Call of Heroes: A History Only I Know

Chapter 190 I am a Ming Dynasty, thriving day by day! (seeking subscription)
Assignment and exile are not the same concept.

In the eyes of many people, exile and distribution seem to be a punishment.

In fact, exile and distribution in ancient times were aimed at two groups of people.

Most of the exiled prisoners were family members of relatively minor crimes or serious offenders who were imprisoned.

These people were exiled to remote areas to serve labor, mostly with a time limit, even if there is no time limit, they still have the opportunity to spend money to develop relationships before they can go back.

But the distribution is different. Most of these people are death row inmates who have received commuted sentences, or are felons with serious crimes.

These people are all persevering. When they are assigned, they will be tattooed on their faces, indicating the cause of the crime, and then go to remote areas to do heavy coolie work, and their status is basically reduced to slavery.

And these assigned prisoners are divided into lifelong and permanent.

Life is to stipulate that criminals must serve hard labor in remote areas until death.

As for eternity, its descendants will be slaves from generation to generation, and will always have to work in remote areas.

Therefore, the distribution is better, but those who are exiled are really miserable.

Along with the determination of punishment, batch after batch of wealthy businessmen, families, and officials were involved, and all were arrested, fined, ransacked, exiled, and assigned to show punishment by the court.

at the same time.

A caning law is in full swing across the country.

And the tax deduction of that precious banknote is also in the process of publicity.

Up and down the whole country, there was an uproar, and the people were all cheering and cheering.

One whip directly simplifies many taxes and even corvee.

For the people at the bottom, there are a lot less procedures, which means a lot less deduction process, and it is not so easy for officials to rely on the "final interpretation power" to make things difficult for the people.

In addition, the precious banknotes that have been unable to be spent in the hands of the people can suddenly be deducted from taxes, and the deduction is still at the original price, not according to the depreciated value of the precious banknotes.

This means that the value of the precious banknotes in the hands of all the people has suddenly doubled, making a small fortune!What a surprise!
As for some wealthy households, those who had a lot of precious money in their hands before this incident happened, suddenly became rich directly in a wave.

Of course, there are examples to the contrary.

Songjiang Fucheng.

In a mansion.

Mr. Huang looked at the mansion newspaper in his hand, he couldn't believe it for a while, he paced around, couldn't help muttering to himself: "One whip, the tax is unified, and the precious banknotes can finally be used to pay taxes? Can it still be used to deduct corvee? This latest decree..."

"Doesn't it mean that the value of those treasures in my Huang's treasury is about to double?"

"This is a great thing!"

Master Huang hurriedly summoned the housekeeper, "Call Mr. Warehouse!"

Not long after, Master Huang saw the treasury and quickly asked, "How many treasures are there in the treasury?"

When Mr. Treasury heard this, he said proudly: "Reporting to the master, all the treasure notes are gone, and all of them have been exchanged for Lingshi Lingyin..."

"What?!" Master Huang, who was still very happy at first, couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard such an answer, and said in disbelief, "Where are my treasures? Where did you get them?!"

Mr. Kufang was very proud at first, but seeing the master's expression suddenly turned so ugly, he also realized that something was wrong, and he quickly blamed him: "This matter has nothing to do with me, master, how can I have the right to transfer the treasures in the warehouse?" What? Madam arranged for these banknotes to be exchanged..."

"This... this prodigal girl!!" Master Huang gritted his teeth and asked, "How did you exchange it?"

"The treasure note of one thousand spirit stones has been exchanged for three hundred spirit stones, because the amount given by the other party is very large, so..." the treasury said cautiously.

"Ah!" Mr. Huang only felt his chest constricted, as if something was blocking him. He felt extremely uncomfortable for a while, and he couldn't help shouting miserably: "My treasure!!"

"Master??" Seeing this scene, Mr. Treasury was dumbfounded, and quickly said, "Master, this precious banknote should not be kept for a long time!"

"That was in the past!" Master Huang said sadly: "Now that the imperial court has issued a decree, treasure banknotes can be used to pay taxes, and can also be used to deduct corvee. The price of treasure banknotes will rise in the future!"

"No, quickly recover our treasure!"

"Even if you break the contract, you have to get it back!"

Previously, the precious banknotes had been depreciating in value. Even if the official decree stipulated that the precious banknotes must be used for transactions, it was impossible to directly prohibit everyone's private behavior with a ban. No one liked this precious banknote that would continue to depreciate.

Therefore, anyone who gets the treasure banknote will basically sell it immediately.

But with the implementation of the decree, the treasure banknotes can be used to pay taxes, and can also be used to offset corvee, which directly makes the value of the treasure banknotes rise rapidly!
Seeing that those precious banknotes were about to return to their original prices, countless people rushed to exchange them, hoping to be ahead of those who didn't know the news.

For example, a butcher in Songjiang Prefecture.

He listened intently to the officials announcing the latest policy.

When I heard that Baochao can pay taxes normally at the original price, and you can pay Baochao to avoid corvee, I realized that this is a good opportunity to make money!

Butcher Wang turned around and left, and immediately went home to ask his wife for Lingshi Lingyin, and went to buy precious banknotes!
This behavior was opposed by the butcher's wife Zhang.

Mrs. Zhang tightly covered her money box, and cursed angrily: "Are you crazy?! If you don't give them good looks when they usually give you precious money, they will either be short of money or get some discounts from the precious money." Qian, now you are actually exchanging spirit stones for precious banknotes?!"

"Oh! Of course I'm not crazy. The imperial court has issued the latest government decree. In the future, treasure notes can be used to pay taxes and use treasure notes to avoid corvee. The price of treasure notes will definitely increase in the future, and it will increase a lot!" Wang Butcher Said in a hurry.

"Ah?" Zhang was stunned for a moment: "Really?"

"of course it's true!"

"But...is it really okay for you to do this?"

"You are really a woman's opinion! Hesitating, what money can you make! Open it for me!!" Wang Butcher was anxious and wanted to push his wife away.

"Stop!" Zhang suddenly shouted: "Think about it carefully, since the imperial court announced this news, why wouldn't it guard against people who behave like you? If you really did it, you will probably be punished!"

"Besides, how will those people whom you have exchanged for treasures remember to hate you after knowing the news of the imperial court? Haven't you provoked so many enemies for no reason?"

"We open the door to do business, even if we don't make friends, we can't offend so many people."

"Even if it's my wife's opinion, just follow me, let's not make such ill-gotten gains!"

Hearing his wife's words, Wang Tuhu hesitated for a while, and after thinking for a while, he put down his hands and sighed, "Okay! Then we won't make this money!"

"Husband, you don't have to be so reconciled. We just need to live a good life and don't worry about food and clothing. Why do we need to earn such bad money?" Seeing this, Mrs. Zhang immediately said with a smile.

……

After the decree was issued, many people took the opportunity to buy banknotes.

The behavior of these people is also speculative!

But compared to buying up banknotes before the decree was issued, it is not so serious. It is more of a cleverness, trying to make a difference in information.

These people were not strictly punished, but were given a verbal warning, educated, and asked them to return the treasures they bought, and fined them as punishment.

After all, the nature of doing this is not too bad, and the scope is not too large, so there is no need to confiscate the house and exile.

When these people returned the treasure money, they were all very unhappy. After all, they bought it back with hard work. After all, there are only a few people who don’t know the policy. Not easy!

After finally earning some money, I have to return it and pay a fine... Is there any reason?
but.

When these people knew about the families, officials, and dignitaries who had been ransacked, beheaded, and sent into exile, they were all scared out of their wits!

Because they seem to do the same thing!

If the court really strictly ordered them to be investigated, wouldn't they all be sent into exile?
It is inevitable that everyone will have the luck of surviving after the catastrophe!
Just return the treasure notes and pay a fine!

This penalty is already very small!
After hearing the news, the butcher king was immediately glad that he hadn't bought the banknotes. Once he did those things, he would not only offend others, but also return the banknotes and pay a fine!It is even possible to ransack the house and go into exile, which is even more terrifying!

Wang Tuhu couldn't help but sighed to his wife: "Madam was right in persuading me at the beginning. It was my villain's opinion. Madam is not a woman's opinion, but a profound understanding of righteousness!"

Mrs. Zhang said with a smile: "It's already good if my husband listens to the persuasion. Everyone wants to make money. This is a very normal behavior."

"In the future, treasure banknotes and spirit stones will be the same, and even more popular. This policy really benefits the people."

……

Any reform will inevitably involve countless interests.

Since ancient times, reformers have rarely had a good death, which is the reason.

The reform of the tax law will touch the interests of many people and cause them to try their best to obstruct it. Fang Keqin was forced to take this road and had no choice but to go to the dark side.

Originally, Fang Keqin was the head of Qingliu civil servants, and his reputation couldn't be better.

But now, his black material appeared one after another, and some unnecessary black material was dug out.

Pots of dirty water were poured on him one after another, and many censors even impeached Fang Keqin, saying that he used the tax reform to engage in corruption and bribery, hoping to be punished.

Following the progress of a whip, a pair of invisible big hands wanted to press Fang Keqin to death!
To put it bluntly, Fang Keqin is alone, weak and easy to bully!
These people still have illusions, thinking that as long as Fang Keqin is removed, the tax reform may stop here!
But they obviously greatly underestimated the emperor's determination!
With the continuous implementation of the decree.

Fang Keqin encountered many difficulties and troubles.

These difficulties were never encountered by Zhang Juzheng.

After all, Zhang Juzheng is in a high position, under one person and above ten thousand people. When such an existence goes on the road of reform without hesitation, of course the resistance he will encounter will be less.

This is Su Che's lack of consideration.

When he learned about this situation, he immediately reprimanded the censor who didn't know the truth, and did not punish Fang Keqin who was in the rumors.

Su Che is very clear that it is a taboo for military strategists to change generals just before the battle. Since Fang Keqin has entrusted this matter to Fang Keqin, no matter how many voices smear him, he will ignore it, just trust him with confidence!
Therefore, not only did he not punish him, but he even offered him a reward. Su Che named Fang Keqin the Prince's Taibao, gave him the Emperor's Sword, and beheaded any lawless ministers. He also gave him an imperial guard, which he could command at will!

With the decree issued, almost everyone saw the emperor's determination to reform!
When Fang Keqin heard the news, he was so moved that he burst into tears and bowed his head in the direction of Ying Tianfu!

"Your Majesty Shengming!!"

Forced to embark on the road of tax reform, Fang Keqin was more or less reluctant in his heart.

But with the progress of the tax reform, Fang Keqin clearly realized the benefits of the reform, which is not only a policy that benefits the country, but also a policy that benefits the people.

but……

There are so many people offended!

First of all, clearing up the land, equalizing taxes, leaving hidden fields nowhere to hide, and tenants nowhere to hide. Those landlords were fined a lot of money as the policy was issued!This offended almost all the landlords in Ming Dynasty.

Although in the early days of Hongwu, land annexation was not so serious, but this policy directly restricted the development of landlords, how could we not hate it to the bone.

In addition, the treasure banknotes collected by the mu are collected by the officials.

In the past, the land tax collection was basically a real collection. Although it was calculated in currency on the surface, it was actually paid in kind.

However, with the implementation of the one-whip method, all the collections were changed to treasure notes, and all land taxes were changed to treasure notes except for the collection of spiritual grains eaten by the royal family.

This not only saves the cost of storage and transportation, but also reduces a lot of "waste". At the same time, it makes the corvee transparent, which directly reduces the gray income of many officials.

This is tantamount to offending all the officials in this area, making them want to beat Fang Keqin to the bone.

A whipping policy benefits the court and the common people, but it offends the officials who control the right to speak, as well as those landlord groups.

It is really difficult to implement it smoothly!

Fang Keqin knew this clearly.

Faced with many difficulties and the countless dirty water, Fang Keqin gritted his teeth and continued to implement the decree, and finally achieved some results!
But he was also worried that the emperor would call him back, making these efforts fall short!After all, there are too many people who discredit him!
However, what Fang Keqin didn't expect was that the emperor not only did not recall him, but gave him unconditional trust. To carry out the New Deal! !
"The policy of the ages, the policy that has never existed in the ages, benefits the country and the people, how can we let those insects do harm?" Fang Keqin held the Tianzi sword, and said word by word, with firm eyes: "I will definitely live up to my mission. Thoroughly implement this policy! Let Your Majesty see my achievements!!"

"I'm Ming, and I'm bound to prosper!"

Time has passed, and Fang Keqin has become a loyal executor of this whipping law from being more or less reluctant at the beginning. Even if his innocence has been smeared, he still has to set up this eternal policy! !
(End of this chapter)