Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2156 Flower dispute (sixty-four)

   It was Agui who participated in the suppression of the rebellion together with Heshen. He was also looking for excuses when he lost the battle. So in the memorial report of the military situation, Agui repeatedly mentioned that there was too much rain in the local area, the situation was very strong, and the troops were difficult to move.

  Emperor Qianlong received the Gansu annual report of drought. Why is there so much rain this year?

So he ordered a careful survey of the weather in Gansu in the past few years, and the results of the survey came out very quickly. Gansu has had good weather and good harvests for several years, so the local wealthy households also have quite a surplus of grain, which is just enough for the donors to take out the surplus grain and sell it. Donated, these grains flowed into the private market, and reported to the emperor more than 800,000 shi of grain. In order to "digest" the grain on paper, Wang Jiwang forged the story of opening a warehouse and releasing grain. On the flat, only 19,000 more students who donated to prison.

   In previous years, there were only about 8,000 prison students in Gansu. This situation lasted from the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong to the forty-sixth year of Qianlong. In the seven years, Gansu received 270,000 prisoners, and more than 12.27 million taels were donated to prison. There was a drought in Fujian, where Juren was located, but there was no food to provide. In the past few years, due to the influx of these Gansu candidates, which caused fierce competition, he did not go to Beijing to take the exam. Later, he left when Fujian could not survive. of.

   The middle class like him are like this, let alone the bottom civilians. During that time, many people went to Taiwan, and I heard that there is rich real estate and fertile land, and bureaucrats and rich people also poured in along with the refugees.

  From the sixth year of Shunzhi, it was stipulated that local officials recruit refugees, no matter where their origins are, they should be incorporated into Baojia, and they will reclaim unowned and barren fields, and give them their stamps.

  The Qing court did not allow farmers to open up wasteland at will, and must issue a "reclamation license" to allow land reclamation, and to apply for a license, it was necessary to "report to reclamation", which required a series of procedures. Since it is not easy to obtain a "cultivation license", the success rate of commoners is not high. On the contrary, people with certain strength such as the rich and bureaucrats can easily obtain the power to cultivate land, while the commoners at the bottom can only be employed by the same people as them. The landlords who "reported for reclamation" together, but received the "reclamation license" first, are called tenant farmers. The wealthy and bureaucrats became "reclamation heads" or "reclamation households". Such a land system is called "reclamation tenancy system". Generally, the first two years are divided according to the proportion, and after the output is stabilized, it is changed to a fixed amount.

Influenced by Guangdong and Fujian, Taiwan has adopted the "permanent tenant system", that is, the tenants have participated in land reclamation, so the landlord cannot sublease the land to others, and the tenants have the right to own the land they cultivate without paying the landlord rent. Rights of inheritance, monopoly, mortgage and sale. That is to say, if they cannot apply for a "cultivation license", the new immigrants can only be tenant farmers, while the old tenant farmers have permanent tenancy rights. They can only temporarily rent land or be hired as handicraftsmen, otherwise they can only continue to live in the city. Li as a refugee.

These homeless people have no land, no livelihood, and have been displaced for a long time. They are called "Arhat feet". When these homeless people gather together, they often fight, and they are often supported by the Minyue clan behind them. A marginalized social group called "Jianghu", and at the same time gave Tim Brothers an opportunity to absorb manpower.

  The Lin Shuangwen Uprising broke out in Taiwan in the 51st year of Qianlong's reign. They mainly killed corrupt officials. After all, their purpose was to "reverse the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty", to drive out the bureaucrats of the Qing government, and like the surname of the country, they themselves ruled Taiwan in their place.

  The White Lotus Sect is to kill officials and wealthy households together. "Eat the big households" is a way of fighting to support the war.

Also in the forty-seventh year of Qianlong's reign, the imperial censor Qian Pei heard a rumor that the governor of Shandong and the political envoy were embarrassed. Without going through the formalities, the state and county officials only misappropriated public funds and extorted the people, resulting in a deficit in the county treasury in many places in Shandong.

The county officials "pay tribute" will not honestly save money from their own salaries, but will pay off from the "fire consumption" of the county treasury. He purchased tributes for the emperor. With this "gold of death avoidance", Qianlong received a gift of 100,000 taels, the governor could receive 100,000 taels, and the county magistrates could receive one million taels.

   After he has money, he must enjoy it. Wang Jiwang abruptly turned his mansion in Lanzhou Mansion on the edge of the Yellow River into the West Lake in the south of the Yangtze River, and his next goal is to go to the real West Lake.

  The other officials are similar to him, they all use money to clear up, and plan to find a "beautiful shortage".

   In order to find out how much of the deficit in Shandong, Liu Yong, the censor of the Zuodu, and He Shen went to Shandong to investigate.

  Liu Yong is the censor of the left governor, and he is considered to be the superior of censor Qian Pei. As for why Heshen is also in the investigation team, it may be because he handled the case of the governor of Yunnan and his identity as a guard at the place where he sticks.

  In the beginning, they went through the official channel. As usual, when the imperial officials passed by, the local officials would warmly welcome them. After Liu Yong and Heshen arrived in Jinan, they were indeed hospitable.

However, this time Heshen and his party refused the invitation, went directly to Licheng, and began to check the accounts. The results were surprising. Except for the lack of more than 3,000 stone in the barn, the amount of silver in the silver warehouse was completely consistent with the account book. That is to say, there is no shortage of treasury silver.

   To be cautious, they went to the silver vault, and the count was still correct.

   Then they visited several counties, and the situation was the same. Instead, it seemed that Qian Pei had falsely accused them.

  Liu Yong thought of a way, he disguised himself as a Taoist priest and asked around. It turns out that silver is divided into official silver and variegated silver. Official silver is to be stored, usually silver ingots or silver nuggets, and its purity is much higher than that of broken silver circulating in the market. time wasted.

  The silver ingots in the warehouse of Licheng contained a lot of variegated silver. According to this clue, the investigation team opened and checked all the boxes in the warehouse of Licheng, and found a total of 40,000 taels of silver missing.

   A city is 40,000 taels, how many are there in Shandong?

Liu Yong and Qian Pei continued to investigate other cities, and He Shen stayed behind to try the case. How did this shortfall come about? As a result, 25,000 taels of the 40,000 taels were unreimbursed military expenses, which were used to suppress Wang Lun's Qingshui Revolt. .

  The grain transported from Jiangnan to Liuhe has to be transshipped once in Shandong, which gives a man like Cathay an opportunity to operate. He sells these grains at high prices and **** them down to earn the difference.

   "Read," said Bonaparte calmly.

   After Liu Yong's investigation, Shandong had a total deficit of 2 million taels, but Cathay Pacific replied that these deficits were all left over from the suppression of the Qingshui Religion in the past few years. At this time, the governor of Zhili sent Qianlong another report. Guotai and his younger brother Guolin bought more than 8,000 acres of land and 5 manors in Yizhou, Hebei. Now they have rented them out to make money. People did it for him.

   In view of the fact that Cathay Pacific is a Manchurian, the final judgment of the angry Qianlong on him is "Gaen suicide" and "immediate execution".

  Wang Tingzan's residence is in Hetao, which is known as the fortress on the south of the Yangtze River. Wang Jiwang colluded with all the bureaucrats in Gansu, but Wang Tingzan was forgotten.

  A servant's loyalty to the monarch requires "contribution". On the emperor's birthday, the wave of tribute swept across the country, including local products, gold and silver jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and even Western tributes.

  Wang Tingzan did not choose to get together at that time, but wrote a memorial and donated 40,000 taels as military salaries. How can a political envoy be so rich in Gansu, a place with years of drought? When contacting Xiajiangnan again, Wang Jiwang's lavish affection made Qianlong suspicious.

"Manda" told the king of the small county, "Holding the banquet is a show of filial piety, sincerity is enough, it is enough, the tribute is still free, and the diligent tribute of Cathay Pacific makes the Lord Long Live annoyed, and those things he paid tribute are placed in the Yuanmingyuan. In the warehouse, it will be rotten after a few years of use."

   As for the fact that Juren is so familiar with Zhouyi, it is also because the king of the county likes star fortune-telling. In the 44th year of Qianlong, he became the supervisor of the Qin Tianjian. He can't let a 16-year-old Mongolian prince learn easy learning.

  Cao Xi is the nominal descendant of Cao Benrong. As long as he does not touch Zhouyi, he will be healthy and safe.

   "Do you believe in curses?" Georgiana asked Bonaparte.

   He did not answer.

   "I believe it," she said, looking at the book. "And he cursed a position."

"How can this be?"

   "No one but himself can stay in that position for a year." Georgiana said "Severus was the last person in that position who wanted to teach those kids something."

"Why?"

   "Because that was his dream."

   He did not speak.

   "What you can't get is always better than what you get. Cathay Pacific jobs are not bought by donations."

"how do you know?"

   "How could the governor of a province buy it?"

   Bonaparte seemed to laugh at her rarity and disdain.

  Then she thought of the Duke of York's mistress, who sold it to a British naval officer.

   "It's true to the idiom, "Long look to Shu, no, it is to look to Zhejiang, is Jiangnan so good?"

   "Before I went to Egypt, I thought it was very good," said Bonaparte.

   She didn't answer.

   "Continue reading." He sighed and said, "You really don't die until you reach the Yellow River."

   (end of this chapter)