this day.

The governor of the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Zhili, entered the palace during the day and did not leave the palace until sunset and before the palace door was locked.

Those who have a heart will naturally be able to notice this.

On the eve of the imminent chaos in the 18th Mansion of Zhili Province, Zou Xueyu, the minister of the Governor of Zhili who was in charge of the 18th Prefecture, did not deal with the upcoming chaos in the yamen, but entered the palace without any concealment.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Zou Xueyu is probably communicating with the palace, and even won the support of the nobles in the palace.

Judging from the time he entered and exited the palace, Zou Xueyu gained a lot from this trip.

Everyone began to look forward to how Zou Xueyu, the first person in charge of a place in the Ming Dynasty, would face the situation of the 18th Mansion of Zhili next, and what the final outcome would be.

And in the inner court of the imperial city in the midst of the heavy palace gates.

At the beginning of the moon, a little coolness passed by.

Zhu Yunxi was only wearing a long shirt and walked between the corridors.

Innovation, there is no law at all, it has always been to judge the situation and follow the trend.

The Hongwu New Deal, which has been implemented by the imperial court for more than a year, has lost its initial momentum, which is a natural occurrence.

If you push it forward without explanation, it will only ignite the same grievances that have accumulated before.

Only by trying new systems, finding new productive forces, and developing new production relations can we continue the results we have made so far.

"You're not afraid of the cold?"

Zhu Gaochi's figure walked out of the shadows in the distance, put his hands in his sleeves together, and silently walked to Zhu Yunxi.

Zhu Yunxi snorted: "I do feel a little cold, I didn't feel it before I went out." ”

Taking advantage of the situation, he looked down at the cloak between Chubby's hands.

Zhu Gaochi shook his head helplessly, handed over the cloak, and then said in a low voice: "Zou Xueyu is out of the palace, and there are twenty-seven places where there are people secretly watching. ”

"It seems that there are still many people who want to go back to Hongwu twenty-four years ago, and there are still many people who have lived the life of such a noble master." Zhu Yunxi's eyes were gloomy, but his face was a little colder.

Even with it, it makes people feel that the temperature under the night is also cold.

Zhu Gaochi nodded: "The soldiers are powerful, and no one dares to oppose them on the surface." But Zou Xueyu, the minister of the governor of Zhili, no matter how high his official position is and how much power he has, he is only a minister after all. If he doesn't sit well in the seat of Zhili Dao, those people will inevitably use him as an outlet, and in the end, he will have to be damaged. ”

A sneer appeared on Zhu Yunxi's face: "I gave Zou Xueyu a knife today, in exchange for ten taels of silver, I think he should be able to use that knife well." ”

"Which knife?"

Zhu Gaochi asked curiously.

Zhu Yunxi said in a low voice: "Change the physical goods collected by the Ming Dynasty to silver, and change the regular service, uniform service, and miscellaneous errand service to hired service. Qingzhang heaven and earth, unified enlistment, counting acres of silver, and official settlement. ”

He was brief.

But Zhu Gaochi frowned, and the expression on his face fell into contemplation.

Zhu Yunxi was not sleepy, and sat on the railing next to him with his cloak on.

The tax and conscription system of the Ming Dynasty is complex and changeable, and it is the beginning of the appointment of the officials of the household department, and it also needs to be mastered over time.

If there is no specific work done by the old officials in the yamen, no matter how smart ordinary people are, it is rare to find the essence of it.

First of all, the Ming Dynasty taxes are divided into summer and autumn taxes. Under the two taxes, there are different categories such as grain, cotton, and silk.

And conscription is even more complicated.

For things directly decided by the imperial court, the people need to pay for conscription. The toilet in the old man's house was blocked, and the people still had to go to the door to dig it. It is not uncommon for the emperor's people to be used for personal use.

Under this system, the people became lambs to the slaughter, fish on the chopping board, to be slaughtered.

A whip is straightforward.

All taxes are calculated in silver money, and the government collects and distributes them. And when the government needs people to work, it also needs to pay relative wages in order to hire people to come.

The local government no longer has the opportunity to do the so-called official fight and the people's fight, and it is impossible for the old man's house to be blocked and the people can be recruited to work in vain.

Zhu Gaochi thought for a long time, and his head nodded involuntarily.

"The matter of apportioning the land into the mu has been done for a long time, and the imperial court has added millions of acres of land in taxes over the years, which shows how cruel the local oppression of the people is. At this time, there is a paving into the mu in front, eliminating forced labor, counting the mu to levy silver, it is the right time. ”

The latest account books of the Ming Dynasty have been archived in the household department, in the cabinet pen frame library, and on the island in the middle of Xuanwu Lake. In addition to these three, the tax office yamen also stored one.

How much money does the Ming Dynasty have now, Zhu Gaochi is clear as the tax office.

It's just that.

After affirming the whip method first proposed by Zhu Yunxi, Zhu Gaochi hesitated.

"The ideas that people come up with are mostly good at first." Zhu Gaochi spoke softly, staring at Zhu Yunxi who was sitting on the railing: "The upward and downward effects are the best, but most of the time, the people below can always get into the loopholes." The imperial court wanted to implement a whipping law, and the people had to sell the grain for money.

Daming now sits on the four roads of Yingzhou, and the production of gold and silver increases every year. Europa was full of merchants, and the number of merchant ships was increasing day by day, blocking the waterways, and the treasury had a steady return on money. Previously, there were also Jiaozhi Road, Champong Road and other government offices on the court, local proven mineral deposits, can be mined on a later date.

There is no shortage of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty now, but the people sell grain for money, and it will be through the private merchants, if the merchants are greedy and raise the price of silver, the people are still poor.

It is good to pay for the conscription to be hired at the government's expense. But after all, the place is far away from the court, and it is inevitable that some people will dare to do deceitful things, and they will still be forced to serve in private, and the people will still suffer. ”

Once.

In the Yanwang Mansion in Beiping City, Zhu Gaochi felt that he was a smart person and felt that as long as he gave himself a chance, he could do great things for the benefit of all people.

But when he went south to Beijing and took up the post of head of the tax office, he saw a lot of realities that he had never understood before.

Why did people like him choose to acquiesce to the increase in the number of tax soldiers in the tax office, and tacitly punish those who dared to confront and deceive those who dared to confront and deceive when the tax soldiers collected taxes and money and grain at the local level?

is because he knows that the reality is so cruel, if there is no court to take action, the local people will only have a more difficult life.

Kill invisibly.

But there is a people in the land who have sinned against anyone.

There is no need to pay for thugs and the like, just inform the local grain chief that the court and the government can make a family die.

is dead, if others ask, but they can't find the slightest fault in the procedure.

Zhu Yunxi just smiled.

But it made Zhu Gaochi's back chill.

He suddenly subconsciously opened his mouth and said tentatively: "You don't want me to make up for these loopholes, do you!" ”

……

For the time being, no one knows what burden has been imposed on the prince of Yan Wang and Zhu Gaochi of the Daming Tax Office.

But the people who watched finally waited for the back hand of the Yamen, the governor of Zhili.

As soon as the day dawns.

Zou Xueyu, who had no sleep at home all night, entered the governor's yamen with a few thick notebooks in high spirits.

Most of the officials who took office in the governor's yamen were new officials in the imperial court in the past two years, especially those who were students.

The yamen was newly established, and so were the officials.

The entire governor's yamen is like a wild mountain in the twilight of spring, full of vitality and high-spirited.

With Zou Xueyu to Yadian Mao.

The entire governor's yamen also began to operate in earnest.

A bold man, ignoring the officers and soldiers guarding the yamen, listened to the noise in the governor's yamen, and then fell into silence.

At last.

Then he saw countless officials of the governor's yamen, rushing out of the yamen.

The war horses tied to both sides of the yamen left one by one.

The Governor's Yamen is going to make another move!

The people who looked at it from the outside felt a sigh in their hearts.

The news spread about half an hour later.

The Ming Dynasty Zhili Governor Yamen promulgated an official document that at the beginning of today, all the 18 prefectures of Zhili Road, one should be a subject in the compilation, and the silver money must be calculated and levied according to the number of acres of land, so as to meet the past summer and autumn taxes. All forced labor was forbidden, and the people were hired to work at the government's expense.

In the future, the summer and autumn taxes, the people will first convert the money, and then hand it over to the local tax division of the tax office, release the mortgage and return to Beijing, and enter the silver warehouse of the household department.

Signed by Zou Xueyu and promulgated by the Governor Yamen, this official document soon swept all over the country.

Since the implementation of the apportionment of the land into the mu, with the establishment of the tax office, the local government has long lost the power to directly intervene in local taxes. All local taxes on merchants and citizens are levied by the tax office that has tax collectors.

However, changing the original physical object to acre and levying silver has never been thought of before.

Those local governments that could have relied on the tax bureau to send taxes, grain and grass to Beijing directly lost even the last bit of oil and water.

For a time, there were many complaints in the yamen.

Especially those officials, the salary is not high, and in the past, they purely relied on these oil and water to live. Now that the bans have been suspended one by one, they were originally just preparing to cooperate with the officials of the government to strike against the governor's yamen, and they have begun to spontaneously gather to fight against Zou Xueyu, the governor and minister.

Even those yamen officials who originally planned to sit and watch it began to sit still.

Zou Xueyu directly stopped the common people in Zhili Province, and since then the government has paid for the people to work.

This makes them how to oppress and exploit the people in the future, and work for their own private affairs without money.

For a time, the entire Zhili Provincial officials were full of complaints about the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili and Zou Xueyu, the minister of the Governor of Zhili.

If it weren't for the king's law, I'm afraid that the door panel of Zou Xueyu's house would be covered with, pee, and fart.

The people are indispensable.

Paying food is handing over, and handing over silver is also handing, but it's just a little troublesome.

No longer has to work for the government in vain, and happily calls Zou Xueyu the master of the blue sky.

The simple people of the Central Plains would never have thought that they might be exploited if they paid silver. And the character of local officials is definitely not a thing to be trusted.

Soon, someone found out.

According to Zou Xueyu, from now on, the taxes of the 18 prefectures of Zhili Province will be converted into silver money. Let me ask you, where did the people get the money? ”

It's still Suzhou Mansion, but it's not on that Lion Rock.

Instead, it is in a courtyard in the south of the city near Taihu Lake.

In the courtyard, there is a group of businessmen from all over the world who make a living in Suzhou City.

One person spoke first, full of energy, and excited about his discovery.

Someone asked, "Naturally, the people have no money, but in this way, we have ......."

The man finally reacted, closed his mouth, and his eyes lit up.

"That's right! The people don't have any money in their hands, but we do! None of us have a lot of money in our hands that we can't spend, and we are about to rot at home! A fat-headed, big-eared, silk-clad businessman slapped his hands on the table and shouted.

"The people have food, we have money, and the court has to collect taxes. The people can only come to us with grain to sell, and when the time comes, what is the price of silver, what is the price of grain, is it not up to us to say? ”

The person who first discovered the loophole in the acre of silver levied let out a smug laugh.

Someone stood up suddenly, and under the gaze of everyone, he had already put on a posture of leaving.

"This year's autumn grain is about to be harvested! Ladies and gentlemen, I take my leave! ”

After that, the man ignored the surprised gazes of the people present, and left directly.

After half a ring, everyone here finally reacted.

According to the Yamen, the governor of Zhili, from now on, it will be changed to the method of collecting silver per mu. The autumn grain that has not yet been harvested this year is naturally counted in it.

The man was clearly going home to raise money so that he could go down there to buy food first!

Earn a fortune on the price of silver, and another on the price of grain.

Everyone has faintly realized that in the future, this grain business will be better than the salt merchant business of the two Huai.

The figure of the first person is long gone.

The rest of the people could no longer walk.

At this time, two quarters of an hour late in raising silver is an innumerable loss of silver.

In the blink of an eye, even the owner's house disappeared.

Everyone rushed out in a swarm, hoping to seize the opportunity and raise more cash to go to the countryside to buy food with the people.

It's just a few days.

With the official document of the Governor of Zhili, the 18 prefectures of the entire Zhili Province fell into an inexplicable frenzy of grabbing silver.

Later, a whip law that extended the life of the Ming Dynasty for nearly a hundred years appeared and was implemented two hundred years in advance.

No one knows what such a change will turn out to be.

But now, the two sides are caught in a contest.

Ying Tian Cheng.

The Imperial City Hongwu Gate is directly opposite the Chaoyang Gate on the city gate tower.

Zhu Yunxi was dressed in a trolling sa and climbed the city tower early in the face of the rising sun.

Around him, Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department, Zou Xueyu, the governor of Zhili Province, Zhu Gaochi, the head of the tax office, and Jiang Xuan, the commander of Jinyiwei, gathered here. In the corner, Sun Gou'er, the chief manager of the 24th Yamen of the Inner Court, who should have been in the palace, was also standing there silently.

Zhu Yunxi smiled, looked at the official road outside the city, and rushed to Yingtian City.

He spoke slowly: "Everything is almost ready, so let's start moving now." ”