Chapter 256: Is It Soft?

Patrol the imperial history, this is in the civil official class, as long as the inspector is still in the position below his ass, no matter how old you are, the prefect, the senator, the political envoy, the governor and even the governor, all have a headache, everyone is young, can understand the mentality of the patrol according to the imperial history, young and in the jinshi, for anyone has to be arrogant, plus the patrol according to the noble, big things to decide small things, as the so-called, the big husband can not be said to have no power, only a few words to interrupt life and death, what a majesty!

Therefore, most of the inspectors and historians are sideways, unlike the later century, the procuratorial committee will be led by the party committee at the same level, and the leaders who investigate the case will obediently withdraw it with a word, and the inspectors will not care what kind of leadership you have, and the seventh grade will still impeach you and impeach you until death. It's a pity that this Inspector Yu Shi Cao, who was supposed to be very good, ran into a certain uncle...... The Kunlun slaves are the slaves of the Zheng Mansion, and most of the mercenaries of the Francophone are now wearing the title of Jinyi Guard, these people will not give the patrol the face of the imperial history, Cao Xun is strict and stern for a while, no one takes the eyelids to clamp him, I am not subject to your vertical management, and I have no interests with you, no desire is rigid, you patrol the imperial history and then the cow, what can I bear?

Cao Yinxiao Cao was so angry that his face trembled for a while, he didn't care about his own nobility, he rolled up his sleeves and stretched out his arms to pull those who stood in the way, "Diao slave, good dog guts, get up with me quickly." It's just that the body of a scholar, where can I move these muscles that eat meat and exercise the body, or the obedient official said lightly, "Let that patrol press over!" ”

Looking at the road that suddenly let go, Cao Yinxiao Lord Cao was angry in his heart, and he was drunk away by his Lord Cao, and the other party asked people to get out of the way, this difference is too big, now this attitude is clearly the posture of the upper official to meet the lower official, thinking of this, he Lord Cao burst into flames, raised the official fingers with two fingers in the middle of the meal, very noble style, lifted the robe with the official fingers, and took a few steps over, "Ah! Uncle Zheng Guo, what do you want to disturb the place? I want to join your ......"

"Lord Cao, you have to talk about evidence!" The obedient official pursed his lips, and his lips suddenly smiled thinly, "When did the governor of Pontus disturb the place?" ”

"Hugh has to quibble, you threaten the big silk weavers in Suzhou, and interfere with the weaving bureau, when the whole Suzhou people are blind?" Cao Yinxiao disdainful, these fathers' goods, they only know how to bully people, where do they understand the truth of governing the country through righteousness in the book, this Uncle Zheng, although he has heard some of his reputation, it is just a small way, not enough to be a dog, Uncle Guo, what good goods can there be, even if the eight-hole fairy Uncle Cao Guo is just a matter of course for the people in the market, and it is still a straw bag.

took his tail finger and plucked his ears, and the obedient official said disdainfully: "Lord Cao, hearsay is not credible!" You eat the court, and the court asks you to do things, either listening to the wind or the rain. Cao Yinxiao was beaten by the obedient official with a gun and a stick, and immediately laughed angrily, "Okay, Uncle Zheng Guo, don't blame me for not giving you face, a grand and good man, you say, is he coercing ......?"

"Lord Patrol, you can't talk nonsense." Hong Miaonan's cheeks were still swollen, he had lost a few teeth, and he was leaking when he spoke, but at this time, he was busy shaking his hands and his head was shaking for a while, "I'll wait for Uncle Heguo...... Reminiscence, yes, reminiscence. ”

Cao Yinxiao's face immediately turned as if he had been slapped hard, and suddenly it darkened. Muddy horses! Can the old be swollen? Lost teeth?

"Elder Li......" Cao Xun turned around and looked at Li Yichang viciously, "You say, is this Uncle Zheng threatening you?" Blackmailing you? ”

Li Yi often shook his head like a rattle, "Cao Xun pressed, I admired Uncle Zheng's literary brilliance, and wanted to ask Uncle Guo to accept the little girl as a disciple, no, with the big silk weavers in Suzhou, I came to support Uncle Guo, as long as Uncle Guo wrote a few words below, I am willing to donate 80,000 stone of grain." As he spoke, he also smiled at Zheng Guofan twice, "Uncle Guo, you have to reward this face no matter what, 80,000 is not enough, 100,000 is okay!" I only ask Uncle Guo to write five words, and Su Jin is a show in the world. ”

This is really talking nonsense with his eyes open, Cao Yinxiao almost spurted out a mouthful of blood, 100,000 stone of grain, this is the official price of 50,000 taels of silver! You unscrupulous old man, are you a fool to be an official? While asking his family to report to the official, he also made a slap on the back of Zheng Guofan, and in front of the official, he bribed 50,000 taels of silver nakedly.

It's a good official, but he was really a little surprised, looking at Li Yichang's old face with orange peel, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, people are old spirits, ghosts and old spirits, this old thing, it's really a little decisive! No wonder nicknamed Li Bancheng, in the blink of an eye, he sent out 100,000 stone grain, and he said it was so high-sounding, even his daughter had to send it, it was really shameless.

However, the capitalist, if he is not shameless, where is there money to be made, he nodded slowly, and said: "The governor of Pontus is shallow in his knowledge, so he can't help but laugh and be generous, but since Elder Li has a heart, it is not good for the governor of Pontus to ignore the kindness of Suzhou weavers......"

"You, you're openly accepting bribes." Cao Yinxiao pointed at the obedient official and shouted, "I want to join you, I want to join you......"

The obedient official didn't pay attention to him at all, and continued: "However, there is a big drought in Jiangnan this year, so it is better to donate it to Suzhou Mansion!" Cao Xun's wild shouting suddenly stopped, and the rooster whose neck was choked off alive was also red and black, as if he had opened a dye shop.

At this time, Zhong Maoshan, the prefect of Suzhou, who was pacing slowly, heard the words but was suddenly full of joy, the prefect of Suzhou is not good, the annual weaving task and taxes can force the vast majority of officials in Suzhou to go crazy, all of them ask grandpa to sue grandma to find those big households, although Shinong industry and commerce, businessmen as the end of the four people, it is said that it should be with the government to rub the circle and pinch flat, but in fact, almost none of the big businessmen have no background, do you want to blackmail merchants? Maybe as soon as you open your mouth, people will tell you with disdain, my shop, the owner of the shop is the maiden cousin of the fourth aunt of the third son of the Ge family, no matter how far this relationship is, do you dare to move? In these years, who is the official in the world, whose relatives are not in business? If you offend a businessman, you will offend the entire Shilin, and you still want to mix in the officialdom.

So going around and around, you can only blackmail the small people in the market, but the small people are not easy to bully! There are a lot of scholars in Suzhou Prefecture, maybe anyone will show off their talents, have meritorious fame, and have friends in the same year, even if these people are not officials, when the time comes, they will unite to beat the drum, you can't bear it, if there is a civil uprising, it will be a direct dismissal and beheading, then you can only bully and extort the peasants.

The peasants are good, as long as the family has a field, a fraud, there is always oil and water, but your government has cheated, the merchant sees the red eye, and he wants to come to get a piece of the pie, it is best to turn all the peasants' land into their own land, the cake is so big, one more person to eat, the profit into their own mouth will naturally be less, then the only extortion is more ruthless, knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow, the peasant is desperate, can only sell the land and land, go to the city to work, there is always a way to live, not to starve to death.

The problem came out at this time, when they entered the city and had no fields, they were proletarians, these people worked for people, and they had no property, so what else could they deceive? In the same way, many peasants would rather spare their fields for free and give them to those talented people, this is the picture, does your government dare to blackmail those scholars? I'm a farmer, I don't have a field! Just to help, what are you blackmailing me?

Jiangnan literary style is at its peak, two hundred years later, the streets are full of scholars, and the fields are almost all in the hands of the gentry, large households, and scholars. Isn't it just to be an official? Why do you become an official, isn't it just to get rich! Thousands of miles for officials just for food and clothing, you want to raise taxes, scholars will make trouble, lying in the mud and horses, and the court and the people compete for profits, which is unreasonable.

Therefore, the poor household warehouse of the imperial court ran mice, and the emperor saw tens of thousands of taels of silver and his eyes were going to glow green, but the people were so rich that they were so rich that they compared with each other, and Cao Dazhang, the thirty-second year of Jiajing, made the "Qinhuai Ladies Table", according to the female champion, the list eye, the flower, the Xie Yuan and the female bachelor, and the Taishi were classified, and the various names were described in detail.

Rich is so cheap, paying taxes to the court is so angry that his face is red and his neck is thick, and he shouts that he wants to attack the government with the people, but he sees the name, but he is blushing [***] thick, and shouting that it is really a beauty like jade, and the little lady has a scoop of money with me today...... The one next to him was not convinced, and wanted to shout two thousand taels...... And what about the imperial court? Okay! The style of Diao in the south of the Yangtze River prevailed, but the literary style in the north was not flourishing, and heavy taxes were collected from the peasants in the north...... This may be too simple to say about national affairs, but the meaning is about the same.

Therefore, when the prefect of Suzhou heard about the 100,000 stone grain, his eyes lit up, if the 100,000 stone grain entered the warehouse, then this year's official examination will definitely be superior. For a while, I didn't care about any official authority, I was still holding the official fingers, taking official steps, and I didn't care about it at the moment, as soon as I lifted my robe, I ran over, "On behalf of the prefect Yamen, thank you Dadu, thank you to all the merchants......" The fat meat is eaten in his mouth first.

Cao Yinxiao was as if he had been knocked a stuffy stick, his body shook down, his face changed sharply, and he was white, "You, you are joining forces to deceive the imperial court......" At this time, Suzhou Tongzhi Ye Zhulan also trotted all the way to arrive, Suzhou Tongzhi is Wupin, in charge of salt, grain, rivers, catching thieves and other duties, grain storage, there must be a credit to him, of course, he said loudly: "Cao Xun, today it is said that the government and businessmen are happy, the military and the people are one, it is a grand event under the rule of the imperial court, it should be celebrated, you are so entangled and subsection, what does this mean?" ”

The officials who were originally tinkered with to prepare for a fight with Uncle Zheng Guo all changed their words, and the good officials sneered in their hearts.

"I read the books of the sages, how can I allow you to corrupt the dynasty." Cao Yinxiao still refused to admit defeat, rushed to the side and grabbed a man with a brown curtain, staring at each other, his eyes were full of terrifying bloodshots, "You say, did you see that Uncle Zheng Guo intimidating and blackmailing Elder Li?" ”

The man's name is Feng Cangzuo, he is a helper, and he is dedicated to introducing Suzhou government reporters to people, and he has always been sharp-toothed, but he was so caught by a patrol of the imperial history when the street was the first time, and he was excited for a while, this is the patrol of the imperial history, and the patrol is at the same level as the governor and governor, even if it is a general, a general and other big people want to participate in the court, and now he actually pulls us to talk to us face to face...... At the moment, the professional habits attacked, and he grabbed Cao Xun's hand and said: "Master, I won't tell you, the girls here are all kinds of things, our Banggu Su girl, Yangzhou thin horse, Datong girls, south and north tunes, ring fat swallow thin, double flying,, dry road, that is everything, in addition, even Guanyin sitting lotus, pouring candles, Dinghaishen needle, all kinds of work are skillful......"

With a snap, Cao Xun slapped him viciously with a big mouth, "Open the ...... for this official" stumbled and grabbed another one, "You come on." ”

Tightly held by Cao Yinxiao was a young woman of a young age, who was held by Cao Xun as a chest, shocked and ashamed, "Slave...... The slave doesn't know, the slave just cooks when there is no soy sauce on the stove, and he comes out to make soy sauce, and when he sees all the big masters, he forgets to leave for a while, all the big masters are all Wenqu stars, and the slave wants to get a little fairy......"

"You ......" Cao Xunpress was not so dizzy that he slapped the woman's mouth on the street, and the people in the surrounding market were so frightened by this Cao Xunpress that they gave up a large piece of open space to come out, and they didn't dare to approach him at all, Cao Yinxiao pounced left and right a few times, no one grabbed it, stood in place, laughed, and laughed like a madman.

The obedient official looked at this guy, and couldn't help but say in his heart: This old man, like most of the scholars of the Celestial Empire who are a little aspiring, hopes that the Celestial Empire [its government is sullen, its people are pure], how is this possible, the people are not saints, they want to eat, these tens of thousands of people, see me for the weavers to ask for benefits, half of the people in Suzhou have to deal with silk, the weavers originally did not say that they did not work at night, a salary of two or four dollars a month, because of me, they can earn more silver, and there are weekend vacations, Golden Week holidays, these, can you give a patrol?

It's like two neighboring counties, the people under the rule of one county eat bran and drink poorly, but the county is as clean as water and eats and drinks with the people, and the people under the rule of one county have fish and meat, and the county is greedy, and the aunt's wife marries the ninth room...... Which county would the people be willing to live in? I'm afraid that the vast majority of people would rather be with that greedy magistrate!

As for the few ill-intentioned ones, who would dare to jump out seriously when they saw the good officials blatantly framing people with iron armor and beating the weaving eunuchs like dogs? Don't die! Therefore, sometimes if you want to be a clean official, you have to be more black than corrupt officials.

This is the reason why there are tens of thousands of people on the street, and the obedient officials teach the eunuchs like dogs, and the big silk families like cattle and horses, but no one tells this Cao Xun the truth, and now these people have also entered the circle of interests of the obedient officials, how can they turn their elbows out!

After laughing a few times, Cao Xun suddenly remembered that the eunuch, the eunuch of the Weaving Bureau, was suddenly bright, stumbled over, and grabbed a eunuch, "This father-in-law, you must have seen it, haven't you?" Come on, don't be afraid of him, the official's seat teacher is Xu Guo Xu Ge Lao (Xu Ge Lao is in tears, lie down, you are crazy, don't pull the old man out to accompany the funeral) ......"

The eunuch was white and tender, male and female, and it really matched his name Bai Xiaoyu, but when he heard this, he pursed his lips and said softly: "Governor Cao, we have seen a lot!" Our family also saw you touching the breasts of a woman from a good family on the street, and the milk was so soft? ”

Cao Yinxiao nodded subconsciously, and then his face turned purple, "You...... Eunuch, dare to insult me? ”

"The students of the elder pavilion are amazing!" Bai Xiaoyu cocked his orchid finger and pushed his hand away, "I hate you scholars the most, in private, you don't still play with each other, play with rabbits, and you still have to be serious on the surface, what to pretend!" Isn't our family better than those male rabbits, two pounders bumping into each other, so funny? Disgusting and disgusting. As he spoke, he took two steps back, frowned, pinched the orchid finger and fanned it in front of his nose, as if Cao Xun was a strange smelly object in front of him.

When the obedient official heard this, he suddenly felt evil in his heart, this is too vicious, fortunately I am not the Cao Xun press, otherwise, I am afraid that I will be so angry that a mouthful of old blood will be sprayed on the ground, maybe it is possible not to raise it in the future...... As soon as he thought of this, sure enough, Governor Cao seemed to have imagined the picture described by Bai Xiaoyu in his mind, and he screamed, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, and his body fell to the ground as soon as he went limp.

Cao Xun was still loyal to the servant who was with him in the distance, and when he saw his master fall on his back, he cried loudly from a distance, "Master, master, ......" The obedient official sighed and said to Ryanstein: "Let Cao Xun's servant come in and take people to see Langzhong!" How to say it, he is also an official of the imperial court. The surroundings were suddenly full of sycophants, "Most of the governors are kind-hearted...... The Metropolitan Governor is a good man...... The conscience of the Metropolitan Governor is good......"

Seeing the family crying and squatting down to carry Cao Yinxiao behind their backs step by step, the officials who were patrolling the imperial history brand hung their heads and quietly turned around and left, and the good official smiled at the other party's eunuch Bai Yuxiao and said: "You are good, you have a good eye, you are a good slave, I will write a letter when I turn around, recommending you to go to my sister on an errand." The white jade flute was so happy that he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, "Thank you Uncle Guo, thank you Uncle Guo, thank you Uncle Guo......" The other eunuchs were so jealous that their eyes were red, and they shouted Bai Yuxiao's flower name in their hearts and scolded: Lying in the groove mud horse, you are a white ass, you slapped Uncle Guo's ass silently, and you are going to go to Concubine De's side to listen to the errand, if you are lucky, you have the blue eyes of Concubine De and Long Live Lord, maybe, in more than ten years, you can also peep at the chair of the East Factory and even the celebrant supervisor, it is really, shit luck.

drove away the patrol press, appeased the eunuchs, and the obedient official looked at Hongli and the two of them and those big silk weavers, and said lightly: "Everyone, there is a great drought in the south of the Yangtze River this year, although this Hongshan and Elder Li have donated some food......

The drum does not need a heavy hammer, and before the obedient official finishes speaking, those big families shout one after another: "I am willing to donate 10,000 stones...... The villain also recognizes 8,000 stones...... Little Lao'er 15,000 stone ...... "Suddenly, he donated more than 200,000 stone of grain, which is already the grain tax borne by Suzhou Mansion for a year, and Suzhou Mansion is so happy that the folds on his face are flattened, in addition, several officials such as Tongzhi are also full of smiles, for the first term of office, what is more dazzling than political achievements!"

"There is food, but the small people are struggling, and this silver ......" The good official came again, and those big silk weavers swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at each other, no one wanted to [be privately hidden iron armor], besides, didn't the governor let us buy raw silk from Ningbo at eighty percent price, hey! Forget it, when you don't make money, it's better than giving away your surname, as the saying goes, take a step back and open the sky.

Thinking about it this way, these big families suddenly calmed down, the governor has a good saying, silver, life does not bring death and does not take it, if it is privately hidden iron armor, Sensei said silver, the surname of the whole family is gone, this governor is so ruthless, the background is deep, and the work is extravagant, the key is that he is still young, and he will stay up for another twenty years, people are still young and strong, and when the time comes, he will definitely become more and more powerful, or don't offend, if he is planted, it is not too late to fall into the well again.

"I am willing to pay eight thousand taels of silver in arrears for the past years...... The villain is 10,000 taels ...... "a meal of gossip, these big households are also fine, do not talk about donations, only say that they are in arrears over the years, such as arrears of taxes and silver, the world is the same, not alone, say it, it is not difficult to hear, if you talk about donating silver, the world is not stupid, the whole industry donates, that is clearly slapped in the face by powerful people, is it not a loss of face in the weaving industry in Suzhou, as for the grain is okay, the drought in the south of the Yangtze River, as a local businessman, donate some should also be.

The obedient official listened, but he couldn't cry or laugh, he didn't know, these years, tax arrears have become a common practice, all at this time, these big households still play such a cautious eye, however, the meal has to be eaten one bite at a time, the road has to go step by step, can be like this, it's not bad, take your time, what's more, Daming has a tradition, called analogy, just like the law of Citigroup in later generations, for example, a certain case, it is not easy to judge, but there is a precedent in the neighboring state, it is so judged, then, cite it, and also judge it according to the precedent of the neighboring state, from then on, Similar cases have all been judged in this way, which is an analogy.

Suzhou silk weavers pay the arrears of taxes over the years, this excuse in the hand, presumably the princes of the court will ask the following to the arrears of taxes and silver, the local officials can just take Suzhou as an analogy, Suzhou paid, why don't you pay.

At this time, the leader of the silk weaving industry, Hongli, looked at each other, obviously dripping blood in their hearts, but had to open their mouths to pay hundreds of thousands of silver out, for a while, both of them were a little shaken, not rich, not rich, not rich, not rich, plain hundreds of thousands of out, it is really heartache like meat!

As for the officials in Suzhou, it is really joyful, one by one, they are talking in their hearts, they are developed, and they are developed, and now the sub-officials must be a ...... "Suzhou Mansion." The obedient official looked at Zhong Maoshan and said with a smile: "Are you giving some encouragement to the big families on behalf of the imperial court!" For example, send one or two torii and the like. ”

"It should be, it should be." Governor Zhong's heart blossomed, "If the governor of the capital speaks, the lower officials will do it later." At this time, he didn't care what kind of nobleman and martial arts he was, what kind of face, hundreds of thousands of rice money and grain came into the account, this face, he didn't want it.

"Also, Fang Bendu has put forward some strategies, you are all local officials, just to be a witness." As he spoke, he shouted, "Pen and ink wait." ”

After witnessing the signing of the contract by several villagers and silk weavers, the surrounding people burst into cheers, who doesn't like the silver of white flowers, and now the wages of Suzhou weavers have risen by one-third, and the working hours have been shortened by one-third.

The big households looked at a few villagers holding the contract book as if they were holding a treasure, and they couldn't help but sigh in unison, distressed! Meat in general.

"Everyone, wait." The obedient official smiled and stopped the happy Suzhou officials and a few old people, and slowly took out a few more pieces of paper from his arms, "You guys take a look at it first, this is drafted by the governor of Bendu, if you have no opinion, just sign it together!" ”

On behalf of the big silk weavers, Hong Miaonan took it over, and looked down at the "Establishment of the Suzhou Labor Federation", and the following are dense detailed rules, and the payment, the president, Zheng Guofan.

The weak heart of the grand and good man could not stand such stimulation, and suddenly his eyes rolled and he fainted.

And Zheng Chengguan smiled all over his face, looked at the big families and said: "If you have no opinion, you should sign it!" In this way, if there is any labor dispute in the future, there is no need to storm the government! The big households can talk slowly with the weavers, two months if they can't talk about it, and three months if they can't talk about it, the government only cares about coordination, and the province is like before to impact the government, and others think that the whole city of Suzhou is a messy people, chaotic people! This is inconsistent with the reputation of the millennium Gusu, and it has also ruined the reputation and image of the big families, how bad, for the sake of you, it is still ......" He smiled all over his face, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, like a little fox, "Sign it!" And the surrounding Kunlun Nu and Franc Ji and the early girls' team are eyeing each other.

(To be continued)