According to Zheng Xiaoming's experience in Liangzhou, the population of Anding County in Liangzhou alone is probably no less than 200,000. The remaining eleven counties total less than 300,000 people? What a joke.

Those Qiang and Hu who can be suppressed by just these 500,000 people?

It's just that there are still many people who are not recorded in official records, but have been hidden by the powerful families in Liangzhou.

The powerful local families became more and more powerful and controlled more and more land and population. On the contrary, the imperial court controlled and controlled fewer and fewer people, which reduced tax sources and could only increase taxation.

This can only lead to more people selling themselves into slavery and seeking refuge with local powerful families, making the annexation more and more serious.

This is already considered the biggest contradiction in the world today.

The problem is that no one has a solution.

In fact, Zheng Xiaoming sometimes wondered whether Liu Hong's sale of his official position that day had the meaning of collecting taxes from those officials.

I can't collect taxes from you under normal circumstances, so I can only rely on this method to make you pay for it!

However, the taxes collected by the Emperor Liu Hong were not used for the country, but for his own debauchery...

No, not only was it spent on debauchery, it was also spent on the army.

Zheng Xiaoming thought thoughtfully as he thought about the gradual expansion of the imperial army in recent years after the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

No wonder the world is in chaos and turmoil now, but the emperor's rule has always been rock solid!

Of course, these things have nothing to do with him now, because he, Zheng Xiaoming, has jumped out of Luoyang and gone to Donghai County.

The current governor of Donghai County is Jiang Pei.

But it doesn't matter who the governor of Donghai is now. Because as soon as Zheng Xiaoming, the new governor, takes office, the previous governor will definitely get out.

Although Jiang Pei's face was full of resentment and unwillingness... He came to Donghai to take office in the second year of Zhongping. He left the post in less than two years. The position of prefect that he bought with 20 million yuan has not been returned yet.

Book!

It's a pity that the arm can't twist the thigh, and the authority of the Han court is still there. It is impossible for him to directly drive Zheng Xiaoming away and refuse to hand over the position of prefect.

What's more, Zheng Xiaoming brought five hundred troops to take office, so Jiang Pei had no choice but to leave office unwillingly.

It's just that he was very bad at what he did. Before leaving, he simply prepared to move the entire county's treasury.

However, he has forgotten that in a place like Donghai County, there are many powerful families who control the government. How could it be so easy for him to empty the treasury?

As soon as he started, he was stopped by the local officials in the county governor's house, and he could only leave in despair.

When Zheng Xiaoming rushed to Tan County, Donghai County and heard about this story, he was shocked and shocked. What surprised him was that Jiang Pei was so bold and dared to do such a thing? Do you really think that Zheng Xiaoming is easy to bully?

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Zheng Xiaoming has troops and horses. If he hears this news, he will definitely send troops to stop it regardless of the situation and take back all the finances. Jiang Pei will not be able to enjoy the good fruits.

At the same time, Zheng Xiaoming was also secretly frightened by the local officials here in the East China Sea. These people actually dared to directly block the outgoing governor's actions. Of course, it can be said that they care about their hometown, but it can also be seen from this that the power of these people is huge.

The prefect didn't have much awe either!

But this kind of thing seems to be too normal!

Nowadays, the officials in counties and counties in various places are the children of powerful local families.

Not to mention anything else, let’s count the famous powerful families in Donghai County: Wang, Qi, Zang, Yan, Mi, Zhu, Zhuang, Guan, Bao, Yin, Xu, He

Surnames include Cao, Meng, Yu, Liu, Chen, etc...

Just thinking about it makes my scalp numb!

These people are all local snakes, and their families are deeply rooted in the local area. How can they be afraid of you, a prefect who is about to leave?

Thinking of this, Zheng Xiaoming had a headache.

Fortunately, he was mentally prepared before coming here.

Now, big man, no matter where you are an official, you have to deal with these powerful people.

If you can't subdue them, you will definitely not be able to sit firmly as an official!

But you still have to appease them. Without the cooperation of these local snakes, your orders cannot even be transmitted to the county court. There are also tax collection and other matters, all of which require their cooperation.

However, Zheng Xiaoming has seen many storms and waves, and he is really not afraid of these local gangsters making things difficult for him. At worst, the two sides will just have to fight!

This was the first time that Zheng Xiaoming was in power independently, and his subordinates brought a large number of talents from Nanyang to serve as helpers.

Coupled with the manpower that Zheng Xiaoming himself trained in Fu County, these people can read and do math, and are ready to handle any official documents and political affairs.

In addition, five hundred people followed him to fight the Yellow Turbans in Nanyang and the Qiang and Hu private soldiers in Liangzhou.

His subordinates are both civilized and military, and I really don’t believe that the local officials in Donghai can compete with him!

At this moment, a man named Deng Pi came out and reminded Zheng Xiaoming: "Ming Gong, now that you have arrived in Xuzhou, do you want to visit Mr. Ba first?"

This Deng Pi comes from the Deng family in Nanyang. Like Yin Wei, he is a young talent of the Deng family. At this moment, I can't help but remind Zheng Xiaoming!

The governor of Xuzhou at this time was Ba Zhi, so Deng Pi called him Ba Shijun.

Zheng Xiaoming sneered when he heard this: "It's only six hundred stones. If he doesn't come to visit me, that's it. Do you still need me to visit him?"

Everyone was shocked, knowing that the struggle between the governor and the governor lasted for hundreds of years.

Although the governor was originally a supervisory position, the administrativeization of supervisory positions in any place is inevitable. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the governor gradually usurped the power of the prefects in various places, and even gradually became the superior officials of the prefects. This has gradually formed a trend.

Zheng Xiaoming is now going to have an affair with Xuzhou Governor, I'm afraid something is not right!

But when I think about Zheng Xiaoming's background and backing, I suddenly feel that he is nothing compared to a mere Xuzhou governor!

If you don’t want to visit, don’t visit!

Compared with the Xuzhou governor, I just don’t know what the attitude of the local powerful families in Donghai County towards Zheng Xiaoming?

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There are many powerful families in Donghai County, but the largest families in Donghai County should belong to the Liu family and the Wang family.

The Liu family of Donghai comes from the Eastern Han Dynasty royal family and is a descendant of Liu Qiang, the eldest son of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty Liu Xiu, Prince Gong of Donghai. Liu Qiang was originally the crown prince. After his mother, Empress Guo, was deposed, she was demoted to the title of King of Donghai. His descendants were crowned princes.

There were so many people that they developed into a big family.

In this era, Liu Yu and Liu Bo'an, who were born in the Liu family of the East China Sea, have now become the governor of Youzhou.

Then there is the Wang family of Donghai, who has lived in the northeast of Tan County for generations and is also a local rich family. The most famous person now is Wang Yan and Wang Jingxing. By the way, this person has another name, which I believe friends at Station B must be familiar with.

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