In order not to have an accident on his own land, Wujiang County Commander Wang Zhang said to Yang Zongjian earnestly: "Lord Yang, Tongli Town is the last town, please Lord Yang should be careful!" Zhang Qingfang in the same lane is a member of the Zhang family in Shaoxing, and the influence of the Zhang family does not need to be humble, please be careful! ”

The impact on the Zhang family, Yang Zongjian, who has been an official in Nanzhili for a long time, naturally knows that Yang Zongjian is a little unhappy when he hears Wang Zhang say this, you are a seven-grade county order, how can you take care of the affairs of your own officials?

But Yang Zongjian didn't dare to say anything, this Wang Zhang was very big. Wang Zhang is a native of Laiyang, Shandong, in addition to being the protégé of Shoufu Ma Mingyuan, he is also the hometown of Wang Yunchang, the old man of the Cabinet Cabinet, this backstage is really powerful.

Yang Zongjian arched his hand and said: "Please rest assured, Lord Wang, this official is not a newcomer to the officialdom, and there is no need for Lord Wang to teach this official how to be an official!" ”

Wang Zhang heard that Yang Zongjian had misunderstood what he meant, and was about to explain, but Yang Zongjian had already taken his eighteen men and thirty officials sent by the county to get on the horse and leave. Wang Zhang sighed, and secretly scolded in his heart that this Yang Zongjian was really a dog biting Lu Dongbin and didn't know the hearts of good people, that Zhang Qingfang was attached to the Zhang family, and he was completely for Yang Zongjian's good to remind him carefully.

Looking at Yang Zongjian, who was riding away, Wang Zhang blessed in his heart, don't let anything happen these days.

Tongli Town has a long history, it has been inhabited here in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is located in the Taihu Lake Basin, which has been the land of fish and rice since ancient times, and has always been very rich. At this time, Chen Xuan, the mayor of Tongli Town, was standing anxiously in the north of the town, preparing to welcome the team from the province.

Successive emperors in ancient China attached great importance to the governance and control of the countryside, hoping to better control the rural society by setting up grassroots organizations to infiltrate the power of the grassroots society. So in the Qin and Han dynasties, there was the Xiangli Pavilion system, the three elders system of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the armor protection system of the Song and Yuan dynasties, and the Lijia system established by Zhu Yuanzhang based on the experience of the previous dynasty.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to reduce the power of the powerful landlords in the south of the Yangtze River, implemented the Lijia system throughout the country, that is, 110 households were classified as the first Jia, with the ten households with the most grain serving as the lichang, and the remaining 100 households were called the first head. The ten lieutenant chiefs take turns to serve in a cycle of ten years, and the order is pre-arranged according to the amount of grain, and every year a lieutenant chief leads ten first-class chiefs to serve on an errand, and is responsible for "managing the affairs of one mile".

Zhu Yuanzhang originally thought that this policy, like all the other policies he formulated, could be implemented for 10,000 years, but in the late Ming Dynasty, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, under the combined effect of a series of factors, such as the growth of population and the increase in migration rate, the intensification of the degree of differentiation between the rich and the poor among members of rural communities, and the impact and impact of commodity economy development on rural society, etc., the original rural communities established on the Lijia system showed an obvious trend of decomposition, and the social status of local elites such as grain chiefs and li chiefs declined significantly. The dominance of rural society was transferred to the hands of non-servant local elites such as the gentry and local tyrants.

If it develops according to the laws of history, in the late Qing Dynasty, because of the bankruptcy of the rural small peasant economy, and at the same time the Qing Dynasty abolished the imperial examination system in the later period, these squires and local tyrants who controlled the grassroots political power slowly turned into local tyrants and inferior gentry who harmed the township.

However, Zhu Hongsan now occupies China, and Zhu Hongsan, who came from the township government of later generations, naturally knows that rural society plays an important role in the stability of his political power, so he tried to reorganize the grassroots government in Guangdong according to the township institutions of later generations.

Zhu Hongsan's method is also very simple, that is, to copy all the experience of later generations, after all, the later Celestial Empire's control over the grassroots ranks first in the world. Based on the experience of later generations, Zhu Hongsan divided each county into several townships according to its population, and the townships were divided into township chiefs or town chiefs according to their population, and one or two deputy posts were set up at the same time. Under the mayor of the town, four stations and eight stations are set up, four stations are agricultural stations, cultural stations, water conservancy stations, and urban construction stations, and eight are judicial offices, land management offices, financial offices, police stations, industrial and commercial offices, tax offices, health offices, and postal offices.

At the same time, Zhu Hongsan also greatly increased the salaries of the township and town workers at the grassroots level, and designated the township and town mayors as the eighth rank and the chief officials of the four stations and eight institutes as the ninth grade, that is, these people were included in the state financial support and could be regarded as grassroots civil servants.

Thanks to this strict rule, Zhu Hongsan's control over townships and rural areas far exceeded that of his predecessors, and relying on the system of inspection departments in various places, Zhu Hongsan's township management system achieved remarkable results, and he nippled many local rebellions in the bud when he was in Guangdong.

Tongli town because of the long history and large population, so here is set as a town, the first mayor surname Chen, is the descendant of the famous Chen Wangdao of Tongli Town, Chen Wangdao is the Nanjing supervision of the imperial history during the Wanli period, after his death, the court in recognition of his official integrity, outstanding political achievements, in the north of the town specially set up the Chen family archway for him. It is precisely because the Chen family has a virtuous name that at the beginning of the establishment of the township, the magistrate of Wujiang County promoted Chen Wangdao's grandson Chen Xuan to be the mayor of the town.

Chen Xuan received a letter from the county yesterday that the provincial work team was going to start stationing in Tongli Town today, and Chen Xuan got up early this morning and came to the north of the town with a total of 45 people with the two deputy mayors and all the personnel of the town office.

Tongli Town is only ten miles away from the county seat, and before ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Xuan saw a group of people on the official road appearing in the distance with a sign of quiet avoidance, and Chen Xuan knew that the protagonist was coming.

Chen Xuan hurriedly tidied up the green official robes on his body, and then beckoned his subordinates to quickly stand on both sides of the road, ready to greet the adults.

The official sedan chair stopped in front of Chen Xuan, and Senator Yang Zongjian got off the sedan chair, looked at Chen Xuan standing in the first row and asked, "Are you Lord Chen from Tongli Town?" ”

Chen Xuan hurriedly bowed down and said: "It's a humble position, the mayor of a small town, you can't be an adult, just call him by his name!" ”

Yang Zongjian nodded and said, "Okay, you also know what this official is doing, so you can introduce the situation in Tongli Town!" ”

Chen Xuan didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly accompanied Lord Yang into the town, while introducing the household registration, people, land situation and so on in Tongli Town.

Yang Zongjian walked across the Fuguan Bridge in the north of the town while listening, and after crossing the bridge, he happened to see the Chen family archway given by the Wanli Emperor. Yang Zongjian asked, "Lord Chen, are you a member of Chen Yushi's clan?" ”

mentioned his ancestor Chen Xuan's waist stretched, bowed to the Chen family archway and said: "Wang Dao is just a humble great-ancestor!" ”

Yang Zongjian has been an official in Nanzhi for a long time, and he still admires this Chen Wangdao. Now that Chen Xuan said that he was the descendant of Chen Wangdao, Yang Zongjian hurriedly stood up straight and gave Chen Xuan a half-salute and said: "It turned out to be the descendant of Chen Yushi, Yang is disrespectful, may I ask Lord Chen's words?" ”

The literati asked you what it meant to have a relationship, and of course Chen Xuan knew that it was impossible for Lord Yang to have a relationship with him, but he only respected his ancestors.

Chen Xuan hurriedly bowed down and said, "Lord Yang, the humble word Bangyan!" ”

"Okay, Bangyan also calls the old man to do it!"

The relationship is connected, but Chen Xuan dares to call Shangguan the word? "Lord Yang, it's noon now, why don't you go and finish lunch first, and then work at the office?"

Yang Zongjian is also a person in the system, so he naturally knows what Chen Xuan means by this, it is nothing more than having a meal at noon, and then meeting with the gentry of Tongli Town. But Zhu Hongsan, who is an old fritter in the officialdom, has long known the virtues of these officials, so he has sent Jinyi guards in the accompanying team, one is to protect the safety of the work team, and another important task is to monitor the various officials of the work team.

Yang Zongjian sighed and said, "Bangyan's heart is received by the old man, but look at the back!" After speaking, Yang Zongjian gestured with his eyes to the three brocade guards in the team.

"You see, the three Jinyi guards are responsible for monitoring the old man, and they will report every word and deed of the old man and his subordinates to the emperor, so don't eat, it's still some time before noon, let's start from the north of the town!"

Chen Xuan heard Yang Zongjian say this, his back was also cold, he didn't dare to speak anymore, and took Yang Zongjian and others to the first place in the north of the town, the You family.

Chen Xuan took people to the door of You's house, and asked people to come forward and open the door, the master of the You family received news from the town office yesterday and prepared his title deed early.

Yang Zongjian flipped through the land deed, and there were a total of 321 acres of paddy fields and 64 acres of mulberry fields, which were distributed to 24 tenants for rent. At the same time, the county's land imperial book was taken out, turned to Tongli Town, two by one, and found that the imperial book was missing 56 acres of paddy fields and 10 acres of mulberry fields, but this is no problem, the imperial book was compiled in the ninth year of Wanli, and there must be discrepancies after so many years.

Yang Zongjian said to the master of the You family who was standing at the door: "It says that there is a person in your family, You Xikun, but he is still alive?" ”

When Master You heard the adult's question, the fat on his face trembled, and after a long while, he said, "Back to my lord, the villain's grandfather has been dead for twenty years!" ”

Yang Zongjian nodded and asked, "Your son You Fang is a student, right?" Can you be at home? ”

"Back to my lord, the dog is now traveling to study, and he is not at home!"

"Well, according to the laws of the imperial court, the people can be exempted from 240 acres of taxes, the whole family can be exempted from servitude, Xiucai can be exempted from 10 acres of taxes, and the three people can be exempted from servitude. Now that your grandfather has passed away, then your family can't enjoy the tax-free policy, and now you can only enjoy the tax-free policy of Xiucai's ten acres, you know! ”

The Ming Dynasty stipulated that there was a tax-free quota for lifting people, but it was different from dynasty to dynasty, but after Wanli, the literati were powerful, and no one mentioned this kind of quota, no matter how many acres your family has, all tax-free. For example, in Songjiang Xu Jiejia, more than 200,000 acres of land are all tax-exempt.

When Master You heard Yang Zongjian say this, a cold sweat broke out on his head, his family has more than 300 acres of land, and it costs nearly 100 taels of silver to hand over the land every year, which is a big number. But Master You can't help it, he is just a small landlord, and a few months ago, he heard that this Qingzhang land country is really moving, and he has no way to resist at all. There was no way, Master You had to grit his teeth and nodded, indicating that he knew. ()

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