The Northwest Military Protectorate, in the East Hall of the Mansion.

Zhang Yun, Zhang Kui, Zhang Gu, Zhang Lin, Zhang Song, Zhang Tan, Zhang Mo, Zhang Mu, Zhang Qiang, and Zhang Wei looked at the mountains of account books in front of them, as well as countless household registration and tax certificates in the northwest region, and almost all of them collapsed.

"Big brother, what are you bringing us here for?

Didn't you say that it was good to catch the wind and wash the dust? ”

At this moment, Zhang Yun's voice was faintly trembling, although Zhang Dou hadn't said what to bring them over, but he already had some not-so-wonderful conjectures.

"Don't be in a hurry to catch the wind and wash the dust.

You can do it any day.

However, my brother and I happen to have some busy government affairs in my hands that need your help, I hope you brothers and sisters can actively participate, these government affairs have been piled up here for seven or eight days, but they almost didn't make me sad to death, fortunately you are here.

It's done, you all have official positions. ”

Before he started working, Zhang Dou had already painted a big cake for his younger brothers and sisters in advance.

I'm afraid I'll scare them away.

"Wait, could these be all of them?"

At this time, Zhang Gu and the others reacted with some hindsight, and suddenly pointed to the pile of information not far from them that obviously belonged to the ledger and the like, and shouted.

If only a bunch of bamboo slips were upside down.

Even if it's as high as a mountain.

Actually, there isn't much content.

But the pile over there was obviously paper books.

It's a terrible pile.

"That's right, don't worry, don't panic, although this pile of things looks a lot, but in fact, there is not much content, and your workload is not as much as you think.

I will send a few hundred people to help you sort out, you only need to do the final calculations, you also know that these scholars outside not only do not learn much arithmetic, but also the accounting methods are too simple.

So I need your help.

My side has just accepted all the forces in the entire northwest, and the time is a bit rushed, and I really can't spare too many manpower, and now the specific civil affairs decisions of the entire northwest have to wait for these materials to be sorted out, otherwise there is no way to carry out at all.

Brother, please here. ”

In the past, when the territory was small, because the scope of rule and the number of people were relatively small, it was possible to directly arrange for various government decrees to be issued, but now that the overall scope of rule and the number of people under the rule have increased more than ten times at once, then it is no longer possible to directly follow one's own ideas as before.

It is necessary to make appropriate compromises on the next civil affairs in the light of the actual situation.

And what is the actual situation?

The information that best reflects the actual situation in a region is undoubtedly the tax ledger and household register.

While this part of the information may be fake, there is really no better way than to directly consult the information, and even if the information is fake, as long as there is enough data from previous years, then they have the ability to calculate the real data.

That's it.

The amount of work is quite huge.

Ordinary literati simply don't have this ability.

Therefore, Zhang Dou could only call his new brothers and sisters and let them come.

Although it is a little tiring to do so.

But for the sake of the people.

can only sharpen the knife Huo Huo to them.

Under the temptation of Zhang Dou's good words and various benefits, Zhang Yun and the ten of them finally succumbed, and then they fell into the abyss of data and couldn't climb up.

In the entire northwest region, all the tax data and household registration data of the four large provinces have to be sorted out by them, which is definitely not a small number.

The most terrifying thing is that what they need to sort out is not just the information of a certain year, but all the information that Zhang Dou can collect so far.

How exaggerated.

It is exaggerated to the point that even the census data from the early days of the founding of the country, as well as the tax data, have been preserved.

You know, it was more than 100 years ago, so you can imagine how huge the amount of data they need to count and sort out.

The mountain they had seen earlier.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

It was Zhang Dou who was afraid of scaring them, so he let people move out of the warehouse in advance, a year's amount.

This is without a computer.

Definitely a terrible amount of work.

Even though there were a large number of people who were good at arithmetic to help them and help with some relatively simple sorting and listing work, the large number of numbers still made Zhang Yun and them quickly start to have a headache, and sometimes they could suddenly break down and cry for a while, and then continue to count.

So 597 worked for half a month.

Everyone boiled into giant pandas.

Only then did they finally sort out the relevant information, and through the tax and household registration data over the years, they calculated the population flow and the number of hidden households in the entire northwest region.

Of course, this data is not accurate.

At best, it can be considered relatively accurate.

Because the northwest region has been so chaotic in the last decade, and no one knows how many people have been missing without a comprehensive census, the data they have calculated can only be basically the same as the data from ten years ago, but there are definitely some differences from now.

But that's enough.

This is enough for Zhang Dou to find out the real moths in the entire Northwest, as well as tax loopholes.

Therefore, after obtaining the corresponding data, Zhang Dou immediately began to carry out a comprehensive clean-up of the northwest territory, and at the same time began to issue new civil affairs decrees, and conducted another land and population census to clarify, hoping to completely grasp the entire northwest situation and completely sweep away all the hidden households and hidden fields in the northwest.

Although it can be tougher to do.

However, compared to the eastern, southern and southeastern regions where various forces are far more entrenched and entrenched than those in the northwest region, Zhang Dou actually has a relatively easy time doing these things in the northwest region.

Even some unrest can be quickly quelled.

While Zhang Dou began to clean the house in full swing and prepare to farm again for a while, his presence finally began to be noticed by the nobles of the eastern and southern families, and was soon targeted by them.

For the nobles of the families in the east and south, a divided northwest region is what they want to see, because only the divided northwest region has no way to threaten their existence, so that they can have the time and energy to fight against other nobles around them.

The final duel comes out with the final winner.

It can be said that from the very beginning they did not take the peasant rebel army in the northwest seriously.

Just because they are relatively deadlocked.

That's why it was impossible to destroy the forces in the northwest.

In the past, when the northwest was divided, they could still be indifferent, because the divided northwest region was no threat to them, but now that the northwest is unified, it will undoubtedly have a certain impact on their future seizure of orthodoxy.

So naturally, they had to start fighting back.

This time, the nobles of the family in the east and south did not give Zhang Dou the time and opportunity to continue to develop, and even they found a way to unite the nobles of the family who had lost all the land and population in the northwest because Zhang Dou had inventoried all the land and population in the northwest region.

Unite with them, prepare to come to the inside and outside, and completely carve up the northwest land.

Save the northwest and what moths will come out again.

Influence them to compete with the Duke of Wei for the world.