Chapter 52: Unexpected News (Part 2)

Everyone was drinking happily on the table, and Su Shi was a little waving. After a while, the careful Xu Zhizhou discovered Su Shi's abnormality and immediately comforted him with concern: "Zizhan, if there is Cheng clan here, you don't have to worry... Well, Zizhan has probably rarely done anything recently! I have arranged your student affairs, I will tell you..."

Xu Zhizhou's political achievements were closely related to Zhao Xing. Huangzhou was a region that had not been naturalized for a long time. The wars during the Five Barbarians invaded China led the barbarians to this area, and caused nine out of ten families to be empty here. At present, the government's control over towns is not obvious, and many times, government orders do not leave the city.

The emergence of Chengjiaao changed this situation in one fell swoop. The Cheng clan originally lived in the mountains and the strong cohesion allowed them to gather a force that could not be ignored. Then, they quickly became rich, causing many nearby mountain people to surround them unconsciously, either selling mountain goods to them or working for them.

This group of mountain people were originally the most rebellious hunters in the mountains, but now they are unified under Chengjiaao, willing to accept the rule of the local government, and add a huge tax to the remote Huangzhou - and the efforts of Xu Zhizhou before and after were only three tribute candidates.

With peasants rebelling everywhere and wars on the border, this huge political achievement made Xu Zhizhou famous and became a "capable official" that everyone was watching, and then quickly received promotion. But then, it also caused some trouble.

From a regional perspective, Chengjiaao is under the jurisdiction of Qishui County, but it applied for "naturalization and entry" in Huangzhou and gave all the benefits to Huangzhou. The Qishui magistrate learned that he immediately stopped doing it.

In the past, Chengjiaao was a small mountain village with dozens of households, and there was no dispute in Qishui County. When Chengjiaao released three tribute scholars, and the agricultural products of nearby mountain people gathered in this small village, and sold them to other places. Xu Zhizhou skipped Qishui. If the Qishui County Magistrate did not indicate that, wouldn’t it seem that he was incompetent and that Chengjiaao was abandoned?

Qishui, who knew the truth, shouted to sue Xu Zhizhou. The competition between the two sides made Chengjiaao's status soar. Recently, Xu Zhizhou and Qishui County reached a compromise: Chengjiaao belonged to Qishui, and Chengjiaao was responsible for the Dingfu, helping Qishui County maintain public security in nearby mountainous areas; and Zhao Xing, Cheng Xia, Cheng Shuang, Cheng Wang and other Cheng tribes selected several people from the other surnames to buy houses in Huangzhou and settle their homes... Let's wait, Cheng Tong had said before that there was no household registration problem in the Song Dynasty, and here he said that he had settled homes. Did Cheng Tong say that he was wrong?

Cheng Tong said nothing wrong!

The household registration issue in the Song Dynasty was different from other dynasties. To explain this issue in detail, it would take a book to go to space - to put it simply, the Song Dynasty was a patriarchal society, and its "record" refers to the number of "Di households" that pay taxes, and this number was not determined by the government. The Song Dynasty divided the people into upper households, middle households, lower households, gentry... etc.

The number of Dingkou is reported to the government by the "uploading households" and taxes are paid to the government according to this number, but it is not necessarily calculated according to this number. In other words, the government only controls the number of taxpayers - "records"; only when the clan leaders grasp the specific address and name of the taxpayer - "house". Moreover, these addresses and names are all determined by them.

Gentlemen do not need to pay taxes, so the people cannot move at will, but gentry who do not pay taxes can move at will (in order to avoid heavy taxes, the people often offer their property to the gentry and require them to be slaves of the gentry - in ancient times this was called "investment"; in modern times it was called "affiliation". The dividends paid by affiliation were less than taxes, and officials did not dare to embezzle them at will).

It was in this situation that Cheng Azhu was in Huangzhou. In order to fulfill his promise, the head of Cheng clan convened his clan members to build a house for Zhao Xing in Huangzhou and issued a generous dowry to provide for Cheng Laoqi's retirement. This dowry is 30 acres of paddy fields near Chengjiaao.

The new house was built beautifully. Cheng Tong hired Zhao Xing from Quanzhou and transferred all the craftsmen who helped Chengjiaao repair Qishui Wharf to the Mansion City. Soon after Chongyang, he repaired the new house. After Cheng Laoqi took Cheng Azhu into the new house, Cheng Azhu lived in silence and was determined to marry. So it was said that Zhao Xing "hidden beauty in the golden house".

The mountain people are used to wild people. The Cheng clan has three tribute men backing, and he is very domineering wherever he goes. Under Cheng Tong's arrangement, Cheng Laoqi immediately took over Zhao Xing's position as the head of Huangzhou, responsible for the sales and tax payment of Cheng Jiaao in the Huangzhou area. Cheng Laowu entered the official office and became a team leader.

The other people surnamed Cheng who entered the city of the capital immediately occupied several positions in the government office. At the same time, the warehouse they set up in the city of the capital also hired a large number of strong laborers, and in the blink of an eye, they established a great potential force on both sides of the official and private sectors.

At present, the lawsuit about Chengjiaao is still a little over. Xu Zhizhou promised that from next year, Chengjiaao's tax revenue will be divided into half with Qishui County, which will prevent Qishui County from making trouble: "I have about five months left in office, and the new official will come next spring.

When I finish the handover, it will be April next year. Brother Zizhan, I will explain to the new magistrate. However, I think if someone is here to take care of him, the new official still needs to rely on the Cheng clan to gain a foothold. How dare he make things difficult for you?

Hahahaha... Zizhan, at this point, I envy you very much. You said, why did you win such a good student by just making a bet? Why didn’t I encounter such a good thing?"

Su Shi accepted the other party’s disguised compliment, and he raised his glass toast, and felt much happier.

After drinking a few drinks, Xu Zhizhou continued to focus on Cheng Jiaao. This was his most proud political achievement in his life. How can he not write a special book: "When the spring of next year begins, the people of Cheng Jiaao plan to move to the dock area by Qishui, and they built another new village nearby...

Why move to move? I heard that several tigers have come to the mountains recently and injured several hunters in succession. A few days ago, they sent a baby tiger to Qishui County. I heard that the mother tiger and the tiger father were still crazy, and the mountain people did not dare to go to the ground in the daytime, so they planned to move to the village to avoid living.

The new village is built by the river, and they also want to build a wharf by the river. The original village is still not abandoned. Qishui County has drawn boundaries for them and exempted them from the rural service this year.

It will take about two or three months to move the village. Then it will be designated as "Dubao". Qishui County plans to separate Chengjiaao into a "li", named "Meizhengli" and "Cheng Jiabao". The clan leader Cheng Tong will serve as "Dubaobao (Guangzheng)" and Cheng Laoer will serve as Baozheng (formerly known as the Qichang, and the Qichang was abolished after the Baojia law, and Baozheng was established).

In addition, the original site of Chengjiaao also has a guarantee, which is responsible for managing hunters in the mountains. The guarantee chief is recommended by Chengjiaao...
Chapter completed!