"It's not difficult to set fire, now I can hit the target in fifty or sixty steps, and I have to depend on luck in about 100 steps, and I will be blind if I go farther." Liang Xing frowned and said: "I just have to follow the proprietor to read and write every day, and I really have a headache." ”

Yang Qiu said with a smile: "You don't know the blessing in the blessing, I wish I had an opportunity like you." I don't know if the proprietor will be busy after returning to Xinping Fort after a while, and if he is busy, I am afraid that he will not be available. ”

"Not really." Liang Xing said: "The proprietor said, the shopkeeper in the store all know how to read, can calculate the accounts, those big and small guys began to learn to read and calculate accounts as soon as they entered the store, the proprietor said, these things are not only not appropriate to open their eyes blind, read and read, the heart is clear, if you read more miscellaneous studies, including books such as travelogues, people will not go out and see more, what will ...... The logic is clear, so that we are not confused, and we know the truth and know what is wrong, so all of us, including the porter of the mule and horse trade, the storehousekeeper, and the dart master, must learn to read. There is now a literacy class on the mule and horse shop, divided into two classes for people and children, most of them are porters and craftsmen are learning, after all, we people look at the proprietor differently, no matter how busy they will teach in person, in fact, it is the literacy class, the proprietor often brings books to explain, a while ago he also sent Li Dongxue Mo Zongtong and the two to the capital to buy books. ”

"If that's the best, I still want to learn from the proprietor."

chatting all the way, and after a short time, he went outside the score store, Yang Qiu took Liang Xing to the side door and came in, and then gathered people to prepare for today's action.

Those dart masters had been holding their breath for a long time, and they were already impatient in their hearts, and when they heard that they were going to take action, everyone was gearing up and excited.

"Don't hurt anyone." Yang Qiu warned: "The proprietor said that he would negotiate with them, and if he messes up, no one will be able to protect you." ”

"Yes!" Everyone said yes loudly.

……

It was nearly noon, and the guests who were invited to the banquet by Ma Chaoren at home arrived one after another.

The Ma family is also a scholarly family, inherited for nearly three hundred years, the famous North and South List events during the Hongwu period, the ancestor of the Ma family is one of the degraded Shanxi lifters, and later Taizu supported the North Bang scholars, the ancestors of the Ma family were able to be in the Jinshi, and did several local officials.

In order to the gentleman family business personnel, in other places is the Longwan period of the prevailing, in Shanxi is a hundred years of transmission, the Ma family in Tiancheng Town, Yuyang and all over the place have a large amount of land, a total of more than 30,000 acres, a family, the number of acres is also the limit, if in the south of the Yangtze River, even if it is the old family so much land is too much, Xu Jie, for the scholar, the acres of land rose to more than 200,000 acres, of which the Xu family's own acres are actually less than half, most of them are other gentry sustenance and investment, With the prestige of Xu Jie, it was used to fight against local officials and exempt from paying taxes, and there were too many officials in Jiangnan, which also led to a large amount of arrears in taxes in various prefectures in Jiangnan every year.

"The yellow list is down?"

"Exactly."

Ma Chaoren asked, Zhang Yanhong replied, and both of them had a wry smile on their faces.

The two of them are both lifters and talents, and the others are all thorough businessmen, so they don't have much say in this matter, and each of them puts down their wine glasses or chopsticks and listens attentively to the answers of the two.

"Well, that's good."

Ma Chaoren is over forty years old, he is not young in this era, his eldest son has become married, and he will definitely be able to hold his grandson in these two years.

He has been in charge for more than ten years and has experienced turmoil for a long time, but this time the incident still made this old man lose color on his face, and even show a mixture of fear and anger.

Yang Qiu and the others went to prepare, and Zhang Han took out the copy of the mansion that Zhang Chun sent from Xinpingbao and began to read.

At the end of April, Zhang Han had already seen that Nuer Hachi officially raised troops on April 13, issued the "Seven Great Hatreds", and officially attacked the Fushun area, as for the specific battle situation, the Di copy is not detailed, and it is not possible to expect Di to analyze the specific battle situation.

Zhang Han plans to take a while to select one or two clever ones from Yang Qiu's subordinates to be sent to Liaoxi, where he will directly find a way to transcribe the Tang Newspaper, and the Tang Newspaper of the General Soldiers will report to the center with a detailed battle situation and preparations before and after.

Zhang Han has always believed that a successful businessman cannot be involved in politics, but he must not be ignorant of politics.

Of course, this is still his experience in later generations, now it is the Ming Dynasty, in the Ming Dynasty, if a successful businessman is not involved in politics, it is the limit to be able to do what Zhang Yun looked like back then, there is a layer of visible ceiling on his head, and if he wants to be bigger, without the support of the official gentry, without the backing of a family of the official gentry, it is impossible to continue to break through.

"Two million taels of raising?"

When he saw this copy, Zhang Han got up suddenly, and the Jiang family brothers, who had been listening to the commentary with relish, also quickly stood up, and Jiang Yi said in a low voice: "The proprietor, what's wrong?" ”

"No wonder, no wonder ......"

Zhang Han's fingers flicked the copy in his hand, and he finally had a clear answer to the actions of Tianchengwei and these gentry and big grain merchants this time.

The so-called salary, is Wanli in order to deal with the East and the addition of the Tian Fu, on the basis of the original addition of about two million taels of share, this is the famous Liao salary plus faction, for this matter, Wanli and the later Emperor Chongzhen of the Apocalypse were scolded by the Ming scholars.

Speaking of this matter, I am afraid that it can be written into a long paper, Zhang Han has also read some relevant books and discussions, all in all, Wanli did not do a very authentic thing to increase the Liao salary, he added the Liao matter as soon as he started, the imperial court really has no money, the three major levies have cleaned up the belongings that Zhang Juzheng has accumulated, and the emptiness of the treasury is true. But Wanli himself does have money in hand, not to mention anything else, as soon as Wanli died, Emperor Taichang even sent money inside, which should add up to millions of taels, Zhang Han can't remember clearly, but the number is indeed more than two million.

And this internal money has not been cleaned, until the Chongzhen period, once there is a police and the money is insufficient, the household department will ask the emperor to send internal money.

This matter, from the emperor's point of view, the family and the country are one, and the whole world is not the king's land, since there are police on the side and the country is insufficient, what if you use your own money first? In terms of the system of the Ming Dynasty, the rigid boss, the gentry and the officials were integrated, plus two million taels of silver, and these silverfish had to earn at least 10 million taels into their own purse, which was more than worth the loss.

And as far as Wanli's mind is concerned, why should he use his own money whenever something happens? These scholars usually speak loyally and patriotically, but once something happens, they point to the emperor to take money, why? Since the state is insufficient, and the military salary is not enough to spend, then according to the actual use, the land is added, and one plus is as much as 2 million.

In fact, the level of taxation in the Ming Dynasty, the agricultural tax has never been more than five percent, and the commercial tax is even lower, in the case of Wanli, the problem of adding two million is not big, and the fact is also the same, to the Chongzhen period, it was added twice, and this amount of additional distribution became a positive endowment in the Qing season, and there was not much change for more than 200 years, and the people also suffered such a amount of taxes.

But the problem is that the control of the central government over the localities in the Ming Dynasty was much weaker, and the control over the gentry was even weaker.

For the people of Jiangnan, this bit of silver is nothing more than spinning a few feet of cloth to earn, until the death of the Ming Dynasty, the southern provinces are still very quiet, few people rebel, and in the north, especially in the northwest, the disaster of the Xiaoice period is particularly serious, originally basically relying on agriculture for food, tax increases plus natural disasters, plus poor relief, the people are cornered, and finally evolved into a large-scale peasant uprising.

Wanli plus Liao salary, it is definitely a bad move, there are many Internet history lovers in later generations, for the opposite, disgusted with the Donglin Party, the affirmation of the eunuch party, and the opposition to the Qing Dynasty is the bottom line of the affirmation of Wanli, in fact, Wanli does have a hand in controlling the government, but in governing the country, it is not even the king of Shoucheng.

Di copied and read it, and a big article almost instantly swept through Zhang Han's heart.

Wanli salary, open the door to the fall of the Ming Dynasty, of course, if Wanli does not die, with his mastery of the court, there will be no serious internal friction, although there is a small setback in the Liao matter, it will eventually go to the right path to solve, but unfortunately Zhang Han remembers that Wanli will die in these two years, in the Ming Dynasty and the most critical point of the whole China, the emperor who has mastered the Ming Dynasty for nearly half a century is dead...... It's really not the right time to die......

"From this point of view, the counterattack of the gentry and grain merchants of Tiancheng is because they knew the trend of the situation in advance, and there must have been rumors about the salary increase, and now it has finally become a conclusion."

"There is no one in the DPRK, the news is still slow, it is estimated that someone here must have a direct access to the center, and even when Zheng Guochang did not know the news at this level, someone here knew about it and made preparations in advance."

"Competing with me and Yusheng for food, the important thing is to know that the price of grain will rise sharply in the future, not for the difference between the two coins of silver, in fact, it is more important to prepare for the future."

"Once the salary is raised, the land price will fall and the grain price will continue to rise, not only in Datong, but also in Shanxi, Xuanfu, Datong, and Shaanxi."

"The disaster will become more and more serious in the future, and there will be a large-scale peasant uprising in a few years......

The peasant uprising in the northwest sprouted in the Apocalypse period, and finally became a flood beast-like existence in the Chongzhen period.

Zhang Han looked at Jiang Yi and Jiang Kui, and said with a smile: "Let's go, follow me to the village outside the city to have a look." ”

"Yes, Shaodong."

Of course, the two guards didn't make sense, escorted Zhang Han out, took out the horses, and went all the way out of the city.