Chapter 5 Controlling Baojia(1/2)
When Yue Fei was three years old in the fourth year of Chongning, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty moved back to his hometown Chenggang Village, Tangyin County, when he was three years old.
This return after the disaster was one of the routine benevolent policies of the Northern Song Dynasty court. Even corrupt officials, village bandits and bullies dare not block them. Otherwise, the court would be furious and the people would be resentful. No matter how vicious the bad guys would be, they would not be able to stop them.
Against this background, Zhang Hongba, the chief security chief of Chenggang Village, committed the crime against the wind, was caught by Li Chun, the magistrate who came to stand on the platform for Yue and Wang Ming, and was beaten hard.
Not only did he lose money, but his power was greatly weakened.
In terms of money, he lost 100 acres of good land. Although it was not the best land, it was at least the average land. Otherwise, he would be afraid that Li Chun would cause trouble for him.
In action, he did it according to Li Chun's requirements, but his heart hurts so much! It's like he was tearing his heart.
At the same time, he also compensated Wang Ming with 100 taels of silver, which is 100 acres of land purchase money.
This price is also at Ueda's level.
To sum up, this miscalculation caused him to lose 200 taels of silver, which was converted into 200 acres of good fertile land.
In fact, Zhang Hongba can tolerate the loss of money, but what he can't tolerate is that he has lost more than half of his power.
It turned out that his chief of security guards covered the sky with one hand in Chenggang Village. Although he is still the chief of security guards, half of the sky can no longer cover it.
He hadn't realized that when he actually operated, he realized that his chief security chief had been undermined.
Although he knew the concept of undermining in the past, he realized after personally experiencing it, he realized that the feeling of being undermining was really uncomfortable. Life was worse than death.
He was originally angry and was just igniting the fire. In this state, he was very angry, but even though the fire was so big that he had no place to send it.
Because this is what County Magistrate Li stipulates. If you get angry, you deserve it. You can't settle the score with the master, right?
The first thing I encountered was to add a median security chief, because at that time, it was stipulated that a village should set up a major insurance policy, and a number of median security guards were set up under the major insurance policy.
The size of a median insurance can have 50 to 100 farmers, and the residents of Chenggang Village are 150, so it can be two median insurance.
However, it can also be three median insurance companies. If three median insurance companies are exactly fifty households each, they meet the lower limit requirements.
Yue He and Wang Ming are both the chief of the China Guardian. Now one of the China Guardians has difficulty managing one of the China Guardians in 75 households, so both advocate a division into three China Guardians.
It just so happened that Zhang Hongba saw that the two medians were under the control of the two opponents, and they were divided into three and one did not belong to him?
With this wishful thinking, he also agreed to divide it into three mediators.
The three of them were united and their profits were cut off, so the matter was settled.
However, when the three of them were determined to be the chief secretary, the three of them had different opinions.
Everyone knows that the three mediators and other things are superficial, and the key is that the third mediator and chief belongs to that side.
Therefore, Zhang Hongba strongly recommended one of his cousins, named Zhang Hongkui, to serve as the chief of the Central Security Bureau.
At this time, Wang Ming and Yue He knew the powerful relationship clearly, as smart as an old fox, and would not let in a step.
The candidate proposed by the two was Shi Dagong, and he also came back from the escape site.
It happened that Shi Dagong also took a break from his busy schedule during the escape process and gave birth to a son named Shi Quan. What if these three brothers were all in mind.
It is so consistent in the process of getting a son out of small things.
Shi Quan and Yue Fei and Wang Gui are about the same age. Now the three of them are mixed together all day long, just like one person, regardless of you or me.
Children are in love with each other, and adults are similar. Shi Dagong was originally with Yue and Mo Ni, but now the three of them are still with Wang Ming.
So it is absolutely natural for two current mediators to join one Shi Dagong as the new one.
For this matter, Zhang Hongba, Yue and Wang Ming quarreled several times, and even used both soft and hard work. Unfortunately, Wang Ming and Yue He were determined and remained unchanged at all.
Finally, he used the decision-making mechanism and successfully became the chief secretary with a large proportion of 2 to 1, that is, 67%.
All three of them were the first time they held such a senior position. They served their fellow villagers very enthusiastically and were very supportive.
The competition loser Zhang Hongba felt uncomfortable.
He saw that the three of them were doing well, but he was getting worse and worse, and he was so angry that he couldn't eat anymore.
This is definitely the first time in his life, and it is serious!
Food is the most important thing for the people. What is the biggest thing? Isn’t it going to make a big deal if you don’t have a good meal?
So he and his cousin Zhang Hongkui thought hard together, and suddenly came up with a plan, and then made careful arrangements and put them into practice.
It turned out that under the baojia system of the Song Dynasty, each central insurance had five to ten families, and each central insurance had ten households. In habit, one central insurance could also be called one small insurance. Therefore, the five to ten Chinese insurance for a central insurance are five small insurance to ten small insurance, that is, fifty to one hundred families.
This Baojia system was a major economic system change created by Wang Anshi during the Xining period of Emperor Shenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty. It was also abolished by later dynasties. Until Cai Jing came to power, the Xining system was restored on a larger scale and more thoroughly, and it was promoted to places that were reachable, and even remote areas such as Chenggang Village.
So when you arrive in such a relatively barren place, there is a trend of miniaturizing the number of household registrations with the Baojia system.
In fact, this is also a kind of flexibility for the promoters, because after the disaster occurs, the population and number of households will decrease drastically, and I don’t know when the number of households can be achieved. After the basic number of households is available, it will be gradually expanded.
On the surface, this Baojia system is a household registration system, but its role and function are far more than that. In fact, it has the basis of the entire tax system of the Song Dynasty. For example, the crucial labor collection is based on Baojia, and the Baojia chief is responsible for collecting and sending it to designated locations.
Without this mechanism, the entire power building in the Song Dynasty would collapse, and even if there was a problem with one link, it would affect the overall situation.
Other departments such as canal transport, transshipment, transactions and various functional departments are also important, but they are all based on this foundation.
Therefore, Yue Fei attached great importance to these ignorant and ignorant surveillance chiefs from the beginning to enter the operation of this surveillance system. Although he was too young to interfere, at least he would understand.
It is estimated that Zhang Hongba didn't know much about the importance of the Baojia system. It turned out that he was the only one of the chief custodians, but he only controlled his feelings and gave some of the chief custodians' positions to his family members.
However, this natural way is limited in effect, because there is a prerequisite for A-Length, which must be a member of a family living nearby to supervise others nearby through the convenience of living conditions, and he is also supervised by others.
This determines that the relationship between all Baojia members is that their living groups gather together in family or occupation or even economic conditions.
In order to be the chief of the academy, Zhang Hongba could not send a child to the slums or the concentration of Yue's family.
This led to the fact that although he was biased towards his own children in the past, he did not have much effect. Many of the living conditions of the armored length were not something he could control.
Now that he realized this problem, he caught him off guard if he wanted to support him.
What can be fought for is the new A, composed of new personnel, and the competition is fierce every time.
This is a superficial battle.
The real fierce struggle took place secretly. In order to win the control of Baojia, Zhang Hongba spent a lot of money.
According to his plan and Zhang Hongkui, the two listed the targets they could seize, went deep into the homes of the chiefs, and instigated them to support Zhang Hongba.
As for the measures taken, they were also designed by the two in a targeted manner.
Most seniors use interests to form alliances, that is, those seniors support Zhang Hongba. If you share the benefits of what are the benefits?
Zhang Hongkui used threats and intimidation to those who were timid and honest and honest.
In this regard, Zhang Hongba is not just a local tyrant. He colluded with the bandits very closely and actually kidnapped a disobedient armored captain from inside and outside, forcing him to support him. This move was indeed the weakness of many armored captains. As far as Yue Fei later learned, this move led at least five people to support Zhang Hongba.
This left a deep impression on Yue Fei, so when he grew up, he used to investigate the collusion between Zhang Hongba and the bandits as a major matter and sent someone to make it clear.
The Zhang brothers bribed Jia and became more heart-warming. Another way was to spend money to win over them. This was a bit shameless, but very effective. Some people refused to recognize anything else, but only recognized money.
On April 1, the fourth year of Chongning of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, Chenggang Village held a meeting of all chief officers, with a total of nineteen people attending, including fifteen chief officers, three central security chiefs and one large security chief.
The theme of the meeting was to decide the price of land that could be sold in the village.
On the surface, it is applicable to everyone, because anyone can buy the arable land that does not have a master yet, but several mediators and chiefs know that this is mainly aimed at Wang Ming because he has expressed his intention to buy the land.
Now, Wang Ming and Yue He have already added up to 300 acres of arable land, which looks a lot, but the amount is still far from Wang Cong's plan.
According to preliminary statistics, Chenggang Village now has 700 acres of cultivated land, and Wang Ming and Yue He eat it separately.
If, according to the market price, a mu of land only costs one tael of silver, and the total expense is only within one thousand taels of silver, it will be solved without asking Wang Cong for help.
The two of them have been very busy recently and have not paid special attention to Zhang Hongba's actions. At the same time, their operations were carried out by Zhang Hongkui in secret, so it is easy to find that those who do bad things seem to be better at all times.
Although Yue Fei smelled something abnormal and thought that Zhang Hongba was too quiet, probably because he was so worried, he was still a child, and he was not good at it and could not take effective measures to prevent it.
During the meeting, Yue Fei also attended. It was a participant. No, the attendance was not qualified. He was carried in by Hu Zi.
As for the reason, of course the light is so great that he and Uncle Huzi are inseparable. How can they be separated for a moment?
As for Hu Zi, he is qualified to attend, and it is much more important than attending. He is the supervisor!
Because he is Li Chun's representative and is responsible for reporting the situation to Li Chun, he can participate if he wants to participate, and no one can stop him.
In this case, he felt that he wanted to interfere, and others had to respect the kick and could not take it lightly.
Anyway, Yue Fei was just a so-called soy sauce and had nothing to do, so he chose what he liked to do.
One thing he has chosen at the moment is to observe Zhang Hongba's expressions and expressions.
Just look at his dark face as dark as charcoal, his eyes slanted up and down and he couldn't help but beating, and a smile was hidden in the corner of his mouth, like a weasel's satisfaction after the plot to wish the chicken a New Year.
Well, it's like a bandit who returns to the nest and wins a lot of victory?
Although Yue Fei did not think that Zhang Hongba was a master worthy of serious treatment, regardless of whether it was martial arts or strategy, it was not good to let his conspiracy succeed. Especially for mediocre tricks like his father and Uncle Wang Ming, it might bring some losses.
At this time, the Chief of the Great Guardian began to speak, and this was his highlight moment: "According to the decision of the four Chief of the Central Guardians, a full guardian meeting will be held today, and of course there is also a noble guest, Yue Hu, the representative of the Grand Master of Li County, Yue Hu! However, Yue Hu is very responsible and will not express specific opinions, so we have nineteen people who have the right to express opinions, and the choice of most people is the resolution of our conference! We only have one issue, which is to decide the sale price of the unowned land. There are two options for the sale price, one is one tael of silver per acre, and the other is two taels of silver per acre. Now let your opinions be expressed, one by one."
Yue He, Wang Ming, and Shi Dagong were all listening to Zhang Hongba loudly introducing the purpose of the meeting and the decision-making procedures, and kept nodding.
Obviously, several people have really discussed it before and reached an agreement.
As for what the old idea in my heart is, no one except myself knows it.
Yue Hu, who was holding Yue Fei, also listened with an enthusiastic look on his face. It was probably the first time he was in this situation and felt that he was superior to others.
After all, except for adults, he is the youngest here.
To be continued...