It is not an easy task to find out all the acres of land in a place and to check the hidden fields. Not to mention how great the local resistance will be, but to say that the people sent down from above, without the help of the locals, they may not even know where there is a field, and which field is hidden in which corner. Coupled with Taiwan's unique patent license system for land reclamation, it is too difficult to check the true number of acres in Taiwan.

The documents on Taiwan's fields and acres that Liu Xian obtained from Fujian are still old materials from the Daoguang period. [Historically, after Taiwan was established as a province, there was no political envoy, and internal affairs were still managed by the political envoy of Fujian]. There are more than 38,100 acres of ripe land, more than 3,21 acres and 50 acres, 1,430 acres of grain seeds, more than 205,600 stones of millet annually, and more than 18,700 yuan of silver.

Taiwan's first-class fields are equivalent to 11 acres and 3 points in the mainland, which means that the number of acres of fields in Taiwan is only 750,000 mu during the Daoguang period. [38,100 A*11.3+3210*100+50]

The Manchu Qing Dynasty implemented a thin endowment in Taiwan, and on the day of Narita, it was limited to 85 stone mandou for one jia, and each jia was rented eight stones. Ueda Yijia collects grain 780 stone to more than 100 stone, Gu calculates according to 80 stone, only Naguo Fu 2 stone 7 buckets and 4 liters, and the owner (landlord, yeoman farmer) has Ueda 1 Jia, can earn 780 stone of millet every year, and 10 Jia is 780 stone. However, the population of Taiwan during the Daoguang period was only one million, and now it has grown to more than 2 million [the previous number is my subjective estimate, and the error is very large, so it will be changed here].

It has been decades since the last time Taiwan counted the acres of land, and the cultivated fields are several times more than before, and the amount of the whole Taiwan has been counted, but the Taiwan government has only collected 15,746 taels of silver, 18,669 yuan of foreign silver, and 198,577 stones.

This is the Taiwan tax that Liu Xian got from Fuzhou last year, and he also knows that it has been at least ten years, and no one in Taiwan has reported the new acres of land. If this is a real number, Liu Xian will cut off his head. Even the number of acres counted in the Daoguang years is absolutely greasy.

However, the government's tax revenue is less, but the burden on the tenant farmers in Taiwan is still the same, and it is not lighter than that in the interior. And inquire about its heritage, all Taiwanese gentlemen are covered. If there is land to be cultivated somewhere, the head of reclamation, that is, the gentry, will first come forward to hand over the land, contract the reclamation in the government, and then distribute it to the reclamation households below. After reclamation, the annual rent is 10%, which is called big rent, and there are various names such as tun rent and narrow rent, and the grain department is for no renewal of the promotion. Taipei's freshwater fields are 300 miles together, and only more than 13,000 stones of grain are collected. Liu Xian asked Tian Fu to send the excerpts to Beijing, and Beijing did not delay at all, and immediately gave the approval of permission.

Zhang Shouxun drove to Tamsui with more than a dozen personnel from the Qingfu Bureau. This was the first time he had taken on such a messy task, and the first time he had slumped down to pay the most cumbersome and important taxes on acres of land in the world. Zhang Shouxun doesn't know a lot of things, but fortunately there are people around him who know how to do it.

A group of people supported by Zhang Shoudai arrived in Taiwan one after another before Liu Xian officially erected the signboard of the Qing Fu Bureau. Zhang Shoudai is now the squire of the household department, and he has been an official in the local government for many years, and he has the entire Zhang family as the backing, and the wealth of resources under his hands is still not comparable to Liu Xian.

Zhang Shouxun has two experts around him this time. Under their guidance, Liu Xian also wanted to exercise Zhang Shouxun, so he arranged him to the place of Tamsui.

People, Zhang Shouxun went to Tamsui. Then it's time to do something. This kind of thing is naturally the most direct way to inquire about the clerk's office of the county yahu. But it wasn't easy. There are so-called three classes and six rooms in the county yamen, and the six rooms correspond to the six yamen in the court. The leaders of these three classes and the secretary of the sixth room are not good people. The official affairs of the grassroots level of the large and small yamen are only familiar to the book office, and this is their capital.

What is the saying? The officials are vain, and the rulers of the country are officials. Although this sentence is short, it breaks down China's thousands of years of officialdom and ecology.

The iron yamen, the flowing water official. In the bastard court, there will be no one who will be an official in one place for a lifetime, and then let his son be an official. But this is the case with the officials.

Grandpa is it, and his father is it; His father is a father, and his son is a son. It's definitely an iron rice bowl!

The majesty and power of these people in the local area are more powerful than the ordinary gentry in the eyes of the common people. Although the social status is very humble.

Since the officials and officials became two insurmountable classes, the fraud of the officials in Chinese society can no longer be suppressed. It is not uncommon for small officials to join hands to control government affairs, and it is not uncommon for them to be officials. After all, the officials who came out of the Bagu examination are all considered literary scholars, and they have more than seven tricks on how to govern a place and how to control the overall government affairs - they don't know anything at all. Even if the master is invited and the trustworthy staff are invited, the interests of the officials are still untouchable. On the contrary, after taking office, new officials often have to "take the petty officials as their teachers" and learn from these petty officials how to handle political affairs and handle official documents. At that time, when handling documents, it was often the officials who handed them over to the scribes, who went to consult the cases and laws, and then presented them to the officials after they were written, and the officials only signed and sealed them. The latter should fool the former, don't be too easy!

In the fiftieth year of Kangxi, the famous Tongcheng writer Fang Bao was imprisoned in the Criminal Department Prison because of the "Nanshan Collection" case. Fang Bao once saw three people who were arrested and tortured and interrogated with him, one of whom gave the jailer 30 taels of silver, was beaten to the bone, and was ill for more than a month; The other added money and only hurt the flesh and skin, and it was fine in ten days; and one gave six times as much silver, and it was possible to proceed as usual that night. The jailer was remarkable: "Who wants to give us more money if we don't treat them differently?" ”

What particularly surprised Fang Bao was that the old official of the Criminal Department actually hid the official seal at home and changed the official document without authorization. At that time, two brothers were in control of the public warehouse, and according to the law, they should be executed immediately. The jailer told them that if they were given a thousand taels of silver, they would be kept alive. He prepared a separate piece of music, replacing the names of the two brothers with the names of the two bachelors among the accomplices. The jailers of the accomplices thought it was inappropriate, fearing that they would not be able to deceive the presiding judge. But the jailer smiled and said, "If the presiding judge plays, we will be dead, and he will be removed from his post because of this, and he will not lose his official position for the lives of two prisoners." "This matter of transferring the prisoner to the prisoner was actually completed, and the presiding judge also found out what the prison officer had done, but he never dared to pursue it.

The energy of this group of officials can be seen. And this trace of the Ming and Qing dynasties was the most prosperous, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was better than the Ming Dynasty.

Tamsui's household secretary is called Lin Mingsheng, a local. It is said that this person's ancestors have been the county clerk since the time of Zheng Ming. There are many secret books hidden at home, and he is extremely familiar with some secrets of the county and officialdom, and he has to sell him a face in all aspects, and he is a very open local figure.

Two knowledgeable people, one is called Chen Liang, and the other is Jiao Wenzhan. In the eyes of these two people, the big gentry in Tamsui County are not difficult to govern. No matter how tax evasion and tax evasion are the big iron roosters, they must be slaughtered by Zhang Shouxun in the face of power. They are supreme and seem to be powerful, but it is not difficult to actually eradicate them, and once they fall, they will scatter in a hurry. Whether it is a relative or a tenant, there is no threat at all. On the contrary, people like Lin Mingsheng are deeply rooted in the local area, and their relationships are intertwined. Such a character is the real so-called - the invisible mastermind behind the scenes. Liu Xian personally met with the personnel of the Qingfu Bureau when he sent people to the county, and said such a sentence ———— catch the invisible mastermind behind the scenes. Chen Jiao and the others were deeply impressed when they heard it.

Lin Mingsheng has always been an indispensable celebrity in front of the county magistrate in the county. Especially the county master seven years ago, he was stunned to let him grasp all the money and grain in the county and replace the position of the master of money and grain. Among the leaders of the three classes and six rooms, Lin Mingsheng really sat in the first position.

Although the current magistrate does not trust Lin Mingsheng as much as before. But even so, when he saw Lin Mingsheng, he had to bring a smile. R1152