Chapter 178: Reader's Privilege

Early the next morning, Yang Lin left his troops with Yin Chengqi, got on the ship of the sailor, went down the river, and returned to Shunqing City in less than a day.

Zhu Shuying, the county lord of the Shu Prince's Mansion, stood alone at the gate with her daughter Qiuyue in her arms, and saw Yang Lin's tall figure appear at the gate of Santang, and the whole person almost collapsed.

looked at Xiao Qiuyue in his arms, more than five months, with his eyes closed, a cold wind wafting in the whole person, woke up, and now he is crying non-stop.

Hold it in your arms and ask questions as you go, looking happy.

At this time in the back hall, Fan Daiyun sat on the bed and looked very tired.

The family told the master to return home, why didn't he see anyone for half a day?

Looking at the sleeping baby next to him, thinking of the bits and pieces of the past few years, the whole person looked gloomy.

Seeing her daughter like this, her mother Wang kept nagging, if she hadn't stopped her that day, the two would have become husband and wife that day, and they would never have given outsiders a chance to take advantage of the situation.

After a long time like this, Yang Lin was late, saw the beautiful woman with frowns, looked at the sleeping baby, Yang Lin sighed: "Xiaoyun, there are many things after returning home, and my father needs to deal with it, I hope you will forgive me." ”

pursed her lips, with a smile on her face, Fan Daiyun nodded and said: "Husband and young hero, how many pairs of eyes are watching, of course, public before private, don't make people feel too childlike." ”

Thinking of all kinds of rumors in the house, he sat down, gently stroked his back and said, "Xiaoyun, I know all this."

In addition to dealing with official business in the house just now, he also stayed with the county lord for a long time.

The county lord is now alone, it is not easy, everyone is a family, and they need to be considerate and care for each other. ”

Fan Daiyun pursed her mouth, but the whole person was much more docile, and she murmured in Yang Lin's arms, telling her inner anxiety.

The various ministries withdrew to Shunqing one after another, and everyone was stationed inside and outside the city to summarize, train, and rest, while Yang Lin not only faced complicated military affairs, but also faced challenges from some well-intentioned people in government affairs.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Taizu Record constrained everyone like the Constitution, and Yang Lin's various behaviors since he took power violated the Taizu Record, and also gave many interfaces to political opponents.

Emperor Hongwu opposed the government officials to disturb the people's lives, and even forbade officials and officials to go to the countryside privately. Although Yang Lin established the township office, selected the township chief (Bao Chang) and the errand to manage the affairs of various markets, although there were many advantages, he was inevitably attacked by some people and said that it violated the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty.

During the Wanli period, the emperor sent eunuchs to collect mining taxes, but due to the local people's obstruction, coupled with the misdeeds of some eunuchs, in some places even caused civil revolts. Now that the government is relevling the mining tax, it is inevitable that some good deeds will spread rumors and slander.

Since ancient times, private school education has been practiced in various places, and the teaching is also the Four Books and the Five Classics.

In Yuping Academy, the people were filled with righteous indignation, and said to the scholars below: "Although Yang Lin is a young hero, he is deceived by traitors.

I have made up my mind, I will go to the Temple of Literature tomorrow, bring out the spiritual seat of the master, and appeal to Yang Lin. ”

A scholar in his fifties whose clothes were washed white arched his hand and said: "Mr. Chen, although Yang Lin's many behaviors are inappropriate, as the "Popular Xunbao" said, after all, extraordinary measures should be adopted in extraordinary times now, and Yang Lin is not like other bureaucrats who fill their pockets.

Although Hong Wuye punished white servants, he basically existed in name only since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and government officials often went to the countryside to collect taxes. Yang Lin abolished the contract tax system for the gentry and established a township office instead, and selected officials to collect taxes.

It is true that Emperor Wanli selected eunuchs to levy the mine tax and provoke the people, but it is fundamentally different from the current mine levy. In the past, it was the eunuch who saw that it was not pleasing to the eye and claimed that there was a mine here, or to pay the mine tax, or to demolish people's houses and dig people's ancestral graves.

Now it's different, it doesn't matter if a small mine with an annual output of 100 quintals, a large mine with an annual output of more than 100 quintals, you can pay as much tax as you produce. Shi agriculture and industry, farmers land 30 tax one, business tax 20 tax one, this mine tax 10 tax a day through the righteousness of the land. ”

Qian Jinyin's face was pale, and he couldn't imagine that someone would openly disagree with his classmates, and he was angry, when a scholar in his forties wearing silk and satin shouted next to him: "Li Xiucai, why are you so uninteresting? In the past, you lived in poverty, and we helped you a lot, but now don't forget our past friendship because you often write a few articles published in the "Popular Daily".

I pay attention to the co-governance of local officials and gentry, you look at Yang Lin's various behaviors that stigmatize our past gentry, as if we are all heinous.

Now the government collects several times more than before, not to mention anything else, our Liu family needs to pay a field tax of 100 quintals of rice and a tax of 200 taels of silver every year. ”

When everyone heard the commotion, everyone had a family and a room, and they were well-known figures in the local area, but they couldn't be bribed like Li Xiucai, let alone give in.

Now that Yang Lin has led his troops back to the city, it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, and everyone might as well go to the Confucian Temple immediately and move out of the Confucius tablet to cry.

Headed by Chen Jinyin, a group of more than 50 people walked out of Yuping Academy and rushed to the Confucian Temple next to it.

Qian Jinyin walked in the front, dressed in white, holding the tablet of Confucius with both hands, and the whole person looked high-spirited, shouting the slogan of defending the ancestral system and opposing Dingge along the way.

This is a rare thing, many people have never heard of it for decades, and they can't imagine that these dozen gentlemen can't stand the opposition of the cool government, and some people follow behind, slowly forming a long flow of people.

Chen Jinyin knelt outside the yamen, holding up the tablet of Confucius with both hands, and shouted in his mouth to ask to meet the people who participated in politics and to get rid of maladministration.

But the people around him pointed and pointed, and Qian Jinyin turned his head to look, why are there only more than ten people now? (Some people are timid and afraid to quit temporarily, while others are just supporting each other at first, and now they are finally quitting)

Qian Jinyin's face was pale, and he didn't know what to do, who expected that there would be a burst of shouts on the left, and everyone was shocked and stopped to watch, only to see Ouyang Zhi, Zhang Lang and others leading more than 200 scholars to rush over with shouts.

Although there have been many times in the Ming Dynasty where scholars have paraded with Confucius tablets and emperors' tablets, it is still unheard of to have two cases like today.

I saw that Ouyang Zhi, Zhang Lang and others also stopped and knelt outside the mansion, complaining about the unbearable past of Qian Jinyin and others.

"The History of Confucianism" Fan Jinzhongju is familiar to everyone, and after Fan Jinzhongju, he immediately lived a happy life.

The novel describes "those who have sent land to the property; Someone sent it to the store; There are also those who are broken and settled, and the two of them come to join the servants and try to shelter them.

In two or three months, Fan Jin's family had slaves and maids, and money and rice were needless to say.

Squire Zhang's family came to urge him to move again. moved to a new house, sang, set wine, and entertained for three days. On the fourth day, the old lady got up to eat snacks, walked to the third house, and saw Fan Jin's wife, Hu, who often wore a silver bun; At this time, it was the middle of October, the weather was still warm, and he was wearing a azure satin suit and an official green satin skirt; supervised the family, daughter-in-law, and maids, washing dishes and cups. ”

That is to say, after the poor boy was promoted in the examination, others gave land, real estate, and were willing to sell themselves as slaves, so in less than half a year, Fan Jin has become a big landlord and a rich man on the rich side.

Why is this so, mainly because the Ming Dynasty gave preferential treatment to scholars, and people were basically exempt from paying the field and Ding Fu, and some records recorded that the Ming Dynasty's first assistant Xu Jie's had tens of thousands of acres of land, and most of them were because of the identity of Xu Jie's first assistant, and others came to take refuge, so they were exempted from Tian Fu and Ding Fu.

The land of officials and scholars does not need to pay the land tax, and the people who take refuge in the officials and scholars do not need to pay the Ding Fu and do not need to serve hard labor, but the taxes in various parts of the Ming Dynasty have long been fixed, and the gap of the Tian Fu and Ding Fu is mainly collected from the ordinary people, coupled with the corruption and bribery of officials, and the ingenuity of the grabbing, so the Tian Fu and Ding Fu are several times that of the state, and the people are not happy.

Chen Jinyin is born in the local privileges, the family has a thousand acres of good land and three shops because of the identity of the person do not have to pay taxes, now every year to deduct 6 quintals of rice allowance, need to pay 54 quintals of rice field endowment, pay 10 taels of silver business endowment, pay 120 quintals of rice income.

Wang Xiucai not only does not have to pay taxes because of his status as a Xiucai, but also contracts a bazaar's business endowment, with an annual income of five or six hundred taels of silver, and his life is extremely extravagant, and he spends eight hundred taels of silver just to help his wife Wufang redeem herself from the CD brothel.

Liu Xiucai's house has two coal mines, and his annual income is more than 1,000 taels of silver, and he bribes no less than 100 taels of yamen officials every year, and he also spent 3,000 taels of silver on repairing the house the year before last.

…….

Chen Jinyin and the others were exposed one by one, and they looked embarrassed in the bursts of laughter from everyone, and only now did they know that the other party had taken precautions, and everyone was preparing to hide their faces and escape.

But it was too late, and several officials had already blocked the road, and the entire street was only allowed to enter and exit.