There are labors and fields are rented, and the people of the world have been working hard for a long time.
Zhu Yihai and Wang Zhiren had dinner together. Wang Zhiren didn't say a word when they were talking about things before, so Zhu Yihai deliberately stayed with him to eat with him.
"How is the reorganization of the Zhejiang troops going?"
Wang Zhiren put down his chopsticks and told the truth, "Since the uprising, there has been a swarm of generals in eastern Zhejiang, and they have been invincible. They have recruited all the troops, paid them all, and even looted and raided them all over."
"Especially for those who surrendered to the Northern captives, their wealth was confiscated."
"However, for the wealthy families, farmers, industrialists and merchants who have not surrendered, the forced donations and exhortations have become more and more fierce. Many soldiers and horses are also mixed, the military discipline is not good, and the people are seriously disturbed."
When talking about the situation in eastern Zhejiang in the past two months, Wang Zhiren could only sigh constantly.
Zhu Yihai went north to Sanwu. He was preparing to fight against Huang Binqing in Ningbo, but on the Qiantang River, there was chaos. At the beginning, the powerful gentry and generals from all over the country responded to Zhu Yihai's uprising and recruited troops everywhere.
This person calls himself the governor, and the other calls himself the commander-in-chief. Although they are commendable for their loyalty, these official and righteous soldiers are also very chaotic. Without food and pay, they are apportioned everywhere, and they even force strong men to join the army as soldiers or to work as long-term laborers.
First, they confiscated the houses of officials and gentry who surrendered to the Tartars, and then they confiscated all the houses of those who were trapped in the north and could not return, regardless of the crime. Later, they could no longer restrain the tribesmen, and the tribes began to impose crimes on the wealthy landlords at will, and looted and confiscated their homes.
Later, taxes were levied on ordinary people.
The military discipline of various groups is getting worse and worse, and some even fight with each other.
Later, Zhang Guowei and others, following Zhu Yihai's orders, reorganized various rebel armies, assigned them battalion numbers, quotas, and divided them into locations. They were reluctantly restrained.
But soon Fang Guoan took the lead, and people from all walks of life started fighting with the court over food and salary.
The bank requires all localities to uniformly transport tax money and grain to the bank in Shaoxing, and enter it into the treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The Ministry of Household Affairs will then pay actual military pay to the rebels in each place according to the quotas assigned by the reorganization, and half of it will be paid first.
However, various people led by Fang Guoan demanded that the land be divided and paid, that is, wherever they were designated for defense, food would be provided directly on the spot and the local taxes would be handed over to them for the army.
Not only did they privately withhold the taxes that should have been paid to the industry, but they also levied additional taxes under different names. They even tried to persuade the rich to donate and forced them to donate. The situation in eastern Zhejiang was also a mess. At this time, the local gentry could only rely on their own methods.
If there are people who are good at what they do and are officials, soldiers and horses will not dare to force them.
If no one is in power, then you can only rely on connections or simply recruit troops.
So from Shaoxing to Yanzhou, from Ningbo to Wenzhou, and from Quzhou to all prefectures, for a time, there were general soldiers, generals, and guerrillas everywhere. There was a battalion here and an army there. Everyone privately plotted territory and withheld taxes.
, privately recruited soldiers and horses, distributed them indiscriminately, looted everywhere, and even fought for territory, money and food, and engaged in a melee with warlords, as if they wanted to separate the empire.
Although the industry is also working hard to rectify it, with people like Fang Guoan taking the lead, the effect is not great.
Later, Huang Binqing was forced to hand over Zhoushan and go north, and Wang Zhiren was finally able to lead the Beijing camp to Xingzai, which finally put a stop to this evil trend.
But the time is too short. Now the Ministry of War, Beijing Camp and others are responsible for reorganizing the armies, and it has not been completed yet. Those soldiers and horses are not willing to be easily disbanded at this time. First, if you have soldiers, you have the power. Second, at this time
Disbanding troops and horses, fearing that the safety of one's own personal property will not be guaranteed.
Anyway, in the five prefectures in eastern Zhejiang alone, the number of people reported from all walks of life totaled hundreds of thousands, which was too many false reports. But even if they were carefully cleaned up, the total number of people and horses of one to two hundred people, large and small, totaled two or three hundred thousand people. Although it is true that there are
Many of them are just a mob, but there are indeed so many soldiers.
For example, Sun Jiaji and Xiong Rulin recruited tens of thousands of people after the Yuyao Uprising, and they were named Sun Xiongjun. These two people were officials of the imperial court who were righteous. After recruiting troops, they were considered to be well-disciplined rebels, but there were also many such people.
It's a matter of confiscating the property and forcing the payment of wages.
It’s okay if we don’t share the income. After all, there are tens of thousands of people who need food and drink.
But some people can't do it. There is not much difference between rebels and bandits. For example, Fang Guoan, who has strong soldiers and horses, is still a general of the court. His soldiers are just like bandits. How can other landlords be better armed?
The Qing army has never crossed the Qiantang River. In fact, it has little to do with these rebels. The main reason is that Boluo and others rushed to Hangzhou to capture Queen Lu. They have no plans to continue southward for the time being. After all, the Jiangnan behind them has not yet been cleared, and the Yangtze River has not yet been cleared.
While advancing, Yu Ying, Zhang Guowei and others used the Qiantang River as their line of defense and defended it fairly well.
So, it was maintained for the time being.
But if Boluo really went south to attack, although he lacked ships and it would be difficult to cross the Qiantang River, it would be very easy to cross the river from Fuyang and other places in the upper reaches and take a detour to attack Shaoxing.
"Actually, I still don't have the money to make trouble."
Wang Zhiren concluded that before, Zhang Guowei and others wanted to disband some small groups of rebels, but these rebels asked for rewards and were unwilling to waste their efforts like this, but Zhang Guowei and others could not afford the money.
In the end, each person was rewarded with five coins of silver. From these five coins, someone actually took a cut of the money and started a mutiny. As a result, the demobilization matter could no longer be carried out.
After dragging them here and there, a few groups had no money or food, and they couldn't compete with others, so they had to disband and go home.
But most of them still draw their wages according to the land, and just keep doing it.
When Zhu Yihai came to Fuyang, Liu Muye San was also fighting against Fang Guoan. Several counties in Fuyang were Liu Mu's territory. He was considered the strongest among the rebels, so he fought alone in the five counties west of Hangzhou.
, but Fang Guoan was also eyeing this place, and the two sides fought back and forth several times.
"Wang Qing, what suggestions do you have?" Zhu Yihai asked.
Wang Zhiren told the truth, "His Royal Highness punished Fang Guoan here in Yanzhou, and the effect was very good. It acted as a deterrent. Now as long as we can come up with another sum of money to pay rewards, we can smoothly demobilize some troops, and then punish a few more people."
We need to recruit a larger force and reorganize it, and it will be reorganized in two or three months."
Fang Guoan was originally the largest force in eastern Zhejiang, especially as he was a regular army general of the imperial court, but now he was easily killed by the Supervisor State, and his 20,000 to 30,000 men, who were said to be 100,000 subordinates, were also quickly reorganized.
For the leaders of these rebel armies, large and small, it was a huge impact.
They all have to think about how much they weigh and whether they can compare with Fang Guoan.
No matter how much Zhang Guowei, Yu Ying and others tried to persuade him, they were still not as effective as Jian Guo's sword.
If Zhu Yihai comes back later, Wang Zhiren has actually selected a few outstanding birds and plans to borrow their heads to scare the monkeys.
"Silver, silver, in the final analysis, it's still a matter of money." Zhu Yihai could only sigh.
"Wang Qing, what do you think of today's talk between Gu and the Dukes about never increasing the wealth and sharing the family income?"
Wang Zhiren didn't express any opinions just now, but now he said very seriously, "In my opinion, this new law is good. It is derived from the whip method, but it is different. Although it will definitely touch the interests of many gentry and officials, but
Under the current situation, there is nothing we can do.”
Zhu Yihai nodded.
The taxes in the early Ming Dynasty were based on the two tax laws of the Tang and Song Dynasties. The Lijia system was used as the principle for the compilation of the Yellow Book of taxes and levies. Then based on the Yellow Book, it was divided into three types: Lijia, corvee and miscellaneous, and Xia and Qiu.
Two taxes and land tax.
Later, a whip law in the mid-Ming Dynasty actually merged the land taxes and labor services collected separately since the early Ming Dynasty, including Jia labor, corvee labor, miscellaneous labor, Li Chai, etc., into one, compiled into one, and merged into the land tax.
The summer and autumn taxes are levied together.
And, collect silver.
The labor force required by each state and county every year will be hired by the government from the taxes collected, and civilians will no longer be expropriated without compensation.
The object of taxation is acres of land, and the form of taxation is in the form of silver, which is the so-called taxation of silver per mu.
Compared with the early Ming Dynasty, the one-whip method simplified the complexity and combined the tax and service into one, or even combined the tax and service into one. The silver difference and force difference in the old service law were determined according to the household and ding standards, while in the new law
All corvees were levied on silver, forced labor was abolished, the government hired people to serve as servants, and the labor and silver were allocated, and the original share of the labor force was changed from the original share of the household to the share of the land and the land.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the main levy was real goods, and the Yi whip rule except for the levy of grain from Jiangnan to supply the capital, all other land taxes were levied in silver.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Lijia was used as a unit to levy taxes and servitude, and after Yibu, prefectures and counties were used as units.
Generally speaking, the changes have been great, but why Zhu Yihai proposed these similar contents now? In the final analysis, one whip originally combined taxes and levies into one, and they were all levied with one whip.
However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the whip, various kinds of labor came, and there were also additional taxes such as three wages, and the burden on the people became heavier and heavier.
And Zhu Yihai does not want to return to the state of a whip. The biggest difference in his new method is that it was a major reform of the past whip, which was a merger and a break of silver, but it was still Tian Fu, Ding Yin,
The amount of silver deducted from service is still collected in units of ding.
The biggest difference between Zhu Yihai's new law is that it also simplifies and unifies it, but in the end it is not levied by dings, but converted into dings of silver and then spread into acres. The actual collection object is changed from a head tax to an acre tax.
On the basis of a whip, it is a small step forward, but it is a giant step over a milestone, completely changing the basic nature of taxation.
"All corvee services are simplified and combined into one, which is equivalent to the number of dings of silver per mu, and then divided into the land tax per acre. The dings of silver and the land tax are combined into one, and they are levied once a year. The silver levy is unified and fixed."
When everything was simplified, only one item of land tax was left. Ding Yin had been folded into the acres and levied together, and then an additional 10% of the fire fee was levied. There was no need for any special labor.
In various places, if you want to do anything, whether it is a servant in the yamen or a project, you have to pay for it.
Moreover, Zhu Yihai's idea of increasing the number of people and never increasing the tax also means that no matter how many people there are in the future, the land tax has been fixed. It will not be said that if the number of people is increased, the tax will be increased, and it will become a fixed tax.
Easy to collect and transparent.
“How to implement it smoothly?”
"I believe that it is necessary to use the army to distribute the imperial camp and Beijing camp troops to various prefectures and counties, and then send the censor and others to take the lead, and work with local officials to complete the registration, land acres, and population verification. After these are completed, according to the registration
Just collect the land tax. If you refuse to pay it, you can second the imperial camp and the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp to help collect it."
Wang Zhiren's words contained one word, forced conquest.
"Your Highness actually doesn't need to worry too much. Judging from the chaos in eastern Zhejiang in the past two or three months, there is no need to think too highly of the so-called gentry and powerful people. They are just good-mouthed. When they act in earnest, one by one...
I’m all scared.”
The warlords' plundering and plundering are much more severe than the imperial court's taxation!
Zhu Yihai smiled and said, "The Shenji Camp that was seconded to you before is now affiliated with the Imperial Camp."
Wang Zhiren immediately said, "I think there is no need to set up another Beijing Camp. It is better to transfer the Three Thousand Battalion and the Five Military Camps to the Imperial Camp. If there is an Imperial Camp, there is no need for a Beijing Camp."
But Zhu Yihai shook his head, "Let's keep the Beijing camp. It will be responsible for garrisoning and guarding Qiantang. The three thousand battalions and the fifth military camp can each be increased to ten battalions, each with five thousand combat troops and one thousand eighty auxiliary troops. There are vacancies.
Soldiers can be selected and supplemented from various rebel armies."
Zhu Yihai will definitely reorganize these various rebel armies in eastern Zhejiang.
The Beijing camp retains five armies and 3,000 towns, with 6,800 auxiliary troops for each battle.
Then there are the town camp troops in Zhejiang Province. Wang Chuangzi was appointed as the admiral of Zhejiang Province and commanded the camp troops in each town in Zhejiang Province. The camp troops in Zhejiang Province were divided into four towns: Hai Town, Haimen Town, Wenzhou Town, and Quzhou Town.
There are two towns and four alliances, each with five thousand soldiers.
Shaoxing Prefecture will be changed to Shaotian Prefecture, and Dongdu will be located there.
When western Zhejiang is restored in the future, the Zhejiang admiral will be stationed in Hangzhou and Jiaxing will each have a general soldier.
In this way, Yuying was formed, with ten towns on the water and land in the south of the Yangtze River, with a population of 68,000.
The two towns of Jingying and Yingying were stationed in the eastern capital area.
Zhejiang camp troops assisted in the defensive situation with five towns, including seven towns with water, land and water troops, and more than 40,000 people.
Therefore, the vast majority of the rebels will be reorganized and disbanded.
For example, the Sun Xiong Army, considered a stronger force among the rebel armies, will also be reorganized into the Beijing camp, and the Yixing Army has been transferred to Anhui.
The imperial camp is personally led by the supervisor Zhu Yihai, the Beijing camp is led by the governor Wang Zhiren, and the Zhejiang town is led by the admiral Wang Xiang. Each army's food and salary department has its own food station responsible for it, and the food and salary will be mainly provided in Lijin.
"Disband the rebels from all walks of life, reward each with five taels of silver, and return them to each family. If there are young and brave elites, you can choose to retain them to supplement the camps and give them five taels of silver to settle down."
Wang Zhiren smiled and said, "Five taels of silver per person is not a small amount of money."
"In any case, they were able to respond bravely before, which is very loyal and courageous and is extremely rare."
Don't be stingy with this money, otherwise who will come next time if something happens.
"Actually, many guys have been robbing during this period, and many guys have made a lot of money." Wang Zhiren reminded.
Zhu Yihai knew very well that just like the Hunan Army defeated the Taiping Army, after defeating the Taiping Army, Hunan immediately rose to several levels. However, Zhu Yihai could only turn a blind eye to this kind of thing. What he wanted now was to reorganize and demobilize.
Let's forget about the past.
When I stood up and responded to the cause, I was indeed showing my loyalty with my head raised.
"I actually made a lot of money just being alone in Jiangnan."
"Hahaha!"
"I've heard about it for a long time."
"I'll give you 200,000 taels from the capital camp. I'll make up for all the money and food I owed to Anjia."
"Thank you, Your Highness."
"What I want to thank you for, it should be my thanks to you and the soldiers."
"Your Highness, when will we attack Hangzhou? I would like to lead the Beijing camp as the vanguard!" Wang Zhiren said, patting his chest.
"wait."
Zhu Yihai was waiting for the latest news from Hubei, Anhui, and Jiangxi. When Jingxiang launched a counterattack, it would be the time to cross the river and attack Hangzhou.
At that time, the whole line will be linked up, and the Tatars will not be attacked from head to tail.
"Can I go and recover Yuhang first?"
Zhu Yihai thought for a moment, "We can give it a try first, but if we don't have a chance, we can't attack forcefully. Let's not rush it."
