Yes, why does the sharpshooter battalion have silver, or is it as much as 50,000 taels, but the other two battalions don't? In other words, I am the commander of the 3,000 battalions and the 5th battalion, and I will also cry and beg in front of His Majesty.

Gu Xingzu was stunned.

Qing'er squatted on the ground to clean up the broken porcelain and tea on the ground, and when she heard the conversation between Zhang Ning and Gu Xingzu, she couldn't help but look up and glance at Gu Xingzu quickly.

What kind of eyes is this? Gu Xingzu was angry and said, "The cheap maid dares to despise the old man? ”

Qing'er was startled and hurriedly knelt down.

Zhang Ning said: "How dare she despise Master Hou? This girl's eyes are not very good, and she often rolls her eyes when she looks at people, so don't be like her. Not yet. The last sentence was said to Qing'er, and Qing'er quickly bowed and retreated.

Gu Xingzu said angrily: "How can this be true! ”

"Okay, don't be angry with the little girl. Did Master Hou ever think that there were only 1,000 people, how long could this silver last? One year is enough, right? A year later, of course, there was another piece of silver. Zhang Ning said.

"A year later, another piece of money will be set aside? How do you know? "Gu Xingzu feels that he has been tricked, it was you who pushed it all away just now, right? Now I am so sure, could it be that in a year you will help the old man ask His Majesty for silver?

Zhang Ning said with a smile: "I offer a message to Your Majesty, I will allocate silver once a year, and this time I will get 50,000 taels for you, and next year it may not be 50,000, it may be 40,000, or 60,000." But there must be silver. ”

Give silver once a year! Gu Xingzu grasped the key point, looked at Zhang Ning with sparkling eyes, and said, "The virtuous nephew won't be waiting for the old man, right?" ”

If this is the case, the old man can watch the show, the other two battalions don't know this situation, if you are like the old man, you think that the silver is there, and the big flowers are spent, and it will be spent in two or three months, and then you will have to wait a year to find out......

Just thinking about it, Gu Xingzu laughed out loud.

So happy? You don't plan to advance next year's money, do you? Zhang Ning said: "As long as the military discipline of the Divine Spear Battalion is strict, the fire guns are not missing, and the Divine Machine Cannon is not missing, there will be no shortage of silver every year." But it will never be dialed in advance. Hou Ye think about it. ”

If you dare to go to the emperor and ask for next year's silver, the emperor will take away your official position as a commander and let you go home and rest.

"Thank you for your advice." Gu Xingzu solemnly clasped his fists and saluted, and said, "I'll go back and immediately select a thousand elite soldiers, and let them take the silver and leave." ”

"How much money are you going to give each person?" Zhang Ning asked, how can you give some compensation for knocking out other people's iron rice bowls, and this severance pay is also in 50,000 taels of silver.

Gu Xingzu thought for a while and said, "How about three taels of silver per person?" ”

Two taels per month for those who stay, and three taels for those who are dismissed at one time? Will you settle accounts? Zhang Ning complained silently and said: "At least one person will give six taels at a time, that is, three months' worth of Yulu." "As for the original Yulu and a few stones of millet, Gu Xingzu will not compensate for it, whether it can be compensated or not, Zhang Ning doesn't care.

Gu Xingzu gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, six taels is six taels." More than 2,000 people, six taels per person, but not a lot. ”

Spending more than 10,000 taels at once is enough to feel distressed.

Zhang Ning said: "After the dismissal, the rest of the people have to practice day and night, and the armor has to be rebuilt, which must be light and thin, and resist swords and arrows. ”

"This is natural." There is no need for Zhang Ning to say, Gu Xingzu also understands.

I originally thought that I could do my best to spend 50,000 taels in white, but I didn't expect it to be overstretched, alas. Gu Xingzu let out a long sigh and said, "Can the virtuous nephew get the silver for the Datong soldiers?" ”

Daniel Zhang is in Datong, and Zhang Ning must recite some incense. Now the emperor listens to him, what he says is what.

Zhang Ning said: "There are more monks and less porridge, and the silver is always insufficient." Now only the tax is collected from the cloth village, and then all the shops have to collect taxes, see how much they collect, and then talk about it. ”

"It turns out that this silver comes from the commercial tax!" Gu Xingzu blurted out, thinking of the officials who were frightened and feared by the edict and finally handed over the money, and had mixed feelings.

He has three commercial banks and dozens of acres of fertile land under his name. Yesterday, I was still sympathetic to those officials who were imprisoned, and I felt that Zhang Ning had done too much, but now I realized that I benefited the most, and this was thanks to Zhang Ning, and he made great efforts.

Zhang Ning said: "Otherwise, where do you think the silver comes from?" The shop under the name of Hou Ye should go to Yingtianfu to pay taxes as soon as possible, and if you refuse to pay taxes, you have to go to the Imperial Prison. The first batch was unscathed, and the second batch is difficult to say. ”

Don't think that just go in and stay for three days and come out, you won't be so lucky next time.

"What does the virtuous nephew say, is the old man a person who is greedy for this small profit and forgets his righteousness?" Gu Xingzu hurriedly said, he has the benefits of commercial taxes, how can he not support it?

Zhang Ning said: "This is the best. ”

After saying a few words of thanks, Gu Xingzu hurriedly said goodbye and hurriedly selected the soldiers. When he left Anxiang Bo's Mansion, he immediately sent his relatives to a few shops to inform him that if Zhou Ping came to collect taxes, he would give it to him quickly.

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A notice was posted in front of the gate of Tianfu, and the onlookers were on the third floor inside and three outside, and a scholar-like person read aloud: "...... Bring all the account books to Ying Tianfu within three days to pay taxes, twenty taxes and one, and those who refuse to pay taxes should be investigated and dealt with by the Yamen of Tianfu......"

Only the official body is qualified to go to prison, and ordinary people can only go to prison.

In the crowd, an old man dressed in a brand-new cloth shirt with a ruddy face frowned and said, "The government has stretched its hand too long, and the twenty taxes are too heavy, and we can't even support our wives and children." ”

Some people who knew this old man said: "Chen Yuanwai said that it was funny, if you can't support your family, we are afraid that we will not even be able to drink well water." ”

Many people who heard it laughed, how could they not afford to drink well water without money?

This Chen Yuanwai is the owner of Chen Ji Rice Shop in the west of the city, and has opened the rice shop for three generations from his grandfather to the present. He lives in the courtyard of Sanjin, which shows that he has money. If it weren't for the ancestral training of Taizu, the merchant was not allowed to wear silk, so why would he wear a cloth shirt?

Another humanitarian: "Except for Chen Yuan, you can wear silk and satin by paying a little tax, but it is very good, you don't suffer a loss." ”

The old man said: "It's not that you can wear it every day, didn't you listen to He Xiucai say that you can only wear it during the New Year?" ”

If you wear it for a few days during the New Year, you will have to pay taxes, which is too cost-effective.

"Isn't this a trial? Or in a few years, you'll be able to wear it every day. He Xiucai, who read the notice, looked at the white-washed robe on his body, and said with a wry smile: "It's going to change." ”

Is a merchant who wears silk still a merchant?

I don't know who said, "Haven't you heard?" If you don't pay taxes, you will go to jail. ”

Someone said: "What did you hear?" It's true, many adults refused to pay taxes and went to prison. Hey, he was tortured, beaten to death, and he paid the money before he let the family go to collect someone. ”

"And this?"

While people were talking, a mediocre-looking man quietly squeezed out of the crowd, who was the one who just said that the official had been imprisoned.