Chapter 539: Dry Ze, Greedy Ink, Inverted Sect

Everything needs a benchmark there as a demonstration, Lu Li is a good example, after he started with the cotton gentry, the evaluation he got in the capital made all the people around him who were watching understand the attitude of the imperial court, and all the prefectures and counties that produced cotton understood what they should do.

Those cotton gentry who have some strength also understand that no matter how they are, they are still very weak in the face of the imperial court, and they have no qualifications at all.

Lu Li's performance was excellent in the first two months, and then he was surpassed by others, and this kind of thing is scavenged, as long as the person concerned does not resist, the act of cramping and peeling the skin is just a hateful word.

The soldiers and horses of the Jingshi and the Northern Zhili under Zhou Lin's control fully supported the actions of the tax supervisor, and the actions of other prefectures and counties were all following the example of the Cangzhou Prefecture. However, the deterrent effect caused by the 800 cavalry was enough, and the other Zhuangzi did not dare to do anything reactionary, and dozens of Zhuangtou Zhuangke led by Chujiazhuang were executed by the Ming Dynasty in front of the Cangzhou City Gate, and their heads were borrowed by the tax supervisors of various prefectures and counties to circulate, and their fate was also spread.

Of course, although the suffering of Chujiazhuang is miserable, they are not a good person, the bandits and thieves of the year, Chujiazhuang's fortune is also stained with blood and human life, this time of dilapidation, although the people of the village are miserable, although the other cotton gentry are injured and the like, but the common people of the entire Cangzhou Mansion and those slave workers have no complaints.

After Lu Li's clearance action, whether it was the three northern provinces or Jiangnan, the methods of the tax supervisors and tax collectors suddenly became ruthless, and the silver and physical goods handed over to the treasury increased many times, so that the mouth of the household department Shangshule could not be closed.

Since the money is collected, everything is much easier to do, Emperor Jiajing handed over the large battalion army of the imperial horse supervisor to Rui Xiaosan and a few cronies to serve the eunuchs, and several officers transferred from the Xingxian palace mastered the soldiers and horses of the Jingwei, and Zhou Lin and Deng Hua, who made great contributions this time, were arranged to the Xuanhua area, but they did not cut power after the fact, but where to recruit troops.

The soldiers of the military households and the guards have been accumulating for a long time, and they are no longer useful, these people either farm every day, or are driven to work in other places, and one by one they have no blood. The soldiers and horses in the border towns are some strong soldiers, but for so many years, the generals and soldiers in the border towns are all hereditary generals, and the soldiers are generals, and the so-called national soldiers are already private soldiers, and ordinary people cannot command them.

At this time, Emperor Jiajing did not dare to take risks, when the civil officials controlled the government, the generals of the border towns and these bigwigs in the court got along very well, although there was a contradiction between the abolition of the border towns by Sima Tai, the head of the household, but most of the time it was good, such people did not have the same heart as themselves at all, but these people held soldiers and horses in their hands and could not be easily touched, so the policy adopted by Emperor Jiajing was to hang them up.

Anyway, there is still the threat of the so-called reclamation and displacement people outside the Saiwai Pass, and it is also necessary to maintain a certain defensive force there. But the training of the new army can not have anything to do with them, Emperor Jiajing this time is to use the military attaché and guard team of the Xingxian palace to form an army frame, ready to pre-organize six guards and 30,000 soldiers, and gradually replace the twelve regiments and battalions outside the Beijing Division, and then use these and will continue to expand as a shelf.

This time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the month of the twentieth year of Jiajing, and at this time, the situation in the cotton-producing counties of the three northern provinces had changed greatly, and the first batch of tax supervisors had already achieved fame, and they were recalled to Beijing and had other important tasks, most of them were promoted by several levels.

Although the first batch of these people paid a large amount of silver money to the treasury, they were full of money in their hands, and they earned a lot of money, which was also a reward from the imperial court for their correct standing and help in the time of the mutiny.

The second wave of tax supervisors arranged can be said to be pure clerks, and the relationship between these people and those characters inside and outside the palace ban is not so close, but it can be regarded as a slight relationship, this time it was arranged, when they went out of Beijing, they were all arranged to collect their share of taxes, and it was a sin to collect a penny less.

And these people also saw the merits and benefits of the first wave of Lu Li's people, and that group of people relied on Lu Li's resolute and resolute means to open up the situation, and they all made very good results, and they were all highly praised in Beijing, and they were all promoted, and they also made enough money.

Originally, Lu Li's wave of tax supervisors should have been outside for at least a year, but these people behind them couldn't wait, these people were either the relationship between the nobles and nobles, or the relatives of the people who gained real power from this mutiny.

After the change of power, there is always a share of fertilizer, and now many people can't wait.

By the time this second wave of people was sent, the nature of tax collection had really turned into exploitation. In fact, the first wave of the accumulated tax arrears has already collected all the previous tax arrears and the part added, and if the second wave wants to make another breakthrough and has to make enough money for their own pockets, then they will have to be more ruthless.

Set a share, if it can't be completed, then use your own money to make up for it, if you can exceed it, it will fall into your own pocket.

This measure, in fact, is similar to the most notorious tax package system in the West and the reign of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, this package tax system is not complicated, that is, the tax collector in charge of tax collection follows the official yamen responsible for tax payment to report the share that he can pay, whoever has a high share, who has the right to collect taxes in a certain place, as long as you can complete the share you report to the top, how much you collect is your own ability, charge an extra cent into your own pocket, charge an extra 10,000 taels into your own pocket 10,000 taels, no matter how you collect this tax, The above doesn't care about you, the key is that you hand over the money.

What will happen next can be imagined, these people took their cronies to the prefecture and county, and expropriated violently, these people are very complimented if they describe it as scraping the ground.

It is very different from the cautiousness of Lu Li's group at the beginning, the methods of this group of people are ruthless and abnormal, and most of them come to the local prefecture and county with soldiers and guards, and the big families in the prefecture and county are like lambs to be slaughtered.

There are more than a dozen or several people in the big cotton gentry families in each prefecture and county, and these people have huge family assets and abundant money, as long as they are broken, they can complete the tax amount. If you break another family, you can eat inexhaustibly for your whole family.

The cotton gentry of these prefectures and counties were frightened, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial court were eyeing the side, as long as the tax supervisor said that a certain family was going to make trouble, it would immediately drive in with a strong momentum, and destroy the house, these soldiers were also willing to do this work, after all, they could also get a lot.

To say that the court and officials don't know that this is a dry and fishing, how can these elites not know, but in the hearts of Emperor Jiajing and his ministers, training an army as soon as possible is the most important thing, with this army, there is some confidence in the heart, without this army everything is Hughti.

The three northern provinces and the south of the Yangtze River are the places of the Ming Dynasty, and now the people's grievances are boiling to a point, and the people are panicking, but after the coup d'état, there are almost no people in these places among the central ministers in the court, because the three northern provinces plus the south of the Yangtze River are the so-called Eastern Party basis.

Since it is not his hometown, and there is a major event of military training, these new westerners are the ones who will not care what will happen below, the situation at this time is quite similar to a year ago, low-grade officials from the three northern provinces and Jiangnan, as well as local Qingliu and literati, are all loudly appealing, saying that such a policy of the imperial court touches the foundation of the country. But the treatment that the Western Party officials received back then has fallen on them today - no one cares.

The north of the Huai River has always been a place where the sect flourishes, such as the White Lotus Sect, but in recent years, the biggest influence is a one called the Holy Daomen, the purpose of the people to believe in religion is very real, but for the prosperity of the family, good health, of course, if you can make a fortune it would be better.

This holy door has done these points quite magically, basically every household in the three northern provinces is spreading, such and such legends, for example, a certain family because of the deep fortune of the holy Taoist gate immortal teaching, according to the guidance of the Taoist, to create a magical instrument, the result is a hundred times the effect, immediately is to make a fortune.

It is also said that many cotton gentry, it is precisely because of the guidance of the Holy Daomen that they began to plant cotton, and as a result, they made a fortune, and the Taoist priests of the Holy Daomen also have some benefits, that is, they know how to see the disease and apply medicine, ordinary diseases, these Taoist priests never practice or pretend to be ghosts, but they prescribe prescriptions for you, free Langzhong, which is more of a trend for everyone. Although there are a lot fewer things to guide and make a fortune now, these people from the Holy Dao Gate can introduce you to work, and those workshops and manors are also willing to use the people introduced by the Holy Dao Gate.

Such a Daomen, which can be called a Buddha of all families and a living immortal, suddenly disappeared in the winter of the twentieth year of Jiajing......