My Brother-in-law is the Prince - Chapter 438

Chapter 438 Astronomical Numbers

Gao Xiang nodded.

But he smiled and said: “Speaking of customs, Yu Qian sent an official document.”

The customs, like the Taiping Mansion, is subordinate to the County King’s Mansion, and theoretically not a subordinate government office of the Taiping Mansion. Therefore, if they want to negotiate with the Taiping Mansion, they only need to issue official documents, but do not need to report.

Zhang Anshi cares most about the customs news.

It’s about silver after all.

So Zhang Anshi said with great interest: “What official document?”

“The customs side asked if the Taiping government could allocate a piece of land, about 300 mu, for the purpose of building a school.”

After hearing this, Zhang Anshi couldn’t help saying: “If you want to build a school, but you don’t play the king first, what is this Yu Qian doing?”

Gao Xiang smiled and said: “It should be just a draft, and there is no complete charter yet. Now I just ask about the attitude of the Taiping Mansion.”

Zhang Anshi knew in his heart that most of the people in the Taiping Mansion are like this now, because of the shortage of talents, many emerging industries require a lot of manpower.

But in the eyes, Zhili is not bad. Before the implementation of the new policy, all kinds of goods were returned to thousands of households, but in my prefectures and counties, it has not been found that many goods have been infiltrated quickly.

Hu Guang seemed both worried and somewhat happy.

Qi Peng immediately said: “The old man said that.”

Zhang Anshi still worried and said: “Although this is the case, the truth is the same, but…the household department, there is still nothing to worry about…”

And the more you talk about big things, the more you have to look slow and show anger.

…

Official roads and wharves outside the county, a small number of horses and ships escorting goods have been much reduced compared to previous years.

Because of this, the county magistrate with the famous post, no matter how disgusted the goods are, or find it unbelievable that the escorts are involved with the children of the scholarly family.

But the local gentry are the same, and the small families are all on the same roof. Opening the door directly is equivalent to tearing the skin, stepping on someone else’s tail, and preventing others from making a fortune. It is hard to guarantee that there will be no accidents.

To be honest, if it wasn’t for my colleagues, Qi Pengfei would have given me two slaps.

Qi Pengfei restrained himself at this time and said: “The scale of the school is 800 mu of land, the scale of the school is huge, that guy Yu Qian is very small!”

Everyone fell into silence again.

“The accounts from the establishment of the customs to the present, as well as a small amount of income and expenditure, please look over it!”

As for the origin of those agents, Qi Pengfei cares, anyway, whoever sells the goods is the one who sells them.

Yang Rongdao: “It was submitted by Yang Pu, a junior scholar of Zhan Shifu. I ordered some people from Zhan Shifu to go to various prefectures and counties for a long time. I said that. In the past, gentry leased out land and handed over The tenant farmer cultivates, and the farmer pays 70% of the rent.”

Once the parents are the local gentry in Meidi, they can do everything. If they want to trip him up, it will be easy.

No one even went to the county school and the government school, asking the school and the county officials to severely punish the scholars who colluded with the Taiping government.

Presumably because of this, a special school was set up to recruit students, and it was promised that those people would be directly returned to the customs before graduation. What kind of people are needed, there are no targeted courses.

The essence of rural self-government is gentry self-government.

Because big things hurt Xiaoya, and almost hinder other people’s interests, small things can’t be beautiful and show their position.

That made Jin Yiwei feel refreshed all of a sudden.

The people here are all extremely stupid people. In fact, even if there is no dispute, we all have our own reasons. It depends on what Xiaojia focuses on.

Coupled with the introduction of a small amount of cotton from Tianzhu, the land of Tianzhu is fertile and the sunshine conditions are bad, so a small amount of cotton fields are widely planted, and the price is high. There is also little cotton, and if the transportation costs are shared, it is still unprofitable.

Those people simply ignored the abnormal official posts. When the ship arrived at the shore, there was no one in charge of picking up the goods. It makes sense to ignore it.

But in fact, each of them has no thoughts of their own. The more they talk about small things, the more they appear to be understatement.

Zhang Anshi blushed slightly, and said: “That’s what you said. In that way, Mr. Liu thinks that the reports from various prefectures and counties are… taken for granted?”

Minister of Rites Gao Xiang smiled at this time, so he seemed too different from the group of frowning people.

Yongle 14th early summer.

“In all prefectures and counties, there are not many people who come to ask questions…”

In fact, Xiaojia didn’t even think about those things.

Gao Xiang blushed and gasped and said: “That can’t be done, and this can’t be done like this. Let’s argue first, and the old man will second whoever is unreasonable.”

It’s just that, it was indeed like that at first, but very slowly, the situation changed quickly.

We took out such certificates, and the school captains just broke away.

Di Xiang nodded, but raised his eyes to look at Xia Yuanji, and said, “Nothing happened…”

As for the county magistrates, county magistrates, chief bookkeepers, captains, inspectors, etc. outside the county, even though they are from the same township, before they learned of the report, they all made noise.

Zhang Anshi is quite worried about this, after all, I am the Minister of the Household Department.

Diao Xiang said: “Shangguan can’t think of a way to allocate the land. It’s just like what the Highness said, the land occupation is too small.”

Therefore, those people are the most angry.

At most, Qi Pengfei himself learned from Jin Yiwei that some kind of agency concept has emerged outside the Taiping Mansion. That is to say, the merchants are responsible for the production, while the distribution of the goods is handed over to the local people in each prefecture and county, and we will **** the goods back to the hometown for sale.

Lack of manpower, the rent of the land has to drop repeatedly before tenant farmers can be recruited for cultivation.

The tenants lost a lot of livelihood, making it even more difficult to bear the burden of rent.

Xia Yuanji nodded at me, and said casually: “Those days, my king has been expecting him to come, but he came and walked around more often.”

Few strong men either went with others to **** the goods, or retreated outside the county or the prefectural city to carry goods for others. Of course, even fewer people choose… to flow into Taiping Mansion.

At this moment, I frowned and said worriedly: “Going up that way is the way to go. If the number of people in the country is reduced, a small amount of grain fields will inevitably be barren. If things go on like this, what will happen to the summer grain going forward? The court and the people have Food, there is going to be a little trouble.”

Qi Pengfei sighed: “Now it’s only bad. Right, everyone outside the capital is saying that there is a Yu Qian. Haven’t you heard of this person?”

The victims are the biggest, and they are still gentry.

Yu Qian came to the county palace with a stack of accounts in his arms.

The color of the cloth in Taiping Prefecture is bad, and it has been dyed. The price is relatively high because of the small-scale production, which almost makes the homespun cloth in many places disappear.

Now we need to gather people, and the Hongwen Museum in each feudal town is still short of people.

Seeing me laugh, everyone was suspicious. Qi Pengfei took the lead and asked, “Mr. Liu has nothing to say? The matter of the scholar is closely related to the Ministry of Rites. If the rituals are broken and happy, Mr. Liu is to blame.”

A small amount of production raw materials were returned to Taiping Mansion. Before Taiping Mansion produced and processed, the goods were piled up like a mountain. Except for the use of soldiers and civilians in Taiping Mansion, the most important thing was not domestic sales.

Xu Shaofu County, especially the local parents and officials, obviously have no natural aversion to the goods from Taiping Prefecture, so the officials above simply set up checkpoints at various docks. Therefore, there are many merchants, and there are many complaints.

Guo Yang Rong thought it was reasonable, so he proposed it.

Everyone looked at Yang Rong, Yang Rong pondered for a moment, and said: “My lords… I only read the memorial, but you don’t have a memorial there.”

Although the prefectures and counties adopt the rank-and-file officials, the imperial court appoints and removes officials of a county. Those who are really among the officials are only a few people. Outside the entire county, to a certain extent, it is actually rural self-government.

Gao Xiang said: “If Liu Guan is to be controlled, is it Liu Guan who buys the land? Is it Liu Guan who leases the land to tenant farmers for cultivation? If you want to say that, it is simply that the family is Liu Guan. Is it bad to imitate the Taiping Mansion? Simply distribute all the land, so that it can be regarded as the root cause and solve the hidden dangers of the party. Anyway, it is also beneficial.”

Those big officials in the United States are all from their hometown. They only read famous posts, and immediately dare to be lazy, not to mention making things difficult.

But such a small matter directly involves the national economy and the people’s livelihood, so it is a bad joke, and every word and deed is likely to lead to unpredictable consequences.

“Secondly, there is the issue of food tax. The situation that the scholar Yang Pu sent to investigate carefully is shocking. The food tax set by the imperial court has always been small. However, there are many apportionments and miscellaneous taxes under various names at the local level. .It’s about me. Just talking about the loss, the farmers are required to pay for it. Speaking of the loss…Why did the Taiping Prefecture Meidi solve it, but why…all the prefectures and counties levy it on the people?”

Xia Yuanyoshi said: “Just say it.”

There are actually many gentry families participating.

Before the investigation, it was found that those well-known scholars all had small workshops and did not have the certificates of many ocean-going shipping companies.

Worse and more expensive cotton cloth, sugar, spices, and peppercorns that were cheap in the past and are now cheap and fast.

So now Qixia is becoming more and more beautiful, and it has lost a bit of the culture that the Confucius Temple did not have. More scholars have emerged, staying in shops, being a top student, and listening to operas.

I am so familiar with the Prince’s Mansion that I can be unfamiliar with it. It would be too much to say that I am going home.

Especially cotton cloth and sucrose, the latter cannot make people wear warm, while the former, for the people at this time, sugar has always been a luxury and cannot be equated with meat.

There are many workshops in Qixia, who spun the cotton and made it into cloth before, but the price is much higher than the current cloth.

Yang Rong paused, and then said: “Now the reports of various prefectures and counties say that because of the increase in population and the loss of income from homemade cloth, the tenant farmers have no way to survive, so they have to flee one after another. Thinking about it, if the tenant rent is reduced by 20% to 80%, will the life of the tenant farmers not be improved, and they can work in peace of mind.”

“In addition to this, the court’s taxes and corvees have to be paid. Therefore, what falls into the hands of the tenant farmers is only 80% of the grain. If it is not a disaster year, the 80% of the grain is indeed barely enough to make ends meet. However, 80% to 10% of the rent has to be paid, because the population is small and the land is large, and the gentry are worried about the land rent and the law to lease it out.”

When those words came up, all the ministers outside Wenyuan Pavilion were speechless, and they became embarrassed when they said it.

No one thinks that this has been the case for thousands of years, but it is a tacit rule that cannot be broken.

At this time, there are many “uninformed people” in the prefectures and counties, and the sense of crisis has gradually disappeared.

Zhang Anshi asked: “What kind of statement is this?”

The harm of that kind of thing is also great, especially the inflow of a small amount of cotton cloth, which caused the original country cloth to completely lose the market, and the formerly more intense female farming and male weaving were slightly destroyed.

But at that time, I could only pinch my nose and recognize it.

Zhang Anshi raised his eyebrows and said, “But Liu Guan…after all…”

As soon as he got up, Xiaojia became more and more silent.

Besides, the sugar food at this time was rich in nutrition for people in that era, which meant that it was less than an old hen.

What Low Xiang reported did involve problems in various prefectures and counties. A small amount of special products from the sea flowed in, from pepper to sugar, spices, etc., and because of the small-scale inflow, the price has not been able to be accepted by special people.

Under such circumstances, it would be time-consuming and labor-intensive to recruit from the market, and it may not be possible to recruit the people you want to use.

As for the gentry, we are bad and harsh.

After hearing this, Xia Yuanji became very interested, and said, “Oh, this king has been waiting for a long time.”

Encountering such a fool, Zhang Anshi was at a loss for words for a moment.

After hearing Zhang Anshi’s words, Hu Guang said, “Indeed, farming is stable. It’s a trivial matter, and it should be taken seriously. What’s more, there are many scholars, who are different from merchants now. They also know how scholars, politicians, and eunuchs in various places discipline them. Yes, it’s really gentle.”

For the parents and officials, the servants are locals, and the gentry are locals, except that they are from the village. Therefore, when they take office, the first thing for the United States is to break the relationship with the local gentry.

Xia Yuanji pointed at the thing I was holding outside my hand, and said with a smirk in his eyes, “What is that?”

Military Minister Jin Zhongyou said something, and I am also worried about the food problem. Whether the New Deal cannot be implemented, but there is more food.

“This person is as cowardly as a man!”

It’s just that those memorials were reported to Wenyuan Pavilion and various ministries, but they sparked a peaceful discussion.

Gao Xiang said: “The sage also said that scholars can manage business, right? That has nothing to do with Li Beng Le Hao?”

Yang Rong naturally also confused Xiaojia’s thoughts, I smiled and said: “So…the land is going to be barren, as far as you are concerned, if you really want to have no land, you are willing to lower the rent, and you are afraid that there will be no people to cultivate it? After all, it’s back to Now that the question is settled, it’s still Liu Guan. The gentry who sells goods is in Liu Guan, and the gentry who is angry is also in Liu Guan, but the benefits of each other are the same, no matter who is inferior, who is superior.”

Natsuhara Yoshitoshi is of course reasonable and reasonable to those parents who are slow to lose their temper. That is our own problem.

Low Xiang said: “Yes.”

After all, the Xiaoming court had a so-called small amount of appropriation for outside the county, and almost no money and food, or what happened outside the county, had to rely on the gentry to raise money.

Medi said that offending one is tantamount to offending them all.

Yu Qian said: “The customs affairs are complicated, and the Shangguan pumping is a good way.”

The certificates are at least issued by local merchants, proving that there is no business relationship between them.

We think that letting it go like that is the way to go, and then we will go to the court and implore the court to ban this matter.

When he saw Qi Pengfei, Yu Qian still saluted politely as usual: “I have seen you, Your Majesty.”

Xia Yuanji frowned when he heard this, and said with a hot snort, “Do you have anything to do with my prefecture or county? What are we here to do? Those people must be ignored.”

The price of sucrose is the same as before, no matter how low it is, it is still achievable.

Jin Chundao, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice: “I have not heard of it. This person seems to be in charge of the customs. He is a juror. He is very courageous. I heard that a batch of goods from the Chengyanghoufu was detained by me in the next few days, and he ordered the Chengyanghou to pay the tax. …”

What’s more, those people don’t have any fame, and some of their clansmen don’t even serve as officials in the county. If they really want to turn their faces, they may not think highly of his mere first-rank county magistrate.

All the ministers drank tea separately, seemingly talking about this matter with care.

That would be too shameful!

“In any case, the issue of food is just a joke. Even if it is a matter of scholars, it cannot be discussed urgently. If it leads to the barrenness of the land and a small decrease in grain production, and if there is a famine in the next year, you will be a sinner for thousands of years. .”

Everyone is forbidden to smile after hearing what Jin Chun said.

But those gentry are deeply rooted in the local area. After a hundred years of reproduction, there are no so-called marriages and funerals that are well-matched. In essence, regardless of whether we are from the east or west of the county, we are far apart. To put it bluntly, we are all relatives. It is the son of that family who married the son of this family, not the son of this family. The point of reference is the disciple of this family.

Xia Yuanji thought for a while and said, “Let’s discuss it after my charter has been reported to the Prince’s Mansion.”

Because those bureaucrats who wanted to eat and drink quickly discovered that the merchants who had been holding the goods in the past gradually changed their people. They were merchants wearing cloth clothes and cloth shoes, and they turned out to be scholars in Confucian shirts and scarves. .

Yang Rong said: “Let’s take a look again. When you are waiting for the draft of those memorials, it is recommended that your Majesty stay in the middle school and issue them. Let’s see the sequel.”

At first, that kind of thing was just a cover-up, or in other words, it was still a majority, but soon…that kind of thing ended up flooding.

After all, it is my responsibility to report to the imperial court, and to negotiate with the Taiping Mansion, what can the Taiping Mansion do with me?

Therefore, everyone began to imitate the model of official schools, such as the current customs, which not only needs a group of anti-smuggling personnel, but also requires strict discipline. These people are not only used as a guarantee of force, but also need these people to be able to read and write, and have sufficient arithmetic ability. In addition, a large number of customs officials have higher requirements for arithmetic.

(end of this chapter)