Chapter 132 There is a difference between intimacy and distance
All the land deeds of the Wen family were collected and handed over to Yuan Wendu for overall planning.
At present, the General Manager's Office has nearly two hundred new people. These people were recruited from the local area by Yuan Wendu, and there are many people with the surname Shen.
Regarding this point, Yuan Wendu also made it very clear to Yang Ming. Because of the relationship between the Shen family and their Yuan family, he was more comfortable and obedient in using these people.
Yang Ming doesn't care much about employing people. The first thing is to be loyal and obedient, and the second is true talent and learning. He has both and can take on heavy responsibilities.
The Yamen is currently short of personnel, so Yang Ming has also handed over all the human rights to Yuan Wendu. As for salary, of course, it is still the account of the General Manager's Office.
These newly recruited people are all assistants. They have no rank, and their salary is not much. They only make a few hundred dollars per person per month. They are authentic working people. They come to the general manager's office in the morning to report, and go home from work at sunset. At noon, The meal will be settled at the Yamen.
These people all had some education and were considered clerks. They basically came from the local gentry class. The common people were illiterate, so they could only farm or do manual labor.
In the back hall of the General Manager's Mansion, the sound of crackling abacus can be heard endlessly.
It has been counting for three days, and today is the final touch.
When Yuan Wendu checked the acres of land, the answer he got was 5,300 qing. After counting the land deeds, the Wen family's actual amount was 6,700 qing.
Then, under the instruction of Yang Ming's eyes, he handed the account to the other three people for viewing.
"This is easy to handle," Fei Lin said: "We can transfer the problematic farmland in Shimen County to the public land of Cili County, and then convert the public land in Cili County into private land and allocate the land."
Gao Jiao is indeed very knowledgeable about people. Fei Lin was able to think of this in a short period of time, which is indeed worthy of recognition.
During the Sui Dynasty's battle to destroy Chen Dynasty, he was responsible for preparing the Xiangyang navy under Yang Jun. I heard that the Fei family provided at least a thousand civilian ships of various sizes at that time. They had made great efforts, so he was recommended by Yang Jun to become an official.
The man named Gao was left. Yang Ming asked him what to do, and he said that His Highness could do whatever he wanted.
These fields are equal to the total of all open fields in the three major grain-producing counties. Most of the fields are concentrated in the four counties of Jiangling, Jiangxia, Liyang, and Baling. These are the major production areas on both sides of the Yangtze River.
Yes, he finally said something humanly speaking, that is, Yang Xuangan's family has a great business, so he can be so heroic. Yang Ming is quite satisfied with this answer.
He was originally just a county magistrate, but later he did a good job. He was spotted by Gao Xun when he was touring the country, and he was recommended as the prefect of Liyang, where he has been working ever since.
There aren't that many people in the Governor's Mansion watching over them one by one, so local officials have to do this kind of thing.
Although most officials do not take public opinion seriously at all, Yang Ming does.
This old boy is very cunning.
Yang Ming is the general manager of Jingzhou, and he only cares about the twenty-two counties of Jingzhou. It is impossible for him to personally handle the affairs of these four counties.
He also warned them severely that they were not allowed to enrich their own pockets, and were not allowed to turn it into public land without permission. After the land was granted, Yang Ming would send someone to investigate.
"Among these land deeds, your Liyang County has 800 lands. How do you grant land? What is your opinion?"
At this time, Yang Ming looked at Fei Lin again:
In this case, will the people with less land in other counties also start clamoring for re-granting of land? If so, the government will be swayed by public opinion, which is not a good thing.
This is for sure, Yang Ming would not do anything to Yang Yinjiang.
Yang Xuangan was stunned and said: "If the Second Sage asks, you will say you don't know?"
The person sitting in the hall, although he is the manager of Jingzhou, is also a thirteen-year-old child. Why does it feel like a prince is sitting on it?
Judging from his demeanor and tone, he looks like a scheming person.
"I don't know," Murong Sanzang shook his head.
He came to the place just to experience it. To put it bluntly, it was just a process. How could Yang Su allow his eldest son to always be the governor of the place?
Yang Ming really couldn't wait any longer and said to Xu Jing impatiently: "Get him out."
"Haha." Yang Xuangan said with a smile: "Too many people have been killed. It is difficult to hide this matter. The higher ups will know about it sooner or later."
Among them, the administrative division of Jiangxia was called Ezhou, and the governor was Yang Xuangan, so Yang Ming sent a message to these four local officials to come to the general manager's office.
So he asked four people to follow the general policy proposed by Fei Lin, and after they had perfected it according to local conditions, they re-granted fields in the areas under their jurisdiction.
Yang Xuangan and Murong Sanzang were riding in the same car together and asked with a smile:
"Fei and Gao, do you know anything about the Wen family?"
The latter handed a few thin pages of paper to Yang Xuangan. Yang Xuangan took it and read it roughly, then slapped the table and cursed angrily:
What an old-fashioned person, he dared to lie to the Second Sage, so pedantic. Yang Xuangan chuckled and stopped talking.
None of the four of them had eaten yet, so Yang Ming first ordered Xu Jing to prepare some food for these people, and then he sat on the main seat and glanced at the four of them.
The remaining two people, Fei and Gao, looked at each other and could see the shock in each other's eyes.
Seeing that they had all finished reading, Yang Ming said slowly: "Let's talk about it, how to deal with these more than 6,000 acres of land?"
Yang Ming frowned and said: "Liyang County has six counties, namely Liyang, Shimen, Xiaoling, Anxiang, Chongyi, and Cili. The land in question is in Shimen County, how can it be allocated to Cili County? Is it possible for civilians to plant the land?
Tian, do you have to cross counties?"
However, Yang Ming also knows that it is impossible for them not to enrich themselves. Even if Yang Ming sends people to investigate in the future, they will not be able to find out their problems. They will find ways to avoid your investigation.
Among the four, only Yang Xuangan ate with gusto, while the others were busy waiting for what Yang Ming would say, so they had no appetite.
People like him belong to the ancestral tombs where the smoke comes out, and what they meet is Gao Qiu.
Gao Jong has been recommending good talents to the Sui Dynasty. In the early years of the founding of the Emperor, Yu Qingze, the Duke of Jin, one of the four nobles in the early Sui Dynasty, was recommended by Gao Jong.
Three days later, these four people met, and they probably knew that Yang Ming was looking for them mostly because of the investigation of the land.
Not to mention Xuangan, no one in the local area dares to deny face to the first and second generation officials of the Sui Dynasty.
After reading it, these three people all said the same thing: "It's incredible. It's incredible."
This is a good idea. Yang Ming agrees with it.
The other party is right when he says that it is not a matter of scarcity but of inequality. If the problematic acres of land in Shimen County are granted only in Shimen County, it will inevitably lead to an increase in the number of acres of land owned by the local people.
Uncle Yang Yue had already sent a letter, telling him not to fight Yang Mingjuan and to go along with everything, and Yang Ming would never let him suffer.
That is 670,000 acres.
Yang Xuangan's words were asking whether the two men knew about the murders and arson. He must have known about it, because Yang Yu borrowed soldiers from the Jiangxia Hussar Mansion.
"These gangsters killed well."
They are all pretending to be confused. They all know who owns these fields. If Yang Ming dares to touch the Wen family, that is a matter between him and the uncle and nephew of the King of Han. As long as their subordinates are honest and obedient, this is not
They can intervene.
Theirs is a family with a long history in Jingzhou. Their ancestors served as officials during the Han and Wei dynasties, working for Liu Bei and Sun Quan. Later, they gradually fell into decline, and the family basically only served as local officials.
Yang Xuangan was quite generous towards Yang Ming's lack of face. After all, he knew in his heart that Yang Ming and his family were two different families.
No wonder he can't see Yuan Wendu, this young highness clearly has his own ideas.
If Yang Ming now recommends Yang Xuangan to take up a certain position in Beijing, his superiors will definitely agree happily.
"Show Xuangan the compiled accounts first," Yang Ming said to Xu Jing.
Obviously impossible.
I came here specifically to discuss matters with you, not to have a meal with you.
Murong Sanzang quickly corrected him: "No one kills anyone. Fire is used improperly. This is a man-made disaster."
At noon, a governor and three prefects sat in the back hall of the general manager's house. The back hall was a place for discussions. Only people with high status could enter here.
It's really unethical. No wonder they are all called idiots. Yang Ming is also helpless. You have one-tenth of Yang Yinjiang's brain and you won't be able to say this.
"Okay, okay, don't eat Xuangan,"
Murong Sanzang frowned and said: "Whether you want to hide it or not, we have to hide it. The King of Hedong is the third son of the crown prince, and the murderer is the son of the King of Han. We ministers can just do our jobs honestly. No matter who asks about this kind of thing in the future
, they all said they didn’t know.”
As for the other Gao Zhang, he was from the old Qi clan. He was quick to surrender and served as a leader for the Northern Zhou Dynasty. So after the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Sui Dynasty, he was given the title of Shangyi Tongsansi and followed Yang Liang to defeat Goguryeo.
He died and became the governor of Baling County after his return.
Very good, your answer is better. Yang Ming praised it and said: "Prefect Murong is a practical person. This is what he says from experience."
Fei is Fei Lin, Gao is Gao Zhang, and they are the prefects of Liyang and Baling counties respectively.
Murong Sanzang said: "The amount of land involved in this matter is too large. If we want to grant the land, we have to come up with a plan in detail. Who will grant it? Who will grant it? How much? These are all things that need to be carefully considered."
At Yang Su's level, even if he didn't say anything about his legitimate son, Yang Jian and his wife would help him plan it.
Fei Lin hurriedly stood up and said: "Although these fields are only concentrated in a few counties in Liyang, when allocating the fields, the county governor's office must be the main one, and the fields should be distributed equally to the entire county. As the saying goes, don't worry about the scarcity of the land, but the inequality.
If it is divided into only a few counties, I'm afraid there will be disagreements in other counties."
Yang Xuangan realized it later and hurriedly made up for it with an embarrassed look on his face: "I mean, these people deserve to be killed. Burning them to death is really God's will."
"Grant the fields and let the local government re-grant the fields," Yang Xuangan was the first to speak.
Among them, Yang Xuangan is probably the only one who will not seize the land for himself, because others look down upon him.
Murong Sanzang said: "If you know, you have to pretend not to know."
As soon as these words came out, several people present almost rolled their eyes in their hearts at the same time.
Fei Lin, the governor of Liyang, was born in the Fei family of Jiangxia. Among the twelve people Yang Mingchu came to Jingzhou to entertain, there was his brother Fei Chun.
The reason why Fei Lin was able to achieve the position of Liyang Governor was thanks to one person, King Yang Jun of Qin.
This is the background.
Since the other party was Yang Yinjiang's biological father, Yang Ming simply asked Yang Xuangan to stay for dinner in front of the other three people.
This will make the other three people feel that if Yang Ming doesn't give Yang Xuangan face, he will still treat Yang Xuangan as one of his own. This is called the difference between intimacy and distance.
As for the three of them, they had to do whatever they were supposed to do. If they couldn't handle the errands, there was no one to help them.