A heavy snowfall covered the vast fields and forests, and the winter wheat had already been planted in August, giving small farmers hope for a good harvest. Compared with the cold wind outside the car, the car was as warm as spring, and the heater in his arms could not melt Zhen Qian's cold heart at all.

The car wheeled over the remnant snow and "squeaked", Wang Peng drove the carriage, and the horse whip in his hand made a whip whistle in the air, "Dalang, the county seat is about to arrive, do you want to go to the county government first, or go back to the house?" ”

Every time Zhen Qian came to the county seat, he had to stay for two or three days, not only to see the shops, but also to visit the slave market.

Luquan County has convenient transportation, surrounded by Luquan River, Taiping River, Hutuo River, Qingshui River, Huanhe River, Jin River, as well as ancient canals and other rivers, forming a north-south traffic artery, boat shuttle, smooth logistics, businessmen and merchants gather, the degree of prosperity is no less than the location of Hengzhou.

In the Tang Dynasty, the number of households was divided into prefectures and counties, and the rank of the prefecture and county corresponded to the rank of officials, with more than 20,000 households for Zhongzhou and more than 30,000 for Shangzhou. With 6,000 households as upper counties, 3,000 households as middle counties, and less than 3,000 households as middle and lower counties, there is no limit to the number of households in counties such as Chigi Wangjian. And for the upper county. In the border counties, the upper 5,000 households are also the upper counties, the 2,000 have been the middle counties, and the 1,000 have been the middle and lower counties.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were 358 prefectures and 1,557 counties, and the county magistrate was called the county order. The size of the county's management scale and administrative level may be determined according to the location and geography, such as the important county near the capital is called "Jing County" and "Chi County"; or according to the advantages and disadvantages of regional conditions, there is a difference between "Qi County", "Wang County" and "Tight County"; However, it is more common to divide it into several grades according to the land area, population, and the amount of fiscal revenue, such as the four levels of upper county, middle county, middle and lower county, and lower county. Like Wannian, Chang'an, Henan, Luoyang, Taiyuan, Jinyang and other large counties, called "Jing County", the county order is the five products, equivalent to the mayors of Shenzhen, Xiamen, Dalian, Qingdao, Wuhan and other sub-provincial cities in our later generations. The counties under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao, Henan and Taiyuan are called "towns and counties", and the county order is the sixth grade, which is equivalent to the mayor of the prefecture-level city in later generations. The county order of Shangxian County in Zhuzhou is from the six products, which is equivalent to the mayor of Xiantao, Tianmen, Qianjiang and other sub-prefecture-level cities in Hubei Province in later generations. The middle county order is the seventh product, the middle and lower county order is from the seventh product, and the lower county order is the eighth product, which is only equivalent to our today's township mayor and town mayor. Therefore, not all county orders are "seven-grade sesame officials".

The number of households in Luquan County is more than 6,000, and it is naturally the upper county, and the county order is six products.

Shangxian has a county commander, a county lieutenant, and one or two county officials and chief bookkeepers, all of whom are officials. There are not only officials but also officials in the county government, four Si Huzuo, seven Shi and one account Shi; (Ten thousand households have added two people, four people, and one account history.) Four judicial assistants and eight historians; (Ten thousand households have been added to Zuo one person, Shi two people, Yu Tonggi County.) Ten prisoners; Questioning four people; Ten people in the white straight; One city order, one Zuo, one Shi, two handsome, and two Cangdu; There is one doctorate, one teaching assistant, and 40 students, adding up to more than 100 people.

The household registration system in the Tang Dynasty had two most important functions: one was to ensure the collection of taxes and servitude, and the other was to achieve social management control. After the establishment of the government, one of the first things that must be done is to count and register the population of the whole country.

When you declare your household registration information, you must also go through a procedure called "group appearance". "Tuanxiang", inherited from the Sui Dynasty's "appearance reading" system, means that when the county yamen registers the household registration, the county yamen must check the age of all the people on the household register, so as to prevent people from falsely reporting their age or pretending to be disabled to evade servitude. According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, men and women under the age of 3 are "yellow", under the age of 15 are "small", under the age of 20 are "medium", and male residents over 21 years old are "ding", and 60 years old are "old".

The household records of the Tang Dynasty usually also recorded the physical characteristics of the households, such as skin color, height, and facial characteristics. Texts such as "lameness on the right foot, small nodules under the ear, sunspots on the face" were noted. In ancient times, there was no photographic technology, and these descriptions of physical features were equivalent to photographs, which could prevent forgery and serve as clues to the pursuit of households after they fled from their nationality, which also shows that the household registration system in the Tang Dynasty had developed more strictly.

In Zhen Qian's view, the household registration system in the Tang Dynasty was not rigorous, many hidden households could not be counted at all, and the children born in the family, the children born to the maidservants, etc., were digested internally, and the population in some mountains, forests and rivers did not interact with the outside world at all, and the real population was probably not clear to even the locals.

The layout of most of the states and counties in the Tang Dynasty refer to the design of Chang'an City, but the scale is much smaller, although I have not seen the majesty of Chang'an City, there are 16 squares in Luquan County, there is a widest street running through the whole county seat in the east, west, north and south, the county government is located in the north of the county, the whole county is wide from east to west, narrow from north to south, the widest part has four miles, and the shortest place has three miles.

The structure of the fang city in Luquan County is also strictly organized, the fang is a residential area, the city is a commercial area, generally there is a city in the county seat of each fang city, and there are two cities in Chang'an City. There are a column of "rows" or "shops" in the city, generally known as 36 lines, 72 lines, or even 360 lines, etc., and the shops of the same trade are often concentrated in the same line or several rows to trade with the people.

This is where the term market derives, with a full-time management officer and strict regulations. Subsequently, in order to facilitate the contact and management of the industry, there is a "leader" or "chief", which is generally appointed by the county government, or may be initiated by the industry itself and then appointed by the county government.

By the end of the Tang Dynasty, the fang market system had been relaxed, and it completely collapsed after the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The origin of the fang city system is to implement effective management of the city, and at the same time has a military function, the city and the fang are strictly separated, and the residential areas are enclosed by walls, and the implementation of the fang neighborhood protection system, the system of opening and closing the fang door on time, the curfew system and other supporting measures conducive to strengthening the management and control of urban residents.

The Tang Dynasty government also stipulated that "no place in a non-prefecture or county shall be placed in a city", ignoring the reality of economic development in various places and the actual needs of consumers, which was fully proved by the emergence of a large number of grass markets in the late Tang Dynasty.

However, there are still many reasons for this set of urban management systems and related regulations. First of all, the establishment of special banks for the classification of commodities is not only convenient for market management but also conducive to market transactions. Secondly, strengthening the management of measuring utensils is conducive to maintaining the order of transactions and the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. Third, strengthening quality management and prohibiting illegal profit-making will help maintain the order of transactions. Finally, there are regulations such as the repair of the city gate and the prohibition of gathering crowds to disturb the city, which are conducive to maintaining a good market environment.

From the perspective of the development of society in the early Tang Dynasty, the fang city system can basically meet the needs of urban residents' economic life, and also has a positive role in the recovery and development of urban economy in the early Tang Dynasty.