Crowned the New Han Dynasty

Chapter 419 Wubao does not hide people

"The people in Dai County seem to be afraid of people from the government."

With the support of Ran Zhan and many warriors, Chen Zhi spent the whole morning patrolling the farms and farmland outside the city, and passed through several forts and manors.

He noticed that the people were respectful on the surface, but when they looked at him and others, they were filled with rejection and fear.

In addition to the common people, he is also very interested in the grassroots organizations here.

Chen Zhi had seen many strange land forms such as Wubao and manor in Xuzhou, Qingzhou, and even on the way to Luoyang, but relatively speaking they were not that frequent or common. However, as he went north, , but we saw more and more Wubao along the way. When we entered the boundary of Youzhou, they were almost everywhere.

The so-called Wubao, in Chen Zhi's first impression, was a closed, self-sufficient village. The village could produce food, grow cash crops, raise fish, ducks, raise pigs, and plant fruit trees. Therefore, the area of ​​Wubao is often not small, and its scale is comparable to that of villages and towns. In addition to the production and living areas, it often covers mountains and lakes, builds ponds and repairs weirs, has spare money, or simply the entire land boundary is a certain place. The landlords would also build pavilions and pavilions in their forts.

All these are surrounded by dock walls to form a fortress-like cluster, equipped with militia guards and armor, which is a dock fortress.

Chen Zhi knew very well that such a comprehensive organizational form that integrated production, life, processing, and even simple handicrafts and industry could be self-sufficient at any time.

The main reason for the birth of Chuwubao was the wars in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and since the Three Kingdoms. In times of chaos, if we did not unite to protect private individuals and resist military disasters, we would simply not be able to survive.

Especially in the troubled north, during the annexation war between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, those people who did not have the support of Wubao Farm were either forcibly recruited or simply died in the war. At least during the raging army, they would also lose their own land.

This is a kind of reverse elimination, which causes the number of people who do not live in Wubao to decrease rapidly. On the contrary, the people of Wubao remain and gradually become the mainstream. It seems that only when the world is unified and peace returns, This development trend will gradually decrease.

When Chen Zhi was in the secretary province, he had consulted relevant materials, and after comparing several books with each other, he came to a conclusion, that is, after Emperor Xuanwu unified the north and the south, the world entered a relatively peaceful period, but Wubao and Grange The trend has not gradually disappeared, but has remained at a fairly stable level, and even the number of Wubao in the north is still increasing rapidly.

Chen Zhi summarized some of the reasons from literature and books, but after all, it was just talk on paper, and he needed to see it with his own eyes before he could be further sure.

"Youzhou is a borderland, and tribes invade from time to time. Daijun is between the Xianbei and the Xiongnu. Bandits from both sides often invade, so the people are a little more wary. You have just taken office recently, and these people have not seen you before. No. I don’t know your character, but I don’t know your abilities, so I will appear reserved, which is human nature.”

Lu Dao, the magistrate of Dai County, followed Chen Zhi and carefully explained why the people were vigilant.

Xianbei presented gifts yesterday, and the officialdom of Dai County experienced some turmoil from top to bottom. The arrival of Tuoba Yulu and his entourage, as well as the gifts and news they sent, were enough to reverse the current unfavorable situation and restore stability to the worried officialdom of Dai County. , I feel like I can regain my composure.

As a result, the next day, Chen Zhi suddenly went out to inspect the outside of the city, under the banner of seeing if the people were affected by the Huns' disturbance.

This reason and entry point were so perfect that even Liu Bao and others could not be stopped by the reason that the prefect was new and needed to familiarize himself with the structure of the government.

As the top leader of Dai County, Lu Dao used the excuse of leading the way and inspected with Chen Zhi. However, during the entire inspection process, there were constant guards around him, and people kept coming and going, bringing news to Lu Dao and conveying Lu Dao's instructions. Pass it on.

Chen Zhi was no stranger to such a situation. No matter in his first or second life, he had seen it and it had happened to him. He knew that it was a sudden inspection by his superiors, and the people below were hurriedly making arrangements and responding to it.

Chen Zhi did not stop him. His inspection this time could be said to have exceeded everyone's expectations. Originally, his group arrived earlier than scheduled, plus the death of Lu Chu, the Xiongnu attack, and Xianbei's gift. The sudden accident caused Daijun to fall into a situation where he was concerned about one thing and not the other, from top to bottom, inside and out, and he had no time to think about anything else.

Chen Zhi's sudden action today caused the Daijun officialdom, which had just felt relieved, to become turbulent again. However, because of the previous series of events, they had been shocked for a long time. They had no time to make arrangements in advance, so they could only make slight corrections in a hurry. Hiding things that are really invisible to the eye, and trying to explain various situations as much as possible.

There is no need for Chen Zhi to reveal everything. He understands the principle that when the water is clear, there will be no fish.But now, seeing the strange expressions of the people, Chen Zhi couldn't help but pay attention. He would not believe Lu Tao's remarks, but he did not pursue it further, which made Lu Tao and the officials who came with him breath a sigh of relief.

"Prefect, it's getting late. Noon is approaching. Should we go back to the city? It's time for Mr. Tuoba to get up too. He worked hard this time to save the face of the court and our Daijun, and to plead guilty for Lu Taishou. You must not neglect justice at all. You must solemnly entertain us at the lunch banquet. If we don’t go back now, it will be too late.”

Lu Dao glanced at the sun in the sky, found an excuse, and wanted to let Chen Zhi return to the city.

Tuoba Yulu and his party arrived at Dai County after a lot of fighting and spending a lot of energy and energy. With Chen Zhi here, they didn't have to worry too much about safety, so after giving gifts yesterday, they took a short rest and went to rest. , sleep is an important way to replenish physical strength, so it has been three days a day and I haven’t gotten up yet.

If these heroes didn't get up, no one would dare to disturb them. Otherwise, Dai County officials would have used Tuoba Xianbei as an excuse to prevent Chen Zhi from going out for inspection.

Chen Zhi nodded and did not express his position immediately. He looked around a few more times and glanced at a fort in front of him. He said, "What you said makes sense, but we have all come to this fort. We must go in and take a look." You just have to watch, otherwise it would not be a good thing if the people in this castle see it and find out afterwards that I, the prefect, never enters the door, don't you think?"

"Yes, yes," Lu said quickly nodded, "We must not let the common people misunderstand." But he secretly groaned in his heart. After the incident with the Huns, he saw the eunuch's pre-planned methods. No one in the Dai County dared to underestimate him. Lu said that he didn't dare to underestimate him, so he was particularly distressed.

You know, it can be said that he was physically and mentally exhausted following him all the way. On the one hand, he had to arrange trivial matters to prevent some ills from being caught by the new prefect and become an excuse to rectify the officialdom and beat himself up. On the other hand, he had to deal with Chen Zhi's inquiries and give There are all kinds of weird scenes, and it can be said that it is racking one's brains to find a reasonable excuse.

Chen Zhi's questions were relatively common at the beginning, like ordinary officials who came to inspect. Lu was relatively relaxed at the time, but as time went by, the questions became more cunning and direct, and many of them went straight to the core, making Lu speak. It takes a lot of effort to deal with it. You can't tell lies to avoid being settled by future generations, and you can't speak out frankly, because that will offend people and expose the problem.

Three points of true and seven points of false answers are too much a test of knowledge and background, and how hard it is to deal with it, so Lu Tao thought about going back to the city as soon as possible, so as to end the suffering, and finally found an excuse, but in the end he had to inspect another Zhuangzi, This made him a little overwhelmed. Fortunately, Chen Zhi said that this was the last one, which gave him some hope, so he braced himself and prepared to finish the last journey.

A group of more than 50 people moved forward slowly.

Looking at the crops on both sides of the road, and at the vigilant and rejected people in the farmland, Chen Zhi calculated the reason.

Chen Zi beside him suddenly said: "Wubao is so close, why are the people still farming outside the fort?"

Lu Dao hurriedly said: "Although Wubao and the manor are the main body of the North, it is still unrealistic to leave large areas of land without cultivation. For various reasons, people can often be seen on the land outside the village. Among them, the details , I can’t tell clearly for a while.”

Chen Zhi suddenly said: "County Magistrate Lu, I asked people to inform the people before that there were barbarians and bandits invading, and told them not to go out easily. I did not divide the troops to protect them, or gather the people in the city, because when I came, I saw many people along the way. For the Wubao, the people lived inside and were protected by the wall, so they should have no worries. But now it seems that there are so many people working outside the Wubao. It is too dangerous. What if the thieves come? "

This time it was Chen Zhi who asked, so Lu Dao had to answer, but he was relieved in his heart and said: "Reporting to the prefect, these people are able to farm outside the fort mostly because of the kindness of Lord Wu. If thieves come, Wu will be killed." Someone will come out from the fort to send a message asking them to return as soon as possible without worrying about being affected."

"So that's it." Chen Zhi nodded and stopped asking, which made Lu Dao feel more relieved.

In Lu Shuo's mind, he turned his thoughts: "I forgot, this is a child of a noble family. Although his methods are amazing, he hasn't seen many low-level things. When he asks such a question, it is obvious that he is not diligent. I was overwhelmed by the matter of Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Prefect Lu, so much so that I forgot this point, as long as this Prefect Chen doesn’t know much about trivial matters, it’s easy to just perfunctory.”

Just as he was thinking about it, Chen Zhi suddenly spoke again: "By the way, you said that the Wuzhu's kindness is related to the land outside the city. I saw Wubao in Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and even Yanzhou. , it is mostly a place where villagers gather, and the fields are all owned by themselves, surrounded by dock walls, helping each other, could it be that this Youzhou is different?"

When Lu Jiang heard the words, he couldn't help being stunned.

(End of this chapter)