The whole book of "Dragon Wen Whip Shadow" has a total of more than 4,200 words, which is not much or less, although the brush writing is slightly slow, but it is high enough to write the full text in one afternoon and half a night.

Gao Shishi, who wrote the whole book silently, handed over the book to Chen Ju overnight, and then Meimei made up for sleep. I have to say that after Emperor Longqing personally explained that he could not slack off Gao Pragmatic, although his resting place was temporarily patchworked, it was comfortable enough. However, there were only eunuchs around Gao Shishi throughout the night, and not a single palace maid was seen, so naturally there would be no coincidental encounters with princesses and concubines in the palace, and then some legends that were not humane to outsiders occurred.

Early in the morning of the second day, Gao Pragmatic left the palace and headed for Gaofu under the escort of Chen Ju - he estimated that he might be very busy today, in addition to receiving the identity certificate that was estimated to be delivered to the mansion this morning, he might also have to go to the Hanlin Academy to visit Shangguan, and then he had to enter the palace again to meet the prince, so he hurried all the way, and when he returned to Gaofu, the sky was just cloudy.

As soon as he entered the mansion, a doorman stepped forward to tell him, saying that the master had been waiting in the study for a while, and asked the eldest young master to hurry over.

Gao Shishi smiled in his heart, it seems that the third uncle still attaches great importance to being the prince's companion.

But when he entered Gao Gong's study, he found that Gao Gong was not waiting for him, this workaholic was holding a few pages of official documents in his hand and was reading carefully, and he didn't even notice that he entered the door.

"Third uncle, my nephew is back." Gao pragmatic had to say something to "wake up" Gao Gong.

"Hmm." Gao Gong responded, reluctantly looked away, glanced at Gao Shishi, and greeted: "I know your performance in the palace, I don't need to go into details, you come here, I'll show you a few case files, it's very interesting." ”

Gao was a little stunned, but he still walked over and reached out to pick up the scroll handed over by Gao Gong.

Gao Gong handed out the scroll, smiled and said: "This place in Huizhou is really interesting, a small official with a knife and pen actually brought the lawsuit to the cabinet." ”

Gao Pragmatic was also stunned when he heard it, and said in his heart that he was a little official? That's not more than a petty official who is not in the stream, and he can actually bring the lawsuit to the cabinet? So I was quite curious and looked at the paper. I don't know if I don't see it, but it's really amazing when I look at it. What is said in the case file is indeed interesting.

Huizhou Mansion has always been a famous hometown of cultural and educational prosperity, for example, Yin Zhengmao, who is about to go to patrol Guangxi, is a native of She County, Huizhou. Huizhou Prefecture has a total of six counties: She, Yi, Xiuning, Wuyuan, Qimen, and Jixi. Among them, She County is the largest, and it is a county attached to the county - that is to say, the Huizhou government is located in the county, and the office is in the same city as the county government of She County.

In the same city of the prefecture and county, many documents and archives at the provincial level are naturally stored in the county pavilion so that they can be retrieved and surveyed at any time. These cases on tax and grain household registration are very important, related to the rise and fall of a county, of course, these case files are also very boring, all kinds of boring figures. Therefore, it has been shelved all the year round, and no one cares about it except for the tax collector of the household.

The cause of the incident was that in the third year of Longqing, a newly appointed official named Shuai Jiamo in She County, Huizhou, who was in charge of money and grain, found that among the taxes paid by Huizhou to Nanjing every year, there was a branch of "Ding Silk Silk" in the six counties under the jurisdiction of Huizhou, and only She County was responsible for it. The other five counties are not responsible for the taxation of this section.

This Shuai Jiamo was originally a scholar, but his performance in moral articles was average, and he was destined to have no hopeless career. But he is very talented in mathematics, but unfortunately in Daming, only the employment prospects of liberal arts students are the most optimistic, and the future of science students is very worrying.

But Shuai Jiamo, who does a line of love and love, does not mind, he is very professional and sets his sights on the tax and grain account books of Huizhou Mansion over the years, and strives to make extraordinary achievements in ordinary posts - anyway, these materials are stored in She County.

The tax structure of the Ming Dynasty has always been complicated, and Huizhou is a large taxpayer, and the account books involve a large number of accounts between the exchange and even, which is an excellent application example, which is very in line with the appetite of the handsome master.

The extraordinary achievements soon came to fruition: after taking stock of the various tax items, he noticed that in addition to the regular tax, there was also a subject called "human silk silk" that had to be paid in kind, and the amount was very large, and 8,780 horses of raw silk had to be paid every year.

Shuai Jiamo felt that something was not right, so he went down to check the accounts of the counties under the Huizhou government, and found an astonishing phenomenon: Huizhou government has six counties, and the other five counties do not have such a tax as "human silk silk", only there is an expenditure in the account book of She County, and the number is also 8,780 raw silk, but the subjects are not right, because it is called "summer tax raw silk".

In other words, the annual tax of 8,780 horses of raw silk in Huizhou is all borne by She County, and the other five counties do not have a penny.

Shuai Jiamo was suddenly shocked, because this was not a small amount, it was a huge amount of money. In order to make sure that he didn't make a mistake or misunderstood, he also went to check the "Daming Huidian".

"Daming Huidian" contains the history of the Ming Dynasty since the founding of the country, as well as the tax information and administrative regulations of governments at all levels, and from the beginning of the Hongzhi Dynasty, each generation will be revised, basically can be used as a yearbook.

Shuai Jiamo found the same tax record under the entry of Huizhou Mansion in the "Daming Huidian". More importantly, the "Huidian" only mentions that the Huizhou government bears the "human silk silk", and there is no word indicating that She County alone bears it. This shows that the tax item of Huizhou Mansion should be shared equally among the six counties, how can it only be pressed in She County?

No, this matter is related to the livelihood of a county, and you can't be so confused! You have to dig it up!

Just like all people who strive to achieve extraordinary achievements in ordinary positions, Shuai Jiamo is not surprised when there is a problem in front of him, and continues to dig deeper with great interest. In the end, he found an ancient clue in "Huizhou Mansion Chronicles".

This place in Huizhou was attached to Taizu very early. After Zhu Yuanzhang became the king of Wu in the twenty-fourth year of Yuan Zhizheng, the first thing he implemented in Huizhou was to revise the Yuan tax, which was called the "Jiachen legal system". As a result, at the end of the year, the Zhongshu Province found that there was a problem with the figures, so it carried out a "Yisi reform" in the 25th year of Zhizheng, and the tax amounts of many subjects had to be readjusted.

As a result, Shuai Jiamo checked and found that Shexian County was 9,700 stone worse than the previous payment of summer wheat. Therefore, the imperial court levied four yuan of "summer tax raw silk" per mu for the 3,646 hectares of lightly rented land in She County to make up for the shortfall - this is the origin of the "summer tax raw silk" in She County.

It's just that this "summer grain" era is too old, and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with "human silk silk". With genius-like intuition, Shuai Jiamo felt that there must be some connection between the two, so he picked up the pen and made a rough calculation.

The 9,700 stone of summer wheat that She County supplemented, according to the current official rate, is converted into three coins of silver per stone, and 9,700 stone of grain is converted into silver, which is 900 taels for Liang Qian. And every year, the raw silk paid by the "people Ding Silk Silk" is converted into silver, seven cents per horse, so it is six thousand one hundred and forty-six taels of silver—well, if you look at it this way, the two numbers seem to have little to do with each other.

But Shuai Jiamo is a mathematical talent in the end, and his brain turns quickly. He quickly thought that the six counties of Huizhou were adjacent to each other, and one county had a poor summer wheat harvest, and the other five counties could not be spared. So he traced it again and found that at the same time, the five counties of Yi, Xiuning, Wuyuan, Qimen, and Jixi also owed summer grain, a total of 10,780 stones, which could be converted into 3,234 taels of silver.

Two thousand nine hundred and ten taels plus three thousand two hundred and thirty-four taels, a total of six thousand one hundred and forty-four taels!

This number is only two taels of silver from "human silk silk"!