Zhangxin County, Qinzhou, is located between Huating, Pingliang, Jingzhou Lianyun Fort, originally named after Liu Haibin built Zhangxin Fort in Jingyuan, this fortress guards the watershed gorge of the water, overlooks the vast Zhimo Plain around it, the field has opened up a canal for irrigation, the people's dwellings in Sangtian and the Qiangtun with the party item are staggered and miscellaneous.

At the head of the field, Wu Yuanheng, whose face was blackened by the scorched sun in May and June, was leading several drawing and measuring hands who had just come from the "quick" training of Taofen Academy, and walked with a team of archers and county officials, among which the archers carried ropes, stalks, bamboo poles and bows on their shoulders.

There are only two counties in Xingqin Prefecture, namely Huating County and Zhangxin County, of which the former is mainly inhabited by soldiers and archers, and the land is also dominated by military tun; After Gao Yue attacked Qinzhou before, he resettled many Han people from there to Zhangxin County, so he specially arranged for Wu Yuanheng to be the county commander and began to try out the "meridian boundary method".

In order to facilitate the understanding of the county officials and the people, he presented the "Zhangtian Law" to Gao Yue, no longer sticking to the area of 240 steps for one mu, because this standard is too rigid for fields with various shapes, Wu Yuanheng proposed to divide the algorithm of the area of the field into four layers: "ruler, step, angle, and mu", with five feet as a step, sixty steps as a corner, and four corners as an acre, so that any fragmented field can be countedIt is very convenient, and the measured field area is registered as the "hill section number", and if the field of the landlord is divided, it will be drawn one by one to make sure that it is accurate.

After measuring one by one, Wu Yuanheng sat directly under the shade of the tree, called all the households in Baojia, compared the number of the hill section on the anvil book with the "Tian style" they reported one by one, and sang it in public. So Wu Yuanheng carefully checked the name of the landlord, the four solstices of the field, the shape of the field, the color of the soil, and the pictures on the anvil book, and then provoked the candle after dusk, and led the county officials to transcribe it, one was left in the public office, one was given to Fengxiang Mansion, one was sent to the household department of the imperial court, and another was let the people take it by themselves and prepare it at home. Immediately, he made a book according to the anvil base book, and made a tax book and a poor department book.

Wu Yuanheng's proposal of the "foot step angle mu" four-point painting field method, was very appreciated by Gao Yue, and immediately asked Wei Zhiyi and Li Jian to follow the implementation, and said to the two county orders, the painting field method is important, and the painting talent is more important - in the process of implementing the meridian law, there are pure and honest and sensitive officials, they must pay attention to it, and after setting up the meridian division in Xingyuan and Fengxiang in the future, this group of people can be directly enriched into it, not subject to the geographical restrictions of the state and county, and all the fields of the two prefectures will be painted meridian boundary, and there is no need to worry about the additional Yulu.

So Wei Zhiyi followed his promise and first painted the grange of Xingyuan Yin Gaoyue's family......

Despite this example, the situation in Nanzheng County, Kexingyuan Prefecture, has begun to become uneasy, they are not fools, and they are very keenly aware that the meridian boundary law will more or less damage their vested interests.

But they also saw that the backing of Gao Yue's implementation of the meridian boundary law was actually not the county order, nor the apprentices who learned to draw algorithms in the school palace, but the entire Dingwu army!

This is why the military is said to be an organ of violence.

In addition, the Gao Yue Dingwu Army, unlike the ordinary Fangzhen soldiers, the usual town soldiers are inextricably linked with the local situation households and merchants, and they all come out from within, which is the case with the so-called "indigenous military group".

But Xingyuan Mansion is different, since the implementation of the military system of separating generals and archers, most of the rations of the Dingwu Army are solved by archers in Tuntian, and the military salaries are paid by the "retained envoys" in the two taxes, and the emperor will also take some out of the inner treasury from time to time as "reward money" - in addition, Gao Yue skillfully used the joint residence of the military government and merchants to set up seven military treasury in the public offices of various states and counties in Xingyuan Prefecture, and the money obtained from returning to the merchants and returning to the trade was stored here. Even if it is to recruit soldiers, Gao Yue prefers to let the military academy bring paper ties and go to other places to recruit soldiers, and after coming, they are divided into archers or generals, the former goes to Tuntian, and the latter exercises in the military city, and the children of Xingyuan only account for part of the army - that is, the situation of the Dingwu Army and Xingyuan Mansion is actually isolated, and it is completely on Gao Yue's side.

The coercion of the armed forces is an important backing for carrying out reforms in any era.

Gao Yue naturally had a deeper understanding of this, and he had long understood from books that radical land reform had the support of the military, and even the relatively modest land redemption reform advocated on a certain island was endorsed by hundreds of thousands of "provincial troops" from the mainland.

This is true in modern times, and even more so in ancient times.

Therefore, in such a situation, the situation of Xingyuan Mansion is very complicated, they not only think that Gao Yue is the hero of the great development of Xingyuan, is a very skilled bureaucrat, but also hostile and hateful to him, because he is by no means on the position of local tyrants, but ruthlessly wants to pay more taxes for the court and the local government.

Isn't raising pigs fat and strong to kill meat and eat them?

Soon, an anonymous article "On the Harm of the Law of the Southern Zheng Jingjie", sprinkled with thousands of words, was thrown into the "Xingyuan Di Daily" and handed over to the reviewer Liu Demu.

Liu Demuro sighed and said to the people in the government office, Yi Song said to me before he left the Fengxiang Mansion in Zhenfeng that if the Nanzheng County Economic Boundary Law is being implemented, and only this article comes out in the end, there is no fear at all.

After finishing speaking, Liu Demuro threw this article into the cup of fire and immediately burned it to black ashes.

It was also burned down, as well as the will to resist the situation households of Xingyuan Mansion.

In the end, they were still afraid of Gao Yue's "obscenity", and sure enough, there was no bigger action, so they were silent.

However, there are still slanders, such as the "Fifty-four Leaf Play" that has recently become popular throughout Xingyuan Mansion, I don't know when and I don't know who added a leaf card, the card is painted with a small cocoon, and there is a text "Fear of Neiqi County Bo" (Qi and Qi homonym), when the four people play the leaf play, which one draws this Qi County Bo is bound to output the game, and can only divide the leaves to the other three.

At the same time, the priest Han Yu left the grange in Yangzhou with simple luggage, and began to conduct fieldwork on the meridian boundary law in Xingyuan and Fengxiang, whether it was good or not, he had to judge it through his own eyes, of course, he would then go to the boundary between Jingzhao Mansion and Tonghua Prefecture, and then compare the states and counties that did not implement the meridian boundary law.

On the day Han Yu set off, the sky was raining, passing through the Hanchuan Haohao soup in Yangzhou, the boat was not afraid of the weather, and was going down to Jingxiang one after another, the tall Han Yu was wearing a new cotton thin shirt, holding a paper umbrella in his arm, and his Liuhe boots stepped on the slightly moist road sand, with long footprints behind him, and he was about to start a social survey of the Nanxi and Gyeonggi areas of Datang Mountain.