For the Ministry of Revenue, loss is a very common thing. The more grain collected, the more people there will be. Naturally, the more losses will be.

Zhejiang collected 1.3 million dan of official grain, 1.1 million dan of dan of bin, and the other 200,000 dan was naturally exhausted.

Xu Qian's face was smiling. Listening to Li Shiao's calculations, he curled his lips disapprovingly and said lightly: "What the adults said makes sense, and loss is indeed something that has happened in ancient times. However, if the official wants to tell the adults, Zhejiang... has no loss.

There was no loss! There were bursts of exclamations in Chongwen Palace.

After all, this era is not a later generation. It is a matter of transporting grain and pulling a few trains to waste. How to transport grain in the long distance? Moreover, there is also a problem of oil and water. It has long been common for officials from all over the country to do things. Even during the Taizu period, it was still a long time ago. How could Zhejiang have no loss?

Li Shiao naturally looked like he didn't believe it, because if he believed it, it would be a scam. Other provinces would lose money, some would lose 200,000 to 300,000 to 300,000 to 60,000 to 70,000 to 70,000 to 70,000 to 70,000 to 70,000 to 70,000 to 7. If Zhejiang had no loss, this would be a slap in the face.

It is obvious that Xu Qian came in the face, and he said slowly: "The reason why Zhejiang has no loss is that the officials above and below are all law-abiding. Under the call of the new policy, they all take the welfare of the people of Zhejiang as their own responsibility, so no one has made any decisions on official grain. Secondly, it is because the adults just now that they criticized the problem of Zhejiang's rivers. The adults said that Zhejiang abused the people's wealth and paste, and built rivers. But it is precisely because of these rivers that have made the Zhejiang prefectures and counties unobstructed and Nantong Prefecture unobstructed. The official grain collected by each prefectures and counties were directly escorted to the dock, and then transported to Nantong Prefecture by grain ships, and then transported it to Nantong Prefecture by grain ships. In this process, Zhejiang spent 13,700 taels of silver to hire ships, and other losses were not spent a penny or a cent to lose a little bit of food."

Li Shiao's face turned pale.

The river channel... So that's it. No wonder the man surnamed Xu has so much confidence. This guy didn't say a word and used the river channel to transport grain. It's just a pity, but... He still wondered how the officials from all over Zhejiang could be as Xu Qian said, obeying the public and law-abiding.

It should be noted that even though one or two officials refused to tamper with official grain since ancient times, it is obviously impossible to prevent so many officials in Zhejiang from using official grain. When Taizu was there, he skinned corrupt officials and was not allowed to do this. But how could Xu Qian do it?

This is a very puzzling problem for Li Shiao, but now that Xu Qian has revealed the truth, Li Shiao is confused.

In fact, Li Shiao didn't know that the reason why this happened was that the new policy of Zhejiang caused Zhejiang to upgrade its corruption and abuse of power in a certain sense. This involved the issue of economic foundation.

For example, in an agricultural society, officials often use very primitive methods to corruption and abuse the law. Either they are tampering with official grain, or they are concerned about the money spent on fire, or litigation, etc. These are common methods because they have no other channels. Although this primitive form of corruption and abuse is easily exposed, they just don’t choose the means, although they are rough, as long as they have money to make a deposit, they will be done.

But what when an agricultural society gradually transforms into a handicraft society? At this time, not only did ordinary people's lives change, but the situation of corruption among officials became diversified due to changes in economic forms. For example, they and merchants used shares to ask merchants to set up workshops under their rule, and they could also let their brother-in-law set up a boat trip, let local merchants transport goods, try to take care of their brother-in-law's business, and instigate their family to go elsewhere to resell them to the workshops under their rule through relationships.

These methods are more concealed and do not have to worry so much, nor are they afraid of the current envoys and inspectors. Obviously, when the provinces were still using rough means to make plans on official grain and fire consumption, the officials in Zhejiang had evolved and mutated because they wanted money to make money, which was more legal and profitable than before.

Therefore, it is not because Xu Qian said that these guys in Zhejiang did not change their temperament and suddenly became law-abiding, but because they no longer look down on the little profits of official grain. Since this is the case, it is better to escort as much official grain as possible to Beijing. Everyone is also trying to achieve more political achievements.

But these things are not something that people like Li Shiao can understand. In a sense, the officials of the new policy and the current officials have already created a certain generation gap, and these generation gaps have quietly formed, making it difficult for these old-school officials to understand the behavior of Zhejiang people.

Xu Qian looked at Li Shiao who was confused and smiled, saying, "So, the big mistake is that the official grain in Zhejiang is obviously 1.36 million dan, which is definitely not what the adults say, only 1.1 million dan."

Li Shiao can no longer care about the issue of loss. Since Xu Qian said there was no loss, he had to recalculate it on the basis of no loss. He couldn't help but say: "Since there was no loss, then the official grain in Zhejiang was only 1.36 million dan, which was still insufficient compared to the 1.4 million dan rated by the court. Although the difference was not big, only tens of thousands of dan, you just said clearly that there were still 300,000 dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan, where did you come from?"

Eighty thousand burdens are actually not too much, but it is not too little. Without these 80 thousand burdens of official grain, Zhejiang would not be able to achieve this year's rated target. However, with these 80 thousand burdens, it would be equivalent to Zhejiang's over-completed task. The difference here is not small. If the goal is not completed, the Ministry of Revenue still has an excuse to make a warning. However, if it is over-completed, Zhejiang not only reduced and exempted grain taxes and implemented a new policy, but the official grain paid is more than the year when the number of official grains paid in Zhejiang during the bumper years. Shouldn't the court give it a reward?

Xu Qian said slowly: "Because the official grain collected is only more than 200,000 dan according to the calculations of the Ministry of Revenue, but the official grain collected in Zhejiang is not more than 200,000 dan, but more than 300,000 dan!"

Li Shiao was shocked again. It turned out that the 80,000 dan additional official grain was collected. Li Shiao still didn't believe it. It was not that he didn't believe it, but that he had calculated several times. According to the number of land acres reported in Zhejiang, and then used the new tax system to calculate it. No matter how it is calculated, it can't be calculated that there are more than 300,000 dan official grain. What's going on? Could it be that the official surnamed Xu asked the officials to go to the countryside and levy other grain taxes based on this new tax system?

No, it is absolutely impossible. Li Shiao knows every move of Zhejiang. Zhejiang's new inspector has letters and Li Shiao almost every day. If the Zhejiang governments have to pay other taxes, it is impossible that there is no news at all.

"Hmph, you're talking nonsense!" Li Shiao felt that he was still a little confident in the last moment. At this time, he couldn't help but scold him, just as he was about to see Xu Qian's cowhide being pierced, he looked depressed.

However, Xu Qian was not depressed, but said with a smile: "The Lord did not ask the reasons, but said that the officials were talking nonsense. According to the Lord, as the Minister of Revenue, not only could not understand the situation, but could not even calculate the land and grain tax in each province. Instead, he made a lot of talk here. Don't you think it's ridiculous? The official grain collected in Zhejiang this year is indeed more than 300,000 dan, because this year, the grain fields in Zhejiang have increased."

More... Li Shiao sneered. He didn't believe Xu Qian's trick. Many data he obtained showed that not only did the grain fields in Zhejiang have not increased, but also decreased, because a large amount of grain fields has been converted into mulberry trees, and the number of grain fields this year has been reduced by at least 500,000 mu.

Xu Qian said slowly: "In previous years, many gentry and powerful people in each township often colluded with the government to falsely report the number of land acres in order to exempt grain tax. For example, a township in Zhenhai, Zhejiang originally had 13,000 mu of grain fields. However, most of these land was in the hands of local gentry. In order to evade taxes, they colluded with the government and only reported 9,600 mu. After the new policy was implemented, the land acres of land was cleared again, and the extra 4,000 mu naturally came out. Therefore, Zhejiang's grain fields did not become smaller due to the new policy, but were more."

He made this explanation, which suddenly changed Li Shiao's face.

This is actually a very simple problem. Concealing the number of land acres was also a stubborn disease of the Ming Dynasty. Due to backward technology, high mountains and far away emperors, and local tycoons who are willing to pay more grain taxes, they will naturally use their connections and relationships to clear the relationship as much as possible and conceal the amount of land acres of their own land acres. In this way, the number of land acres given to the Ministry of Revenue by various prefectures and counties often has false points. Just as Xu Qian mentioned just now, there are 13,000 mu of land in Zhenhai Township, but in the end, only 9,600 mu of land was reported, and the remaining 4,000 mu of land is still there. But, people don’t count you asking you to collect taxes at all, and the land acres of your Ministry of Revenue naturally acknowledge that this town has 9,300 mu of land.
Chapter completed!