In a county where a population of less than 30,000 is the county head, and a population of more than 30,000 is the county magistrate. . Under the most updated county order, there are also the county prime minister and the county lieutenant, the county prime minister presides over the six cao, the county lieutenant is in charge of the criminal names of the county, the enlistment of military service, and the military drills in the county. House. The six Cao Cao are divided into Gong Cao, Cang Cao, Hu Cao, Bing Cao, Fa Cao, Shi Cao, and then there are many Qiang Fu and You Cao.

The Han country generally follows the old Han system, and does not set up the three elders in the countryside alone. The reason is that although the three elders are in charge of enlightenment, they are basically the products of the clan, which is actually not conducive to the direct control of the government to the people.

Liu Yan is a country built from scratch. There are not enough officials who have to accept big clans, powerful and aristocratic families, but there is still a shortage of enough administrative staff.

The soldiers of Han Dynasty Youze will receive follow-up pensions for retiring due to disability. Conditions will also give priority to positions. The vast majority of positions below the county magistrate (county chief) are filled by retired military personnel.

Compared with the previous dynasty, there are obviously many more public officials in Han. That is because Liu Yan believed that power should go to the countryside from the beginning, not controlled by local tycoons.

It is definitely not easy for a country to spread its power over mountains and rivers. The first is that the administrative staff must be absolutely sufficient. What is terrible is that the administrative staff are not so easy to find. Liu Yan's use of retired personnel in the army is just a way to do it. As there are more public officials, the state's salary for public officials will become a new problem.

In fact, it’s not so smooth for retired military personnel to take up positions as public officials. In the past, locals in every place were recommended as officials or officials. Generally, they were well-respected locals, indicating that the white spots were big clans or powerful people in various places. . It must be said that people from families like Liu Bang can become pavilion chiefs, mainly because Liu Bang's old father and the county chief are old friends, and then Liu Bang has a gang. What's more, the use of local gangsters and gangsters as small officials (non-staff civil servants) did not become a special case in the 1st dynasty. It was in ancient times!

The Han country built on a ruin was the restoration of the rivers and mountains from the Hus. Under the premise that the old rules were mostly destroyed by the Hus, the obstacles to the implementation of the new levy were the great clans and tycoons in the region.

Because of the relevant national policies, the resisting clans and tycoons will face the suppression of the Han army. As long as they don’t want their families to be destroyed, they can only endure if they don’t want to and endure. How calm and calm it is, but in fact, there are definitely dark vortices under the water.

"Xinpingli?" Wang Meng knew that it would not be a trivial matter for the county office to reach the county office, but he still had to ask, "What happened?"

County Lieutenant Huang was an Israeli army officer who retired to the civilian population. He was not an army officer in the field army, but rather an army officer in the second-line army. If the military commander of the field corps, the arrangement after retirement is at least one of the various positions in the county. It may not be enough to be a captain of a county, but it is definitely enough to be a soldier of a county.

Xinpingli is one of the many li in Nanpi County, but it is far from the core of Nanpi County, which is considered remote. Normally, the place far away from the core of power, the weaker the official power, the easier it is for some illegal things to happen.

"There was a murder case." Huang was the county lieutenant who was of course responsible for the criminal name. He specifically told Wang Meng that the matter was both big and complicated: "A family of three was killed at home overnight. The cruelty of the criminals' crimes can be seen. They not only killed people but also chopped off their limbs. The head is openly placed in front of the gate. The clues You Jiao initially retrieved are related to the local clans, which are suspected to be land disputes and contract disputes."

You Jiao is quite a policeman of later generations, specializing in managing public order and catching thieves.

What I have to say is that the restoration of the Han country requires land measurement and redemption, but the government has its policies, and the big clans and tycoons below also have their own ways to deal with it.

Isn't the government going to redeem the land? Dazu and Haoqiang transferred the land under their name to some people in advance. Those people may have been domestic slaves of the family before, or they may have been temporarily found. In short, the land they held was reduced in the dark, secretly. Those lands are still in control.

Han is not ignorant of the big clans and powerful methods of various regions. It may be inadequate, and even more likely to be deliberate indulgence. After the local government resumed operations, it did not make any embarrassment about the previous land contract re-registration.

Wang Meng asked again: "What is Quanzhi's opinion?"

Huang replied: "The Patriarch of the Ge family came personally to find a job, and screamed in all kinds of ways. In order to wash away the grievances, he even came up with a hidden contract. The job thought that someone was deliberately framed, and then it is not that simple to suspect this case."

At this time, the contract does not need to be authenticated by the government to take effect. As long as the clause is written with the signatures of both parties, it will be recognized. As a result, disputes due to the contract often occur in the private sector, and the government has never dealt with contract disputes. They are all very headaches, just because insistence is the mainstream, and then there is no basis for judging the contract that is not recognized.

"Even the hidden contract was taken out?" Wang Meng is no stranger to similar contracts. It is nothing more than some clauses written by both parties. The text must be proof or agreement about the actual owner of the land. He asked: "Who has the Ge family offended?"

"The job is already under investigation, and no one has been found to have disputes with the Ge family recently." What Huang cares about is: "Who committed the crime, why he should blame the Ge family, and what is the purpose."

Wang Meng pondered for a while, and asked, "When will the incident be reported after the incident?"

Originally, the murdered family all died, and the case could not be filed without anyone reporting to the official. This was the official method before Han. After all, what we're talking about now is that the people don't go to the officials or investigate, it's all commonplace.

Under the territory ruled by Han, no one reported to officials. As long as the government knew about it, the case could be filed. However, those who reported the case would rank behind the case. This is because the contrast between the common people and public officials is too big, and there may be only one public official for thousands of people.

Regardless of the fact that Han has arranged a large number of retired military personnel to transfer jobs to public officials, if you think about a pavilion, you must have a pavilion chief. Usually ten pavilions are one li, three to five li are a township, and a county will at least There are about ten townships, so how many public officials should be?

Take Nanpi County as an example. There are more than 37,000 people in the county, but only about 30 people are responsible for local public security. And there are about 30 people because Nanpi County is the capital of Bohai County, and a non-capital county can only pay around 20 for you.

Huang didn't think much, and told the truth: "It was a neighbor of the murdered family, named Dahei. He claimed to have an appointment with the victim Muzi the next day, and went to the victim's house early, and immediately reported to the head of the pavilion when he found the corpse."

What I want to say is that the current situation of people living in clusters, the number of people in each pavilion, and the status quo of scattered living are more common. Although the two are neighbors, they may be far apart, but the residential buildings within the city will appear to be concentrated.

The reason why Wang Meng would ask is that the people’s scattered living situation is common. Considering that Qiangfu will only go down when he is investigating and paying taxes, and You pay cannot hang out at any time. What happens except the local pavilion chief can only be Those who came by coincidence or went there on purpose will be discovered the first time.

"According to investigations, Dahei and the victim Mu Zigu were contracted slaves of the Ge family, and Dahan was free after his recovery." Huang apparently did a lot of inspections beforehand, and said: "Although it is nothing more than blood relatives to testify whether they met, they often meet. Going into the mountains to hunt, Da Hei said it was difficult to find any doubts when he kept the contract."

Wang Meng asked: "Can the pavilion chief be in the county office?"

Huang immediately replied: "Yes."

Wang Meng said, "Send him in."

Chief Ting is a person who lacks his right arm. He was assigned to a local post after retiring due to injury. After he came in, he saluted respectfully and stood up straight as a soldier waiting to ask questions.

"When Da Hei went to look for you, did he bring hunting gear?" Wang Meng thought for a while, and added: "What Da Hei was like at the time, let me explain them in detail."

The pavilion did not immediately answer. He recalled carefully before saying: "Da Hei did not carry hunting equipment when he found the job. When he arrived at the job, he saw the hunting gear that was discarded on the ground. When he came, he looked frightened and again. Sad, keep saying that the Ge family must have harmed Muzi himself, his mother, and his wife."

"Did he pick up his hunting gear when he left?" Wang Meng paused and got the answer, and then asked: "Have you ever said that he would return the land contract to the Ge family?"

Ting Chang answered quickly this time: "There are indeed such self-talkings."

"Is it unintentionally or deliberately?" Wang Meng felt that this question was very important, and said to the patron: "Think carefully, and then answer the officer."

The patron wanted to blurt it out, but after being raised, he could only recall and confirm again and again, and finally said: “I’m sorry for the county, Da Hei has been talking to himself when he found a job, and he kept talking about it all the way, and he still kept going. Whispered."

Wang Meng looked at Huang and asked, "How many people secretly agreed on the contract that the Ge family master came up with?"

Huang was embarrassed at this moment. He only read a few copies at the time, and he could roughly remember the number of pieces of wood, but he couldn't tell the exact number.

"It seems there are a lot?" Wang Meng nodded constantly when he saw Huang Ru stepping down, and he probably had guesses about this case. He said: "Let me tell me what I think."

The private division of land by big clans and tycoons in various places is extremely common, and the people involved are also very wide. Apart from the explicit and secret control of non-blood relationship, family separation is also one of the methods. After all, Han is restricting how much land a family can only have, and it is not restricting how much land each family in a clan can have. They only need to shrink the land held by the family on the surface, and they don't believe that the Han government can manage so much in secret.

Family separation is actually an extremely welcome matter for the government of every country. The family regardless of the family is getting bigger and bigger, and it is something that every generation of government wants to manage and is difficult, whether it is privately distributed to people without blood or people with blood. It can be said that the Han government just watched and did not interfere, and even secretly encouraged it.

Too many families do that, and there are a lot of follow-up things. The reason is that it is easy to separate, and what the people who get the land think is another matter.

"..., so this official now has two guesses." Wang Meng wouldn't do anything like raising his hand and pointing the wrench. He sat down and said in an unhurried tone: "It may be the person who obtained the land committing the crime and framed the Ge family for the government. Dealing with it is the established fact that there is no threat in the name of reaching the land; another possibility is that the Ge family has encountered a crisis and committed a murder in order to deter everyone."

"Title..." Huang looked at Wang Meng with an expression of admiration, and said frankly: "Title is more inclined to the first possibility."

Pavilion chief? Without being questioned, he has always been silent.

"If the contract presented by the Ge Family Patriarch is not there, the county lieutenant should go and get it now." Wang Meng finished speaking to Huang and looked at the pavilion chief: "You go back to the pavilion and don't take a look at who is different from the past in the near future."

The two naturally left, leaving Wang Meng alone, looking in a daze?

It was not that Wang Meng had malicious prejudice against the common people, but that he never underestimated the common people’s desire for land. Although the Han Dynasty had a channel for granting fields to the army, the army was not recruited in an unlimited number. Only a few people could get land by enlisting in the army. If you have the opportunity to take the land you own, don't doubt what they will be concerned about.

Nanpi County... and even most of the prefectures and counties in the Han country nowadays, it took a short time to return to the territory of the Han country, and the time for the implementation of the New Deal was even shorter. Most local officials, including Wang Meng, knew about land for a long time. There are many problems that have erupted, and for Wang Meng, things in Xinping are still too late.

The national policy of the Han country is to fight against the powerful people everywhere~lightnovelpub.net~ and the families who have been killed and exterminated in rebellion are uncommon, but there is no obvious policy that benefits ordinary people, such as the national policy of equalizing the land for free. It can be said that the amount of land held by the people is very limited nowadays, and about 30% of them are still local clans, powerful, and family members. Regarding how to increase and equalize the amount of land held by the common people, the center has held relevant discussions more than once, and the occasional proposal of unpaid land equalization was soon overwhelmed by the wave of insisting on military merits.

How to let the people get their own land on the premise of paying is the most urgent thing for the local officials in each place. After all, the local officials have to make political achievements. Apart from enlightenment, isn't it a tax consideration? Even if there is no center for secretly dividing the land, the magistrate will definitely indulge it, and the price is the follow-up trouble that arises because of land disputes.

[Simply granting land with military merits, when will day be able to enable more people to own their own land? Wang Meng took the point of view of the local officials as his starting point. In fact, he did not have no opinion on the national policy of the Han country: [Military grants land, all those who can obtain land are from the military background, on the contrary, it is difficult for others to have access. If things continue like this, the military will expand indefinitely. Who will check and balance? 】

Thinking about Wang Meng, he laughed bitterly. He is now a county magistrate. What he should worry about is the affairs of a county. It is not a county magistrate who can intervene in matters related to the overall strategic level of the country.