Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 128
In the lobby of the General Manager's Mansion, Yang Ming received this prestigious old man in Jiangling County.

In any case, Wen Yi was disabled after fighting for the country. On the surface, Yang Ming still respects him.

So he asked the guards to carry Wen Yi into the lobby, and placed a high table in front of him with a glass of warm water on it.

It takes a lot of effort to make tea, so most of the time we treat people with water.

"When I first came to Jiangling, I had heard of the name of Duke Wen. Is there something to do here today?" Yang Ming smiled lightly.

Wen Yi said with a smile in his spare time: "This minister is disabled and cannot move. When His Highness came to Jiangling, he couldn't drag his broken body to congratulate him. Now he feels that he is in good health. Although his descendants hinder him, he still insists on coming. Paying homage to Your Highness, seeing His Highness Tianyan today is really a blessing for three lives."

He can speak pretty words. Yang Ming said with a chuckle, "What is the position of the Wen Gong?"

Wen Yi said: "This minister once served as the Chief Registry of His Highness the King of Han."

Yang Ming came again: "Where do you live now?"

Wen Yi: "There is no official position now."

Yang Ming chuckled: "Without an official status, why do you call yourself a subordinate?"

Wen Yi was taken aback, speechless.

What does he mean?Why do you care about a name?I used to be an official, can I call myself a subordinate?

sure,

There is no such regulation in Kaihuang Law, but Yang Ming is willing to argue with you about this, what can you do?

Yang Ming said with a smile: "If you have no official position, you are white. You need to be more careful in the words used by Wen Gong. If the common people call themselves ministers, there is suspicion of usurping. Of course, this king is just reminding you."

Good guy. This kid is not simple. With a few simple opening words, Wen Yi is already empty. Sure enough, all the royal family members are easy to get along with.

How old is this kid in front of him?It actually made me stunned for a while.

This child is difficult.

Wen Yi hurriedly said: "It's Xiaomin's fault. Fortunately, His Highness corrected it, and it will not be a big mistake."

"If you know your mistakes, you can correct them. There is nothing good about being good, but I have to correct you a little bit," Yang Ming said, waving his hand to the guard, who handed a scroll to Wen Yi.

After Wen Yi took it, he roughly scanned the content on it, and suddenly panicked.

The document contained in the document the memorandum that he received the land distribution from the county government office back then. It clearly stated that he had received the land distribution of [-] Qing, that is, [-] mu.

The visitor was not kind! Wen Yi instantly became nervous, his little heart was beating wildly.

He used to be only a Cong Qipin, with a land of [-] mu. The surplus was added privately after he was the head of the mansion, Bo, with the acquiescence of the King of Han.

I didn't expect it to be revealed now. Is this little Highness trying to punish me?
Wen Yi hurriedly explained:
"This field is a reward from His Highness the King of Han, and the common people dare not change it without permission."

The smile on Yang Ming's face disappeared in an instant, and his eyes were sharp as he said, "You mean, the King of Han rewarded you with twenty pieces of land?"

Public farmland cannot be rewarded. These fields are used for the government's daily official expenses, and the officials in the yamen rely on these fields for food.

In the early years of Emperor Kaihuang, the world was divided into nine levels of prefectures, counties, and counties. The public lands of each class were different. Jiangling County belonged to the upper and lower counties, and the public lands should be two hundred, but in fact, the government should It occupied about four or five hundred tilts.

And after Wen Yi left office, he still took twenty dumps and refused to pay back, which is a crime of losing his head.

He felt more and more that he couldn't be kind today, so he hurriedly moved out Han Wang Yang Liang to give him a top, but he didn't expect that the last question of the other party made him unable to answer.

nod?That is Hanwang breaking the law, if he doesn't nod, he is breaking the law.

So he became dumb.

Seeing that the fire was almost ready, Yang Ming asked again: "When will Wen Gong return the twenty acres of land?"

Wen Yi hurriedly said, "I will return it tomorrow."

Yang Ming said again: "Your duty land is originally [-] mu, when will the difference be returned?"

Come to your mother, is this going to settle an old score with me?

Wen Yi faltered and said: "This, this, this, this."

"Don't do this?" Yang Ming said with a smile: "If it was really given by the King of Han, this King will definitely not study it carefully."

Wen Yi seemed to be grasping at a straw, and hurriedly nodded and said, "It was indeed taught by His Royal Highness the King of Han."

"Really?" Yang Ming nodded, and said to Duan Chou, the recorder of the general manager's mansion in the hall: "Immediately write a letter and send it to Jinyang Hanwang Mansion in the name of my king, to inquire about the authenticity of this matter."

Duan Chou nodded and started to write.

This person was asked by Yang Ming from the county guard's mansion. He turned out to be the chief bookkeeper of Jiangling County, and he had a good handwriting and good writing.

When Wen Yi saw this, he was completely stunned. If this matter was brought to the King of Han, and the King of Han would absolutely deny it, then it would not be a crime of embezzlement of the public land, or it would be ransacking the house.

So he waved his hands desperately, if he hadn't been crippled, he would be able to stand up now,
"No, no, no, it's not from His Royal Highness the King of Han, it's because of the greed of the little people, His Highness, let's go around me."

Yang Ming leaned back and sneered again and again.

"Tomorrow will be paid back, and tomorrow will be returned. The land and the difference will be returned in full tomorrow," Wen Yi said with a mournful face.

Yang Ming won't kill him now, because he hasn't seen the money, and when the other party spits out all the money, let's talk about it.

In fact, this kind of people can't be killed casually, you have to take care of other people's mood.

If Wen Yi is killed this time, will everyone in the other clans be in danger?

This is not good, I just ask you for money, not for your life.

So Yang Ming nodded and said: "At this time tomorrow, I will wait here, waiting for Wen Gong to hand over all the money that should be paid."

After finishing speaking, Yang Ming called out: "Come here, carry him out."

Wen Yi, who left the manager's mansion, seemed to have walked through the gate of hell, dripping with sweat, as if he had taken a bath.

They all got into their own carriages, still trembling and trembling.

Because he has already realized the seriousness of the matter, the position field is just an appetizer, and the big one is yet to come.

How did the Wen family provoke this little devil?
He originally thought that the other party could look at Han Wang's face and let their Wen family go, but looking at it now, Han Wang's face is nothing, it doesn't work in front of this little Hades.

Who taught him to do this at a young age?

No one behind the scenes to provide advice?impossible!I have never seen such a difficult little doll.

Not only did I run for nothing today, but I also paid for it.

Wen Yi suddenly felt that he felt like a sheep was in the mouth of a tiger this time.
The general manager's office is an official, and according to the law, the general manager will make changes on his own.

In the current Jingzhou General Manager's Mansion, there are only Changshi Yuanwendu, Sima Pangben, and Duan Chou.

What is still lacking: Dianju, Jijiu, Jin, Hu, Bing, Law, Shi Zhugong Cao, warehouse governor, city order, etc.

Not to mention the Dianzhu, the Dianzhu is the eunuch sent by the emperor to the side of the prince, the county king and the governor of the state. It is called the Dianling document, and is responsible for things like memorials. In fact, it is to monitor you.

Yang Ming didn't have a signature around him. As for why there wasn't one, I had to ask Yang Jian and Dugu Jialuo.

As for offering sacrifices to wine, they are in charge of meritorious service such as gold, households, soldiers, law, and scholars.

Jin Cao, in charge of currency, salt and iron.

Hucao, in charge of households, ancestral temples, farming and mulberry affairs.

Bingcao, in charge of military equipment, weapons, defense matters.

Facao, in charge of postal delivery, judicial affairs.

Shi Cao, in charge of soil kung fu, Gongxi, Jinliang (ferry and bridge), boats and vehicles, and crafts.

As for the warehouse supervisor, this is easy to understand, that is, the warehouse manager.

City order, in charge of market transactions.

These are all officials of the royal family, and the assistants under them can be appointed by themselves, because the assistants have no grades, usually ranging from three to five, and there are also seven or eight. As long as you have money to pay others, you can raise them Twenty will do.

For these vacant positions, except for Cangdu, who was temporarily held by Xu Jing, other Yang Ming wanted to choose slowly.

Because these people will become his team like Li Jingfang Xuanling in the future, so we have to be cautious.

As for whether the lack of people will affect the official business?
The answer is no, because most of the official affairs have already been dealt with at the local level. If those provincial governors don't even have the awareness to share Yang Ming's worries, they are not suitable to be officials.

However, the main task of the Jingzhou Governor's function is actually only one: there are no rebels in the jurisdiction.

Other than that, no one cares about you what you like to do.

Yang Yinjiang, who went out for the first time, is no longer a house girl, like a wild horse, she is away from the mansion all day, leaves early and returns late, and is very punctual.

When meal time comes, she will come back, like a cat that smells of meat.

At first, she was not used to the cuisines in Jiangling area, but now she is used to it, and she is quite addicted.

But for some reason, she didn't like to see Gao Yue very much. Every time she saw that her nose was not a nose or an eye, she never gave him a good face.

Even Chen Shuyi was puzzled, and asked Yang Ming in private if they had any enmity?

Yang Ming directly refuted Chen Shuyi, don't care about these trivial matters, you have a mission on your body, you should care about what secret Gao Yue is hiding.

The internal warehouse of the General Manager's Mansion was already half full, so Yang Ming ordered Xu Jing to find some laborers to repair a few more warehouses.

The labor union will ask for some hard labor and hard labor from the government.

Forced labor and labor service are ordinary people. The common people have to serve corvee every year. Corvette includes forced labor, labor service, and military service.

Of course Yang Ming wouldn't let them do it for nothing, he wouldn't save such a small amount of money, and he gave it generously.

One liter of rice per person per day, [-] yuan, enough to eat.

This kind of treatment cannot be found in the Sui Dynasty.

Early the next morning, Yang Ming was still asleep when he was woken up by Xu Jing.

It turned out that it was Pang Ben from Qianya who came to report, and the cripple named Wen Yi came with money.

Yang Ming had someone calculate that the rent for an acre of land was 3 stones of millet, which was about two hundred catties.The tune is 2 feet of silk and 3 catties of hemp.

The taxation of the Sui Dynasty was called Zuyongtiao. Rent was to pay grain, Tiao was to pay cloth, and Yong was to avoid the grain and cloth paid by corvee.

Wen Yi’s 5820 years of farmland have been used for seven years, so Wen Yi should pay 300 shi for corn. The price of grain varies every year. The average price is 170 kuai/shi. For land rent, he needs to pay 740 million Six thousand coins, that is, one thousand seven hundred and forty.

A zhang of silk is calculated on average at 120 qian/zhang, and a catty of hemp is calculated at an average of 30 qian/jin.

It is converted into 64 yuan, rounded up to 650 yuan.

Rent and adjustment add up to a total of 390 yuan.

This is not over yet, there is still Yong.

Yong, is the money that needs to be handed over to those who don’t serve the corvee. It’s called Gengfu. Gengfu is a lot of money, but it’s not easy to calculate, because Gengfu is calculated on the basis of a male, not an acre of land.

So Yang Ming decided on a random number, let's say two thousand.

In other words, Wen Yi needs to pay 390 yuan.

To Yang Ming, this amount of money was a drizzle, but to a small family like Wen Yi, it was a hemorrhage.

In the compound in front of the government office, dozens of people began to unpack the boxes and count, and they counted at 390 yuan, and even if there was less than a penny, it would not work.

But Wen Yi didn't panic at all, he didn't calculate as carefully as Yang Ming, but moved half of the family's inventory here, and he even pointed out that he would satisfy Yang Ming and let him go.

(End of this chapter)