Chapter 60: The Director's Fire (I)
And the family is in difficulty and lives on this position, so he naturally knows what he wants, and directly follows and says:
"The subordinates are only the orders of the elders. ”
Someone stood up, and the remaining four masters and a few clerks immediately gave up their hands and said:
"My lord, if there is a sudden emergency in the family, please allow your subordinates to retire first. ”
Shen Fei pursed his lips disdainfully, and waved his hand with a look of disgust:
"You unresponsible fellows, go, from now on you will no longer be the officials of the town office. ”
Now these guys on the map are yellow and white spots of light, which is really an eyesore, so it's better to get rid of them immediately.
These words immediately stimulated the four masters and those few clerks to their faces, but they didn't dare to stay because of this, so they turned around and left without saying a word.
"Very good, now the rest is our own people, you can tell me, how can we complete the task assigned by the above without causing the villagers to resist taxes?" Shen Fei said as he paced back and forth with his hands behind his back and looked like a little adult.
Now the map is all blue, and there are two green ones behind the public hall, and my father and sister are hiding there to peek, surrounded by their own people, which feels much more pleasing to the eye.
The attention of those documents and Ding Zhuang was focused on finding a way, and they were all frowning and thinking hard, only Shen Yuxia and Shen Haofeng, who were peeking on the side, would cause a smile on their faces because of Shen Fei's expressions and movements.
"Dad, Xiaofei looks so cute. Shen Yuxia said with a smile.
"It's cute! That guy is ten years old! Cute fart!" Shen Haofeng heard his daughter's words, and a black line appeared on his forehead. But soon he muttered with some doubts:
"Why do you think this kid looks confident? Does he really have the ability to solve this matter?"
"Hehe, Dad, didn't Xiao Fei get the son and young lady of the county lord to look at him differently? Xiao Fei probably thought that he had such a reliance, so he was confident, right?" Shen Yuxia smiled.
"Hmph, children are children, can this kind of relationship between children affect the intention of governance? Not only did the requirements increase a lot, but they also ignored the busy farming season and transferred labor to do so, absolutely because they were forced to do so. Since this matter is very important, how can it be slowed down by family and friends interceding!" Shen Haofeng said disdainfully.
"Hehe, that's why I have to be checked by my father. Shen Yuxia said with a smile.
"Hmm. That's why I let this rabbit cub come here, and let's see what this guy will do after the worst. Shen Haofeng touched his chin a little proudly and said.
Shen Yuxia snickered beside him, Daddy's favorite thing is to instruct Shen Fei to behave and do things, but unfortunately he hasn't instructed for so many years, and it is more because Shen Fei made mistakes and exercised the punishment of spanking, he looked forward to the opportunity to teach Shen Fei but waited for a long time, now look at it, it is very likely that Daddy will wait.
After pondering for a while, a clerk said:
"My lord, the taxes in our town used to be distributed to the villages below. And there are fifty-seven villages in our town, and each village is only 500 stone of white rice, five horses of linen, and hardware. The only difficulty is 500 servants, although there are only 10 people in each village, but if you force it, I am afraid that it will cause the villagers to be angry. ”
Shen Fei's eyes blinked, a village levied 500 stone white rice, 500 horses of linen, and hardware? The whole town collected 28,500 stone white rice, 2,850 horses of linen, and 285 gold! Wow! It was immediately tripled! Originally, the tax revenue under the county government was terrifying enough. I didn't expect that as soon as the town office passed away, it would skyrocket so much! Wow! Why didn't you feel the weight of taxes before?...,
Seeing Shen Fei's frowning appearance, someone immediately jumped out to condemn this document:
"Li Jian! Originally, the county's autumn levy list was terrifying enough, but you actually quadrupled it on this basis? Do you really want to let the tax issue erupt and make us not human inside!"
These words immediately aroused the anger of everyone who stood on Shen Fei's side in order to keep their jobs, and they all accused this official of being insatiable.
Of course, there were also people who wanted to compete with this official, and another official jumped out and said to Shen Fei:
"Lord Chang, Li Jian's method must not be implemented, but we can discuss with the big families in the town, don't look at our Tiger Nest Town has no special products, but there are still more than a dozen large households, this is a mere 10,000 stone of rice, 1,000 horses of linen and 100 gold, it is nothing to them! It is labor, we can also let the big households sponsor some funds and spend money to hire people, so that we only need to communicate with more than a dozen large households, and there is no need to face the turbulent villagers of 57 villages at all!"
Before anyone could think about it, another official jumped out to object:
"Just kidding! Who doesn't know that those big families are all indispensable, and each of them has a relationship with the county seat, the county seat, or even the state seat! Take them under the knife? I'm afraid that we have just shown a little toughness, and we have already been ordered to be dismissed by the county government. ”
"That's right, that's right! Instead of attacking these big households, it is really better to attack the villagers of the whole town, I believe that with our townsmen, there should be no problem in suppressing these villagers who have little knowledge. Another officer shouted, and for a moment there was an immediate uproar of opposition and opposition.
When everyone was noisy for a while and their momentum began to weaken, Li Jianwen, who was the first to speak, arched his hand to everyone with an indifferent expression: "How about you please finish speaking?" Seeing that everyone was quiet, he bowed his hand to Shen Fei again and said:
"Lord Chang, the subordinate proposed to attack the village below, not to attack the villagers, a villager only has a lot of savings, even if the property of the villagers in the entire village is scraped away, there may not be a single gold. ”
"Huh, then who do you mean you are going to attack?" Shen Fei asked curiously, originally because this Li Jian official spoke to the villagers, and it was tripled on the basis of the autumn levy, he naturally did not have a good impression of this Li Jian official, but now when he heard that he was going to attack the villagers, he couldn't help but be very curious.
Li Jian said respectfully: "Lord Director, now the village managers of each village were appointed many years ago, and the director of the village is a new one, so naturally you have to change the village manager." ”
This was not right, but all the people present realized what this meant, and Shen Fei naturally knew that Li Jian's goal was directly aimed at the fifty-seven village managers below the town, but Shen Fei asked with some confusion:
"Village managers? The village managers of the villages below should all be served by the patriarchs, right? Aren't the patriarchs below just a little older and more knowledgeable, how much money can they have?"
Li Jian was a little stunned when he heard this, but quickly explained:
"Director, in the past, the patriarchs of each village were indeed like this, but now this is the village manager, and this village manager is the most powerful person in the village, after all, these village managers need help to collect taxes.
At first, the village manager was only a person appointed by the government to collect taxes, and the security in the village was handled by the clans of each village, but as the village manager slowly controlled the force and money because of the relationship between tax collection, and finally naturally and completely controlled the entire village, not only owning most of the land in the village, but also being the richest person in the village. ”
"Is that the character of the Earth Head Snake?" asked Shen Fei curiously.
"Yes. Li Jian nodded affirmatively, if those village managers were not the head snakes of the land, how could they become the village managers who collected taxes on behalf of the government? How did they occupy most of the fields in the village? How did they become the richest people in the villages?...,
"Then how can you discuss money with them? Is it extortion? or directly raid the house?" Shen Fei asked with excitement on his face, his eyes shining.
Hearing this, everyone was stunned, and then there were different expressions, the clerks all looked strange, and those Ding Zhuang were all grinding their fists and their faces were full of excitement.
Li Jian hurriedly rubbed his stiff face, and said with a stammer:
"Well, if these village managers are willing to pay the taxes allocated to the village, the director will recognize that the village manager is qualified, and those who are not qualified will be deprived of the village management position. ”
Shen Fei nodded hurriedly: "Well, depriving oneself of one's position without giving money is blackmail." What about raiding the house? This is a quick money, and there is a lot of money!" he said and looked at Li Jian excitedly.
Li Jian had a few black lines on his forehead, he swallowed a few times before he stammered a little:
"Fabricated charges, such as tax resistance, or rebellion, but the rebellion may implicate the entire village, and the upper authorities will definitely intervene, so it is better to choose tax resistance, because such a crime can be directly reclaimed by our town office to recover the amount of tax that we refuse to pay. ”
"Well, let's say that they resist taxes, copy their homes, and then find an obedient person to be the village manager. Shen Fei shouted excitedly without even thinking about it.
As soon as these words came out, the clerks didn't have time to react, but Ding Zhuang immediately cheered.
"Wait!" A loud shout suddenly appeared, and all of those Ding Zhuang, including Shen Fei, immediately shrank their necks, because the voice was too familiar, and when they turned their heads, they saw that it was Shen Haofeng, who was full of serious expressions, and walked out with a grinning Shen Yuxia.
"Daddy. ”
"Helmsman!"
"Deputy Director!"
The three salutations sounded at the same time, and Shen Haofeng nodded with a tense face, and then arched his hand towards Shen Fei and said, "Lord Chang, please come out with your subordinates." ”
"Oh. Although Shen Fei felt that something was wrong, what might he do? Naturally, he obediently followed him out of the city, while Shen Yuxia smiled at everyone: "Let's wait for a while." As he spoke, he followed, causing all the excited people present to look at each other with strange expressions, but no one exchanged their heads, making the scene fall silent all of a sudden. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )