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Perhaps because of Zhao Ran's previous words that suppressed Kong County's order, the old parents of Guyang County unexpectedly echoed Zhao Ran's words: "Lord Zhao Fang's compassion is very appreciative of this official. What Master Fang said is true, this green seedling money is really a bad policy now. ”

Zhao Ran was stunned for a moment, he really didn't expect that the county magistrate would show his attitude so clearly, and when he was still hesitating to speculate whether the county magistrate's words were sincere, the other party directly opened the conversation box to clarify his attitude: "Lord Zhao Fangzhu does not think that this official is lying to echo it, since this official took over Guyang County, there is a fixed amount of land tax paid, and the amount of service collected is not less, but only more, but what is the truth? The number of taxable acres of land in the county's fish scale register is decreasing day by day, and the number of people in service is not increasing. Three years ago, the total amount of taxable land in the county was 176,500 mu, but last year it was reduced to 174,300 mu, and this year it is 173,200 mu, a decrease of 1,000 mu every year, and the number of people has also been reduced from 37,000 to 36,000. Without exception, they have all become the fields and tenants of the wealthy gentry, and if they are allowed to continue, after more than 100 years, Guyang County will no longer have any taxable land and can be endowed!"

Zhao Ran listened to these shocking figures, and he also felt his scalp tingle, and Kong Xianling seemed to have found a person to complain about, and continued to complain: "Lord Zhao Fang, don't think that this official has gained benefits, so he is willing to continue to work for the tiger." The official is not afraid to tell the truth, how much silver can he get from the green seedlings money? Is it that the official is so poor that he has to use this silver to open the pot? The official is on either side, and does not mention benefiting the party, at least he must pass the annual performance appraisal? Money, food, and service are really the focus of the imperial court's evaluation, and the official would rather not have these silvers, and he also hopes to worry about the grade of the evaluation. This official is less than fifty years this year......"

Zhao Ran looked at his head full of white hair, and secretly said Kong County, your old man is not joking?

“...... Therefore. I also look forward to further progress in my career, so I am often worried about it. I just don't know what kind of prescription Zhao Fangzhu has for Qingmiao's money? This official thinks, Zhao Fangzhu is not here to collect the land, right?"

As soon as Zhao Ran pondered it, he knew that Kong County's order was telling the truth. Local officials in the Ming Dynasty were not allowed to serve in their hometowns, nor were they allowed to buy land in their places of office, and the Confucian County Order may become another wealthy gentry in the future. However, during his tenure in Guyang County, the most important thing for him must be the imperial court assessment, and it is inevitable that he will be worried about the gradually decreasing acres of land and Dingkou.

Since he stood with Kong Xianling in his position, Zhao Ran felt much more relaxed.

"Don't hide it from the county, the poor road has a little money, and I am willing to take this as the basis and get involved in the loan of green seedling money. The way to do it is to give money to poor people who need to borrow money, and make eight cents of money. When returning the seedlings, it is two points. ”

Zhao Ran plans to set the interest of Qingmiao Cang at two points, although this figure does not reach the level of usury of the wealthy gentry, but it is basically close, if you borrow more, the amount will not be much worse, enough to make up for the interests of the government and the Taoist Yuan in the Qingmiao money.

The official profit of Qingmiao Qian is four percent, and this profit is indeed too low, so Zhao Ran raised it to eight percent. It is also within the range of the people's affordability, so they can also reduce their own burden on the interest margin. The profit he subsidized to the seedling warehouse was reduced from 1.6 cents to 1.2 cents.

Zhao Ran's 8 cents of interest can basically form a crushing trend, and the usury market of the wealthy gentry will suffer a severe impact - unless they reduce the price, and once the price is reduced, Zhao Ran does not mind the people borrowing the 8 cents of debt money, which is also his merit.

Kong Xianling pondered for a moment and immediately calculated a number. frowned and said: "In this way, Lord Zhao Fang is afraid that he will need to come up with two thousand silver a year, this is ...... Lord Zhao Fangzhu had to think twice. ”

Zhao Ran said: "The county respects the clear inspection, and this is indeed the case. However, Poor Dao has another idea, and I implore the county to agree. ”

"Lord Zhao Fang, please speak. ”

"Poor Road intends to contract the land west of Cointreau Mountain in the southwest of this county......"

"Contracting? What is contracting?"

"Uh...... That is, to undertake the meaning of contract production. Poor Dao begged the county to give that piece of land to Poor Dao. Taken care of by the poor road. ”

"Lord Zhao is planning to organize manpower to settle the fields, but there is all wasteland over there, and there is no manpower in the county to open up the wasteland. ”

"The county doesn't have to worry about it, the poor road has its own way. Poor Road intends to contract for 50 years. In the first three years, the county was also asked to exempt the field tax, and after three years, I am willing to pay two buckets of grain per mu, and after ten years, I will pay three buckets of grain per mu!"

Kong Xianzun's face was not very good, and he seemed to be a little reluctant. Zhao Ran peeked at the other party's face, and secretly wondered in his heart, doing this is equivalent to increasing the number of tax fields in Guyang County, he has learned about the wasteland west of Jundu Mountain, about 10,000 acres, which is equivalent to directly increasing Kong Xianzun's political achievements, it stands to reason that Kong Xianzun should be happy, how can the result be the opposite?

After thinking for a moment, Zhao Ran suddenly suddenly changed his words: "County Zun, or another way can be, the first two years of three buckets of grain per mu, two years later, one bucket of grain per mu, ten years later, each mu of grain will be restored to three buckets, how is the county respectful?" This is a typical "three days and four days" original meaning, the total amount of grain is actually not much different, but Kong County Ling was immediately satisfied, nodded to show agreement.

The reason for this situation is that there is no other reason for Kong Xianzun's tenure. Kong Xianzun's term of office will expire in two years, and when it is the time for the official assessment, Zhao Ran said that the first three years are tax-free, and for Kong Xianzun, the new acres of land will be greatly discounted. And after Zhao Ran changed the way he paid taxes slightly, Kong Xianzun's political achievements in the past two years would be really beautiful, and as for two years later, he may have been transferred, and he didn't have that much spare time to worry about. As long as Kong Xianzun signed this "contracting agreement", the successor could not change it.

As for Zhao Ran, because he plays the role of a 'general contractor', he doesn't care whether he pays the grain first or later, as long as he takes out the money to pay in advance.

The progress of Qiē was very good, Zhao Ran and Kong Xianzun had a good conversation, and almost all the details were agreed upon. The reason why I say almost is because Kong Xianzun has a request, he hopes that it is best to issue an official document from the Xizhenwu Palace to allow Zhao Ran, the head of Wuji Academy, to participate in the lending of Qingmiao's money.

Kong Xianzun is really a very straightforward person, he confessed to Zhao Ran, Zhao Ran's involvement in the lending of Qingmiao's money will greatly offend the wealthy gentry in Guyang County, and these wealthy gentry in the government, the province, and even the central government, I am afraid that they have a lot of energy, in case these big families are blamed (this is inevitable), he may not be able to afford a small county order.

Empathy, Zhao Ran understood this, and then left the county office, what he had to do next was to find a way to obtain the official document of Xizhenwu Palace.

Zhao Ran first went to the charity hall to ask Steward Li to suspend the distribution of charity money, and then rushed back to Wuji Mountain.

Well, I don't know if I will get merit in handling this case? Zhao Ran himself can't say it, but he subconsciously feels that he should be able to get a lot, and wouldn't it be a great merit to eradicate the evil cult that bewitches and harms people in one fell swoop? Zhao Ran is still very interested in this.

With the official document issued by the Taoist Academy, Zhao Ran ordered ten Fang Tang inspectors, and handed over the remaining ten inspectors to Jiang Zhiheng for management, instructed him to ensure the safety of Wuji Academy, and then went down the mountain.

Jiang Zhiheng looked at Zhao Ran who went down the mountain, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, he finally deeply realized the bitter fruit of being suppressed by his boss.

Zhao Ran didn't care about Jiang Zhiheng's careful thinking at all, he really didn't have the experience of handling such cases, and of course he didn't know how many people made a fortune with this, but according to his cognition, someone who went out must have someone to stay, and since this matter is related to his practice, then I'm sorry, the one who stays behind can only be Jiang Zhiheng.

Zhao Ran held the decree of the Taoist Academy, took Guan Er and other ten people to inspect, and met with dozens of catchers and archers brought by the county magistrate Jin County, as well as hundreds of young men temporarily requisitioned by the county magistrate in the county seat, driving more than ten carts, loaded with knives, guns, sticks, bows, crossbows and arrows, and marching towards Zongjiazhuang. (To be continued......) R1292