In Xuancheng County, Ningguo Prefecture, when the dusty Shuai Jiamo and a few people arrived here, their hearts were full of excitement. Maybe it's because Yin Zhengmao, the current Nanjing Hubu Shangshu, is a person himself, or maybe it's because when Shuai Jiamo was returned from Beijing by Wang Fulin before, Zhang Juzheng already had letters handed to his cronies everywhere, such as Song Yiwang, who was personally promoted to the governor of Yingtian in the second year of Wanli, etc., so he can clearly experience the changes in the attitude of the people in the official government.

Even when they found out that there was a balance in the trip, they suggested that he simply spend a small amount of money to donate a set of crowns to bring back, so that he could return home! He was a little hesitant at first, but he couldn't help but be repeatedly pruned by others, coupled with the hardships he had endured for many years, he finally listened to this and donated the nine-grade crown belt, although this does not mean that even if he can be a candidate for office, ordinary people can't do such a dress even if they have money, and they spend this money just to be qualified to wear that crown and belt.

Seeing Xuancheng, which is two or three days away from Huizhou Mansion and four or five days away, everyone stayed at the inn and drank a few glasses of wine. After Shuai Jiamo was poured a few cups, he said that he would go to the palace to see Yao Fuzun after going back, this time the lawsuit would definitely be able to make a sensation in Nan Zhili and even the world, he was full of ambition, and several other people also showed an expression of honor. After a hearty drink, they went back to their rooms, and Shuai Jiamo had just laid down before he could close his eyes, only to hear a gentle knock on the door. He thought it was his companion who was looking for something again, so he pulled his shoes and went to open the door.

But the door opened. I found that there was a middle-aged Confucian who was a complete stranger outside. Shuai Jiamo, who has suffered countless plots and hardships over the years, immediately became vigilant. He reached behind his back and grabbed a short dagger for self-defense. But as soon as the other party opened his mouth, his hostility melted down a little.

"Mr. Shuai, under Liu Mingye, is the master of Shexian Lingxue County's side. I know that you came back from Nanjing this time because of the matter of the Xia tax silk in Huizhou Mansion, so Xue Xianzun specially ordered me to rush to Ningguo Mansion to greet you. Seeing that Shuai Jiamo seemed to relax, and the right hand that was originally put behind his back returned to front of him, Master Liu said with a smile, "Can you come into the house and talk?" ”

I thought about it for a long time. Seeing that the other party didn't look like those guys who threatened and even wanted their own lives, Shuai Jiamo finally let people in, but he didn't latch the door of the room. And Liu Mingye didn't beat around the bush, as soon as he entered the house, he said straight to the point: "Xue Xianzun said that Mr. Shuai has been running around for the interests of the people of She County for many years, and even being born and dying, which is really hard work. Now that he has taken up his new position, he intends to use this as an opportunity. To reduce the burden on the people of She County, when the government re-examines the matter. He will stand firmly on your side. ”

Shuai Jiamo has never heard such a clear statement from the lord of a county, in the past, some officials and servants could stand on his side, and it was rare to have a county respected person who was willing to silently support him. Even Wang Fulin is just praising and compassionate. For a while, he only felt that his heart was hot, and his throat was a little choked: "If Xue County Zun can really remove this big mountain on his head for the people of She County, it will be a great blessing!" ”

Master Liu didn't expect Shuai Jiamo to be so moved as soon as he heard that the county respected the strong support, and he was eight points sure of the purpose of this trip. After admonishing and encouraging Shuai Jiamo, he said that Wang Fulin contacted the famous eunuch of the township and advocated the slowdown of this matter, and sure enough, he saw Shuai Jiamo frowning. He had also heard that Wang Fulin had not only taken the seriously injured Shuai Jiamo to his home for treatment in Beijing before, but also stabbed the matter in front of Zhang Juzheng, and escorted people back thousands of miles, so he knew that saying bad things about Wang Fulin had to be stopped, otherwise the effect would be counterproductive, so he stopped very smartly, and at the same time said the biggest intention of this trip.

"The county has sent someone to poke this matter to the Huizhou Mansion again, and soon the Huizhou Mansion will issue a formal investigation card, and the six counties of one government will debate fiercely, you might as well delay in Xuancheng for a few days, and wait until I She County has the upper hand, and then you will go back with the attitude of Nanjing Household Department and Fuyuan, so the effect is the greatest and best." When Master Liu said this, he took out a large ingot weighing about ten taels from his arms, and put it on the table with a light weight, "This is what the county asked me to bring, not for anything else, Mr. Quan Dangshuai's expenses during his time in Xuancheng." ”

Shuai Jiamo couldn't refuse, so he accepted it. After sending this Master Liu away, he closed the door and latched the door again, but his heart was very entangled. Thinking that when he arrived in Beijing, Wang Daokun avoided it, as if he didn't want to pay attention to it, at that time he felt very dissatisfied, and when Wang Fu Lin Xue rescued him at night, and even drank back the interceptor, he treated his injuries again, and stabbed the matter to the first assistant Zhang Juzheng, and sent someone to escort him back and subsidize the money, he was not ungrateful in his heart. However, all his energy over the years has been focused on this silk dispute, how can he accept that Wang Fulin has insisted on delaying after returning to his hometown?

"Whether people's hearts are changeable or have other purposes, I can only recognize that my original intention will not change!"

Shuai Jiamo has not come back, but the Huizhou government has sent two checks to the six counties to check the origin of the silk silk of the Dunaxia tax in Shexian County, which immediately opened a curtain of verbal swords. At the time, people said that Suzhou people were good at lawsuits, that is, they loved to sue, and they had to go to the government to fight lawsuits if they had big problems, but Huizhou people's love for lawsuits was also famous for the entire Nanzhili. Even Zhu Zi Zhu Xi, who was officially regarded as the master of science by the Ming Dynasty, once lamented that the Hui people were too rigid and combative, so it was difficult to convince them with force, and it was easy to win with reason. In other words, if you use your power to suppress people, the people of Huizhou will not be convinced at all, and it makes sense to win the debate first.

In this way, She County and the other five counties of Huizhou Prefecture can be regarded as officially carried. From the eunuchs to the common people, snowflake-like documents flew into the Huizhou Mansion, and all kinds of complaints received every day could fill a table, and the prefect Yao Huizu found that he didn't have time to read it at all, if he looked at them all, he would not be able to manage other official affairs, and he would only toss such a summer tax silk dispute! As a result, he had to deal another card and convene the county magistrates of the six counties, the township eunuchs, the gentry and the representatives of the villagers to gather in the government office. And let it out beforehand. Use debate to reason to determine right and wrong.

This scene is a war of words. She County is represented by Wang Shangning, and the other five counties are most united in Wuyuan County, especially Cheng Wenlie and Cheng Renqing, two talented people, with a gang of litigants as the backing, and the eunuchs are just watching from the wall, and Yu Maoxue, who has just been dismissed, did not appear. Although Wang Fulin received an invitation from the Huizhou government, he shirked it by recuperating from illness, and let Jinbao, who was the head of the case, only listen with his ears. The rest were all confined to his home. It was only in the afternoon that Jinbao, who had an excellent memory, came back, and he had to carefully describe the scene in today's mansion hall.

"Today, we started from the Jiachen tax to the Yisi reform, saying that it was the Yisi reform, and the rest of the counties only increased the wheat and rice in the summer tax and autumn grain, and only She County added more than 9,000 horses of summer tax silk. This is what Mrs. Wang said, and Cheng Wenlie, who was on Wuyuan's side, jumped out, saying that it was because the Huizhou Mansion owed Yuan Emai, so he punished the silk silk, but was pushed back by Mrs. Wang. It is said that Huizhou originally did not produce silk, according to the Ming Dynasty. This summer tax silk is a human folded silk, not a yuan wheat folded silk. And Cheng Wenlie took out the Yellow Book of Enlistment and the Hongzhi version of the Huizhou Mansion Chronicle as evidence, but the old lady Wang took the Jiajing version of the Huizhou Mansion Chronicle and the Ming Huidian as a refutation. ”

Wang Fulin saw that Ye Xiaopang originally regretted not going to see the excitement, but when he heard Jinbao say this, his eyes widened, and he looked like he didn't understand, so he kindly explained: "Jiachen taxation is the twenty-fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, and Emperor Taizu used the era name of Song Longfeng for ten years. At that time, why did you want to send Shexian Xia tax silk, now I'm afraid no one can find evidence, so what Hongzhi version or Jiajing version of the Fuzhi, the Yellow Book, and the Ming Huidian are all auxiliary evidence, and today they should be around this rhetoric, right? ”

Seeing that Jin Bao nodded again and again, Wang Fulin continued: "The versions of the Fuzhi are different, and the side of the revisionists is different, and this is only a semi-official thing, and it is not accurate. Therefore, the people of She County really rely on the Ming Huidian, which is repaired by the imperial court, and the person who is the chief editor is Li Dongyang, the first assistant in the Zhengde period, which is naturally the most official thing, but because it is national, it is only one of the volumes that involves enlistment, so the remaining five counties must not say that what is recorded here is wrong, and they can only insist that the Huidian only records the outline, which is not comprehensive enough, and they have the Yellow Book, which is to say that the summer tax silk silk in She County is because of the punishment of the previous arrears. But the yellow book is all handled by the scribes in the yamen, and it is conceivable that it is greasy. It is precisely because of this that this controversy will be justified by the public, and the mother-in-law will say that the mother-in-law is reasonable. ”

Jinbao is good at reading, but he really doesn't understand this kind of tax and the like, so Wang Fulin's explanation is also timely for him. Therefore, after he nodded, he made the confrontation between the main people on both sides clear, and it was exactly as Wang Fulin said. In particular, Cheng Wenlie grasped the fact that Wang Shangning was the president of the Jiajing version of Huizhou Mansion Chronicles, and criticized him for harboring evil intentions at that time, and made this old lady Wang angry and upside down, he said it vividly, amused Ye Xiaopang and Qiu Feng, and Wang Fulin couldn't help but laugh.

The most heated confrontation in between, however, was the debate over the numbers, which was rare in recent years. After all, they are all numbers, and people who don't understand it are absolutely boring to listen to, at least Wang Fulin imagined the expression of Yao Huizu, the prefect of Huizhou, when he heard these complex numbers, and couldn't help but smile gloatingly. At this moment, Jinbao suddenly changed his words.

"Dad, today they can't argue whether they win or lose on the Xia tax silk, and then Mrs. Wang suddenly changed the spearhead and threw out the item of Junping Yin. It is said that the entire Huizhou Mansion sends four divisions of silver more than 16,000 taels every year, She County alone bears more than 5,000 taels, more than 12,000 taels of military silver, She County sends more than 4,000 taels alone, and the rest such as bricks and silver, military salaries, tea plants, etc., each of She counties is almost one-third of the independent faction, you must know that Huizhou is a government and six counties, why is She County to bear the bulk alone? ”

Speaking of this, Jinbao suddenly remembered the momentary stagnation in the hall and the atmosphere that followed that almost completely exploded.

"Who doesn't know that Huizhou has six counties, She County is attached to Guoshou County, the richest, and the five counties are full of strength, but it is only half of She County, what is wrong with the independent burden! Moreover, in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and even Nanzhili, the wealthy businessmen of She County are all crowned for a while, not only in Huizhou, but also in the entire south of the Yangtze River! If you don't pay more than this equal silver, who will pay more? This is what Cheng Renqing next to Cheng Wenlie said.

"Fart, who spread that ballad, Shexian Liangxinan, not Xiuning Yishang Mountain! In the early years, Xiuning Wuyuan was rich, that is, Nanzhili was famous, and now your five counties have paid less silk and less equal silver, and the villagers are recuperating and recuperating, and they are much richer than She County! As for the increasingly barren fields in She County, the price of land is getting cheaper and cheaper day by day, and the people are displaced, how many young people are still left in their hometowns to farm? As for the price of land in your five counties, if it weren't for the fertile fields, abundant production, and low taxes, how could there be so many people farming! If there is no equalization of service, the people of She County will all die cleanly! ”

When Mrs. Wang was so angry that he directly exposed the old man and scolded the foul language, Xue Chao, as the commander of She County, found that this topic was too far, and he only planned to reform the unfair Xia tax silk, and he did not even plan to change the average level of silver at all, and immediately became a peacemaker: "What Mrs. Wang said is that the people of She County were quite prosperous in the past, so when the tax amount was set more than the other five counties, the top and bottom did not think that it was too much, but She County has been alone for more than 100 years, how unfair it is!" Now Xiuning is rich and prosperous no less than She County, and Wuyuan and Qimen don't know how much prosperity they have compared to the past, that is, Jixi and Yixian are relatively barren, and Sheren has been asking for Xia tax silk for more than 100 years, if it is not solved, the people's hearts will be really chaotic! ”

When Jin Bao relayed the words of these people one by one, Wang Fulin narrowed his eyes and asked for a long time, "What did Yao Fuzun say?" ”

Yao Fuzun said that he would fairly investigate the year when this person in Huizhou Prefecture started, why he sent Shexian County, and whether other counties paid other taxes and grain to offset it. If not, we need to discuss how to deal with it in the future. Dad, this seems to be biased in favor of our She County, right? ”

"Of course, this Yao Fuzun is Lord Shoufu's person, since Shuai Jiamo has the shadow of Lord Shoufu in that matter, who do you say he will favor? If you want to come to Fuzun to say this, the faces of those people in the other five counties shouldn't be very good-looking, right? ”

"Yes, there was a disturbance in the hall, and as a result, Fuzun temporarily suppressed it with shocking wood. I saw Cheng Wenlie's faces darkened, and after leaving the palace, I saw Mrs. Wang's happy Shexian people, and Cheng Renqing next to Cheng Wenlie spat and scolded, saying that this matter is not over, and she will never let Shexian succeed. As for the people in the other four counties, although the reaction was also very fierce, they were much more restrained than those in Wuyuan. By the way, Dad, Jixi County Commander is still Shu Bangru, it is said that because Jixi is barren, he is also affected by the long-term law, and he can only be transferred after six years. ”

Speaking of Shu Bangru, Wang Fulin suddenly remembered this unlucky jinshi who was in the same department as Ye Junyao. The first government magistrate, and then the acting Jixi County, the acting acting became a real officer, and now he has to work for six years under the influence of the long-term law before he can go, I have to say that Shu Bangru is completely too smart in the agency, but he missed Qingqing's life, and he really made a wrong step! Hearing Jinbao say that today's Shu Bangru seems to be ten years older, and he is also taciturn and does not stand out a lot, but it is Wu Xuan, the Wuyuan County Commander who only took office at the end of the fifth year of Longqing, has a tough attitude, and he can't help but raise his eyebrows.

"In short, this matter has just begun, why I have written so many letters and tried my best to make many people take a little relief, it is because this matter is definitely not as easy as some people think! The litigants around Wuyuan Cheng Wenlie are unprofitable and can't afford to be early, this time they received a lot of money from Wuyuan Township Eunuch but they couldn't do anything, it's strange if they don't make trouble, even Xiuning will not be restrained. ”

If it was so easy, why did he get things done without Ye Dacang's tenure in the first place? Aren't you worried about causing a civil uprising for the sake of the thousands of taels of silver coming in and out every year?

PS: It's the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone has a good New Year, and the monthly pass red envelope is brought (^_^ to be continued.) )