Zhang Shiqi wondered in his heart: Could it be that the official reputation of this official is already so big? There are still people who come to work. If it is just a party to pacify, how can the prefect have this kind of treatment just now?

Hou Fangyu thought that Zhang Laoming's mansion thought that his reputation was low, so he hurriedly said: "The student entered school at the age of sixteen, although he was stumbling in the field, but he also learned the matter of money, grain, and land with his father. When Hou Sui was the secretary of the household department, Hou Fangyu went to Beijing to serve his father, and he wrote tens of thousands of words of expositions on Tuntian, which served as a program for the household department to guide the whole country in Tuntian -- from the current situation, this document has very limited effect.

In any case, Hou Fangyu jumped from a secretary at the provincial and ministerial level to a secretary at the prefectural and municipal levels, which was considered to be from high to low, which greatly increased his success rate in job hunting.

Zhang Shiqi didn't know, still thinking about the purpose of this Hou Gongzi's visit. He didn't believe that Hou Fangyu gave up the article because he had no money and no future, and he saw through the science field. But for the deeper reason...... Is it also here to hug the prince's thigh?

"Fuzun is not from Henan, right?" Seeing that Zhang Shiqi didn't speak, Hou Fangyu was impetuous, and took the initiative to attack.

Zhang Shiqi shook his head.

Hou Fangyu immediately followed: "The student is from Henan!" The authentic Henan dialect obtained from the novel, the master wants to send people to run back and forth, and the students can still take responsibility for asking themselves. "Hou Fangyu is a native of Shangqiu, in eastern Henan, and Luoyang is located in western Henan. Although they all speak Henan official dialect, the difference in accent is not reasonable. He bullied people from other provinces and couldn't hear it, so he boldly recommended himself.

Zhang Shiqi is not uncommon to have subordinates who can speak Henan. Aren't all the people he brought from Ruyang from Henan? And he is also a Ruyang person who is only a hundred miles away from Luoyang. But if you think about it carefully, the most educated of these people is a student, and they are also inseparable students, otherwise who would want to run out casually? There are indeed not many students like Hou Fangyu who can handle it.

"If you are allowed to interact in officialdom, it will be no problem." Zhang Shiqi twisted his beard: "I just don't know if you can endure hardships and do practical things?" ”

"Ming Gong just commands. Students don't have to say anything! Hou Fangyu saw Zhang Shiqi relieved, and immediately agreed.

Zhang Shiqi nodded: "In this way, I will hire you for a month with one or two silver." If you are really useful, I will invite Xiangshang Peak to compile it, and you will be regarded as a member of the East Palace in the future. Oh, yes. These two pieces of silver are not from me, but also the wages paid to you in the East Palace account, you don't need to call me Ming Gong. ”

Hou Fangyu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that Wu Weiye had also said that private individuals were forbidden in the East Palace. He had only heard and calculated it at the time, and when he thought about it carefully, he was probably afraid that his subordinates would form a party for personal gain.

Zhang Shiqi felt that the hot water under his feet was gradually warming, so he left Hou Fangyu for dinner, and immediately let him go down to rest. Hou Fangyu was born in a large family. It's a dinner party for the lord of the mansion again, so naturally he can't wear this dress. He hurriedly went back to his residence, and saw that Wu Weiye was already drunk, so he took a few sets of clothes and ordered someone to pack them and carry them over.

Although "changing clothes" is also used as a toilet name in the market, scholars come and go, since they say that they want to "change clothes", they still have to really change their clothes, otherwise they will make people laugh.

Zhang Shiqi's dinner was not as high-end and high-grade as he imagined. Although it was also a dinner with separate seats, they were all colleagues from the East Palace who came from small families. No one is as particular as Hou Fangyu. There are a few poor people who are still rooted, and it is rare to see a meat fish, and they can't even take care of eating. Hou Fangyu was stunned, and he didn't eat a few chopsticks when he arrived in Zuihou.

However, it is precisely because these people are not from high backgrounds that they are motivated by just a good meal. Although they all drank alcohol, it was not yet dawn the next day. They had already gathered in the official room, and immediately took over the fish scale yellow book sorted out by the scribes of Luoyang Mansion, and started working without even bothering about greetings.

The Yellow Book of Fish Scales first appeared in Zhejiang, Fujian and other places in the Song Dynasty. In the 14th year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu Gao of the National Dynasty began to compile a complete and detailed book of fish scales suitable for the state to manage the land and population, and upgraded this conventional management method to the national legal system.

Among them, the yellow book is a book that records the Dingkou of each family, similar to the household registration book of later generations. It is the main basis for the levy and enlistment. Because the cover is made of yellow paper, it is called the Yellow Book.

The Fish Scale Book is a booklet that depicts the status of land ownership in each prefecture. The catalogue contains the number of each piece of land, the name of the landowner, the number of acres of land, the four boundaries, and the nature and grade of the land. The shape of each piece of land is also drawn, and each volume is preceded by a comprehensive map of the land, which looks like fish scales, so it is called "fish scale book". The basis for assessing the grain tax of each family is also in this fish scale book.

Where there is management, there is naturally anti-management. In order to avoid burdensome servitude, some people hid their populations and did not enter them in the Yellow Book. Anyway, even if you don't have a hukou at this time, it has no impact on the child, which causes the yellow book to be "distorted" with the development of years.

The distortion of the scale book is even more severe. Although the national definition of field is only "field", the folk have developed "field skin" and "field bone". The land is similar to the land use and income rights of later generations, and the land bones are the real land ownership. Because changes in land property had to be registered and taxed by the government, in order to save trouble and taxes, the people only traded land and signed a "white deed" in private, as opposed to a "red deed" stamped with the vermilion seal of the government.

The township at the bottom did so, and when it came to the county, it could only acquiesce. The county acquiesced, and even if you want to check it when you get to the prefecture, you can't check it. Once an official dares to investigate, it is bound to annoy the local elite. Because these powerful families are the ultimate beneficiaries of land annexation, they don't know how many illegal white deeds are hidden in the family, and they don't know how much grain tax they have escaped.

The reason why it can be called a powerful family is that someone must be an official in the court, otherwise it can only be regarded as a big family, and maybe it will be slaughtered during the New Year. In the Ming Dynasty, a society with a strict bureaucratic system, officials in any position can have an impact on other officials, so it is the norm for officials to protect each other, and Hai Rui is a pervert, so it is understandable that the influence of the powerful family is great.

In such a tight social ecosystem, each link is a defensive front against changemakers. The archival materials obtained by Zhang Shiqi are all very different from the local reality. It is also a rule set by Emperor Taizu Gao: the imperial power does not go to the countryside, so as not to disturb the people by corrupt officials. Therefore, these people are not afraid that the new prefect will send someone to investigate, and even if they go, they will go in vain, and I am afraid that they will not even be able to enter the gate of the village.

Hou Fangyu worked as a "secretary" for the Hubu Shangshu, and he had a comprehensive view of the fields, and as soon as he got the fish scale books sent by those scribes, he knew that there was a lot of forgery. He was ecstatic in his heart, and finally pressed it down, went to Zhang Shiqi, displayed the suspicious points he found one by one, made a statement of righteous indignation, and said: "Master, these people are deliberately playing treacherous schemes!" ”

Zhang Shiqi took Hou Fangyu's manuscript, glanced at it and threw it on the table, and said with a smile: "Is there a conspiracy, how can it be decided based on just one side?" In this way, you can take my name card to those big families in Luoyang Mansion and ask them to make a note on the authenticity of this fish scale atlas. If there is any discrepancy, let them present their own evidence to show that the government is fair and strict. ”

Hou Fangyu was stunned for a moment, and said secretly in his heart: Isn't the old man of the mansion confused? These suspicious points are all large families deliberately concealing their land properties in order to pay less grain tax. Who will recognize more? And let them note? How could they admit it to themselves?

"Well, it is better to write an official notice and send it to all counties, and if there is any objection, it must be sent to the government within five days, and the date of receipt by the government office shall prevail. After five days, the government did not recognize anything. Zhang Shiqi still looked at Hou Fangyu with a smile: "I'll leave this matter to you, and I'll also test your writing." ”

Hou Fangyu's writing has always been sharp and concise, which is most suitable for writing official documents, and he is not pretentious at the moment, and he wrote hundreds of words with just a cup of tea, and explained the ins and outs of the whole thing clearly and sent it to Zhang Shiqi.

Zhang Shiqi is not good at writing, but he is an expert in official writing, and when he saw that Hou Fangyu wrote very much of his own thoughts, he only changed two or three words and allowed it to be published.

The scribes in each room soon knew about the moths made by the new mansion, and they ran around on the surface, collecting confirmation letters from wealthy families, and they cooperated very much, but they were already laughing and hurting their stomachs behind their backs, and they all thought that Zhang Shiqi could be bullied in this old winter. (To be continued......)