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Chapter 46 Who Can Be Right?

Li Shenyingnuo thought for a while and said, "My grandpa, Ducao asked his subordinates to go to the inn tonight. I guess they were going to relocate households. If my grandpa said this, shouldn't he go?"

"I won't go anymore. You just send someone to tell me that I have something else to do after I go back to the yamen."

Being a magistrate like Li Di, who is an important court official, either surrenders to his political enemies, finds his handles, and takes advantage of the situation, or does things well and leaves a good impression on him. They have many connections inside and outside, and they may help them at any time, let alone he may return to the court to serve as prime minister.

Li Shen is an official who does things with peace of mind. He does not belong to any faction, so he naturally chose the latter and actively cooperated with Li Di to manage Mengzhou. Li Di said that he had to wait for the matter of re-dividing households and waiting, and Li Shen naturally did it.

In the inn, Xu Ping frowned after hearing the words sent by Li Shen. The re-division of households involves a lot of things. The tax and service levies of the Shangguan court are related to the lives of millions of people on the West Jing Road. It is definitely not just a word of his own that he can do it smoothly. Li Shen suddenly said that something was wrong, and Xu Ping thought that it was Li Di who made the joke.

Mengzhou is a small state, and the commercial tax is at a lower level on this road, and the surrounding states are only slightly better than Ruzhou. The biggest income of local governments in this state comes from the commercial tax collected from the Yellow River water transportation, re-establishment of households, etc. If you are not careful, you will lose this part of the tax. Li Di must be more cautious than other local magistrates.

The next morning, Xu Ping finished breakfast, and before long, Li Shen brought the officials in the state to greet him.

After reconciling the ceremony, Li Shen said: "Last night, the governor gave an urgent order, and he had no time to come to the inn. He was tired and waited for a long time."

Xu Ping waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's the same if you have something to say. It's not too late, let's go into the city."

Seeing Xu Ping's face calm, Li Guan was a little nervous if he didn't mind whether he had made a promise last night.

With his subordinates, Xu Ping followed Li Shen into Mengzhou City. When he arrived at the government office, he ordered the public officials to prepare to investigate various official documents in Mengzhou, and went to see Li Di with Li Shen.

When he arrived at the Chief Officer's Office, Xu Ping finished his greeting and said to Li Di: "The officials are now in charge of Caoxian along the west of Beijing. It is their duty to inspect the local area. I have to worry about Xianggong Li. I will work hard these days."

Li Di said: "This is a matter of the court. You and I have no need to be polite. I have already ordered the recorders to join the army and sign the verdict. Just send someone to do things. If you don't know anything, just ask Li Shen for the verdict."

Xu Ping responded, and then ordered his public officials to follow him to investigate the government affairs, prison, and other government affairs, prisons, and other government affairs, prisons and other governments in Mengzhou for the past year. They have been working in the Transport Department for many years and are clear about the rules.

After Xu Ping finished his work, Li Di said: "There are common practices in doing things, and there is no need for the official to follow him and look at it. Xu Longtu, please wait for the tea in the back yamen, so let's sit back and wait."

Xu Ping thanked him and asked Tan Hu to follow the public officials to report to him in time if he had any questions. Then he followed Li Di to the garden of the Houya.

During the Tiansheng period, there was an edict that the transshipment officer must complete the investigation of a state within three days. Even if there were special matters, he would stay in a place for up to five days, and the time was very tight. The so-called supervision was actually mainly aimed at various official documents and books. If you have any questions, you still rely on the local government to write a statement and make a statement. If you really can't explain it clearly, you can call on officials from other prefectures and counties to come for inspection. There were no special officials in your yamen to investigate, and the manpower was dependent on the local government.

In terms of responsibilities, the state's magistrate corresponds to the transshipment commander, so the magistrate will be often transferred to other states, either to review cases or to investigate money and grain. In short, it is the local helper of the transshipment commander.

Xu Ping served as a ruling magistrate in Yongzhou for five years. He was so familiar with these things that he could not be more familiar with, and he did not seem unfamiliar because he had just taken office.

The guest and host sat down next to a large osmanthus tree. The public official came to tea, and Li Di invited tea.

After drinking tea, Li Di asked a few gossips about whether Xu Ping's journey was safe, and then he turned to the topic: "Longtu, the transfer commissioner of the Transportation Commission came to the next article a few days ago and asked each state to report to re-determined households, so how dare you ask if it is not appropriate to wait for the households you have now?"

Xu Ping said: "My husband misunderstood. It is not that the household registration is inappropriate, but that the standards for household registration are to be discussed again."

"I wonder what are the articles and dragon pictures that are inappropriate? Let's say it clearly, and it's easier to do things in the prefectures and counties below."

Xu Ping thought for a while, saw Li Di's face calmly, and then thought for a while, and said: "The standards for setting households in various places are different, and there are always some inappropriate places. For example, a few days ago, we were in Xijing City. Jia Tixing had not arrived for a long time, so he was delayed by the lawsuit on the road. What is the most lawsuit? Because this year, some rural households made a leap year record, and some people made a ox to give their families to lower-class households in order to reduce their households. After the matter, some people took the ox as a real contract and didn't want to return it."

Li Di said in a deep voice: "What's so strange about this? The common people are clever and always want to take advantage of loopholes in the court. As long as you find out the matter clearly, you will be punished by hiding property and being a stranger. What's the difficulty?"

"My husband, what we are talking about is not how to punish those who hide their property. No matter how they divide the households, there will be no fewer people. It is indeed a serious punishment. What we said is that if a cattle is included in the households, the people will try not to raise cattle. Without plowing oxen, it will be inconvenient to plow the fields and farming. In this way, it will be contrary to the court's intention of advising farmers? I am now taking the farmer's envoy to teach the farming mission, and I have to consider these."

"How to consider? The magistrates are all in charge of urging farming and sericulture, and Longtu is exactly what we think of."

"For example, can cattle not be included in households? In this way, the people will raise more cattle."

Li Di smiled and shook his head: "Longtu only thinks that cattle will not be included in households, so there will be many people raising cattle, but have you ever thought that the price of cattle will rise, and poor families will not be able to afford cattle. In this way, wealthy families are competing to raise it, but lower-class farmers cannot afford it, so they can only rent cattle from wealthy families. Doing so will encourage farmers to learn about the farming and sericulture?"

Xu Ping was stunned for a moment and said to him: "What my husband said makes sense, so he asked each prefecture and county to write a letter to tell his own ideas. The Transport Authority will naturally combine various opinions and propose a reasonable way."

The basis for re-defining the allocation of households and other assets involves all interests, which are very complex and cannot be simple and crude. You think this will be good, but in fact it may be inadequate and things will go against your wishes. Xu Ping never thought that divesting cattle from households and other assets will cause a rise in cattle prices, thereby aggravating the inequality between the rich and the poor. But then again, what Li Di said may not be correct. As the price of cattle increases, there will be more people raising cattle, and eventually forming a dynamic balance. It is hard to say where this point is.
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