Coming out of Guo Kui, Han Gang regretted a little that he had just said it too vaguely. If Guo Kui didn't understand and regarded his words as perfunctory, it would be a bit of a headache. It's just that if you think about it again, Guo Kui has been up and down in officialdom for many years, and he won't be so dull.

Han Gang didn't want to abandon Wang Shao and join Guo Kui, but he still hoped that the prestigious Su would preside over the war on the Hehuang Kaibian side. Although the opening of the river is mainly to appease, but in the end it is still indispensable to fight. In order to increase the winning rate of this battle a little, it is natural to choose a more capable general.

Wang Shao is not a famous general, but Guo Kui is. Wang Shao has military exploits and is also talented in military affairs, but his experience and prestige are far inferior to Guo Kui. In the face of a big war, Guo Kui only needs to show up his morale, but Wang Shao has to talk at length and interview the generals one by one to do it - and not necessarily. When encountering a crisis, Guo Kui can make the army's heart as tough as a mountain, and Wang Shao can't suppress the floating army's spirit without picking up the butcher's knife.

If Guo Kui and Wang Shao are incompatible, if Li and Dou take Han Gang as the target of attack, Han Gang will of course try to fight back. But Guo Kui was kind to him and had the idea of reusing it to him, so what reason did Han Gang have to be an enemy of Guo Kui? But no matter how he thinks about it, with the personalities of Guo Kui and Wang Shao, the chance of conflict in the end will be at least eighty percent.

Do you still want to help Wang Shao drive Guo Kui away, just like Li, Dou, and Xiang? The same situation was repeated again and again, and the court would definitely have an opinion on Wang Shao, and Han Gang himself felt annoyed when he thought about it.

Han Gang walked through the courtyard, still thinking about how to reconcile the relationship between Wang Shao and Guo Kui. When I looked up, I was shocked to find that in the courtyard of the state government, there were several times more officials holding large stacks of volumes than usual. Han Gang waved his hand and motioned to the oncoming officials holding a large stack of scrolls to go over directly, without saluting.

"It's time to get busy again." Just when Han Gang was still doing business, his subordinates were already sighing.

Every three years, from January to August, Qinzhou ...... To be precise, it is the state and county government offices and road supervisors across the country who will be busy all at once. It is not because the summer tax is in June and the autumn tax is in October, but because the fifth-class property book is made for the triennial change.

The fifth-class property book records the number of people in the household and the amount of family property. The amount of property determines the household level, and the number of households from the first to the fifth class determines the amount of taxes.

This year marks the first time in three years that households have been redesigned. In order to determine the amount of tax revenue for the next three years, the county officials should go down to the township, measure the land, check the family wealth, and then determine the households.

After collecting these data, they recreated the book in quadruplicate, one for the county to keep for themselves, one for the prefecture, and the remaining two for the Luzhong Supervision Department and the three divisions of the capital Yamen. This set of processes, starting in August, will continue until the end of the year, interspersed with autumn taxes, every clerk is rarely able to breathe.

Han Gang suddenly found that he seemed to have delayed Guo Kui's work. Guo Taiwei is not only Qin Fengjing, but also the governor of Qinzhou. His mission was not limited to the military, but also included political and civilian affairs.

Rebuilding books is the most important task for officials close to the people. A thousand years ago, Xiao He entered Xianyang with the army, and the first thing he did was to control the household registration books in Xianyang City. And now that the border people have surrendered, the first thing they have to do is to compile a household registration and submit it to the imperial court.

Although Han Gang didn't know what the situation was like three years ago, he was sure that this year's state and county government would be extremely busy.

The imperial court recently promulgated the law on exemption from servitude, which changed the thousand-year-old system of conscription and changed from errand service to hired servitude. As long as each family pays the exemption money, they can be exempted from the errand labor that would otherwise ruin the family. In the old days, the yamen, laborers, coolies, and other conscripts were used by the yamen at all levels to use the money collected from the exemption and hired manpower.

In order to accurately calculate the amount of exempt money that each household needs to pay, rebuilding the fifth-class property book is an indispensable key part.

At the same time, with the implementation of the exemption law, the Chonglu law was also made public. In the next three years, the officials will gradually begin to be paid by the government. In terms of establishment, the original Xu officials belonged to the long name Yaqian and served as a soldier. Just like other people who served as conscripts, they all provided their own money and food, and the government did not pay attention to their food and clothing.

If the officials do not exploit the people, then the only result is to sit on the empty mountain and consume the property. And when the officials have a fortune, the court can also justifiably and seriously govern the officials, and stop them from attacking the people again. Although this can be considered a good ideal, there will be a little improvement in the end. Even if it's a little bit, as long as it can be better than in the past.

A few days ago, I heard about the announcement of the Chonglu Law, as a mere candidate, but it could affect the imperial court's policy, and Han Gang added a sense of joy to the country at that time. The few suggestions he gave to Wang Anshi at the beginning seemed to be really being implemented step by step.

Walking out of the state office, Li Xiaoliu led the horse to meet him, and there was a team of cavalry outside the door. As a margin to appease the driver, Han Gang, like Wang Shao at the beginning, had a team of personal guards to protect him.

"It's timely, but you're going to Guwei?" Li Xiaoliu handed the reins to Han Gang and asked.

"Of course!" Han Gang put his hands on the horse's back, and in the blink of an eye, he was riding on the horse's back. He just said goodbye to Guo Kui, and what he wanted to say was delivered, and the next thing was to leave Qinzhou and rush to Guwei. "Are you ready?" He turned around and asked Li Xiaoliu and the guards.

The guards followed and got on the horse together, and clenched their fists on the horse's back: "Please give the order." ”

Han Gang was about to leave, when Li Xin hurried out of the state government and shouted, "Third brother, wait! ”

When Han Gang saw it, he had to turn over and dismount again, "I don't know what happened to my cousin?" Do you want the younger brother to take the word to Guwei? ”

Li Xin shook his head, took a breath, evened out his breath, and said to Han Gang: "It was the governor who asked me to bring a message to the third brother." ”

"What did he say? What's the matter? Although Han Gang was asking, he already had a faint answer in his heart.

Sure enough, Li Xin said to Han Gang, "It's nothing important to have a jurisdiction. It's just that when you go to Guwei, the third brother, by the way, bring a message to Wang Junwan in Weiyuan Fort, and let Wang Junwan do his best, and he will send someone to take care of him at home, so there is no need to worry. ”

Han Gang nodded: "The junior brother will bring the words to the Lord of the Royal Castle." ”

"It's gone!" Li Xin paused for a moment, and suddenly said, "By the way, this morning, the third brother also mentioned that you rejected his recommendation at the beginning, and accepted the recommendation from Wang An. Brother Zan, you have a vision and will choose people. ”

'That old guy is still haunting what happened?' Han Gang was a little unhappy, and then he realized that this was Zhang Shouyue's reminder...... It can't even be called a reminder, but it's clearly scolding.

Han Gang was picky and selective in the two letters of recommendation from Zhang Shouyue and Wang Shao at that time, and it didn't have much to do with it. But now that he has received the favor of Wang Shao, and if he goes to Guo Kui again, his reputation will definitely be over.

Han Gang could see that Li Xinzhong also thought so, otherwise he would not have said so many words in one breath, just to remind Han Gang not to go the wrong way.

"Please tell my cousin to tell him, Han Gang thanks him for mentioning it."

Han Gang only hated himself now for knowing too little about history, if he knew whether the Dao River was successful or not, and if the success was presided over by whom, he would not be so entangled now.

Unlike now, Han Gang only felt that he wanted to find a balance between Guo Kui and Wang Shao, which was equivalent to walking on a single-plank bridge only half a foot wide with a thousand catties of burden, and if he was unstable, he would fall under the bridge and the turbulent river like the Yellow River flowing to Longmen.

But this burden, at least for now, he is ready to take on - this is the one he can confirm that the success rate of achieving his ultimate goal is the highest.

As early as the beginning of the founding of the country, it attracted countless civil and military talents to draw plans for this. Cao Wei, Fan Xiang, Zhang Zai, and even Xiang Bao all have the ambition to restore the old land of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but due to the introverted and self-defended national policy, they have never been able to implement it. Now because of the accession to the throne of the new emperor, Wang Shao's Pingrong strategy has finally come into play. The civil and military ministers who were interested in this gradually gathered.

Wang Shao, Gao Zunyu, Guo Kui, which of them has no idea of expanding their territory? However, Wang Shao has Wang Shao's goals, Gao Zunyu has Gao Zunyu's goals, Guo Kui also has his ideas, and Han Gang also has his own goals and expectations. The general direction may be similar, but the path and means chosen, and the final destination are not the same.

It is different from Wang Shao's original intention to write on the Pingrong Policy, which was the original intention of annexing Hehuang and recovering Tibet for the imperial court, and pointing to the Western Xia. Winning enough military merits in the matter of Hehuang and laying a solid foundation for continuous progress in the officialdom in the future is a very realistic goal that Han Gang pursues.

His biggest hope at present is that Hehuang Kaibian can have a phased result before the fifth year of Xining - because the second half of the fifth year of Xining is the time for the local solution of the Jinshi test. If you can't get the status of a tribute student in the examination, you will not be able to participate in the imperial examination three years later.

In order to go further in officialdom, Han Gang urgently needs a Jinshi status. Although the title of Jinshi can be given by the Son of Heaven, almost all of the people who are honored by this are from the family of Zaizhi and have long been famous, and even famous Confucians like Sun Fu and Hu Ying have not been given. Han Gang wanted to blend in, and the difficulty was ten times higher than that of the imperial examination.

The change of the subject of Xining's six-year Jinshi examination has been determined, from poetry to Jingyi policy, this change is a disaster for the talents who have been immersed in poetry for a long time, but it is great news for Han Gang who has given up poetry and memorized Jingyi.

In the transition period of the imperial examination, talented people with flying talents will be defeated in the scientific field because of this, while for those who are prepared, the chance of being named on the gold list has greatly increased.

Han Gang had already been prepared, and he knew very well that Xining's six-year examination was the only chance for him to get the Jinshi background. Once it dragged on to the ninth year of Xining, when those talents who studied hard adapted to the new exam questions, it was impossible for Han Gang, who was always distracted by things, to compete with them.

"Two years to go." Farewell to Li Xin, riding on the horse, Han Gang whispered to himself.

If you want to catch up with the imperial examination in Xining's six-year year and the examination in the second half of Xining's fifth year, you must defeat Mu Zheng in two years and seize Hezhou. Once he took Hezhou, controlled the Tao River valley, and was entrenched in the royal city of the Qingtang Dynasty, Dong Yu had to submit to the imperial court. And Han Gang, who is personally involved in it, as long as he has the title of Jinshi, his future will be smooth.