As time goes by, the weather becomes colder. Even though she is wearing a cotton robe, Chen Li is still chilling all over and feels quite unhappy.

More than 500 people in the martial arts lecture hall were dispatched. Together with the Imperial College students, in the last few months of the fourth year of Shenwu, it was extremely hard to conduct land inspections for Jingnan Prefecture and several counties in Changsha Prefecture.

Chen Li felt this way. He was assigned to Zigui County, the two sides of the Xiling Gorge in the Yangtze River. Guizhou, which belongs to Jingnan Prefecture. It is close to Dongchuan Prefecture and is even more located in the Three Gorges. It is rugged and it is almost difficult to move around. There are many beasts and barbarians appearing. Usually, they really don’t have the courage.

The three counties of Guizhou and the four counties of Xiazhou were all not inspected due to local advantages, so that when the students in the martial arts lecture hall arrived, the county and county immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"I knew that it was a horse and a weapon, so it was definitely not that easy. Now that it was like this, it was actually more dangerous than fighting a war!"

The other person who was walking alongside him was also a martial arts school student. He secretly called Deng An, a typical warrior, loud voice, thick arms, stubborn face, and the wine bag he carried with him had long been clean and kept complaining.

"That student of the Imperial College has at least two or three people and one horse, and there are many servants. At most, we have a donkey carrying bags and walking with feet. This is too uncomfortable!"

He was tall and thin and called Pei Xu, and he was also full of complaints. He always felt angry about such different treatments, leading the donkey and complaining while walking.

Chen Li is the head of three people. As the chief of the army, he always thinks more. After things have come to this, he can only choose to accept it. Who said that the temptation is too great?

"Forget it, no matter how many words are, they won't work. It's almost time to reach the dynasty. We must measure and record these three villages within a month. At that time, the horses and weapons will all belong to us. If you bear it, you will pass!"

Chen Li looked at the piles of paper thin on the donkey's back. This was a voucher for recording population and land. It weighed dozens of kilograms. The skin was made of thick yellow paper. It should be no problem to record several villages.

Several people muttered, and the guide in front said, "Climb this mountain again and you will arrive!"

Pei Xu smacked his lips: "I finally understood that the most difficult thing in this area is to climb the mountain and rush the road. The time spent on the road is longer than what we did!"

"Stop talking. The last three villages are here, and you'll leave after work. There's not so much nonsense!" Chen Li said with his eyes wide open.

Soon, a few people arrived at the nearest Wangjiawan, a village where a group of Lao people and Han people lived together. It was in a valley, flowing through a stream, and there were three or four hundred people in Dingkou. They made a living by hunting, fishing, and farming.

They glared at the people coming from the court, a little frightened and a little afraid. They only slowed down after the guide explained their purpose.

Obviously, they are not willing to go to the land for inspection. After all, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, the land is thin, and no one pays taxes, such as the current freedom and freedom.

Chen Li and others were not panicked when they saw this situation. This was normal in Guizhou. There were many wild people in the mountains and wild people, and they were very arrogant and had to spend a lot of energy.

He didn't explain anything or explain it, but pulled out a bow and arrow from the donkey and shot a bird flying towards the sky.

"Swoosh--"

After a while, a bird fell from the sky.

Only by this revealing did the atmosphere ease a little. He feared power but not virtue, and his fear of the court still accounted for the majority.

Population registration and land survey were very smooth.

These mountain people have reclaimed only more than a thousand acres of land and have opened fields along the stream. The land is barren and difficult to meet daily needs. The main thing is to hunt and farm, so they would rather pay some land tax in exchange for formal civilian status.

After all, one thousand acres of land, one dou per acre can only be one hundred stones.

Moreover, they have obtained the official status of ordinary people, and they can not only go in and out of towns and sell fur and meat at will, but also buy iron, salt, cloth, etc. they need for daily life.

The most important thing is that they are no longer foreign people or savages, but belong to the people. The imperial government cannot massacre and plunder at will, and avoid a worried life.

As for joining the imperial examination and other military service, for them, it is just false and safety is what they value.

Registering a household registration is the easiest way to register a household registration. Write Wangjiawan in Zigui County, fill in the valleys, and then fill in the number of people in each household, how many men and women, and how old it is.

However, diving the field is the most difficult.

Because measuring the land, this thing is essentially a mathematical problem.

Because the land is not as neat and square as imagined, but has edges and corners, and is oblique and crooked to occupy the majority. This requires imagination, to be cut and filled, to become a square, and then to perform detailed calculations, that is, to open the method.

This is also why "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" appeared in ancient times. Because bureaucrats needed to use arithmetics when governing the people, they did not know how to do math, and it was really difficult to go through the fields.

This is also the reason why Li Jia integrated all the Ming and Ming Scripture subjects into the Jinshi subjects, because the bureaucrats need all the talents, even if they only understand roughly, they are better than those who specialize in writing and calligraphy.

Fortunately, the martial arts lecture hall is where the generals are trained, so there are naturally arrangements, but mathematics is even more necessary. During the battle, I can’t even figure out the number of troops in my hands, so how can I command the battle?

Calculate the size of the land, and finally draw it on the picture album and mark it so that taxes can be collected.

This just meets the appetite of the officers who went to the martial arts hall, because as generals, they must learn to draw maps, know how to understand maps, and have a professional counterpart.

So, in less than three days, the entire Wangjiawan was registered. The population, land, and wherever they saw, were all in the book, and the few people breathed a sigh of relief.

"Head, this Wangjiawan only has 1,100 acres of land? What about fooling children? Can this little land support these hundreds of people?"

Deng An had a loud voice, shook his head, his face full of disbelief.

"It's good to be able to spit out these!" Chen Li shook his head and said, "I know in Zigui County that there are only 130 registered people in Wangjiawan and 500 acres of land. We have more than doubled our expansion. It has been calculated that the amount has been completed. If there are more, people will not be happy!"

"You boy, you're so brainless!" Pei Xu said helplessly: "There are so many harsh local governments. If there are too many lands, they will attract covetousness, taxes, labor service, and oppression will be even more. If you hide some land, the subsequent days will be longer. This is also a last resort!"

"Our trip is because the court is too powerful, and the people have no choice but to spit out more land. We are also from poor people, so we must understand more, see through it and not say it out loud!"
Chapter completed!