This old man of Yan Shannong, as a generation of Confucianism who has been lecturing for decades, has a loud voice, talks about the surname Jian, and chats with the good official more energetically, but the good official, he has not rested well in the past two days, and he is a young man who is thirsty and sleepy, when it comes to Fang just into the night, the good official can't stay up, and keeps yawning, on the other hand, the old man Yan, the more vigorous the spirit, it is the taste of the scholar's lecture [tiger and tiger is vigorous] in the literature at that time, Cheng Fuzi also accompanied the old man Yan from time to time to say a few words, the topic has been extended from the national policy, clan, taxation to water conservancy, well fields, commerce and trade.

Huang Zongxi said in his book [The East is a scholar, the rain is a hat, and the night continues to be light...... Even the bed is a big quilt, and the king can't talk about it, and the months are not tired] tells the story of the scholars who liked to debate at that time, and Yan Shannong was a grand occasion of a speech by 10,000 people, although there was no megaphone for the big speech at that time, but the ancients also had their way, arranging disciples around the speaker with a divergent surname, and then reading it out loud one by one, so as to ensure that even the last person could hear the words described by the lecturer.

For example, Yan Shannong, who has been lecturing for a long time, naturally talks very strongly, but the obedient official can't stand it, and can't help but get up and say goodbye, but Yan Shannong stretched out his hand and dragged him to sit down, and then took out a newspaper from his arms, "This is what I printed before I came, and it will be sold in Ningbo tomorrow, you can take a look first." ”

Holding back his drowsiness, the obedient official unfolded the newspaper, but after reading a few lines, he suddenly ran away from sleepiness, and couldn't help but widen his eyes, "I said old man, I don't seem to have told you this!" ”

Most of what was written in this newspaper was the words that the good official and Yan Shannong talked about today, but the old man had already engraved them, and it was not enough to describe them if he came prepared.

"A good man takes a look, and a nerd sees it late." Yan Shannong took a piece of braised boil and put it in his mouth to chew, and looked at him while smacking his mouth, "What?" Do you think that in this world, you are a good official, and everyone else is a fool? ”

"But!" The obedient official shook the newspaper, this people's newspaper is so dazzling about the wealth of the country, the old man Yan sprinkled tens of thousands of words, talking about paying taxes, and it is the extremely extreme official gentry in this era to pay the grain, starting from this year, the emperor paid a million taels of silver to the cabinet (that is, the one million that the obedient official sent to the cabinet after the concubine sent to Beijing), and sprinkled it down, and the cabinet elders were approved as worthless, especially the acting first assistant Shen Shixing, the old man Yan scolded him in the newspaper for being a national thief, why, Because the Suzhou gentry, led by Shen Gelao, refused to pay taxes.

I have to say that there is a specialization in the art industry, as an old man Yan who has been lecturing in the world for decades, people write the payment of taxes very clearly and methodically, not like a good official, and he doesn't know the information on the taxes and grain paid in various provinces and provinces, but the old man Yan listed it, the number is clear to every stone of grain, and it is convincing at a glance.

He gave an example in the newspaper, the Ming Dynasty from the beginning of the Jiajing years, the population of 80 million, the world has more than 500,000 gentry, plus the clan, nobles, etc., one of every 100 people is not required to pay taxes to pay the grain [superior people], and then, he from the first year of Jiajing to the annual tax payment of the grain in the world every year is very detailed, and finally concluded that these 1 percent of the upper class occupy more than eighty percent of the wealth of the entire Ming Dynasty, and these people do not pay taxes, do not serve as labor, do not finish the grain.

In the end, the old man was very surprised to write that the entire Ming Dynasty was actually relying on these tens of millions of poor people to support the entire Ming Dynasty, including the gentry, and then the old man asked the cabinet elders in the newspaper in a serious manner:

Such a court has not yet perished, is there any heavenly reason?

Seeing this, the good official couldn't help wiping the sweat on his forehead, not for anything else, just for the violentness of this old man, he couldn't help but look up at Yan Shannong, the old man took a sip of wine as if nothing happened, and then said to him: "After reading it, tell my old man again, what do you think!" ”

In fact, some of the old man's views are plagiarized from the ideas in the book written by the good official, when the good official wrote the business alliance, Chen Jiru and Dong Qichang both copied a copy, the old man saw the book written by the good official from Chen Jiru, and was suddenly inspired, he was born and grew up in Si, and he has been studying for decades.

The good official lowered his head and continued to read, the old man suggested in the newspaper that the governors of various places should collect the merchant tax, and the tax rate was as high as ten percent, and he said that the law of the Ming Dynasty said that one book is one profit, since the silver itself can produce silver of the same value, why can't the goods in circulation?

Moreover, he also wrote down the commercial tax to be retained, and the local government withheld eighty percent of it for local construction and handed over twenty percent to the imperial court.

couldn't help but swallow his saliva, the obedient official saw this, and finally felt that Old Man Yan was ruthless in hurting others and not benefiting himself, and this ruthlessness was ruthless in the local area, isn't this blatantly letting local officials embezzle!

"This is a ...... of eighty," he said, "and it doesn't seem appropriate!" ”

Yan Shannong smiled, "The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, in the entire Ming Dynasty, only one Hai Rui Haigangfeng is a Qing official, if there is no benefit, who is willing to do this offending thing for local officials?" Regardless of whether it is reasonable or not, put away the silver first, and wait until the gentry in the world are accustomed to paying taxes, and then it is not too late to slowly collect the local finances into the imperial court, presumably, thirty years is enough to do this, and after thirty years, ......"

He glanced at the obedient official with deep meaning, and said, "You are only in your early forties, and you are in the prime of life." ”

The good official couldn't help but smile bitterly, he always thought that he was enough to offend people, but compared with Old Man Yan, it seemed that he really didn't offend people.

"I, an old man, came to carry the black pot for you, what are you not satisfied with?" Yan Shannong grinned, the obedient official looked at his smiling appearance, couldn't help but tremble, and after putting down the newspaper, he made a deep promise to him, "Boy, thank you Mr. Yan." ”

Yan Shannong accepted a gift from him, and then said, "Don't be busy thanking me, you have to do something now." ”

Work? What to do?

The obedient official was confused by what he said, but seeing the old man holding a wine glass and laughing there, he thought about it for a while, and immediately suddenly realized that he was naturally doing something angry and resentful in Suzhou, saying that he had nothing to do with the more angry and resentful suggestions in this newspaper.

"Old man, the relationship between me and Chen Zhongol seems to be very clear to the world! Is this necessary? "The good official feels that it seems to be dispensable, and now Chen Jiru is running a newspaper in Ningbo to help him advocate it, and anyone with a discerning eye knows it!

Old man Yan said, "You! is still too young to understand the way of being an official, this is the way of an official, and being a bitch is the same thing, being a bitch is ushered in, who doesn't know that their words are false, but why are countless people flocking to it? It's the same with being an official, even if it's fake, you have to sing it as if it's real, and you've written a lot of record books, are those words and record books all true? ”

Hearing these strong remarks, the obedient official immediately laughed, but, after thinking about it carefully, there is indeed a reason in it, why from ancient times to the present, officials like to do superficial articles, this is the reason, if you don't even want to do superficial articles, why bother to be this official!

He stood in place and thought for a moment, and immediately called someone to summon Sun Yinglong, and after a long time, Sun Yinglong hurriedly arrived, and the obedient official asked him, can you clearly supervise the grain and soldiers to prepare those officials' residences! Sun Yinglong immediately replied loudly, to the governor, these subordinate officials have all been investigated.

"Let's go, don't sleep tonight, I'll do this overnight." The obedient official was stimulated by Old Man Yan's idea of harming others and benefiting himself, and felt that the old man's contemporary Confucianism dared to use thirty years of official greed and ink to exchange the habit of paying taxes in the world.

Sun Yinglong listened to the words of the obedient official, and immediately became excited, this is the extravagant governor who is worthy of our Jinyi Wei to follow desperately.

Since the beginning of the Jiajing year, it has been a court practice to reward flying fish clothes, so wearing flying fish is somewhat like the yellow coat given by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and those who wear flying fish are either powerful brocade guards or prominent ministers, most of the civil servants will subconsciously shiver when they see this body, and look at the disciples who left with the brocade guards in flying fish suits after saluting themselves and Yan Shannong, Cheng Shensi was a little worried, "Mr. Shannong, isn't this a little too ......?"

"You, a student, invited you to sit in the town, originally to take away some scholars' fame, what difference does it make if you take it early or late." Yan Shannong was a little drunk, and said in a low voice: "If the reform is not painful, then what is it called, Uncle Zhang's big reform of the tax law is not painful, although the imperial court is better because of this, but it does not cure the symptoms...... All people are created equal, and the people have been oppressed and pained for more than 200 years, and it is time for the scholars to be pained. ”

"But ......" Cheng Shen thought about it and stopped, Yan Shannong knew what he meant, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, although you are a young student, your ability to buckle people's hats is not small, and the big crime of rebellion is the Xun Qi clan, and you have to talk about hanging, when the time comes, you will come forward to clean up the mess, and the revolution that should be removed from the fame will be almost the same, according to the old man's estimate, maybe you don't need to come forward, that Hai Gangfeng is now the imperial envoy of the right capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he is looking for someone to cut off his head with his eyes wide open!" When the time comes, it will definitely come to hear the wind, hehe! I can't say, but it's possible to be in Suzhou now. ”

Cheng Fuzi is born as a teacher, in the words of later generations, it is equivalent to a university professor who suddenly became the vice governor of a province in charge of culture, education and health and the director of the Department of Education, although he became a big official, but he is still a scholar, and he is not a qualified bureaucrat, and although Yan Shannong is a cloth cloth, he is famous all over the world and has a wide range of contacts, and he has lectured for decades, and many high-ranking officials are his students, so he knows the officialdom well.

Seeing Master Cheng sighing faintly, Yan Shannong laughed, "In this world, after all, it's still their young people!" Come on, come on, let's drink. ”

And the obedient official rectified his subordinates, which naturally alarmed Zhongli, and saw that Ryan Stein had a part to do things, but because he came in plain clothes, he didn't show up much, and couldn't help but be annoyed, so he had to watch the obedient official take the brocade guard like a wolf and go straight to several yamen such as the Governor's Grain Road, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Soldier's Road.

(To be continued)