When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 481 Xin Bing meets an acquaintance (Part )

"Inspector of the West Road? Is it possible that there are several other roads in Xianghe County?"

"Hmm, generally speaking, it is divided into five routes: east, west, south, north, and middle, and then some more critical nodes will have additional inspection and post stations.

Inspectors are usually us elders who have nothing to do and earn a little money for fun.

Anyway, Qu promised us that when we design the traffic line next, we will be placed between nodes and become patrol envoys to inspect smuggling in nearby areas, collect escaped savages, arrest bandits, and so on.

I'm building a pavilion here.

After the pavilion is built, a small earthen castle will be built on the mountain behind to serve as a village.

The land around here, about two thousand acres, is my fiefdom. "

Uncle Atu pointed behind him, beside a waterway with rough drainage.

"Isn't this all water?" Xin Bing looked at the land that had silted up into a lake and said strangely.

"When the main river channel is repaired, the water will be drained back. From here on, there will be a small lake and a large area of ​​land suitable for farming." Uncle Atu explained, "Anyway, I have been occupied with the canonized land, so I will take over the nearby land." Leave the inn business to me.

You can collect three thousand bamboo coins every month without doing anything. After all expenses are taken into account, you can make a net profit of one thousand five hundred. If you get a big set, you can exchange for one thousand five hundred kilograms of millet.

Beautiful. "

Of course Xin Qu knew that large-scale mobilization of supplies and modification of waterways to the east would easily cause dissatisfaction among the patrol envoys who had already settled down.

These are elders of various surnames from the Xin family and the Changxin family. It is impossible for Xinqu to offend them completely. He also needs the mountain and river data measured by these elders for two years and measured one foot at a time!

Therefore, Xinqu promised them to set up postal stations between counties and townships.

The central post office directly dispatched people to supervise the management, while the post office was operated by inspection envoys.

Xinqu gave them all the ways to make money.

They are: inn, small market, postal service, and customs clearance.

After decentralization, Xinqu even introduced the house number system.

For example, Xianghe City has five inspection routes, which means it has five inns.

Each station is responsible for radiating village communities in one direction.

Then there was the Xin family, who distributed fire paint and postal seals.

If you want to send a letter across the city, a letter costs one bamboo coin.

If you want to send a letter across counties, if it is a neighboring county, three coins are required.

There are five coins across one county.

It's ten pieces across two counties.

The cap is 20 coins across three counties.

Sending letters is quite expensive, but there is no other way. Xinqu has too many things to do now, especially the military postal part of the complete postal system, which also needs to be assisted by local inspection envoys.

Therefore, Xin Qu waved his hand and each inspection envoy would receive an additional 300 to 500 acres of pasture as a fief. It was necessary to ensure that the local post station had a sufficient supply of horses to facilitate transfer.

At the beginning, everyone actually had the attitude of giving it a try. Anyway, they felt that it was not unacceptable for Xinqu to give them a share of the land and arrange slaves for them first.

But who would have thought that Xinqu would turn around and adjust the household registration system and find the road guide.

Comprehensive restrictions on large-scale movement of people.

You are not allowed to run around without getting directions and guarantees.

Because now is the time to focus on production and development, Xinqu even stipulated that if you run around, you will be regarded as a runaway slave. If you go to the next county, then the next county will have two choices after catching you.

First, make you a slave.

Second, if you are deported to the county government and exchanged for a new title, the lowest level will be counted as first-level meritorious service, and the highest level will be reached if you do not change your title.

Third, you can write a letter to your relatives and ask for a ransom in exchange.

As for freedom of movement, one needs to have a title of Shaoqing.

Note that the levels of scholar-bureaucrat, public-bureaucrat, official-bureaucrat, and minister-bureaucrat are not qualified to move freely.

Moreover, when you reach the position of Shaoqing, you need to be equipped with chariots and horses that match Shaoqing. If you run around without chariots and horses, you can also be notified to the county government to detain you.

In short, the rules are quite cumbersome. Except for those who are doing corvées and slaves, other village communities have already been put in place one after another and have begun to engage in spring plowing and grazing.

Xin Bing was extremely surprised when he heard all this: "Why...how could such a good person suddenly set up such strict rules? And not give anyone any buffer time?"

"Here. Many of our people here are running around. Only envoys from outside and those who have not settled down need to get customs defense and road guidance now.

On weekdays, as long as you don't run out of the county, if you eat a bowl of millet from me or buy some dried fish or dried meat from my store when you pass by, I basically won't care so much. "

Uncle Atu replied with a smile.

Obviously, Xinqu's central spirit will definitely be decentralized, but essentially the place is still governed by elders. These inspectors are too lazy to offend those who can be promoted in the future, and they are not actually short of income.

After all, Xinqu didn't take away their old assets last time, so when they came to the local area, the only gap was the lack of labor, otherwise they would have started working in the past two years.

So now Xinqu gave them the official position of patrol envoy and gave them the opportunity to collect tolls. Naturally, they happily accepted it and became a feudal lord in the countryside.

It has also become a temporary balance for the military class. After arriving at the place, there is no one to restrain the state.

After all, they are old nobles, and they can't really sit back and watch their juniors jump on top of them in just a few years.

It can only be said that after understanding the whole story, Xin Bing sighed with emotion: "This kid Qu is still awesome. If I had it, I would never have imagined so much."

"It's not that bad!" Uncle Atu also sighed with emotion, "Even in the recent period, the policy changes have been very fast, and Qu is also trying to find ways to improve the adjustments. We are all waiting for the canonization at the end of this year before making other follow-up arrangements.

In short, don't run around, or you'll be caught. You don't have a household registration, and other people with foreign surnames don't know you, the former head of the Youxin clan.

They are so obsessed with promotion that they almost go crazy. "

"When it comes to promotion, I heard someone say on the road that Qu doesn't plan to fight in the next three years?"

"Well, the notice has been posted. In the next three years, in addition to the accumulated merits of outstanding pacesetters in normal training, as long as there are no foreign enemies violating the ban and no troops can be sent, no troops will be sent. All promotion paths have been moved to reward farming.

Those who pay more taxes or donate more will have quotas and future rewards.

Generally speaking, in the next three years, the main focus will be on saving food. "

Uncle Atu answered his doubts.

Xin Bing understood and chatted for a while, then went to get a bowl, put some millet in it, and chatted while eating.

He didn't say goodbye until the afternoon.

Next, the road alone would take more than a day to walk. Chariots were not allowed on the nearby roads at all, so they could only ride fast horses alone, because they had to make room for wheelbarrows to transport earth.

The entire road is almost full.

Finally, the next day, they braved the intense summer rain and arrived in Tong County.

(End of this chapter)