A tall middle-aged man strode into the central round fort of the Wu family, passed through the doorways, and came to the inner hall. Along the way, he was amazed by the round fort of the Wu family. This style of Wubao was still rare in Guanzhong.
When he was young, he served in the army under Ren Gui, and he also had a lot of experience in military affairs. If this fort is besieged, it is very strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and can be defended layer by layer.
Arriving at the innermost part of the Central Dome, it suddenly dawned on me that there was a large courtyard in the Tulou in Central, and there were several large transplanted trees.
A money willow tree has a dense crown, green shade like an umbrella, seven or eight thick trunks intertwined with each other, like a dragon entwined, and among the green leaves, there are bunches of green fruits that look like copper coins.
"I didn't expect to see money trees in Sanyuan." Liu Rengui was a little surprised. This kind of tree usually grows south of the Qinling Mountains.
"Well, when this earth building was built, it was specially moved from the Qinling Mountains. This tree is full of treasures. The leaf buds were picked before the Qingming Festival, and after frying, it became golden willow tea. Drinking it regularly is good for your health."
Since ancient times, tea has not been grown in the north of the Qinling Mountains, and the golden willow tree generally cannot grow in the north of the Qinling Mountains. This kind of tree likes shade and good water, so the Wu family planted it in a round building and took good care of it, and it grew well.
"I've worked hard on you these past few days." Huaiyu made Liu Rengui a cup of golden willow tea, which is made from the leaf buds of this tree. The tea fryer is a master. This tree can pick more than ten kilograms of fresh buds. Finally,
Fry out two or three kilograms of tea.
This tea is neither sold nor given away, that is, it is reserved for Wu Huaiyu to drink.
Under the money willow tree, there is a large tea table,
"It's all as it should be," Liu Ren said. "It just so happens that I have stopped choosing and have nothing to do."
"Zhengzhe, now the saint has issued an edict to trial the new two-tax law in Sanyuan County, and asked me to stay here. I want you to help."
"Okay, it's good to be idle anyway, it's good to be able to do something."
Liu Rengui agreed readily. He was the former magistrate of Sanyuan County, and he was recommended by Wu Huaiyu to reach that position. He performed well during his tenure, ended his term early, and received good evaluations.
However, because he had a bad record (he killed the commander of the Tongjun Mansion when he was the captain of Chencang County), the Ministry of Personnel asked him to stop the election. According to the rules, he could not continue to be an official for the time being, and he could not be elected until the expiration of his term.
Nowadays, there are many officials and few positions. Every year, tens of thousands of candidates are selected, but there are only six to seven thousand vacancies in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Every year, there are always two to three thousand people who cannot be selected. The officials are very dissatisfied, and the court has to increase
In terms of the intensity of the selection process, civil servants below the sixth rank, as well as those admitted to the imperial examination, and those with good family backgrounds, etc., must comply with the selection process.
Everyone takes turns to be an official. After completing one term, they have to stop for a certain period of time before they can continue to serve as officials and make way for everyone.
Unless you have a particularly good relationship or have a special order from the emperor, you have to be honest and abide by the election. And even if the suspension time is up, you will only regain your qualifications for election. Whether you can be selected, you still have to take an exam to compete for the position. There are always two people every year.
Thirty percent of people were unsuccessful.
For example, his predecessor Zhang Xingcheng was also related to Wu Huaiyu. When he was the Fuyang Lieutenant, he was recommended by Wu Huaiyu as a talented person, and then he became the magistrate of Sanyuan County. He only served for more than a year and was promoted in the name of talented person.
Yushitai.
Liu Rengui is also very capable, but unfortunately he has a bad criminal record.
If Wu Huaiyu hadn't protected him in the past, he was so bold that a ninth-grade county captain dared to kill a fifth-grade commander with a stick. In fact, he had been killed long ago. How could he have been appointed as Xianyang county magistrate? Later, he was directly promoted to Sanyuan county magistrate.
.Now even if the selection is stopped, it is already very good.
In fact, Liu Rengui had a backer in his early years. Guan Guogong Ren Gui was his cousin.
Liu was born into the Liu family of Yuchi, and his family was also a well-known local family. However, Liu Rengui's family fell into decline when he was young, and he was lonely and poor since he was a child. He relied on family help to study.
Later, his uncle Ren Gui served as the pacification ambassador of Henan Province in Wudechu. He went to serve and revised a memorial for Ren Gui, which was praised by Ren Gui. He was appointed by Chi to join the army in Xizhou.
Ren Gui was from Huainan, and his family had been generals in the Southern Dynasty for generations. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Ren Gui took the initiative to join Li Yuan and was awarded the title of Hucao in Hedong. When Li Yuan went to attack the bandits, he entrusted Jiancheng Yuanji and other family members to Ren Gui's care. Ren Gui later
When Conglong entered the Pass, he also made many military exploits, was given the title of Duke, and maintained integrity to appease Henan Province.
However, the Ren family was founded by the prince, and his younger brother Ren Can was the food supervisor of the East Palace. In his early years, Ren Gui became powerful and elected officials by nepotism. His second wife, Liu, was jealous and rude, and those relatives brought up by the Liu family
, also good and bad,
When Jiancheng was executed, Ren Can and Ren Gui were implicated. Ren Gui was demoted to the governor of Tongzhou and was no longer used again. Although Liu Rengui was originally related to Ren Gui and was not from a serious background, he was indeed a relatively capable person, but he was young.
He became the captain of Chencang County because of his arrogance and illegal behavior, and successive Chencang officials could not stop him.
As soon as Liu Ergui took office, he immediately warned Lu Ning that Lu Ning, the fifth-rank commander of the army, did not pay attention to the ninth-rank county captain, but he was still as brutal and arrogant as ever. Liu Rengui directly led his men to capture him and kill him with a stick.
It can be said that this thing was done somewhat surprisingly.
It happened to be the beginning of the Zhenguan period, and Ren Gui had not yet fallen. But in fact, Ren Gui could not save himself. Seeing that Liu Rengui was about to be killed, Wu Huaiyu remembered that he was a fierce man.
The first person in Baijiangkou to write a small book.
So after getting to know each other, he went to Liu Rengui and obtained many evidences of Lu Ning's crimes, interceded for Liu Rengui, and finally persuaded the emperor. Not only did he not kill Liu Rengui, but he also promoted him to be the Prime Minister of Xianyang County.
Not long after, Ren Gui was demoted and died of illness in another city last year. Liu Rengui completely lost his supporter.
Many people have long regarded Liu Rengui as Wu Huaiyu's man.
Liu Rengui didn't mind this at all. Although Wu Huaiyu was seven or eight years younger than him, he admired Wu Xianggong's ability. He was capable of both literary and military skills, especially his ability to lead troops to fight. He admired him the most. Liu Rengui wanted to lead troops to fight.
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"This tea is good, it tastes sweet."
"Well, it tastes like this when fried, but there is no added sugar. Even though this tea is sweet, it has the effect of lowering blood sugar and blood pressure."
Although Liu Rengui did not understand what blood sugar and blood pressure were, he also knew that Wu Xianggong was one of the three most respected medicine kings in the contemporary era and was good at elixir medicine.
"If you like to drink it for a while, take two pounds. In Hanzhong, Shangluo and other places, I have several teahouses that specialize in Qingqianliu tea. Many of the trees are hundreds of years old, much older than the one in my yard.
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"Thank you, Mr. Xian."
"Zhengze, I'm very happy that you are willing to help me, but I can't arrange an official position for you at the moment. You have to stay for a year. Then I will recommend to Mr. Dai to see if I can help you find a job.
official."
Although the transfer from the magistrate of Ji county to Yuanwailang is from the sixth grade to the sixth grade, Yuanwailang has the same weight. Even though he is below the fifth rank, Yuanwailang, like the living minister, censor, etc., cannot be directly appointed by the Ministry of Personnel, but by imperial edict.
Granted, nominated by the officials, recommended by the prime minister, awarded by the emperor.
Among the officials in the imperial court, there are clear officials, unclean officials, technical officials, regular ranks, and people with migrant backgrounds. Different backgrounds obtain different official positions, and official positions are divided into several categories, and their promotion speeds are also very different.
Officials such as Yuan Wai Lang are considered high-ranking officials, and their promotion speed is very fast. Not only are the sixth rank included in the prime minister's management, but the candidate period for the suspension period is also short. In general, the suspension period for state and county officials is usually four years.
, some people with migrant backgrounds, and the official positions of Zhuoguan, even have to stop twelve elections after serving for one term, that is, they can only participate in the election after twelve years, and they can only be appointed to the official position after being elected.
If the magistrate of Ji County moves to Yuan Wai Lang, or if a Yuan Wai Lang moves to the magistrate of Ji County, it is considered a normal transfer, and it can even be regarded as reuse.
The present magistrate of Sanyuan County, Zhao Renben, was the official who had just moved here.
"Whatever my husband needs me to do, just ask me."
Liu Rengui is quite calm. He is in his early thirties and is now a sixth-rank official. His official career has been smooth. He wants to serve as a guest in the shogunate of Gui, where his uncle is appointed, and then join the army in Xizhou after receiving his imperial decree.
, and then to Chen Cangwei in the first year of Zhenguan, he was still in the ninth rank after ten years of service.
But in the eyes of many people, it is remarkable that he became a county captain after being a poor boy for ten years. After all, he did not enter the official position through Enyin, a descendant of his relatives, nor did he enter the official position through the imperial examination. The path he took was not the right path, and there were many restrictions on his promotion.
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It was only after meeting Wu Huaiyu that he was promoted from a county lieutenant who was almost beheaded to a sixth-grade county magistrate in three years.
Wu Huaiyu’s promise, Thaksin believed.
"Tell me what you think about the new law being tried now."
"This is benevolent government."
Liu Rengui is very supportive of the new two-tax law, and he is even a little excited when talking about it. He is also familiar with Sanyuan County.
“Ms. Xiangong, since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Sanyuan has been a land of the capital for a long time. It has benefited from the irrigation of Zhengguo Canal and Hanbai Canal. The people are prosperous and Wufu is known as the capital of food and clothing. Zhuang County, with a population of hundreds of millions, is known as the heart of Guanzhong cabbage.
There are more than 5,200 hectares of cultivated land in the county, with an annual grain harvest of one million dan. The plains are mainly wheat, and the plains are mainly millet. The plains usually have three crops every two years. After the wheat harvest, a crop of buckwheat is planted.
After the wheat harvest, we rush to plant corn every year, achieving two crops a year. Millet, buckwheat, soybeans, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn can also be grown on dry land on the plateau, and grain production increases greatly."
"Although everyone's life is better than before, the Imperial Army accounts for about 20% of the more than 500,000 acres of land in Sanyuan, the imperial relatives of Chang'an, the ministers and nobles account for 30%, and the remaining 50% is the powerful people of Sanyuan County.
Large households account for another 30%, the remaining 10% is official land, and only 10% is owned by ordinary people's households.
Basically, below the wealthy and powerful families, no ordinary people's home can have more than a hundred acres of land. A small number of people own thirty to forty to twenty or thirty acres, and more hundreds of thousands of people don't even have their own land.
The imperial court wants to implement the new law, which is very good for the vast majority of people in the county.
but,"
Wu Huaiyu knew what Liu Rengui meant. He also said that there were more than 500,000 acres of land in Sanyuan County, and 90% of it had been occupied by the powerful nobles and the imperial army.
This means that although it will benefit most people in terms of numbers, most landowners will lose out under this new tax law.
Ninety percent of the landowners and many aristocratic officials are directly exempted from the class, and the Yuan Cong imperial army and the imperial soldiers themselves are not exempted from the household class.
Local wealthy and powerful households would also find ways to avoid taxation through various methods. Even if the tax was levied according to the rent, it would only be two dan for one ding and three liang of silk for two feet. The levy was based on ding and not on the basis of acres.
But now it has to be changed to a household tax based on property and a land tax based on acres. The taxes on the aristocratic households have increased by dozens or hundreds of times. Although in Wu Huaiyu's view, the tax rate is still only one-twentieth or thirty-third.
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But Liu Rengui thinks, who is willing to pay more taxes for nothing?
"Ms. sir, this is a problem."
"I know, so I wanted to ask you if you have any suggestions."
Liu Rengui shook his head, "There's no such thing as having the best of both worlds. Either make up your mind to do it to the end, or don't do it in the first place."
Wu Huaiyu also said bluntly, "The saint is still very determined. You have also served as Chen Cangwei, Xianyang Cheng, and Sanyuan Ling. You have been in the local area for more than ten years. You should know that the current land equalization order cannot be implemented long ago, especially since there is no land to equalize in the mainland.
The rental modulation based on this is also difficult to operate.
If we don’t take the initiative to solve this problem now, it will become more and more troublesome in the future,”
"Then go all out and defeat anyone who dares to stop him." Liu Rengui was full of murderous intent, just like when he faced Lu Ning, the commander of the Chencang Army Command, he was a ruthless man.
