"Xianggong, Zhu Taishou asks to see!" Shouting outside.

Huang Qianshan was in the backyard, trying to escape through the back door. But the back door was also blocked, so they set up ladders everywhere and climbed the fence to observe the situation, trying to find an escape route.

A few relatives were still climbing the ladder to look, Huang Qianshan turned around and asked, "Which Zhu Taishou?" ”

He said: "Last year's Tanhualang is now the governor of Jinzhou, and he happened to pass by here these days." ”

Huang Qianshan seemed to grasp the life-saving straw: "I remember that he is from Yangzhou, hurry up and ask him to go up to the second floor!" ”

Why not on the ground floor?

Fear of the mob rushing in, of course.

Huang Qianshan ordered his entourage to block several courtyard gates, and moved a lot of furniture to block the doors.

Even when Zhu Ming came in, he tossed for a long time, for fear that the mob would follow in.

Huang Qianshan pushed open the window on the second floor and looked out, and found that there were more mobs outside, and the streets were full of people.

"Bang!"

He hurriedly closed the window, and his legs were already weak with fright.

In Huang Qianshan's mind, as long as he has soldiers in his hands, he is not afraid of these troubled people.

It's just that he didn't expect Zhong Quannong to be too greedy, not only did he not pay a penny of military salary, but he even deducted his daily food. When the plank road is repaired, you can occasionally see a dry meal, and even the gruel is mixed with sand after the project is completed.

"Xianggong, Mrs. Zhu has arrived."

Huang Qianshan immediately greeted him, held Zhu Ming's hand, and said pitifully: "Successfully save me!" ”

Zhu Ming sighed: "The township soldiers made a fuss, Zhong Quannong and Hu Zhizhou fled, and those township soldiers went straight to the state city." I was passing through Yangzhou and was a guest at the house of the chief of Minshan, when I heard that the villagers were in rebellion, I immediately rushed to stop them outside the city. ”

Huang Qianshan said angrily: "These thieves are not without food, and they can't even wait for these days. ”

"After all, they are only temporarily recruited township soldiers, not Xiang soldiers, they don't understand the royal law," Zhu Ming persuaded, "Some local trivial matters, don't disturb the officials, you have to use gentle means." ”

Huang Qianshan didn't want to give too much money, and said: "Success is a local, and it is quite prestigious. You can go and tell those village soldiers that each of them will give 50 wen of iron money and 20 catties of rice, so that they can go home early. There are also those Diao people, just say that this is the case, and there will be no more miscellaneous taxes. ”

Zhu Ming sighed: "Is Xian Si really dead?" Those village soldiers were first thieves, and then they were dragged to repair the plank road, and I heard that there were casualties. When they were recruited, they didn't receive half a penny, and they had to bring their own dry rations. There is no salary, no military salary, and the food is very poor, where can I get dozens of dollars? ”

Huang Qianshan said distressedly: "Although I have levied taxes twice, I have not collected enough at all, and many people have resisted taxes and did not pay." Even the four major clans in Yangzhou still owe the second miscellaneous tax, where is the money and grain for the township soldiers? ”

It's really not a coffin without tears, Zhu Ming was completely convinced, and said: "Even so, I can't do it, so I will leave!" ”

"Success!"

Huang Qianshan hurriedly grabbed it and asked, "How much food is enough?" ”

Zhu Ming said: "It's better to let a few troublesome officers come in and let them talk to their faces." ”

Huang Qianshan said: "Only three people are allowed to come in." ”

Zhu Ming paced to the gate and said to Bai Sheng, who was guarding outside the door: "Let the troublemakers come in, and ask the three leaders to come in, and discuss the food and salary with the envoy in person." ”

Huang Qianshan stood on the second floor, quietly opened half of the window, and saw a commotion on the street in the distance.

It took about half an hour to finally elect three representatives of the township soldiers, two from Xingyuan Mansion and one from Yangzhou.

They are all strong and strong men.

Zhu Ming arched his hand and said: "I don't know the names of the three strong men? ”

A strong man said: "I am Qiu Shoucheng, the temporary head of the Xingyuan Mansion Township Army." ”

"I am Wang Xin, the temporary detainer of the Xingyuan Mansion Township Soldiers."

"I am the head of the Yangzhou Township Army, Fan Zhengtong."

Zhu Ming turned his head and glanced at it, and saw Huang Qianshan peeking at the staircase, so he said: "The three strong men are all heroes, so I will give Zhu a certain face today, and discuss with the torture envoy Haosheng, don't make a big deal about it." ”

Qiu Shoucheng said: "We don't want to rebel, but the officials are too bullying." I have a brother who fell to his death while repairing the plank road, and there is no explanation so far. If he doesn't give bereavement benefits, how will his orphans and widows live? ”

"That is," Fan Zhengtong also said, "When we were recruited, I was asked to be a village soldier, and I could go home after the chaos was settled." But I asked us to repair the plank road, and I couldn't figure it out, are we village soldiers or people? If it is a village soldier, he will be paid. If it's a people's husband, give a monthly money! ”

Wang Xin said angrily: "If you don't give an explanation, you just rebel and kill the bird official to be a thief!" ”

Hearing this, Huang Qianshan shrank his neck in fright, and tiptoed back to the second floor to pretend to be calm.

Zhu Ming brought the people up: "You can talk to the torture envoy yourself." Be happy, how much food will it take to disperse. ”

The three of them discussed it outside.

Wang Xin said: "Those who fall to death and are injured by falling have to be compensated." If you die, you will have ten dollars for one life; If you don't die, one person will pay for the medicine of Wuguan soup! ”

They thought it was a lion who opened his mouth, but Huang Qianshan breathed a sigh of relief, repairing the plank road killed and injured more than 20 people, and two or three hundred times could be done.

Huang Qianshan bargained and said: "Five times that are dead, two times that are not dead." ”

"No, this life is too cheap!" Qiu Shou became enlightened.

Huang Qianshan said: "Drop a little more." ”

The two sides bargained, the deceased gave Baguan bereavement, and the crippled gave Wuguan decoction money.

Then he talked about food and salary, and he didn't bother to divide the military salary or wages, and directly combined them together. After repeated arguments, each person was given three and a half times of money, five buckets of food, and the dead and wounded.

At the end of the negotiation, Huang Qianshan sat down in his chair.

Tens of thousands of dollars are gone, and he almost did it for nothing this time, only getting a thousand pieces of hard-earned money.

Although taxes were repeatedly raised, the local officials did not cooperate much, and the gentry and merchants always delayed, so he really didn't get much money.

The money is in the guild hall, and Huang Qianshan has ordered the Li family to exchange it for gold and silver.

Zhu Ming called in some township soldiers, counted the gold and silver, and moved out one after another. Then find the Li family to exchange it for iron money again, and it is not allowed to charge a handling fee.

Zhu Ming stood at the door and said to the people who were fighting the tax: "You all go home, there will be no tax increase this year." Yangzhou will only charge 60 wen per bucket for next year's foot money, and whoever dares to levy more will not give me face! ”

"Zhu Xianggong is benevolent and righteous!"

"Zhu Xianggong is very gracious, we all remember it!"

The people in the anti-tax team knelt down and kowtowed, and the rest of the people also knelt down happily.

Zhu Ming took it upon himself to reduce the money in the field next year, leaving only 4 wen per bucket for the officials to embezzle. Those guys, taking advantage of Huang Qian's good indiscriminate taxation, must be greedy a lot this year, and if they want to be greedy next year, they will have to face the anger of the people.

The anti-tax people soon dispersed, and the village soldiers and archers lined up to get severance pay.

Huang Qianshan stood on the second floor and watched, hating Zhong Quannong in his heart. That guy is also greedy a lot, and he caused such a big incident, so he still doesn't know where the money and grain are deducted, and he has to let Zhong Quannong vomit some when he goes back!

Zhu Ming came to Huang Qianshan's side: "Huang Xiansi, I heard that there are still many chaotic people who fled into the mountains to be thieves. ”

Huang Qianshan said: "The problem of ringworm and scabies is not to be feared. ”

"These township soldiers don't ask for much money and food, and they only pay twenty or thirty dollars a day," Zhu Ming said, "They have already made trouble once and they have made trouble, and it will be easier to make trouble in the future." If there are more thieves in the mountains, I am afraid that there will be civil unrest next year. ”

Huang Qianshan was a little impatient and asked, "How do you think you can solve it?" ”

Zhu Ming said: "Give me 3,000 guan, and I will send someone to appease the thieves in the mountains and find a place for them to settle again." ”

"Three thousand?" Huang Qianshan was so shocked that he jumped to his feet, and he didn't even pretend, "If I give three thousand yuan, I will lose money this time!" ”

"How about two thousand?" Zhu Ming asked.

"A maximum of 1,000 kans!" Huang Qianshan was so angry that he trembled, he was really busy this time.

Zhu Ming sighed: "Alas, a thousand is a thousand, and I will post some more money and food." Yangzhou is my hometown, and I really don't want to cause chaos again. ”

Zhu Ming helped solve the difficulties, but Huang Qianshan didn't appreciate it very much, and because of the money, he even had resentment in his heart.

This really made Zhu Ming hate.

With such a strange brain circuit, it can only be said that villains are difficult to raise.

They worked until midnight, when the villagers and archers finally finished receiving the money and food, after all, the grain had to be transferred to the warehouse.

Three representatives of the township soldiers, with many soldiers, came to say goodbye to Zhu Ming.

Qiu Shoucheng knelt down and said: "Zhu Xianggong's kindness today, we have all recorded it. In the future, we will never frown in the fire and water! ”

The rest of the soldiers also knelt down, and Zhu Ming personally helped up more than ten of them: "Don't be like this." The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, and you should get money and food for the government, which is what you deserve. Let's all disperse and return to the countryside to live a good life. ”

Zhu Ming asked his relatives to light lanterns and send these troublemakers out of the city.

When the soldiers came to the Han River, they bowed down to the city again, gathered in twos and threes to rest, and waited for dawn before returning home together.

Huang Qianshan didn't want to stay here, he left in the middle of the night, he wanted to rush back to Xingyuan Mansion, and asked Zhong Quannong to spit out the embezzled money and grain.

Zhu Ming rested in the middle of the night and went to the state government the next day.

Hu Zhizhou is new this year, and he also took the opportunity to catch some, and the number is not much, just a few hundred.

He escaped death and said gratefully: "Fortunately, Zhu Taishou came forward, otherwise it would be difficult to clean up yesterday's affairs." ”

Zhu Ming said: "I'm afraid that things will get bigger, so I will take the initiative to reduce the money in the field next year, and I ask Hu Taishou to forgive me." ”

"Expediency, out of the way." Hu Zhizhou doesn't care about this, most of the money he usually collects in the land is greedy by county-level officials, and the officials in the state actually don't have a few.

Zhu Ming also said: "The chaotic people who fled into the mountains may have another incident. Huang Xiansi took out 1,000 yuan and asked the state to come up with some more, and I came forward to place them in the downstream of Daming Village to open up wasteland. In this way, it can not only solve the hidden danger of disorderly people, but also reclaim wasteland and increase taxes. ”

Hu Zhizhou was embarrassed: "With the previous quelling of chaos and the repair of the plank road, there is no money and grain left in the state treasury. Zhong persuaded Nong to withhold military rations, and even greedy for food, I was afraid that something would happen, so I also transferred some grain from the state government. ”

Zhu Ming said: "Then let the rich families apportion, raise 3,000 yuan, and I will come forward to settle the rebellious people." ”

"Also...... That's all there is to it. Hu Zhizhou immediately agreed, anyway, he didn't have to pay.

Zhu Ming's heart is full of joy, this time he has not only won the hearts of the people, but also can attract many troubled people, and he does not have to pay for resettlement by himself.

(This is the chapter that makes up for the debt.) ）

(End of chapter)