[Plane] History of the struggle of the lords

In a few days, the land leases of Fuchun Township, County and City were secretly found out and reported to Wen Le's ears.

Mai Lingtong, who came to report, was almost pissed off by the data. Fuchun had been in peace for too long, and many people with small family backgrounds almost lost their self-knowledge.The former Mai Lingtong's governance was rough and harsh, and those unruly people obeyed him because of fear, but now Wen Le's governance is kind and generous, and those people actually regard politeness as a blessing, and they become presumptuous!It's also their own inexperience. They never expected that the common people under their command would take the lead in colluding with the tax officials to hide the old warehouse. After all, it is the common people who suffer from such low-level things. The conscience of those farm owners is really eaten by dogs!

Mai Lingtong really can't understand it. When it comes to profits, when Mai Lingtong was in power, the taxes on these farms were ridiculously high every year, land tax, farming tax, planting tax, cutting tax, poll tax, land occupation tax, etc... The annual rent of [-] catties of corn per mu of land, nearly [-] catties of corn is used to pay taxes. No matter how capable those farm owners are, they can at most make a profit of [-] to [-] catties per mu of land.And now Wen Le has canceled the agricultural tax, including various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. Every farm owner only needs to pay the head tax of his own servants and masters. The rent of the land is controlled within [-] catties of rice, and they can still collect [-] catties more than before. As usual, the owners of these farms say that they can receive a profit of [-] catties of rice per mu of land at most, but they are still not satisfied! ?

It's really greedy and insatiable!

"Each farmer is charged an additional tax of [-] catties of rice per mu of land, the farm owner is charged [-] catties, and the tax officials are charged [-] catties... Hehe," Wen Le looked at the account book in his hand, with a gentler smile on his face. , raised his hand and slammed the account book on the table with a "snap", "It's really a good account, with such a good economic acumen, it's a pity not to be as rich as an enemy."

Mai Lingtong said in a deep voice: "That's not counting. I heard that several farm owners in Jianzhou have united to bid this year. Although the monthly land tax is deducted within [-] catties, people bid for the rent. , the highest family actually bid for [-] catties of grain per mu of land! Calculated in this way, how is it different from increasing the land rent?"

Even Wen Run, who has always been good-natured and behaved like a modest gentleman, had to sigh and shake his head: "It's really unscrupulous."

He turned his head, looked at Wen Le helplessly and said, "I told you earlier that you should not be too talkative, and you will inevitably be regarded as weak and easy to bully."

Mai Lingtong couldn't stand Wen Le being pointed out, and said unhappily: "Master Wen's words are unreasonable. His lord's kindness and generosity are my blessings for Fuchun. Except for those people who have black conscience and no morals, what is wrong with the people of Fuchun?" The Sir is full of praise and respect?"

Wen Run coughed, and glanced at the aggrieved Mai Lingtong, not daring to argue easily with the idiot fan, put his arm around Wen Le's shoulder and said submissively: "I just said casually in a hurry, benevolent government naturally has its benefits, don't take it seriously .But when you should be tough, you can't be kind to a woman."

Wen Le pushed him away, and said angrily: "I know, what you said is not unreasonable, they are treating me as a persimmon."

Mai Lingtong looked at him anxiously: "My lord, how do you think this matter should be handled?"

"The tax officer dismissed him from his post and ransacked his home and fined him, and the punishment will be determined depending on the severity of corruption." Wen Le thought for a while, and then said casually, "The owners of the farm should not be let go."

Mai Lingtong was in trouble: "If this is the case, the owner of the farm should also confiscate the house and pay a fine, but the punishment is too severe, and the other owners of the farm will feel ashamed."

"It's not enough to ransack the house. Just fine them. I'll fine them whatever they want." Wen Le played with the account book in his hand, flipped through a few pages, and said with a chuckle, "How about this? Those farms on the road will count how much these people have overcharged, and they will be fined twice, the two-year rent will be cancelled, and the punishment will be thirty. , the land property will be confiscated."

Mai Lingtong's eyes lit up, and then he frowned again: "It's good to report, but if someone makes a false report for personal grievances..."

"Those who make false reports will be fined and taken into custody, and they will be locked up for a year or so."

Wen Run interrupted suddenly, and said meaningfully: "If this decree is promulgated, the tenants who walk in the yamen to give gifts will probably step through the threshold, and the unhealthy trend will definitely act recklessly. If those tenants can turn right and wrong and justify themselves, the whistleblower will be punished." I am afraid that I will be punished unjustly, and I will be retaliated."

Wen Le was taken aback for a moment, then after thinking about it, he realized that the possibility he was talking about was definitely not small.

Wen Le started to encounter difficulties. Being an official is really not easy. He has to fight wits and courage with anyone at any time. He is not good at this by nature.

If he hadn't been forced by Wen Run to kill those pirates, I'm afraid he still wouldn't be able to harden his heart right now, and at most he would dismiss those tax officials. As for the landowners, he would be fined at most. The future troubles have to be kept in mind.

He suddenly thought of a way, and said: "If this is not the case, the Yamen will set up another department to manage anonymous reporting. The whistleblower needs to write down the detailed information of the person being reported. If there is evidence, the investigation will be given priority. If there is a real-name report, Then transfer it to someone I trust, one can screen the amount of information, and the other can reduce unnecessary work.”

Wen Run thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's good."

Mai Lingtong said: "My lord can leave this matter to the subordinate officials, and the subordinate officials will definitely fulfill their mission."

Wen Le glanced at him with a smile: "You have a lot of things to do, so don't worry about such a trivial matter, and if a farm owner sends you money for this matter in the future, you don't have to refuse, just accept it. Make an account of these incomes every month and show me."

Mai Lingtong was shocked: "My lord can't trust my subordinates?! Even if my subordinates die, I dare not live up to my high expectations!"

Wen Le snorted softly, and said angrily at his pretentiousness: "I know best whether you will accept me or not. It's not easy for you to do things for me. It's also expensive in this status. You should take some of what you should normally take. I will treat you as my own." , as long as it’s not too much, I’ll treat it as invisible, so don’t force me to say it a second time. Fortunately, you have abided by the bottom line so far and have not done anything to conflict with me..." He said, looking at the microphone Lingtong was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he felt bored again, so he spat, "You're so promising, look at how scared you were."

Wen Run on the one side was very helpless, Wen Le must be lacking in heart, how could he say these things.

In the next few days, the Fuchun County exploded up and down, and the six or seven tax officials who were found to be problematic were all beaten and imprisoned.The order to dispose of this order did not reveal the slightest word before the officers and soldiers arrived home. Naturally, those tax officials did not have time to transfer property or anything, and they were caught right away. Not to mention the other remote counties. Just for the Shentu Valley that Fu Chuncheng was in charge of, 120 mu of fertile land and three other gardens were confiscated from his home, and jewelry and treasures equivalent to more than 4000 taels of silver were confiscated.With his own salary, even if he doubled it tenfold, he wouldn't be able to save so much for a lifetime without eating or drinking.There are nearly fifty servants in his family, and six wives and concubines. There are countless silks and satins in the storehouses, and there are nearly three storehouses of old grain. Even the chickens raised in the kitchen eat high-quality corn!

This result surprised Mai Lingtong, who was in charge of this matter, or how to say that in three years, the magistrate's [-] snowflake silver, even a sesame official like Shen Tugu who didn't even have a grade, had a relatively poor family life. The squires are richer, and it is not unreasonable for everyone to sharpen their heads and want to enter the Yamen.

Although Mai Lingtong thinks that his family property is richer than him, since he was beaten by Wen Le last time, he has never taken the money for granted. He is also a bit weird. When he was greedy for ink, he felt nothing. Some people are corrupt, but they scratch their hearts and lungs with anger.

With such a large amount of stolen money, Wen Le didn't plan to give Shen Tugu any chance at all. He was directly imprisoned for five years with fifty sticks, his family property was confiscated, and he bewitched his big and small wives to marry quickly.

As soon as this move came out, everyone realized that his previous actions against Da Chunyi were really not on a whim. Just look at Shentugu's painful life after hearing the news that he was about to wear a cuckold in prison, you can know How important are men in this era to their "dignity".For a while, the indescribably perverted mentality of Mr. Fu Chunyi made the men feel terrified.In this regard, Wen Le is quite useful.

The farm owner's income was less than expected.

After all, not all rich people are insatiable, and often only a few in the crowd do evil, but because of different groups, other ordinary people have to bear as much bad reputation as them.

Among those who colluded with the tax officials to collect money, Fu Chuncheng had the least number of households, only one, and other counties and counties had the largest number of four households, and the rest looked like two or three households. Other counties are not as courageous as they are.

It is better to say that there are fewer people, and these people are also not treated well by colleagues who are sitting upright. Wen Le directly pasted their names and portraits on the gate of the city they belong to, and Wen Run wrote it himself For fear that ordinary people would not be able to understand him, he specially sent government servants to loudly count crimes at the gate of the city three times a day, and persisted for five or six days. Chun can already be said to be known to everyone.It's a pity that they are notorious.

No one expected that Wen Le would use such a radical method. People have always believed in what the eyes can see. Since Wen Le came to Fuchun, except for killing pirates, other things have not been bloody at all. .Opening a book school, running a school, building roads, reducing taxes and promoting food... Which of these things can't be so busy?If it is not a benevolent person, who would give up their original glory and wealth to worry about this!Whether the people have enough to eat has never been the most important concern of most officials.

Daring to act so blatantly, these people also have the idea of ​​bullying honest people. If they are found out, they will lose some money at most... The cost of crime is small, and those who do evil things will have no scruples.

But since the tax official fell, many people have vaguely noticed that things are a little different from what they imagined.

Wen Le's every move, in the eyes of the ancient people who believed in Confucianism and took face too seriously, was no different from beheading.These country gentry, who had always been aloof, suddenly turned into street rats that everyone shouted and beat. Everyone they saw when they left the house seemed to gather behind them, whispering and pointing. fine……

No!One life, no fine!

The gentry households thought that the left and right had already lost their face, and they could no longer lose their face, so they couldn't give this money no matter what!

Not only did they not give money, they simply went all out, and began to rely on their relatives and friends to develop relationships frantically, and finally gathered a total of six country gentry, entrusted their families to kneel at the gate of the government office, and shouted loudly.

It was the oldest elders of the six families who were crying. There were old men and old ladies. They all had white beards, hair, and pale faces. Some mourn at the gate of the government office.After all, these people are not guilty of death, and Wen Le's punishment is already heavy. If people die because of this incident, although the common people know who is right and who is wrong, if there are records in future generations, the officials will be punished. .

For three days in a row, these people came before dawn and returned when it was almost dark. The more they knelt down, the more energetic they became. On the contrary, many officials in the government office avoided them.

It was a matter of human life. Seeing that this group of people were already coughing while drinking medicine, the honest Dala couldn't stand it any longer, and begged for mercy in the yamen: "My lord, these old people look pitiful, so please forgive them." Just once."

Lin Yong, who is usually taciturn and has no sense of presence, can't bear it rarely. He followed Dala's back and dissuaded him: "If it is done according to the law, the Lord's handling like this is really too much. These are some old and old birthday princes, the Lord Lord is generous and merciful, let them go."

Wen Le was very helpless towards Dala, who was always being used as a gunman, but never had a good word with Lin Yong, and choked back: "If you said this before marrying the Shentu family, I have no objection. Now that you've gotten involved in it, shut up early, and don't tell me to embarrass you."

Lin Yong was frightened half to death, thinking that the fact that he encouraged the people to find a way out for his brother-in-law had been exposed, so he immediately shut up and dared not say more.

But the old man is really pitiful. At such an old age, he has to abandon his dignity because of the sins of his children. Wen Le saw that Wei Shi, who heard the news, was suffering from chanting Buddha day and night, and knew that this matter could not be delayed and had to be resolved as soon as possible.

The next day, Wen Le made a special trip to the government office and sent those government servants to bring these old people into the court.

"My lord... My lord..." As soon as the group came in, they began to cough and sneeze one after another, sometimes accompanied by the sound of crying, and one of them, an old lady who seemed to be almost [-] years old, was lying on the ground and her whole body was convulsing , as if if Wen Le didn't go around them, she would die in a second.

Wen Le is actually a good young man who respects the old and loves the young. He has always respected the elderly, but he really doesn't want to deal with this kind of sloppy and rolling type, so he slapped the gavel and said coldly: " quiet!"

Several people were startled in unison, and immediately shut up.

Wen Run, who was seated on the side, was a little gentler, and said loudly at this moment: "You gathered people wantonly in front of the government office and disturbed the government office, are you all guilty?"

The old people are not afraid, what kind of crime, if you dare to punish me for offending me, I will fall ill and die in front of you the next moment, making you speechless, who is wrong when you see it.

These people looked at each other a few times, exchanged expressions, and then began to sing and cry for injustice and poverty.

Wen Le listened for a while, and they just counted their family's ration consumption with their fingers, and then opened up how much savings they had, talked about having no income for the next two years, etc., in short, one sentence, If you don't have enough savings, taking it out is equivalent to starving to death.

Wen Le nodded: "I understand. What you mean is that the farm will have no income for two years in the future. Although the family has savings, if it is used in this way, it will face running out of ammunition and food in the future. die, right?"

Seeing the group of old people nodding blankly, Wen Le gave Mai Lingtong a wink, and Mai Lingtong immediately picked up the ledger and began to read it out.

"Liu Mingshan, Fuchun City, has 110 mu of paddy fields and [-] mu of dry fields at home; Li Liang, the city of Jianzhou, has [-] mu of paddy fields and [-] mu of dry fields at home..."

Everyone foolishly listened to his reading, and at the end when he asked if there was any discrepancy, they all shook their heads in unison.

"That's very good," Wen Le said, "Since I can't get any silver, then I won't force it. In this way, one mu of paddy field can be worth two taels of silver, and one mu of dry land can be worth one tael or three taels of silver. If there is a mountain forest It will be deducted according to the market value, go back and prepare, and tomorrow the Yamen will go to collect the land deed."

Seeing the paler faces of the six old men than before, Wen Run coughed, covered his face and lowered his head slightly. Wen Le glanced at him and forced him calmly, "If there is no objection, then retreat."

The screams from below became sharper than when they were just promoted, and before the servants came forward to yell at them, the group of dying old people supported each other, quickly got up and slipped through the gaps of the crowd without a trace.

Wen Le shrugged, and spread his hands with Mai Lingtong and Dala: "Let's find someone to collect the money."

Wen Runxin said, maybe this is because the wicked have their own grind.

……

When Wen Le and others returned to Dadu, Duo Lun and his group of foreigners returned to their hometown with a boat full of Fuchun local products. Because the journey was far away, they said early in the morning that they might not be able to return before this year’s midsummer. .Fortunately, the shipping to the island is already well-known. There are very few serious natural disasters in this sea area. As long as you avoid typhoons, there will generally be no extreme weather.

Since Wen Run came back last time, he invited Wen Le to go to the island to see him next time. Wen Le was very interested, and after agreeing, he had to deal with all the work of Fu Chun.Going to Fuchun, there will be no leader in the group. If there are more troubles, Mai Lingtong and the others may not be able to solve them well.

First of all, there is the problem of the supply of goods in Lin'an. Since the Lu family and Wen Le want to be together, they both intend to open a store. When they open a branch in the future, the supply of jewels and jewels must be more than the current one.Wen Le simply sent a large amount of jewelry to Lin'an first, and deposited them in the heavily guarded Lu Mansion, and then handed over some of the goods to Mai Lingtong for safekeeping. When he went, he would definitely not bring Lonicera with him, so only Lonicera knew If you want to get the exact source of goods, you need two people to work together.

Mai Lingtong didn't dare to say that Wen Le had never doubted Liandong's loyalty to him.

After that, Dala was in charge of the Banshan Farm. At first, Dala expressed considerable dissatisfaction with the use of grain to feed livestock, but soon, the growth of the piglets far exceeded his understanding of the average. Speed, calculated the price of meat and food, Dala finally swallowed his heartache for the feed.Probably because the weather and water and soil are quite suitable, except for a few sheep who had diarrhea for a few days because of the wrong food and grass, the rest of the animals grew fat very smoothly and safely.Because Dala is breeding this, several relatives of Da's family also intend to do this business.But Dala has always been timid, and he didn't dare to let his relatives get involved in Wenle's affairs. Wenle didn't care much about it. The farming was originally intended to be promoted to the people like weaving to make more people rich. In Dala After ensuring that the relatives in this house had absolutely nothing to do with Da Chunyi's family, Wen Le approved a piece of land for them at a very cheap price, and the seedlings could be purchased from the private sector.

There are quite a few people who raise pigs in Fuchun, and almost every year there are piglets that the family can’t afford to raise, but except for the farm owners who have land leased at home or the farmers who don’t need to rent their own land, there are people who have leftover slops to feed pigs Not many.Ordinary pork in the market can be sold at a price of more than 50 yuan per catty, while pork legs and lean meat are more expensive. It is not bad for ordinary people to have a pig head for Chinese New Year.It's not that no one has thought of using this method to make sales. After all, there are only a few stalls selling meat in the market in Fuchun City, and they are often out of stock. Ordinary farmers only raise one head at most, and they kill it and marinate it to eat. Throughout the year, there are very few for sale, and the supply is not enough, and there are only a few stalls that are often out of stock.

But the problem is that the original staple food, corn, does not have any leftovers for pigs to eat, and there are not many pig grasses for pigs to eat in Fuchun Linhai. There are so few small restaurants in the city, and the daily leftovers are only At that point, feeding pigs is far from enough, and the industrial chain is missing a point, and the whole thing collapses.

Now the one led by Wen Le is different. After the rice production is high, the chaff and corners can be used to feed chickens and livestock. There is a special abandoned pond nearby to store feed, and pig manure can be picked up later. The built pond is used to raise the cultivated land after fermentation. Once the cultivated land is fertile, the crop yield will be higher in the second year.

Wen Le actually wanted to promote biogas, but unfortunately he didn't know how to get away from it.Alas, I wish I had studied science at the beginning, but I don’t know if the professors of the Institute of Science and Technology will hold classes to teach how to cover biogas digesters, and yes, there is also a kang.

In such a short period of time, the livestock will grow from cubs to half-grown at most, and after the beginning of spring, they will enter the peak season of fattening. As long as there are no accidents, there must be nothing wrong.Farmers have been trying to fertilize pig manure for a long time, and the basic principle is probably clearer to many people than Wen Le.

After the ponds where the fodder was stored began to yield results, Wen Le turned to toss about the messy things in the state and county.

He didn't want to go to Haiyan to open the factory. Anyway, the current opening of the warehouse was originally just a show. It would be perfectly fine to let Mai Lingtong or simply go to Hongdashan for a cutscene.Before Wen Le didn't come, Da Chunyi here in Fuchun had some contacts with the private salt dealers in Lianghuai. After Wen Le killed Da Chunyi, he naturally took over the sales.After a year of real management, he finally realized how popular private salt is.Except for a short period of rainy season when the sun cannot be seen in Fuchun, Yantian has a good harvest almost every month. Except for the amount eaten by the local people, the rest is sold outside by river transport in an endless stream.This is actually quite risky. The emperors all hate private salt. Salt is almost the biggest economic income of the imperial court, and private salt is to steal food from the emperor's mouth.Now that there are severe natural disasters one after another, the emperor has no spare time to manage whether he earns more in his purse than before, but once the world is stabilized and he has nothing to do, then if Wen Le leaks the news, he will definitely be tied up by him Go to death by a thousand knives.

So Wen Le began to slowly reduce the supply of saltpeter from the private salt dealers in the Lianghuai area, and began to sell the saltpeter team to the Northwest where the government was relatively dispersed.I don't know why in the northwest, the emperor always seems to be less strict than the southeast.What he is most nervous about is the north, and Xiang Fuchun, which is too far south, can't take care of it. Big cities such as Luoyang and Lin'an, which are the most economically developed, will often administer it. A Fuchun, so peaceful and quiet that almost no news of them can be heard in most of these places.

This also indirectly makes Wen Le's actions much more convenient, but it's a pity that the current road to Shu is still difficult to reach the blue sky, otherwise he must go to see and see.However, the difficulty of the road is not comparable to that of Fuchun's miasma.

Because the cost of salt is low and the selling price is low, Wen Le did not lose much money after abandoning some of the roads between Lianghuai and Huaihe Rivers.

The empty trucks when going there can sell salt, which can be regarded as the use of resources, which really kills two birds with one stone.When the emperor wants to catch him in the future, it will undoubtedly be much more complicated than now——