Chapter 2156 Flower Struggle (Sixty-Four)

It was Agui who participated in suppressing the rebellion together with Heshen. He was also looking for excuses after the defeat. So in the memorial to report the military situation, Agui mentioned many times that there was too much rain in the area and the situation was very heavy, making it difficult for the troops to march.

Emperor Qianlong received annual reports of drought in Gansu. Why was there so much rain this year?

So he ordered a careful investigation of the weather in Gansu in recent years. The results of the investigation came soon. Gansu has had good weather and good harvests for several years, so local wealthy households also have a lot of surplus grain, which can be used by donors to sell the surplus grain.

Donated, these grains flowed into the private market, and the more than 800,000 shi of grain reported to the emperor was actually not a grain. In order to "digest" the grains on paper, Wang Danwang forged the story of opening a warehouse to release grains. Now the accounting was basically

It was evened out, but there were only 19,000 more students who donated to prison.

In previous years, there were only about 8,000 prison students in Gansu throughout the year. This situation lasted from the 39th year of Qianlong's reign to the 46th year of Qianlong's reign. In 7 years, Gansu admitted 270,000 prisoners and donated more than 12.27 million taels to the prisons.

There was indeed a drought in Fujian, but there was no food to provide relief. In the past few years, due to the large influx of candidates from Gansu, which created fierce competition, he did not go to Beijing to take the exam. Later, he left Fujian when he could no longer survive.

This is true for middle-class people like him, let alone lower-class civilians. During that time, many people fled to Taiwan. They heard that the real estate there was rich and the land was fertile. Along with the refugees, bureaucrats and rich people also poured in.

Starting from the sixth year of Shunzhi, it was stipulated that local officials would recruit refugees, no matter where they were from, into Baojia, reclaim unclaimed wasteland, and give them a seal, and they would be allowed to work forever.

The Qing court did not allow farmers to open up wasteland at will. They must issue a "reclamation license" before they are allowed to open up wasteland. To apply for a license, you need to "apply for reclamation", which requires a series of procedures. Obtaining a "reclamation license" is not easy.

In this matter, the success rate of civilians is not high. On the contrary, people with certain strength such as rich people and bureaucrats can easily get the power to reclaim land, while civilians at the bottom can only be employed by people who also "reclamation" with them, but they have priority in getting "

The landowners who hold the land reclamation license are called tenant farmers. The rich and bureaucrats become the "cultivator head" or "cultivator household". This land system is called the "cultivator tenant system". Generally, the land is divided according to proportion in the first two years. After the output stabilizes,

Change to a fixed amount.

Influenced by Guangdong and Fujian, Taiwan has adopted the "permanent tenancy system", that is, the tenants have participated in reclamation, so the owners cannot sublease the land to others, and the tenants have the right to the land they cultivate without owing rent to the owner.

The right to inherit, monopolize, mortgage and buy and sell. In other words, if they are unable to apply for a "cultivating license", new immigrants can only be tenant farmers, while old tenant farmers have permanent tenant rights, and they can only temporarily rent land or be employed as

Handicraftsmen, otherwise they can only continue to be refugees in the city.

These homeless people have no land, no livelihood, and have been displaced for a long time. They are called "Arhat's feet." When these homeless people gather together, they often fight with each other. Behind them, there is often the support of the Minyue clan. This creates a

A marginalized social group called "Jianghu" also gives the Timi Society the opportunity to recruit people.

In the 51st year of Qianlong's reign, Lin Shuangwen's uprising broke out in Taiwan. They mainly killed corrupt officials. After all, their purpose was to "reverse the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty", drive away the bureaucrats of the Qing government, and rule Taiwan on their behalf like Guo Xingye.

In the White Lotus Sect, officials and rich households are killed together. "Eating the rich households" is a way to feed war with war.

Also in the forty-seventh year of Qianlong's reign, Yushi Qian Pei heard a rumor that the governor of Shandong and the chief envoy were colluding with each other, engaging in corruption and extorting bribes in the name of purchasing tribute for the emperor.

Instead of going through the formalities, state and county officials only misappropriated public funds and blackmailed the people, causing county treasury deficits in many places in Shandong.

The county magistrates would not "pay tribute" honestly from their own salaries, but would "pay tribute" from the county treasury. The county magistrates did this and Governor Cathay turned a blind eye. Li Shiyao did not die because

He purchased tributes for the emperor. With this "gold medal for immunity from death", Qianlong received a gift of 100,000 taels, the governor could receive 100,000 taels, and the county magistrates could receive a million taels.

When you have money, you want to enjoy it. Wang Danwang turned his mansion in Lanzhou 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.

Other officials are similar to him, they all use money to smooth things over, hoping to find a "good job".

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

Liu Yong is the censor of Zuodu, and can be regarded as the superior of Qian Pei, the censor. As for why He Shen 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 sticky pole.

At first, they went through the official channels. As usual, when the imperial envoys passed by, local officials would warmly welcome them. Liu Yong and He Shen were indeed treated warmly when they arrived in Jinan.

However, this time He Shen and his party declined the invitation, went directly to Licheng, and began to check the accounts. The results were surprising. In addition to the lack of more than 3,000 stones in the barn, the amount of silver in the bank was completely consistent with the account books.

That is to say, there is no shortage of money in the treasury.

To be cautious, they went to the bank, and after counting, the number was still correct.

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

Liu Yong thought of a way. He pretended to be a Taoist priest and asked around. It turned out that silver was divided into official silver and miscellaneous silver. Official silver had to be stored in the warehouse, usually in the form of silver ingots or silver nuggets, and its purity was much higher than the broken silver circulating in the market.

, and "fire consumption" is consumed when broken silver melts into silver ingots.

The silver ingots in the Licheng warehouse contained a lot of miscellaneous silver. Based on this clue, the investigation team opened all the boxes in the Licheng warehouse and checked, and found that a total of 40,000 taels of silver were missing.

One city has 40,000 taels, how many are there in Shandong as a whole?

Liu Yong and Qian Pei continued to inspect other cities, while He Shen stayed behind to review the case. How did this deficit occur? It turned out that 25,000 taels of the 40,000 taels were unreimbursed military expenses, which were used to suppress the Wang Lun Qingshui Rebellion.

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The grain shipped from Jiangnan to Liuhe had to be transshipped once in Shandong, which gave Manchen like Cathay an opportunity to sell the grain high and buy low to earn the price difference.

"Read it," Bonaparte said calmly.

After Liu Yong found out, there was a total deficit of 2 million taels in Shandong, but Cathay responded that these deficits were caused by the suppression of the Qingshui Religion in the past few years. At this time, the Governor of Zhili sent another report material to Qianlong, Cathay and him

His younger brother Guolin bought more than 8,000 acres of land and 5 manors in Yizhou, Hebei Province, and now rents them out to make money, and he hired people to help him do these things.

Since Cathay was a Manchu, the angry Qianlong's final judgment against him was to "commit suicide with grace" and "execute immediately".

Wang Tingzan's residence was in Hetao, which was known as the South of the Yangtze River. Wang Danwang colluded with all the officials in Gansu, but Wang Tingzan was forgotten.

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

Wang Tingzan did not choose that time to gather together, but instead wrote a memorial and donated 40,000 taels as military pay. How could a chief envoy in Gansu, a place with continuous droughts, be so rich? When he contacted Jiangnan again, Wang Danwang showed his generous kindness, and Qianlong

Got suspicious.

"Shuida" told the young prince, "The banquet for the Thousand Old Men is a show of filial piety. If you are sincere enough, it is enough. The tribute is still exempted. Cathay pays tribute diligently, which even bothers the Long Live Lord. All the things he paid tribute are placed in the Old Summer Palace."

In the warehouse, it has become rotten after several years of use.”

As for Juren being so familiar with the Book of Changes, it was also because Prince Zhi liked astrology. In the forty-fourth year of Qianlong's reign, he became the Supervisor of the Qin Tianjian. A 16-year-old Mongolian prince could not be allowed to learn the Book of Changes.

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

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

He didn't answer.

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

"How can this be?"

"No one could last more than a year in that position except himself," Georgiana said. "Severus was the last person in that position who wanted to teach those children something."

"Why?"

"Because that's his dream."

He didn't speak.

"What you don't get is always better than what you get. Cathay Pacific's position is not bought through donations."

"how do you know?"

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

Bonaparte smiled disdainfully, as if he were laughing at her for being so strange.

Then she remembered the mistress of the Duke of York, who was selling a British naval officer.

"It really corresponds to the idiom, you have to go to Long to see Shu, no, you have to go to Long to see Zhejiang. Is Jiangnan that good?"

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

She didn't answer.

"Keep reading." He sighed and said, "You really will not give up until you reach the Yellow River."
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