Chapter 643 Overhead and Burden Relief
Yao Huizu was a little hesitant when he heard that he wanted to demolish the east wall and repair the west wall, but Wang Fulin was not a bit selfish, but he was surprised. But when he saw Wang Fulin take out two pieces of paper from his sleeve, he took it and took it in his hand and saw that it was two strange forms he had never seen before. It was very intuitively listed in which the changes in the summer tax and autumn grain quota of each county in the two consecutive years when Zhu Yuanzhang had not ascended the throne, the changes in the summer tax and autumn grain quota of each county in the two consecutive years. Among them, the rice and wheat levies collected by the five counties increased significantly, and only the rice and wheat in She County had decreased, but a silk tax was added, and he understood.
In other words, it may be a bit unfair to send Xia Tax silk to She County, but it has not reached such an unfair level. After all, when Yi Si was reorganized, the burden on each county increased by more than 50% to several times!
"Although it is necessary to add silk silk to a She County that does not produce silk, instead of adding rice and wheat like the other five counties in Huizhou Prefecture, from the figures, it is very likely that it was because Yi Si increased the tax. Of course, no one can tell the exact details. After all, the amount is really surprising. In short, as long as we strive to reduce silk in She County, and at the same time, there are not many other five counties, the government will definitely be able to enter the famous official temple when the government leaves office. And while the auxiliary master is rectifying the academic government, the government asked the Grandmaster to recommend the students to rectify the students and the six counties in Huizhou, and to remove more and more litigation sticks who have no virtue or conduct, which also sets an example for the other prefectures and counties."
"As for the money I just mentioned, in addition to repairing the destroyed houses, there are at least seven or eight thousand. The Duke can be used to provide pensions to the elderly in the six counties, or to purchase household registration for the social school, or to build roads and bridges. In short, the Duke will be much more prosperous if it is to benefit the six counties."
Wang Fulin, the boy who gave money, directly sent Yao Huizu more than 10,000 yuan to his innocent people, and he could use money to scatter everywhere. Yao Huizu naturally felt much better. In addition, he gave him a more reasonable idea that even if it was not the best, he was still a short man. He had been in the officialdom for many years and knew it was feasible. Therefore, when Wang Fulin left, he naturally sent him to the inner corps of the government office. However, another thing that Wang Fulin mentioned to him before leaving. He couldn't help but hesitate.
It doesn’t matter who is the magistrate of She County, but now Xue must not be kept!
The strong dragon does not suppress the local snake. Although Xue was a little murmured about Wang Fulin's last toughness, Xue's greed and incompetent nature really annoyed him. What's more, he is Zhang Juzheng's confidant, not Zhang Siwei's confidant, and Zhang Siwei's fellow villager is incompetent. What's more, the benefits and political achievements that Wang Fulin can bring to him are much more important than the little Xue. Just as Xue wanted to throw Shuai Jiamo out as a scapegoat, he didn't want to find a scapegoat to block the disaster?
The chaos this time was so big, so Yu Maoxue didn't need him to worry about it. I think the Jinyiwei and Dongchang would arrange it themselves. As for the people who were responsible for the officials, the county magistrates of She County, Wuyuan and Xiuning were the best choice. However, Wuyuan County magistrate Wu Guan was a famous Sibu County magistrate and a good official with his strength. He also comforted the chaos in Wuyuan, at least he had made more contributions than his faults. The Chen County magistrate of Xiuning was indeed incompetent, and even was imprisoned in the government office. But after all, he did not jump up and down like Xue, and there was no need to take any responsibility afterwards, so it was fine to deduct the salary, and it was not appropriate to seize the position.
It is still very cost-effective to use a county magistrate like Xue, who previously advocated the equalization of summer tax silk, to calm the anger of the people in the five counties and at the same time to calm the dissatisfaction of the officials in She County!
In the county government office of She County, Xue was just fainting from anger, but when he heard that the prefect of Huizhou Yao Huizu actually asked County Magistrate Yu to act as his county magistrate, he was shocked and angry, and immediately scolded Master Liu. He was really angry. However, when he took a few doses of medicine and failed to recover, he remembered Master Liu and called him to follow him to ask. Only then did he know that Master Liu had left a letter to resign and left without his consent. When he opened the letter, Master Liu's words were extremely stiff, and he even stated that he would tell other colleagues about his lesson in the future to take it as a warning. Now he was really panicked.
You know, the master also has a circle. If his reputation of being stubborn and self-righteous is really spread by Master Liu, who would still be willing to join him? The first term like him is a local official, and it is impossible for those who are similar to those who are not released to be local officials. How could he lack the help of a staff member?
"How many days has he left?" Seeing that the intimate in front of him hesitated to face his own problem, Xue was so angry that he smoked, "I'm asking you how many days has Master Liu been leaving?"
"I left the day before yesterday and said I left Huizhou just now."
"Bastard, I won't say such a big thing!" Xue was so angry that he smashed a teacup on the small table on the bedside. Then he felt dizzy in his mind and couldn't help but feel a little suspicious. He was in She County, where Wang Fulin lived on the back street of the county. This local snake that was enough to cover the sky in She County was just one sentence. Can his illness be cured? The more he thought about it, the more he became, the more worried he became. In the end, he shouted at the person who followed him: "You go to the government office to ask for Yao Fuzun, and say that my illness was strange. I beg the government to not see the monks and Buddha faces, and recommend a safe doctor to me, and I will betray the five inside!"
Seeing that the accompanying person's expression changed, he repeatedly agreed and turned around and was about to leave. Xue suddenly called him again and changed his words and said, "No, don't go to Yao Man Zun, go to Huining Daoya to find Feng Guan! Feng Guan should come now, right?"
After receiving the affirmative reply from his personal follower, Xue immediately drove the person away, then leaned on the pillow. Not long after, he suddenly remembered something again, called someone in to serve the pen and ink, and was ready to write a letter to Zhang Siwei and Wang Chonggu. However, he, who was usually like a spring of thought, didn't know what to write when he picked up the pen. Every time he only wrote a few words, he impatiently crumpled the letter paper into a ball and threw it on the ground. Finally, he simply threw the paper and pen there and sulked.
If Master Liu is here, how could he need to do it himself while he is sick?
However, he had not yet considered a letter from him. When he went to the city to see the relatives of Huining, Feng observed, who had already arrived. Facing Xue's look of anticipation, the relatives could only lower his head deeply and said carefully: "Feng Guan said that these doctors in Huizhou Prefecture are not just for free rice. The county master is just a minor illness that is so angry that he can't treat them well. He has seen the doctor invited by the county master, and Yaofu Zun has also seen it, so he should not be anxious. It is important to know that the illness comes like a mountain of falling, and the illness goes like a thread of tearing."
Hearing that Feng Zhan said this, he was secretly blaming himself for suspicion of the suspicion of the ghost cup, Xue felt a smell of sweetness in his throat. But when he reached his mouth, he had to swallow it. Without any luck, he clenched his fists hard and asked in a hoarse voice: "Does Feng Zhan say anything else?" Seeing that the follower just shook his head, he could only ask again, "What have the county magistrate Yu done in the past few days of acting as county affairs?"
This past few days, it was the first time that Xue was so ill that he was cheering up and asked about things outside. When he learned that County Magistrate Yu had stabilized the inner and outer cities of She County with the full cooperation of three squads and six robes, and the rioters in other counties of Huizhou Prefecture had dispersed, and the situation was almost stable. Only the corresponding evil was sent to the government office and was about to be interrogated in public soon. He had to ask Xia Shishi and Silk again, but the follower couldn't tell what it was. He was furious and could only ask him to call Liu Hui, the official of the Household Office. But he had been there not long ago, but he came alone again.
"What, may I be sick, and they all dare not take me seriously?"
"Master, Liu Sili followed Yu County Prime Minister to the government office. It is said that all the five counties sent officials and household houses to the court. Discussing the matter of Xia Taxation and Sili. Wuyuan was the Yu County Prime Minister and Cheng Dehuan, the official of the House Office, who had been beaten before, so we are naturally forced to send people to the She County. It is said that news came from the government office that Mr. Wang of our She County took the lead. Many townsmen donated money, and the people from the Rice Industry Guild donated money in Xiuning. On the one hand, they rebuilt the houses that were smashed by the rioters, etc., and on the other hand, they also gave the wounded. Many of the servants who were injured by the rioters were injured by stones and bricks in the She County offices, and many of them received the money for healing."
"Stop talking!"
Xue stopped the nagging statement from his side. He felt that he would vomit blood even if he didn't interrupt him. When he was knocked away, he felt weak all over his body, and the evil fire in his heart was nowhere to go. This time, the incident made him look dirty. As a result, after Wang Fulin dispersed the chaotic people, he also took out money to be a good person to praise him. But he was lying in bed in a miserable way. Seeing that even the county magistrate's power had been taken over by a county magistrate, why was he so unlucky?
How to be a shadow county magnitude on this acre of three-point land in Shexian County, Wang Fulin is naturally as good as a fish in water. Especially in the Shexian County Government, countless eyeliners in three squads and six rooms are always informed. In addition, after Yu County Magistrate got the authority to be an agent, he was like a chicken blood. He did not say anything carefully, but he also asked several officials for advice "humble and sincere" to ask for advice, let alone generously delegating power. Therefore, when Yu County Magistrate and Liu Hui came from Huizhou Prefecture, he was in Wang's house on the back street of the county, he had received a detailed information on the affairs of the government office today. If he hadn't specifically instructed the two of them not to come directly, he would have come directly to report.
The thing he was at hand was Liu Hui's handwriting. It mentioned that Yao Huizu made it clear in public that he had asked the editor to edit the tax and service, and asked the Taiping Prefecture and Ningguo Prefecture to send officials to check the tax and service yellow book and old files. These were all his proposals. Yao Huizu, the prefect of Huizhou, not only accepted it verbally, but also did the same in actual operation. Wang Fulin naturally felt relieved. As for the dispute over the summer tax silk, there was still no result, he was not surprised at all, and he didn't even bother to watch the confrontation that Liu Hui retelled. After all, it was just a quarrel.
In addition, Liu Hui mentioned a note at the end that the matter of Cheng Wenlie and Wu Dajiang and others fanning the flames in Wuyuan and Xiuning was announced on the eight-character wall of the government office, and the trial was made on the date. He was more interested in this, so he thought about it and called Jinbao, and told him to go to the front of the government office to watch the fun, and then recited the content of the posted notice.
For Jin Bao, who never forgets his eyes or never forgets, this matter is naturally not difficult. He called him in less than an hour and repeated the notice that the cause of the chaos in the two counties without missing a word. When talking about the onlookers' reactions, he couldn't help but feel angry: "This time the notice was sent by the government office to read it over and over again to the onlookers. At first, some people didn't believe it, but it soon began to stir up. Some even suggested that evil be shackles be made public in front of the government office. There are such despicable and shameless guys in the world who took advantage of the summer tax silk dispute to make money and even spread rumors. Has their conscience been eaten by the dog?"
Seeing that Wang Fulin looked at him with a smile and did not say anything, Jin Bao thought he was wrong, so he shut up and said nothing. But then, what Wang Fulin said surprised him. The numbers of Huizhou Prefecture's annual office and seat sect that Wang Fulin had stated to Shuai Jiamo, Jin Bao heard Wang Fulin say it again, but it was more shocked than Shuai Jiamo, because Shuai Jiamo had known it for a long time, but for the first time he knew that after the so-called light taxes and short taxes in the court, there was such a mystery hidden! He hesitated for a long time, and finally whispered: "Is there no honest and bold person who proposed to reduce the annual office and seat sect?"
"How do you think there are many censors who will go to see the local prefectures and county annals? Even if you look at it, how many people will blame the court for the benefit of the common people for the sake of the common people? Let me tell you a story. Before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu fought hard with Zhang Shicheng for ten years, and in the end, the army was short of food, so he borrowed taxes for the second year from Wujin and Yixing counties in Changzhou Prefecture as military rations. In other words, the taxes for this year were doubled. With such a sufficient batch of military rations, Zhang Shicheng was destroyed soon after. Guess what happened after the borrowed taxes?"
Jin Bao was stunned. He thought about it and then, and finally said with uncertainty: "It should be that he exempted the taxes for these two counties in the second year, right?"
"Wrong, a big mistake." Wang Fulin hugged Jinbao and said indifferently, "The next year, the Ming Dynasty was founded. Emperor Taizu had forgotten many things, and the pre-borrowing military rations had long been completely forgotten. When taxes were formulated in various places, the previous year was used as the benchmark, so Wujin and Yixing in Changzhou Prefecture used to collect taxes as the benchmark. The local officials in these two places were afraid of angering Shangfeng and the court, so they did not dare to explain this matter at all. So until now, the two counties could only use the old amount plus the pre-borrowed amount as the benchmark for tax collection."
Jin Bao immediately took a breath, feeling that what he heard now subverted all his previous understanding of history reading. But just as he felt confused and struggling, Wang Fulin then said something that he could not believe even more.
"During the Xuande period, Governor Zhou Chen began to conduct gold and silver in the southeast, which means that he no longer had to disperse heavy and easily lost tax grain to the capital, but instead collected silver. After he arrived in Changzhou Prefecture, he knew that the tax amounts in Wujin and Yixing had such a big problem. However, even though he was pity for the two counties to be too heavy in grain, he still did not ask for more gold and silver, but only fought for more than two counties as compensation. Is Zhou Chen really not caring about the sufferings of the people in Wujin and Yixing? No, during his time in Jiangnan, he repeatedly requested the reduction of Jiangnan heavy taxes. In Suzhou alone, he reduced 720,000 stones from 2.77 million stones."
"But because of this, he was impeached by Hu Yi and others, and Emperor Xuanzong did not agree to his request to reduce the amount of taxes and taxes of some officials. Because of this, he knew that some things could not be mentioned, and he had to find another way to reform the taxes and labor burdens. Even so, this man was framed and impeached by Kedao in his later years and was forced to retire. He died of illness three years later. Even if he dared and capable scholars did not dare to talk about the affairs of Wujin in Yixing. Even if he took another way to reduce the burden on the people, he was still impeached by censors. Some said that he had become a law, and some said that he was willing to collect taxes. There were many such precedents in all dynasties, and the formal taxes were still like this. How many people would dare to ask for a reduction in the year and a member of the school?"
ps: The dinner party will continue today at home, and the double update will be eight thousand words tomorrow (to be continued.)
Chapter completed!