As soon as I saw Yuwen Rong, Du Shiyi realized that there was an unspeakable stiff atmosphere in the huge room. After thinking quickly, he looked forward with a look of surprise and said, "When did Yuwen Zhongcheng arrive in Chengdu? I just arrived at the office, so I went to various villages and towns to investigate the people's situation. I didn't know the news that Zhongcheng was coming at all."

Yuwen Rong was originally angry that Du Shiyi was avoiding him when he arrived in Chengdu. At this moment, he saw Du Shiyi saying he didn't know, and he immediately moved his heart, so he glanced at the Chengdu County Party Office officials with different expressions with a smile, and then said with a kind look: "You are here when you are just here, you go and go to visit me in a private manner. You don't care about me. This is nothing wrong, but I have already decided on the inspection of Bashu before. Although the journey is fast, no one reminds you, which is a bit strange.

Seeing that Yu Wenrong, who had always been not even the governors of various states, was obviously favored by Du Shiyi in his words. County Magistrate Wang Ming immediately gritted his teeth and said, "Du Ming's mansion was so anxious that we could not remind us, and we suddenly received Yu Wenrong's extremely sharp gaze."

"I don't have time to remind me? Joke, it only takes a word to do anything. Don't think that I have been an official in the capital for many years, but I think that I don't understand all the tricks that I am in the middle of the city. I have something to discuss with Du Ming's mansion."

Since Zhang Jiazhen's fall, Yuwen Rong's official position has become increasingly prominent. In addition, most of the time he has to patrol the fields and households and encourage farmers, so he has not had much time in the capital, so his contacts with Du Shiyi are naturally not eye-catching. For example, most of the humble foreign officials are completely unaware of it. Therefore, the four subordinates found that Yuwen Rong, who was still calm when he first entered the county party committee, was now full of anger on them, and he was very easy to talk to Du Shiyi. Even though several people were very depressed, no one dared to disobey Yuwen Rong, the newly promoted trusted minister, and had to swallow his anger and retreat.

As soon as they left, Yu Wenrong directly shut down his followers. When the gate was closed, he smiled and said to Du Shiyi: "Why, you, the straight minister who has won the reputation of Du Shijiulang in the capital, can't even control these officials when you arrive in Chengdu?"

"With Brother Yuwen's power, of course I have to borrow it. The next day I took office, I went to see Zhang Jun but failed. On the third day, I left Chengdu to visit various villages and towns in Xiatou. I ignored the little thoughts of these guys. However, I didn't expect that I almost missed the days when Brother Yuwen went to Chengdu. If I hadn't happened to come back, I would have really neglected Brother Yuwen, you Shangguan."

"Haha, I knew you wouldn't be so incompetent."

Yuwen Rong once investigated Li Linfu for the incident of Du Shiyi's departure as a foreign official, and then verified it, and vaguely guessed the real reason why Du Shiyi left the capital, because he was afraid that the Crown Prince Li Siqian would continue to be obsessed with it. Previously, Du Shiyi recommended to study books at Lizheng Academy for more than a year because Zhang said that he had recommended that he retreat as a way to advance, with the purpose of making Du Shiyi stop being a minister of the poem.

Although his grandfather Yuwen Jie was once the Minister of Shangshu, he was implicated in the rebellion case because of his kindness to Fang Yi, and was once submissive. Because of this, his family's resources are far inferior to other officials' children, and he has taken extra steps since he entered the officialdom. The Wei family of his mother was affected by the rebellion of Empress Wei, which was not as good as before, so he particularly hoped to gather a group of capable people and wise men around him and follow the foundation laid in recent years to enter the government affairs hall. Therefore, since he was determined that Du Shiyi was a capable person, and he seemed not to deal with the current Secretary Zhang Shuo, he naturally expressed his kindness.

"Come on, tell me, you, the new official, went down to investigate and investigate. What did you find?"

Du Shiyi knew that Yuwen Rong was an expert, so she took the discord between the host and the guest that she had heard on Zhang Yi's building as an introduction, and then talked about the specific situation she had found in the villages and towns below.

Although the large-scale land-based households have ended, and a total of 800,000 hidden households were collected throughout the Tang Dynasty, which made Li Longji overjoyed, but Yuwen Rong knew that this was just the tip of the iceberg. Just like a county town in Chengdu, the number of customers reported was more than 1,200, but according to the situation Du Shiyi visited in six small villages, there were 10,000 hidden households in each village. In addition, more customers who did not make a living by farming and whose household registration was not here would be at least 2,000.

But Yuwen Rong did not intend to blindly expand the results of the battle. At this moment, he frowned and said, "There is no need to dig deeper into these. After all, how to make these hidden households live in peace and be able to pay taxes to the court after the period of exemption from taxes has passed. This is the top priority."

Du Shiyi understood it and nodded with a smile: "I also know that Brother Yuwen will not rush to investigate the hidden customers, so this time I am not just to check the hidden customers, but more to see how they get along with local people. The result is not optimistic. Locals, unless they are exempted from school work, they all have to bear rent and mix local taxes. However, these customers can be exempted for several years. Compared with the two, how can I know that local people who suffer from taxes and labor will escape? This is the case with taxes and labor, and the tribute is even more serious..."

Before he finished speaking, Yu Wenrong said firmly: "Taxes and service can be exempted, but tributes cannot be confused. It would be fine if there are households with household registration who have registered, otherwise, unless the tax is paid, these customers' children are not allowed to participate in the prefecture and county tribute."

Before Du Shiyi mentioned the specific example, he received such a reply from Yu Wenrong. He sighed inwardly, thinking that no wonder Li Bai had waited until Tianbao was truly famous all over the world, and his career was full of twists and turns. The word "client" was on his head, which really made it difficult for talented people to enter the career.

Yu Wenrong is now implementing national policies, and this person is extremely difficult to convince. He skipped this point and continued: "As for the withdrawal of water due to land reclamation, and even the struggle for water, land and land, the dispute between the host and the guest has become increasingly fierce. Therefore, my focus of this position is to focus on how customers who have previously registered in Kuotian and Kuobao, how to pay taxes and how to be able to live in peace with the residents.

"Okay, okay, I'm sure I'm right in your opinion when you know this."

Seeing that Du Shiyi was indeed not trying to accuse his previous strategy of failure, but was thinking about how to govern and solve the problem, Yuwen Rong was happy. He stood up and walked back and forth for two steps, then turned around and looked at Du Shiyi with a bright look, and said with a smile: "By the way, I will give you great news too. You must feel so uncomfortable when you are in the same Chengdu city as Zhang Jiazhen. His good days are over. His Majesty killed Wang Shouyi before, and Zhang said that he took the opportunity to give Zhang Jiazhen another eye medicine, so at this moment, the person who went to the Yizhou Grand Governor's Office to issue the imperial edict should have arrived. He is the governor of Yizhou, and the next step is to demote the governor of Taizhou. That is not a good place. Maybe he will die there."

It is indeed not a wonderful experience to live in the same city with Zhang Jiazhen, so since Li Longji was willing to move people, Du Shiyi was of course very happy. Just thinking about Zhang Jiazhen's glory was so glorious that he could hardly speak in the political affairs hall, Yuan Gan Yao was suppressed and could hardly speak out, but now he was so depressed that he felt a sense of coldness in the world. However, compared to sighing for Zhang Jiazhen's experience, he had something more to do. He hesitated for a moment and tentatively said: "Who is the new governor of Yi?"

"That's what I want to tell you"

Yuwen Rong immediately changed his face and said word by word: "It is Zhang Shuo's confidant. He was the right minister of the Shangshu, the Minister of Justice, and the governor of the Ministry of Justice, and the governor of three times. Although the Fan family did not have many high-ranking officials and nobles in the Hanoi family, Zhang said that he called himself Zhang from Hedong, but he was not a regular branch. The Fan family had at least a prime minister Fan Lubing during the Tianhou period. Fan Chengming was his follower and was considered the highest-ranking person in the Fan family. Zhang said that he was very cautious about me. Since this person was appointed as the Chief Secretary of Yizhou, he would probably have to make a fuss about the host and guest. You have a good idea."

Du Shiyi asked to be the county magistrate, and thought about doing something practical, but was not afraid of anyone suppressing it. At this moment, since Yuwen Rong had a reminder to him in advance, he nodded and said, "I understand, thank you Brother Yuwen for reminding me. It would be best if he is fair and righteous. If he cannot, I will not give in easily."

"Okay, I'll feel relieved if I have strong points in Shu like you." Yu Wenrong laughed, as if Du Shiyi was not a small county magistrate of Chengdu, but also a general of Yizhou.

When the reception banquet was set up at the county party committee in the evening, Yu Wenrong blamed him with a stern face because the banquet was too luxurious. Although Du Shiyi was the one who apologized, the county magistrate Yu Ling, who was originally preparing for all this, felt very lost.

When Yu Wenrong invited several judges who were patrolling him to the same table, they saw Du Shiyi and one of them met, and they greeted each other in surprise and joy. They were extremely familiar with each other. When they learned from the conversations between the two that the judge Guo, who had the title of Supervisor Censor, was actually Du Shiyi's colleague who was appointed as Wannianwei, and he was recommended by Du Shiyi to Yuwen Rong, and they immediately regretted it.

Judging from this, isn’t Du Shiyi’s relationship with Yuwen Rong extremely unusual?

After Yuwen Rong invited these judges to take their seats, he pointed at Guo Quan and smiled at Du Shiyi: "This time I was ordered to serve as the envoy of the Imperial College, and I was in a hurry all the way. Because the saint wanted to be Fengshan, I would rush back to Luoyang soon. Guo Quan is going to stay here to patrol Jiannan Road this time. Since he is your old colleague, you have to take care of him."

Du Shiyi immediately felt moved. Seeing Guo Quan smiled and nodded to him, he immediately agreed readily. During this meal, he and Yu Wenrong and Guo Quan and other judges had a great time, but they felt sorry for the four officials who were accompanying the last seat were extremely uncomfortable. They not only had to smile on their faces, but also had to deal with Yu Wenrong's problem of wrapping guns and sticks.
Chapter completed!