Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 442

In the next few minutes, he slandered Chen Minggang—strictly speaking, it wasn't slander, it was just telling the truth.It can be seen that the book office of this house has not complemented Master Wang in recent years.

Wang Zhaomin didn't know that his words were being recorded—of course he didn't realize this either—the Political Security Administration was very interested in this kind of material that the indigenous people exposed each other.Sometimes a few words, a sentence, will bring out a lot of useful information.

After Wu De listened carefully for a while, he said in a very embarrassing tone: "It's not wrong for Mr. Wang to say that, but we are unfamiliar with Lingao, and we may not be able to stay without the help of such a person." ..."

Wang Zhaomin thinks there are so many "traitors" who help you work and fight, you will definitely not be able to stay.But I had to say this in my stomach, but Kun Thief is really cunning, the meaning of what he said was obviously to ask himself to make a condition first.

Wang Zhaomin put forward the conditions discussed with Wu Mingjin: when the crossing people started to collect autumn grain, they would take the initiative to pay grain and tax to the county government in the name of Bairen Village. For fat and thin fields, all the subjects are three buckets and five liters of brown rice, and the salary is nine per cent.The per capita money is 50 wen per person, which is collected according to the registered household registration of about [-] people in Bairen Village.

In return, Wang Zhaomin promised that if the price of the autumn grain was rated for one stone, there would be an additional "consumed rice" of one bucket, two liters and five combinations, and all the income would be handed over to the Crossing Group.It is about a thousand stones of grain.As for the "reasonable burden" that the Traveling Group collects on its own, the county government does not interfere, and they can collect whatever they want-in fact, they can't interfere even if they want to.

Wu De calculated, according to this condition, their actual income after deducting the tax paid is about seven or eight hundred shim, which is basically a net income that can be obtained without any thought.

However, this is different from their purpose: the Crossing Group is not so rare for this little rice now—not counting in the Lingao warehouse, but in the Vietnamese granary, they still have seven or eight thousand shi of brown rice that has not been shipped, and they need to buy more A few thousand stones is also a trivial matter.

The Crossing Group is preparing to use this as an opportunity to break the chaotic and flawed tax system of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and establish an efficient and orderly tax system, so as to infiltrate and control the Lingao county government. In other words, it is preparing to Take Lingao as a test field under the new administrative management system.For this purpose, the Traversing Group is prepared to spend a lot of money, where a mere thousand shimi can be spent.

Wu De didn't answer, but asked: "Master Wang, we really don't know anything about the autumn grain collection, can you explain it to us?"

Wang Zhaomin said: "What's so difficult about it? It's just that there are tricks and flaws in it. Speaking of it, I can't finish talking about it for three days and three nights."

"Please enlighten me!"

Anyway, I have nothing to do, judging from the meaning of Chief Wu, I don't feel like I'm rejecting people thousands of miles away.Things still have to be discussed.In order to win the trust of the Australians, Wang Zhaomin told Wu De some of the malpractices and tricks in the grain collection.

"Actually, I came from a criminal background." Wang Zhaomin said, "However, I have also learned money and food, and I can handle the money and food in ordinary small counties."

Whenever the county magistrate takes office, the punishment, money and food are the two masters who are the most important.The former assists the county magistrate in handling criminal cases.The latter specializes in cooperating with the owner to handle such businesses as money and grain sales, land population, house number inventory, field measurement, warehouse opening relief, and miscellaneous tax collection.His specialty is that he is not only familiar with various methods in this area, but also good at calculation.

Wang Zhaomin's profession is a criminal name, but his academic skills are not good, and he has never been able to get a good employer-mostly some masters or "co-jinshi" who are around in remote small counties.The population of the small county is small, and naturally there are few lawsuits. It is a waste to hire two masters, so I learned about money and food. Although I am not very proficient, but one person holds two jobs, not only I have more income, but the boss is also less. One person's expenses are covered, and everyone is happy.

Apart from his abacus, Master Qian Liang's ability also lies in his ability to understand the situation and be good at dealing with the book office.This is because the Ministry of Households only asks for the total amount of money, grain and land, not the details. Who owns how many fields, how many lands, where they are located, and how many departments they have?Only the book office of the household in the county government office is clear.What they rely on is a secret book handed down from generation to generation, called "Fish Scale Book".Without this booklet, even with great ability, we can't collect money and food.

The Yulin books are public property, drawn and revised under the auspices of the government, but over time, those archived by the county have been annihilated or lost, and have long since disappeared. The "public book" revised by the government has instead become the private property of the book office.Regardless of whether it is the county magistrate or Master Qian Liang, if they want to smoothly handle the official business of the summer and autumn tributes every year, they are often coerced by the book office.

Generally speaking, after the county magistrate took office, Mr. Qian Liang would go to discuss the conditions with the book office of the household house, discuss the conditions, form a tacit understanding, and work together to get what they need.Between Wang Zhaomin and Chen Minggang, there has always been some lumps.The reason is that Lingao is a remote place, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the book office is much less afraid of officials.

Because the "household book" has a Yulin book, not only can the official business go smoothly, but I can also make a lot of money from it. For many years, the collection of money, grain and land has been a mess. Those who have paid money and food may not be able to receive the government. The "grain string" that collects grain, but those who do not pay grain have proof of grain payment.Some people have no land to stand on, but they have to pay grain, and some people have thousands of hectares of fertile land, but they don't need to pay grains of rice. Anyway, as long as the levy is enough, the "superior" doesn't care how they are crowned and worn.

As for the tricks, there are many names.Wang Zhaomin talked about the two tricks of "spoofing" and "removing grain from production".The latter, Wu De knew it from Zhang Xingjiao, and he also knew a thing or two about the "deception".

"Speaking of imperial court preferential treatment, isn't there always a quota?" Wu De "sold" a little of the knowledge he heard, lest Wang Zhaomin really think that they know nothing and talk nonsense.

As expected, Wang Zhaomin was startled, thinking that Chen Minggang probably had the right idea, he explained: "There was a quota for preferential exemption from the imperial court." stone, and so on.The preferential exemption for foreign officials is half that of Beijing officials.As for supervisors, juren, and scholars, 30 stones can be exempted as usual.In addition to the free grain share, other self-owned land must be reported to the government to pay grain.

"Actually? Two stones can be exempted, but dozens of stones are exempted. When Zhang was in power, Zhang Tian first checked his own fields. The estimated amount was more than 80 stones, but the actual savings was nearly [-] stones."

Wu De listened very carefully, he guessed that Zhang Xiang probably meant Zhang Juzheng.When Yu Eshui was teaching the land tax system in the Ming Dynasty, he specifically mentioned that Zhang Juzheng had established Zhangtian during his reign—not too far away from now.

"In addition to the preferential treatment from the imperial court," Wang Zhaomin said with a wry smile, "there is another type of people, the so-called 'deceitful sentinel'." Either a powerful landlord or a country rascal.Must be perfunctory.The portion is insufficient and the beige color is poor, so it must be accepted as it is.Sometimes they even falsely give "grain strings" - the proof of payment of grain, so that the ground can be bought flat.In order to pay less food, many small households will "contribute with land".This is one.

The second is that some people will ask them to "guarantee payment", and over time, the so-called "guarantee households" will be formed. If you entrust them to "guarantee payment", the "floating income" part is of course indispensable, but it is much cheaper than paying by yourself

"The two brothers from the Gou family that you killed were originally the two largest subcontractors in the county." Wang Zhaomin said, "But if they hadn't colluded with Chen Minggang and worked as 'grain messengers', they wouldn't be able to become this subcontractor. "

Wu De nodded. The term "contractor" is a bit like "taxpayer".

Naturally, the "baohu" did not do it for nothing, and as usual, they had to scrape the skin from it. The bold and reckless "baohu" simply only collected grain, did not pay grain, and blindly defaulted on their arrears, waiting for the final "exemption" from the court.This situation flourished in the Jiangnan area in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Some people pay less, others pay more, and the county's taxes still have to be paid by the county residents.In addition to all kinds of exploitation and consumption, plus the benefits of the county officials, all of them come from the common people. This is called "grain consumption pile tip", which is also the so-called "floating income".

"Consumed grain heap tip" is not considered "arbitrary charges", it is clearly stipulated in the tax system of the Ming Dynasty. In some places, there is as much as 7 buckets and 6 liters of rice consumed and pointed rice per stone, more than half of the regular amount.This extra income is the largest and most reliable "grey income" for local officials.It is much safer than the black money obtained by corruption and breaking the law.

The "grain consumption pile tip" is nominally to pay the freight and loss of tax and grain, but in fact there is no standard at all, and it is very arbitrary.Wang Zhaomin dared to propose that each stone would be charged 1 bucket and 2 liters for the time travel group, and it was precisely this loophole.

Wang Zhaomin was ambiguous about the "floating harvest", only saying that it was used to pay for the transportation and loss of grain and taxes.Of course, he didn't want the Australians to know too clearly about this benefit.

Wu De thought to himself: No wonder Luo Duo said at the time that the real tax burden of Lingao County was more than [-] shi.From this point of view, it is entirely possible.

"The rice consumption in this county is usually how much per stone?"

Wang Zhaomin was startled, and hurriedly said: "Well, the nobles only need to pay the food in the positive amount, and the floating income will be exempted."

It doesn't matter if you don't talk about it, Wu De thinks, we will find out naturally through investigation.

"Isn't it very difficult in Liaojiapai County?" Wu De asked

"Difficult." Wang Zhaomin was worrying about this matter, and nodded involuntarily.

"Where is the difficulty?!" Wu De held on to this question,

Wang Zhaomin hesitated and said, "Yingui."

(End of this chapter)