Chapter 223: If you want to get rich, build roads first
Zhang Xi is now a county Taishou, and finally there is no need to discuss with others to launch a conscription, and there is no need to be driven out of the Taishou Mansion for a small share of conscription.
It's cool to think about.
Hawkers, not to mention Zhang Xi's unproductive feelings, let's talk about the construction of Padang County.
Although Zhang Xi, the new Taishou, launched a conscription as soon as he came to power, he didn't look like a good Taishou who was sympathetic to the people. But after all, after the spring ploughing, the spring ploughing of the people was not delayed.
The period of conscription was not long, only one month.
In fact, according to the law, if the local people are not serving military service, then the service time is more than 20 days at most, but sorry, it is a troubled time, even Cao Cao, who controls the imperial court, has not seriously complied with it.
Therefore, a month's conscription is not a big deal for the people, after all, what is important these years is who has the big fist and who has the right to speak.
However, although this is too unsophisticated, as soon as he took office, he launched a month's conscription, but. He takes care of the food.
Really, in these years, there are still officials who are in charge of food when they launch conscription, although they are only in charge of half a month's meal, they are also in charge of food.
How much food has to be saved, when the green and yellow are not harvested, maybe you can rely on this saved food to survive.
In those years, the law stipulated that the common people should bring their own dry rations for the sake of conscription, and they would bring dry rations for as many days as they wanted, and the officials could not take care of the food.
Because it generally does not serve across regions, it is not too far from home, and there is no need to worry about the dry food going bad, so it is a big deal to let the family send it again.
But this time, the government notified that as long as you bring 15 days of dry food, you can do it, and the remaining 15 days of dry food will be provided by the government.
In fact, Zhang Xi originally wanted to directly provide dry food for 30 days, but Xiao Deng Ai objected, saying that doing so was tantamount to hiring people to work, not a national service.
Therefore, Xiao Deng Ai persuaded Zhang Xi that since he was a national servant, he should abide by the law and not be abolished because of personal preferences, which would give a very bad start to future generations and would not be good for the country's reputation.
Zhang Xi is ashamed. I was taught a lesson by my own apprentice.
In other words, Zhang Xi always felt that little Deng Ai was now less and less like a child, and he was really growing up slowly.
Zhang Xi immediately became good and only arranged a fifteen-day supply of dry food.
Because the conscription should have been about twenty days, the extra ten days were counted as Zhang Xi's additional levy. According to the rules, Zhang Xi should make up for this supply of dry food, which is regarded as hiring people to work.
The extra five days are considered overtime pay.
Xiao Deng Ai said that he had nothing to say about this.
To persuade his master is to let the master abide by the laws of the court, but now after all, it is a troubled time, and there must be an alternative way for the master to be willing to provide food, so let's provide it.
In this place, there is really no shortage of food in Bashu, but these grains are not in the hands of the people.
In Zhuge Liang's words in "Longzhong Pair", Yizhou is "the people are rich but do not know how to save them".
That is, this place should have been very rich, but Liu Zhang's level of goods was too poor, and the people's lives were a mess.
In recent years, there is no external threat in Bashu, there are no natural disasters, the geographical location is superior, the climatic conditions are good, theoretically speaking, even if the people do not have grain reserves, but they should still be able to do it when they survive the green and yellow crops.
But in reality?!
Zhang Xiyi said that he would be provided with dry food for 15 days, good fellows, people from ten miles and eight towns, from old men to children, from young people to women, all came to serve.
Zhang Xi did not launch a military military service this time, but a one-month local forced service.
In the Han Dynasty, it was indeed required that both men and women should serve, but at least they had to pass the year of the first fu, and children under the age of fifteen came to serve, what were they going to do?!
What?! Can you already move earth?!
Iniquity!!
And the uncle over there, who is old this year?!
Thirty?!
I'll be 30 years old next year, and you can see we're both the same age
What?!
Zhang Xi was depressed.
If in the era of peace, if he encounters such a lot of food and occupation, Zhang Xi has to spray them to death, but he can. Forget it, this unlucky world.
Fortunately, Patong County itself is a grain-producing area, and although it is old grain, there is still grain and grass to cope with fifteen days of forced labor.
As for whether the old grain in Padang County is the same, some people resell Zhang Xi dare to say that there must be such a thing in the granary of the whole county, but no matter how frustrated a person is, if he doesn't even leave fifteen days of grain for himself, then Zhang Xi will really not have a sense of guilt when he kills it.
Facts have proved that no one dares to be so mad after all.
But there is not too much grain in Patong County.
Where did the food go, Zhang Xi knew in his heart, but he didn't want to turn his face with the families in Padang County at the beginning, Zhang Xi always wanted to save some face for these families.
I don't know about this matter for the time being, the road construction is continuing, and Zhang Xi also took the opportunity of this time to launch a conscription to inspect the counties. Just in case, Zhang Xi asked Chen Zhi to borrow a hundred white soldiers.
In fact, with Zhang Xi's current status, in this era, it is possible to raise a group of private soldiers, as long as the number of people is not large, report to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei will turn a blind eye.
Zhang Xi is not out of money now, but he has never been able to find the right time to do this.
Chen Zhi only kindly reminded Zhang Xi that Zhang Xi wanted to borrow someone, so Chen Zhi happily dialed a team of 100 people and handed it over to Zhang Xi to command.
The hundred-man team of the White Soldiers, ah, I really don't have to worry about it now.
Take the soldiers, set off to inspect the counties, the first stop, is the western Qu Ren County, after the Qu Ren County, go north by land, into the territory of Hanfeng County.
The people mobilized by the conscription also strictly followed the requirements, brought their own dry food for 15 days, and the government had prepared a food supply for 15 days.
But when he arrived in Hanfeng County, northwest of Yufu, Zhang Xi realized that something was wrong.
In the two counties of Quren and Yufu, the people were all vying for the food for the fifteen days, how did they get to the territory of Hanfeng County, and the people who served the conscription were sad one by one.
Zhang Xi frowned slightly, and asked Xiao Deng Ai to inquire about the news, and after a while, he got the answer.
The Hanfeng County Decree did not prepare a 15-day food supply according to Zhang Xi's order, but asked the people to prepare their own dry food for 30 days to serve as a laborer.
Now it was supposed to be a time for the green and yellow, and it was strange that the people could be happy if they were asked to prepare a month's worth of dry food for the government to work.
The difference of ten days of dry food, when there is a shortage of green and yellow, is often life-saving.
Zhang Xi immediately went to the county government of Hanfeng County to inquire about it.
With Zhao Lei's experience, Zhang Xi will not be so reckless now, who knows if there is any hidden secret.
But Hanfeng County Decree said that there was nothing to hide.
"The people serve in accordance with the law, and they are supposed to provide their own dry food, and this county has never heard of the government's provision of food!"
The Hanfeng County Commander replied confidently.
Zhang Xi wondered, this person is so iron-headed?!
Therefore, Zhang Xi cautiously asked again, "Have you ever seen the official documents issued by this official in your county?!"
The Hanfeng County Commander nodded, indicating that he had received it, and then threw out a sentence lightly, "This chaos is also fateful, and this county is not destined for it."
When Zhang Xi heard this, he nodded.
It seems that there is no hidden secret, so you can call me!!
It doesn't matter who is behind you, without a legitimate reason, you dare to disrespect your order?!
Really, I'm here to eat, drink, and go back after a walk, right?!
The Hanfeng County Commander didn't expect Zhang Xi to beat him when he said that he would beat him, how could he treat the county guard of the local family and scholars like this in these years, it was simply insulting.
Hanfeng County ordered a straight trembling.
Half of it was angry, half of it was beaten.
Not for anything else, Hanfeng County Ling's surname
Yan is a branch of the Yan family in Ba County.
Well, that is, the branch of Yan Yan's lineage.
The Yan family has a lot of power in Ba County, and when Zhang Fei entered Sichuan, Yan Yan relied on his family relationship to help Zhang Fei pacify Ba County almost effortlessly, so the Yan family can be regarded as the hero of Liu Bei's entry into Sichuan.
Although Yan County Order is only a branch of the Yan family in Ba County, this is Badong County, which is very close to the Ba County family, and Yan County Order has also inquired, this new county guard is a general under Liu Bei's account, and he has a good relationship with General Zhang Fei. Yan Yan, the head of the Yan family, has a good relationship with General Zhang Fei.
For the sake of this little thing, as for directly hitting someone?!
As for why Hanfeng County does not comply with the regulations. Because the granaries are empty, there is no food to supply the people.
The grain in the granary has long been ordered by Yan County to collude with the local Haoqiang in Hanfeng County and resell it to the other party, ready to hoard it while the green and yellow are not available.
Yan Xianling didn't expect Zhang Xi to say that he would fight, especially after he shouted out his background, and he still hadn't stopped.
Yan family?!
Zhang Xi said that he was not familiar.
Yan Yan, although the description in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is very magnificent, and the reputation of "Guillotine General" is also quite majestic, didn't he surrender in the end.
If you are like Zhang Ren, you would rather accompany the old master to the end of your life than surrender, then I also admire you for three points.
As a result, he spoke so harshly, and in the end, he surrendered.
One more. Zhang Xi remembers, this Yan Yan, there will be no role after that. Yan Yan followed Huang Zhong, and the two veterans beat Zhang He together, which was added to him by Luo Guanzhong.
As soon as the two sides are combined, Zhang Xi has nothing to be afraid of.
beat it first, then detain it aside, and then let Xiao Deng Ai help, and together read the decrees of the Yan County Order, and pick out some ridiculous things.
Then inspect the countryside, go to the next level, collect evidence, and finally inspect the granary. Zhang Xi laughed angrily.
Yes, really!!
With this granary, even if this Yan County Order is Yan Yan's own son, even if the lawsuit is brought to Liu Bei, he will die.
It's not just Zhang Xi who wants him to die, Zhuge Liang, Fa Zheng, Li Yan, and Yi Yuan all want him to die.
"Shu Branch" clearly stipulates that those who put the granary privately will be killed.
Yes, no matter what the reason, it is a capital offense to put grain from the granary without permission, not to mention that this county magistrate is selling grain for profit.
As for the local heroes who colluded with the Yan County Order. Zhang Xi directly asked Bai Yubing's hundred-man team to set off with the local defenders, if these people can't take the strength of a small county, then they don't mix under Chen Zhi's men.
Really, Zhang Xi is not afraid of offending people, whether it is the Yan family or the local heroes.
There are some things that Zhang Xi can be very face-to-face and very soft, but there are some things that are not negotiable.
It's okay not to respect the order, if you are like Zhao Lei, you have a legitimate reason to consider the people, then even if you surround Zhang Xi and want to beat him in a group, Zhang Xi will not be angry.
But if you only want to do it for your own gain, you will not respect the command, and you will oppress the people, and make the people resent to the people. No matter what dynasty such a person is in, he will definitely die.
Grasp enough evidence, take people, interrogate, and adjudicate, all in one go.
Well, I haven't killed it yet, Zhang Xi decided, and he will ask after the autumn.
This autumn queen asked what to do, it is really not stipulated by "Shu Branch", and "Shu Family" is not as detailed as the regulations in this regard.
Now is a troubled time, and it is not so prudent to cut off the head, not to mention that Zhang Xi, as a county guard, has this right, and there is no need to ask Liu Bei for killing a county order.
The reason why he didn't kill was just that Zhang Xi wanted to see how this Yan family, or Yan Yan, reacted, and whether there were other people behind this local tyrant to support him.
It is also commonly known as fishing.