Lin Yanchao speculated about the intention of Prefect Fu, and then asked, "The Lord of the Mansion is in the hall today?"

The official replied: "I went out early in the morning."

"Oh?" Lin Yanchao frowned. Although he wanted to ask, it was a very taboo thing in the officialdom to find out Shangguan's whereabouts.

The official deliberately cursed Lin Yanchao and said, "After hearing the news, the villain seemed to have gone to Yucheng County. The Mansion recently intends to inspect the river engineering. I wonder if he will inspect the river in the river today."

After hearing the official's words, Lin Yanchao couldn't help but feel nervous. The new magistrate would not numb himself on his face, so he would secretly check his own accounts. Lin Yanchao felt like he was caught by a teacher when he was studying.

But Lin Yanchao thought again and said, "I am not afraid of being slanted by the shadows, so what if I let him investigate?" But Lin Yanchao remembered the methods of rectifying the clerks and officials in the yamen when he took office, and he felt a sense of vigilance about this.

Not afraid of ten thousand, but afraid of if, Lin Yanchao patted the official on the shoulder to show praise, and then immediately returned to the yamen to make arrangements.

It was in Gaojiaji, Yucheng County, where Lin Yanchao inspected the river engineering industry.

Among the officials of Yucheng County, the original Huang Yue had been transferred from the Yucheng County Magistrate to the office. As for the original Gu Zhubo, under the recommendation of Lin Yanchao, the Ministry of Personnel had already issued a statement and appointed him as the magistrate of Yucheng County.

From Gu Zhuo, who is the ninth rank, to Gu Magistrate Gu, who is the seventh rank, he is still cautious as an official, and is now deliberately flattering the new magistrate Fu Zhiyuan who is inspecting the countryside.

Fu Zhiyuan was wearing a plain robe and casual clothes, obviously he wanted to visit him in private.

Magistrate Gu immediately changed into the clothes of ordinary people with his subordinates and went to the countryside with Fu Prefect.

The two sat in the carriage, and County Magistrate Gu accompanied each other carefully and said to each other: "This Gao family is the closest restaurant along the river. When the officials were the chief officials last year, they encouraged the rich peasants to set up social warehouses, so they survived the disaster last year and did not starve a single person to death."

Facing the prefect, County Magistrate Gu still took out his political achievements of urging the people to set up social warehouses and repeatedly said that he would demonstrate his political achievements.

Fu Zhiyuan did not comment on this, but said: "Gu's magistrate went from being a magistrate to being a magistrate, and he jumped several levels in a row. He was really capable. I heard that it was recommended by Sima Lin before."

Magistrate Gu's heart was shocked. As a regular seal official, he would be afraid that the subordinate officials would get too close to the second official. He didn't know how the relationship between the main hall and Lin Yanchao was. If the two were not in harmony, it would involve the issue of standing in the team.

He had seen Lin Yanchao's skills and could never afford to offend him, but he was not easy to offend him as the new prefect.

The two ministers were in a dilemma, and the county magistrate Gu said: "Sima Lin really has the grace of recommending his subordinates, but his subordinates are the Ministry of Personnel..."

Fu Zhiyuan interrupted: "How many households do Gaojiaji have? How many people are there?"

Magistrate Gu was stunned and immediately reported: "There are 126 households and 288 households."

Magistrate Gu is worthy of being a capable official and remembers this number clearly.

But Fu Zhiyuan did not praise him, but frowned and said, "It's less than three families, why is the Gao family so important to separate the people?"

After hearing this, Gu Zhixian felt in his heart. Confucianism governed the world with filial piety, so the law also encouraged large family families. Of course, there are also solutions when you go to the local area, but the division of families is so serious that as a magistrate, you may be able to suffer from a loss of education.

Magistrate Gu didn't know if he was wearing small shoes by the new magistrate because he was recommended by Lin Yanchao, but he could easily get caught by accident. Magistrate Gu replied cautiously: "Report to the emperor of the government, although the people are separated, they do not separate their families. For example, many people in the group still live together for generations, with a kind father and a filial son, and brothers and friends, so they are not hindered from education."

Fu Zhiyuan asked, "Then why is there a household registration but not a family division?"

County Magistrate Gu could only tell the truth: "That is because the government dispatched military service according to the households. The households with many households will inevitably bear the heaviest labor service and the highest taxes, so the people are rushing to analyse households."

China's tax system has fluctuated frequently for thousands of years. Sometimes taxes are levied by households, so in order to exempt taxes, some families gather thousands or even tens of thousands of people. Every time they have a meal, thousands of people eat together, which is very spectacular.

Therefore, the court forced such a large family to apart households. During the Sui Dynasty, the law of exporting households was determined, so that the cousins ​​must apart households.

But in the Ming Dynasty, local vocational services were divided into vocational services, and the people were competing to apart households to avoid labor.

After Fu Zhiyuan learned the truth, his face was as deep as water. The official next to him said, "This is because the local people are vulgar and cunning. The government office does not have to worry about these unruly people."

Fu Zhiyuan said: "I'm wrong. This disadvantage lies in the dispatch of military service. The government has sent such heavy dispatch of military service that the people have to make this inferior plan. This is our dereliction of duty!"

After hearing Fu Zhiyuan's words, the officials couldn't hold their faces, thinking that wouldn't it embarrassing for everyone? New officials don't need to show their prestige when they take office.

As he said that, Fu Zhiyuan's carriage was approaching Ji, and he saw several keel water trucks on the side of the road, exploring long into the canal. It was already May, and the summer wheat in the fields had been harvested, and they were piled up on the edge of the field ridge.

The grain trucks that the people used their animal power to drive them, and everyone's faces were filled with joy that stretched out the corners of their eyes and eyebrows from the inside out.

Several old farmers in their sixties held the wheat ears, smelling them here and there, and the wrinkles on their faces stretched out.

Fu Zhiyuan saw this scene and his solemn expression was much better. He said to Gu Magistrate Gu: "The people are doing well, which shows how Gu Magistrate Gu's contribution to encouraging the cultivation of agriculture and sericulture."

County Magistrate Gu got Fu Zhiyuan to praise him and quickly said modestly: "The government office has been awarded for the past, so where does the officials have any contributions? This is all..."

While talking, he saw Fu Zhiyuan had already stopped the carriage, and got off the car and talked to an old farmer next to the road, saying, "I am polite, and the harvest this year is good."

The old farmer saw that the other party was wearing plain clothes. Although he was not an official, he saw that he was also a rich man immediately said, "This official is polite, okay, let's have a meal when we look at the sky."

"How many dou of rice have been harvested per acre this year?"

When the old farmer saw this, he became alert and said, "Not much, not much, just enough to eat."

Several entourage officials, as well as County Magistrate Gu and other officials all lowered their faces. Fu Zhiyuan signaled everyone not to speak, took a string of money from his waist and put it in the old farmer's hand, and said, "I am a businessman from another place. I want to buy summer grain. I don't know what the market is going on. Inquire with the old man."

The old farmer smiled and said, "You said it earlier. This news is not worth much money, so I will pay it back to you."

As the old farmer threw the money back, he was very generous, and then said, "We have met a good official in Guide Mansion. In the past, the past year was two disasters, and nine fields did not exist. If the situation was good, they would be exploited by officials, but this year was better."

Fu Zhiyuan glanced at Gu Zhixian with praise, and he thought that the old farmer praised the parents.

"I heard that your Gaojiaji River is the heaviest every year. How is the heaviest river work this year?" Fu Zhiyuan asked with a smile.

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