Wei and Jin Cooks

Zhao Mingming sat among the crowd, took out a white book and opened it. While waiting for the meal, he chatted with them and recorded the situation at home.

This village is not big, with only about forty households. At this time, there are people in every household here, and they all know each other. The village chief is also here. If you ask how many people are in the family and how many acres of land are there, you will soon be able to find out. Complete the information collection.

 Just check and fill in the gaps the next day.

 Seventeen years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the first generation of newborns have grown up and most of them have begun to join the workforce.

 Some people get married just at the age of sixteen and are already new fathers or mothers, so each family has a large number of people.

Zhao Mingming read the statistical booklet and saw that there was a family that settled here in the third year of Jianxing. At that time, there were only three members of the family. However, in less than twenty years, their family has now grown to a family of eighteen.

The two brothers are both young, but they have not yet divided their households.

Zhao Mingming was very confused. When he asked about their children’s schooling status, he learned that both boys and girls could attend five years of compulsory education when they reached the age. He nodded approvingly.

　　A family that is able to allow children at home to attend compulsory education is a far-sighted family.

Zhao Mingming, who already has a lot of experience at the grassroots level, knows that even if the court's compulsory education does not require education and does not require book fees, there are still many people who do not want their children to spend time studying.

 Whether they are boys or girls, they all think that reading is a waste of time and energy.

 Because after studying for five years, you can only read and numerate. You can neither be an official nor learn any skills that make it easier to find a job than others.

 Because there are people out there who have studied for three and five years.

 Hard-working jobs such as farming, coolies, running errands, and clerking do not require people to be literate in reading and numeracy.

In their view, children can start working as long as they can walk. Pulling weeds at three years old and transplanting rice seedlings at five are basic operations. At seven years old, they can already be used as half-adults. At the age of twelve, they can do it. I'm ready to become parents.

 So if they send their seven-year-old children to school, they are competing with their families for labor.

Not only can they not let their children work, but they also have to waste five years of food expenses. In addition to the cost of repairs and books, they also need to buy pens, paper and ink, which are all additional expenses.

 Calling on the money, they are unwilling to let their children go to school.

Compulsory education publicity has always been a top priority for county government offices. Every year, in order to get parents to send their children to school, officials and county government officials rack their brains.

In order to achieve the goal of "not leaving a single child behind", every year the ceremonial house uses all thirty-six strategies of military strategists to compete with parents, giving them both kindness and power.

Not long ago, during the school season, the county government shackled five people, but they refused to send their children to school even if they tried hard to persuade them. In the end, the county magistrate was annoyed and just shackled the people in public, and finally took them to build bridges and pave roads, which was enough. After a month of hard labor, they were released.

After that, many people who were stubborn about sending their children to school gave in and started sending their children to school even if they were unhappy.

Zhao Mingming praised the Liu family for their foresight while recording at this time, "It is right to send children to school. Now when looking for a job outside, even if you want to wash dishes, you have to ask whether you can read, count, and have a school diploma."

"They are all waiters. Those who have studied for five years may be promoted to accountant or shopkeeper. Those who have not studied and are illiterate will be waiters when they enter, and they will still be waiters when they come out."

 The villagers on the side nodded repeatedly and agreed: "It is difficult to find a job outside now. Those who have never gone to school are at a disadvantage, and those who have only attended school for five years are also at a disadvantage. You still need to have a skill."

Fan Lianyin said, "Yes, the imperial court has opened many new technical schools. After five years of compulsory study, even if you can't get into the county school or county school, you can still choose to go to a technical school to learn a skill and find a job." Although many skills were lost after the Qin and Han Dynasties, their status among the people was not reduced to the bottom as it was in later generations.

Although craftsmen have been dependent on the court or nobles for hundreds of years, they have a certain reputation among the people because of the teachings left by the Mohists in the pre-Qin Dynasty.

 After the founding of the State of China, the emperor personally welcomed the Mohist giants to Beijing. Not only did she confer high-ranking titles to the Mohist giants, she also personally participated in the design of some Mohist institutions.

Everyone knows that Fu Tinghan is an outstanding Mozi, so the status of the craftsman has been greatly improved.

Moreover, after the founding of the State of China, the lowly status gradually disappeared, and there was no longer a clear distinction between the status of scholars, peasants, industrialists, merchants, soldiers, music slaves, etc.

Even the slave status disappeared due to the cancellation of the death contract. From now on, the people only had employment contracts and no longer had slave status.

Because of this, a large number of aristocratic hermit houses disappeared since the Han Dynasty, and it was difficult for the people to have a large number of hermit houses to hide.

 Coupled with the implementation of the land equalization system, in recent years the imperial court has been light on corvee and low on taxes, and often reduced or exempted taxes. Black households who once hid to avoid taxes have come out to surrender one after another.

Not only Zhao Mingming, but also county magistrates from various places can proudly say that there are no hidden houses in our county.

If there are illegal households, it must be because the policies have not been able to reach them. Their minds and bodies are still living in the seclusion of the previous dynasty, and they are unaware of the changes in the outside world.

 The massive population growth in the past seventeen years has reopened 70% to 80% of the land abandoned by the previous dynasty. If the population continues to multiply, it will be necessary to open up wasteland and expand the cultivated land area to be able to divide the land.

Zhao Mingming not only recorded the population of each village and the allocated land, but also made a special trip to see the public land that had not yet been allocated.

This investigation revealed something different.

Some public fields are still growing with weeds, waiting for the village children to divide them up when they reach the age of sixteen, and some have become other people's private fields.

Zhao Mingming returned to the Yamen to investigate, "Your Majesty had strict orders before he ascended the throne that land could not be bought or sold. After he ascended the throne, he strictly enforced this matter. All land in the world belongs to the state. The state distributes the land to the people and divides it into oral fields and permanent fields. There are two types of fields.”

"Yongye Field can be inherited. This is because all the fields in the world will be divided in the future. At that time, the land will not be divided again. Future generations can only inherit the fields from their ancestors, so Yongye Field cannot be bought or sold." Zhao Mingming Said: "The Yongye field is like this. The Koufen field is rented land, and it cannot be bought or sold. After death, the state property will be taken back and redistributed."

"But this time we went to the countryside to check, and we found that many places that were supposed to be public fields in the accounts were planted with things. After asking, we found out that they had become private fields." She said: "Such a situation must not be limited to our county. There must be other places too.”

Fan Lianyin: "The population is still small now, so it is not obvious. The most children were born from the third year of Yuanzhen to the eighth year of Yuanzhen. People born in the third year of Yuanzhen will start to divide their land in two years. In other words, from two years Starting from the end of the year, a large amount of public land will be allocated every year. If the public land is occupied, these newly adult citizens will not be able to receive the full share, or even be allocated Yongye land..."

Isn’t this stealing food from the people?

Zu Daozhong murmured: "No wonder your Majesty will start counting the population and fields this year. It will take two years..."

Zhao Mingming only realized what her mother meant by counting the population and fields after seeing the situation in the public fields. She whispered: "This is not only an opportunity for the court, but also an opportunity for us!"

　　If you do well, you will be promoted and your administration will be in order;

 If you can’t do it well...that’s not okay, you must do it well!

Zhao Mingming dismissed the second situation. She even thought about what her mother was going to do. She couldn't do it well.