Lin Yanchao talked eloquently at the top, looking at the expressions of the lieutenants.

And the people below are calculating how many people in themselves have land to borrow money, and how many people have no land, but they can go to the river to make a difference.

The lieutenant chiefs asked in detail one by one, and even forgot to move the chopsticks for the sumptuous meal on the table, turning Lin Yanchao's words into how many loads of grain and how many taels of silver, and then weighed it repeatedly in their hearts.

When their questions were finally answered, they all spoke with lotus in their mouths, and then squinted their eyes and talked quickly with others.

After a meal.

The lieutenants took their leave, and promised to go back to the villages to publicize, and Peng Yuanwai promised them to bring in a common man and give them twenty yuan.

Facing Peng Yuanwai, the inner chiefs looked different, took out a posture of not wanting too little, and the dogs didn't want it, and quietly packed the meals on the table, and then hurried to the village.

Some of them even forgot to pack, and disappeared as soon as they slipped through the smoke.

Lin Yanchao's new green seedling method, with his letter of persuasion to farmers, as well as such a propaganda in the building, everyone in Manchu knows about it.

You can borrow money from new seedlings and divide them into two classes, those with land and those without land.

You must know that there are 300,000 registered households in seven counties and one state in Guide, and these are the people with household registration. Five people as a guarantor, must be five registered good citizens.

The registered people either have land at home, or they have a few acres of land themselves, and then rent some for large families. In this way, it is called a yeoman farmer or semi-yeoman farmer.

They had to pay all kinds of taxes and taxes, and they also had to work in a variety of ways, and in the past, when the flood came, they borrowed usury from large families, sold their sons and daughters, and sold their fields and houses.

Therefore, Lin Yanchao's new seedling method and Wang Anshi's original intention of the seedling method are to benefit these yeoman farmers and semi-yeoman farmers.

For the landed households, the farmer and merchant money village treats the upper field, the lower field, the high field, the silt field, and even the water repulsion of the land, all of which are treated equally, and every ordinary person with land can borrow eight yuan of silver on his one acre of land, and pay it off twice in a year.

However, a common man can borrow a maximum of 10 acres, and only the landowner can do so.

The interest rate of 20% and 5% is more expensive than Wang Anshi's original Qingmiao Law, but it is not the same as the usury of 50% of large households.

Those who have permanent property have perseverance, and these 'middle class' with land are the main tax collectors of the government, and the credit for repayment is also the best.

As for the tenants, there are still a lot of them, and there are many people in Germany, who are homeless, that is, black households. They are exempt from paying taxes, exempt from servitude, and have no political status. There are also many registered people, who go to other places to escape famine and disaster, and they are classified as homeless.

Lin Yanchao promised that landless households could be given relief through work, and the work service was divided into three classes: short-term service, medium service, and long-term service.

Two months for short service, three months for medium service, and five months for long service. The short-term service is one tael or two pieces of silver, the medium service is one tael and seven pieces of silver, and the long-term service is two or two or five cents.

Because the river workers are mainly in February and March, Lin Yanchao encouraged the common people to serve more in the middle of the army. This tenant farmer who works for large families in Guide can't make so much money, and the government still runs its own food.

It's definitely a good deal. Compared with the original forced people to enlist, which made the heavens angry and resentful, there was definitely one heaven and one underground.

But money is human gall, clothes are human faces, it is not only to work for relief, hire ordinary people to repair the embankment, Lin Yanchao wants to build a hundred miles of embankment, strengthen the remote embankment, and block the breach, where does this money come from?

How many meters and how big the pot, how much money to do, how many things to do, your Lin Yanchao stall is so big, how will you clean it up in the future?

The common people are easy to deceive, but the officials in the government know this, some people remind a few words, some people are interested in watching Lin Yanchao's jokes, and some people think that Lin Yanchao can't be unaware, and Lin Yanchao may have some unknown schemes.

There are two taboos in Xinghe work, one is midwinter construction and midsummer construction.

After the sting, it was the time for the Daxing River Work in the Defu Mansion.

Before the river is built, the river must be sacrificed.

In ancient times, the king was sacrificed and sacrificed to the prison, and later the court also sealed the official to Hebo, and ordered the magistrate to sacrifice every year.

In addition, it is a folk sacrifice, and the common people worship the river god themselves.

For such sacrifices, Confucianism has always respected ghosts and gods and stayed away, because Confucius said, 'If you can't do anything to people, you can do ghosts'.

Confucius said, 'Sacrifice is like being, sacrifice to God is like God', Cheng Yi explained this sentence is, sacrifice first, the Lord is filial piety, sacrifice to God, the Lord is respectful.

Most of the officials regarded folk sacrifices with an attitude of not participating in and not opposing them.

At the Dingjiaji Dam thirty miles north of Shangqiu City, dense crowds of people lined up from the river to the bottom of the embankment.

Several cases by the river face the Yellow River, and three animals are placed on them, and they are sacrificed to them with the most solemn prison ceremony.

Then several old river workers, with thousands of civilian river workers, faced the big river, shirtless clusters, wearing wicker rings on their heads, and holding incense sticks to worship.

Lin Yanchao stood on the earthen embankment, looking at the pious look of the old river worker, there was no joke in his heart, but a look of respect.

The river flows endlessly, the power of heaven and earth is boundless, from Dayu, how many years have the people of China ruled the Yellow River, but the Yellow River is still flooding, has never been tamed.

Since ancient times, tens of thousands of people have died in the river, and even so, for thousands of years, we have not been repairing the river for a year.

Lin Yanchao once read a passage to the effect of.

When the sky is broken, refine stones to make up for it;

When the flood comes, dig the canal yourself to dredge it;

If the disease is epidemic, try the medicine by yourself and treat it yourself;

If you drown in the East China Sea, you will fill up the East China Sea;

He who is exposed to the sun shoots it down;

We ask ghosts and gods, ask the people of the world, and open up the world with an axe, this is the national belief of China!

What Lin Yanchao saw from the faces of these unknown river workers was such great perseverance, what about the Yellow River that flooded so much last year and killed so many people?

This year we start all over again and fight the river again!

The river wind is blowing.

Lin Yanchao watched this scene from the remote embankment, and then walked on the embankment together with Huang Yue, Shangqiu County Ling Lu Qianjian, and Yishi River Engineering officials.

Lin Yanchao asked: "This time, how many people are hired by the Xinghe Gonggong Mansion?" ”

Huang Yue reported: "According to the liquidation of Shangqiu, Yucheng, and Xiayi, the three counties sent more than 3,500 people, all of whom were along the river, and another 5,300 people were hired, most of whom were short-term and medium-term. ”

Lu Qianjian said: "Back to Sima, Shangqiu is the key point of the river work, and it is also the location of the capital city, this time the embankment was built here for more than 50 li, and it is the heaviest in each county, so the civil service is the most, a total of 2,100 people are dispatched, and 3,200 people are hired. ”

Lin Yanchao asked: "Since it is a service assigned by the government, what standard is the standard for sending service?" ”

Lu Qianjian said: "According to the ten-section brocade method compiled by Jiajingnian, the service is assigned according to the distance of the river, the level of the household, the number of people in the family, and the barren land. ”

Lin Yanchao asked: "Last year, it wasn't Shangqiu Ge who used a whip method, how could he use the old method?" ”

The Ten Duan Jin Law is an old law, and Zhang Juzheng is implementing a whip law across the country to ban the Ten Duan Jin Law. Why is the Shiduan Jin Law still practiced in Shangqiu County?

Facing Lin Yanchao's questioning, Lu Qianjian couldn't help but sweat on his forehead and said: "Because a whip method is based on the number of fields to calculate taxes, it can be done in Jiangnan, but not in Jiangbei. ”

"Jiangnan is rich, the common people are not very poor, Jiangnan has many rivers and fertile fields, and the land is fertile and barren, and there is not much difference. However, in Shangqiu, the rich Tian Lianqian Mo, the poor have no place to stand, if the rich are sent to pay for the service, how can they be the same as the poor to pay for the service, and there is land, and the silt field and paddy field are ten times that of the lower field, not to mention that last year, when the Yellow River was in trouble, many people's fields became repulsion fields, and such fields were not harvested according to a whip law, but they also had to pay taxes to the government. ”

"Therefore, last year a whip law was implemented, and the people's resentment was boiling, and this year the feudal department has a document to order the magistrate to implement the new law at his discretion, so the lower officials have restored the old law in the county, please forgive Sima."

Lin Yanchao also knew that after Zhang Juzheng's death, there was a lot of pressure to oppose this whip law.

Because this whip has almost become a one-size-fits-all approach, it only taxes according to the number of fields, and does not tax according to the fertility of the fields, and it becomes a joke that both the brine fields and the silt fields must pay the same taxes.

And in this regard, the ten-section brocade method seems to be fairer than the one-whip method.

The so-called ten-section brocade method is to divide the county's Ding households, according to the land, family property, from rich to poor into ten grades, rich people pay more money, more service, no rich people pay less money, less service.

This method seems to be very fair and very good.

But the question is who is rich and who is poor, who can tell? What can you do if the local officials accept bribes and turn the rich into poor to evade taxes?

Lu Qianjian's words were reasonable, but the change of the service law, such a big matter was not asked by Lin Yanchao, and the decision was made by the feudal department without authorization.

Where does this put Lin Yanchao, he is now Lu Qianjian's superior.

But in Lu Qianjian's opinion, Lin Yanchao is just a temporary government affair, not a real prefect, not to mention that he is a Jinshi in the fifth year of Wanli, and he is still Lin Yanchao's predecessor in the first place, so it is nothing if he does not report it.

Usually an official who is easy to talk to is okay, but Lin Yanchao lowered his face and said: "Ben Cheng remembers that Shangqiu was organized, it was a matter of the third year of Jiajing Longqing, you used the household more than ten years ago to serve today's battle, is it you the official?" ”

Lin Yanchao spoke sharply, and Lu Qianjian sweated like rain.

The Shiduan Jin Law usually needs to be organized every ten years, and the last time Shangqiu County was organized was a matter of three years in Longqing, and it was supposed to be reorganized, but in the ninth year of Wanli, the imperial court implemented a whip law in Henan. Therefore, Shangqiu County only cleared the acres of land and did not reorganize the households.

Therefore, Lu Qianjian took Longqing for three years to arrange household service, which is not very unreliable. Ten years have passed, and the common people on the household don't know whether they are dead or alive, and you are still cheeky and say that I will be taxed according to the above.

The inside story of this, I also know with my ass that Lu Qianjian privately received the benefits of the big families in the government and passed on all the labor and land to the common people. Lu Qianjian thought that with the feudal department's 'magistrate implementing the new law as appropriate', he could get away with it, but how did he know that Lin Yanchao was so shrewd and so difficult to fool.

This matter can be big or small, and the severity is in Lin Yanchao's control.

So Lu Qianjian couldn't take care of it, so he knelt down and said, "Sima, it's the lower official's mistake, I implore the lower official to maintain one or two for the lower official." ”

Saying that, Lu Qianjian thought of his career, and tears fell.

The officials below were all dumbfounded when they saw the dignified head county of Guide Mansion kneeling in front of Lin Yanchao and crying like this, except for Huang Yue.