Wanli Youming

Chapter 184 Hai Rui Personally Receives Taxes from Officials and Gentlemen

Chapter 184 Hai Rui Personally Receives Taxes from Officials and Gentlemen

"Since we decided to contribute and rent at the beginning, we have to bear such a price!"

"If you don't want to bear the burden, you should force the officials and gentry to give them the land, or share the losses together, instead of forcing the court to make concessions!"

"Because if the imperial court does not abolish preferential exemptions, all fields in the world will become tax-free fields for gentry in the future. How will the imperial court raise troops in the future?"

"Is it really necessary to let fewer and fewer self-cultivating peasants bear all the taxes and corvees in this world?!"

Hai Rui continued talking, and then asked Wu Xiumin, "Didn't you persuade me like that?"

Wu Xiumin replied: "The lower officials persuaded me, but they didn't listen."

"Now that they've all dispersed, it's hard to ask what happened. The hall only asks you, how are the taxes and taxes collected?"

Hai Rui asked.

Wu Xiumin said: "Only those with less than [-] hectares of land have been collected, and the large households with more than [-] hectares have been collected. Except for the tax money of the second master of Zhang Ge's hometown who was the second assistant of the dynasty, the rest have not been collected yet."

"How do you complete this year's summer tax and pass the exam?"

Hai Rui asked.

Wu Xiumin couldn't help but kowtowed and said: "I still hope that the Ministry will save me! However, the subordinate officials are indeed incompetent, and I would rather be dismissed, but I really can't do such an errand!"

"I'll talk about your matter later, and I'll give you a chance to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds. You first bring the fish scale book, and I will go and ask in person whether these big households really don't want to pay taxes or taxes?"

Hai Rui said.

Wu Xiumin also brought the Fish Scale Book, obviously knowing that Hai Rui's style is vigorous and resolute, and had already guessed that Hai Rui wanted the Fish Scale Book.

Hai Rui took it over, looked at it and said: "Go with this hall and Hu Tishuai, and ask door to door, asking why the big households in Yangzhou City with more than [-] hectares are willing to pay taxes and taxes."

Wu Xiumin clapped her hands and said yes, then got up and wiped the cold sweat off her brow.

"This is the residence of Liu Ziming, the inspector of Henan Province."

Wu Xiumin said to Hai Rui.

Hai Rui told Hu Shouren: "Send someone to pass on orders, and let their patriarchs come to see the hall!"

And at this moment, Liu Ziming came out in person, and asked his servant to carry a basket of silver ingots, and said to Hai Rui after coming:

"Don't dare to ask Mr. Gangfeng to come in person. The old man doesn't know about the collection of imperial grain and national taxes. Now I have heard from the servants that Mr. Gangfeng has come to Yangzhou to pay taxes for the governor, so he hastily ordered his family to prepare tax money, so that he has no time to go. A long pavilion ten li outside the city welcomes Duke Hai."

Hai Rui nodded, and still chose to believe it, and said, "Mr. Liu, you don't need to be too polite."

Therefore, Hai Rui received the tax money from Liu Ziming so easily, and after checking and checking, the overdue money as stipulated by the National Tax Department was exactly the same.

Afterwards, Hai Rui successfully received the tax money from several other big officials and gentry.

In the face of absolute imperial power, many officials, gentry and big households still dare not confront them head-on.

What's more, the decree that officials and gentry should pay food and errands together has been issued for more than a year, and it has been building momentum among the people for a long time. , has long accepted this reality.

But now, there are only a small number of stubborn high-ranking officials and gentry who still need to wait for the National Taxation Department to lead troops to collect them. After coming, I paid the tax honestly.

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"These people still didn't stop him at Haigang Peak!"

Zhang Sijiao, who was standing on a tall building in Yangzhou City, saw that Hai Rui was taking Hu Shouren and other officials to Yangzhou City to collect taxes one by one, so he couldn't help but slammed his fist on the window sill, then gritted his teeth and said .

"Didn't he say that Haigangfeng loves the people? Why dare to bombard the people of Yangzhou at this time?"

Qiu Xiao, the former Jinshi of the Jiajing Dynasty who voted under Zhang Siwei's door, heard Zhang Sijiao's words beside Zhang Sijiao at this time, and said something with a disappointed expression.

Zhang Sijiao sneered: "Who knows, this person may be pretending to love the people, but in fact he is just advancing his official career."

"It's been a long time since I have invested money to criticize Zhang Juzheng, but in the end it still failed to stop the government and gentry from paying food as an errand. Many officials and gentry calmed down after making a fuss for a while, and accepted the reality honestly, before Hai Gangfeng came. , the taxes and grains have already been paid up.”

"Looking at it now, do we still have to continue to find ways to prevent the new policy of government and gentry paying food and doing errands together?"

At this time, Qiu Xiao asked.

Zhang Sijiao smiled wryly: "How else can we stop it?"

"Instigating people in the world to criticize Jiangling and make Jiangling fear him is the only way!"

"But now, the thugs from Huguang have dug up Jiangling's ancestral grave, but they haven't stopped them. What else can we stop?"

"Let's wait until my brother becomes the country before abolishing it. Now I can only endure it."

"It's time to wait until the elder Ge is in charge of the country."

Qiu Xiao gritted his teeth and said, "It's still the same sentence, Jiangling, I hate him to the bone! If Mr. Ge can recover me in the future, please let me take charge of capturing Jiangling's family and interrogate him. In the name of cruel officials, the life of the Jiangling clan must be made difficult!"

"Don't worry, I believe that my brother will let the public fulfill this wish after he becomes the country."

Zhang Sijiao said something with a smile at this time, and suddenly said with a sullen face: "However, no matter what, Huguang has gone too far. After all, Jiangling is still in power. The key is to dig his father's grave. bestowed land."

"That's true."

"But once the material discussion boils, no one can control its trend except for waiting for the material discussion to cool down on its own."

"It's also because Jiang Ling has offended too many people!"

"Especially this time, it is necessary to promote officials and gentry to pay food and errands together, saying that it is to let the future emperor have no irreversible disadvantages, but can only do benevolent things."

"But he didn't think about it either. Which official gentry and the rich peasants who depended on the official gentry would be willing to be extorted by him so violently?"

"The Qingzhang's land before him was enough to dissatisfy the rich and the rich. Now that such a thing happened, it is his own fault!"

Qiu Xiao spoke up.

"I'm afraid of getting burned."

"I didn't let the person who went to Huguang to instigate criticism of Zhang Juzheng to dig his ancestral grave!"

"What brother said is reasonable, and we can't do it too unscrupulously! Originally, we just asked them to burn down the Zhang family's house, just post a few posters and let it go."

Zhang Sijiao said a few words, and then ordered Qiu Xiao: "You go to Huguang yourself, and find an excuse to silence the person we sent to Huguang to instigate criticism of Zhang Juzheng! In order to avoid long nights and dreams! Anyway, this person has not yet registered If the black households are silenced in advance, they will not be found out."

"Okay! However, Second Lord, don't worry too much. After all, we didn't let him criticize Zhang Juzheng in our name."

Qiu Xiao said.

Zhang Sijiao said: "I know, but there is nothing wrong with being careful! After all, it can't affect my brother's future rule of the country!"

"For this, our Zhang family was the first to pay all the taxes! If my brother is dismissed early because of this, it would be a waste of effort!"

"We're still waiting for him to abolish the New Deal!"

"Now this Jiangling has abolished the laws of Xiaomiao, the first holy son of the dynasty, which stipulated that hiring workers against their employers should be punished with the crime of treason and punished with capital punishment. If these new policies are not abolished, I am afraid that business will not be easy in the future. !"

Qiu Xiao nodded in agreement, and said: "Second Lord is right, if Xiaomiao hadn't been in power back then, we wouldn't have settled in Yangzhou by selling salt, and became a big salt merchant on the wealthy side, instead of waiting Those who are suffering in the north still have to farm."

"I hope that today's son will have the virtue of a filial temple in the future, not only emphasizing business, but also giving preferential treatment to merchants."

Zhang Sijiao said something expectantly for a while.

……

"The record of Xiao Temple?"

"My mother suddenly sent me a benevolent order to let me read this book. Is it to imitate the temple of filial piety?"

Changchun Nunnery.

On the day when Hai Rui directly supervised taxes in the south and implemented the national policy of government and gentry paying food and errands together, when Zhu Yijun greeted Queen Mother Li, because Queen Mother Li suddenly asked him to take Ming Xiaozong's memorandum back to read, he took Queen Mother Li to give it to him. In his Ming Xiaozong Veritable Records, he asked about Mrs. Li.

Empress Dowager Li said: "You should learn from Xiao Temple and see how Xiao Temple was hailed as the king of Zhongxing, instead of doing the opposite and changing all the government orders it left behind!"

"Your husband must also want you to be such a ZTE king, instead of blindly following your own temper!"

"The Hetao was lost during the filial piety temple. In other words, if I want to become the king of ZTE, I must first think about which piece of ancestral land I want to abandon."

Zhu Yijun replied directly at this time.

(End of this chapter)