Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

"Father said Donglu?"

"Ok!"

Chen Dengkui is a member of the Donglin Party and a member of the decent Songjiang Chen family. In terms of being well-informed, he is even higher than Governor Liu Jingyao of Denglai.

In the recent period of time, there have been repeated warnings at the border, and the records of small-scale mobilization of troops by Donglu have been recorded one after another, and the signs of full-scale mobilization have become more and more obvious.

Considering that the price of iron and grain this year is very abnormal. At this time, Jiangnan and Shandong have already started to lack food, and a large amount of grain has been transported to the north and disappeared miraculously. What is tricky here? [

It's just that no one dared to take off the cover of this matter. How many people were involved behind the big grain merchants? There must be many big sharks lurking in the deep water. Who dares to take off the cover rashly, I'm afraid they will be chewed There is no residue left.

Even a middle-level Donglin cadre like Chen Dengkui would stay as far away from this kind of thing as possible, and would not get involved.

"Third brother has a letter, saying that he wants to come over."

The third lady is usually very free here, and many things are not handled by the soldiers, so both father and daughter are very poor and bored.But fortunately, information dissemination is extremely slow these days, there is only the mansion newspaper on the official surface, and if we usually communicate with each other, we can only exchange letters.

The more senior people are, the more letters they usually have. People asking for business, officials, letters of recommendation, or inquiring about news, please say hello, and pass on gossip. Anyway, here, Mr. Chen, there are more than ten or twenty letters a day. There are at least five, six, seven or eight letters.

Opening and reading letters is not a small project. Master Chen reads them every day when he is free, and throws them back to this Huizhi Lanxin's daughter. There are nine successes.

"Oh, if he wants to come, please invite him. It's probably because living in the country is boring, and I want to move because of poverty."

Mr. Chen left with his hands behind his back, while sighing: "Even if you are the father, there is nothing to look at here. Alas, official life is so boring, it is better to go back, it is better to go back... By the way, after you reply to the letter, I will take your place on the way." Father wrote a letter to Zhang Shouren, I have already prepared a gift, and along with the gift is a letter to congratulate him on his wedding, um, that’s it.”

Although my father was suspected of moaning without illness, he was indeed hit hard.

Since the promulgation of the Fushan Six Articles, money and food were really distributed, not to mention the military preparation and road yamen, even the prefectural and county yamen, for the time being, they could only act according to Zhang Shouren's face.

In this day and age, it is false to say anything else, and the real master is the one who has money and food.

In the study room, the beautiful girl bit her lips tightly, and the writing brush in her slender hand seemed to be as heavy as a thousand. After a while, the snarling girl threw the brush away and said angrily: " This person, making such a big fuss even as a relative, is really abominable, um, it's so abominable!"

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As the target of resentment, Zhang Shouren didn't sneeze, nor did he feel the slightest bit of vigilance. On the contrary, he was frowning intently, listening to Zhong Xian's report.

"My lord, the document has been counted. Under the rule of the camp, including Fushansuo, Fangjiaji, Guchengji, and Lingshanwei, there are a total of 14 households with a population of 170. Among them, there are 56 males, 760 adults, and [-] minors. Women, [-], strong women [-], and young girls [-] Adding up the statistics, under the rule of the whole battalion, there are a total of [-] young and strong men."

Zhong Xian paused for a moment, then continued: "There are 21 acres of dry land under the camp, and 650 acres of paddy fields near the river, of which 720 acres are owned by military officers at all levels with more than 420 households. , all the paddy fields are owned by military officials with more than a thousand households. Under the main camp, the Fushan Institute handed over 200 stone grains to the imperial court a year, and the Lingshanwei year is [-] years. The capital of the state will be collected in a unified way to Dengzhou, and then transported from Dengzhou to Tongzhou for delivery. After that, it will be allocated and distributed by the imperial court.”

To be able to achieve this level of numbers, and the time is not very long, under the communication and traffic conditions of this era, Zhong Xian and others have worked hard and worked hard.

Zhang Shouren was also unconsciously moved, stretched out his hand, and said with a smile: "You guys have worked really hard, let me see."

The statistics this time were led by the statistical bureaus of various places, with the cooperation of the Military Intelligence Bureau and other units, and some soldiers were also dispatched to protect... The recent clean-up operation has achieved great results. They got all the wealth they had accumulated for decades and distributed it. There must be many people offended by this. Although they played a powerful role in the Fushan Camp, there are many desperadoes, so it is better to be careful.

This kind of deterrence by force not only overwhelmed the possible Xiaoxiao, but also suppressed some local Lijia who were unwilling to cooperate.

Whenever someone says that the procedures are not in compliance and the county has to issue a voucher, the soldiers of the Fushan Camp Horse Squad will draw out their sabers and place them on their chests. People may be pirates off the net, or stubborn bandits and thieves. In short, this place is very dangerous and requires a large army to kill.

Such a murderous riot, plus the statistical area is "Fushan District", that is, the area directly controlled by Zhang Shouren, a few guards, plus a few large market towns, prefectures and counties like Jiaozhou and Jimo are of course not counted. of.

Even so, the workload is enormous.

After all, before that, only the Hongwu period relied on the power of the whole country to count the population once, and then for more than 200 years, the so-called yellow books and white books were all nonsense, without the slightest accuracy.

A government composed of tens of thousands of civil servants did not even provide the most basic and accurate data on population and land. Zhang Shouren felt that this was an unforgivable shame, and he was launching a counterattack to disgust the local officials and gentry in Laizhou. After a while, he took the opportunity to pursue. While distributing money and food, he also sent Zhong Xian and other trusted officials to carry out this statistical work under his direct control.

After looking at it for a while, Zhang Shouren said with a smile: "There are quite a few households under the camp, but the land is still enough for farming."

Zhong Xian stood beside him and replied: "The population has multiplied, and the number of households is several times higher than when the guard was established."

Zhang Shifu continued from the side: "In my area of ​​Fushan and Lingshan, there were many military households fleeing, but since Yongyetian was given to Yongye during the Jiajing period, the general Youtian stopped encroaching too much. Over the years, the population has grown up again. If there were statistics before Jiajing, there might not even be five thousand households."