Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 77 Liaodong officialdom ([-])

Two months later
Liaodong County
"My lord." The officials of the Liaodong County Mansion saluted the newly appointed Liaodong County Governor Wang Changzhi.

"Well, you don't need to be too polite." Wang Changzhi knelt in the seat reserved for the prefect, and looked at the officials in the county with a smile on his face.

"Thank you, Mr. Fu." All the officials thanked again, and then got up.

Emperor Liu Che still couldn't bear the heart of such a talent as Wang Changzhi to go into seclusion. It would be too wasteful, so he arranged Wang Changzhi to be the governor of Liaodong, and let Wang Changzhi use his military talent in Liaodong to protect Liaodong and guard against the east and west of Liaodong. The Zuo Xianwang of the Xiongnu in the front, the Fuyu people in the northeast of Liaodong, the Woju people in the northeast of Liaodong, the Lai Raccoon people in the east of Liaodong, and the Koreans in the southeast of Liaodong.

Under normal circumstances, the emperor would not allow the sons of powerful officials in this county to be officials in this county, mainly to prevent the powerful from taking advantage of the power of officials to strengthen their families. Liaodong, but the previous governor of Liaodong was unable to resist the intrusion of the Huns, so Wang Changzhi, a military-savvy talent, was needed to sit in Liaodong.

Looking at the officials of Liaodong County below, Wang Changzhi felt a little headache.

In addition to not being able to appoint Juncheng and Junwei, the Sheriff has the right to enlist other officials by himself. Only the Sheriff, Juncheng, and Junwei are appointed by the emperor himself. Officials, Wang Changzhi can conscript the Wang family to come in and become officials.

At first, he thought so.

But after taking office, he realized that it was not that simple.

Except for the magistrates and magistrates, all the officials in the county mansion were descendants of powerful noble families from various counties in Liaodong. Each family had one or two people come in as officials.

If I dismiss them and then bring in the Wang family's children, it will be tantamount to offending a large number of powerful people in Liaodong.

Although the Wang family is the most powerful tycoon in the entire Liaodong, they dare not offend the entire Liaodong tycoon.

And Liaodong Juncheng and Liaodong Junwei, who are only half a rank lower than him, are not ordinary people.

Juncheng Zhang Shou came from the Zhang family in Wen County, the eldest son of the head of the Zhang family. The Zhang family in Wen County was the most powerful in Wen County. Zhang Shou's daughter also married Li Cai, the current prime minister.

Li Yao, the county lieutenant, came from the Li family in Fangxian County. He was the eldest grandson of the head of the Li family.

There is no white body in the entire Liaodong County Mansion, and everyone has a background, even if the dog guarding the door is the descendant of the dog raised by the first emperor Tang Concubine, even a dog has a deeper background than the common people.

"However, after all, I am the prefect of Liaodong County, and I control Liaodong's procuratorial resources. I have two quotas for procuratorial examinations every year. I can use this resource to send my royal family's children to the court, or to send someone to the imperial court. To be recommended to the imperial court by a son of a family that is married to my royal family is also an opportunity to strengthen the family."

"Of course, even if you go through the back door, you have to have people with real talents to go. Otherwise, if the emperor finds out that he is a mediocre person, I, the prefect, will also be responsible."

Thinking in this way, Wang Changzhi ordered to the master book: "Bring the county's account book."

"No." The master book agreed, and then went to fetch the county book.

The accounting book records all kinds of information in the county, such as the population, acres of land, and taxes in each county, and how many county soldiers there are in the county.

When he saw that there were only a few thousand people in Gaoxian County, he couldn't help but asked in surprise, "A county only has 4000 people?"

Even if the Wang family has a population of more than 2 tenant farmers and serfs, and even a small impoverished county like Dashi has a population of more than 1, the entire county of Gaoxian County only has a population of more than 4000?
"My lord, you don't know that Gaoxian County is close to the sphere of influence of King Zuoxian of the Huns. It has been plundered by King Zuoxian of the Huns all the year round. The population in the county is often taken to the grassland by the Huns as slaves. With a population of 4000, now there are only more than [-] people left." The chief bookkeeper answered truthfully, his position is equivalent to the county governor's secretary, and he has to help handle all the affairs of the prefect.

The official position of the master book is not a purely civil official, let alone a military commander. It is similar to the secretary of the prefect. Whether it is civil or military, the master book can help the prefect handle it.

Even most of the time, many small matters are handled directly by the master book, and some irresponsible prefects don't bother to ask how the master book handles them.

"En." Wang Changzhi responded lightly, and then continued to check the accounting books.

In the process of checking, not only did frontier counties like Gaoxian County have too few populations, but even some inland counties had very small populations, such as Fang County with a population of only 7000.

"This Fangxian County is in the hinterland. Why is there such a small population? Can the Huns still fight here?" Wang Changzhi asked the master. You must know that Fangxian County is farther south than Xiangping County, which is the prefecture of Liaodong. It shouldn't be that far away, and it won't be that Fang County was also plundered by the Huns.

"Uh... this..." Faced with the problem of too small a population in the frontier counties, the director could speak freely, but faced with the problem of too small a population of inland counties, he didn't dare to speak. He just faltered and said: "The county lieutenant is from Fang County."

Such an inexplicable sentence is so incomprehensible that ordinary people really don't know what it means, but Wang Changzhi understands it.

This county lieutenant, Li Yao, is a descendant of the Li family in Fangxian County. The population of Fangxian County must have been concealed by the Li family in Fangxian County, but why did the Li family in Fangxian County escape the investigation of the last time?Why was he not forcibly moved to Chang'an?
It seems that no matter how strict the law is, there are moments of omissions. The Wang family in Dashi County is an example, and the Li family in Fangxian County is also an example.

The Wang family in Ketashi County relied on its geographical location to evade the investigation of the visitors, so what did the Li family in Fang County rely on?

Wang Changzhi became a little curious, so he continued to check the situation in other counties.

Naturally, it is impossible for him to check the land of the Li family in Fangxian County. Although doing so can please the emperor, help the emperor wipe out a powerful family, and help the emperor enrich the treasury, it will also offend all the powerful nobles in the entire Liaodong, and even offend the powerful in the world. gentry.

Let His Majesty's cruel officials do things like checking the population of the fields that offend the gentry. I, Wang Changzhi, just need to honestly seek personal benefits for my family.

There are a total of [-] counties in Liaodong, but most of them are small counties, and the combined population of several counties is not as good as that of a single county in the Central Plains.

After checking the population and acres of each county, he checked the situation of the soldiers in the counties and counties.

Liaodong has a total population of 17 registered households. In fact, it must be more than that. After all, every family will hide the population of the field. For example, the Wang family hides more than 2 people. These 2 people will never appear in the registered households. .

Although the registered population is only 17, the number of soldiers in counties and counties is as high as [-]. You must know that even those large counties in the Central Plains with a population of several million have only five or six thousand soldiers in counties and counties.

Liaodong County, with a population of 17, actually has [-] county soldiers. This abnormal ratio of soldiers to civilians is mainly because the situation in Liaodong is too tense, and it has to face various enemies, especially the Xiongnu King Zuoxian in the northwest.

"Our Liaodong County has always been unable to make ends meet financially. Every year, we rely on the imperial court to send money and materials from those big counties in the Central Plains to Liaodong County to barely maintain it?" Wang Changzhi couldn't help asking the master.

"Yes." The master book replied truthfully.

(End of this chapter)