The group walked for three days before coming to Baiyang County.

Along the way, Zhang Beichen saw that in the territory of Qin, there was almost a lot of mourning. Displaced refugees can be seen everywhere, and there are no natural disasters this year, these displaced people are just caused by man-made disasters.

The double oppression of the war and the landlords left them hungry and clothed. But even so, there were no human corpses on the road, some were devoured by wild beasts and demons, and some were eaten by hungry refugees.

As a person living in an era of peace, seeing such a scene for the first time, Zhang Beichen felt deeply in his heart.

The group came to Baiyang County Ya, which looked like it was just a private house, in tatters.

"What about the people in the government?" Hu Cheng shouted outside.

After shouting for a while, I saw an old man come out with two thin and short farmers.

"Who are you? I can tell you, there is nothing in this yamen, and you have to rob it, go somewhere else!" The old man looked at them with a look of fear.

Hu Cheng pointed at Zhang Beichen and said, "This is the newly appointed county magistrate of Baiyang County, Lord Zhang Beichen. Who are you? ”

"Lord Prefectural?" When the old man heard this, he quickly knelt down and said, "The villain is Liu Wen, the chief bookkeeper of the county, and these two are the county's errand officers." ”

Zhang Beichen showed him the documents that took office, and confirmed that it was the county order, Liu Wen sighed with emotion: "My lord, you can count it as coming, if you don't come again, this yamen will be demolished by those Diao people!" ”

Zhang Beichen sat in the hall, looked at the tattered scene in the yamen, and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Liu Wen explained: "Baiyang County has only been a county for three years, and it is because it wants money but no money, and no one wants people. ”

"Isn't there an appropriation from above?" Zhang Beichen asked.

"The Qin State fights wars every year, and every year it has to find money, food, and people from all over the country, how can there be any money allocated to us?" Liu Wen complained, "The income of the county government depends on the tax revenue of the county and the output of the official fields. ”

"In Baiyang County, we can't receive a few taels of grain all year round, and the official land is small and barren, so we can't support ourselves, let alone find a way to pay taxes."

Zhang Beichen looked at the county documents and asked, "I see that the population of Baiyang County has a lot of fields, how can this be?" ”

At the mention of this, Liu Wen looked even more bitter and said: "Yes, there are a lot of fields and people in Baiyang County, but they are all from the Bai family and the Yang family. Most of the fields in the county are their private fields. ”

"They rely on their huge power, and every time they pay less taxes, they often pay less than one-tenth of the grain! As for the population, most of the people in the county have gone to the fields and become slaves of these two families, and they are not under our control. ”

When Zhang Beichen heard his description, he knew why the first few times of the simulation, the Qin State had perished. In this case, if the Qin State is not destroyed, who will be destroyed?

The law still has to be changed, this slavery is not suitable for agricultural production, and it must be abolished! But reality is not a simulation, and it can't be done with a single sentence.

Even if he convinces the Yingyi people to abolish slavery now, it is estimated that the decree will not be enforced, because the power of the old clan is too strong.

"The first test that the Yingyi people gave me was indeed not simple." Zhang Beichen also felt tricky, and the start was in hard mode.

As he was thinking, there was a shout outside, and someone was smashing the door of the county office.

"Who's making a fuss?" Zhang Beichen shouted.

I saw two men swaggering in, and the officials didn't dare to stop them.

One of them looked at Zhang Beichen and asked, "You are the new county magistrate?" ”

"I am the county magistrate, who are you who dare to make trouble in the government office?" Zhang Beichen asked.

The two looked indifferent, and one of them said, "I am the servant of Master Bai, and the master asked me to tell you." Hurry up and let the people of our Bai family go, and in addition, the lord invites you to be a guest at home today. ”

Another said, "I am a servant of the Yang family. Our Master Yang also wants to invite adults to the mansion as guests, and it is best to bring back the people of our Yang family. ”

"Today is our Bai family's treat, what is your Yang family doing to make a scene?" The two actually argued in front of Zhang Beichen.

"What's so great about the Bai family, our Yang family has a treat, and the Bai family will go aside!"

The chief bookkeeper and the two officials pretended not to see it, probably because they were bullied and scared, and they didn't dare to speak.

Zhang Beichen said angrily: "Shut up." You two, what do you think of the county government? Lawlessness! ”

"Come on, drag down one person and hit the top ten boards!"

He shouted, but the official did not dare to move.

The two men sneered: "You dare to hit us? I don't know how the previous prefectural order didn't exist? ”

"What a hairy boy, I don't know how powerful our two are!"

"Ahda, you guys go!" Zhang Beichen saw that the shouting was not moving, so he called the homeless people he raised.

"Dare not listen to the words of adults, look for a fight!" These people all listened to Zhang Beichen, and immediately rushed up, grabbed the two of them, picked up the board and beat them.

"Ah, you dare to do it!"

"If you dare to offend our two families, our lord will not let you go!" The two shouted.

When Zhang Beichen heard this, he ordered: "Hit thirty more boards, so that they can't get off the ground!" ”

"Bang Bang!" A board broke the skin of the two of them.

"You, you wait for me!" The two of them crawled out of the county office.

Liu Wen looked worried and said, "My lord, if you clean them up like this, I'm afraid the two families won't give up!" ”

"That's what I want!" Zhang Beichen said coldly, "When this official takes office, he must rectify this Baiyang County!" ”

At the same time, he scolded Liu Wen and several officials: "In the future, if you don't hear the official's orders again, your fate will be the same as those two just now!" ”

"Yes, sir!" A few people said it, but they were thinking in their hearts that this new county magistrate had never seen the methods of the Poplar family, and now they are still pretending to be like this, and they will know in a few days.

Zhang Beichen continued to understand the situation and asked, "What happened to those two people who said they wanted to release them just now?" ”

Liu Wen explained: "The county magistrate went to mediate because of the fight between the two families. As a result, he was killed, and the adults of the clan were alarmed, and the adults led the troops to arrest a few people, the ones who killed the county lord together, and locked them in the yamen. ”

"We can't shut it down, and we can't let it go."

"If you kill someone, you will be punished according to the law!" Zhang Beichen said coldly.

Liu Wen looked embarrassed and said: "Those few are all descendants of the Baiyang family, if you really kill them, things will be even more troublesome!" ”

"Master Liu." Zhang Beichen emphasized again, "After this official takes office, all laws must be obeyed by me. In the future, if there is a matter of committing a traitor, no matter who it is, it will be arrested first! ”

"Yes!" Liu Wen still paid lip service to it, but he didn't take it seriously in his heart.

Zhang Beichen also knows very well that the local forces are too strong, and if he can't establish his authority, he probably won't want to accomplish anything.

He said, "Show me all the county records and documents in the county." ”

Liu Wen handed over everything to him, and the description of the person at this time was concise, and Zhang Beichen could read it quickly. With the addition of inquiries, he almost understood the situation.

"The fundamental problem of the Qin State is to change the law. The old legal system is no longer suitable for the current Qin State, but I don't have that ability and prestige at present. It is better to reform this Baiyang County first and re-establish a charter. Zhang Beichen thought about it and began to plan.

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On the other side, the two family members returned to the Bai family and the Yang family respectively with injuries.

At Yang's house, a middle-aged man with a beard was looking at the servant who was kneeling and crying, and frowned: "That Zhang Beichen, is it really not a face?" ”

He is the head of the Yang family, Yang Shan.

The servant added fuel and vinegar and shouted: "Master of the house, not only did he not give you face, but he also beat me violently. After what he said, he had the final say in Baiyang County, and our Yang family was a fart! ”

Yang Shan's face showed anger, and he scolded: "This kid really doesn't know the height of the sky. In terms of titles, I'm two levels older than him! I can't clean him up yet! ”

The local heroes are basically nobles with titles, so they are not afraid of county orders.

On the Bai family's side, Bai Liangpu, the head of the Bai family, also knew about it.

"The head of the family, this new county order is said to have been appointed by the king himself, do you want to inform the eldest lord?" The clansman asked.

The Bai family in Baiyang County is one of the three old clans of the Qin State, a branch of the Bai family.

Their eldest lord is the prince of the Qin State.

"No, a nobody, still need to bother the master?" Bai Liangpu snorted coldly, "Putting up a shelf here, he's looking for the wrong place!" I'm going to clean him up, it's easy! ”