Sure enough, as King Hu Bin expected, after arriving in Zhenzhou, the county magistrates and governors of the state were all procrastinating. There were banquets every day, and they could not get rid of it.

But the day of summer harvest was getting closer and closer. Hu Zhuanzhi had no choice but to hang up his war-free card and began to think about how to carry out summer harvest.

Zhenzhou governs Guishan County (Huicheng District, Huizhou), which governs four counties: Guishan, Boluo, Haifeng, and Heyuan. Each county has only a dozen or so yamen, not even a hundred in total. To manage these thousands of households, a few

Zhenzhou in Wandingkou is extremely difficult to come to.

As a transfer envoy, King Hu Bin was also well-educated and wrote documents in the Governor's Mansion, so he was very confident.

As soon as he rested, he relied on the appointment letter from the imperial court and fifty elite Yun Congjun to directly take over the warehouses in four counties and one state, moved all the money and food to his residence, and then transferred money and food from each county.

The Yamen transferred one or two experienced Yamen servants and about a dozen Bai Yi.

As a result, a transfer envoy yamen was initially established.

In each county government, in addition to the county magistrate who controls the overall situation, the second-in-command to fill the position, the chief registrar, the county magistrate, and the county lieutenant who is in charge of the army, the government servants are subordinate to the county magistrate. There are dozens in large counties and about ten in small counties.

Yamen officials also serve as police officers, fire fighters, tax collectors, bailiffs, etc., and sometimes they are also the main force defending the city. This requires very comprehensive and systematic knowledge, so there is a reason why father and son follow each other one after another.

White laborers are temporary workers with no salary. They usually rely on their skin to make money, accept bribes, bully merchants, etc., and they can get a full meal when they are hungry, and they can get a full-time job if they have the opportunity.

The county magistrate has a term of office, while the yamen servant is for life. After the father dies, the son succeeds. In a few years, he will become a local celebrity, run the business for generations, and become the representative of local public opinion.

King Hu Bin's trick of poaching people was really impressive, and many local snakes fell into the arms of the Transportation Department.

After all, the yamen servant only has a low status, while the Yamen of the Transport Department is affiliated to the central government. Entering is equivalent to getting rid of the low status and becoming an official. His status is much higher and he has more money.

The Transportation Department Yamen faced the summer harvest for the first time. It only exercised the power of supervision and did not collect taxes immediately. It would be appropriate to at least wait for the autumn harvest.

Although he was only supervising, King Hu Bin did not forget Governor Li's words and constantly supervised the taxation situation of the entire four counties of Zhenzhou.

In order to avoid local cheating and disregard of national laws, King Hu Bin sent a large number of officials to various towns and villages to publicize the news that only regular taxes were levied, which caused a great stir.

However, the integrity of an official does not allow for any sloppiness, so he planned to study the opera and conduct a private visit incognito.

"Secretary, look, ahead is Shangpo Village in Heyuan County!"

King Hu Bin and his party came to Heyuan County, which is the county with the highest grain production in Zhenzhou and the largest number of Dingkou, with a total of 2,000 households. Over the years, this place has been a major tax collector in Zhenzhou, so there is no room for carelessness.

Therefore, a group of them, wearing regular clothes, riding mules, and led by their staff, came to this ordinary village.

The person who led them here was originally Lao Zhao, an official from Heyuan County. He was only thirty years old, but his face was full of vicissitudes of life. This village was originally under his jurisdiction.

Bending down and looking at the young face in front of him, Lao Zhao felt that he was too high to reach. To hold such a high-level official position at such an age meant that he had a bright future, and his desire to curry favor became even tighter.

"The land in Shangpo Village is nearly 2,000 acres, and there are 130 households. The village chief is Li Jia, a local gentry. Half of the land in Shangpo Village belongs to his family. Since there is a small river next to the village, it is a good place to be in Shangpo Village.

There are only 500 acres of irrigated land, and although the rest is a bit far from the river, we can still get some water, so the grain yield has always been high!"

The Southern Han Dynasty inherited the Tang system, with four households as neighbors, five neighbors as bailees, and a hundred households as li. However, Li Jia's policy of ten households as bailees, ten bailors as li, and five li as Jia was only implemented in Prince Xing's Mansion, and the rest were

The states are still the same.

A group of people pretended to be grain merchants collecting grain, driving several mule carts. Due to uneven roads, the speed was quite slow.

King Hu Bin looked at the harvested rice fields and smelled the fragrance of the rice. He couldn't help but feel a little intoxicated. There were many vendors passing by along the way, and even more ragged civilians, but they all cast curious eyes and a little bit.

Respect.

After looking at his own clothes, he looked at the officials and smiled. Even though a group of officials were wearing ordinary clothes, they naturally looked nondescript and quite strange.

"These 500 acres of fine riverside land belong to Li Li, and the best house in the village belongs to him!"

"In which year were these two thousand acres of land recorded?" King Hu Bin smiled half-heartedly and turned to ask.

"What was recorded in the third year of Qianhe's reign is not too far away!" Old Zhao chuckled, saying nothing.

"It has been the third year of Qianhe, but now it is the second year of Dabao. Fifteen years have passed, and this field has not changed yet!"

Shaking his head, King Hu Bin really had a poor understanding of these officials. He had not registered a household for many years. He did not know how many Dingkou taxes were lost to the court, and all of these losses were stolen by local gentry and officials.

"This is nothing. I heard from my eldest father (grandfather) that in the pre-Tang Dynasty, there was no registration for a hundred years. This is not a long time!"

After hearing this, King Hu Bin calmed down his worries and came to the threshing floor of this village. Bags of dried and sun-dried rice were piled up like mountains, and a group of people were constantly weighing them.

"Get up, get up -" The huge weighing beam had thick arms and the weighing weight was as big as a human head. Four strong men lined up at the two ends, hooked up a basket of rice, and with the voice of an old man, under the supervision of two yamen servants, they began to stand up and weigh.

Heavy.

"Li Datou, for ten acres of farmland, Li Datou should pay ten dou, or three hundred coins, plus cattle money, farm tool money, Dingkou money, servant money, etc., a total of one stone and eight dou, or five hundred and forty money, oh, pay

Food, eh - there's a dou missing, Li Datou's family, add another dou!"

The old man in silk and satin glanced at the scale beam and said directly to the nervous strong man next to him.

"Captain Jia, here, we have weighed the food at home, and there is still half a bucket too much!" Li Datou complained a few words, glanced secretly at the yamen servant with a fierce look on his face, and could only add the prepared grain to the frame.

A bucket.

"That's appropriate!" Li Li Chang's eyes widened and he said, "This scale is the best, don't talk nonsense."

"Next, Li Dazui's house..."

Although Li Li was older, his speech was still sharp and his memory was good. Every family remembered it. When half the time passed, the two government servants stopped caring and took some white servants to pull the donkey cart.

More than two hundred shi of grain left, and the summer taxes were paid.

Since there were not enough donkey carts, the head of the village sent his servants to deliver the goods in ox carts.

So, under the watch of the grain merchants and villagers, Li Li Chang continued to settle accounts and collect taxes. King Hu Bin also watched for a while. The land was more than two thousand acres, and the household registration was more than 200 or more than 300.

Needless to say, the following summer taxes were divided equally, and even if the villagers knew about it, they could only obey.
Chapter completed!