Zhang Shiqi was puzzled: Could it be that the official's voice is so loud? Someone came to serve. It would be fine if one side was a polite, but why did he get such treatment as soon as he became the prefect?

Hou Fangyu thought that Zhang Laoming's family had a low reputation and said quickly: "The student entered school at the age of 16. Although he wasted his time in the imperial examination, he also learned about money, grain, land and land with his father." When Hou Xun was the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Hou Fangyu went to Beijing to serve his father and wrote tens of thousands of words on military farming, as the Ministry of Revenue's program to guide military farming nationwide. From the current situation, the role of this document is very limited.

In any case, Hou Fangyu changed from a provincial and ministerial secretary to a municipal secretary, which was considered from high to low, greatly increasing his job search success rate.

Zhang Shiqi didn't know that he was still thinking about the purpose of Mr. Hou's arrival this time. He didn't believe that Hou Fangyu had no money and had no future and had seen through the imperial examination. But for the deeper reasons... was it also coming to hug the prince's thigh?

"The Master of the Mansion is not from Henan, right?" Hou Fangyu saw that Zhang Shiqi did not speak, and he was impetuous in his heart and took the initiative to attack.

Zhang Shiqi shook his head.

Hou Fangyu immediately followed up and said, "The students are from Henan! The master has been accented in Henan dialect, and the master wants to send people to travel around, so the students ask themselves that they can still take responsibility." Hou Fangyu is from Shangqiu, in eastern Henan and Luoyang is located in western Henan. Although everyone speaks Henan Mandarin, the difference in accents is not based on reason. He bullies people from other provinces and dares to recommend himself.

Zhang Shiqi is not interested in his subordinates who can speak Henan dialect. The people he brought from Ruyang are not all from Henan? And they are from Ruyang who are only a hundred miles away from Luoyang. But to be careful, these people have the highest education, and they are also students who cannot make it. Otherwise, who would be willing to run out casually? There are indeed not many students like Hou Fangyu who can show off.

"If you were allowed to interact in the officialdom, there would be no problem." Zhang Shiqi twisted his beard: "I just don't know if you can endure hardships and do practical things?"

"Mr. Ming Gong just keeps his orders. The students are absolutely right!" Hou Fangyu saw Zhang Shiqi letting go and immediately agreed.

Zhang Shiqi nodded: "In this way, I will hire you one tael of silver for a month first. If you are really useful, I will invite you to the Shangfeng to prepare. In the future, you will be a member of the Eastern Palace. Oh, yes. This tael of silver was not paid by me, but also the wages paid to you in the Eastern Palace account. You don't need to call me Ming Gong."

Hou Fangyu was stunned and suddenly remembered that Wu Weiye had also said that the East Palace had banned private individuals. He had only heard of the calculations at that time. When he thought about it carefully, he was probably afraid that his subordinates would form cliques for personal gain.

Zhang Shiqi felt that the hot water under his feet was getting warmer, so he kept Hou Fangyu for dinner, and immediately asked him to go down to rest. Hou Fangyu was from a wealthy family and went to the house to honor the master again, so he naturally could not wear this outfit. He hurried back to his residence and saw that Wu Weiye was already drunk, so he took a few sets of clothes and ordered someone to pack it and carry it over.

Although the market also calls "changing clothes" a taboo in the toilet, since scholars and scholars have said that they have to change clothes to "changing clothes", they still have to change clothes, otherwise they will be ridiculous.

Zhang Shiqi's dinner was not as high-end, elegant and upscale as he thought. Although it was also a regular meal for a separate meal, they were all colleagues from the East Palace from a small family. None of them was as particular as Hou Fangyu. There were a few who were still very good at being poor and had a rare time to see meat and fish, and they didn't even care about eating. Hou Fangyu was stunned and didn't eat a few chopstick dishes in the end.

However, it was precisely because these people were not from high origins that they were motivated by just a better meal. Although they all drank, they had gathered in the office room before dawn the next day. They immediately took the fish scale yellow book compiled by the clerks of Luoyang Prefecture, and started working without even having to greet them.

The Fish Scale Yellow Book first appeared in Liangzhe, Fujian and other places in the Song Dynasty. Emperor Gao, the Taizu of the State Dynasty, began to fabricate complete and detailed fish Scale Yellow Book that is suitable for the state to manage land and population, and upgraded this conventional management method to the national legal system.

Among them, the yellow book records the books of each family, similar to the household registration books of later generations. It is the main basis for collecting taxes and service. Because the cover is made of yellow paper, it is called the yellow book.

The fish scale book is a booklet that depicts the land ownership status of each county. The number of each piece of land, the name of the land owner, the number of land acres, the four boundaries, as well as the nature and grade of the land. The shape of each piece of land is also drawn into a diagram, and there is a comprehensive picture of the land in front of each book, which looks like a fish scale, so it is called the "fish scale book". The basis for evaluating the grain tax of each family is also in this fish scale book.

If there is management, there will be counter-management. In order to avoid taking on excessive taxes and labor, some people hide their population and do not enter the yellow book. Anyway, even if they do not register at this time, it will have no impact on the children, which will cause the yellow book to "distort" with the development of years.

The distortion of the fish scale book is even more serious. Although the country's definition of fields is only "field", the people have developed "field skin" and "field bones". Field skin is similar to the land use and income rights of later generations, and field bones are the real land ownership. Because land changes require registration and taxation in the government, in order to save trouble and taxes, the people only conduct field skin transactions and sign "white contracts" privately - in contrast to the "red contracts" with the vermilion seal of the government.

If the towns and towns do this, they can only make a decision when they arrive in the county. The county will make a decision. Even if they want to investigate, they cannot check it. Once an official dares to investigate, they will inevitably annoy the local families. Because these families are the ultimate beneficiaries of land annexation, they have hidden many illegal white contracts in their secrets, and they do not know how many grain taxes they have evaded.

The reason why it can be called a Shijia is that someone is an official in the court, otherwise he can only be considered a big family, and he may be slaughtered during the Chinese New Year. In the Ming Dynasty, a society with a strict bureaucratic system, officials in any position can have an impact on other officials, so it is normal for officials to protect each other. Hai Rui is a pervert, so the influence of the Shijia is understandable.

In such a strict social ecosystem, each link is a defensive front for the changers. The archives and materials obtained by Zhang Shiqi are very different from the local reality. They are also the rule set by Emperor Taizu Gao: the imperial power will not go to the countryside to avoid corrupt officials disturbing the people. Therefore, these people are not afraid that the new magistrate will send people to investigate, and even if they go there, it will be useless. I am afraid that even the gate of the village will not be able to enter.

Hou Fangyu worked as a "secretary" for the Minister of Revenue, and had a full view of Tianmu. Once he got the fish scale book sent by the clerk, he knew that it was very fake. He was ecstatic and finally suppressed it, went to find Zhang Shiqi, displayed the suspicious points he found one by one, and said indignantly, saying, "Master, these people are deliberately making tricks!"

Zhang Shiqi took Hou Fangyu's manuscript, glanced at it and threw it on the table, and said with a smile: "Is there a treacherous plot? How can I decide if there is a single word? In this way, use my famous post to meet the wealthy families in Luoyang Prefecture, and let them make a note of the authenticity of the fish scale album. If there is any inconsistency, let them present evidence themselves to show that our prefecture is fair and strict."

Hou Fangyu was stunned and thought to himself: Is the Master of the Mansion so old? These suspicious points are all the main families deliberately concealed the land in order to pay less grain tax. Who would admit it? And let them note it? How could they admit it themselves?

"Well, I'll write it into a notice and send it to each county. Any objection must be sent to the government office within five days, based on the date of signing for the government office. After five days, the government office refused to recognize it." Zhang Shiqi still looked at Hou Fangyu with a smile: "I'll leave this matter to you and test your writing skills."

Hou Fangyu's writing style has always been sharp and concise, and is most suitable for writing official documents. He is not artificial at the moment. He wrote hundreds of words in just one cup of tea, explaining the whole story clearly and sending it to Zhang Shiqi.

Zhang Shiqi was not good at writing in the time, but Yu Gongwen was an expert in writing. When he saw that Hou Fangyu wrote very much, he only changed two or three words and allowed it to be published.
Chapter completed!