Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Zhou Shan came out of Bingbei Mansion in a particularly proud mood, and inadvertently showed a bit of ferocity in his smile.

What Chen Bingbei said was correct, he was from Zhangjiabao in Fushan, and he and Zhang Shouren were serious folks in the same castle.Ordinary military forts are the same as villages at this time. Everyone belongs to the folks in the village. According to the rules of Ming Dynasty, if a person even opposes his fellow villagers, it is not very good to think about it.

In the past two years, because Zhou Shan was attached to Wei Juren, he made some small moves with Lin and Chen. The other two were assassinated, and Wei Juren died a long time ago. I can only go around asking for help, and my life is extremely miserable.

Half a year ago Zhang Dalin, Supervisor of Dengzhou, hired him as his teacher, but in fact, he didn't have much to do. The salary of four taels of silver a month was barely enough for him to live on. That's not even close.

Zhang Dalin didn't care much about him either, he would just nod when he saw him, and would only call over to give some instructions when he wanted to write a letter. [

A few days ago, Zhang Dalin and Qian Shilu, the governor of Dengzhou Guan Liang, summoned him together.

After a whole day of questioning, it was nothing more than asking Zhang Shouren about how he started his fortune, and the questions were very detailed.

It wasn't until the end that Zhou Shan realized that in recent days, the gentry, businessmen, and generals in the Denglai area were extremely dissatisfied with Zhang Shouren, and the opportunity to mobilize was right in front of him.

On this day, I chatted with Chen Bingbei, and Zhou Shan returned to the Jianjundao mansion excitedly. When he arrived at the gate of the mansion, he saw a lot of traffic and it was very lively.

After entering the door, there was no stopping. The shopkeepers of dozens of commercial firms in Dengzhou, famous scholars, famous officials and gentry, etc., were all bustling around the flower hall of the main hall. Zhou Shan probably recognized them. You have to give way before you can enter.

When they arrived at the upper room, Zhang Dalin and Qian Shilu waited anxiously. Seeing Zhou Shan, Zhang Dalin immediately asked, "How is it?"

"My lord, don't worry, Lord Bingxian has acquiesced."

"Hey, that's great."

Zhang Dalin chuckled, not shying away from it, and said to Qian Shilu: "Except for one Liu Junmen, the whole Dengzhou is under our control."

"Liu Junmen is upright, but he has a teacher-student relationship with Zhang Shouren. Let's explain it later."

A stern light flashed in Zhang Dalin's eyes, and he said slowly: "Look at the people outside, he can't stand the persecution. These days, the tenants flee, not to mention the collection of taxes. To intervene, what should be collected, what should not be collected, and the people should be encouraged to resist taxes. The taxation bureau, the statistics bureau, the farmland bureau, this bureau and that bureau over there, have trouble with us all day long. However, they still have soldiers and horses, and the people below If things go on like this, Baojia is useless, tax collectors are useless, local government affairs, and Dengzhou military affairs are all decided by Zhang Shouren alone. Aren't the military preparations, the supervisory army, Dengzhou government, county Zhengyin officials, Zuopu officials, Liufang book office, and yamen servants all completely useless? Either they belong to Fushan, or they are swept out. What in the world? There is a reason for doing this! If he wants power, he must act according to the law, and set up officials by himself, isn't it the same as the Tang Dynasty's military town?"

Zhang Dalin deserves to be in the middle of the game. In this year, he was able to pass the two Jinshi examinations and become a Daoist. His intellectual knowledge is far above that of ordinary people. He has a thorough analysis of Zhang Shouren's approach to the layout and the final effect three points.

"Also, his Tuntian Bureau also distributes food, just to the refugees. There is also a relief bureau, which not only distributes food to the people, but also borrows and lends money. They don't accept a profit. In the past two months, There is no way to continue the business of Dengzhou Bank, Cloth Shop, and Grain Shop.”

Qian Shilu was a middle-aged man with a gloomy complexion. He had just been transferred from Gansu this year. He knew that Dengzhou's vitality had not recovered, and he knew that it was not a good job, but he didn't expect that the situation in Dengzhou would be like this.

Taxes can only be collected formally, and miscellaneous pies cannot be collected. The local government’s funds come from regular taxation, fire consumption, and miscellaneous pies. The usual normal expenses, post stations and other envoy fees are all paid from miscellaneous pies, and there are The most important thing is the interests of the officials themselves. If there is no such thing, it will be seriously discounted.

The officials below couldn't catch it, and the high-ranking officials above jumped their feet in a hurry. They had no money below, and they couldn't do anything about it.

As for the commercial firms mentioned, Dengzhou's commerce is not well developed, and the most profitable ones must be exploiting farmers.

The transactions just mentioned are the most profitable during the summer tax season.Farmers who have no money receive interest-bearing usury to pay taxes and miscellaneous pies, and then repay the usury.

Either it is to lower the price of grain when the tax is collected, and to raise the price of grain after the tax season is over, when there is a shortage of food. [

There are also quality shops, that is, pawn shops, which are also the most profitable at these times.

Zhang Shouren didn't feel sorry for all these transactions. Not only in Denglai, but also in Qingzhou and Dongchang, Fushan adopted the method of garrisoning the fields, sheltering the farmers and tenants, and at the same time releasing grain and money, and calling people to cross Get over it.

In this way, the offended businessman has gone to sea.

"Please come in, everyone."

The matter has been settled, and there is going to be a riot in Dengzhou. Zhang Dalin and Qian Shilu looked at each other, and they both felt that something big could happen.

Go away with Zhang Shouren, Dengzhou will be restored to the Qingming Festival again, this official is still doing a good job.

Even if it fails, it is nothing more than being transferred to another place, or resigning from office, in short, this breath, this time, it cannot be swallowed anyway.

With a call, businessmen wearing Liuheyi commanders gathered in the hall, as well as many scribes wearing square scarves.

Everyone said that they were extremely dissatisfied with Zhang Shouren.

The gentry were dissatisfied with the deprivation of power, the officials and the gentry supported each other, the officials relied on the support of the squires, the squires colluded with each other based on their prestige, and arbitrarily took over the lawsuits. Now Dengzhou has no power to use their force.

Fushan sent a public security department to act across borders, the bandits were all gone, and if there were disputes among the people, they also went to the public security department to decide, and they never went to the government to file lawsuits that threatened people's lives.

The dissatisfaction of the literati and scholars is that Zhang Shouren's various reforms made them feel that they violated the ancestral system, and the school on the other side of Fushan has everything, including medicine, arithmetic, blacksmithing and carpentry. The scholars in the Denglai area were extremely dissatisfied with Zhang Shouren.

In addition to Wei Juren's front tent, and the sweeping of the gentry in Denglai area a while ago, it didn't involve a lot, but everyone focused on it, and they all felt that Zhang Shouren was bullying others and acting too domineeringly.

"I heard that Zhang Shouren still plans to collect business taxes... This year the imperial court has already planned to increase taxes at the eight major tax customs, and the business people will suffer." A long, white, fat and fat owner of the bank said to the crowd with an angry face: " With Deng Lai’s way of doing things, we have no way to survive anyway, and with the addition of commercial taxes, the whole family can only starve to death.”

"I'm planning to hang the whole family at the door of Zhang Shouren's house."

"Why do you make him so comfortable? Our whole family starved to death and hanged, so let him be so comfortable? According to me, we will tear up our faces and fight hard to teach the people of the world and the court to know that Dengzhou is dead. Became a goddamn world!"

The merchants were raging, and the gentry were having a hard time. The news from the other side of the gate was also passed on. This time they launched together, and they had to make a big noise.

In the hall, the atmosphere is also extremely warm.

With a reserved smile on Zhou Shan's face, he stood up with a group of scholars in blue shirts who had the status of scholars and fame, looked around, and said loudly: "This time, my generation is not for fame or profit. It is for Adhering to the righteous way, Zhang Guohua's actions in Fushan are already outrageous! Even mathematics and business studies can be ranked alongside classics. The young scholar is so precious, and he was coaxed away by them paying one or two months of money every month. Let the honest and gentlemen hate it, and hate it! This time, we will petition the academic officials and patrol adults together. The schools in Fushan are unholy and disrespectful, and they despise the words of the saints. We should beat the drum!"

"Okay, well said!"

"Sounding and powerful, this matter should be based on brother Zhou."

"It is imperative!" [

Zhou Shan had been waiting for this day for a long time, and when he thought of opposing Zhang Shouren, smearing his face, making Zhang Shouren lose face and failing, his whole body trembled and trembled.

The group in front of them has power all over Denglai, once they mobilize together, what a huge momentum it will be.

No matter how strong Zhang Shouren was, he couldn't overcome such a huge power and strength. With the combined efforts of civil and military officials, gentry, students, merchants, and garrisons, Zhang Shouren had to bow his head and admit defeat.

This person, ever since rising from Fushan, Zhou Shan and several scholars were very unconvinced in the same year, but in the first few contests, everyone failed.

This person who was predicted to be a comet has become even more radiant.Only in such a big event, Zhou Shan felt that he had a chance to retaliate successfully after running up and down.

But now, the merchants are planning to go on strike, the army and the gentry have other arrangements, and the students burn incense to petition. If there is such a riot, there is no fear that something big will fail.

"I don't know what expression Zhang Shouren had on his face when he knew about it?" Zhou Shan thought in his heart while drinking with everyone, thinking of Zhang Shouren's expression of shock and fear, he felt drunk.

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The situation in the two prefectures of Denglei is unstable, especially the news of possible accidents in Dengzhou area. The intelligence team of the Secret Service has initially received the wind and reported it to the Fushan headquarters.

Zhang Shouren was the first to get the news. Recently, Qing, Deng, Lai, Dongchang, the summer tax of the four prefectures were messed up by him. National tax, but it also severely disgusted the local government and those gentry and businessmen.

Farmers are no longer the lowest class of enslaved people in his hands. Of course, paying taxes is unavoidable. He is not Li Zicheng, and he will not play any tricks of exempting taxes, but these guys ride on the heads of the people and divert the crisis. They account for [-]% of the world The privileged class does not pay taxes, but the self-cultivating farmers, who account for only [-]% of the world, have to pay ten times or twenty times the previous taxes.

With such a disturbance now, even if some people are dissatisfied, it is a good thing for Zhang Shouren, so take this opportunity to clean it up!