Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 837 Reluctantly Levying the Background of the Teenager Surnamed Qian

Seeing the government's lord getting angry, and the yamen servants revealing the incident, while the onlookers were worried about Aimee Zhu and those heroes, they were also secretly looking forward to seeing a big showdown between the officials and bandits. To be able to witness such a big scene with one's own eyes is enough to brag for the rest of your life.

The leading lieutenant obviously didn't want to make matters worse, he apologized to Aunt Zhu again after saluting, turned around and stood a few steps away from Guo Songnian, reached into his pocket and took out an oval ivory token, holding it in his hand After a while, Guo Songnian's complexion changed drastically when he saw it, and the identity of the woman standing a few steps away was ready to be revealed.

Many people in the capital know that the eldest princess of the Ming Dynasty likes folk fireworks the most. She often goes to and from various parts of the capital on weekdays, and she never likes ostentation, and she often wears casual clothes when traveling.

And on the ivory tablet held by that man, a flying dragon with most of its body hidden in the clouds and mist is engraved, only the majestic dragon head and sharp dragon claws are exposed outside the clouds.

This kind of ivory plaque pattern has been distributed to the government all over the world a few years ago. Anyone with power in the government knows that this is the unique symbol of Tianjia's inner guard. As long as the person holding this brand shows up, it means The blood of the Tian family's direct relatives is right in front of them.

Before Guo Songnian could make a sound, the crowd parted again. A gray-robed man carried a man in one hand and threw him in the center of the venue. Several government servants looked intently, and saw that the man who was getting up from the ground was the leader of the order. He ran to summon his colleagues from the shop.

The scene in front of the audience made the audience look confused, only a few people with insight understand that these men are not knights of the rivers and lakes, they are probably servants of rich and powerful families, this lady dressed in yellow fir must be extremely noble , Didn't you dare to look up without looking at the official lord?
"Master Guo, I'm not a member of the imperial court, so I don't like to judge whether the government order of Wanping County is in line with the court rules, but I think it's better to postpone the implementation of this matter until the cabinet ministers have a conclusion. Master Guo can report back to the Shangguan, and just explain what happened just now!
Sister Rong, I will give each of the public officials a silver coin later, which can be regarded as a little compensation for being frightened. After all, they are acting on orders, and they are also doing things for the court!As long as he never bullied Goodness, he worked hard at night as an errand, so he deserved this reward! "

Auntie Zhu slenderly waved her hand, and the man put the ivory card in his arms and retreated aside, then she put forward her own suggestion to Guo Songnian who was bowing to him, and at the end, she even gave appropriate compensation to those clerks , to express Tianjia’s comfort to them.

"His Royal Highness's proposal is very appropriate! The lower officials must obey! Wanping County really has a last resort to do this, and it is not designed to exploit Li Shu, and I hope that when His Highness speaks about this matter, he will give more good words to the lower officials!"

Because Aimee Zhu is both the eldest princess of the Ming Dynasty and a daughter, Guo Songnian always followed the etiquette and bowed to answer, and never looked up at her, which made Aimee Zhu's impression of him much better.

She naturally understood the meaning of Guo Songnian's words, and knew that the other party was afraid that she would embellish what happened tonight after returning to the palace, and first leave a bad impression on her father who exploited the people. The official career also sees the edge.

"My palace strictly abides by the rules and has never been involved in government affairs. I just saw that you and others are all members of the imperial court. Don't want to hurt each other. That's why I said something to block each other. The rest has nothing to do with my palace! "

Auntie Zhu once again stated that she would not interfere in government affairs, that is to say, she would not give Wanping County eye drops on this matter alone. This statement made Guo Songnian secretly heave a sigh of relief.

The emperor's love for the eldest princess is well known in the official circles of the capital, as long as she expresses her stance not to get involved in this matter, it will be easy to handle.

The young man surnamed Qian over there saw that the matter was over, so he also came over to thank Aimee Zhu, and then everyone dispersed.

The details of this little disturbance that happened in the night market were placed on the desk of Qianqing Palace the next morning, and Zhu Youjian fell into deep thought after reading it.

Although Wanping County has not written the court and obtained permission from Shangfeng to impose additional fees without authorization, it is also forced to do so.

The rise of the night market has brought the entire capital to life in a short period of time. With the economic situation getting better and better, people's consumption concepts have undergone tremendous changes soon, and more and more people follow the trend. , Joining the wave of big consumption, especially in seasons when the temperature is suitable, people spend far more at night than during the day.

However, although the new way of night market economy has promoted the great development of the commodity economy, it has also brought some unexpected troubles to the government managers, the most prominent of which is the problem of environmental sanitation.

There are four night markets in Wanping County, with more than a thousand stalls of various kinds, and [-]% of the stalls are for buying and selling food.

These food stalls are the most popular places for the masses.

Every afternoon just after unitary o'clock, various foods suitable for summer appear in people's field of vision, such as red silk, Suli gauze sugar, ice and snow cold yuanzi, crystal soap, medicinal papaya, mung beans, licorice ice and snow cold water , lychee paste, apricot slices, plum ginger, yuemei, sweet sweets and drinks such as sweets, as well as water rice, dried dried meat, chicken skin, eel buns, chicken mince, fried sheep, ginger and soy sauce, ginger and spicy radish There are countless kinds of snacks and food such as rice cakes, glutinous rice cakes, dumplings, etc. The sky above each night market is filled with the aroma of various foods mixed together.

However, while these foods meet people's needs, they also generate a lot of garbage. In order to clean up the garbage in time and then clean the streets, Wanping County and Daxing County had to hire hundreds of cleaners on the basis of their original recruitment. , and because they knew that the emperor insisted not to abuse civilians, the wages of these personnel were no less than one silver coin per month, which led to a substantial increase in the expenditure of Wanping and Daxing counties.

Take Wanping County as an example, since the opening of the night market for more than a month, the expenditure on environmental sanitation alone has reached more than one thousand silver coins, and this part of the expenditure has to be paid by the county government itself. At the end of the year, the tax revenue of the two counties dropped a lot.

You must know that the commercial tax in the capital is not collected by whoever owns the territory. The Ministry of Household Affairs and Shuntian Mansion have special agencies to collect the tax from those big merchants. Wanping and Daxing can only collect tax money from small merchants.

But the Ministry of Households doesn't care about this at all. The tax you pay to Taicang this year is less than in previous years, which means that the chief officials are incompetent in their work. At that time, they will give you a bad grade in the end-of-year evaluation. I have a very bad impression of you. Maybe it won't be long before the chief officials of the two counties will be sent to serve in remote areas. That would be too unfair.

It was under such circumstances that the chief officials of Wanping County came together and decided that in order not to lower the tax, let’s impose a tax increase. Unexpectedly, on the first day of the tax increase, a stunned young man came across, It also attracted a princess of the Ming Dynasty, and Datian heard about it immediately.

Jin Yiwei also obtained the information of the young man surnamed Qian who claimed to be an editor of the Huangming Weekly News. This young man named Qian Mu is not an ordinary person.

　Thanks to the cake robber for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)