One leg is bent and flat, the other leg is bent up, and the knees are used as a temporary desk. The right hand is holding a pen to fill in the numbers on the simple form, sometimes doing mental calculations, sometimes counting with fingers. When the data is not sure, he has to take out the abacus and fiddle with it twice.
Dozens of volumes of measured farmland data were placed beside the young scribe. Measures, standards, ropes, rules and other objects were all stored in a large bamboo basket. Ten young men in coarse linen clothes followed him silently.
Donkey cart left and right.
"What's so noisy?"
The young scribe is concentrating on proofreading the measurement data.
A few faint cries reached my eardrums.
The tune has twists and turns, which makes people feel upset and angry.
In the past few days, he got up early every day, climbed mountains and waded in rivers, and visited almost the entire Fugu City area. In order to obtain more accurate measurement data from the fields of various shapes, he worked hard, and even more after the measurement was completed.
Organizing, summarizing, filing...so busy that I sleep on the pillow every day.
Today's progress was not going well, and he was feeling annoyed.
Even after checking the data twice, there is still an error of six points.
It was hard to figure it out, but I was disturbed by noise again.
The young scribe felt a little angry.
The entourage who followed the young scribe out for measurement went out to inquire, and soon came back to tell him: "It seems to be Mr. Kang."
The young scribe put down the letter and form: "Kang Jishou?"
He is not in the city, why did he run outside the city?
Could it be that the job at hand is done?
The young man made a rough estimate of Kang Shi's workload and efficiency, calculated the approximate time, and came to the conclusion that no, even with three heads and six arms, it would be impossible to finish it in such a short time. The young scribe asked the donkey cart to stop on the road for a while, and soon it was over.
They saw Kang Shi and his party coming from the other way. The latter was riding a horse, with more than 200 people of all sizes, old and young, crowding behind them.
At the same time, Kang Shi also noticed him.
Horseback trots forward in a few steps.
He said hello: "Look at the tide."
The young scribe, Gu Chi, crossed his arms and saluted him, saying, "Ji Shou, where did your battle... come from?"
No matter how you look at it, they are just a group of ordinary people.
As soon as they approached, two or three hundred people's thoughts rushed into his mind, and Gu Chi leaned back slightly in discomfort.
Kang Shi said: "According to the Lord's order, take someone."
In just two sentences, Gu Chi roughly got the general information from the voices of these people - Kang Shi took the documents for recruiting workers from the government office and went to deceive Zhujia Village, and also gave the villagers old and young to the same pot. Now these people are feeling in their hearts
There are all kinds of vicious sentences and words to curse the new Governor Ha Yin.
Gu Chi ignored these useless noises.
He was curious about what had happened in this village that deserved his lord's anger, and even asked Kang Shi to take care of the people himself - asking Wenxin scribes to do this job, was it too much to kill a pig with a knife? You know Kang Shi
That pile of work is not finished yet.
Gu Chi guessed: "They are harboring fugitives?"
Or will a whole village rebel?
Kang Shi said: "No, this matter is difficult to explain in one sentence."
Gu Chi: "Let's talk while walking?"
Anyway, we were traveling together, so it was just time to pass the time.
Kang Shi did not refuse. He lowered his head and motioned to Yu Zi, who was following him, to sit on Gu Chi's donkey cart.
Yu Zi glanced at the wooden cart pulled by the donkey, and then at the unfamiliar young scribe in the cart, feeling somewhat hesitant to approach him.
But this is what Kang Shi meant.
Yu Zi did not hesitate for a long time.
After saluting Gu Chi, she climbed up - luckily she was thin and didn't take up much space, otherwise it would be really hard to sit on this wooden cart with almost nowhere to go - sitting upright, with a nervous and dull look on her face. Resistance to strangers.
Gu Chi glanced at her out of the corner of his eye and asked Kang Shi who this was. Kang Shi simply told how he and Shen Tang met Yu Zi, and learned about the absurd things common in Zhujia Village from Yu Zi. , Gu Chi is not surprised.
Don't forget that he is a good reader of people's hearts.
Gu Chi raised the corners of his lips, revealing a hint of sarcasm: "Ji Shou, do you know the truth? When a cockroach comes to your feet to show off its power, the cockroach has secretly passed down the family line for more than eighteen generations, and returned to the cockroach ancestor. The ancestral hall was built."
Cockroaches are commonly known as cockroaches.
This theory sounds novel.
Kang Shi licked these words several times, and the more he thought about them, the more he felt that they were rough and unreasonable, so he asked: "Where is this proverb? It sounds playful and interesting. But isn't that the truth? These people are 'cockroaches' , children and grandchildren, endless reproduction..."
The whole village is used to this.
It's best if you can rely on the ice man to talk about marriage. If you can't talk about it, it doesn't matter. Find an acquaintance to "look at" you. It's convenient, quick and less troublesome. You don't have to worry about your natal brotherhood if you punch or kick him. Come and stand up for your mother-in-law.
What you buy is your own property.
As long as it doesn't delay the succession of the family line, it doesn't matter even if you are beaten half to death or driven crazy and stupid - as long as a woman's belly can give birth, it's fine. If she is beaten half to death, she still has half a life, right? People are crazy and stupid, but the babies they give birth to are not crazy. Silly?
Of course, it would be better if you have hands and feet to help you work, respect your parents, and take care of yourself comfortably...
Gu Chi said: "Oh, my lord said so."
Kang Shi: "..."
Gu Chi talked about the previous chat between Shen Tang and him - Gu Chi thought that Shen Tang would let Lin Feng follow Chu Yao to settle down the common people and take the opportunity to let Lin Feng gain more experience, but Shen Tang kept Lin Feng by his side and tried his best to Avoid Lin Feng’s private contact with the common people.
The reason given by Shen Tang is - not all common people are human beings, some are just beasts in human skin! These "beasts" have no moral restraints and weak rationality. The more ignorant they are, the more their behavior tends to be beasts... …
It was also after that conversation that Gu Chi began to consciously pay attention to the voices of many common people. Although some were simple, kind, and warm-hearted, there were also ignorant, greedy, evil, and those who were worse than animals...
Measuring land and dealing with these common people these days have really made him see what it means to do one thing in front of the person, another behind the scenes, one thing on the surface, and another in the back.
A weak appearance doesn't mean it's harmless.
The illusion of poverty does not mean simplicity.
When Kang Shi heard this, his brows relaxed.
Well, she is indeed the lord he likes.
Gu Chi: "..."
Tell the truth -
He always believed that the threat and lethality brought by Gong Xiqiu to Shen Tang were not as great as those brought by the scribe's way in Kang Shi. Since the time of Kang Shi, the lord began to be unlucky visible to the naked eye.
Encountering these bad literary scholars——
Life is not hard, I can't bear it.
Gu Chi skipped this topic and asked: "Zhujiacun is so rampant, it can be seen that the situation in nearby villages is also indispensable. Do we need to check house by house? The people under the jurisdiction of Fugu City may not say more, but even less is not too much. Once the news is If word spreads, most of the women who were bought will be hidden, and they can’t be hidden..."
Gu Chi swallowed the remaining half of the sentence.
Those who cannot be hidden will most likely be killed.
If these women will bring disaster to the family, the best solution is either to resell them to someone who sells them, hide them, or kill them. Anyway, the child has been born, and the difference between a woman alive and a woman dead is just a few more There are still few children.
It's cruel, but it's reality.
Yu Zi listened quietly to the two gentlemen chatting.
When I heard this, my heart clenched suddenly.
She didn't expect this at all.
this will……
To alert the snake?
Gu Chi added: "To capture thieves, capture the king first, capture the traitors first, and then get information from them. However, it is recommended to impose the death penalty on traitors, and those who buy people from traitors should be postponed. Wait for those The woman was rescued and then severely tortured.”
Yu Zi secretly tightened her clothes. Kang Shi did not ignore the flash of reluctance on Yu Zi's face, and said softly: "It is true that we can't alert the snake, but everything can be changed. Who said that 'slight selling' is the only crime? Can they be punished?"
Zheng Qiao led Geng State to capture Xin State.
Without thinking about governance, a lot of mess is left.
These messes are loopholes that can be exploited. With Kang Shi's ability, you can swim in these loopholes to your heart's content!
One of them is the conflict between the laws of the two countries.
The details of the charges are different, and the sentencing standards are different.
For example, in the Xin State, a marriage only requires the consent of the parents of both parties, a banquet, and notification of relatives on both sides. However, in the Geng State, it is necessary to register with the government. If it is not registered, the relationship between the husband and wife does not count, and it is regarded as "adultery". "Argument.
Regarding adultery, one is more ruthless than the other.
Men and women were either flogged, paraded in the streets, fined, pounded rice, or thrown away to build bridges, roads, and city walls...
This regulation of the Geng Kingdom is also related to their land tax system, which prevents the common people of the Geng Kingdom from paying less land taxes through this channel.
"If they are sentenced to adultery according to the laws of the Geng Kingdom and denied the relationship between the two as husband and wife..." Kang Shi said with a cold smile on his lips, "...I remember that the Xin Kingdom also has a law about men who commit adultery.
Detailed measurement..."
Adulterers can be flogged for thirty years and tortured.
Then there is a detailed rule that if a woman becomes pregnant, she will be punished with a heavier crime; if she gives birth to a female heir, she will be punished with thirty more floggings, then mutilation; if she gives birth to a male heir, she will be punished with fifty more floggings, then castration... The more children are born, the more severe the punishment -
—The end point is the five punishments.
The corners of Gu Chi's mouth twitched slightly.
Good guy!
This loophole was finally figured out by Kang Shiwan.
To put it simply, the relationship between Geng Kingdom was used to deny their relationship as husband and wife and the crime of adultery was made; on this basis, the laws of Xin Kingdom were used to sentence adultery (harmony) and adultery, and then the sentence was based on the number of children born. Who would suffer the consequences?
Live?
As for that, maybe they have also registered?
This is impossible.
Kang Shi is currently doing household registration.
If he is registered, he can also make the other party not register.
As for whether there will be any problems if this is done?
Those who He Yin can make a stumbling block have already drank Meng Po soup and are waiting to be reincarnated into the animal world. Zheng Qiao is also the ruler of Tiangao Kingdom and is far away, so he can't control it. Finally, and most importantly, will the news spread out and cause trouble among the common people?
Unusual movement? Will it alert the enemy?
Most likely it's impossible.
Because the crimes are all in line with the law.
The common people would only be afraid, and then rush to re-register, never thinking that Shen Tang would be renovated and sold out. Kang Shi could also take this opportunity to collect detailed household registration information, which would also facilitate subsequent population censuses, arrests, or
Save people.
Emmm…
Gu Chi smiled and cupped his hands and complimented: "Ji Shou, that's wonderful."
Kangshi returned the gift: "Look at the tide and praise me."
One is riding a horse and the other is riding a donkey cart.
The two of them smiled sincerely and openly.
If an uninformed outsider saw it, they would probably sigh with emotion that this is how a gentleman should relate to himself.
Well, Yu Zi thought so too.
She didn't know what they were talking about.
I can understand one or two sentences out of ten.
But judging from their appearance, it should be a good thing.
Yu Zi couldn't help but admire the two of them.
Especially Kang Shi, Mr. Kang.
The heroic figure of Kang Shi capturing dozens of households in Zhujia Village by himself could not help but come to mind, and he became more and more fascinated by the literary spirit and literary spirit.
She believed that this was A Niang's secret guidance.
That must be the case.
That's why she walked there that day, recognized the Zhang family accessories on Shen Jun's waist, and accidentally interacted with them. She used this as a breakthrough to let the truth come to light, so that A Niang could be exposed, and also let her
She had a way out.
All Yu Zi's inner thoughts fell into Gu Chi's ears.
He looked at the girl with a half-smile out of the corner of his eye.
His eyes asked Kang Shi: "How is this girl's talent?"
Kang Shi didn't know yet.
However, given Yu Zi’s understanding and the intelligence she inherited from her mother, it’s probably not much lower—
【Cultivation, can be used.】
Gu Chi was a little surprised when he heard this.
The wheels of the donkey cart rolled forward slowly.
Not long after, we entered Fugu City.
Everyone in Zhujiacun was imprisoned.
The place is not big, but it is no problem to squeeze in for a night.
When Shen Tang learned the news, it was already dark.
The second day.
The sky is still dark and bright.
There is already a noise in Fugu City.
The reconstruction work in the Southwest Corner started vigorously. After the policemen went around the streets and beat the gongs and drums for publicity, more and more people knew that the Southwest Corner was recruiting workers. They provided two meals a day, which was enough to provide at least 80% of the food. After working every day, the workers were paid. Settlement of wages.
At first some people didn't believe it.
How is such a good thing possible?
No matter how good the county guard is, he will never be taken advantage of.
But there are also people who trust Shen Tang - they blame Shen Tang forcibly eradicating the cancer in Fugu City the next day. They work for Shen Tang for free and it is not a loss, so they regard it as repayment - as the first batch of applicants As ordinary people, they were the first to enjoy the benefits, and then they spread the benefits to others.
The southwest corner of Fugu City is gradually coming to life.
However, today's focus is not here.
Dong dong dong dong——
The people near the government office heard the sound of drums that had not been heard for a long time. At first they thought it was an auditory hallucination, but when they listened carefully, they found that it was not the case. There was really someone beating the drums. Some people who had no good intentions came over to watch the fun, and saw a thin The figure gritted his teeth and beat the drum that was almost a decoration as hard as he could.
Some people also recognized the drummer.
"Isn't that the beggar from the ruined temple outside the city?"
Although Yu Zi had already cleaned up at this time, some common people who were familiar with her recognized her identity, and the crowd whispered for a while. Yu Zi naturally heard those small sounds, but she couldn't care about it now, and tried her best to It seems that I want to vent out all the grievances I have suffered for so many years with the sound of drums!
Finally, she succeeded.
Yu Zi knelt on the ground, holding the paper in both hands, shouting at the top of her lungs, using all the strength of her chest and lungs, and crying every word: "Little Yu Zi, a native of Zhujia Village, now wants to sue his biological mother-in-law, grandma Weng!"
As soon as this statement came out, the people watching were in an uproar.
This, this, this—
In one simple sentence, the amount of information is overwhelming!
What makes them even more unbelievable is that Yu Zi actually came here to kill two blood relatives, and he did not hesitate to receive ten sticks for it!
To sue a blood relative, twenty canes are used.
Thinking that Yu Zi was young and had not even grown into a hairpin, I cut it in half.
Shen Tang asked: "In this case, you still want to sue?"
