Outside a hut in the capital division, lightning and thunder roared, and the dark clouds were so thick that as much ink as the sea water sprinkled in the sky. There was a boom www.biquge.info the pen, the thunder came, and the raindrops fell, obscuring the light of the day, and the whole sky lost its light, plunging the earth into darkness.

At this time, in the room, a light was like a bean, and the lights were swaying and dodging left and right, as if they were avoiding the dull and gloomy voice.

"The imperial court must be made to understand that such a thing as raising taxes must not be carried out!" The room was very dim, and a hoarse and gloomy voice sounded, this was Wang Zhuoru, who appeared in the private hall of Yanle Hutong that day, and he was also a big family in Baoding Mansion.

There were also many people sitting in the room, and they were sitting around in the fashionable way that had been passed down from the palace.

The so-called trendy way is a round table, around which people sit and deliberate.

The doors and windows inside the house were closed, and the atmosphere inside the house was quite strange.

This made Gao Eryan, who was sitting on the first seat, very uncomfortable, but when he heard Wang Zhuoru's call, he still said: "This time, we can't let the traitors in the court succeed." Doctor Youfushi, this is an iron law handed down from the time of Taizu, whoever opposes it is the enemy of the corporal of the world! ”

Gao Eryan is a native of Tianjin, an old man of fifty years old, graceful, well-maintained, and a long-term pampered life gives Gao Eryan a natural superior's atmosphere, and because he once served as an examiner in the imperial examination, his status is noble, and he was elected to become the head of this memory.

If you want to talk about this Gol, it is not an ordinary person.

When he was a teenager, he took the boy's test and won the championship in all counties. Inspector Zuo, after seeing Gao Eryan's test paper, said in surprise: "This prime minister is also talented." "In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the twenty-three-year-old Gao Eryan Township passed the examination. During the Chongzhen period, Gao Er Yan Jinshi and the first, awarded Hanlin to edit. Jiang Deqing, who was in the same museum, particularly appreciated Gao Er's far-sighted knowledge, and gave him two books, "Zizhi Tongjian" and "Jingshi Eight Editions". Last year, Gao Eryan returned to the dynasty after the expiration of his filial piety. Appointed as the Governor of the Lifu Branch.

In the original history, Gao Eryan did not take office because of the mourning. Later, the Jiashen State changed, Li Zicheng invaded the Beijing Division, and Gao Eryan did not be martyred, but surrendered to the Shun Dynasty. Later, the Qing army entered the customs, and Gao Eryan was recommended by Li Ruolin to enter the Qing Dynasty as an official and awarded a bachelor's degree in the secretary's house. In July, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites was very dedicated to the etiquette, culture and education, and customs. Later, he was promoted all the way to the rank of knight, and he worked to the official positions of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the prince Taibao, and the scholar of the Baohe Palace.

At present, Gao Eryan has just returned to Beijing, and he is still only a Hanlin editor. Although there are already friends in the DPRK and China who want to give Gao Eryan a position, no one dares to act rashly after Zhu Cihong ascends the throne, and it is estimated that Gao Eryan will not be able to get a good position in a short time.

In this way, the identity of the Jinshi on Gao Eryan is particularly important.

Because, according to the rules, the maximum amount of land can reach 3,350 acres.

Of course, this does not mean that Gao Eryan only has more than 3,000 acres of land in his hands. As a few high-ranking officials of Tianjin Weimin, when will you buy more land at this time? Naturally, there are thousands of hectares of land in the family, and the wealth is rich. As for whether the Gao family's tax can only be exempted from 3,000 acres of land, that is, Tianjin Wei knows about it, and how many people dare to strictly investigate?

But if the imperial court really wants to collect land taxes from Jinshi, it means that the situation has changed greatly. At that time, there will be no tax exemption regulations in the way, and all the fields will have to be handed over. That's not an overcharge. Instead, at least a huge amount of land taxes must be handed over every year.

For example, in the Wanli period, Beizhili was 49,256,836 mu of land, and 598,622 stone of grain needed to be taxed, with an average tax rate of 0.012 stone per mu. According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the tax rate of Mintian is 0.035 stone per mu, 153.5 catties per stone. This catty is not a catty of 500 grams in later generations, but a catty of 594.6 grams in the Ming Dynasty. According to the average yield per mu of Daming, the average of one mu of land in the country is 2.6 stones, that is, 390 catties. One acre of land has to pay taxes of about five catties of grain.

For the common people, the land endowment of the Ming Dynasty is obviously extremely low.

But for a big landlord like Gao Eryan, this field endowment is too much. After all, people are meant to be a dime.

If the imperial court is allowed to strictly enforce the collection of land taxes, it will mean that the Gao family's total of 100,000 mu of land will have to pay 5,000 stone more grain per year in the future than before, which is worth at least 10,000 taels of silver according to the market price.

In this world, 10,000 taels of silver is enough for a month's military expenses of an integrated regiment. According to the minimum standard, in the future generations, this is also the value of tens of millions of soft girl coins.

Moreover, all this is just the calculation of the field endowment. If we add up the taxes and all kinds of assessments, the actual taxes will be doubled or even more.

Marx once said: If capital has 50% profit, it will take risks; If there is a 100% profit, it dares to trample on all the laws of the world; If there is a profit of three hundred percent, it dares to commit any crime, and even the danger of being hanged.

Compared with the past only a few hundred taels of silver to settle the relationship can be exempted from taxes, and in the future, it will cost hundreds of times more silver every year.

Naturally, according to Marx, this hundredfold benefit is enough for them to risk the gallows to trample on all the laws of the world and commit any crime.

For a group of misers, there is nothing more motivating than protecting their land.

At this time, another person in the room coughed lightly, attracting everyone's attention.

"If this matter cannot be stopped, the position of the squires will not be guaranteed. The officials went to the countryside, and the legacy was endless. A century-old foundation was overturned. Everyone, we can't afford to be indifferent! ”

Everyone looked over and found that it was a young man in the house, Liang Qingbiao. Obviously, this memory is also shared by three generations. The old man is Gao Eryan, the middle-aged man is Wang Zhuoru, and the young man is this Liang Qingbiao.

Compared with the previous two, Liang Qingbiao's status is obviously not low.

First of all, this Liang Qingbiao is even richer than others, and he is a representative of another wealthy family in Zhending Mansion. Because, he is the great-grandson of Liang Menglong.

As for who Liang Menglong is?

Liang Menglong has passed away. His word Qianji, Mingquan, Beizhili Zhending, is the Ming Dynasty military department Shangshu, Ge Lao, recently also chased the word "Zhenmin". The Liang family was originally a giant clan in Ulzhou, Shanxi, and migrated to Zhending in the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty to avoid war and chaos. By the time of the seventh Liang Menglong, his family was revealed. In the thirty-second year of Jiajing, Liang Menglong Jinshi served as the deputy envoy of Shuntianfu and Henan. The control of the Yellow River has been meritorious. Longqing was the governor of Shandong, moved to the right deputy capital of Yushi, and patrolled Henan. At the beginning of Mingshenzong, he was the right servant of the household department, the left waiter of the military department, the governor of Ji, Liao, and Baoding military affairs, insisted on resisting the Houjin, and added the military department to the book, and was later impeached, went to the official, and died in the 19th year of the Zhending family. Chasing Jung-min. He is quite famous for the official, and is known as "Liang Ge Lao".

In later generations, this is the official son of the Minister of National Defense plus the commander of the Beijing Military Region and the ****** committee members.

By the time of Liang Qingbiao's generation, although the Liang family had no high-ranking officials of Liang Menglong's level, they were still a wealthy family in Zhending Mansion.

In particular, Liang Qingbiao is a Ming man in Gyeonggi. Without him, when the imperial examination list was released in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen last year, there was this one of the Zhongjin scholars, and now he is the incumbent Jishi of the Hanlin Academy. Some students don't understand the meaning of the Hanlin Academy, but if you say a mantra, some people can understand.

That is: non-Hanlin is not allowed to enter the cabinet.

In other words, this Liang Qingbiao will be the corner of the Cabinet University Scholar in the future, and his status is the most noble. Moreover, compared to the old Gao Eryan, Liang Qingbiao is only twenty-five years old.

In the future, a 25-year-old cadre in the central management of the central government, who serves in the policy research office, can be released at any time when he has the opportunity to release the mayor and director of the department, or even become a senior official of the ministry and commission, who is not envious?

But this time, Liang Qingbiao, who is on the job, is also in a hurry.

Without him, over the past hundred years, the Liang family has purchased thousands of hectares of land. After the branches and leaves are scattered, hundreds of people in the Liang family care about these fields very much. If there is no tax exemption privilege for the gentry, the financial problems within the Liang clan will be solved.

Yes, Liang Qingbiao didn't care about his own future, and this time he went into battle shirtless.

"yes. This time, it seems that the imperial court is serious. With these three leaders, everyone in the room started to talk.

"If the emperor is on the throne, then he is not afraid. There are more decrees issued by the imperial court, and even when the three salaries are increased, they cannot be added to our land. But this emperor is not easy to deal with at the moment. The battle of Luzhen and the battle of Zunhua were all killed in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. This time...... What to do? ”

"No matter what, we have to find a way to stop this additional thing."

"Procrastination?"

"Woe to the East?"

"Alas, this world is good, why is the saint still tossing. Is...... There must be traitors here! ”

"Exactly, there are traitors!"

There was a commotion in the house, and everyone was thinking of a way. At first, everyone worked together to say that it was a bit adjustable, but later the more they talked about it, the more outrageous it became, and some people even talked about what would happen if Li Zicheng was there.

But soon, someone said about Li Zicheng's torture and recovery of stolen goods.

At this moment, everyone turned to a long sigh again.

Seeing this, Gao Eryan, Wang Zhuoru and Liang Qingbiao were all annoyed.

"If you can't come up with any more practical ones, this will, don't open it!" Liang Qingbiao was young and vigorous, and immediately said angrily: "It's all a vain thing, what's the use?" ”

There was a sudden silence in the room.

But Liang Qingbiao's words shook the hearts of many people, and Wang Zhuoru said slowly: "I think everyone also has embankments for each other. So, I'll start with one. This matter, the old rules, instigated the discussion. I have already contacted Hou Qingxian of the Jingshi Guang Commentary to build public opinion and publish a discussion in the newspaper to incite public opinion. ”

Seeing this, Gao Eryan said: "Since you can't think of a way, then someone has to contribute and make a strong contribution." This time, I donated 5,000 taels. ”

"Okay, I'll donate three thousand taels too."

"I donate too! I'm going to press this mess back! ”

……

In the editorial room of Jingshi Guang Commentary, Liu Yihe took the letter in wonder: "You also want to take this job?" ”

"Naturally, I want to pick it up. It's not just that the money to moisten the pen is too big, but it's also ...... The tax of the gentry will also be collected by the imperial court, which is self-destruction of the Great Wall and only increases the chaos of the empire. It was simply a self-defeating martial arts, which gave the thieves a chance to breathe. Hou Qing said: "So, for both public and private, I have to take this job!" ”

As he spoke, Hou Qing took the five hundred taels of Hengxin Qianzhuang silver tickets in the envelope from Liu Yihe and put them in his inner pocket.

"Okay...... However, the news that has been circulated is only a tax on the land of the gentry, what should I do? Liu Yihe asked again.

"Don't worry, I'm commenting on this mouth...... Can't you still stir up the wind? Saying that, Hou Qing said: "Yihe, what will happen if you eat a worm in the fruit?" ”

"Unlucky, I ate a worm!" Liu Yihe wondered: "What is this for?" ”

"That means that Brother Yihe is not suitable for compilation. Newspapers and newspapers, if no one buys them, are waste paper. How can you write like that, brother, are you thinking about it? With your talent, you shouldn't be like that. Hou Qing said with a smile.

"The worm in the fruit, this is a heavenly omen, to show that it is ominous!" Liu Yihe racked his brains and thought for a while.

"Interesting, interesting! Sure enough, with the ability of one and his brother, this is the normal level. Hou Qing smiled.

Liu Yihe was modest for a few words, and was a little surprised by this praise, and then Liu Yihe became curious again: "If it is based on Hou Xiandi's ability, how can you say it?" ”

"Hey...... After a while, Brother Liu saw the new newspaper of the Beijing Divisional Review and knew it! Hou Qing was slightly proud.

……

"Torture the conscience of the imperial court, why do you collect new taxes from Zhongliang?"

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers. Hot fresh Jingshi wide review! ”

"Selling newspapers and selling newspapers, torturing the conscience of the imperial court, why do you collect new taxes from Zhongliang?"

In the capital division, there is a hot and peaceful situation. In the corner, a man with freshly shaved hair stopped a newsboy and said, "Bring me a copy of the "Jingshi Guang Commentary". ”

After reading the headline above, the man was suddenly surprised: "This time, I am going to make meritorious contributions!" ”

Seven days later, Shengjing.

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang gently put down the newspaper and breathed a sigh of relief: "This Ming Kingdom is going to be in civil strife." I'm clear, and I can finally breathe a sigh of relief. If you want to pay food for the officials and gentry, then Zhu Cihong is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, for fear that he will not give me the Qing Dynasty! ”

Hearing this, Sonny, Aobai, Sukh Saha and others in the Great Palace stepped forward one after another. In the end, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang gave the newspaper to Dai Shan, Dai Shan glanced at it, and said with a smile: "Looking for an official gentry to collect taxes, this Zhu Cihong is finally in chaos!" It's still very early for me to clear the number of qi. When I am relieved by the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will definitely be in civil strife, leaving me with opportunities everywhere! ”

"The civil strife of the Ming people is my chance to clear up!"

"Let's see how long that kid is rampant!"

"When the Ming Kingdom is in chaos, the world will naturally fall into the hands of the Qing Dynasty!" (To be continued.) )