For the household department, loss is a very common thing, the more grain is collected, the more people are called, and naturally, the more loss will be.

Zhejiang requisitioned 1.3 million quintals of official grain, 1.1 million quintals of warehousing, and the other 200,000 quintals were naturally lost.

Xu Qian had a smile on his face, listening to Li Shiao's calculations, but he pursed his lips disapprovingly, and said lightly: "What the lord said makes sense, loss is indeed an ancient thing, but if the lower official wants to sue Lord Sù, Zhejiang ...... There's no wastage!"

No loss! In the Chongwen Palace, there were bursts of exclamations.

After all, this era is not the next generation, transporting grain, pulling a few wagons of wagons is a matter of things, the mountains and rivers are far away, how to transport this grain? Moreover, there is also the problem of oil and water involved here, and it has long been commonplace for officials to go up and down, and even in the Taizu period, it has been repeatedly banned, how can Zhejiang not have loss?

Li Shiao naturally looked unbelieving, because if he believed it, it would be a pit father, and other provinces had losses, some of them lost two or three hundred thousand quintals, and some of them lost sixty or seventy thousand quintals, more or less, if there was no loss in Zhejiang, this would not be a slap in the face.

And it is obvious that Xu Qian is rushing to slap his face, he said slowly: "The reason why there is no loss in Zhejiang is because the officials above and below are all law-abiding, and under the call of the new policy, they all take the well-being of the people of Zhejiang as their own responsibility, so no one has made up their minds on official food." Second, it is because the adults are criticizing the problem of Zhejiang's rivers, and the adults say that Zhejiang abuses the people's fat and people's ointment, and builds rivers on a large scale. However, it is precisely because of these rivers that the counties of Zhejiang and Nantong Prefecture are unimpeded, and the official grain collected by the prefectures and counties. Directly escorted to the wharf, and then transported to Nantong Prefecture by grain ship, relieved of the boat to the north, in the process, Zhejiang except for spending 13,700 taels of silver to hire ships, other losses, never spent a cent, nor did it lose a star and a half of rations. ”

Li Shiao's face suddenly turned pale.

Watercourse...... I see. No wonder the surnamed Xu has so much self-confidence, this guy actually didn't say a word and used the river to transport grain. It's just a pity, but it's ...... He was still puzzled. How could this Zhejiang official really be as Xu Qian said, law-abiding.

It must be known that since ancient times, even if one or two officials are unwilling to do anything about the official food, it is obviously impossible to make so many officials in the whole of Zhejiang not touch the official food, when Taizu was there. Skinning corrupt officials and filling grass has never prohibited such a situation, but Xu Qian, how did he do it?

This is a very puzzling question for Li Shiao. But now that Xu Qian has revealed the truth, Li Shiao is confused.

In fact, how did Li Shiao know that the reason why such a situation happened was the occurrence of the Zhejiang New Deal. As a result, Zhejiang's means of perverting the law for bribes have been upgraded in a certain significance. This brings us to the question of the economic base.

Let's say in an agrarian society. Officials want to bend the law for bribes, often in a very primitive way, either on the official food, or worry about the money consumed by the fire, and then there is litigation and the like, these are common means, because they have no other channels, although this primitive form of corruption and perversion of the law is worried about labor, and it is easy to be exposed, but they have no choice, although the means are rough, as long as there is money in the account, it will become.

But what about when an agrarian society is gradually transforming into a handicraft society? At this time, not only did the lives of ordinary people change, but also due to the changes in the economic form, the forms of corruption of officials became diversified, for example, they and the merchants bought shares, let the merchants set up workshops under his rule, and they could also let their brother-in-law get a boat shop, let the local merchants transport goods, try to take care of their brother-in-law's business, and even instigate their families to buy some timber elsewhere and resell it to the workshops under his rule.

Obviously, when the provinces were still using crude means to make up their minds on official food and fire consumption silver, the officials in Zhejiang had evolved and mutated, because they wanted to build silver, and there was already a more legal and profitable way to do it than before.

Therefore, it is not because of what Xu Qian said, these guys in Zhejiang have not changed their temperament and suddenly become law-abiding, but because they can no longer look down on the petty profits of official food. In this case, it is better to escort as much official food as possible into Beijing, and everyone should strive for some political achievements.

In a sense, there has been a certain generation gap between the officials of the New Deal and the current officials, and these generation gaps and generation gaps have quietly formed, making it difficult for these old-school officials to understand the behavior of Zhejiang people.

Xu Qian looked at Li Shiao, who was confused, smiled, and said: "So, my lord miscalculated, Zhejiang's official grain is obviously 1.36 million quintals, but it is definitely not only 1.1 million quintals as adults said." ”

Li Shiao can't care about the problem of loss at the moment, since Xu Qian said that there is no loss, then he has to recalculate on the basis of no loss, he can't help but say: "Since there is no loss, then Zhejiang's official grain is only 1.36 million quintals, compared to the 1.4 million quintals rated by the imperial court, it is still insufficient, although the difference is not big, only tens of thousands of quintals, but you just said clearly, there are still 300,000 quintals escorted into Beijing, and the warehouse is 1.14 million quintals of official grain, plus these 300,000 quintals, That's 1.44 million quintals, Xu Qian, and 80,000 quintals of grain, where did you come from? ”

80,000 quintals is actually not much, but it is not too little, without the 80,000 quintals of official grain, Zhejiang will not be able to complete this year's rated target, but with these 80,000 quintals, it is equivalent to Zhejiang overfulfilled the task, the difference here is not small, the goal has not been completed, the household still has an excuse to apply, but if it is overfulfilled, it stands to reason that Zhejiang has not only reduced the grain tax and carried out a new policy, but the official grain handed over is more than the largest number of official grains paid in the year of Zhejiang's harvest year, and the imperial court should not be rewarded?

Xu Qian said slowly: "Because the official grain collected, according to the calculation of the household department, is only more than 200,000 quintals, but the official grain collected in Zhejiang is not more than 200,000 quintals, but more than 300,000 quintals!" ”

Li Shiao was stunned again, the original extra 80,000 quintals of official grain was still levied from the grain, Li Shiao still didn't believe it, not that he didn't believe it, but he had calculated it several times, according to the number of acres reported by Zhejiang, and then applied the new tax system to calculate, no matter how it was calculated, it was impossible to calculate that there were more than 300,000 quintals of official grain, what was going on, the surname Xu had to let the officials go to the countryside, and on the basis of this new tax system, other grain taxes were apportioned?

No, it is absolutely impossible, Li Shiao knows every move in Zhejiang, Zhejiang's new governor, and Li Shiao have correspondence almost every day, if the Zhejiang provinces want to apportionment other taxes, it is impossible to have no news at all.

"Hmph, you are talking nonsense!" Li Shiao felt that he was still the last bit of confidence, and he couldn't help but scold at this time, just wanting to see Xu Qian's cowhide being punctured, with a depressed look.

It's just that Xu Qian was not frustrated, but said with a smile: "The adults don't ask the reason, they say that the lower officials are talking nonsense, according to the lower officials, as the head of the household, not only can not understand the situation, but also can't even calculate the grain tax per mu in the provinces, but here is a lot of nonsense, don't you think it's ridiculous." This year, Zhejiang's official grain levy is indeed more than 300,000 quintals, because this year, Zhejiang's grain fields have increased. ”

Becoming more ...... Li Shiao sneered, he didn't believe Xu Qian's set, and the many numbers he got showed that Zhejiang's grain fields not only did not increase, but decreased, because a large amount of grain was changed to mulberry, and the number of grain fields this year was at least 500,000 mu less.

Xu Qian said slowly: "In previous years, many squires in various townships were strong, in order to exempt from grain tax, they often colluded with the government and falsely reported the number of acres, for example, a township in Zhenhai, Zhejiang, originally had 13,000 acres of grain fields, but most of these lands were in the hands of local squires, in order to evade taxes, they colluded with the government, and only reported 9,600 acres. ”

He put forward this explanation, which suddenly made Li Shiao's face change greatly.

This is actually a very simple problem, concealing the number of acres of land, is also a stubborn disease of the Ming Dynasty, due to backward technology, coupled with the high mountain emperor far away, the local heroes, who are willing to pay more grain taxes, they are unwilling to pay, naturally will use their connections and relationships, try to dredge the relationship, conceal the amount of their own acres, in this way, the number of acres sent to the household by the counties of the prefectures and counties, often have untruths, just as Xu Qian cited the situation of a township, this Zhenhai Township, obviously has 13,000 acres of land, but in the end, However, only 9,600 acres of land were reported, and the remaining 4,000 acres of land were still there, but at all, people did not let you tax them at all, and on the book of acres of land in your household department, naturally, they acquiesced that this township had 9,300 acres of land.

After the implementation of the new policy, the land was re-measured, because the grain tax was greatly reduced, so those powerful people naturally did not care about colluding with the government to conceal the matter of reporting the acres of land, after all, dredging is to ask for silver, in the past, the grain tax was heavy, so everyone was willing to spend silver to dredge, bribing officials, but now, the grain tax is negligible, and then spending money to dredge, obviously the gains outweigh the losses, in this case, it is better to simply pay the grain tax of the concealed grain fields, which not only saves worry, but also spoils much grain.