The October of the Ming Dynasty was getting colder and colder, and the cold wind from Siberia was howling, freezing the people of the entire northern kingdom and shrunk into their houses. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Located in Yangliuqing Town, Tianjin, Sheng Yinian stood at the intersection of Yangliuqing Town, looking at the north from afar, waiting quietly.

Sheng Yinian is forty years old and burly, but his face is wrinkled, full of traces left by the years. He is the head of the Yangliu Qingsheng family.

If you want to say that this is a Sheng family, it is not ordinary.

Because, this Sheng family opened the largest grain store in Tianjin Weishang: Bandung Grain Store.

Relying on the convenience of grain, Wanlong Grain Store could buy a large amount of low-cost grain, so it quickly squeezed out other grain stores in Tianjin Wei and became the largest one. Subsequently, the Sheng family bought fields all over Gyeonggi, accumulating to the point of hundreds of thousands of acres of land, producing a lot of grain every year, as if becoming a major commercial family in Tianjin.

But today, this big guy is standing quietly in Yangliuqing Town, waiting for visitors from afar.

On the side, Sheng Yinian's nephew Sheng Qinghe looked at his uncle with some concern and said, "Uncle, why don't you go back to the house to rest." I'm here to watch, and I'll send someone to call you as soon as I hear the news. In this cold winter, how can you be born if you freeze your body? ”

Sheng Yinian waved his hand and said: "It's okay, I'm used to going south and north back then, what is this early winter." Besides, no matter how cold it is, can there be canal water cooling in winter? When Chongzhen was seven years old, there was a water ghost under the boat, and I also jumped down to fight it myself. This little bit of movement can't help me! You young people just lack experience. ”

As he spoke, Sheng Yinian became slightly proud.

On the side, Sheng Qinghe said a few words, and his voice should be in a low voice: "Uncle is right, the child will go to Zuowei to find Zhong Dalang to practice martial arts together after a while." ”

"How many good kung fu can there be in the guard's army?" Sheng Yinian muttered a few words, but did not continue the topic.

After a period of silence, a black dot appeared on the official road north of Yangliu Qingzhen.

It was a carriage at the head of a fleet.

Sheng Yinian hurriedly signaled the audience to prepare.

Not long after, one person got out of the carriage.

Sheng Yinian stepped forward with a smile on his face and said, "Lord Liang is here, and the cold house is shining." The villain Sheng Yinian asked Lord Liang for a gift. ”

"It turned out to be the famous proprietor of the canal, and it was so polite that you came here to pick you up." Liang Qingbiao spoke the scene familiarly, and walked towards the town with Sheng Yinian.

Yangliuqing Town occupies the convenience of the canal, with lush population and many houses. There are many shops above, especially the grain stores, all of which are supporting industries around Shengjia Grain Bank. At this moment, although the canal is closed in early winter, it still looks quite lively.

Liang Qingbiao walked all the way, exchanged a few words, and several people entered the Sheng family's mansion.

After entering the gate of the Sheng family's mansion, there is a wide and long road, which is the central axis of the entire compound. There are a total of five gatehouses on Yong Road, with different forms, all of which are well-made and elegantly decorated. The gatehouse gradually rises from the south to the north, which means "step by step", and each courtyard gate is 3 steps, which means "three levels in a row". There are five courtyards on the east and west sides of the road. The east courtyard is an inner house, with an inner account room, a waiting room, a study, a mandarin duck hall, and a house for dependents.

Not long after, Liang Qingbiao sat in the flower hall.

After Sheng Yinian and Liang Qingbiao talked and laughed for a while, Sheng Qinghe smiled and took the three of them into the house.

The first person is thin and thin, not smiling, and is known as Wang Hengjia. The second is the opposite, with a rich figure and a grinning face, the famous Kong Xujin. As for the last person, he is a bookish man, and his name is Fuxian.

As for the only thing the three have in common, it is that all three are wearing military uniforms. To be precise, they wore the official robes of the commanders of the guards and the army. All of them are military generals of the second grade.

The three of them saw Liang Qingbiao, and even Wang Hengjia, who was not smiling, squeezed out a smile to greet Liang Qingbiao.

Liang Qingbiao, as a guest, actually sat directly on the main seat of the Sheng Family Flower Hall, and Sheng Yinian on the side did not feel angry when he saw it, but smiled and entertained everyone.

"Elder Gao went to the governor's yamen today to lobby, and the matter here was entrusted to me Liang Qingbiao to deal with it. Presumably, you all know about this, right? Liang Qingbiao looked around at everyone, not angry and arrogant.

Although he is only edited by the Hanlin Academy, he seems to have no power and no power, but in a place like the Hanlin Academy, where the noble Zaifu is prepared, he sees either the old minister of the cabinet or the scholar every day.

And the four of them, Liang Qingbiao, were also very obedient, and they were resigned, and they all said: "We have received Elder Gao's letter. ”

"It's pretty straightforward. Only what kind of method is Qingzhang Tianmu really makes me worry......"

"It's just how to do it, what is at stake, but I still don't understand." The three commanders said one after another.

Liang Qingbiao smiled, knowing that the news here in Tianjin was blocked, and many situations were not clear, so he came out with the words he had prepared before.

What he said was naturally Zhu Cihong's No. 1 order issued by the cabinet this time.

That is, the specific scene of the reform of Tianfu.

There are a thousand Hamlets out of a thousand. The interpretation of the decree is also very strange, and everyone wants to coup d'état with welfare policies. This kind of tax payment is to do everything in their power and not want it to fall on their heads.

The current situation is the same, this time the officials and gentry pay the grain in one piece, and no one wants to pay more taxes themselves.

Among them, civil officials have the preferential and exempt methods of civil officials, and the guards also have the methods of the guards.

For example, the occupation of civilian land as military land, and the concealment of newly cultivated military land. Of course, the most important and disadvantageous thing is that the military land is encroached on and privately owned, but the tax is not paid according to the calculation of the military land. At the beginning of its establishment, the Wei system itself was pinned on the hope that it could become the backbone of the empire like the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Farming in peacetime, fighting in wartime. Therefore, the military field itself is necessary for the courage to spend on the military.

However, since the Ming Dynasty, the army has been rapidly corrupted, the military land has been occupied, and the soldiers have become serfs. The output of the reclamation of military fields gradually fell into the hands of the officers, so that the Weisuo army, in turn, needed additional military support from the imperial court.

After going around and around, the military field is still there, but the property rights are already in chaos, and there is naturally no way to talk about taxes.

Of course, this time the tax reform did not actually involve the ownership of the military system and military land of the guard. The meaning of the grain in the acres of Qingzhang is that the military land is the tun grain, and the military and the civilian land are the people's grain. There is no mention of whether the embezzlement of military land will be cleaned up, but the land whose property rights are still military cantonment will be strictly taxed.

But when it comes to Liang Qingbiao's mouth, he will naturally not let go of this opportunity.

"This time, the imperial court strictly cleared the acres of land, and wanted to restore the grain that should have been collected, the civilian land should be collected, the official land should be collected, and the military land should be collected. Tianjin Sanwei is an old qualification David that has been established when Emperor Chengzu was established. There are tens of thousands of soldiers, hundreds of thousands of acres, where these fields have gone, you should know better than me, right? As he spoke, Liang Qingbiao delicately took out a newspaper and handed it to the three of them.

The expressions of the three of them really became serious.

In fact, Tianjin Sanwei's fields are really more than hundreds of thousands of acres. When Guizhou built a new health center to divide the fields. One sergeant has 10 acres, one small flag has 22 acres, and the total flag has 24 acres. On average, there are about 18 acres of people in a health center. A guard house has a full strength of 5,600 people, which is a hundred and eight thousand acres of guards. Guizhou is a barren place, there are too many mountains, and there is little place for farming.

Tianjin Sanwei is located in the North China Plain, with more fields, and many fields have been cultivated in the past two hundred years, and the cumulative acres of land are more likely to be as high as 500,000 mu, that is, the scale of 30,000 hectares, which is more than the acres of the Liang family and others.

Of course, this comparison is also a bit unfair.

In Tianjin, there are tens of thousands of military households, but those who have land are in the hands of officers at all levels, and in the end, they may not be as many as Liang Qingbiao's family in the hands of Wang Hengjia and the three of them.

Speaking of which, this contains huge benefits, and the three of them can't help but change color.

Liang Qingbiao took the latest issue of "Jingshi Guang Commentary".

Wang Hengjia and the three of them just glanced at it, and then they exploded one after another, as if they had seen a ghost.

Sheng Yinian was very surprised, he also received a copy in his hand, but he was more well-informed than the general commanders of the buns, and said in his heart: Wasn't this Jingshi Guang Ping closed down by the General Administration of Press and Publication in the public opinion war, how could it still be distributed?

It's just that Sheng Yinian put down this idea after thinking about it in his heart. Jingshi Guangping is a tool in Wang Zhuoru's hands, if he wants the tool to go west, he dares to go east?

As soon as such a thought moved, Sheng Yinian paid more attention to the words on the Jingshi Guang Commentary. In particular, this newspaper was rather crudely printed......

I saw that the above was also a serious introduction to the imperial court's round of talent reform decrees, which also contained the same content about Qingzhang Tianmu.

1 Ming and Qing Dynasty examples, said that the amount of the loss of the zhang, all free.

This means that provinces with a lack of tax must be cleared, while those with sufficient tax can not be cleared.

2. The officials of the council shall be led by the political envoys of each country, and the commanders of the garrison shall be divided into commanders, and the officials of the prefectures and counties shall be in charge of their own territory. It's simple, and it doesn't need to be mentioned.

3. The amount of the re-sitting faction is said to have the number of officials and people in the field, and the number of upper, middle and lower grains, which should be investigated one by one, so that there is no confusion. The upper, middle and lower levels are good governance, and even the Jingshi Guang Commentary also praises Youjia.

It's just that when the fourth article arrived, Sheng Yinian's mind moved in vain.

Sure enough, I saw that when introducing the grain of the original levy, the words of the Jingshi Guang Commentary quietly changed: for example, the army in the tuntian clears the grain and pays the grain, and the military and the people receive the people's grain......

"How so? Do you want to clear the military field? ”

"Did the court eat the bear's heart and leopard's gall?"

"I don't think it's necessarily the court that ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, it's that Li Banghua doesn't want to die! Do you want to clear the acres of land in the army? ”

……

Everyone talked endlessly, explaining the look of shock and panic.

Seeing this, Liang Qingbiao covered the joy in his heart with a straight face, and said very seriously: "Now that the matter is now, it is futile to vent your emotions." Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for us to act! It is necessary to let the court understand that the gentry are the foundation of the country, and their every move must not be rash. Now that there are traitors in the court who are causing trouble in the country, we can't sit idly by, we must let the Holy Know our painstaking efforts! ”

Wang Hengjia's unsmiling face became more serious: "We must act......"

Kong Xujin hesitated slightly. No more than Wang Hengjia, he already has some trading houses, and he is more like a rich merchant than a general.

However, Wen Fuxian saw it more freshly: "The official gentry has no regulations on preferential exemption from land endowment, that is, they will freeze to death and starve to death." If we are found to have invaded the military field, we will wait for this official skin to be stripped off. No official skin...... Whatever the rest, it's all for naught. ”

The Chinese world has been a power society since ancient times, and the military generals are more powerful than the civil officials, and they belong to the marginal sequence of the Zhao family.

But if there is no official skin, then no matter how much you create a great business, you won't be able to keep it.

At this time, Sheng Yinian also said softly: "The new tax customs built by the saint in Linqing, Kaifeng and other places have always been to levy commercial taxes......

There was silence in the room.

After a long time, Kong Xujin and Wen Fuxian looked at Wang Hengjia and nodded slowly.

Wang Hengjia got up and bowed to Liang Qingbiao: "Please also ask Lord Liang to point out a clear way!" ”

"Pointing out a clear path is a serious word." Liang Qingbiao slowly stood up, supported Wang Hengjia, and said, "Right now, we are all comrades-in-arms in the same trench. The son said that he had no clothes, and he was in the same robe with the son. We should all work together to eradicate traitors for the country and stop the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Well said!" Wen Fuxian said excitedly: "Work together to eradicate traitors for the country and stop the tyranny of the troubled Ming Dynasty!" ”

"Work together to eradicate traitors for the country and stop the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty!" Kong Xujin shouted eagerly.

Sheng Yinian breathed a sigh of relief, these are all his backstage. Seeing that everyone was working together, he also chanted.

"Wow, wow!" Liang Qingbiao was also a little moved, and he said with joy on his face: "We will unite as one, and we will definitely be able to let me be enlightened and eradicate the evil spirits!" ”

Sheng Qinghe in the corner was very dazed, and said in his heart: Isn't it just discussing the way to resist taxes together, how can it be as if this is an uprising, how much truth is it......

After a while, Sheng Yinian walked out, he glanced at his nephew, his expression was rare and relaxed, and said, "Okay, you don't have to worry about things here." As I said before, the matter of Dong'an and Wuqing will be put aside first, and you will go and take care of those Zhuangzi in Daxing County. There is a weather vane at the feet of Jingshi, Wanping has resisted it, and it will be easy for us to resist taxes here in Tianjin......"

Although Zhu Cihong's Tianfu reform this time seems radical, in fact, he has made great preparations. For example, this time the decree will be piloted in Daxing County, Wanpyeong County, and then extended to Gyeonggi. In the end, it will be promoted to the whole country.

Back then, Zhang Juzheng spent three years clearing the acres of land, and Zhu Cihong naturally didn't plan to be in a hurry this time.

Wanping County suddenly became the focus of all attention.

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