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Chapter 266 Autumn Fu Thirty-one
"Pick up the latest chapter," Zhou Dongtian scolded dissatisfiedly, "Your personal number and military rank."
"Yes." The girl trembled and stood at attention, her eyes trying hard to look in other directions, "He Chun. Political security officer student, personal code: 1629042749545210."
"If you see a man, you won't be able to do your work in the future. Prepare to record it immediately."
"Yes" He Chun sat down with an embarrassed face, his face lowered and he did not dare to look at the interrogation scene.
It seems that the training in the political security training class is not adequate. Read the full text. Zhou Dongtian thought that for people in this business, enemies have no gender or age. Their awareness of this aspect must be downplayed.
"Okay," Zhou Dongtian turned to Chen Minggang and said softly, "Speak slowly, don't be in a hurry, but don't miss anything."
"The Fish Scale Book is there, right there." Chen Minggang trembled his lips as he revealed the hiding place.
According to his confession, the fish scale books and the accounts for collecting grain taxes over the years were uncovered from several hidden locations, including this year's account books for extorting money from large households in the name of "land holdings". The most important thing is that the crucial "black account" was discovered. This account book is different from the fish scale book. It clearly records the number and location of the "hidden fields" of many local grain households in Lingao. The details of how some wealthy gentry had paid bribes to ask him to revise the fish scale book were also recorded one by one. Although Wu De couldn't understand the terminology above for a while, but now that the officials in the household are under their control, it is not difficult to understand the meaning.
Of course Zhou Dongtian was not satisfied with this. This alone could only satisfy Wu De, and several members of the Planning Committee were watching eagerly. Chen Minggang has been working as a house clerk in the county for generations, and he has accumulated a lot of wealth. It would be a pity not to squeeze it out.
"Where is the silver in your hoard?"
“The small ones don’t have cellars——”
Zhou Dongtian nodded, and Chen Minggang's body immediately began to tremble.
"Come on, money is something external to the body -" he followed the lead.
The torture lasted for almost an afternoon. Zhou Dongtian specially dispatched a nurse to measure Chen Minggang's blood pressure and heartbeat every hour to prevent him from being killed by the continuous electric torture. He had enough data to know how to limit torture to the extent that it would inflict maximum pain on the prisoner without damaging his life.
"Just tell me, it will be fine."
"You have been a household secretary for so many years and you only have this little thing. Who are you kidding?"
In the end, the Planning Commission's search team uncovered three vaults full of property, one of which was in his home in the county town, and the other in the farm where Qiu Hong was housed. The last one was at a farm owned by his relatives outside the city.
A lot of silver was taken from the cellar of his own house, and there was a large amount of fines in the cellar of Qiuhong's farm.
Nearly 40,000 taels of silver were recovered from the three hoards - this number is an astronomical figure in the local area. You must know that this is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of Lingao County in the Ming Dynasty for three years. This does not include a lot of soft property that has no verified price. The wealth of the "household book" is really shocking.
In addition, many various daily necessities were also seized. Including a large amount of grain, cloth, oil, salted meat, salted fish and wine.
"I really don't understand." Zhou Dongtian looked at the list of supplies sent by the Planning Commission, "I can understand that he stored a lot of silver and it's excusable. But why should he keep so much food and cloth for a long time? It’s not just like rotting away in vain.”
Du Wen said: "One of the main characteristics of feudal society is that the upper class endlessly occupies a large amount of means of living that far exceeds its own needs."
"It can be used to lend money. When there is no harvest, the old rice and rotten millet will be loaned out, and the new rice will be recovered in the autumn." Yan Ming is also very happy to have made this fortune. He has done a lot of things about Lingao's socio-economic situation. Research.
"It's so dark."
"Not really, it's just a simple means of capital management." Yan Ming shrugged, "The modern financial industry is called dirty when it plays tricks. But let's be clear, rural microfinance has great potential."
"Immediately organize the retained personnel of each household. Cooperate with our people to translate and compile these account books. Zhou Qi will be responsible for it," Wu De issued the order. "The food gap who perform well in the study class and have less public anger can also be absorbed. Several people will participate. "Also," Wu De thought for a while, "we should sort out this year's grain collection situation within a week, including the amount of grain that has been collected, the rice that was consumed, the bribes they received, the false claims of land acres, etc., all have to be done. clear"
"How to deal with Chen Minggang?" Zhou Dongtian asked for instructions.
"Secret execution after the accounting books are processed."
"Where are the family members?"
"Leave everything to the labor reform team," Wu De instructed. "There is no time limit."
"Yes" Zhou Dongtian thought about it, "Qiu Hong will also be sent", which meant it was a pity. Lingao has a serious male-female ratio imbalance, and giving young women to indigenous workers can be considered a benefit.
"No, Qiu Hong will reward Zhou Qi."
"Ah, this guy is really cheap."
"Not only do I want to give Qiu Hong to him, but I also want to organize a glorious wedding for them."
"Why are you trying to bribe him? He doesn't need to be like this."
"You have created so many rumors about her and Zhou Qi. Now you have to make it real and make it known to everyone in the county." Wu De said with a smile, "Zhou Qi's crime of betraying the teacher is to sit tight. Really. He will have to work with us wholeheartedly from now on."
After the disposal of Chen Minggang's property, the cleanup of the county town also came to an end. The leadership group convened again.
"Now the county government is completely in our hands, and we have all the necessary account books. We need to restart the grain collection work," Wu De said.
"We have already allocated sufficient grain reserves, so we might as well not levy taxes this year and directly start the new tax reform. A one-year deferral of taxes can also give the people a break."
"The new tax system will not happen overnight. Stopping grain collection will cause us too much loss." Wu De shook his head. He then conveyed the opinion of the Executive Committee: the reform of the new tax system will begin immediately, but this year's grain collection will also continue.
Although the time-traveling group has sufficient food reserves that can be paid on their behalf, this is mainly for emergencies. The time-travelers themselves also need food, and local resources must be used as soon as possible.
"Using the method of walking on two legs, two things are done at the same time." Wu De elaborated on his plan, "All the way, we will continue to collect grain according to the old system, and the basis for collecting grain is still the fish scale book." Wu De said, "I know: In essence, the fish scale register is very unsatisfactory, but at the moment there is only one thing that everyone can accept as a basis - at least we have to use it before our own land register comes out."
In addition to the fish scale book, they also have the account book of collection and payment. This is not an official book that is just a formality, but Chen Minggang's real "book". With this, they can clearly know who has paid and who has not paid, and who has really paid. What are the numbers?
"With this number in hand, we can implement compensatory levies and refunds."
“I still need to return it”
“In order to implement the principle of fairness, of course the overtaxed part must be refunded.” Wu De said, “Since the new tax system cannot be implemented for a while, we must strive to be fair when continuing to use the old system to minimize disadvantages and win the trust of the people. "
Specifically, the tax is levied according to the tax amount registered in the fish scale register, and the floating tax is set as an additional three dou per stone for the entire county, without any additional tax. Any overpayments will be refunded.
"As for the numerous malpractices such as flying and sending, they are complicated and will not be cleared up in a short time, so we will ignore them in this year's grain collection work. The focus is on cleaning up the collection links. This includes the selection of weighing instruments and pile points. and beige judgment.”
“Why don’t you switch to the metric system?”
"No need for the time being. Immediately changing the scales for collection will cause a lot of confusion. I asked the woodwork factory to process and manufacture a batch of standard official buckets based on the iron buckets stored in the county government - the official buckets used for grain collection are all one size smaller. .”
In order to eliminate the shortcomings of big and small fights in the collection process, Zhu Yuanzhang specially made iron guan dou as a standard weighing instrument and distributed it to all counties in the country. However, judging from the current situation of this county, this measure did not have a long-term effect.
The second is to ban heaping. Of course, the so-called trick of kicking the stems will no longer continue.
The last one is beige. The Committee of Agriculture formulates a beige color standard, and produces sample cards and distributes them to collectors.
"It's October now." Sun Xiao expressed concern, "According to Wang Zhaomin, all the food must be prepared before November in order to pay it on time. This time I have been struggling for more than ten days and now I don't have any experienced hands. I’m afraid it’s too late.”
"So we need Vietnamese rice?" Wu De said, "That's what emergency response means. Top it with Vietnamese rice first, and the food requisition can be handled more calmly."
"Understood."
"Don't keep staring at Vietnamese rice," Wu De warned them. "Our food reserves are not abundant. We will develop iron mines next year, and immigrants are still coming. These people need to eat and clothe themselves. Sugar season in Leizhou It’s about to end.”
And as they dumped large amounts of sugar into Vietnam and then purchased rice, local sugar prices fell while rice prices rose. The exchange ratio is no longer as good as it used to be.
"The specific collection unit will be handled by Delong."
In addition to its head office in Dongmen City, Delong Grain Bank now has branches in Nanbao and Bopu. Grain can be collected at these three locations, which is very convenient for grain farmers who originally have to come to the county. pay.
"In addition, we also plan to open a branch in the county." Yan Ming said. "Since we act as an agent for the county treasury, we have to be as close as possible to our clients. It will be convenient for everyone to do things."
"This is good. The indigenous people still believe in the authority of the county seat."
"In addition, we have to set up a special agency," Wu De said, "let's call it the Grain Recruitment Bureau."
