Chapter 236: Changing the Evils of Hundreds of Years

"Shi Xiu..."

"Grandpa..."

Chen Cao and Song Che hugged tightly, and Chen Cao laughed: "Your kid seems to have a very nourishing life in the Wa Kingdom, but he didn't tan you?" ”

Song Che smiled: "Although the sun is not scorching, but the country of Wa seems to be cursed, in the summer, there will be sea water poured into the interior, in the winter, not in October, the snow will cover the mountains, if it weren't for the good weather on the Satsuma Domain, I would probably have slipped away early..."

"Hahaha..."

The two patted their shoulders and laughed.

"Let's go, go home first..."

In the Guogong Mansion, at this moment, only Chen Cao, Li Xiang and Li Wan'er accompanied Song Che and Chen Qing's family of three, and Song Che hugged his big fat boy and smiled from ear to ear...

This is a family banquet, Song Che has been stranded in the country for three years, and his sons are three years old, and he is babbling and calling his father in his father's arms at the moment, which makes everyone laugh.

After the family banquet, Chen Cao took Song Che to the governor's yamen.

"With the help of a group of people, Toyotomi Hideyoshi has now divided the entire Wa Kingdom equally with the Tokugawa Shogunate, and Iwami Province is now in our hands, and the Toyotomi clan has handed over Iwami Ginzan to us according to the previous agreement with us; The silver ship is now transported by Haimao Group;

In addition, the ports in the Satsuma Domain and the coastal domains are basically under the control of our army, and according to the previous orders of the grandfather, only one port was reserved for them, and all the merchant ships of the foreign trade group are now docked at Fangjin, and foreign trade is all under our control. ”

Chen Cao nodded: "Did you provoke civil strife?" ”

Song Che nodded: "Because the Tokugawa clan was dissatisfied with the succession of three generations of generals, the three royal families did not support it, and a big war broke out between the two sides, allowing the Toyotomi clan to take advantage of the loophole, and Osaka Castle has become the front line;

According to the previous plan, the balance of power between the two sides was absolutely maintained, and one side was not allowed to dominate. ”

"Okay..."Chen Cao was very satisfied: "The Japanese Kingdom will be the province of my Ming Dynasty in the future, and when the opportunity comes, the army will immediately conquer the Japanese Kingdom;

At this stage, I have a big thing to tell you. ”

Song Che was sitting precariously looking at Chen Cao: "Grandpa directly ordered it." ”

Chen Cao pointed to the map on the large round table, and then drew to Nanjing: "You take your fleet, plus the warships under Chen Yongsu's command, to block Zhao Tianlin's way out." ”

Song Che had already heard about Zhao Tianlin's matter, and immediately said that he would kill this thing outside the inside.

Chen Cao stopped: "Now Zhao Tianlin has taken refuge in the emperor, and after the fall of Wei Zhongxian, he is just a sheep to be slaughtered, which is not a big problem, but the matter of blocking the Zhenjiang estuary must be implemented, and this kind of villain has to be guarded against." ”

"Okay, I'll take care of this..."

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Chen Cao's focus today was to go to Huating County, and Huang Shijing and Liu Wenzheng, who got the news, had been waiting for a long time.

In the prefect's yamen, Tan Wenhua, the prefect of Qingpu County, who had received the news in advance, saluted Chen Cao who walked into the lobby: "The lower official has seen the grandfather of the country..."

After Chen Cao took his seat, he asked Tan Wenhua directly: "Does Tan Zhixian know the intentions of my father?" ”

Tan Wenhua is just for this big event: "The lower officials already know." ”

Tan Culture's teacher was Fang Congzhe of the year, belonging to the Zhejiang Party Department, but the so-called following the customs, Tan Culture has also become a corrupt member of the Ming Dynasty, Songjiang Mansion has enough oil and water, Qingpu County's oil and water is enough, and it is not a big problem to be greedy for fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver a year.

However, today's major event for Chen Cao is to integrate the fields of the whole Songjiang Mansion, this kind of thing, let alone Chen Cao, even when Zhang Juzheng was in power, it was even more difficult to implement a whip law, and Zhang Juzheng fell because of this major event.

Huang Shijing and Liu Wenzheng are now Chen Cao's people, and people like Chen Cao, who self-proclaimed Songjiang Mansion, can also use people who are completely self-baggy.

Therefore, there are only two paths in front of Tan Wenhua at present, either follow Chen Cao's steps honestly, or be replaced by Chen Cao.

Unless Tan Wenhua has a lot of substantive evidence of Chen Cao's rebellion, but according to the number of Diao people in Qingpu County, Tan Wenhua doesn't have to think about whether he has these things.

"The whole government of Songjiang has a total of 630,000 and 5,400 mu of land, 110,000 official land, 200,000 private land, and the rest are all private land,"

Chen Cao said and threw the field book on the table: "Before I get down to business, I will talk to you about the ancestral system of our Ming Dynasty...

Lord Huang, what happened to the exemption that Emperor Taizu set for scholars back then? ”

Of course, Huang Shijing knew this, and hurriedly gave his hand: "Back to Grandpa, in the early days of the Dynasty, the status of the Han people was low, the treatment of scholars was very low, and the life of scholars who became officials was hard.

"Well," Chen Cao nodded with satisfaction: "But this situation changed after Emperor Yingzong, those serfs and big landlords all learned a skill, and all the fields under their names were given to this scholar, and they were called dedication...

Not only that, but even those people have learned to be wise, and they only need to pay a small half of the taxes to Xiucai Gong to the dynasty, and they can be exempted from paying taxes for that year. ”

Huang Shijing's current weather vane is good, and he hurriedly handed it over: "The tax of the national dynasty has been greatly reduced, and the various tax increases and apportionments can only be extracted from the hands of the peasants, so that the current household department of the national dynasty is struggling day by day. ”

Chen Cao said and looked at Tan Wenhua: "How many fields does Tan Zhi County have?" ”

Tan Wenhua was embarrassed and didn't know what to say, so Huang Shijing took the initiative to speak: "Grandpa, generally a county official like Tan Zhixian, after the middle move, there are local landlords with household registration who give away at least 50 acres of land, and the most important thing is to pave the way for the future. ”

"How many private fields does Lord Huang have in Songjiang now?"

Huang Shijing replied: "Now there are 1,600 acres of private land. ”

Tan Wenhua saw the appearance of the prefect Huang Shijing and Chen Cao singing and harmonizing, and immediately had an ominous premonition, sure enough.

"Xia Guan is willing to donate all his private land for use as official land."

Hey...

Tan Wenhua's face is blue, there are officials in the Nanzhili Department under the rule of Qingpu County, and there are retired Zhishi, and now Huang Shijing is cooperating with Chen Cao to do this, and it is clear that he wants to coordinate the entire Songjiang Mansion.

Tan Wenhua immediately gave up his hand and asked tentatively: "Isn't Grandpa's move to integrate the fields of the entire Songjiang Mansion?" ”

Chen Cao did not directly answer Tan Wenhua's words, so he asked again: "Does the dynasty collect commercial taxes?" Or, can Emperor Taizu have an ancestral system and not collect commercial taxes? ”

These few words were immediately circled by a group of people, as if Hong Wuye had not clearly said that he would not accept it, right?

Seeing this, Chen Cao immediately gave Zhao Messenger a look, and then saw an old man in his fifties walking in outside the door.

Just when everyone was curious, the person who came bowed down and said, "The slave has seen the grandfather..."

Slaves?

In the Ming Dynasty, if a man calls himself a slave, he can only be a person, a eunuch...

There is no feudal king in Matsue Prefecture...

Chen Cao pointed to the person who came: "Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce, this father-in-law is the former eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian Wei Gonggong is also..."

Yes?

Everyone was shocked, Wei Zhongxian was actually here...

Who doesn't know that the imperial court sent a sea fishing document to arrest the fugitive Wei Zhongxian, and more importantly, this Wei Zhongxian made it clear that he was Chen Cao's old boss in the past.

Who doesn't know that Chen Cao can have today's credit to Wei Zhongxian?

Huang Shijing hurriedly saluted Wei Zhongxian: "The lower official has seen Grandpa Wei..."

After everyone was courteous, Chen Cao asked: "Gonggong Wei, come to tell everyone, in the early days of the dynasty, Emperor Taizu was not allowed to collect commercial taxes under the ancestral system?" ”

Wei Zhongxian bowed: "Back to Grandpa, when Emperor Hongwu was there, because the world was peaceful for a short time, the industrial and commercial industry could not be restored, and all the commercial transactions at that time were monopolized by the imperial court, and all the merchants were big businessmen, so there was no large-scale collection of commercial taxes, but a small range was collected;

When Emperor Xiaozong was there, the court's commercial tax revenue was very large, and the dynasty's income from commercial tax at that time was as huge as five million taels. ”

"When did the dynasty start to stop collecting commercial taxes?"

In the face of Chen Cao's inquiry, Wei Zhongxian replied again: "After Emperor Wuzong, Emperor Sejong succeeded to the throne, and the lords, ministers and emperors of the dynasty were involved in various fields of business, and this commercial tax was slowly unable to be collected. ”

Chen Cao smiled and looked at everyone in the hall: "Did you hear it, the dynasty has been collecting commercial taxes from the beginning, and it was only in the Jiajing Dynasty that this strange phenomenon of collecting commercial taxes is competing with the people for profit, that is to say, Emperor Taizuwu did not say that commercial taxes are not advisable from the beginning, so there is no question of whether to compete with the people for profits when collecting commercial taxes in the future." ”

Chen Cao asked Wei Zhongxian to stand by his side, then looked at Tan Wenhua and said, "Tan Zhixian, do you think this commercial tax is not advisable?" ”

Tan Wenhua had cold sweat on his forehead, Liu Wenzheng had reminded himself before, but the people in Qingpu were not so easy to get along with, and if he wanted to collect commercial taxes in Qingpu, Tan Wenhua felt that it was bound to make the landlords and gentry in Qingpu rebel, thus causing a riot: "Grandpa, this matter is official... It's really hard to get off the job..."

"Do you find it difficult yourself, or is it because there are gentry officials in Qingpu who are putting pressure on you?"

Chen Cao's words were heart-wrenching, and Tan Wenhua immediately got up and gave his hand: "Grandpa doesn't know, the county governance of Qingpu County depends on the local gentry, and the lower officials really don't have anything to say, but they are just given preferential treatment in taxes every year in order to get praise for their political achievements;

Besides, there are many retired high-ranking officials in the city, and these people really can't afford to be provoked, so please ask your grandfather to find out..."

"Confused..."Huang Shijing scolded: "Lord Tan, you are Qingpu's parent official, when will it be the turn of a group of landlords and gentry officials to govern Qingpu?" ”