The old man had two or three drinks with me, when suddenly four or five night owl young people came. The old man hurriedly put down his glass and got up to greet the guests.
I took a bite of the dish and lowered my head in thought.
Yes, there is a name recorded in the old Guangxu Chun'an County Chronicle. This person is called Fang Weixun. He was a Jinshi in the late Ming Dynasty and later became a tax collector. If I have not remembered, this person is from Fuxi, and Fuxi is very close to Fude.
County annals are not omnipotent, but sometimes there are clues to the historical truth hidden in county annals.
I immediately called Xiaoxuan.
"Xiaoxuan, go to my tent. I have a copy of the Chun'an County Chronicle in my bag. Go look for it quickly!"
Three minutes later, Xiaoxuan said: "I found it. Your book is really bad."
"How can it not be broken after a hundred or two hundred years! Turn to page...turn to page 29! Look if there is a triple bridge painted on it!"
"yes."
"Look at the lower right corner! There is a person named Fang Weixun! It was this person who donated money to build the triple arch bridge! Look at the year and month marked at the back?"
Xiaoxuan whispered softly: "It was winter in the 17th year of Chongzhen. What happened? Where are you? Why did I hear a woman talking?"
"No! I'm alone in the hotel! Where is the woman! You heard wrong!"
I quickly motioned to Sai Xishi beside me to shut up.
"Really? You didn't lie to me?"
I said excitedly: "I lied to you, I'm a bastard!"
Sometimes I have to tell white lies to fool Xiaoxuan and then hang up the phone. I was so excited that I slammed my palm on the table.
In the winter of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen had been hanging on Meishan for several months!
The tax collection system of the Ming Dynasty was a "two-tax system", that is, it was collected twice a year, divided into summer tax and winter tax. Summer tax was paid one after another around June every year! Chongzhen hanged himself in early April! Then I can draw a conclusion after calculation!
As a tax collector, Fang Weixun must have been hanged by Chongzhen on his way back to the court after collecting taxes, and the Ming Dynasty fell!
If the country is ruined, then who will give the taxes he collected?
The old man just said that there has always been a legend of silver hidden in the brick tower in Laofude Village, and I immediately associated the two together.
Don’t underestimate the legends in these villages. Many of them have basis and origin, such as the legend of the Ekou Saiwang Treasure.
In the middle and early Ming Dynasty, no money was collected for tax collection. Instead, taxes were collected in kind, such as pork, grain, cloth and silk, iron and copperware. Whatever the family had, they were given to them, and then the government sold them into money.
This was done because they were afraid that if all the money was collected, the people would concentrate on selling grain, which would lead to a collapse in grain prices. In particular, domestic silver production was seriously insufficient that year.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, after the "Longqing Switch", a large amount of silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty through maritime trade. It was also from this time that tax collection began to collect silver again. The government recast the broken silver handed over by the people in a unified furnace and cast it into Fifty-two large silver collars, this is what the industry calls serious snowflake silver, with excellent quality.
Under the background of that year, it is very possible that Fang Weixun received more than 100,000 taels of tax silver. After the Ming Dynasty died, he could only keep this batch of summer tax silver for himself. He built bridges and paved roads, but in the end he couldn't spend all the money, so he buried the remaining official silver deep underground in the name of building a brick tower!
In addition, I also found that its name, Fude Tower, may also hint at a mystery.
Think about it, what is called "imparting virtue".
Fu means tax! And De is homophonic to "get"!
A silver boat costs fifty taels, and one hundred thousand taels is two thousand. Even if it takes half of the time to repair the bridge and pave the way, there will still be one thousand left!
I have sold two of these silver boats before, and the average price of each one is around 70,000 to 100,000 yuan. I will calculate the lowest price of 70,000 yuan. One thousand boats is a full 70 million yuan. This is really a big deal for me. If you find it, you will make a fortune!
