The problem in Taixing County is far more serious than Zhu Changluo imagined. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The phenomenon of Dahuang Village is not an exception, but a microcosm of the entire Taixing County, after taking off Lou Jingye's black gauze hat and appeasing the villagers of Dahuang Village, Zhu Changluo immediately transferred the Yellow Book and conscription records of Taixing County for three years.

After an investigation, it was found that the problem in Taixing County was not at all that Lou Jingye, the magistrate of the county, oppressed the people and ignored the agricultural time, and there were more serious problems in it!

Forge the Yellow Book!

According to the old man in Dahuang Village, there are a total of 327 households in Dahuang Village, of which 49 are two-woman households and 91 are single-family households, and according to the imperial court system, these 150 households are exempt from forced labor.

In addition to these 150 households, there are 90 families who have sacrificed their lives for the country and died on the battlefield, and these families are also exempt from forced labor.

That is to say, in the entire Dahuang Village, there are less than 80 households that meet the criteria for conscription and conscription, and if you add the 92 soldiers who are still in service, the number of conscriptions in Dahuang Village has already exceeded the regulations of the imperial court.

What's more, the imperial court regulations are not only that the peasants are busy and do not levy labor, but also that although the levy is levied every year, it is a rotation system, which falls specifically in every village, and it is a levy every three years, resting with the people.

But the fact is that Dahuang Village not only bears far more conscription than it should bear, but also has to be forced every year.

This kind of behavior is not just about oppressing the people, it is simply treating the people as fish on the chopping board and slaughtering them!

As for why Lou Jingye did this......

The reason fell on the yellow book and the conscription record in front of Zhu Changluo.

According to the old man's account, 61 people in Dahuang Village served four months of forced labor the year before last year, and 73 people served five months of forced labor last year, and according to the regulations of the imperial court, those who serve miscellaneous labor are usually short-term soldiers, and the time generally does not exceed two months.

The people of Dahuang Village have served for so long, in fact, they are serving for someone else's conscription!

This conscription record clearly states that in the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, Liu Shancai of Liujia Village donated ten taels of money to be exempted from one month of conscription, and Wang Gou'er of Dahuang Village replaced him.

It should be said that there is no problem with this record, the imperial court does have a system, and the common people can use money to serve on their behalf.

But the problem is that the villagers of Dahuang Village don't know that they are serving as a servant on behalf of others, and this Liu Shancai of Liujia Village did pay the silver taels, but the silver taels fell into the pockets of the yamen.

And the villagers of Dahuang Village served Liu Shancai for a month of forced labor in vain!

There are so many people in Dahuang Village, a considerable part of them are due to this reason, some merchants are unwilling to serve the service, so they pay two silver to hire people to serve in their place, but the silver two usually fall into the hands of the yamen.

In order to make up for the number of conscriptions, the yamen would naturally forcibly apportion the conscripts that did not belong to the villagers.

If this is just embezzling money and oppressing the people, then another reason is even more serious.

Unlike later generations, China's dynasties, including the Ming Dynasty, encouraged childbearing, and only when the people gave birth to more children would the rulers have more strong men to cultivate the fields and go to war.

Even the growth of the population in various places is the top priority in the evaluation of officials!

What Zhu Changluo didn't expect was that Lou Jingye dared to forge the yellow book, and among the yellow books in front of him, there were 572 registered villagers in Dahuang Village, showing a trend of increasing year by year.

But in fact, with years of forced labor, the population of Dahuang Village has been declining in the past three years.

There are more than 200 more households in the book, but it is not just as simple as adding a pen to the yellow book.

Since there are so many people on the Yellow Book, Lou Jingye must hand over so many people to serve in the Yellow Book, which is the fundamental reason why Dahuang Village must serve for many years!

"It's lawless! This kind of moth, can also be released to a place to know the county, after the palace returns to Beijing, I must ask Sun Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials to understand! ”

Throwing down the yellow book in his hand, Zhu Changluo could no longer hide the anger in his heart, and said coldly.

The imperial court has its own system, but in the hands of these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, it has become a tool for the common people, so how can he not be angry.

Liu Yuanlin, who was on the side, smiled bitterly and said.

"Your Highness is angry, I'm afraid that Sun Shangshu can't be blamed for this matter, this is also the reason why the minister asked His Royal Highness to come to Taixing County to inspect in person, it has been a long time coming!"

"Governor Liu doesn't have to be shy about it, just say it!"

Hearing the sigh in Liu Yuanlin's mouth, Zhu Changluo said with a straight face.

Although he came in Weifu, as soon as he arrived in Yangzhou City, Liu Yuanlin was not in a hurry to introduce the case to him, but took him to Taixing County, and Zhu Changluo had a faint guess in his heart.

Now it seems that I am afraid that Liu Yuanlin has already known about the forgery of the yellow book.

"Your Royal Highness, the minister was ordered to track down the case of Zheng Qingshan's sale of illicit salt, and after a deep investigation, it was found that the largest place for his people to sell illicit salt was in Yangzhou City, so the minister secretly came to Yangzhou City to investigate, but he unexpectedly found out about the Yellow Book!"

Liu Yuanlin said slowly.

The Yellow Book affair was an accident, yes, an accident!

Liu Yuanlin came to Yangzhou City in order to investigate the case of illegal salt, and these illegal salts were transferred to various places through Yangzhou, but there was still a considerable part of the illegal salt, which was sold to Yangzhou locally, and when tracking down the local illegal salt in Yangzhou, Liu Yuanlin found a strange thing.

That is, the amount of local private salt for sale, far lower than the number of other places with a similar population, only to find that the number of local people in Yangzhou seems to be a lot, but most of them are mobile merchants.

The number of people with real local household registration is far less than the number recorded in the Yellow Book.

And this is not a problem of a certain county, but the entire Yangzhou capital, there is such a problem.

Liu Yuanlin felt that this matter was important and did not dare to specialize, so he immediately secretly played in the capital, but before he could get a reply, he was assassinated at the post station.

"The matter of the Yellow Book is not a one-day thing, the minister has been tracking for a long time, he has read the Yellow Book within ten years, and visited many villages, and found that the history of forging the Yellow Book has been decades long, and all the governors of the county have done this, but Lou Jingye has done it a little too much! But after all, it's just a matter of Xiao Gui Cao! ”

Liu Yuanlin sighed and said.

Zhu Changluo frowned suddenly, but he understood what Liu Yuanlin meant when he said that he had accumulated disadvantages for a long time.

In fact, Lou Jingye had to be faked!

Just imagine, after he arrived, he was faced with a yellow book that was seriously inconsistent with the actual situation, so he only had three choices, one was to report the matter to the upper level, but this road did not work at all, Liu Yuanlin, the dignified governor of Zhejiang, pursued the case of the yellow book, and was assassinated, which shows how deep the water of this matter is, Lou Jingye, a small county, I am afraid it is not enough to be crushed to death.

There is another option, which is to slowly change the yellow book, and strive to make the yellow book consistent with the actual situation, but in this way, the changes on the yellow book are declining year by year.

I am afraid that there are very few officials who exchange their own future for the benefits of the people, at least, Lou Jingye is not!

So he chose the last road, and it is also the one that the previous governors have chosen, Xiao Gui Cao Sui, the officials are evaluated once every four years, and the officials are re-elected for two consecutive terms at most in one place, that is to say, as long as Lou Jingye guarantees that there will be no problems in his tenure, and when the evaluation period expires, he will naturally be able to be promoted elsewhere......

But the result of this is that the number of the Yellow Book is increasing, and the number of ordinary people is decreasing year by year under the heavy pressure of forced labor and taxes, and the final result of the confrontation between the two contradictions will inevitably be that the overwhelmed common people will rise up and bury the entire dynasty and these officials in the dust of history!