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Chapter 52

The normal taxation work in Changshe County ended in the first year of Zhongping. Fourteen years ago, it was also the last glory of the Han Empire and the beginning of the era of great decline. That year, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun burned Changshe here, defeating the Bocai Yellow Turban Army who was heading west to Guanzhong, ensuring the stability of Luoyang and Chang'an. Thousands defeated hundreds of thousands of people, and almost defeated the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in one fell swoop.

But Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were brilliant, destroyed, and left, but left a mess of Changshe. Wang Ding, the former Changshe County Magistrate, had abandoned his official position and fled back to Bingzhou two months before the Yellow Turban Army invaded. After more than a year, the court did not appoint a new county magistrate. The two tyrants of the Zhong family and the Han family were swelling alongside each other in the place where the disaster survived.

Changshe County now has no self-cultivated farmers and ordinary people. The land in the county is concentrated in the hands of seven landlords including Zhong, Han, Liu, Zhao, Xu, etc. The first two occupy as much as 80% of Changshe's land, and the remaining five surnames depend on these two families.

No wonder the county magistrate Yong Ju was listless. He was a symbol of the ruler sent by Cao Cao to represent the Cao family. In fact, there was no right at all. He often couldn't pay his salary. It depends on the face of Zhong Yu, the head of the Zhong family.

However, without his help, everything depends on Wang Hou and Cao Hongjie themselves. It is not tiring to work together with men and women. They only found out the tax books for the first year of Zhongping. In two hours, they made the field books again. Although the book books are different from the present, they have a rough understanding of the Changshe area.

It was already past nine o'clock in the middle of the night after work, and Cao Hongjie did not leave. Once he had a bed with Wang Hou, but the girl's big sword was put into the middle of the two. That night, Wang Hou continued to be inferior to his miserable beasts.

Now I am used to going to bed early and getting up early. The next day, as soon as the sun went to work, Wang Hou got up, rode his horse with the booklet he had prepared yesterday, and slipped out of the city.

The Yellow Turban Uprising and the destruction brought to society by the warlords at the end of the Han Dynasty are evident. One of the four villages near Changshe County was completely dilapidated. The village collapsed and the fields were covered with weeds. Even the remains of the scattered bones can be seen in the fields. Not to mention the village that is relatively far away from the outer area and is more dangerous.

However, Wang Hou did not really call out the villagers to count the number of people, and just asked who the land belonged to, looked at how big it was, turned around and left.

The food in this era was really bad. I was originally carrying some copper coins, but Wang Hou planned to eat some snacks in the county, but finally found a small restaurant. Not to mention how long the meat was hung, Wang Hou saw the white rice grains in the pork muscle texture at first glance, which was obviously infected with parasites.

Pork and dog meat were still very popular among meat foods in the Han Dynasty. After all, beef is not allowed to be eaten, and mutton is delicate. Only these two animals are common and easy to feed. However, the ancients had a bad habit of raising pigs, so the toilet was built on a pigpen. After people went to the toilet, the pig ate the dirt. In this way, the pork tapeworms were passed from the sick to the pig. People ate pork with insect eggs, and once they passed the parasites back to the human body.

He lost his appetite at first sight. After leading Cao Hongjie, Wang Hou had no choice but to go out of the city to buy some eggs. The dry steamed buns he brought with him were soaked in hot water and then stir-fry some eggs. He dealt with the meal at noon.

In the afternoon, Wang Hou simply stopped checking the fields and took the account book and went straight to Changshe Zhong's house located in the east of the city.

The gap between the rich and the poor in this era was fully revealed in front of Zhong's mansion. When you go east from the county government, you can see that it is all Zhong's mansion. The wall of his house is almost as high as the wall of Changshe. Wang Hou, who was used to living in later generations, was given a big house of five by General Cao, and it was already a waste. But when he gestured in front of the Zhong's mansion, his house was almost the same as a chicken coop.

The main gate tower of the Zhong family located on the Cross Street is tall and majestic, and the garrison is strong. There is also an arrow tower on the main gate tower. Four strong men in native clothes are staring at the top with bows and arrows, and four guards in armor and cloth hats stand on both sides of the gate with long halberds.

The eight strong men just watch the door every day. For Wang Hou, who is short of manpower, it is simply a naked show of wealth.

It was not as if it was guarding and playing at the city gate. From a distance, the man on the gate building had already raised his bow and arrow and shouted vigilantly: "Who is coming? Why dare to trespass the lintel of the Zhong family?"

Logically speaking, Wang Hou was an "indian envoy" after all. Yesterday, when he arrived at the county government office, Zhong Yu should have gone to the court for one or two people at the ceremony. He didn't say that he hadn't paid a visit, but he also made this happen for Wang Hou. Unfortunately, Wang Hou is now a man without temper! Zhong Yu is the former Huangmen Minister, and Zhong Yu, who is now supporting the Zhong family, is also the Minister of the Shaofu. He inquired about the news from Guo Jia. Next year, Cao Cao still has the plan to appoint him as the Sili lieutenant. He was a rank of two thousand stones, and he was crushed to death by the first level of the official position. Wang Hou had no choice but to go forward and bow hard.

"Wang Hou, the Prime Minister, was appointed as the Cao official of the acting household, was ordered to investigate the land and land of each county, and asked to see Mr. Zhong for official business!"

“Wait outside!”

With a arrogant shout, a archer above ran down the gatehouse, hugged his arms, and Wang Hou waited helplessly under the gatehouse. However, after waiting for a while, the archer who came up again almost made Wang Hou vomit blood.

"My lord said that my Zhong family's Xinlan room will not entertain Bao Xing's disciples. Wang Lingguan inspected Tiancai. Since he went to the yamen, my Zhong family has always been paying tribute to the books!"

The arrogance of the Zhong family is evident. No wonder, after Zhong Hui and Deng Ai joined forces to destroy Shu in the future, Zhong Hui and Jiang Wei launched a rebellion, and was finally dealt with by the Sima family. Without saying much, Wang Hou hugged his fists directly.

"Mr. Wang said goodbye!"

He turned around and left with his indignant Cao Hongjie and his troops under his command.

However, after walking a few steps, Wang Congge, who was riding a horse in front, suddenly turned over and got off the horse, rushed to Wang Hou, and pointed forward: "Master, someone has been spying on the street corner just now. Should I pull that person back to the master?"

Wang Hou listened to these words without blinking his eyelids and hummed slowly.

"There is no need. The next time I go to the Han family, it depends on whether the Han family is smart or not!"

…………

Is the Han family smart?

This is not obvious at the moment, but rude is even more rude than the Zhong family. The Zhong family in the east occupy half of the city, and the Han family in the south also occupy half of the city, but this time there was no one who went in and answered. A guy wearing a lumber scarf and a big black uniform looked like a scholar shouting directly on the gatehouse.

"My Han family is a family of scholars. People who are not honest and honest are not allowed to enter. Those who abandon their families should not speak out and leave early to save the embarrassment!"

Wang Hou rebelled against the prince's servant and was removed from the Wang family's genealogy. If someone had changed, he would have been dismissed from office long ago. However, Cao Cao kept him and Guo Jia still lived in Wang Hou's mansion. No one dared to say anything about this. Even if Dong Cheng and others said bad things behind their backs, they saw that Cao Cao didn't care, so they would not mention this matter a second time. Unexpectedly, they were taken out here to mock him in person.

In this era, when Cao Hongjie mentioned in person the words of being fired by his family but being particularly insulted, his face turned red with anger. He was holding a sword and wanted to go up to find the Han family. Who knew that Wang Hao's shamelessness did not tremble, and he still looked as usual, but he just raised his throat and shouted again.

"This official and Prime Minister are Wang Hou, the deputy official of the household, and have asked to see Han Yun and Han Duke for official duties. I hope to inform you!"

But no matter how he shouted, the scholar at the door turned around and left after he finished shouting, and no one paid attention to him at all. Seeing this, Wang Hou turned around and left without leaving much.

These two top aristocratic families have been role models, and the remaining five small aristocratic families did not give Wang Hou a face. They left three of them in the afternoon, but none of them opened.

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Bang!

Xiaoping's chest seemed to be full of anger, and when he threw the sword on the couch, Cao Hongjie was so angry that he was panting.

"A group of greedy and stingy and rude borers, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but they are unlucky! Hypocrites who are greedy for national land and taxes are so angry that I am so angry!"

He couldn't swallow this breath, and suddenly grabbed the sword, and the girl jumped up with anger again, clamoring as she rushed outward.

"I'm going back to Xudu now, and ask the Xiangfu to ask the tiger and leopard cavalry to break the doors of these families. We will measure the land one acre at a time to see how they deny it!"

However, before going out, the girl's collar was pulled back by Wang Hou and collapsed on the couch. He was lazy and Yangyang hummed.

"What's the hurry!"

"You are not in a hurry to insult you so much today!"

It turned out that this girl was not only angry because of the unsuccessful errand work, but part of the reason was also angry for herself. Seeing her angry face, Wang Hou couldn't help but be stunned. The next moment, she smiled and pulled the girl back, and pulled her and sat on her lap with a smile.

"Actually, the Han family said it well today. They are indeed gentlemen. I, Wang Hou, are just villains who have been removed from the clan!"

"You can't have some excellence!"

"Don't be anxious! What's wrong with villains? Humanely, the King of Hell is easy to deal with little ghosts! Besides, we are just peeping around and reporting this time, so we naturally have to find the venue, but we don't want to find it with real swords and guns, so we have their own way to make them uncomfortable!"

"What's the solution?"

The impact of Wang Hou was really big. This time, even the book "Clan Chronicle" given by General Cao was compiled with thread on paper. In the Changshe column, Wang Hou was writing ink. Under the list of the Changshe Zhong family, he suddenly mentioned the word "low-grade". As for the Korean Liu Zhao Xu and other families, they all filled in the word "low-grade" in their evaluation.

"Send the notebook back to Xudu, don't report it to the Prime Minister first, and give it a drink to Guo Jiaguo first. Let's wait here for three days. After three days, Zhong Yu and Han Yun have to cry and shout to come to the door and beg us!"

"Are you so sure? What if they don't come?"

Looking at Wang Hou's smirk on his face, Cao Xiaoniu also became excited and asked curiously.

"If we don't come, let's go to the next county!"

I thought Wang Hou had some bold ambitions! Cao Hongjie rolled his eyes again after hearing this.

"You! There's no help!"
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