Hearing Yu Wenwen's question, Zhang Hua nodded, the other party didn't look like he was perfunctory, and he wanted to continue to inquire to explain that he was interested in the topic, so he was a little relieved in his heart, took a sip of tea and continued. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The problem of military service is a stubborn disease, and there is another problem that is no less stubborn: the conversion of household transfers.

The people have to pay field rent and household adjustment every year, the field rent is rice, wheat, millet and other grains, and the household survey is cloth and other physical goods, which has been the case for hundreds of years, but the Southern Dynasty is a little special, half of the cloth and silk have to be paid in discount.

In order to increase the stock of copper coins in the hands of the imperial court, the imperial court required the people to exchange a part of the physical goods for equivalent copper coins when paying the household survey.

In this way, the imperial court also saved the step of selling the physical goods for copper coins, and transferred this step to the responsibility of the people.

It's a little troublesome, but it's not much troublesome, and this method of folding money doesn't seem to be much, but in fact it can crush the people.

Zhang Hua, for example, a household pays two pieces of cloth every year, and according to the requirements of the government, what is handed over is one piece of cloth, and there is also a copper coin equivalent to one piece of cloth, which seems to be no problem, but in fact it is a big problem.

How much copper is a piece of cloth worth?

This price only counts if it is set by the government.

The government's pricing of the equivalent of a piece of cloth is based on the market price of the cloth, which seems to be very reasonable, but the problem is that the market price of the cloth is set according to the market price of the Xiao Qi period.

In other words, the price has been used since Xiao Qi a hundred years ago, and the price per piece of cloth is 550 Wen.

And now the market price of cloth is about 100 yuan.

"In this way, in fact, the household survey that the people have to pay has secretly increased a lot?"

"Exactly!"

Zhang Hua said this, it stands to reason that the cloth that the people need to hand over is two horses, one of which will be exchanged for "equivalent" copper coins, and sold in the market at the market price for more than 100 wen, but the "equivalent" money collected by the government is 550 wen, much higher than the market price.

Therefore, the people have to sell four pieces of cloth in order to get enough "equivalent" money for one piece of cloth, so the household survey to be handed over is one piece of cloth and five pieces of cloth, so that the actual cloth handed over has changed from two to six... Is it?

Wrong! The government collects copper money, but there are requirements for copper money, which must be good money, and cut edge money is not accepted.

Trimming money is also known as "cutting wheel money", that is someone to steal copper and cut off the edge of the copper coin, the original round money, missing one side or even multilateral, from the circle to irregular polygon.

The government does not accept this kind of money, but most of the copper coins circulating in the market are trimmed, which means that the income from the sale of cloth and silk by the people is basically this kind of trimming money.

If the government doesn't accept it, what should I do?

It's easy to do, there are shops that can provide good money, and the people can go there to exchange it, of course, it can't be a one-to-one exchange, according to the market, it's about 1,200 Wen cut edge money, in exchange for 1,000 Wen good money.

"So you have to sell another piece of cloth to make up for this so-called 'equivalent discount'?"

Yu Wenwen was a little speechless, Zhou Guo didn't play this kind of fancy intestines when he paid the household survey, but even so he could figure out the key: this was a disguised household adjustment by the imperial court.

"It used to be, but now it's not, the market is already bullish, and 1,280 yuan can be exchanged for 1,000 good money."

"So the people actually paid at least seven pieces of cloth." Zhou Faming sneered, he was born in a family of officials and eunuchs in the Southern Dynasty, so naturally he didn't have to pay rent, but under the influence of his ears and eyes, he knew how strange it was.

Following the "market" pricing of a hundred years ago, is it that the princes of the imperial court are confused? No, they're good at it, it's a business!

Most of the magnates, families, wealthy families, and large families do not know how many lands and hidden households have in their names, and most of them do not have to pay rent to the imperial court, so they don't care about doubling the rent, after all, the imperial court does need money to maintain it, so they have to pluck more hair from the common people.

Increase the household tone in disguise, the people will flee if they can't survive, just absorbed by these big households as tenant farmers, those abandoned fields, by them into "ancestral property", these people are hidden households, the land is their own income, why not?

It is the imperial court that is unlucky, and it is itself that benefits.

Therefore, there is also the so-called household adjustment and discount money for military service, which makes the burden of the people increase day by day, how can the princes of the court not know this kind of thing, most of them benefit from this, who is full and can not get by!

Not to mention anything else, the business of exchanging good money for trimming money is controlled by all parties, large and small, which is very profitable.

Trimming, so that most of the copper coins circulating in the market are trimmed coins, and then the copper coins are privately minted with the cut copper materials, and then these good coins are exchanged for the trimming money in the hands of the people, and the copper coins are continued to be minted privately.

Shops that can be exchanged for good money are not opened by just one person, and people can only go to this kind of store to exchange good money, so the business is getting bigger and bigger, and the profits are getting more and more lucrative.

If he could, he even wanted to raise the price, but this move was too shameless, so he could only pretend to be deaf and dumb, and the price of 550 wen would continue like this for nearly a hundred years.

This is not enough, when the people want to sell the cloth for money in the autumn, they manipulate the market to lower the price of the cloth, and take the opportunity to suck a mouthful of blood, this kind of thing is happening every year.

To solve the problem is very simple: you can price it according to the actual market, as for the problem of cutting edge money, it is really difficult to say, and it can only be taken advantage of.

"This Zhou Langjun is right, there is nothing wrong with folding money, you just need to price it according to the actual market, but no one has ever mentioned it, Zhang has written many times, but the official family has never asked about it."

"Zhang Shiling, there is a certain word, I don't know whether to say it or not."

"Yu Langjun, please speak."

"Cutting off people's financial means is like killing your parents." Yuwen Wen stared at Zhang Hua's eyes and said, "Zhang Shiling thinks that the official family knows about this matter, or does it not know about it?" ”

Zhang Hua was silent when he heard this, his reason told him that it was impossible for the official family not to know, but in this way, he couldn't accept it emotionally: why, why didn't the official family make any attempt since he knew?

There must be resistance, and this resistance will not be small, how many people rely on the price of cloth to suck blood at 550 Wen, if the price is lowered, I am afraid that there will be many people who curse him behind his back.

But so what? If you don't make decisions for the people, why do I Zhang Hua come out? !

This matter is different from the disadvantages of military service, the market of cloth is clear, that is, more than 100 wen per piece of cloth, if anyone dares to lick his face and say that the price of cloth is still 550 wen, he can pull the other party to the market to confront him face to face!

The upright reasoning, the clear market price, and the reform that must win the hearts of the people, why don't the officials implement it!

When Zhou attacked Qi that year, Chen actively went on a northern expedition, but within a few years, all the land north of the Yangtze River fell, and the first emperor was disheartened by this, and he could not mention the spiritual reform and maladministration.

When the crown prince ascended the throne, Zhang Hua originally thought that the new monarch would be vigorous and vigorous when he succeeded to the throne, and he made great efforts to reorganize the rivers and mountains, so he continued to write books and admonish him, but the results were all sunk in the sea.

He was also squeezed out by others, rushed to the West Market to make a market order, and today he saw the official family going out on patrol, and the hard advice was still useless, Zhang Hua couldn't help but feel bitter when he thought of this.

"What Zhang Shiling said today, Yu has written it down, but there is something at home to go to Bazhou, Zhouguo, Jiangbei, and the official family may have to wait until the matter is finished before Yu can admonish."

"Yu Langjun is going to Bazhou, Jiangbei? Now that the two countries are at war, the water and land routes are cut off, which is very risky! ”

"It's okay, the mountain people have their own tricks." Yuwen Wen said solemnly, he was overjoyed when he heard about Chen Guo's hidden dangers, but his face was silent.

"Anyway, Zhang Moufang just said a lot, which made Yu Langjun tired."

Seeing the other party's disheartened appearance, Yu Wenwen's heart moved, this official of the Chen State was worried about state affairs, not to mention anything else, he appreciated it very much, it seemed that the other party had some talent, so he would try.

"Zhang Shiling, I don't know if I've heard of Liu Zhuo, a famous scholar in the Northland?"

"Xindu Liu Zhuo? Could it be Liu Zhuo and Liu Shiyuan, one of the 'two Liu'? I've heard of the name for a long time, but I didn't have the chance to see it. ”

"It is Liu Zhuo and Liu Shiyuan, because Yu is going to Bazhou, Jiangbei, he sent someone to inquire about the local news, and learned that Liu Shiyuan has now arrived in Bazhou, and it seems that he wants to live here for a long time and run a school."

Zhang Hua's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Yu Langjun is this true? ”

"Seriously, a certain Guanzhang City Order seems to have the intention of resigning, if the situation is stable and the Zhang City Order is intentional, you can go to Xiyang City, Bazhou Prefecture to find out."

Seeing that Zhang Hua was groaning, Yu Wenwen didn't say more, it's good to mention some things, it depends on the will of heaven whether it will be fulfilled or not, the two sides talked for a while about wine and food, and then dispersed.

Zhou Faming had always had doubts, and now he asked: "Envoy, as far as I know, this Zhang Shiling is quite talented, could it be that the envoy has the intention of soliciting?" ”

"It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice, although there is Assistant Teacher Liu, but there is still a shortage of Mr. in the state school..."

"Didn't the envoy recruit Zhang Shiling to be an official?"

"Do you think he will be a Zhou official?"

Listening to Yu Wenwen's rhetorical question, Zhou Faming touched his chin, and then shook his head, he saw Zhang Hua's bitter admonition before, and it was not easy to let this kind of person defect to the enemy and become an official.

"A chance encounter, but found out a terrible news, it's really worth the trip!" Yuwen Wen raised his eyebrows.

In history, after Yang Jian replaced the Zhou with Sui, he shrank in Jiangnan and waited for death, and it seems that there are indeed many ills inside, so he can only survive.

In this era, Chen Guo is still full of ills, although the Northern Expedition has been successful, it seems that it is just a façade, and the more resources are invested, the more it will lead to great damage to vitality.

Just like at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming court wanted to protect the ruins and ruins of Liaodong, and kept increasing the "Liao salary", but as a result, natural disasters and man-made disasters forced the poor peasants to rebel, and they collapsed under internal and external troubles.

Chen Guo recovered Huainan, and if he wanted to hold the territory, he had to invest a lot of manpower and material resources, which would increase military service and rent, and the people would choose to flee if they couldn't survive. (To be continued.) )