Chapter Eighty-Five: The Four Guards of the River

Li Wenshi lives in Xining, and he is no longer familiar with Xifan's guards in Tibet and other places.

Of course, Yu Qian had also done his homework before he came, but it was not as clear as the person concerned.

The four guards of Hehuang are Xiningwei, Taozhouwei, Minzhouwei, and Hezhouwei.

Compared with its other guards, Xiningwei is more isolated from the outside, just by looking at the jurisdiction.

Xining Wei is under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, while the other three guards are under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division. The difference between Fujian and Fujian has already been said, so I will repeat it here.

The jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division is the north and south of Helan Mountain, and even habitually speaking, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the capital of Gansu.

The other guards were also miscellaneous in the earth, and the hereditary officials of the Han people occupied a dominant position, such as the founding hero Xuande Hou Jin Chaoxing family was hereditary Taozhou Wei commanded the affairs.

I have to complain here, the Ming Dynasty name level, there is Xuandehou, there is Xuanfu, there is actually an era name Xuande?

However, with the collapse of the guard system, the family that inherited the official position of the guard also became a family similar to the toast.

On the whole, the prestige of the imperial court in these places is still okay.

Moreover, the reuse of local officials, although the rapid pacification and blockage of the place, this is also the expectation of the kings of the Ming Dynasty. After all, this generation has never been a hot spot in the Ming Dynasty.

But it's not without its hidden dangers.

In Hongwu Yongle, there are local Tusi who colluded with foreign rebellions, and Lan Yu and Mu Ying both started with the conquest of the West. This is the area where the hits are made.

Jin Chaoxing went out from Mu Ying to conquer here, got the worldly position, and died early, Hongwu went in the fifteenth year, although his son was involved in Hu Weiyong's case, but it was only a demotion.

This saved the Jin family.

In this way, the four guards of Hehuang have become a situation where the major families have gained actual power, and the guards have almost become decorations.

The gold medal letter system in the tea horse system naturally cannot be continued.

The gold medal letter system is said to be a trade system, but it is not, it is essentially a tax system.

Why do you say that?

The style of the so-called gold medal is like this, there is a seal on the forehead of the gold medal: "the emperor's holy decree" below the left is "together is sent", the right is "if you don't believe, you will be killed", and the back is "hidden in the inner house".

In Hehuang Siwei, there are a total of forty-three felling, and for each toast, the Li family has one.

On average, they are recruited once every three years, with gold medals as tokens, and each toast tributes horses, and the imperial court rewards them with tea.

It seems to be a fair trade, but the price of horses is extremely low.

The whole system is run within the government, and as for the merchants in Tibet and the Western Regions, it is not open at all, and Tibet has always paid tribute

The way to get goods from the Ming Dynasty and the thick tribute to the thin ones naturally made the court miserable.

Zhu Qizhen was in the purpose of saving money, and did not let the envoys of the king of Wusizang and Huahua enter Beijing, and the goods they brought were sold on the spot in Xining, but the system of thick and thin came did not change, and Shaanxi also lost a sum of money every time Wusizang paid tribute. Although this amount of money is written off by the household department and deducted from the annual tax, it is still a burden for Shaanxi.

This is also why Yu Qian values Xining so much.

If it is just to integrate the four guards of Hehuang, rectify the gold medal rune letter system, and change the gold medal rune letter system to a normal transaction, and the imperial court will draw taxes from it.

Xining is not the right place, but if you want to associate trade with Tibet, then Xining is the most suitable place.

Yu Qian asked, "If you want to come to my mind, you also understand." Do you think that the imperial court will change the tea law, and the people below are willing? ”、

Li Wen secretly said in his heart: "If you don't want to, you have to be willing." ”

Yu Qian attacked the Li family, and the Li family is the most prominent among all the families of Hehuang Siwei. It is also the weather vane of these families. Among the other Wei families, although the ancestor of the Jin family also has a marquis, he has already won the title in Hu Weiyong's case.

Moreover, another branch of the Jin family is also spending on fallen leaves in Guizhou. This Jin family is far from being comparable to the Li family.

Yu Qian tossed the Li family and had to give up his family business to go to Beijing.

How dare the other families compete with the imperial court?

As for the local officials, they don't need to pay attention to them.

The biggest difference between Hehuang Siwei Tusi and the Tusi in the southwest is that Hehuang Siwei Tusi is under the management of the Guard, and can be regarded as a member of the Guard, while the Southwest Tusi has a stronger independence.

So, as long as these hereditary guards agreed.

The toast below was powerless to resist.

Of course, as far as the gold medal token system is concerned, it is indeed out of place now.

The biggest anachronism is that the Daming official tea is unbearable.

Think about it and know all the things in the public house, who can care about the quality, it is said that when the quality is the worst, these tea leaves are almost passed off with some leaves.

The tea pressure is already low. In the end, the tea could not be used, and the loss of toast in various places was too great.

So there are many complaints below.

First of all, there is such a situation, and then smuggling prevails. But even so, the imperial court still set a quota for each Tusi, that is, how many Tusi must pay tribute.

Later, it will become more and more impossible to collect.

Coupled with various internal problems within the toast, this matter can be delayed, and if it can't be delayed, it will be bitter, and if it can't be delayed, a few horses will be given, and the whole system has almost become a model goods.

If the imperial court sorted out the upper and lower levels and let them trade directly with the merchants, the imperial court would only collect taxes from them, and the objects of taxation would also be merchants, although

Of course, there will be a loss of a little profit, but overall, these toasts do not suffer.

After all, the biggest loss is that the price of tea is higher.

After all, there is no need to pay taxes for smuggling tea, and the cost of paying taxes will naturally be borne by them.

However, they will not lose, after all, they are selling horses, and now the price of the entire Daming horse is one price a day. The people who smuggled before all had a big background.

After all, the imperial court stipulates in the law that selling illicit tea is equivalent to selling illicit salt, which is extremely harsh, although it seems to be a fictitious thing, but this kind of fictitious is for people with backgrounds. For the real flat-headed people, they can try.

There are more merchants, and generally speaking, the price will also be lowered and tend to be balanced.

And the obligation of tribute in the gold medal talisman has also disappeared. In this way, it can be regarded as reducing the burden.

Li Wen said: "The four guards of Hehuang are all loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court will use the order, and they will definitely rejoice and welcome the holy will. ”

Yu Qian glanced at Li Wen and said, "So Lord Li is willing to go for this official and summon the commanders of the four guards of Hehuang to come to Xining to see me?" ”

Yu Qian also understood Li Wen's thoughts.

Almost every Xungui family has its own sphere of influence in various places, and the guard station near Xining Wei is the sphere of influence of the Li family in Huiningbo.

And Li Wen will soon leave Xining, he must maintain this relationship, the Li family is above the imperial court, speaking for these Weisho families, and all over the country is doing Austrian aid for the Li family.

The Ming Dynasty and the health centers are closely connected with each other.

In the past, Li Wen had the obligation to contact the Li family in the capital in the local area, but now that he is leaving, he naturally has to do something to unite the families.

And Yu Qian also saw the reason why Li Wen did this, so he took the opportunity to assign tasks.

For Qian, the implementation of the tea law has always been the first priority, and before such a major event, the rest of the things can be compromised. As for Li Wen's careful thoughts, Yu Qian regarded it as invisible.

Although Zhu Qizhen was bent on abolishing the guard system, and there were some results, Zhu Qizhen's reform really went out of Hebei, and there was no effect at all.

The local health centers are still living the way they used to be.

And this kind of thing, maybe it will continue to exist for decades to come.

As a politician, there are some things that you really can't see, but you can't see them too clearly, because people who show too clearly can't do things.

Li Wen was overjoyed when he heard Yu Qian say this, he went to see the officers of the Hehuang Fourth Guard Station with Yu Qian's intentions, and naturally understood that what Yu Qian wanted him to do was not only to invite people over, but to communicate in advance.

But Yu Qian is using Li Wen, but Li Wen is not using Yu Qian, with Yu Qian's endorsement, the Hehuang Siwei family will only look down on the Li family.

Li Wen immediately said: "The lower official obeys the order." ”