Gao Qifeng said in a trembling voice: "Shen Yan, do you want to ...... You want? ”

Yang He knew Gao Qifeng's worries, and said with relief: "The county is too worried, and the lower officials are just thinking about the local security." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

He knew what Gao Qifeng was worried about, thinking that he Yanghe wanted to clear the population of the acres of land, this matter has always affected the whole body, he Gao Qifeng didn't want to touch the interests of the gentry, he just wanted his wife to be peaceful and repair the city roads in Suining County.

Then all the people praised the high ascension and left, but they didn't want to do such a thankless job.

You must know that even Zhang Juzheng has not done this matter, how can he Gao Qifeng, how can he do this well?

Don't let the cat not catch the fish and get fishy.

To be honest, Gao Qifeng really thought too much, Yang He really didn't mean it now.

It's not that I'm afraid that the gentry will fight back against anything, but that they want to kill the pigs, and they will kill them when they are fattened, right?

The current situation in Suining is not an exaggeration to describe it as miserable.

It is a small place in itself, during the Hongwu period, there are 26 miles of households here, and the household registration is less than 3,000 households, and it will remain basically unchanged in the future, and it is basically the administrative structure of the three townships and 34 societies.

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the local population is not much, very barren and weak, the gentry are also few, there are Ming Dynasty, there are few scholars, people are scarce, the hidden households are slightly less than other places, and the overall household registration is only wandering in a few thousand households.

What kind of oil and water is there in such a place? Not to mention the disasters and bandits everywhere now, most of the Dingkou in the countryside of Suining are also dead or fleeing, from the north of Suining to the south, and then to the west, only to see the endless wilderness and abandoned villages.

If there are still many people in the south of the Yangtze River and little land, the population of Qingzhang is still profitable, but in Jiangbei, there is only a shortage of people, not a shortage of land, especially the Fengyang Mansion and Luzhou Mansion in Huaibei, and then go west to Henan, often uninhabited for hundreds of miles, or even thousands of miles uninhabited.

If you want the land, you can take it, as long as you have the ability to survive the endless harassment of bandits and bandits.

So it is stupid to kill pigs at this time, a small population, taxes and silver, how much money? Disasters have come after disaster, and the landlords' families have no surplus food, especially in the townships, except for some heroes who have formed villages to protect themselves, even the small landlords have escaped and died.

There is no shortage of land, and the top priority is to multiply the population, stabilize the order, and let the local economy recover.

Hearing Yang He's relief, Master Tian wiped the sweat from his forehead, and Gao Qifeng breathed a sigh of relief.

He only wants to repair the road in Suining City now, but he can't withstand other tosses.

He also asked Yang He to guarantee that during his tenure, he would never fight the idea of Tian Shui Ding Yin, and he was obviously still not at ease.

Yang He agreed, to be honest, Suining's current situation is like a bird that has just learned to fly cannot pluck its feathers, and a newly planted tree cannot shake its roots, the people are very poor in financial resources, and they must recuperate for a few years.

In the future, if production is done well and the population of the county is increased to at least 50,000, there will be any action, and that will be a few years later.

However, Yang He is not optimistic, even if the gentry pay grain, at most a few thousand taels of tax silver.

After all, the local area is too barren, mostly saline-alkali land, and the crop yield is very small.

However, it is imperative to implement the waist card door number system, and he wants to find out the population situation in Suining, how many dings, how many mouths, and where they live, all of which need to be clear at a glance.

In the future, conscription and conscription, food assistance can also be targeted, especially in the current chaos in the countryside, Lijia, Dutu, and township communities are parallel, and he needs a standard, such as writing on the door number waist card, a certain person in a certain township, a certain street, a certain street, and a certain person.

There are also numbers, so as to achieve unity and reverse the chaotic situation in the countryside.

This situation was of concern to Yang He, which was a clear manifestation of the collapse of the grassroots in the Ming Dynasty, which was initially based on the Lijia system as the grassroots unit, accompanied by Dutu and other enslaved units.

Lijia Dutu, "the picture is also in the picture, each mile is compiled into a volume, and the head of the volume is always a picture...... Those who do not say that they are in the book and say that they are listed in each book, so they are called maps. ”

However, with the evolution of the enslavement system, this system collapsed, moving from "anti-regional" to "regional", and the township and community were actually the administrative units of the Song Dynasty, and now they have become the administrative geographical concepts of many places, just like the market, town, village, and polder.

When the locals call themselves, they will not say that they are a person from a certain mile or a certain place, but that they are a person from a certain township and a certain society, and the fact has become another structure.

Yang He should correct this chaotic situation and rebuild the grassroots level.

In the development of the economy, population has always been an important data, knowing how many people, his one-year plan, can be well understood, for the layout, targeted. Therefore, population data is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, how can he not pay attention to it?

"The door number waist card is only for the purpose of patrolling thieves and treacherous palaces, not involving acres of silver. This matter is responsible for the patrol bureau, free door-to-door installation of door number, with the door number, you can do waist card, is also free. In the four borders of the county, there are also patrol houses, where outsiders enter the country, interrogate and interrogate, give vouchers, and go to the patrol and arrest bureau within three or five days to handle a temporary waist card for a period of one month. Inform the residence, landlord, etc., you can get this temporary waist card, and walk in the county reasonably and legally. ”

"The county runs from March to June, and if the residents don't apply for the free of charge, it is ill-intentioned. When they walked, the patrol saw those who did not have waist cards, and they all grabbed the stone quarry on the north shore and smashed stones. ”

Gao Qifeng and Master Tian listened, it was fresh and shocking, so it was indeed difficult for the county to mix in with the bandits.

At the same time, Gao Qifeng frowned, so many people are needed, and the county's expenditure is too large.

Yang He just explained lightly, he was not in a hurry about this matter, it lasted for half a year, and there was no charge.

According to his understanding of the common people, if you collect money, you will collect a penny, and I am afraid that more than eighty percent of the people will risk being caught in the stone field to smash stones to avoid the cost of this penny, and if you don't collect money, this thing will be much easier.

He could also imagine that there must have been many people who had doubts about whether this would be the idea of the county government to fight Ding Yin's errands.

However, as long as it takes a while, everyone finds that it is just a simple verification of identity, nothing else is involved, and there is no charge, and there is a risk of being arrested by patrols.

Catch a few more blind ones, kill chickens and monkeys, the people found that there is no waist card, it is difficult to move an inch, and no matter whose family is enslaved, they are still willing to nail this door card and hang the waist card.

The local gentry are not strong and have little resistance, and his prestige in Suining can also play a pivotal role.

Finally, the statistics of the Patrol and Arrest Bureau were collected, and before the Tayanghe case, very important local population data could be obtained.

Gao Qifeng pondered, listening to Yang He's eloquent talk, he had a feeling that the waves of time were rolling up, and the surging picture scroll was flowing in front of him.

sighed in his heart, if this matter is done, the county government's control of the local government will be tighter than the armor protection system, especially in the control of the population, look at the Ming, this kind of measure is unprecedented, it is easy, and the data of Dingkou will be obtained.

It's just that this time is different from the past, but he doesn't want to devote himself to this kind of historical picture, he just wants to be quiet, and his wife will leave his reputation in Suining peacefully.

And just counting the population, not collecting taxes and silver, for their magistrates at this time, it did not make sense.

Of course, the magistrates would like to see the population increase under their rule and the elimination of hidden households, but that population is linked to servitude.

The population that is not linked to the hook is a useless population.

In the end, the lower officials proposed to set up a statistical office to count the wasteland near the city and divide it into official land. The Taxation Bureau was reinstated. ”

Yang He said his final plan, which aroused great interest from Gao Qifeng, the magistrate.

According to Yang He, the more chaotic the Ming world is, if the local peace is peaceful, there will be an influx of many rich people, and they will definitely buy houses and land when they enter the territory. The more people you have, the more land you need, which is a lot of income.

And now in Suining, the land is extremely worthless, just like the four sides of the city, five miles to the north of the city, except for a few temples, is a large reed pond, not a single resident.

Not to mention the west, from the city past dozens of miles, all the way to the mountains, except for the wilderness, is a ruined village, the scenery is extremely desolate.

Of course, this place Yang River intends to occupy.

On the south side of the city, there are only a few houses except for the Guanxiang, the same scenery is extremely depressed, the population is very small, only a few miles away from the city, there is a small Zhuangzi called Yuzhuang on the side of the official road. Then go to Lingbi Guandao, some villages that have formed villages for self-protection, such as Guanshan Ji, Da Li Ji and other few villages.

The eastern part of the city is slightly better, but it is just as large as a large abandoned field, and there are dense lakes and reeds everywhere.

On all sides of the city alone, there are countless wilderness and abandoned lands, which are rare and uncommon to the people.

Gao Qifeng also encouraged the development of wasteland, but few people responded because the cost of operation was too great.

Not to mention how many years it takes for saline-alkali land to become a slightly productive field, that is, if you live in the countryside, what should you do if you encounter bandits?

After the business is done, there are many bandits who come to rob, so at this time, outside the countryside, except for the villagers who have formed a village to protect themselves, it is impossible to see ordinary people who reclaim and operate the people.

Even Haoqiang only cultivates some fields on the edge of the village, and he doesn't dare to be too far away from his village, and there is too much abandoned land.

However, if there is the protection of the new security army, the local law and order has improved, and the people can walk freely and with peace of mind, these lands will be valuable.

Especially the land near the city, the land on both sides of the official road is more valuable.

Although there are no minerals on the south bank of Suining, it is also close to the canal, and it is also considered to be on the main road.

Later, the population was large, the development of commerce, and the needs of the local population, the land near the city increased its value.

Just by selling land, the county government can earn a lot of money.

The rich man bought the land and built the house, and the deed also had a deed tax income.

Yang He also planned to build some low-cost HDB flats in the future to supply people who couldn't afford to buy land and houses, but this matter was a little earlier, so he let the outsiders rent it, and let the locals in Suining have a rental income.

As for the tax bureau, Suining used to have it, but Chongzhen abandoned it in the early years, mainly because the local business was not prosperous, and the commercial taxes collected were not enough to operate.

However, after the population of Suining increased and the business was prosperous, it was a few hundred taels of silver a year, which was also silver.

Generally, the commercial tax in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the true color of the banknote customs, is attributed to the inner treasury for reward, and the silver is folded into Taicang for border storage, and the local tax bureau, only the true color of some places is solved into the inner government, and it is generally retained in the local area.

The basic income of the tax bureaus in these places is not much, and there may be dozens of taels in small counties, hundreds of taels in large counties, and sometimes more than 1,000 taels in state capitals.

After Suining re-established the Tax Bureau, if the commercial tax collected could reach 500 taels, or even more than 1,000 taels, at least in the use of many public funds, it would be much more relaxed.

In Yang He's calculations, 30% of the income from land sales and tax bureaus can be used for dividends for officials. The official of the imperial court, the official word has two mouths, which means that in addition to the mouth to make money, the butt hole also needs to make money, and it is not okay not to feed it.

Another 20% is used for the distribution of annuities such as officials, servants, patrols, etc., and the top eats meat, and the bottom also has to drink some soup, so that they have the motivation to sell land and collect taxes.

Then the more income they earn, the more annuities they receive and the more motivated they are.

The last fifty percent is the use of various public funds, such as urban construction, rural drinking, welfare and orphanage, as well as the cost of patrol bureaus, cleaners, road maintenance teams, etc.

In the Yanghe plan, the main income of Suining County's "Xianyu Silver" in the future will be land and industry and commerce.

It is better to make an idea in these places than to make an idea in Tianfu.

The overall dividend is also better than private money.

Gao Qifeng's heart beat violently a few times, he knew that what Yang He said was very feasible, according to what he knew, he had defeated the thieves, and there were already wealthy families in the polder village who came to the county seat and planned to buy land to live.

In the future, Suining will be peaceful, and the more rich households will pour in, and the county government will indeed be able to earn a lot of income by selling the land alone.

He subconsciously glanced at Master Tian, but saw Master Tian nodding heavily at him.

Then he listened to Master Tian and said: "Lord Yang has a high opinion, but the students also have doubts, and the places near the city are all classified as official lands. In the past, there were also some residents of these abandoned places, who either died, or fled from the famine, or more than a dozen villages and became a set. Seeing that it is too peaceful, some people come back and there is a dispute, what should I do? ”

Yang He smiled and said: "This matter is easy to do, there are not many of these people, even if there are, they will be dealt with according to Emperor Gao's early methods." The old homestead is restored, and the land is allocated according to Ding, and how much is originally allocated and how much is allocated. However, the land sold will only be owned by the new owner. The fields abandoned in the war are cultivated and matured by others, and they are the same as the cultivators' industry. The old owners resumed their business, allocated the same land according to Ding, resettled the remainder, and recognized the property rights of the new owners to develop the cooked land. ”

Master Tian sighed: "Lord Yang, Emperor Taizu Gao, did solve the dispute in this way, and the students didn't think about it for a while. ”

In the end, Yang He discussed with Gao Qifeng to finalize all matters and left.

Looking at his back, Gao Qifeng and Master Tian both showed complicated expressions, this young man's back was heroic and calm, quite like a big peng spreading his wings, flapping his wings and wanting to fly, just as he said, what he said, which made people shocked and excited.

In contrast, his own people are old and hesitant, perhaps, they will only pass away year by year, and eventually leave dust.

This is a feeling, and this feeling makes people very bad, unwilling, and helpless.

"Alas......" Gao Qifeng finally sighed, "Ji Maoxun has a good student. ”

……

On the evening of 16 March, a tall and thin middle-aged man with a slightly dark complexion, wearing a green shirt and a scarf, with a serious expression left the General Administration of Training and went to Gujingfang in the north of the city.

The middle-aged man pondered as he walked, and people kept greeting him along the way: "Lian Shuban." ”

Regardless of whether he is high or low, he is just a solemn return gift.

He thought about it, with a complicated look on his face, it was the honest and honest person who had been transferred to the General Administration of Practice.

At this time, he didn't know what to feel in his heart, but at noon, Lord Yang of the General Administration of Lian called him to do something, and more clearly appointed him as the director of the Suining Statistics Institute, and selected some houses and some secretaries to count the barren beaches and wilderness matters on the four sides of the city.

Then he also told him that he was also the secretary of the patrol bureau to be established in the near future, and in the future, inside and outside the county, the statistical summary of house numbers and waist plates will also be in charge of him.

This made Lian Fangzheng feel complicated, just like in the county government, Lord Yang of the General Administration of Lian never gave him any good looks. But the county government's disposal method was to let him sit on the cold bench, and Lord Yang of the General Administration of Lian was entrusted with important tasks.

This surprised Lian Fangzheng, and there was also an excitement of knowing the grace of the encounter, but it was just ......

Thinking about his thoughts, he walked along the dirt road of the street, and soon crossed the cross street and turned to Gujingfang in the north of the city.

Generally, the clerks in the county government office mostly live in the east of the city, where the environment is better, and many people have large mansions.

But Lian Fangzheng did not accept gifts, did not be greedy for money, but could not afford to buy a house in the county, only rented a house in the north of the city for the Hun family Qi and his son to live, and then when he was in the county office, he lived in the Ya Nei house, and he also lived in the General Administration of Lian.

In strict accordance with the provisions of the "Da Ming Law", only the first and fifteenth days of each month are released.

But today, Lord Yang took his vacation, and he went back to see the Hun family.

also carried rice, noodles, meat and vegetables, which Lord Yang specially approved for him, perhaps because of excitement, he unconsciously accepted it.

Soon he was in the rented house, a small courtyard, the mud walls were falling off, quite dilapidated, but very clean.

Then he entered the house, his Hun family Qi was weaving, monotonous and serious, looking at this woman who was still quite charming, but her face was haggard, Lian Fangzheng couldn't help but feel guilty, for more than 20 years, he owed his wife too much.

Hearing the movement, Qi Shi turned his head to look at it, and his face was full of joy: "Husband is back?" ”

When he saw the rice, noodles, vegetables and meat in Lian Fangzheng's hand, he was stunned: "Husband, this is?" ”

Lian Fangzheng said: "Oh, this is specially sent by Lord Yang." ”

Qi is an empathetic woman, looking at Lian Fangzheng's face, she smiled tentatively: "Look at my husband's face today, what is the happy event?" ”

Lian Fangzheng changed the topic: "What about Ye'er? ”

Qi didn't ask, just smiled: "I came back yesterday and went to the county to study again." ”

Lian Fangzheng and the Qi family have an only son, Lian Shouye, but he is a student of the county school, which makes Lian Fangzheng proud.

The dinner that night was rare and rich, and Qi's ate it very sweetly, she had followed Lian Fangzheng for many years, and even the meat was rare to eat a few times.

Lian Fangzheng also rarely served vegetables to his wife: "Madam, you eat more." ”

After the meal, Qi cleaned up, an oil lamp, the two sat in the room and talked, Qi said softly: "What is the matter with the husband, can you say it?" ”

Lian Fangzheng sighed: "It's a good thing, the county wants to set up a statistical office and a patrol bureau, and Lord Yang asked me to take charge of many things in the bureau." ”

Qi Shi was quite happy, her eyes flowed, and she smiled: "This is a good thing, it is rare to have a Shangguan who is very serious about you, why is the husband hesitant?" ”

Lian Fangzheng sighed, looked at the vast gloom outside the window, and said: "It's just that Lord Yang has many things that are not in line with the ancestral system and the law, and he doesn't know whether to persuade or not as a husband." ”

He sighed wistfully, rather confused.

Qi was silent, she sat for a long time, and said quietly: "But it is moral, righteous." ”

She said: "The concubine understands her husband's persistence, courtesy, righteousness and shame, this is the husband's belief, and it is also the right principle of the concubine's identity, so she usually doesn't say anything, and is willing to suffer together." However, many things that Lord Yang did did not conform to the ancestral system and the law, but they were in line with heaven and justice. ”

She said, "Like the green-skinned sticks in the city, which have been rampant for many years, the law may punish them?" Lord Yang killed the scoundrels in the name of meticulous work, benefiting the people, and in fact there is also a suspicion of manipulating the law. However, everyone praises, clapps and applauds, and the husband is in front of him, is it to advise or not to advise? ”

Lian Fangzheng suddenly clenched his fist and released it, and sighed faintly, this is what he was confused about.

Qi finally raised her head, this talented woman who was famous in the village at that time looked directly at her husband: "The husband has a lot of good insistence, but I forgot one thing, now is a troubled time, and it is the time to make rules." This rule is not in line with the ancestral system and the law, but if it can benefit the people and the government decree is innocent, it is the righteousness of heaven. ”

Lian Fangzheng trembled, but he was silent for a long time.

He stood in front of the window, silent for a long time.

I don't know how long it took, his wife Qi said: "Husband, it's late at night, it's time to rest." ”

She whispered, with a hint of shame, "We...... Some days I haven't done the Zhou Gong ceremony. ”

Lian Fangzheng was stunned for a moment, turned around, and looked ashamed.

Etiquette can not be abolished, the harmony of the couple, this is the seventh rite of Zhou Gongmingde Xinmin, the seventh rite of the etiquette, thinking that the yin and yang are harmonious, the universe is orderly, and the road of many children and grandchildren is maintained. This is the responsibility of the husband, and it is a great gift of humanity, which should not be wasted.

At that moment, he said with a straight face: "It's because the husband is negligent, this is for the husband, and the good wife forgives me for my sins." ”

He was dressed neatly, solemnly bowed his hands, pointed to the bed, and said, "Madam, please." ”

Qi Shi gave a salute and said in a low voice: "Husband, please." ”