Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Ten-Year-Old Director (I)

Thinking of this, Shen Fei couldn't help but blink his eyes, and sketched in his mind according to the boundaries of the southeast, northwest, and northwest, thinking about how big the jurisdiction of almost six thousand square kilometers was. This couldn't help but make him stunned, wow! It's really big enough! I used to think that the jurisdiction of Huwo Town was big enough, but I didn't expect Dacheng to be like this, even a town is so big, so isn't Huyun County bigger?

Shake your head, put this question aside, and continue to look down: Huwo Town has 57 villages, with a total of 6,271 households and 15,241 households. The total number of acres of land is 75,700 acres, and the upper fields are 11,200 acres. Seeing this, Shen Fei couldn't help but pout, what year old antique is this? It's just that there are more than 10,000 acres of farmland around Huwo Town! The entire Huwo Town is only 75,700 mu of land? The ghost doesn't believe it!

Thinking of this, Shen Fei's eyes suddenly lit up, this information is so old, and the whole tax is based on this data. If you count the real number of fertile land and collect it according to the new one, wouldn't you have made a great contribution?

However, after seeing the information at the back of the document, this idea was immediately dispelled, and he was a little afraid, if he did this, the offended people would not know how many Lu Dao there were! Because the back of the document was indicated: "Ueda levies six liters in summer, five liters in autumn, four liters in Xiatian summer, and three liters in autumn, and another 15 literati taxes per mu, and three days of labor per month per ding." ”

If you really want to tax according to the rules of this document, it is really very easy, because how can you get one stone of grain from one acre of land in Huwo Town, and one stone is equal to ten buckets. One bucket is equal to ten liters, plus now there are more than 200 copper plates for one stone of coarse grain, and only six liters of grain and fifteen copper plates are paid per mu, so this tax is really light.

Although the per capita tax has now been abolished, more than half of the land tax is now paid, and if the land is rented, it has reached a terrifying eighty percent of the land income to be paid. Where did the extra tax grain go? Naturally, it was encroached upon by the landlords and the government above. Thinking that he also had a share of the director, Shen Fei couldn't help but shake his head. Just throw this document aside.

So much information recorded in this document, that is, the area under the jurisdiction of Huwo Town recorded is useful, and all other information is useless. Shen Fei looked at the next document a little helplessly. This is the introduction of the Huwo Town, see it written on the three villages and one mile, three miles and one pavilion chief. Rizheng was in charge of collecting taxes and organizing labor. The pavilion chief is responsible for local security and guarding passers-by, and the pavilion chief is only responsible to the director of the town office. Seeing this, Shen Fei couldn't help but shake his head and threw the document aside.

This is really a joke, according to the establishment regulations, Huwo Town should have a director, two deputy directors, five copywriters, twenty clerks, nineteen lizheng, and seven pavilion chiefs. There are six officials in each of them, and each pavilion chief has a sword, spear, and archer. The town office also has five swords, guns, and archers. Wow, it adds up to more than 300 people! You must know that there are only 50 officials under the command of Lu Dao County Zun, can you support so many people who can only spend money and not make money in a small tiger nest town?

"These documents are all rubbish, why did the boss show me? Could it be that he still wants to fill up the establishment of more than 300 people?" Shen Fei shook his head. Pick up the last document and look through it.

Seeing this, Shen Fei immediately jumped up and shouted, "Isn't it? I've just taken office! I'm actually about to prepare for the autumn expedition? And Huwo Town actually wants to hand over 10,000 stone of rice, 1,000 horses of hemp, and 100 gold? Wow! Where did I get so much rice, linen, and money!"

Shen Fei spun around a few times, and he was frightened by such numbers. What is being levied now is rice, not some other coarse grains! If 10,000 stone of coarse grains were levied, then it would really be easy to levy them, because the coarse grains were only 50 wen and 1 stone. But rice costs a silver and a stone...,

And the most fatal thing is that the last item on the autumn levy list issued by the county government is to require Huwo Town to send 500 Ding to the county government to work for one month, that is, let 500 Zhuang Ding bring their own dry food and work for the government for free for one month. This is really fatal! The autumn planting is imminent, and 500 strong men have been requisitioned. Do you want most of the harvest in Tiger Nest Town?

Shen Fei, who didn't know what to do, opened his mouth and wanted to call his sister for help, but he suddenly closed his mouth, then stomped his foot, gritted his teeth fiercely and said, "I don't believe that Shen Fei can't do such a thing!" and then ran to the public hall with the autumn levy form.

Shen Yuxia's father and daughter did not go far, they both hid in the distance and watched Shen Fei, and Shen Fei's muttering and scolding fell into their ears. Shen Haofeng couldn't help but smile proudly: "Hehe, Zhilu Dao has a headache, right? I really think that the chief official can come at will, I really think that those copywriters and clerks can be offended casually? Without their help, see how you complete the autumn expedition task!"

"Dad, it's not good for you to be like this, you have a tendency to want Xiaofei to be unlucky. Shen Yuxia said with a smile.

"Hmph, haven't you always been used to Shen Fei, why did you ignore it this time?" Shen Haofeng glared at his daughter angrily.

"Hehe, Dad, my daughter wants Xiao Fei to feel the atmosphere of officialdom, anyway, he can only be the director of real power for two days, and then he will go to the War Martial Arts Academy to study, and if there is any trouble, you will have your father to help solve it." So in that case, why don't you let Xiao Fei try what it's like to be an official?" Shen Yuxia said with a smile.

"Hmph! Lao Tzu knew that you were standing on Shen Fei's side. Unexpectedly, because Lao Tzu had to wipe Shen Fei's ass, he let him mess around, and I really convinced you to be a sister. Shen Haofeng rolled his eyes and said angrily.

"Hehe, we are all your sons and daughters, if there is something to solve, let my father solve it. Shen Yuxia said with a smile.

These words made Shen Haofeng very comfortable, looking at the troubled Shen Fei in the distance, he stroked his chin with some smugness and smiled: "That's right, since there is me, your Lao Tzu, you guys will help you solve any trouble, so do it as much as you want, think about it, and make trouble! Lao Tzu, I support you." ”

As soon as he said this, he saw that Shen Fei had already run towards the public hall with a fierce attitude. Shen Haofeng and his daughter looked at each other and quickly followed, they were also very curious about how Shen Fei would complete the task of the Autumn Expedition.

As soon as Shen Fei rushed into the public hall, the clerks and Ding Zhuang who were chatting in the public hall were immediately startled, and hurriedly bowed: "Lord Chang!"

"Excuse me, immediately gather all the horses in the town office, I, the head of this office has an order!" Shen Fei said majestically.

"Yes!" everyone wondered what the ten-year-old director had ordered, but they immediately went to inform the other colleagues. After all, after the killing of chickens and monkeys not long ago, they no longer dare to underestimate this ten-year-old director.

After a while, Ding Zhuang, Master, and Clerk naturally ran in quickly, and after they stood up slightly, Shen Fei asked, "How did the salaries and funds of our town office personnel come from?"

"My lord, according to the custom, our salaries and funds are used by drawing 30% of the summer and autumn taxes twice. A relatively mature master saw that everyone didn't answer, so he couldn't help but say.

"Okay, then now the county government has issued an autumn levy order, requiring our Huwo Town to hand over 10,000 stone of rice, 1,000 horses of linen, 100 gold, and 500 ding of labor for one month. Do we have to collect more than 30% to maintain the operation of our town office?" asked Shen Fei with a tense face.

"Ah, my lord, this is impossible!" Before the other Ding Zhuang and the clerk could react, the four masters had already shouted in surprise. ...,

"What can't be?" asked Shen Fei with a raised eyebrow.

"My lord, as long as this autumn tax is completed before November, there will be no problem, but now it is only July! The summer levy has only passed, and the autumn planting has just begun, so why has the county government begun the autumn levy? Also, the taxes in each town are determined according to the amount of the previous year, and last year, I only paid 5,000 stone of coarse grain, 100 horses of linen and 10 gold in Huwo Town, and I have not yet done hard labor, so why did I turn over so much this time?" The eldest of the four hurriedly said.

Hearing this, Shen Fei couldn't help blinking his eyes, daring to feel that the tax was really light! The young master's own property alone could pay taxes for the entire town, but this time, why did it suddenly advance so early and become so heavy? Thinking of this, Shen Fei couldn't help but shrug his shoulders and said, "This is not clear, if we don't act according to the autumn levy order, what will be the result?" he asked with some curiosity later.

If the elder finds it difficult to complete the autumn expedition, his subordinates are willing to contact the squires to make up for it to see how to finish the autumn expedition. This time, including those documents, they hurriedly jumped out to stop it.

"Huh, why are you so panicked, what is there to say here?" Shen Fei was even more curious, because he found that on the map, the light points of these clerical masters were rapidly changing between white, yellow, and blue, which showed that their mood at the moment was definitely extremely complicated.

Several masters looked at each other a few times, and then looked at the people present, all of whom were villagers from Huwo Town, and couldn't help sighing, muttering: "The ten-year-old director is troublesome, and the child doesn't know the danger here, and if he doesn't explain it clearly, if he comes according to his temperament, he doesn't care about the county government at all, then it will be a big trouble." ”

With this realization, these masters explained honestly and clearly: "Lord Chang, although the tax is higher, if we collect it, it will only take some words, and those townspeople who have paid too much money will be in pain, and there is no trouble other than that." ”

"Yes, because no matter what, we, the officials of the town office, are all from Huwo Town, and we are all villagers in the township, and when we collect it, we always have some thoughts of the township's feelings, and we don't dare to do things too much, and our tone and actions will be a lot, and we mainly rely on our tongues to complete the collection. The clerks also sighed. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )