Chapter 690: A Place That Exists and Doesn't Exist
What kind of courage does a person have to be to dare to do such a thing?
Later generations have seen a lot of shell companies, and they have seen a lot of strange things, but I really haven't seen anything like Nan'an County.
Of course, there is a possibility that the county seat that the imperial court is compiling, but has actually disappeared.
However, this kind of is extremely rare, and it is also relatively special.
For example, in remote border areas, the county seat is far away from other places, and at the same time, there is no contact with the state capital in the near future, and the heavy snow has closed the mountains and other reasons that lead to isolation from the world.
But this situation does not last long, it can be considered magical for more than half a year, but in the southernmost part of Annam Province, there is such an incredible thing.
"Don't you have any doubts?" Yu He gasped.
"Doubtful?" Fan Cheng shook his head, what suspicions do you have? He has never been an official, and he has never seen much of the world, so he can be the county commander, or the people give face, or his clan is more powerful, except for himself, other people can't stand up at all.
"What have you done in Nan'an County over the years? I'm referring to the administrative side of things. Yu He continued to ask, he probably guessed something.
"It's an order from the state capital, Nan'an County just needs to cooperate and do it, as for the rest of the ......" Fan Cheng hesitated, as if he didn't feel that he should say this, but there was no one left and right, so it wouldn't work if he didn't say it, and continued: "Nan'an County is so big, with more than 6,000 people, and it is located on the border, and few people are willing to come here, so the above means that as long as it is not chaotic, it is good to maintain the current situation." And now the treatment of the imperial court is so good, even the tuition has been reduced by half......"
"Wait......" Yu He was stunned and exclaimed, "You said that the class has been reduced by half?" ”
"That's right!" Fan Cheng was also stunned, and wondered: "Could it be that there are more drops in other places?" ”
"When did this happen?" The more he asked, the more angry Yu He's heart became, the courage of these people was too great.
Forget about setting up a private county seat, this can also be seen as some compromises made in order to maintain the stability of the border, anyway, it may not be feasible for people here to let outsiders come, it is better to be stable like this, which is also a good way.
But what the hell is the class cut in half? Yu He felt as if he had caught a big fish.
"It was at the beginning of this year, it started ten years ago, and the imperial court also issued an official document saying that the tax would be reduced by half in the next ten years, and the people in the county were very happy!" Fan Cheng said.
This policy is not only happy for the people of the county, but also for him.
The Fan family is the largest family here, with a population of thousands of people, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the total population of the entire county.
The border is already unstable, and the cultivated area here is not large, most of the people still prefer to hunt, and the reduction of taxes is a gift from God for the people here.
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"Nan'an County?" Li Yuanji frowned tightly, he should not have this county in his impression.
Of course, this is just an impression.
In fact, there are more than 300 states in Datang, and Li Yuanji can call out less than one-third, what he is familiar with, that is, the larger states in each region, as for the counties below, there are even more, thousands of counties, even the head of the household, he can't remember.
As for Annan, Nan'an County did not arouse anyone's suspicion there.
One is that the place is too remote, even the people nearby rarely go to Nan'an County, and the people in Nan'an County rarely come out, and most of the goods they need are sent by caravans, and Nan'an County does not have its own caravans.
"Your Majesty, the minister checked the information of the officials of the Ministry of Annam, but did not find the words about Nan'an County!" Yang Shidao, who newly succeeded Xiao Yu as the secretary of the ministry, said in horror.
Yang Shidao had only been in office for a few months, and Xiao Yu sat in the Ministry of Officials for another two months after completing the handover, and only left the court after Yang Shidao was completely started.
And Xiao Yu, who retired, bought a piece of land outside the city, built a manor by herself, and took her old sister, Queen Xiao's family, over.
When he first received the news, Yang Shidao was still a little confused, but no matter what, he had to give a positive answer.
Who made him a colt, well, Li Yuanji's fifth brother-in-law, although this brother-in-law is the queen, but who let the ex-brother-in-law die.
"Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has found out some information about Nan'an County, but the information is very vague, and the word Nan'an is not mentioned." Liu Xun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said: "The Ministry of War only recorded that the 177th Division needed to build a new camp in the border area, but the most suitable place already had people to live in, and the garrison negotiated with the Annan Prefecture, and the matter was finally resolved by the Prefecture Government, and there were a total of 5,439 people at that time, and the Ministry of War specially transferred 5,439 stone grain as a subsidy, and the rest of the resettlement work was taken care of by the Prefecture Government. ”
What? One person, one stone, little food?
Ten years ago, that is, the second year of Li Yuanji's accession to the throne, the famine in the Tang Dynasty had just passed, and there was still a shortage of food in the country, and what was the price of grain that year? A bucket of more than 300,000, this stone grain, in that year, was at least three times of money, not a lot at all.
And at that time, giving money was not necessarily useful, it was an era when money could not buy food.
"According to the list of warehousing handed over by the Annan Prefecture, the household department has not found the name of Nan'an County in the past ten years." Hubu Shangshu Huangfu Wuyi also stood up.
Things can be hidden from anyone, but they can't be hidden from the household department, a county town, whether it is earned or lost in a year, the list must be handed over to the household department, maybe it is a little more philistine, but this is the case.
The Ministry of Officials said that there was no such establishment as Nan'an County, the Ministry of Household said that they had never seen the name of Nan'an County, and the Ministry of War said that they did give grain as a subsidy 10 years ago, and there was such a thing.
The officials who went to investigate said that Nan'an County does exist, not only in reality, but also in the establishment of Annan Prefecture, and it is not just as simple as existing.
Even people nearby know about the existence of Nan'an County, but few people have been there, it is too remote, and the road is not easy to walk.
But no matter what, Nan'an County is real.
If it weren't for Yu He's careful discovery of some problems, even Li Daozong wouldn't know that the Nan'an County in front of him was actually 'fake'!
What's even worse is that in Nan'an County, the tax has been out of sync with the imperial court, no, to be exact, the tax in Nan'an County has been completely loaded into the arms of some people.
"Pass on my order, remove the governor of Annan, all the 177th Division have major demerits, and all the 19th Army have demerits." Li Yuanji was so angry that he couldn't slash those people with one sword, especially the Governor of Annan.