Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 132
All the land deeds of the Wen family were collected and handed over to Yuan Wendu for overall calculation.

The current General Manager's Mansion has added nearly 200 people. These people were all recruited by Yuan Wendu from the local area, and many of them were surnamed Shen.

Regarding this point, Yuan Wendu also made it very clear to Yang Ming, because of the relationship between the Shen family and their Yuan family, he was more comfortable and obedient with these people.

Yang Ming didn't care too much about it. When employing people, the first thing to do is to be loyal and obedient, and the second is to have real talents and practical learning. Having both, you can take on important responsibilities.

The yamen is relatively short of people at the moment, and Yang Ming has handed over all human rights to Yuan Wendu. As for the salary, of course, it is still the account of the general manager's office.

These newly recruited people are all assistants, without rank, and their salary is not much, each of them is only a few hundred dollars a month. They are authentic migrant workers. The meal is settled in the Yamen.

These people, more or less educated, are considered clerks, basically from the local gentry class, and the common people cannot read, so they can only farm or do manual labor.

In the General Manager's Mansion, in the back hall, the sound of crackling abacus can be heard endlessly.

It has been counted for three days, and today is the final finishing touch.

When Yuan Wendu checked the fields, the answer he got was [-] Qing. After counting the land deeds, the actual amount of the Wen family was [-] Qing.

That is 67 mu.

These fields are equivalent to the total amount of open fields in the three major grain-producing counties. Most of the fields are concentrated in the four counties of Jiangling, Jiangxia, Liyang, and Baling. These are the large production areas on both sides of the Yangtze River.

Among them, Jiangxia's administrative division is called Ezhou, and the governor is Yang Xuangan, so Yang Ming sent a message to let these four local officials come to the general manager's mansion.

Three days later, these four people met, and they probably knew in their hearts that Yang Ming was looking for them probably because of the investigation of the fields.

Yang Xuangan shared a car with Murong Sanzang, and asked with a smile:
"Fei and Gao, do you know about the Wen family?"

Fei is Fei Lin, and Gao is Gao Zhen, the prefects of Liyang and Baling counties respectively.

Yang Xuangan's words were to ask whether these two people knew about the murder and arson. He must have known it himself, because Yang Yu was a soldier borrowed from the Jiangxia Hussar's Mansion.

Murong Sanzang said: "If you know it, you have to pretend you don't know it."

"Hehe." Yang Xuangan said with a smile: "Too many people have been killed. It's not easy to hide this matter. The higher-ups will know about it sooner or later."

Murong Sanzang frowned and said: "It's good to hide it, we have to hide it, the King of Hedong is the third son of the crown prince, and the murderer is the son of the King of Han, we servants, just do our business honestly, no matter who asks about this kind of thing in the future , all said they didn’t know.”

Yang Xuangan was stunned and said, "If the Second Sage asked, would you say you don't know?"

"I don't know," Murong Sanzang shook his head.

What an old-fashioned old man, he dared to lie to the Second Sage, pedantic. Yang Xuangan let out a heck and stopped talking.

At noon, a governor and three eunuchs sat in the back hall of the general manager's mansion. The back hall is a place for discussions, and only people with high status can enter here.

The four of them hadn't eaten yet, so Yang Ming first ordered Xu Jing to prepare some meals for these people, and then he sat on the main seat by himself, looking over the four of them.

Fei Lin, the prefect of Liyang, was born in the Fei family of Jiangxia. Among the twelve people Yang Mingchu came to Jingzhou for a banquet, was his elder brother Fei Chun.

Their family can be regarded as a relatively long-standing family in Jingzhou. Their ancestors served as officials during the Han and Wei dynasties, serving Liu Bei and Sun Quan.

And the reason why Fei Lin can achieve the position of Liyang prefect, he has to thank one person, Qin Wang Yang Jun.

He was in charge of preparing the Xiangyang navy under Yang Jun during the battle of the Sui Dynasty against Chen. I heard that the Fei family had provided at least a thousand civilian ships of various sizes at that time, and it was a great effort, so he was recommended by Yang Jun to become an official.

At first he was just a county magistrate, but later he did a good job. He was picked up by Gao Jiong when he was touring the world, and he was recommended as the prefect of Liyang, and he has been working until now.

Like him, who belonged to the ancestral grave and smoked green smoke, met Gao Jiong,
And Gao Jiong has been recommending good talents for the Sui Dynasty. In the early years of the Kaihuang, Yu Qing, Duke of Jin, one of the four nobles in the early Sui Dynasty, was recommended by Gao Jiong.

As for the other Gao You, who was born in the old Qi clan, surrendered quickly at the beginning, and served as a leading party for the Northern Zhou Dynasty, so after Zhou destroyed the Sui Dynasty, he was given the honor of Shangyitong Sansi, and he fought Goguryeo with Yang Liang. After his death, he became the prefect of Baling County after returning.

Not to mention Xuangan, the current first official and second generation of the Sui Dynasty, no one in the local area dares not give face.

Among the four, only Yang Xuangan ate with gusto, while the others were full of thoughts, waiting for Yang Ming's next words, so they had no appetite.

"Okay, okay, don't eat Xuangan,"

Yang Ming really couldn't wait any longer, and impatiently said to Xu Jing, "Remove for him."

I asked you to discuss matters, not for dinner.

Yang Xuangan was quite magnanimous towards Yang Ming's lack of face, after all, he knew in his heart that Yang Ming and their family were two different families.

Uncle Yang Yue had sent a letter a long time ago, telling him not to be stubborn with Yang Ming, but to go along with everything, and Yang Ming would never let him suffer.

This is for sure, Yang Ming will not do anything to Yang Yinjiang.

"Show Xuangan the compiled accounts first," Yang Ming said to Xu Jing.

The latter handed a few thin pages of paper to Yang Xuangan, and after Yang Xuangan took it and flipped through it, he slapped the table and cursed:

"These bastards, kill well."

As soon as these words came out, several people present rolled their eyes in their hearts almost at the same time.

It's really unreasonable, no wonder they are all called you dementia, Yang Ming is also very helpless, you have one-tenth of Yang Yinjiang's brains, so you won't be able to say such a sentence.

Murong Sanzang hurriedly corrected him: "No one kills anyone, and the fire is used improperly. This is a man-made disaster."

Yang Xuan realized later, and hurriedly added with embarrassment: "I mean, these people should be killed, and it is God's will to burn them to death."

Then, under the instruction of Yang Ming's eyes, he handed the account to the other three people to read.

After these three people finished watching, they all said the same thing: "It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable."

They are pretending to be confused. They all know who these fields belong to. If Yang Ming dares to touch Wen's family, it is the matter of his nephew and uncle Hanwang. They can intervene.

Seeing that they had finished reading, Yang Ming said slowly, "Let's talk about it, what should we do with the 6000-odd fields?"

"Grant the land, let the local government re-grant the land," Yang Xuangan spoke first.

Yes, I finally said something human, that is, Yang Xuangan's family has a great career, so he can be so proud. Yang Ming is quite satisfied with this answer.

Murong Sanzang said: "The amount of land involved in this matter is too large. If we want to grant the land, we have to discuss a plan in detail. To whom? Who will grant it? How much? These are all things that need to be carefully considered."

Very good, your answer is better, Yang Ming praised: "Prefect Murong is doing practical things, this is an old saying."

The rest of Fei and Gao looked at each other and could see the shock in each other's eyes.

Although the person sitting in the hall is the governor of Jingzhou, he is also a 13-year-old child. Why does it feel like a prince sitting on it?
Judging from his demeanor and tone, no matter how you look at it, he looks like a scheming person.

No wonder he couldn't see Yuan Wendu, this little Highness clearly had his own ideas.

At this time, Yang Ming looked at Fei Lin again:

"Among these land deeds, you have [-] in Liyang County. How do you grant land? What's your opinion?"

Fei Lin hurriedly stood up and said, "Although these fields are only concentrated in a few counties in Liyang, when the land is awarded, the county guards must be the main ones, and they should be distributed evenly to the entire county. If it is only divided into a few counties, there will be disputes in other counties."

Yang Ming frowned and said, "There are six counties under Liyang County, namely Liyang, Shimen, Chanling, Anxiang, Chongyi, and Cili. The problem is that the farmland is in Shimen County, how to distribute it to Cili County? Is it common people? Tian, ​​do you have to cross the county?"

"This is easy," Fei Lin said, "The problematic land in Shimen County can be assigned to the public farmland of Cili County Government, and then the public farmland in Cili County can be converted into private farmland to distribute the land."

This is a good way, Yang Ming quite agrees,
What the other party said was right, not worrying about scarcity but inequality. If the problematic farmland in Shimen County is only awarded in Shimen County, it will inevitably increase the number of farmland for the local people.

In this way, will the people in other counties with less land also make a fuss about granting land again?If this is the case, the government will be coerced by public opinion, which is not a good thing.

Although most officials don't take public opinion seriously at all, Yang Ming values ​​it.

As expected, Gao Jiong still knows people. It is indeed worthy of recognition that Fei Lin can think of this in a short time.

Yang Ming asked him what to do with the remaining one surnamed Gao, and he said that His Highness can do whatever he wants.

This old boy is very cunning.
Yang Ming is the manager of Jingzhou, and he pretends to be the 22 counties of Jingzhou in his heart. It is impossible for him to personally take care of the affairs of these four counties.

So he asked the four people to re-grant land in the area under their jurisdiction after they had perfected themselves according to the general policy proposed by Fei Lin.

He also seriously warned them that they are not allowed to enrich their own pockets, let alone convert them into public land. After the land is granted, Yang Ming will send people to investigate.

There are not many people in the general manager's mansion staring at them to grant fields one by one, so these local officials have to do this kind of thing.

However, Yang Ming also knows that it is impossible for them not to fill their pockets. Even if Yang Ming sends someone to investigate in the future, they will not be able to find out their problems. They will find ways to avoid your investigation.

Among them, I am afraid that Yang Xuangan will not steal the land, because others look down on him.

He came to the place to experience and practice. To put it bluntly, it was a process. Yang Su could let his eldest son always be the governor of the place?

Obviously impossible.

At Yang Su's level, even if he doesn't say anything about his son-in-law, Yang Jian and his wife will help him plan.

Now if Yang Ming recommends Yang Xuangan to go to Beijing for a certain position, the higher-ups will definitely agree.

That's the background.

Since the other party was Yang Yinjiang's biological father, Yang Ming simply asked Yang Xuangan to stay for dinner in front of the other three.

This will make the other three people feel that if Yang Ming doesn't give Yang Xuangan any face, he will still treat Yang Xuangan as his own after all. This is called closeness.

And the three of them, what should they do? They can't do errands well, but no one will take care of them.

(End of this chapter)