Chapter 67 The golden cicada escapes its shell (6)
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"Wang Changyu, Dashi County, please enter the inner room and accept the assessment of the Duke!" Not long after, the county magistrate shouted to everyone kneeling in the room.
"The student is Wang Changyu." Wang Changyu quickly stood up, first saluted the county magistrate, then slowly walked into the inner room, and said respectfully to the county magistrate in the inner room: "Student Wang Changyu, pay homage to the lord of the mansion."
"Well, sit down." The Liaodong County Magistrate nodded with a smile, and then began to ask questions and assessments to Wang Changyu who was kneeling below: "Now the river is flooding, and there are millions of refugees in the Kanto counties. If you are the Donghai County Magistrate, what should you do?"
"..." Wang Changyu was silent for a long time, and then replied: "If the student is the governor of Donghai County, he should..."
Wang Changyu's answer is just right, and there is no problem, but there is nothing outstanding about it.
Then, the county magistrate assessed some questions, such as how to deal with the invasion of the Huns, if a small Western Regions come to worship, but the envoys of the small Western Regions are rebellious, how should they deal with it, and for example, there are refugees rebelling in the county under your jurisdiction, or even the vassal states next to you, how should they deal with it, etc.
In addition to assessing these practical issues, the county magistrate also assesses the content of some classic books, such as the Confucian classic "Spring and Autumn", and the Book of Songs, etc.
"Well, let's retreat first." After hearing Wang Changyu's answers, the county magistrate did not say yes or said no, but just asked Wang Changyu to retreat, and looked at the list of recommended people on the bamboo slips, and then ordered the Liaodong County Princess Register beside him: "Next, Li Qian, Fang County."
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Wangjia Manor
"Oh, I don't know if Changye and Changyu's two children can pass the county government's assessment."
"My Wang family recommends two people to the county government every year. Over the years, more than ten people have been recommended, but only Chang Jiong and Changsheng are the only two people who were recommended to the Chang'an court by the county government."
Wang Tairan was looking forward to Wang Majiao's cousin's two children passing the assessment, and then began to care about the emperor's request for various big families to move to Chang'an to guard Maoling.
As the head of the Wang family, he has to deal with too many things.
The overseas expansion requires his instructions, the salt and iron industry requires his instructions, the textile workshop and the winemaking workshop require his instructions, the two leaders Wang Anke and Wang Luoxi, who are from Shanlinjian, are always waiting for his instructions, and go to Xuxiang and Dashi County to provide instructions. Even the family's children marry and have children, and take male pets to face the couple, and from time to time, they also have to check the academics of the family's descendants, assess the martial arts practice of the family, check the situation of the tenant farmers in Luoyueyuan, etc.
It’s okay. Over the years, the court has cut leeks from powerful and powerful gentry more and more frequently, and he still has to find a way to deal with the court’s policies.
He has been exhausted all day long, but in his forties, he is already covered in white hair. He still has to cough late at night and is healthy day by day.
"When Changzhi comes back, I will return the position of the head of the Wang family to him and go to Luoshan Villa with Caiwei early to enjoy his old age..."
At this moment, Wang Tairan had the idea of retirement. The head of the Wang family was so tired.
Although he was thinking about retirement, as the head of the Wang family, he continued to handle the affairs of the Wang family very responsibly, picking up the tenant farmers' books on the table to check it out.
This bamboo slip records the real population of the Wang family's land acres, including 470,000 mu of land acres, 16,875 tenant farmers, 4,326 serfs, and 2,794 free people, far exceeding the 500 mu of fertile land and zero tenant farmers reported to the court by the Wang family.
Such a ruling population is equivalent to a small county in the Central Plains.
The Wang family's real property was already hundreds of times higher than the standard of three million yuan for moving to Chang'an. However, by various means, the court mistakenly believed that the Wang family's property was only 100,000 yuan, so the Wang family did not have to move to Chang'an, but stayed in Liaodong.
Among these 470,000 mu of land, of which 220,000 mu of Luoyueyuan were newly reclaimed by people from the forest and streams, a total of 150,000 mu of the islands in Liaodong and 50,000 mu of overseas islands.
Chapter completed!