Natural disasters alone are nothing, and natural disasters are no match for human wisdom.

Woe alone is not terrible, nor is the wisdom of a fool better than that of a wise man.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters are terrible when they are together.

This natural and man-made disaster can be traced back to the reign of Emperor Jiajing.

In order to implement the new law, the two capitals and 13 provinces are re-clearing the land, and the new law in the north is being implemented, and there are many kinds of servitude in the past.

In the past, it was the harvesting of wheat, the collection of weaving, the collection of mining, and the collection of small dried fish for fishing.

Just as the land of Qingzhang was found to hide the land that others had hidden to avoid taxes, most of the taxes were determined in silver.

There are fewer procedures, and there are fewer opportunities for people to be greedy for ink, so as to increase fiscal revenue by reducing ineffective taxes.

But the problem lies in the fact that one whip law is the southern tax, which has strong local limitations, limited to silver.

The people in the south use a lot of silver, because there is a lot of silver, maritime merchants, silver mines, overseas imports, a large amount of silver is distributed in the south of the Yangtze River, Fujian and Guangzhou, radiating from the coast to the Central Plains, but excluding Xuanda.

The people of Xuanda in Shaanxi still use copper coins a lot.

As soon as the tax method is changed, the price of silver here is high, and the highest is in copper money for silver; The second high in the past to pay taxes in kind for silver.

In the past, the time of paying taxes was close to the big harvest, and the people had the most food in their hands, and the tax collection at this time was sympathetic to the people; Now that the tax law has been changed, taxes are still collected at this time, and when the harvest is large, the people have no silver in their hands, so they have to exchange grain for silver, and everyone has to exchange it, and the price of grain is the lowest, and they have to use more grain to pay the same tax.

So the tax is heavy.

It's good that it won't be affected by disasters, but once it is affected, no one can eat it.

Before Emperor Jiajing, the imperial court Taicang had silver and grain, and it was able to provide relief immediately whenever there was a disaster.

When Emperor Longqing takes over the empire, not to mention that there is no silver in Taicang, and the military salaries of the nine sides cannot be paid, what do you expect to take for disaster relief? In those years, it was all about silver and grain relief.

Taicang has not saved money and grain, and its ability to resist risks is weak.

And Chen Mu is to blame for this, if there is no Chen Mu, the silver flowing into the imperial court will be much less, and silver will become a tax circulation currency later. But because of him, the amount of silver that flowed directly or indirectly into the Ming Dynasty increased dramatically.

Compared with the inflow of silver from the private sector, the silver he stuffs into his household every year is actually only the tip of the iceberg.

The mistake caused Zhang Juzheng to pass through the country with a whip law earlier.

All of this is all in one place, plus a small number of profiteers hoarded grain during the disaster and drove up the price of food.

The defenders from all over the country were soft-hearted for a while, so that the people gathered in the land of the three guards in Yanqing, where tens of thousands of mouths could be fed by the three guards, and these people gathered more and more, not to mention Juyongguan, even a big city has only one way to sit and eat the mountain.

Problems arise.

Zhao Shizhen not only worked in Nanyang, but also lived in Zhang Juzheng's mansion for half a year, and he knew the ins and outs of the whole whip law better, Jiang Yuelin's few words were piercing the window paper for him, and it was transparent at one point.

This is not a natural disaster, it is just a natural disaster, which will not make the people leave their homes, let alone let people flee to Juyong Pass with their families and want to enter Shuntian.

This is a man-made disaster that no one expected.

The problem in front of Zhao Shizhen is heavier than Jiang Yuelin, he can't bet on the silver to enter Datong, and he can't even enter the Xuanfu.

"The disaster relief silver must enter Datong, if it does not enter Datong, the disaster will be difficult to contain, and the victims of Juyongguan will gather more and more, and the day when Yanqingwei food is eaten, it will really be ...... to finish eating" Zhao Shizhen gritted his teeth and said solemnly: "Unthinkable." ”

"That's why you want to release them!"

Jiang Yuelin clapped his hands and said: "The herald is to set up porridge sheds along the way, switch and release people, the road is not congested, the disaster relief silver can reach Datong, and the disaster can be solved, wonderful!" ”

He didn't think of a way for Zhao Shizhen, nor did he think of a way for the people, he was so wonderful, he finally found a reason for himself to switch and release people.

Zhao Shizhen knew it at a glance, shook his head and said: "Commander Jiang is now switching, the mission can be achieved, no matter how many porridge sheds along the way, people can't stop people, the people will always go to the Beijing Division, the homeless people and the bandits are only one person with ulterior motives, attacking the Beijing Division, can Commander Jiang's head be saved?" ”

"So what do you say? If you don't do anything, the people will change under Lao Tzu's nose, do you say I will suppress or not? ”

"There is a way in the next place, I don't know if it will work, but it depends on how many guards Commander Jiang can manage." Zhao Shizhen looked at the people under the gate and said, "The people must be separated, and they can't be gathered in one place." ”

Jiang Yuelin was so anxious that he scratched his head, "I can manage a few guards, don't look at me as a commander, I am in charge of Tuntian, and no one can control it except the right guard of Yanqing." ”

"Huai Laiwei can speak, the central guard and the left guard belong to the Beijing army, but now they are grasshoppers on a rope, and these four guards are the first to say what to do." Jiang Yuelin shook his head very frustrated, looked at Zhao Shizhen vigilantly, and said: "If you want Jiang to lead troops to drive away the people, there is no need to say this, this is going to cause a civil uprising." ”

It's not that Jiang Yuelin underestimated Zhao Shizhen's heart, there has always been no shortage of such officials.

If dozens or hundreds of people break through the gates, it will be fine, and they will be detained in the guard for a few days to eat in prison and sent back to their hometowns, which is tens of thousands of people, or even more than 100,000 people in a few days, and the hard ones are to take their own heads to be buried!

"The person in charge of Tuntian is just right, and he will send a message to the elder to explain the situation, and he has the right to act cheaply, and he also asked Commander Jiang to send a message to all guards and thousands of households, and the six counties and seven guards have suffered disasters, and the people must have come from the six counties and seven guards, and they will divide the people first with their hometowns."

"In this way, it is not difficult for each thousand households to manage thousands of people, and at the same time to suppress the price of grain in various commercial markets, this matter must be done by Jinyi Wei, and it will be discussed in detail with the guard officer in detail later."

After following the world's No. 1 pirate leader for a long time, although Zhao Shizhen is a man of literary quality, he has a strong demeanor, and Xi Yi said with a big sleeve in his green robe: "The price of grain that can be flattened is flattened, and the grain merchant who is uneven is just right. ”

"As long as there is one, only one such hard bone will be eliminated in a county, and the price of food will be leveled immediately."

"With the grain, the government is exempted from taxation, and the people who have been divided into several units can be brought back to their hometowns by the banner army, and if it is done, Commander Jiang not only does not have to think about how to get rid of the crime, but it is still a great achievement."

Jiang Yuelin listened to Zhao Shizhen's plan in one go, and swallowed slowly, "Then, can't you do it?" ”

This young scribe was too bold.

Although the Da Ming Law clearly stipulates that the hoarding of goods and Juqi will be punished with eighty rods, but no one dares to beat him with eighty rods if he really dares to hoard Juqi.

Zhao Shizhen's solution is very simple and rude, it's not that others can't think of it, but others can't do it, besides, listen to him, some people don't listen to the advice, it seems that they still want to break down the house, and they can still command the Jinyi guard?

Zhao Shizhen ignored him, took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from his backpack, and began to write letters on the female wall of Chengguan, Zhang Juzheng and Xu Jue had to write, of course he did not have the ability and talent to call Zhongguan and Jinyi, but Xu Jue had.

It just so happens that he and Xu Jue are also familiar with each other!

Hearing Jiang Yuelin's uncertain question, Zhao Shizhen didn't even raise his head, and said: "If it can't be done, then Commander Jiang will take the blame on himself and resign, the worst result will be this, he will not die." ”

Just as Jiang Yuelin was glaring and wanted to draw a knife to kill someone, Zhao Shizhen, who had just finished writing a sentence, said lightly: "Enter the Guangzhou Lecture Hall, study for two years, and then go to the Nanyang Military Government to serve." ”

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