Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 478 Autumn Fu (34)

"The most important thing to support the people is 'quietness'! Xiaowen and Xiaojing in the Han Dynasty..."

Xiong Buyou listened patiently for a long time, and found that all of Liu Jinshi's theory was that "the ruler should do nothing, and keep everything running in the original order, so as not to harass the people."

Liu Dalin went on to say: Measuring the acres of land seems reasonable and beneficial to the people, but in fact, it is often taken advantage of by "little people" in the implementation.He took Chen Minggang's example very bluntly.

"Without Chen Minggang's Zhangtian, we would not have thought of this event..." Xiong Buyou directly pushed the responsibility on him, "Although he is acting for private interests, we don't think it is wrong to pay taxes on Zhangtian. "

"Clearing taxes in Zhangtian is nothing more than collecting more money and food. The people in this county are suffering enough!" Liu Dalin became excited.Painful Chen Lingao people's living conditions.Although he lives in the county town and studies behind closed doors, he knows a lot about the real situation in the countryside, the depression of the rural economy and the sufferings of farmers from his family, relatives, teachers, friends and students, and his own tenants.

"Mr. Liu is telling the truth," Xiong Buyou said, "But since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Lingao has been peaceful for nearly 300 years, right? In the past 300 years, the people have become poorer and poorer. What is the reason?"

"There are chaotic pirates outside, bandits inside, natural disasters continue..."

"This is only part of it. Mr. Liu should know that Lingao's household registration is decreasing year by year, right?" Xiong Buyou started with this issue first.

Of course Liu Dalin knew.

"In the early years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there were nearly 6 household registrations in this county," Xiong Buyou said. "How many are there now?"

Liu Dalin was tongue-tied, he really didn't know the registered population of this county.

"The registered population is only over 2. In the past 270 years, although Lingao has been in chaos, pirates, and bandits as Mr. said, the overall situation is still relatively peaceful, and the four words of people's livelihood and safety are worthy of it."

Liu Dalin nodded, this is not bad.Although Qiongzhou Prefecture is not a paradise, all kinds of large-scale turmoil are much less than those in the mainland.It stands to reason that the household registration population of such places should increase.Now there are fewer and fewer, which only shows that there are more and more fugitives and hidden households.For the latter, he knew that many villages in the county were hidden households in the whole village, and they took shelter under the name of someone like a powerful person in a certain place.There are also a small number of hermits under my own name.

The root of the problem lies in the Ming tax system!Xiong Buyou unceremoniously pointed out its various disadvantages.

He started with a large number of "deceitful sending" and "hidden land". The big landlords used various means to evade taxes, which made the landless or less landed peasants aggravate the tax burden.Moreover, the big households colluded with the government, bribed subordinate officials, and all kinds of illegal behaviors were not corrected.

"Rich families occupy tens of thousands of mu of land and don't pay a grain of rice, and they can't ask questions. The poor and weak don't take an inch of grass and lose weight every year, so they have no control." Land is concentrated, taxes and labor are uneven, and farmers either flee or post them under the name of others. "... During the Hongzhi period, the number of households in Daming was 150 million less than that of the Hongwu period, and the number of people was less than 700 million. When it comes to the present, it is even worse!" Xiong Buyou talked eloquently, "This clears up the land and equalizes taxes. It is already an urgent matter that has to be done! If we continue to be 'quiet' blindly, the common people will end up with the strong as enemies and the weak trapped in the ditch!" Xiong Buyou changed the subject, "Mr. Liu has a lot of old friends on the mainland. Di Chao can also see it. The current situation in the world is always clearer than us."

Xiong Buyou's materials are all ready-made. If you need facts, you need facts, and you need data. It is completely different from the traditional scholars' empty talk about "the people are in dire straits" and "starvation is everywhere".The social survey after the Spring Festival has enabled the Time Travel Group to master a large amount of local data.In order to deal with a situation similar to today, the data department has already summarized all the research data on the taxation system of the Ming Dynasty in the database, and wrote a long report for the leading group to read. Now everyone in the leading group can be counted as He is half an expert on the tax and service system of the Ming Dynasty.

Sure enough, Liu Dalin was speechless. Although he knew quite well about the depression of Lingao's rural economy, this was just understanding—his knowledge was not in these economics.Xiong Buyou's words were well-founded, citing scriptures and allusions, which made him feel admiration.

However, this also made him very puzzled. The Australians claimed to be descendants of the Song people and lived overseas for hundreds of years.In this case, why is he so clear about Daming's affairs?Even the words and deeds of the past court ministers and local officials and the content of the memorials are known!

It seems that among the Australians there must be scholars of this dynasty, and the intellectual skills of this scholar will never be inferior to my own-nine out of ten, they are far superior to me.Thinking of this, I can't help but feel vigilant.

"Taught!" Liu Dalin cupped his hands and saluted, with a heavy tone, "I didn't expect Australia to know so much about Daming, I'm really ashamed!"

"A little superficial opinion."

"What Chief Xiong said is right. But have you thought about it?" Liu Dalin didn't give up. "There are things in the world that are justified and unreasonable, and good intentions are bad. The list is too numerous to list! You have to clean up. Acres of land, equal taxation, is there such confidence?"

"We know this." Xiong Buyou said seriously, "Mr. Liu, I have heard from Mr. Wang and Mr. Wu that they have always wanted to do a few things for the people of Lingao in the past. I wonder if Mr. Liu knows?"

"I know." Liu Dalin is the number one gentry in the county, and he will definitely discuss with him first when it comes to important matters in the county, "Suppress bandits, build roads, and start schools."

"Is it done?"

Liu Dalin understood what he meant: Wu Mingjin had been planning these three things for several years without success, but the Australians managed to do them all within a year of their arrival—no wonder they were so confident and proud.

It seems that the Australians are determined to ask Zhang Tian to clarify taxes.If they can really do it, it would be a great good governance.Liu Dalin nodded at this thought, and reminded again:

"The nobles suppressed bandits, built roads, and established schools because they have money and power. There are a lot of things to pay taxes on the land, so please be careful." He paused, "Especially when it comes to employing people, you must be cautious. .”

"Yes, I will understand this later." Seeing that his tone was no longer fiercely opposed, Xiong Buyou was greatly surprised.Could it be that my words moved him?In this way, this landlord class element is still enlightened.

"...Also, since the nobles want to clarify the taxation, it will inevitably involve the big family and gentry in this county, so I would like to ask the nobles to be merciful and decent."

"It's easy to say, easy to say." Xiong Buyou laughed.

The news that the Kun bandits were going to retake the farm quickly spread throughout the city. Huang Tikun went to see Liu Dalin again, but couldn't get his new idea—Liu Dalin simply said that he was sick and couldn't see anyone.

The big households were completely dumbfounded, not knowing how the wind in this world could blow.Since Chen Minggang is said to be "disturbing the people", then Zhang Tian is also disturbing the people. Why did Zhang Tian continue to arrest only Chen Minggang?

Huang Tingkun knew that Liu Jinshi probably hit a soft nail, and the bandit Kun had made up his mind.He discussed with Li Xiaopeng for a long time, but nothing came out of the discussion.Li Xiaopeng proposed to mobilize grain households to submit a joint report, Huang Tingkun shook his head with a wry smile - he knew this group of big grain households too well, a typical bully and fear of hard work.Who dares to tease the tiger whiskers of Australians?In the past, at any rate, Liu Dalin had the banner, but now he is unwilling to stand out, and even if he speaks out, it may not be useful.Moreover, since the Australians have already punished Chen Minggang, if they want to make trouble again, it will be "toasting and not eating fine wine".

Liujiazhai.

Liu Youren once again studied the source of the newly delivered food, which Liu Guangbiao had just brought.

Liangyou is different from the rough rough-edged account book paper in the past with wooden stamps covering words and sentences and then scribbling a few brush characters. This Liangyou is printed on thick and straight paper.Fill in the number of acres of Huangjiazhai’s starting field, how much is paid per mu, and how much rice is consumed per stone. It is designated to go to the Delong Grain Bank in the county, Dongmen City, Bopu or Nanbao for delivery before a few months and a few days ago. .In addition to brown rice, Delong's grain circulation coupons can also be delivered.If you fail to pay within the time limit, you will come to your door to call for payment, and a late payment fee of 1% will be levied on a daily basis.

"Who is the food messenger who sent the food? Please come in and see." Although Liu Youren was in Calais, he knew everything in the county clearly.Now that Chen Minggang and his gang have been purged, the food messengers of the newly established "Grain Collection Bureau" will meet and win over their feelings.This is also customary.

"Just deliver it and leave. My nephew asked him to keep a meal, but he refused."

"Have you given away the money for the straw sandals?"

"I sent five hundred papers, but—" Liu Guangbiao's tone was a bit unbelievable, "I refuse to accept it."

"Don't accept it? Don't you think it's too little?"

"No," Liu Guangbiao said, "the attitude is very firm, not pretentious."

"It's really strange!" Liu Youren remembered that everyone had discussed that Australians never accept bribes, and they did not allow their subordinates to receive any benefits.He thought it was just talking, or it was because of the Australians watching closely.I didn't expect it to be possible.

"What is your name?"

"Nephew doesn't know—"

"What are you doing!" Liu Youren reprimanded dissatisfied.

"My nephew asked, but he refused to tell. He only said that his job number was————" Liu Guangbiao pointed to Liangyou, and at the bottom of the delivery person was followed by a string of crooked symbols called Arabic numerals.

"He asked his nephew to tear up a receipt, and he also asked his nephew to stamp his fingerprints."

Liu Youren looked at it, the second half of Liangyou was torn off, and there were numbers on the seams.He had no interest in researching this brand-new pattern for a while, and asked:

"Three buckets of rice consumed for every stone autumn tax?"

"It's three liters less than in Chen Minggang's hands." Liu Youren muttered dissatisfiedly, but when he looked carefully, the starting number for Liangyou was 380 mu—the same as in the past.

(End of this chapter)