All night, although a little drunk, but Qian Qianyi still did not sleep peacefully, although he was nearly eighty years old, it stands to reason that he should have slept very deeply at this age, but he was thoughtful, and he meditated in the study all night.

didn't sleep peacefully all night, for the sake of Jiangshan Sheji, and of course, for himself.

The night of hard thinking and meditation was not fruitless, at least Qian Qianyi had already gotten the answer he wanted. Although he didn't sleep all night, because he thought of a solution, Qian Qianyi, who was in a very comfortable mood, did not feel the slightest tiredness, and after having breakfast hastily, he hurriedly took a sedan chair to Yanping Palace.

Although he is now only a servant of the six ceremonial departments under the palace, he has rescued hundreds of pseudo-officials in the prison of the criminal department by virtue of his original words, and has faintly become the leader of civil officials in Nanjing.

For those officials who also have the stain of "captivity", they naturally have a natural affinity for Qian Qianyi. However, despite this, Qian Qianyi, who has been up and down for many years, does not have the slightest pride, but focuses on promoting future students, all of which show people with the style of a humble elder, so these days he has won the favor of some people.

However, only Qian Qianyi himself knows what everything he has done is for, to be the leader of Shilin again, and to be an official. Of course, it is also for the purpose of forming a party, and the purpose of forming a party is naturally for personal gain!

Unlike in the past, Qian Qianyi did not go to the Ministry of Rites, but went directly to the Ministry of Households, and then after sitting down in a nearby teahouse, he ordered someone to find Wang Wenchuan.

"Xiaguan has seen Uncle Zong!"

Qian Qianyi, who received Wang Wenchuan's gift, looked at him first, and then pointed to the chair in front of the table and said slowly,

"Bingcheng, sit!"

After a simple politeness, Wang Wenchuan looked at Qian Qianyi and asked.

"I don't know what Uncle Zong's dispatch is to find the lower official? If there is a sending, just order someone to send it, why do you need Lao Zongbo to come in person! ”

Although most of the hundreds of thousands of family businesses accumulated during his tenure as a political envoy in the past two years were given to Qian Qianyi in prison, for Wang Wenchuan, who survived by luck, he is still grateful to Qian Qianyi, after all, his life was saved, as long as he saved his life and kept his official body, what did those family businesses count?

It doesn't matter if you don't have money, as long as you save your life and keep your official position, how can you have no money.

Get promoted and get rich!

If you want to be promoted, you must first keep your official body, just like now, although you are on an errand in the household department, you still have a chance.

"I haven't seen you for a while, I happened to pass by here today, and I came to see you, and I happened to have some things to ask you!"

Qian Qianyi was not polite, as the leader of Shilin, although he did not have the position of prime minister, he could put on the bearing of a prime minister.

"Uncle Zong, just give orders!"

Wang Wenchuan hurriedly got up and replied, and even faintly excited in his heart, not for anything else, but for Qian Qianyi to finally remember him.

Promotion!

Someone needs to be appreciated, and the person who appreciates him must be in a high position himself. And Qian Qianyi happens to be such a person, he is not only in a high position, but also the teacher of the general.

If you can get Qian Qianyi, then being promoted and making a fortune is not just around the corner.

"Bingcheng, you used to be the political envoy of Jiangnan Province, and you know the Jiangnan tax very well, Qian wants to ask you about the tax of Jiangnan Province."

Putting down the teacup, Qian Qianyi looked at Wang Wenchuan and said with a smile his intention.

Although I don't know why Qian Qianyi asked about the taxes in Jiangnan Province, Wang Wencheng knew that whether he could get rid of the identity of being an idle errand in front of him depends on his answer today, and whether he can satisfy the Qian Muzhai in front of him, he pondered for a moment first, and then he said.

"Uncle Hui, the taxes in Jiangnan Province are very complicated, and the officials of Qingrong are here one by one!"

Perhaps when he was in office as a political envoy, most of Wang Wenchuan's thoughts were on how to make money. But he is also quite talented, and he will not be put in such an important position.

He first recalled for a moment in his mind, recalling the various names of the taxes in Jiangnan Province, and then said slowly.

"A large amount of money, huge amount is the biggest feature of Jiangnan Province tax, is the so-called Jiangnan wealth in the world, this silver has acres of land, there are Cao items, consumption and gifts such as fishing and reeds, tooth miscellaneous taxes, rice is Cao grain, there is consumption gifts, there are white grain, there is white consumption, etc., rice as for the quota or there is this year's reclamation, new, leap plus leap, there is flooding, Feng, Feng and other rice, of which the tax of the field tax silver part is the same as that of other provinces......"

In Wang Wencheng's explanation, Qian Qianyi just silently kept these in his heart, although he was over seventy years old, his memory was still very amazing, and he actually remembered it by him.

“…… Since ancient times, the rich but Jiangnan, but since the previous dynasty, Jiangnan Province has been the country's tax land, Jiangnan to the country less than two percent of the land, bear the country's two into five of the land of silver, six into five of the grain, now the heavy endowment of Jiangnan than the Song Dynasty is seven times more, than the Yuan three times, but also four times before Hongguang, two times more than my Ming Dynasty, although the current Jiangnan is the people's power is unbearable, but the Qing Dynasty for the Jiangnan people are still extremely squeezed......"

When lamenting the bitter people of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Wencheng ignored his "decisiveness" in the past when he was a political envoy and did not hesitate to kill people at every turn in order to collect taxes, and it was with this decisiveness that he was appreciated by the Manchu court and became the political envoy of Jiangnan Province.

"Yes, this Qing Lu is different from Huang Ming, Huang Ming regards us and other Han people as people and people, while Qing Lu regards us as slaves, subordinates, not people! Last year, the old man heard in the villa that the spring drought in Suzhou was just a few people who could not bear the oppression of the captives, and wrote to ask the government to reduce the silver grain, but was beheaded by Suzhou County on the grounds of gathering a crowd to rebel, and sentenced 67 people. Bingcheng, the old man remembers, this matter seems to be implicated with you! ”

A simple question only frightened Wang Wencheng, and he quickly knelt down and kowtowed.

"Uncle Zong, Xia Guan was also forced to do it at that time, and he really had to do it......"

Wang Wencheng, as a political envoy, in the past, in order to urge taxes, has said more than once, "kill the tax supervision, kill those who dare to resist donations, and the rest will naturally not dare not pay taxes", just as he said, in recent years, the people have not dared to default on taxes even if they sell their sons and daughters, if this is not the case, how can they maintain the expenses of the Qing army's collection and suppression in the southwest, Huguang and other places.

For the Qing court, they didn't care how many people they killed in order to collect taxes, and for the Manchurians, the dead were just Han people who were not worth mentioning! As long as the magistrate collects the taxes, it is a great achievement to make money, and as for murder, it is not a bad thing, but a good thing. If those Han people are killed and subdued, they will willingly be obedient people who are satisfied!

It is precisely because of this that for the court of the Qing Dynasty, the magistrates who kill people at every turn are not only not guilty, but meritorious.

But it was a merit to kill people in the Manchu Qing Dynasty at the beginning, but now these old things are very likely to become a life-urging talisman, thinking of the tragic situation of Suzhou County being in Ling Chi after the fall, how can Wang Wencheng not be nervous, if he really investigates it, he himself is enough to cut a thousand knives.

"Okay, Bingqi, look at the one who scares you, if the old man doesn't want to save you, how can he say these things to you! The reason why this old man sees you today is to show you a way to live! ”

Looking at Wang Wenchuan, who was honest and frightened, Qian Qianyi picked up the teacup and tasted a sip of tea, this is tea is new tea, although the new tea is good, it is slightly bitter!

"Bingqi, do you know that although the current general is the success of the Northern Expedition, but now it is full of hidden dangers, not to mention others, that is, at present, Nanjing has gathered hundreds of thousands of Northern Expedition troops, and the monthly needs are more than hundreds of thousands of taels, only in the south of the Yangtze River, how can he bear such a heavy burden, and he will also need a lot of money for the Northern Expedition, you are in the household department, I think you should know something about it!"

Putting down the teacup, Qian Qianyi slowly said what he meant, and he spent the whole night last night thinking about how to deal with Jiangbei.

"The lower officials know it, they know it, and the generals under their command use it only the surplus silver of the original treasury, but only more than one million silver, at most for two months, so the household department will repeatedly urge all localities to pay the summer tax......"

"Confused, how can the current suffering be solved only by the summer tax in the south of the Yangtze River?"

The sudden reprimand made Wang Wenchuan look at Qian Qianyi in some surprise, and asked incomprehensibly.

"Also, please ask Uncle Zong to make it clear?"

At this time, he was really confused, and he didn't know why Qian Qianyi said that?

What does he mean?

"The tax in the south of the Yangtze River is not enough for the army to consume, at present, for the general, how to develop the tax source, can be said to be the first priority today, if Bingqi can go to the general, expand the tax source, why not worry about the general's appreciation? Why don't you worry about the reuse of the general. ”

Some things always need to be faked by others, after all, this is the purpose of forming a party, and Qian Qianyi also needs Wang Wenchuan in front of him to do something.

"Uncle Zong, Xiaguan...... The lower official asked Uncle Zong to make it clear. ”

Wang Wencheng looked at Qian Qianyi with some puzzlement, completely unaware of his consciousness and broadening the source of taxes?

"Now that the Jiangnan tax has overwhelmed the people, if the tax is increased again, I am afraid it will cause a popular uprising, and I ask Uncle Zong to think twice......"

If it was the will of the Manchu court, he probably would never say that, because he knew very well what the Manchu court valued, it was money, taxes, not people, for taxes, for taxes, you can kill people and force taxes, but not now, and even in Wang Wenchuan's opinion, this year's taxes can be recovered normally It is already very good.

Raise taxes?

How to add without a knife holder on the neck!

"Humph......"

With a sneer, Qian Qianyi looked at Wang Wenchuan and said.

"Jiangnan can't do it, why don't you want to think about Jiangbei ......"