Zhao Mingming sat in the crowd, took a blank book and opened it, chatting with them while waiting for dinner, and recording the situation at home.

This village is not big, there are only more than 40 households, at this time every household has someone here, they all know each other, the village chief is also here, how many people are in the family, how many acres of land, one ask, one can quickly complete the collection of information.

Just check and fill in the gaps the next day.

Seventeen years have passed since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the first generation of newborns have grown up and most of them have begun to join the workforce.

Some of them happen to get married at the age of sixteen, and they are already novice fathers or mothers, so there are a lot of people in each family.

Zhao Mingming finished reading the statistical booklet, there is a family, it was Jianxing three years to settle here, at that time there was only a family of three, but in less than 20 years, their family has now multiplied into a family of 18 people.

The two brothers are not young, but they have not separated their households.

Zhao Mingming was very puzzled, and asked about their children's schooling, and learned that no matter whether it was a boy or a girl, they could go to five years of compulsory education when they reached their age, so he nodded approvingly.

Being able to go to compulsory education regardless of the children in the family is a far-sighted family.

Zhao Mingming, who already has a lot of experience at the grassroots level, knows that even if the compulsory education of the imperial court is not tied and there is no need for books, there are still many people who do not want their children to spend time studying.

Both boys and girls think that reading is a waste of time and energy.

Because after five years of study, he only knew how to read and count, and he could not become an official, nor could he learn any skills to find a job more easily than others.

Because out there are people out there who have read books for three and five years.

Farming, coolies, running errands, and being a man do not need to be able to read or count.

In their opinion, children can start working as long as they can walk, pulling weeds at the age of three, planting rice at the age of five is the basic operation, at the age of seven they can already be used as half an adult, and at the age of twelve, they can say that they are ready to be parents.

So by sending their seven-year-old children to school, they are competing with their families for labor.

Not only are they unable to let their children work, but they also have to spend five years of food in vain, and in addition to the cost of studying, they also have to buy pens, paper and ink, which are all additional expenses.

Counting the money, they are reluctant to let their children go to school.

The propaganda work of compulsory education has always been the top priority of the county government offices, and every year in order to let those parents send their children to school, the people of the county government are racking their brains.

In order to achieve the goal of "not leaving a child behind", every year the ceremonial room is used by all 36 soldiers, and the parents fight wits and courage, and give both grace and might.

Not long ago, in the beginning of the school season, the county government flailed five people, even if they were persuaded to send their children to school, and finally the county order was annoyed, and directly flailed the people to show the public, and finally pulled them to repair the bridge and pave the road, and they served a month of labor before putting the people back.

After that, many people who refused to send their children to school relented and sent their children to school even if they were unhappy.

Zhao Mingming praised the Liu family for their foresight while recording at this time, "It's right to send children to school, and now when you are looking for a job outside, you have to ask if you can read or write, whether you can count, and whether you have a school graduation certificate." ”

"Those who have read for five years may be promoted to the account room, promoted to buy, those who have not read and are illiterate, they are running to the hall when they go in, and they are still running to the hall when they come out."

The villagers on the side nodded again and again, and said one after another: "Now it is difficult to find a job outside, and those who have not gone to school will suffer, but those who have gone to school for five years will also suffer, and they still have to have a skill." ”

Fan Lianyin, "Yes, now the imperial court has not opened many new technical schools, and it is compulsory to learn in five years, even if you can't get into the county school and county school, you can choose to go to a technical school, learn a skill, and find a job." ”

Although many skills of the Mo family were lost after the Qin and Han dynasties, their status among the people was not compressed to the bottom as in later generations.

Although craftsmen have been attached to the imperial court or nobles for hundreds of years, they have a certain reputation among the people because of the doctrine left by the pre-Qin Mo family.

After the establishment of the Chinese Kingdom, the emperor personally welcomed the Mojia giants into Beijing, not only sealing the Mojia giants as high-ranking officials, but also personally participating in the design of some Mojia organs.

As everyone knows, Fu Tinghan is an excellent Mozi, so the status of the craftsman has improved a lot.

And after the establishment of the Chinese state, the lowly nationality gradually disappeared, whether it is a farmer or a businessman, or a soldier and a slave, there is no longer a clear distinction.

Even the slave status was extinguished due to the cancellation of the death contract, and the people only had employment contracts from then on, and there was no longer slave status.

Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, a large number of aristocratic hermits have disappeared, and it is difficult for the people to have a large number of hidden households.

Coupled with the implementation of the uniform land system, in recent years, the imperial court has lightly paid taxes and often reduced taxes, and the black households who had been hiding in order to avoid taxes have turned themselves in.

Not only Zhao Mingming, but also the county magistrates everywhere can proudly say that there are no hidden households in our county.

If there is a black household, it must be that the policy cannot be reached, and the brain and body are still living in the seclusion of the previous dynasty, and they do not know the changes in the outside world.

In the past 17 years, a large number of people have reopened seventy or eighty percent of the land that was abandoned in the previous dynasty, and if the population continues to multiply, it is necessary to open up the land and expand the area of cultivated land to divide the land.

Zhao Mingming not only recorded the population of each village and the land that had been divided, but also went to see the unallocated public land.

This check revealed something different.

Some of the public fields are still growing weeds, waiting for the children in the village to divide up when they reach the age of 16, and some have become other people's private fields.

Zhao Mingming returned to the Yamen to investigate, "Your Majesty has been strictly ordered before he ascended the throne, and the land shall not be bought and sold. ”

"Yongye Tian can be inherited, this is because in the future, the land in the world will always be divided, and the land will not be divided again, and the land of future generations can only be inherited from the ancestors, so Yongye Tian cannot be bought and sold." Zhao Mingming said: "Yongye Tian is like this, the mouth of the field belongs to the rented land, let alone buy and sell, and when people die, they will be taken back to the state and redistributed." ”

"But this time we went to the countryside to check, and many places that were supposed to be public land were planted, and when we asked, we found out that it had become private land." She said: "Such a situation must not only exist in our county, but also in other places." ”

Fan Lianyin: "Now the population is still small, so it is not obvious, the most children born from the third year of Yuanzhen to the eighth year of Yuanzhen, and the people born in the third year of Yuanzhen will start to divide the land in two years, that is to say, from two years later, a large amount of public land will be distributed every year, and the public land will be encroached upon, and these new adult people will not be able to share the full amount, and they will not even be able to share the Yongye field......"

Isn't this robbing the people for food?

Zu Dao muttered repeatedly: "No wonder Your Majesty began to count the population and fields this year, and it will take ...... two years"

Zhao Mingming also realized the meaning of her mother's inventory of the population and fields at this time after seeing the situation of the public field, and she whispered: "This is not only an opportunity for the imperial court, but also an opportunity for us!" ”

Do a good job, get promoted, and rectify the rule of officials;

Can't do it...... That's not going to work, you have to do it well!

Zhao Mingming sent the second situation flying, she thought about what her mother was going to do, she couldn't do it well.