Chapter 47 I just depend on you!
The morning morning of the next morning was the most lively in She County's yamen these days. In addition to Wu Zhubu and Luo Dianshi, as well as the numerous six-house clerk clerks and three-squad yamen runners, there were more than a dozen old and young people in different clothes. These were the grain chiefs of each district just sent. If it were in the early Ming Dynasty, all the grain chiefs of each district were first-class gentry, and no magistrate dared to let someone stand in the corridor and wait for him so big. However, more than a hundred years have passed since such a golden age, and most grain chiefs no longer had any self-pride on their faces. On the contrary, there were many miserable and miserable people.
Being a grain chief would be like losing everything! Fortunately, it’s not for a lifetime, but for a year, otherwise you might just hang yourself!
Of course, there were also a few people who were calm and obviously had other intentions. Compared with some people who regarded grain growth as a deadly activity, they regarded it as a hot commodity. This is the countryside dominance that was rampant in the name of grain growth. In contrast, Wu Tianbaoren stood there, but his eyes were looking around, and he was really absent-minded. Because he had not seen Wang Fulin until now!
Even if his father was far away from Hankou, Wang Fulin, as his son, had to be present today! Even if he fought in court, he had to come!
"He's promoted to the church!"
Wu Tianbao became even more anxious when the sound of his throat was heard inside. Just when he looked out at Touyimen for the last time, he finally found Wang Fulin's figure dressed in a scholarly shirt. After breathing a sigh of relief, he quickly cheered up, no longer looked around, and entered with the others without looking around. Because the news was not well-informed and had never seen the county master with his own eyes before, he didn't even notice that the person who was promoted to the hall today was not Ye County Master, but was replaced by Fang County Master.
He did not notice it, nor did most grain managers notice it, but a few people already knew about this change, including Wang Fulin, who regarded the back door of the county magistrate as his back door.
Therefore, when the grain chiefs met one by one, Wang Fulin, the last one, was the scholar, who was the last. Although this action seemed very eye-catching, the county magistrate Fang was not very confident, so he simply avoided his gaze and said some encouragement with an air. Just as he was speaking for the first time, he finally found Ye Junyao's roaring feeling. When he spoke very vigorously, he suddenly heard an extremely despicable sound coming from his head.
"I wonder if Fang Eryin is that there are many households in She County and wealthy families are everywhere. When will the father of the derivation officer be the chief of grain?"
Wang Fulin stepped on the spot and stood at the end. Except for Wu Tianbao who had been paying attention to him, most of the grain managers did not notice him at all. At this moment, they turned around and found that the person standing at the end of their ranks was a young scholar who was about 14th and 50 years old, and there was a commotion. Some people noticed his name just now, which was even more surprising.
It turns out that the person who was sitting in the position of county magistrate was not the county magistrate, but the county magistrate of the county?
Judging from the two incidents in Minglun Hall and Xin'anmen, Zhao Sicheng thought that Wang Fulin was just a little young and impulsive in his work. He had long expected that this young scholar would attack in public today, so he winked at County Magistrate Fang, who was a little inadequate in the main position, and signaled him to be calm and not be impatient. Then he stood up calmly.
"Mr. Wang's words are bad. It should be noted that when Grandpa Taizu decided to exempt officials and those with fame from service, they were always exempted from various servants, rather than the official servant of Lijia! And throughout the ages, there have been corresponding decrees. For example, during the Zhengtong period, Grandpa Yingzong issued an order to order that all civil and military officials in Beijing, except for the official servant of Lijia, the rest should be exempted from all servants."
While speaking, he glanced at Wang Fulin with a sarcastic look, and then continued: "There are civil and military officials in Beijing like this, let alone the students? The official servant of Lijia is the only official offering. This is the purpose of Grandpa Taizu back then. All the subjects in the world must be on duty. This is the ancestral system and the rules!"
Wang Qiu had fooled him like this in front of him, and Wu Lichang also reposted it like this, but now Wang Fulin is not Wu Xia Among. Not to mention that he had just spent a day and a night to digest the entire "Huizhou Prefecture Chronicle" and had been exposed to various old rules over the past few days. He also went to the bookstore to read the corresponding articles in the "Ming Hui Dian" and asked Liu Hui and Zhao Wuye for advice.
The so-called Lijia official service refers to the collection of taxes and grains, and the materials provided by the superiors, and the various public expenses paid by the government. In the end, the taxes and service are not divided into families. This kind of Lijia official service is almost the same as taxes. As for the mixed service, this is the actual service, such as the dispatch of Hegong, the postman, the peer, the food man, the horseman, and other dispatches, which were also called equal labor service after Hongzhi. On the surface, the official service of the officials and gentry families were exempted from the latter, and the former was inevitable, but in actual operation, most of the cases were that as long as there was a scholar, all the service personnel were exempted from, and the other two close relatives, Ding You, could also be exempted from any service personnel at the same time.
Just like tax exemption, it is said that a scholar is exempted from taxes of only two stones, but in fact, most of them do not pay a penny no matter how many acres of land they have in their name. Not only She County, but everyone in the world does this. Otherwise, how could the famous Xu Ge Lao Xu have so much land at home? In addition to land annexation, there are also people who want to pay tax exemption to flock to the tax-free ones. If they really follow the tax exemption limit stipulated by the court, let alone one hundred of them are not enough to fill in. But this unwritten system is so magical, and Xu Ge Lao still doesn't pay a penny. So, the rated taxes in the prefectures and counties where they are located are all distributed to the common people!
Of course, as soon as Xu Ge Lao fell, he would be in trouble with these places and his son. This is a liquidation and has nothing to do with the rules. Therefore, this is a rule that is violated by the ancestral system, but no one dares to violate!
Seeing that Wang Fulin didn't say anything, Zhao Sicheng thought he was choked by his words, and said calmly: "When Grandpa Taizu and Grandpa Chengzu both had students who were studying in the Imperial College. Because they were responsible for the official service of Lijia, they gave up their studies and went home. When the official service of Lijia was finished, they returned to the Imperial College. It was a legend for a while. Now, Wang Xiaogong is trying to get rid of the official service of Lijia by virtue of his fame. Isn't this what scholars should do? What's more, there are always old examples of the family of students being the chief of grain..."
"Okay, Zhao Sili, stop worrying." Wang Fulin suddenly interrupted the guy who was getting more and more excited and said with a smile, "You are not tired of speaking, I am tired of listening. What I just said seems that you have only listened halfway through what I said. Listen well, what I said is that because there are many wealthy families in this county, my family is only more than 100 acres of land, why is my father assigned to be the grain chief? The premise is that there are many wealthy families in this county, so it is not the turn of my father to be the grain chief in the district, and not as a living member, my family refuses to be the grain chief. Please listen to this premise clearly first."
Seeing Zhao Sicheng stunned for a moment, he took advantage of this skill and said slowly: "Although my family has more than 130 acres of land, I am fourteen years old this year. My adopted son Jinbao is eight years old, all of whom are under 16, and I am not yet a resident. My father is in business. In other words, although my family has acres of land, there are only one resident. If such conditions are enough to have a large grain harvest, we in She County are probably all middle-aged and inferior households! Zhao Sili's family has a total of 153 acres of land, and there are three shops in She County. There are seven men in the family. At least in the past four decades, they have never been sent to the grain harvest manager. I am not wrong, right?"
Wang Fulin always said that he was a wealthy family, but he knew that if he really involved the wealthy families with huge wealth in She County, he was overestimating his ability. Therefore, his sudden piercing arrow pointed directly at Zhao Siyen! Seeing that the grain chiefs who were looking at him with mocking faces at first, his expression was different for a while, while Zhao Sicheng no longer had the freedom he had just done, but seemed embarrassed in surprise, he threw out another move.
"Just just compare the fields and Ding Nan, I know that Zhao Sili must be very dissatisfied, so we might as well compare the family's capital. Everyone in Songmingshan knows that although my family has land, it is not abundant. They eat vegetables, grains and rice produced in the fields, and wear the most ordinary cotton cloth. This is the only time I went to school this time, and I bought silk silk for two pieces in total. I used less than one and a half taels of silver, and I even had no money to interact with relatives on weekdays.
Although my father was a businessman, he had no permanent property or a store. He even had money shortage and even started a loss-making business in the first few years. Now he hasn't come back once in these years. Therefore, when his mother rushed to serve the disease, she took away all the savings in the family over the years, a total of fifty taels of silver. Zhao Sili is in She County and has a generous expense. He heard that he doesn't say anything about the favors of 50 taels, but he also makes money outside. The monthly interest rate is 50 cents, and there are at least a few hundred taels. In comparison, everyone should know who the family has more money."
Wang Fulin has always given people the impression of being a little talented and reckless scholar. Not only Zhao Sicheng, but also the clerks of the six-household office knew that during his entry into the city, he almost put all his hopes on the county magistrate Ye Junyao, and ran around the county government all day long, almost treating the magistrate as his back door. Therefore, no one expected that Wang Fulin would suddenly point his finger at Zhao Sicheng, and almost turned out all of Zhao Sicheng's family in this way.
Zhao Sicheng, who finally realized that he was almost mad. He realized that Wang Fulin had used tricks, but he thought that the other party had secretly repaired the plank road and secretly checked his family's fortune. He was trying to launch a fierce counterattack, but then he saw Wang Fulin showing an extremely bright smile to himself. At that moment, he felt a chill in his heart.
"So, since Zhao Sili has always spoken of the ancestral system, then I suggest restoring the Hongwu ancestral system of each district from the Former 15 Grain Districts in She County. As far as I know, Zhao Sili and my family belong to a large grain area. So, if you ask Zhao Sili to be the ancestral grain chief, although I am not a clan, I am willing to share my father's worries and be his deputy. This is truly fair. What do you think?"
This is simply... so rogue!
PS1: I recently found that the word "grandfather" was often added to the name of emperor in the Ming Dynasty, so it is not "Long Live" but "Long Live" grandfather. But this is mainly used for the sake of joy^_^
PS2: Finally, I reached the top of the new book list on Monday and also on the member click list! Thanks to Lao Mao, thanks to Chen Ci Lazy Cat... It was these two cat brothers who strongly recommended that I broke through!
Chapter completed!