Chapter 2434 Li Yang

Man Bao took a lot of effort to explain the difference between a title and an official position with the old Zhou head Qian Shi. In order to make them understand better, she took King Gong as an example.

"Prince Gong has no real position now. He used to be a prince. The fief in Luozhou is very large, and the taxes and other taxes in the fief belong to him. Although he has no jurisdiction, it is because of his food. Yi, if he has any ideas, he can talk to the county magistrate there." Man Bao said, "For example, if you give a tax exemption, donate less, etc., you can still talk about it."

"Later, he was the king of the county, and part of the fief was taken back, and the people in the part that were taken back stopped paying taxes to Prince Gong, but to the imperial court."

Old Zhou was dumbfounded, "Are you a prince?"

Man Bao: "...Father, I'm a fifth-grade township owner. There are only five hundred households in the food town, which is equivalent to six of our villages, or three of Dali villages."

Qian Shi was also dumbfounded, "That's also very powerful, even more powerful than your father, I'm talking about my father."

Old Zhou returned to his senses, and immediately turned his head to ask Mrs. Liu, "My in-laws, Shanbao also has that kind of town. How many households does he have?"

Mrs. Liu smiled and said, "Yes, like Manbao, there are five hundred households."

The old Zhoutou immediately asked, "Where is that?"

He also turned his head and asked Man Bao, "Where are the five hundred households in our family? Do you know whose family is whose family?"

"It's in Liyang," Man Bao said, "I'll go back and ask the county magistrate of Liyang, Bai Shan's fief is in Longzhou, not here."

When Man Bao said this, he reacted and said, "Why did Your Majesty put my fief in Liyang? It should be in Luojiang County."

Mrs. Liu smiled and nodded her forehead, "Silly child, it's not good in Liyang, the emperor's feet are easy to make a living, and they pay more taxes."

Liyang belongs to Yongzhou, and is very close to the capital. Wannian County used to be Liyang, less than a hundred miles from the outer city of the capital, and it can be reached in an hour on a quick horse, which is closer than their Zhuangzi.

Of course, Liyang is not small, and it depends on where the five hundred households are divided. If it is divided into another corner, it is possible to reach it by horseback in a day.

But Mrs. Liu didn't think that was the case. She smiled and said, "You are being favored. The Ministry of Rites and the magistrate of Liyang County won't embarrass you too much."

More than not being embarrassed, Yueyang received the decree, because the emperor did not specify a specific place, but only gave the title of Yueyang, the county magistrate of Yueyang has a strange feeling, and Zhou Man is afraid that he will be promoted in the future.

So he carefully studied the official document, and after pondering for a long time, finally determined that the Ministry of Rites did not designate a place, so he took out the map of Liyang County and pondered.

After half a day, I circled a small area near Wannian County, and planned to allocate the five hundred households to Zhou Man from here. If she is still promoted in the future, she can continue to allocate to her in this direction.

The county magistrate of Liyang thought happily, anyway, Zhou Man is a foreign minister, she will be able to rise to the top of the county in the future, and she will have a thousand households in the food town.

At the same time, the county magistrate Guo was sighing at his master.

Master: "...Sir, what's wrong with you?"

The county magistrate said, "I'm afraid we won't be able to grab the places we want to grab from Liyang."

Master: ...why does his lord always want to grab territory from Yueyang?

But he still quickly asked: "The Ministry of Household clearly refused?"

"No," the county magistrate Guo said gloomily, "Your Majesty has awarded Zhou Man the title of Liyang Township Lord."

The master was puzzled, "What does this have to do with me grabbing Liyang's territory? Could it be that Lord Zhou wants to make decisions for the county magistrate of Liyang?"

The adults of his family are not afraid of this, are they?

What are you afraid of, come on!

The magistrate Guo glanced at him and said, "If Your Majesty doesn't specify the specific location of the food town, the Liyang side will most likely assign the areas bordering our Wannian County to Zhou Man."

Master reacted, his face became indifferent, "Oh."

It was impossible to grab it, it was all Zhou Man’s food, and it was useless for them to grab it, and they couldn’t levy taxes or do anything else.

It's a pity that the magistrate of Guo, originally, the Ministry of Household has been a little loose, and he almost agreed to assign the township adjacent to their Wannian County to their Wannian County. Who knew that a Liyang township owner suddenly fell?

If the county magistrate of Yueyang was not stupid, he would definitely separate the two counties from her, and then he would not be able to annex Yueyang's territory at all.

what a pity.

However, the county magistrate of Liyang was very happy, and the next day he had people submit the list to the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Households.

Just when Man Bao sent Bai Shan for reference, turned around to see Mrs. Pi Guo's doctor and returned to the palace, the officials from Liyang had already sent the documents to the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household.

Therefore, when Man Bao finished busy in the palace, when Xiao Yuanzheng announced that she and Imperial Physician Lu would be given six days off, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household had already checked the documents and approved it.

Man Bao was very happy and left early. When she left the palace, she took a detour to the Ministry of Rites and wanted to ask if her fief had a specific location.

The document from the Ministry of Rites hadn't been put away yet. Wen Yan took it out and showed it to her, "This is the list and number of five hundred households, please take a look."

Man Bao opened it and looked at the place where they lived. After writing down the place, he began to look at their names. He asked casually, "Is this the place marked by your majesty?"

The official of the Ministry of Rites smiled and said: "No, this is the place designated by the county magistrate of Liyang. Speaking of which, Wutun Township, where these villages are located, is still very famous."

He said: "The ancient city of Liyang is here. It used to be the ancient capital of the Qin state more than a thousand years ago, but a lot of it was abandoned there. When the first emperor, Liyang was merged into Wannian County, but it was later distributed to Yongzhou. …”

Anyway, it is divided and divided, so... very poor.

Of course, this poverty is compared with the counties around the capital, and it is much better than Luojiang County, it belongs to Zhong County anyway.

The four villages allocated to Zhou Man are not bad, but because they were divided up and down, the higher-level officials did not take care of them very seriously before, so they were a little poor.

Because the Ministry of Rites is in charge of the Crown Prince, and based on the cognition of Zhou Man as the Crown Prince, the officials of the Ministry of Rites naturally have a favorable impression of her, after all, they are their own people.

Therefore, the officials of the Ministry of Rites, who were asked by Man Bao, were very attentive to Zhou Man's science, "Because there is an ancient city in Wutun Township, the commerce was very developed in the former dynasty, and many merchants coming and going to Chang'an would stop there. At that time, Wannian County was still lively."

The capital was war-torn. At that time, when the capital was fighting, many people moved to the nearby Xiang Village to hide. Over time, Wuxiang County developed even better than Wannian County.

"So after the emperor ascended the throne, he saw that Wannian County was really deserted, so he merged Liyang into Wannian County. At that time, the magistrate of Wannian County diverted the people and merchants from Liyang to Wannian County..." Ministry of Rites The official paused and said, "But later, because the county was too big to manage, and Chang'an County and Wannian County should be dominated by Chang'an County, and Yongzhou should be the companion capital, the late emperor returned Liyang to Yongzhou. It became a county by itself.”

However, the merchants, dignitaries and officials who gathered in Liyang before went to Wannian County, and it is impossible for them to go back. Therefore, the ancient city of Liyang is becoming more and more abandoned day by day, and now it is no different from ordinary towns. Both, even more dilapidated than them.

Man Bao: "...I, I'll just eat a meal. Is this something the county magistrates should worry about?"

The officials of the Ministry of Rites froze for a moment, then nodded and smiled: "Yes, it is indeed the county magistrate's concern."

On the fifth day of the watch, I'm finally done, Oye

good night