"Since you decided to pay for the lease in the first place, you have to bear this price!"

"If you are not willing to bear it, you should force the gentry to divide the land among them, or share the losses together, instead of forcing the court to make concessions!"

"Because if the imperial court does not cancel the preferential exemption, in the future, all the fields in the world will become the tax-free fields of the gentry, so how will the imperial court raise troops in the future?"

"Do you really want to let only the smaller and fewer self-cultivated people bear all the taxes and servitude in this world?!"

Hai Rui continued, and after speaking, he asked Wu Xiumin, "You didn't persuade like that?"

Wu Xiumin replied, "The officials persuaded me, but they didn't listen."

"Now that they have all dispersed, it is difficult to ask what is the end, this church only asks you, how is the tax and silver collected?"

Hai Rui asked.

Wu Xiumin said: "Only the large households with less than 50 hectares of land and property have been collected, and the large households with more than 50 hectares have not yet been collected, except for the tax and silver of the second master of Zhang Ge's hometown, the second assistant of the dynasty."

"How do you complete this year's summer tax, and how do you complete the exam?"

Hai Rui asked.

Wu Xiumin couldn't help but kowtow and said, "I hope the ministry will save you!" However, the subordinate officials are indeed incompetent, and it is really not good to do such an errand if he is dismissed!"

"Your business, I'll talk about it later, and give you a chance to make meritorious contributions, you first bring the fish scale book, and the parish will personally ask, do these big families really don't want to pay taxes and silver?"

Hai Rui said.

Wu Xiumin also brought the fish scale book, obviously knowing that Hai Rui was a vigorous and resolute style, and had already guessed that Hai Rui wanted the fish scale book.

Hai Rui took it, looked at it and said, "Go with the main hall and Hu Tishuai, ask door to door, and ask why this big family with more than 50 hectares in Yangzhou City is unwilling to pay taxes and silver."

Wu Xiumin said yes, and then got up and wiped the cold sweat on his head.

"This is the house of Liu Ziming, the envoy of Henan."

Wu Xiumin said to Hai Rui.

Hai Rui instructed Hu Shouren, "Send someone to deliver the order, and let their head of the family come to see the main hall!"

And at this moment, Liu Ziming walked out in person, and asked the house slave to carry a basket of silver ingots, and said to Hai Rui after coming:

"I don't dare to come in person Mr. Lao Gangfeng, the old man didn't know about the collection of the imperial grain and national tax, and now he heard from the mouth of the house slave that Mr. Gangfeng had come to Yangzhou to the governor to pay taxes, so he urgently ordered his family to prepare taxes and silver, so that he didn't have time to go to the ten-mile long pavilion outside the city to greet Haigong."

Hai Rui bowed his head, and still chose to believe it, and said, "Liu Gong doesn't have to be polite."

As a result, Hai Rui received the tax silver from Liu Ziming so easily, and after the inspection, plus the fire consumption, it was exactly the same as the overdue silver stipulated by the National Taxation Department.

And Hai Rui then successfully received the tax money from several other large officials and gentry.

In the face of absolute imperial power, many officials and gentry still dare not confront each other head-on.

What's more, the edict of the officials and gentry to pay grain and errand work in one piece has been issued for more than a year, and it has also been building momentum among the people for a long time, and public opinion has long been no longer necessary, and many officials and gentry belonging to the middle and lower class landlords have already accepted the reality of paying grain and working on errands, including some big officials and gentry, have long accepted this reality.

And now, there are only a small number of stubborn gentry who still need to wait for the National Taxation Department to lead troops to collect money, and these big officials and gentry are weak, so naturally there are some big gentry who honestly pay their taxes after the officers and soldiers of the National Taxation Department come.

……

"These people still didn't stop him in the end!"

Zhang Sijiao, who was standing on a high-rise building in Yangzhou City, saw that Hai Rui was personally taking Hu Shouren and some other officials to Yangzhou Mansion City to collect taxes one by one, so he couldn't help but slam his fist on the window spirit, and then said something through gritted teeth.

"Didn't you say that he Haigangfeng loves the people, why did he dare to bombard the people of Yangzhou at this time?"

Yuan Jiajing, who was cast under Zhang Siwei's door, entered Shiqiu Hu, and after hearing Zhang Sijiao say this by Zhang Sijiao's side, he also said with a disappointed face.

Zhang Sijiao sneered: "Who knows, this person may be a fake Aimin, but in fact it is nothing more

It's a real blessing."

"Zhang Juzheng has been criticizing Zhang Juzheng for so long, but in the end, he still failed to stop the officials and gentry from paying grain as an errand, and many officials and gentry also stopped fighting after a while, and honestly accepted the reality, and before Hai Gangfeng came, they had already paid the tax and grain."

"Now it seems that we should continue to find ways to prevent the new policy of the officials and gentry from paying food and working on errands?"

At this time, Qiu Hu asked.

Zhang Sijiao smiled bitterly: "How else can we stop it?"

"Instigating the people of the world to criticize him Jiangling and make him feel afraid is the only way!"

"But now, the people on the other side of Huguang have dug up the ancestral grave of Jiangling, and they have not stopped it. What else can we stop?"

"Let's wait for my brother to become the country and then abolish it, now I can only endure it."

"It's only time for the elder to take charge of the country."

Qiu Hu gritted his teeth as he said and said, "It's still the same sentence, Jiangling, this person, I hate it to the core!" If the elder of the pavilion can recover me in the future, please let me be responsible for copying the Gangneung clan and interrogating me, I would rather bear the name of a cool official and make the Gangneung clan have a hard time!"

"Don't worry, I believe that my brother will let the prince fulfill this wish after he becomes a country."

Zhang Sijiao said with a smile at this time, and then suddenly said with a calm face: "However, no matter what, Huguang has gone too far, after all, Jiangling is still in power, so dig his father's grave, the key is the land given by the royal family."

"That's right."

"But once this discussion boils over, no one can control its trend except for the discussion itself."

"It's also to blame Jiangling for offending too many people!"

"Especially this time, it is necessary to implement the integration of officials and gentry to pay food and errands, saying that it is to make the Son of Heaven have no way to change the old evils in the future, but can only do benevolent and virtuous deeds."

[In view of the general environment,

"But he also didn't want to think about which gentry and the rich peasants who depended on the gentry were willing to be so expropriated by him?"

"The acres of land before itself are enough to make the rich people dissatisfied. Now that such a thing has happened, he is also to blame!"

Qiu Lu spoke.

"I'm afraid of getting burned."

"I didn't let the people who went to Huguang to instigate criticism of Zhang Juzheng to dig up his ancestral grave!"

"What my brother said makes sense, you can't do it too unscrupulously! Originally, it was just for them to burn down the Zhang family's house and post a few unmasking stickers."

Zhang Sijiao said a few words, and then instructed Qiu Huan: "You go to Huguang in person, and find an excuse to kill the people we sent to Huguang to instigate criticism of Zhang Juzheng!" So as not to have too many dreams at night! Anyway, this person is a black household who has not yet been registered, and he will not be found out if he is killed in advance."

"Good! However, don't worry too much about the second master, after all, we didn't let him criticize Zhang Juzheng in our name."

Qiu said.

Zhang Sijiao said, "I know, but it's not a big mistake to be careful! After all, it can't affect my brother's future country!"

"For this, our Zhang family is the first to pay all the taxes! If my brother is dismissed ahead of schedule because of this, it will be in vain!"

"I'm still waiting for him to repeal the New Deal!"

"Now this Jiangling has abolished the law that the first saint of this dynasty, the filial piety temple, set that employees should be punished with capital punishment for treason against their employers, and if they don't abolish these new policies, I'm afraid that business will not be good in the future!"

Qiu Hu nodded yes, and said, "What the second master said is right, if it weren't for the reign of Xiaomiao back then, we wouldn't have relied on selling salt to settle in Yangzhou and become a big salt merchant on the rich side, instead of staying in the north and having to settle down."

"I hope that today and the future will have the virtue of filial piety, not only valuing business, but also giving preferential treatment to businessmen."

Zhang Sijiao said with expectation for a while.

……

"The record of the temple of filial piety?"

"The queen mother suddenly sent a kind message to me to read this book, is it to be a temple of filial piety?"

Chochun-an.

On the day when Hai Rui supervised taxes in Nanzhi and implemented the national policy of paying grain and errands for the officials and gentry, when Zhu Yijun greeted the Empress Dowager Li, because the Empress Dowager Li suddenly asked him to take the record of Ming Xiaozong back to read, he also took the book of the record of Ming Xiaozong given to him by the Empress Dowager Li and asked about Empress Li.

Empress Dowager Li said: "You should learn from the Temple of Filial Piety and see how the Temple of Filial Piety is known as the King of Zhongxing, instead of going against it and changing all the decrees left behind!"

"Your husband must also want you to be such a king of Zhongxing, instead of blindly relying on your own temperament!"

"I lost the Hetao when I was in the temple of filial piety, so if I want to become the king of Zhongxing, I must first think about which piece of ancestral land I want to abandon."

Zhu Yijun replied directly at this time.