Abnormal Three Kingdoms

Chapter 116

In the next few days, the entire government office was busy sowing new seeds. The [-] mu of land, except for the one mu that Chu Nan took care of, had nothing to plant, but now it can start work.

For a while, the Mi family's fields entered the busy farming season, and the luck of the government office began to increase. Although the increase was not large, it was also a shot in the arm for Chu Nan.

"Zi Yan!" On this day, Chu Nan was checking the current situation with several chief bookkeepers, when he saw Zhang Hong and Yi Yan, the acting prefects, come in, with somewhat ugly expressions on their faces.

"Your Majesty?" Chu Nan raised his head, got up and saluted after seeing Zhang Hong, and said, "I don't know what orders you have?"

"Zi Yan, why don't you discuss with me about recruiting refugees?" Zhang Hong frowned. There is almost no place in Antai, and in the past few years Xuzhou has been fighting continuously, and many people who can't survive have become refugees.

"Well." Chu Nan said: "This is just a trial, and I'm afraid of causing chaos to the state capital, so I only recruited people from villages near Xiapi County. According to the household registration, Xiapi should have a population of 160,000 households. The population is [-] and [-]. However, after a month of calculations, the population of Xiapi County is now only [-] households, and the population is less than [-]. In the next few days, I am checking the household registration and preparing to name those who died due to the war. The property of Xia Tian will be returned to the government office, if the original owner can be found, it will be returned, if not, these fields will be used to recruit refugees."

After saying that, Chu Nan looked at Zhang Hong's face, and continued: "You also know that in recent years, tax revenue has been declining, and if you don't try to recruit some refugees, Marquis Wen doesn't even have enough money and food to raise soldiers."

Zhang Hong frowned and said: "This matter is of great importance. It is a good thing that Ziyan has a heart, but it is a major matter to attract refugees, and it should be considered in the long term."

But he cursed secretly in his heart: "Those cultivated lands have already been divided up by various families, so there is still land for you to occupy?"

Chu Nan looked at Zhang Hong, shook his head and smiled, "Don't worry, Fujun, I have reported this matter directly to the state government."

Hearing Zhang Hong's words, no matter how hard it is to maintain a gentle smile on his face, after all, it is taboo for subordinates to report directly to a higher level in the officialdom, even if it is your father-in-law, but by doing this, you are clearly ignoring yourself, your immediate boss.

"Since we have reported to Marquis Wen, let's forget about this matter, but next time there is such a decree, you must discuss it with me in advance." Zhang Hong took a deep breath and managed to restore his smile.

Chu Nan nodded: "I didn't think carefully this time, please don't blame Fujun, next time I will discuss with Fujun first."

Definitely next time, as long as you are still the prefect, the respect due to you will be given to you.

Zhang Hong nodded, looked at the master books under Chu Nan, and asked, "Why don't you see Wang Xiancheng?"

"Recently, there are some trivial matters in the countryside. I let Wang Xiancheng take care of them." Chu Nan laughed.

Why are these masters so obedient now?For more than a month, Chu Nan did not bully Wang Xiancheng, but only entrusted him with a lot of unimportant things, let him leave the power center of the government office little by little, and at the same time clean up these masters first, and then give benefits, These masters have backgrounds, but they are not of high background, otherwise they would not just be small officials in the county. They are the group that Chu Nan plans to use to win over in the future. Naturally, they are not tossed to death by Chu Nan like Wang Xiancheng .

Zhang Hong frowned and said nothing.

"I underestimated him. After only two months in office, Wang County Chancellor was dismissed! I wanted to take this opportunity to dismiss him, but I didn't want to... Now that he has grown up in the county, he is blessed by Mr. Lu Bu. It’s not good to attack him again, but this son’s method is getting more and more ruthless, faintly, it seems to attack the nobles, I need to discuss it with everyone.”

Thinking of this, Zhang Hong said: "Since Marquis Wen has already agreed, I don't have to take care of it anymore. Ziyan manages well, and Xiapi County is now prosperous. It's really rare, but we shouldn't be complacent."

"Naturally." Chu Nan smiled.

After a few words of encouragement, Zhang Hong left.

"Continue, this piece of land is checked out based on the past household registration records. The owner of the land has no tax payment records, and the cultivated land has never been reported here." Chu Nan drew a stroke on the map.

"But..." One of the chief bookkeepers was a little confused: "This land is being cultivated now."

"If you have never paid taxes, it will be regarded as wasteland. If someone cultivates it, let him make up for the grain that has been rented for the past few years. If you don't want to, ask Wei Yue to go and embezzle the court's cultivated land privately. It is a felony. They went to prison to repent." Chu Nan naturally knew why, but now that he had food in hand, he didn't panic, and he wasn't afraid that these scholars would make trouble.

The complexions of the master bookkeepers were a little ugly, and they also had similar cultivated land in their homes.

"That's right." Chu Nan seemed to have thought of something suddenly, looked at the crowd and said, "Everyone has been working hard with me these days, if you have similar cultivated land at home, remember to report to the government office, don't ask your family to fight with your family Get up, let outsiders see the joke!"

The chief bookkeepers were startled when they heard the words, and then they showed joy, and said to Chu Nan, "Thank you County Magistrate Chu!"

"Do things well." Chu Nan pointed to the map. This map was specially drawn by him. Xuzhou is located in a plain with few mountains. It is almost a flat place. The map is straight and simple. The location is drawn out, and the arable land is marked emphatically.

In the nearly two months since he took office, he has basically been working around this map, checking household registration, looking for arable land that can be won, and so on.

According to current calculations, only one Xiapi County can get 180,000 mu of cultivated land to be taken over to the government office. With this 180,000 mu of cultivated land, according to calculations, at least 100,000 households and nearly [-] people can be resettled.

If it is completed, it will be the post of Pi Ling, and the luck that can be provided to oneself in a day is a base of [-]. When the time comes to accumulate for one month, you can continue to improve your talent.

Now the chief bookkeepers have really figured out Chu Nan's intentions. Those who don't cooperate with him are the ones who are attacked, and those who are willing to cooperate with him are their own people. This is also a common method in the officialdom, but in the past, the county magistrate found cooperation partners. They were all those big families, and they were the ones taking care of the small ones. They were looking for jobs in the county, so it would be good if they could protect themselves.

But judging from Chu Nan's appearance this time, it seems that he wants to attack those big households in reverse and win over these small households. Maybe following Chu Nan, he can become a powerful local presence in the future.

A few people suddenly became more motivated. This is the information Chu Nan revealed to them. From now on, they just need to work hard.

Looking at this scene, Chu Nan was thinking in his heart that in the future, when these people get up, the bottom line may be lower than those of the big family. If the big family continues to fight, the small family will definitely want to become a big family, but Chu Nan will not I hope that big families will appear, but the problem is that not to mention the feudal society with underdeveloped information, even in his era, the resources in small counties are often controlled by dozens of families.

How to solve this problem?
Chu Nan shook his head. There are so many problems in modern society that cannot be solved by great people. Let him solve them. Do you take yourself too seriously?

The most important thing now is to reshuffle the power that Xuzhou is in charge of, and integrate the power that can be integrated into one place.

It’s true that Cao Cao is powerful, but the current Cao Cao is far from reaching his peak. In Yuzhou and Yanzhou, Cao Cao also faces similar problems. He has a bigger territory, and Cao Cao’s reputation is not like that of Lu Bu, so there are still big families willing to support him. His, so he can only integrate a little bit between the rich and the poor, which is many times more difficult than Xuzhou, and the integration of power is not as easy as Xuzhou.

One year...

Chu Nan rubbed the space between his brows, the most important thing now is time!
Chu Nan began to become even busier. Because of the inventory of the court's public farmland, a lot of fighting began among the people. In the next few days, Chu Nan went to Lu Bu's place to ask for 800 people, and took Wei Yue back and forth across the territory. He also gradually discovered some miracles. Now that he is in command of the army and cooperates with the marching order flag that has been strengthened ten times, the feeling of the energy washing away the god makes his god grow faster.

The armed forces composed of ordinary tenant farmers are no match for the regular army commanded by generals. As for the families behind them, there may be some people who can lead the army, but let alone they dare not show up, even if they dare, in terms of military strength, no big family in Xuzhou dares to follow Lu Bu head-on, including the Chen family.

Chu Nan also changed from his previous benevolence in dealing with these rioting tenants. After the first persuasion failed, he directly attacked them.

It may be pitiful, but if you don't use thunderous means, no one is afraid at all. After killing hundreds of people in a row, the riot basically stopped.

"Ziyan, how can you slaughter people casually?" On this day, just as Chu Nan returned to the government office, he saw Zhang Hong came in aggressively with someone to question him.

"Common people?" Chu Nan ordered someone to take out a box of rosters, looked at Zhang Hong and said, "The household registration rosters of the people in Xiapi County are all here. During this period, the government office has been reorganized. I can guarantee that no one has been killed. Registered people!"

"Even if you're not on the register, you're still my fellow citizens!"

"How to prove it?" Chu Nan asked back.

"How to prove what? Why do you need to prove it?" Zhang Hong frowned.

"Not being on the register means that they have never paid taxes. They embezzled the court's cultivated land without paying taxes. The court sent people to reclaim the land and even started a riot. Your Majesty, this is a crime of rebellion. If it is a crime, it should be punished by the barbarians. "Chunan said coldly without any fear of Zhang Hong's oppression.

"It's just that it hasn't been approved by the government office..." Zhang Hong frowned.

"The imperial court of the Han Dynasty has already existed in name only, and you are here to talk about Han law with me?"

"The ruler of the house is the minister of the great Han Dynasty who sealed the border. How can you say that there is no king and no father, and it has not been approved? The fields I have taken back today are all fields that have been recorded in the household register. If the head of the household dies, it should be returned to the court, or It is inherited by his heirs, and he is in possession of it privately. The lord does not ask for responsibility, but he comes to me. Is the lord a minister of the great man, or a dog of these aristocratic families!?"

When he said this, he pointed at his nose and scolded directly.

Zhang Hong changed color suddenly, and said sharply: "Chu Ziyan, you dare to humiliate me!?"

"People humiliate themselves, but others humiliate them. As a prefect of a county, you don't care about the people you govern. You owe the court's kindness to the court, but you are ashamed to the Li people. Zhang Hong, you and I know why you came today. Go back and tell them to give me back the fields that don’t belong to them!”

"Yellow mouth kid, don't know how to live or die!"

Zhang Hong was furious in his heart, but he didn't dare to speak out. After cursing in his heart, he walked away...

(End of this chapter)