Li Yitian, the governor of Pengzhou, was originally from Putian, Fujian Province (serving in a different place in ancient times), Chongzhen was a jinshi for ten years, and was sent by the Ministry of Officials as the governor of Pengzhou two years ago, and now he is leaving this place with one mind.

After the visit, Luo Jiatan secretly stuffed a silver ticket of more than 100 taels to Lord Zhizhou, the other party smiled happily and said sarcastically: "Yang Ruzhen Yang Xiucai, if the official remembers correctly, you are a tribute student of Benzhou."

You are still young now, as long as you study hard for a few years, you will be able to be promoted to a scholar or something, and by then you will have everything, why do you have the heart to be this chief now? ”

Yang Lin felt his face full of heat, and arched his hand: "Back to my lord, although the students want to read the book of sages with all their hearts, they will have to raise people to benefit the people in the future."

But the senior brother knows that now Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have turned the Central Plains upside down, and in northern Sichuan, there are Yao loess tyrants who forcibly occupy prefectures and counties and plunder the people. ”

Li Baotian leaned forward and said with a smile: "That's all? ”

Feeling a panic in his heart, Yang Lin smiled and said: "Open the door firewood, rice, oil, salt, and sauce, adults are Mingjian, the students are from poor backgrounds, and they just want to be less poor." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, hooked each other with their hands and asked each other to walk to the front of the case, Li Yitian said: "You are a tribute student in the state, but the chief of the market is not a gentleman, you can't break the rules."

Luojiabao is the only bazaar within a radius of dozens of miles, but it is a living cornucopia.

You are managing Luojiabao is to manage a cornucopia for the government, and from now on, you will have no less money. ”

Luo Jiatan next to him arched his hand and said: "Lord Huizhouzun, the little one told Ruzhen, he can save these things."

And every year he shall pay two hundred taels to the lords, and two hundred pieces of silver to the stewards of the six rooms of the three classes of brothers. ”

Li Yitian nodded and continued: "There are still taxes, and now some people are resisting donations and taxes, and many places can't collect them, so don't miss all kinds of local apportionments when the time comes." ”

Luo Jiatan arched his hand and said: "Lord Huizhouzun, I also told Ruzhen when I came, we are going to reorganize the army, and when the time comes, let's see who dares to take the lead in making trouble?" ”

Li Yitian smiled and said: "Thousands of miles for officials are only for money, Ruzhen, although you have to pay so much money every year, as long as you manage it well, you will have a lot left over in a year."

Look at this old man Luo has been a security chief for a few years, and now he is not on the side of the rich armor.

You are young now, as long as you study hard, you will have to raise people to become scholars or something in the future, you can enter the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister and leave a name for future generations, and you can also retire to be a rich man for the official side. ”

Yang Lin's face was slightly red, and he nodded again and again.

I stayed in the state city for two days, and spent a hundred taels of silver before and after, some gave gifts and some entertained, so I got the official book.

Carefully identifying the words on the book, the most uncomfortable thing is not the complex traditional characters, but the fact that there is no punctuation on the book, and you need to break the sentence yourself.

In addition to educating students to read and hyphenate characters, the most important thing for private school teachers in ancient times was how to break sentences, and the meaning of the same sentence was completely different.

It is very unaccustomed to looking at a book without punctuation, and you need to read it silently and try to break the sentence before you can understand the meaning.

And everyone didn't know that Yang Lin looked at it so seriously, and some of them showed disdain.

Everyone came out to be a junior official because of the hopelessness of the imperial examination, and it is not impossible for this young talent to study hard or in a few years.

Since encountering the local riots, Luo Jiatan has moved to the state city with all his thoughts, and is now arranging for the family to clean the house left by the former householder, and Yang Lin took Yang Wei and Yang Cheng back to Luojiabao.

At first, Yang Lin was also quite interested in secretly conducting an investigation, in the previous life, many university scholars did not respect Lao Mao's investigation report, and now after crossing, he can also conduct field investigations.

Although these four chuan are known as the country of abundance, except for the CD plain, there are mostly hills from the north of Suining, which are densely covered with hills, not much flat land, and not much arable land suitable for cultivation.

Since high-yielding drought-tolerant crops such as sweet potatoes and corn have not yet been introduced, and there is a large amount of sparsely populated land in the local area, the villagers have developed many paddy fields at the foot of each ditch by taking advantage of the abundant water sources, while most of the flat land on the mountainside has been developed into dry land and a small number of high-yield paddy fields.

Compared with the end of the last century, the number of people is much sparser, and the rural households can catch up with the rural areas after urbanization at most, and they often walk two or three miles before they encounter a large compound where seven or eight families live.

Most of the houses are blue-tiled houses, with about four or five rooms, and some thatched houses are poor, and most of them are poor tenant families.

After walking for forty or fifty miles, Yang Lin felt pain in his feet, and there were a few blisters at a glance.

Unlike ordinary countrymen, Yang Lin is wearing green shoes (a kind of cloth shoes with tung oil coated on the soles to be waterproof), but he still blisters and walks with a limp.

I asked for a long needle from someone on the side of the road, and after squeezing out the foot bubbles, I felt that my feet were numb and painful.

Looking at the soft green shoes under his feet and then at the simple straw sandals of the two, Yang Lin smiled and said: "The third brother, the seventh brother (ranked in the family, often called by the family ranking in the countryside), walked such a mountainous road together, why don't your feet blister?" ”

Yang Cheng teased: "Fourth brother, we are not like you, we are born cheap, work in the fields all the year round, hunt in the deep mountains and old forests when the farm is not working, and have already raised thick feet. ”

Yang Lin smiled embarrassedly, what is pampered, in his previous life, he also climbed the mountains and walked long distances, but he rarely had long blisters on his feet, and now he has blistered his feet for a few days, mainly because of shoe problems.

The feet were blistered and limped, and the walk was particularly uncomfortable, and it was a half-day journey until it was dark before returning home.

The next day, Yang Lin rushed to the market early in the morning, and the shopkeeper Liu and his party had already stood at the intersection, and everyone hugged their fists to congratulate.

Cheng Yanjin once said that I opened this mountain, and I planted this tree, so if you want to cross this road, you can leave to buy road money.

In ancient times, the co-governance of the gentry was implemented, and the imperial court sent officials such as magistrates to the county at most, or went to the countryside to collect money and grain to levy labor, and local affairs were mostly assisted by local gentry.

In addition to paying money to the county lord and the three classes and six rooms of the yamen every year, the affairs of the market are managed by the chief of the bao, which can be said to be a soil emperor.

This Luojiabao is the only market within a radius of 30 miles, there are twenty or thirty families living in the market, there are more than ten craftsmen, more than ten teahouses, restaurants, grocery stores, grain stores or something, and the others are farmers (in fact, those craftsmen, teahouses, restaurants, grocery stores, and grain store owners also have some farmland that needs to work in the field).

In addition to the artisan shops in the bazaar, there are also twenty merchants in the countryside within a radius of twenty or thirty miles.

Even according to Zhu Yuanzhang's principle of three classes and nine rules, low-class shops pay 1-3 taels of silver a year, medium-class shops pay 4-8 taels of silver, and high-grade shops pay more than 10 taels of silver.

In addition to the store management fee, the majority is the rush fee, as long as it is sold in the market, no matter what is worth more than 1 yuan of silver, after the completion of the sale, it will be charged three to five cents as a venue fee.

And that's just the daily costs, and the pumping for bulk cargo is even more:

Cattle ploughing cattle pumping 1 penny silver

Piglets 1 cent silver

Slaughter a fat pig for 5 cents of silver

(Lao Mao's investigation report on the search for Wu, at that time, each cow was 4 yuan of silver.) From the end of the Ming Dynasty to the thirties of the 20th century, inflation reached about 4 times. ）。

Managing such a large market is like managing a huge cornucopia, as long as the market is open, there will be a steady stream of money coming in every day.

This is just daily official business, in addition to the annual summer grain and autumn grain field Fu Ding Fu or something is levied by the county, but the three classes of the house owners are not familiar with the place, and the strong dragon is difficult to suppress the head snake, all of which also need to be brought forward by the chief, so as to avoid any stubble in the expropriation process.

In addition to collecting donations, there were also soldiers to defend the bazaar.

In ancient times, the imperial court sent local officials such as magistrates and county officials to rule one side, and the following were implemented to govern the gentry, and the squires in various places trained strong men to act as soldiers to protect the place.

Si Chuan is a corner of peace, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty is not peaceful, first Yongning Tusi luxury Chongming and Guizhou Tusi An Bangyan took advantage of the rise of Liaodong Tartar in the Apocalypse to make chaos between Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and then Northern Shaanxi Liukou Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others have repeatedly penetrated into the hinterland of Sichuan in a vain attempt to do such as the Three Kingdoms Liu Bei, in order to protect local tranquility, the local squires are training local soldiers to protect the territory and the people.

Now each bazaar also has its own soldiers, from each armor to select strong men to practice daily, if you encounter any robbers or something, you can also wave the flag and shout, disperse the thieves. (Matteo Ricci has written)

Luo Jiatan took the initiative to let Xian this time because he was old and frail, and he had no way to deal with the local riots around him, while Yang Lin was completely different, and there were many successful examples in history.

The chief of the security department does not have a formal official position in the imperial court, but he is the emperor of the soil in the place, and as long as his feet shake, the whole place will not be at peace.

Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the Feng warlord of the Republic of China, was born as a horse bandit, initially taking care of more than 20 villages, and eventually almost developed into one of the largest warlords in China.

Yang Lin Xiucai was born, and this rescue of Luo Gongzi is even more wise and brave, and now it is the first time to protect the chief, no wonder the shopkeeper Liu of the restaurant and everyone bought a table to celebrate.

There are heads and faces in the township, and the local leaders such as the elders of the neighborhood, the landlords, and the landlords are all together.