After receiving both local and foreign answers, Zhang Xi tried to promote the registration of the fish scale atlas in five counties.

Of course, Zhang Xi also knew that there were some things that could not be done in a hurry, so Zhang Xi's idea was to operate in three batches and strive to complete the registration of the county's fish scale atlas in the next three years.

Whether it is divided into three batches or within three years, it is actually to give the family family face, so that they have time to deal with some land with unclear ownership, and the future of the province will be ridiculed, saying that Zhang Xi forcibly occupies their land.

But Zhang Xi really overestimated the bottom line of these families.

The first land census, Zhang Xi didn't want to go too far, so he wanted to give face to the families and let these families declare the land under their own names, even if there were some errors, Zhang Xi could also acquiesce, and pretend not to know with one eye closed.

But the results declared by this group of sub-families really disappointed Zhang Xi very much.

Zhang Xi actually inquired about it privately, so he probably had an idea of how much land the local family occupied.

Like the Yang family, the land is at least more than 150 hectares, and the larger Huang family and the Yan family are even more than 500 hectares, and may even reach 1,000 hectares.

But now Yang Tai handed over the three families to declare the land situation, but said that it was not the same thing at all.

The Yang family is better, saying that they only have 100 hectares of paddy fields, and about one-third of the 40 hectares of mulberry gardens are concealed.

The Huang family and the Yan family, these two families are really shameless, and they actually say that they only have 150 hectares of paddy fields, dry fields and orchards in Padang County.

And the rest of the small families, except for the figure given by the Li family, which is closer to the figure in Zhang Xi's heart, the rest of the people are all good guys who report more than ten or twenty hectares of paddy fields, really good guys.

Although Padang County can't be compared with Brazil County, it is five counties and one county.

You families only have such a small amount of land in their hands, does that mean that, except for the land in your hands, it is all ownerless wasteland, right?!

Okay, yes.

Zhang Xi was angry, at that time, he wanted to enter the file according to the number reported by these families, and then send people to count them one by one, except for the number of acres of land that had been registered, all other fields were confiscated into the government in the way of "ownerless wasteland".

But. You can't really do that.

Not to mention now, counting thousands of years in the future, Zhang Xi is still very clear about the Jiangnan gentry in the Ming Dynasty encouraging the people to resist taxes.

Unless it's like the Qing Dynasty, the heads of people are rolling.

The people of the Qing Dynasty, whether they were gentry or ordinary people, because of all kinds of constraints and restrictions, they no longer had the courage and ability to raise troops to resist the imperial court.

But the current family giants, they really have this ability.

If Zhang Xi really does this in Padang County, once it spreads to other places, the whole Yizhou will become uneasy.

This is obviously not in line with Zhuge Liang's original intention of letting Zhang Xi implement the fish scale atlas system in Badong County.

Zhuge Liang wanted Zhang Xi to make a sample, make a demonstration, find a balance point to balance the contradiction between the family and Liu Bei Group's inventory of land, and finish this thing beautifully, and then Zhuge Liang will promote it in Shudi.

If Zhang Xi really did this on impulse, then the result would most likely be that Zhuge Liang transferred Zhang Xi to the border to garrison, and this fish scale atlas was completely shelved.

Therefore, Zhang Xi could only look at the results of the first census with a black face, and sulk to himself.

Yang Tai is also quite embarrassed Huang and Yan, it's really not interesting enough.

At the beginning, the three families discussed, and they all said that they had concealed part of it, and the Yang family concealed one-third of the paddy fields and half of the mulberry orchards according to the spirit of this meeting.

As a result, the two families did well, directly hiding two-thirds of the paddy fields and all the mountain orchards.

As a result, not to mention that Zhang Xi looked angry, Yang Tai also felt ashamed when he looked at it.

How can this be half of the virtue of the family.

But fortunately, although Zhang Xi was angry, he didn't mean to make a big move after all, on the contrary, he also asked Yang Tai to suspend the census work, obviously because he didn't really want to find trouble with the families according to the map.

But after that, Yang Tai didn't know how to end it.

Although he has not worked with Zhang Xi for a long time, Yang Tai also knows this county guard.

Yes, sometimes this person is not in tune with the work, but in the end, he is a person who is a soldier, and when it is time to kill decisively, he will definitely not be soft.

Yang Tai was really worried, so he hurried home and went home to discuss with his father and the elders of the family what to do next.

As for Zhang Xi, he was really angry.

is not only the matter of the angry family's concealment, but there is another thing that also makes Zhang Xi very dissatisfied.

Although this land inventory was only the first trial attempt, Zhang Xi always wrote in the form of an official document asking the five counties except Yufu County to cooperate with the investigation.

But except for Jiang Wan from Hanfeng County, who wrote a work report to Zhang Xi, the other four counties did not take any action at all.

And Jiang Wan's report made Zhang Xi even more happy.

The local family is strong, bribes, and favors, just to prevent Jiang Wan from conducting a land inventory, even if he really wants to conduct an inventory, that is, to go through the motions, and let Jiang Wan register as much as the family says.

In the middle, he even put forward various methods such as "Yin and Yang Book", "Plugging", "Missing Copy", and "Changing the Field to a Mountain", for fear that Jiang Wan would not know how to fake.

Especially for thousands of years, dynasties have been changing, but this method has been consistent.

The funniest thing is that along with Jiang Wan's work report, it was sent to Yufu with three hundred yuan According to Jiang Wan, this was a bribe given to him by the families of Hanfeng County.

Let's not talk about the amount of bribes, the direct 100 coins issued by our lord are used by these families?!

Zhang Xi was angry and angry, but reason still told Zhang Xi that it was incompetent and angry not to completely turn his face with the family at this time.

Since he can't turn his face with these families, Zhang Xi thinks about it, so he can only start from the side door, try to arrange manpower, increase the intensity of the census, and at the same time, he must also block the possibility of fraud as much as possible.

Zhang Xi decided that he wanted to make paper.

The paper is good, lightweight, easy to carry, and those who go down to the census can check all the way, remember all the way, come back and summarize it, draw it into a formal fish scale atlas, and then file it directly.

It is much more convenient than going to the countryside with silk silk.

Again, the silk silk book, basically a roll of silk silk to be matched with a set of bamboo slips, if the record is not clear, or the bamboo slips are replaced halfway, it is very easy to cause confusion, so that the management is inconvenient at the same time, it is also convenient to fake.

This is not the case with paper.

Of course, it is impossible for paper to completely eliminate counterfeiting, but at least, with paper, it will be easier to manage than silk silk and minimize the possibility of counterfeiting.

So, Zhang Xi finally decided to make his own paper.

It's really not that Zhang Xi likes to use bamboo slips and silk silk, and it's not that Zhang Xi forgot to get things like paper out, but because I'm sorry, Zhang Xi's understanding of papermaking is very superficial.

In his early years in Xinye, Zhang Xi actually tried papermaking.

But the papermaking technique in Zhang Xi's head is probably to get some bark and grass roots and add some grass ash or something, soak it in water for a few days, and then knock it and soak it for a few days, and then. A piece of paper should magically appear.

Indeed, Zhang Xi did this, and once made some tattered things, similar to shredded paper, but these things can't be written at all, and they are quite brittle, and they become two halves when they are folded slightly, which is not as good as some inferior paper on the market now.

Yes, at this time, there was already paper.

Paper was available as early as the Western Han Dynasty, but at this time, paper was not used for writing, but for wrapping some odds and ends, just like the rag head.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Lun improved papermaking and finally made paper that could be used for writing, and greatly reduced the cost of papermaking.

At this time, paper could actually be used for writing, and theoretically speaking, paper should replace expensive silk and bulky bamboo slips, and become the mainstream of writing in this era.

But actually, no.

First of all, Cai Lun is a eunuch, and the purpose of his improvement of papermaking is not to benefit the people, but to please the inner palace, so even if he improves papermaking, this technology has always been preserved in the palace, and the paper made is only for the use of nobles in the palace.

Although after more than 100 years of development, the technology in the palace will be more or less spread to the people, but the folk mastery of papermaking technology is not complete, so although it can make paper that can be written, but these papers are of different thicknesses, the texture is not soft enough, and a few more times will appear creases or direct breaks, and can not be stored for a long time.

Therefore, the current people and government still use bamboo slips and silk silk as the mainstream, and only rarely will paper be used, such as when painting.

However, the paper that can be used to draw is basically produced within the palace, and the quality is guaranteed, but the price. Hehe, it's more expensive than silk.

Although Zhang Xi can also make paper, the paper made is not as good as the paper made by folk papermakers in this era, and he was busy at that time, either fighting or preparing for war, Zhang Xi later put this matter on hold.

Now that Zhang Xi has become the Taishou of Padang County, he finally has some time and money, and at the same time, out of personal needs, so Zhang Xi decided to start studying papermaking again.

Of course, it's not a stuffy study.

Zhang Xi first asked Sun Shangxiang to write a letter to Sun Quan through Sun Shangxiang's relationship, asking him to send a craftsman who was good at papermaking in Jiangdong.

In the end, she is her own sister, and her face is better than Liu Bei. A month later, Sun Quan sent more than a dozen paper-making craftsmen and their families to Sun Shangxiang.

Then Zhang Xi studied with these dozen craftsmen, Zhang Xi was responsible for providing ideas, and these craftsmen were responsible for practice.

Zhang Xi remembers that the art of papermaking seems to have not progressed much in the next 1,000 years, mainly in the use of materials, which has undergone great changes before and after.

Cai Lun uses coarse hemp or the fibers of some herbaceous plants, so it is called hemp paper.

But the papermaking materials in Zhang Xi's mind, except for flax, seem to be more commonly used in the north and bamboo in the south.

In this place of Padang County, there are two things, so Zhang Xi asked the craftsmen to experiment with both things, and strive to produce qualified paper as soon as possible.

After nearly half a month of experimentation, the papermakers finally gave the first batch of paper.

Zhang Xi pinched it in his hand, looked at the color, smelled the smell, and rubbed it again. Well, it's good for going to the toilet.

(End of chapter)