On July 16, after the Zhongyuan Ghost Festival, it was the day when the grain chiefs of the six counties of Huizhou officially began to collect summer taxes in the collection and transportation warehouse. She County because it is the county seat that was built during the Jiajing period, the county government levy and the reservoir is also newly repaired, in the west of the Fuxue, the place is extremely spacious, there are three rooms in the back hall of the main hall, there are 30 rooms in the east and west side houses, and the chief of the grain in the fifteen districts happens to live in two of them. Nowadays, there are very few people who grow these big grains and are proud of the gentry, and those who are like Wu Tianbao who take them to help are two clan brothers and two elderly nephews. And like other kind of big grain chiefs in the countryside, he is surrounded by three or four characters with faces full of meat, like green-skinned thugs.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the chief of the grain was only responsible for the harvest, and the department had its own chief worker, but now if the chief of the grain does not go deep into the townships and villages, and greet the chief, when it comes to the day of the harvest, it is a ghost shadow who does not want to have one. Wu Tianbao almost broke his leg before, but he only explained less than half of the eleven miles in the next eleven miles, and only five miles in the chief reasonably said that he would try his best to urge the department, and the others were ignored. Now on the first day of collection, he only felt restless when he saw that others were coming in one after another with villagers, or with a long convoy, or with a silver box in hand.

And Liu Hui, the official who was reinstated, was sitting in the main hall at this time. He started as a white-clothed bookstore in a household, and he didn't know how many years of summer tax and autumn grain collection he had experienced, and he knew that this year's situation was worse than any other year. Don't say anything about the county zun giving face in the first year of his tenure, even the year when the county zun left office in the past, he didn't see such a procrastination when he paid taxes.

"Official, Chief Wu is there. So far, only one mile long has come, and only about fifty stone of wheat has been delivered, and it is in kind, not silver. ”

It is said to be a summer tax, but at the same time it is also a summer rent. Because there are private fields and official fields in She County, in addition to collecting taxes, these official fields will also collect rents from the people who rent the fields, just like the private tenants rent the fields. The entire She County, summer tax plus summer rent. In total, the wheat to be handed over is more than 10,300 stones, which are distributed to 15 grain areas, and each area is about 600 stones, which is more than 50 stones per mile. Some of this part is handed over in kind, and some are handed over in silver. This is also a rule that has been changed since the early days, originally to facilitate transportation, after all, silver is much lighter than heavy wheat.

And this is a regular tax, in addition to the regular tax, plus all kinds of subordinate, empty service, or freight, all kinds of imperial court additions, government levies. Military spending, plus summer tax silk, will be twice as much as the original one.

This figure was approved by Zhao Sicheng. However, the lower wardens and the clerk were involved, except for the two percent he added, there was no fallacy in the rest, so the previous household still used the same batch of numbers to be distributed to the chief grain of the lower districts. At this moment, as soon as Liu Hui heard that the lieutenant chief who came to pay the tax had only paid fifty stone of wheat, his brows tightened. Then he asked, "Where is the silk silver?" ”

"Not a single penny." The secretary office was Liu Hui's hardcore back then, and Zhao Sicheng was dismissed when he took office. Now that he has been called back, naturally only Liu will be the first to look forward. Seeing the head's face, his face turned pale. He lowered his voice and said, "But this silk is not only the Wu grain chief's family, I went to the other grain chiefs to shake around, and there is no one in the lower head who brought the villagers to hand over the silk and silver." ”

Sure enough, someone fanned the flames and made waves!

Liu Hui gritted his teeth slightly. The exchange conditions reached between Ye Xianzun and those officials in the past were to discuss silk after the summer tax this year. But now there is a commotion at this time, obviously forcing Ye County to obey. He had experienced a great ups and downs, and he already had some deep hatred for the tricks of these eunuchs, so he was naturally not as enthusiastic as he was about the Junping Xia tax silk at the beginning.

Moreover, he is in a house, and he is not a small common man who is easy to be fooled, and he knows that the reason why the people of She County are getting heavier and heavier, and it is becoming more and more unbearable for this huge silk summer tax, is because those eunuchs do not pay a penny, and it is because the military expenses and annual expenses apportioned every year are getting heavier and heavier.

This year, Yin Dashuai, who was born in She County, is fighting in the south and is quite greedy for his human nature. It is said that the first Gao Gong said a sentence, that is, to give Yin Zhengmao one million taels of military expenses, even if half of the embezzlement is made, this rebellion can be put down immediately. And continuing to use incompetent people like Li Qian will only cost more. Of course, in fact, it is not as exaggerated as allocating one million military spending, but it also gave Yin Zhengmao an extra 200,000 taels. But the price is that all the major prefectures and counties in the world have spread a sum of military spending, among them, Nanzhili and Zhejiang, which are regarded as wealthy, are the largest apportionments, and She County has to bear thousands of taels, plus the annual office in two quarters, a total of 4,000 will be levied when the summer tax is alone!

Why didn't anyone fight against those eunuchs, and the military expenses and annual assessments were not the ancestral taxes of the early years of the country, and they should not be levied?

Of course, Liu Hui only thought about this kind of thought in his head. Strictly speaking, this is already a big rebellion. Thinking that Wang Fulin put his heart into him, he made it clear that Wang Daokun did not agree with the attitude of immediately putting the matter of Junping Xia tax silk on the agenda, but thought that it should be implemented slowly, at least a series of rebounds in the other five counties should be considered, and then slowly promoted, seeking a plan that was acceptable to all six counties, and then compared with Cheng Wenlie, the broker who represented Old Lady Wang who contacted him in private, he couldn't help but let out a long breath.

Although he is not a corporal at all, and he can't talk about dying for his confidant, he still understands the truth of knowing the grace of retribution. At that time, if Wang Fulin hadn't reached out and pulled him, he might have died on the way to the army. Hufang is not just a veteran of his own seniority, isn't Wu Si Shan quite knowledgeable about current affairs?

"Do you want me to send a few errands down to help Chief Wu Liang, so that those lieutenants can speed up the urging of the department?"

"This rule of chasing comparison is not used on the grain chief, but on the chief. If they can't pay their taxes, they will also have to be punished. Liu Hui didn't even think about it, so he hit this stupid idea back, "Now those people are pinning their hopes on the county zun to make a big mistake, so that they can use the bait of paying the summer tax to force the county zun to charge ahead." Take a look first, don't panic! ”

"There's something wrong with you!"

After another hour or so, there was a sudden loud shout, and Liu Hui, who had been trying his best to calm down and sit in the main hall, suddenly looked away from the pile of case files on the table, and Huo Ran stood up. This time, he didn't wait for the outside eyeliner to report, but walked quickly to the door and raised the fine spotted bamboo curtain. Then I saw the door of the side room near the front gate on the west side, and there was a commotion at this moment, and a large number of people were gathering there, some shouting, some jumping, and many more people from other places gathered around. At this moment, a bookseller rushed in front of him, sweating profusely.

"The secretary, when the chief of grain collects money, he uses it privately, and a tax-paid lieutenant over there pays ten taels of official silver, and he is called out and said that it is only nine taels and seven dollars, and the lieutenant explodes."

This is a malpractice that has been in previous years, the general household secretary turns a blind eye, the grain chief should not go too far, and the chief often swallows his anger and asks for perfection. But at this time, when Liu Hui followed the scribe over, he saw that the two people were already scuffling together on the ground, and their clothes were full of dust, and the grain chief who was wearing green silk clothes before had a bruised face, and the other person had already ridden him under him, and his fists like hammers were rushing towards his opponent's body like raindrops.

"In the past ten years, you have been a grain chief three times, each time you are a small wait for a big one, desperately increasing the silver of the villagers, and you have to receive one or two silver for one person, your heart is too dark! I'm going to go to jail today, and I'm going to take this breath! ”

"What are you doing in a daze, pulling them away, something is really going to go wrong, which of you can afford to take responsibility?"

It was Zhao Wuye and those people under his command who were ordered to come to maintain it today, and when they heard Liu Hui's cry at this moment, they immediately woke up like a dream, and hurriedly went up to separate the two people who were fighting. The lieutenant chief who was still scolding in his mouth was about the age of his early twenties, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, just now he made a move, and several followers of the grain chief did not react, and when he wanted to go up to help, he was forced by a few strong men brought by the young lieutenant chief, and he could only watch his own grain chief being beaten for a while. At this time, when Minzhuang separated the two sides, they woke up like a dream, and one by one they went up and hurriedly supported the grain chief whose face was swollen like a pig's head.

"Commander Liu, Zhao Bantou, I can't do this grain chief!" The grain chief was a country scoundrel, relying on his uncle's family to have a little power and money, rampant in the township, but he was willing to be feared by others like a tiger, and it was the first time he was beaten, he cried and grabbed the ground and was about to play a scoundrel, but he only heard a heavy bang, and he trembled when he was reflexive.

"It's best if you don't do it! This time, Lao Tzu went out, that is, he stabbed him to Nanjing to inspect the imperial history Liu Ye, and I decided the case! The young lieutenant took the senior from a strong man who came with him, waved it vigorously, and then said to the onlookers, including Liu Hui, "See, this is the eldest grade that he added at least seven or eight points to one or two pieces of silver!" Not only that, but taking advantage of this opportunity to pay gold and silver for tax payment, his uncle also took the opportunity to increase the ratio of silver to money, and made the villagers suffer one after another! I deliberately took out this ingot of official silver handed down from my ancestors, but I didn't expect him to even pit this, dog! ”

Just when Liu Hui was thinking about how this situation should end now, he only heard a voice behind him.

"You keep saying that he has pitted people, do you think that if you serve as a grain chief on his behalf, you can do better than him?"

Because it was the voice from behind the crowd, the young man raised his eyebrows, and said without flinching: "If it is a tax collection of eleven miles in a district, I naturally dare not pack a ticket, but if it is only collected in the book, I am confident that I will never pit the villagers!" Originally, the chiefs of each mile were sent to the levy and transportation depot with their hands, and there was more of this black-hearted grain chief, less fairness, and more exploitation! ”

"Good! If this county says, "I don't want this grain chief in the future, and you will grow every one of you and each of you will reap your own li," so what? ”

With this voice, coupled with the familiar self-title, Liu Hui suddenly snorted. The one who spoke was not Shexian Lingye Daxianzun, who else?

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