If the thieves can take down Jining City, then it will be really hell, the Ming Dynasty has not yet nested to that extent.

Not to mention how high the walls of Jining are and how deep the moat is, just talk about the strength of the troops here. There are more than 1,600 Jingcao troops, more than 2,300 grain transport troops, more than 600 city defenders, and more than 400 Tuntian troops.

The above is only a force on paper, and there must be a phenomenon of empty salaries, and there are quite a few people who eat empty salaries.

However, just half a month ago, Linqing commanded Zong Min to come over with all the Linqing garrison troops. Full of calculations, adding up before and after, the paper strength of Jining Prefecture is as high as 8,000!

These soldiers in Jining could not be transferred by the governor of Shandong, because they also shouldered the responsibility of rushing to the aid of Yanzhou, which was the residence of King Lu.

The contemporary King of Lu is called Zhu Yangzhu, and he is famous in history, but the reputation he left behind is not very glorious.

Thirty-two years ago, King Lu and Princess Lu drank with outsiders. After getting drunk, the palace man Zhu Huarong, the soldier Yuan Bin, and the princess's brother Zhang Shiju actually engaged in multi-person sports in the palace of King Lu, and were bumped into and denounced by the county lord of Qixia.

Whether King Lu and the princess participated or not, no one knows, and there is no record in the history books. However, the king of Lu was dismissed from two-thirds of Lu rice, the princess Zhang was deposed, Yuan Bin was beheaded for public display, Zhang Shiju and Zhu Huarong were hanged, and the rest of the people were sent to the army. Those palace officials were really wronged, such as King Lu Changshi, who was shot purely while lying down.

Zhu Yangzhu, the king of Lu, has stopped since then, cultivated his self-cultivation, and has a long standby. boiled his son to death, boiled his grandson to death, and later directly inherited the throne of King Lu by his great-grandson.

Not long ago, the rebels attacked Yanzhou, and the king of Lu and the soldiers defending the city killed and retreated the rebels. But he was afraid that the thieves would come again, so he asked the imperial court to increase the garrison of Yanzhou. The imperial court threw the soldiers of Linqing Prefecture to Jining, which could protect the Caoyun passage and quickly aid King Lu.

At this moment, Jining has three commanders, four commanders, six commanders, one deputy envoy, one Caoyun general, two experiences, two pacification, more than 10 thousand households, and more than 70 hundred households!

Only these civil and military generals can form a team of 100 people alone.

Yang Hu led his men to attack the city, but was directly stunned, and chose to retreat directly after a day.

When leaving, Yang Hu snatched more than 100 boats, burned more than 1,200 boats, and burned Jining Nancheng Wharf to the sky.

On the city tower, Shen Fuxuan's face turned pale.

Li Sanlang, who took the initiative to assist in defending the city, patted Shen Fuxuan's shoulder and comforted: "Mr. Shen, don't worry too much, you really can't bear such a big crime." ”

Shen Fuxuan looked at Liang Xi, a general of Caoyun not far away, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that there are also benefits to being a small official." ”

Liang Xi had already sat on the ground and muttered, "It's over, it's all over!" ”

Liang Xi is lucky, the real unlucky guy is Wang Pet, the director of the Dushui Division. This old man was too responsible, the thief came, and he also led his subordinates to rush to transport grain, but was caught red-handed by the thief.

Zhao Yi personally interrogated Wang Chong and found that the principal had no bad deeds, but was still a cadre. Zhao Qi planned to recruit him to his command, and was specifically responsible for supervising the food for the anti-thieves, but Wang Chong would rather die, and Zhao Yi let Wang Chong go with a sigh.

was caught by the thief and released by the thief, I'm afraid there is a lot of gossip.

After Yang Hu and Zhao Qi led the crowd to leave, Li Sanlang immediately took the leopard cat to the north, for fear that he would be blocked by the thieves if he walked slowly.

When Li Ying came to the capital, the punishment of the military department also came down: Gu Shilong, the chief soldier of Caoyun and the marquis of Zhenyuan, Liang Xi, the general of Caoyun, Zhang Jin, the imperial history of the capital, the eunuch of Shandong Town, the governor of Shandong, the political envoy of Shandong, the envoy of Shandong, the governor of Jining, the Tongzhi of Jining, the judge of Jining Prefecture, the officer of the Jining Guard, as well as the soldiers of the place, the leader of the discipline, the patrol in the city, and Zhang Jun, the deputy chief soldier who was responsible for rushing to aid Jining, were all suspended from their posts and made meritorious service!

The sky is falling, and Shen Fuxuan is sentenced to the top of the state, and there are still a bunch of bigwigs on top of it.

But just after taking office, before he received the official seal, he carried such a punishment, and Shen Fuxuan felt that his future career was afraid of being very bumpy.

On the contrary, Wang Pet, who was caught and released by the thieves, actually had no merit because he had done his duty.

Seeing that the deputy commander-in-chief Zhang Jun was suspended for treatment, the three border generals, Xu Tai, Feng Zhen and Yin Yong, immediately gathered all their energy to pursue the rebels. Soon more than 2,000 thieves were captured, and the thief head Zhu Qianhu was captured alive (the famous anti-thief on the list, and the capture can be promoted to the third level).

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Beijing.

Zhou Chong pointed to a fertile field in front of him and said happily: "Second brother, that is our family's private land." Although ten acres is not much, it also has an industry in the capital, and the lord and wife can be brought to enjoy the blessings in the future. ”

There are not only fields, but also tenants.

There were a total of three people in the tug, wearing patched clothes, who came to kneel and kowtow to Wang Yuan: "Xiaomin Zhang Fang, meet the eldest master!" ”

"Get up." Wang Yuan said.

The emperor often talked about "tilting" when he gave land, and ten acres of fertile land was really not much, and with the output and rent of ancient times, it could not support a few people at all.

Wang Yuan's ten acres of land in the eastern suburbs of Beijing, close to the Ba River, are still very convenient for irrigation. The private land that used to belong to Liu Jin was confiscated after Liu Jin's fall, but unfortunately the peasants who were seized from the land were still tenants.

These tenants are already lowly and now dependent on Wang Yuan, with certain personal rights, and strictly speaking they are semi-servants.

Wang Yuan was not stupid enough to fight against the feudal system, he only asked: "How much rent did you pay before?" Can I be enlisted? ”

A middle-aged man said: "If you go back to the old man, you will pay eight buckets of wheat and seven buckets of corn per acre of land, and you don't need to be enslaved." ”

In the northern fields of the Ming Dynasty, spring wheat and autumn millet yielded more than one stone per mu on average, and the total annual output was two stones. Although the yield per mu of these fertile fields is much higher than the average, the land rents collected by Liu Jin and the government are also high, almost 70% of the total output.

In front of this family of three, all old and young have died, leaving only a middle-aged couple and a teenage girl.

They work hard every year to cultivate 10 acres of land, leaving only four stones of wheat and four stones of corn, that is, more than 900 catties of grain to eat for three people for a year, and the average daily ration for each person is less than one catty. Moreover, some of this grain needs to be used in exchange for oil and salt, which is rare to ensure that you will not starve to death.

This woman and girl must have to spin cloth to subsidize the family, otherwise it would never have been possible to live until now.

Wang Yuan immediately said: "I am also from a poor background, and I can only eat sorghum in the mountains since I was a child, and I can't even see a little bit of oil and salt. From now on, rent five buckets of wheat per mu and five buckets of millet, and you will have to take care of the fields! ”

The three of them were stunned, then overjoyed, knelt down and kowtowed to Wang Yuan frantically.

Wang Yuan admonished: "Don't publicize it, and when others ask, they will say that the land rent is still the same." ”

"Thank you for your grace, Xiaomin promises not to talk nonsense." The tenant farmer named Zhang Fang kowtowed again.

Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated at that time that the Wupin Beijing officials could exempt 14 stones of grain, and the ten acres of land did not have to pay taxes at all when they came to Wang Yuan.

All show that the court officials are very low, in fact, the middle and lower-level officials, even if the tax exemption is not calculated, the income is much higher than that of the middle and lower officials of the Han Dynasty.

So where is it low?

Low in the official money folding, to the money to fold rice, to fold the cloth to fold the cloth, to fold the cloth. It is the actual income of the officials, calculated by the official price of the Ming treasure banknotes, and converted into rice grain and cloth with treasure money, and then converted into silver according to rice grain and cloth.

As soon as the treasure money turns into waste paper, it will really starve the officials to death!

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, they no longer dared to fold treasure money, and they all issued actual rice cloth. In this way, the middle and lower-level officials are actually okay, even if they are not corrupt, they can eat enough, and their treatment is better than that of officials of the same level in the Han Dynasty.

The really low ones are the middle and upper-level officials, who have too few money to eat meat without corruption.

"What's your name?" Wang Yuan asked the woman.

The woman replied, "The people's wife is called Zhang He." ”

Wang Yuan said: "I'll teach you a way to raise chickens, it's the local method of my hometown, and I'll let Zhou Chong buy some chickens in a few days." ”

The three of them were shocked and hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy.

This is the same as raising horses for the government in the north and donkeys for the government in Guizhou, and the small people's families dare not touch it, if they die, they will be bankrupt.

Wang Yuan had to explain: "I won't let you compensate if I raise it to death." ”

Only then did the three of them feel relieved, and they kowtowed to Wang Yuan again in shock.

Wang Yuan smiled helplessly and took Zhou Chong back to the city.

In the evening of the same day, there was a vision in the sky, and Venus was fighting for the night, implying that the war was constantly suffering.

This is the second vision of the month, just a few days ago, a meteor fell and exploded into three small stars in the sky, and the people of the capital could see it clearly.

The hundred officials were shaken, and the recital flew into the cabinet like snowflakes, asking for the abolition of all the imperial villages, the giving of all the farms to the poor people, and the removal of all illegal tax cards set up by the imperial villages. At the same time, the officials exerted great power and impeached more than 200 civil and military officials and eunuchs in one fell swoop.

This kind of astronomical anomaly that comes one after another, hundreds of officials must be negligent, including Wang Yuan, if they don't say anything, they belong to the corpse vegetarian meal!