Villager of Daming

Chapter 838 How can the empty seal be irregular?

Chen Ning left the cabinet, saw the small train parked at the door, and got on it: "To Xiaqiu Village."

The two eunuchs who guard the carriage are specially responsible for guarding the cabinet. In case of special circumstances, they can immediately take people to the village to find His Majesty.

Or if you knock on the palace, you will be extremely anxious.

The little train is also responsible for bringing meals from Xiaqiu Village to the people on duty. Otherwise, the ministers during normal working hours will eat the food from Guanglu Temple, just like other sergeants.

The maids and eunuchs who cleaned the harem were served meals by another small train, and they were not allowed to come into contact with Guanglu Temple.

If you can deliver food, you can meet the people in Xiaqiu Village, and you can get snacks, including pine nuts and hazelnuts, as well as dates and popcorn sticks.

Seeing that Chen Ning, the censor of the right capital, was about to go over, the two of them put the pliers for pinching hazelnuts into their satchels, operated the steam engine that was always running, and set off with a bang.

While driving the train, I looked ahead and found that the sign was for Xiaqiu Village, which proved that there was no need to turn the switch. Otherwise, you would have to hold up a sign on the train to say hello to the person in charge of turning the switch, and go there in advance.

The train arrived at Xiaqiu Village. It slowed down and Chen Ning got off. The train went around in circles and had to go back to the cabinet. It wasn't time to pick up food!
  Chen Ning couldn't go in, so he asked someone to inform him. Even though he was a second grader, he was not invited to enter Xiaqiu Village.

Someone went to report it, and soon the prince came in a small train: "Could you please Chen Yushi to give me the question book?"

Chen Ning took two steps at a trot and handed over a pile of question books. Before he could say anything else, the train had already left.

He turned around to get on the small train that the eunuch was returning to. The person from Xiaqiu Village who was guarding here came over with a bamboo basket: "Chen Yushi has something to eat."

"Thank you!" Chen Ning happily took it. He would never refuse. The other party stepped back and the train slowly came over. He got on the train and went back to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

On the way, I opened the lid of the basket, looked at the contents, and smiled. They were dried fruits, preserved fruits, truncated popcorn sticks, and rice cakes. I would give them to my family back home.

Zhu Biao drove back to the hot spring and jumped out deftly. Someone next to him quickly jumped up to deal with it.

"Don't do this next time." Zhu Yuanzhang glared and jumped out of the car?

"Yes, I know my mistake." Zhu Biao admitted his mistake. He knew that he was not stable. What if he fell?
  "What does Chen Ning want from us?" Zhu Yuanzhang took the question book, flipped it through, threw it aside, took another one, read the beginning, and continued to throw it away.

"If there is no problem, what are you afraid of? If you impeach Hu Weiyong, won't you be investigated if he is impeached?" Zhu Yuanzhang said as he threw it away.

When he opened the last book and read the beginning, he narrowed his eyes, looked at it carefully, nodded, and handed it to the elder: "You read it first, and after you finish it, show it to Yichang."

Zhu Biao took it and read it from beginning to end without saying a word before sending it to the head of the village.

The director was too lazy to push it away, so he looked at Hanhan quickly and shook his head.

"What do you think of Yichang?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"Your Majesty, when the local government and the Ministry of Accounts hand over physical objects and accounts, they usually use an empty booklet and then fill in the specific data.

This was a method commonly used by the previous dynasty to avoid being sent back due to discrepancies in data and delaying communication.

Physical transportation losses were too large and difficult to accurately measure. After the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, in order to be able to mobilize materials from various places, the two-tax law was adopted.

Discarding physical objects and converting them into silver coins would benefit the central finance of the Tang Dynasty in the short term, but would be useless in the long run. "

While recalling what he had learned, the director said that his expressionless expression was whether he supported or opposed the Kongyin issue. Hanhan told him not to do that.

"Then the empty book is printed first and then the numbers are filled in. Is it good or bad?" Zhu Yuanzhang insisted on asking clearly.

"What do you think, Your Majesty?" the chief asked. "Let's ask you!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head.

"We listen to your Majesty." The chief nodded.

"Is there any good way? The two-tax law will not work." Zhu Yuanzhang did not dwell on this and asked in another way.

"The imperial government's financial policy is to send things from the local government to the national treasury first, and then the local government will write the title book and allocate funds from the national treasury to the local government. The procedure cannot be changed.

For particularly disaster-stricken areas, you can adjust the land tax in the surrounding non-disaster areas to rescue. The accounts still need to go around, not local docking.

It is equivalent to the court having received the land tax and then delivering it to the disaster-stricken areas, thus reducing transportation costs.

When the people have no extra money, they cannot exchange money to pay for grain. Otherwise, when the grain is collected, silver is expensive and grain is cheap, and the people need to sell more grain to pay for it.

In wealthy places, there is no need to think about it. People who have extra money at home can pay directly and keep the grain. Later, they can slowly sell the grain and even make more money. "

The village chief talked about the disadvantages of discounting silver, which is that people don't have cash, so they can discount whatever they have, and they are not in a hurry to sell grain. If there is a shortage of grain in the market, they sell it at a high price.

At the same time, it is required that the procedures must not be wrong, that is to say, if the printing is wrong, it cannot be said out. So many local officials do not do this, and it is not enough trouble.

"We also understand this. Xuancheng County is not afraid of land tax and labor. If you don't grow what you want, you have to pay extra and convert it into money.

They were taught by you that every family's life was easy. When they exchanged treasure notes, twenty-one villages directly exchanged them for [-] banknotes.

Counting this together, which family shouldn't have a man with a hundred and eighty guan? The Ningguo Mansion was in a hurry. The imperial court wanted treasure notes, but the Ningguo Mansion initially gave him [-] guan, and a county gave him [-]% of it.

The people have no money left, so they cannot exchange grain for silver, and the local printing procedures are incorrect. How can we do it correctly without causing the people to suffer a loss? "

Zhu Yuanzhang followed up and said that he was not stupid and knew the situation, especially in remote areas. People worked when they were not farming. Earning ten coins a day was a very high price, not like thirty coins in Nanjing, which was the most common.

"Your Majesty, don't you want to use this to kill people? Oh, don't you want to use this to rectify the administration?"

The director accidentally said that he was talking too much, which meant that he was talking nonsense.

"We will send literate soldiers to the place to rectify the officialdom, but there is no need to use such excuses. We will let people raise it, no, someone else just raised it themselves, and then ask the officials what they can do. You can do it first. ask you."

Zhu Yuanzhang also accidentally said something he couldn't say.

Then the two people looked at each other and said together: "Hey hey hey..."

After laughing, the lieutenant took a big sip of beer and moistened his throat: "Your Majesty, in the third year of Hongwu, Changping Cang of the previous dynasty was converted into a reserve warehouse. There are many pros and cons, for the benefit of the people, and the cons of choosing the site.

The preparatory warehouse was placed in the countryside. It was eaten by insects, rats, and suffered all kinds of losses. It was difficult to determine the authenticity. Just like the Changping warehouse before, in the end there was no food in the warehouse and everything went into the pockets of others.

The people who manage the warehouses and local forces use their hands to do harm to the people in the name of benefiting the people from the warehouses. The spring loans and autumn harvests have their own interests. "

"We are aware of this matter. According to previous information, they will replenish the food in the warehouse and then make changes without any interest.

Even if you don’t tell us, we all know that this is a disguised form of the Qingmiao Law. Before, we were worried that the government would have no money, but now that we have money, we will not take it from the hands of the people.

It will be changed after the festival, but there must be a warehouse in the place to store food in case of emergencies. Whoever is sent there is afraid that they will be greedy. well! "

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a helpless look, "It doesn't matter what kind of warehouse it is, but how to make people not greedy is difficult."

(End of this chapter)