Manbao spent a lot of effort to explain the difference between titles and official positions to Lao Zhoutou Qian. In order to make them understand better, she mentioned Prince Gong as an example.

"Prince Gong has no actual duties now. He was a prince before, and the fiefdom is quite large in Luozhou. All taxes and other matters in the fiefdom belong to him. Although he has no jurisdiction, because it is all his food.

If he has any ideas, he can talk to the county magistrate there." Man Bao said: "For example, exempting taxes, donating less, etc., you can still talk about it."

"Later, when he became the king of the county, part of the fiefdom was taken back. The people in the part that was taken back no longer paid taxes to Prince Gong, but to the imperial court."

Old Zhou was dumbfounded, "Are you already a prince?"

Man Bao: "...Dad, I am a fifth-grade village owner, with a settlement of 500 households, which is equivalent to six of our villages, or three Dali villages."

Qian was also dumbfounded, "That's very powerful. Even more powerful than your father. I'm talking about your biological father."

When Lao Zhou came to his senses, he immediately turned to ask Mrs. Liu, "My in-laws, Shanbao also has some town, right? How many households does he have?"

Mrs. Liu smiled and said: "Some, like Manbao, have 500 households."

Lao Zhoutou immediately asked: "Where is it?"

He also turned to ask Man Bao, "Where are our five hundred households? Do you know whose household is which?"

"It's in Yueyang," Man Bao said, "I'll go back and ask the magistrate of Yueyang. Bai Shan's fiefdom is in Longzhou, not here."

Man Bao reacted when he said this and exclaimed: "Why did your Majesty put my fief in Yueyang? It should be placed in Luojiang County."

Mrs. Liu smiled and nodded her forehead, "Silly boy, it's not so bad in Yueyang. It's easy to make a living under the emperor's feet, and they pay more taxes."

Yueyang belongs to Yongzhou and is very close to the capital. Wannian County is past Yueyang. It is less than a hundred miles away from the outer city of the capital. It can be reached by a quick horse in an hour, which is closer than their Zhuangzi.

Of course, Yueyang is not small, and it depends on where the five hundred households are divided. If it is divided into another corner, it may take a day's riding on horseback to get there.

However, Madam Liu thought this would not be the case. She smiled and said, "You are being favored. The Ministry of Rites and the magistrate of Yueyang County will not make things too difficult for you."

Not only was he not in trouble, but Yueyang received the order. Because the emperor did not designate a specific place, but only gave him the title of Yueyang, the county magistrate of Yueyang had a strange feeling. He was afraid that he would be promoted after Zhou Man.

So he studied the official document carefully, and after thinking about it for a long time, he finally determined that the Ministry of Rites had not designated a place, so he took out the map of Yueyang County and started thinking about it.

After half a day, I circled a small area near Wannian County and planned to allocate the 500 households to Zhou Man from here. If she gets promoted in the future, I can continue to allocate it to her in this direction.

The magistrate of Yueyang County happily thought, after all, Zhou Man is a foreign minister. In the future, she will be able to rise to the rank of county lord and provide food for thousands of households. It would be a good idea to give her this area as a food town.

At the same time, Magistrate Guo was sighing at his master.

Master: "...Sir, what's wrong with you?"

Magistrate Guo said: "I'm afraid we won't be able to grab the places we want to grab from Yueyang."

Master:...Why does his lord always want to grab territory from Yueyang?

However, he still asked quickly: "The Department of Revenue clearly rejected it?"

"No," County Magistrate Guo said depressedly, "Your Majesty has awarded Zhou Man the title of Lord of Yueyang Township."

The master was puzzled, "What does this have to do with me grabbing Yueyang's territory? Does Mr. Zhou want to make the decision for the Yueyang County Magistrate?"

The adults in his family are not afraid of this, right?

What are you afraid of? Come on!

County Magistrate Guo glanced at him and said, "If Your Majesty does not designate a specific place for the food, Yueyang will probably allocate the few areas bordering our Wannian County to Zhou Man."

The master reacted and his expression turned cold, "Oh."

It's impossible to grab it. It's all Zhouman's food. It's useless for them to grab it. They can't collect taxes or do anything else, so why do it have to be thankless?

It was a pity for County Magistrate Guo. Originally, the Ministry of Revenue had already relented and almost agreed to transfer the township adjacent to their Wannian County to their Wannian County. Who knew that a leader of Yueyang Township would suddenly appear from the sky?

If the magistrate of Yueyang County was not stupid, he would definitely use her to separate the two counties. Then he would be completely unable to annex Yueyang's territory.

what a pity.

The magistrate of Yueyang County was very happy and had the list submitted to the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household Affairs the next day.

Just when Manbao sent Baishan for reference and turned around to treat Mrs. Pi Guogong and returned to the palace, the officials from Yueyang had already sent the documents to the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Therefore, when Man Bao finished busy in the palace and Xiao Yuan announced that she and Dr. Lu would be given a six-day leave, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household Affairs had already checked the documents and approved them.

Man Bao was so happy that she left early. When leaving the palace, she took a detour to the Ministry of Rites to ask about the specific location of her fiefdom.

The document from the Ministry of Rites had not yet been confiscated. Wen Yan took it out and showed it to her, "This is the list of five hundred households and their number of people. Please take a look."

Man Bao opened it and looked at it. He first looked at the place where they lived. After writing down the place, he started to look at their names and asked casually: "Is this the place designated by His Majesty?"

The official from the Ministry of Rites smiled and said: "No, this is a place designated by the Yueyang County magistrate. Speaking of which, Wutun Township, where these villages are located, is quite famous."

He said: "The ancient city of Yueyang is located here. It was the ancient capital of Qin more than a thousand years ago, but it was much deserted. During the time of the late emperor, Yueyang was merged into Wannian County, but later it was assigned to Yongzhou.

…”

Anyway, it’s divided, so... very poor.

Of course, this poverty is compared with the counties surrounding the capital. It is still much better than Luojiang County. It belongs to Zhong County after all.

The four villages allocated to Zhou Man were not bad, but because they were allocated back and forth, the superior officials did not take care of them very seriously before, so they were a bit poor.

Because the Ministry of Rites was in charge of the Crown Prince, and based on the perception that Zhou Man was the Crown Prince, the officials of the Ministry of Rites naturally had a favorable impression of her. After all, they were one of their own.

Therefore, the official from the Ministry of Rites who was asked by Man Bao tried his best to popularize science with Zhou Man, "Because there is an ancient city in Wutun Township, commerce was very developed in the previous dynasty. Many merchants traveling to and from Chang'an would stay there. It is said to be a township, but in fact it is more

Wannian County was even more lively at that time."

The capital city went through wars. When fighting broke out in the capital city, many people moved to nearby villages to take shelter. Over time, Wuxiang County developed even better than Wannian County.

"So after the late emperor ascended the throne and saw that Wannian County was really deserted, he merged Yueyang into Wannian County. The magistrate of Wannian County at that time diverted all the people and merchants from Yueyang to Wannian County..." The Ministry of Rites

The official paused and then said: "But later, because the county was too big to manage, and Chang'an County and Wannian County should be dominated by Chang'an County, and Yongzhou was to be the companion capital, so the late emperor returned Yueyang to Yongzhou.

It became a county on its own.”

But the merchants, dignitaries, officials, etc. who had gathered in Yueyang before had all gone to Wannian County, and it was impossible for them to go back. As a result, the ancient city of Yueyang became more and more deserted day by day, and now it is no longer the same as an ordinary town.

Both, even more dilapidated than them.

Man Bao: "...I, I just have a meal. This is what the county magistrates should worry about, right?"
Chapter completed!