When Yang Jiazu heard the two of them, the reason that the old man said was like this, and they also proudly straightened their waists and listened to the old man's story, and the old man talked intermittently for a while, then stopped, looked at the two and said: "It's far away, what do you two say you two are asking about?" ”

Seeing that the old man finally turned to the topic, Yang Jia immediately asked, "Do you know the announcement of the election of officials posted by the county government of Gongxian County a few days ago?" ”

"Hey! You kid really can't speak, why don't you know! This was passed down yesterday? The village is up. This is the top priority other than Zufenwei's destruction of the Dock Fort. When the old man heard the excited shouting, he kept slapping his legs, and the dust on his pants was almost obscuring the sky.

It spread so fast that even the old man in front of him knew about it.

"Then do you think it's good to let you vote for the county officials?"

"Of course! I can't stand the oppression of the county officials for a long time, last year the lord Bo finished collecting the field tax, and said that he would collect the household tax! This is not clear for his own household endowment, but fortunately, thanks to the Dou County Order, they did not succeed. The old man was indignant.

Yang Jiazu also secretly hated when he heard it, this group of people did go too far, the imperial court tax is called household modulation, which has two names, one is the income from the field is called 'tax', and the other is 'fu', its main purpose is military spending. Since the disintegration of the central power of the Western Jin Dynasty, the law of household adjustment has existed in name only, Jiangdong still continues to implement the household adjustment system, and most of the places in the north only pay the field tax, rarely pay the household tax, the states and counties have no army, only the dock fort, which peasant households are still willing to pay the household tax to them.

"Then who do you think is the right person to be the master? Will you do your best for the people of Gongxian County? Yang Jia didn't ask about the Lord Bo's greed for ink, but still asked about the election.

This time, the old man said without hesitation: "Of course, it is Su Ji, the youngest member of my family, and Su Ji can also read and hyphenate in terms of knowledge, which is not much worse than the old man of the Liu family (the lord of the county of Xuan)." On filial piety, Su Jichao, his surname Liu, more than 30 people, personally wash my feet and wipe my body every day"

Yang Jia saw that the old man was boasting about his youngest son, and he was worried that he would talk at length again, so he interrupted: "Then if it is to elect the county order, who do you think is suitable?" ”

The old man, who was still talking just now, suddenly closed his mouth, and hesitated: "Old man, I also have self-knowledge, Su Ji is still not as good as the Dou County Order, the Dou County Order is still the stability of the Dou County Order, and the county orders of the Qian County are the best in our Dou County Order, close to the people, love the people, and never make things difficult for us." As soon as the old man's voice fell, he suddenly remembered something, and asked again: "I heard that the name of the person should be written in the voting election, and I can't write the name of the Dou County Order, can you teach me, and I will vote for the Dou County Order in a few days." ”

Hearing this, Zu Lian was puzzled and asked, "Zhangren, didn't you say that your eldest son can read and break words?" Why don't you let him teach you? ”

This time, the old man was finally a little embarrassed, scratched his head and muttered: "He secretly heard it in a private school for a few days when he was a child, how can he write rare words like 'Dou'?" ”

The two of them laughed dumbly when they heard this, this is also called literacy hyphenation? Can this be compared with the master who transcribed and wrote as a knife worker? Yang Jia had to find a hard object and write the word Dou Yun on the ground, Yang Jia pointed to the two words on the ground and taught 'Dou' and 'Yun' seriously. As soon as Yang Jia finished speaking, he saw the old man furious: "Why are you so rude, who told you to write the name of Dou County!?" Yang Jia was stunned, Zu Jian was also stunned, I didn't expect Dou Yun to be so popular in Gongxian County, others writing a name of Dou Yun would also provoke the people to be angry, others relied on authority to oppress the people and didn't dare to call them by name, I didn't expect the people of Gongxian County to avoid it from the bottom of their hearts because of respect.

Yang Jia hurriedly erased the word 'Yun' on the ground and changed it to the word 'Ya', and the old man broke his anger and laughed. Yang Jiazu asked some local customs, land harvests, and trivial matters in the village, and then said goodbye and left. The old man is not very dissatisfied with the Li Zheng of the village, it seems that the village does not need to change, the village is originally elected by the local villagers, and it is not as inconsiderate as the officials appointed by the Ministry of Officials.

The old man looked at the backs of the two leaving, and secretly guessed that looking at the clothes of the two of them and the people from Qian County, it must be Zu Fenwei's people, otherwise he would not care so much about the election of officials. Thinking like this, the old man suddenly felt an itch on his shoulder, and hurriedly put his hand into his clothes to scratch it, scratched a few times and snorted comfortably, slowly took out his hand, and looked carefully and found that the old man's index finger and thumb were tightly pinched together, and it turned out that there were bean-sized lice in the middle, and the old man quickly put his left and right hands together, and dexterously placed the lice on the nail surface of the black mud, and the old man wiped his hand twice on the yellow earth at will, and put his hand into the clothes.

If the old man becomes the county lord, then my Su family will definitely have the same land as the Liu family, and within a year, my Su family will definitely be the first household in Xuan County.

Yang Jia naturally didn't know the old man's vision, this would be calculating tomorrow's election, tomorrow first elect half of the county officials, the day after tomorrow to elect the remaining officials, after the election of the county officials for three days, and finally elect the post of county magistrate.

The lamentation and sigh of the county government pavilion of this meeting echoed in the front yard of the main hall, and the county government officials were all covered with gloom, walking back and forth anxiously. Everyone really had nothing to do, and overheard the pavilion chief propose: "Otherwise, if we raise money, we may be able to keep this errand." ”

Hearing this, the subordinate Shuzuo said slightly angrily: "To whom? Dou County Order? He can't protect himself this time, so can he take care of us and exert his strength to the people of Haoxian? Even if you have Shi Chong's family wealth, it's not enough! ”

The clerk was slightly puzzled when he heard the conversation between the two: "You are a pavilion chief on an errand, you have no money and no oil and water, if you lose it, you will lose it, why are you in a hurry?" ”

The pavilion chief looked at the clerk like an idiot, I, the pavilion chief, didn't have a lot of money and oil and water, but who is the pavilion chief's errand for this talent, although the pavilion chief is small, it is better to be able to contact the county government and magnates, and it is convenient to do things, and besides, Han Gaozu is not a pavilion chief? These words were only said in his heart, and the pavilion chief did not dare to say it, so he opened the topic and said: "Who said that he exerted his strength to the people of Hao County and the officials of Dou County!" We are engaged in the power of Yang, and it is he who is presiding over this election. ”

The head of the subordinate officials, the county lord Bo Cha, nodded and said: "I can only do this, I will raise half of the money this time, and you can make up for the rest." In a few words, this was finalized.

When it comes to money, everyone changed their calm just now, and they all shouted one after another, less out of others are unhappy, and more out of flesh hurts.

Suddenly, someone said to the jailer dissatisfied: "When it comes to paying money, why don't you, the jailer, say a word, and have no money?" I'm afraid not, those prisoners in prison don't give you any less filial piety, right? ”

was pointed out by name, and the prison keeper looked only slightly embarrassed, hesitated for a moment and reported a number.

Everyone was noisy for half an hour before the final amount and the money that no one wanted to give were set, and just when everyone was about to go back to get the money, someone suddenly whispered: "Do you want to remind Dou County Order too?" ”

Lord Bo sneered when he heard this: "Don't pay attention to the surname Dou, you think of yourself as high, and you definitely don't look down on such 'dirty things'!" Last year's household survey, they all explained to him that the overcharged household endowment would give him a big head, but didn't he disturb our good deeds? ”

Du Tingchang shook his head and said: "It's not to remind Dou County to let him bribe, but to ask him about Yang's likes and dislikes, can he bribe my brothers?" It's just that he has a deeper relationship with Yang than us, so he naturally knows Yang Cheng's preferences better than us, ask him, and he will naturally not be guilty when the time comes. ”

Hearing this, the lord Bo nodded, what he said was reasonable, and he walked to the county government back house with a sigh. Only one person needed to do this, and the rest of the people did not follow to the back house, but waited in the front yard.

It's just that Bo, the owner of the back house, didn't say a few words to Dou Yun, and was coaxed out. What kind of person is Dou Yun, the sea has been up and down for decades, people are old and fine, the main Bo didn't say a word before Dou Yun came out of the main Bo's intentions, and said a word lightly, and the main Bo was blasted out.

Everyone who thought they would have to wait for a long time suddenly saw the Lord Bo walking over in a hurry, and they all didn't know what to do, so they hurriedly stepped forward to ask, and saw that the Lord Bo said angrily: "I didn't ask about the preference of the surname Yang, so I only asked about one thing." When the land of Qian County was broken, a big family bribed the surnamed Yang with 200 ends of homespun cloth and 100 ends of paper cloth, but the surname Yang didn't even look at it, and directly asked someone to transport it away as military expenses. After speaking, the lord ignored the stunned crowd, and walked outside the county office one after another.

The people who were left stunned were stunned in the front yard, obediently with a hundred ends of paper cloth in a tube, and two hundred ends of homespun cloth without even looking at it, and directly asked someone to transport it away. The good days are coming to an end.

Bo Jian, the lord who had just arrived at the gate of the county government, saw two men on horseback coming from a distance, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be the protagonist of everyone's conversation. Originally, he was going to go to Yang Jia's direction, but he turned his head angrily and walked in the opposite direction.

Yang Jia and Zu Lian walked to the gate of the county government, but saw all the subordinate officials standing in place and looking at the two with hatred, Yang Jia ignored the crowd and called two loose officials to lead the horses to the stable. Zu Jian also shook his head, blocking other people's official luck, so can you still expect the other party to give a good color? When the two of them first came to Gongxian County before, it was the golden thief Cao Peng who personally ran over to lead the horses for the two, but this time they didn't even say hello, let alone lead the horses, so they looked at them with hatred.

If you want to benefit one side, you must break the old system of redundant officials, you have to cut off the interests of some people, and you have to be resented by others. These two people think very clearly and are also conscious.

I just hope that tomorrow will come sooner and the election will start sooner.