"Have you been to the imperial capital?" Li Xiangqian looked up and down, this person looked inconspicuous, but this dress looked quite familiar, at least the towel should be an imperial capital product.

"Yes, the little one is going to Beijing to give New Year's gifts to the elders."

Li Xiangqian smiled and said, "What you are giving is a New Year's gift, but a golden mountain, and in the future, you are not allowed to send it again." ”

"The elders don't accept gifts, which is really a blessing for the people."

Li Xiangqian suddenly became playful, and said: "Since no one has collected those things, how to deal with them afterwards, whether to return them to the people, or the adults in Jinan have divided them." ”

This person, who is equivalent to the director of the Shandong Provincial Office in the later generations, was originally a man of conversation and laughter, exquisite, and able to please anyone, but now he has to be embarrassed, he knows that there are many people in Jinan City who have hooked up with the imperial capital in private, maybe all the qualified people have run over, and naturally they don't dare to hide it, as long as the people who have been to the imperial capital, occasionally see the elders once, and they are impressed by their tall figures, white and fat body shapes, weird and standard northern accents, and especially the terrible hair.

is different from those scoundrels who dare to pretend to be if they shave their heads casually, any elder, all have the style of the children of the family, even if there is no red tape in the etiquette, it is also very atmospheric, and when it comes to anything, many times you can call out what is happening below, it is simply like a god, not easy to fool.

"Elder Hui, that money is a lot, if you want to return it to the people one by one, then it will be divided into categories, I am afraid that it will be protracted, and I am afraid that the cost will be very large."

"Mmmmmm, understand, money, you have to charge a handling fee once you get it, and those who get it to the imperial capital are already small heads, you scavenge ten yuan from the people, and it is already a favor to give the Beijing officials a dollar, and then return it back, I'm afraid that in the hands of the people, the people will have to find your handling fee."

If it is said by others, the chief of the political envoy is only afraid that he will directly order the left and right followers to be killed directly, but in the face of this, he can only support: "How dare I wait for this, it's just a lot of affairs, it's hard to say clearly." ”

Li Xiangqian will not embarrass a subordinate, these people are quasi-civil servants who say well, but they are simply temporary workers who have no establishment, temporary workers, naturally, the same attitude as temporary workers, once a son of heaven and a courtier, a government will change his subordinates, therefore, temporary workers also have the right to make money without the attitude of expiration and invalidation.

In this case, ask people not to collect black money? Are you kidding.

"By the way, how is the harvest in Shandong this year, there are no droughts, locust plagues and floods."

"Thanks to the reign of the elders, the wind and rain are smooth in all parts of Shandong, and there is no big mess."

Although boasting that he is rich here is to make up for it, but under the power of two evils, it is better to say something nice.

Li Xiangqian sighed secretly, sure enough.

In fact, in the later period of Emperor Chongzhen, there were not many natural disasters, and the energy of the rebellion, capable people, had already jumped out, if there was no Donglin Party, Confucianism, and Jurchens, who had seen through the face of Confucianism and were proficient in government affairs, Chongzhen, who had already seen through Confucianism, had a great chance to kill Li Zicheng.

As long as they can be ruthless and carry out a large-scale massacre of the Donglin Party, so that they cannot interfere in government affairs, and the government's tax source is guaranteed, they can support a large army, stabilize the morale of the army, and unify the whole country.

In fact, a few years before Chongzhen's death, many Ming officials began to fish for three days and dry their nets for two days, and waited for refuge, but Li Zicheng, the Ming monarch in their minds, was unlucky and had no refuge.

So he was cheapened by the most treacherous and shameless group of people in history.

"Well, I won't see you adults this time, and I will announce to them and the people of Shandong that they can't do the abolition of agricultural taxes and go to Liaodong in North Korea to reclaim the famine, and they can't expect anything else."

Embarrassing, this is the biggest problem in Shandong, although because the place is too close, many things in Hebei can not be hidden, especially the villages on both sides, the junction of Cangzhou and Dezhou, there are many intermarriages, and a variety of provincial borders are exempt from taxes and taxes.

Small landlords, tenants, naturally welcome tax exemption, large landlords can occasionally be reluctant, but they carefully settle the accounts, so that the peasants are rarely willing to contribute to their banners, in fact, the big landlords are often big gentry, people themselves do not have to pay taxes, or "you have to let the gentry pay first, with the people to donate money, the gentry donate, the people can follow the donation, after the money is in hand, the gentry's money, all the amount is returned, the people's money, three or seven shares." ”

really annoyed these gentry, and the county magistrate also killed them if he wanted to.

Thus, a system in which the ruling class is almost closed and cannot be influenced by external forces pursues policies that benefit the lower strata and do not benefit the upper strata...... What do you think.

This is not a crossing, orders are issued above, and 100% execution is carried out below, there are no knives, why should people listen to you.

Li Xiangqian's understanding of the world, and their policy of exempting agricultural taxes, are just roasting these bureaucrats on a fire.

Raising the pressure of others or something, Li Xiangqian likes it the most.

"This, elder, I'm afraid it's not the villain's decision, it's better to move to the city, the adults in the city have prepared a banquet early, and the beauties in the city will accompany ......."

Li Xiangqian shook his head and said, "Forget about the beauty or something, I'll wait for the children here to buy supplies, and then leave the south directly." ”

"How's that going to work?"

Li Xiangqian returned to the house, packed his luggage, and naturally no longer cared about this person, at this stage, just let them squint at these former Ming relics.

Along the way, in fact, Shandong's governance is not bad, or that problem, there are enough dead, whether it is the massacre of the Jurchens, or the tragedy of the Dengzhou Rebellion, half of Shandong died, so only half of the people who survived, to eat the property of everyone in the past, of course, feel that the government is harmonious.

Really let Li Xiangqian go to govern, I'm afraid that a county will not be well governed, they are not familiar with the country, the current society, really take care of it, I'm afraid that something will happen, fortunately, they have money, let go of tax exemption, use overseas gold mines as support, after getting through the initial period of confusion, they can finally reach out to the outside world.

To tell the truth, it is really exempt from agricultural taxes, with the commercial capacity of this era, it is basically difficult to feed the government, at least the officials up and down, but they are all man-eating tigers, and if they want to get a penny, they have to take nine cents.

When Li Xiangqian packed up his package, and waited for the boys to pack and leave, he ran into an old man from outside the carriage shop, dressed in a very new long shirt, holding a paper fan, but he had no fame, and it was naturally easy to guess who it was.

"The elder's arrival in Jinan is a great blessing for the people of my city."

Li Xiangqian replied while feeding the red rabbit: "What's the matter?" ”

"That's the case, it's better for the elder to stay in my Jinan for a few more days."

"What do you mean, do you want to force me to stay as a proton?" If that's the case, there's an excuse to do it.

"Don't dare, it's just a rainy day, a guest day, just enough to entertain the elders and his party."

Li Qianqian raised his head, but at this time, the sky was high and the sky was cloudless, and said, "What does this mean, Master is only afraid that he is drunk." ”

"Knowing that the elder was coming, I went to the south to help the elder make a front stop, arrange food, clear the road, and get a reply from the back, ten miles west of the city, it rained heavily, and the road was muddy and southward."

Li Xiangqian almost blurted out, how do you know that I am going west, but I immediately remembered that I specially called the shopkeeper to talk last night, and first asked Jinan Mansion what happened recently, whether the price is stable, and whether there is any big injustice, and the shopkeeper also coped with it well and said a good word.

This is not fake, in later generations, there are provincial-level officials down to the county seat, to visit the people, but to ask an old woman, the old woman really said the children of the powerful, rampant, the story of killing people on the street, the big man was naturally furious, a day of thunder, swept it, but the big man returned to the provincial capital, the old woman's whole family is already a broken family, since then, the whole province naturally does not dare to speak.

The shopkeeper knew that the big man in the capital was coming, but he didn't dare to say anything, and he didn't dare Li Xiangqian also asked about the surrounding geography, especially how the road to the west was, so how to go today is naturally clear.

Li Xiangqian didn't care about this, this was not a military operation, and he deduced his behavior from this matter, although he felt unhappy, but he couldn't reach the point of dissatisfaction.

How people are serving you, do you still have no idea in your heart, knowing that you have to cross the border, and even help you to fight the front station in advance, so that a military training will become an outing.

Can you refuse, in the wild, it was supposed to train these children to set up tents, collect fuel, dig pits and cook, but people bring you hot food, can you not eat it, if you don't eat it, it's a waste, it's hypocritical.

"The sun rises in the east and rains in the west, the road is sunny but sunny, I didn't expect the ancient poem to say that it is really good, but the weather in Jinan is sunny, but the west is heavy rain, I can't imagine it."

I want to go south from Jinan, go directly to the south, but it is the legendary Mount Tai, naturally no one goes, they are all west or east, Li Xiangqian did not plan to go all over Shandong, and he did not go to the east of Jiaodong to detour the long road, but planned to see the scenery of Weishan Lake.

The master has also entered the imperial capital to give gifts, and knows that although these elders are not full of poetry and books, they occasionally have some fresh poetry exports, and they are not illiterate, compared to Li Zicheng, who was born as a postman and a pawn, he is a little smarter, but he was also shocked when he remembered the meaning of this poem.

The sun rises in the east and rains in the west, the road is sunny but sunny, on the surface, it is said that the sky changes greatly one day, and the sun in the east can still take a good look, but it is raining heavily in the west, and it is also a very rare scenery, but the latter sentence is almost a love story.

There is no sunny but sunny is interpreted by many men and women as ruthless but affectionate, which means, whether you have affection for me or not.

Of course, this master is seventy or eighty, and he will not misunderstand Li Xiangqian's decision to himself, is it the ...... of the officials in Jinan who are asking about the imperial capital

To be honest, this master understands very well the mentality of local parents.

First of all, they are simply too happy with the current day.

There are almost no external enemies, or rather, the neighbors in the north and south don't have much desire to attack, and the internal rebellion has long been made, and the rest are the most honest and easy to exploit honest people, honest people, the heaviest work, the worst to eat, even the women are leftover green tea.

As for the above, there is no need to pay any taxes to the central government, except for the repair of the canal, you also need to pay attention to it, and the taxes collected are a lot of money.

Naturally, there are various ways to share the spoils, and there are profits up and down, and even rules have been formed.

This is also why, Luoyang City was surrounded by the Shun army, and the last half of the silver begged from King Fu did not reach the hands of the people who defended the city in Shangcheng, because the people who distributed the money up and down asked for a share when they saw it, and you didn't give it? Beware of being "killed by suicide" tonight.

Moreover, the best place, naturally, is that for a while, there is no bureaucratic triennial performance appraisal rotation, and even some people who died last year have their mothers who claim to be self-proclaimed that their officials are willing to work for the country and win affection as officials at this time of great chaos in the world.

If this situation can continue forever, it will be the most beautiful thing in the world.

There is no responsibility, you don't have to worry about those annoying ghosts in the imperial capital coming to evaluate your work performance, you just need to eat, drink, and play with women every day, and by the way, the people's fat and people's ointment will be privately divided according to the size of the official position, which is enough.

However, the imperial capital has never cut off the groping pig hand that has reached out, no, I will ask it now.

This is clearly asking whether you Shandong officials can rely on it.

The master is a native of Shaoxing, and even his son is in the imperial capital, going to that secretary school, learning the style, sentence structure, and rules of new-style official writing, and only hoping to mix with a non-grade official, in fact, in terms of their own hearts, although they have no official position, they can be fox and fake tiger, eat and take cards, but there is nothing when they should be responsible, and they simply leave when they have problems, it is really the coolest job in the world, if the master becomes a secretary, it will be more involved, but it is not beautiful.

However, this is a troubled time, seeing that the imperial capital is thriving, one day is as strong as a day, not to mention anything else, the railway will be repaired to Hejian Mansion, and it is only a few dozen miles away from Dezhou, his son goes home every time, he gets off the train in Hejian Mansion, and walks back slowly, every time he complains, if the railway is repaired from the imperial capital to Jinan one day earlier, everything will be fine.

However, everyone understands that on the day of the passage of the railway, the million-strong army of people will also come.

Suddenly, his heart moved, and he said: "Speaking of this, several wealthy local businessmen also handed over the post and asked me to pass it on to the elders, I heard that they are very concerned about the business of the railway, and they want to ask if they can join in a share." ”