On the lobby of the Nanjing Governor's Yamen.

Niu and the officials were all stunned, the first thunder of Longqing's three years came earlier than before.

In fact, to be fair-minded, officials are very welcoming to these two new policies.

Especially a whip.

You must know that most of the taxes collected by the government before were grain, silk cotton, and local specialties such as dried bamboo shoots and tea. The conscription was served by the stinky people in turn. There are only a few small taxes such as door stall silver and house collapse tax, and you can see a little bit of money.

In addition to Nanjing, Suzhou, which are big cities with prosperous industry and commerce, the following counties collect a few thousand taels of silver a year to Amitabha.

Moreover, those physical taxes are not easy to preserve, and the south of the Yangtze River is humid, and the annual loss is quite large, and it is not easy to realize. At most, the officials could only eat, drink, and get a little, and it was very difficult for them to make a little money, so they did not have a good life.

Now that the new policy has been implemented, all taxes and levies will be converted into silver, which will not only facilitate the collection and reduce losses, but also improve everyone's income. Naturally, the officials were both hands and feet supporting.

"It is worthy of Zhongcheng, these two new policies are greatly beneficial to the court and the people!" After a year of silence, the sycophants became more and more proficient.

"Such a bold revolution will only be approved by Zhongcheng if it is proposed by Zhongcheng!" Committee member Wang hurriedly followed.

"It's a pity that Minami is as timid as a mouse." Haidou was very indignant and said: "I still insist that the grain sent to the capital by the two prefectures of Susong and Song will still be collected with rice...... As everyone knows, the people of these two provinces have been paying taxes by buying rice for many years, so why bother doing more? ”

Guo Butang may be worried, if it is rashly changed to collect money, the government will purchase grain. A good year is naturally safe, but what should I do if the price of food is high in a disaster year? Once you can't buy all the food, everyone has to sit on wax. ”

Niu Yanshi was relieved from the side: "We still have to ensure the stability of the supply of grain." ”

"To put it bluntly, the government is unwilling to take risks." Hai Rui snorted, the people are scattered to buy grain, how can the government centrally purchase grain, and it is safe and cost-effective?

Of course, in this way, the government will take a certain amount of risk, but will the people not take the risk when they buy grain? When food is expensive in disaster years, I don't know how many people go bankrupt to buy grain and pay taxes?

Moreover, the consumption of grain, as well as the freight cost, are also the majority, and the centralized procurement and unified transportation by the government will naturally greatly reduce these unnecessary costs...... Maybe that's why some people don't want to convert the grain into silver and collect it, right?

In fact, the same is true of 'conscription into silver'. What Hai Rui conceived with Zhao Hao at the beginning should have been a complete spread into the mu, without considering Dingkou. In this way, the landable landlords paid for the poor who had no land to serve the government, and this design was the most reasonable.

However, the household department of Nanjing obviously did not dare to assume the responsibility of making the landless people completely unburdened. After all, those dead-brained imperial historians always thought that this would collapse the tax revenue of the imperial court and cause social order.

Therefore, it is not easy for Guo Butang to agree to Ying Tianshifu to change to this step, and Hai Rui can't force anything anymore.

"It's just that these two new policies are quite unfavorable to the wealthy families and rich landlords, should we do something to take precautions?" A subordinate officer proposed.

"That's good, so we still have to hurry up!" Hai Rui nodded, and said in a deep voice: "When the big households in the rest of the provinces are like the landlords in Suzhou, they will be honest if they have a butt of cases on their backs." ”

"Haha......" The subordinate officials couldn't help laughing, the case was judged but not executed, like a knife hanging from the neck, who would dare to jump?

"So Zhongcheng, where is our next stop?" The cow was rubbing his hands, and his nose was spewing white gas.

"Matsue!" Hai Jui cut the railway.

The officials looked stunned when they heard this, they hadn't forgotten what Haigong's top priority was when he came to Yingtian.

"Zhongcheng, when are we leaving?"

"Don't be in a hurry, wait for the people to get the news and brew their emotions." Hai Rui said lightly.

~~

Songjiang Mansion, Huating, Retreat Garden.

Xu Ge Lao has spent the most lonely year since he became a jinshi. Except for the fellow villagers who really can't wipe off their face and can't get rid of their involvement, no one came to greet him for the New Year. Even when Ding Wei was registered and suppressed by Zhang Cong, he was never so miserable.

This made the Xu Fan brothers very resentful, but what wind and rain did Xu Ge not experience? I have long been accustomed to seeing people's warmth and coldness, not angry or annoyed, singing in the garden all day long to entertain myself.

On the stage today, Xu Ge was dressed in green clothes and was singing the newly released "Du Shi Niang".

I saw him pinching his orchid fingers, curling Nana, and singing sadly:

"That Li Lang was originally a greedy man, and he lived up to the beauty with a good heart,

It's okay to say anything to others.

Du Shi Niang, full of hatred, hateful lifelong mistrust of Bo Qinglang.

Said Lang Jun, I only hate that I didn't have an opinion at the beginning,

It turns out that you are a fake heart and waiting for red makeup. ”

Xu Ge Lao has been concentrating on polishing his singing voice for half a year, and his level is much higher than when he was in the capital.

It's just that even the full set of music groups that originally accompanied them went to a seven, seven, eighty, eight, and eight, leaving only one who played the three strings and the other who held the pipa, and his eldest son had to play the flute himself to make do with the accompaniment.

Xu Ge was whimpering and singing with tears streaming down his face, but he saw Xu Ying running onto the stage in a panic and almost tripped over the stairs.

He waved a tattered notice and shouted in panic, "Father, father, it's not good. ”

"What's going on~What's going on~~" Xu Ge Lao looked calm, but forgot to change the tone of the play back to normal speech.

Xu Ying stepped forward and presented the notice.

Xu Fan waved his hand, and the two musicians hurriedly got off the stage to dodge.

Xu Ge Lao held the notice in both hands, looked at the content on it, and gradually turned pale, and the sky spun for a while, and he almost fell to the ground.

Fortunately, Xu Fan's hands and feet were quick and he helped his father.

"Where did this ~~ come from?" Xu Jie's face was gloomy, and he no longer saw the calm he had before.

"The prefect's yamen posted it, our family saw it, and quickly tore it off and sent it to me." Xu Ying said with a sad face: "The surname Hai is going to do something to us!" ”

Xu Fan took the notice from his father's hand and saw that it was the two new policies promulgated by the governor's yamen. His face gradually darkened.

He knew what scared his father the most. Such a big thing can only be implemented with the approval of the Ministry of Household Affairs in Nanjing, but until the governor yamen promulgated the government and posted the notices, his Xu family was still in the dark!

The people who were bought and installed in the government at all levels were not 100 but 80. How can it be all unaware?

There is only one possibility, that is, everyone has abandoned them and is unwilling to have anything to do with the Xu family anymore......