"I'm also willing to come to help the envoy and take over the vacant job of catching heads. But I really don't have time now, Captain Jia Du found me and asked me to help him bring up this township corps, there is no way. You know, last time Captain Jia helped me a lot, and my brothers helped me out of the den thanks to him, you say! ”

In the barracks, Luo Cheng Zhang Yichen served tea and said helplessly.

"If you become a captain of the township soldiers, it will not affect you to come to the county to take over the position of head catcher!" Zhang Yichen picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, but found that there were only some tea leaves in the teacup, neither ginger, garlic, nor orange peel, nor salt and green onions.

"Your conditions here are still a little shabby."

"It's already very good, and we have to thank Captain Jia Du for finding such a good place for us to make a barracks, and we have to thank the county for their strong support, otherwise this township corps has neither barracks nor soldiers."

Zhang Yichen shook his head.

"Shicheng, I won't say much about the polite words on the surface, what about you, it can be regarded as my simple promotion from the people, and I can be regarded as having a good understanding of you, right?"

"Of course, if it weren't for the envoy, he would still be just a peasant in the countryside."

"Shicheng, the situation is not very good now. It is estimated that there may be a big war next year, perhaps until the war starts the year after next at the latest, but the task before the war is also very heavy. In addition, the tasks assigned from above are becoming heavier and heavier, and many civilians have to be conscripted to go out to serve. In addition·······"

Zhang County's orders are lit one after another, and as a county order, his task is also very heavy. This tax is the duty, but it is necessary to pay off all the arrears of the past years. In addition, with the imminent war, there will be additional levies, not only will the rich landlords have to levy a large amount of war donations, but even the ordinary people will have to pay more.

The heavy tax service has led to many fugitives, and some even resist the tax law, and some simply go to the mountains to become convicts. On the edge of their Zhangqiu County is Changbai Mountain, not only the fugitives from Zhangqiu ran up the mountain, but now there are also fugitives from many nearby counties and counties running there.

Those who fled into the mountains had to live, and some would cultivate their own land, but many more chose to become bandits, so they often came down to rob them.

In order to maintain law and order, the county had to increase the number of officials and helpers, and the county had to raise its own money and food expenses for these additional manpower, and the county had no money from above, so it could only pass on this expenditure to the people.

This is in a vicious circle.

The heavier the taxes of the people, the more fleeing, the more bandits, and the worse the law and order.

If the law and order are poor, the government will have to send more servants and more manpower, and the expenditure will increase, and it can only be apportioned to the people.

"In the past, Fan Hu and those people couldn't adapt to the current situation, and these people have been in the Yazhong for many years and have a bad reputation, so letting them continue to stay will only make the situation more and more tense. What I need now is someone who is more capable, and I am very optimistic about you. ”

"It's just that I'm young and unqualified, so it's difficult to hold the position of head catcher, and no one in the third class of Yazhong will obey me." Luo Chengdao.

"How do you want to?"

Zhang Yichen is also a smart person, and after a conversation, he understands many things.

"If you really believe in me and are willing to use me, then I will dare to make a few requests."

"Just say!"

"First of all, if I am a head catcher, then I hope that all the three existing classes of officials will be disbanded."

"All quit?" Zhang Yichen didn't expect Luo Cheng to be so demanding.

"As the envoy said, the group of people in the county government are both incompetent and greedy, and they have made the people have a deep grudge against them over the years, and now they continue to keep them, and under the current situation, I am afraid that it will easily lead to deeper contradictions between the government and the people. Moreover, they are indeed incompetent, and it is useless to keep them. ”

"If the envoy dismisses all of them at this time, and even arrests a few public trials with a bad reputation, then it can immediately calm down the grievances of many people, so that the king's reputation can also rise rapidly, which will also be of great help in the future."

Zhang Yichen frowned, "If it's all open, will it be too big?" ”

Although there are only 30 officials in the three classes, in fact, there are more than 300 officials in the three classes and their helpers in Zhangqiu County. After all, a county is so big, and the population of tens of thousands of households has to be maintained by these people.

"Fire them all, fire them, so that you don't have to worry about the county government not being able to maintain, I can bring the township group over."

There are 231 people in the township regiment, and Luo Cheng can hang two signs in a team at any time, and the people will still be these people at that time, but they are both township soldiers and government officials.

"Is this difficult?"

"Of course it works, if you are worried, then you can also fire people, and then let them re-evaluate, as long as there are not too many bad deeds, and they are willing to reform and work diligently, they can still be recruited in to inspect it."

Zhang Yichen smiled and stopped the staff next to him who wanted to speak.

"If I agree to your request, have you thought about how to improve the situation in the county today?"

Luo Cheng replied, "As far as I know, the county government is now facing several more urgent things, the first is the collection of taxes, including both the annual positive tax, as well as the additional levy when the war is coming, as well as the settlement of arrears accumulated in previous years, which is the top priority, but now the big households in the county are generally resistant, and they refuse to pay under various excuses, which makes the county government very passive." ”

"The second priority is that more and more fugitives have poured into Changbai Mountain, and some of them have become outlaw bandits, and they are severely punished and threatened by our Zhangqiu County."

Taxation and suppression of bandits, these are the two troublesome things that Zhang Yichen urgently needs to solve.

"And what can you do?"

"I think we can suppress the bandits first, and then collect taxes?"

"Why?"

"Of course, it is to make an example of killing chickens and monkeys, if you can find evidence of one or two big families secretly colluding with the bandits, then the effect will be even better."

"But it's not easy to suppress bandits. I had asked Captain Jia several times to let him send county soldiers to suppress the bandits, but he refused to agree to send troops on the grounds that the new recruits had not completed their training. ”

"Envoy, suppress bandits and bandits, in fact, it is not necessary to suppress how many bandits, the key is that we have to let the people know that we have suppressed bandits, or to put it bluntly, we just have to borrow a few heads to show the big and powerful people in the county who are resistant to taxes."

Zhang Yichen has never had such a way of thinking.

He was secretly surprised that Luo Cheng had such a ruthless heart at such a young age, but he felt that this seemed to be a good method.

"Let me think about this, do you have any other requirements? Bring it up together? ”

"There is also a little personal request, I hope the county order can do a small favor, and next year I will be recruited and dispatched, not my family."

"That's all?"

"Hmm."

Zhang Yichen nodded, "I can agree to your three conditions now, when will you come to the county office?" ”

"From now on, I will be the head catcher in the county, and these more than 200 people outside are our third-class officials and helpers in Zhangqiu County, and we will be at your disposal at any time!" Luo Cheng got up and said loudly.

Zhang Yichen nodded with satisfaction.

Although Luo Cheng's words felt a bit exaggerated, he believed in his heart that this kid could do it! After all, although he is young, he has the credit for capturing the blue-faced ghost and breaking the Zhishiro case, and it is still worth believing.