Chapter 514

A county with a population of less than 30000 is the county magistrate, and a population of more than 30000 is the county magistrate. Under the county magistrate, there are also the county magistrate and the county lieutenant. The county magistrate presides over the six CAOS. The county lieutenant is in charge of the name of the county, the collection and distribution of corvee and the military training in the county. There are also the master book, the court, the main recording room and the county Shaofu. The six CAOS were divided into merit Cao, Cang Cao, Hu Cao, Bing Cao, FA Cao and Shi Cao, followed by many Qiang Fu and you fu.

The Han state generally followed the old Han system and did not set up three elders in the countryside alone. The reason was that although the three elders were in charge of education, they were basically the product of clan. In fact, it was not conducive to the government's direct control over the people.

Liu Yan is a country established from scratch. He lacks enough officials and has to accept big families, powerful and aristocratic families, but he still lacks enough administrative personnel.

The soldiers of youze in the Han Dynasty have a follow-up pension due to their injury and disability. If conditions permit, they will give priority to their positions. The vast majority of positions below the county magistrate (county magistrate) are taken up by retired personnel in the army.

Compared with the previous dynasties, there were obviously more public officials in the Han Dynasty. Liu Yan thought that power should go to the countryside from the beginning, not controlled by local rich families.

It is absolutely not easy for a country to spread its political power all over the mountains and rivers. The first thing is that the administrative personnel should be absolutely sufficient. The fatal thing is that the administrative personnel are not so easy to find. Liu Yan's use of retired personnel in the army is just a bad way. If there are more public officials, the state's salary for public officials will become a new problem.

In fact, it is not very smooth for retired military personnel to serve as local public officials. In the past, local people in every place were recommended as officials or officials. Generally, they are local people with high reputation, which shows that the white point is the big families or powerful people in every place. It must be said that people from families like Liu Bang can become Pavilion leaders mainly because Liu Bang's old father and the county magistrate are old friends, and Liu Bang has a gang. What's more, taking local hooligans and gangsters as petty officials (non staff civil servants) does not become a special case in Tian1 Dynasty. It has existed since ancient times!

The Han state established on the ruins recovered rivers and mountains from the Hu people. On the premise that most of the old rules were destroyed by the Hu people, the obstacles to the implementation of the new deal were the local big families and powerful.

Because of the relevant national policies, the boycotted big families and powerful forces will face the elimination and suppression of the Han army. As long as they don't want to destroy their families and can only endure, they can imagine that no matter how calm the water surface of the Han people looks, there are definitely dark vortices everywhere under the water.

"Xinpingli?" Wang Meng knew that it would not be a small matter for what happened in a village to reach the county government, but he still had to ask, "what happened?"

County Lieutenant Huang Kai was retired from the army to the civilian. He was not a Marquis of the field corps. To put it bluntly, he was a Marquis of the second-line army. If you are a Marquis of the field corps, the arrangement after retirement is at least one of the positions in the county. Being a county Lieutenant may not be qualified, but being a county soldier Cao is definitely enough.

Xinpingli is one of the many li in Nanpi County, but it is far from the core of Nanpi County. It is a remote Li. Usually, the weaker the official power is, the more likely illegal things are to happen in places far away from the core of power.

"There was a homicide." As a county lieutenant, Huang Kai is certainly responsible for the name of the criminal. He specially reported to Wang Meng that the matter is both big and complex: "a family of three was killed at home overnight. The cruelty of the gangster's crime can be seen. He not only killed, but also cut off his limbs and head and openly placed it in front of the gate yard. The clues you recovered at the beginning are related to the local big families, suspected to be land disputes and contract disputes."

Youjiao is equivalent to the police of later generations, specializing in the management of public security and the arrest of thieves.

It has to be said that the restoration of the Han state requires land measurement and redemption, but the government has its own policies, and the following big families and powerful forces also have their own countermeasures.

Isn't the government going to redeem the land? The big family and Haoqiang transferred the land under their names to some people in advance. Those people may have been family slaves of the family, or they may have been found temporarily. In short, they reduce the land they hold in the open, but they still control the land in the dark.

The state of Han did not know nothing about the means of local big families and powerful people. It may be that they were unable to catch their strength, but more likely it was deliberate indulgence. After the local governments resumed operation, they did not have any difficulty in re registering the previous land contract.

Wang Meng asked again, "what does Quan Zhi think?"

Huang Kai replied, "the master of the Ge family came in person to find his job and complained about his grievances. In order to wash away his grievances, he even took out a hidden contract. He thought someone had deliberately framed him. Then, the case is not that simple."

At this time, the contract does not need to be authenticated by the government to take effect. As long as the written articles have the signatures of both parties or pictorial signatures, they will be recognized. As a result, disputes over contracts often occur among the people. However, the government has always been a great headache for contract disputes, because it is the mainstream to stick to their own words, and there is no basis for judging unrecognized contracts.

"Even the hidden contract?" Wang Meng is no stranger to similar contracts. It is nothing more than some articles written by the two parties. The article must be about the certificate or agreement of the actual holder of the land. He asked, "who did the Ge family offend?"

"The position has been checked, and no one has been found to have a dispute with the Ge family recently." What Huang Kai cares about is: "who committed the crime, why frame the Ge family, and what purpose."

Wang Meng pondered for a moment and asked, "who will report the incident after it?"

Originally, all the victims were dead, and the case could not be filed without reporting to the official. This was the official law before the Han Dynasty. After all, what we are talking about now is that the people do not investigate the officials, which is a practice.

Under the territory ruled by the Han Dynasty, no one reported to the government. As long as they were informed by the government, they could file a case, but relatively, those who reported would rank behind in handling a case. In this way, there is a big gap between people and public officials. Maybe thousands of people have only one public official.

Although the Han Dynasty arranged a large number of retired military personnel to transfer to local places to become public officials, we should think that a pavilion must have a pavilion length. Usually, ten pavilions are one Li, three to five Li are one Township, and a county will have at least ten or so townships. How many public officials should it be?

Take Nanpi County as an example. There are more than 37000 people in the county, but the number of tourists responsible for local public security is only about 30. There are more than 30 people, because Nanpi County is the capital of Bohai county. It is even more if a county that is not the capital can pay about 20 tourists.

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

It should be said that the current situation of people living together, the population of one Pavilion, and the current situation of scattered living are relatively common. Although the two families are neighbors, they may be far away, but the houses in the city will appear concentrated.

The reason why Wang Meng would ask is that the diaspora of the people is common. Considering that Qiang Fu will go down only when he investigates taxes, and it is impossible to wander around at any time, except for the local Pavilion leaders, what happens can only be discovered by coincidence or deliberately.

"According to the investigation, Dahei and the victim muziju were contract slaves of the Ge family, and the Han was free after the restoration." Huang Kai obviously made a lot of visits in advance and said, "although no blood relatives testify whether they meet, they often meet to go hunting in the mountains. Dahei says it's difficult to find any doubt."

Wang Meng asked, "can the pavilion head be in the county government?"

Huang Kai immediately replied, "yes."

Wang Meng said, "pass him in."

The pavilion chief is a man who lacks his right arm. He was arranged to work locally after he retired due to injury. After he came in, he saluted respectfully, stood straight as a soldier and waited for questions.

"Did Da Hei bring hunting gear when he went to find you?" Wang Meng thought for a moment and added, "what was big black's behavior at that time? Tell it one by one."

The pavilion leader didn't answer immediately. He recalled carefully before saying, "Dahei didn't bring hunting gear when he found his job. When he arrived at the job site, he saw the discarded hunting gear. When he came, he looked frightened and sad, and kept saying that the Ge family must have hurt Muzi himself, his mother and wife."

"Did Da Hei pick up his hunting gear when he left?" Wang Meng paused, got the answer he picked up, and asked, "did Dahei say he wanted to return the land contract to the Ge family?"

TingChang answered quickly this time: "there is indeed such self talk."

"Is it an unintentional whisper or a deliberate act?" Wang Meng thought this question was very important and said to TingChang, "think back carefully and then answer my official."

The pavilion chief was supposed to blurt out. After being promoted, he could only recall and confirm it again and again. Finally, he said, "report to the county Zun, Da Hei had been talking to himself when he found his job. He also mentioned it repeatedly all the way, and he still kept whispering when he left."

Wang Meng looked at Huang Kai and asked, "how many people secretly agreed with the contract taken out by the Lord of the Ge family?"

This baffled Huang Kai. He only looked at a few copies at that time. He could remember the number of wooden chops roughly, but he couldn't tell the exact number.

"Looks like a lot?" When Wang Meng saw Huang Jianru nodding his head, he probably guessed about this case. He said, "let me give you my opinion."

The phenomenon of private division of land by big families and powerful people everywhere is very common, and the people involved are also very wide. In addition to the explicit and covert control of non blood relations, family separation is also one of the means. After all, the state of Han restricts how much land a family can only have, not how much land each family in a clan can have. They only need to reduce the land held by the family in the open. They don't believe that the Han government can manage so much if they control how much secretly.

In fact, the separation of big families is a very welcome thing for the political power of each country. The bigger the family is, the more difficult it is for the political power of each generation to manage. Whether it is privately distributed to people who are unrelated or related by blood, it can be said that the officials of the Han Dynasty just look at it without interference, or even secretly encourage it.

If too many families do that, there will be a lot of follow-up things. The reason is that it is easy to divide them out. What people who get the land think is another matter.

"... so I have two guesses now." Wang Meng won't do anything to raise his hand. He sat down and said in an unhappy and slow tone: "it may be that the people who got the land committed a crime and framed the Ge family for the government to deal with, so as to achieve the established fact that there is no threat in the name of land; the other may be that the Ge family encountered a crisis and committed a murder in order to deter people."

"Duty..." Huang Kai looked at Wang Meng with an expression of admiration and said bluntly: "duty is more inclined to the first possibility."

Pavilion length? Without being questioned, he kept silent all the time.

"If the contract taken out by the Ge family owner is not there, the county Lieutenant should get it now." Wang Meng said to Huang Kai and looked at the pavilion head: "you go back to the pavilion and don't make a momentum to observe who is different from the past in the near future."

Naturally, they left one after another, leaving Wang Meng alone to sit in place and look like a daze?

It's not that Wang Meng has any malicious prejudice against the people, but that he never underestimates the people's desire for land. Although the Han state has the channel for military merit to grant land, the army is not recruited in unlimited quantities. There are always a few people who can get land by joining the army. If they have the opportunity to own the land, don't doubt what they will worry about.

Nanpi County... And even most of the States and counties in the Han Dynasty now belong to the territory of the Han Dynasty for a short time, and the time for the implementation of the new deal is even shorter. Most local officials, including Wang Meng, have long known that there will be no less problems about land. For Wang Meng, the things in xinpingli happened late.

The national policy of the state of Han is to crack down on local giants, and there are few families killed and destroyed due to resistance, but there is no obvious policy to benefit ordinary people, such as the national policy of free land equalization. It can be said that nowadays, the number of land held by the people is very limited, and about 30% of them are privately distributed by local big families, powerful and aristocratic families. On how to increase and average the number of land held by the people, the Central Committee has held relevant discussions more than once. Occasionally, the proposal of free land equalization was soon submerged by the wave of adhering to military merit.

How to let people get their own land on the premise of paying is the most urgent thing for local officials in every place. After all, if local officials want to make political achievements, isn't it a tax consideration in addition to education? For the private division of land, even if there is no central secret signal, the local officials will definitely indulge, at the cost of the follow-up trouble caused by land disputes.

[when can more people own their own land if they only grant land with military merit?] Wang Meng takes the perspective of local officials as the starting point. In fact, he has no opinion on the national policy of the state of Han: [all those who can get land with military merit grant land are from the military background. On the contrary, it is difficult for others to have a way. In the long run, the military power expands infinitely. Who will check and balance?]

Thinking of Wang Meng, he smiled bitterly. Now he is a county magistrate. What to worry about is the matter of a county. It is not a county magistrate who can intervene in matters related to the overall strategic level of the country.