Seeing that Li Shen just had nothing to say, and he didn't go, Xu Ping knew that he had something to do with him, and asked: "Li Tongju, we have lived here together for some days, you should also know that I am a person, you might as well say it directly." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Li Shen looked a little embarrassed, and bowed his hand to Xu Ping: "Xiaguan is here to be embarrassed, but there is a difficult matter, I want to ask for advice, and I don't know how to speak for a while." ”

"Even though you said it, are you still afraid that I will laugh at you?"

Hearing this, Li Shen also smiled embarrassedly.

After sorting out his thoughts for a while, Li Shencai said: "Now the two big families in Heyin County, Jiang Dayou and Tong Qilang have been imprisoned pending trial, not to mention what their crimes are, how the county will deal with the aftermath and give the lower officials a headache. ”

"So it's for this, you might as well say the same thing."

"Let's talk about Tong Qilang first, waiting for the system to track down the taxes he evaded, after the official went back, he checked Tong Qilang's account books, although he didn't remember it very clearly, but he compared them with the people who worked there one by one, and he also had a rough idea." Speaking of this, Li Shen smiled bitterly. "If you calculate according to the porcelain that is produced in his kiln every day, and take one-third of the tax evasion according to the hidden goods, the taxes he has evaded over the years and all the floating wealth in his house are not enough to compensate."

"This is normal, he always has to spend money when he makes money, and he has consistently lost two times in the Jiang family's gambling stall every few days, and there are 100 times a year. Coupled with other miscellaneous things, there is nothing that I can't figure out if my assets are not enough to pay taxes. ”

Xu Ping said, and ordered Liu Xiaoyi, who came over, to fetch the chair again and let Li Shen sit down and talk.

In fact, Xu Ping didn't say all the words in his heart, no matter how high the profit of porcelain is, Tong Qilang is the producer, and it is impossible to double the profit. The forfeiture of one-third refers to one-third of the value of the goods, which does not refer to the price at which Tong Shichiro sells to wholesale merchants, but the market price, which is the retail price in the market. In this way, it is not possible that Tong Qilang has not eaten or drunk all these years, and all the money saved is not enough to pay the fine.

When he arrived at this field, Heyin County simply turned it over to the end, leaving no way back for Tong Qilang, so Xu Ping didn't mention how the one-third was appropriate. Really speaking, it should be calculated according to the price of Tong Qilang. But he himself has never admitted that he has evaded taxes, so there is no selling price, and he really resists himself to death.

Liu Xiaoyi took the chair, and Li Shen confessed and sat down.

After receiving the tea handed over by Liu Xiaoyi, Li Shen said again: "How about Tong Qilang, the lower officials don't care about it." The only worry is that Tong Qilang will be arrested, his family wealth will be confiscated, and those kilns will have no owners. There are 100 potters working there, and if they are not properly accommodated, they are afraid that the place will not be safe. ”

"Then confiscate the mouth of the kiln together! Why, Mengzhou doesn't even have a few magnetic kilns to take care of? ”

Li Shen looked embarrassed: "Don't hide it, it's really not!" Huaizhou in the north of Mengzhou, Henan and Ruzhou in the south are all important places for kiln and porcelain, but Mengzhou is by the Yellow River, and no one has ever burned porcelain. ”

Ruzhou celadon, Henan Fu Gong County and Huaizhou Xiuwu County stranded porcelain, is the porcelain in the Central Plains in this era, famous all over the world, there are many kilns. Xu Ping didn't expect Mengzhou, which was located in the middle, but there was no kiln to burn porcelain, and Tong Qilang's kiln mouth became a trouble.

If there are porcelain-burning people in this state, Li Shenda can contract these magnetic kilns to them, which is called "buying and selling" according to the saying of this era. With three or five years as a term, how much money to pay to the government every year, these cellars are theirs, as long as they pay taxes according to the law, and the specific operation of the government no longer cares.

This is the contract system of this era, and once there is a situation of meager or even loss of profits from government-run industrial, commercial, mining and other entities, officials will buy them out in order not to lose their own examinations. On the other hand, once the private sector is prosperous, the officials will also try their best to take it back into the official camp, and it will be inconsistent. Of course, in this era, it is still clearly marked when buying, and the government sets the base number, and the merchants who are interested in participating in the bidding are bid. In the next few decades, in order to obtain the maximum profit, the official will also implement a secret bid, that is, a "real seal and a vote", and the quotations of the participating merchants will no longer be public, but the highest bidder will win. Xu Ping's bidding in his previous life, most of them have already taken shape in this era.

Xu Ping originally thought that Li Hui would find a big kiln in Mengzhou to buy Tong Qilang's kiln, and he also thought that he would deliberately tell them not to burn porcelain that imitated his own wine vessels, otherwise he would treat them carefully. But I didn't expect that Li Shen didn't have a suitable person here at all, and he couldn't "buy" if he wanted to.

This kiln cannot be closed casually, and the nearly 100 potters must be properly resettled, otherwise the security of several surrounding states and counties will be a big problem. The potters are young and strong, and they are accustomed to cooperation when they usually burn porcelain, and they are tightly organized, and it is a big disaster to force the grass to fall up the mountain. Li Shen can't afford that kind of consequence, and Xu Ping can't afford it either.

After thinking for a while, Xu Ping said to Li Shen: "This matter is not difficult, it is not far from Gongxian County, where there are countless people who open kilns and burn porcelain, but they just need the help of Henan Prefecture." And then you go on and talk about other things. ”

Seeing that Xu Ping agreed, Li sighed and said: "There is also Jiang Dayou's family, nearly half of the land in Heyin County is his family, and it is all good land. According to the visit of the lower officials these days, nine out of ten families in the county have to rent their land for farming, otherwise they will not be able to live. As soon as the men of the Jiang family are caught, and it is very likely that they will be sentenced heavily, how these tenants will deal with the aftermath is also a troublesome matter. ”

Xu Pingqi said: "What's the trouble with this? The male of the Jiang family has been arrested, and he is not out of the house, isn't it that the eldest man of his family has married and has children? What should I do before, I will continue to do it, then the sister-in-law of the Jiang family can't hire someone to collect rent, and she can't do it. When the children are raised, they are still a good family. ”

Li Shen said: "There are two difficulties in this. First, those tenants, when they heard that the main family had no men, inevitably had thoughts in their hearts, and now they are all waiting and seeing, and they refuse to plant autumn grain. In their minds, the Jiang family has no people in charge, and they have to rely on them to live, unlike in the past, they relied on the Jiang family, at least the land rent will be reduced. Again, because of the confiscation of gambling funds, the government seized the floating wealth of the Jiang family, and the Jiang family's life is not easy now. The sister-in-law of the Jiang family, looking at the meaning of her words now, does not look like a person who can keep it. ”

"How so? Even if the floating wealth is confiscated, the Jiang family still has thousands of acres of fertile land, although the land price here in Heyin County is low, it is worth hundreds of yuan in cash. Then the sister-in-law of the Jiang family doesn't care about these properties, and she still wants to remarry? ”

Li Shen nodded: "Listen to the meaning of her words, that's exactly the case." This woman was born in a large family, and when she married into the Jiang family, she had a lot of dowry, and she didn't know how many treasures she had hidden from Jiang Dayou's family, and it was common for her to want to remarry. ”

The father and son of the Jiang family broke the law, and the family was not implicated, even if the head was cut off for a capital crime, the remaining family property still had to be left to Jiang Dalang's children. If Jiang Dalang's wife can keep the widow, these properties will naturally be disposed of by her, and she will divide them as she wants after the children are raised. If she can't keep it and wants to remarry someone else, then the Jiang family's property has nothing to do with her. Before the gambling cave was broken and the Jiang family's property was confiscated, no one knew if the woman had hidden some gold and silver and other property, anyway, the confiscated items did not include the dowry she brought back then.

Now the Jiang family has thousands of acres of land left in Heyin County, and the other family properties have basically been confiscated by the government as gambling income, and whether the Jiang family's sister-in-law can keep it is a big question mark. The land here in Heyin County is not valuable, and one acre of good land is not enough for the usual amount, so the woman may not be willing to exchange her youth for it.

She has a lot of dowry, plus the gold and silver treasures she has put away, this woman is now a little rich woman, if she wants to remarry, I don't know how many people are willing to marry, this is a problem.

Jiang Dalang's wife remarried, then his children became orphans, according to the law of the Song Dynasty, no one else was allowed to participate, even the closest relatives. For orphans, the government will directly receive the property, and will not entrust it to the clan relatives as in the future. The property is in the hands of the government, and a certain amount of living expenses are paid to the orphans every month, and all of them are returned when they reach adulthood. In the capital, it was the inspection library that was specifically responsible for this matter, but in this era, there were basically no foreign state capitals, and officials such as the magistrate and the county were directly responsible.

This is very embarrassing, these thousands of acres of land are in the hands of the government, but it is not official land, and how to determine the tenant's land rent has become a trouble. The land rent is high, and the government is honest, and if it is low, the people are talking about the government's use of the people's wealth and the city's favor, and they can't please anything. Obviously, Li Shen took this into account and didn't want to reach out to take this trouble.

Xu Ping also felt a headache, and the potters under Tong Qilang said that it was a big deal to find a few porcelain-burning ones from Gongxian or Ruzhou, and buy the kiln to them, and the government would calculate the annual money a little less. Jiang Dayou has a family, if his eldest daughter-in-law is determined to remarry, the thousands of acres of land thrown out will become a burden for the official prince.

And after thinking about it, Xu Ping also felt that the woman would remarry nine times out of ten. Where in the world are there so many chastity martyrs who are willing to be widowed, this era is not advocated, and chastity arches are not issued, and clans are not allowed to force each other, why should a young woman be widowed for a prisoner for a lifetime? And even if Jiang Dalang does not behead and is only sentenced to exile, the law allows the wife to be sentenced to divorce if she does not want to follow her husband to the place of punishment. This woman has a dowry and the goods she usually puts away, what reason does she have to accompany Jiang Dalang to suffer?

Could it be that the government could only let the government collect these thousands of acres of land in their own hands and help a pair of orphans of the Jiang family watch for ten or eight years? Which can guarantee that the officials who handle it will not fill their pockets? When they encounter ruthlessness, when the pair of children grow up, it is also a very common thing that the land rent over the years cannot reach them at all.

At that time, Xu Ping was afraid that he would have to take the blame for this matter with Li Shen.

After closing his eyes and thinking for a while, Xu Ping suddenly opened his eyes and said to Li Shen: "Why don't you give the cooperative a try?" (To be continued.) )