It was Hongsuke who slept during the day and had an extremely absurd dream.

First, I dreamed of an endless field, with golden waves of wheat blowing in the wind, and then, with a loud earth-shaking noise, the machines came in rows...... The huge machines, each of which was pulled by four oxen, and their eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the machinery and reach its interior, but they saw a dense mass of countless iron-toothed wooden wheels, biting and rotating with each other, driving huge worm-toothed sickles, harvesting ripe ears of wheat......

At some point, the gaze has turned to the city, and within the towering city walls are neat avenues, and countless two-wheeled, three- and four-wheeled vehicles of all sizes are treading back and forth. The streets are lined with rows of buildings, heavy with stone and wood...... In the center of the city is a huge flat-topped pyramid......

Then there was the desert field, where a large army marched in a phalanx. The outside of the phalanx were all soldiers armed with individual crossbow machines, and in the center of the phalanx were more than a dozen huge ballista carts, driven by ox tendons and gears. His gaze gradually narrowed away, as if he was standing in the sky overlooking the earth, and he was in a trance just watching a movie on the big screen...... It's not just a phalanx, it's an infinite phalanx composed of thousands of troops and horses, all over the mountains and fields, until it is beyond the reach of the eye, and it has the potential to shake the earth and shake the sky......

Suddenly, from the distant horizon appeared an army with completely different equipment, in the center of a dozen tanks, in front of which were skirmishers armed with automatic rifles, and behind them were groups of howitzers and even rocket artillery. The fire was fired, and the loud noise was deafening, and in the flames and smoke, countless shells, bullets, and rockets roared into the previous phalanx. The ballista was shattered in an instant, and the soldiers with the crossbow machines flew with blood and flesh, and corpses were strewn all over the field. The majestic phalanx collapsed in an instant......

It was Hongsuke who woke up in shock, and felt cold sweat on his back. Fortunately, as his consciousness gradually woke up, the horror caused by the dream gradually dissipated, and finally he couldn't help but let out a long sigh and said to himself: "It is up to man to make things happen, and it is up to heaven to make things happen...... That's it, that's it. ”

Only then did I realize that I was just habitually taking a nap in the afternoon. At that moment, he straightened up from the couch, stretched out his hand and rubbed his face, and asked casually: "Is Ma Deheng already out of the capital?" A doorman next to him bowed down and replied, "Captain." I have left the east gate before noon today......"

In this activity of inspecting and sorting out the tuntian fields in various localities, the military department of course did not send only Ma Jun alone, but assigned seven officials ranging from 600 stone to 400 stone to inspect various prefectures, counties, and counties. Ma Jun's destination is Yingchuan and Chenliu. comparatively. It can be regarded as the place where the tuntian was implemented earlier, and the number of tuntian is large, and the land occupies a wide area.

Ma Jun was on the road by car - a public carriage, one person was the driver, and four apprentices followed.

The driver of the carriage was surnamed Cao Mingjiao, but his surname had nothing to do with the royal family. According to the "research" of the people, the royal Cao Yuan came out of the palace, and the great-grandson Wu returned to the end of his life. Lu Zhong's fifth son was named An, and he was enshrined in Cao (in the area of Heze, Shandong in later generations). So he took the name of the country. However, by the time of Zhou Xing, King Wu of Zhou moved Cao Jun to Yi (in the territory of Zoucheng, Shandong in later generations) and renamed his younger brother Zhenduo as Cao Bo - so Zhenduo's descendants have also been Cao since then.

Of course, no one knows how reliable this kind of evidence is, so the royal family attached Cao Anzhi instead of Cao Zhenduo's Cao, purely because the previous Cao surname was relatively long...... Immediately issued an order, Cao Zhen will only be allowed to have my family in the future, and the other families will belong to Cao Zhenduo.

So Cao Jiao naturally became a descendant of Cao Bo Zhenduo, his ancestors did not take the test, only knew that he moved to Linxiang County, Changsha County in the Xinmang era, and his family background was low, and he was a subordinate of the Zhang family and the Han family when he was a teenager, and he abandoned his post for some reason. Later, Zhuge Liang went south to pacify the four counties of Jingnan and accepted him as a guest. Cao Jiao has nothing else to do, but he is exquisite and can speak well, so Kong Ming temporarily assigned him to Ma Jun to drive the car, and asked him to take care of Ma Deheng, who was not good at speaking, along the way.

Theoretically, Cao Jiao also has a 200-stone dismissal on his body, but since he is controlled by people, he does not wear official clothes, just ordinary people's clothes.

The group left the east gate of Luoyang, followed the road to the east, and a few days later stepped out of Yin, Henan, then passed through the newly established Xingyang County, and entered the boundary of Yanzhou in mid-May. The first stop is Fengqiu County in Chenliu County, where I first have to visit Dian Nong Zhonglang General Xuan.

It is the word Wentong, Nai Taiwei is the brother of Hongfu, Zheng County Ling is the brother of Jun, he was appointed to Tuntian at the beginning, and once entered Anyi as a waiter of the Ministry of Works, and he was appointed outside, so it can be said that he is the oldest official in the current Tuntian system. In the previous generations, there were agricultural school captains in various places, and the rank and rank of county guards, and those with profound qualifications, or the name of the general, could be antagonistic to the state assassin history. The coexistence of the two sets of military and political teams naturally inevitably led to bumps and bumps, and contradictions frequently emerged, and this is also the reason why the household department insisted on abolishing the tuntian system.

However, when the official system was newly established, it was Hongfu who took this problem into account, so he deliberately lowered the rank of the tuntian officials, making them slightly lower than the local officials, and strictly ordered not to infringe on the rights of the localities, especially the people, if the tun people had disputes with the common people, they would all be tried by the local officials, and the tuntian officials could observe, but they had no right to intervene. Therefore, at present, the rank of the lieutenant of the agricultural school is generally 2,000 stone or 1,000 stone, which is one or two levels lower than that of the county guard, and the general of Tuntian Zhonglang is the same as the county guard, which is 2,000 stone.

Thinking of going to visit a big man comparable to Zhuge Liang's rank, and the other party was still the brother of Taiwei, Ma Jun couldn't help but tremble in his heart. But Cao Jiao comforted him: "Before hearing the king, he had visited the Son of Heaven and the princes, and it was only one or two thousand stones, so why be afraid?" "I heard that even the emperor and the lords have seen you, are you still afraid of seeing a pawn farmer general? Anyway, you are also a minister sent by the central government to inspect, and come out with a little bit of court officials, don't pick and shrink, but make people laugh.

It's a pity that the weather is half in vain, Ma Deheng still has no self-confidence, and the center is worried.

However, unexpectedly, it was quite enthusiastic about Ma Jun, and there was no arrogance - in fact, it was Taiwei who sent a letter from Hongfu, saying that there was Ma Deheng, who was the person who was favored by his brother, and asked his brother to take care of him. At the beginning, he wanted to set up a banquet to entertain Ma Jun, but fortunately, he had a relationship with Cao Jiao, and Cao Jiao quietly told him that I, the Shangguan, had a stuttering problem, and the more people there were, the more nervous I became. Let's not make a big scene.

So just a few warm greetings, regardless of whether Ma Jun answered or not, he summoned his subordinates. One by one, the salute was followed by a discussion of official business. Ma Jun carried a copy of the accounts of the Tuntian Division of the Ministry of War, and the first task was to compare them with those of the Tuntian Division. It was sent to get the accounts, and at the same time a brief introduction said: "I led Chen Liutuntian, and Jiyin, a total of 1,203 tuns in the two counties." Scattered in nineteen places......"

Regardless of whether it is a military tun or a civilian tun, 50 people are a tun, and there is a pawn farmer. It is regarded as the most basic production and training unit. The so-called "fifty people" only count the Ding men who can work in the fields and train in their spare time, as well as some powerful Ding women. The rest of the women and children, old and weak, did not care. One thousand two hundred and three tuns. With a total population of 70,000 or 80,000, it has already reached the number of households in an ordinary county. Therefore, it is said that the lieutenant of the school of Diannong and the lieutenant of Diannong will be ranked higher than the county guard, which is really not high.

After a short time, the little official took the accounts, two thick stacks, and a basket of bamboo slips. Ma Jun looked at Shi Su with doubts, and Shi Su explained: "These are all old accounts, and I am afraid that there is no clarity." Therefore the ears were taken together. "I haven't had time to transcribe all the historical accounts on paper—"There is no paper mill in this county, and it is inconvenient to use paper." ”

The paper was improved by Cai Lun in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It began to be used on a large scale, but the main papermaking workshops are in the vicinity of Liangjing and Yizhou, in addition to some in the coastal areas of Xuzhou, after the turmoil in the late Han Dynasty, most of them went out of business, and the official official documents are still used in simple cases. It wasn't until Hongfu persuaded Jinzi that he built more paper mills everywhere, re-produced in large quantities, and ordered that all official documents should be abandoned on the premise of conditions. However, it has only been ten years since then, and with the economic level and communication situation of these years, it is really not completely popular.

Ma Jun was stunned when he looked at the heavy basket of slips, hoping that he didn't have to look through those old accounts. So he confessed to the crime, that is, he sat down behind the case, and first took the general ledger to check it -- after comparison, the number of people could basically match, but the number of acres of land was ...... It's nearly 700 acres, how do you say that?

It is not uncommon for officials or local tyrants to privately embezzle and occupy the tuntian, and even turn the tun people into subordinate slaves, and he was ordered to go down to the local area to inspect this time, mainly aimed at this problem -- sooner or later, it is inevitable that the tuntian will be handed over to the household department, and when the number of households and acres of land cannot be combined, then there will be a lot of trouble.

So he pointed to two very different numbers to show Shi Xu, and Shi Wei couldn't help frowning. He said that the fields in various places are irregular, and the fertility is different, and there is a difference between the account figures and the actual size, or the local figures and the reported figures, which is a very normal thing, but in terms of the level of measurement and the level of accounting in this year, it is not at all compatible. But at most, the difference is tens or hundreds of acres, no one really knows how to pick it carefully, this difference is 700 acres...... "There are no people in this county who dare to encroach on the tuntian, and I am afraid that there will be mistakes in the accounting." ”

Ma Jun said that I had checked the accounts of the military department repeatedly before I came, and there would be no mistake, I guess it was your accounts here that were wrong. Secretly sighing, he ordered the servant to spread out the account books of all the relevant lands, so that he could check them one by one.

Immediately, he took out an abacus from his arms, shook it with a "bang", and began to calculate. It is because he was in charge of the accounts at home before he came out, and he has been in charge of Tuntian since he came out, dealing with household registration, acres of land, money and grain, and it is impossible not to know how to count. However, he looked at the speed of Ma Jun's abacus and the method of totaling the size of various irregular fields, but he couldn't help but be dizzy, and said in his heart: "Guo is a genius, and Hongfu is in love." ”

If I had such a subordinate under my command, how much trouble would I have saved!

It took more than an hour for Ma Jun to finally find out the mistake from the vast account books, there were two places, adding up to exactly seven hundred and six acres, which was a few acres more than the accounts of the military department. When he finally let out a long breath, raised his head, and handed over the calculation results to Shi Xuan, who was silent for a while, suddenly clasped his hands in his sleeves and gave Ma Deheng a deep look.

Ma Jun was so frightened that he hurriedly avoided the seat: "Zhonglang, why is Lang like this?" "You're so much taller than me, why do you want to worship me? Shi Su looked at Ma Jun's eyes sincerely: "If you have a reluctant request, please also ask Deheng to stay for a few more days to ...... the officials in the Education Department" (to be continued......)

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