Chapter 329: The Adventures of the County Magistrate
Wang Yue saw that the matter had been settled, and he did not bother too much. Although the capital was prosperous, it did not attract him much. For him, it was the same everywhere.
After Wang Yue returned home, he told Minglan about the situation. Minglan knew that Wang Yue was going to Quanzhou to be the county magistrate, and subconsciously thought that Wang Yue had been demoted. But when she thought about it carefully, it seemed that he was not.
Wang Yue saw that Minglan was suspicious, so he patiently explained to him the reason why he went to Quanzhou to be the county magistrate.
After hearing this, Minglan was still a little worried. It was relatively quiet for them to hide in Quanzhou, but their parents, her mother-in-law from yesterday, and her younger brother were all still in Tokyo.
Seeing Minglan's worried look, she smiled and comforted, "You also know how powerful my Taolin is. I'll leave a few female guards with your grandmother. If anything happens, let your grandmother and Xiaoniang come together."
Hide in the peach forest."
Minglan thought about it and thought it made sense, so she said with a smile, "Lang Jun is just thoughtful, and I am worried too much, so I will prepare myself. After all, this trip may take many years."
On this day off, Wang Yue and Minglan went back to Sheng's house. First, they sat with Sheng Hong for a while. After learning that Wang Yue was about to go to Quanzhou to be the county magistrate, he told Wang Yue a lot about politics.
Wang Yue benefited a lot from this experience. There is a big difference between managing a country and managing a county. Sheng Hong's experience is still useful as a reference.
Sheng Hong, who was a rare teacher, held Wang Yue and talked for a long time. When it got a little late, he finally stopped talking and let Wang Yue go to the inner courtyard to pay his respects to the old lady.
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Wang Yue went south with Wang Anshi. When they passed by Suzhou, Wang and his wife went home. They didn't want to go to the sterile Quanzhou, even to accompany their son. Of course, if Minglan was pregnant,
That's another story.
Wang Anshi first took Wang Yue to stay in Fujian Lufu Yamen for a few days to get to know the adults, and then he let Wang Yue take Minglan to Quanzhou.
Wang Anshi's operation made the well-informed Quanzhou officials know that Wang Yue's backstage was quite tough, and they did not dare to neglect him at all.
This is what the old fox Wang Anshi intended. After all, he and Wang Yue are both new here. It is definitely unrealistic for him to reform the entire Fujian Road right away. However, if he gives Wang Yue a platform and allows Wang Yue to reform in Quanzhou in a dramatic way, he
If you try some arrancar again, it will be much easier.
After Wang Yue took office, Ye was busy with government affairs, leaving some guards to guard the county office, and arranged a few female guards to assist Minglan in taking care of the backyard. And he himself took a few entourages and began to visit around Quanzhou.
In fact, Quanzhou has many specialties, as well as a natural port. Wang Yue had an inn and a caravan, and he had already established a presence here.
Now that Wang Yue has become the county magistrate, with the help of his own people, he can quickly understand the local situation.
Wang Yue, who was confident in his heart, returned to the county government, took out the official imperial edict, and directly announced the implementation of the land equalization tax law. He began to order the land to be cleared and verify the landowners as agreed with Wang Anshi.
And the land was divided into grades and collected land tax.
This immediately affected the interests of the local gentry and wealthy families, but these people could only watch and were unable to stop them. Although they also had people on Fujian Road, Wang Yue did not buy it at all, and they had Wang Anshi, the highest official of Fujian Road, as their backing.
They could only watch helplessly as Wang Yue carried out the decree.
It's just that the rabbit bites people when it gets angry, let alone people, let alone gentry who have their own interests at stake.
So, on a dark and stormy night, a group of strongmen attacked Wang Yue's county government office. Wang Yue, who was well prepared, captured them all, leaving the heroic Ming Lan, who had received the news and dressed up, without even a chance to make a move.
nothing.
After Wang Yue interrogated and obtained the evidence, he only withheld the people and evidence, but did not attack immediately. Instead, he asked these people to cooperate with Wang Yue's policies. If they were honest, when Wang Yue left office, these evidences would be
will be returned to them.
With the chance of survival given by Wang Yue, this most difficult decree was quickly completed with the cooperation of the Quanzhou gentry.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Yue implemented laws such as the Young Crops Law and the Exemption from Service Law. However, Wang Yue was very flexible when implementing the policy. He first set up a Municipal Trade Bureau in Quanzhou County to pay for the unsalable goods in Quanzhou, and then established a shipping company.
The office is stationed in the capital city of Luzhou, Fujian, and sells Quanzhou's specialties to the state capital in an official manner, while the intermediary escorts are performed as corvees and no fixed manpower is recruited.
There are so many goods. These two newly-built errands not only sell local specialties to other places, but also transport goods from other places to the local area. This requires a lot of manpower, which directly leads to the two yamen taking up a lot of corvee labor.
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Just when everyone in Quanzhou wanted to see Wang Yue's joke and see how Wang Yue solved the farmland water conservancy problem without serving as a corvee, Wang Yue used the profits earned by the Municipal Bureau of Economic Affairs to use part of the money to recruit people to repair water conservancy and reclaim wasteland.
land.
Of course, this will lead to many people complaining, but with Wang Anshi suppressing him, Wang Yue is just trying to make waves.
As Wang Yue continued to implement some of the revised decrees that did not harm farmers, the gentry whom Wang Yue had taken advantage of remained silent and cooperated obediently. Quanzhou's reforms soon became effective.
However, the gentry and merchants who had not been caught could not bear it anymore. They hated Wang Yue so much that they felt that Wang Yue would not let them pass by, so Wang Yue was assassinated again.
However, this time Wang Yue did not let them off so lightly. He arrested many people without mercy and reported them to the police after interrogation.
The approval was quickly given, and for a while, people in Quanzhou were pouring out, and no one dared to have any ideas anymore.
After two adventures as county magistrates, Quanzhou became much more stable. In just over a year, the taxes paid by Wang Yue increased several times, and the people of Quanzhou became much richer.
This chapter is not over yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading! After all, the people who served in the government caravan formed by Wang Yue more or less brought some from other places to sell. Wang Yue also ordered the people below to turn a blind eye.
With one eye closed, the corvee service they performed was not a loss at all.
Because Wang Yue's secret caravan often came to Quanzhou to transport some special products to various parts of the country and even overseas, and also brought some special products from various places to Quanzhou for sale, this led to the prosperity of Quanzhou's business.
And the water conservancy construction in the past year has been very smooth. After all, it is a contractor with money, not a Tiangong without money. The speed of water conservancy construction and land reclamation is very fast.
Wang Yue was busy with government affairs during the year in Quanzhou, but he did not delay having a child, and Xiao Tuantuan was born during this time.
After the affairs in Quanzhou were straightened out, he returned to his normal state. He easily handled some official duties all day long, and began to accompany his wife to entertain the children, and occasionally visited the scenery of Quanzhou together.
While Wang Yue was enjoying himself leisurely, Wang Anshi saw that Wang Yue was very effective in Quanzhou, so he subconsciously wanted to directly copy Quanzhou's actions.
By the time Wang Yue came back from his trip and got the news, the Fujian Road decree had already been implemented.
This is a place of government, which is very different from the situation in Wang Yue's county. Wang Anshi thought that when he saw the benefits, there would be many people to support him, but he did not expect that many people wanted to get benefits but were unwilling to offend others.
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Therefore, Wang Anshi's decree brought great benefits to Fujian Road. The two departments established were based on the Quanzhou Yamen and expanded several times.
However, some of the gentry and merchants who were injured had their own backstage, and their backstage in Tokyo quickly put pressure on Wang Anshi.
Soon, the officials could no longer bear the disturbance and wanted to know the real situation in Quanzhou, so they summoned Wang Anshi and Wang Yue back to Tokyo to report on their duties.
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On the way back to Beijing, Wang Yue asked speechlessly, "Shibo, why are you so impatient? You should be the last to implement the decree on equalizing taxes on square fields."
Wang Anshi was very stubborn. He said forcefully, "The gentry in Quanzhou can suffer some losses, why can't the gentry on Fujian Road? After the decree is passed, I will benefit from them."
Wang Yue patted his head, wordlessly pulled out a pile of evidence from the bag, and handed it to Wang Anshi helplessly. After seeing Wang Anshi take it, he said depressedly, "The reason why the Quanzhou gentry is so honest is that
because this."
Wang Anshi took it and glanced at it suspiciously, then his eyes widened. He asked in disbelief, "Are these people too audacious to assassinate an official of the imperial court?"
Wang Yue rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "You don't have to act with me. You have been an official for so many years. How can you not know?"
Wang Anshi saw that Wang Yue was not easy to fool, so he said helplessly, "I also heard about the assassination in Quanzhou, but you didn't report it, so I thought it was not serious. Besides, I was well prepared, but those people were too cunning.
Don’t take action.”
Wang Yue also sighed, and then said, "The Guan family's health is getting worse day by day, and the struggle in Tokyo is becoming more and more intense. It is understandable that the Guan family wants to be more stable at this time."
Wang Anshi also sighed, and he said very distressedly, "How could I not know? It's just that the official family supported the reform, and I just want to make some achievements while the official family is still in charge.
Let the country become stronger and stronger earlier, and secondly, let the steward give the final word to ensure that the reform can go forward. After all, the two princes in Tokyo and those clan members, no matter who comes to the throne, will definitely maintain stability and cannot support it.
We have to, in that case, we don’t know how many years we have to wait.”
After Wang Yue heard Wang Anshi's words, he wanted to tell him that the next emperor would be his little fanboy who supported his reforms very much.
However, Wang Yue looked at Wang Anshi, who had only been a year old and had a lot of gray hair, and he didn't have the heart to say it. After all, it would still take several years, and he was really afraid of hurting this stubborn man.