Tiger Niu met her brother's threatening gaze, naturally she couldn't be really scared, but she didn't want to continue to challenge her brother's fragile nerves. Although her brother pretended to be fierce, she knew very well in her heart that he was just pretending to be and would not be willing to do anything to her.

The big black and white eyes had already seen through everything, and they glanced at Lin Haoran a little proudly, and then continued to eat. Today's meal tasted good and made her appetite too much.

Lin Haoran didn't know what the tiger girl thought, watching this wild girl obediently bury her head in eating, the pride in her heart spontaneously arose, and she had mastered everything. Even though he wasn't much of a machismo, he suddenly felt like the head of the family.

After eating, Hu Niu only stayed for a cup of tea, changed into a fast clothes and swaggered out to patrol. Following Lin Haoran's description, she seems to really treat her home as a hotel, just a place to eat and sleep.

Faced with such a wild girl, Lin Haoran also gave up treatment, and after drinking tea with Sun Jixiang in the flower hall, he returned to the signing room to deal with all kinds of affairs.

Now there is still some time before spring ploughing, but there is no need to worry about any natural disasters, and there is no need to talk about the wind and rain all the time. However, it is also necessary to prepare for spring ploughing, and it is necessary to carry out work such as conscription and conservancy, and water conservancy.

After all, this is an agrarian society, and water conservancy is related to the tax revenue of a government and the life of the people.

Although the tax of tens of thousands of taels makes Lin Haoran unable to raise much spirit, if the summer grain harvest is really poor next year, it will give rise to a large number of problems, and even famine.

In the same way, he paid attention to the water conservancy situation in the five counties under his jurisdiction, and the work was not intended to be perfunctory.

After dealing with the official business at hand, in addition to reading some history books, he would also peruse the imperial court newspaper and "Talking about the Past and the Present".

The imperial court newspaper involves two capitals and thirteen provinces, and a little big things will be reported, but the content is relatively general. Just to tell you that there is such a thing as stealing chickens and dogs, there will be no too specific details.

I just saw the official document of "please eliminate the craftsmen of the supervision bureaus" and saw the newspaper, but I couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Moreover, it is not a new thing to say that the financial embarrassment of the Ming Dynasty has long been a new thing, even if Jiajing has used the treasury as an inner treasury, but it is also a time when it is exhausted, and the dignified Ninety-Five Emperor also has to worry about money.

In other words, Jiajing asked Yan Song, and Yan Song, the old fox, first put the responsibility on the household department, accusing the household department of not being good at financial management, which caused the Ming Dynasty's financial embarrassment, and then proposed to "cut redundant fees and collect local tax arrears, so that millions can be entered."

Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the most important granaries of the Ming Dynasty, with the most fertile land and perfect water conservancy projects, and the whole Ming Dynasty deserves to be a rich place, but tax evasion has long been a trend.

Regardless of the increasing number of fields and properties that have gained fame and are exempt from taxes, some wealthy households with a little power simply do not regard county officials as officials, and are unwilling to pay even the "thirty taxes and one tax".

Since ancient times, it was "someone in the DPRK who is good at being an official", but now it is "someone in the DPRK and China who is good at tax evasion". Not to mention that the next drizzle is a flood, and if it doesn't rain for three days, it will be a drought for several months, and the county officials who can collect sixty percent of the grain can get a good evaluation.

It is also the case, even though Jiangsu and Zhejiang are very rich and there are not a few people who have millions of fortunes, but the taxes and grains collected are getting less and less.

Now the recovery of wealthy households in Jiangsu and Zhejiang can indeed increase the revenue of the Ming Dynasty. However, this method also has drawbacks, that is, it will cause the local government to persecute poor families, which will lead to the tragic situation of family ruin.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Tiqian, in the military department, objected to the collection of old taxes and grains, and brought out Su Shi's viewpoint that "the only way to enrich wealth is to remove those who harm money", and the spearhead was directly aimed at the cliché redundant officials and redundant expenses.

This redundant official is not a scribe, but a general term for a civil servant, referring to those who receive the imperial court's money, the so-called "wealth victims".

The figures listed are also sensational, with 7,500 officials in the Han Dynasty, 18,000 officials in the Tang Dynasty, and 34,000 officials in the Song Dynasty.

"Today, the merits are promoted, the honors and nobles are entitled, the institutions are added, the ministers are gracious, and the factory guards, the supervision bureau, the warriors, the craftsmen, etc., the years are increasing, and they cannot be counted, and one more official is the cost of one more official. Please order all ministries strictly, please reform the redundancy, and it will be possible to reduce the amount of silver. ”

The spearhead was directed at these civil servants, who were known as "those who harm money", but when they went to the household department to discuss this plan, they did not point the finger at officials, nobles, factory guards, etc., but asked "people and craftsmen from various supervision bureaus" to be eliminated.

The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty can be divided into three categories: shift craftsmen, resident craftsmen and military craftsmen, most of which belong to local shift craftsmen, while resident craftsmen and military craftsmen serve all kinds of yamen and military guards of the imperial court.

The former is large in number and self-reliant, so let's not mention it for the time being. And the latter is the object of the imperial court's "requisition", because the living craftsmen and military craftsmen have the treatment of monthly grain or straight rice, and the imperial court has to make offerings.

In the eleventh year of Hongwu, the imperial court clearly stipulated: "Those who work in Beijing craftsmen will be given firewood, rice, salt, and vegetables every day, and they will stop working and stopping"

In the 24th year of Hongwu, the national economy had recovered, and it was further stipulated: "All craftsmen who work in the inner government shall measure their labor and pay money every day."

In the nineteenth year of Yongle, the imperial court issued another decree on monthly grain payment: "Order the inner government to pay grain, the celebrity, the secretary and other supervisors, and the weaving and dyeing, needlework, silver and other bureaus to bring craftsmen to Nanjing, and pay three buckets of grain every month, without work and stop paying." ”

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At present, the treatment of craftsmen is different from monthly ration and straight rice, and the monthly grain is paid on a monthly basis, as long as there is a quota and serves in accordance with the regulations, they must be enjoyed, and the monthly grain is paid by the Ministry of Industry. Straight rice is paid on a daily basis, and there is rice at work, which is paid by Guanglu Temple, which is equal to food allowance.

It's just that these craftsmen who serve the yamen, in fact, are not easy, they are ordinary people who get cheap remuneration for their skills, or build houses for the Ming Dynasty, or build ships, or make cannons, etc., but now they have become the "victims" of the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the upper echelons of the imperial court discovered the problem of "redundancy" and knew that there were too many civil servants in the Ming Dynasty, all these officials were "pretending to be asleep", and the butcher's knife slashed at these artisans who exchanged labor for payment.

Faced with this decision of the imperial court, Lin Haoran couldn't help but sigh lightly in his heart, feeling helpless for the current imperial court.

Because the result of this butcher's knife swing is impossible to solve the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty, it will cause the shift craftsmen to suffer more and derive new ills.

Once the number of artisans serving in Beijing decreases, it will inevitably lead to an increase in the demand for shift craftsmen in the yamen.

In contrast to the sitting-down craftsmen and the military craftsmen, shift craftsmen provided unpaid labor. They were scattered in various localities and took turns to serve in Beijing at the prescribed time, but they had no income on the day they went to work, and they even had to raise their own expenses for traveling to and from Beijing.

It's good that they are closer to the capital, and they can still bear this kind of conscription; If the craftsmen are far away, they have to sell their wealth, or even sell their children to raise money for the journey.

Similarly, similar to those poor people who could not afford to pay taxes, many skilled craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty could only choose to flee to the mountains and forests, thus becoming black households of the Ming Dynasty, or directly becoming thieves.

Sometimes I have to admit that the imperial court seems to have done a lot of things that are beneficial to the country, but in the end it is better not to do it.

Guangdong's encounter with the Japanese invaders was also reported in the Di Bao: "The Japanese invaded Guangdong, repeatedly committed Jieyang and Haifeng, looted and set fires, did all kinds of evil, were arrogant, and the people were panicked. ”

Di Bao brings together the big and small affairs of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, covering a wide range of places, but the content is too brief. Lin Haoran can only pick the important ones to read carefully, and the main objects of study are the capital and Guangdong Province, and occasionally pay attention to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

There is nothing too important in this issue of Di Bao, many of them are trivial. After flipping through the newspaper, Lin Haoran took a sip of tea and opened the latest issue of "Talking about the Past and the Present".

This publication, which was founded by him, is now becoming more and more influential in Daming, and its sales are even more amazing. They have already established distribution points in many places, and their sales network has radiated from Beijing to Guangzhou, and the number of copies per issue can be stable at more than 150,000 copies.

150,000 copies per issue, which is an absolutely staggering statistic. If "Talking about the Past and the Present" is compared to a film and television work, that issue is a "hit", which is an absolute box office guarantee.

"Talking about the Past and the Present" is not only an amazing economic benefit, but also its political influence. The prestige of his future father-in-law, Wu Shan, has risen sharply, and he has faintly become the leader of Qingliu, and the voice calling for him to join the cabinet is getting louder and louder.

In addition, the biggest attraction of this "Talking about the Past and the Present" is the star-making ability.

Although there is still some market for talents now, due to the relationship between the imperial examinations, the influence is not as early as that of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty actually attaches more importance to policy theory.

At the level of lifting people, only by writing a good policy can it be easier to become famous and become a romantic talent like Li Bai.

It's just that a good policy is really rare, the general scholar's policy is too "idealistic", and the old fritter is a "horse shooter", it is difficult to have a politically mature policy opinion.

In addition, there is no criterion for judging policy theories, and many policy theories cannot be distinguished from each other, regardless of political opinions. is more dependent on paying for cultural meetings to "build momentum", so as to become a so-called talent, but the moisture of this kind of talent is very large.

It's just that with the birth of "Talking about the Past and the Present", the repair and inspection hall of the Hanlin Academy has solved this problem and has become the most prestigious judging body, and has the ability to make an ordinary scholar famous overnight.

Even if Lin Haoran is far away in Leizhou Mansion, he knows who wrote a good strategy and what kind of character he is.

As long as the article is on "Talking about the Past and the Present", it is really famous all over the world, and it can even be compared to the title of the gold list. In the same way, it is conceivable how the people waiting for the examination in Beijing are flocking to it.

Yazhai listened to Xiao Xiaozhu, suspected to be the voice of the people's suffering.

Some small Caozhou county officials, one branch and one leaf are always concerned.

The homepage is still a poem, and when I saw this poem, the corners of Lin Haoran's mouth turned up slightly.

After being away from the capital for a few months, he also had to worry that he would be completely forgotten, so he mentioned it to Xu Wei before he came back, asking him to "show his face" every few months.

Obviously, Xu Wei knew what "showing his face" meant, so he put up the poem that he wrote back to him last time.

"Low profile! Low profile! ”

Lin Haoran looked at the signature on it, but his mouth was wrong, and a small sense of excitement surged in his heart at this moment. At least after this poem was published, the bigwigs in Beijing would not completely forget him, and let him, Lin Wenkui, get a good reputation of "worrying about the country and the people".

"On Salt Politics"

Lin Haoran habitually skipped the previous article and directly opened the lucky one's article, and the title immediately aroused his interest.

I thought it was nothing to say, but after reading it through, I found that there were several feasible ways to use this strategy. The article is simply to the point for Daming Yanzheng, pointing out all kinds of shortcomings at the moment, which can be regarded as a rare and excellent article.

It is worth mentioning that at present, not only the grain tax has decreased, but the salt tax, which is the second largest tax, has also declined. If the shortcomings of the salt administration can be solved, it will inevitably reduce the financial pressure of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, it is no wonder that this article can stand out and become the new star of this issue of "Talking about the Past and the Present".

"Gaozhou, Guangdong?"

Lin Haoran saw that it was a Gaozhou scholar, his eyes immediately lit up, and Zhao Dongcheng's figure flashed in his mind. He always felt that Zhao Dongcheng's talent was far underestimated.

After just one breath, he almost rose from his seat, as if his eyes were about to pop out, because the signature on it was "Guangdong Gaozhou Jiang Yuebai".

But he never expected that when he was almost about to forget about this person, this product actually jumped out and brought the aura of a great genius.

He could fully imagine that this product would inevitably become famous in the capital. With his talent and disgusting appearance, he will definitely be favored by the powerful in Beijing, and even Yan Song will extend an olive branch to him.

It's not good to say, he is like himself, and he will become the fast son-in-law of a certain big man in Beijing. However, he vaguely remembered that the goods seemed to be engaged to Mrs. Jiang's niece, but he didn't know if he would become Chen Shimei.

At this moment, Lin Haoran finally understood what kind of bad mood it was to make a dowry for others.

He felt very annoyed, and felt that the brick was still lightly slapped, and he should have slapped that person directly to death. Now, letting him take the lead like this is a hidden danger after all.

It's just that he doesn't understand that Jiang Yuebai left for Beijing after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is said that he will not arrive in the capital until around the Spring Festival. But now that the goods have not only arrived, but they have also been submitted to the newspapers, God is really blind.

With a depressed mood, Lin Haoran reluctantly left the signing room.

I walked to the courtyard, but I was shocked, only to see that the wild girl of the tiger girl was already soaked, and walked back like a chicken in soup, with a sullen expression on her face.

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