Yo, grandpa is here

Chapter 180
Zhao Si's inseparable "putting his ears closer" already has a psychological shadow.

My ears were buzzing from the shock of his shouting, and I'm still not feeling well.

After reassuring again and again, he cautiously put his ear closer.

The identities between the two changed unconsciously.

Before Buli was not respectful to him, but he was also polite.

Now it is Zhao Si who is being polite to Buli, after all his life is already in his hands.

"A thorough investigation from above may find the yellow book of this county. You just took over this, have you ever straightened it out?"

"Speaking of this, I have a headache. Last year, the imperial court ordered the establishment of a yellow book of taxation and service. However, our village and river county have a special geographical location, and the flow of people is mixed. The previous chief book made a mess, leaving me in a mess. I don't care. How many words do you know. I went to the county government office yesterday, and the imperial books were piled up into mountains, and some of them were eaten by rats and ants—"

Zhao Si almost wanted to shed tears for himself, he just wanted to be promoted to a small official, to make some money quietly, to mix in his official career, and he was given such a difficult job when he wanted to get up.

The geographical location of Cunhe County is just at the border. Years of continuous wars have messed up the household registrations of each village, and it is very difficult to count them.

"Since the county magistrate asked you to investigate Zhang's brothers, you can't do nothing. You might as well take this opportunity and tell the county magistrate that you want to use the gimmick of collecting yellow books to visit various villages. People, the household registration statistics of each village, more than 200 villages, it is said that there are many, but in fact it is not difficult, just call the village chiefs from all over the place to ask questions, and it took a month to get it out."

After decades of war, the people's household registration has long existed in name only, and the imperial court made it easier to manage the subjects.

"Just call me the patriarch from now on, you and my brother, you have to avoid suspicion when you are outside."

Buli and Qingqing originally planned to go to the city tomorrow to find Zhao Si, let Buli get Zhao Si drunk, and then try to sneak into his office and change the yellow book in the government's hands.

The yellow book in his mouth is the population statistics registered by the imperial court, which is equivalent to the household registration archived by the government, and it is also one of the measures promulgated by the new emperor after he ascended the throne.

"Brother Niuzi, please speak!"

Zhao Si came to visit today, and when he mentioned the Zhang family brothers, Bu Li immediately changed his plan, and directly used this matter to mention the yellow book.

"Brother Zhao means that the yellow book is still messed up? If there is an imperial envoy, I will take care of the Zhang brothers' affairs for you, but just in case you look into this—" Buli deliberately paused, Zhao Si's face It's all green.

He wanted to learn how to be the director-general, but he was fooled. Anyway, their county is a small remote county with a small scale, and Quanzhou, which is directly under it, is across the sea. The state government can't find him for a while, enough for him year.

But when I think of the complicated registration work, my head hurts.

As for how the government registered and compiled the report after the village chief reported it, Manshan couldn't see it and couldn't tell.

"Is it that complicated?" Buli asked.

Qingqing took the opportunity to interject: "Master Zhao, I'm a girl who doesn't understand anything, so I'm just curious to ask, what is a regular household and what is a deformed household?"

Qingqing lowered her eyes, Buli is really a big profiteer, her IQ is always online, this part is not in her plan, but Buli added it on her own.

It is said that last year, the higher-ups asked people to come down to make statistics. Hao San, who was the head of the village at the time, was in charge of this matter. He went around the villages and asked about the households, real estate, land, etc. of the village, and nothing else.

Received Qing Qing's approving gaze, Bu Lian felt refreshed in his heart, but remained calm on the face, continuing to dig holes for Zhao Si.

If Buli's words were to fool Qingqing, Qingqing wouldn't even believe his punctuation marks.

"We don't have outsiders here, brother Niuzi, please tell me quickly." Zhao Si urged.

With such a virtuous wife like him, doing things is simply getting twice the result with half the effort.

In order to "register" Yan Meier, Buli and Qingqing have been inquiring with Man Shan and the others for the past few days. As Man Shan is a low-level citizen, he can only tell Buli what he has seen.

He was just a small ninth-rank official, and there were only three or two scribes available under his command, and he himself was illiterate, so he was in a mess when settling accounts.

"Brother Niuzi, you don't know. It's very difficult to compile the yellow books in our county. Not to mention brother Yu, I can't even read a few big characters. Even the previous chief bookkeeper was born in the imperial examination. He can't do it well!"

Zhao Si was on the verge of crying when he said that, it was really hard work to get this yellow book.

After going through the incident of the third brother Zhang, he felt more and more that patriarch Yu is a rare talent, and he looks even more powerful than the county magistrate's staff. Now he has no trustworthy people under his command, and there are scholars who are willing to give him If you want to make suggestions, you are naturally willing to listen.

"I have a way to kill two birds with one stone. I wonder if Brother Zhao is willing to listen to a certain sentence?"

Whose imperial envoy is so full that he checks the yellow book of the county?Unless the imperial envoy was determined to make trouble for Zhao Si when he came and wanted to take Zhao Si down, he wouldn't watch it at all.

"Families with property are just like you and Niuzi brothers. Those who have real estate and land are regular households. Those who are widowed and lonely and unable to work are abnormal households. This is just the most basic classification, and it can be further subdivided. There are also military, civil, craftsmen, and stoves, and I can't get them at all!"

It was a stroke of genius, and it was wonderfully added.

Zhao Si patted the table, his face covered with pain masks:
"It's extremely complicated. There are more than 200 villages in our county, and there are incomplete statistics on the regular households and abnormal households in each village."

Qingqing sorted out the information in her heart, and looked at her with great approval. She has really good eyesight. Look, how excellent the father she chose for her future child is!

If Zhao Si wasn't here, Qingqing even wanted to give him a big hug, kiss him a few times, and praise him for a good job.

He never thought that when he took office, he would catch up with the court to rectify the officialdom. When Brother Niuzi mentioned this, Zhao Si felt his head buzzing, as if he had seen the miserable scene of his family being deposed and carrying their burdens and becoming refugees.

"That's true, but I can't get away even when I just took office. I have to socialize everywhere, so I don't have time." It's not like Zhao Si didn't think about it. lock up.

But Zhao Si came up from the bottom and didn't understand official affairs at all, so he believed it immediately when he was threatened like this, and took the opportunity to vomit his bitterness.

If you really let him do it, he can slap it.

It's not that he never thought of hiring a few educated scholars to help, but the funds given by the court are limited, and even the county magistrate hires his staff out of his own pocket. How can he, a ninth-rank official who just took office, spend the money? On this "back of the knife".

If you have money, of course you have to spend it on drilling and giving gifts. These days, it is necessary to ask for money.

When Buli and Qingqing saw his virtue, two words came to mind at the same time: dog official!
But this just happened to be in Buli's arms. Fortunately, Zhao Si is a dog official. If he is an upright official, then Yan Meier and his family of more than a dozen household registrations can't be obtained.

(End of this chapter)