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Chapter 42 Status Quo in the Township

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Wen Chou and Yan Liang walked among the crowds coming and going. Many villagers came forward and saw that it was the new Wen Chou, and then stepped forward to say hello.

Wen Chou responded one by one, thinking to himself: "I, Wen Chou, still has some prestige among the villagers, and everything I have done these days is worth it!"

Soon after, the three of them left the township, and the noise was left behind, and they got back on their horses and rushed to the temple in the village.

"Ziyong, don't care about these things. Zizhang's family has long been selfish, but it's not bad. As long as he doesn't let me down, he will go..." Wen Chou persuaded him when he saw Wen Ba still looked angry.

"Although I don't know what kind of grudges your Wen family has, I don't like that Wen Ji! A typical villain!" Yan Liang took over and said in contempt.

"Well, I understand, brother!" Wenba said angrily. After saying that, he muttered again: "It's not that he is looking for trouble everywhere, otherwise he wouldn't bother to pay attention to him!"

"Hehe..." Wen Chou chuckled, stopped talking, and rode away.

...

"Mr. Wen is here!" A Er ran over smartly and shouted happily.

"A Er, go to my backyard later and clean two rooms!" Wen Chou handed the reins to A Er who came running.

"Okay!" A Er replied.

Yan Liang and Wenba also handed out the reins to the welcomed village soldiers and followed Wen Chou to the backyard.

"Pong Ji, Zi Yong, you two will be officials in the village in the future. Although they are not a formal official, you should also pay attention to your words and deeds." Wen Chou said while walking in front.

"Groupe official? What position?" Wenba said angrily when he changed his anger when he was on the road.

"Aren't there a team of township soldiers in the village? You are planning to let you be a team leader. First, we will train the township soldiers, and second, we will ask you to make some pens and ink and do some documents. You must be reluctant!" Wen Chou stopped and said.

"It's better to be a team leader than to be without..." Yan Liang said unhappily. With his father's military marquis, Yan Liang naturally did not take this team leader with fifty people in his eyes.

"What's better than nothing, there are only so many people in the village. If the county lieutenant general approves the document, you can show your martial arts and talents!" Wen Zhaowen looked towards the north and looked long.

"Oh, brother, what document?" Yan Liang's interest suddenly became high.

"Haha, are you interested?" Wen Chou laughed at Yan Liang.

"Brother, tell me quickly." Wenba also came forward and said anxiously.

"It's nothing, it's just forming an army!" Wen Chou pretended to be calm and said calmly. But the light flashed in his eyes reflected his uneasy at this time.

"What? Form an army!" Yan Liang stared in surprise.

"No, gathering people into an army without any trouble is a sin of beheading!" Wenba said.

"That's a gathering of people to form an army without any trouble. Isn't this going to wait for the county's approval? Besides, now that the bandits are rising, where is there any place to have nothing to do?" Wen Chou slapped Wen Ba's head and said in a deep voice.

"Oh, in what's the name?" Yan Liang was better than the literary giant.

"Taolin Pass, we will fight against the enemy!" Wen Chou said with determination.

"Taolin Pass, the enemy's affairs!" Yan Liang moaned and pondered. The Wenba scratched his head.

Wen Chou also looked to the north and thought: "I don't know what the Prime Minister Feng Gong means..."

Wen Chou wrote two letters when he was back from searching for the three elders Jiang Cheng, and listed his above ideas one by one, and sent people to the county and county center. However, whether it was successful or not, he would still be asked to say otherwise.

"Wenjun, Wenjun?" When A Er returned from Ma Li and walked towards the backyard, he saw that Wen Chou and the other two were still standing at the threshold from the front yard to the backyard, and shouted.

"Ah, hehe, but I'm too focused on things! Gongji, Ziyong, let's go!" Wen Chou laughed suddenly.

"Hehe..." Yan Liang smiled awkwardly.

"Peng Ji, Zi Yong, you two will live in this yard in the future, adjacent to me." Wen Chou entered the backyard and pointed to the two houses on the right side of his main hall.

"Brother said it is wherever it is!" Wenba was straightforward, and Yan Liang also agreed.

It’s no problem for several village servants to clean and organize them!

...

Wen Chou first came to take office, and he gave rewards, petitioned the people, worshiped the three elders, etc., and had a lot of things. Now he came to Guan Temple again and was busy for several days. Finally, he read the document left by Du Yi. Although Wen Chou was born and raised by Shahe Township, the document recorded in the document was secrets of the village. He was not aware of the details of the ordinary people. This made him have a rough understanding of the specific situation in the village.

The township is called Shahe Township. It originally had a total of 70 or 80 miles. The original households had nearly 1,000 households and more than 5,000 people. Due to the continuous epidemics in recent years, many people died, and many people abandoned their families and became refugees, resulting in a sharp decline in household registration, which left only 800 households and 3,000 households. Later, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, due to the achievements of the Wen family, they survived. Many refugees came to settle down. Then the households were restored to over 1,000 and had more than 5,000 people. Most of them were poor families, with fewer households with a net worth of 100,000 yuan, and even fewer households with more than 100,000 yuan.

Recently, due to the Black Mountain bandit incident, a total of more than 2,000 refugees were collected, with an area of ​​more than 13,000, which is nearly three times the number of people in the original Shahe Township! The first of them was arranged to be held in each of Shahe Township, and the later more than 8,000 were arranged to be in the original Taolin Township. Because the people all rely on Shahe Township, the county did not intend to rebuild Taolin Township. Of course, this was also due to Du Yi's contribution. Therefore, there are nearly 4,000 households in Shahe Township, and the number of people is nearly 20,000! Compared with the people of a county on the border, it is not much to give in! It is just that the current situation of Shahe Township is not wealthy, which further lowers the situation!

Judging from the tax collection in recent years, most of the "limits" are not difficult to collect. According to Wang Chong, the village master, there are only two or three places that are the most difficult. One of them is the Lin family in Xiangting, which is one of the major surnames in the village. It is known as the "Baojie". Now it has been destroyed, and Wen Chou does not have to disturb him. Moreover, there are some powerful people in the Liu family and Du family. No matter how powerful they are, they are not very cooperative. The Wen family has a village official who has never been embarrassed by Wen Yu's command.

Wen Chou sat on the temple hall with his legs on his back, finished reading the last roll of bamboo slips in his hand and put them on the ground. After reading the desk for several days, he was dizzy. Now that he finally finished reading it, he breathed a sigh of relief, lifted up his sleeves, rubbed his temples, and looked out of the hall. It was afternoon.

The weather has been good these two days and the sun is just right. He stood up and decided to go out for some breath.

Liu Zhong, who was standing at the door, and Wen Ba and the others brought him shoes and served him to put them on. Wen Ba gloated and said, "Brother, I have been reading the document for so many days, so I can't rest. Is there a headache, right? Hehe." - Liu Zhong returned to the Guan Temple two days ago.

Wen Chou stood on the threshold, stretched his waist, and the sun shined on his body, feeling warm. He smiled and said, "I thought Ding You was tired of studying and studying, but I didn't expect that this time I was even more tired than Ding You's time! It seems that I'm not the material for burying my head. Now I'm an official,..." He patted the seal on his waist again, "and also brought up the ribbon and put it on a half-seal. I think it's better to be happy and comfortable when I'm not an official!"

Liu Zhong said: "This can only be said that Wenjun, you are too diligent in government affairs. You have been in the village for four or five days. Needless to say, you just said that you have never even left the Guan Temple gate in the past two days and have been reading bamboo slips all day long. It is a great luck for the villagers to get Xun to govern."

Wen Chou laughed and said, "Brother Liu, are you here to harm me too?... Oh, by the way, when I read the bamboo slips these two days, I found that some of the ropes on the slips were broken by insects because they were too long. The weather is good today. Please help me with your hands, lift them out, spread them out in the yard and dry them. Then I will call Zuo Shi to come over and re-mold them."

Liu Zhong, the literary barbarian promised.

The three of them first cleaned the yard, then moved out all the bamboo slips in the house, and were carefully arranged on the ground. One of them hurriedly came in from outside. Seeing Wen Chou, they said anxiously: "Wenjun, Wenjun!"

Wen Chou saw that he was a Zuoshi, but he didn't care. He lowered his head and squatted on the ground to sort out the bamboo slips. He said, "You are here just right. How did you keep this book? Even the rope is broken. Come and help me, and you can find someone to make them all." Speaking of this, the servant didn't reply, and felt something was wrong. He raised his head again. He saw Zuoshi sweating and panting, and frowned and asked, "What's wrong with you?" (My novel "Wen Chou in the late Han Dynasty" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there is also a 100% lottery gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right to "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up!)
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