On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 68 Taiyuan Wang Family

Author: He Tiantian from Lotus Picking

Chapter 68 Taiyuan Wang Family

"So, Zicheng plans to start with the Wang family first?"

In the main hall of the Bingzhou Governor's Office, Yang Guang laughed after hearing Cui Che's idea of ​​checking the fields and hiding houses.

Cui Che had talked a lot before and felt thirsty. He poured himself a cup of tea and drank it all before replying:

"The Bingzhou nobles look up to the Wang family. If they can get their land to return to the people, the other families should follow suit."

Hearing this, Yang Guang shook his head and said helplessly:

"Zicheng has definitely given me a difficult problem."

Cui Che disagreed and said:

"Then it depends on whether His Highness, Prince Jin, is willing to win over the Taiyuan Wang family, or whether he cares more about His Majesty's opinion."

The reason is very simple. Cutting off the flesh of the Taiyuan Wang family will definitely harm their interests. However, if the Taiyuan Wang family is let go and the fields are inspected, and the noise is loud and the rain is light, Yang Jian will inevitably be dissatisfied, saying

Maybe there will still be a comment of incompetence left in his heart.

"Fortunately, my father appointed me as the general manager of Bingzhou. If I went to Hebei, I wouldn't know where to start."

Among the so-called five surnames and seven clans, the Li family in Longxi is in Guanxi, the Wang family in Taiyuan is in Bingzhou, the Zheng family in Xingyang is in Henan, and the remaining Cui family in Boling, Cui family in Qinghe, Lu family in Fanyang, and Li family in Zhaojun are all crowded in Hebei.

Yang Guang was lucky and Cui Che also felt the same way. He jokingly said:

"If His Royal Highness the King of Jin goes out of Hebei Province and it is a critical time to inspect the land, Che will not dare to apply for the call and go with him."

After that, the two of them looked at each other and smiled, and felt sympathy for the official responsible for checking the fields and hidden houses in Hebei.

After the joke, back to the topic, Yang Guang asked:

"If the Wang family is put first, what should we do?"

"You should be polite before fighting."

"Who will give this gift?"

"Besides Your Highness, Che can't think of a second choice."

Yang Guang knew in his heart that Cui Che was telling the truth. Even if Cui Che, Yang Xuangan and others came together, they would not be able to compete with his dignity alone.

After accepting the request, he immediately ordered people to send a message to the Wang family and invite the heads of the houses in Bingzhou and the clan elders to attend a banquet four days later when they were off to have a rest.

In the meantime, Cui Che naturally proposed to send his confidants to disguise themselves and secretly find out the actual situation of the land distribution in Taiyuan County, and conduct open and covert inspections to ensure that they were well informed and would not be deceived.

Cui Che said goodbye to Yang Guang and went to his own office to meet with various Cao officials and assistants.

There are six positions in the Bingzhou Governor's office, namely, Jishi, Hucao, Cangcao, Facao, Bingcao, and Shicao.

Cui Che, the chief officer of the Six Cao Cao, was familiar with them all. They were all brought to Jinyang by Yang Guang. Among them, Pei Xiu was the one who joined the army in the recording office, but the rest of the assistant officials were strangers.

Different from the frequent transfer of officials, most of these assistants are rooted here. Before Yuwen Shenju became the general manager of Bingzhou, they served Yuwen Shenju. After Li Mu took over as the general manager of Bingzhou, they worked for Li Mu again, and they have to continue to do so now.

Work for Yang Guang.

In the order of the interview, Cui Che deliberately arranged Hucao at the end. When Hucao joined the army and led a group of subordinates to visit him, Cui Che gave them a task on the spot.

Hu Cao joined the army and assigned assistants to go to the twenty-three prefectures under the jurisdiction of the Bing Prefecture General Administration Office, except Bing Prefecture, to supervise the inventory of land acres and household registrations in each state.

Each state has its own administrative team, and there is no need for Cui Che to arrange them one by one.

The reason why he specifically asked about Bingzhou was because Yang Guang was the governor of Bingzhou.

At that time, an inventory operation will be carried out in Bingzhou, and it will be necessary to mobilize Hucao officials from the governor's office.

Although most of the functions and powers of the Bingzhou Governor's Office have been usurped by the General Manager's Office, don't underestimate its scale. For example, Bingzhou is Shangshangzhou, and the Governor's Office has governors, chief historians, Sima, recorders, military officers, and various Cao Cao.

There are 323 officials including junjun, xingjunjun and other officials, plus assistants.

The scale of the general manager's office will also be larger, and Cui Che will not be short of manpower to dispatch.

Brother Che and the officials in charge of the house, Cao, have repeatedly stressed the importance of the investigation, and have spoken to them beforehand. If anyone dares to take advantage of this issue, they will be punished. Afterwards, they will review it and they will be severely punished.

Everyone agreed one by one, and Hu Cao joined the army and did not dare to neglect it. As one of Yang Guang's staff, he certainly knew that this matter could not be taken lightly. The emperor in Chang'an City was watching.

Back in the wing, after Cui Che, Hucao joined the army and once again emphasized the importance of urging all states to conduct investigations, threatening that anyone who dared to fool or accept bribes and cover it up on behalf of others would be blamed by the King of Jin, but it would be a death penalty.

Most of the assistant officials went home to pack their bags and prepare to go to various states to supervise, leaving only a small number of officials to maintain the operation of the government office.

Except for Bingzhou, other states in Shanxi have actually started inventory operations.

Although the General Administrative Office was in charge of the military and civilian affairs of the twenty-four states, it had no authority to issue edicts to the localities on behalf of the central government. For example, the Chang'an imperial court directly issued orders to the states, such as inventorying fields and hiding households.

Bingzhou has not been carried out because Yang Guang has not yet arrived.

In addition to offering sacrifices to ancestors, the ancestral hall also serves as a place for the descendants of each family to handle weddings, funerals, birthdays, weddings and other events. However, it also has an important function, that is, it is a place where relatives discuss important matters.

Important figures from the Wang family in Taiyuan who stayed in Bingzhou all gathered here after receiving Yang Guang's invitation.

"There is no good banquet, this is to cut our flesh!"

The clan elder of an unknown room was sitting on a chair, tapping the ground with his cane, and said angrily.

Someone who usually had trouble dealing with him sneered:

"Is it possible that I can still refuse?"

Someone else chimed in:

"It's better to wait until the banquet and sell it to King Jin, give up part of the land and hide it, so that King Jin can pay responsibilities to the court."

"Hmph! Should it be from your family, mine, or whose family it is?"

"Everyone just come out in a calm manner."

"Ha! Do you really think that all the people in your clan are just like your family, and some of them are servants of fertile land, so they don't care about that little bit of land!"

"Then you can't let me contribute to the clan alone!"

"This won't work, that won't work either, we have to find a way!"

The ancestral hall of the Wang family in Taiyuan has not been so lively for a long time. When everyone was talking and arguing, someone suggested:

"Why don't we wait until we go to the banquet and see King Jin's attitude before we discuss it?"

"That makes sense."

"What you said is absolutely true."

Everyone then dispersed, waiting to go to the banquet four days later to touch Yang Guang's bottom.

In fact, this group of important people in the Wang family all know that under the power of the imperial court, land and hidden households should be given away, but how much should be given away and who should cede the benefits are the focus of their discussion.

On his first day on duty, in addition to assigning tasks to the Hucao officials, Cui Che mainly met with the officials and became familiar with the operations of the General Manager's Office.

In the Bingzhou Governor's Mansion, as the chief historian, he can be said to be inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people.

Yang Xuangan, Sima of the General Manager's Office, who was at the same rank as Cui Che, was slightly inferior, because the most important thing of the General Manager's Office of Bingzhou was civil affairs, not military affairs.

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