Jiang Zi felt that Qin Lin's views were quite unique, and he wanted to listen to his current affairs, so he patiently explained the main content of Wanli's new policy.

Qin Lin didn't look at Jiang Zi with his eyes, but listened to her conversation very seriously.

Jiang Zi first mentioned that in terms of military affairs, Zhang Juzheng appointed Qi Jiguang to guard Jizhou, organized and trained a new-style army that combined vehicles, cavalry, and artillery, and used a large number of firearms such as Franc machines and bird guns, so that Duoyan and Tuban did not dare to take a step beyond Lei Chi.

Qin Lin nodded and smiled, obviously appreciating this.

Then she talked about the "examination law" implemented in the administration of officials, stipulating that officials at all levels should draw up plans at the beginning of the year, and whether the plan is completed at the end of the year should be supervised from the imperial court to the local level.

"Wonderful!" Qin Lin clapped his hands and laughed: "According to the test method, people like Shao Jingbang have to roll up and get out!" ”

Jiang Ziyan smiled, and when it came to the last item, it was the financial aspect that Zhang Juzheng was most proud of among the new policies: a whip law.

The Ming Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, the land annexation is serious, the local Haoqiang often conceal the number of acres of land, resulting in insufficient tax collection in the imperial court, Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law is to deal with this situation, there are three main contents, one is to change the collection of grain and silk and other physical goods to the collection of silver, the second is to unify the various tax items in the past, so as not to increase the tax arbitrarily of the local government, and the third is to measure the area of the country's fields, and recover the taxes concealed by the Haoqiang.

After saying this, Jiang Zi stopped, she was almost certain that she would be able to get a praising answer from Qin Lin's mouth, and then she was ready to say goodbye and leave-although this brocade-clothed hundred households had extraordinary knowledge, he was still some distance from the pillars of the building, at least he couldn't put forward any opinions on the new policy.

But this time, Qin Lin thought for a long time, and finally shook his head: "Although the Jiangling Xianggong method is wonderful, he has no choice but to go in the wrong direction, just like a person who runs fast, but takes the wrong road, he will never get to the place he wants to go." ”

Jiang Zi's slender and good-looking eyebrows suddenly wrinkled, her lips were tightly pursed, and she wanted to refute immediately, but after all, she couldn't help but turn her face on the spot.

The two brothers, Jiang Jing and Jiang Mao, glanced at each other, both a little angry, but in the end, Jiang Mao was more anxious and straightened up. He asked in a deep voice: "Since Jiangling Xianggong took power, a whip law has been tried in Fujian, Huguang and other places, that is, we Jiangling, no, Wuchang is also trying out, Haoqiang can no longer conceal the land, the income of the government treasury has increased greatly, and the officials and the people applaud, why did Brother Qin say that the direction was wrong?" ”

Qin Lin smiled: "Since Zhang Xiangye has the ambition to enrich the country and strengthen the army, why is he only staring at one acre and three points of land?" The reason why Zai Xia said that he was in the wrong direction was that he had just listened to Brother Jiang Zi's introduction, and only then did he know that Zhang Xiangye's whip method was still aimed at agriculture, and no matter whether he looted the local rich or poor farmers, he always used the country's wealth to only stare at the word 'agriculture', and this general direction was wrong. ”

Jiang Mao's hand shook, the tea spilled out a small half, Jiang Jing was more calm, and his face was shocked, Jiang Zi let out a low cry, felt out of shape, and quickly covered his face with his sleeve.

The three siblings exchanged a few glances, and they were all very surprised: what Qin Lin said happened to coincide with what their father was thinking about at night, this person was far away from the rivers and lakes, not above the court, how could he think about it?

But how easy is that? In the early years of Longqing, because of the lack of financial resources, Shoufu Gao Gong also had this idea, but the snowflakes-like music and the people in the Shilin said "Don't compete with the people", which soon forced him to change his mind, stealing chickens and rice, and making a fuss...... My father was also hesitant about this matter, and he didn't dare to take action!

Except for his father, who is regarded as a celestial, Jiang Zi has never obeyed anyone else, this time he was speechless by Qin Lin's words, and after thinking for a long time, she organized the language, but the words were not as strong as before: "Qin, Mr. Qin's words have some truth, but the national tax has its own ancestral system, and if you change it rashly, I am afraid that Shilin will make an uproar and the world will ......."

In fact, Zhang Juzheng's other reform measures didn't cause an uproar in Shilin and the world was stunned? It's just that all the reform measures combined are not as resistant as this.

Jiang Zi thought of this, his tender white and lush face turned red first, so he had to change his direction and say: "Although a whip law is still staring at the agricultural tax, it is mainly aimed at the land annexed by the powerful landlords. ”

"Idealized," Qin Lin shook his head and sighed: "The reason why Haoqiang is Haoqiang is Haoqiang, the ability to pass on taxes is much stronger than that of ordinary people, as long as the imperial court still keeps the tax on the output of the acres of land, and does not want to open a source of profits from other places, then the taxes pressed on the acres will be more and more transferred to the small people."

Zhang Xianggong's method may be able to increase the revenue of the government treasury in 10 or 20 years, but after a long time, the increased tax per mu will gradually be transferred from the powerful landlords to the poor peasants. ”

Jiang Zi's heart sank when he heard this, and he felt that the same words seemed to be mentioned by his father inadvertently.

"Too alarmist, isn't it?" Jiang Mao was a little unconvinced, and retorted: "As long as the imperial road is cleared and the law is used to rectify the rule of officials, Haoqiang may not be able to transfer taxes to the poor people......"

Jiang Zi was a little unimpressed by the words of the third brother, obviously the ideal state of all officials in the world being conscientious has never appeared since the three generations of ruling the world - she even sometimes suspects that even the so-called three generations of ruling the world are made up by Confucian sages in the past dynasties, otherwise how can there be many opposites in the comparison of "Spring and Autumn", "Zuo Chuan" and "Bamboo Book Chronicle"?

Before Qin Lin could answer Jiang Mao's words, suddenly the boatmen on the starboard side shouted, as if saying that there was something dead, which alarmed all the passengers in the cabin who were talking loudly, and they all went out to see what was going on.

I saw a corpse floating in the waves in the distance, naked and white, face down, without clothes, so I couldn't see men and women.

All the boatmen recited Amitabha Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva, and a few lit incense to worship the floating corpse, and recited words in their mouths - this is the rule of boating, so that the water ghost should be reincarnated as soon as possible, and do not come to trouble the boatman.

The corpse's hair was scattered and the corpse was white, Jiang Mao took it for granted that it was a woman, and he was quite pitiful: "Whose daughter's relatives drowned in this river, and they died without clothes, it is really pitiful." ”

"It's a man." Qin Lin said with great certainty.

Jiang Mao's surname is anxious and easy to lift the bar, and he was very unconvinced when he heard it: "It's so far away, and your face is down, you can see it clearly?" ”

"I didn't see it clearly," Qin Lin shook his head indifferently, and then continued: "There are floating corpses on the water, the male is lying face down, and the female is lying on her back face up, nine out of ten are like this." ”

Jiang Mao was refuted by Qin Lin several times when he talked about current affairs before, and now he stalked his neck: "I don't believe it!" ”

When those boatmen heard this, they all said that Qin Lin was right, and all floating corpses were like what he said, with the male face down and the female face up. Some people also asked Qin Lin if he was an old connoisseur walking on the river, otherwise how could he know these things at a young age?

Jiang Mao became more and more unconvinced, and shouted: "I still don't believe it, pick up the dead body and see, if it's a woman, you will compensate me, if it is a man, I will lose to you a hundred taels of silver!" ”

Although the boatmen wanted silver, they thought that the floating corpse was bad and refused to salvage it, and the shipowner Jia Fugui, Jiang Jing and Jiang Zi brothers and sisters all persuaded Jiang Mao to stop.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Maoniu had a temper attack, and he was the surname of Gongzi's brother, and no one could persuade him, and the people on the white boat refused to retrieve the corpse, so he ordered the family members and boatmen on the big official ship he was on to salvage them.

The people on the official ship did not dare to disobey, it was his family's ship, and it was also his bad luck if he wanted bad luck, so the sailors sailed the boat over, slowly scooped up the body, and put it on the deck.

Jiang Mao glanced at Qin Lin provocatively, strode back to the official ship from the springboard, and went to see the corpse, Jiang Jing and Jiang Zi, the two brothers and sisters, helplessly, smiled apologetically at Qin Lin, and also followed.

Qin Lin is not afraid of the bad luck of the corpse, if the corpse really has any bad luck, he should have died a hundred times, out of professional instinct and sensitivity, he also crossed the boat to see the floating corpse.

Jiang Mao only glanced at it, his face collapsed, and he made a gesture towards Qin Lin: "You guessed correctly, it is indeed a man." ”

Jiang Zi didn't look at the corpse, she only saw Jiang Mao's expression and knew the result, she covered her mouth and smiled: "The third brother is really, yes is right, what does it mean to guess right?" ”

"It's really not a guess", Qin Lin explained, among the corpses of Shui Piao, the male surname has a muscular chest and small buttocks, and the pelvis is narrower, so that the front half of the body is heavier and sinks underneath, so it forms a prone posture; The female surname has a wide pelvis and large hips, and the back half of the body is heavier, so she will be on her back when she floats on the water.

The three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family all felt novel when they heard it, and Jiang Zi's dark and bright eyes flashed with a hint of different color, as if the female surname was naturally frightened and curious about these shocking things.

Even those boatmen also said that they had been on the boat for so long, and they only knew that there was a difference between men and women lying on their stomachs and their backs, and it was only now that they knew from Qin Lin why this was the case.

Out of professional instinct, Qin Lin observed the floating corpse while talking to everyone.

The density of the human body is slightly greater than that of water, so the corpse initially sinks to the bottom, and as the decay produces a large amount of filthy gas filling the corpse, it will slowly surface and be discovered.

Initially, the decaying gases were in the chest and abdominal cavity, so that the upper part of the corpse was exposed to the surface first; When the decay is high and the limbs are filled with decaying gas, the whole body will surface, showing a prone or supine posture.

The corpse was already highly decomposed, showing the appearance of a giant, the corpse's skin was pale, and it was swollen like a balloon, its face was swollen, its eyes bulged out, its lips thickened and turned out, the tip of its tongue dragged out of its mouth, its chest and abdomen were high and bulging, its limbs were thick and fat, and even its sac was swollen and spherical...... Hey, no, what's that?

Qin Lin's attention suddenly focused.

(To be continued)