"Since you decided to donate and rent in the first place, you have to bear the price!"
"If you are unwilling to bear the responsibility, 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 cancel the exemptions, all the land in the world will become tax-free land for the gentry in the future. How will the imperial court support its troops in the future?"
"Are we really going to let fewer and fewer peasants bear all the taxes and servitude in the world?!"
Hai Rui continued to talk, and then asked Wu Xiumin, "You didn't persuade me like this?"
Wu Xiumin replied: "My subordinates tried to persuade me, but they didn't listen."
"Now that everyone has dispersed, it's hard to ask what happened. I just want to ask you, how was the tax collection?"
Hai Rui asked.
Wu Xiumin said: "Only those with less than 50 hectares of land have been collected. From the big households with more than 50 hectares, except for the taxes and money of the second master of Zhang Ge's hometown, the rest have not yet been collected."
"How do you complete this year's summer taxes and pass the exam like this?"
Hai Rui asked.
Wu Xiumin couldn't help but kowtow and said: "I hope the ministry will save me! However, the subordinate is indeed incompetent. I would rather be dismissed than do such a job well!"
"We'll discuss your matter later. I'll give you a chance to make meritorious deeds. First, bring me the fish scale book. I'll go and ask in person whether these wealthy households really don't want to pay taxes or dingyin?"
Hai Rui said.
Wu Xiumin also brought the fish scale book. She obviously knew that Hai Rui had a vigorous and resolute style and had already guessed that Hai Rui wanted the fish scale book.
Hai Rui took it over, looked at it and said, "Go with me and Hu Tishuai, go from house to house, and ask the big households over fifty hectares in Yangzhou City why they are not willing to pay the tax of dingyin."
Wu Xiumin said yes, then stood up and wiped the cold sweat from her head.
"This is the home of Liu Ziming, the governor of Henan Province."
Wu Xiumin said to Hai Rui.
Hai Rui told Hu Shouren, "Send someone to convey the order and ask their family head to come to see us!"
At this moment, Liu Ziming came out in person and asked his servant to carry a basket of silver ingots. After arriving, he said to Hai Rui:
"I don't dare bother Mr. Gangfeng to come in person. I don't know about the collection of imperial grain and national taxes. Now I heard from the slaves that Mr. Gangfeng has come to Yangzhou to governor the tax, so he urgently ordered his family to prepare tax money, so that he had no time to go. There is a long pavilion ten miles outside the city to welcome Haigong."
Hai Rui nodded, and still chose to believe it, saying, "Mr. Liu, there is no need to be polite."
As a result, Hai Rui received the tax money from Liu Ziming so easily, and after checking it, including the fire fee, it was exactly the same as the overdue money stipulated by the National Taxation Department.
Hai Rui then successfully received tax money from several other wealthy officials and gentry families.
In the face of absolute imperial power, many wealthy officials and gentry still dared not confront it head-on.
What's more, the edict for officials and gentry to pay grain and serve as servants has been issued for more than a year, and has been building momentum among the people for a long time. Public opinion has long since changed. Many officials and gentry who belong to the middle and lower class landlords have accepted the reality of paying grain and serving as servants, including some high-ranking officials and gentry. , and have long accepted this reality.
And now, those who still need to wait for the National Taxation Department to lead troops to collect collection are only a small number of relatively stubborn high-ranking officials and gentry, and these high-ranking officials and gentry are weak in power, so naturally there are also some high-ranking officials and gentry, and the officers and soldiers of the National Taxation Department After arriving, I paid my taxes honestly.
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"These people didn't stop him in the end, Haigangfeng!"
Zhang Sijiao, who was standing on a high-rise building in Yangzhou City, saw that Hai Rui was personally taking Hu Shouren and other officials to Yangzhou Fucheng to collect taxes one by one, so he couldn't help but punched the window spirit with his fist, and then said with gnashing of teeth. One sentence.
"Didn't he say that Haigangfeng loves the people? Why did he dare to bombard the people of Yangzhou at this time?"
Qiu Li, a former Jinshi of the Jiajing Dynasty who had joined Zhang Siwei's disciples, heard what Zhang Sijiao said and said with a disappointed look on his face.
Zhang Sijiao sneered: "Who knows, this person may pretend to love the people, but in fact he is just
I'm really lucky to advance in my career. "
"I have been investing money to criticize Zhang Juzheng for so long, but in the end it still failed to stop the officials and gentry from paying the bills and doing errands together. Many officials and gentry still made a fuss for a while and then stopped, and honestly accepted the reality, before Haigangfeng came. , I have already paid the taxes and grain."
"Now it seems that we should continue to think of ways to prevent the new policy where officials and gentry all receive food and work as errands?"
At this time, Qiu Li asked.
Zhang Sijiao smiled bitterly: "How else can we stop it?"
"Inciting the world to criticize Jiang Ling and making him fear Jiang Ling is the only way!"
"But now, the fierce people in Huguang have dug up the ancestral graves in Jiangling and haven't stopped them. What else can we stop?"
"Let's wait until my brother comes to power before abolishing it. Now I can only endure it."
"We can only wait until Mr. Ge takes over the country."
As he spoke, Qiu Li gritted his teeth and said, "As I said before, I hate Jiang Ling with all my heart! If Mr. Ge can resurrect me in the future, please let me be responsible for capturing the Jiang Ling clan and interrogating him. I would rather carry this person on my back." The reputation of being a cruel official will also make life difficult for the Jiangling clan!"
"Don't worry, I believe that my brother will let me fulfill this wish when I become king."
Zhang Sijiao said with a smile at this time, and then suddenly said with a serious face: "However, no matter what, Huguang has gone too far. After all, Jiangling is still in power, so the key to digging up his father's grave is the royal family. The land given."
"That's true."
"But once things boil up, no one can control its trend except waiting for things to cool down."
"It's no wonder Jiang Ling offended too many people!"
"Especially this time, we have to implement the idea that officials and gentry should be paid as one and serve as errands. It is said that the future emperor will not be able to correct his shortcomings and can only do benevolent and virtuous things."
[In view of the general environment,
"But he also didn't think about it, which official gentry and rich peasants who depended on the official gentry were willing to be expropriated like this?"
"The previous clearing of land was enough to make wealthy people dissatisfied. Now that something like this has happened, it is his own fault!"
Qiu Li spoke.
"I'm just afraid of getting burned."
"I didn't let the people who went to Huguang to instigate criticism against Zhang Juzheng dig up his ancestral graves!"
"What brother said makes sense. You can't do anything unscrupulous! Originally, we just asked them to burn down the Zhang family's house and put up a few stickers."
Zhang Sijiao said a few words, and then told Qiu Li: "Go to Huguang in person and find an excuse to silence the person we sent to Huguang to instigate criticism against Zhang Juzheng! To avoid long nights and many dreams! Anyway, this person has not registered yet. If you silence the underworld in advance, no one will find out."
"Okay! But don't worry too much, Second Master. After all, we didn't let him criticize Zhang Juzheng in our name."
Qiu Li said.
Zhang Sijiao said: "I know, but be careful and you won't make a big mistake! After all, it can't affect my brother's future as a country!"
"For this reason, our Zhang family is the first to pay all the taxes! If my brother is dismissed from office early because of this, all this hard work will be in vain!"
"I'm still waiting for him to abolish the New Deal!"
"Now this Jiangling has abolished the law of Xiaomiao, the most holy emperor of this dynasty, which stipulated that hiring workers to rebel against their employer shall be punished with the death penalty for treason. If these new policies are not abolished, I am afraid that it will be difficult to do business in the future. !」
Qiu Li nodded in agreement and said, "The second master is right. If Xiaomiao hadn't been in power back then, we wouldn't have settled in Yangzhou by selling salt and become a big, wealthy salt merchant. Those in the north who are miserable still have to work in the fields.”
"I hope today's people will have the virtue of filial piety in the future, not only focusing on business, but also giving preferential treatment to merchants."
Zhang Sijiao said something expectantly for a moment.
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"The true record of Xiaomiao?"
"My mother suddenly gave me a kind edict to read this book. Does she want me to imitate Xiaomiao?"
Changchun Temple.
On the day when Hai Rui was supervising taxes in the south and implementing the national policy of paying taxes to all officials and gentry, Zhu Yijun was greeting Empress Dowager Li. Because Empress Dowager Li suddenly asked him to go back and read the records of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, he took Empress Dowager Li to him. In his book of records of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, he asked about Empress Dowager Li.
Empress Dowager Li said: "You should learn from Xiaomiao and see how Xiaomiao is known as the King of ZTE, instead of doing the opposite and changing all the decrees he left behind!"
"Your husband must also want you to be such a rejuvenating king, instead of just following your own temper!"
"The Loop was lost during Xiaomiao. So, 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.
