A night of noise.

In the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yunzhou County returned to silence again.

However, Yunwang's Mansion has been surrounded by officials at all levels of Yunzhou County who have come to congratulate the New Year since early in the morning.

Due to the special situation of Yunzhou County, other state capitals in the Great Song Dynasty are divided into administrative institutions such as prefectures, counties and towns under the administrative division of counties, and as for the villages, they are generally governed by each village itself, and most of them are held by the respected clan elders of each village as the village head, which is responsible for docking and cooperating with the county government.

Paying taxes, serving and undertaking various policies and decrees assigned by the imperial court were still taken care of by the villages on weekdays, so in the feudal era, the control of the imperial power was at least at the county level, that is, the imperial power was often said not to go to the countryside.

And Yunzhou County is different, Yunzhou County has only one city in the region, Yunzhou City, so the Yunzhou County Shoufu is directly under the jurisdiction of the whole territory, except for the county Shoufu, the other areas are still taken care of by the tribes, that is to say, the nomadic tribes in Yunzhou County are not much different from the past except for the addition of the Great Song Dynasty on their heads.

Therefore, although there were many officials outside the Yunwang Mansion on the first day of the Lunar New Year, there were not too many.

Although everyone in the Yunwang Mansion had just settled down, under the command of Wang Huaien, they still received these officials at all levels who came to congratulate the New Year in an orderly manner.

And Zhao Jun, who is the king of clouds, has perfectly assumed the role of a mascot today, sitting in the hospitality hall without moving the place, and meeting with various officials who are qualified to see him one by one, as for those who are too low-level, they will be sent by Wang Huaien himself after handing in the New Year's gifts.

In fact, these officials are mainly here to go through the motions, and naturally they are self-aware to leave after giving gifts.

To say that they don't even seem to see each other in person, why do they have to come to give gifts, this is also exquisite.

Although the officialdom of Yunzhou County is relatively special, no matter how special it is, this is also officialdom.

During the New Year's holidays, it doesn't matter if you can get the benefits, but it is a rule to give gifts to Shangguan, and your gift giver may not remember you, but if you don't give it, then you are finished, and people will definitely remember you dead, of course, this is not a good thing.

Therefore, regardless of the character of the new Shangguan, this New Year's gift must be given, just to not make himself too conspicuous, and to seek peace of mind, to prevent people from sitting at home and the pot from the sky.

At this time, it was noon.

I said earlier that the number of officials in Yunzhou County is not large, and after a morning of reception, most of them have been met.

Now there are only a few last ones left to meet alone, among which are Li Yi, the county guard of Yunzhou County, Liu Xishan, the county commander, and Cheng Cheng, the defense envoy, the three highest-ranking officials of Yunzhou County.

After a polite salute, the three of them sat down one after another.

Li Yi, the county guard, looked at Liu Xishan, who was sitting at the bottom of him, and then at Cheng Cheng, who was sitting opposite and drinking tea silently, coughed lightly, and then arched his hand to Zhao Jun, who was sitting at the top, and said:

"Your Highness, on the occasion of the New Year, my Yunzhou County has the arrival of His Highness compared to the past year, and I believe that the people of the entire Yunzhou County can live better and better under the leadership of His Highness.

What Xia Guan wants to know is, does His Highness have any thoughts on the development of Yunzhou County this year? Or is it just as usual in previous years? ”

According to Li Yi's thoughts, this Yunwang just came to Yunzhou County, even if he wanted to make a move, it would not be so fast, in order to seek stability, at least there should be no major changes in Yunzhou County this year, and it would be no different from previous years.

Now this question is just a formality, after all, King Yun is nominally the controller of Yunzhou County, and those who are subordinates should know how to report to the leader, so that they can carry out their work, right?

Zhao Jun, who had been the mascot all morning, was relieved at this time, and now that he should have seen almost everything, he was left with the last three to go back to rest.

But since Li Yi mentioned the development of Yunzhou County this year, he has some ideas.

After thinking about it, he touched his chin and asked, "What kind of charter was Yunzhou County in previous years?" ”

Seeing that King Yun actually asked about the regulations of previous years, Li Yi was slightly surprised, but soon came back to his senses and immediately replied:

"In fact, we don't have much to do in Yunzhou County in a normal year, due to the particularity of Yunzhou County, most of the local people are still in the lifestyle of tribal migration, except for Yunzhou City, most of the rest of the people move around with the tribes in a year.

Usually, the trivial matters of ordinary affairs are managed by the tribes themselves, but there is no need for the yamen to worry about them.

What Yunzhou County has to do every year is to convene the tribes after the beginning of spring every year, divide the pastures and migration areas of each tribe for this year, and prevent the tribes from fighting because of the grassland problem.

The rest are only taxed on cattle and sheep by the tribes in the autumn of each year.

In fact, when Yunzhou County was first annexed to the Great Song Dynasty, in the first ten years, due to the grace of the previous emperor, the entire Yunzhou County did not collect any taxes.

It was not until 10 years after the annexation that the tax on cattle and sheep began to be collected, and the tribes paid the tax at a rate of twenty-one according to the number of cattle and sheep they had raised this year.

Then the county guard yamen pressed this batch of taxes to the Guannei Guannei will be purchased at the market price, and if the money returned is counted as three parts, one of them will be used to maintain the repair and maintenance of Yunzhou City, the personnel of the county guard and various consumption, and the remaining two will be allocated to General Cheng's office to pay the Yunzhou army and maintain and replace the equipment in the army.

After these three or three are used, the entire Yunzhou County can only be left with about 1,000 yuan as a reserve in the yamen at the most in a year. ”

After listening to Li Yi's report on the daily work of the Yunzhou Army, as well as its financial situation and where it was used, Zhao Jun immediately turned his head to look at the other two people in the hall.

Liu Xishan, the county commander, and Cheng Cheng, the defense envoy, saw that Yun Wang Ye looked at it, and nodded to confirm what Li Yi said.

Retracting his gaze, Zhao Jun pondered slightly, and then asked:

"So nominally, although the Yunzhou Army belongs to the state highway of the Great Song Dynasty, in fact, Yunzhou County has not paid a penny of grain to the imperial court since it was annexed, and the income tax grain is just enough for its own consumption, is that right?"

Li Yi nodded: "Back to the prince, that's exactly the case." ”

Zhao Jun nodded, although his face was expressionless, he had already begun to complain frantically in his heart, no wonder he handed over the financial power to himself so simply, and he couldn't get his feelings in the first place.

Even sometimes Yunzhou County was affected by the disaster, in order to maintain stability, the imperial court also allocated money and grain for disaster relief, the whole Yunzhou army is a Pixiu that only enters and does not leave, and the imperial court probably wants to get rid of this burden for a long time, which just happened to be thrown on his head, it is really a good calculation!

Extending this to other autonomy given to him by the imperial court, Zhao Jun was even more speechless, feeling that this was because he couldn't take out money and food at all to give himself such a big authority, although the authority was big, but even if he didn't have money and food, even if he had these permissions, what kind of waves could he make?

This is the main reason why those courtiers and their brothers are relieved to give themselves these autonomy.

Thinking of this, the corners of Zhao Jun's mouth couldn't help but raise a slightly sarcastic smile.

But they never expected that for themselves, money and food were the most unrestrictive conditions for themselves, and the permissions they regarded as chicken ribs were the most difficult problems for them to solve, but now these permissions were easily in their hands!

This is really God helping me!

Thinking of this, Zhao Jun straightened his mind, restrained the uncontrollable smile on his face, and after straightening his expression, he suddenly turned his head to look at Cheng Cheng, the defense envoy who had not spoken from the beginning, and the supreme commander of the Yunzhou County garrison said:

"General Cheng, since this king has come to Yunzhou, he will have to take care of General Cheng in this security aspect in the future."

Cheng Cheng was stunned at first, but quickly reacted and hurriedly stood up and said: "Don't worry, my Yunzhou County will definitely protect the safety of the prince, and I will never let Xiaoxiao threaten the safety of the prince!" ”

Zhao Jun smiled and nodded: "This is very good, since the soldiers of Yunzhou County will be protected in the future, then let's do it, General Mingcheng, you can arrange it, this king wants to go to the military camp to see those soldiers who are guarding the safety of my Yunzhou County, this should be no problem, right?" ”

Cheng Cheng's heart sank when he heard this, but his face was still silent, and he nodded without hesitation:

"The prince is too worried, what can be the problem if the prince wants to meet the soldiers? When I go back, the general will arrange it, so that the prince can see the military appearance and military prestige of my Yunzhou army tomorrow, and see if my Yunzhou army has enough ability to ensure the safety of the prince! ”

Although Cheng Cheng agreed simply, Zhao Jun still noticed the unnaturalness in his eyes, but he didn't say anything more just smiled and nodded, and then looked at the last person who hadn't spoken yet-Juncheng Liu Xishan!

"Liu Juncheng, this king heard that Liu Juncheng is very familiar with the leaders of various tribes in Yunzhou County......"