Wang Yingjiao was sitting in the lobby, flipping through the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Book, while pointing to the newly compiled list and said to Sun Yunhe: "Sun Qianhu, please deliver these lists to Beijing immediately. These are the compiled lists of gentry who owe taxes. According to His Majesty’s decree, it needs to be delivered to the Imperial Palace immediately for processing without any mistakes!”
"yes!"
After Sun Yunhe replied, he picked up the list and arranged for the person assigned to Jinyiwei to be the tax supervisor to handle the matter.
Wang Yingjiao said to Feng Quan and other officials here: "Many of the next large tax arrears are actually common people who have no right to receive exemptions and exemptions, and it is shown that the acres of land owned by these common people amount to tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 acres. But like this It is really unbelievable why there is not even a famous gentry in the clan of a large family. It is obviously caused by the collusion of the subordinate officials with the gentry. Before we can make a decision, we need to clear the land acres first to rule out the possibility that the gentry colluded with the subordinate officials to seize their own fields. The possibility of putting it on the heads of common people who have little or no land!”
Wang Yingjiao was a civil servant after all, and he knew very well how people in his own class evaded taxes. Therefore, he did not rashly collect taxes from large households that occupied a lot of land but were not gentry.
"What Bu Tang said is true. Next, we must clear the land immediately."
Feng Quan said something.
Eunuch Li Yongzhen looked at Wang Yingjiao at this time and said: "In the Ministry of Finance, the large gentry households that clearly owe taxes need to pay back their taxes immediately. In your opinion, which household should we start with?"
Wang Yingjiao thought deeply and then said: "Among them, Xu Wenzhen, the chief minister of Mu Miao Dynasty, and Dong Xueshi, the teacher of the late emperor, owe the most Fu. Starting from these two families, it is also a warning to others. I wonder what Eunuch Li and General Qi think?"
After Wang Yingjiao said that, he glanced at Li Yongzhen and Qi Jin.
Li Yongzhen nodded and said: "We think it's okay, but it will undoubtedly be very difficult to tax wealthy families like the former chief minister and Dong Hanlin from the beginning. I just don't know if General Qi and other generals are willing to take the hardest part first." A bone to chew on.”
"It's just following orders! Is there anything hard to chew? Could it be that they are more powerful than the Tatars?"
Qi Jin said with a smile.
His Qi Jiajun was badly cheated by these gentry in his early years, so he was eager to take the opportunity to retaliate against these gentry, so he answered like this when Li Yongzhen asked.
"That's right! I'm not afraid of going into battle to kill the enemy, so why should I be afraid of this?!"
Zhao Shujiao replied.
After Mangui thought for a while, he also said: "All orders must be obeyed by the governor, general manager and admiral!"
"In that case, let's attack the Huating Xu family and Huating Dong family first!"
Li Yongzhen and Wang Yingjiao said the same thing in unison.
"good!"
Qi Jin stood up excitedly and looked at Zhao Lijiao and Man Gui: "General Qin and I will go to Yingtian to collect the tax. Su Song will be handed over to the two generals. General Zhao, you first go to the Xu family in Huating to collect taxes." , General Man, you go to the Dong family in Huating first to take action!"
"Take orders!"
Zhao Shujiao and Man Gui immediately stood up and replied.
…
Huating Xu Mansion.
Zhao led his disciples to come here with 500 servants, fine cavalry, and 1,500 infantry.
Among them, the infantry are all fierce soldiers of the frontier army.
Armed with swords, shields, firearms or spears and wearing round helmets, they surrounded the entire Xu family mansion.
The servants' elite cavalry all wore cotton armor, held three-eyed muskets, bows and arrows, and carried wild goose feather sabers. They rode on tall horses and lined up on the left and right of Zhao Lijiao.
Seeing this posture, the concierge of the Xu Mansion was so frightened that he crawled to the ground and fled.
"Knock on the door!"
Zhao Shujiao ignored the concierges of the Xu Mansion at this time. Seeing that the gate of the Xu Mansion was closed by the concierge who ran inside, he gave a loud order.
"yes!"
As a result, a border army commander immediately led a number of fierce soldiers with swords and shields and crashed into the gate of Xu Mansion, shouting: "Open the door to collect taxes!"
"Open the door to collect taxes!"
"Open the door to collect taxes!"
"Open the door to collect taxes!"
…
boom!
It didn't take long.
The Zhao soldiers broke open the gate of the Xu Mansion, and then rushed to the various doors of the Xu Mansion in a well-trained manner. They guarded the gates first, and did not plunder like robbers entering the house. Instead, they uniformly maintained their movements to attack at any time.
Zhao Lijiao personally dismounted his horse and walked in with a sword in his hand. He sat directly on the left side of the hall and shouted, "Please come out, head of your family!"
"Please come out, the head of your family!"
The officers and soldiers all shouted loudly, like a bell.
The head of the Xu Mansion, Xu Yuanqing, the grandson of Xu Jie, had already learned that the imperial officers and soldiers had broken into the house, and he was subconsciously cursing: "Damn it, who dares to break into my Xu family! You can't be brave after eating a bear's heart. !”
But when Xu Yuanqing came to the outer courtyard accompanied by his frightened servants, he saw the murderous frontier soldiers lined up inside and outside the main room, and he was so frightened that he sat on the ground on the spot.
It wasn't until Zhao Shujiao asked someone to arrest him that he hurriedly came to the front of the hall, trembling and trembling, and asked Zhao Shujiao at a loss: "May I ask this general, what's the matter?"
"We are from Xichang, and we are ordered to recover the tax!"
Not long after Zhao Shujiao said this, Lin Kui, a household doctor who also served as the supervisor of the West Factory, and Chen Jin, a young eunuch of the inner court, each came in with a group of accountants holding abacus.
Lin Kuixian, a doctor in the Ministry of Household Affairs, said: "According to the Ming Dynasty's preferential and exemption regulations, although your mansion is a home of the gentry, in addition to preferential exemptions, it is also entitled to 36,712 shi of grain. This year, there are also eight grains that have not been paid. One thousand, four hundred and sixty-two dan, according to the imperial edict, if a reminder is issued but fails to pay within half a month, the penalty will be ten times, so your government must pay three hundred sixty-six thousand, seven hundred and twelve dan in tax and grain!"
"According to the regulations on the exemption and exemption of gold flowers, silver and white grains revised by the Shimiao Dynasty, your government owes 1,621 taels of gold flowers and silver, and 519 dan of white grains. If you fail to pay overdue, you will be fined ten times. You need to pay 1,621 taels of gold flowers and silver and 5,190 shi of white grain!"
Chen Jin also started talking.
"Search immediately!"
Sun Yunhe, the person in charge of the Thousand Households of Xichang, shouted loudly and immediately ran in with a group of royal guards.
Xu Yuanqing looked at this scene in shock: "This, this, why are you like this? My eldest father was once the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty! You can't be like this!"
But not long after Xu Yuanqing finished speaking, he was taken into custody by two guards in golden robes, while Sun Yunhe drew his sword and pointed it at him and asked: "Take us to your Xu family's warehouse."
Xu Yuanqing shook his head subconsciously: "No, no!"
"It can't be right, that would be rebellion."
As Sun Yunhe said that, he stabbed Xu Yuanqing in the stomach.
Xu Yuanqing opened his mouth wide and his pupils also dilated.
At this time, Sun Yunhe asked coldly: "Is there anyone in the Xu family who can be the head of the family? If no one comes out to do things according to orders, then don't blame me, Xichang, for punishing you and others for treason. When the time comes, no one in the whole family can survive." !”
"Someone didn't!"
Sun Yunhe suddenly shouted loudly.
Zhao Shujiao didn't really know how to do this kind of tax inspection at first, but when he saw Sun Yunhe's fierce look, he followed suit, slammed the table hard, and shouted: "Is there anyone who doesn't dare?" If you don’t take the emperor’s life seriously, believe it or not, I will kill your whole family!”
"I, Mrs. Xu Ni, have met all of you!"
At this time, Xu Ni, the grandson-daughter-in-law of Xu Jiechang, rushed over. She glanced at her brother-in-law Xu Yuanqing who was lying on the ground, and shouted loudly: "Come here, open the warehouse! Bring the messengers to collect the gifts!"
then.
Not long after, the general housekeeper of the Xu family came to the warehouse with Jin Yiwei and the accounting office of Yiganxi Factory.
After seeing several large granaries several feet deep filled with newly harvested grain, Lin Kui was stunned: "Ask General Zhao to send someone to weigh the grain! Harvest the grain first. If the grain is not enough, use money to make up for it." !”
"But it looks like there is no need for money to make up for it. This much food is enough to punish the Xu family fifty times more."
Chen Jin said something at this time.
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