In order not to have an accident on his own, Wujiang County Magistrate Wang Zhang said earnestly to Yang Zongjian: "Mr. Yang, Tongli Town is the last town, please be careful! Zhang Qingfang from Tongli is from the Zhang family in Shaoxing. There is no need to be a humble person to talk about the influence of the Zhang family. Please be careful!"

Yang Zongjian, who had been an official in Nanzhili for a long time, naturally knew about the influence on the Zhang family. Now, Yang Zongjian was a little unhappy when he heard Wang Zhang say this. How could you, a seventh-rank county magistrate, take charge of your own affairs?

But Yang Zongjian didn't dare to say anything. Wang Zhang is from Laiyang, Shandong. In addition to being the disciple of the chief minister Ma Mingyuan, he is also a fellow villager of Wang Yunchang, the cabinet master. This backstage is really amazing.

Yang Zongjian bowed and said, "Please rest assured by Lord Wang. I am not a new official in the officialdom, so I don't need to teach me how to be an official!"

Wang Zhang heard Yang Zongjian misunderstood his meaning and was about to explain, but Yang Zongjian had already taken the horse and left with his eighteen subordinates and thirty yamen runners sent by the county. Wang Zhang sighed and secretly scolded him in his heart that Yang Zongjian was really a dog biting Lu Dongbin and did not know the good people's hearts. Zhang Qingfang was dependent on the Zhang family, and he reminded him carefully because he was just for the sake of Yang Zongjian's goodness.

Looking at Yang Zongjian riding a horse, Wang Zhang blessed him and never had anything to do in the past few days.

Tongli Town has a long history and has lived here as far as the Northern Song Dynasty. At the same time, it is located in the Taihu River Basin. It has been a land of fish and rice since ancient times, and has always been very prosperous. At this time, Chen Xuan, the mayor of Tongli Town, was standing anxiously in the north of the town, preparing to welcome the provincial work team.

Emperors of ancient China attached great importance to the governance and control of rural areas, hoping to establish grassroots organizations in grassroots society to penetrate power through grassroots society, so as to better control rural society. Therefore, in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Three Elders of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Baojia system in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and the Lijia system established by Zhu Yuanzhang based on the experience of the previous dynasty.

At the beginning of its founding, in order to reduce the power of powerful landlords in Jiangnan, Zhu Yuanzhang implemented the Lijia system across the country, that is, to group 110 households into one A, with the ten households with the largest amount of Ding grain as the village chiefs, and the remaining 100 households were called the Jias. The ten village chiefs took turns to serve in a cycle of ten years, and were arranged in advance according to the amount of Ding grain. Every year, a village chief led ten A-heads to serve and were responsible for "controlling the matter of one mile."

Zhu Yuanzhang originally thought that this policy could be implemented for ten thousand years, just like all other policies he formulated. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, under the combined effect of a series of factors, such as the increase in population and the increase in mobility, the intensification of the degree of the gap between the rich and the poor among rural community members, the impact and impact of commodity economic development on rural society, etc., the original rural communities based on the Lijia system showed a clear trend of decomposition. The social status of local elites such as grain chiefs and rural chiefs declined sharply, and the dominant power of rural society was transferred to the hands of non-service local elites such as gentry and local tyrants.

If it develops according to historical laws, in the late Qing Dynasty, due to the bankruptcy of the rural small peasant economy and the Qing Dynasty abolished the imperial examination system in the later period, these gentry and local tyrants who controlled grassroots regimes gradually became local tyrants and bad gentry who harmed the countryside.

However, Zhu Hongsan now occupied China. Zhu Hongsan, who came from later township governments, naturally knew that rural society played an important role in the stability of his own regime, so he tried to reorganize the grassroots government in accordance with later township institutions.

Zhu Hongsan's method is also very simple, which is to copy all the experiences of later generations. After all, the strength of the Celestial Empire over the grassroots ranks first in the world. Based on the experiences of later generations, Zhu Hongsan divided each county into several townships according to its population. Townships were divided into township leaders or township leaders according to their population, and one to two deputy positions were set up at the same time. Four stations and eight stations were set up under the mayor, four stations were agricultural stations, cultural stations, water conservancy stations, urban construction stations, and eight stations were judicial offices, land management stations, finance stations, police stations, industrial and commercial stations, tax offices, health centers, and postal stations. This setting echoes the central departments and is also convenient for management.

At the same time, Zhu Hongsan also significantly increased the salary of grassroots township staff, designated township mayors as the eighth rank, and the chief officials of four stations and eight offices as the ninth rank, that is, these people are included in the national financial support and are considered grassroots civil servants.

Thanks to this strict rule, Zhu Hongsan's control over townships and rural areas far exceeded that of previous generations. Relying on the inspection and supervision systems of various places, Zhu Hongsan's township management system achieved remarkable results. When he was in Guangdong, he extinguished many local rebellions in the bud.

Because of his long history, Tongli Town has a large population, it is set up as a town. The top leader, the town mayor, was named Chen, and was a descendant of Chen Wangdao, a celebrity in Tongli Town. Chen Wangdao was the Nanjing Censor during the Wanli period. After his death, the court commended his integrity and outstanding political achievements in the court to commend him for his integrity and outstanding political achievements. It was precisely because the Chen family had a reputation that at the beginning of the establishment of the town, the magistrate of Wujiang County recommended Chen Xuan, the grandson of Chen Wangdao, to be the mayor of the town.

Chen Xuan received a letter from the county yesterday. Today, the provincial work team was about to start entering Tongli Town. This morning, Chen Xuan got up early and brought two deputy mayors and a total of 45 people from the town office to wait in the north of the town.

Tongli Town is only ten miles away from the county town. At less than ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Xuan saw a group of people appearing in the distance on the official road with signs of quiet avoidance. Chen Xuan knew that the protagonist was coming.

Chen Xuan quickly tidied up his green official robe, and then asked his subordinates to stand on both sides of the road to prepare to welcome the adults.

The official sedan stopped in front of Chen Xuan, Senator Yang Zongjian got off the sedan chair, looked at Chen Xuan who was standing in the first row and asked, "Are you Mr. Chen from Tongli Town?"

Chen Xuan quickly bowed and said, "It's a humble position. The mayor of a small town is not allowed to be the word "Grandman". Lord Yang can just call him his name!"

Yang Zongjian nodded and said, "Okay, you know what I am here to do, so you can introduce the situation in your Tongli Town!"

Chen Xuan did not dare to delay, so he quickly accompanied Lord Yang into the town while introducing the household registration, population, land conditions, etc. of Tongli Town.

While listening, Yang Zongjian walked across the Fuguan Bridge in the north of Zhen. After crossing the bridge, he happened to see the Chen family archway granted by Emperor Wanli. Yang Zongjian asked, "Mr. Chen, are you a member of Chen Jingshi?"

When talking about his ancestor Chen Xuan stretched his waist and bowed to the Chen family archway and said, "The kingly way is fair and fair is the great-grandfather of the humble position!"

Yang Zongjian was an official in Nanzhili for a long time and admired Chen Wangdao very much. Now he heard that Chen Xuan was the descendant of Chen Wangdao, Yang Zongjian quickly stood up and gave a half-hearted salute to Chen Xuan and said, "It turns out that he is a descendant of Chen Jingshi. Yang is disrespectful. May I ask Lord Chen's name?"

When literati ask you the word "动" means to build a relationship. Of course, Chen Xuan knew that Lord Yang could not establish a relationship with him, but just respect for his ancestors.

Chen Xuan quickly bowed and said, "Mr. Yang, the name is Bangyan!"

"Okay, Bangyan also calls me I'm going to do it!"

The relationship has been raised, but Chen Xuan dared to call him Shangguan Biao? "Mr. Yang, it's already noon now, why not go to finish lunch first and then work in the office?"

Yang Zongjian is also a person in the system, so he naturally knows what Chen Xuan means. He just had a lunch and met with the gentry in Tongli Town. Everyone was familiar with each other. There was a lot of things to say when clearing the land in the next step. However, as an old official, Zhu Hongsan had known the virtues of these officials, so he sent Jinyiwei in the accompanying team, one was to protect the safety of the work team, and another important task was to monitor the various officials of the work team.

Yang Zongjian sighed and said, "I have won Bang Yan's intentions, but look at the back!" After that, Yang Zongjian used his eyes to signal the three Jinyiwei in the team.

"You see, the three Jinyiwei's Killing Talents are responsible for monitoring me. They will report my husband and his subordinates' every word and deed to the emperor, so don't eat anymore. Now there is still some time before noon, so let's start from Zhenbei!"

Chen Xuan heard Yang Zongjian say this and was in a state of cold air. He didn't dare to speak anymore. He took Yang Zongjian and others to the first house in Zhenbei, Youjia.

Chen Xuan brought people to the door of You's house and asked someone to go up and ask to open the door. The Master of You's family received news from the town office yesterday and prepared his land deed early.

Yang Zongjian reviewed the land deed and there were 321 mu of paddy fields and 64 mulberry fields on it, which were distributed to twenty-four tenants to rent. At the same time, he took out the imperial book of land in the county and turned it to Tongli Town. After comparing the two items, he found that there were 56 mulberry fields missing from the imperial book, ten mulberry fields, but this was fine. The imperial book was compiled in the ninth year of Wanli, and there must be differences after so many years.

Yang Zongjian said to the master of the You family standing at the door: "This says that there is a Juren You Xikun in your family, but is he still alive?"

When Mr. You heard the adult question, the fat flesh on his face trembled. After a while, he said, "Sir, the villain's grandfather has passed away for twenty years!"

Yang Zongjian nodded and asked, "Your son Youfang is a student, right? Can you be at home?"

"Sir, the dog is studying abroad now and is not at home!"

"Okay, according to the court's laws, juren can be exempted from 240 acres of taxes, the whole family's corvee, the scholar can be exempted from 10 acres of taxes, and the three people's corvee. Now that your grandfather has passed away, your family cannot enjoy the tax exemption policy. Now you can only enjoy the tax exemption policy of 10 acres of tax exemption policy, you can know!"

In the Ming Dynasty, it was stipulated that Juren had tax exemption quotas, but each dynasty was different. However, after Wanli, the literati had a great influence, so no one would raise this amount. No matter how many acres your family was, all tax exemptions were exempted. For example, the Xujie family in Songjiang had more than 200,000 mu of land.
Chapter completed!