Chapter 1022 Unexpected News (II)

Everyone at the banquet drank happily, and Su Shi was a little embarrassed. After a while, the careful Xu Zhizhou discovered Su Shi's abnormality, and immediately comforted him with concern: "Zizhan, with the Cheng clan here, you don't need to worry...... Mmmm, Zizhan has been doing very little recently! I've already arranged your student's affairs, and I'll tell you about ......"

Xu Zhizhou's political achievements are closely related to Zhao Xing. Huangzhou is a region that has not been naturalized for a long time, and the war of Wuhu **Huashi** has made the barbarians penetrate deep into this area, and caused ten rooms and nine empty rooms. At present, Zhèng Fǔ's control over the township is not obvious, and many times, the government decree does not leave the prefecture city.

However, the emergence of Cheng Jiaao changed this situation in one fell swoop. The Cheng people originally lived in the mountains, and their strong cohesion made them gather into a force to be reckoned with, and then, their experience of getting rich quickly made many nearby mountain people unconsciously surround them, or sell them mountain goods, or work for them.

This group of mountain people used to be the most rebellious hunters in the mountains, but now, they are united under the banner of Cheng Jiaao, willing to accept the rule of the local government, and add a huge tax to the remote Huangzhou - and Xu Zhizhou's contribution before and after is only a quota of three tributes.

In the case of peasant rebellions everywhere and constant border wars, this huge [zero point reading] political achievement made Xu Zhizhou suddenly famous, and became a "capable official" in the limelight, and then quickly obtained a promotion. But then, it also got into trouble.

Geographically speaking, Chengjiaao is under the jurisdiction of Qishui County, but it applied for "naturalization and industry" in Huangzhou, and gave all the benefits to Huangzhou. Qishui Zhixian learned that he immediately quit.

In the past, Chengjiaao was a small mountain village with dozens of households, and there was no dispute in Qishui County, but when Chengjiaao came out of three tributes, plus the agricultural products of the nearby mountain people were all gathered in this small village, and sold to other places by this small village. And Xu Zhizhou skipped Qishui, if Qishui Zhixian didn't say it, wouldn't it be more and more incompetent, so Cheng Jiaao gave up?

Qi Shui, who knew the truth, shouted for a lawsuit with Xu Zhizhou, and the competition between the two sides made Cheng Jiaao's status rise. Near, Xu Zhizhou reached a compromise with Qishui County: Chengjiaao belonged to Qishui, and Chengjiaao was responsible for the military service to help Qishui County maintain law and order in the nearby mountainous areas; And Zhao Xing, Cheng Xia, Cheng Shuang, Cheng Wang and other Cheng people with several side surnames have bought houses and settled in Huangzhou...... Wait, Cheng Tong once said that there was no household registration problem in the Song Dynasty before, and here he said that he was registered, is Cheng Tong wrong?

Cheng Tong is not wrong!

The issue of household registration in the Song Dynasty was different from that of other dynasties. To explain this issue in detail, it is necessary to write a book - to put it simply, the Song Dynasty was a patriarchal society, and its "nationality" refers to the number of "Ding households" who paid taxes, and this number was not approved by the government, and the Song Dynasty divided the people into upper households, middle households, lower households, and gentry...... Wait a minute.

The number of dingkou is reported to the government by the "upper household", and the tax is paid to the government according to this amount, but it is not necessarily levied downward according to this amount. That is to say: the government only controls the number of taxpayers - "nationality"; Only the head of the household and clan knows the specific address and name of the taxpayer - "household". And these addresses and names are up to them.

The gentry did not need to pay taxes, so the people could not move freely, but the gentry who did not pay taxes could move at will (in order to avoid the heavy taxes, the people often offered their property to the gentry and asked to be the gentry's house slaves - in ancient times this was called "surrender"; In modern times, it is called "affiliation". The dividends paid by the affiliation are less than the taxes paid, and the officials dare not embezzle them at will).

It was under these circumstances that Cheng Azhu came to Huangzhou. In order to fulfill his promise, the patriarch of Cheng gathered his clan to build a house for Zhao Xing in Huangzhou, and gave a rich dowry for Cheng Laoqi to support the elderly - this dowry is 30 acres of paddy fields near Chengjiaao.

The new house was repaired very beautifully, and Cheng Tong hired Zhao Xing from Quanzhou to help Cheng Jiaao repair the craftsmen of the Qishui Wharf to Fucheng, and repaired the new house shortly after Chongyang. After Cheng Laoqi took Cheng Azhu to move into the new house, Cheng Azhu lived in a simple house and was ready to get married. So they are all rumoring that Zhao Xing is "Jinwu Zangjiao".

The mountain people are used to it, and the Cheng clan has three tributes to support them, and they are domineering wherever they go. Under Cheng Tong's arrangement, Cheng Laoqi immediately took over Zhao Xing's position as the head of Huangzhou, responsible for Cheng Jiaao's sales and tax matters in the Huangzhou area. Cheng Laowu entered the official office and became a team leader.

The rest of the people surnamed Cheng who entered the Fucheng also immediately occupied the positions of several foot archers in the Fucheng, and at the same time, the warehouse they set up in the Fucheng also employed a large number of strong laborers, and in the blink of an eye, they established a great latent force on both the official and private sides.

At present, the lawsuit about Cheng Jiaao is still a bit final-Xu Zhizhou promised that from next year, Cheng Jiaao's taxes will be included in this piece, and he will share it in half with Qishui County, so that Qishui County will no longer make trouble: "I still have about five months to serve in office, and the new official will come next spring."

When I'm done, it's April next year. Brother Zizhan, I will explain to Xinzhizhou, but I think, there are people who are taken care of here, and the new official still wants the Cheng clan to gain a foothold, how dare he embarrass you?

Hahahaha...... Zizhan, at this point, I envy you, you said, why did you just make a bet and win such a good protégé, such a good thing, why didn't I encounter it. ”

Su Shi accepted the other party's disguised compliment, he raised his glass to toast, and his mood was much brighter.

After a few drinks, Xu Zhizhou continued to focus on Cheng Jiaao, which was the most proud achievement in his life, can he not write a special book: "When the spring begins next year, the people of Cheng Jiaao plan to move to the dock area by the Qishui, and they have built a new village near there......

Why relocate? I heard that a few fierce tigers came to the mountains near rì, and injured several hunters in a row, the first few rì, they also sent a tiger cub to Qishui County, I heard that the mother tiger and the tiger father are still crazy, and the mountain people dare not go down to the ground in vain, so they plan to move to the village to avoid living.

The new village was built by the river, and they also wanted to build a wharf by the river. The original village is still not abandoned, and Qishui County has demarcated the land boundary for them and exempted them from this year's township service.

It takes about two or three months to move the village. Then draw 'Dubao', Qishui County intends to divide Chengjiaao into a separate 'li', the name of the 'Meizheng Li', and the name of 'Cheng Jiabao'. The patriarch Cheng Tong will serve as the 'Du Bao Chang (Bao Chang)', and Cheng Lao Er will serve as Bao Zheng (formerly known as the elder chief, and the elder chief will be abolished after the Baojia Law, and the chief will be set up).

In addition, there is also a guarantee at the original site of Chengjiaao, which is responsible for the management of hunters in the mountains, and the chief of the insurance is recommended by Chengjiaao......

After the 'inside' is finished, I am also worthy of leaving. Then there is the handover of the new officials......"

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