Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 20
After 7 days, after Zhang Zongxian promised to finish the Mashi project, he would also repair the city wall road.In the slack season, water conservancy needs to be built.The engineering team led by Wang Laosan speeded up the construction of the horse market.The horse market can be built in less than 10 days.

And Hu Biao also came back from the grassland, bringing back 50 horses, 2000 sheep and 200 cattle.More than 30 herdsmen were recruited from the grassland to bring these horses, cattle and sheep back.

After Hu Biao came back and arranged the livestock, he immediately went to see Zhang Zongxian.

"Let's say that the county magistrate made at least 900 taels of silver this trip. If it weren't for the management of the hundreds of households closed over there, it cost 50 horses, otherwise this trip would earn 1400 taels."

"Those frontier soldiers are not good at fighting, but they are good at extortion. I will deal with them sooner or later. After next year, I will get you a guard of hundreds of households. Let's see who dares to blackmail."

"Xianzun, isn't the Jinyi Guard the emperor's personal guard? I can be that too."

"There's nothing wrong with doing things for the palace, you have to benefit others."

"Xie Xianzun, then I, Hu Biao, will be an official at that time, and I can honor my ancestors."

"The horses brought back this time will be of great use to pick out the best horses. You have also recruited some Tartars this time."

"There is actually a mixture of Mongolian and Han people outside the wall of the county lord. There are Han people who evade taxes and herdsmen who can't survive. It is not clear who is Han and who is Tartar. Even in Guihua City, there are many Han people there. farming."

"Oh, can you recruit cavalry from outside the side wall?"

"Many small tribes in Nengdi County were scattered and annexed. The original herdsmen wandered on the grasslands. There are also many Han people who have learned that horseback riding and archery are no worse than the Tartar cavalry. This is why there are so many horse bandits on the grasslands."

"Let's talk about recruiting cavalry, what do you plan to do with these cattle and sheep?"

"The little guy knows a lot of dealers who collect cattle and sheep, but the price can't go up."

"The wool bought from this sheep can keep out the cold, and the mutton is another delicacy."

"The wool of the county lord has a strong smell, and only the tartars use it. The poor can't afford it, and the rich wear cotton."

Zhang Zongxian thought to himself how warm the sweater he wore when he was a child, but the Ming Dynasty didn't have one, so why not wait for it?You must know that the British wool textile industry has promoted the development of capital.How big does it take to keep warm in this little ice age!The smell of wool is not enough to wash it clean again.As for how to wash, let Su'e experiment.

After secretly remembering it in my heart, I continued to talk to Hu Biao: "You can't always leave such a big stall behind and run to the grassland to have fun. It's better to arrange someone to take you to the grassland. You don't need to change too much at a time. Ten times a time A few horses and white-headed sheep are enough. Let your friends in the Jianghu run more. You can give them credit."

"The county magistrates with small ambitions can't compare! If you can give these people credit, they will ride a horse and bring dozens of catties of Erguotou into the grassland. Even if they go to Guihua City and back, it will take less than 20 days."

"It's okay if there is a large caravan to ask for the goods, but the price can't be compromised. We only get 10 taels a catty for Erguotou. It doesn't matter what his origin is, no one can come to this three-acre land. You arrange to get the wool I shaved them all and put them in the horse market warehouse for my use."

Little understands.The county lord and the horse market sell everything.But the sheep and cattle had to be put outside the city. First, there were more cattle and sheep, and second, so many animals were prone to infection.

"I'll talk to Ding Bo about continuing to build sheep pens and cattle pens outside the east gate, and discuss how to do it with you two."

Three days later Zhang Zongxian was teaching dialectics to several of his disciples in the backyard.Qian Dianshi suddenly came over and said that the higher-ups had issued an official document to increase taxes.Zhang Zongxian was not calm when he heard that taxes would be raised.Then I saw that an additional 30% of silver would be levied per mu.I thought fortunately not much!This county has almost 2700 mu of land and only [-] taels of silver.

Qian Dianshi saw that Zhang Zongxian was very calm and completely ignored the tax increase, so he hurriedly said to Zhang Zongxian: "My county magistrate! Why are you not in a hurry at all! Our poor place wants to scrape out the 30000 shi grains and 10000 taels of silver. That's not easy."

“怎么就30000石粮食10000两银子，这30万亩田一年定额就是10000石粮食也就1200000斤粮食折银10000两，加上刚刚加的也才12700两”

"The county lord normally pays 10000 shi for grain and 2700 taels of silver, but there is also the ice and charcoal tribute to Shangguan every year, as well as the arrears from previous years, plus your usual routine."

"In the past, whoever owed it would go to whomever"

"The county magistrate! There was no magistrate in the past ten years. If you don't look for you to take office, who will you look for?"

"How much did you owe before?"

"About 2 stone"

"so much?"

"This is the accumulated arrears of more than ten years."

"What's the rule?"

"This routine includes eight bolts of silk for making clothes on weekdays, one tael of silver for each lijia, one stone of rice for each lijia, one tael of silver for each lijia for each corvee, and one tael of silver for each lijia that passes through the county. Money and silver. Every time salt is sold in the county, it is quoted as a coin, and there is still a hundred tendons of paint every year. The money and grain collected are five taels for every 100 taels. One tael of silver, and so on, a total of 3000 taels"

Such a poor county has to search so much, and so on, these soap officials will not accept the real amount at all, they can give me 3000 taels of silver.How much do they have to be greedy?With so many li chiefs, Zao officials, government servants, and Huang Shilang, they must be searched several times.They also took the opportunity to lend and annex land.

Seeing that Zhang Zongxian was thinking about it, Qian Dianshi continued, "These harvested grains need to be supplied to the side wall for transportation, and [-]% must be added for losses. Lose ten percent."

“那就是33000石粮食，11000两白银。这全县30万亩地按一年平均300斤的产量算一亩得承担17.6斤粮食”

"That's not how the county lords count. Among the 30 mu of land, there are vassals, gentry, and Huang Shilang's land, which adds up to 15 mu of land that does not need to pay taxes."

"Not only do they not need to pay taxes, but they also need to make a profit from it. Tell me the truth, I want to collect all the taxes, plus the share from everyone above and below. How much food do the people have to pay?"

County Zun is like this all over the world!Your annual salary is only 70 Shimi, and you may not have that much in your hands.The imperial court often used things like spices to pay salaries.Being an official requires ostentation, so 70 shi is not enough for this application.

"It's enough for Qian Dianshi to tell the truth, don't need to mention anything else"

Seeing that Zhang Zongxian was a little impatient, Qian Dianshi hurriedly said: "Based on previous years, it is equivalent to 20 shi of grain."

"That's half of the output of 15 mu. The 8 people in Qingjian County, except for those tax-free fields, have less than 2 mu of land per capita. Even if the average 2 mu of land, a family of four can only stay after paying taxes. 1200 catties of grain, an average of less than one catty per day. Is this enough?"

"I know that you are sympathetic to the people of the county, but if you can't explain it to the superiors, you can't do it! If you don't let the people below take them, you won't be able to urge them. This would have killed people every year. If you don't let them take them, you won't do it. "

"Qian Dianshi, go ahead, I'll think about it carefully"

With less than a catty of grain a day, there is still heavy work to be done. There is no oil and water to supplement physical strength, and it depends on this carbon water. In addition, seeds must be saved for planting in the next year, and salt must be bought. It is barely enough to survive starvation.Even if you pay in full this year, you will be short of harvest due to any drought next year, and you will have to sell the land to make a living. You don’t have to pay land tax for renting other people’s land, but there are still other bonuses. dry food.No wonder the people in Shaanxi rebelled when the three salaries were levied, and they would starve to death if they didn't rebel.

How can I pass this level!If you don't pay your taxes in full, you can't get promoted, and if you have to pay in full, the people will have to kill you.Even if you check Yintian, you can't make up 2 shi!Zhang Zongxian couldn't do it if he really wanted to be promoted and force the common people to death, and he and his apprentices couldn't explain it either.Even if they don't get promoted, the frontier soldiers who can't pay for the food on this side of the wall will starve. If they rebel, it will be even more destructive.

Even if the output of the wine industry is used to pay the food, it will not work.The people below will suspect that he is going to rebel if he is so gracious to the people.In addition, the output of the wine industry must be kept secret, otherwise those greedy people will never let go of this golden rooster that lays eggs.Even a rebellion would only damage the fragile economy of the north.In the end, he could only learn from Li Zicheng to be a bandit and smash the north completely.Even if the rebellion succeeds and there are no talents to replace these officials, they still have to be used to govern the people, so it is better not to rebel.

Zhang Zongxian thought for a long time and decided to take it step by step first.First check the land and then let those who are not eligible for tax exemption make them pay up the tax owed.Speed ​​up the pace of exterminating Huang Shilang, he must have food reserves, and it is up to him to pay off the outstanding debts.And those vassal kings will kill them sooner or later and distribute the land to the people.To increase the training of one's own people, it is better to recruit more apprentices.It is necessary to find a safe way for the people to pay taxes without going through the hands of those officials.Otherwise, you will encounter this problem when you go to other places in the future.The point is to play tricks on these officials. Originally, only 40 catties of grain per mu of land would be enough.Now they have embezzled so many of them.

After thinking about the countermeasures, Zhang Zongxian called the people from the house.It turned out that Zhang Zongxian divided the people in the household into two groups and asked them to supervise each other and engage in competition.Now is the time to see the results.

Soon the head and deputy of Hufang came.When the two met, they seemed to be dissatisfied with each other.Zhang Zongxian directly asked them how the investigation was going.The chief said that on his side, only the vassals had no courage to investigate, and everything else had been investigated, while the deputy said that Huang Shilang on his side had not been investigated, and everything else had been investigated.

After asking the two to hand in the checked fish scale book, Zhang Zongxian looked at it.Directly let them call their people, and under the supervision of the official, check on the spot whether there is any problem with the other party's inventory results.The two teams are still torn apart in order to compete for positions.Keep pointing out the other person's problems.The Ministry of Officials records.

In the end, the deputy was able to figure it out clearly, knowing that if he lost, he would be liquidated by his original boss, and now his group of people are counting on this to enter the yamen.Point out all the hidden fields in Qingjian County.The previously hidden population was also cleared out by him.And the owner of the house still had the mentality of fooling his boss.The local government concealed the population of a large number of fields.Zhang Zongxian directly asked the owner of the household to be taken down and locked up.The deputy is promoted to the master.All the people who were in charge were removed.

Then let the newly appointed director continue to check, and recheck the missing volume as soon as possible.

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