Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 219 0214 [There is both face and inside]

"Master, Zhu Taishou, please see me!" my entourage shouted outside.

Huang Qianshan is in the backyard, trying to escape through the back door.But the back door was also blocked, so they built ladders everywhere, climbed up the wall to observe the situation, and tried to find an escape route.

Several relatives were still climbing the ladder to watch, Huang Qianshan turned around and asked, "Which prefect Zhu?"

The follower said: "Last year's Tanhualang is now the magistrate of Jinzhou, and he happened to pass by this place in the past few days."

Huang Qianshan seemed to be grasping at straws: "I remember he is from Yangzhou, please invite him to the second floor!"

Why not on the first floor?
Of course, the fear of the mob rushing in.

Huang Qianshan ordered his entourage to block all the gates of the courtyard, and moved a lot of furniture to block the doors.

Even when Zhu Ming came in, he struggled for a long time, for fear that the mob would follow him.

Huang Qianshan pushed open the window on the second floor and looked out, and found that there were more mobs outside, and the streets were full of heads.

"Oh!"

He hastily closed the window, his legs were already weak from fright.

In Huang Qianshan's mind, as long as he has soldiers in his hands, he is not afraid of these unruly people making trouble.

It's just that Zhong Quannong was so greedy that he didn't expect that not only did he not give him a penny of military pay, but he even withheld his daily food.When building the plank road, you can occasionally see a dry meal, and even the gruel is mixed with sand after the project is completed.

"My lord, Governor Zhu has arrived."

Huang Qianshan immediately went up to him, held Zhu Ming's hand, and said pitifully, "Successfully saved me!"

Zhu Ming sighed: "The township soldiers made a fuss about wages, Zhong Quannong and Hu Zhizhou fled, and those township soldiers came straight to the city. I passed by Yangzhou, and I was a guest at Min Shanzhang's house. When I heard the township soldiers were in trouble, I came immediately. Anyway, stop them outside the city."

Huang Qianshan said angrily: "It's not that these thieves don't pay them, they can't even wait for a few days."

"After all, they are only temporary recruits from the countryside, not the soldiers of the Xiang army. They don't understand the court's laws," Zhu Ming persuaded, "For some small local matters, don't disturb the officials, and you have to use gentle methods."

Huang Qianshan didn't want to give too much money, and said: "Success is a local, and I think it is quite prestigious. You can tell those rural soldiers that each person will be given [-] Wen of iron money and [-] catties of rice, so that they can go home early." .And those unscrupulous people, let’s just talk about this matter, and no miscellaneous taxes will be levied.”

Zhu Ming sighed: "Is the Xiansi really desperate? Those town soldiers first suppressed thieves, and then were dragged to build plank roads. I heard that there were still casualties. When they were recruited, they didn't receive half a penny, and they had to bring their own money. The dry rations have arrived. There is no wages, no military pay, and the food is very poor, where can I get a few dozen Wen?"

Huang Qianshan said distressedly: "Although I have levied additional taxes twice, they have not collected enough at all. There are many unscrupulous people who resist the taxes and refuse to pay them. Even the four major clans in Yangzhou still owe the second miscellaneous taxes. Money and food for the soldiers?"

I really can’t see the coffin without crying, Zhu Ming was completely convinced, and said, "Since this is the case, I can't help it, so I will leave!"

"Successful stay!"

Huang Qianshan hurriedly stopped him and asked, "How much food is enough?"

Zhu Ming said: "It's better to let some officers who make money come in and let them make a statement in person."

Huang Qian said: "Only three people are allowed in."

Zhu Ming walked to the gate, and said to Bai Sheng who was guarding the gate, "Let the soldiers who make the payment, nominate three leaders to come in, and discuss the payment with the punishment envoy face to face."

Huang Qianshan stood on the second floor, quietly opened half of the window, and saw commotion on the street in the distance.

It took about half an hour, and finally three representatives of the township soldiers were elected, two from Xingyuan Mansion and one from Yangzhou.

They are all strong men.

Ju Ming cupped his hands and said, "I don't know the names of the three strong men?"

A strong man said: "I am Qiu Shoucheng, the temporary head of the township soldiers in Xingyuan Prefecture."

"I'm Wang Xin, the temporary escort of the township soldiers of Xingyuan Mansion."

"I am Fan Zhengtong, the temporary head of the Yangzhou Township Army."

Zhu Ming turned his head and glanced, and saw Huang Qianshan peeking at the stairs, and said, "The three strong men are all good men, today I will give Zhu some face, and discuss it with the torturer, don't make things worse."

Qiu Shoucheng said: "We don't want to rebel, but the officials are too bullying. I have a brother who fell to his death while building a plank road, and there is no explanation so far. If no compensation is given, his family will be orphaned and widowed." live?"

"That's right," Fan Zhengtong also said, "When we were recruited, I was asked to be a village soldier, so that we could go home after the troubles were settled. But they asked us to build plank roads. I don't understand, we people Are they rural soldiers or civilian husbands? If they are rural soldiers, they will be paid for the army. If they are civilian husbands, they will be paid monthly!"

Wang Xin said angrily: "If you don't give an explanation, you can simply reverse it, kill the bird officer and become a thief!"

Hearing this, Huang Qianshan shrank his neck in fright, and tiptoed back to the second floor to pretend to be calm.

Zhu Ming took the people up: "Talk to the torturer yourselves. Make it easy, how much food will it cost to disperse?"

The three discussed it outside.

Wang Xin said: "Those who died or were injured by the fall will be given compensation. If they die, they will receive ten guanxi per life; if they are not dead, each person will be paid five guan decoction fees!"

They thought it was the lion who opened his mouth, but Huang Qianshan heaved a sigh of relief. More than 20 people were killed and injured while building the plank road, and two or three hundred gongs could be done.

Huang Qianshan bargained and said: "The five guans are dead, and the two guans are not dead."

"No, this life is too cheap!" Qiu Shoucheng said.

Huang Qianshan said: "Let it down a little more."

The two sides bargained, and the deceased gave Baguan a pension, and the disabled gave Wuguan soup and medicine money.

Then we talked about food and salary, and I didn't bother to distinguish whether military salary or wages, so they were directly combined and paid together.After repeated disputes, each person was given three and a half pennies of money and five dou of food, even the dead and injured.

At the end of the negotiation, Huang Qianshan slumped on a chair.

Tens of thousands of pens were gone just like that. This time, he almost did it for nothing, and only got a thousand pennies of his hard-earned money.

Although the tax was raised repeatedly, the local officials did not cooperate very much, and the gentry and merchants always delayed. He really didn't make much money.

The money is in the guild hall, and Huang Qianshan has ordered the Li family to exchange it for gold and silver.

Zhu Ming called in some town soldiers, and after counting the gold and silver, they moved out one after another.Then find the Li family to exchange it into iron money again, and no handling fee is allowed.

Standing at the door, Ju Ming confronted the taxpayers and said, "You all go home. There will be no more taxes this year. Next year, Yangzhou will only charge 60 yuan per bushel for land use. Whoever dares to collect more will not pay me. face!"

"Mr. Zhu is benevolent and righteous!"

"Zhu Xianggong is so kind and virtuous, we all remember it!"

The trustees in the anti-tax team knelt and kowtowed one after another, and the rest of the people also knelt happily.

Zhu Ming made his own claim and lowered the amount of ground money for next year, leaving only 4 coins per bucket for officials to embezzle.Those guys, taking advantage of Huang Qian's chaotic tax collection, must have been greedy a lot this year, and if they want to be greedy next year, they will have to face the anger of the people.

The people who resisted the tax quickly dispersed, and the township soldiers and archers lined up to get the severance pay.

Huang Qianshan stood on the second floor and watched, hating Zhong Quannong in his heart.That guy is also greedy a lot, and has caused such a big incident, so far he still doesn't know where the money and food have been withheld, and Zhong Quannong will have to spit some out when he goes back!
Zhu Ming came to Huang Qianshan's side: "Huang Xiansi, I heard that there are still many rioters who have fled into the mountains to become thieves."

Huang Qianshan said: "It's nothing to be afraid of ringworm and scabies."

"These rural soldiers don't ask for a lot of money and food. It's only [-] to [-] yuan per day," said Zhu Ming. "They've already had a quarrel once, and it's a quarrel again. It's easier to make trouble in the future. If there are bandits in the mountains again , I am afraid there will be civil unrest next year.”

Huang Qianshan was a little impatient, and asked, "How do you think Chenggong should solve it?"

Zhu Ming said: "Give me three thousand guan, and I will send people to appease the bandits in the mountains and find a new place for them to resettle."

"Three thousand guan?" Huang Qianshan jumped up in shock and didn't even pretend, "If you give three thousand guan, I will lose money this trip!"

"How about two thousand strings?" Zhu Ming asked.

"At most one thousand guan!" Huang Qianshan was trembling with anger, his work was really wasted this time.

Zhu Ming sighed: "Oh, one thousand is one thousand, I will post some more money and food. Yangzhou is my hometown, and I really don't want to make trouble again."

Zhu Ming helped solve the difficulty, but Huang Qianshan didn't appreciate it very much, and because of the money matter, he even felt resentment in his heart.

This guy really hated Zhu Mingji.

With such a wonderful brain circuit, it can only be said that a villain is difficult to raise.

After working until midnight, the soldiers and archers finally finished collecting the money and food, after all the food had to be transferred to the warehouse.

Three representatives of the village soldiers, with many soldiers, came to say goodbye to Zhu Ming.

Qiu Shoucheng knelt down and said, "We have written down Mr. Zhu's kindness today. We will never frown if we have any orders from now on!"

The rest of the soldiers also knelt down, and Zhu Ming helped more than a dozen of them up with his own hands: "Don't do that. The emperor doesn't send out hungry soldiers. If you work for the government, you should get money and food. This is what you deserve. Let's all disperse and go back to the village." Have a good life."

Zhu Ming asked his followers to light up lanterns and send all these troublesome soldiers out of the city.

The soldiers came to the Han River, knelt down toward the city again, gathered together in twos and threes to rest, and waited for dawn before returning home together.

Huang Qianshan didn't want to stay here, so he left in the middle of the night. He wanted to rush back to Xingyuan Mansion and ask Zhong Quannong to spit out the embezzled money and food.

Zhu Ming rested in the middle of the night and went to the state office the next day.

Hu Zhizhou is a newcomer this year, and he also took the opportunity to fish some. The amount is not much, only a few hundred guan.

He narrowly escaped death, gratefully said: "Fortunately, Taishou Zhu came forward, otherwise what happened yesterday would be difficult to deal with."

Zhu Ming said: "I was afraid that things would get worse, so I decided to lower the land rent for next year. Please forgive me, Governor Hu."

"It's an expedient measure, and it doesn't get in the way." Zhizhou Hu didn't care about this. Most of the extra land money that was usually collected was corrupted by county officials, and there were actually only a few officials in the prefecture.

Zhu Ming also said: "The rioters who fled into the mountains may cause trouble again. Huang Xiansi took out a thousand coins and asked the state to give some more, and I came forward to resettle them in the lower reaches of Daming Village to open up wasteland. In this way, we can solve the problem. There are hidden dangers for the rioters, and it can also reclaim wasteland and increase taxes.”

Hu Zhizhou wondered: "After the previous chaos and the construction of plank roads, there is not much money and grain left in the warehouse of the state government. Zhong persuaded the farmers to withhold military rations and was greedy for food. I was afraid of accidents, so I transferred some grain from the state government. .”

Zhu Ming said: "Then let the wealthy households share and raise [-] yuan, and I will come forward to resettle the rioters."

"Also... that's the only way to go." Hu Zhizhou immediately agreed, since he didn't need to pay anyway.

Ju Ming was very happy. This time, he won the hearts of the people and attracted many disorderly people without having to pay for resettlement.

(This is a missed chapter.)
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