There is only a difference of two taels of silver, so Shuai Jiamo came to a conclusion: at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the six counties of the entire Huizhou Prefecture owed a total of 20,480 stone of summer grain, and the deficit was made up in the name of "summer tax raw silk", and 8,780 horses of raw silk were folded. There was no problem with this, but the problem was that after the reform of Yisi, for some reason, this tax was actually borne by the whole government and changed to be borne by She County and one county alone.

What is even more tragic is that these 8,780 raw silk horses belong to the color tax, which must be paid in kind. However, Huizhou did not raise silkworms at all, so the people of She County had to sell the grain for silver, and then use the silver to buy raw silk, and finally pay it to the government. This means that the cost must be folded twice, needless to say, the cost must be very high.

In addition, this 8,780 horses is the number to the warehouse, and you have to add the cost and loss of transportation on the way. So when the whole thing is converted, the people of She County actually paid more than the book, maybe 9,000 horses, or even tens of thousands of horses.

It is conceivable that if this situation is indeed correct, then She County is simply unlucky! Because from the beginning of the "Yisi reform" in the twenty-fifth year of Zhizheng, until the third year of Longqing, the unjust tax on the heads of the people of She County has been paid stupidly for more than 200 years!

Shuai Jiamo was so shocked that his scalp was numb, so he was very cautious, he did not rush to alarm the government, but first carefully investigated it in She County. As a result, he found that he was not the first person to discover that there was a problem with this matter, as early as the fourteenth year of Jiajing, there were already two people from She County, Wang Xiang and Cheng Peng, and they found that there was a problem with this "human Ding Silk Silk".

At that time, they did not protest locally in Huizhou Mansion, but directly submitted a letter to the superior of Huizhou Mansion, Governor Yingtian, and more than once!

At that time, the first time they received the submission were Chen Kezhai, the governor of Yingtian, and Song Maoxi, the governor of Yingtian, who were still serious about their work, and quickly gave a reply, asking the Huizhou government to investigate thoroughly. It's a pity that the time is not coincidental, these two were quickly promoted and transferred, and the successor did not know the previous situation, so no one asked about this matter again.

Wang Xiang and Cheng Peng also estimated this possibility, so they submitted a document to the governor and the governor of Yingtian again, and the governor Ouyang Duo and the governor who took over were Youjujing, so they also received the same submission. These two had just taken office, and of course they couldn't do nothing, so they quickly gave their approvals and asked the Huizhou government to convene six counties to discuss it. As a result, the officials and officials in charge of this matter were all from the other five counties, so they perfunctory and prevaricated.

Later, Wang Xiang and Cheng Peng died inexplicably, and the matter was over.

What to do? These two people died bizarrely, most of them were not normal deaths, and nine times out of ten they were related to this incident. If I hold on to this unjust tax, will I suffer the same disaster in the future?

The stubbornness of the mathematical talent occupies his whole brain: people can die, and accounts cannot be wrong!

Thinking of this, Shuai Jiamo pushed open the account book and made a decision: he wanted to submit the document for the third time to seek justice for She County. Not to mention that the overpaid taxes in the past should be returned or other taxes should be reduced or exempted in the future, but at the very least, this tax must be redistributed to the six counties, and She County must not be allowed to carry it alone!

Shuai Jiamo's determination was not easy. You must know that the tax system of the Ming Dynasty is relatively chaotic, intricate, and involves a lot, unless a certain place is seriously affected, it is extremely difficult for even the emperor to increase or decrease one or two, and it is really difficult to climb to the sky if he wants to delete a whole subject with the power of a commoner. What's more, if it is reapportioned, it means that the other five counties will raise taxes for nothing, and this huge interest group will definitely desperately obstruct it.

But Shuai Jiamo, who had already made up his mind, still wrote a submission himself, detailing his investigation process, and then at the beginning of the fourth year of Longqing, he did not pass through the Huizhou Mansion, but crossed the level and presented it to Liu Shihui, the imperial history of Ying Tianxun at that time.

In this submission, Shuai Jiamo played a little trick, and he added a sentence when telling the reason: "The origin of the mansion handed over the year to the household department to investigate, and sat on the people to fold the silk of 8,780 horses, and the original six counties all lost, and the government records can be proven." ”

In fact, in the "Huizhou Mansion Chronicle", it is only vaguely recorded how much Ding Sijuan, the payer of Huizhou Mansion or She County, has not clearly said that "the original six counties all lost", let alone the debt to Xia Mai at the beginning of the country.

Shuai Jiamo secretly added these six words, wanting to create a fait accompli impression on Shangguan and facilitate his actions - who knew that this small hand and foot later became the key point of the lawsuit.

In addition to this, Shuai Jiamo also said: "Nanjing Carrier Warehouse collects 20,190 silk horses every year, of which Zhejiang, Huguang and other silk production areas only pay 8,501 horses; Ying Tian Thirteen Mansions, as long as you pay two thousand nine hundred and five horses. However, our Huizhou government does not raise silkworms at all, but it has to bear 8,780 horses. The local people could only sell the grain, convert it into silver, and buy it back from Zhejiang and other places, these two procedures doubled the cost, and it was miserable. What's more, if this burden is shared by six counties, it may be barely bearable, but now it is borne by Shexian County - the tax of this county is higher than that of Zhejiang and Huguang (no wind note: the political envoy department, similar to the provincial-level administrative region), which is not reasonable at all! ”

To be honest, here Shuai Jiamo has played another statistical trick. Because the Ming tax system is not a unified collection and solution, a place often has to pay taxes to several places.

For example, the silk tax in Zhejiang, Huguang and other places is not only sent to the Nanjing Carrier Warehouse, but also a large part of it is sent to the Taicang Silver Warehouse, C-Shaped Warehouse, etc. In fact, the total silk tax in Zhejiang is as high as 130,000 horses, and the total silk tax in Huguang is about 27,000 horses, both of which far exceed Shexian.

However, Shuai Jiamo did not talk about the total number, and only took out the Nanjing carrier warehouse for comparison, and suddenly it seemed that the situation of She County was particularly miserable.

The brilliance of this method lies in the fact that these figures are all real and can stand up to verification, but the comparison method is a little tricky, and it immediately shows extraordinary effects - in fact, the burden of She County itself is indeed heavy, but it does not mean that the people are miserable because of this, but by Shuai Jiamo's comparison, normal people will feel miserable when they see it, and it is simply shocking.

In addition to doing a little bit of historical data and statistics that he felt was hidden enough, Shuai Jiamo also had other means.

In the first sentence of his submission, he wrote: "The heritage of the world is more precious than equal, so things cannot be equal." She County has been heavy on the side for a long time, and the people have been extremely poor, bowing to Renming's reign, preparing to show his feelings, and begging for peace. ”

In just one sentence, the word "even" appears twice. Obviously, this is not because of his limited level of writing, but because he has a profound intention.

Previously, when Gao Gong and Gao Shishi's uncle and nephew talked about financial management in private, Gao Gong mentioned that even Zhang Juzheng was a little manipulative, hoping to promote a whip law to the whole country. Gao Gong believes that a whip law can be implemented in some affluent areas, that is, the "economically developed areas" that Gao is familiar with, but it must not be implemented in some poor areas, otherwise the poor will inevitably be exploited more. [Wufeng note: It has been mentioned above, and readers who don't remember it can check it by themselves.] ]

At present, Jiangnan is of course a rich land, so a compilation method is being implemented, that is, a whip law in the future. The prototype of this tax reform policy began in the 10th year of Jiajing, and from the 40th year of Jiajing to the Longqing period, it was gradually experimented in the Nanzhili area, which had the strongest economy but also the heaviest tax burden. And the slogan he put forward happened to be: "Equal service, Su relieved the people's hardship." ”

So what happened to Shuai Jiamo's two "equalizations"? It is to elevate this tax controversy to the height of responding to the imperial court's policies.

At a deeper level, the core gist of a compilation law is indeed to merge the land tax and the forced labor, abolish the tax in kind other than rice and wheat, and uniformly change it to a cashier tael. Therefore, Shuai Jiamo repeatedly emphasized in his submission that the "silk silk" is a tax in kind, which is very troublesome to pay and needs to be adjusted urgently, which is closely linked to the reform that the central government is vigorously advocating.

In Shuai Jiamo's view, as long as this matter can borrow the east wind of the national policy, it will most likely attract the special attention of the governor of Yingtian. The thousand-year-old tradition of China is there: as soon as the top level pays attention, things will be easy to do.

In particular, the current governor of Yingtian has also made great efforts to implement the policy of one article. And as long as he is willing to take a stand, it will be half of the matter—no, it will be more than half of it. The reason why Shuai Jiamo has this confidence is because this governor is so famous, far from being comparable to ordinary officials - this grandfather's surname is Hai, his name is Rui, his name is Ruxian, and his name is Gangfeng.

In the end, this incident really alarmed Hai Rui, but at the same time, Gao Gong, who was far away in the capital and the helm of the national policy and the standard-bearer of reform, also learned the news - it was in the hands of Gao Shishi.