Chapter 115: Relaxation
Lu Weibiao was transferred out of Mizhi County and promoted to the capital, which caused a great shock in Mizhi County, and the counties of Shaanxi were not welcomed, and they could be promoted to the state of the same knowledge from the six products, even if it was very good, people with backgrounds, who would want to come to the barren land of Shaanxi, Chongzhen in the first year of the first year of Shaanxi, after Zhang Douyao, the magistrate of Chengcheng County, was killed by Liukou, many officials talked about Shaanxi's color change, if someone was sent to Shaanxi or Liaodong as an official, it must have offended a certain adult in the court, and suffered from exclusion, Let you come to these places to endure hardship. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Beijing officials and local officials are by no means the same, even if it is some of the so-called Qingshui Yamen in the capital, even if it is an official of the same rank, the identity of the Beijing official is much more noble, for example, the supervision of the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the seventh grade, compared with the local seven-grade magistrate, it can be said that it is a heaven and an underground, and the people supervise the imperial history and send them as officials, either directly to the governor's yamen, or the political envoy, or to the government office, and may even be directly appointed as the prefect of the four products, and the county has no such possibility.
Lu Weibiao left Mizhi County, the county temporarily acted as the county governor, this so-called acting duties, is a thankless thing, the county is an eight-grade official after all, and most of them are famous, it is almost impossible to be promoted to the county, so it is impossible to do things lightly, you must know that the local relationship is complicated, all kinds of interests are entangled in it, the so-called in its position to seek its own government, the name is not right, it is not easy to do, if there is any problem, the county Cheng can not eat and walk, it will definitely be a loss, Therefore, it is best to go with the flow and ignore anything, unless there is a major matter that has to be dealt with.
The county does not care about anything, this is an excellent opportunity for Wu Fanhui, all the people who settled in Ma'anshan Village have implemented their household registration during this period, and they have been registered in the small yellow book, and their household registration indicates that they are the guards of the Wu family, or they are subordinates, and these people have an official identity and can enter and exit the county.
During this period of time, the strength of the Wu family began to gradually develop and reveal, with the praise of the former magistrate, and the announcement of the county government, no one dared to underestimate the Wu family, the remaining four families in the county, except for the attitude of the He family, was not particularly clear, and the other three families did not hesitate to move closer to the Wu family.
The most obvious change is that the family comes forward to mediate the dispute, which is actually the power of the family, who has great power and power, who can make decisions in mediation and make decisions directly, whether the two sides of the dispute are convinced or unconvinced, must comply with the implementation.
Unless the last resort, ordinary people will not go to the county government to fight a lawsuit, which may mean that the wealth is ruined, it means being blackmailed, and the officials in the county government, including the officials, are not eating dry food, so the disputes on weekdays are to find a respected person to help mediate or decide, this kind of decision or mediation, in many cases, is more powerful than the decision of the government.
In the past, almost all of the disputes and mediation matters in the county were brought forward by the He family, but now the Wu family has begun to come forward, and the attitude of the county government is also subtle, even the county lord who acts as the county governor has said several times that the Wu family has done a good job in mediating civil disputes, which has reduced a lot of burden for the government, and it is indeed to help the government.
With such a premise, Wu Fanhui was not idle during this time, he finally did something that he thought he should have done a long time ago, and it also made his heart a little more peaceful.
Many people who originally lived in the Wu family in Ma'anshan Village were reduced to homeless, these people had wandered in the direction of Jiazhou and Suidezhou, many people died on the way, and some people had no way to return to Mizhi County, when they returned to Ma'anshan Village, they found that great changes had taken place here, the land and houses were all owned by the Wu family, most of the caves were renovated, and spring wheat was planted in the ground.
These people begged Wu Fanhui to take them in, after all, they were cornered, and if they continued to be homeless, it would be a dead end.
Wu Fanhui took in these people, and allocated part of the land, so that these people are responsible for cultivation and management, after all, there is a lack of people under his command to cultivate the land, just like the military household system formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Fanhui is completely disagreeable, soldiers are soldiers, duty is to protect the family and defend the country, the country should bear the military salary of soldiers, and requiring soldiers to farm is to put the cart before the horse.
Wu Mianqing also agreed with Wu Fanhui's decision, although it turned out that those people of the Wu family in Ma'anshan Village were all ostracized, and the ancestors also had words left, and these people were not allowed to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, but this is all a hundred years later, and they still stubbornly adhere to the words of their ancestors, which is tantamount to sticking to dogma, which is obviously inappropriate, and this is obviously harming the interests of the Wu family.
Through contact with the officials of the county government, Wu Fanhui also knew another thing, that is, the imperial court issued the "Baomin Training", requiring all localities to strictly implement it, this so-called "Baomin Training" is actually the strengthening of the Baojia Law, which strengthens the power of the village and town elders and Li Zheng, requires them to strictly govern the registered population of villages and towns, and prohibits the random flow of people.
The reason for the "Instructions for Protecting the People" is said to have been put forward by Yin Liu Zongzhou, the governor of Shuntianfu, and the reason for the large number of rogues in Shaanxi, as well as the migration of a large number of people due to the invasion of the Later Jin Tartars, all of which led to the loss of control over the management of the population registration by the elders and Li Zheng in villages and towns, and the Yamen of Fuzhou County was unable to figure out the situation.
Although he did not see the content of the "Essentials for Protecting the People", Wu Fanhui had a bad opinion of the famous Liu Zongzhou, who could be described as a great Confucian in the late Ming Dynasty and had extraordinary achievements in the study of Confucianism.
But such a great Confucian put forward the "Baomin Xunyao", which was more severe than the Baojia Law, trying to firmly confine the people in their own villages and towns, and trying to eliminate the rogue and eliminate the bandits who were full of wolf smoke through the "Baomin Xunyao".
Of course, under the current situation, it is not practical to expect Liu Zongzhou to propose a better way to solve the famine in the north and solve the problem of rogue bandits and bandits.
In fact, under the current situation, it is basically impossible to implement the "Baomin Training" in all parts of Yan'an, on the one hand, a large number of people have fallen into exiles and starvation, and many people have joined the ranks of the rogues, on the other hand, the large-scale famine is still spreading in various places, and it has not been alleviated in the slightest, so that the Zhuanghu family stays in the village and town, that is, they are starved to death.
Wu Fanhui knew that this "Essentials for Protecting the People" would not be able to be thoroughly implemented in the north and the Central Plains and other places, and would eventually be reduced to a dead letter, but the emperor and the imperial court would certainly not have thought that the "Essentials for Protecting the People" that they used to strictly control the people would become another tool for some people in the Yamen of Fuzhou County to accumulate wealth.
Some people who want to solve their household registration can take advantage of the time of the clean-up by bribing them to settle down, and all the things and history they have done in the past will be purchased and sold with the resettlement.
There are policies and countermeasures, and orders and prohibitions have become empty words.
It is also because the new magistrate has not yet arrived, Wu Fanhui knows more things from the county government, and what surprised him the most is that the Fuzhou County Yamen has set up a lot of taxes under the name of a cow's hair, and the bearers of these taxes are the barren people.
For example, when the Yan'an Mansion began to collect the so-called tranquility fee when the Liukou appeared, and when the imperial court sent a large army to Shaanxi to exterminate the Liukou, the governor Yamen received a document from the Yamen of Fuzhou County that the grain and grass were urgent, and in order to solve the expenses of the army, a extermination fee was set up.
Carefully calculated, there are more than ten taxes levied under various clever names, and the total amount of these taxes far exceeds the taxes stipulated by the imperial court, and when the yamen at all levels collect taxes, they first collect many taxes established by the local government, and then the taxes prescribed by the imperial court.
What's even more odious is that because of the large-scale famine in Shaanxi, the imperial court has actually exempted many local taxes, which is clear from the emperor's decree, but the yamen at all levels turned a deaf ear and still collected taxes, so that the desperate people finally chose to riot and rebel.
These things, those senior officials in the county government are aware, after all, most of the things have to rely on them to do, but this is also an absolutely confidential matter, can not let the people know, it is said that Chengcheng County magistrate Zhang Douyao was beheaded by the rogue, also because of the forced collection of taxes, and some news that should not be leaked has also been spread.
After almost two years, Wu Fanhui finally knew a lot of things behind it, although the relationship between him and his predecessor Lu Weibiao, the county magistrate, was good, but Lu Weibiao didn't talk about these things at all, if it wasn't for Lu Weibiao's promotion to the capital, he still wouldn't know a lot of things, just based on the records of history books, many things are not clear.
It seems that the emergence of the rogues is not only a natural disaster, but also a man-made disaster, the common people are indeed honest, if they are not oppressed and dried up, if they are not cornered, if they are not completely ignited by the anger in their hearts, they will never rebel.