Ma Qi said strangely: "The integration of the three cities, so that there are no sellers all the time, no time can not buy goods, and good governance, how can it be called evil?" "Not to mention that we can still get lucky to catch up with some cold food, just say that throughout the day, merchants can sell goods at any time, and buyers can buy goods at any time, so it is much more convenient than the original, how can it be said to be "evil government"?

As he was talking, the servant brought a pot of hot wine, dishes, and dried fruits, and then said that there were freshly baked cakes in the morning, and there was still room for warmth, and the freshly cooked meat, which could be sliced into cold food, and three or five pickles—would you like to serve them to the three of you? Marzi said hurry, my stomach is almost hungry - "If you have a full stomach, there will be no reward!" ”

The little guy retreated, and Ma Qi turned to Chen Xun and asked again: "What is evil?" ”

Chen Yun sneered: "The integration of the three cities is naturally convenient, how can the predecessors not know?" "Didn't people think that in the past, they were fools, and that both buyers and sellers could be facilitated? Why not? It's because it's too difficult to manage. The tax rates are different between merchants and merchants, and the common people who sell something casually to earn pocket money do not pay taxes, so they should be separated to facilitate management and taxation. But now that the three are one, where are there so many small officials to manage? Wouldn't it cause chaos?

"Zheng County is not only the integration of the three cities, and the early opening and late closing, the person who does it is not to pay the ear of its taxes...... its purpose is to collect more commercial taxes, but because of the chaos of management, it will inevitably cause unfair tax collection, and in the long run, not only will it be difficult for business to prosper, but I am afraid that people will be scattered - this is the method of drying up and fishing, killing chickens and eggs.

Ma Jun didn't understand, so he asked: "What, why should there be chaos?" If it is an increase, an increase, an increase, an ......increase," Ma Qi took over his words: "If it is an increase in his officials, it may not be chaotic." ”

Chen Wei said that it was even more terrifying - "Farmers eat their fields." Workers and food. Businesses eat their breeding. Officials eat their luck. The first two are also increases, and the latter two are also subtracted. Although businessmen cannot get nothing, and officials cannot get nothing, they must be restrained and things are equalized. If a hundred peasants raise a single official, the peasants will lose half of their taxes. If ten officials are raised, the peasants will lose five cents of their taxes—the more officials there are, the more complicated things will be, and the tax burden will be heavier, and the people will be unbearable, so it can be known......"

Now that the imperial court has changed the old system, many officials have been added to the counties, and the staff who originally collected the chief officials privately and ate the rice of the chief officials have now become serious positions in the imperial court. And so it goes. Have you calculated how many times the expenses of the imperial court in terms of officials and officials are greater than before? These grains, cloths. Can it all be created out of thin air? In the end, it all has to be passed on to the common people?

After that, the imperial court increased the number of officials, such as Zheng County, and added a lot of small officials, all of whom ate the treasury, can the country really afford it? There may be no problem in a year or two, but after a long time, either the court will go bankrupt, or the taxes will be heavy, and the officials will force the people to rebel, which is all predictable!

Chen Jun was heartbroken, Ma Jun was stunned for a moment, but Ma Qi didn't care, and said with a smile while enjoying the cakes, meat, and vegetables that the little maid had just delivered: "This is not what I should say." ”

Chen Wei glared and said, "If a scholar doesn't say anything about national affairs, how can he be called a scholar?" "We scholars don't dare to tell the truth, can this country still be better?

Ma Qi said that I didn't mean that - "If the imperial court does not increase the number of officials, will the imperial examination be opened?" The old election method, one county is two filial piety, Mao Cai, and we have waiting? Therefore, it is said that others can speak, so as not to say it. "You yourself are the beneficiary of this policy of increasing the number of officials, why are you embarrassed to spray this policy?

Chen Wei said awe-inspiringly: "I should take the imperial examination, for the country, not for the life." If the test questions are involved, you must speak out about the disadvantages of increasing officials, and hope that the heavens will listen to it to turn the tide! ”

Ma Qi pursed his lips and said, don't come nonsense-"I heard that the increase in officials is the same as the imperial examination, both are public policies, if it is slandered, can you get it?" And if you want to speak to the heavens, you must first be a servant, if you can't lift it, who will listen to you? "Don't brag, where can the emperor see your exam papers? You have to adapt to the times first, pass the test well, become an official, and become a big official, so that you can have the opportunity to listen to the heavens and express your opinions.

Ma Jun pondered for a long time next to him, and finally couldn't help but interject: "That is, that is, to view the county and the ......" Chen Jun said Don't worry, take a sip of wine first, and then speak slowly. Ma Jun hurriedly took a sip of hot wine, then gritted his teeth and said word by word: "In the past, there were lawsuits, compared with the years, and the people had difficulties, and the officials refused to ask." ......"There are more officials in the county, each performing his own duties, and it is much simpler and more convenient to do things, and the control of the counties and townships is also more in-depth.

Chen Wei shook his head and said: "There are three elders in the countryside, and there is no need to ask the officials if it is a major matter." "What do the big families in the counties and townships do to eat? Isn't it just that they control the place, why do you have to work with the government for everything?

Ma Jun frowned, always feeling that his idea was wrong, but he couldn't say why. Ma Qi smiled: "Even if there are three elders, there is no share in this village." Now there are more officials, so that the imperial examination is carried out, we can have the way of eunuchs, wouldn't it be good? "If it weren't for the state's policy of increasing officials and taking imperial examinations, my Ma family would not want to regain the glory of the past - I am not as selfless as you, I think what is beneficial to my own family is "good governance", and what is not beneficial to my own family is "bad government".

The words were not speculative, and Chen Wei didn't bother to talk nonsense with Ma Qi anymore, so he had to pout and smile, and hung his head to eat. This cold meal is not very rich, but with the financial resources of his Chen family, he can't have meat in his meal - as for Ma Jun, it is estimated that he has to say it backwards: he has been born for 16 years, and he may not have no meat in his meal, for example, if he catches up with a clan banquet such as Ma Qiguanli, he can still see a little meat - now he is away from home, and he pours meat to eat, which is also an unexpected joy.

casually said: "Do you have no duck meat?" Ma Qi shook his head: "This wild goose is also." Chen Wei couldn't help but slander: Only a wealthy family like you can tell the difference between duck meat and goose meat, and people are really angry more than people......

While they were eating, they suddenly heard the sound of footsteps at the door, and the three of them raised their heads to take a look, but they saw seven or eight villagers rushing in angrily, some holding rods and sticks, and some carrying ropes. When a small official entered the door, he swept his double triangular eyes horizontally, and then raised his halberd to point at Ma Qi: "Take it!" ”

Before Ma Qi could react, he couldn't speak after stuffing his mouth full of meat, so he was swept on the neck by a townsman with a stick, and he fell down, knocking over the food table in front of him, dripping with slurry and covering his face. Immediately, several other townsmen came and held it down, and then they were bound up.

Ma Jun was stunned, just coveted, but couldn't say a word. Chen Wei was still quite bold, and quickly stood up and asked, "Who are you waiting for, why do you take people indiscriminately?" The little official glanced at him: "This must be taken together with the party!" ”

The townsmen rushed up and knocked Ma Jun to the ground on the spot. There were two more who came to get Chen Xuan, but he took half a step back, picked up the food table in front of him, struggled to hold the stick, and then flew up with his right foot and kicked a villager to the ground.

The little official couldn't help but shudder when he saw it, and he shrank back, but said in his mouth: "Thief, dare to arrest!" Chen Wei shouted: "We are scholars who should be examined in the capital, how can we be called thieves?!" ”

Chen Su Chen Zifu was originally from Changsha, and his father was a county official when he was a teenager, and he went up from Changsha to guard Sun Jian and Sun Wen from Taipei to please Dong Zhuo. As a result, the Yangren battled, and the Xiliang army was defeated, and then Sun Jian was able to enter Luoyang City, which had been burned to a white ground, and sent four external patrol posts - Chen's father was also among them. During the patrol, Chen's father robbed and killed a fleeing official, seized his belongings, and captured a servant girl as his wife, who later became Chen's mother. But because of this, he violated Sun Jian's military order, and he didn't dare to exist in the Changsha army anymore, so he led several henchmen to the west, wanting to defect to the Xiliang army. It's a pity that there is no door to enter, many parties have been tossing and turning, and the subordinates are all scattered, and finally the husband and wife settled in the martial arts Ma Estate.

Therefore, Chen Su can barely be regarded as a half-pulled general, and he also learned some superficial fist and foot kung fu with his father when he was a teenager.

It's just that two fists are hard to beat four hands, and these two fists are just two knives, and the two companions can't help at all, so they are easily tied by ropes and ropes, and they are overturned on the ground.

The little official snatched the remaining hot wine from the three of them, and drank it all in one go, and the townsmen were busy stuffing the cold meat and scones into their arms, and then escorted the three out of the restaurant. Chen Xuan and Ma Qi scolded and explained, but the officials and the townsmen all turned a deaf ear, and there was not much time, so they escorted the three to the county office and pushed them into the side hall.

There was already a high official sitting in the hall, and Chen Su looked up and saw that he had a single beam crown, an ochre yellow robe, and an ink ribbon hanging from his waist - could it be that the county order of Zheng County was not successful? Stemming his neck, he called: "The county is on top, we are waiting for ......" was only halfway through the words, but he felt a sharp pain in the crook of his leg, and he couldn't help but kneel down - it turned out to be a townsman who raised his stick and gave one of them a moment: "Seeing the county, do you dare to kneel?!" ”

It turned out that the official who sat down was not a county order, but a county magistrate of Zheng County.

According to the Han system, the large county is the order, a thousand stones, followed by the long, 400 stones, and the small counties are also long, 300 stones, commonly known as "the long official of the ink ribbon". The county magistrate, the chief and below, set up a cheng, a clerk, a prison guard, one or two lieutenants, and the main thieves, these are all officially appointed officials by the imperial court. In addition, it is also divided into Cao directors, just like the county government, Chu Cao Pengshi is mostly recruited by the county order and the chief, and is regarded as a supernumerary person.

The Wei system was different, changing the loose Zhucao to a clear official selection, household merchants, rites, resignation, resignation, Yudu, and military engineering, and each of the staff members, in addition to setting up a court to supervise the supervisor, all of which were appointed by the imperial court. It's just that Zheng County was originally not the five counties of Wei State, and the system was initially reformed, so it was inevitable that the staffing was uneven, so the county resigned and resigned, and the county lieutenant also served as a military worker. Now sitting in the hall is none other than Lu Ping Lu Junzhi, a county magistrate and resignation clerk of Zheng County, and a native of Wu County, who is also said to be the brother of the Linchuan County Shoulu Yi, and he is not a layman without a foundation.

At that moment, seeing the three of the villagers escorted in and knelt on the ground, Lu Ping couldn't help but sneer, picked up the waking wood and slapped it fiercely, his face was like frost, and he shouted: "The rebel thief, he dared to enter my Zheng County, it was really his own death!" Quickly offer you and other roots, so as not to suffer hardship! (To be continued......)

PS: Lu Ping Lu Junzhi, the deacon of this book, Mr. Geminisylph, is also, shining debut, please applaud and welcome, by the way, guess whether he will be bento?