Lucky Star Gao Zhao

Chapter 28 Strange Things
When Gao Wenlin came back from the yamen, after hearing what his wife said, he also felt that the problem was not serious. The next morning, he took the Wu family's written list, and went to the county yamen to handle the matter.

Gao Wenlin is in charge of registering and surveying the population. The household registration book here has a special record booklet, which records the population, gender, age, marriage, land and residence, assets, etc. of each household.According to ten households as one Jia, 110 households as one Li, the establishment of "Li Jia" was implemented, and the state was paid and served.

Household registration refers to the head of the household by occupation, and is generally called "grain household", "civilian household", "zhihu", "lehu", "military household", etc. Those who have a household registration have to pay taxes and serve as household members.If there are people in the family, poll tax is paid; if there is land, land tax is paid.The poorest families also have to pay two kinds of taxes calculated on a household and individual basis.In order to control population flow and maintain social order, people who go out must have a guide, and they must be checked wherever they go.
I dug out the household booklet and found the household registration book of the Wu family, which read: Three males, one adult, the head of the household, Wu Quan, was born in Jian'an six years, and two minors, the eldest son Wu Zhongbao, born in Jian'an 27, and the second son Wu Zhongping , Kunping was born in the second year, a woman, Wu Haishi was born in the sixth year of Jian'an, and the other eldest daughter married to the royal family of Xuanqing Mansion, Kunping was recorded in the 13th year of Kunping, Wucheng County, Shuntian Prefecture, Qi State.

The above is Ding, and 60 years old is old. Ding officially undertakes various military and military services to the state, and 60-year-old seniors are exempted.

The birth of Gao Zhao happened to be the year when the new emperor came to the throne, and his reign name was Kunping, and the previous reign name was Jian'an.

Both Wu Quan's parents passed away, and they were in the same household with Wu Quan's elder brother at the beginning, so they were not recorded in the register. There is also the head of the village to prove it, and then come to the Yamen to register with the separation papers.

One of Gao Wenlin’s jobs is to sort out these household registrations. Every year, births and deaths must be registered. The household law stipulates that if the household registration is not registered, the parents will be forced to work for three years; If one person is under-registered for one year of hard labor, the crime of two people will be increased. If one person escapes, he will be beaten with thirty bamboo boards and fined silver.

It is impossible for Gao Wenlin to complete these meticulous tasks alone. He also has several cultural affairs offices under him, as well as the head of the armor and the head of the village to do basic registration and reporting.

There are strict household laws and regulations, reducing the floating population. Therefore, after Gao Zhao asked his father about these basics, he understood why some suffering people didn't run away?Can't run?

This is only for the good people, so what about the untouchables, the good and the lowly prohibit marriage, strictly stipulates that marriage between the good and the lowly is a crime, and slaves, common people and nobles cannot marry each other. Gao Zhao has read the law in this regard, and there is one article: If one falsely regards slaves as lovers and marries them, the rod will be ninety, and each will be divorced and corrected.

Gao Zhao didn't understand, so he secretly asked his aunt, what about those who straightened the concubine's house, Gao Cui explained to his niece: "Generally, no one dares to do such a blatant thing of straightening the concubine's house, don't be a man when you go out Well, let the mistress of another family sit on the same level as an aunt who was once a pariah, and beat people in the face? If there is, first of all, those people are people with no rules and no distance, and they have to operate secretly. Isn't there one in our county who has no children? The birth mother of the concubine's eldest son was brought upright, that was also going to the humble family, and recognized the original spouse's family as the adopted daughter, and then married in against the original spouse's adopted sister. Aren't you being laughed at when you come out?"

Seeing the astonishment on her niece's face, Gao Cui taught, "You are an official girl, if you marry a commoner, you will be married at a low level, so you have to find a match, otherwise, what will happen to your brother and sister's future marriages?"

This is when Gao Zhao was idle in the house recently, he suddenly wanted to see the marriage law here, so he asked his father for the law and then asked his aunt.

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Gao Wenlin called a literary office and asked him to engrave the road guide according to his household registration, and then hand it over to him after registering it. He would take it back to the Wu family when the time came. .

The Master Registrar has an independent office room, and on both sides of the lobby are the meeting halls. Gao Wenlin left the Master Registrar's office and came to the meeting hall. He saw Magistrate Zhang drinking tea leisurely, and when he came in, he put down his teacup.

"Master Gao, come and sit down, and taste the Maojian from my hometown, which only came down this year."

After Gao Wenlin sat down, a yamen servant came up to pour tea, he tasted it, and nodded his approval.

At that time, there was no magistrate in Wucheng County, only the chief secretary and the county lieutenant were in charge of all the affairs in the yamen. Three years ago, the imperial court appointed Zhang county magistrate to come here. He is a native of Henan. The county magistrate, came here to be the county magistrate, and got along with Gao Wenlin and Qian Xianwei quite happily, mainly because this person is quite knowledgeable about current affairs and is also smart in doing things.

Generally, officials are officials in other places, and they are not allowed to serve as local governors in their native places. It is a system of floating officials. However, after Gao Wenlin was elected, he was assigned to be the chief secretary of Wucheng County, where he was originally from. At that time, there was no county magistrate, which meant that he was also a county magistrate. He was baffled when he took office. He asked his father, but his father only asked him to be a good parent officer, clean and honest first, and do a good job. He didn't say much else.

Some also thought it was strange, but no one asked more questions. Gao Wenlin has been working like this until now, and he is still the director.

"Secretary Gao, it's like this. The seeds have just been sown now, and it looks like this year will be a good harvest. I just sent some game from Zheng Pingkou. I don't know where those soldiers and guards came from this season. Isn't your lady hurt?" Did you catch it? You take one back, and some medicinal ingredients, and give it to your daughter."

Wucheng County originally belonged to Xuanqing Prefecture, which was a Ji county that belonged to Shuntian Prefecture 13 years ago. It is less than a hundred miles away from Beijing. Next to it, the office often asked Wucheng County for some food and other products, but there was no way, they always asked for some, but most of them were borrowed but not repaid. Occasionally, sergeants were sent to send some other products.

When Gao Wenlin was in charge, he often dealt with these problems. It was a headache to think about it, and he couldn't record and keep accounts. He always had to rack his brains to find a way to smooth the accounts.

Gao Wenlin got up and cupped his hands, "Thank you, Mr. Zhang. When the little girl is well, come and pay your respects."

County magistrate Zhang had a friendly conversation with Gao Wenlin, and said he would send someone to Gao's family.

Gao Wenlin was a little flattered, thanked him again and again, and after leaving, he went home with the yamen servant.

After watching the people leave, County Magistrate Zhang was also puzzled. Today, he suddenly named these gifts to Master Gao by name. He was also surprised. He had never heard that the Gao family had any contact with the guards. Ma'am, could it be that the carriage of the Weisuo really hit the car?Guess so.

(End of this chapter)