Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 31 I am the best at reading accounts!
"His Royal Highness King Yan?"

"Is he really King Yan?"

"A few months ago at Chaishikou, the old man saw the face of His Highness King Yan from a distance, and it seemed that he really looked like..."

"Grassmen see His Royal Highness King Yan!"

"Caomin see His Highness King Yan..."

Immediately, the village chiefs knelt down to salute Zhu Di with fear on their faces.

Zhu Di glared at Li Wang, Zhu Liang and the others, and said to the village chiefs with a gentle face.

"Okay, elders, please stand up!"

"Thank you, Your Highness King Yan!"

After the crowd grew up, they hurriedly begged Zhu Di for mercy with their faces full of fear.

"Caomin and others implore His Royal Highness King Yan not to blame the county lord. The county lord sometimes behaves differently from ordinary people, but what he does is sincere and never greedy. He is definitely an upright official!"

"Yes, please don't misunderstand His Royal Highness Yan Wang, the county lord has never been greedy for a penny of the people, and he is always thinking about the money..."

Zhu Di nodded slightly, "Elders, please don't worry, I just happened to pass by here and saw all the elders gathered in front of the county government office, so I asked curiously!"

Hearing this, all the village chiefs couldn't help laughing, "I also ask His Royal Highness Yan Wang to forgive me, we are all waiting to sign the IOU!"

"Sign the verification receipt?"

Zhu Di was a little puzzled.

"Your Highness, it is the IOU to take the amount of grain in the village from the county lord!" An elder explained in a low voice.

"I see!"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, "Then wait a moment, my king will go in and have a look around!"

After finishing speaking, Zhu Di walked directly to the county office with a face full of curiosity.

When Zhu Di walked all the way along the corridor of the crowd to the largest public house in the county government office, the door of the public house just opened, and five or six old men walked out. The familiar old man said hello and hurried out.

The old men who had already been waiting at the door hurried in.

Seeing this, Zhu Di took two quick steps and followed in quietly.

"This boy..."

On the side, several old men who were waiting stared and wanted to catch up.

Li Wang, Zhu Liang and others behind him hurried forward to stop him, and whispered his identity to Zhu Di.

The eyes of all the old men suddenly widened, but under the attention of Li Wang and others, they had no choice but to continue to sit down!
In the public house, Guo An was already surrounded by a group of old people, and he didn't realize that an unexpected guest had already sneaked into his tight-knit county government house like an iron barrel!
"Thirty stones? Old man Wang, even if you add up your two little grandchildren, you only have seven people. How dare you ask for thirty stones? Even if you are given so much, you can eat it all." Well? Can I still take it back?"

"No, at most twenty stones!"

"Huh? Old man Wang, you old man made a special trip to find the joy of this official today? I remember that only Wang Ada and his old mother were in Wang Ada's family. How dare you ask this official for an IOU for eight stones? Up to six stones!"

"and also……"

As he said that, the anger in Guo An's heart rose up, and he slapped the table angrily.

"All of you remember this king, even if one person eats with his stomach open for a day, he can't eat a stone's worth of food for a month. I'm still young, and I'm not old and foolish. Don't give me an exaggerated report!"

"Give me an exaggerated report, and I will drive you all back, calculate the amount carefully, and come back to find me tomorrow or the day after tomorrow!"

"Scribe Ding, tell all the chiefs outside what I said. If anyone wants to fool me again, he will go back to me and learn how to keep accounts. After he has learned it well, he will fool me again... ..."

"Yes, magistrate!"

"Hmph, just because you wait for a group of old men, you still want to fool me with the accounts? I have no other skills, but I am not afraid of keeping accounts. Not my opponent!"

All the elders in the village laughed.

In this regard, they really admire the little county gentleman in front of them from the bottom of their hearts!

"Ok?"

Suddenly, Guo An flipped through the ledger in his hand again, his face immediately darkened, and he slowly stared at the old man in front of him.

"Master Wang, how many households are there in your village? How many people?"

Seeing Guo An suddenly become so polite, all the elders fell silent.

Especially Wang Shoushi was full of anxiety.

"Reporting to the county, there are 110 households and 560 people in Caomin Township, and there are also 30 widows, widows and solitary people who can't bear the errands!"

Guo An said directly: "So, that's 590 people!"

Wang Shoushi said: "Hui Xianzun, that's exactly the case!"

Guo An asked quietly: "590 people, how much food do we need at most in three months?"

"This……"

Wang Shoushi was ashamed, "The county honors the crime, the number of these is so many, the grassroots have never counted it!"

Guo An sarcastically said: "Really? I will calculate it for you. A person can eat two catties a day, sixty catties a month, and 180 catties in three months. That's two stones.

Don't say 590 people, just count as 600 people, and it will be [-] shi after three months!

Why did you calculate the account book, and it turned out to be [-] shi?

Lichang Wang, since I took office, I have never treated you harshly, such as Lichang and Liangchang!
Moreover, on weekdays, the head of the village and the head of the grain have to work hard for the people of the whole village. In terms of work, they will try their best to give you some benefits!
Even for borrowing grain, the official will allow you and other village chiefs and grain chiefs to borrow two or three stones more!
I really don't understand, why do you want to tamper with this account book after I have been exhorting you so much?

Treating this official as a fool, forcibly adding four hundred stones? "

"Excuse me, the county. The grassroots definitely didn't do it on purpose. It should be that when the villain registered, he registered a few more families!"

Wang Shoushi quickly argued.

Guo An asked softly, "How do you know that you registered a few more households, instead of registering a few more grains for each household?"

"..."

Wang Shoushi's face turned pale immediately, "The county honors the crime, the grass people are frightened of hunger! Among the 30 widows and solitary people in Caomin Township, half of them died of starvation!

Xianzun, have you ever been hungry?
I don't know how afraid these people who have been hungry are afraid of starvation!
In the world of ice and snow, the house is as cold as standing in an ice cellar. Not to mention, there is not a grain of food in the house to satisfy the hunger.

Even the bark and grass roots ten miles away from the village were stripped by the villagers and eaten into their stomachs.

However, it is still not enough for the villagers to eat!
In just one winter, more than 20 people starved to death directly, and as for those children who starved to death and froze to death, there were more..."

Hearing this, the old people around seemed to think of something, and their old eyes were red!

It's a pity that Guo An has never seen this kind of situation, let alone experienced it, and he doesn't like it!
With a sneer, "Old Wangtou, this is not the reason for you to cheat me by making false accounts!"

"Do you know that the more grain you borrow, the more you will pay back next year? Besides, you have borrowed all the grain, where can the people in other villages go to borrow grain?"

"Grass people know wrong!"

"If you make a mistake, you will be punished. You go back and sort out this account book for me, and I will find you tomorrow!"

"Thank you for the county!"

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(End of this chapter)