After that technical competition, hundreds of people were finally selected to serve on behalf of the county, and then they would all be the first batch of workers. Although these workers belonged to the construction workers, they represented the beginning of the rise of the working class as a class. Little did anyone know that the working class would begin with a so-called substitute for others. And if 400,000 of Datang's current population of more than 10 million can be dedicated to this work of replacing others with forced labor, then the country's construction workers already account for one-thirtieth. And this does not include the employees who work in place of private owners, which add up to 5 percent of the country's population, or 1/20 of the population.

Under these circumstances, the strength of the working class increased considerably. Moreover, the workers will no longer be a group of people who are neglected, and a large part of them will be professional construction workers who will carry out construction work in place of the government, and these workers will gradually re-divide the labor, and finally form a relatively complete industrial system. However, at present, Jingwen has only started a beginning, and the rest is for these workers to solve the rest of the things themselves. Jingwen is only used as a guide, and whether it can really rise gradually depends on the workers themselves.

However, within two days, a large group of officials went to the countryside.

"Papapa......" A servant gently patted a family.

This is Jingwen's special request, these officials must be polite to the people, not just kick the door like in the past, they must take the initiative to knock on the door. Of course, unless the suspect is arrested, it is possible to kick the door, but not in other cases. This is to be included in the assessment of these officials, if after a month, no one complains, or when they visit each other and are not caught, then he can get a bonus. If you can do it for three months in a row. is polite to the people, without any of the official atmosphere of the past, then Jingwen can directly recommend him to work in the yamen of Chang'an, and the future will be even greater. After all, it is not easy to be a small official in the yamen of Chang'an now, after all, people have a lot more prospects than local officials, because people can have the opportunity to be officials.

Therefore, under the temptation of money and various futures, they all tried to show their way, even if they were misunderstood by the people for a while, they had to endure it.

"Poor master, what are you doing here? Come in and have a drink! Zhang Laosan said.

"Nope. I'm here today for business. The Lord Jingwen from Chang'an is going to conduct a so-called census. So we have to find out, it's really a mouth at the top, and a broken leg from the bottom! The errand officer immediately said helplessly.

"Hehe, Lord Jingwen is from Chang'an, maybe you can hug the big tree and go to Chang'an to eat!" Zhang Laosan said.

"I hope so, too!" The officer said.

Because during this time, under Jingwen's order, the officials here have changed their style. The attitude towards the people is much better, and there is no longer any face of the government. And now, when the people see the officials, they never feel any fear, but are very kind. Even. Some people even dared to joke with the officials. There are also children who will not be frightened and cry when they see the servants. If it was in the past, I'm afraid that as soon as these officials hit the streets, I'm afraid the hustle and bustle of the streets would have to calm down a little. This is caused by the evil servants of the gang.

"Okay, I don't have much time, and we'll go to the next one when we get to your house! I'm here to do the statistics. How many people do you have in your family? The official asked.

But Zhang Laosan asked suspiciously: "What else do you want to do?" I didn't come to check, I just counted the number of accounts, but now why do you have to count the population in each household account? ”

"Yes! This time, Lord Jingwen asked us not only to count the number of household registrations, but also to count the real population, so that it can be considered complete. The officer said.

In fact, the ancient population statistics were all statistics on the so-called "hukou", that is, he used a family as the statistical unit. A family generally includes a husband and wife, one or two children, or one or two elderly people. Of course, it's not all of them, but they're all about it. And they counted the households, and then they started multiplying according to this number, and the result was that the number of such people was counted. And this population number is actually very inaccurate, and often causes a lot of errors. In addition, the tax is also collected according to this type of household registration, without taking into account the changes in family members and changes in land property rights when the time passes.

Of course, Jingwen also knew that in later generations, there was a so-called one or two hundred years later, but taxes were collected according to the composition of the household registration one or two hundred years ago, and those families were rich one or two hundred years ago, but they became poor later, but they still had to be taxed according to the rich households. Or one or two hundred years ago, the family was poor, but later became rich, but still collected taxes according to the statistics of one or two hundred years ago, which is simply absurd. Therefore, after Jing Wenchu conducted a household census in Datang a few years ago, he conducted another census. Only when the census is done can the next step be planned.

"Okay, how many people are in your family?" The officer asked.

"In our family, my wife passed away just last year, and now only me and my two sons, a daughter and a daughter-in-law. However, I'm ready to hold my grandson, is this a population? Zhang Laosan asked.

"Well, then you are a family of five, and as for the child who has not yet been born, it is not a population. However, maybe in a year or two, when we take the census again, we will be counted as a population! The officer said.

"And what about the birthdays of your population? What year was he born? The officer asked.

"Do you want to ask about this too?" Zhang Laosan asked.

"Yes, too! This is all the above requirements! The officer said.

"Well, my eldest son was born in the first year of Wude, and he just got married before his wife died last year, and he will soon be ready to hold his grandson. It's a pity that my wife can't see it anymore, it's a pity! Zhang Laosan still said regretfully.

And this errand officer did not take the initiative to continue, after all, it is very immoral to uncover other people's scars. However, he also counted the birth dates of these populations, and then recorded them in a thick notebook. And this book,That is, Jingwen's paper printing workshop made a book specially used for statistics.。 (To be continued......)