Zhu Houzhao saw that Zhang Xuan was now more active in promoting the collection of heavy taxes on the mining industry, and he also knew that his goal had been achieved.

But it's not that Zhu Houzhao really doesn't worry about chaos because of this.

Zhu Houzhao had already asked the Huangming newspaper to be published all over the world before this, and explained the collection of heavy mining taxes in the customs area that Zhang Xuan was responsible for, and at the same time put forward Xia Yan's responsibility for the reduction and exemption of mining taxes outside the customs area, and clearly informed the people, and asked the scholars to give more positive guidance to the people.

But with little success.

Even the courtiers who knew this truth could oppose this matter on other grounds, and even some folk newspapers bluntly said that Huang Mingbao was Zhang Zhang's accomplice and was deceiving the people.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao also asked Jinyiwei to find several behind-the-scenes literati who ran such newspapers, and invited them to the Imperial Prison for a cup of tea.

But there is still no way to stop this phenomenon, it is difficult for the court and the public intellectuals to distinguish the winner in the competition for public opinion, and these public intellectuals are even more arrogant when this kind of damage to the interests of the gentry and the people.

But no matter what, it also achieved good results, and the more it came later, the more obvious the effect, especially at the bottom.

Because not all the people are mining the mines, although there have been bloody conflicts between miners and tax collectors, but in fact, in this mining heavy tax collection incident, the interests of the most damaged and the most jumping are the powerful gentry.

After all, Zhu Houzhao exempted the world from forced labor, reduced the tax on official land to the level of private land, and banned the road guidance system, giving the people at the bottom great freedom.

These policies are all of great benefit to the people, and any one of them can make Zhu Houzhao gain great popular support.

Moreover, Zhu Houzhao is now also convenient for mobilizing the people's will.

Because the Ming court is not what it used to be, the management of grass-roots organizations below the county level is very loose, and now the Ming court is directly controlled to the township level, and even the village head is required to be appointed by the government.

Moreover, the officials sent by Zhu Houzhao to manage these grassroots units were all veterans or students who had joined the Zhongjun Society in the Guards or in the higher education school, and most of these people were children of poor families, and they had a high degree of admiration for Zhu Houzhao, and they could understand the grassroots peasants and instigate them well, and they had a certain knowledge base to be able to manage them, and they would also be better in their personal ideals and moral character, and nationalism and nationalism would be stronger.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao had already issued an edict to the governors of the provinces, asking the local officials of the provinces to encourage the grassroots officials to actively guide the local scholars to support the imperial court to open mines outside the Guan, or to pay and make up for the loss of royal minerals in order to protect the environment and feng shui in the imperial Guan, and actively pay mining taxes.

The officials at the grassroots level are born as members of the Zhongjun Society, have received brainwashing education, and at the same time they are also consistent with the interests of the imperial court, after all, many of them have military merits, and after retiring from the army, they are very rich, and they are not easy to be corrupt and are afraid of being robbed of military merits for the ineffective work of the imperial court, so they are very active, and the students are naturally also very active for promotion.

At this time.

Huang Kui, the head of Chahe Township, a subordinate of Cangzhou, took his subordinate officials to the mining area mined by a villager surnamed Jiang:

"Brother Jiang, tell me why your mine is still open, the coal mine in this area is already difficult to mine, the third child of the He family also lost a life because of this, and you yourself also lost a lot of pension money, but all in total, you didn't earn a few silver dollars a year, if the heavy tax of the imperial court is collected, your coal mine will earn less, if you really want to open a mine, you can go to Guanwai, where the mining tax is very low, and the mine is easy to mine, there is an open-pit coal mine in the west of Dongsheng City, where I used to be stationed!"

"Huang Lichang, I also know that the tax outside the customs is light and good for mining, but this is the one who left his hometown, and the other is to go to the customs outside the customs to buy land and build a house and hire someone to open a mine, and then find a way to sell it, these all need money, and I don't know if the road to Dongshengcheng is good luck coal! You said that the emperor is so rich, why do you have to guard the mine and not let us mine, even if you have to collect taxes, why do you have to collect such a heavy tax. ”

The villager surnamed Jiang complained as he spoke.

Huang Lichang stood up directly, sighed, and said earnestly: "Brother Jiang, I called you brother because I was older than me, but you slandered the emperor so much just now, to be honest, I despise you very much, and I am also very angry, is the current emperor good, you know in your own heart that you will be exempted from forced labor, and the field will also be reduced for you, otherwise you can have the capital to open a mine now?"

Besides, this mineral buried in the ground, according to the Holy Doctrine, is originally given by God to the Son of Heaven, and is the property of the dragon, so if you mine too much, the dragon will get angry and an earthquake will occur, whoever is the dragon, the Son of Heaven is the dragon, so this mineral is the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven let you mine it is a gift from the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven will not let you mine it, so it is not wrong!

Now that the imperial court collects heavy taxes, it's not that you're worried that you're mining too hard and hurting the dragon veins, breaking feng shui, and destroying the environment, do you know what the environment is, you look at the sky around your mining area, it's gray all year round, and the people who live around you are coughing every day, you know if you don't know if you're creating evil, if you charge more taxes today to reduce your sins, what can be wrong. ”

As soon as Huang Lichang said this, the villagers surnamed Jiang couldn't refute it, and laughed embarrassedly: "Huang Lichang, don't be angry, I'm just talking casually, I also know that the emperor is a good emperor, and this court also has the consideration of the court, but the difficulties I just said are also there, you are the mayor, you tell me, how to solve it, didn't you say that the officials have to solve the problem for the people, and I haven't seen them solve it." ”

"Tell you to read more newspapers, read more books, and go to the county for a walk, you don't believe it, why didn't the court solve the problem you said, don't talk about leaving your hometown, the court said that you can go to Guanwai to do business and settle down without moving your household registration, the implication is that you can come back at any time, and your children can come back at any time;

There is no money outside the border, and the imperial court has also ordered banks at all levels to open low-interest loans or even interest-free loans, and it is a direct loan three times on the basis of your existing property, with your level, it is not a problem to borrow two or three hundred thousand silver dollars, if you go to Mobei to open a mine, the 230,000 will not have a penny of interest in three years, which is equivalent to giving you away for nothing!

As for the problem of transportation, you don't have to worry, I have been stationed in Dongshengcheng, and every county in that area is connected to a cement road, which is no different from Cangzhou! It's no problem to transport it directly from Dongsheng City to the capital! ”

As soon as Huang Lichang said this, the villagers surnamed Jiang immediately became excited after hearing it: "Huang Lichang, what you said is true?" Don't lie to me! ”

"What am I lying to you for, I saw it with my own eyes! If I hadn't broken a leg because of the Tartar, I would have borrowed money to open a mine outside the Guanwai", Huang Lichang said, and then asked with a smile: "Then is your mine still sealed?" ”

"Seal!"

The villager surnamed Jiang nodded hurriedly.

Huang Lichang also nodded and asked: "That's good, but you also have to do the work for the miners you hire, it's best to bring them with you, and the imperial court also has subsidies and preferential policies for those of you who take the miners to go outside the customs together." ”

"I don't need you to say this, I will definitely persuade them to go with me, after all, I am used to it, they also believe me, they are all villagers, but some people who are unwilling to leave their hometowns will stay, and I don't know if they will complain about me", the villager surnamed Jiang said with some concern.

"Don't worry about this, I will help you do the work together, very few people who really don't want to leave, I will help introduce them to new jobs, and the court also considers them, but the income is definitely not as high as the income that follows you to the customs outside."

As soon as Huang Lichang said this, the villager surnamed Jiang nodded hurriedly: "This is for you, I am ready to take out a loan!" ”

There are still many basic officials who do their work as carefully as Huang Lichang to guide the people to respond to the policies of the imperial court, and it is precisely because of this that Zhang Zhang's policy of leviing heavy taxes in the central government did not provoke too much popular revolt.

But.

It does not mean that all the grassroots officials will be so smooth in implementing the policies of the central court, and they will also encounter resistance and fierce resistance from local forces.

There is a saying that the above sentence is broken, and the bottom runs and breaks the leg, whether it is a good policy or a bad policy.

Zhang Xuan adhered to Zhu Houzhao's will to manipulate the overall situation in the cabinet, and when an urging order was sent to the locality, the local grassroots officials had to desperately complete the tasks assigned above.

At this time.

After the chief of the house in Jianning, Fujian Province, finally recovered the rich households of the first mine and went to open a mine outside the Guan, he encountered obstacles when he persuaded Qian Jiansheng to actively pay the mining tax or close the mine to open a mine outside the Guanwai.

"Sixth uncle, the chief of the room is here again, do you see whether you see it or not", Qian Jianshu, a member of the Qian clan, asked Qian Jiansheng.

Qian Jiansheng slapped the table angrily: "It's really insulting!" This prisoner is also a disciple of Confucius and Mencius, when will it be his turn to be a martial artist! Don't think that he is still a long-term meritorious officer now, at best, he is just a martial artist! Since ancient times, the Shengming Dynasty has all admired literature, how can I, Qian, listen to his accusations as a martial artist! Tell to go down, close the door and disappear! ”

And at this time, someone ran over: "Qian Xianggong, the head of the house and they directly took the IRS people to your mine!" ”

When Supervisor Qian heard this, he immediately stood up: "What! What does his head of the room want to do with a Shanxi Yankee! Who allowed him to take people to my mine! ”

"Sixth uncle, what do you think about this matter, should we rush over immediately?" Qian Jianshu asked.

"What are you doing in a hurry, let the head of his house set a martial artist to do ideological work for me, your sixth uncle and I can't stand that insult, when will it be the turn of Confucius and Mencius to be trained by his martial arts, and even if I go to see him, I will force our Qian family to pay taxes or close the mine, don't go!" Supervisor Qian waved his hand.

Qian Jianshu asked, "How is that good?" Once the IRS people find out about our mines, they will forcibly close them! ”

"Ride on my horse, take my gift and this glass mirror token to see the mountain bandits in Wuyi Mountain in the west of Xiyuan Township, let them get rid of these people, at least kill the head of the house, as long as I see the head of the head of the house, I will send five thousand silver dollars!"

The Qian Jiansheng took out the token as he spoke, and the Qian Jianshu was greatly shocked in his heart, thinking that when his sixth uncle was the son of the country and the prison prisoner also had contact with the mountain bandits, but he couldn't care so much now, so he rode to Xiyuan Township.

The chief of the house decided to take the people from the IRS to the mining area opened by Qian Jiansheng and went to the Qian Jiansheng's house before, but he still had to take the people from the IRS to the mining area opened by Qian Jiansheng first.

However, as soon as the head of the house entered Wuyi Mountain with the people from the Internal Revenue Bureau, three or four sharp arrows suddenly flew from the forest and directly shot the head of the house to the ground.

The tax collectors of the National Taxation Bureau were only about a dozen because of their small number, and there were four or five hundred mountain bandits who appeared one after another, plus it was in the Wuyi Mountains, so they were all killed.

When Supervisor Qian saw the head set by the head of the house, he just smiled coldly and ordered: "Burn it!" Throw it five miles away, don't let this martial artist defile my Qian family's scholarly family! ”