Wang Fulin still remembers that last time Wang Qiu used to use the matter of sending grain chiefs to grind hard with himself, not only coveting his own land, but also deceiving himself with clever words to give him the privilege of exempting him from a penny of miscellaneous labor. It's just that in front of Xie Tingjie, he put Wang Qiu, who was beaten upside down, directly into the prison cell, and now that everyone has been beaten to serve his sentence, he has almost forgotten about the grain chief. Now that he has been brought up again, he is different from Wang Erniang's sudden anger, and he wants to find out more about these deep-seated fames.

And Wu Lichang obviously wanted to clean himself up, ask ten questions, and couldn't wait to explain all the joints to Wang Fulin clearly. From his mouth, Wang Fulin finally understood why the word grain chief was feared like a snake and scorpion.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang's system back then was too cheating!

The so-called grain chief is a person who specializes in collecting summer taxes and autumn grain in an entire grain area, but he is only a citizen, not an official or an official. I want to think that the grain chief picked a real rich and solid family, once he became a big family, it would be like an iron hat, hereditary replacement, unless the family is extinct, and there is no man, otherwise this errand can never be taken off. If it is enough to collect taxes, the problem is that they are also responsible for sending them all the way to the capital to be put into storage, and on the way, they hire ships or cars to hire people, and all the expenses are covered by themselves, and these expenses are sometimes several times higher than the taxes actually paid into the treasury.

It's still a trivial matter to post money, in case it is not delivered due to force majeure delays such as weather conditions, or if it is lost, then I can't help it, and my head will have to be lent to the court to make an example of killing chickens and monkeys!

Of course, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the post of grain chief finally had some advantages, that is, there was an opportunity to have a direct dialogue with Zhu Yuanzhang, and some grain chiefs even rose to the top because they were appreciated by the Son of Heaven and became high-ranking officials in one fell swoop. Compared with this, although the risk of confiscating the army or even killing the head is not small, it is not wrong in the countryside, sometimes you can fill your own pockets, and you have a certain amount of political privileges in front of your parents and officials, which can be regarded as a combination of opportunities and risks.

But with the energetic Zhu Yuanzhang's life, the next Son of Heaven became more and more lazy, and the grain chief still worked hard, but he could never see the Son of Heaven again, and the privileges in politics gradually became less and less. After the relocation of the capital, the situation was even worse, the delivery of grain was no longer limited to the former Nanjing, and the time for the Caohe River to freeze in the capital in the north should be calculated, and when it was put into storage, it would be harshly exploited from the officials to the internal officials, so the rich families were no longer willing to act as thankless grain chiefs, and they escaped with the word "preferential exemption".

Especially in Huizhou, a place where agriculture and commerce are upside down, in recent years, salt merchants have become more and more reluctant to buy land locally, and no matter how much family property they have, they would rather buy land and build houses in other places, so that the hereditary grain chief system has become a dead letter, and the originally fixed grain areas in each county have gradually disintegrated, and almost all the big grain chiefs have been picked. So after Zhengde, the government didn't care about the grain area, one district eleven li, simply let the chief pick out ten wealthy families every ten miles, every ten years, responsible for tax collection, and at the same time apportioned two people to help the stickers, and then in the first district to send large households to be responsible for the delivery of the warehouse.

The so-called help is that the unfortunate selected people only have to contribute money to supplement the expenses of the large grain chief, and they can be responsible for the transportation without contribution. Even so, those who have a grain chief's help still need to pawn the house and land, and even sell their children and daughters to bankrupt their families.

But this time, Zhao Sicheng, the new secretary of the household, played a new trick as soon as he took office, and began to re-appoint the chief of grain. The Wang family was sent this time, that is, the grain chief of the fifth district in the total of fifteen grain districts in She County, which is even worse than the small grain chief in each of them, and the money is still second, that is, to collect the money and grain after running forward, and he has to be responsible for traveling thousands of miles to release and send it to the warehouse! In recent years, whether it is Huizhou Mansion or She County, there are a lot of arrears of various taxes and grains, and there are not a few people who have been forced to die because of this.

As if sensing that Wang Fulin's face was really a little ugly, Wu Lichang honestly told the disadvantages of the battle of the grain chief, and added cautiously: "Of course, the battle of the grain chief is not without disadvantages. In previous years, there were often grain chiefs who took the opportunity to change the small ones that weighed silver into large ones, saying that they wanted to pay one or two pieces of silver, but in fact they charged six or seven cents more, eight or nine cents or even one penny. And the grain chiefs of various districts want to transport grain to Nanjing, and they can also levy and pay for subsidized and empty servants from various households below, which can also go into their pockets. It's just that unless you really have the ability to subdue the township and are not afraid of being denounced, most grain chiefs are still a little measured. ”

The only interest of daring is to be willing to put a conscience in your pocket; But the disadvantages are from the army to the head loss, a whole lot!

Wang Fulin was annoyed, but looking at the poor Wu Lichang, he did not get angry at the other party, but asked politely: "Then let me ask Wu Lichang, my father is now a businessman, but he was sent as a grain chief, if he just follows the rules, what should he do?" ”

"Well...... this"

Wu Lichang hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to tell the truth: "The grain chief is a household servant, and if the head of the household is not there, other Ding men have to replace him, and if not, he has to find a way quickly." And the deadline is very tight, the levy will start at the end of May, and the tax will be paid in August, if it is delayed, I am afraid that it will be Ling Zun who will be affected when I turn back, and it is impossible for petty officials to stay out of the matter. I heard that Ye Xianzun Zhao has seen a petty official? If this is the case, the petty officials hurriedly went to the county seat to ask for a meeting, and it was also a way to get rid of the grain chief. After all, for so many years, it is really rare to let a close relative of the student's family serve as the chief of the grain. ”

Well, it was done on purpose! It seems that last time he only knocked down one Wang Qiu, and let go of the student who might spread rumors, so he gave people the illusion that he was still weak and could be bullied!

"Then you sue me, how many days do I have left?"

"At the beginning of June, the summer tax must be collected, and before that, the chief of the fifteen districts will go to the county government to meet the county honor, at most half a month."

Wang Fulin looked at Wu Lichang, who was full of sincerity, and didn't want to entangle with this guy who was also a small person anymore. As for the other party's previous mention of going to see Ye Junyao, he was noncommittal, and directly ordered to send off the guests. When Jinbao led the man out, he stood up and looked at the study, which was surrounded by books, on a whim.

He picked up a roll of paper and spread it out on the desk, dipped the pen in the inkstone, and swayed it on this long scroll.

As soon as Wang Erniang pushed the door and entered the study room, she saw her brother standing in front of the desk writing something, and she was a little anxious. When Wu Lichang went out, he didn't dare to talk to her anymore, and she couldn't ask why Jinbao was there, and the brother who promised him that there would be a way to do it, but at this time, he was angry with the scholar, and he still had time to write what to write!

She rushed over angrily, and was about to complain and get angry, but her eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of the dozen big characters that had been written on the paper, and she read it out unconsciously.

"Fighting with the sky, the fun is endless; Fighting with the ground, the fun is endless; Fight with people, the fun is endless! ”

Seeing Wang Fulin put away the pen and stood with his wrist in his hands, Wang Erniang raised her head to look at her brother in shock, and then looked down at the ink-drenched words, and her eyes lit up after a while.

"Brother, do you have a way?"

"Maybe." Wang Fulin shrugged his shoulders and didn't say anything to death, seeing that Wang Erniang was about to jump to his feet, he smiled and said, "Your brother is a sponge, but there is no way, just squeeze it!" ”

Seeing that Wang Fulin actually put down these words and walked straight out, he vaguely heard him say two words to Jinbao, and when Wang Erniang woke up and chased out, he found that the father and son had already gone out. asked the little girl where she went, but all she got was shaking her head, and she was angry. My brother is now better than before, but he is also a thief than before, everything is mysterious and secretive, and he always refuses to explain the truth!

When he came to the gate of the private garden in Mr. Nanming's house again, Wang Fulin looked at the pavilions and pavilions that were faintly visible inside, and suddenly realized a problem.

In the past, when he was in Songming Mountain, he was afraid of revealing flaws in front of the villagers, so he never vigorously inquired about the most famous celebrity of his clan, but the last time he went to She County, he obviously had a lot of opportunities, why did he never think of pretending to be a foreigner and going to the teahouse and wine shop to inquire? In this way, I don't still know what the name of the family is, and I don't even know whether the person should be a clan uncle or an uncle.

"After all, I just don't have that heart!"

Wang Fulin muttered self-deprecatingly, because the voice was so small that even Jinbao beside him didn't hear it. He went to the door and asked, and learned that Mr. Nan Ming was still in the Wu Orchard in Xixi South Village, and had not returned, so he thought about it and said: "I am going to the city in the near future, since I have repeatedly met Mr. Nan Ming, can you allow me to leave a note?" ”

The porter was about to answer, when a voice came from inside: "There is no need for a note, if you have anything to say, you can say it directly, and I will bring you a message." ”

With this voice, Wang Fulin saw a young man come out of it unhurriedly, and after taking a look at him, he nodded with a smile and said, "Say, what's the matter?" ”

This guy is just out of nowhere!

The person who recognized it was an idler swimming in the wild, Wang Fulin was not surprised, and he considered how to speak at the moment. And after the Jinbao beside him saluted, he glanced at the porter with his eyes, intentionally or unintentionally. Sure enough, the next moment, I only heard the porter nod his head and said, "Second master." ”

This second master, Jin Bao suddenly realized. Wang Fulin was a little embarrassed while being surprised. The most fatal flaw of not recognizing people before, with Jinbao and Qiu Feng to help make up for it, it was finally covered up, but he often walked by the river, how could he not get his shoes wet, this is good, it is the third time he has met face-to-face with this one, and he was stunned until now that he knew that he should call the other party uncle!

That turned out to be an elder! Elders! It's all to blame for the fact that he wasn't too used to the fact that he was only fourteen years old until now!

Seeing that Wang Fulin's face was uncomfortable, Second Master Wang took the initiative to say: "It's normal that you don't go to visit relatives and friends, and you can't recognize me." I'm about to go to Xixi South Village, come, let's talk while walking, what do you want to say to the eldest brother? ”

Wang Fulin saw that the other party took the initiative to hand over the steps, so he simply slapped his cheekiness and called his uncle with a smile, and then he followed the steps of the second master Wang. After thinking about the sentence for a while, he told him about Wu Lichang's coming over today. When he said that he was sending a grain chief, the young uncle beside him suddenly stopped, raised his eyebrows and said, "When did this kind of thing about sending a grain chief fall to a place like our Songming Mountain, where there is no household?" It seems that these guys have not eaten enough lessons, and they are getting bolder! Do you want Big Brother to come forward and block this back? ”

I'd like to, but this kind of favor doesn't seem so easy to owe ...... Besides, I don't know what the new Zhao Si of the household has in mind!

Wang Fulin thought so in his heart, but said with righteousness in his mouth: "If anything has to alarm Mr. Nanming, my junior is too cheeky." It's just that I've been calculated over and over again, and it's really annoying, even if I can't do it once and for all, I have to let people know that I'm not a soft persimmon to pinch. Seeing that people looked at him in surprise, he arched his hand and said, "Can you ask my uncle to ask Mr. Nanming for me, if I don't pay attention and make a big deal when I turn around, will I be able to hold back?" ”

"Uh...... Hahahaha! Second Master Wang was stunned for a moment, and then laughed. After laughing, he said with blazing eyes, "Although the eldest brother is idle, not everyone can bully the Wang clan of Songming Mountain!" If it wasn't for your wild words before, I wouldn't have asked my eldest brother to see you make a move first, but I didn't expect you to be so energetic. Okay, if you have the ability, just let it go, and we'll give you the back! ”

Seeing that Wang Fulin's eyes lit up, and then he saluted and thanked him, the second master Wang stretched out his hand to help the person up, and sent a lot of encouragement as if he didn't want money, and even said to Jinbao seriously, go back and introduce him to a good gentleman. It was only when he saw the father and son say goodbye and leave that he sighed softly.

"The eldest brother formed the Fenggan Society, and many people above said that he was hopeless, so he was happy in the bitterness, and he could only be a Taiping eunuch in the future! But even if it's a rural eunuch, just a villain wants to bully? ”

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