“…… All children between the ages of six and eight, male and female, must be enrolled, and those who do not attend school will be given double the tax for any reason......"

Nanzhili Xiucai Fan Bo finished reading the notice word by word, and the onlookers were completely fried.

"Really?"

"This is the Emperor's List, I guess it's unlikely to be fake, right?"

"The emperor is really a holy monarch in the court." An old boy burst into tears and said: "Open the wisdom of the people, such a handwriting, how can there ever be such a pen throughout the ages."

"But this emperor list says that children must go to school when they are six or seven years old, and if they don't go to school, they will have to pay double taxes?"

"Why don't you know what to do like this?" The old boy reprimanded: "This is the great kindness of the royal family, if there are children in your family, why don't you send them to school?" Do you have to be like you and your children and grandchildren to dig in the fields and live without enough food and clothing? ”

"But it's ...... shackles"

"Bundled?" The old boy was angry: "Have you listened to the list well?" The text of the list is clear, the people's livelihood is difficult, the Son of Heaven is studying, in order not to increase the burden on the people, so the boys' township school and the county school are exempt from bondage for five years, and the girl's township school is exempt from bondage for two years......"

"Oh my God, doesn't this mean that the Son of Heaven not only raises our children for us, but also provides them with education?"

The old boy's eyes flashed with wisps of admiration: "That's true, today can have such great courage and promote the world's learning, it is really the saint in the world, the Ming Dynasty is very lucky, and the people are very lucky."

"But how much money does it cost......

"One township, one county, even the entire Nanzhili is estimated to cost not much silver." Lao Tongsheng shook his head and said: "But the text of the list is very clear, this is the study of the world, the wisdom of the people, that is to say, in the whole tomorrow, this government will be implemented, this silver will be spent on the sea, the old and decrepit, a little estimate, when this government is all over the world, the imperial court will not consume less than three million taels of silver every year!"

What is the concept of three million taels?

There is no concept at all, the people of Nanzhili are relatively wealthy, but thirty taels is a fortune for ordinary people, let alone three hundred...... 10,000 taels ......

Where it is piled up, it is a mountain of silver!

A green-shirted scholar sneered: "It's just three million taels, for the kings of the Ming Dynasty, it can be regarded as wealth, but for today's son, it's just a drop in the bucket."

It's really a toad yawning, what a big breath!

Seeing the disdain of the onlookers, the green-shirted scholar suddenly said with a little uneasiness on his face: "What do you know? We don't have vassal kings in Nanzhili, but if you ask the people in Hubei, Henan, and Shaanxi, you will know what these vassal kings have done to the local disaster.

But even if you know that it is a scourge, but after all, the vassal kings are all descendants of the royal family, and the kings of the past dynasties can only turn a blind eye even if they hate it, but what a pride is it now, he actually let the king of the world enter the capital, and then left the king of the world in the capital regardless of the infamy of unfilial descendants.

He also built countless palaces in Fangshan County, these palaces are not for nothing, if the vassal king wants to live, he has to pay for silver, and a palace covering an area of 300 acres will cost 600,000 taels of silver!

Just this sale of the royal mansion, today from the hands of the vassal king has harvested more than 10,000 taels of silver! Now that there is no vassal king in the land, the royal palace exploits the people, and the oppression of good people by rich slaves is almost extinct...... And the salt administration ......"

"I know." A middle-aged man dressed plainly hurriedly said: "My family is a salt worker in the Fengsheng Salt Factory, and the government will send conscripts to work in the salt factory every year...... After the new salt policy came out, the salt farms were all contracted by merchants, and naturally there was no forced labor, and the contracted merchants wanted to make salt, so they had to recruit salt workers, and they did the same work as before, but now they still have silver to take, not only silver, but also to take care of food, but also to eat, only when they are full can they work. ”

The green-shirted gentleman looked at the innocent smile on the middle-aged man's face, but he sighed in his heart.

At the beginning, the Son of Heaven sent Jinyi Wei to command Qian Ning to overturn the Jiangnan salt industry with a thunderous force, hundreds of officials fell to the ground, and several top salt merchants died, which caused an uproar among the people.

Especially Shilin, nine times out of ten, he said that he was ruthless, and if he was not a virtuous gentleman, the scholar in the green shirt himself also participated in the discussion, and decided that he had done everything for the silver.

But he didn't expect that a new salt policy would be so praised by ordinary people, was he wrong?

No, the Tsing Yi scholar thinks that he is right, he wants to be wrong, and it is this world that is wrong.

The onlookers were still discussing and learning, and at this moment, Wang Shouren was drinking tea in Nanjing's household department.

Nanjing is the former capital, what palace, six ministries, all yamen are readily available, except for the cabinet and the emperor, the real power of these officials is much worse than that of Beijing officials, and being an official in Nanjing is either a transition or a pension.

There are three places where you can speak in Nanjing City, one is Yingtianfu, which is the local real power yamen, and is in charge of the patrol battalion.

The second place is the Duke of Wei, that is, after Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, the Duke of Wei has the privilege of mobilizing the soldiers of the various guards of Nanzhili in an emergency, what is an emergency?

Such as rebellions, Japanese robbers, and so on......

The third is the town guard eunuch!

Don't look at it as a eunuch, but the status of the people in Nanzhili is slightly worse than the big file of the Beijing ceremonial supervisor and the imperial horse supervisor.

In addition, the rest, such as the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Rites, all of them are in vain, and the Ministry of Household is slightly better.

The reason is simple, because the household department is in charge of the tax of Nanzhili, and all the taxes collected by Nanzhili are paid to the household department of Nanjing, and after accounting and interception, they are sent to Beijing.

In Daming, Nanzhili almost bore a full thirty percent of the taxes!

Wang Shouren, as a student envoy from the third grade, supervised the world's learning affairs by order, and his authority seemed to be great, but he also had to divide the occasion.

For example, in this Nanjing Household Department, even if the status of Nanjing Household Department Shangshu is far less than that of Beijing's Household Department Shangshu, but the Shangshu of the two capitals is at the same level, and to put it simply, the official is bigger than Wang Shouren.

Of course, it doesn't matter if the official is big, it's a big deal to take a detour, but there is no way, if you want to supervise the world's academic affairs, you have to ask for money and the cooperation of the local government, otherwise it will be difficult to move an inch.

Wang Shouren came to the household to ask for silver, and this sitting was more than half an hour, and the tea was directly drunk until it was tasteless.

There is no new idea to get off the horse, Wang Shouren doesn't care at all, the world's prosperity is the will of the Son of Heaven, but it can't be interrupted by a mere Nanjing household book!

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