at the same time, their source of income will also be solved, because their mentors will basically use their tax-free quota to receive contributions from the people below, so that they can extract certain benefits from it.
Therefore, in the late Ming Dynasty, generally people from poor families would worship a teacher, and then rely on the income from the donation to make a living, continue to study hard, and strive to be admitted to the Jinshi fame.
When Zhang Bin saw these people, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
He knew that by doing so, he was actually aiding the abuse, helping Qian Qianyi to annex land and embezzle the taxes of the Ming Dynasty!
However, sometimes, there are things that you obviously don't like and have to do because if you don't do them, you will face results that you don't want to see.
Zhang Bin also has to do it now, because with his current identity, he can't afford to provoke the Donglin Party at all.
If he is like a stunned young man, regardless of the consequences, for the sake of this little thing in front of him, he insists on working against Xu Hui or Zhao Mu, and even cleaning them up, then not only will he not be able to save Da Ming, but he will not even be able to save himself!
At this time, he could only try his best to cooperate with Zhao Mu to take down the field, so as not to be trampled to death by Qian Qianyi in the future, and then, he had to help Xu Hui, who was inferior to the beast, clear his name, so as not to be killed by Xu Dahua now.
Life is really full of helplessness, Zhang Bin sighed in his heart, and cooperated with Zhao Mu to transfer more than 2,000 acres of land to the names of Qian Qianyi's four protégés.
Yellow book, he doesn't need to start writing, he has his own master Bo Huang Peiwen to do it for him, he only needs to sign his name in the corresponding place or put on the big seal of the county.
He was so helpless and bored that he had to find something to do for himself, and slowly, he focused his attention on the contents of the Yellow Book.
To say that this yellow book is really detailed, what is in front of him is a modified yellow book.
A family of Xu Yingxian, five people, a citizen of Pingyang County, Wenzhou Prefecture, Confucianism, lifting people.
Two men and one ding: he is thirty-two years old.
Not a bite: a small male mallet, three years old.
There are three women, the second is the eldest, the wife is 30 years old, and the concubine is 18 years old.
Take a bite: Female Xinxiang is seven years old.
There are four tile houses, and there are 25 acres of Xu Tian in the north of Nanshan.
The right household post is allowed to receive the string, and it is allowed to do so.
This is the original old one, and it is still covered with the big seal of the former magistrate and the big seal of the original household clerk.
The other one is new, and the previous place of origin, Dingkou, etc. have not changed, but the age of each person has been modified accordingly.
Waiting for the household clerk to make a total of sixteen yellow books for the four people, Zhao Mu's silver outside was also sent over, such as points, checks, and warehousing matters have been handled by the corresponding officials, Zhang Bin does not need to do it himself, he just needs to supervise on the side, and then stamp the big seal or sign the big name.
When the yellow book is changed and all kinds of formalities are completed, the next thing is that the household clerk will accompany Zhao Mu and others to receive the fields with the "Fish Scale Atlas", those fields were originally Jinshanwei's, dozens of miles away from Pingyang County, Zhang Bin is too lazy to go, he simply directly ordered the county Cheng Hu Jiang to accompany the supervision, anyway, Hu Jiang is not Zhao Mu's person, but he is not afraid of what they are doing.
More than 2,000 acres of land have been turned into tax-free fields, looking at Zhao Mu and others who happily ran to receive the fields, Zhang Bin couldn't help but sigh, alas, helping to abuse!