Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 166 Returning Home Pragmatically (Part [-])
The whole book of "Long Wen Whip Shadow" has a total of 4000 to [-] characters, which is not too much, although the calligraphy is a little slow to write, but it is enough to write the full text in one afternoon and half an evening.

Gao Wushi, who wrote the complete book silently, handed over the book to Chen Ju overnight, and then slept beautifully.It has to be said that after Emperor Longqing personally confessed that Gao Pragmatism should not be neglected, although his resting place was improvised, it was comfortable enough.However, Gao Yushi was only surrounded by eunuchs for the entire night, and he didn't see a single maid, so naturally there would be no chance encounters with princesses or concubines in the palace, and then some legends that are not humane would happen.

In the early morning of the second day, Gao Wu went out of the palace to Gao Mansion under the escort of Chen Ju - he estimated that he might be very busy today. He had to go to the Hanlin Academy to visit the Shangguan, and then had to go to the palace to meet the prince again, so he hurried all the way, and when he returned to the Gaofu, the sky was only dim.

As soon as he entered the mansion, someone from the gate stepped forward and told him that the master had been waiting in the study for a while, and asked the young master to hurry over.

Gao Wushi smiled inwardly, it seems that Sanbo still attaches great importance to being the prince's accompanying student.

But when he entered Gao Gong's study, he realized that Gao Gong was not waiting for him. This workaholic was reading a few pages of official documents in his hand, and he didn't even notice when he entered the door.

"Sanbo, my nephew is back." Gao Wushi had no choice but to "wake up" Gao Gong.

"En." Gao Gong responded, reluctantly moved his eyes away, glanced at Gao Yushi, and greeted: "I know all about your performance in the palace, so you don't need to go into details, just come here, I will It’s very interesting to show you a few case files.”

Gao Wushi was a little astonished, but he still walked over and reached out to pick up the document Gao Gong handed over.

Gao Gong handed out the papers, he laughed and said, "Huizhou is a really interesting place. A mere bureaucrat with a knife and a pen actually brought the lawsuit to the cabinet."

Gao Wushi was also taken aback when he heard it, and said in his heart that he is a small official with a knife and a pen?That's not as good as a low-level official like myself, and he can bring the lawsuit to the cabinet?So I read the papers out of curiosity.I don't know if I don't see it, but it's amazing to see it.The things mentioned in the case file are indeed interesting.

Huizhou Prefecture has always been a place of outstanding people and celebrities, and is famous for its cultural and educational prosperity. For example, Yin Zhengmao, who is about to go to governor Guangxi, is from Shexian County, Huizhou.There are six counties under the jurisdiction of Huizhou Prefecture: She, Yi, Xiuning, Wuyuan, Qimen, and Jixi.Among them, Shexian County is the largest, and it is Fukuo County—that is to say, the government of Huizhou is located in this county, and it works in the same city as the county government of Shexian County.

The prefecture and county are in the same city, and many documents and files at the prefecture level are naturally stored in the county cabinet, so that they can be retrieved at any time.These files on tax, food and household registration are very important, and they are related to the rise and fall of a county. Of course, these files and files are also very boring, full of various boring numbers.Therefore, it has been put on the shelf all year round, and no one cares about it except the tax collectors of the house.

The cause of the incident was that in the third year of Longqing, a newly appointed money and food official named Shuai Jiamo in Shexian County, Huizhou discovered that among the taxes Huizhou gave to Nanjing every year, there was a department of "human silk and silk" in the six counties under the jurisdiction of Huizhou. Among them, only She County is responsible for it.The other five counties are not responsible for the taxation of this section.

This handsome Jiamo was originally a scholar, but his performance in moral articles was mediocre, and he was doomed to have no hope of official career.But he is very talented in mathematics. Unfortunately, in Daming, only liberal arts students have the most promising employment prospects, while science students have a very worrying future. For a talent like him, if he is great, he can only do money and food. Scribe or master.

But Shuai Jiamo, who loves his work and loves his work, doesn't mind. He looks professionally at the tax and food account books of Huizhou government over the years, and strives to make extraordinary achievements in ordinary positions-anyway, there are gaps in these materials. county.

The tax structure of the Ming Dynasty has always been complicated, and Huizhou is a large taxpayer. The account books involve the conversion and balance between a large number of subjects.

The extraordinary achievements soon became clear: after taking stock of various tax items, he noticed that among the taxes and grains that the Huizhou Government pays to the Nanjing Shipping Depot every year, in addition to the regular tax, there is also a subject called "Personal silk and silk" must be paid in kind, and the amount is very large, 780 pieces of raw silk must be paid every year.

Shuai Jiamo felt that something was wrong, so he went down to check the distribution accounts of the counties under the Huizhou Prefecture, and found an amazing phenomenon: Huizhou Prefecture has six counties under its jurisdiction, and the other five counties do not have such a tax as "people's silk". There is an expenditure in the county's account books, and the figure is also 780 pieces of raw silk, but the subject is not right, because it is called "summer tax raw silk".

In other words, the annual tax of 780 bolts of raw silk in Huizhou Prefecture was all borne by She County, and the other five counties paid nothing.

Shuai Jiamo was immediately astonished, because this was not a small sum, it was a huge sum of money.In order to make sure that he did not miscalculate or misunderstand, he went to look up the "Da Ming Hui Dian" on purpose.

"Daming Huidian" contains the history of the Ming Dynasty's laws and regulations since the founding of the country, as well as taxation data and administrative regulations of governments at all levels, and since the Hongzhi Dynasty, it will be revised every generation, basically it can be used as a yearbook.

Shuai Jiamo found the same tax payment records under the entry of Huizhou Prefecture in the "Da Ming Hui Dian".More importantly, the "Hui Dian" only mentions that Huizhou government is responsible for the "people's silk", and there is no word to indicate that She County alone bears it.This shows that the tax item of "people's silk" in Huizhou Prefecture should be shared equally among the six counties. How can it be only in She County?

No, this matter is related to the livelihood of the people of a county, so we can't continue to be so confused!We must dig out the truth!

Just like all those who strive to achieve extraordinary achievements in ordinary positions, Shuai Jiamo was not surprised but delighted when faced with the difficulties before him, and continued to dig deeper with great interest.Finally, he found an ancient clue in "Huizhou Fuzhi".

Huizhou was attached to Taizu very early.After Zhu Yuanzhang became the King of Wu in the 24th year of Yuan Zhizheng, the first thing he implemented in Huizhou was to revise the Yuan tax, which was called "Jiachen Legal System".As a result of the end-of-year inspection, the Ministry of Education found that there was a problem with the figures, so in the 25th year of Zhizheng, a "Yisi restructuring" was carried out, and the tax amounts of many subjects had to be readjusted.

As a result, Shuai Jiamo made an investigation and found that compared with the summer wheat that Shexian had paid before, there was a year-on-year difference of 640 shi.Therefore, for the [-] hectares of lightly rented land in Shexian County, the imperial court imposed a "summer tax on raw silk" four dollars per mu to make up for the shortfall—this is the origin of Shexian's "summer tax on raw silk".

It's just that this "repayment of summer grain" is too old, and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with "human silk".With genius-like intuition, Shuai Jiamo felt that there must be some connection between the two, so he picked up a pen and made a rough calculation.

The 140 shi of summer wheat supplemented by She County, according to the current official discount rate, is converted into three coins per shi, and the [-] shi of grain is converted into silver, which is Liangqian's [-] taels.And the raw silk handed over by the "Ren Ding Sijuan" every year is converted into silver, and each piece is seven dollars, so the silver is [-] six taels—well, looking at it this way, the two figures seem to have nothing to do with each other.

But Shuai Jiamo is a mathematical genius after all, and his brain turns very fast.He quickly realized that the six counties in Huizhou were adjacent to each other, and if one county failed in the summer wheat harvest, the other five counties would not be spared.So he checked again and found that at the same time, the five counties of Yi, Xiuning, Wuyuan, Qimen, and Jixi also owed summer grain, a total of 780 shi, which can be converted into 3000 two hundred and thirty-four taels of silver.

Two thousand nine hundred and ten taels plus 3000 two hundred and thirty-four taels, a total of 34 four taels!
This number is only two taels of silver away from the "human silk silk"!
(End of this chapter)