Chapter 538: Benchmarking Excellent

After this incident, everyone felt a chill on their necks, this Eunuch Lu was so able to endure the humiliation, it was really a character.

Chu Jiazhuang is the smallest cotton gentry in Cangzhou Mansion, otherwise Lu Li would not be the first to trouble them, and the cotton gentry would not let Chu Jiazhuang come out to offend the tax supervisor, and the rest of the cotton gentry are of course much more powerful than the Chu family, but everything is silent.

Eight hundred horses, a full eight hundred Tongzhou guard cavalry, who can offend this wave of elite soldiers, Chujiazhuang can also gather five or six hundred Zhuang Ding thugs, wasn't it also the foundation of the outlaw bandits? No, they were all killed all at once, the property of the slave workers in the cotton fields of Zhuangzi was confiscated, and the leaders were taken to the city.

What the? You said that you can lead more men to defeat the officers and soldiers, do you think that the horse team in Tongzhou is only 800 people? Tongzhou Wei is a full number of 5,000 people, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of foot soldiers in Beizhili, who are constantly coming, and it is light to raid the family and exterminate the clan.

At this time, the tax supervisor and his party are not rats crossing the street, when they returned to the city, a cadre of officials inside and outside the city, the gentry, all knew the means of the eunuch Lu, and the prefect was also blocked in the palace, and he was worried for a day, Lu Li came back, he was the first to arrange for his subordinates to go out of the city accordingly, and the Cangzhou prefect was also an official from the fourth grade, a big official of one side, but at this time the courage was almost frightened.

At this time, the so-called scholars are like this, although in times of crisis, there are fierce people, and there are brave warriors, but most people are timid and afraid, let him be entangled in the party when he is on the stage, or make money and be greedy for ink, and oppress good people and subordinates, if you let him stiffen his neck and hit the knife, everyone has become boneless, the Ming Dynasty has been founded to the present, so many so-called eunuchs and traitors, but when these people are in power, no one has ever denounced or disputed.

It was all after the collapse of the overwhelming condemnation and verbal criticism, Wang Zhen, Liu Jin's so many godsons are a good proof, not everyone has this thing, Cangzhou's Fang Governor was originally from Henan, but it was because he was determined to take refuge in the East Party that he had this position, not to mention any backbone and backbone.

I thought that Eunuch Lu was a bluffing tax supervisor who blocked his own financial route, so for the deeds done by the cotton gentry below, although the prefect Fang had a number in his heart, he did not interfere, but on the contrary, he still gave such and such support in the dark.

Who would have thought that the tax supervisor Lu Li had been holding back, and arranged for the Jinyi guard who followed him to secretly go out to report the news, and transferred the cavalry of Tongzhou Wei to defeat Chujiazhuang mercilessly.

Eight hundred Hebei elite cavalry, even if the entire Cangzhou Mansion is assembled, it is not their opponent, the Fang Governor sent his most trusted officials and family members to go out to greet him, he is still a high-grade official, it is not easy to go out in the government yamen, but he is also anxious like ants on a hot pot.

Lu Li and several brocade guards around him were all indifferent, from the beginning of coming to Cangzhou to greet and politely to the cold contempt in the middle, this change in attitude towards them made them understand a lot of things. On the contrary, Master Qiu Baolai was proud, and his nose was already up to the sky.

I can't help but admit that this Master Qiu has no courage and backbone, but his brain is indeed very flexible, not only did he put forward the idea of collecting cotton field taxes to the tax supervisor Lu Li, but also insisted on inviting the soldiers and horses of the imperial court to suppress it, which was also what Lu Li only learned later, several Jinyi guards took the initiative to help, and Qiu Baolai persuaded him in the back, which was the initiative to help invite soldiers.

Moreover, after arriving in Chujiazhuang, it was also the inventory of the population, property, and fields collected by Master Qiu, as well as relevant witnesses, all of which were the key evidence to make this case an iron case.

So far, for Lu Li, Jinyiwei, and Qiu Baolai, it can be said that it is a happy thing, each party has received a lot of silver, and it is foreseeable that the arrears of taxes they pay must be the best among all the tax supervisors who have been sent out, and this credit is of great benefit to Lu Li, who is serving in the palace, or several Jinyiwei officers who are on errands in the Zhenfu Division.

Among the people who came to greet them, there were not only the cotton gentry who rushed over from the surrounding farms, but also the heads of the merchants in the city, as well as the officials of the various yamen of the government, among which the thousands of households of the Cangzhou government soldiers could be said to be the representatives of these people, and they even came forward with a smile on their faces, nodded and came to the front, and said in a loud voice:

"Lord Lu, several adults, have made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and have done a great harm to our Cangzhou local cleanup, the local fathers and elders are inexplicably grateful, today the prefect of Fang set up a celebration banquet in the restaurant, and please enjoy it!"

Tax supervisor Lu Li looked at the Cangzhou officials below, many of these people are much higher in grade than him, a eunuch from Beijing, but now the authority of the court that Lu Li relied on behind him was so shining against the backdrop of the Tongzhou cavalry, and his authority became even more powerful than the prefect.

However, whether it was the Qianhu who came with the cavalry, or a few Jinyi guards who went to transfer troops, not to mention Lu Li, they didn't know that this time the sending of troops to deter was actually the driving force behind Emperor Jiajing and Lu Bing, after arranging for the tax supervisor to go out of Beijing, Jiajing, Lu Bing, Rui Xiaosan, Zhou Lin, none of these core figures naively thought that as long as a few eunuchs were sent down, the arrears of taxes could be collected and the treasury could be filled.

After all, the imperial court has not interfered in anything on the local level for nearly five years, and there will inevitably be repetitions, there will inevitably be resistance, but I don't know who will repeat and who will resist.

Lu Li's actions are not a lot of scheming, to put it bluntly, his actions can even be evaluated by a recklessness, the same Chu Jiazhuang's actions are full of recklessness and procrastination, if you really cut down the tax supervisor and his party on the way, there is really no way to track it down afterwards, but it is a show of force, and the matter is very stiff, as a result, these people think that it is to deter the tax supervisor and his party, and they do not consider the consequences at all.

Chu Jiazhuang jumped out, Lu Li was oppressed, but this tax supervisor was not ready to give up, and sent the Jinyi guards around him to ask for help from the Jingshi, originally such a thing, it was almost an official document from the household department and the official department, and Shen Yi was local, or sent a few more Jinyi guards to help maintain it, and it was even possible to recall the tax supervisor directly, but this time, under the covert influence of Lu Bing and Zhou Lin.

The center of the court is a rare outbreak of high efficiency, first the anger of the important ministers above the court, the crowd is excited, and then the military department issued an order with unprecedented speed, the emperor approved in the study, almost the most elite mobile force of the Tongzhou Guard cavalry horse team allocated 800 cavalry dispatch.

These things may not even be known to the cavalryman's thousand households, but after Chujiazhuang was cleared, the effect was almost immediate.

The cotton gentry who thought they had some strength saw these eight hundred fierce and murderous horse teams, and they all weighed their own strength, thinking that their own manpower could not fight against the soldiers and horses of the imperial court at all, and if they really stood up, they would not be dealing with these eight hundred, but the power of the entire Ming Dynasty.

On the banquet attended by the tax supervisor Lord Lu, the cotton gentry wept bitterly and explained that they were covered with lard that day, greedy for small profits but ignored the country's taxes, and this time they must make up for the arrears, and some people tried to ask, when will the land and property confiscated by Chujiazhuang be sold at a discount.

This question can be regarded as announcing the collapse of the alliance between the cotton gentry, almost everyone has figured out that if they swallow the land of the Chu family, then relying on the production of these lands is enough to offset the tax, and in the future, there are various means to reduce the tax, according to the current momentum of cotton price increase, this will be a fortune in the future! After the first person finished speaking, the others immediately stood up enthusiastically, first stating that they would make up the taxes, and then promised Lu Li all kinds of good things in the dark words, saying that it would be what would happen if they sold the land.

The atmosphere of the banquet was quite high, and even the prefect was thinking about buying some confiscated land, all the fields that can grow cotton in the three northern provinces are treasures!

Master Qiu Baolai Qiu is now the first person who has become the tax supervisor Lord Lu, whispered a few words to Lord Lu during the banquet, and after the banquet was about to end, taking advantage of the wine, Lu Li announced that the property and fields of the Chu family of the anti-tax and chaotic people would be sold tomorrow in the prefect's yamen, and the silver sold was both handed over to the treasury as tax and penalty silver, which made everyone roar during the banquet, and toasted the loyal and loyal Duke Lu under the leadership of the prefect.

The next day, the sale and payment of the arrears of taxes in the yamen were carried out quite successfully, and everyone was happy, and thirty percent of the sales money and the back taxes went into the private pockets of Lu Li and his party, and the rest of the people were also satisfied to get what they wanted, such as cotton fields and slave labor.

The Tongzhou Guards, who also made a fortune, escorted the tax into Beijing to pay half a month later. And left 400 cavalry to continue to assist the tax superintendent Lu Li.

This tax can be called the first, so dazzling in front of the tax supervision income of other tax supervisors, and soon, Jingshi's excellent evaluation of tax supervisor Lu Li was sent to Cangzhou Mansion by Pegasus, from the original non-grade eunuch to the eighth grade, and there are all kinds of rewards and praises.

With this example there, the tax inspectors in the rest of the country finally know what to do......