At noon and night, Fu Quan and Liu Jian left with the rest of the family and returned to Jiangzhou County, Ba County. After all, at this moment, he is the county guard of the Han Dynasty, and he still has to return to his post to deal with official business.

The return trip was different from the time of going, there were more female dependents when they came, and all kinds of carriages seriously slowed down the speed, in order to speed up the process when returning, Fuquan led people to ride horses first, leaving only Xu Huang with a few soldiers to escort a few female dependents back to the county. And the choice of Xu Huang to do this escort is also because his mother is also in the return convoy, and it is most appropriate to choose him as the escort coach.

Because Fuquan specially saved time, it only took five days for him to ride a horse first, and he rode a horse from Qingcheng Mountain to Ba County. Although the mountain road in Soshu is rugged and the road is not smooth, but everyone only takes the avenue, not the small road, and would rather detour more than the easy road to walk, rather than take the shortcut road that is difficult for horses to walk, and finally under the rush, they will also arrive in five days, if it is not for the road is not smooth, it will be earlier.

After entering the county office, in the slightly dissatisfied tone of the county office's adjutant, Fuquan dealt with the things left by the county office within a month after his departure that he could not decide. And there seemed to be a reproachful tone of dissatisfaction with his subordinate officials, but Fu Quan chose to ignore it, and he didn't have the heart to care, after all, it was his own reasons that made them so.

Although he had taken leave in advance, Fu Quan could be so reckless to ignore his duties for the time being and go out to "play in the mountains and rivers" by himself, but after he left, no one could be in charge of the affairs of Ba County. Naturally, after Fuquan left, all these things in Bajun had to be taken care of by officials like him, even if ordinary things were forgotten, those difficult things would be hard for them, and they could only drag it if they couldn't do it, and even if they couldn't drag it out, they had to drag it hard, even if they were urged from above, they couldn't help it.

Therefore, Fu Quan was not angry at these "rude" actions of his subordinates, after all, they were just venting their dissatisfaction through their tone. Now is not the later "slave" society, everything to please their own "masters" prevails, they are at the first expense, naturally they cannot be forced, now is an era when a courtier is loyal to the sovereign, and the sovereign must respect the courtier. Otherwise, the courtiers can only stay away from the sovereign, and eventually the two parties will break up, so it is also necessary for the lord and the minister to give mutual respect, and treating each other with courtesy is the basis of trust between the two parties.

It's far away, there is one thing in Ba County at the moment, it must be decided by Fuquan, this matter is simple and simple, difficult to say, it is that the county office has not yet been full of filial piety this year, and the county office needs to confirm it as soon as possible, and if it is not confirmed, it is estimated that it will be late to report to the court, and it will not be questioned by the court.

In fact, the confirmation of the filial piety quota has been delayed so far, and the specific reason is also to blame Fu Quan, at that time he was bent on covering up for Liu Jian's childbirth, and completely ignored this kind of dispensable thing, and kept dragging it out, after all, no matter how important it is to raise filial piety, he has to stay in the position of Bajun County.

Now that Liu Jian's matter is half completed, the knot in his heart can be regarded as excepted, so it is natural to consider this act of filial piety. Speaking of this matter is very simple, that is, to choose a few names to report to the court, but the difficulty is also difficult in this person's name, after all, this kind of good thing to be an official after the report is not good to make your own decision, it is more involved in the interests of many wealthy officials in the county, unless he does not want the county to be stable, otherwise he must carefully consider this filial piety candidate.

Filial piety, as the name suggests, is a person who is filial to his relatives and is honest and upright. Nowadays, the norm of filial piety and honesty in the Han Kingdom can be described as a sentence, in terms of birth and fame, birth is naturally the background of the family in which you live, and fame is your reputation in the state and county.

Needless to say, if the state pastors want to manage the affairs of the county well, there is no other way than to seek cooperation with the local wealthy families, and to let these wealthy families cooperate, they naturally have to have interests with them. Obviously, the right to recommend filial piety in the hands of the state and county shepherds has naturally become a bargaining chip for these wealthy families to be willing to obey the orders of the state and county shepherds, after all, raising filial piety is an extremely important official career in the Han Kingdom, and the children of these wealthy families are so important to their families by raising filial piety as officials.

As for fame, don't mention it, many celebrities rely on fame to reach the state and county, which can overwhelm the scholars from the poor family, so as to be promoted to filial piety and enter the serious official career of the Han Dynasty. In later generations, many people thought of being a civil servant and eating an idle imperial grain, which was not bad in ancient times, even in the Han Dynasty, which had a reputation for heavy temperament, in addition to a hermit who was dedicated to studying knowledge, who didn't want to come out to be an official?

Therefore, how many of these "celebrities" who have been recommended by the state and county Taishou for filial piety and honesty by virtue of their fame are recommended because they have real talents and good reputations, and they still need to be put a question mark. After all, in order to be an official, the discipline of the scholar is completely broken, and there will be many clear proofs in later generations, that is, in this life, there are many "celebrities" in this Han Dynasty in order to enter the official career through filial piety, pretending to be a person, selling fame and reputation, and asking the powerful, so as to obtain the reputation of filial piety.

It is true that there are many real celebrities in the Han Dynasty, but at any time, there is no shortage of fake celebrities, in order to win fame, they whitewash their reputation, in fact, in the mainland, I don't know how much darkness is hidden. Not to mention anything else, Chen Fan angrily tried Zhao Xuan in this dynasty, because Zhao Xuan, a "celebrity" in the countryside, was a person who whitewashed his reputation.

In that year, Chen Fan, one of the "three gentlemen" of the party, was too punctual for Anle, and there was a person named Zhao Xuan in the county, after his father died, he buried his father, and lived in his father's tomb for more than 20 years, and his reputation shook the state and county. The magistrate recommended him to Chen Fan and wanted to recommend filial piety to him, and Chen Fan met him in order to confirm it. After asking about Zhao Xuan's wife and children, it turned out that Zhao Xuan's five sons were all born during the mourning period. Because the Han people are not allowed to have sex during the funeral, and they are to abstain from sex, Chen Fan was furious when he heard this, and knew that Zhao Xuan wanted to deceive the county office of a filial piety quota in the name of filial piety, so he immediately investigated his crime.

From this point of view, it is really unimaginable how many people are indiscriminate in the so-called celebrities of this big man. After all, compared with the current huge group of "celebrities" in the history books, the base number is too small. Therefore, people often say that "show talents, don't know books; Cha Xiaolian, his father does not live. Han Su is as innocent and turbid as mud, and Gao Diliang will be as timid as a chicken" and "The ancients wanted to be diligent in chanting, and the current world is exempt from governing life" have a deep irony for this. And Wang Fu, a famous scholar of this dynasty, said in his book "On the Hidden Husband", in the article "Performance Appraisal", "The group of bureaucrats and scholars may respond to Maocai with stubbornness, filial piety with disobedience, honest officials with greed, and righteousness with cunning...... The name does not match the reality, the tribute is not commensurate, the rich take advantage of their financial resources, the noble block their power, take more money as the virtuous, and take the strong as the top", it is also to expose the disadvantages of the Han Dynasty in selecting officials at this time.

Fu Quan has also heard of this for a long time, but because of his family background, whether he is born in filial piety means little to him, so he doesn't pay much attention to it, just like now he only relies on the emperor's favor and does not rely on the orthodox official career to become the Taishou of the Han Dynasty?

However, he is not in his position, he is not in his government, and now that he is too guarded, Fuquan also has to face up to this matter of recommending filial piety. In fact, there are also people in his heart, and naturally, like other raised hands, in the first year, he appeased the local wealthy families for the political leaders and recommended the children of the wealthy families in the county. It's just that because there are too many wealthy families who came to have a relationship with him, he can't choose it easily, and he keeps dragging it out thinking about Liu Jian's pregnancy, and that's it, until now, he has to make a choice.

Filial piety is the most important way to enter the Han Dynasty, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the way to enter the official has become the right way, and the promotion of filial piety has also become a kind of political treatment and power. However, in view of the unfairness caused by the different populations of each county and the same number of places, at the time of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Yongyuan of the current dynasty, the population was changed to the standard, and the counties and states with a population of 1.5 million recommended six people a year, one million to five, 800,004 people, 600,000 three, 400,000 two, and 200,000 people; The population is less than 200,000, and one person is filial piety every two years; The population is less than 100,000, and one person is filial piety every three years.

Of course, all of the above are for inland prefectures and counties, and Yizhou is also among them, but for border counties where ethnic minorities live together, in view of the special situation of border counties, the Han Dynasty has set a preferential and lenient system. In the thirteenth year of Yongyuan, Emperor He of the Han Dynasty issued an edict again, for the border counties of Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Liangzhou, because of the sparse population of these border counties, there are preferential treatments, stipulating that a population of 100,000 can raise filial piety every year, more than 50,000, less than 100,000 people, every two years, less than 50,000, one person of filial piety, less than 50,000, one person of filial piety every three years.

Before the rebellion, Ba County had a registered population of more than one million people, but a rebellion, the people were displaced, or died or fled, and when Ba County was first governed after the Fuquan Rebellion, there were only 6 or 700,000 people in the county. Of course, these are certainly not the entire population, after all, the war, some people will hide in the mountains and forests, some will flee to other counties, and so on, and at the end of last year, the people who fled to their hometowns from all over the country have also returned. After checking the population again, there are nearly 900,000 registered people in the county, and it is expected that there will be no more increases.

As for those who are registered and missing, Fu Quan will not look for them anymore, he knows that it is useless to look for them, these people are missing for no more than two reasons, on the one hand, they died in rebellion, and on the other hand, they have become black households. And there are many types of black households, which may be because of the war, life difficulties, and they have to attach themselves to the wealthy family and become the private soldiers of the wealthy family, or they may have defected to relatives in other counties and do not want to return to their hometown, or they live in seclusion among the mountains and forests, and so on.

A small rebellion in the county, there are more than 100,000 people missing, thinking of the future Yellow Turban Rebellion that affected the Han Dynasty, thinking of the warlords who fought almost every year in the late Han Dynasty, no wonder the population of the late Han Dynasty could drop from nearly 60 million people at the time of Emperor Huan to only a few million people during the Three Kingdoms, and the war was really one of the main culprits. Of course, there are also plagues and natural disasters, and in short, it is not surprising how many people died under natural and man-made disasters.

To get back to the point, Ba County is now registered with nearly 900,000 people, so it stands to reason that Fuquan should have four places of filial piety in his hands. Thinking about it, Fu Quan first gave a place to the children of the Wang family in Danqu County in the county, and this quota was also deserved, not because he had a close relationship with the Danqu Wang family. On the contrary, he and the Wang family had only met a few times when they first came to Ba County to inspect Danqu County, and they belonged to the general friendship, and it was Wang Shang and Wang Mou under him who really made him decide to give the first place to the Wang family's children.

As we all know, the Wang family is a big surname in Yizhou, and almost every county in the state has the Wang family, but the development is big and small. Of course, these are nothing, what really made Fuquan decide to give the Wang family a place is because almost all of these Wang children in Yizhou are distant relatives. And Wang Shang and Wang Mou worked hard for themselves, did their best, and also mentioned this matter to themselves in private, naturally in order to take care of their subordinates, they also expressed their intention to cooperate with local wealthy families, and this first place was naturally given to the Wang family.

As for the second place, Fuquan was given to the Yan clan of Linjiang County, Ba County, just like the Wang clan, it was also to take care of his subordinates, after all, his tiger general Yan Yan was from the Linjiang Yan clan. Of course, Fuquan gave this quota at this time to appease Yan Yan, after all, when he crusaded against Gan Ning before, because Yan Yan was born in Linjiang, he was worried that the Linjiang Yan clan behind him would be implicated in the Linjiang Gan clan, so he did not bring this Linjiang head snake to go.

However, the truth is exactly the same as Fu Quan's thoughts, Gan Ning can bring so much trouble to himself before and after his crusade, in addition to Gan's sake, there are also other powerful shadows in it, and Yan's is no exception. Thinking that they belong to the same place, there are reasons for their involvement, and Fu Quan has no intention of pursuing this, so what about pursuing it, in the end, it will only stiffen the relationship between himself and Yan Yan and Gan Ning, but this kind of attitude of ignoring previous suspicions makes it easier for them to be loyal to themselves. Of course, now Yan Yan must be grateful to himself, and Gan Ning still needs an opportunity to accept it, after all, after the two of them discussed the ambition that day, Fu Quan obviously felt that the relationship between them was one step closer, and he believed that the day of acceptance was just around the corner.

The third place, Fuquan was given to Dong Fu, wrote a letter to him to choose a disciple to raise filial piety, after all, Fuquan governed Ba County, he provided a lot of talents, helped himself a lot, and reasonable, he should repay this kindness, and a small number of filial piety in his hands must be very important to his disciples.

And the fourth place, Fu Quan is in trouble, because of the reason for throwing out the local generals under his command and winning over Haoqiang, looking around Ba County, he didn't find a talent worthy of him to use a precious filial piety quota to win over, because it seems that Ba County is now surrounded by young talents.

Fu Quan then turned his gaze out of Ba County, looked at Liangzhou in Guanxi, and looked at the world, there is no explicit provision that Taishou must recommend locals, after all, with the proliferation of fake "celebrities", the internal system of filial piety and honesty is also operated at will by the superiors.

Not to mention, Cao Song Cao Cao's father and son's filial piety quota did not come in this way, Cao Song is Zhao Shi for Dunhuang too punctual, for him to raise filial piety, this is why Cao Song later in order to thank the lord, lost the seal and abandoned the official, and chased to the East China Sea alone. And Cao Cao's filial piety quota is even more so, when Cao Song's friend Lu Bohao was an official in Shandong, he gave Cao Cao filial piety, and Cao Cao also became the captain of the northern part of Luoyang, so that he later had the feat of "five-color stick". Speaking of Lu Bohao, that's right, it is Lu Bohao, who Luo Guanzhong used to touch Cao Cao and wrote that he killed the benefactor of the deceased because he was suspicious, of course, whether Cao Cao had killed Lu Bohao, Fuquan didn't know.

Without gossiping, Fuquan, the fourth place, thought of the people from other counties, and it was naturally his cunning friend Jia Xu in Liangzhou. After Jia Xu returned to his hometown, he is currently watching the world coldly at home, Fu Quan thinks it is a good idea to find him out, in this way, whether Jia Xu should or not, it will be difficult to get rid of Fu Quan, the master, in this life, which can be regarded as a change of direction to tie this poisoner to himself in the same boat.

Even though he had a good relationship with him, Fu Quan didn't dare to be careless at all, it was undoubtedly too naïve to think that he would be able to control and win Jia Xu, a great sage. You must know that he is a "poisoner" Jia Xu, a person who has troubled the country, if something really happens in the future, it may not be necessary for this Mingzhe to protect himself Jia Wenhe and sell himself, so it is not bad to add a little more of his own tightening spell to him.

"It's time to find Jia Xu out, I really want to see what my friend looked like when he received the appointment......" Fu Quan muttered to himself with a graceful arc at the corner of his mouth.