It's not easy to make things difficult for yourself, Zheng Lang said: "I have seen many places in Taiping Prefecture, although Jiangnan is good, it may not all be rich people, some people are very poor, they didn't shout, why do you shout?" Get up first, don't cry, what has become of this official on his first day in office? ”

Fortunately, it is not taboo, otherwise it will be very moldy.

"Whoa."

got up one by one, and then choked up and shouted bitterly, there were many people, there were sixty or seventy people, Zheng Lang said helplessly: "You choose three representatives, and go to the state to speak." ”

There is still something to do, Wang Zhizhou wants to send a send, this is the etiquette in the officialdom, and some so-called "officials" in Taiping Prefecture want to get acquainted. These days, I have met some officials, and the second-in-command with real power has passed the judgment, recorded the affairs and the household, and joined the army, this is Taiping Prefecture, if it is a larger state, there are also judicial and managerial officials who join the army, as the state Cao. As well as the shogunate, the secretary and judge of the festival, in addition to the observation of the envoy and the magistrate, because the Taiping Prefecture is not large, there is no prison, and some special states also have a supervisor, responsible for the collection of liquor tax, mine management, shipbuilding, warehouse cashier accounts, and it is not permanent. These official officials are all acquainted, but there are also some minor officials below, that is, unofficial officials who are not paid to assist the surname of the Errand Law. Most of these people don't know each other, and although they have all kinds of bad drawbacks, they can't do without them if they want to govern the locality.

So get acquainted.

As for the affairs, today I will not move first, but take my time.

What affairs to deal with, in the handover process, Zheng Lang has a bottom in his heart, after all, it is Jiangnan, the heart of the country, there is no disaster of the military revolution, as long as there is no major disaster, in fact, there is not much of a matter, even if there are some affairs, there is no urgency.

But I have to talk to these officials, big and small.

Let them know their bottom line, the time of perfunctory tasks like Wang Zhizhou in the past is gone, let's work hard.

After entering the state government, there were less than 20 officials, large and small, saluting one after another, as well as all the yaqian, which is also to be known, there are more than 300 yaqian in three counties and one state in Taiping Prefecture, and more than 60 in the prefecture directly under the state. As well as the box soldiers, there are more than 180 people, most of them are naval troops, and there are some Li Yun, tribute Yun, water transport, Gonggongdu, shipbuilding and military affairs, Buyi, prison city, Zhuangcheng, unloading money prison, iron carpenter battalion, wine battalion, bamboo craftsman battalion, Xiaoyong, etc., most of the Taiping Prefecture is not set up. But when it comes to a big mansion like Jiangning Mansion, almost all of them are complete.

More than a dozen van soldiers, ten generals, undertakers, and guards will also be seen. They were not only responsible for the small engineering work in Taiping Prefecture, but even sometimes assisted the government in handling emergency affairs or thieves, such as several conflicts on the lake, Wang Zhizhou mobilized troops to respond.

So there are quite a few people, nearly a hundred.

Wang Zhizhou introduced them one by one, and after the introduction, the officials and the yaqian wanted to send him to the dock to say goodbye.

This is Wang Zhizhou, if Zheng Lang leaves, and some political achievements can be obtained, the local literati will have to write poems and sing and sing before Zheng Lang can be let go.

The three deputies were elected and walked in.

Zheng Lang listened to them.

In fact, I already knew what I was talking about, and it was an errand soldier.

There are four kinds of errand service method, the official errand, the yaqian errand, the senior household longbowman poor, and other errands, such as the poor undertaker, poor manpower, poor hand strength, scattered official errand, urge, drive poor, and the buckets, digs, scales, pickers, warehouses, warehouses, and even the sedan chair that carries the sedan chair, the ferry, etc., all belong to the errand service.

Of course, it is good to be a bad official, to control the state and county affairs, and even a very small number of officials can climb to the official level.

After all, it is a minority, and among the nearly 800 errand soldiers in Taiping Prefecture, there are only a few dozen people. However, the rich are unwilling to bear other errands, such as the management of things, and the front of the government that must manage the property is guaranteed by the family property, and if there is any errand, the family will be bankrupt immediately. The same is true for the investigation of cases, if there is a mistake, the commander shirks his responsibility, and he will be flogged, dismissed, or even punished. Therefore, it was originally a very important position in front of the ya, which was held by first-class households, but after a long time, it gradually transferred to the second- and third-class small and medium-sized landlords.

The third category, archers are not in Taiping Prefecture, these are mostly in the border states and counties, but there are elderly household chiefs, which is slightly better, but there are also strong men, who need to be skilled in martial arts, often practice, and do not have a little bit of money, but there is an important labor force missing in the family, so the family property is destroyed.

The fourth category is more extensive, scattered, archers, hand power, strong men and even the imperial court tribute tax, and the payment of goods is thousands of miles away.

In the past, the big landlords transferred to the small and medium-sized landlords, and the small and medium-sized landlords transferred to the rich people, and the rich people transferred to the poor people. Ouyang Xiu later said that the seventh-class household Gao Rong and the family business were directly in the fourteenth Guanwen Province, and his people sold Songhao for a living, the fifth-class household Han Hei, the family business twenty-seven outlines, the eighth-class household Han Mi, and the family business nine Guanwen, all of whom were in the errand service. Think about it, Han Mi only has a family property of nine yuan, and the price of rice is about 400 yuan, and the comprehensive price may be six or seven hundred, seven or eight hundred yuan, including real estate, real estate, livestock, furniture, trees, and other non-existent industries, and the total assets are only nine yuan, what kind of poverty will it become. If one of the main laborers of the family is removed from the errand service, will the family still have a good life?

But the errand has to be apportioned, and the only thing to say is that whoever gets shot is unlucky.

That's how it has been all these years.

But when Zheng Lang arrived, he was suddenly so high-profile, and his back was so deep, it was as unlikely as before, so the errand servants would inevitably return to the top three households, once they were concentrated in the top three households, except for a few really top families, no one could stand it. For example, if you run a boat, you may earn hundreds of dollars, but it takes several months to run a trip, there is no penny, and there are risks on the road.

After saying that, the three of them burst into tears.

"Get up."

The three of them got up and wept again.

Zheng Lang paced a few steps and muttered, "Errand duty, exempt from service." ”

"Exemption," a middle-aged man heard it with the tip of his ear, and said in surprise: "It's good to be exempt, we are willing to take the money out and donate it to the state, so that the state can hire people, we have something to do in our family, but there are many literati in the state, and some literati have no food and clothing, this is the way to learn from each other's strengths, Dr. Zheng, this is a good idea." ”

"What did I say!" Zheng Lang said angrily.

As long as you know a little bit of history, who doesn't know Wang Xiaosan's Qingmiao Law, Recruitment Law, Fangtian Average Tax Law, Farmland Water Conservancy Law, Armor Protection Law, General Art Law, Uniform Loss Law, City Change Law, and Exemption Law. This conscription law is the Exemption Law, which was established in response to the various drawbacks of the Errand Law.

The end result?

"You go back first, and the official will think of a way for you later. Also, this official is a human being, not a star, if you want a better life, everyone works together. ”

"Zheng Zhizhou, did you promise us?"

"I just promised you to think about it."

What kind of answer is that?

The three of them left at a loss.

Sending Wang Zhizhou away, he said some words to the officials, the words of malnutrition are mainly to know, no matter how good he says now, it will not work.

Then go home.

Call out a few students and talk about this errand law.

It is mainly for Sima Guang and Wang Anshi to listen, in fact, at the beginning of the exemption law, Sima Guang also agreed, or put forward it earlier than Wang Anshi, "The minister foolishly thinks that all peasants should not be prepared except for taxes, and they should recruit people before the ya, and make up for each other with advantages and weights, and if they are insufficient, they should be put forward by the two households of Fangguo." But it was not implemented, and then when I arrived at Song Shenzong, I saw a concert, thousands of miles from the front of the Beijing Division, and the materials escorted were only seven coins. It didn't matter if I spent a few yamen to go to Beijing to catch up with the seven coins, but the officials still blackmailed as usual, and they couldn't knock it, so they just had seven coins, and if they knocked it again, would they have it? So under the stalemate and delay, there was no storage in the capital for more than a year. What a lot of money!

Song Shenzong was mad and put the exemption law on the agenda despite the controversy.

Wang Anshi is still very careful, saying that he wants to do it from house to house, and it is the same, so he can only slow down, so it took a total of three years from the pilot to the discussion to the improvement and then to the whole country.

The intentions are good, but the implementation is all deviated, Wang Anshi is changing the law, it is better to collect money, helping the people is secondary, and making up for the empty treasury is his main goal. Under this mentality, the officials below are even more chaotic, and new evils arise. Not only this law, but other laws were opposed by conservative ministers.

For example, Sima Guang, his family is a top big family, first of all, he violated the interests of his family, seeing Wang Anshi change the law, specifically for big households, big landlords, big businessmen, Sima Guang was not happy, at this time he forgot that he tried his best to praise Liu Bei's people-oriented sentence when he repaired "Zizhi Tongjian", maybe in his eyes, this people-oriented, not the people, but the scholars, the people are not people, so after coming to power, the new law was all knocked down. After Wang Anshi, who was sick in Jiangning, heard about it, he sighed, even if there are disadvantages in other laws, why should he even abolish recruitment?

One was greedy for money, the other was dark and conservative, and he did not repent until he died, and the split of the Song Dynasty began.

"It's good to use money to replace the service," Sima Guang said.

"Doctor Zheng, this is a good idea, although the imperial court is not allowed to do this, the doctor can play and use Taiping Prefecture as a pilot to reduce the burden on the people," Lu Gong wrote.

"There is no need to play, once it is played, there will be controversy in the court, Your Majesty said to the doctor, I will take a look, you can do it quietly, and then you can see the results, and then there will be less controversy." Wang Anshi said.

At least now there is no dispute between the two.

Zheng Lang smiled and asked: "You just think of its benefits, but you think of its difficulties, how to convert it into labor with money, the situation in each state and county is different, and the income is different, how to convert it?" ”

"This ......"

"I've said before that every decree comes out with good intentions, but it's not the same when it comes to implementation. For example, a moderately rich household, go to Beijing once, it takes several months to go back and forth, all the family properties are deserted, and the loss can reach hundreds or thousands of dollars, but after the service, only a few dozen dollars can be paid to calmly hire a poor person to serve on their behalf, and dozens of dollars are enough for the poor to pay them. However, the implementation of the Forced Labor Law itself is to alleviate poverty and suppress the rich, what will be the result after decades of implementation? How many fourth- and fifth-class people are involved. If, in the future, the local officials pretend to be the high-class people to deal with the errand service, in order to make up their political achievements, or to accumulate wealth, it is not surprising for the rich to have a few dozen dollars, but for the poor people, it is enough to make them bankrupt. Don't say it's impossible, it's 100% possible, so what? ”

"Who started this and who ended up being the scapegoat?" Cui Xian asked coldly.

"Exactly, when the time comes, there will inevitably be stirring by the people, and if you use money to replace the service, it will only be the drudgery of the yaqian, the head of the household, the archers and the miscellaneous servants, and those big officials will refuse to let go."

Can you let it go? The servants are good, relaxed, and have real power, with real power, using the authority in their hands, and running their own family properly, they will only expand their strength even more. This will not let go, after Wang Anshi changed the law in history, he did not move this piece, and the controversy was too great.

He also said: "When this policy was first implemented, it was mainly from first-class families, and after years of transformation, I was unconsciously affected. Starting with money for service, this hidden danger will inevitably be raised, and second- and third-class families and rich households will inevitably be dissatisfied, and the same use of money for service is also unfair. Or to levy money with assets, are the first-class large families willing? Although it may not be a lot of money for them, how many people think that there is too much money? What is the first-class big family, bureaucrats, nobles, big lords, big businessmen, and meritorious descendants, these are the elite of the country, and once they are offended, they can only step down in the end. Not to mention the implementation. Have you ever thought about the consequences? ”

"If the ruler of a big country cooks small fresh, why is it so ......" Wang Anshi sighed for a long time.

"I'm very happy to hear your words," Zheng Lang touched his head.

Cui Xian held her cheeks and said: "Official, there is another way for concubines, officials want to do practical things, if they are afraid of controversy everywhere, they can't do practical things." But the contradiction can be transformed, for example, since someone asks for an official, the official can use some strategies to make them skip the level and write a book, play a joint name, and send it directly to the imperial court. With the status of an official, the imperial court must regard it when it sees the report of Taiping Prefecture. Let them put it forward by themselves and entrust officials to conduct pilot projects, and if there is controversy, it has nothing to do with officials, it is proposed by local wealthy households, but it is officials who have merits. Why not? ”

In her eyes, there is only the difference between success and failure.

There are benefits, but there are also many consequences, so they try to keep the benefits and push the disadvantages onto others...... Indeed, this head Zheng Lang can't be opened, and there is a dispute, and one by one will inevitably point the finger at Zheng Lang. But if it is brought up by the rich households, is it pointed at the rich households?

is also black-bellied, and utilitarian, and has been following Cui Youjie for a long time, Cui Youjie still intends to cultivate it, and is familiar with officialdom, so he came up with this idea.

He also said: "Taiping Prefecture is not like Hebei and Hedong Prefectures, there are few large households with backgrounds, isn't this the reason why officials came?" If the imperial court approves, it will be implemented, and then these three consequences will be stated, so that the imperial court can be cautious. It also blocked the way of the official's advice. If they don't approve it, the rich can't blame the officials. ”

"Little Master, this is a good idea," Wang Anshi and Sima Guang said.

"Let me think about it again," Zheng Lang didn't agree immediately, and then looked at Cui Xian's beautiful thin lips, and thought to himself, some people say that women with thin lips have scheming, and that's the case? Thinking of this, I couldn't help but laugh.

But I am very calm in my mind, it is best not to get involved in this exemption law, it is as simple as Cui Xian said, once you are involved, you will not want to be safe in the future.

But first write a copy of the fold and hand it to the capital.

talked about the role of reclamation and Lianwei, and focused on a few points. The first is that in order to ensure the safety of the people, the small wei must be connected to the big wei.

It must be linked, the flood season comes, the flood can be more than ten meters higher than the polder, Hugh said that the small polder, is tens of thousands of acres of polder, once the embankment breaks, two or three hours, the whole polder area will become an ocean, there are better boats, the boat can escape, but the home will definitely be washed away by the flood. It's also not safe, if it breaks at night, it can't be a boat, especially those hundreds of acres and thousands of acres of small polders, which will become a small lake in a few minutes, and people will inevitably die. If there is no ship, it will be even more miserable.

When the flood season comes, there are more people patrolling and guarding, and it will be broken at any time, but it is better than a number of hundreds or thousands of scattered polders.

Secondly, the lake and the private enclosure. Huze can be planted for the people to nourish the family, but it cannot be occupied, encroaching on the poor people's poor livelihood, and using the deeds of the six tigers of the Zhang family as an example, let alone blocking it when enclosing the polder. Once encircled, all the lakes were nationalized so that they could be planned in a unified manner.

Private enclosures are not standardized, and they cannot be allowed to enclosure. In the compromise, it was repeatedly said that it was imperative to circle the polder, the output of the polder area is high, the country's population is increasing, even if the imperial court prevents it, and eventually one polder area will inevitably appear.

This is the trend of the times, but private circles are indiscriminate, small, non-standardized, and dangerous. Moreover, there is no unified arrangement, indiscriminately invading waterways and impounded lakes, and when the flood season comes, the waterways have nowhere to drain, and many polders will be washed down, and there is no water to irrigate during the dry season. It was necessary for the imperial court to make unified arrangements and plans, setting aside enough waterways to discharge floodwater, and enough lakes to store water. This court is not a Beijing official, and there are many northerners in Beijing, who may not understand, and they cannot be county officials. Therefore, each circle is not only not given to private circles, but also must be personally inspected by the governor and repeatedly verified before it can be circled. Otherwise, the encircled country will not be recognized, and the consequences of the accident should be borne by itself.

This is not a reform, it is a water conservancy, and it is also on paper, but what Zheng Lang is asking for is an edict, with the edict, and he has a legal excuse, the large-scale development of Taiping Prefecture can be implemented!

Otherwise, you can't move.

This setback, especially in Lianwei, is a far-sighted proposal that is epoch-making.

After reading it, Third Uncle Lu sighed: "Sure enough, he has a big heart. ”

Look at the long term!

Cui Xian listened to Uncle Lu's praise, smiled happily, and scratched Zheng Lang's leg under the table with her hand.

The official is capable, and he also has face.

But Zheng Lang is also afraid that in history, Wan Chunwei was built by Zhang Yan, the transfer envoy of Jiangnan East Road, and Xie Jingwen, the judge, with the assistance of Shen Kuo and Shen Pi brothers, and his merits are immeasurable. It was precisely because the small polder on the side was broken, that some people in the court were red-eyed and spread rumors, saying that Wanchunwei was broken, and the court removed Zhang Xie and the others.

This is a real officialdom.

Therefore, when doing anything, you must say ugly things first.

I make political achievements, don't bite me, bite me and turn these old songs out, and you will be killed as well.

Some officials saw Zheng Lang taking the six tigers of the Zhang family, and they were also afraid, so they were careful to deal with the contradictions in the three counties, so there were not many affairs.

Zheng Lang made some more arrangements.

After more than ten days, he gathered the main officials in the state and said, "It is possible that I will revise "The Mean" next year. ”

The officials are speechless, what else can they say?

Zheng Lang said: "The golden mean, the main purpose is morality. Therefore, this official attaches great importance to morality, and today he accompanies a certain line to take a look at moral people. ”

The thunderbolt method is only to deter, and the main thing is to establish a good social atmosphere in the territory. So there was this line.

Took the officers on board.

There are some things on the ship, covered with silk cloth, and it is difficult to ask. But I saw one person, Cui Xian. knew that she was Zheng Lang's little lady, but this was not a family banquet, but she went out to do things, and she was not a little maid, why did he let this beautiful and moving little lady show up.

looked at each other very strangely, and it was not easy to ask, Zheng Zhizhou, you are not in line with etiquette.

It's not fun to talk about yourself.

Not only Cui Xian, but also a few students, as well as Jiang Xing'er and Si'er, Third Uncle Lu, Zheng Lang said: "Everyone, this is a touching journey. ”

A touching trip?

Everyone was even more eccentric, Zheng Lang didn't explain much after speaking, and said to the boatman: "Drive the boat." ”