Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 475 Autumn Fu (31)

"Pick it up!" Zhou Dongtian reprimanded dissatisfiedly, "Your personal number, military rank!"

"Yes..." The girl trembled and stood at attention, her eyes tried to look in other directions, "He Chun. Political security officer cadet, personal code: 1629042749545210."

"Is it okay to see a man's naked body? How to do work in the future, prepare to record immediately!"

"Yes!" He Chun sat down with a face of embarrassment, and his face was lowered, not daring to watch the interrogation scene.

It seems that the training of the political security training class is not in place.Zhou Dongtian thought, for people in this business, the enemy has no gender or age.Their awareness of this must be downplayed.

"Okay," Zhou Dongtian turned his face to Chen Minggang, and said softly, "Speak slowly, don't worry, but don't miss anything."

"Fish Scale Book, here, right here..." Chen Minggang said his hiding place with trembling lips.

According to his confession, fish scale booklets and records of grain and tax collection over the years were uncovered from several hidden locations, including the account books of extorting big households under the name of "Zhangtian" this year.The most important thing is that the crucial "black account" was found out.This account book is different from the fish-scale book, and clearly records the number and location of the "hidden fields" of many grain households in Lingao.The details of some big gentry who had bribed him to modify the fish scale book were also recorded one by one.Although Wu De couldn't understand the words of the above terms for a while, but now the officials of the house are under their control, and it is not difficult to understand the meaning.

Of course Zhou Dongtian is not satisfied with this, but these can only satisfy Wu De, and the members of the planning committee are all watching eagerly.Chen Minggang has worked as a house clerk in the county for generations, and the accumulated wealth will not be small. It would be a pity not to squeeze it out.

"Where's your silver hoard?"

"Small ones don't have a cellar—"

Zhou Dongtian nodded, and Chen Minggang's body shook immediately.

"Come on, money is something outside of the body—" he persuasively tempted.

The torture lasted almost an afternoon. Zhou Dongtian specially called in a nurse to measure Chen Minggang's blood pressure and heartbeat every hour to prevent the continuous electric torture from killing him.He has enough data in his hand to know how much torture can be limited to inflict the most pain on the prisoner without harming his life.

"Speak, it will be fine."

"You have been a household book for so many years, and you only have this little thing. Who are you kidding?"

……

In the end, the planning committee's search team unearthed three cellars full of belongings, one in his own house in the county town, and one in the farm where Qiuhong was placed.The last was on a farm outside the city in the name of a relative of his.

A lot of silver was copied from the cellar of his own house, and a large amount of fine soft was collected in the cellar of Qiuhong's farm.

Nearly 4 taels of silver were recovered from the three cellars—this number is astronomical in the local area.You must know that this is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of Lingao County in Daming for three years.This does not include the many soft properties that have not been verified. The wealth of the "household book" is really appalling.

In addition, many other daily necessities were seized.Including a lot of grain, cloth, oil, salt meat, salt fish and wine.

"I really don't understand." Zhou Dongtian looked at the list of supplies sent by the planning committee, "I can understand that he stores a lot of silver and soft goods, and it's justifiable. But why are so many grains and cloths stored away? Keep them for a long time It’s not just rotten in vain.”

Du Wen said: "One of the main characteristics of feudal society is that the upper class endlessly occupies a large amount of living materials far exceeding their own needs..."

"It can be used for lending. When the harvest is over, the old rice and rotten millet will be loaned out, and the new rice will be recovered in autumn." Yan Ming is also very happy to have made this money. He has done a good job of the social and economic situation in Lingao. Research.

"It's really dark."

"Not really, it's just a very simple method of capital management." Yan Ming shrugged, "The modern financial industry can only call it black if it plays tricks. But let me explain that rural microfinance has great potential!"

"Immediately organize the retained personnel of the house. Cooperate with our people to translate and compile these accounts. Zhou Qi will be in charge," Wu De gave the order, "The food gaps that perform well in the study class and have less public anger can also be absorbed Several people participated. Also," Wu De thought for a while, "I will sort out the situation of this year's grain requisition within a week, including the harvested and consumed rice, the bribes they received, and the false report of the acres of land, etc., all of which must be done. clear!"

"How should Chen Minggang deal with it?" Zhou Dongtian asked for instructions.

"Secret execution after the accounting process is completed."

"What about the family?"

"Leave everything to the labor reform team," Wu De instructed, "no deadline."

"Yes!" Zhou Dongtian thought about it, "Qiu Hong also sent it?" The implication was a bit regrettable.There is a serious imbalance in the ratio of men to women in Lingao, and it would be considered a blessing if young women rewarded the indigenous workers.

"No, Qiuhong rewarded Zhou Qi."

"Huh? It's really cheap, kid."

"Not only should I give Qiu Hong to him, but I also want to hold a wedding for them in a splendid manner."

"What is this for? You don't need to do this if you bribe him."

"You guys have made so many rumors about her and Zhou Qi, now you have to make things real and make everyone in the county know about it." Wu De said with a smile, "Zhou Qi's crime of betraying his teacher is because he sat firmly. It’s true. He will have to do it with us in the future.”

After disposing of Chen Minggang's property, the purge of the county came to an end.The leadership group convened again.

"Now the county government has been completely in our hands, and all the necessary account books have also been obtained. We need to restart the grain collection work." Wu De said.

"Haven't we already prepared enough food reserves, why don't we just stop collecting taxes this year, and start the new tax reform directly. One year's deferment of taxation can also give the people a rest."

"The new tax system is not something that will happen overnight. Stopping the grain collection will cause us too much loss." Wu De shook his head.He then conveyed the opinion of the executive committee: the reform of the new tax system will start immediately, but this year's grain collection will continue.

Although the Traveling Group has stored enough food to pay on behalf of them, this is mainly for emergencies. Travelers themselves also need food, and local resources must be used as soon as possible.

"Using two legs to walk, two things are going on at the same time." Wu De explained his plan, "All the way is to continue to collect grain according to the old system, and the basis for grain collection is still the fish scale book." Wu De said, "I know: In essence, the Fish Scale Book is far from ideal, but right now there is only one thing that everyone can accept as a basis—at least we have to use it before our own field registration book comes out.”

In addition to the Fish Scale Book, they also have the ledger of collection and payment. This is not an official book to fool around, but Chen Minggang's own real "bottom book". With this, they can clearly know who has paid and who has not, and the real payment What are the numbers.

"...With this number in hand, we can implement supplementary collection and refund..."

"I still want to refund it?"

"In order to implement the principle of fairness, of course the over-levied part must be refunded." Wu De said, "Since the new tax system cannot be implemented for a while, we must strive for fairness when continuing to use the old system, so as to minimize the disadvantages and win the trust of the people. "

Specifically, the tax is collected according to the tax amount registered in the fish scale book, and the floating tax is set to be three buckets per stone for the whole county, and there is no additional tax.Any overpayment will be refunded.

"As for the various disadvantages such as flying and sending, they are intricate and will not be cleaned up in a short time, so this year's grain collection work will not be concerned with it. The focus will be on cleaning up the collection process. Including the selection of weighing instruments, pile tip Judge with beige."

"Shouldn't you switch to the metric system?"

"Not for the time being. Immediately changing the scales for collection will cause great confusion. I asked the carpentry factory to process and manufacture a batch of standard official buckets based on the iron buckets stored in the county government—the official buckets used for grain collection are all one size smaller. .”

In order to eliminate the disadvantages of big fights and small fights in the expropriation process, Zhu Yuanzhang specially made iron official fights as a standard weighing instrument and distributed them to counties across the country-but judging from the current situation of this county, this measure did not have a long-term effect.

The second is to prohibit the stacking of tops. Of course, the so-called trick of kicking the tops of Dendrobium will no longer continue.

Finally, it is beige. The Council of Agriculture formulates a beige standard, and manufactures sample cards and distributes them to collectors.

"It's already October." Sun Xiao expressed his concern, "According to Wang Zhaomin, all the food must be prepared before November to pay on time. Experienced, I'm afraid it will be too late..."

"So do we need Vietnamese rice?" Wu De said, "Emergency emergency is what it means. Put Vietnamese rice on top first, and the food requisition can be handled more calmly."

"understood."

"Everyone, don't keep staring at Vietnamese rice," Wu De warned them. "Our grain reserves are not abundant. We will develop iron mines next year, and immigrants are still coming in. These people have to eat and dress. The sugar season in Leizhou It's almost over."

And as they dumped a lot of sugar to Vietnam to buy rice, the local sugar price fell, but the rice price rose.The exchange rate is not as good as it used to be.

"The specific collection unit will be handled by Delong."

In addition to the head office in Dongmen City, Delong Grain Bank has set up branches in Nanbao and Bopu. These three places can collect grain, which is very convenient for the grain households - originally they had to come to the county pay.

"In addition, we plan to open a branch in the county." Yan Ming said. "Since I act as an agent for the county treasury, I have to be as close as possible to the correspondents. It is convenient for everyone to handle affairs."

"That's good. The natives still believe in the authority of the county seat."

"In addition, we have to set up a special agency," Wu De said, "let's call it the Grain Collection Bureau."

(End of this chapter)