Chapter 232: Two Stubborn Diseases
At the first glance of the elixir, Hou Xuanyan had a feeling that the aura of Jiangnan could only be bred in one place.
Her eyebrows, eyes, cherry lips, nose, and petite body are all decent, and when combined together, they are like fouls.
The spring breeze blows to the last section, in the long trunk of Jinling, in the majestic and majestic regent. A little girl in ragged clothes and with a dusty face smiled at the spring breeze, amazed the powerful Yue Guogong.
It was a wonderful feeling, which made Hou Xuanyan feel like drinking a clear spring in the mountains, like a warm breeze, and a clear spring rippled in his heart, with indescribable joy.
Since then, in the study in the backyard, I often see a beautiful girl, who is held by Hou Xuanyan on her lap and flipped through the folds with him.
Liu Zhongzao left, and Hou Xuanyan directly promoted the infamous Ma Shiying and the honest and low-key Chen Mingyu into the cabinet at the same time, and the officialdom was as calm as water. The murder of the monarch and the unscrupulous expulsion of the two cabinet elders have made these officials realize that there is no bottom line for Yue Guogong...
A person who has no bottom line, you scold him for being too risky to commit...
Chen Mingyu, the new cabinet chief assistant, is the old team of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and when Hou Xuanyan was only in Suzhou, he and Yan Yingyuan moved the city to vote. The officers of the Jiangyin department are widely distributed in the Northern Expeditionary Army, so at first glance he has no qualifications, but in fact, he has a deep background.
The bright moon was hanging high, and in the government study, under the candlelight, two people on the table were flipping through the chapters.
Elixir was dressed in a jacket with rabbit down at the neckline, reflecting a small face that fluttered red, and a belt with a red hollow knot tied around his waist. Biting the pen, he opened the next fold, and recited for Hou Xuanyan: "Yu tastes the north and goes to Weiyang, and every time I see a red widow standing upright. Waiting for someone to hire and replace, all the shoulders are heavy, and the land is sent for more than ten miles, which is called recruiting class, and it will be delayed for a day, and its poverty is so. When asked, he said, 'I am a northerner, I have fled here, and I get more than ten dollars a day for work, half of which is handed over to the local market'. If this evil is not eliminated, it will be difficult for the people of the north to attach to it, and it will be a local disaster for a long time. β
Hou Xuanyan patted her lightly and motioned for her to stop temporarily.
The elixir turned his head obediently and asked, "Master, what is this talking about?" β
This letter was written by Admiral Zhang Mingzhen, who bluntly said that the hooligans in Jiangnan bullied the northern refugees who fled south, robbed and extorted their hard-earned money, and made it impossible for these homeless people to make ends meet.
Hou Xuanyan patiently explained, sorted out his thoughts by the way, and then said: "Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, if the northerners flee south are always excluded, it will become a disaster over time." So what are we going to do? β
"Disaster relief?"
Hou Xuanyan shook his head and said with a smile: "Disaster relief is like raising soup to stop boiling, what we have to do is to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle." β
The elixir tilted its head, not very understanding.
Hou Xuanyan continued: "Disaster relief can save them for one day, two days, ten days, but what about after that? If you are a little refugee and live in a foreign land with your father, what do you want most? β
The elixir didn't think about it, she knew this too well, and blurted out: "I want to have a home." β
Hou Xuanyan nodded and said, "That's right, then those of us who are officials will give them a home." In this way, they will have a sense of belonging and the south will be stable. β
The elixir was silently kept in mind, and every time Hou Xuanyan flipped through the recitals sent by Wenyuan Pavilion these days, he had to be with her. The average twelve-year-old girl has long been tired of it, but gradually the elixir finds these things very interesting. Hungrily absorbing Hou Xuanyan's experience, Hou Xuanyan is also very patient, and while explaining to her, he can also sort it out himself.
Hou Xuanyan frowned, he had three chapters with Wu Jikun and others to encourage these wealthy businessmen to recruit refugees to work. You can pay part of the wages and work for relief, and you can also let the big workshops replace the small peasant economy by the way. But these ruffians are really pervasive. Refugees from the north often suffered from it, and he had dealt with many of these cases, some of which were so bad that many of them were reported to the imperial court.
There are also areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, because there are too many recruits, especially in Shaoxing and Hangzhou, the soldiers and generals are fighting fiercely in Huguang, and the women, children and elderly people at home are often harassed by the puffy ruffians. These women, children, and old people have no power to restrain the chickens, and the pillars of the family are not there, so they have to swallow their anger.
Some women, in particular, were harassed and did not dare to speak out. Because in this era, the etiquette is very strict, and if you publicize yourself, you will be pointed at by others. There was such a thing in Suzhou, and the woman who sued the official could not bear the insult of the rumors in the market and chose to commit suicide.
Hou Xuan played a long battle in Sichuan and Qian, and finally returned to Jiangnan, feeling that it was time to solve these problems.
Hou Xuanyan stretched out his hand and knocked on the table, and the elixir comprehended, took out the letter separately and put it aside.
Then he opened another article, and read by this candlelight: "In the house of the powerful, there are hundreds of servants, and the traitors take advantage of the situation to surrender, and the people receive their fish and meat." Profiteers bought the public officials, and the salt they held was still issued during the Apocalypse, and they set up a name and bought it in many ways to escape the taxes payable. β
Hou Xuanyan's big hand wandered on the elixir, and he pinched it to signal her to stop.
The salt introduction of the Ming Dynasty is a salt transportation and marketing license certificate issued by the government to merchants. In all dynasties, it was strictly forbidden for the people to sell private salt, and since the Spring and Autumn Period, the state has monopolized the sale of salt. To sell salt legally, merchants must first purchase salt from the government. Each "citation" number is divided into two volumes before and after, divided into two parts from the middle after stamping, and the back roll is given to the merchant, which is called "threading paper", and the front volume stub is called "introduction root".
Although the salt tax in the Ming Dynasty was outrageously low, there were still many merchants who cheated and cheated. Because the profit in it is too large, a little tax evasion is a huge amount.
During the Apocalypse, the government began to deteriorate, and the bureaucrats saw that it was profitable to hold the salt introduction, so they begged for the salt introduction and resold it to the salt merchants to make a profit. This phenomenon is known as "nest occupation". So until now, many businessmen still hold the salt in their hands during the Apocalypse and make a profit from it.
The salt of Suzhou Mansion and Songjiang Mansion was monopolized by the Gu family as a transaction back then. The Gu family has always been a big tax payer, very active, and never evades taxes. But when the territory is bigger, these problems will follow, and it is time to solve them together.
Two problems in a row were in front of him, and they needed to be solved urgently, Hou Xuanyan closed his eyes and pondered. Soon, he had an idea, but it needed to be carefully planned.
Gently touched the elixir's head: "Go and warm the bed." β
"Yes, sir."
The girl who was still ruling the world just now and participated in reading the recital stood up obediently and walked to the bedroom.
It was cold in the middle of the night, and Hou Xuanyan thought about it, if he wanted to solve these problems, it would inevitably be another killing word.
Hou Xuanyan sighed: "Alas. I'm soft-hearted, how can I do it."
Suddenly, there was a loud thunderclap in the sky, and a bolt of lightning pierced the sky.
Torrential rain, pouring down.
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