Jiang Guozhu said, Suna also heard a little understanding, he was just a leader when he was in the Eight Banners, and he didn't care about the tax on these money and grain, and there were Han officials on the left and right to help collect it, and he didn't work for them to do it. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info is now the new Anhou of the Ming Dynasty and the general of the Taiping Army, and he doesn't have to worry about this kind of thing. Fortunately, since he surrendered and returned to the Ming Dynasty, he acted very carefully, asked questions if he didn't understand, asked three questions and two questions, and finally figured out the general situation.

"Since the rich people refuse to pay all these years of money and grain, then they have to pay the taxes owed during the Chongzhen and Apocalypse years. In the Ming Dynasty, the taxes of the Ming Dynasty were paid, and the taxes of the Qing Dynasty were paid in the Qing Dynasty, and Ben Hou felt that there was nothing wrong with this. ”

Yan Shaoqing almost laughed when he heard this, this Xin'an Hou is really whimsical, how can he ask people to pay taxes from more than ten years ago or even twenty or thirty years ago.

Jiang Guozhu didn't listen to it as a joke, but looked thoughtful. Ren Weichu's eyes are also shining, as the county magistrate of Wuzhong, he is very clear about the situation of paying grain and taxes in Wuzhong in the past few decades. If he remembers correctly, this rich family in Wuzhong has been pushed up for more than ten years, and there is no one who is not in arrears and evasion! If the Ming Dynasty is dead, then nothing to say, now that the Ming Dynasty has not died, why can't you be asked to pay the arrears of grain and taxes!

"Xin'anhou's principle, but it works, I am still in the Ming Dynasty, and the debtors should hand over money and grain to the treasury, otherwise they will make the loyal and honest, law-abiding people suffer, and the treacherous and cunning people will get cheap. It's just that after a long interval of years, some things are not easy to do, and the single account book is a trouble, and it needs to be considered in the long run..."

Jiang Guozhu seriously considered Suna's proposal, although it sounded absurd, but it was natural to taste it. Since the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, all gentry and officials above the eighth rank who have made meritorious contributions and above can enjoy different degrees of tax exemption, but this preferential exemption is limited. Therefore, in addition to the preferential and exempt share, the gentry, like the common people, should pay taxes and pay taxes, and should not be special. However, with the passage of time, the officials and gentry ignored the laws and regulations of the state, colluded up and down, broke through the boundaries of legal rights, and actually implemented full preferential exemption. ”

Not only the gentry themselves are like this, but the tenants who are attached to them are alienated from their distant relatives, and none of them have one hand or one foot to serve in the public service, and none of them have a single penny to serve in the service. In this way, the official household has become an abyss to avoid state taxes and servitude, which is the so-called contribution. Not only did the common people donate their fields to the gentry, but even some wealthy common people who had no merit and fame "relied on their property to be scholars and doctors, and would rather lose the rent as a servant tenant to avoid the great service." "The wind of dedication became more and more intense, the poor became poorer and the rich became richer, and finally caused a catastrophe during the Chongzhen period.

Now that these rich people think that they should not pay the money and grain under the rule of the Qing court to the government, then let them pay the taxes owed during the Chongzhen and Tianqi years, what do they say? Unless they have been law-abiding for decades, they should pay a lot of money and food, and they should not be able to pay any of their servitude, however, is this possible?

Jiang Guozhu was very touched that these wealthy officials and gentry in Jiangnan relied on the government to do nothing to them during the Ming Dynasty, so they blatantly did not pay taxes. When the Qing Dynasty came, they didn't dare to pay taxes, so they changed their methods to collude with the government scribes, and even directly bribed officials, so as to achieve the privilege of tax exemption again. Jiang Guozhu remembered an incident when he first took office, when wealthy households in Suzhou and Songjiang ignored the Qing court's urging decree and defaulted on the tax (30 taxes and 1) that should have been paid for two years. It was precisely because of this incident that Jiang Guozhu had the idea of a big case.

It's a good idea, but it sounds ridiculous after all, and whether it can be done in this way, or whether it is a compromise method, must be carefully considered. The king of Qi also has to report there. Moreover, it cannot be one-size-fits-all, and those who have contributed to resisting the Qing Dynasty and those who have not resisted the Qing Dynasty and those who have worked hard for the Qing army must be distinguished, so that the Jiangnan gentry can be divided and they cannot become an iron plate, so that it will be much easier to operate later.

"Ben Hou also said casually, whether this method works or not, you officials have to do it in the end."

After all, in civil affairs, Suna is a general with troops, and there are some things that are not easy to say. He changed his words, and mentioned what he had just seen and heard, and reminded Jiang Guozhu that they had to suppress this matter as soon as possible, otherwise it would have an impact on him leading the army into Zhejiang. Moreover, the stability of Jiangnan is also related to the safety of the southern capital, money and grain must be paid, and the place must also be stable, the two are both conflicting and not conflicting, how to balance the two, it all depends on his Jiang Guozhu's means.

Hearing Xin'anhou mention Jin Sheng's sigh for them, Ren Weichu couldn't help but hate and said: "That Jin Sheng sighs that he is proud of the world, his eyes are empty, and he is competitive, but he doesn't know that his own family is two pounds, and the crying temple is like openly advocating chaos, his crime is not small, and Lord Futai must not indulge him!" ”

Jiang Guozhu snorted slightly, and was very dissatisfied with the fact that Jin Shengsian did not receive good intentions and came to cause trouble, but if he really wanted him to forcibly suppress this matter, he felt that it was not too appropriate, and this concern mainly came from Qian Qianyi.

Seeing Jiang Guozhu's frowns, Suna realized that this matter was not so simple, so he asked, "What does Master Jiang want to do?" Could it be that these showmen can cry there? ”

Jiang Guozhu complained: "These talents are all scholars in Suzhou, if the lower officials forcibly suppress them, I am afraid that it will provoke a popular uprising, but they will not be allowed to invite... Alas, don't hide it from the Hou Ye, the lower officials are also a headache. ”

"It's just a bunch of scholars, what's not to do." Suna immediately "laughed": "Ben Hou Dan knows that the handsome man often has a word on his lips, and the troubled times need to be repeated." There is no love without a reason in this world, and there is no hatred without a reason. Jin Shengsian and the others wept because they were unwilling to pay for food, and this alone was enough to cure their sins. Since ancient times, what is the crime of not paying food or even persuading people not to pay food, this point is probably clearer than Benhou. ”

Jiang Guozhu didn't answer, and Yan Shaoqing came to a conclusion: "It's like a rebellion!" ”

"That's it, if it's going to be a rebellion, how can it be difficult to deal with? If you are afraid of stirring up a popular uprising, Ben Hou will send a battalion of soldiers to your disposal, and you can only take people, and you will not ask if you are the leader, but you will take them first, and all the people who are clamoring and clamoring will also be taken. Do things, cut through the mess quickly, mother-in-law and mother-in-law, how can you do things if you are afraid of this? I think that when the marshal was in Guangzhou, so many officials and scholars also said that they would be killed, and they would be arrested. ”

"Okay, just do it according to Master Hou!"

Jiang Guozhu thought about it, but he only had to play and suppress it first, and now that he was crying in the Confucian Temple, it would definitely be useless for him to send someone to talk. But if the tone of speech is softened a little, these showmen may be even more aggressive and make more unreasonable demands. Therefore, the most effective means is to suppress it first, and then determine the nature of the case later, whether it is a heavy punishment or a high degree of leniency.

Yan Shaoqing had the idea of suppressing it from the beginning, but Jiang Guozhu hesitated and disagreed, and now Xin'anhou also means the same, and there are Taiping soldiers to call on, so he will let it go.

It's just that a group of Xiucai in the poor Confucian Temple are howling, thinking that the government will come forward to appease them, and then everyone will fight for the heroic identity of "petitioning for the people", and the soldier with a knife and a gun will break into the door.

"The Qing Dynasty still respects us and other scholars, but the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty regard me like a pig and a dog!"

"This is the temple of learning, the temple of saints, how can you and other soldiers trespass!"

Jin Shengsi, who was in chains, was really angry, and pointed to the general flag of the Taiping Army and scolded. But the general banner ignored him, as long as his men dragged people out. In the temple, a group of talented people who were howling and desperately squeezing tears were dumbfounded, and the timid ones ran around in the temple, and some of them actually knocked down the clay statues of Sage Kong.

The dignified Confucian temple is in a mess.

Outside the Confucian Temple, there was already a large group of soldiers who stopped the onlookers aside, and there were officials from Suzhou Prefecture and Wuzhong County to help maintain it, but when they saw someone shouting in the crowd, they immediately stepped forward and dragged out the bundle. There are also idlers who have got money, or Xiucai's entourage and his family members saw that the master's family was pushed out by the soldiers, and in a hurry, they gathered to echo and wanted to rush to save people, but they were knocked over by the soldiers on the spot, and the sound of crying shook all around. This time, but I really cried, and the tears really fell.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Jin Sheng sighed and shouted to the emperor all the way, and the unaware Mr. Jin Da was calling Emperor Dingwu, but he didn't know that Mr. Jin Da was calling the Qing Emperor. Just as when he heard that the Qing Emperor praised him as a master of ancient literature, he couldn't help but cry and knocked a few songs to the north.

The "Wailing Temple Case" that occurred in Suzhou was soon spread to Zhenjiang by the governor of Jiangsu, Yamen, and the next day, Zhenjiang was sent by King Qi.

The handwritten decree asked Jiangsu to designate 31 Xiucai, including Jin Shengsi, Ding Guanzhong, Ding Ziwei, Ni Yongbin, and Shen Yue, as the main culprits in the reverse case, and all of them were beheaded. The remaining 87 talents were all sent to Annam for hard labor 3,000 miles away.

As soon as this edict came out, Suzhou was shocked, Jiangnan was shocked, and the southern capital court was even more shocked. (To be continued.) )