In February of the second year of the early peace of the Han Dynasty, with the collapse of the Lei family, which was quite famous in Shouchun, Liu Miao, the Taishou of Jiujiang County, became famous in the county, and all the powerful families hibernated for a while. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Taishou bookbox, which played an important role in the Lei family incident, finally attracted the popularity of the people, and the bookboxes in various parts of the county received a large number of people's submissions every day. Coincidentally, the content of the submission is mainly anonymous exposure and reporting, which is in line with Liu Miao's original intention of setting up the submission box.

Liu Miao ordered Lu Jun to take charge of this matter, check all the submissions every day, verify and investigate the people's reports one by one, as long as it is verified, no matter what the identity of the other party is, they will be punished according to the law.

After a brief period of chaos, the atmosphere in the county has cleared up a lot.

Liu Miao took the opportunity to purge the officialdom, dealt with a large number of bad officials, promoted some capable officials, and put all his cronies in key positions.

Liu Miao appointed Liu Ji as the five official Peng, but he could consult and act on the affairs of Cao, and this previously vacant position became the most powerful position in the county government except for Taishou, and took away all the additional power of Gong Cao.

Appointed Zhong Miao as the chief bookkeeper to assist Taishou Liu Miao in handling documents, issuing decrees, and participating in county affairs.

Zhang Liao was appointed as the soldier Cao Peng, in charge of the military in the county, training soldiers, and responsible for exterminating bandits and foreign military affairs; Lu Jun was appointed as the legal cao, responsible for maintaining law and order, picketing illegal officials, and handling all kinds of criminal proceedings and prison matters.

Xu Jing was appointed as the scholar Cao Peng, responsible for the establishment of the county school, the chief superintendent of the school administration, and the recommendation and recruitment of talents.

Li Jing and Xu Da were appointed as the superintendent of postal services in the north and the superintendent of postal services in the south respectively, responsible for supervising the subordinate counties, and were Liu Miao's spokespersons in the subordinate counties.

He also promoted Cangci to Cao Peng, who was responsible for managing the household account, accounting, and collecting taxes; Zheng Hun was appointed as the engineer Cao Peng, responsible for building construction, engineering water conservancy, etc.

Cangci's character Xiaoren was originally a small official in the county government, and he was known by Liu Miao because he once submitted a letter to report illegal officials. Liu Miao unexpectedly found that this little official had very good political ability, and there were several A- and B-level skills, which were very valuable for training, so he was specially promoted. Zheng Hun's character Wengong, is a friend of Cangci, took refuge in Cangci, and was recommended by Cangci to Liu Miao, and this Zheng Hun's ability is also very good, especially good at construction and architecture, and it is logical that he was appointed by Liu Miao as a worker Cao Peng.

The county capital also has two important locations. Jun Cheng and Gong Cao, Liu Miao did not move, and still left it to Yang Hong and Li Feng, one is that these two people have no obvious fault for Liu Miao to catch, and the other is that these two people also have some talents, Liu Miao also needs them to maintain a balanced relationship with Haoqiang. But now these two people don't have much real power, and they are basically the same as mascots.

After Liu Miao's operation, the Jiujiang County Government suddenly changed its appearance, and almost all the power fell into Liu Miao's hands.

On this day, Liu Miao summoned all the county officials to the Taishou Mansion and began his first all-staff discussion since taking office.

Liu Miao pointed to the books and documents on the case in front of him, and said: "These documents are all left by the previous Taishou border envoy, recording the county's household registration and tax collection in recent years. I have made a detailed inventory and found that the taxes in the county are decreasing year by year, and there is a huge disparity between the population and the corresponding number of fields. ”

In fact, Liu Miao had already communicated with his cronies in private about this issue, and now he is just taking it out and saying it publicly, so as to release some of his treatment strategies.

It may be that the issue is too sensitive, and all the officials bow their heads and remain silent.

Liu Miao looked around the audience, and finally stopped his gaze on Zhong Xuan, and asked: "Yuan Chang, Qing is the main bookkeeper and is in charge of the documents, do you have any opinions?" ”

Zhong Miao knew that Liu Miao wanted him to take the lead, so he replied: "Fujun, if you see the household registration book or the record in the Guanghe period, will there be any discrepancies between the household registration and the field and the present?" ”

Liu Miao said: "Well, I don't rule out this possibility. What does Yang Qing think? ”

Juncheng Yang Hong originally came to make soy sauce with an attitude that it was not his business, but he didn't expect Liu Miao to throw the conversation to him, so he had to reply: "There should be some discrepancies, but I don't expect the difference to be big." In recent years, the county has been plagued by yellow turbans, then rampant thieves, and a slight decrease in household registration. ”

Yang Hong's words were still to the point, Liu Miao nodded slightly, and said: "In this case, why is the tax in the county decreasing year by year, so that it is several times different from the past?" ”

Yang Hong thought for a moment and replied: "Although the population of the county is not much different from the records in the books, there are many homeless people, bandits, and landless bankrupts, and many fields in the county are barren and idle due to personnel changes, which are detrimental to tax collection. ”

"What Yang Qing said is also reasonable, but the amount of taxes is really too much loss, and after paying the imperial court and paying the amount of money every year, it is estimated that there is not much left, right? I see that the government's grain stock is about to run out, and there are still four or five months before the tax collection and payment period this year. ”

Yang Hong replied: "If there are no unexpected expenses, you can barely do it." ”

Liu Miao couldn't help but sneer: "Who can guarantee that there are no accidents?" Now that it has reached the time of scarcity, it is estimated that the food in the people's homes will be exhausted, and if there are any more thieves and rebels, the number of displaced people will increase. ”

After a pause, Liu Miao asked again: "In recent years, disasters have occurred frequently, thieves are rampant, and there are not a few cases where the treasury is not good, right?" What did the previous monarchs do? ”

Yang Hong replied: "If there is a problem, the prince of the government will borrow grain from the big clans in the county, and return it after the tax is paid." ”

"This is not a long-term solution! Always rely on the big clan to help, why do you have to guard the house too much? Liu Miao frowned.

Yang Hong was silent.

"Miao was trusted by the Son of Heaven and appointed as the county guard, and once vowed to govern Jiujiang well, so that the people would be rich and the treasury would be full, so as to repay the kindness of the Son of Heaven. Now that I am facing such a dilemma, I must not let this situation continue, you are all humerus in the county, and you should work together to make a good plan. Liu Miao paused, and then said, "Miao heard that if you want to accumulate wealth, it is nothing more than opening up sources and reducing expenditure. Throttling aside, is open source possible? Yang Qing, I heard that you have been serving as a county for several years and have rich experience in governance, do you have a good strategy to teach me? ”

Yang Hong arched his hand and said, "My subordinates are foolish, at present, there is no way to increase the tax rate." ”

Liu Miao glanced at Yang Hong deeply, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, this person has talent, but he always feels that his mind is unpredictable, Liu Miao completely rejected his mind in his heart, so he unceremoniously denied: "The tax rate is controlled by the imperial court, how can it be changed at will." Does anyone else have a good idea? ”

The scene was quiet again, and just when Liu Miao was impatient and wanted to find another drag, a person suddenly spoke: "Fujun, his subordinates have a strategy, or they can solve Fujun's worries!" ”