So everyone spent a whole day summarizing and counting all the survey reports in this small and simple inn in Xinfeng County.

So, at noon the next day, Zhang Yue and Liu Jin saw a set of numbers.

According to statistics, the average household of civilians and self-cultivated farmers in Xinfeng County only occupied 31 mu of land, and the average yield of corn per mu was two stones.

In order to make a living, they had to rent an additional 53 acres of land per household, and the average tenancy rent was as high as 50% of it.

In this way, the per capita income of the people of Xinfeng is only 63 shi of their own land income plus 48 shi of their tenant rental income, which is only 112 shi.

Together one thousand two hundred coins.

This is the total pre-tax income of a family on the land.

However……

According to the survey statistics, on average, each self-cultivated farmer family has to bear various taxes of about 3,000 yuan per year...

In other words, the maximum amount of food left to farmers is only seventy stones as food.

Such a little food is to maintain the normal operation of the family.

I'm afraid even food rations may not be enough!

Calculate based on the ration standards of 2 stones per month for each adult man and 1 and a half stone per month for an adult woman.

This amount of food cannot even meet the basic food needs of a couple of one year old.

Not to mention the old and young.

Just looking at these statistics, including Zhang Yue, everyone was silent.

Because this is just an average data, since it is an average data, it means that there must be many families' actual lives, which are far more difficult and difficult than the facts that these data can express.

Just looking at these data, it is not difficult for Liu Jin and Zhang Yue to understand why Xinfeng County has not grown for more than ten consecutive years, but has seen negative growth in some years.

It is not that Xinfeng's population has not grown, but that it has grown, far less so than the speed of farmers' bankruptcy.

A large number of families went bankrupt and became slaves to others.

There are many others who escape in various ways, disappear and hide out of the country's sight.

"The suffering of people's lives is beyond my expectations..." Although Liu Jin was already prepared for this, he was still shocked and said heartbrokenly.

He remembered it very clearly that just yesterday, the data counted by Yushe and Xinfeng Township were much better than this.

In other words, the problems in the other three townships of Xinfeng County are probably much more serious than the problems in Duyushe and Xinfeng Township that you have seen.

"These powerful men!" Liu Jin clenched his fists and said fiercely.

At this point, he had already broken his trust in all the remarks he had made up by his teachers.

What the teachers talked about are the benefits of large clans, the kisses and the things that are in the wind, are torn to pieces by iron facts.

The country has not yet attached importance to the clan and has not yet been able to hide from each other.

The powerful people have already forced the common people to this point.

If you really want to have a kiss, why don’t the powerful people swallow the whole person and the flesh?

"Look at these powerful men and look at these scholars and officials!" Liu Jin clenched another piece of statistics in his hand and waved his fists.

On this cloth, the number of powerful landlords accounts for only one-fifth of all statistics.

However, they occupied more than 80% of the land and wealth in the county.

However……

The tax they pay every year is less than 20% of the taxes in the county.

In other words...

The landlords, literati and powerful class, which only accounts for 20% of the population, occupy more than 80% of the land and wealth in the county, while the taxes and labor obligations they pay are less than 20%.

All the rest was passed on to Xiaomin by them.

Not only Gong Yu and others' investigation reports have seen landlords, scholars and powerful men brag and teach Gong Yu and others more than once, but also how to dilute their taxes to ordinary people.

Liu Jin himself heard several literati and stool-bellied scholars bragging about their abilities in front of him.

Hearing Liu Jin, he wished he could draw his sword and chop them!

Now in the heart of the Han emperor Changsun, the one who is bad at the country is no longer a treacherous man, war dealers and merchants, Sang Hongyang.

But a powerful man!

The empire's borer!

"Your Highness, please calm down..." Zhang Yue stepped forward and advised: "For the current affairs, we should immediately sort out and compile the "Xinfeng Governance Plan" to submit it to the emperor..."

"In this first chapter, I think it should be called "Xinfeng Class Investigation Memorials", and use the details of the investigation by me and others to describe the suffering of the people and the urgent need for the invasion of the powerful and powerful to be taken for your Majesty to refer to..."

"And in the second chapter, I think that after the "Xinfeng Five-Year Policy Planning Memorial", Xuchen and others investigated and investigated, the steps planned based on the actual situation of Xinfeng should be accurate to the quarter, detailed the specific plans of each township, list the plan's purpose and the expected results after the achievement..."

"This third chapter is an appendix to record the land, burden and population size occupied by the people of Xinfeng households... road conditions, water conservancy conditions, and situations in Xinfeng river basins..."

This is actually a copy of the daily life of later institutions and institutions to this BC era.

Of course, it is not just Liu Jin who has never heard of it.

Sang Jun, Chen Wannian, Zhao Guo, Hu Jian and other elderly officials were even more moved.

The students such as Gong Yu were even more happy.

"Your talent is as capable as ghosts and gods!" Liu Jin joked with a smile.

Everyone was even more convinced.

Gong Yu and others were even impressed.

When everyone was about to talk about other things, suddenly there was a knock on the door outside the door. A Liu Jin's entourage shouted outside the door: "Your Highness, the family sent an envoy to find Shizhong Zhang, should you bring him in?"

"What did my father ask for Shizhong Zhang?" Liu Jin was stunned when he heard this, but nodded and said, "Please..."

Soon, an eunuch hurriedly ran in. When he saw Liu Jin and Zhang Yue, he immediately bowed: "I pay homage to His Highness Changsun, and I have met Shizhong Zhang..."

"Why is the middle-level official?" Liu Jin felt a little surprised when he saw it.

His father hasn't used any eunuchs for more than ten years.

Even in Bowangyuan, I use literati to hire.

So much so that in the palace, many eunuchs gritted their teeth.

However, the other party was holding a ritual and seal, so Liu Jin hurriedly said, "Why did your father order you to come?"

The eunuch paused his head and said, "The Yuyi disaster was a big disaster. The family was furious. He had ordered the entire Bowangyuan guards to open the grain silo in Bowangyuan, transfer food to rescue the disaster. He also asked the queen to mobilize the palace carts from the entire Changle Palace to assist in transporting grain. However, the drought was still critical. In order to save the suffering of the people, the family specially ordered slaves to ask Shizhong Zhang for help, and asked Shizhong to draw water to save the disaster of Shizhong!"

When Zhang Yue heard this, he was also a little surprised and asked, "Have you really gone to Yu Yi?"

"Of course!" The eunuch nodded slightly.

Zhao Guo, who was listening, was already in tears.

Since the prince has arrived at Yuyi and has begun to rescue disasters, the people of Yuyi have finally escaped.

Although life after the disaster may still be difficult and difficult, at least this year you can breathe a sigh of relief.

Then, he looked at Zhang Yue and sweared in his heart: "Zhang Shizhong, Zhao Guo will follow the leader of the Shizhong in this life!"

He would not forget that it was this young servant who moved the prince and went to Yuyi for investigation.

Since it is a disaster relief, Zhang Yue can't care about anything to hide his weaknesses.

I immediately found cloth and took a stroke on it and drew several mechanical drawings.

It is the waterwheel structure diagram that was once popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions that he traced back to.

This is a kind of machine that he has long traced and solidified.

Originally, it was planned to be used for Xinfeng, but now, the drought is critical, so I can't care about it.

The eunuch took the picture drawn by Zhang Yue and left immediately.

Obviously, he was more anxious than Zhang Yue.

But this is not surprising, because this is the first time in more than a decade that Prince Liu Ju began to appoint eunuchs to do things.

This is a very subtle signal, and for this eunuch himself, it is more likely to be a turning point that determines his destiny.

In matters related to fate and power, eunuchs are much more motivated than civil servants.

………………………………

After seeing off the eunuch, everyone began to gather together again to discuss how to complete the work Zhang Yue said.

Undoubtedly, this matter is very complicated and requires precise division of labor.

At this time, the inn where Zhang Yue and others were located also attracted the attention of some interested people in Xinfeng County.

"You mean... a eunuch just entered the inn in the south of the city?" In the county government in Xinfeng County, the county magistrate Zheng Ke, who had been lying leisurely in his maid's arms, immediately started to bounce like a clockwork.

Since he took office two years ago, he has never left the Xinfeng County county town, and rarely even left the county government gate.

What you want to eat, drink, sleep, and play.
To be continued...