On the embankment of the Shangqiu River.

The government officials and county officials all stood by the river to explore.

Qiu Mingshan and the official of the Tongzhi Department held a fish scale book and wrote with a pen.

Lin Yanchao, Sun Chengzong, and a group of disciples came to the silt field under the embankment, and in a few days this place will become a silt field for the common people.

Unlike the officials, there were hundreds of people standing on the embankment, all of whom had newly bought this section of the silt field.

They were strictly forbidden to go down the embankment, but they still couldn't resist the excitement, and when they walked to the base of the embankment, they picked up a handful of silt in their hands, rubbed their hands and chatted with their relatives, and the conversation was generally the same.

This field is really fertile, just like the white flour at home, if you plant grain, even if you rely on the sky to eat, you can harvest one stone of grain a year.

That's not it, if you sell your strength, and water the dung frequently, you will be able to make two stones of grain. It doesn't take two or three years to get back to the capital, and in another five or six years you can get a wife.

The people laughed loudly as they spoke, and the atmosphere was full of joy.

Lin Yanchao listened to the conversation of the people, and knew it from the bottom of his heart.

As the saying goes, the grain fields in the north are fighting, and the grain fields in the south are talking about stones.

It is not uncommon to produce two or three stones, or even four or five stones, per mu in the south.

However, in the north, the yield per mu of grain fields can only be calculated by buckets. One stone and ten buckets, the acres of fields in the north, one acre can only collect two or three buckets, if you harvest six or seven buckets, it can be called a good year, that is, the wind and rain are smooth in a year.

This is only different from silt fields, and three or four stones are also common.

"In the past, such good land was occupied by large families, where can we be judged."

"Thank you Lin Qingtian!"

Words of praise came one after another.

All the protégés are all bright-faced, and they admire Lin Yanchao even more.

Lin Yanchao came to Qiu Mingshan and the officials, who were drawing the surveyed fields and then putting them on the fish scale book.

The booklet made in the field is called the book of fish scales.

The fish scale book began in the Song Dynasty and was completed in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was based on the fish scale book, the tax per mu of land, and the yellow book as the weft, and the common people to work.

There is a whole map of the mountains and rivers of a county in the fish scale book, which is drawn on the map with reference to the scale of the people's fields and acres, and one by one is like fish scales, so it is called the fish scale book.

In addition to the fish scale book, there is also a set of booklets called the Tui Shui Book, which is used to record the purchase and sale of acres of land.

The fish scale book and the push collection book should be compared together, so the distribution of local acres and the ownership of property rights are clear at a glance.

At that time, the fish scale register was not made once a year, and in the past, even if Lin Yanchao immediately opened up the riverside beach fields, he could only register them in the prefecture and county, but he could not change them immediately in the household department.

But when is it now, Zhang Juzheng's change is not over yet.

In the ninth year of Wanli, a whip law was practiced, and all states and counties in the world were cleared of acres of land and rebuilt the fish scale book.

In the eleventh year of Wanli, although it was said that the Qing Zhang field was stopped by the imperial court, the remaining law was still there, and after the local states and counties rebuilt the fish scale book, they must be submitted to the household department once a year, and the household department must be filed immediately.

The purpose of this is to guard against the local state and county, the order is changed overnight, here to deal with the policy of clearing the acres of fields, to say how many acres of land are cleared, in the second year, the officials alternate or for some reason, the officials are pressured to hide the acres of fields for Haoqiang on the fish scale book, then the household department in the preparation file, found that the acres of acres are less than last year for no reason, then the state and county officials can be immediately held responsible.

As soon as the fish scale register is registered in the household department, it will be difficult for someone to change it on a large scale.

In case it is found that there is a shortage of 60,000 or 70,000 mu of silt fields, the imperial court will also be shaken, and it will certainly not turn a blind eye. After Lin Yanchao registered in the fish scale book, he immediately reported to the household department.

I also made the book, I also collected the money, this raw rice has already been cooked into a big cooked rice, and others can't worry about it.

Now the officials are surveying the fields along the embankment of the river, section by section.

The matter of surveying the field is the easiest to steal chickens.

At this time, a student said to Lin Yanchao: "Sir, the student has heard that this fish scale book is made, and he needs to go out of the four solstices first, why only measure the east and the west but not the north and the south?" ”

It was indeed the case in the eyes of the people, whose field was as many steps as there were in the east, and whose field was how many steps in the west.

The southeast, south, and northwest should be marked, which is called the four solstice, and the river embankment is only measured along the east and west, is there anything greasy in this?

Several students frequently gestured to each other, but this student was there, looking like he wanted to dig to the end.

Lin Yanchao saw that this person was Yuan Keli. Lin Yanchao nodded and said to Qiu Mingshan at the moment: "You explain one or two things about this matter." ”

Qiu Mingshan said with a smile after saying yes: "You don't know, this recreated fish scale book is based on the riverside beach. ”

"Riverbank?" The students were puzzled.

Qiu Mingshan said patiently: "The so-called thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi is not nonsense. The river beach land, because it is often swung by the river, overflows, and the acres of fish scales on the field have changed. ”

"The same is true of the embankment, which is often eroded by the river, and although it is built in the middle of the river, if it collapses by the flood, it may have to be rebuilt at a new site."

All the students were stunned, and Yuan Keli couldn't help but ask worriedly, "So what's the countermeasure?" ”

Qiu Mingshan said with a smile: "The Yellow River that flows through Guide Mansion is generally from west to east, so the river can only swing along the north and south. Therefore, only the size of the east and west is recorded in the fish scale book, not the north and the south. ”

"Therefore, the method of making a book of fish scales on the beach is to measure a section from west to east according to the embankment, and then demarcate five acres of land from each section."

"What if the river erodes?"

Qiu Mingshan said: "Yes, because of the erosion of the river, Sima had already ordered that each section reserve some more area for the people. ”

"Therefore, although there are five acres of silt land on the fish scale book, the arable land of the common people is far more than five acres. Even if the common people's fields are really short, they can still ask the government to pay money according to the embankment and the part of the river occupied. ”

All the students were impressed when they heard this, this usable area exceeds the property area, and it is definitely a conscientious developer in the future.

Qiu Mingshan said with a smile: "Not only that, Sima also instructed that on the top of the book, the two adjacent pieces of land should be marked out first, and the road will be counted as official land, and the land will not be encroached upon, and the fields will be divided accordingly." ”

"Each piece of land is made in a long shape, which can average the land and divide the land boundary, which kills two birds with one stone."

When Yuan Keli heard this, he immediately fell to the ground in admiration, and hugged his fist to Qiu Mingshan and said: "Yuan is shallow, so that he is offended, and he also asks Mr. Qiu Haihan." ”

"Students who have studied all their lives can't think of such a way. This law really benefits the people, benefits the people for thousands of years, and the government and the people are both convenient. ”

Qiu Mingshan smiled and said: "What is this, this is all Sima Zhi's wisdom!" ”

Lin Yanchao heard the words but did not speak.

In fact, the compensation for the embankment and the occupation of the land by the river, as well as the return of the road to the public, were all proposed by Fu Zhiyuan.

Although the 630 hectares of silted fields have shrunk a lot, the people have benefited from it.

As he was talking, there was a burst of laughter on the embankment, and it turned out that the officials had marked out the map of the silt fields purchased by a common man, and then made two copies, so that he could come to the county tomorrow and receive the land deeds according to the map of the silt fields.

The moment the people got the album, they couldn't close their mouths with a smile.

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