The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Supplement for May 23rd.

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In the vertical and horizontal chat, a map of Yingchuan County in the Eastern Han Dynasty was uploaded. /7798/profile

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Xun Zhen pointed and talked along the way.

After Zheng Renye crossed the Yingshui River and the Chu division alliance, and traveled ten miles ahead, it was Yangguanju.

Gatherers, the village also. "Ju" is similar to "li", but there are differences. "The city falls into a gathering", which is a natural village formed spontaneously.

Here is another ancient battlefield. In the last years of Wang Mang, Emperor Guangwu once fought the Mang army here.

Xun Zhence rode up to a high place on horseback, looking far and near, and saw that the far and near fields were open, and the Yingshui flowed from Jubei. Going up along the Yingshui River, more than a hundred miles northwest is Luoyang; looking back to the southeast, Kunyang is fifty or sixty miles away.

He summoned Xuankang and Xiaoren to his side and asked, "Uncle Ye, Xiaoren, do you know the battle of Kunyang?"

Xuankang knew: "Of course I do. In the battle of Kunyang, Emperor Guangwu of Shizu beat the strong with the weak, and defeated the Mang army by a million."

"Then do you know that before the Battle of Kunyang, Emperor Shizu gathered here to meet the Mang Army?"

"..., I don't know."

"At that time, Wang Mang sent Wang Xun and Wang Yi with 420,000 soldiers, known as one million, to go out of Luoyang to Yingchuan, intending to go south to fight the Han army decisively. At that time, the main force of the Han army besieged Wancheng in Nanyang County, and Emperor Guangwu In Kunyang, he led thousands of soldiers to meet the enemy and gathered here to meet the enemy. He wanted to counterattack, but because the generals were afraid of the overwhelming army, they were afraid to fight, so they had to return to Kunyang again. Battle of the Sun."

Xun Zhen recalled the records in the historical books, while watching the topography around Yangguanju, and sighed: "Wu Qi said: When the enemy is in great numbers, you should 'avoid it easily, and invite it to evil'. This Yangguanju There is no danger to defend, there is only one river, and it is no wonder that the generals at that time would retreat in fear after seeing the reckless soldiers."

"Xunjun means: Emperor Shizu is wrong? Shouldn't he choose to meet the enemy here?"

"No. Emperor Shizu is not wrong." Xun Zhen looked down at the landform, assumed that he was Guangwu, and assumed that the Mang army was coming from across the river, using the art of warfare to verify the behavior of Emperor Guangwu to meet the enemy at that time, and said, "In every battle, attack and defend. Attacking the enemy is precisely for defense. This place is only a few dozen miles away from Kunyang. If you do not meet the enemy here, Kunyang will be surrounded by a heavy siege. Emperor Shizu meets the enemy here to better defend Kunyang."

"Then, since Emperor Shizu was right, why did the generals panic and dare not fight and return to Kunyang?"

"Emperor Shizu is not wrong, but the reckless army is too strong, and the generals have no courage. The generals are the courage of an army, and the generals have no courage, how can they fight?"

Xuan Kang nodded as if he didn't understand.

Xun Zhen recalled the grand and magnificent situation of Wang Mang's army of one million people and 420,000 soldiers descending the river, and the dangerous situation in which there were only ten thousand defenders in Kunyang. Guarding Kunyang, he took thirteen cavalry to break out of the siege, went to Dingling and Yanxian to move in to rescue the soldiers, and in the process of finally defeating the Mang army, he struck the saddle without realizing it, and said with great emotion: "When Emperor Shizu first started his army, there was no Horses, riding bulls, and being cautious in the face of small enemies, the generals thought they were timid. Kunyang was shocked by the world, and the generals were surprised by his bravery, saying: 'General Liu has seen small enemies in his life, but now he sees big enemies brave. also'.

"Hey! At that time, the main force of Han was besieging Wancheng. If Kunyang was lost, then the reckless army would go south without hindrance. With hundreds of thousands of troops, they would pull the might of Kunyang to attack Wancheng, and the main force of Han army would attack Wancheng. There is Wancheng that has not been conquered, and there are powerful enemies attacking from outside, trapped inside and outside, how to resist? Han will be destroyed. This is the autumn of sincerity and danger, how can we not be 'brave'? Fighting is brave. Formation is skillful'. Because of wisdom, there is courage. Knowing that you will die if you don't fight, you will fight hard without thinking about death. A small enemy is cowardly, so why be brave in the face of a big enemy!"

He instructed Xuankang: "Take out the pen and ink and draw the topography around this place."

Xuan Kang agreed, took out the pen and paper, and drew the near and far situation on the paper. When the painting is finished, the writing is on the side: Emperor Shizu Guangwu counterattacks the Mang army.

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Xun Zhen stayed on the high ground for a long time, keeping the surrounding landforms in mind, and then took the two of them back to the official road and continued onward.

All the way to the northwest of the edge of the river, he looked at the towns from a distance, and the mountains and rivers in the near. If he encountered hills and dense forests, he would stop to observe it; In this way, the speed is very slow, and I only walked twenty or thirty miles in one day.

Because of the curfew at night, I couldn't go any more, so I stayed in a pavilion in the village, and showed the "biography" opened in the county government last night to the patriarch, only to say that it was a study tour in Luoyang. Yingchuan is very well-dressed and has a strong style of study tours. There are often children from this county who go to other counties, or children from other counties who come to study in this county. The pavilion sees that Xunzhen and Xuan Kang are both polite and well-mannered.

That night, I stayed in Tingshe for one night. The next day, I got up early, paid for my meal, and then headed on the road again.

After walking for more than ten miles, I entered the border of Yangcheng County, and I saw a touch of Qingdai at the junction of heaven and earth in the distance. Xun Zhen rode on the horse, put up a pergola in his hand, looked at it from the top of his eyes, and said, "The green place in front of you should be Songshan Mountain, right?"

"Songshan?"

"Oh! It's Songgaoshan."

Xuankang and Xiaoren both straightened up and looked from afar. Xuankang said: "'Songgao Weiyue is as high as the sky'. I have long heard that Songgao Mountain is the highest mountain in our Yuzhou, and today I can finally see with my own eyes how high it is."

Xun Zhen smiled and said, "'Wangshan ran to death'. Although Songshan is already in sight, it is still dozens of miles away from us. At our current speed, if we want to see how high it is, it is estimated that the earliest Tomorrow."

"Then let's go fast! Anyway, there are fields and village pavilions on both sides of this road, so there is nothing to see."

"We didn't come out this time to see Song Gaoshan, but to gather wind and ask rumors. Is there any reason why we can't come here?"

Xun Zhen also wanted to go to Songshan early to see what Songshan looked like in this era. He had been to Songshan Mountain in his previous life, but the Songshan Mountain in his previous life was definitely different from the current Songshan Mountain. After a lapse of one or two thousand years, the entire mountain situation will not change, but the roads in the mountains, the trees in the mountains, and the water flow must be different. Just having said that, looking at the landforms is the same as looking at the landforms. Another purpose of his trip to the county this time: "watching the rumours of mining", but it cannot be ignored.

He looked to both sides of the official road, pointed to the front, and said: "Now that we have entered Yangcheng County, we should also go to the countryside to take a look. There is a rib in the front. Come on, let's pretend to beg for water. Drink, go and see how the local people's livelihood is good or bad." He rode in the lead, Xiao Ren followed closely, and Xuan Kang also drove to follow. After walking not too far, I came down from the official road, turned to a country road, and walked inside and outside.

Like many liluo in Xixiang, this liluo has walls outside, and mulberries are planted outside the walls. Lijianmen came out of the school by the door, looked at them vigilantly, and asked, "What's the matter with you?"

Xun Zhen got off the horse and smiled kindly: "We came from Yangzhai and we are going to Luoyang. I was thirsty on the way and wanted to ask for a bowl of water."

"Isn't the water in Yingshui full of water? Can't drink it?"

"When you travel far away, you don't dare to drink raw water. If you get sick because of this, it will be bad."

The prison gate hesitated for a moment and said, "You stand here and don't move, I'll bring you some water."

"Okay, okay. Excuse me, Excuse me. Thank you."

Xiaoren and Xuankang followed Xun Zhen from the car and rode down. Xiao Ren looked at the prison door and went back to the school, and said, "This prison door is too timid, isn't it? With only three of us, can we still break into the prison to kill and set fire?"

Xun Zhen said: "At this time, when the farmers were working in the fields, there should be no one in the interior. We are riding horses and carrying knives. We have new faces, and the guards in the interior should be cautious." Excessive extortion, natural and man-made disasters, there are not a few people who take risks because they cannot survive, and gather mountains and rivers for bandits. The year before last, wasn't Xixiang a rogue? There was no fault in the guard's caution.

The three of them waited inside and outside, and a group of children in ragged clothes ran out of it playing. Run and sing nursery rhymes.

Xun Zhen listened to them and heard them sing: "Carriage class, enter Hejian. The female workers in Hejian count the money, use the money as the room and the gold as the hall, and the stone is pounded with yellow beams. There are drums hanging under the beams, I want to The prime minister is angry."

Xiao Ren smiled and said, "I didn't expect to hear this rumor here. I thought we were the only ones singing in Xixiang."

"This rumor has long been sung all over the world."

——This nursery rhyme is about Empress Dowager Yongle, the mother of today's son. Today, the son is originally the son of the Hou family, and after Liu Kai, the king of Hejian, is the nephew of the late emperor Huandi. Emperor Huan collapsed and had no son. The empress dowager and father Dou Wu Nai sent people to Hejian to welcome today's son to the throne. "Hejian Mistress" refers to his mother. "The female worker in Hejian counts the money, takes the money as the room and the gold as the hall, and on the stone is pounding the yellow beams." It means that her mother is greedy for money and likes to gather money. Eat it. "There is a drum hanging under the beam, and I want to attack the Chengqing who is angry." It is also about the fact that she taught the emperor to sell/offer money, and the loyal people in the world resented and wanted to hang the drum to ask for advice, but the chief drummer was flattered. Obedient to the Son of Heaven, stop being angry.

I don't know when and where this song originated, but it has only been sung all over the place in the past two years. Xun Zhen pulled away the horse and gave way to the children who came running, saying: "Nursery rhymes are the fastest spreading, wherever there are children, there must be nursery rhymes. The children are young and may not know the meaning of the lyrics, but how would adults know it? ? Jia Changsha's so-called 'people's resentment' is exactly what he means."

He didn't expect to come to the north of the county this time to ask for folk songs, and he didn't hear the songs about the county magistrates and the powerful people in the county. Instead, he first heard the nursery rhymes that were dissatisfied with the court, and sighed again and again.

Xuankang was taken aback by his words and said, "What Jia Changsha calls 'the people's resentment'? Xun Jun, don't dare to talk nonsense!" Jia Changsha was Jia Yi, and he was the grand master of Changsha. "The people's resentment" comes from his "Guo Qin Lun", the next sentence is "and the domestic rebellion". Xuan Kang had read "Guo Qin Lun" and was really frightened by Xun Zhen.

Xiaoren didn't know what they were talking about, but he still understood the word "resentment" and said, "It would be strange if the common people complained! Xunjun, take me as an example. My family also owns some real estate. Ten years ago , We have an epidemic in Xixiang, and unfortunately my A Weng also contracted it. In order to treat my A Weng, the family tried every possible way. Please ask the master of Tai Ping Dao, it doesn't work; medicinal soup, it doesn't work. A Weng In the end, he couldn't get better and left the world. To treat A Weng, he had spent most of his family's wealth, and after A Weng was buried again, the family had no more food or money.

"At this time, the county court came down to collect taxes again. If you can't pay it, you will be imprisoned. There is a saying in the court: 'The county officials are long, and half of the unjustly killed', and they will die in prison. Taking the land as a pledge, loan money for relief. The money is loaned, but the result is not enough. After going back and forth, the land will be gone.... Xun Jun, I am in my twenties, and I have never married, why? I can't take it out. Hiring for money! If it is because I have been taken in by Xun Jun, I am afraid that sooner or later I will be a son-in-law. Until then, I will really lose the face of my Ren family!"

Xiao Ren's face was "unbearable to look back on", and he was grateful to Xun Zhen again.

Before he went to Xun Zhen’s door, he couldn’t even get enough to eat. Now, with Xun Zhen, he not only has no worries about food and clothing, but also because of his ability and loyalty, he won Xun Zhen’s trust and was entrusted with “in charge of the outer treasury”. important task. ——Xun Zhen divided her own money into two parts, one was the inner treasury, which was managed by Tang Er; the other was the outer treasury, which was managed by him. Although this money is not his, but as long as he is loyal and generous with Xun Zhen's generosity, will he be missing? After working hard for a few years, let alone getting married, it is not difficult to become a rich man.

The children ran past them laughing, and a few daring ones tilted their heads to look at them, and Xun Zhen returned with a kind smile.

The inner prison gate took water out and filled it in a wooden bowl. Still vigilant, he handed it to Xun Zhen and said, "There is no warm soup, only these are left to cool. Hurry up when you're done drinking—Luoyang is quite far away."

Xun Zhen thanked him, took a drink, and gave it to Xuankang and Xiaoren.

He pretended to be hot, wiped his forehead, looked up at the sky, and said with a smile, "It's only at the end of March, and the sky is so hot. .

"Huh? How do you know?"

Xun Zhen clicked on the door and said with a smile, "Isn't it written 'Jieli' on the door of your place? Since your steps are the gate of the prison, it is expected that he is also a native of Li, so his surname must be Xie."

"You traveller, you are so sharp-eyed and smart."

Xun Zhen looked at the fields inside and outside, pretended to be casual, and said, "Your place is good."

Everyone likes to hear others praise their country. With a smile on the face of the prisoner, he asked, "How's it going?"

"Look, Yingshui is to the north. Everywhere near the water, there must be a gathering of spirits. I guess there must have been noble people among you."

The Lijianmen laughed loudly: "Oh, I didn't expect that you are not only sharp-eyed and smart, but also quite discerning. We have indeed had noble people here."

"Oh? I really guessed it right? I don't know who the noble is?"

"We have a famous person in Yangcheng, do you know who he is?"

"What are you talking about is 'good helper in the world'?" Du Zhoufu, the good helper in the world, and Du Mi, who called Li Du together with Li Ying, were from Yangcheng.

"Exactly."

Xun Zhen pretended to be surprised, "Could it be that Duke Du is from here?"

"You traveler, just praised you for your intelligence, why are you confused? We are all named Xie Li, and all of them are naturally surnamed Xie, so how could Duke Du be from us?  … The noble man in the book I mentioned is indeed related to Duke Du."

"how do I say this?"

"This guy in our rank has driven him a car." The wardens said proudly and showing off. Xiao Ren and Xuan Kang couldn't help laughing. Li Jianmen turned angry and said angrily: "What's so ridiculous! Have you ever driven Duke Du? When Duke Du was alive, how many people in the world wanted to drive him but couldn't get it! Look at how honored you are, and you will I don’t even think it’s driving for me! Not to mention Duke Du. Are you still laughing?”

Xiao Ren said angrily: "Bold!" Xuan Kang also changed his color and almost blurted out: "How dare you be rude in front of the postmaster?"

Xun Zhen hurriedly stopped the two of them, and said to the prison gate with deep sympathy: "What you said is very true! I have heard people say that Mr. Liulong of the Xun family in Yingyin Gaoyang once gave a 'model of the world'. The so-called Li Yuanli had driven a car. After returning home, he happily said to his family: 'Today I finally drove Li Jun'. Li Gong and Du Gong are equally famous at home and abroad. It is indeed a supreme pride and honor to be able to drive Du Gong. Honor."

The Lijianmen returned with anger and joy, and said happily, "It's you, a traveler who knows things!"

After Xiaoren and Xuankang finished drinking the water, they held the wooden bowl in their hands and did not hand it back. Xun Zhen took out the gossip skills that he had cultivated when he communicated with the villagers in the fields in Xixiang, and talked to the prison gate here, calmly changed the subject, and said, "I'm going this way. Come, although I have just left the Yangzhai world and entered your Yangcheng County, I have seen a lot of gatherings and farmland. To be honest, the wheat seedlings here are still growing the best. I see a place not far from the river. Rice is also planted. The past two years have been good, and the weather has been good. The harvest among you should be good, right?"

Li Jianmen lowered his face and said, "Okay, very good!"

Xun Zhen only pretended not to see him change his face, and still said with a smile on his face: "In the past few years, there have been epidemics one after another, and God finally opened his eyes, and we can have a good harvest in these two years. It's not easy, it's really not easy.  … Since the harvest is pretty good. Well, your life should be very beautiful." He bowed his hands in the direction of Luoyang, "It's all because the Son of Heaven is in the court, the ruler is the minister, the shepherd of the local Shangzhou County, and the governor of the counties. The officials are also considerate of the Holy Spirit and the people, so that the people will be well-being and the country will be clean!"

Li Jianmen couldn't hold back, interrupted him, and said with a sneer, "You traveler, I know you are a scholar, and you don't need to be literate. I don't understand what Ankang and Qingyan are."

"You seem to disagree with what I said?"

"You have heard the nursery rhymes sung by the children. The emperor is not holy, I am a scumbag, I don't know, but the shepherds and chiefs of the county are not sympathetic to the common people, but I know."

"How do you say this? The new prefect in the county is very famous,..."

"Maybe the county governor has a good reputation, the county officials? Hehe, hehe."

"What happened to the county officials?"

"Okay, very good!"

"Is there something about the disabled people?"

"More than the disabled people!"

"Appreciate further details."

The Lijianmen was first dissipated by Xun Zhendong's bullshit, and now he was aroused by his anger, without thinking much, he said angrily: "Every year you close your mouth, you do corvée service every year, and every year What's the use of a good year and a good harvest? The county court robbed all the extra grain! Thanks to the good years in the past two years, not many people died of starvation!"

Xun Zhen spent a long time waiting for his words, and glanced at Xuan Kang. Xuankang understood, nodded slightly, and began to listen and remember. Xun Zhen asked, "It counts if you pay more?" Xuankang cooperated, and immediately interjected, "The Han family system, from fifteen to fifty-six in the year of the people, pays 120 yuan per person per year. , where can you get more?"

"Where do you get more?"

The prison guard sneered again and again, pinched his fingers and counted for them: "Only since the first day of this year, it has been collected ten times in less than three months. Last year, a total of 36 times were collected, an average of three times a month. , each person paid a total of more than 600 yuan! ..., there are always so many times a month, the villagers come down to close their mouths, from morning to night, the dog can bark all night! At the age of five, he should only pay twenty-three, but he has to pay more than fifteen! The same is more than six hundred dollars per person per year."

——According to the regulations of the imperial court, the poll tax should only be collected once a year in August, but the counties and counties in the world basically did not act according to this. In a good year, it can be charged a dozen times, and in a bad year, it can be charged hundreds of times. When Xun Zhen was appointed as a rank husband in Xixiang, he intended to strictly follow the regulations of the imperial court and reduce the burden on the people, but there was still a county court. Although the county magistrate Zhu Chang is clean and honest, he has to collect money a dozen times a year, more or less each time, but it must be more than 120 yuan when added together.

The lijianmen said that he was angry and said angrily: "How many stone grains do you get for one mu of land? Fertilizer and good land are only three stone. One stone grain, the official price is 100 cents. One person calculates more than 600 yuan. If you want to pay enough, you need two acres of land. This is not including the rent, 30 tax and 1. There is also a draft money. Let me ask you, based on this calculation, how many acres of land must be planted for a family of five people. Taxes?"

Xuankang said: "Fourteen or five acres."

"After paying taxes, people have to eat. How many acres of land do they need to feed a family of five?"

A family of five gets 80 shi of grain a year, and three shi of grain per mu of land. Xuankang had studied arithmetic, and quickly calculated the number: "Twenty or thirty acres. If you add salt, vegetables, clothing and other expenses, it will take about fifty acres or so."

"In this way, a family of five must have more than 60 acres of land if they want to have a full meal after paying taxes. Everyone, go to our house and see how many families can have six or six acres of land. More than 10 acres of land? Not to mention more than 60 acres, there are not many with 20 acres of land! Most of the households in the village are either cast as apprentices or guests, or they work hard to give to the rich. maid."

Xun Zhen was silent.

He knew that the life of the common people was not easy, and most of the villagers in Xixiang were very poor, such as Fanyangting Jinglaoli, which was full of poor families. If he wanted to buy some mulberry seedlings, he had to help out. Now listening to the prisoner here talking about the life of the local people, it is actually far worse than that of Xixiang. At least, under Zhu Chang's rule, the people of Xixiang didn't have to pay so much money, and even though they were poor, they could barely get by.

Xiao Ren had just told Xun Zhen about the hard times that he had lived in his family, and at this time he heard the anger of the prisoner, and he was very sympathetic to the people here, saying: "You have to pay so much money every year. money?"

"Four or five years ago, I didn't pay so much. Although I paid more at that time, it was no more than two or three hundred dollars. Since I took office as the county lord, the amount of money has increased by mouth. already."

"Oh, this, this, this is also too much."

The prison gate snorted twice and said with a sneer: "Can you pay more? Each person should only pay 120 yuan, but now we each have to pay more than 600 yuan. One person pays 500 more. Money. Our village is not big, with a population of more than 100, and we pay an extra 50,000 yuan a year. Our township is not big, with more than 30 li, and a township pays an extra 100,000 to 200,000 yuan every year. Yangcheng is not big, and the three townships pay an extra 600,000 yuan a year. The county magistrate opens his mouth, and the officials below run errands, and they can make an extra 600,000 yuan a year.  …, hehe, Can you pay more?"

Having said this, he turned his face and glanced at Tanaka in the distance, where there was a tall and spacious manor, turned around, and said, "The poor and the little people are overwhelmed by the money, those rich and powerful families can't stand upright. But because of the connection with the above, or not to pay any money, or to conceal the household registration, pay less, or simply ask the village officials directly to transfer what they should pay to us!"

Powerful households and officials colluded to oppress the common people, everywhere in the world. There are also Xixiang, such as the third clan, and the Gao family. Gao Su dared to fight even the fashionable predecessor and former hometown Zuo Huang Xiang, and when he fell in love with Cheng Yan's wife, he was ready to take it by force. How arrogant? Besides, it's just underpayment and no payment is counted as money? That is, Xun Zhen, who has the background of the Xun family, is valued by the county magistrate and the prefect, and has a ruthless skill in his own family. Only by this can he kill the third clan, convince the Gao family, and suppress the other big names in the township. .

——When Xun Zhen was in Xixiang, what he did might be inconspicuous, but in the whole country, compared with other places, he was very outstanding. It is no wonder that the prefect and the county magistrate valued him and wondered what he did.

When it comes to tyrannical people and big surnames, this prisoner is also full of anger. He said indignantly: "It's okay to transfer money to our poor households, and what's even more annoying is Zisuan!"

"Zi Suan? What happened to Zi Suan?"

"Every year when calculating, the rich and powerful families 'own' as much as they own, but the poor families have to add more pairs of 'not borrowed'. As a result, the people of the whole town dare not even plant a single tree; the roof leaks. Rain, don't dare to add an extra piece of mud!"

- Zisuan, that is, property tax. The family is 10,000 yuan and pays a tax of 120 yuan. "Self-occupation" means to declare, register, and register with the yamen by oneself. According to the law, if "self-possession" is concealed or false, it will be punished severely.

Xuankang is the nephew of the elder Xuanbo in Xixiang. Seeing Xuanbo's face, the village never felt sorry for his family. He is just reading, ignoring foreign affairs. He just felt unheard of and couldn't believe what the prison guard said about the various situations. He was filled with righteous indignation and asked loudly, "Why don't you go and sue?"

The Lijianmen sneered at his question: "Sue you? Where are you going to sue? The people don't even have children because they can't make up their minds." Shut up.

"Is it all right?"

Lijianmen refused to speak, and Xiaoren took the wooden bowl in his hand, turned around and left. Xiao Ren called him a few times, but he turned a deaf ear, walked back to the school quickly, and closed the door. Xuankang was inexplicable, and said to Xun Zhen, "How can I say nothing? Why did you go to the school?"

Xun Zhen murmured: "'Not even a child...', 'Not even a child...'." Thinking of a thing Xun Qu once said, under the warm spring sun, he was horrified. , I felt like falling into an ice cave, "Could it be that the tragic incident that happened in Runan County that year also happened in my Yingchuan?"

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1. Train class, enter Hejian. The female workers in Hejian counted the money, using the money as the room and gold as the hall, and pounding the yellow beams on the stone. There is a drum hanging under the beam~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I want to hit the Chengqing angry.

This ballad must have been processed and polished by literati, but I don't know what the original text was before it was processed.

2. "Self-occupation" means to declare, register, and register family Zi to the official temple by oneself. As a rule, after the occupation, the local officials should verify it again.

"Book of Wei? Cao Hong Biography": "At the beginning, when the Taizu was the Sikong, he led the subordinates with himself, and made adjustments every year to make the county level and rich. At that time, Qiao ordered (Cao) Hong Fucai and the public family, etc., the Taizu said: 'My family is as good as Zilian (Hong character)'."

"Peaceful" means to pacify "households" according to the number of households. Such as "everyone", "middle family", "small family" or "upper family", "lower family" and the like. Cao Hong's family was very rich, and the magistrate of Qiao County rated his family as the same household as Cao Cao's family. Cao Cao was very unhappy because of this: "Where is Cao Hong's family rich in my family!" Cao Hong is "rich and stingy". He may have hidden some of his wealth when he "occupied himself" in order to avoid taxes. Of course, it may also be Qiao The county magistrate did not dare to place Cao Cao's household under Cao Hong.

3. Only from Zhengdan to now, in less than three months, I have received money ten times. The amount of money collected last year was nearly 500 yuan per person! Whenever the money is charged, the dog can bark all night without stopping from morning to night!

The bamboo slips unearthed from the Han Tomb No. 10 in Fenghuang Mountain, Jiangling, Hubei Province, contain records about the collection of fu in the Han Dynasty. According to the above records, a total of 14 fu in 5 months were collected for one li in "Shiyangli". Each time, each "calculation" totals 227 coins. Based on this calculation, the annual calculation should be around 500 coins per person. ——The Han Slips in Phoenix Mountain reflect the situation in the Wen and Jing periods. "In the period of Wenjing, this is still the case, as for other periods, it is even more conceivable."

"Book of the Later Han Dynasty? Biography of Liu Chong": "He was punctual and sent requests to the people until the night, or the dog barked even at night, and the people were uneasy."