In the second year of Taiwu, spring, February.

Runan, Fupi.

At this time, a sturdy and honest young man with a black scarf wrapped around his head, stepping on a pair of straw sandals, was waiting anxiously in the Fupi County Temple.

From time to time, he looked at the side of a corner of the county temple, obviously waiting for someone in the temple.

Suddenly, a small official wearing a black hat and a black robe, with only white cuffs, hurriedly walked out of the porch, and suddenly saw the young man blocking the gate of the county temple, and was about to retreat.

But the young man who had been waiting for a long time didn't let go, tried to smile, and stepped forward to talk to the little official:

"Chen Shuzuo, don't you know what happened to our army?"

This little official named Chen Shuzuo was already impatient, and when he saw that this person dared to talk about such a thing at the gate of the county temple, he was even more furious, but he was worried that someone would pay attention, so he held back his temper and scolded:

"Deng Dang, you are really a dog, what kind of place is this, can you talk about this? Is it a matter of great importance for the military to lose the army? ”

Of course, it is disrespectful to call people by name, but for such small people, do you have to be respectful?

This person named Deng Dang is actually a clever person, otherwise he would not have been entrusted by the Quanli Society to dredge this matter, but in the end, he came from the bottom, and he didn't understand many things on the joints.

Deng Dang also knew that he had committed a taboo at this time, so he hurriedly smiled and said:

"Chen Shuzuo, we are country people, this mouth is really stupid. But the hearts of our villagers are hot, our villagers want to invite Shuzuo to our club tomorrow, last year the club brewed a little turbid wine, I want to invite Chen Shuzuo to taste. ”

Of course, this Chen Shuzuo understood the meaning of Deng Dang's words, and he also understood why he ate this wine.

Seeing that Deng Dang had already set up, Chen Shuzuo, who had been pinching him for a few days, said leisurely:

"Okay, I'll go to your club tomorrow, but don't fool me with any country drink."

After speaking, Chen Shuzuo ignored Deng Dang, who was laughing there, and left.

Looking at Chen Shuzuo's back, Deng Dang, who had returned from the army, felt depressed, but thinking of the instructions of the three elders in the society before leaving, he could only sigh in the end.

That's it, they are already the head of Qian, what do you want, you should go back as soon as possible and send the news to the society.

With Chen Shuzuo's words, they were going to bleed again in order to make this meal.

……

What's going on here?

It was originally from last year's pacification of Runan Yellow Turbans, and the days that Runan had just been born for a long time were about to be chaotic again.

This matter has to start with this Yuan Shao.

In the Jiazi Rebellion last year, the Yuan family was slaughtered in the Golden Palace, but they ran away from Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.

The family blood feud is in front, and the gap between the two brothers is a bit ridiculous.

At that time, the two discussed, and in order to prevent being served by the same pot, the two brothers ran away separately.

Yuan Shu went to Nanyang, where he had a deep relationship and was able to solicit outlaws. Yuan Shao, on the other hand, chose to return to Ruyang, where he took refuge and waited for the opportunity.

During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Wang Yun of Taiyuan went south with the army, and rode alone into Runan behind enemy lines in the battle to contact various wealthy families, organize the township army Qu Coalition Army, and work together to strangle the Yellow Turban in Runan.

It can be said that the Runan Yellow Turban can be pacified so quickly, and Wang Yun has made a great contribution.

But later, Liu Hong asked Wang Yun to lead his troops north to intercept the Taishan army that had withdrawn from Yingchuan.

After that, Henan Haoshi went all the way west on the front line of Hanoi, and Liu Hong drove into Kansai. This Wang Yun was reinstated by the Kwantung court, because he had prestige in the Yuzhou region, and let him be the assassin of Yuzhou to restore the production of various counties.

Wang Yun returned to the history of Yuzhou's assassination, and promoted Xu Miao, a comrade-in-arms who had pacified the Yellow Turban together in the past, as the Taishou of Runan.

Xu Miao, as a military meritor, has always been very dead in power.

Wang Yun and Xu Miao both knew that Yuan Shao was hiding in his hometown, but they also turned a blind eye and didn't know. But if Yuan Shao wants to make trouble in Ruyang, he may have to be attacked by Wang Yun and Xu Miao.

Because he can't play the banner, Yuan Shao only has the core generals and troops in his hands, and he lacks troops, so he has been dormant.

It was in this context that Xu Miao, the Taishou of Runan, should be ordered by the Kwantung court to transfer military funds to Luoyang.

There, the Third Battle of Kuhan between Kanto and Kansai had already begun.

Xu Miao is too guarded, so naturally it is impossible to really care about these general affairs, so after assigning the task to each county, it will be completed by the counties themselves.

When the county's mission was sent to Fubei, it was to ask the county to serve eighty-two dings.

Naturally, this task was not completed by Fu Pi Order, and he was also handed over to the people below.

In the county and county teams of the Han Dynasty, Ji Cao was specifically responsible for accepting losses.

And who is Cao doing in this episode? It's not Ji Cao Chang, but the book under him.

As the name suggests, this book is the person who is responsible for writing and transcribing various official documents and archives.

For example, this time the army was sent to lose the errand service, and the book was written to write the specific township name, the name of the company, and the name of the household.

Don't look at it, it seems to be a copyist, no decision-making. But in fact, his knife pen can break the life and death of a family. Because he changed the points at will, as long as the Ji Cao Chang above was not particularly decent, he turned a blind eye to these things.

So Deng Dang came to ask for this Chen Shuzuo to be the right person, because he was the one who collected Cao, and he really took care of this matter.

In fact, this is not the first time Deng Dang has come to Chen Shuzuo.

Five days ago, Deng Dang, under the guidance of others, found Chen Shuzuo, and wanted to ask why this time the apportionment was not apportioned by all the townships, but only in their townships.

It stands to reason that more than 20,000 people in the county will be spread together and fall into a community, but in fact, there are not many people.

But in the issued summons, only Xinxiang was issued. That's not fair.

You must know that there are only 500 households in a township, and this is 82 dings, which is simply 5 out of 5 township households to serve.

Although the military rations were not transported as far as Kyoto, they were also to be transported to the county of Heiyu. In the meantime, the road alone is 200 miles, not to mention the hardships of labor, only the grain and rice in this process need to be borne by themselves.

And once there is any mistake in this process, as long as the transferred military rations are not enough, they must be borne by the soldiers.

And the drama is that usually when the business is exchanged, this military fund is always insufficient. In the past, this difference could be divided by each township, but now it is concentrated in Xinxiang, which is to kill Xinxiang.

So the third elder of Xinxiang asked Deng Dang to bring a piece of preserved chicken to Chen Shuzuo and ask what was going on.

Chen Shuzuo also gave an explanation, which was very reasonable.

He said that your Xinxiang is a Fumin Township, and it is newly transferred to Fupi, and the labor assigned in the past is all spread by other townships, and this time the labor must be borne by your Xinxiang alone, otherwise this bowl of water will be uneven.

Deng Dang was furious when he heard this.

What does it mean that those of us who have newly left our hometowns should bear the labor of the past as well? I haven't even come to settle down, what does your labor have to do with me?

There is no such reason in the world.

But Deng Dang held back. Because he felt a deeper meaning from Chen Shuzuo's words.

What does Chen Shuzuo mean by Fumin Township? It was Deng Dang's group of people, they were all soldiers who had been demobilized for the people.

It turned out that when Taiping Dao started an incident in Runan the year before last, one or two of its ten households participated. And the county soldiers in Runan were completely wiped out in the hands of Zhao Qian, so after Wang Yun presided over the work of Runan, there was no soldier available at all.

Therefore, at that time, Wang Yun recruited a group of displaced people from Yangzhou in the south to train into an army, and participated in the subsequent suppression of the Yellow Turban in Runan.

This group of troops is about 5,000 people, because they are generally from the hot and humid areas of Jianghuai, and they are all bold and capable of fighting. He has made a lot of contributions in the war.

Later, Wang Yun was stripped of the post of assassin, and the group of soldiers in his hands naturally had to be disbanded. Because it is not the economic master of the court, the court does not support them.

And Wang Yun is also worthy of them, and used his power at that time to give these people a status of reinstatement.

The Han dynasty built the country on military merits, and it attached more importance to the soldiers who were the cornerstone of the country, and there were certain preferential treatment in the economy.

In the pre-Han Dynasty, the Fumin could also get a homestead with 30 acres of land. Of course, there is definitely no such preferential treatment until now, but the tax is still less than that of ordinary households.

This is how Deng Dang's group was placed in Fupi.

To be honest, Fupi is good, and the name suggests that this is a rich area. Moreover, the climate is similar to that of Jianghuai, and they all grow rice, which makes Deng Dang and them satisfied.

But soon they realized that something was wrong.

With the pacification of the Runan Yellow Turbans, order in Runan County was quickly restored. The Han bureaucracy was even more powerful than it was before the war.

The Runans, who had been exiled before the war, returned to their hometowns, only to find that their fields had been occupied by a group of strangers.

Since then, the contradictions between the Turks and the Turks have begun.

And who does the Fupi County Office help? Whoever makes the money will help him. And fortunately, Deng Dang's group of soldiers still has some money, and there is a theoretical Wang Yun platform at the top, otherwise they are afraid that it will be difficult.

But this is the theory, how can Wang Yun really look down on these soldiers? A famous family in Taiyuan will let you mud legs get touched?

And just when Deng was rich and weak, he naturally became the target of extortion by the officials of the Fupi County Bureau.

This time, the county issued an army to lose the errand service, and these small officials naturally thought of using this to extort another sum of money from Deng Dang and them, and make a little money.

So, there was a previous plan.

This Chen Shuzuo is just a small official who is not in the stream, and he can use the opportunity of apportionment of labor to extort money. Like those who are directly linked to the money and grain tax, such as Hu Cao, Tian Cao, and Shui Cao, these real power Cao subordinates, that is, the power is too great.

Households and fields are all related to money and grain, and water cao is in charge of water conservancy. If you don't feed these little officials, people say that if you cut off the water, you will cut off the water, and this rice will have no water, can it live?

So, who is this rich and rich?

……

said that Chen Shuzuo had just left from the front door of the county temple, then turned a corner and came back from the side door of the county temple.

He's going to have to talk to a few more henchmen.

Yes, Chen Shuzuo, a small official who is not in the stream, has help.

These helpers are not included in the regular establishment, and they are all from the township to serve as errand soldiers.

The reason why there is this group of people is completely due to the actual needs of the Han in grassroots governance.

A county in the Han dynasty generally has more than 10,000 people, while a large county like Runan, with a population of more than one million, has even doubled the number of people under its rule.

The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and there was in-depth governance of the local area.

The county order is all-encompassing for the affairs within the county, what shows good and advises, prohibits adultery and punishes evil, resolves lawsuits and relieves thieves, compassionate to the people, collects classes in autumn and winter, and counts in the county to which it belongs, which is all due meaning.

So many things are naturally not something that the county can do alone, so he has all kinds of Cao subordinates under him, and each Cao has his own responsibilities, including Cao Chang, Zuo Shi, Shu Zuo, Xunxing, Gan, Xiao Shi and so on.

But after doing so many things, how much is the official establishment given by the imperial court? There are only four or five hundred people in large counties, and only two or three hundred people in small counties. This number of people is divided into each Cao, how can it be enough to do things?

Therefore, the general work of the county temples is like this, led by the preparation of the fighting food officials, and then send the soldiers down when they do the specific work, so that the following will temporarily come to help do things.

After Chen Shuzuo returned to Jicao, he called two people, one named Zhang Bo and the other Ma Zhong.

Both of them are such helpers.

For ordinary peasant families, this errand is a chore. No matter what you are sent to do, the work in the field will be left behind, and the general Qiantou is also afraid of the government, let alone serving in the county.

In this process, if you do anything wrong, you will lose your life.

Therefore, the head of the Qianqian generally regards this kind of labor as a tiger.

But Zhang Bo and Ma Zhong are different, they are happy to do this.

Because no matter what you do, you will be clothed in a layer of county skin, and you will have to eat and drink well wherever you go. For example, Uncle Zhang did a braid.

Jianbu is a messenger who specializes in delivering books. Dahan post station traffic is all over the world, but not all areas can be rich enough to have horses to pass the post, so there is the most ancient way of information transmission, running with legs.

Walking is very hard according to reason, such as during the period of Emperor He, in order to pass on the Lingnan tribute lychee and longan, I don't know how many walkers died.

But would a person like Uncle Zhang do such a hard job? What he did was to pass on the good deeds of the officials to the locality.

Whenever there is something in the county that wants to summon people from the township to come up, it will let people like Uncle Zhang go to the countryside with officials to bring people up.

In this process, there is room for operation, one more day and one less day, not how can Uncle Zhang come? Therefore, those villagers who were passed up, in order not to offend Uncle Zhang, had to give a good meal.

This Uncle Zhang is a floating idler in the township, and he is not involved in production, so he naturally does not worry about missing the work in the field. Therefore, such a majestic and majestic thing that can be eaten and taken naturally wants to continue to be done.

But since this is hard labor, it will naturally expire. At this time, Zhang Bo took refuge under Chen Shuzuo's disciple, and he arranged to replace the next villager to serve, and then continued to stay in the county temple.

And the villager was naturally happy that he didn't have to go to service, and privately gave Zhang Bo six buckets of rice.

It's a win-win.

Seeing that Chen Shuzuo was back again, although Zhang Bo and Ma Zhong were strange, they still leaned over.

Chen Shuzuo pinched his beard and asked again:

"Is it safe to do what you have been assigned to do this time?"

Uncle Zhang and Ma Zhong patted their chests and said:

"Shuzuo, don't worry, these little things can't be done, and we don't have to mess around in Fupi."

Chen Shuzuo nodded, explained some more things, and then left.

It's no wonder that Chen Shuzuo is so careful, just because what he wants to do this time is different from the small business that extorted three dollars and four cents in the past, this time it was for Wang Gongcao in the county, and he couldn't be careless.

Gong Cao is second only to the county order, and even more powerful than the county order to a certain extent. Because the county order is a liuguan, the gongcao is all the children of the local wealthy family. Needless to say, which one works.

Not to mention, this Gong Cao surnamed Wang is the descendant of Wang Ba back then. In the past two hundred years, our rich people are all from the Wang family.

Like Chen Shuzuo, Zhang Bo, and Ma Zhong, these are all small people, the former is a lackey at best, and the latter is two scavenging flies. And Wang Gongcao is the real big tiger.

And this time, the big tiger will look at Deng Dang and these reinstated households.

And all this, Deng Dang was at a loss.

This chapter is the False Wing Central Plains, what does the False Wing mean? Fake is to borrow, it means to steal, and then take off in the Central Plains. So who stole it? How to steal it? I won't talk about it here, but you guys must have guessed it.

When I was conceiving this chapter, I thought of telling the story from the bottom up in a small slice of Dundown's personal experience. Stay tuned.

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