Bai Lian said: "Mr. Gan said that this person is not lustful, not good at money, not good at power, not good at fame..."

Ouyang smiled bitterly. He admired such a person, but he didn't admire him when he touched his head. People are like this. It's very satisfying to watch anti-threats. Once he becomes a member of the world, he hates anti-corruption film and television works. Although Ouyang did not give Yang Ping a gift, there is a fact after all.

"Where is Zhan Ming?"

“It’s inside too.”

"Cough!" Ouyang shouted: "The imperial edict has arrived, Zhan Ming will accept the imperial edict." Yes, even the eunuch didn't send one, so he could be his father-in-law along the way.

"Sir?" Zhan Ming was stunned and whispered: "Sir, don't joke, there are people inside."

"Really!" Ouyang threw the imperial edict to Zhan Ming and walked towards the study.

...

"Mr. Ou, I have heard of Lord Ou for a long time. When I see you today, I am really a young hero." Zong Ze humbly saluted Ouyang first.

"Don't, Lord Zong kills the lower officials. You are a serious official in the court in the sixth or fifth rank." Ouyang said politely: "The land is dangerous and the people are evil, and Lord Lao Zong is so aggrieved."

"How can you feel wronged when doing things for the court? Besides, Yangping is not a poor mountain or water. When I came, I was in vain and gave a beggar a penny. Unexpectedly, the beggar said to me: Are you beating a beggar?"

"Haha! Lord Zong is really good at joking." Ouyang signaled: "Please sit down. Please believe me, go and exchange some good tea."

"Sir, this is the best."

"No, I can't smell at all."

"...This is called Biluochun, and the fragrance is indeed not as good as a big bowl of tea." Gan Xin expressed his contempt for Ouyang very tactfully. This adult likes to throw two pieces of tea leaves into a jar of herbal tea in summer, and it is not tasteful.

Ouyang knew about Biluochun, which is a type of green tea. Ouyang likes oolong tea, but in fact there is not much difference between the two, it is just a different fermentation process. Ouyang said ashamed: "When you laugh, you laugh!"

Zong Ze smiled and said, "As a parent, you can taste tea first, but it is the first thing to do to benefit the people. I think Lord Ou is rich in Yangping. An ordinary family does not have one or two gold jewelry, but instead looks like a foreigner."

"Mr. Zong laughed."

"I don't laugh. But..." Zong Ze took a household registration and said, "I accidentally discovered that around the New Year Festival, I have opened 400 new households, a total of 1,100 people. I also asked Yangping Bank to lend a loan to make a living. I wonder if Lord Ou submitted the official documents to the Ministry of Revenue?"

"This... is being made!"

Zong Ze nodded: "Well... Also, when I was in a low dress, I went to the textile farm. I heard that the tax paid to the county in this textile farm reached 3,000 guan a year, but I searched and saw only 300 guan at most. I wonder if the people below were talking out of thin air?"

"What's going on?" Ouyang asked.

Gan Xin immediately replied: "I did pay 3100 guan, but I earned the money from the people." Gan Xin took out a book of accounts and said: "One thousand guan was used for the road repairs in the eight townships. There were detailed names issued by the heads of each township. There were also one thousand guan, which was used to fund the school, mainly for the food, accommodation, clothing, treatment of children under the age of ten, and other purposes, the detailed account and the amount of remaining money, and the Imperial College had to issue an account book. More than 700 guan was used for civil insurance. Anyone who was over 60 years old and had no children or disabled people. If there was no bad reputation, a monthly subsidy of 200 cents would also include the burial cost of the elderly who were lonely and widowed after their death."

"Wait..." Zong Ze asked: "This person has posted two hundred words in real time?"

"If you want to go back to the adults, in addition to some stubborn and strong-willed people, 60% of those who meet the requirements will get the money. Adults can go to the public for investigation. Adults must have thought that this would make them less than possible, but 30% of the people were willing to hand over land and other things to the civil insurance after their death, which greatly reduced the burden on the county."

"It's not revealed!" Zong Ze nodded and smiled, took out the account book and said, "I don't know how to explain this money."

When Ouyang saw that it was a salary, it recorded the salary paid by the civil servant. Ouyang smiled and said, "I don't know that this money is from Ou's private post."

"Oh? How did Lord Ou get so much money?" This is novel.

"I don't know that Ou has a big casino in Liao Kingdom. He made 40,000 yuan in the first opening, but now he earned 10,000 yuan a month. Ou has reported to the emperor about this matter. In addition, Ou is a shareholder of the Yangping Business Association, Yangping Money Bank, Yangping Shipping has made a lot of profits. It is appropriate to take some small money to supplement subordinates. If the adults don't believe it, they can go to the Yangping Money Bank in Tokyo to check it out. Four hundred thousand yuan was recorded in one time, and a total of 100,000 yuan was raised to the Yangping Point in two times. The source is all the money sent by the Liao Kingdom."

"Sir, I really make money." Zong Ze had a headache. He thought he had grasped the pain of others, but he didn't expect that he could explain it clearly and had a reasonable point of view, and there was no way to refute it. But he didn't believe that there was nothing wrong with him. It seemed that this matter was not something he could find out by taking two people, and it was an extremely huge project. To find out clearly, you must first know how much private money Ouyang has, and you have to go to the Liao Kingdom to get the account book. Then check the taxes paid by each household, and finally count it. Even if there is a big show in this kind of thing, it is difficult to have such a thing. Now he is King Yangping. As long as he explains a little, all the units paying taxes will be consistent and he has no choice. Moreover, this is not only the county town, but also the tax in and out of eight towns and sixty-one villages. Such a huge project is even awkward.

Ouyang said: "Sir, I am actually worried about whether the lower officials will embezzle. Let's do this! The lower officials suggest that the upper officials check two things. First, whether the daily expenses of the lower officials are extravagant. Second, what is the scene of the lower officials' hometown?"

Zong Ze nodded. These two points made sense, but he believed that if Ouyang dared to say this, he would know that he would not find anything. Besides, Ouyang's reputation in Yangping is indeed good, and even those who have been punished by him think he is fair in his work. Even Zhang Demin, who was beaten and lost money, would have praised Ouyang very much. If Ouyang had not asked the Yangping Business Association to come forward and persuade the return workers to start work, those orders would have long been bankrupt to no avail. Besides, who wants Ouyang to be unlucky in Yangping? Needless to say, good people, even the unscrupulous businessman would appreciate Ouyang's style of doing things. Not to mention anything else, when Ouyang specially set up a room to put a plaque, he would know Ouyang's status on the ground of Yangping.

Ouyang had received a message from the Ministry of Revenue that Cai Jing was directed to check the accounts, so how could he not do his homework in advance? Zong Ze was in vain for more than a month and investigated it for one day, but there was no violation. The Northern Song Dynasty was just a little trouble. Even though the emperor knew what Ouyang did, she knew that it was different from the ministers' findings. In the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the rule of not punishing crimes by words, the political atmosphere was relatively active, and the emperor could not ignore the words of the ministers. On the contrary, the emperor had to have a reasonable reason to perform administrative affairs. This is essentially different from the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Ouyang also knew that a Southern Song man named Zhu Xi laid the foundation for the feudal etiquette of the so-called father-to-son and other feudal etiquette, and misinterpreted the way of Confucius, which led to a major reversal of Chinese moral thought. Such people can be said to be the thorn in Ouyang's advocacy of equality, but now they are really unsure whether they are born or not, so they did not send anyone to look for it. Ouyang was not in a hurry. As long as the name dared to show his head, he would immediately make someone do it, no matter whether he was eight or eighty years old, he would guarantee that his whole family would die.

Zong Ze continued to conduct open and secret investigations, not only in the county town, but also in the countryside, and even to a natural village with only a dozen families. What surprised him was that even in a very remote natural village, there were special notices from the yamen, which contained various regulations and benefits of the yamen. Inquiry, it was found that this was a special postal express set up by Ouyang. There were two people in each township, and the task was to post notices and newspapers, once every ten days. The maintenance of the notices was the responsibility of the local figures.

He also found that Ouyang's title was louder than he thought in Yangping. The investigation and understanding that this situation has a significant relationship with its improvement of people's livelihood. Ouyang took into account all needs in the allocation of social resources. He emphasized that the topic was two: workers' remuneration, and those who are able to work and do not participate in the work can starve to the streets. Those who are not able to work have minimum guarantees. In Yangping, workers are also divided into four levels, the lowest level is lazy workers, only for those who are busy with food tomorrow, the second level is cool laborers, and then literate workers, and finally private enterprise managers. Due to the popularization of literacy, there is a difference between cool labor and literacy and literacy, even if they are both farming, there is a priority. Literacy can rent oxen and tools. In the slack farm, you can go to the school to receive experience guidance from old farmers with large grain-producing families.

In the workshop, the average wages of literate and illiterate are 3 to 1. Zong Ze also learned that a boy over ten years old did not know a hundred words, and his father would give priority to labor. Due to the increase in migrant workers, the per capita land area of ​​farming increased, and the source of money from multiple channels was richer than before. In addition, there are policy support for government agencies to encourage land reclamation and land production, increase low grain prices, and curb high grain prices... Zong Ze will focus on investigating the destruction of the country and the country is based on agriculture. Not only has it not destroyed, but agriculture is also in great progress.

When Zong Ze came this time, the Ministry of Revenue had drawn a key point for him. Except for one thing he found, everything else was false. And this one was... There were fewer scholars. There were many literate people, which did not mean that there were many scholars. First, the pace of business and industry was accelerated, second, Yangping did not have any measures to encourage students, third, the Imperial College was responsible for literacy, fourth, printing and typesetting evolved towards high profits in business, and fifth, the sales of dry and difficult-to-understand text in Yangping were much smaller than that of a popular novel.
Chapter completed!