"Brother Hong, Brother Hong! When will that charter be implemented? I'm going to hand over the money and food quickly?! ”

Hong Yilin was busy on all fours, and the tiger boy and others over there were still chasing after his ass and asking about money and food.

"He Dianshi, please excuse me, carefully copy their money, grain and tax figures, stamp the county's customs seal, and hand it over to them. In the future, if their property and fields do not increase, they will pay taxes according to this figure. ”

"Brother Hong! It's not enough to just stamp the big seal of Dongguan County! Your team's guards must be covered too! That's not the way to count! ”

Everyone who watched this scene couldn't smile bitterly, and they used to collect grain and taxes, and they all had a special noun, "urging the department." This means that if you don't urge these taxes, no one wants to pay them in full and on time.

The Yiqiē here was soon submitted to Guangzhou by Hong Yilin, who was temporarily acting as the governor of the county.

The same turmoil of agricultural delivery and tax resistance is spreading and staging in different forms in various parts of the Pearl River Delta.

Hong Yilin's submission could not have come at the right time.

"Herald! In the name of the governor of Liangguang and Guangzhou, Wang Mou, the former magistrate of Dongguan County, evaded in advance under the pretext of assuming that he was suspected of communicating with the chaotic people, and now he is removed from his post as magistrate of the county, and has been ordered to be interrogated by the Si Na. The post of magistrate of Dongguan is temporarily handled by Hong Yilin. ”

Those gentry painstakingly organized a vigorous farce of tens of thousands of people, but unexpectedly wanted to get into a county magistrate, not to mention, but to fulfill Hong Yilin, and take over the big seal of Dongguan County in a grand manner. As a result, Dongguan has become the first county in the Pearl River Delta region that is truly completely legally controlled by the Southern Guangdong Army.

"After this letter of appointment goes down, sue the guy who is Hong Yilin. Let go of your guts and hands and feet! If there is any experience or practice, whether it is successful or unsuccessful, it will be reported as much as possible! Benbo also wants to promote his practice to the whole of Guangdong! ”

used his power to control the money and food of the Liangguang army, and there was such a good reason to help Hong Yilin to the position of magistrate, and Shouhan naturally wanted to get some interest back from him.

He commanded to the officials in several official rooms on the side, as if he hadn't seen Jiang Yihong's face beside him at all.

"Lord Wu Xiang, your mixed brigade is good this time, and you used the soldiers to communicate with your family to alleviate a storm. At the same time, it also took the initiative to travel to and from all parts of the defense area to deter treacherous people. Those who have ill intentions naturally dare not make mistakes! ”

Everyone couldn't figure out why the lord saw Wu Liuqi, the commander of the First Mixed Brigade, every time. Either call him an iron beggar or call him the master of incense, the iron beggar is better to say, when Wu Liuqi was walking on the rivers and lakes, he was known as the iron beggar. But this incense master. It is obvious that it is a name between gangs. But where did the lord come from?

Wu Liuqi also has a good face. He ordered his soldiers to write letters to their relatives and clansmen at home, explaining the benefits and disadvantages. The turmoil with tax resistance as the core is silent in Chaozhou, Meixian and other places.

"May I share my sorrows with the Lord!"

Straightening his chest, Wu Liuqi let out a loud cry like thunder with a deep chest resonance.

"Brother Jiang, in the name of the political envoy of Liangguang and the acting governor of Liangguang, you have issued an official letter to all the state capitals, if the officials and officials are cowering in the implementation of the new tax system, do nothing, and even collude with the people who are making noise and chaos everywhere, they will all be handled with reference to the affairs of Dongguan!"

Listening to Shouhan's words, Jiang Yihong's body trembled slightly, and he immediately bowed down and saluted, singing a promise in his mouth.

"I don't know what new tricks Hong Yilin's guy has come out of now. This guy played very beautifully, and the tens of thousands of people who rushed to the city immediately turned against each other. ”

"He is settling accounts for the people of Sixiang in Dongguan."

A sentry officer of Wu Liuqi's First Mixed Brigade happened to be passing through Dongguan because he was returning home on leave to marry his relatives, and after returning to the barracks yesterday, he reported what he had seen and heard to Wu Liuqi.

Seeing that the momentum was not good, the Dongguan County Yahu Fang Clerk's Office quietly fled out of the city with a family, carrying account books, fish scale albums and other things, and carrying the gold, silver, soft and other things he had accumulated over the years. But unexpectedly, I was very angry after being discovered by a few apprentices and helpers, at this time, you ran away with your wife and children, gold, silver, soft and other things, what should you do if you leave us?

Fortresses are the easiest to breach from within.

At that moment, these people gathered the crowd by sounding the gong loudly, and at the same time flew to the county government to report it.

After Hong Yilin ordered someone to seize the book, he inspected the harvest while analyzing it according to the seized account books, fish scale albums and other items.

"Hong Yilin, this guy is still a little ghostly! He asked those apprentices to check the accounts and crack this heavenly book-like fish scale album for him. Those guys are eager to make meritorious contributions and clear themselves, how can they not work hard? ”

"However, it's not that I don't know, it's shocking. The gold and silver seized from this bookstore alone amounted to more than 400,000 yuan, and they were all our Nanzhong silver dollars! Damn! One household can have so much private wealth! ”

"Brigade Commander Wu, do you know that most of the positions such as the secretary of these state and county yamen are hereditary positions passed down from father to son, although there are no explicit regulations, but a lot of internal information is contained in their heads, and they never use words. Many people are afraid that they have served as a scrivener since the beginning of the dynasty, and after the accumulation of several generations, it is reasonable to have a net worth of hundreds of thousands. However, this person has so much gold and silver, which makes Ben Fu a little embarrassed. Jiang Yihong smiled at Wu Liuqi with some embarrassment, the local officials under him had such a figure, and his face naturally had no brilliance.

It's easy to get someone to lead the way. With the full help of the dozen or so apprentices and accomplices who tried to make meritorious contributions and do their best to clear their involvement, Hong Yilin quickly cracked the fish scale album and the floating collection ledger in Dongguan County.

At that moment, Hong Yilin copied out the fifteen typical figures of money and grain taxes payable according to the new tax rules in his hand, as well as the figures of money and grain they had paid in the previous years or even decades, and then wrote them into notices and posted them in the four gates of the county seat and in various towns and villages. The most ferocious move. Hong Yilin also attached such a text to the back of the notice.

"This Hong Yilin, he sprinkled the money and grain taxes on the heads of the fifteen people he elected. The number was also copied on the top, so that the people of the four towns knew who the imperial grain and national tax on their heads were carrying! Wu Liuqi's face was flushed with excitement, and it could be seen that he was very proud of the embarrassment of those gentlemen.

"Oh! Is it indicated to whose family is carrying these taxes? Shouhan is also quite interested in Hong Yilin's genius. If it were clearly written that the ordinary people had paid the taxes and food that should have belonged to them to the prisoners and students, the feelings would have been further stimulated.

In this way, whether it is the implementation of compulsory education, or the implementation of the policy of paying grain for the official gentry as errands, and apportioning the land to the mu, the resistance will be much smaller.

"Not really. Hong Yilin is probably also worried that the group of dogs raised by bitches will jump off the wall and cause a bigger mess. It was only replaced by the hall name of so-and-so on the notice, and no name was named. However, the eyes of the people of Sixiang are very bright, and they look at the words of the hall number, and then look at the nearby fields. Probably they can also guess which gentleman this so-and-so hall is! ”

Reasonable, advantageous, and responsible. On the one hand, he knocked on those gentry who were still lucky. On the one hand, leave room for them. Hong Yilin's grasp of the rhythm and heat of things made Shouhan very satisfied.

"Hongzhi County has left some face for the gentlemen everywhere by doing this, and the lower officials are here to thank the lord on their behalf!" Jiang Yihong also secretly let out a sigh of relief. If Hong Yilin really made this account book completely public indiscriminately, then it would be strange that the people everywhere didn't scold the gentry for being thieves!

Jiang Yihong was uneasy in his heart, not knowing how the lord in front of him planned to use thunderbolt to implement his own tax system next, and Wu Liuqi stared at the Shouhan who was pacing back and forth in the study without blinking.

Finally, Shouhan stopped his steps.

"Iron Beggar, how is the morale of your troops now?"

"The brothers' heart for meritorious service is high, please give the lord a chance!"

"Good! You take your first mixed brigade, and I will order the second and fourth garrison brigades stationed in Jiangmen, Panyu, Jiangmen, Huaxian, Bao'an, and other places to be dispatched by you. ”

The purpose of this hand of the Shouhan is very clear, it is necessary to first solve the old officials and troops everywhere and prevent them from rebelling with the officials and gentry everywhere.

Hearing Wu Liuqi receiving orders loudly with some excitement, he couldn't help but have a wry smile in Jiang Yihong's heart, with the kind of corrupt and powerless battalion combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of Liangguang, how could he deal with the three brigades of the Nanyue Army like a wolf and a tiger? What's more, the leading coach is Wu Liuqi, a famous iron beggar in Guangdong?

I am afraid that Wu Liuqi's banner will appear outside the gates of the military camps in various towns in Guangdong, and the soldiers in the camp will not dare to move!

Jiang Yihong and Wu Liuqi each got up and left, in the second gate of the Han Xingyuan, Wu Liuqi, who was rough on the outside and shrewd on the inside, saw Jiang Yihong looking worried and absent-minded, and his heart was bright, he understood very well that Jiang Yihong was now in a dilemma.

The first is to completely fall into the Nanyue Army system headed by Li Shouhan, and hand over his net worth, life, poverty, wealth and wealth to this system. But in this way, it is inevitable to make a name for the interests of the scholars and the gentry in the whole Guangdong, so that they will become enemies with the gentlemen of the whole Guangdong, and after a hundred years, I am afraid that I will be scolded by these people in the history books.

But if you can't collude with the Nanyue Army, then your fate will be even worse!

"Lord Jiang, why do you have a sad face?"

Although Wu Liuqi is a military general, his political sensitivity and intuition are much stronger than Jiang Yihong, an official from a literati background, otherwise he would not have sat in Guangdong for many years, and his descendants have been figures such as deputy generals of the general army for generations.

"Alas! General Wu, the marshal's eagerness, of course, is for the sake of the country, to increase taxes and rest for the people. However, in this officialdom, among the scholars, the interests are intertwined, the same township, the same year, the same family, and there are the same clan, the same clan, and the same in-laws in the locality, how can this carry out the intention of the marshal? ”

"Master Jiang! That's the fault of you readers! Always overthink everything! You look at Hong Yilin, a mere team leader, who can turn Dongguan upside down, who dares to say anything about those gentry families and wealthy families? If they dare to make a mistake, they don't need the lord to send troops. I am afraid that the people of Dongguan will be able to rush into their deep mansions and recover the interest on their property that has been looted for decades! ”

Listening to Wu Liuqi's murderous words, Jiang Yihong couldn't help but feel a chill in his back, and his already soaked underwear felt more and more cold.

For the role and strength of the common people, although these scholars have always made a contemptuous attitude, but in their hearts are very afraid, one of their sages advocates quiet and inaction, Lao Tzu has not long been taught, "The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death?" "The common people are not even afraid of death, how can you threaten him with death? If at this time let the common people know that they can obtain huge material benefits through this action of subverting the original order, you see what kind of means they will take!

That became the words of the famous wise and martial Emperor Tang Taizong. Water can carry a boat, and it can also capsize a boat!

"Master Jiang. In your spare time at home, do you play the leaf card? Wu Liuqi suddenly came out of nowhere.

"Benfutai will also watch bamboo in his spare time." Although Jiang Yihong despised Wu Liuqi's lack of culture, he still answered him very politely.

However, in the end, it is the origin of the two Jinshi. Playing mahjong and fighting leaves are replaced by a very elegant word. Look at the bamboo. Probably because most of the mahjong tiles are made of bamboo, right?

"Now all the cards are in the hands of the lord, even the Chongzhen Emperor in Beijing can't take the lord, and the holy decree in Beijing is good. No matter the military order, if there is no approval from the lord, what can you do in this Lingnan Fujian area? I'm afraid it's too hard to rub my ass! Wu Liuqi's words were vulgar and explicit, and his tone was like that of an old man in the Southern Yue Army, he only knew that there was Li Shouhan, but he didn't know that there was Emperor Ming.

Jiang Yihong listened, but he was helpless.

Oh, yes! Now in the direction of eastern Liaoning, Hong Chengchou led eight general soldiers of more than 100,000 horses to confront Jiannu on the front line of Jinzhou and Songshan, and almost every month there were letters or official documents to ask for assistance with grain, grass, ordnance, gunpowder and other things, and Yang Sichang, who was known as General Yanmei and Inspector and Auxiliary Minister, was dealing with the thief Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan, and he was also seeking to buy weapons and armor.

These two battlefields are where the greatest energy of the Ming Dynasty is involved, how can the emperor still have the spare strength to take care of Lingnan and Fujian?

What is the purpose of the marshal's actions, Jiang Yihong, who is familiar with history books, can't say that there is no answer in his heart, but he doesn't dare to think about it. However, all over the Central Plains, the bandits, the horse thieves, and the poles were surging, and wherever the thieves and soldiers went, they slaughtered and looted, not so much to suppress the thieves as to create soldiers for the thieves. And Hong Chengchou led the troops in the Songjin area, but I am afraid that it will also be in vain to pay the army, and it is unknown what the final situation will be.

Just when Jiang Yihong was thinking about the sea and the river in his heart, Wu Liuqi took out something from his armor.

It was a sparkling new silver dollar.

"Lord Jiang, this is the military salary I just received from my lord. Let me ask you, how much military salary will Chongzhen give you in a month? Pay? ”

Speaking of his salary, Jiang Yihong suddenly had a wry smile on his face.

The thinness of the Ming Dynasty's officials is famous in history, and the Ming Dynasty's "Gushan Bichen" volume 9 "Officials" records: the prime minister of the Northern Han Dynasty in the five dynasties was only "one hundred yuan" (one is a thousand dollars), "compared to the end of the Tang Dynasty, it has been too reduced", and the Ming Dynasty "is the prosperity of today's unification, and the prime minister's moon is still not half this, so the modern period can be described as thin."

According to the 25th year of Hongwu, the system of issuing Lu Feng to civil and military officials at home and abroad was formulated: Zhengyi product, 1,444 stones. From a product, eight hundred and eighty-eight stones. Zheng two products, seven hundred and thirty-two stones. From the second grade, five hundred and seventy-six stones. Three products, four hundred and twenty stones. From the third grade, three hundred and twelve stones. It is four products, two hundred and eighty-eight stones. From the fourth grade, two hundred and fifty-two stones. Five products, one hundred and ninety-two stones. From the fifth grade, one hundred and sixty-eight stones. Positive six pins, one hundred and twenty stones. From six pins, ninety-six stones. Seven grades, ninety stones. From seven pins, eighty-four stones. Eight pins, seventy-eight stones. From eight pins, seventy-two stones. Nine pins, sixty-six stones. From nine pins, sixty stones. Not into the stream, thirty-six stones. The rice banknote is both folded and supported.

So how much is this amount of grain that is roughly converted into the silver coins commonly used in the market today?

During the Hongwu period, the officials' salaries were all given to rice, and occasionally money was given. It is given at the rate of 1,000 dollars and banknotes to a stone of grain and rice. Those with high grades are four or five out of ten, those with low grades are seven or eight out of ten, and all are below nine grades. Later, the banknote folder gave ten yuan per meter of stone. and where the color is folded, the first half of the year will be given money, and the second half of the year will be given to Sumu pepper.

In the seventh year of Chenghua, the household banknote was small, but it was estimated by the ministry, and the cloth was used as a banknote of 200 yuan. It is the banknote that has always been only worth two or three cents, and the meter one stone is worth ten times, and the rice one stone is only worth twenty or thirty cents. A piece of cloth is only worth two or three hundred yuan, and twenty stones of rice is worth only fourteen or fifteen dollars. ”

That is to say, the official stipend of the Ming Dynasty was only one stone of rice, which was called its true color. The rest is converted into cloth and banknotes, which is called folding. The folded part is not given to the physical object, only to the voucher, and the voucher can be circulated freely.

When the Ming Dynasty became the ancestor, the voucher of one stone of Lu rice could only be cashed into one or two coins of silver, compared with the official standard of exchange at the time of the founding of the country: one stone of rice was worth one tael of silver, which had depreciated a lot, and its value was only one or two percent of the original. During the Ming Dynasty, a piece of cloth was only equivalent to two hundred pieces of money, and the banknotes at that time were always only equivalent to two or three pieces of money, and one stone of rice was folded into ten pieces, that is, one stone of rice was only worth twenty or thirty dollars, and a piece of cloth was only worth two or three hundred dollars, and a piece of cloth could be converted into twenty stone meters, and one stone of rice was only worth fourteen or fifteen dollars.

According to this price, Jiang Yihong, the acting governor of Liangguang, the political envoy of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong, is only a few dozen taels of silver every year.

If you don't take bribes and don't take bribes, you won't be able to feed your family and maintain the dignity of an official. You can't ask all the officials to have the kind of personality compulsion that Hai Jui has, right? What's more, even Hai Rui has to support his wife and concubines. (Huh?) How could a beggar ever have a second wife? Could it be that Hai Rui, who is honest and has the name of Qingtian, has other ways to make money? Wrong! It must be that I opened it the wrong way! ）

After Shouhan justifiably obtained the military and political power of the two Guangxi provinces, he first reformed the salary system of officials at all levels, and the officials of the yamen at all levels were no longer paid by officials, but were uniformly paid by the Ningyuan Bofu according to their rank and seniority, and there was room for improvement.

Officials, on the other hand, are given money according to their rank and the place where they are located, but the premise is that you cannot be corrupt. There are officials at all levels. From the ninth-grade official who is not in the stream, to the second-grade official Jiang Yihong, he can find the amount of incorruptible silver that he can get according to his grade.

In addition to the grade, there is also a regional subsidy, which is probably more for poor, remote and difficult areas, such as the various yamen in the city of Guangzhou, so don't fight this idea.

"General Wu, this Futai is benevolent every year, and he is given more than 18,000 yuan of silver for his support, and another 40,000 yuan of office funds can be used for expenditure." Speaking of his money, Jiang Yihong is not vague, he knows that even if he doesn't say it, he is afraid that the brigade commander Wu in front of him will also know it very well.

"Well, Master Jiang, there is a saying in our countryside that you can't eat noodles at the bottom of the bowl. We are carrying a bowl of rice in our hands, and we are carrying silver dollars from someone who gave us in our pockets, and we should not listen to his greetings. ”

After saying the words that were obviously admonishing, Wu Liuqi stuffed the shining and dazzling silver dollar to Jiang Yihong, left this big man in Guangdong officialdom, and walked away by himself. (To be continued......)