Night.

Zhu Ming was lying on the bed, tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, and suddenly said: "Dean Zhu, have you slept?" ”

"Sleep." Zhu Guoxiang's voice was confused.

Zhu Ming said seriously: "I reflected on it, I was indeed a little anxious today, and I analyzed the reasons why I was anxious. The main thing is that there is Jing Kangsha's point in time, just like a countdown, always thinking about preparing for that event. ”

Zhu Guoxiang asked: "Aren't you afraid that Zheng Fatzi will report to the official?" ”

"Of course I'm not afraid," Zhu Ming wasn't worried about this, "He saw the official horse, and he didn't take it seriously at all, which already explains his attitude." Moreover, although the Song Dynasty strictly forbade prophecy, it was actually spread everywhere, and even in Kaifeng City, there were often prophecies. Let's put it this way, as long as you don't attack the prefectures and counties, and don't kill the officials of the imperial court, no one will care about the flag and rebellion. ”

Zhu Guoxiang was a little surprised: "So outrageous? ”

Zhu Ming smiled: "How did you become Song Jiang?" Wandering and looting many places, the county officials were only willing to defend the city, and they also concealed it and did not report it, and urged the Song Jiang gang to go to other states and counties. As long as they leave their own area of office, the county officials act as if nothing has happened. Song Jiang flowed from Hebei to Shandong, if he hadn't met the fierce Zhang Shuye, it is estimated that he would have continued to trouble him for a few years. ”

"It's a little different from what I imagined." Zhu Guoxiang said.

Zhu Ming continued to introduce the situation: "In order to make a video, I used to buy a set of "Compilation of Historical Materials of the Peasant War of the Two Song Dynasty", and flipping through it casually can be eye-opening. Don't talk about other places, just talk about the capital Kaifeng. In the second year of Song Huizong's accession to the throne, there were hungry people rebelling around Kaifeng City, and guess how much time did the government spend to exterminate it? ”

"Two or three years?" Zhu Guoxiang guessed.

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "Eight years is enough to win the War of Resistance." ”

Zhu Guoxiang said he couldn't understand: "It took eight years to sweep away the anti-thieves near the capital? ”

Zhu Ming said with emotion: "Moreover, it was the Zhongshu Province that personally ordered the officials of the prefectures and counties near the capital to train well and step up the encirclement and suppression. ”

"It's been around the capital for so long, it's not as famous as Song Jiang?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Zhu Ming explained: "Because the anti-flag was not really raised, and the slogan of rebellion was not shouted. That is, the hungry people formed countless gangs, robbed the rich when they saw them, occasionally went into the city to rob the treasury, and immediately dispersed when they encountered the encirclement and suppression of the officers and soldiers. If the number of officers and soldiers is small, they will swarm and eat that group of officers and soldiers. ”

"This isn't a rebellion." Zhu Guoxiang said.

"They have already robbed the treasury and killed officers and soldiers, and it is not considered a rebellion?" Zhu Ming said with a smile, "It is estimated that the court was very faceless, and it was finally calmed down by appeasement." Those robber leaders, as long as they can hold out to the end, they will all fucking recruit an official. It's true, murder and arson are recruited! ”

Hearing his son say this, Zhu Guoxiang had a deeper understanding of the decay of the Song Dynasty.

The anti-thieves near the capital can actually hold out for eight years, and the imperial court has to rely on Zhao'an to solve it. Even if Chongzhen is replaced as the emperor, he will not be so!

Just talking about the uprisings recorded in the history books, there are a lot of them in the Huizong Dynasty.

In the first year of Song Huizong's accession to the throne, Henan Province rebelled; In the second year, there was a rebellion in Hadongro and Gyeonggi; In the seventh year, Suzhou rebelled; In the eighth year, Hebei West Road rebelled and Taiyuan rebelled; In the ninth year, Yangzhou rebelled and Jiangning rebelled...... The above is only the prelude, and it has not yet entered the peak period of rebellion.

Zhu Ming continued: "What you pay attention to is the agricultural technology here. What I inquired about was the local tax situation, and the people's ability to bear it has reached the limit. If the government continues to raise taxes, I am afraid that the old white staff will want to rebel. ”

"Isn't the tax increase of the feudal dynasty all on the heads of the peasants at the bottom?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "The Great Song Dynasty will raise taxes and treat everyone equally." The grass people have the taxes of the grass people, and the landlords have the taxes of the landlords, and even if someone in the family is an official, don't want to run. It's just that officials can make money and don't care about those taxes. ”

Zhu Guoxiang was a man who wanted to be a landlord, so he couldn't help but ask: "What kind of harsh taxes do big landlords like Lao Baiyuan have?" ”

Zhu Ming recounted: "When you followed the tea household Zeng Da and went to see the land to buy the land, I kept asking Bai Saburo for news. Bai Saburo said that Yangzhou's standard for buying money is that for every 420 wen paid in the field tax, an additional horse of silk will be levied. According to the market price in Yangzhou, the price of a piece of silk is about 1,600 to 2,200 wen. The excesses and miscellaneous taxes of buying money alone have reached four or five times the amount of the field tax. ”

"How can the poor afford it?" Zhu Guoxiang couldn't imagine it.

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "The money for buying money is a miscellaneous donation, which is specially levied on the rich, and only first, second, and third-class households have to pay it." ”

Zhu Guoxiang immediately noticed the loophole: "If I were a big landlord, I would definitely try my best to lower my household level, so that I would no longer have to pay and buy money." ”

"Dean Zhu, you are so smart, but the imperial court is not a fool." Zhu Ming said.

The real situation is that in order to avoid this tax on the rich, the landlords of the whole country are constantly dividing up their families and property, and reducing themselves to the level of collectors.

The imperial court continued to expand the scope of expropriation, and at first only the first and second-class households were levied, and gradually the third-class households also had to pay. When Zhao Jianjian established the Southern Song Dynasty, the fifth-class households all had to pay and buy money!

Zhu Ming said again: "In addition to buying money, there is also money for money." According to the grain tax paid, the grain is sold to the government in proportion. said that it was a purchase, but in fact, it was a robbery, and the landlord gave the government grain. Bai Saburo also said that the taxes on the rich such as buying money and buying money were relatively polite in the past, but since Cai Jing became the prime minister, he has broken through the lower limit year by year. ”

Zhu Guoxiang could only sigh: "Cai Jing, this treacherous appearance, really deserves not to be wronged." ”

Zhu Ming analyzed: "If there is a rebellion in the Hanzhong Basin, the landlords are also objects that can be united. Not to mention the complete abolition of excesses and miscellaneous taxes, or to announce that they will collect a little less money and buy money, and that they will buy money, and they will very likely win the support of the landlords. If the tea trade is announced again and the ban is lifted, the rich merchants will also stand on the side of the anti-thieves. The premise is that the thieves have to fight a few good battles, and they must defeat the official army and gain control of the Hanzhong region. ”

"It's possible." Zhu Guoxiang agreed.

Zhu Ming said: "I have sorted out my thinking, and I have almost straightened it out. Our father and son join forces, and you will establish a good relationship with the big landlords in the county by teaching agricultural techniques. I can take the imperial examination and obtain the status of an official. I really couldn't take the imperial examination, so I came into contact with bandits and merchants. Offering a ganoderma lucidum with a large grinding plate, if it works well, it can also make a master book and a county lieutenant, and it is more convenient to do things with an official body. ”

"I have a question," Zhu Guoxiang said, "that ancient officials seemed to be able to only serve as officials in other places. How did this old white man become the chief bookkeeper of Xixiang County? ”

Zhu Ming explained: "Only those who know the county and above need to go to other places. Moreover, the county-level government of the Northern Song Dynasty was divided into several levels. ”

"Take the county master book as an example, the highest level of county, the master book must be from a jinshi background, and it also needs officialdom qualifications. In counties with a slightly lower grade, the new science and technology jinshi can also be the main book. No matter how weak the rank is, the school officials and miscellaneous officials are generally transferred. In the lowest counties, cats and dogs can be the main book. ”

"Moreover, the main book of the low-level county is the main arrangement post for anti-thief recruitment!"

Zhu Guoxiang almost laughed out loud: "Let the thief be the county master?" ”

Zhu Ming said: "The big anti-thief leaders are generally arranged to hold high positions or thrown into the army. And the little anti-thief leader, after accepting Zhao'an, has a lot of people who are the chief bookkeeper and county lieutenant. They have been thieves, and if they are responsible for collecting taxes, the landlords will definitely be more active in paying taxes. ”

Zhu Guoxiang couldn't cry or laugh: "This can be regarded as knowing people well, and the profession is very right." ”

"I heard Bai Saburo say that the current Xixiang County Principal and County Lieutenant is the anti-thief leader who was recruited a few years ago." Zhu Ming said with a smile.

Zhu Guoxiang was originally frightened by the rebellion, thinking that it was a big deal.

Now that I've heard my son say it, I don't think it's a big deal, this thing seems to be commonplace.

Zhu Ming said: "We can slowly accumulate strength and make more contacts. If the taxes were excessive, even the landlord class would be filled with rebellious sentiment. At that time, you can try to pull the flag and rebel, first kill and defeat the local township soldiers, and then find an opportunity to accept Zhao'an, and you can become the county master in an instant. Of course, this is only one of the routes, and it is not the best route. ”

Zhu Guoxiang admonished: "No matter which path you choose, don't be in a hurry now, wait until you have a firm foothold." ”

"I'm really anxious today, I must admit this, and I promise not to do it again in the future." Zhu Ming said in a sincere tone.

Zhu Guoxiang knew what kind of character his son was: "It's useless to just talk about it, you have to commit it." When the land is planted, you work in the fields with the tenants. When you build a house, you also work with craftsmen. Do more physical work, sharpen your temperament, as long as you persist for a year and a half, you will definitely be able to be much calmer. ”

"It's okay, just hone your willpower." Zhu Ming was actually obedient, just for that lofty goal.

The father and son were in the thatched hut of the farmer's house, chatting unscrupulously about the topic of rebellion.

Far away in Yangzhou City, Li Rui was worried.

Not only him, but the state judges in the entire Hanzhong region have felt a pain in their heads during this time.

I just received the news that this year's Lizhou Road and the purchase of money will be changed from a 420 tax to a 400 tax. Not only that, but the money also rose, and the landlords had to "sell" more grain to the government.

This is not over, the Lizhou Transit Department issued an order that 90% of the taxes in arrears in the past three years must be made up this year (the Northern Song Dynasty tax, 90% of the fixed amount is enough, and the rest will be handed over to the local officials to dispose of by themselves).

The three administrative directives are all from the central government, and there are good reasons to make money, and the imperial court wants to train archers.

The reason was that last year, the master was summoned, and the monarch and ministers had an exchange, and Song Huizong was very happy and appointed him as the archer of Qin Feng on the spot.

The seed master said that in the newly opened frontier of Qinfeng Road, the archers cannot be transferred from the mainland, otherwise there will soon be problems in the mainland.

This can offend Tong Guan miserably!

Because Tong Guan had just made a plan to let the archers from all walks of life in the interior go to the side of the river for free. and told Song Huizong that those archers were all recruited by the people on their own initiative, and they managed them well, and they did not disturb the people at all.

Under the pressure of Tong Guan, the master did not dare to accept the official position, and asked to promote the Chongfu Palace (that is, to manage the Taoist temple).

Sure enough, as the seed master said, archers from all walks of life were blown up, not to mention a large number of escapes, and some people even mutinied.

It just so happened that Cai Jing was reinstated and was ordered to wipe Tong Guan's buttocks.

This Cai Xianggong is a good hand at making money, directly raising taxes in the Hanzhong area, using it to train Hehuang archers, and spending money to appease the soldiers who are making trouble from all walks of life.

Just because of Cai Jing's words, in the entire Hanzhong Basin this year, the life of the common people is not easy!