Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 316 The case of annulment in the seventeenth century
In the sixth year of Kangxi's reign, March 3 of the lunar calendar was the beginning of summer.

When Wang Shouliang drove the armed helicopter back to the Forbidden City, just after landing, a large group of eunuchs and maids hurriedly greeted him.

After walking for more than ten days, in the Forbidden City, the clothes of the pedestrians I saw have basically entered the modern era, and many eunuchs have begun to have black or white hair on their heads.

When Long Er and A Ke left with Jiu Nan and the maids who were waiting for them, Wang Shouliang met a group of eunuchs at the Qianqing Palace. Mainly because the eunuchs, according to his instructions, dealt with the various ministers and government officials left over from the Qing court. Magistrates and county magistrates, including various yamen, inquire about intelligence and collect information.

Let’s take a look at how well those officials did in their posts.

The Fifth Army Governor's Office just launched by Wang Shouliang is basically empty at this stage, with only a few people working and waiting to be filled with more officials.

After a round of reporting, after he received the information and signaled the chief supervisors of each department to leave, Xiao Renzi saluted and reported, "Your Highness, Governor Zhang Yuangong of Yu Province, Governor of Jin Province..."

"..."

"Congratulations to Your Highness, Your Highness. The governors of Jiangbei provinces are arriving in Beijing one after another. They all want to wait for Your Highness to summon you to make arrangements. Your Highness will be able to unify the north just around the corner."

A brief report was given first, and as Xiao Renzi's flattery sounded, other eunuchs and maids from far and near in the Qianqing Palace also knelt on the ground, all flattering him.

As long as the government's promotion action is fast enough and the people accept it, it will only be far more efficient than the government. During this period, there are countless people in various government agencies that are responsible for registration and land allocation based on head, day and night. Queued.

These situations spread to Jiangbei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, and then to Jin and Qin. Governors and governors from various places came to collect money and obey orders. This is normal. That is, there are many ethnic minorities in the northwest, especially the Gar. Dan’s existence…

Everything is natural and efficient!
The common people have more convenient money, and they can register their territories one by one according to the official population statistics. At this stage, there are still many former Mongolian nobles of the Eight Banners, who are staking their land, buying and enslaving Han slaves, and planting plots of winter wheat. .

When the people and merchants quickly accepted the new currency... don't think that the smooth promotion of the new currency is unscientific. The new currency is not a paper currency, it is real silver and real copper. It is nothing more than the old broken silver and a mess of cuts. When doing business, you must bring one with you. A scale for weighing silver.

It's a basic thing to bring your bedclothes and stay up all night to queue up. Families take turns coming all over the place.

During the few days he stayed in Fujian Province, he met Shi Lang, the governor of Fujian Province and other officials. Wang Shouliang's recruitment was quick and smooth.

Calculated based on the total area of ​​the eighteen provinces and some regions, one province has more than 220 million taels of silver, which is equivalent to million taels of silver being scattered.

Really, give land and property to everyone, and exempt all taxes and exorbitant taxes for the first year. Even if the news spreads, if leaders like governors and generals want to resist, they will have to look at their subordinates. Are the people happy or not?

I wish Wang Shouliang, the King of Zhao, to take a further step forward and achieve the act of ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor as soon as possible.

During Kangxi's peak period, his annual income only ranged from more than 30 million to 40 million taels. This is the total income for a year! !

In other words, if you receive farmland according to your head, you can harvest a batch of grain this summer and take it home without paying any taxes, so you get a whole summer harvest in vain! !

This will cause Zhao Ting to take the northwest a little slower.

The person in charge of these is Gu Ningren, who is very talented. There are many subordinates who want to take advantage of the establishment of the new dynasty and do more of the Conglong Gong to make progress! !

But in a year or two, 3 new troops will be trained in each province, all of them armed with Mauser 98 rifles and no shortage of bullets. The combined or troops, combined with the new troops in the capital, will sweep and crush them. No pressure.

Understand a series of conveniences and the nature of money or money. The speed of new currency promotion depends entirely on official efficiency and whether they are doing things seriously.

The cost of fire in remote areas is several times more expensive than that in regular areas, and the cost of fire in most prosperous areas is not cheap...

Wang Shouliang waved his hand, "Stop flattering and ask the governors of all provinces to come to the palace and I will meet you together."

The officials and servants are also human beings, and they can also divide the fields according to their heads!
The annual expenditure of 300 million silver dollars for a province is also not a small amount of money.

Are these conditions too powerful? !
Since Zhou Yichu, the governor of Eastern Shandong, returned to Shandong with a new army of thousands of households, more than a thousand Mauser 98 guns and 300 million silver dollars, and the Zhili area itself was vigorously promoting this policy under the arrangement of Governor Zhu Yunmen. policy.

As time passed, a large number of silver coins and copper coins entered the market. Under the control of Gu Ningren, the Minister of Household Affairs, they gradually replaced the previous system of broken silver and other copper coins.

It was changed to silver coins with different denominations and weights, but the essence of silver is still clear. There is no need to weigh the transaction, no need to check whether it is mixed with lead and other metals, and there is no need to spend money in exchanges of fire.

Now, unless immortals, Buddhas or evil spirits descend from heaven and drive Wang Shouliang, the King of Zhao, away, no one in the north or south of China can stop this trend. However, his more than 3000 million moral merits are not a decoration.

Which immortal, Buddha or evil spirit can be offended? !
Calculating one point of humanitarian merit for saving one life, there are now more than 1 million people in the South China Sea and North China in the summer, all of whom have encountered a death crisis. If they are saved again, it will only be more than 1000 million points.

Some time later, Wang Shouliang met with several governors and governors at the Qianqing Palace, all of whom were high-ranking officials in the border areas. Wang Shouliang was still very frank and straightforward.

According to the treatment given to Ludong and Fujian provinces, money, guns and bullets will be issued directly, and new troops will be issued... This is the custom. The opportunity is given to you, so remember to seize it! !

Zhou Yichu, the governor of Shandong Province, received quick rifle bullets and led the new army back to Shandong Province before he realized that it seemed that the force was abundant and arrogant, but after all the bullets were used up, the new army would suddenly sweep away Invincible, turned into useless.

Governor Zhou figured it out on the way.

It has been many days since we arrived in the capital this time, and we have already watched many governors and governors of various provinces, and they all understood it before entering the palace.

The scene is one of great harmony.

Everyone is taking a stand and swearing allegiance to shape the glory and glory of Xin Zhao. No matter whether the rise of Xin Zhao is too fast and efficient, at this point, Wang Shouliang has grasped the logistics of firearms, can fly in the sky and sea, and can do anything. Traveling a thousand miles, two thousand miles.

When the governors and governors left with their decrees one by one, and Wang Shouliang drank tea and relaxed, Xiao Renzi knelt down and asked for instructions, "Your Highness, Mr. Zhu, the former governor of Jiangning in the Qing Dynasty, gave 10 silver dollars to the slave. I want the slave to Find an opportunity to say something nice for him..."

"Because the Ministry of Household Affairs has not launched a bank yet, all of Xiaonu's 10 silver dollars are placed outside the palace, and His Highness can collect them at any time."

This is what Wang Shouliang has long ago ordered. Once a foreign minister bribes an internal official, the eunuchs or heads of palace maids can collect the money first and look for an opportunity to report.

After the report, regardless of what the foreign officials asked for, the internal officials who received the money were free of charge. Whether the money was confiscated by King Zhao, or rewarded to the internal officials and turned into legal gains, it depends on the situation.

Wang Shouliang laughed, "10 silver dollars? What is the situation of this former Qing Dynasty and former governor?"

Xiao Renzi quickly explained, "This Lord Zhu Pinghuan was born in the Zhenghuang Banner of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. In the fourth year of Shunzhi, he was awarded the title of Gongsheng County Magistrate. In the 16th year of Shunzhi, he was appointed as the governor of Jiangning."

"There was a memorial case, and the former Qing Emperor Shunzhi was petitioned. There were more than 13,500 gentry in the Jiangnan area. They resisted taxes and owed money and food to the government. As a result, there were tens of thousands of gentry groups, and all registered officials were demoted two levels."

"All scholars and others were deprived of their honors and taxes..." Wang Shouliang took a breath, "Yes, it is indeed Jiangnan. The tax inspectors sent by the former Ming Emperor were beaten to death at every turn, and Emperor Chongzhen was so poor that he was so poor that his pants If you don’t have money, you can’t collect taxes.”

"There's something about this memorial."

Regardless of the official reputation of the former Qing governor, on this matter, he dared to collect taxes from the Jiangnan gentry in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties? ? As a result, all officials were demoted two levels, and countless talented people were expelled...

This incident stung the volcano! !
No need to ask, among the official community, Confucian traditional scholar-bureaucrats, and literati, this person is probably more famous than Qin Hui, the kind of person who smells like a hundred miles in the wind.

From Guangqi to Chongzhen, who can receive how much tax money in Jiangnan Shilin?

Not to mention the demotion and dismissal of tens of thousands of people? ?

Little Renzi didn't dare to listen to Wang Shouliang's emotion, and followed the explanation again, "In the first year of Kangxi in the former Qing Dynasty, Master Zhu went home because his father passed away, and Ding You returned home. He set off without receiving orders from Ding You, and was killed. The Ministry of Civil Affairs rated him as absent from duty, and he has been dismissed from his post for five years."

Wang Shouliang, "..."

It's normal, it's too normal. If Zhu Pinghuan succeeds in his official career, he will be sorry for the more than 10,000 gentry and officials in Jiangnan who pay taxes.

That’s more than 13,000 people!
Governor of Jiangning, Nanzhili in the Ming Dynasty was centered on the southern capital city.

My father died, I went back to fulfill my filial piety, and then left without receiving my orders, and then I was fired for leaving my post without permission... This is so much more outrageous than the modern workplace.

It's ridiculous that such a weird governor-level official was dismissed from his post for five years like this.

Wang Shouliang shook his head in confusion, and asked curiously, "Is this Zhu Pinghuan trying to make a comeback?"

Xiao Renzi reported in embarrassment, "Your Highness, please calm down. Master Zhu wants me to introduce you to my slave at the right time. He has a beloved daughter, Zhu Yunqiao, who has just grown up. She is eighteen years old. She dare not call her pretty, but she is also considered elegant." Refined and knowledgeable."

"I used to have an engagement in Shilin, but the engagement broke off two years ago..."

"I don't dare to expect to enter the palace to serve His Highness in daily life. I only hope to become an ordinary palace maid and contribute hard work to the great Zhao."

Wang Shouliang almost broke his waist due to this outrageous request.

He even felt that the names of Zhu Pinghuan and Zhu Yunqiao sounded a little familiar.

Xiao Renzi added, "Master Zhu gave Xiaonu a portrait of Zhu Yunqiao. He said it originated from the Western New School of Painting and was a super-realistic black and white sketch. Xiaonu didn't dare to look at it after accepting it."

Wang Shouliang still felt that the names of Zhu Pinghuan and Zhu Yunqiao were familiar, so he nodded, "Where are the portraits?"

Xiao Renzi hurriedly asked for instructions to go back and get the portrait.

After some time, the sealed portrait was brought in. Wang Shouliang just opened it. When he saw the person in the painting, he almost burst into tears. Isn't this the young and bubbling Qinqin, who is seventeen or eighteen years old?
This is a really good guy.

No wonder it sounds familiar. In the first part of Kangxi's private interviews, he corrupted the law, accepted bribes, and ran rampant in Suzhou. Even after the incident was exposed, Kangxi wanted to pursue him for corruption and bribery. In anger, Master Zhu wanted to kill Kangxi to silence him. ? ?
Thanks to Zhu Yunqiao blocking a poisonous arrow for Kangxi, Lao Kang didn't die? !

This guy deserved death in the story, because he hindered Emperor Chunfen from visiting privately in private to uphold justice for the people! !

No wonder the painting style is so funny...

You tricked tens of thousands of officials and scholars in Nanzhili who were demoted and expelled from their official positions.

How many people's ancestral graves have been dug up? ? So in order not to be held accountable for corruption and perversion of the law, even if Kangxi fell in love with your daughter during a private visit incognito, it is normal and reasonable for you to kill the emperor in anger to cover up the scandal.

But in the official history, Master Zhu was dismissed for many years after chasing tens of thousands of gentry to pay tax cases, and was reinstated by Kangxi to serve as governor of Yun Province. It happened that Wu Sangui provoked the San Francisco Rebellion, and Lao Wu invited Master Zhu to join him. He rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and scolded Wu Sangui Youlie for being unyielding and was killed on the spot.

Kill the chicken and the monkey!
This is very Jiangnan tax.

He looked away from Qinqin, no, Zhu Yunqiao's sketch, and then he smiled and said, "This Miss Zhu has had her engagement broken off??"

Xiao Renzi responded quickly and affirmatively.

Wang Shouliang thought for a while and said, "You can accept the 10 silver dollars, bring Zhu Yunqiao into the palace, and arrange to work in Qianqing Palace."

He is not very greedy for Zhu Yunqiao's body. Zhu Yunqiao is indeed quite beautiful. The main reason for this is that those who dare to wield the sword of taxing the gentry and wealthy families in South Zhili... Warriors! !
The Ming Empire will collapse because of the lack of money and food.

If you have enough money and food, you will be dead. However, Jiangnan, especially South Zhili, even in Nanming, is a treasure land of money and food, but you can't collect money and food.

Such brave men should be rewarded.

The next moment Wang Shouliang said, "Appoint Zhu Pinghuan as the Governor of Water Transport, give him three quotas for the new army of the Thousand Household Department, and let him continue his efforts. I will see his performance."

"In addition, transfer Guarjia Qingge'er to the palace and serve Long'er in Kunning Palace."

This dimension of The Deer and the Cauldron also incorporates stories such as Kangxi's private interviews in private and the Secret History of Kangxi. When he first met Qinggeer, he didn't even remember who he was or which story he was talking about. He just thought he looked familiar.

He still became the King of Zhao and entered the Forbidden City. Among the many current eunuchs who were sent to collect various information, one of the eunuchs found out that Qing Geer, whose Chinese name was Shen Wan, was the adopted daughter of Ao Bai.

Although that matter is a secret, if there are more than two people who know the secret, it is impossible to keep it absolutely secret. Obai, Mulima and Banbulshan were all insiders more than ten years ago.

It is not surprising that an eunuch found out about Shen Wan's true identity. Shen Jun of the former Southern Ming Dynasty died in battle and chose to die rather than surrender, leaving an orphan.

This kind of Guarjia Qinggeer has the same nature as Longer. He was brainwashed and fooled into growing up. Now he is still left in the capital by Obai to continue to look for opportunities to use his beauty trap?

Wang Shouliang has really been hesitating whether he should sacrifice himself for the sake of the overall situation and give away Shen Wan, the former Queen Mother of the Qing Dynasty and several children of the Zhao family. Once he does this, he will win over the Manchus with yellow flags in Obai. Xiaoxuanye’s Horqin Grassland can get twice the result with half the effort.

In those Manchu and Mongolian tribes, if he gives a few children of the Zhao family, it means that the little prince and princess are half Manchu and Mongolian, and they will be greatly reassured and obedient.

This kind of sacrifice is full of flaws, but in the feudal era, it can really appease the people! !
(End of this chapter)