Chapter 187: Why Should I Tell You the Secret?
After the old village chief returned to Kongjia Village, it aroused the excitement of the people in the village. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Ordinary villagers are interested in those return gifts------ they are mountain people, but they are not foolish people, especially for the goods in the market, and of course they also know some prices.
Most of them have gone out of the mountains and gone to Guantao City to go around, besides, what objects are good to use can be seen at a glance.
The villagers are talking about the items stored in the communal warehouse of the clan, and they are waiting to distribute them according to the price of the gifts they have taken out before, of course, no one wants to monopolize them, this is a village based on benevolence and righteousness.
The village elders assessed the consequences of the action.
Of course, no one blamed the old village chief for not, but felt that the problem was a big problem.
It turns out that those people are pirates who occupy the Shandong region!
If a gentleman doesn't stand under a dangerous wall, what should he do about this?!
The opinions of the elders finally focused on two points, either they should not see it, or they should report to the authorities...... Save the fire at the city gate and affect the fish in the pond!
Get rid of the relationship with the Wandering Pirates completely, and if you don't get it right, you can get a bounty...... Of course, in the big picture, no one openly mentions the latter point.
A gentleman talks about righteousness but not profit.
When the Tatars governed the localities, although they themselves served as chief officials, they could only reuse Han officials who knew Tatar to make specific deacons, and all things were done by them, and the Tatars could not understand the words of the common people, and the common people could not understand their words, and the communication between the two sides could only be achieved through certain specific people...... Some magistrates who knew Tatar also relied on this convenience to do bad things.
Those local officials often instigated the Tatar rulers to do things that harmed the people...... The responsibility goes to the Tatar chiefs, and the benefits are kept to themselves, and many bizarre unjust cases are caused by them!
This is also the reason why the people in the Confucian village are reluctant to deal with the government.
Local officials in Guantao City often use rewards for whistleblowers to obtain benefits.
In fact, the culture of whistleblowing has existed for a long time in the history of the Chinese nation.
The thread surrounding the culture of whistleblowing has been going on for millennia now.
If we look back at this historical process, it seems that there are some invisible laws at work, such as whistleblowing is often the result of top-down connivance and activation; Connivance and whistleblowing often reflect the ruler's lack of self-confidence; Although the content of the whistleblower is different from the person and the text, its essence is a power struggle; There are even struggles for the means to obtain undue benefits, etc.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used this method of whistleblowing to get money.
This Qin Shi Huang-style monarch, his "eloquence" was nothing more than a reckless use of force, which eventually led to the emptiness of the treasury.
His solution to his financial difficulties was through whistleblowing.
In 119 B.C., he issued the "Decree of Reckoning" and began to levy a property tax on wealthy merchants.
However, on the surface, this order is to prevent tax evasion, but in fact it encourages the public to whistle-blow to those who conceal their assets...... That is, the whistleblower has merit, and half of the defendant's property is awarded to the whistleblower.
This move has made almost all the greedy people red-eyed, so that the whistleblowers are in a constant stream of ways.
Through the implementation of the reckoning order, the treasury has received hundreds of millions of people's property, tens of millions of slaves and maids, hundreds of hectares of fields, hundreds of hectares in large counties, more than 100 hectares in small counties, and the same is true for houses.
However, the consequences of its social evil are also obvious, most of the merchants and above went bankrupt, and the commercial and trade industry of the Han Dynasty fell into a devastating quagmire for a time.
What is even more terrible than this is that the calculation of the order has corrupted the people's morals, the integrity has been corrupted, the people have been popular to make small reports to the government, to be the government's secret agents, the people are willing to eat and clothe, and do not do the business of animal storage, and the regime of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has since gone downhill.
Where does the magistrate of Guantao City care about the evil consequences of the implementation of the whistleblowing method, even he himself does not know how long he can work, he can make a little money, as long as he is not caught by the manager of Pingzhang Ahma, when he is a model, they will make money when they have the opportunity...... Therefore, encouraging whistleblowers is the simplest and most effective of many administrative means, and it is relatively cost-effective and cost-effective.
As long as you snitch someone and break the law, you will be rewarded!
In this way, the entire area of Kantao lived in the shadow of everyone guarding against each other, but the local magistrate was happy to do so...... What is management? Letting everyone live in panic is the best management.
If you add the method of joint sitting...... If you don't know about it, you will be guilty of one more crime, so that everything will be easy to do, everyone will supervise each other and tell each other, but the local magistrate can selectively enforce the law, and he must not believe what others tell him, which will greatly increase the cost of rewarding the whistleblower, but it is not beautiful.
The elders of Kongjia Village are still arguing about whether to report those hiding in the mountains, and a vendor has already reported it.
It's just that he reported the Confucian Village, saying that they had traffic collusion with the Liuqiu pirates, otherwise, where would they get so many good goods that would only be available on the Liuqiu Island? It's hard to buy in the market.
The vendor was a cotton linen seller...... It is easier to grow cotton in the northern region, and it is also easy to grow all kinds of hemp, when they secretly got the best cotton seeds from the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, as well as more advanced textile technology, although they were exploited by the Tatar bandit group, but their various textile workshops were still able to survive, and the scale was not small!
After all, he is a man with the vision of a businessman, and he understands that such a workshop must survive, and if there are products, they can sell them, and they can receive all kinds of taxes...... He completely denied the practice of killing chickens and taking eggs.
However, the quality of cotton yarn produced in the northern region is not good, and it can only be ranked behind Liuqiu and the Great Song Dynasty.
The technical difference is still very large, so you can only find it in price.
The peddler led two donkeys and carried three kinds of cotton and linen produced in the north, the Great Song Dynasty and Liuqiu, and it was very difficult to come to Kongjia Village...... He hopes to either sell it for a good price, or change it to better peanut oil, in short, he must have two or three times the profit to cover his hard work.
However, what disappointed him was that it seemed that the people in Kong's village were not very interested in his cotton linen...... This is unreasonable, whether it is strong or thick, cotton and linen cloth is the favorite of people in the mountains, and he has exchanged a lot of mountain treasures in other mountains before!
At the beginning, he suspected that this was a deliberate price reduction by the people in Kongjia Village, so he pretended not to be interested.
He refused to reduce the price of exchange, and he still couldn't look down on the ordinary mountain treasures!
In the Great Song Dynasty, there was already a basic definition of mountain delicacies, and the seafood at this time was still far behind, and it was not included in the statistics of the upper class recipes, so even ordinary mountain delicacies could have a lot of harvests, but the vendor was a little unwilling.
Could it be that you have a better cotton linen than me?!
The villager who showed his love took out a cotton and linen cloth that he had given him, and said proudly, "You see? The texture of this cotton linen cloth is clear, dense and strong, and it feels smooth, how does it compare with yours?! ”
The onlookers laughed, this really doesn't need to be seriously compared, you can see it at a glance...... Someone laughed and said, "You merchant, you keep saying that you have brought a stream of cloth, which is the best cotton and linen cloth, and you can compare it to this cloth?" Could it be that you are lying to me, the mountain people are here? Really, I'm stupid?! ”
The crowd laughed even harder...... The peddler was so angry that his face was flushed, and he scolded in his heart, what nonsense, you are the best in the cotton linen, known as the military cloth! Which one lied to you!?
In the end, he had to reduce the price and replace some ordinary mountain treasures and left, without the high profit he imagined, and he was ridiculed by them...... He suddenly thought, where can a group of mountain village villagers get the "military cloth" that can't be bought on the market?
Haha, when I go to the government to expose and report, I can still get a reward if I don't get it, this is a plan to kill two birds with one stone, and it can also avenge my humiliation.
In fact, he didn't lose money this time, but he only made double the profit...... (To be continued.) )