It is now June of the third year of Wanli.

The scorching sun is high, and it is the time when Wang Sun shakes the fan.

After Zhu Yijun came back from the Wenhua Palace, he could only stay in the summer hall where there was ice to cool off the heat and read books.

And when he was tired of throwing the book and wanted to be sleepy, Zhu Yijun saw that Zhang Whale was directing people to move new ice cubes in, so he asked: "Can there be a new chapter from the north and south?" ”

Zhu Yijun knows that if he wants to have abundant martial arts in the Ming Dynasty, he still has to have abundant financial resources.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun is most concerned about the matter of Qingzhang Tianmu.

This is related to whether he will continue to find one or two big officials to raid his house next year, and whether he will further test the bottom line of the world's bureaucrats.

You must know that although Jiajing lived in the harem, delegated power to the cabinet, and began to expand the duty room for cabinet scholars in the Wenyuan Pavilion of the inner court, and even equipped subordinate officials, including opening the recruitment system, allowing generals to recruit soldiers on their own, and then the Qi family army appeared, but he never relaxed the supervision of the household department and the supervision of the world's finances.

Rao is lazy in the later period of Wanli history, but he has never relaxed on the matter of grabbing money.

Zhang Juzheng told him that only soldiers and money should not be faked to others, but he still listened.

The current Zhu Yijun is naturally the same, he must put money in the first place.

It's the same in any era, it's hard to gather troops without money.

"Back to the emperor, there is a new chapter in Haibutang, saying that more than 3 million stone taxes and grains and more than 1 million taels of gold and silver that should have been released into Beijing last year have been recovered through Qingzhang."

Zhang Whale said.

The so-called gold and silver refers to a kind of tax silver name for the quasi-discounted tax grain and silver that was formed when Xuande opened and opened.

The main purpose of this system is to facilitate the people of the lower-class households who cultivate the official fields in the south of the Yangtze River to pay taxes through the silver earned by their own industrious sideline work, and to avoid being exploited too heavily by heavy taxes, and also to avoid abandoning farming because of the heavy taxes on official fields.

The gold and silver were mainly used as emperor's rewards and for the distribution of military attachés.

Zhu Yijun laughed after hearing this: "Sure enough, the results are beginning to appear." It seems that the ministers of Nanzhi are still very conscientious, and the examination method has not been implemented in vain. ”

Zhang Whale also laughed and said: "What the emperor said is that the arrears of grain recovered are worth the total amount of grain and gold and silver paid in a year." ”

"The court has benefited."

"What about the people?"

"I asked Dongchang to send someone to Jiangnan to secretly inspect the impact of Qingzhang Tianmu on the people, can there be an echo?"

Zhu Yijun asked.

Zhang Whale replied: "There is no echo for the time being. ”

Zhu Yijun nodded: "If there is a situation, inform me in time." ”

Zhang Whale said yes.

Although the new policy of measuring the acres of land of the officials and the people was designed from the very beginning, it was taken into account that it could not affect the common people and give the officials the opportunity to disturb the common people, but in order to prevent the decree from going down and not going crooked, Zhu Yijun still had to go through the Dongchang to see, instead of only pinning his hopes on the civil officials of foreign dynasties.

There is no suspicion in employing people, and there is no need for suspicious people, but the attitude he showed towards the rulers of foreign dynasties does not mean that he, the emperor, really does not have a hand, but really only believes in Wenchen.

At the end of June of this year, Nanzhi was in the class room of the Tianfu Mansion.

"I really don't have so many fields in my family!"

Liu Quxian, a commoner, sat weakly in the room and muttered to himself.

And just after Liu Quxian said this, a team of officials came and stopped outside the class room where he was held.

The so-called class room is the equivalent of a place where people are temporarily detained, and if they have not been convicted of a crime, if they have not paid taxes or are suspected of guilt, they will be locked up in the class room first.

In ancient times, a common way for officials to abuse their power was to say that a villager was guilty, and then put him in the class room first, and wait for his family to redeem him, or wait for the official to judge him not guilty before letting him go, and if his family has no money or the official is lazy and does not care about political affairs, he will often be locked up for several years.

Liu Quxian has been imprisoned here for almost a year.

Because he has no family, his parents are dead, and his clansmen have no money to ransom him, not to mention that his clansmen have no power, even if they want to raise money to ransom, they are afraid that they will not be able to resist the continuous extortion of the officials.

Therefore, Liu Quxian has been locked in the class room all the time, and he forgot what day it was outside.

Liu Quxian was imprisoned because his family was told last year that he owed 500 mu of taxes and grain on private land, so that it was not enough to confiscate his family's 20 mu of land into the government, which led to him being imprisoned, and even the opportunity to study in a private school set up by a fellow villager was ruined.

It's just that when Liu Quxian was so desperate that he didn't know when he could go out, he saw the official stop outside his class room, opened his class room, and said to him: "Liu Quxian, the master of Futai wants to see you, come with us." ”

So, it didn't take long for Liu Quxian to kneel in the court of the Ying Tian Governor's Mansion.

When Liu Quxian knelt in the court, he saw Chang Gui, the household warden who used to take people to raid his house, was being pressed to the ground by the government service soldiers, and he was wearing a prison uniform.

At the same time, the palace lord who was famous in Shangyuan County and had served as a Fang Bo, that is, the political envoy of Bu, was also removed from the black veil and detained.

Wang Zongyi, the prefect who was sitting behind the central case of the public court, said to Liu Quxian at this time: "The hall is Liu Quxian, a villager from Shangyuan County? ”

"Xiaomin exactly."

Liu Quxian replied.

Wang Zongyi said: "It has been ascertained that your household does not have 500 acres of land, but it is actually Gong Zhongxiang and the warden Chang Gui who are tax evasion fields, and they are sent to your name. ”

"And Chang Gui knows that you have no parents for a long time, three generations of single inheritance, and no powerful people in the clan, so he deliberately took advantage of the momentum of Gong Zhongxiang to eat you, a weak household."

"Therefore, you have no tax arrears, and you will return your twenty acres of land to you in silver, because your land has been sold by Chang Gui to others, so you can't directly return the land to you, do you understand?"

"Xiaomin understands!"

"Xiaomin Xie Qingtian, Lord Qingtian."

Liu Quxian was already crying, and then kowtowed.

At that time, Wang Zongyi ordered: "Give him the silver and let him return home." ”

So, the rich grain master gave the silver to Liu Quxian.

Liu Quxian had already taken the heavy silver and walked out.

At this time, Wang Zongyi dropped the token and said: "According to the law, the staff is often a hundred!" Gong Zhongxiang was put in prison, and his family will be released when they have paid their contributions! ”

"The lord spares his life!"

Then, the warden Chang Gui cried.

Gong Zhongxiang also shouted: "Wang Ziheng, you are a sycophant, regardless of the friendship of Shilin, are you not afraid of falling into the name of a cool official?!" ”

Wang Zongyi ignored Gong Zhongxiang.

Qingzhang Tianmu is a matter of the world's bureaucrats taking the initiative to implement it, coupled with the examination system, it also forces them bureaucrats to dare to offend the local gentry, so Wang Zongyi is not afraid of Gong Zhongxiang's threat, and believes that as long as his new policy is completed well, and there is no public resentment when Qingzhang is clear, he can be seen by the court, and then like Wang Yongji, these people are overpromoted.

After all, according to last year's examination results, he had to admit that although the Gangneung state was drastically restructured and implemented strict governance, it was still very fair in terms of Quanxu, and those who worked seriously could be promoted quickly.

What's more, Nanzhi still has a famous minister like Hai Rui in charge, and Wang Zongyi hopes to let Hai Rui see his image of not being afraid of the powerful and earnestly serving the people and the country, and then get a word of praise from him.

You must know that an affirmation from a governor like Hai Rui is more effective than sending tens of thousands of taels of silver to a Beijing official.

Syllable!

At this time, Chang Gui had already picked up the board, and he kept howling because of it.

And before the fight was finished, Chang Gui was killed with a cane.

Liu Quxian felt very happy when he saw this, so he quickly left the mansion and came to Nanjing Street.

Nandu has always been prosperous.

When Liu Quxian was escorted, he had no intention of watching the prosperity of the southern capital, but now when he went back, he was in the mood to look around.

And after looking around, Liu Quxian saw a row of young girls standing at a T-shaped intersection.

The young girls all bowed their heads.

A middle-aged man in a silk robe was blushing his stomach, wiping the beads of sweat on his head, and shouted next to these young girls: "Come and see, they are all good girls in the palace, they don't have their faces, and they can be called by their mother-in-law and aunts when they buy them home." Please also ask the neighbors to enjoy the face, buy a few back, and take care of the palace family, the palace family thanks you for your great kindness, otherwise the palace family will be raided to make up for the endowment, please you! ”

The middle-aged man said and straightened out.

This middle-aged man is actually Gong Zhongxiang's butler Qin Rui.

Moreover, it is obvious that the Gong family was also forced by Ying Tianfu to be in a hurry, and had to sell their own people to pay the levy.

The reason why I chose to sell people instead of selling land is naturally to reduce expenses while selling people for money.

The Gong family knew that after being cleared, their income would be greatly reduced, and it would be impossible to use a lot of slaves and maids as before.

Liu Quxian walked over at this time, and walked in front of a servant girl who bowed her head: "Come to Sister Di!" You've been in the palace family all along? ”