The dendrobium trees are full, and the grains are piled up in sharp piles.
Zhou Fu, the servant of the Grain Chief Zhou Dalu, stood beside the dendrobium. He raised his foot and kicked it in the middle of the dendrobium. The dendrobium trembled suddenly and even tilted slightly. The rice that was originally a sharp pile spread out instantly and spread along the edge of the dendrobium. It kept spilling everywhere, even the rice in Dendrobium was poured out a lot.
Linjian kicking dendrobium is different from some interesting records.
The Ming Dynasty used sixty kilograms of dendrobium. There was no need to run up or practice with a tree. It only required someone to stand aside and kick it, and the food would naturally overflow.
If you add a ten-meter run-up, Dendrobium of this weight will not be kicked down...
Zhou Da's face darkened, he took two steps forward and stopped abruptly.
Zhou Fu glanced at Zhou Da, snorted, waved his kerchief, and asked someone to pour the grain in the sack back into the sack to weigh it. When he saw that there was one bucket of rice missing, he shouted to Zhou: "I should pay four buckets of rice." Eight liters and five scoops of rice, four dou per liter of rice were actually paid, and seven liters need to be replenished.”
Zhou Da cursed in his mouth, the rice inside the dendrobium just now was not more than four buckets and eight liters, but five buckets and eight spoons. It was so hard that he only got four buckets and one liter of rice, and he still had to make up for it!
There is nothing they can do, they have to pay, otherwise the food payment this year will not be enough.
Picking up the rice bag from the baby's hand, Zhou Da went to Zhou Fu, handed the rice bag to him, gritted his teeth and said, "Here!"
Zhou Fu took it, picked up the scale beam, put the hook through the sack, lifted it up casually, and adjusted the weight lanyard. Seeing that there was more grain, he punched some out. After counting seven liters, he poured out the seven liters of rice. into the original sack.
After finishing the work, Zhou Dacai went to the accounting clerk, handed back the account book, and wrote down the account book. After checking it out, Tao Yong, the county government official, would read it, and then put a seal on the account. Half of the seal was on the account. above, and the other half is above the tax book.
Zhou Da took away the post and proved that he had completed this year's autumn taxes.
After reading the whole process, Gu Zhengchen looked very ugly and said coldly to Luo Shao: "The house needs to be renovated. This kind of thing will never be allowed to happen in Jurong!"
Luo Shao was a little helpless and bravely explained: "Your Majesty, this is a common strategy in all prefectures and counties. The salary of the imperial court is meager. Without this income, the people in the county government may starve to death. Right now Our county government has Yanglianyin, so we can do away with the Lingjiankihu, but if one day Yanglianyin disappears, this trick will probably still happen..."
Gu Zhengchen stared and said nothing. In fact, what Luo Shao said made sense.
For the prefectures and counties of Ming Dynasty in the early Hongwu period, their gray income mainly consisted of two major parts:
One is to requisition corvees and deduct grain.
Secondly, levy two taxes and pour dendrobium on top.
As for Zhese Huohua, that thing is based on a whip method and is a gray tax revenue mainly based on silver. At that time, the cash register was closed, so you couldn't kick it in the shower, so you could only rob people for the sake of exasperation...
But that's Mr. Zhang's business. The current member of the old Zhang family is called Zhang Guanbao, who is still too far away from Zhang Baigui.
The salary was too low and people couldn't starve to death, so naturally they tried to find another way out. These two tactics were used almost everywhere in the Ming Dynasty. They knew each other tacitly and did not tell anyone. It was also a miracle in communication that they could be carried forward. …
Naturally, not all of the kicked-out grains are from the grain managers, a large part of them will go into the county government. Look at Tao Yong, the owner of the house. He is elegant, talking and laughing. It is obvious that he has seen this kind of scene too many times. It seems that I am very satisfied with Zhou Fu's ability to kick Hu.
Gu Zhengchen stopped Zhou Da who was about to leave, looked at the pile of dendrobium, and walked over.
Zhou Fu raised his leg, and just as he was about to kick it down, he felt something hit him on the back of his head. He turned around and looked at the ground, only to see a Song Qian falling.
"who is it?"
Zhou Fu shouted angrily.
Luo Shao hurriedly stepped forward, picked up the copper coins on the ground and returned them to Gu Zhengchen. Gu Zhengchen flipped his fingers a few times, held them in his palm, and said sternly: "This dendrobium seems to be worth more than four measures, right? According to the regulations of the imperial court, one dendrobium is worth The standard four buckets of rice is sixty kilograms of rice. Even if you pile it up in a sharp pile, it is impossible to use up five buckets of rice. Who made the big dendrobium?"
"Who are you? How dare you ask about the imperial court? Go away, don't want to offend a certain family and make you look good!"
Zhou Fu rolled up his sleeves.
Tao Yong, who was in the distant household, saw the person clearly and quickly got up and ran over. Before he could reach Gu Zhengchen, he was blocked by Luo Shao, who warned him not to talk nonsense.
The grain chief Zhou Dalu also came over, looked at Gu Zhengchen, and said coldly: "This is the Dendrobium prescribed by the imperial court!"
Gu Zhengchen laughed, pointed at the dendrobium and said, "If this is only the four buckets of dendrobium prescribed by the court, how come after kicking away so much rice, there are still four buckets and one liter of rice left? Could it be that you kicked away the dendrobium? After that, will this dendrobium still have sharp piles?"
When the people heard this, they nodded and gave pointers.
Zhou Dalu scolded with a gloomy face: "We will use as much dendrobium as the imperial court gives us. Do you need an outsider to interfere? Grain harvesting is an important task for the imperial court. No one can interfere with it. If you continue..."
"Why, you can still sentence me to provoking trouble?"
Gu Zhengchen walked to the edge of the dendrobium, reached out and grabbed a handful of rice, and said coldly: "If there is something wrong with the dendrobium, there must be something wrong with the scale, right? Just now Zhou Da paid the grain, and he only needed to make up for seven liters, but you took eight liters." More than a liter. Zhou Dalu, you are the grain chief elected by the imperial court. Is it possible that you plan not to sell out even a liter or a spoonful of grain? Not only will the people lose it on the road, but you also plan to let the people sell out your autumn grain as well? "
Zhou Dalu's face turned pale.
Gu Zhengchen slowly scattered the rice, looked at Zhou Dalu and continued: "According to your method, even if the people take out your autumn grain, there will be a lot left, right? In my opinion, we should check it according to the book to see if you How much food was taken away?"
"According to the records? Hey, young man, I advise you to avoid walking by the river. If you fall into the river, someone will die!"
Zhou Dalu threatened.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Tao Yong, the householder, and asked coldly: "Mr. Tao, can we do an inventory according to the accounts?"
Tao Yong quickly knelt down and shouted: "Just do whatever the county magistrate says."
"County Lord?"
After Zhou Dalu, Zhou Fu and others heard this, they immediately panicked and saluted quickly.
When the people around him saw this, they also knelt down.
Gu Zhengchen looked at everyone and shouted: "Get up, don't be too polite. Today I am here incognito. I just want to see if someone in Qiushi is doing anything to harm the people. Unexpectedly, I saw a scene of kicking the stems with dripping water. It’s a good show. Now that I’ve met him, let’s do an on-site office visit.”
Luo Shao and Yang Liang looked at each other.
On-site office?
When did the Ming Dynasty say this? Shouldn’t office matters be handled in court?
Gu Zhengchen walked to the chair, sat down directly, took out a copper coin, knocked on the table, and said solemnly: "Since Shang Yang's copper square sheng was cast, weights and measures have been unified in China. The word '' is meant to be fair! Now you are using big dendrobium and small scales to bully the people. Do you think that the law of the country is not there?"
