Chapter 92: The Six Years of the Apocalypse

From the beginning of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the city of Beijing began to calm down, and there was a peaceful atmosphere. Originally, there was no inside, and there were occasional wars in Liaodong, but with Sun Chengzong here, Nurchi didn't dare to be too arrogant, at most it was just some fighting. Detour into the original robbery, Nurchi doesn't have the guts yet, Wenlong's nail is too powerful, if you don't go to him, he will come to you from time to time.

In this way, after four months of calm and calm, Luoyang Mansion and Hejian Mansion made news. Lu Xiangsheng was the prefect of Luoyang, focusing on this year's taxes, Lord Lu was not only upright and upright, but his temper was not very good, and the tasks assigned to the imperial court were meticulously completed.

In the past, commercial tax was only levied in the first three months of a year to complete the quota of the grade, but this month is collected every month, and when the tax is levied in the fourth month, the merchant will inevitably be a little uncomfortable, implying that the tax will not be paid. Three taxes and one, what a low tax rate this is, such a small amount of money, not to pay it, wouldn't it be annoying. Lord Lu's temper is not good, if you dare not hand him over, you dare to forcibly seal your shop, there are many businessmen in Luoyang, and there are many people with heads and faces.

No matter what kind of shops they bought and sold, the big ones all closed their doors at once, and even the Fuwang Chitose, who didn't pay taxes, didn't know which one was crazy, and he also closed the façade of the business. However, he did not swagger to strike the market, and brought out a reason for interior decoration.

There is no trading, this is a bit less fun, and the buying and selling shops are not open, but fortunately, the rice shop and other necessities of life are also closed, so that the common people how to live. This matter has to be put on hold in normal times, and the imperial historian of Luoyang will have to impeach Lord Lu to death, but the Henan imperial history stationed in Luoyang, which was appointed by Lord Yue, is also Yue Su's protégé, they are all from the same department, and they are all people of Lord Yue, who is embarrassed not to give face. Henan Yushi can only discuss with Lord Lu, hoping that Lord Lu will solve the matter here in a short time, and it will be difficult for him to do it.

At this time, news also came from Hejian Mansion that Yang Yishan was also in trouble when he was collecting taxes in Hejian Mansion, and businessmen also held a boycott demonstration. Yang Yishan is obviously more crooked than Lord Lu, and he targeted the businessmen who boycotted the market, pulling half and beating half, and quickly calmed down the matter.

What is half and half? In fact, it is very simple, businessmen are profit-seeking, there is no righteousness at all, looking at those businessmen who lead the strike, Lord Yang is not merciful at all, and there is Yue Su's support for the rectification, what is he afraid of, he directly seals up the shops that do not pay taxes, and asks you when he turns around, whether you pay taxes or not, and confiscate them if you do not pay. The first merchant to be seized naturally gritted his teeth and implied that he would not pay taxes, and that he would confiscate all the shops in the city if he had the ability. Who would have thought that Yang Yishan would turn his head and find another merchant to sell the copied shop to you at a price of 10% of the original price. This is a good thing to lose pies in this day, who is unwilling to pick it up, and the rich do not fight with the officials, this is a number, the businessman immediately paid for it and bought the shopkeeper, and Yang Yishan also personally made the official contract.

In this way, the first businessman who competed was dumbfounded, and Yang Yishan continued to look for the second one, or asked you if you paid it, and if you didn't pay it, it would be confiscated. The owner of the second family didn't want to lose his business so much, and in the end, he didn't have much of three taxes, so he simply paid it. This person took the lead, and with Yang Yishan's thunderous means, the merchants of Hejian Mansion had no choice but to admit and pay taxes.

Hejian Mansion easily achieved results, and Lu Xiangsheng of Luoyang was not allowed to paint a scoop according to the gourd, so the merchants in Luoyang had no choice but to admit it and continue to open for business.

The commercial tax matter gradually became successful, and by the end of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the tax silver in Luoyang and Hejian Prefecture was significantly more than in previous years. The results were reported to the Beijing Division, and the emperor was also happy, and issued a decree to be implemented throughout the country, and it was used as an important criterion for performance evaluation. But this is not every place can be turned so many times, so Lord Yue set a rule, at least twice as much as in previous years, if this standard is not met, the performance assessment is poor, and then go home directly.

In terms of salt tax, there has also been substantial progress, and in a year, it is obviously nearly 2 million taels more than in previous years. At this achievement, Carpenter Zhu was even more happy, and thus hated those former salt officials even more. However, Carpenter Zhu's temper was quite good, and he did not cut down all the officials in charge of salt administration in the past, but issued an order to basically change the salt officials in other places in the country. The officials who were replaced this time were basically from Yue Su.

The West Factory has also achieved good results, and a number of huge corrupt officials have been found out, all of which have been raided and clicked. When Xichang was monitoring officials, he adhered to Liu Mingguo's instructions, greed can be open, what is the political performance, if you have the ability, be less greedy, be less greedy. But if the fool who has no skills is still greedy, then he will not be affectionate at all, and he will play it directly to the emperor, and he will do what he wants.

This year, the emperor summoned two princes, the purpose of which was to repair the garden and ask for silver. These vassal kings did not dare not promise, and honestly paid money to buy peace one by one. Two princes, one prince must contribute at least one million taels of silver, and the most can reach three million. And to build a garden, as long as there is no water, tens of thousands of taels, it is more than enough. The silver earned, Zhu Carpenter originally planned and half of the household family, and later saw that today's tax prospects were very good, so he changed his mind and used all the silver as internal funds.

The two princes, from one prince, can earn at least one million taels, and some are more, together, Zhu Carpenter earned twenty or thirty million taels of silver this year. At this number, Carpenter Zhu was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth and designed the garden, which was even more hardworking, and sometimes he even couldn't sleep tonight.

The days passed day by day, and soon it was the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and the current imperial court was no longer a year of making ends meet, and there was no surplus. According to the regulations three years ago, the three provinces on the nine sides of the imperial court should send 3,000 men and horses to Tianjin Wei to assemble.

These nine-sided towns are Liaodong Town, Jizhou Town, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, Ningwu Town, Yansui Town, Yinchuan Town, Guyuan Town, and Zhangye Town. The three provinces did not need to be introduced, and this was a total of two or two roads, each of which sent three thousand horses to come to Tianjin.

Because it was the first big military parade, Zhu Carpenter out of curiosity, personally presided over the meeting, and those who came with him naturally had to go to the East Factory, the West Factory, the Jinyi Guard, the Forbidden Army, and the ministers of the Cabinet and the ministers of the soldiers also came with the emperor.

The military field had already been set up outside Tianjin, and after Carpenter Zhu finished his opening remarks, he handed it over to Xiong Tingbi to preside. In accordance with the rules set by Yue Su, the five items were divided into formations, infantry, cavalry, and five competitions, and each army went out separately.

Because there are too many horses, it can only be compared one day, and the first day is a battle, and the horses of Liaodong won the first place without any suspense. The second place was won by Jizhen Rongma, but unexpectedly, the third place was won by Huguang's Rongma.

Huguang is responsible for commanding the army is the chief soldier Pei Xuan, that is, Pei Yingjie's father, Pei Xuan used to be Huguang's deputy general, and he rose to the position of chief soldier four years ago. His precious son is still locked up in Zhao Prison, although Hou Guoxing did not embarrass later, but he did not dare to release the prisoner of Qin's order, but just let him squat in it honestly. Pei Xuan also came this time with a mission, that is, to save his son from prison.

money, he has already spent it, he has sent silver to Wei Zhongxian, and he has sent silver to Hou Guoxing, but after receiving the money, these two only hinted that they would not embarrass Pei Yingjie, but they did not promise to release it. It is one thing to commit a crime, Pei Yingjie and Yue Su have some entanglements, it is a more important thing, once Pei Yingjie is released, this matter is known by Yue Su, God knows what will be provoked. Lord Yue is so favored, even Hou Guoxing refuses to touch that brow now, being his own official, earning his own money, why do you have a good life, it's not worth it for your two jujubes.

If you don't let people go, you won't let people go, Pei Xuan came to Beijing this time, and he still gave these two generous gifts again, and Gonggong Wei is also a particular person, so he pointed out a clear way for Pei Xuan, as long as you can get the top three results in the big military parade, I can find a way to help you get your son out.

Pei Xuan was originally an expert in leading troops, and the Rong horses he trained in Huguang were much stronger than those in other places, even if he got the Nine Border Town, it would not hurt to give more. Sure enough, in this big confrontation, Pei Xuan's Rong Ma achieved good results in the first battle, which was not as good as Liaodong and Jizhen, which was also reasonable.

The strength gap between the nine border and three provinces is still very large, and the Liaodong Rongma is basically the most powerful, and it is much stronger than other armies. In the next four days, it was a round of competition, Liaodong Rong Ma won the first place without any suspense, the competition for the second place was more intense, Bei Ji Town and Huguang won the second and third in the first battle of the battle, but riding, step, Yunnan's Rong Horse, Shandong's Rong Horse, Shaanxi's Rong Horse also have a certain competitiveness, than in the end, Yunnan's Mu Jiajun won the second place. And Pei Xuan seems to have given a death order to his own horse, no matter which competition Huguang's horse is fighting, it is a desperate competition, and it is not easy to win the third place.

There are strong horses, there are naturally weak horses, soldiers from Fujian, in these five competitions, all won the penultimate place without suspense. According to the original rules of rewards and punishments, the Fujian general soldiers were directly dismissed, and the two general soldiers who won the penultimate and third were also demoted.

Carpenter Zhu fought for five days in a row, and he was very satisfied with the officers and soldiers who showed excellence, so he did not hesitate to reward them. The officers and soldiers of Liaodong were rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver, and Sun Chengzong was crowned as a scholar of Wuyingdian University. Yunnan's Rong Ma rewarded 60,000 taels of silver, and crowned Mu Qiyuan as the governor of the left capital. Huguang's Rong Horse, of course, is not rewarded, rewarded with 30,000 miles of silver, and crowned Pei Xuan as the governor of the right army.

However, when Pei Xuan was rewarded, he politely refused the emperor's seal, and asked for his own guilt, and he had no way to teach his son, so he asked the emperor to surrender. Carpenter Zhu was stunned at that time, and asked what was the matter, Pei Xuan hurriedly went over the matter of his son's attempt to cheat in the past, and asked the emperor to take measures against him. Bringing up this matter at this time, where is the plea, it is clearly a plea. Carpenter Zhu is in a good mood now, and he thought that Pei Xuanzhi had a good way to govern the army, and issued an order to exempt Pei Yingjie from his crimes, but the official position of the governor of the capital was also abandoned.