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"What! The number of households that pay taxes?"

Liu Wentong was so shocked that he immediately turned his head over and looked at the chart carefully, regardless of the appearance of the watch that made him laugh.

His face was extremely serious, as if he was not looking at a picture, but a book of life and death that determined life and death!

Zhu Xiuyuan raised his eyebrows and glanced at Liu Wentong, feeling very surprised.

Liu Wentong’s performance is too exaggerated!

Isn't it just the number of tax-paying households in Jiangzhou? Is this data special? Does it represent some special meaning?

Zhu Xiuyuan tilted his head and looked at Liu Wentong who was getting closer and closer. He simply moved to the side and gave up part of his position so that Liu Wentong could watch more comfortably.

The entire room became quiet. Zhu Xiuyuan's eyes turned around, from the chart on the desk, to Liu Wentong, who looked serious and serious, and then to Luo Ding.

Luo Ding stood there, maintaining his usual seriousness, but his eyes had moved away and did not fall on the chart on the desk.

Instead, he frowned, squinted his eyes slightly, and fell into some kind of thinking state.

strangeness!

Zhu Xiuyuan's eyes turned and finally fell on this chart. He looked at it carefully. There was nothing strange about it?

After a long time.

"Liu Shangzuo, Luo Ding, what are you thinking about?"

Zhu Xiuyuan, who couldn't figure it out, couldn't help but ask. He glanced at Liu Wentong and then at Luo Ding.

"grown ups……"

Liu Wentong was the first to come to his senses, but when he looked at Zhu Xiuyuan with his fists in his hands, his eyes immediately widened, he took a step back and exited the area where Zhu Xiuyuan was seated.

"Sir, I'm so rude! I'm so rude!"

But it turned out that it was Liu Wentong who became more and more fascinated as he watched. He almost "turned his attention to guests" and "squeezed" Zhu Xiuyuan out of the seating area.

As a subordinate, this is simply rude!

"Hey! Liu Shangzuo doesn't have to be like this!"

Zhu Xiuyuan waved his hand and said with a smile: "It was just an unintentional mistake. I am not a petty person."

Zhu Xiuyuan likes to "explore", so he has a particularly open-minded view of people who "lose themselves due to research". On the contrary, he believes that people who can achieve this level are talents and deserve respect.

"Subordinate...thank you, sir!"

Liu Wentong bent his waist ninety degrees as an apology.

"Liu Shangzuo, there is no need to be polite. By the way, what were you thinking just now?"

"Sir!" After Liu Wentong apologized and stood up straight, his face suddenly became solemn and he raised his hands and said: "Sir, the number of tax-paying households in Jiangzhou has been decreasing year by year. It is of great importance, not only for the elders of Jiangzhou.

, and at the same time, it is also aimed at recording the events of joining the army. Even for you, my lord, it is a very important matter!"

Zhu Xiuyuan looked at Liu Wentong with a strange look on his face, wondering if Liu Wentong was not sick?

On the other side, Luo Ding's face remained the same. He looked at Liu Wentong quietly, but his eyes seemed to be ready to say a few words at any time to fill in the loopholes in what Liu Wentong said...if necessary.

"Tell me the details." Zhu Xiuyuan finally ordered.

"Yes, sir!"

Liu Wentong collected his thoughts. When Luo Ding was impatient and was about to speak first, Liu Wentong finally spoke: "Sir, the exams for state officials in our court are divided into one small exam per year and three years."

A big test.”

Zhu Xiuyuan nodded, but he didn't know why Liu Wentong got involved in the exam. He gave him a look that meant: "Go on."

"For the examination of state officials, the 'seven things' are used as the criterion. What are the 'seven things'? The first is 'should I be promoted to an official?', the second is 'encouraging teachers to farm mulberry trees, increase farmland and raise funds', and the third is 'increasing household registration'

Damage', the fourth is 'promote benefit and eliminate harm', the fifth is 'factual investigation', the sixth is 'rectify punishment and prison', and the seventh is 'the number of thieves'."

Liu Wentong was shaking his head as he spoke, obviously knowing very well about official examinations.

"Been taught a lesson!"

Zhu Xiuyuan smiled and cupped his hands, looking like a scholar exchanging knowledge or knowledge.

"Where is it..." Liu Wentong was modest.

Suddenly, Liu Wentong suddenly paused, grinned, patted his forehead, and thought to himself: "I was deceived by the adults..."

"Sir, it can be seen from this that 'encouraging classes to farm mulberry trees and increasing farmland' and 'increasing or losing household registration' are all major items in the official examination." Liu Wentong quickly added.

After Zhu Xiuyuan heard this, he looked at the chart on his desk. The trend line stretched downwards diagonally in a shocking way. It represented the number of households paying taxes, which was decreasing year by year!

"So, our state officials in Jiangzhou have failed in all previous examinations?" However, Zhu Xiuyuan still didn't understand what Liu Wentong meant.

"Sir, this is where the problem lies." Liu Wentong said with cupped hands.

"Oh, what's the problem?"

"Sir, as far as my subordinates know, I, the Jiangzhou officials, have basically received a 'good' rating in the exams over the years!" Liu Wentong bowed and said.

"Good" means very good.

Zhu Xiuyuan understood and said: "In other words, they... tampered with the examinations on taxation and the increase and loss of household numbers?"

"Sir, we at Cang Cao have retained the most original copywriting. The data... that my subordinates have compiled from these copywritings is absolutely the most correct!"

"What Liu Shangzuo means..." Zhu Xiuyuan lowered his voice, looked around and said, "Use this as an excuse to unite them?"

Zhu Xiuyuan had known for a long time that almost all of his assistants in Cangcao, including his senior assistant Liu Wentong, Luo Ding and other scribes, were the confidants of his father-in-law.

Therefore, it is normal for Liu Wentong and others to try different methods to trick them.

If possible, Zhu Xiuyuan wouldn't mind helping his father-in-law. After all, he still has a good thing in mind——

From now on, I will sit on the lap of my father-in-law and enjoy the good food and drink in the yamen.

"I'm afraid it's inappropriate, because Lord Governor..."

However, Zhu Xiuyuan thought about it again and rejected his previous conjecture.

Because even the governors of a state are involved, and my father-in-law is just a seventh-grade official who joins the army, so he may not be able to defeat them with this.

After all, if they want to completely overthrow them, they will definitely fight back...

"Sir, my subordinates also think it's inappropriate, but..."

Liu Wentong chuckled and said mysteriously: "You can't move the top one, but you can move the bottom one!"

Zhu Xiuyuan was stunned for a second, his eyes lit up, and he asked: "Hu Cao?"

"My lord is wise, it is Hu Cao!" Liu Wentong said with his hands raised.

Luo Ding, who had been silent at the side, saw this scene and gave up the idea of ​​opening up to fill in the holes in Liu Wentong's rhetoric at any time, and continued to remain silent.

Zhu Xiuyuan turned sideways and thought in his mind: "The merit cao is in charge of official examinations, sacrifices, auspiciousness, Taoism, Buddhism, schools, tables, medicine, and furnishings. If you start with the official examinations, use the merit cao to do the surgery."

It's the best, but it involves the governor, so it's inappropriate... The household director is in charge of household registration, accounting, roads, reverse travel, and marriage matters. The household registration is getting smaller year by year, and there must be unjust cases among them. If we start from this, it can be solved
Chapter completed!