The deficit of the treasury is so large, and Li Yang and Tao Wei and others are dumbfounded, to be honest, he expected that there would be a certain deficit in the accounts before checking the accounts, but he did not expect that the deficit of the treasury would be as much as 150,000 taels, he was glad for his insistence, and now he can't rely on himself to find out how to say the problem, if it takes a long time, some things will really not be clear

As soon as the results of the check came out, Li Yang took the checked account book and trotted all the way to the back hall study to explain the matter to Lord Sun, and when the deficit of a pen was presented in front of him, Lord Sun's expression gradually became solemn: Hongting thanks to your insistence, otherwise the government would not know that the deficit of the treasury would be so big, this Zhou Jie is really unreasonable, and when he was there, the stall in the house was a mess by him

Hongting is in charge of the household room, in this regard, you are much stronger than Zhou Jie, the household is handed over to your mansion rest assured, you have to give the treasury silver and official grain to the mansion

Li Yang: Teacher, don't worry—students will do their best

Sun Yuanwu: The deficit in the Hongting Mansion Treasury is so big, what do you think about this?

Li Yang hesitated: It's hard to say

Sun Yuanwu: What is there to say, boldly say that there are no outsiders

Li Yang: The teacher and the student can just say it, if you don't say it right, you will say nothing

"Say"

Li Yang: According to the students' opinion, eighty percent of the deficit in the treasury is greedy

Sun Yuanwu pursed his lips and nodded slightly: Well-your opinion is completely consistent with this mansion, who else in the Hongting household knows about the deficit of the treasury besides you

Li Yang: In addition to me, there are five officials who check the accounts who know about this

Sun Yuanwu: Are these people reliable?

Li Yang: Reliable, the officials who checked the accounts this time were all close associates of the students

Sun Yuanwu: Hongting went back to say hello to a few of them, no one is allowed to make a public announcement about the deficit of the treasury, and the checked account books are handed over to the government for safekeeping, and the household still seals the previous account books, and you haven't found out anything about the accounts of the treasury this time, and the government doesn't know anything

Li Yang: Teacher-student doesn't quite understand your consciousness, so don't you check the deficit of the treasury?

Sun Yuanwu: Check - of course you have to investigate, but this matter can't be rushed step by step, you just checked the accounts of the treasury, the government will investigate the deficit of the treasury with great fanfare, then they don't know that this matter is poked out by you, from now on the household will become a target of public criticism and be spurned, Hongting this mansion is also to protect you and the people around you

Li Yang: Teacher, what should be done with the deficit students in the treasury

Sun Yuanwu: The deficit before you took over the household was Zhou Jie's business, but after you took over the household, there was a deficit, so you are the only one in this mansion to ask

Li Yang: Teacher-student knows what to do

Li Yang not only cleared off the responsibility for the deficit of the government treasury, but also had a certain understanding of the tax sources and official property of Taizhou Prefecture, and the next step was to integrate the official property - develop industry, and change the wheel of the times to turn

The scorching sun in July is like a crazy stove raging the earth, these days Taizhou Mansion is stuffy and hot and even a little wind, the air is mixed with a little dampness, people stay in the house and dare not move, a move on the sweat, pedestrians on the street have become less, the older generation say that this is a heavy rain, and when the rain comes down, the sky will be cool

Sure enough, it lasted for seven days of high temperature, and on the eighth day, Taizhou Mansion finally ushered in a downpour, "whoosh", the splash of water droplets on the ground, attracted Li Yang to the eaves, he stretched out his hand, the rain dripped along the eaves and his hands were warm, he looked at the sky full of dark clouds, calculated the time, and in two months, the crops in the fields could be harvested

At that time, the household should also start to collect this year's field tax, the standard of the tax rate in Zhejiang is one of ten, the barren field pays 30 catties of grain per mu, and the fertile field pays 40 catties of grain per mu, and the taxes of Zhejiang during the Taiping period mainly have four major blocks, namely-tariff-field tax-commercial tax-person tax, if you catch up with the disaster of war, the government will collect too many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people not only have to pay money - pay grain, but also have to go to the front line to fight if they are unlucky

It is no exaggeration to say that food is related to the survival of a country, and the current era of backward productive forces, the only way to increase grain production is to open up wasteland, and when the tax revenue rises during the Taiping period, the pressure on the people and the government will be smaller, and how to increase grain output and increase tax revenue has become the focus of the next step of the household's work

So Li Yang looked through the relevant information, according to the account book of Hufangding-Mu, Xingyuan recorded that in 1526, the registered population of Taizhou Prefecture was 377412 people, the total number of arable farmland was 1.86 million mu - 100,000 mu of official land, the registered population of Fucheng - Taizhou City was 200,000 - 601,000 mu of farmland - 63,300 people registered in Alan County, 273,200 mu of farmland - 32,645 people registered in Pengxi County - 206752 mu - 27,696 people registered in Huangyan County 199632 acres of farmland

Last year, the Taizhou government collected a total of 179623 186595 213221 625,000 quintals of official grain, handed over 400,000 quintals of military rations to the national capital Yufengcheng, and the remaining more than 200,000 quintals were official grains, which were used to supply the monthly salaries of local garrisons to maintain public officials

With the experience of checking the accounts of the treasury, Li Yang at this time had another idea, that is, to re-measure the land, so he found Tao Wei and asked him when the account book in front of him was counted

Li Yang: Didn't the house send someone down to check it?

Tao Wei looked around, leaned into Li Yang's ear and lowered his voice a little: Big brother Hufang will send people to various counties to inspect the fields every year, but most of the people who go are just going through the motions, but they can pick a few houses in the nearby places to check and come back to hand over the errand

Li Yang: If you go, you will go through the motions, so why don't you go to it?

Tao Ji: Who's to say it's not?

Li Yang: Did the household send people to the counties to inspect the fields this year?

Tao Wei shook his head: Not yet, the matter of returning to the hometown in time for the head of the team last week will be delayed, is there any omission in this Ding Mu account book, eldest brother

Li Yang: No, I'll just ask casually, if there is nothing else, you can get busy first

Tao Wei: Okay, big brother, then I'll go first

After experiencing the previous incident, this time Li Yang also learned top, he didn't mention the idea of measuring the field to anyone, even his team Tao Wei and others didn't mention a word, after the rain stopped, he quietly came to the inner courtyard of the back hall, Sun Yuanwu was standing outside the door and looking up at the sky, looking at his expression, he should be thinking about something, I was about to walk to him, he didn't notice the "teacher"

Sun Yuanwu came back to his senses at this time: Hongting, you are here, this rain is quite heavy

Li Yang: Yes, Master, this rain is really too timely for the farmers, for example, if the fields of the students' families are two or three days late, then the crops of the students' families will be all over

Sun Yuanwu: What you just said is what the government has been worried about for the past few days, but fortunately, after this rain, the government can breathe a sigh of relief, by the way, how are the crops in your fields growing this year?

Li Yang: Master's crops in the field this year are still quite stout, as long as God favors him, this year will be another bumper harvest year

After hearing this, Sun Yuanwu nodded with satisfaction: If this is really the case, then the people of our Taizhou Mansion will be blessed

Li Yang: Yes, the teacher will be able to harvest the grain in the field in two months, and then the household should start to collect this year's field tax

Sun Yuanwu: Hongting taxation is the foundation of a country, and you must be in charge of a state's taxation to your relationship, and you have to take care of the money bag of Taizhou Mansion for your own government

Li Yang: Teacher, rest assured, students must fulfill their duties

Sun Yuanwu: Well-that's good

Li Yang: Before the autumn harvest, the teacher and students plan to carry out an inspection of the farmland in Taizhou Prefecture to have a detailed understanding of the number of acres of cultivated land in Taizhou Prefecture and the situation of farmers owning land

Sun Yuanwu: Isn't it recorded in the account books of our Taizhou Mansion and every mu of households?

Li Yang: The Teacher-Record is recorded but not detailed enough, the farmland recorded in the Dingmu account book is mainly based on the village, and the household records are relatively less, not that the record is vague, which will have a certain impact on the tax, and the less fields recorded will naturally be less tax

Sun Yuanwu: It's true, but there are nearly 2 million mu of registered cultivated land in Taizhou Prefecture

Li Yang: If there are not enough people, the students plan to hire some people nearby to help the officials inspect the fields

Sun Yuanwu: This is a solution, it doesn't hurt to give more money to the people's wages and houses, and the officials are also working hard to go on business trips in the hot weather recently, so you can give your brothers some money for eating meat and drinking as appropriate, so that everyone can get some benefits, so that people are willing to work hard for you, and the day after tomorrow, the government will send someone to invite the county orders of each county to come over, and say hello to them, so that things can be done more easily

Li Yang: It's still the teacher's thoughtfulness, and there is a teacher of Law

At this time, a servant reported outside the door, "Lord Yu-Lord Teng Gang has something to see" Li Yang bowed to Lord Sun very interestingly when he heard it: The teacher and the student retired first

And Sun Yuanwu nodded slightly, and responded, "Well-you go get busy first"

After returning to the house, Li Yang told the officials about the decision of the government to prepare to inspect the land, and this time the land inspection was the most vigorous in the Taizhou government in the past ten years, and the requirements were accurate to every household at the village level

At this time, a clerk smiled bitterly on the side: Li Bantou, you have sent a drudgery to the gang brother this time

And another official echoed: Yes-Li Bantou, now is the hottest time of the year, don't say that you are staying in the house on a business trip, and if you don't do anything, the sweat will be blowing out, it is better to wait until September and October after the autumn, and the weather is cooler to do this errand

As soon as the words fell, several other officials also began to complain, I can see these people, that is, they are used to enjoying the blessings of pampering on weekdays, and the farmers are farming under the high temperature and flames, and I have not seen anyone say that the weather is too hot and I don't plant this land, if ordinary people don't farm or work, the family has to drink the northwest wind, but the people who eat public meals are different, and he has money to take it or not

Li Yang hesitated for a moment: You inspect the fields this time is related to the surplus tax of Taizhou Mansion, only when the treasury is abundant, we can all pay on time, so this errand has to be done before the autumn harvest, Master Sun knows that everyone is working hard, and specially instructed me to add an extra 50 yuan a day per person on this errand, as well as wine and meat, the errand is a little bitter, everyone can overcome it

I remember that in the first two years, whether it was a large or small official, or a soldier or a soldier, he could only receive six months of money a year, and the money was not enough to spend how to fix it and then he had to find a way out

Tied the matter of inspecting the fields to everyone's own interests, and could earn some extra money every day to eat wine and meat, the officials who were shouting and complaining about their grievances stopped moving, and then looked at Zhang Wen

Zhang Wen: There are nearly 2 million acres of land under the rule of Li Bantoutai's government, and it takes four or five months for these dozen or so people to inspect the fields at the earliest

After hearing this, the officials on the side discussed in private, "Yes, just pointing to us people will definitely not be able to complete the inspection before the autumn harvest" "It takes several months to do an errand outside, so let's finish it within two months, isn't it difficult for a strong man"

Li Yang: Brother Zhang inspected the fields under the rule of Taizhou Mansion, how could it take so long

Zhang Wen: The fields in Libantou's city and the counties are relatively close and concentrated, but the distribution of fields in each village is scattered, and many of them are in remote mountains and forests or mountain cols

Li Yang: Brother Zhang, do you have a good solution?

Zhang Wen thought for a while: I really have a way, not only can I complete the inspection of the fields before the autumn harvest, but everyone does not have to suffer hardships

Li Yang: Brother Zhang has the best of both worlds, so I have to tell you about it

Zhang Wen: The fields under the rule of Taizhou City are inspected by the households, and the fields under the jurisdiction of the counties are handed over to the households of the counties for inspection, and if the inspection is carried out according to this method, the fields can be inspected in a maximum of one month

Zhang Wen's words made some of the officials present applaud, "This method is good, we don't have to be too tired after doing the errand."

As soon as Zhang Wen said this, Li Yang seemed a little unkind if he insisted on insisting, so he came up with a compromise solution, "Brother Zhang said that the method is good, but this inspection is to count the specific values of farmland in the state capital, and the second is to check whether the following counties have concealed or omitted to report

Isn't there six counties under the rule of Taizhou Prefecture, it just so happens that I have a friend who is the garrison of Pengxi County, and I will tell him about the fields in Alan County and Pengxi County, and ask him to send some people to help with the errands, and I am hiring more people to help in the remaining four counties, so you just have to keep a good record of the number of fields."

Zhang Wen: Li Bantou's errand, when will the household house be done?

Li Yang: It is estimated that I will have to wait for two or three days, and Lord Sun will have to inform a few county commanders first.

Zhang Wen: At that time, will the house have to leave a few people to watch the house?

Li Yang: Well, you have to leave a few people to watch the house

Zhang Wen: Recently, my old problem of back pain has been committed again, and I can't straighten up my back after standing for a long time, so I'll stay at home and watch the house

Li Yang: Brother Zhang, you are the old man in our household, and you know better than me about the situation in each county

Zhang Wen raised his hand and patted me on the shoulder: Li Ban's head is like this, leave it to the other brothers, I'll just stay and watch the house, and I hope you will understand my old problem of back pain

After saying that, he covered his waist with both hands, "Oh, no, it may be that after standing for a long time, my waist is starting to hurt again," and returned to his seat with a mouthful of words

Li Yang also saw it, saying that he didn't want to go to a thousand words and ten thousand papers, but if people didn't want to go, then don't be strong: Brother Zhang, then you can stay and watch the house

At first, several officials who complained about it also said that they wanted to stay and watch the house, and at this time, the household house was also divided into two waves, one was the senior faction headed by Zhang Wen, these people were all old oilmen who had been working in the household for more than ten or twenty years, and the other wave was the new faction headed by Li Yang, like Tao Wei and others, who only went to the government to work in the past three or five years

Shen Shi Li Yang glanced at the sky outside, about half an hour to get off work, he glanced at the officials and saw that everyone had something to do in their hands, so everyone packed up their things and went back to rest early, it happened that today he had something at home to take a step ahead of others, and as soon as he walked out of the yard of the house, he found that he had something to look forward to

When he walked to the door of the house and was about to go in, he heard someone in the house saying, "This Li Bantou has a lot of things, and he will let us suffer for his own merits."

"Who's to say it isn't"

"Compared with the previous Zhou Bantou, he is not a little worse."

"Consciously, he also added an extra 50 yuan a day for the whole trip, how can anyone get the silver that is short of three or five taels"

"It has to be Brother Zhang, no matter what Li Bantou says, I just won't go, or we won't be able to wipe our faces, so we have to follow him to suffer."

"I think he's just full of food and has nothing to do, don't get used to him when he should be on top of him, I have to find a chance to frustrate his spirit"

Li Yang heard these words clearly outside the house, but he didn't hear who said the first few sentences, but he heard the last sentence that it was Zhang Wen's voice