"Your Highness, another person has handed over a complaint!"

In the lobby of the palace, Wang An walked in with a thick stack of complaints and placed them in front of Zhu Changluo. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Since Zhu Changluo suspended Lu Qingzhi's position at the gate of the government office that day, Zhu Changluo has received all kinds of complaints almost every day.

In this year, the people are still very simple, and will not resent their suffering days to the royal family, in their hearts, the emperor is supreme, love the people like children, the reason why they have all kinds of suffering, is because those corrupt officials and corrupt officials blinded the emperor.

And in this context, the identity of Prince Zhu Changluo is a golden signboard!

Although Zhu Changluo only suspended Lu Qingzhi's position, in the hearts of the people, they couldn't tell the difference between dismissal and suspension, they only felt that they had finally been able to keep the clouds open and see the bright moon, and the emperor had finally seen through the true face of these hateful corrupt officials.

So this kind of complaint has come one after another!

Of course, many of these complaints are trivial matters, but it can also be seen that Lu Qingzhi is not popular in Yangzhou Mansion, and Zhu Changluo did get what he wanted from it.

Yangzhou Mansion is not only a problem with the yellow book, but also a more serious problem with forced labor.

Just as Liu Yuanlin said to Zhu Changluo at the beginning, the situation in Taixing County is just a microcosm of Yangzhou Prefecture, and the problem in Yangzhou Prefecture will only be more serious than Taixing County!

However, the difference with Taixing County is that at present, there is a huge problem of indiscriminate conscription in Yangzhou Prefecture, because Yangzhou is located in a prosperous location, businessmen gather, and there are many local peasant people who turn to business, and this part of the people, accounting for more than half of the number of Yangzhou City, most of them are replaced by money and silver, and these replaced conscripts are distributed to the people at the bottom!

Looking at the complaints, the anger in Zhu Changluo's heart flickered one after another, these complaints were not written in ink, they were all the blood and tears of the common people!

A complaint represents the suffering of a family, or even several families, and he cannot be moved.

"It's really a good means, anyway, Yangzhou Mansion is a place where businessmen gather, and grain transshipment also has to pass through Yangzhou, so these people who farm the land, for him Lu Qingzhi, there is no need to exist, anyway, there will be no food, it is better to let them serve for the merchants, and his government can still have some benefits!"

Liu Yuanlin on the side sighed, he knew that what Zhu Changluo said was the truth.

After they sent people to the government, they not only counted the yellow books, but also interrogated the same intellectuals in the palace separately, and sentenced and pushed the officials.

Among the people brought by Zhu Changluo this time, there are not only people from Dongchang, but also Jinyiwei's interrogators, these people don't even need to be punished, just various psychological means let these people go.

Only then did Liu Yuanlin know that only a small part of the money and grain that the Yangzhou government had handed over to the imperial court over the years was actually handed over from the local area, and more was paid by the government to buy grain from grain merchants, and then directly transferred it to the imperial court.

That is to say, the entire Yangzhou Mansion has completely become the world of merchants, and the living space of peasants, as the country's capital, has long been squeezed to the point of no return.

But that's not entirely true, after all, there are so many fertile fields in Yangzhou City, it is impossible to waste them!

However, these fertile fields were all used by Lu Qingzhi as favors, and they were transferred to the names of the Shangjia gentry by various means, especially the land pretended to be entrusted to the names of the gentry, according to the regulations of the imperial court, they did not have to pay taxes.

In exchange, Lu Qingzhi got the full amount of commercial taxes paid every year, and countless gentry also had a good evaluation of him.

Maybe in another two years, he will still get a good grade in the evaluation of the officials!

"It's too much! If this continues, the four people will be turned upside down, and sooner or later it will lead to a catastrophe! ”

Liu Yuanlin put down the complaint in his hand and said with the same hatred.

The peasant is the foundation of the country, which is a deep-rooted concept for a scholar like Liu Yuanlin, who was born in reading sage books, but now Lu Qingzhi has oppressed the status of peasants to such a low level.

Even in today's Yangzhou Mansion, there are very few real peasants, and some are just tenants in the homes of countless merchants and gentry!

"Your Highness, Lord Governor, the yellow book of Yangzhou Mansion has been counted!"

At this time, a young man dressed in a royal robe entered the door and bowed his hand.

After a pause, he took out a list from his sleeve and handed it to Zhu Changluo, saying.

"According to the latest Yellow Book, Yangzhou Prefecture has a total of 173,970 households and a population of 866,165, of which 64,830 are single households and 17,060 are two-woman households. According to preliminary estimates, both of these silvers were collected by the government and became the private silver of the government treasury! ”

This person's name is Chen Yide, the second class jinshi in the twenty-fourth year of Wanli, awarded the imperial history of Henan Province, this time by Zhu Changluo's order, he was already prepared in his heart, but when it came to the end, he couldn't help but be shocked by these data.

You know, this is more than 100,000 taels of silver every year, which can be worth the tax of some slightly smaller state capitals for a year!

"What about the yellow book in Taixing County? Can you count it? ”

Zhu Changluo snorted coldly, but asked instead.

The embezzlement of these conscription silver taels is still a trivial matter, and what he really came to investigate this time was the forgery of the yellow book.

This yellow book simply looks like it, and there is nothing wrong with it, and only when it is specific to one county and one place can it be easier to get the truth!

Taixing County is the closest county to Yangzhou Prefecture outside of Fuguo County, and Liu Yuanlin also found the clues from here at the beginning, so the yellow book inventory speed here should be the fastest.

"Back to Your Highness, the number of registered households in the Yellow Book of Taixing County is 24,000, but these days, Xie Yushi led a group of officials to check the population, although it has not yet been completed, but has visited seventy or eighty percent, and it is initially inferred that the number of households with actual household registration in Taixing County should be around 18,000!"

Chen Yide sighed and said cautiously.

"Six thousand! These people have really eaten the heart of a bear and a leopard gall! ”

Liu Yuanlin's face suddenly turned pale, and he said angrily.

"Your Highness, there is an official document in Nanjing!"

Before Zhu Changluo could react, Wang An entered the door again, but this time, Wang An's face was also very ugly.

Zhu Changluo frowned, raised his hand to open the official document and took a look, but his face changed suddenly.

"It seems that some people really want to fight with this palace!"