Wang Shouren did not go elsewhere, he chose to serve as the prefect of Fuzhou Prefecture, and the original prefect was named Fu Jihua.

This person originally supported Feng Xi, so the yamen of the governor's mansion still retained him.

Wang Shouren chose this place mainly because other areas of Fujian Province have little value in the agricultural society, because it is mostly hilly, the roads are rugged, and the agriculture is not developed.

So since ancient times, this place has been an indisputable place for soldiers. In all dynasties, few of them have made a big move because of the competition for Fujian. If we must fight for Fujian, we basically have to take Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other important cities and towns.

Other places, to be honest, have been wild places for a long time, you don't want to talk about the emperor and the imperial court, but many ordinary people themselves are unwilling to go.

So the so-called arrears of money and food, in fact, there is no money and food, what can be in arrears.

But provincial capitals like Fuzhou are different. Solved here, basically there is no big problem.

Wang Shouren took office under the leadership of the two deputy Qianhu of the Governor's Yamen.

In order to solve the problem of unfavorable tax and grain collection, we must first understand how the tax and grain were collected in the Ming Dynasty.

In the fourth year of Hongwu, when Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang invented a system called "grain chief system,".

Zhu Yuanzhang experienced the dark years of the late Yuan Dynasty when local officials were expropriating money and the people's lives were in dire straits, so he always believed that corrupt officials were the biggest scourge of poor peasants. After becoming the emperor, he thought of this grain chief system: basically, a different number of chief and deputy grain chiefs were selected in each county, and the large households with the most land were taken as grain chiefs, and they were ordered to supervise the collection of taxes and grains and send them to the government.

"Ming Shilu" records: If you govern the good people with good people, there will be no danger of encroaching on fishing.

Of course, we later learned that most of the so-called good citizens were actually all bastards.

But at the beginning, this method worked very well, first, the big family knew that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the country, was a good man, so what he said worked, and the grain chief had a kind of 'Don't treat the village chief as an official, in it, he always has some small rights.'

In addition, "Ming Shilu" also recorded that Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards the crime of the grain chief will be reduced by one grade, called "If the grain chief commits a crime, he will pay money to atone for his crimes", to put it bluntly, it is to spend money to eliminate disasters, which is naturally attractive to large households.

So the big families at that time flocked to it.

However, after the Chenghua period, the grain chief system began to be chaotic, and it was originally the big households who were the grain chiefs, but later the big households were unwilling to be the big ones, and they pushed this position to the middle and lower poor.

The reason is simple,

After the land annexation, the common people became poorer and poorer, and the big households found that they suddenly could not harvest food!

This has nothing to do with the way of collection, just like if you lend money to a good but poor person, you ask him for money, he has a very good attitude, but he has no money, what can you do?

But the officials of the government have political pressure to collect taxes and grain, and sometimes many officials also have the attitude of 'After I die, the flood will be monstrous, and he will go to the grain chief when the time comes. No matter what you do, you hand over the tax and grain in your jurisdiction to Lao Tzu.

Therefore, the position of grain chief has become a money-losing goods.

To a certain extent, the continuous decline in the income of the middle and late Ming Dynasty is also related to the collapse of the grain chief system. ….

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Who will give you the collection of the arrears?

"What about the past? It should have been these grain chiefs in the past, right? How was last year's and the year before's taxes collected?"

Wang Shouren asked his predecessor, Fu Jihua.

Fu Jihua had a goatee, and he brushed it and said, "In the past...... In fact, the tax grain in Fuzhou is no longer enough. The counties can only collect about 130,000 stone from among the people, and there will be different shortfalls in different years, and then the government will negotiate with the big households, write IOUs, borrow some, and make up for it."

In the sixth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang divided the government into three classes, and the grain of more than 200,000 stone was the upper house, the middle government was less than 200,000 stone, and the lower house was less than 100,000 stone.

Fujian Province is a central government. The annual grain payment is about 160,000 stones.

By the way, Suzhou Prefecture can reach 2.5 million stone a year, and Songjiang Mansion can reach 950,000 stone. Huzhou and Hangzhou can have more than 400,000 and 200,000 respectively.

So why does it always say that Zhu Yuanzhang taxes this place heavily...... It's really heavy. The provinces around Suzhou and Hangzhou add up to about half of the Ming Dynasty's annual income.

In the later period of Hongji, the income continued to improve, and now it is about 28 million stone a year. After all, in the sixth and ninth years of Hongzhi, Susong River was governed by Liu Daxia.

Straight to the point.

Fu Jihua said: "There are a total of 10 counties in Fuzhou Prefecture, and the tax grain in each county is basically more than 10,000 stones, and now there are not many of them."

"Why?"

How do you say that......

"Now it looks like the people are resisting...... However......" Fu Jihua saw that the governor, the political envoy, and then Wang Shouren, who was appointed by the Son of Heaven, had all arrived in Fujian, and he also wanted to get closer, so he told the truth, "But I think there should be a conspiracy between the government and the big households, one is to say that they will repay the taxes and grain owed in the past this year, and the other is not to borrow new money. As a result, the amount of tax and grain to be collected by the counties this year has increased dramatically, almost the amount that will be levied for two years in a year."

"Naturally, the people are reluctant to say such a large amount. Those who reported to the lower officials said that there were too many people and that they could not collect taxes and grain. Later, the lower officials also went to understand that the counties were deliberately provoking the people to revolt, anyway, they said that they would collect more this year, but in fact they did not make any effort to collect the money, and the thunder and rain were small.

Wang Shouren groaned slightly, "I see. In this way, if we forcibly expropriate, it will inevitably cause public resentment, and the people's resentment will be great, and no one will be able to eat and walk around after the court blames it. If they don't force the levy, they won't be able to collect it with the public opinion today, especially if they don't work hard." ….

"Not bad."

"Human nature seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages, and the grain chief cannot be counted on, the government cannot be counted on, and the big households cannot be counted on. Looks like we're going to be suffocated in this place."

"What's the best way to do it?"

Wang Shouren touched his nose, "There is a simple and crude method."

"Please send me advice!" Fu Jihua said excitedly.

"Don't worry. Do you say that in the current situation, is the government the first unwilling to urge grain, or the big households are the first to be unwilling to pay grain?"

Fu Jihua was puzzled, "What's the difference?"

"Yes, there's a big difference." Wang Shouren smiled slightly, "The ministry came to Fujian, and there was no arrest or killing, and everyone knew who they were withdrawing. Didn't you Fu Fuzun also go from the prefect's yamen to the governor's palace yamen to participate in politics? The ministry is a secretary of the ministry and an emperor, such a person comes, but the officials are desperate to secretly serve the yang and the yin, this is unreasonable, right?"

"The meaning of Wang Fuzun is that the big families are the first to be unwilling to pay for food. But it's not like all the magistrates and counties are following them, right?"

"The big clans are afraid that the incident in Zhejiang will happen again, and officials from all over the country will be kidnapped by them, and one person will be unlucky and everyone will be unlucky. At the end of the day, it's all about fear. He who is afraid, he doesn't believe what you say, and he is afraid of what you do."

"So?"

"Let's do something that scares him more, so that what he was afraid of before is less afraid." Wang Shouren touched his chin, "From tomorrow onwards, the prefect's yamen will be in a hurry, the more anxious the better, it's best for us to be in a hurry."

Channeling, anxious to collect grain, eager to collect food!

Let them all know that I'm in a hurry and let them see my jokes. When they all believe that I am in a hurry, they will find that the rabbit will jump off the wall when they are in a hurry. Therefore, we will send some people to the doors of various large households every day to make a false impression that they are investigating. In this way, they will feel that I, Wang Shouren, have become a rabbit who is so anxious to jump over the wall, and I am ready to catch a large household to collect food."

"That's ...... Can it be useful?"

Wang Shouren smiled, "It's useless in normal times. But they're scared at this time, and they'll think about it no matter what happens. It's just idling to go to the street in front of each house and have a cup of tea, and those people themselves will imagine what you might be doing. Besides, I wasn't in such a hurry at the time, what do you think they think?"

Scared them to death!

Fu Jihua was skeptical, "But where are we going to find so many people?"

"Go to the poor grain chiefs. Probably none of them want to be grain chiefs, do they? Most of them were also forced by the large joint government. If you have done something to persecute people, and now you find these people wandering around your house, are you not afraid? If it really doesn't work, this government will come and arrest him!"

"Then the government said, "There is nothing else to ask for, but to pay the tax and grain in full, and there is still a difference of one or two thousand stones. Naturally, there will be people scrambling to collect the taxes and grain for us."

Fu Jihua didn't know what this method was, he couldn't describe it. It can only be said that it is very evil.

But for Wang Shouren, the way he thinks is to target the problem, and it is a good way to deal with people who are afraid, and it is the heart of the person who uses it. This is the simplest and most straightforward.

Sometimes, very complex calculations can't be tolerated, accidents, a mistake, and all plans are scrapped. Only by pointing directly at that heart, no one can escape.

Because each person has different methods of human rights, but their hearts are the same, they will be afraid and selfish, and once they find that the harm of refusing to cooperate with the imperial court to collect taxes and grain is greater, they will immediately reverse and support.

That's it. And how complicated can it be? .

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