Dong Qichang saw that Yuan Keli did not answer the stubble, and looked left to say something else, "Songjiang was formerly known as Yunjian, this office has the Rihe River in the south of the government office, and the Moon River is in the north of it. ”

Yuan Keli has been in office for two days, and of course he knows about it before and after the agency, and knows that his hall is called Chengxuan, and the name of the back hall is loyal; The east step of Chengxuan is the official hall, and the north of the hall is the experience department; The west of Chengxuan is Yongfeng Library, and the north of the Library is Zhaomo; In the south of Chengxuan, the east Langfang is Kanhe, the officials, the household, and the ceremonial room, and the west Langfang is the Chengfa, the soldier, the criminal, and the workshop. After Zhonghoutang, it is the prefect's house, and the prefect's house is the same as the prefect's house on the left and right, and then it is the mansion of the general judge, the magistrate, the staff, etc., and the library such as Luanjia and the pavilion.

"Brother Nian mentions, brother will remember." Yuan Keli thought to himself, I didn't come down to make money, and explained, "My brother's trip is to set up a city division in Songjiang to solve the urgent need of Liaodong. ”

"Si Chengke is always in front of the emperor, and his future is limitless, why bother Brother Liqing!" Dong Qichang took a sip of tea, and was quite puzzled by Yuan Keli's behavior of not being an official in Beijing and going south to become a four-grade prefect, you must know that officials strive to get closer to the capital.

Yuan Keli and Dong Qichang have different cognitions, and said with a wry smile, "Everyone has their own ambitions." ”

Dong Qichang looked at the left and right and saw that there was no one else, and spit out the words buried in his heart, "Internal and external troubles are probably beyond the reach of manpower." ”

Yuan Keli knew that he said that the number of Ming Qi was about to be exhausted, which was the words of the heart, in order to prevent the partition wall from having ears, and said with a smile, "The matter is people, my brother has just arrived in Songjiang, I don't know where Songjiang's 'worries' are?" ”

"Establish the Son of Heaven as the world, and not the world as the Son of Heaven; Establish a monarch as a country, and non-establish a country as a monarch. Dong Qichang threw out his consistent argument and counted the disadvantages of Songjiang, "Songjiang has a long history of heavy service, today's salary, tomorrow's military training, and the increase in dispatch are becoming more and more complicated. ”

Yuan Keli's face was solemn, "Jiannu is guilty of crimes, and it is inevitable to be sent more, not Songjiang alone, but also the whole country." ”

"Gui Hui's two kings, the second department of household workers has been added, and recently I want to stop the Baoquan Bureau, all thanks to the border troubles? Guan Zhong once said: If there is more than the declining world, there is no surplus, (above) there is a lot of appetite and the people are restless, what is the meaning of my pine? ”

Yuan Keli shook his head and said in his heart, it is impossible to reduce taxes at the moment, and he also knows his scholarly temperament, so he only said 'crazy words' when he saw that he had made friends, but if he continued to talk about it, it would be a retreat, so he diverted the topic and asked him the truth about Songjiang's enlistment.

Dong Qichang is also a landlord, so he knows everything about this, so he will tell the story.

In addition to the best quality arrow rice, Songjiang Province also has crops such as fragrant rice, red lotus rice, wheat, soybeans, etc., as well as cash crops such as jibei (kapok, flowers yellow like sunflowers), velvet, mulberry pine, etc., and fruits such as golden peaches, cherries, oranges, etc......

Because of the abundant products, it is also a grain-producing area, so the field endowment is higher, the full maturity field (low thin field, new wilderness and other fields according to 1.5:1, 2:1 and other converted mature fields) can produce about 2 stone and 3 buckets of grain per mu, 2 buckets of grain 4 liters 5 he, plus 1 bucket 2 liters (7 liters of 5 he, 3 liters of the countryside), a total of 15%, counting the temporary additional Liao, training and other items accounted for about 30%.

If the endowment is acceptable, then the servitude is a burden that the people of the time cannot bear.

There is a distinction between regular service and miscellaneous service, the main service is to transport grain, cloth and so on to the north and south of Beijing, etc., the law, every autumn to go to Nanjing to receive Kanhe and then undertake the service, is the beginning of the country; Miscellaneous servants are menzi, chefs, defenders of the city, and water and land soldiers, etc., collectively referred to as Junyao.

After Jun Yao arrived at Wanli's 'one whip method', he mostly collected it in silver, and he didn't care.

Songjiang Prefecture has a general urging, economic urging (collection of money and grain, enslavement of the grain chief, Songjiang Prefecture to 1,300 people per year), Bujie (Songjiang Mansion eight per year, Huating four, Shanghai, Qingpu each two), Beiyun (56), exchange (141), cashier (76), Nanjing honey, salary Si Yunchai, Nanjing Wucheng soldiers, Zhitang, Guozi Jian Chef (ranging from 1 to 3) and other 23 items, can not be exempted, here to Bujie as an example.

Songjiang is the place where cloth is produced, the main service is the most troublesome to cloth, such as a county for the three lines of fine cloth more than 2450 boils, the price of silver seven money, the government paves the mat to carry the plate with a penny of silver (in the field of the endowment to collect), the person who is charged with oil paper wraps the cloth, self-rope boat, each gate registration, arrived everywhere, handed over to the Ministry of receipt.

Because of the long distance, the conscriptor often needs to put money into it to complete the task, usually to pay two or three dollars of silver for each boil, if it is returned due to unqualified quality, damage and other reasons, it must be repeated to make up the amount, so that each boil will be compensated to five or six dollars.

This is only a three-line fine cloth, Songjiang Prefecture autumn tax, need to cloth more than 30,000 three-line fine cloth, more than 99,000 cotton cloth, more than 42,000 folded cloth, with a loss of three dollars per boil, the person who serves for each year will lose 50,000 taels of silver. (According to the conversion of 1:600 to soft sister coins, it is 30 million.) ）

In the end, Dong Qichang concluded, "Therefore, when Wu Zhong heard that this battle was like going to death, although he was now discussing the first Yin Solid and hugely rich, those who have more than 2,000 acres of land and a huge amount of gold in their families will inherit it, especially if they are not as good as it." The servants had to sell their land, and when they finished their service, they had sucked their bones and marrow, and they had nothing left. ”

From this point of view, the way to treat the symptoms is to send more people to serve or increase consumption.

Yuan Keli has his historical limitations, and after listening to his knowledge, he has not been able to jump out of the times, and he feels that it is not bad as he expected, so he subconsciously vetoed the 'increase in consumption', and asked tentatively, "How about more enlistment?" ”

"Isn't that easy? It is not difficult to serve alone, but it is even more difficult to judge the service, and the judge will be rich and wealthy, and the upper will be poor. ”

Editing and reviewing the service is an errand that offends people, Yuan Keli knew the answer when he asked, and when he heard Dong Qichang's rhetorical question, he picked up the teacup to hide his unnatural face.

Approaching the winter solstice, the tea was already cold when the two were talking, and the chill ran down Yuan Keli's throat all the way to his stomach, making him shiver, and it became fresh in an instant.

The main purpose of Yuan Keli's trip is to be the city and commercial tax, and as for the service law, he has to be a scholar.