Chapter 150 The bull's head of the Qi family's army
Originally, he planned to have a close relationship with Qi Liangtao, and by the way, he brought a powerful lifeguard, but the final result was that Wang Xiaoguan was regarded as drowning, and three or four young men went down to the river to "salvage" him, and he was almost forced to spit out water by carrying him. Even so, the top and bottom of Songmingshan Village was still alarmed, when Wang Qihuo rushed over, and saw the little official who had been wrapped in three layers of clothes with innocent eyes, he couldn't help but be suspicious in his heart, put aside the others and stepped forward, and loudly asked others not to speak first.
"Little official, what the hell is going on?"
"Who said I fell into the water, I just swam from Xixi South Village opposite!" Just now the surrounding was as noisy as a vegetable market, Wang Fulin had no chance to speak, at this moment, he finally threw out this sentence in a righteous and strict manner, seeing the onlookers in the village looking at each other, many people still didn't believe it, so he pointed to the other side in annoyance and said, "I didn't see my clothes still on the other side!" ”
At this moment, everyone turned their heads to look at the other side, and saw that there was a man in the room who was getting dressed, and the woman who shouted remembered that there seemed to be someone next to Wang Fulin at the beginning, and she was a little suspicious at this moment. People who were anxious hurriedly went to the bridge and rushed to the opposite side, and when he came back in a hurry, he was still holding a neatly folded stack of clothes in his hands, and there was a small guy behind him, it was Ye Qinglong.
Ye Qinglong confirmed Wang Fulin's statement, and the others finally believed it. But when I thought that Wang Xiaoxiu, who had just been beaten by the villain and was bedridden a few months ago, dared to go down to the river, this nonsense of persuasion and reminder was indispensable, and the nagging made Wang Fulin almost crazy.
It's easy to struggle out, looking at the three aunts and six women around, how dare Wang Fulin change his clothes naked here, and he has to go back to his home, but he also met the patriarch Wang Daohan who came in a hurry halfway, which is another good lesson, and when he finally packed up and returned to Wu's orchard, this early morning joke has spread all over Xixi South Village, and everyone who sees him is smiling, even if he doesn't directly mock, but this is bad enough! As for Ye Qinglong, he was originally staying on the other side of Xixi South to watch the wind, and he couldn't even be angry with this little guy, so he could only sulk by himself.
And when he returned to the orchard and saw Qi Liang again, this guy who was usually very honest smiled at him and said: "It's really that I'm the worst at dealing with women, so I can only leave you and run away at that time." Don't worry, if you go back and swim in the Fengle River, I will call all the brothers to look at the wind! ”
Phew, if anyone says that you are honest in the future, I will have to expose you to your face!
Although this small episode has become a big topic of conversation for the villagers on both sides of Songmingshan Village and Xixi South Village, it has undoubtedly brought the relationship closer to the generals of Wang Fulin and Qi Jiajun. Especially for the small festival between his own Qi Baihu and Wang Xiaoguan, a few really honest old men thought that Wang Fulin also lent them a house, and they were a little unhappy, and in private they actually compensated instead of Qi Liang. Wang Fulin didn't think much of himself, but he took the opportunity to inquire about Qi Liang's exploits, and sure enough, he heard a legend.
This guy once infiltrated the pirate leader Wang Zhi to be a spy! Can an honest man be a spy? All the guys who were deceived by this honest face, including themselves, were all self-inflicted!
As for Cheng Dagongzi, who was raptured out, he naturally seized the opportunity to laugh at Wang Fulin Yitong. It's just that early the next morning, as a landlubber, he could only watch Wang Fulin and Qi Liang cross the river one after the other. Even though he was itchy and wanted to ask Wang Fulin to teach him to swim, he was solemnly warned by Master Cheng when Mo Xiang moved out, and he wilted all of a sudden. However, when Wang Fulin went ashore to dry his body, got dressed with Ye Qinglong's help, smiled and called him to the bridge with Qi Liang, and started to talk about business, he immediately had no heart to complain.
"Stand-up?"
Cheng Naixuan was completely unfamiliar with this term, and his blank eyes had already revealed whether he understood or not. And Qi Liang chewed on the three words that Wang Fulin suddenly mentioned, and only after a while did he smile bitterly and look at Wang Fulin with some doubts.
"As far as I know, the three words "reserve warehouse" are only used by the government, and the people only know it as a granary. If it weren't for the fact that when my family was still in good times, my father worked as an old man in the warehouse, I'm afraid that Little Brother Wang, you would have asked in vain. When Grandpa Shimiao (Jiajing) was still there, the preparation warehouse was already in a mess. At that time, the southeast resisted the Japanese, and the three major warehouses, including the reserve warehouse, were almost impossible to count on, and Hu Butang almost scraped a layer of oil skin on those big households in Zhejiang, which finally guaranteed the food supply of the Qi family army and even other armies. Later, those big families really responded to a word, and the landlord's family had no surplus grain! ”
Wang Fulin saw that Qi Liang understood, but Cheng Naixuan didn't understand, so he had to explain to this pampered son. There are three types of warehousing in the Ming Dynasty. Nanjing and Beijing have Taicang and Jingtong warehouses, and there are water sub-warehouses in various parts of the canal, which belong to the imperial court and are under the jurisdiction of special personnel sent by the imperial court, and have nothing to do with the locality. The local warehousing system is a regular position, a reserve warehouse, a social warehouse, and a righteous warehouse. Chang Ping has a long history, starting from the Han Dynasty, to put it bluntly, it is used to stabilize grain prices, selling in disaster years, buying in good years, it was very popular in all dynasties and generations in the past, but not all states and counties were set up in the Ming Dynasty. The Shecang and Yicang were used to provide relief to the victims in the event of a famine, and the government was like a faction to the big family's house to force the family to lose, because most of the time there was no entry or exit, so it decayed earlier.
As for the reserve warehouse, it was the first initiative of Zhu Yuanzhang, the top priority of local warehousing in the Ming Dynasty, in the final analysis, it was to provide loans to the victims, and the prominent thing was a loan word, and the grain lent out should be repaid according to the rules! According to the standard of Shexian County to reach a radius of 120 miles, the standard grain storage requirement is 70,000 stones! But in fact, when the preparation warehouse was strictly managed in the orthodox years, there was not so much grain stored, and in the Jiajing period, the imperial court only asked for 3,000 stones, and the place was no longer available. Anyway, Wang Fulin saw Ye Daxian Zun in the county government every day, and he had never heard him mention the word "reserve warehouse".
Before his uncle Wu Tianbao collected the summer tax and prepared to return to his hometown, he was preparing for the liberation after that, and before leaving, he mentioned to him that this year was a rare harvest year in recent years, but the price of grain fell again and again. Now that the summer tax is about to be paid in full, all the townships in the six counties of Huizhou are driven away like whips, but every rice store is desperately trying to lower the price. At this time, he thought of buying the freshly harvested wheat and barley from the official government to stabilize the grain price, but when he asked Liu Hui, he knew that the reserve warehouse in She County was useless, and it was estimated that there were more rats and cockroaches than grain. And to collect grain? There is no money at all!
Before, Wang Fulin thought that after the summer tax, there would be an autumn grain crisis, so Wang Fulin decided to take precautions, which can be regarded as a benefit for the villagers of She County, so he planned to fight the idea of a dozen reserve warehouses. His plan was that since all taxes were collected in silver, and the villagers had to sell grain for silver, so they would be subjected to the depressive price exploitation of the rice store, then, according to the amount of silver to be paid for the summer tax and autumn grain distributed to each li, the reserve warehouse would take out the silver capital, collect and store the grain equivalent to the amount of summer tax and autumn grain according to the amount of summer tax and autumn grain payable per li, and then sell the grain when there was a shortage of grain in the spring.
Anyway, when Zhang Juzheng comes to power, he will definitely go all out to implement a whip, and at that time, the chaotic Ding Servant Plenum will be converted into silver and distributed to the head of the household, in this case, the reserve warehouse system can alleviate the urgent need of the villagers who cannot afford to pay taxes without silver. The problem is that the government has no money, so he can only fight his own ideas from this system.
When he originally raised this matter to Qi Liang, he saw the one-eyed officer with a simple and honest face look at him with a meaningful gaze: "Wang Xiaoguan is counting on us mud-legged soldiers for all the money?" ”
"No, I don't lack capital, although my family still owes Mr. Nan Ming a lot of debts, but Mr. Nan Ming said that he is not in a hurry to pay it back, I still have money to spare, and Cheng Gongzi is a rich man with thousands of taels of private money, how can you need to take out the savings of many years of bloody war?" Wang Fulin saw that Qi Liang's face softened suddenly, and he said bluntly, "But I want to use the name of the Qi family's army." ”
Qi Liang was originally angry that a rumored young man who was as ruthless as the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves of the enemy, and who was idle but also gave people a sincere and bright taste, actually wanted to calculate the blood and sweat of his own people, but Wang Fulin's answer first dispelled his doubts, and then made him stunned all of a sudden. He glanced at the equally confused Cheng Gongzi and asked directly, "What do you mean?" ”
"That is to say, Qi Baihu, you take the lead, in the name of Qi Jiajun, Cheng Naixuan and I will each get together a share, collect the share capital, and collect the grain that the villagers use to exchange money when they pay taxes!" Seeing that Qi Liang almost didn't bare his eyes out, obviously thinking that the two of them were good and talented students to do such a thankless job, and they had nothing to do after they were full, Wang Fulin smiled and said, "This is also a way to make money, as long as the operation is good, the profit is definitely considerable." Of course, I mean to use the operation mechanism of the reserve warehouse, not that I plan to carry the burden of the reserve warehouse, I will start a new stove, Qi Baihu, you just need to borrow a name! ”
Seeing that Qi Liang didn't speak, he continued to bewitch: "You must know that Qi Baihu and you people retired from the army, but they did not stay in Jiangnan and moved to She County, and some people have already said irresponsible things. Mr. Nanming took office as the governor of Yunyang, and my two uncles also went with him, which means that it is difficult for the Wang clan of Songmingshan to suppress those voices. In the previous expedition and loss warehouse, the momentum I created for you is certainly very useful, but how can it compare to such a feat that is anxious for the villagers? It has been 34 years since Jiajing suffered from the Japanese in Huizhou Mansion, and the older may still remember what happened at that time, but the young people have not experienced it at all. ”
How could Qi Liang not remember that time when a hundred Japanese robbers made a mess in Zhejiang, killed and injured many court officials, and later wiped out a large number of civil and military officials, but for his own coach Qi Jiguang, it can be called a heavy incident that promoted his rise. He nodded somewhat cautiously and suddenly grinned.
"Brother Wang just said that he was afraid that people would talk irritably about us, so it would be better for us to go back and pay homage to the villagers who died when the Japanese invaded the Huizhou Mansion. I am originally from She County, Huizhou, so I said that some of the deceased were my maternal uncle's family, and it was because of him that we joined the Qi family's army, and let others say that some relatives were among the victims. In this way, we moved to Shexian, and this excuse can be fulfilled. ”
Hearing that Qi Liang changed back to the familiar name before, and found an excellent excuse, Wang Fulin knew that there was no need to say anything else, which could be regarded as agreeing in disguise. Qi Liang's subordinates were very convinced by him, and the next thing to do was just to persuade Ye Xianzun. So, he dragged Cheng Naixuan, who was about to ask a question, and said: "Xixinan is one of the richest villages in She County, and in addition, Nanxinan is also Nanxinan. Tomorrow, when I have time, I will take you to Nanxi South to have a good turn! ”
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