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Chapter 137: One million copies!King Chong wails

"The leader doesn't know that the income from the feudal prince's fields can be roughly divided into two categories. One is collected by the government on behalf of the government, and the other is collected by the prince's own government.

The land collected by the government on behalf of the government is equivalent to the land tax that should have been handed over to the court. The government collects the land and then transfers it to the feudal king.

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, all royal fields given to feudal kings by the imperial court should be treated in this way.

But now the regulations have long been corrupted, so there is a part of the royal land, and the feudal prince collects rent like a landlord, and does not have to pay taxes to the court. "

After hearing Zhao Deyou's explanation, Liu Sheng realized that his understanding of the Ming Dynasty was still too superficial based on some online historical novels he had read before.

For example, the feudal king's land, he simply believed that the feudal king could just collect rent like a landlord without paying taxes.

Zhu Youqi happened to be with him, so Liu Sheng asked: "Prince Chong, is this like this?"

"It's true." Zhu Youfan actually poured out his bitterness, "The leader doesn't know that the more than 5000 hectares of land in Prince Chong's Mansion are taxed by local governments.

However, since Gu succeeded to the throne, local governments have always used various reasons to hand over less taxes or even not to hand over taxes at all.

I secretly sent someone to investigate, and I found out that those corrupt officials might have said something about fields failing to harvest and people resisting taxes.

But they absolutely embezzled the tax money that should have been handed over to the palace, and even embezzled it openly and openly under the excuses of fire expenses, waste money, and floating money.

He also secretly threatened Gu not to appeal to the court, otherwise he would investigate Wangzhuang - Gu was bullied, but had no way to appeal..."

Liu Sheng was very unhappy when he saw that Zhu Youqi was still talking about being alone at this time. He pretended to be angry and said: "Gu Gu Gu Gu, Gou Jiao Gu! You have become a prisoner of our rebel army, and you still dare to call yourself a loner?!"

Zhu Youfan was sitting on a chair, but when he saw Liu Sheng was angry, he was so frightened that he rolled to the ground, knelt down and said: "Forgive me, chief, I don't dare to be alone anymore."

Liu Shengfu smiled again, "That's right. You are from Runing, so you should call me me. Stop kneeling, get up and sit up."

"Yes."

Zhu Youfan got up and carefully sat back on the chair, but he was already sweating - it was a cold winter month, which showed that he was really scared just now.

Liu Sheng said: "You said that officials bullied you and threatened you with an inventory of Wangzhuang to prevent you from filing a complaint. Isn't it because your Wangzhuang occupies a lot of private land? There are also a lot of hidden fields, right?"

Zhu Youfan did not dare to hide anything in front of Liu Sheng, so he nodded awkwardly and said: "There must be hidden fields, but it turns out that they are all unowned wasteland that was reclaimed by Wangzhuang tenants.

As for the people’s fields, I heard from the stewards below that most of them were donated by the people on their own initiative.

After I became a tenant of Gu... Wangzhuang, I didn't have to pay court taxes, and the rent I charged was lower than most landlords. The people were very happy. "

At this moment, Shen Wandeng, who was next to him, suddenly interrupted, "Prince Chong, how come I have heard of several cases where Prince Chong's palace forced people to surrender, or even seized their fields?"

"That's absolutely not the case!" Zhu Youfan flatly denied, "I... I respect the king, I am rich, and I can't spend all my money and food in my lifetime. How can I do such evil things as seizing people's land?"

Shen Wandeng said: "Maybe you really don't know about this, but you people in Prince Chong's Mansion certainly do this kind of thing."

Zhu Youfan was silent for a while.

Does he really not know that the stewards oppressed the people, seized their land, and forced them to surrender?
I'm afraid I'm just pretending not to know.

Liu Sheng didn't think the vassal king was a good guy at all, so he wasn't surprised when he heard this, and he wasn't interested in hearing any more. He immediately signaled Zhao Deyou to continue the report.

Zhao Deyou said: "According to the account books and document statistics from the palace, Prince Chong's palace does still have some food stored in Wangzhuang outside the city.

In total, there are [-] dan of old grain and [-] dan of new grain.

Most of these royal villages are in Ruyang, a small part are in other counties of Runing, and a small part are outside Runing Prefecture. "

"How many fields does Prince Chong's Mansion have?" Liu Sheng asked.

“There are more than 1 hectares in the royal palace’s documents and account books.

Among them, more than 600 hectares were collected by the government and transferred to the royal palace, and more than 7000 hectares were collected and rented by the royal palace independently.

However, the actual number cannot be known until someone is sent to conduct an on-site inspection and measurement. "

"In addition to paddy fields and dry land for growing grains, do these more than 1 hectares include other areas?"

"In addition to paddy fields and dry lands, it also includes mulberry forests, pastures, and reed fields. Others such as orchards, mountain forests, river beaches, etc. are not included."

Liu Sheng nodded slightly after hearing this.

The taxes on sericulture in mulberry forests and grazing on pastures are easy to understand.

As for the taxation of reed fields, it is because reeds were also a very important economic plant in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At this time, many folk items were woven with reeds, and the consumption was quite large. In addition to weaving, there were many other reeds. Other uses.

Hearing that the palace still had 10,000+ stones of grain outside, Liu Sheng felt better even though he didn't know how much of the grain actually existed (Wangzhuang's stewards were greedy).

Afterwards, Zhao Deyou withdrew and Cheng Song stepped forward to report statistics on gold, silver and other money.

"Reporting to the leader, a total of 18 taels of gold have been confiscated from Prince Chong's Mansion.

The amount of silver collected was 190 taels.

In addition, there are more than 100 boxes of jade, gemstones, gold and silver jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, antiques and other precious properties, the value of which cannot be estimated at the moment. "

Hearing these data, Shen Wandeng breathed quickly.

Zhu Youfan was so distressed that he burst into tears and wailed in his heart: It was all Gu's money. It was the diligent and thrifty people of King Chong's lineage who had worked hard to save it for six generations. It was all gone┭┮﹏┭┮

Liu Sheng laughed happily, "Haha, yes, the amount of gold, silver and jewelry is finally worthy of a vassal."

Cheng Song also smiled and said: "According to the documents and accounts, Prince Chong's Mansion also has some money in the accounts of many Wangzhuang, which adds up to about 10,000+ taels.

In addition, there are more than 200 shops in various parts of Runing Prefecture, and even outside the prefecture. Their own value plus book money is at least 50 taels.

But considering that there are more and more war-torn places nowadays, many of these shops may be destroyed by the war. "Shop Liu Sheng can't intervene for the time being, and he doesn't want to do a one-time harvest of destruction. After all, most of them are in Runing Mansion, and the rebels are likely to permanently occupy Runing Mansion.

In that case, destroying these shops would be equivalent to destroying the property of the rebels.

He then said: "The shop will still be managed by the original steward of the palace, and the accounts and profits will be handed over to the palace as usual. We will wait until the relevant departments are established in the Chinese Department, and then we will take over the disposal."

"Yes."

Cheng Chan responded and stepped back.

Duan Lei stepped forward.

He is responsible for counting the number of important materials such as soldiers, mules and horses, and various personnel in the mansion.

"Chief, although Prince Chong's Mansion has an arsenal, there are not many armors in it. There are only [-] pairs of swords, [-] sets of cloth armor, [-] sets of cotton armor, [-] sets of bows, and [-] arrows."

Liu Sheng nodded, "It's not too small. With the ones on the guards, we can barely equip 1000 people."

Duan Lei continued: "In addition, there are 130 and six horses, of which 56 can be used as war horses, but most of them still need a little training.

The remaining eighty horses are only used for riding and pulling carts, and there are thirty mules. "

It can be seen from the large animals that the quality of Prince Chong's Mansion is unusual and comparable to that of a large family - the carts are mostly pulled by horses, supplemented by mules, and there is no donkey at all.

"In addition, there are three pastures and a horse ranch in the northwest of the city. They are not big. According to the records of the palace, there are 160 eight war horses and 380 slave horses.

There are a total of 580 war horses, 860 and five slave horses, 570 mules, 750 and six oxen, and [-] and three donkeys in the accounts of each king's village..."

Duan Lei's follow-up report also included statistics on the number of pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, which made Liu Sheng's head hurt.

He knew that these were all figures on the books and could only be used as a reference. How much the rebels could actually get was another matter.

But after all, it was the hard-earned data of Duan Lei and others, and it could be regarded as a kind of training. He didn't want to listen.

Of course, if he had someone who was specifically in charge of this matter, he wouldn't have to worry so much.

After Cheng Chan finished his report, Liu Sheng asked everyone to leave.

He took Shen Wandeng and other members of the Xiaoqi Battalion to inspect the city defenses and check the night watch arrangements.

It was already after nine o'clock when I came back. After a tiring day, everyone was immediately told to go and rest.

The next day.

The rebels first posted notices and asked patrol soldiers to announce them along the streets to reassure the people and clarify the rules during the period when the rebels were under military control of Ruyang City.

They also put grain in the city to provide relief to the poor people in the city who lacked food rations.

He also gave porridge to the refugees outside the city, and sent out teams, just like he did in Queshan, to supervise the refugees outside the city and help them develop the habit of observing the order of the rebels.

After three days of this, the rebels relaxed military control and allowed shops and markets to open.

However, people entering and exiting the city must undergo interrogation, which is quite strict.

If you bring goods into the city, you will still be taxed according to the previous amount.

But the rebel soldiers will not take the opportunity to extort people, accept bribes, let alone bully good people - the rebel army has a gendarmerie to monitor military discipline, and if soldiers violate discipline, they will be severely punished.

At the same time, because the rebels patrolled the streets and severely punished the gangsters, thugs, and bullies, the public security in Ruyang City was significantly better than before, and the poor and the poor did not have to worry about being bullied when they went to the streets.

After only two days of this, the people of Ruyang had a great change in their view of the rebels.

Especially ordinary people, they praise the rebels even more...

The government prison.

Bai Taiwei, who is naturally very patient, has lost his temper these days.

Not that she had a bad time in the cell.

In fact, things have changed ever since the unknown rebels entered the city that day and she was imprisoned again.

The jailers were still the same people as before, but her treatment suddenly improved a lot.

Not only was the single cell where they lived cleaned, but clean straw was also provided.

In the past, I could only eat two steamed buns and a bowl of cold cereal porridge every day.

Nowadays, it is steamed buns with pickles and millet porridge. It seems that it has not changed much, but it is still hot and fresh, and it has become three meals a day.

Coupled with the change in the jailer's attitude, she inexplicably wanted to know what was going on outside and what the rebels who had captured Ruyang looked like.

Unfortunately, the cell boss and jailer seemed to be wary of her and were unwilling to talk to her. Even if she wanted to get information, she couldn't.

On this day, she had just finished breakfast when she heard unusual movement in the cell.

Then the prison chief came in with a few rebels with an apologetic smile on his face.

"Masters, please take a look. This woman is Bai Taiwei."

The leader nodded, "You have also checked the documents. Open the cell door and let us take the person away."

"Yes."

　First more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)