Seeing that Wu Jun had paid so little tax to the imperial court in recent years, less than half of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Ran Min was shocked.

You must know that in order to reduce the burden of the common people, the Wei State has made several light taxes and cut a lot of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so that the people's lives are much better, and they basically live and work in peace and contentment. But this does not mean that Wei's income has decreased in a year.

The Wei State attached equal importance to agriculture and commerce, and while encouraging the common people to do business, it also implemented the equalization system and distributed fields to the common people for cultivation. It stands to reason that after such a reform of the decree, Wu County should be able to become more tax-paying and increase many taxes to the imperial court.

But at present, Wu Jun gives the imperial court 2 million yuan of treasure money a year, which is roughly the same every year. If you want to say that there is no greasy in this, you don't believe it if you kill Ran Min!

When the officials of Wu County retreated, Ran Min left the county guard Li Song alone.

Ran Min took a sip of tea, stabilized his mind a little, and said lightly to Li Song: "There is no one else now." Li Song, can you tell me why? ”

Li Song knelt down with another plop, and said in fear: "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty of death!" ”

"Don't say you can't die. I just have to listen to you tell the truth. ”

Hearing this, Li Song sighed faintly and said, "Your Majesty, the minister does not dare to deceive. Regarding the fact that Wu County's annual tax is only two million treasure money, it is indeed boring. There are many merchants in Wu County, and the taxes paid by the merchants every year are more than just these two million treasure money! ”

"And where does the rest of the tax go? Was it greedy for ink by the magistrate? ”

"Where do they have the guts?"

Li Song smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, the Wu County Duoshi Clan, the economic lifeline of the entire Wu County is basically in the hands of these Shi clans. Since the empire destroyed the Eastern Jin Dynasty and governed Wu County, it implemented the Juntian system in Wu County and even the entire Jiangdong, forcing the major scholars to demolish the dock fort and release the villagers. But because of this, the scholars have a grudge against the government! ”

"Oh? Li Song, are you saying that Wu County's taxes are so small, and they are all ghosts of the scholars? Ran Min's brows furrowed.

"Back to Your Majesty, in fact, this is not true. Even if the scholars have the courage to do so, they don't dare to touch the taxes of the imperial court, but the merchants of Wu County are mostly attached to the wealthy families of Wu County, such as Wang, Xie, Chen, Chu, etc., and these wealthy scholars privately encourage the merchants not to pay taxes to the imperial court, and often collude with officials and businessmen, coupled with the support of these local scholars, the merchants are even more unscrupulous. There is no way for the minister, if you can receive the two million taxes, you still beg your grandfather to ask your grandmother! ”

"How unreasonable!"

Ran Min said angrily: "How dare the scholars of Wu County be so presumptuous? ”

"Isn't it just Wu Jun?" Li Song sighed: "Even the counties in Jiangdong such as Huiji County and Yuzhang County, and even the old land of the original Jin Kingdom, except for some remote areas that cannot be affected by the scholars, are basically like this!" ”

"How can the scholar clan have this kind of courage and this kind of strength to oppress my Great Wei officials?" Ran Min still didn't believe it.

Li Song shook his head and said, "Who can say that the Shi clan gate valve doesn't have this strength?" Your Majesty, with all due respect, there has always been such a saying in Koto. I'd rather offend the court than provoke the scholars! The power of the scholars is greater than that of the imperial court, and even when the Eastern Jin Dynasty ruled the south, the Eastern Jin Dynasty court wanted to fight, asked for money and food, and asked for it from the scholars, which further fueled the arrogance of the scholars. ”

"After the Great Wei unified the world and obtained Jiangdong, he also implemented the decrees of the imperial court in Jiangdong, but the scholars resisted this. The influence of the scholars among the people is too great. ”

Hearing this, Ran Min glared and said, "Since you can't handle this matter, why don't you report it to the imperial court if there is such a situation?" ”

"Report to the court? Your Majesty, how can this be so easy. It seems that the last county guard of Wu County is an official of the imperial court to Wu County, he is upright, found out about the cat, and reported it to the imperial court, but the song was intercepted halfway, the messenger was killed, and not long after, the county guard died mysteriously in the mansion. said that he was overworked and died suddenly, but in such a violent situation, who would believe that there is nothing greasy in it? ”

Ran Min is really unacceptable, a dignified county guard, who can be regarded as a feudal official of one side, was murdered by the Shi clan like this?

But that's just the way it is.

Li Song said again: "The imperial court has sent a total of three county guards to Wu County, and the minister is the third. The second died mysteriously, and the first county guard, which was resigned and went into hiding. ”

"Was his resignation forced to go into hiding?"

Li Song smiled bitterly and said, "That's right. It's not easy to get the position of the county guard, the ruling party, and it's not the year of the sixtieth year, how can the county guard be willing to resign and go into hiding? When he took office, he was resisted by the scholars of Wu County, although this Yang County Shou made many efforts to try to confront these Jiangdong scholars, but unfortunately, they all failed. ”

Then the Yang county guard was impeached. The scholars instigated the people of ten miles and eight towns to write to the court, impeached this Yang county guard, and found a large number of gold, silver and jade in his home, which is obviously a false accusation! The minister was serving as the county magistrate in Fuchun County at that time, so he knew that this Yang County guard was a person. ”

"It's good for him to resign and go into hiding, for example, among the six counties in Jiangdong, the imperial court sent down more than a dozen county guards, some were forced to resign, some committed suicide because of false accusations, some were executed for false accusations, and some were imprisoned for false accusations! Some county guards were even assassinated! ”

Hearing about this, Ran Min's heart was very angry.

Ran Min thought that the scholars of the Central Plains established a dock fort and raised a large number of private soldiers and slaves, which was hateful enough, but he didn't expect that the scholars in Jiangdong were even more unbearable, which really made Ran Min hateful!

However, what Ran Min never expected was that this matter was not so simple.

On the second day, Li Song, the county guard, committed suicide by taking poison in the house.

said that he committed suicide, but in fact, Ran Min's heart was like a mirror, which was clearly murdered!

Ran Min was furious, and the consequences were serious!

When Ran Min learned of Li Song's death, he immediately asked Jinyiwei to collect all kinds of evidence, and finally cleared the criminal clan to the prison and waited for his fate. The consequences of Ran Min's actions actually aroused the opposition of the people of Wu County, who wrote to Ran Min one after another, asking for the release of these "innocent" scholars.

But Ran Min doesn't eat this set at all!

The civil unrest, in Ran Min's opinion, was not terrible at all, he immediately sent the army to suppress it, arrested all the people who made trouble, and did not let any of them go.

It just so happens that there can be more people who have moved to Liaodong.

Rao is like this, seeing the demonstrations of the people, Ran Min's heart is very uncomfortable.

These people are illiterate, and the reason why they do this must be fooled and encouraged by the nobles. These nobles are not a good thing!

The people of this era are simple and ignorant, they will not have too many fancy intestines, but once they are instigated by someone with a heart, it will be a very terrible force.

For this reason, Ran Min can only choose to completely strangle this unsafe and unstable factor in the cradle!