Wanli Youming

Chapter 57
It is now June of the third year of Wanli.

The scorching sun was high, and it was time for Wang and Sun to shake their fans.

After Zhu Yijun came back from lectures in the Wenhua Palace, he could only stay and read in the summer palace where there was ice to cool off the heat.

And when he was tired of throwing the book, Zhu Yijun saw that Zhang Jing was directing people to bring in new ice cubes, so he asked, "Can there be new chapters from the north and the south?"

Zhu Yijun knew very well that if he wanted to have abundant military virtues in Ming Dynasty, he still had to have abundant financial resources.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun is most concerned about Qingzhang Tianmu.

This is related to whether he will continue to search for one or two big officials to search the house next year, and whether he will further test the bottom line of the world's bureaucrats.

You must know that although Jiajing lived deep in the harem, he delegated power to the cabinet, and began to expand the value room for cabinet scholars in the Wenyuan Pavilion of the inner court, and even equipped subordinate officials. But it has never relaxed the supervision of the Ministry of Households and the supervision of the world's finances.

Rao is the most lazy in Wanli's history in the later period, but he has never relaxed about the matter of grasping money.

Zhang Juzheng told him that only soldiers and money should not be faked by others, but he still listened to it.

Now Zhu Yijun is naturally the same, he must put making money first.

It's the same in any era, it's hard to gather troops without money.

"Returning to the emperor, there is a new report from the Haibutang, saying that more than 300 million shi taxes and grain and more than 100 million taels of gold flowers and silver that should have been sent to Beijing last year have been recovered through Qingzhang."

Zhang Jing said.

The so-called Jinhuayin refers to a kind of tax silver name for a quasi-tax-deductible grain that began to form a system in Xuande.

The main purpose of this system is to make it easier for the lower households who cultivate official land in the south of the Yangtze River to pay taxes through the silver they earn from their industrious sideline business, so as to avoid being too heavily exploited by heavy taxes, and to avoid abandoning farming due to heavy taxes on official land.

Gold flowers and silver are mainly used as rewards from the emperor and military officers' salaries.

Zhu Yijun laughed after hearing this: "Sure enough, the results have begun to show. It seems that the officials of Nanzhi are still very conscientious, and the examination method is not in vain."

Zhang Jing also laughed and said: "What the emperor said is that the arrears are worth the total amount of grain and gold flowers and silver paid in a year."

"The imperial court has benefited."

"What about the people?"

"I asked Dongchang to send people to the south of the Yangtze River to secretly investigate the impact of Qingzhang's farmland on the people. Is there any feedback?"

Zhu Yijun asked.

Zhang Jing replied: "There is no reply yet."

Zhu Yijun nodded: "If there is any situation, please let me know in time."

Zhang Jing bowed his hands and said yes.

Although the new policy of measuring the land of the officials and the people was designed from the very beginning to not affect the common people and give the officials an opportunity to harass the common people, but to prevent the decree from going astray after it is passed down, Zhu Yijun still has to go through Dongchang to have a look. It's not just about hoping for civil servants outside the DPRK.

Employing people is not suspicious, doubting people is not necessary, but his attitude towards the rulers of the foreign court does not mean that he, the emperor, really does not have a hand, but really only trusts civil servants.

At the end of June of this year, Nan Zhiying was in the classroom of the Tianfu government office.

"My family really doesn't have so many fields!"

Commoner Liu Quexian sat weakly on the floor in the room and muttered to himself.

And just after Liu Quexian said this, a team of yamen servants came and stopped outside the classroom where he was held.

The so-called prison room is equivalent to a place where people are temporarily detained, and those who have not been convicted of a crime, such as failing to pay taxes, are suspected of being guilty, etc., will be locked in the prison room first.

A common way for ancient subordinate officials to abuse their power is to say that a villager is guilty, and then lock him in the jail, and wait for his family to get money to redeem him, or let him go when he is acquitted by the upper officials. If the family members have no money or the officials are lazy and do not care about political affairs, they will often be locked up for several years.

It has been almost a year since Liu Quexian was imprisoned here.

Because he has no family, his parents are dead, and his clan has no money to redeem him, not to mention that his clan has no power, so even if he wants to raise money to redeem him, he is afraid that he will not be able to withstand the continuous extortion by the subordinates.

Therefore, Liu Quexian was locked in the classroom all the time, forgetting what day it was outside.

Liu Quexian was imprisoned because his family was told last year that they owed [-] acres of land in taxes and grains, so that it was not enough to confiscate his family's [-] acres of land into the government. The opportunity to study in a private school set up by a rich family in the same town was ruined.

Just when Liu Quexian was so desperate that he didn't know when he could go out, he saw the yamen servant stop outside his class, opened his class, and said to him: "Liu Quexian, the master of Futai wants to see you, come with us let's go."

So, not long after, Liu Quexian was taken to the court of Yingtian Zhifu to kneel down.

And when Liu Quexian knelt in the courtroom, he saw Chang Gui, the house pawn who had taken people to search his house in the past, being bravely pinned to the ground by the yamen servants and wearing a prison uniform.

At the same time, Master Gong, who was well-known in Shangyuan County and served as a Fang Bo, was also taken off his black yarn and was detained.

The prefect Wang Zongyi, who was sitting behind the case in the center of the court, said to Liu Quexian at this time: "Is Liu Quexian, a villager from Shangyuan County, under the court?"

"Xiaomin is right."

Liu Quexian replied.

Wang Zongyi said: "It has been found out that you don't have five hundred mu of land under your household. In fact, Gong Zhongxiang and the pundit Chang Gui secretly sent the land under your name for tax evasion."

"And Chang Gui knows that you have no parents, three generations of single heirs, and no powerful people in the clan, so you deliberately use Gong Zhongxiang's power to eat you, a weak family."

"So, you don't owe any taxes, and the [-] mu of land you received will be refunded to you as a discount. Since your land has been sold to someone else by Chang Gui, it cannot be returned to you directly. Do you understand?"

"Xiaomin understands!"

"Thank you, Master Qingtian, Xiaomin."

Liu Quexian started to cry, then kowtowed.

At that time, Wang Zongyi ordered: "Give him the silver and let him return home."

Therefore, Master Rich and Grain gave the money to Liu Quexian.

Liu Quexian had already taken the heavy money and walked out.

At this time, Wang Zongyi threw down the token and said: "According to the legal staff, it is often expensive for one hundred! Gong Zhongxiang will be put in prison, and his family will release him when he finishes paying the Fu!"

"My lord, please forgive me!"

Then, the pawn Chang Gui began to cry.

Gong Zhongxiang also shouted: "Wang Ziheng, you flatter powerful officials and disregard the friendship of scholars, so you are not afraid of being called a cruel official?!"

Wang Zongyi ignored Gong Zhongxiang.

Qingzhang Tianmu is something that the bureaucrats of the world take the initiative to implement. In addition to the examination system, they also force these bureaucrats to dare to offend the local gentry. Therefore, Wang Zongyi is not afraid of Gong Zhongxiang's threat, and believes that as long as he has a new policy If the completion is good, and there is no public grievance during Qingzhang, it can be seen by the court, and then promoted like Wang Yongji and others.

After all, according to last year's examination results, he had to admit that although the Jiangling state had undergone drastic restructuring and implemented strict governance, it was still very fair in terms of civil service, and those who worked hard could be promoted quickly.

What's more, Nanzhi has famous ministers like Hai Rui in charge, and Wang Zongyi hopes to let Hai Rui see his image of being serious about serving the people and the country without fear of the powerful, so that he can get a compliment from him.

You know, getting affirmation from a governor like Hai Rui is more effective than giving tens of thousands of taels of silver to the Beijing officials.

Snapped!
At this time, Chang Gui had already stood up against the board, and howled constantly because of it.

Before the beating was over, Chang Gui was executed with a stick.

Seeing this, Liu Quexian felt very happy, so he walked out of the government office lightly and quickly, and came to Nanjing Street.

The southern capital has always been prosperous.

Liu Quexian had no intention of watching the prosperity of the southern capital when he was escorted here, but now he is in the mood to look around when he returns.

While looking around, Liu Quexian saw a row of young girls standing at a T-junction.

The young girls bowed their heads.

A middle-aged man in silk clothes was puffing his stomach, wiping the sweat from his head, and shouted beside these young girls: "Come and see, they are all good girls from the palace, and they are all shameless. Buy them home." You will be able to be a mother-in-law and a maid. Please also give some noodles to the neighbors, buy a few back, and use it as a financial aid to the Gong family. The Gong family thanks you for your great kindness, otherwise the Gong family will be confiscated. Please!"

The middle-aged man bowed directly as he spoke.

This middle-aged man is actually Qin Rui, Gong Zhongxiang's housekeeper.

Moreover, it was obvious that the Gong family was forced by Ying Tianfu and had to sell off their servants to pay the Fu.

The reason why they chose to sell people instead of land was naturally to reduce expenses while selling people for money.

The Gong family knew that after being cleared, their income would be greatly reduced, and it was impossible to use as many slaves as before.

At this time Liu Quexian walked over Xunsheng, and walked up to the servant girl who lowered her head: "Sister Laidi! So you have been at the Gong family?"

(End of this chapter)