I have a cornucopia

Chapter 177 The laws of the ancestors are immutable!
Nanjing.

"It's simply ridiculous. Who does he think he is, the Lord of Jiangnan?"

The acting Minister of Rites congratulated Shishou and looked at the letter Du Yinxi brought.

Of course, it was for the prison country, but the prison country didn't actually take care of things. After all, she was still observing filial piety, so after reading it and knowing that it had nothing to do with her, she was very disappointed and left it to Ma Shiying. The rest was the cabinet headed by Ma Shiying and Jiu Qingting. The matter has been dealt with. After the establishment of the Supervisory Court, the current government affairs processing still continues the court consultation system, which is still discussed by the cabinet ministers and the nine ministers, and there is no intention to change. In fact, this system is currently in full compliance with the interests of all parties.

There is no need to change.

Moreover, court meetings were originally a common practice in the late Ming Dynasty when facing major affairs.

Chongzhen often convened the cabinet and the nine ministers for such court discussions.

The chief minister and his assistant must all be decided by the court.

As for Yang Feng’s asking price...

First, after recapturing Nanjing, all the money Zuo Liangyu robbed belonged to him.

The grain director is divided into areas. Within the area with a taxable grain of 10,000 shi, the one with the most land is appointed as the chief. He is responsible for collecting grain. To be precise, Li Jia is responsible for taking the peasants to send the grain to him, and he sends it to the designated official warehouse. , this is not important. The key to Zhu Yuanzhang's plan is that Nanjing is a water transportation center, so transportation is relatively simple.

The money that Zuo Liangyu robbed must belong to him, and he will be responsible for the distribution. After all, Gao Jie and others are still waiting, and Yang Feng has a good reputation in distribution, and the latter also accepts his distribution.

Especially for Susong, Changjia, Huhang, which can be said to be the core area of ​​gentry, because their most important industry is textiles, and a large amount of farmland is actually planted with cotton, mulberry and linen, and does not produce food. And their food was shipped in large quantities from Huguang. And Yang Feng wants to resume grain collection. Due to the distance, it will definitely not be implemented quickly in other provinces. South Zhili will definitely be the first batch. In fact, one whip law has not truly completed the whole country. South Zhili has truly completed it, but some provinces are still To collect grain, it is impossible to start from another province. But the problem is that a large amount of farmland in this area is planted with cash crops, not grain at all, and the tenant farmers will not buy grain from other places at high prices to pay taxes and grow cotton at the same time. They will grow their own rice and reduce the cotton planting area. Then the textile industry in these places will face a shortage of raw materials, the price of raw materials from other provinces will increase, and the money earned by the gentry in the textile industry will drop sharply.

Second, resume taxation and grain collection.

Even the textile industry in other provinces took the opportunity to rise.

Even if these civil servants and the gentry behind them were greedy, they would not dare to dwell on this issue.

Such as Shandong.

Just three times.

As Zhu Yuanzhang decided, there is no good system for the gentry.

There's not much to say about this.

The important thing is...

This, this can only be said to be unreasonable.

Moreover, collecting money required tenants to sell cotton and grain in exchange for silver to pay taxes. As the gentry who controlled trade, they could squeeze it once, but if they directly collected grain, there was no room for them to squeeze.

To be precise, to fully restore the tax system under Zhu Yuanzhang, that is, to completely abolish the tax collection system after the one-whip law reform, restore the grain chief system in the local area, and transport the grain to the official warehouse by the grain chief.

Their principle is to sacrifice those nobles to satisfy Yang Feng's appetite. As for the legality issue, which is better solved, all the nobles in the city rebelled. They all invited Zuo Liangyu's generals to their homes to let their women Serving someone on the bed is not considered submissive, so how can it be considered subversive?
Even if you have an iron coupon, it won’t work!
The iron coupon will save you from three deaths, and you will be exempted from one stroke once. After three strokes, it will be invalid.

but……

Accept your fate!
There is no suspense about this.

Especially the one where the grain chief is responsible for collecting taxes.

They must have resigned themselves to their fate.

This system is bad.

Once you get to the city, you can find thirty capital crimes for each of them. Besides, being rebellious is not exempt from death, so you can either behead your head and confiscate your property, or stop pestering your money.

If you don’t collect enough, make up for it yourself!
You must collect enough ten thousand stones.

If you are short, you can use food to make up for it.

This Tamar system is completely harmful to the gentry!

Of course, there are some benefits. For example, if the grain chief is ready, he can become an official. Even the ministers of the Hongwu Dynasty were promoted from the grain chief. But the problem is that there is no official position for the local gentry who is qualified to be the grain chief. Who is not a scholar, whose family is not a member of the family for generations, who lacks this opportunity that is not worth mentioning?
And if you think about it, you will know that Yang Feng will not just slap his forehead and want to do this. This guy was doing census and land census in Shandong, so he changed back to the fact that the grain requisition was fake, and he took the opportunity to do the population and land census. . Moreover, if the Shandong gentry's slaves exceed the legal number, they must pay a small amount of silver. Each slave is subject to a head tax. After he checks it, he will definitely ask the Jiangnan gentry to pay a head tax...

The latter has thousands of servants!

Just paying taxes on slaves costs thousands of dan every year.

If they don't hand over the slaves, they will be freed.

If you don't free the slaves, you'll have to pay taxes.

If you don't want to free the slaves or pay taxes, then these are your adopted sons and daughters, and they will have the right to divide the family property in the future.

This is a set of combo punches.

In addition, this system has also destroyed one of the most important means of making money for local officials. The thing called fire consumption is simply gone. Fire consumption is the loss after the money collected is recast. He no longer collects money, so where is the fire consumption? Although grain requisitions also cause losses, this thing has existed since ancient times. Birds and mice consume it. The ministers of the Southern Dynasties looked at the slaves carrying grains to their homes one by one, and asked in confusion where did they come from? The slave replied, "What a big sparrow!" The minister smiled and said, "What a big sparrow!" But the problem is that it is the grain chief who collects the grain.

Not local officials.

Magistrates had no power to collect taxes.

And if the grain manager has to make up for the shortage of grain himself, he will not do this.

What did the local officials eat?
He also has a third.

Reinstate mine and tax inspectors.

This bastard likes to poke the lungs of the Jiangnan gentry!
One set restores Zhu Yuanzhang's bad government, and the other restores Wanli's bad government.

Doesn't he know how many people died for the mine supervisors and tax supervisors?
Moreover, the Mine Superintendent and the Tax Superintendent were still eunuchs. He was going to report to the Emperor, asking His Majesty the Emperor to send Wang Chengen as the Superintendent of Tax and Mines. Moreover, this Superintendent was only responsible to the Emperor and did not even have the authority to supervise the country. His nature was considered to be sent by His Majesty the Emperor. Supervise and supervise the country. Of course, in fact, he only listened to him. After all, he could ask Li Zicheng to issue an imperial edict to Wang Chengen on behalf of the emperor. Once established, all land and sea checkpoints and industrial and commercial taxes in various places would be under the control of the director of taxation and mines. On the other hand, the taxes can be paid according to the rules of the Wanli period, half of which goes to the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the remaining half is given to the emperor, or to Li Zicheng.

Well, there is also Li Zicheng.

So just think about it and you will know whether Li Zicheng will support him. And the rest are kept in prison for their own use...

After all, you have to be paid to work.

The eunuchs risked being burned to death, thrown into the Yangtze River, and falsely accused of being thieves, so they couldn't do it without giving them money.

During the Wanli period, not all of the taxes collected by the tax supervisor and mine supervisor actually went to Wanli. What he could get was only 25%. The bulk went to the household department, and the rest belonged to the eunuchs who worked on the affairs.

Yang Feng wants to restore this system.

He asked for these three things.

But these last two items alone are enough to make the Jiangnan gentry unbearable!
Ma Shiying looked calmly at the angry Dukes.

He is not afraid at all.

Regarding the fact that he helped the princess to be the prisoner of the country, even if Yang Feng came to arrest him as a traitor, he would still benefit from him in the end. Yang Feng was just deliberately using this matter to blackmail the Jiangnan gentry. These two reforms, or in Yang Feng's words, restored the royal government and restored the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty. Wanli was also an ancestral system. Wasn't he Chongzhen's grandfather? The laws of the ancestors are not easy to change. The reason why the Ming Dynasty was in such trouble is because it changed the laws of the ancestors. Can this ancestral system be changed? The legitimacy of the Ming Emperor is Emperor Taizu Gao. Changing the ancestral laws will of course shake the society. Restoring the ancestral laws now is the best way to stabilize the country. But in the current situation, it is really a long-term task to restore other provinces, that is, Southern Zhili. To put it bluntly, Yang Feng is taking revenge on the gentry of Southern Zhili. The latter were unwilling to give him money at first, so this time He just made it unforgettable for these guys.

Not giving three million?
Then it will be three million a year from now on!
"Everyone, I am loyal to the country, but I don't want to cause this disaster. I have nothing to say. If Yang Feng really came here according to the order, Ling Chi would have admitted it.

Die or die!

I am worthy of your majesty and the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty.

It just hurts you all! "

He sighed in a casual manner like I'm ruined by you.

He Shishou and Zhang Youyu, the Minister of Household Affairs, looked at him with disdain...

It's all because of this bastard.

Of course, they also know that the fundamental reason is that they are too impatient. They are too eager to create this prison country to end the war and prevent their wealth from being plundered, so they did not think deeper and rushed over to accept their own. Official positions, but now they are all against the party.

"Yongbin, what exactly does Fengsheng want to do?"

Liu Zongzhou, who had just arrived and acted as the censor of Youdu, stroked his beard and asked Yang Guanguang, who had been silent, in a respectful manner. However, he was indeed old enough to pose like this. He was currently respected by the Zhejiang gentry. The elders of Zhejiang Province naturally had a place in the imperial court as representatives of the Zhejiang gentry.

As for He Shishou and Zhang Youyu, one in Danyang and the other in Jiangyin, plus Jin Sheng, Southern Zhili occupied three ministers in the six departments. The censor of the right capital was given to Liu Zongzhou, who represented the interests of Zhejiang, and Yuan Jixian had been summoned to join as a representative of the Jiangxi gentry. Cabinet, and concurrently Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

The governor of Huguang and Jiangxi has given He Tengjiao.

So in fact, the three provinces of Nanzhi, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi controlled the imperial court.

Of course Shandong must also have a place.

Just Yang Guangguang.

When Nanjing is recaptured, Shi Kefa will definitely no longer be the Minister of the Ministry of War. He can be given a bachelor's degree. Gao Hongtu will definitely be given a bachelor's degree. The remaining people who have other arrangements, such as those in Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi, should get out. The backstage is gone, so what are they left for? Especially those from Zhili in northern Shanxi and Shaanxi were all kicked out, leaving positions for those from Fujian, Guangdong, Huguang and other provinces.

"Mr. Jishan, this junior really knows nothing about this."

Yang Guanguang said frankly.

He really doesn't know.

Besides, this incident was a sudden one. Yang Feng himself just made a quick decision, or thought it over on his head. The purpose was to blackmail, or force the Jiangnan gentry to see what their bottom line was. It didn't matter whether they succeeded or not. But it depends on whether they can bear it. If they can...

Can you tolerate this?

Then add more in a year or two.

Really, if they can even tolerate this, even if they just agree, and then find ways to delay it in the future, it means that they don't dare to resist. If they don't dare to resist anymore, why don't they push harder and push further?

"Yong Bin, do the sages of Shandong just let him do whatever he wants?"

He Shishou said angrily.

Yang Guanguang couldn't help laughing. He looked at these guys. They were actually veterans. He was the youngest among them and had the lowest qualifications, let alone a veteran like Liu Zongzhou. But it was obvious that these veterans Guys are still awake and don't have a clear enough understanding of reality.

"Masters, you have made a mistake. It was not Yang Feng who was recommended by our Shandong gentry, but Yang Feng who led us. We need to listen to him, not him to listen to us. Also, don't you guys still think about it now? Do you understand that we no longer have the final say in the Ming Dynasty? Now that the world is in chaos, it is lucky that Jiangnan can stay in peace. If Yang Feng had not blocked Jianlu, Dorgon would have asked you to shave your hair and change your clothes. Without Gaojie, Huang Degong and others are guarding here. At this time, more than 200,000 rebel soldiers under Liu Liangzuo and Zuo Liangyu have looted Jiangnan and massacred cities in various places. The world is already in trouble, and they are still worried about money?

Why do we listen to Yang Feng?

The city of Laiyang was destroyed, Zhang Hongde and his son died, the family property was taken away by Yang Feng, and the land was divided among his clans. This was the end of the arrogance.

He did do some things that were detrimental to the gentry, but we all accepted it, because compared with what happened to Zhang Hongde, some financial losses were really nothing. He inspected our properties and only paid a few hundred taels of extra tax a year. , compared with those who were slaughtered, what is this? Even if those aristocratic families whose bones are buried in the ravines of Henan Province want to pay more taxes in exchange for protection, do they still have a chance?
Since we are in troubled times and we are powerless, we must abide by the rules of these troubled times.

What are the rules of troubled times?
As Yang Feng often said, writing a thousand words is not as good as a shot of a cannon.

If you don't agree, he will come with the imperial edict to ransack your home in less than ten days. Gao Jie, Huang Degong and others will not hesitate to take the lead. Don't think about what face he will give you. He will even kill Fang Haike if he wants. Mr. Jishan, don't you think he dare not kill you? "

He said it very candidly.

The old guys looked at him in astonishment.

"Everyone, he just suggested that even if we agree, it will take some time to do it. It will not be completed in three to five years. What's more, taking the conversion of silver into food as an example, this whipping method has only been implemented for a few decades. It's not wrong to change it back now. As for the tax supervisor, it was not without the temple. Although there were some troubles, it didn't lead to a big chaos. It doesn't mean that the Jiangnan gentry couldn't bear it. Now is an extraordinary period, so you might as well agree first. He'll say it again.

After all, he has an imperial edict.

He has soldiers and horses.

With these soldiers and horses and an imperial edict, how can we and a group of helpless people resist? "

Ma Shiying said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)