Zhao Mingming entered the house, Fan Lianyin went to the ceremonial room, mainly responsible for the work of education, and Zu Daozhong went to the fishing room to do a fishing errand.

Normally, the three of them don't get together for work.

The work that can be put together must be extremely hard and prone to problems.

Zhao Mingming didn't expect that she had just joined the company for two months, and only then did she step on the one-third of the county's acre and meet the official business of multi-departmental cooperation.

The imperial court has ordered that this year it is necessary to count the population of the whole country, the number of acres of cultivated land, and the number of houses.

To put it bluntly, it is necessary to make a thorough survey of the national population and cultivated land.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China has conducted two statistics, and this is the third time.

As a small official of the household, Zhao Mingming had to go down to the grassroots level to count, because of the lack of manpower, the household transferred manpower from other houses.

Fan Lianyin, a newcomer to the rite room, was the first person to be transferred to work as a coolie, and the ancestor of the house was naturally not let go.

The three of them returned to the office with a pile of brochures, and found that the boxes they had moved back this morning were empty again.

No matter how good Zhao Mingming's temper was, he couldn't help but explode, slammed the booklet on the desk, pinched his waist and asked, "What about the white book?" ”

The hard-working old official raised his head and glanced at her, and said casually, "Everyone took it." ”

Zhao Mingming: "I moved the white book back." ”

The old man ignored her.

Zhao Mingming was so angry that she spun around in circles, and Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong hurriedly comforted her.

Zhao Mingming looked at the empty box and laughed.

When the clerks in the house heard her laughter, they couldn't help but look up at her from the desk, this person is crazy?

Zhao Mingming seemed to have thought of something funny, pinched his waist and laughed, laughing so much that tears flowed out.

Now even Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong looked at her worriedly, the princess won't be mad, right?

Zhao Mingming finished laughing, exhaled, and said solemnly to Fan Lianyinzu: "Let's go, let's go get some white books back." ”

The so-called white book, which is a blank white paper booklet, is a commonly used office supply, and it is also the fastest consumed office supplies for each yamen.

Before Zhao Mingming entered the county yahu house, he didn't know that there were so many ways to consume a white book.

Paper, paper is cheap, not only the bark can be made into paper, straw, wheat grass, bamboo, and sugarcane husk can be made into paper, so now the paper in the world is cheap, and you can buy a knife for five cents, and a hundred sheets for a knife.

This is ordinary writing paper.

Other papers, such as size, hardness, etc., have different prices, but office writing paper is only affordable, regardless of value.

So she doesn't think there is a conflict of interest in paper.

But when I entered the house, I realized that the interests of paper in the county government were too great.

Let's not talk about the supplier behind the paper, let's just say that the white book consumption of this house is that there is no box when one box is moved.

There is one in the house, and the blank paper to move home from here is only enough for three generations of children and grandchildren for three lifetimes.

These papers were all bought with the county treasury.

Zhao Mingming listened to their main books and county orders complain more than once, saying that the county government consumes too much blank paper and the cost is too high;

She also saw the paper mill steward in front of the house more than once, obviously the county government owed the money to the paper mill, but the steward of the paper mill had to grovel to ask for the arrears, and finally the one who owed the money became the uncle.

Zhao Mingming went to get the white book again, this time she didn't move back one box at a time, she took ten volumes, each gave Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong three volumes, took four books herself, and went out after receiving the pen and ink.

Because she was a bit of a thorn, the officials in the household rejected her and gave her the most bitter and farthest villages.

Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong, as newcomers, are not in a good place, not far from her place.

The yamen has a rule that more than two officials are required to accompany each time to count population and property, otherwise the data will not be accurate.

So the three of them simply made an appointment to act together.

The three of them went to the countryside with their newly received white books, and this time, they might not be able to come back for ten days and half a month, and the three of them went back to prepare a lot of dry food, and brought some food themselves, and then they took their horses to the countryside.

The county government was unimpressed by their departure, three little thorns, who had just entered the industry, thought they were righteous, but they didn't know how annoying they were.

Didn't they just use a little more paper?

It's not an overuse of money.

Zhao Mingming rode on a horse and said solemnly to Fan Lianyinzu: "I'm so incompetent, I can't even manage a single house, let alone the whole country, no wonder A-Niang let me go to the grassroots level to practice." ”

Fan Lianyin said: "How can this be blamed on the princess? Because of your status, you are not a superior person, and they will not listen to you. ”

"That's right," Zhao Mingming held the reins and said, "So, I'm going to be their head!" However, even if I'm not the head of the house now, I'm going to stop this trend."

Fan Lianyin nodded again and again, "I listen to the lady!" ”

Zu Daozhong also nodded.

Zhao Mingming said: "Let's finish the errand in hand first, and wait for us to come back from the countryside, hum!" ”

Her boss is the chief bookkeeper, and in order to get into his eyes, she must first do a good job in the most important national population and property inventory at the moment.

Only when he walked in front of the main book and put a number on him could he start against the atmosphere of the household and even the county government.

Of course, she can also directly bypass the boss of the main book, the county order, the county guard, etc., and directly put forward a proposal to the court to rectify the rule of officials, but then it will become from the top down, what is the difference between the mother and the previous mother's rectification of the rule of officials?

She wanted to change the way this time, and she also wanted to see how many ways there were to rectify the rule of officials?

When he was in the house, it was precisely because he figured this out that Zhao Mingming laughed out loud, and the depression of the past few days disappeared.

"Let's go to the countryside!" Zhao Mingming flicked his whip and ran to the front.

Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong hurriedly followed.

When they arrived at the place, they had to find Lizheng first, and he would take him to the village.

Some Li Zheng will follow the whole process, and some happen to be busy in the field, Zhao Mingming and the three of them have tender faces, Li Zheng simply led them to the village, and he ran to the field to work, "If I don't go, my mother-in-law will scratch me." ”

Zhao Mingming was not reluctant and let him go.

She took the white book to look for it one by one, but at this time it was the busy season of farming, looking for people during the day, every household was not in order, and those who stayed at home were not children, or old people who could no longer work, and they had to rely on shouting to ask questions.

When Zhao Mingming saw it, he simply didn't ask from door to door, took the white book, and ran to the field to see people cutting wheat.

She squatted aside and watched for a while, then she chose an old man to help, and somewhere she found a sickle, and as soon as she lifted her robe, she went down to the ground to help cut the wheat.

She followed Zhao Hanzhang to the field every year, and these farm jobs came easily, and she soon got along with the farmers in the field.

Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong are her little partners, and every year when the emperor advises farmers to teach and set an example in the field, they also act together, so they will.

The three of them quickly blended in, and when they returned from work in the evening, the whole village knew that there were people from above, who had come to count the population and the fields, and because they could not find anyone, they had been cutting wheat with them in the fields for a day.

In the evening, the villagers warmly entertained the three of them, and the three of them divided the food they brought and handed over the rations of the three people.

The villagers hurriedly refused, "It's all in the place, how can I let you produce food?" Isn't that chilling us? ”

"That is, now that the year is good, there is surplus food at home, there is no worry about eating, and the food is enough."

But Zhao Mingming insisted on giving, saying: "This is the rule of the imperial court, officials in the countryside must bring their own rations, and they are not allowed to eat and take cards with the people. ”

The villagers also knew that there was a rule, but ...... Even the officials who came down in previous years will still abide by it, and in recent years, everyone has been much more relaxed in this regard.

Seeing that the three young people were really called, they had the momentum of the officials who went to the countryside in the early years, and the villagers smiled slightly, tolerantly accepted their rations, and did not embarrass them.

It's just that a villager carrying a knife went to kill a chicken and give them food, and said happily to the wide-eyed three: "There has been no one in our village for many years, and now we are happy, we eat chicken." (End of chapter)