When Mr. Kong heard about Xing Guobo’s new tax rate, he felt as if the clouds had cleared and the moon was bright.
His home is not far from the county seat of Jinghai County, so he went to the county government office to ask. Although the government officials were a hundred reluctant, they still did not dare to lie or challenge Xing Guobo's new tax system. The government officials said that the county government would not collect taxes in the future.
After receiving the land tax, the future land tax will be the seven liters per mu collected by Uncle Xingguo.
When Mr. Kong heard what the yamen servant said, he felt calm and knew that his good days were coming.
Boss Kong found the only young man in the village who had a good relationship with him and asked him to help him settle his accounts. He would see how much grain land tax he would have to pay after Xing Guobo's new tax rate was implemented.
The young man had studied arithmetic for a year when he was a child and could calculate simple accounts. He looked at Boss Kong with a smile and said, "Boss Kong, good times are coming for your family!"
Mr. Kong laughed loudly and said, "Help me calculate, how much land tax can I save?"
The young man scratched the ground a few times with a branch and said: "Now that Uncle Xing Guo has given a land tax of seven liters per pound, your family's twenty acres of thin farmland, which originally had to pay six liters of land tax, now only needs to pay one stone and four buckets of land tax."
Your family can have an extra four stones and six buckets of rice and flour for miscellaneous purposes every year!”
When he heard the young man's account, Mr. Kong became so happy that he almost jumped and walked home.
Suddenly there are four more dan and six bushels of wheat. Why don't you make Mr. Kong unhappy? His family only earns six dan of wheat a year now. Xing Guobo's new tax rate has almost doubled his income at once.
I will no longer be hungry during the lean years, I can eat meat during the Chinese New Year, I can pull out a few feet of cloth to make new clothes. I can even afford to raise a son!
Boss Kong felt that the life that was dark, dull and hopeless a few days ago suddenly became sunny and shining with vitality, which made people indescribably happy.
On July 16, Mr. Kong heard that Uncle Xing Guo came to Jinghai County to collect taxes in person with a guard of honor. Uncle Xing Guo's guard of honor entered Master Cao's yard. Obviously, the gentry gentleman who had never paid taxes before had to pay taxes.
It’s a tax of money.
I am afraid that it was because sufficient taxes were collected from the gentry that lonely peasants like Mr. Kong were able to significantly reduce taxes.
The rumors spread by those scholars that Uncle Xing Guo collected taxes from the gentry and even increased taxes from the common people had sinister intentions. When Boss Kong figured out what was going on, he began to hate those scholars who were full of hypocrisy.
If I believed in the scholars and believed that Uncle Xing Guo was going to push me to a dead end and collide with Uncle Xing Guo's guard of honor, wouldn't I be beaten to death by Xing Guobo's soldiers? If I didn't say anything, I would have wronged someone like Uncle Xing.
Sir, if that really happens, I'm afraid I will be scolded by other farmers for decades after my death.
Fortunately, I was not stupid and did not believe the lies of the scholars. Now Xing Guobo's tax officials went from village to village to publicize the new tax system and made the matter clear.
On July 16, Mr. Kong and other farmers who benefited from Xing Guobo's taxes ran two miles together just to kowtow to Xing Guobo. They knelt down together at the gate of Cao's courtyard, and found out
More and more poor farmers came from all over the countryside. Half of the villagers from Zhaojia Village came, the poor men from Hanjia Village came, and the farmers from Yangjiaweizi also came. Everyone knelt down on both sides of the road happily, wanting to rejuvenate the country.
Bo kowtows.
After a long time, Uncle Xing Guo came out wearing a suit of armor, surrounded by personal guards and honor guards.
As soon as Uncle Xing Guo came out, he heard hundreds of poor farmers on both sides of the road shouting: "Master Qingtian!"
"Li Qingtian!"
"Li Qingtian!"
The shouts merged into one and spread far away.
The farmers, who were no longer under the heavy burden of taxes, kowtowed their heads on the loess soil to express their gratitude to Uncle Xing Guo.
The ragged Boss Kong didn't dare to peek at Uncle Xing Guo, so he knocked his head hard on the ground. After a few kowtows, his tears flowed out. He cried and shouted: "Uncle Xing Guo, Da Qing Tian!
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"Master Qingtian!"
"Master Qingtian!"
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On July 19, in the Huangji Hall of the Forbidden City, the Emperor of Heaven was holding a court meeting with his ministers.
"If you have something to report, please leave the court if nothing happens!"
He Shishou, the Minister of Rites, came out holding a dental plaque and sang loudly: "I have something to report!"
"Play!"
"The traitor Li Zhi held a drill in Tianjin, demonstrating the attack on the capital city wall in front of Tianjin civil and military officials. His rebellious intentions are clearly exposed. If the Holy One can no longer get angry and declare war, there will be no king's law in the four seas.
, there are no more loyal ministers among the scholars, and all the hearts of the people in the world have been lost.”
The ministers had been besieging the emperor for a month, and they all seemed a little tired at this time. Each of them said no more. He Shishou made his meaning clear in a few words. As soon as he finished speaking, the ministers all raised their placards and came out.
, sang loudly: "I'll second my opinion!"
"I second the proposal!"
Zhu Youjian looked at the ministers who were deadlocked in the hall and sighed.
For more than a month, the ministers did not talk about other things at the court meeting, but just focused on Li Zhi's issue. Of course, such a court meeting will not affect the handling of other government affairs. For other matters, the ministers can send memorials to
Go to the cabinet to vote, and then let the emperor approve it in the Qianqing Palace.
The purpose of the court meeting was to provide a channel for face-to-face communication between officials and the emperor in addition to voting and approval.
But now, the ministers have made up their minds and only talk about one thing on this face-to-face communication channel, which is Li Zhi's matter.
A few days ago, news came from Tianjin that Li Zhi held an exercise in Fanjiazhuang to attack the four-foot-high wall. It is said that with the cooperation of Li Zhi's cannons and gunmen, it took only half a day to reduce the thick wall to earth.
Heap, easily captured. According to the memorial from Tianjin officials, under Li Zhi's new tactics, the soldiers defending with swords on the city wall were simply targets.
This news made Zhu Youjian a little panicked.
Aren't the four-foot-high city walls the city walls of the capital? Li Zhi was threatening to attack the capital.
Li Zhi has grown up, and Zhu Youjian has no way to suppress him. Now he can even threaten to attack the capital. Without the border troops coming out of the city and Li Zhi's soldiers and horses fighting in the field, the tens of thousands of Beijing troops may not be able to defend the capital.
The idea that the civil servants went to war with Li Zhi is really just talk on paper and makes people laugh.
However, these civil servants had their hometown confiscated by Li Zhi, and they did not care about anything else. The civil servants called for a crusade against Li Zhi every day when they went to court. After saying these words, they stood quietly in the court hall without saying anything else. Today
He Shishou took the lead in saying that he would attack Li Zhi. After the civil servants shouted their support, they fell silent again without saying a word.
Zhu Youjian looked at the civil servants who threatened him with silence, and suddenly he was filled with anger. He slapped the armrest of the throne and shouted loudly: "Punitive! Punitive! We talk about crusade all day long! What crusade is for? Take the lives of you old people.
Crusade?"
Zhu Youjian stood up angrily and shouted: "Retreat from the court!"
Under the shocked eyes of the civil servants, Zhu Youjian walked out of the Huangji Palace with an angry look on his face.
