But he smiled and said: "Speaking of customs, Yu Qian actually sent an official document."
The Customs, like the Taiping Mansion, is under the jurisdiction of the County Prince's Mansion. In theory, it is not a subordinate government office of the Taiping Mansion. Therefore, if they want to negotiate with the Taiping Mansion, they only need to issue an official document, but do not need to report it.
Zhang Anshi is the most concerned about customs news.
After all, this is about money.
So Zhang Anshi said with great interest: "What official document?"
"The customs side asked the Taiping Mansion if they could allocate a piece of land, about three hundred acres, for the purpose of building a school."
After Zhang Anshi heard this, he couldn't help but said: "If you want to build a school, you don't report to me first. What kind of fame does this Yu Qian have?"
Gao Xiang smiled and said: "This is probably just a draft. There is no complete charter yet. Now I just want to ask about the attitude of Taiping Mansion."
Zhang Anshi knew in his heart that most people in Taiping Mansion are like this now, because there is a shortage of talents, and many emerging industries require a lot of manpower.
But now, Zhili is in a bad situation. Before the implementation of the New Deal, all kinds of goods were returned to thousands of households, but in other prefectures and counties, many goods were quickly penetrated.
Hu Guang looked worried but also a little happy.
Qi Peng immediately said: "I said that."
Zhang Anshi was still worried and said: "That said, the truth is the same, but... the Ministry of Revenue still has nothing to worry about..."
The more important things are discussed, the more gentle and angry one has to appear.
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On the official roads and wharves outside the county, the small number of carriages, horses and ships escorting goods was much less than in previous years.
Because of this, the county magistrate who holds the famous post, no matter how disgusted he is with the goods, or finds it incredible that the person escorting the shipment is actually a descendant of a scholarly family.
But the local gentry were all the same, and their houses were all under the same roof. Opening that opening would be tantamount to breaking one's skin, stepping on someone else's tail, and preventing others from making a fortune. There was no guarantee that something would happen.
To be honest, if he were not a colleague, Qi Pengfei would have given me a slap in the face.
Qi Pengfei couldn't help but said at this time: "With eight hundred acres of land, the size of the school is quite large. That guy Yu Qian is very petty!"
Everyone fell silent again.
"The accounts from the establishment of the customs to the present, as well as a small amount of income and expenditure, are specially requested to be reviewed by Your Majesty!"
As for the origins of those agents, Qi Pengfei cares. Anyway, whoever sells the goods is the one who sells them.
Yang Rongdao: "That was submitted by Yang Pu, the junior scholar of Zhan Shifu. I ordered some people from Zhan Shifu to go to various prefectures and counties to investigate. What is said below is that in the past, the gentry leased land and handed it over.
When tenant farmers farm, farmers pay 70% of the tenant rent.”
Once his parents become a local gentry, they can do anything. If someone wants to stumble him, it will be easy.
No one even bothered the county school and the government school, asking Xuezheng and the county magistrates to severely punish the scholars who colluded with the Taiping Mansion.
It seems that it is precisely because of this that a special school is opened to recruit students, and it is promised that those students can directly return to the customs before graduation in the future. What kind of people are needed, but there are no targeted courses.
The essence of rural autonomy is gentry autonomy.
Because big things hurt Xiaoya and almost interfere with other people's interests. Small things can't be more beautiful and show your position.
That made Jin Yiwei's side feel energetic.
The people here are all extremely stupid people. In fact, even if there is no controversy, we don't all have our own reasons. It just depends on what you focus on.
In addition, a small amount of cotton was introduced from Tianzhu. The land in Tianzhu was fertile and the sunshine conditions were poor, so a small amount of cotton fields were widely planted, and the price was high. The characteristic of cotton was its heavy texture, so a sea ship could carry
There is also little cotton, so if the transportation costs are spread out, it will still be unprofitable.
Those people simply ignored the abnormal official errands. When the ship arrived at the shore, no one was responsible for picking up the goods. Before the official errands got off the boat, the man just drew out a name card in an understatement and went forward.
So he ignored it.
But in fact, everyone has their own thoughts. The more they talk about trivial matters, the more they appear to be understatement.
Zhang Anshi blushed slightly and said: "That's what you said. To put it that way, doesn't Liu Gong think that the reports from various prefectures and counties... are taken for granted?"
Gao Xiang, the Minister of Rites, smiled at this moment, making him look so unique among the group of frowning people.
Early summer of the 14th year of Yongle.
"Not many people from various prefectures and counties have written to accuse..."
In fact, those things are actually out of my mind.
Gao Xiang's face was red and he was panting: "That can't be done, and this can't be done either. Let's argue first. If one side doesn't make sense, I will second my opinion."
It's just that, it was indeed like that at first, but very slowly, the situation quickly changed.
When we took out such a certificate, the captains would just rush away.
Gaoxiang nodded, but raised his eyes to look at Xia Yuanji and said, "Nothing has happened yet..."
As for the county magistrates, county magistrates, chief registrars, captains, inspectors, etc. outside the county, even though they were local people, they all kept quiet before hearing the report.
Zhang Anshi is quite worried about this. After all, I am the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.
Gaoxiang said: "Shangguan's side can't find any way to allocate the land. It's just as the palace said, the land is too small."
Therefore, those people are best suited to slow down their anger.
At most, Qi Pengfei himself learned from Jin Yiwei that some kind of agency concept has emerged outside Taiping Prefecture. That is, merchants are responsible for production, and the collection and distribution of goods are left to local people in various prefectures and counties, and we escort the goods back to our hometowns ourselves.
Touting.
The lack of manpower means that land rents have to drop again and again before tenant farmers can be recruited for farming.
The tenants lost much of their livelihood, making it even more difficult to afford the rent.
Xia Yuanji nodded to me and said in an easy-going manner: "In those days, I have been looking forward to him coming, but he kept coming around."
Many of the strong men either accompanied others to escort the goods, or retreated to outside the county or to the city to carry goods for others. Of course, even fewer people chose to... flow into Taiping Mansion.
At this time, I said with a bit of worry on my brows: "That's the way to go up there. If the number of people in the countryside decreases, a small amount of grain fields will inevitably be deserted. If things continue like this, what will happen to the summer grain in the future? The court and the people have a problem.
Food is bound to cause trouble."
Qi Pengfei sighed: "This is the only bad thing that can happen now. By the way, people outside the capital are saying that Yu Qian has appeared. Have you not heard about this man?"
The biggest casualty among them is that they are still gentry.
Yu Qian came to the Prince's Mansion with a stack of accounts in his arms.
Although the colors of the cloth in Taiping Prefecture are bad and they have been dyed, the price is relatively high due to small-scale production, which has almost caused the homespun cloth in many places to disappear.
Now we have to recruit people, and the Hongwen Hall in each feudal town is still short of people.
Seeing my smile, everyone was suspicious. Qi Pengfei was the first to ask: "Do you have any disdain for Mr. Liu? The affairs of scholars are closely related to the Ministry of Rites. If the rites collapse and music breaks down, Mr. Liu will be the one to blame."
A small amount of production raw materials were returned to Taiping Prefecture. Before the production and processing in Taiping Prefecture, the goods were piled up like mountains. Except for the use by the military and civilians of Taiping Prefecture, the most important thing was not the sales.
Xu Shaofu County, especially the local officials, obviously had no natural objection to the goods from Taiping Prefecture. The officials at the top simply set up checkpoints at various docks. As a result, many merchants complained.
Yang Rong thought it was reasonable, so he proposed it.
Everyone looked at Yang Rong. Yang Rong pondered for a moment and said: "Masters... I only read the report, but you didn't even get a report."
Although various prefectures and counties used floating officials, the imperial court appointed and dismissed officials in a county. The real officials were only a few people who passed through the district. The entire county was actually rural autonomy to a certain extent.
Gao Xiang said: "If it is Liu Guan, it is necessary to control it. Is it Liu Guan who buys the land? Is it Liu Guan who leases the land to tenants for farming? If you put it like that, it simply means that the whole family is Liu Guan, and everyone is Liu Guan.
Is it bad to imitate the Taiping Mansion? Simply divide all the land, and then the hidden dangers will be solved at the root. Anyway, it will be beneficial."
Those high-ranking officials in the United States are all locals. They only look at the name cards and immediately dare to be indifferent. Not to mention making things difficult, they are afraid that they have to bow to the visitor and call them "Master".
But such a trivial matter, if it directly affects the national economy and people's livelihood, is a bad joke. Every word or deed may very well lead to unpredictable consequences.
"Secondly, there is the issue of grain taxes. The situation that was carefully investigated by the people sent by Bachelor Yang Pu is shocking. The grain taxes set by the imperial court have always been very small. However, the various apportionments and exorbitant taxes imposed by the local governments are huge.
. To put it another way, when it comes to the item of losses and losses, farmers are required to pay for them themselves. Speaking of losses and losses... Why is it that Taiping Prefecture and the United States have settled it, but why... the various prefectures and counties impose additional taxes on the people?"
Xia Yuanji said: "He can just say it."
There were actually many gentry families participating.
Before conducting an interrogation, I found that those small-time scholars all had books from small workshops, and there were not many ocean-going shipping companies.
Cotton cloth with a worse quality and cheaper price, sugar, spices and Chinese pepper, which used to be low in price but are now very affordable.
Therefore, Qixia is becoming more and more beautiful now, and it is less elegant than the Confucius Temple. Many scholars have emerged, staying in hotels, working in the theater, and listening to plays. At worst, it is quiet, and even spend money like water.
I am so familiar with the Prince's Mansion that I can't be more unfamiliar with it. To say that I am going home is too much.
Especially cotton and cane sugar, the latter cannot keep people warm, while the former, for the people at this time, sugar has always been a luxury product and cannot be equal to meat.
Over in Qixia, there are many workshops that spin the cotton and make it into cloth. The price is actually much higher than the current cloth.
Yang Rong paused and then said: "The reports from various prefectures and counties now say that because of the increase in the number of people and the loss of income from homespun cloth, the tenant farmers have been able to survive but have to flee one after another."
Come to think of it, if the tenant rent is reduced to 20% to 80%, will the tenant farmer's life not be improved and he can be able to farm with peace of mind."
"In addition to this, you still have to bear the taxes and corvee from the court. Therefore, what falls into the hands of the tenant farmers is only 80% of the grain. If it is not a disaster year, the 80% of the grain can indeed barely survive, but there is no
However, they had to pay 80% to 10% of the tenant rent. Because there were few people in the area and a lot of land, the gentry was worried that the land rent could not be leased out."
After those words came up, all the ministers outside Wenyuan Pavilion were speechless, and they seemed to be out of embarrassment.
No one thinks that this has been the case for thousands of years. It is a tacitly accepted rule that cannot be broken.
At this time, there were many "ignorant people" in various prefectures and counties, and the sense of crisis was gradually gone.
Zhang Anshi asked: "What exactly is this statement?"
The harm of that kind of thing is also great, especially the inflow of a small amount of cotton cloth, which makes the original homespun cloth in the countryside completely lose its market. The original more intense women farming and men weaving were destroyed by small things.
But at that time, I could only hold my nose and admit it.
Zhang Anshi raised his eyebrows and said: "But Liu Guan...after all..."
As time passed, Xiaojia became increasingly silent.
Moreover, the sugar foods at this time were rich in nutrients for people of that era, and the difference between small and old hens meant that they were small.
What Gao Xiang reported does indeed involve the problems of various prefectures and counties. A small amount of special products from the sea have flowed in, from pepper to cane sugar, spices, etc., and because of the small-scale inflow, the price has not been acceptable to special people.
Under such circumstances, hiring people on the market would be time-consuming and labor-intensive, and you may not be able to recruit the people you want.
As for the gentry, we are very harsh and harsh.
After hearing this, Xia Yuanji became very interested and said, "Oh, I have been waiting for you for a long time."
Encountering such a stranger, Zhang Anshi was at a loss for words for a moment.
After listening to Zhang Anshi's words, Hu Guang said: "It is true that farming is stable. It is a small matter, but it is indeed worthy of attention. What's more, many scholars are different from merchants now. They also know the academic politics of various places and how to discipline them.
Yes, you are so polite."
As far as parents were concerned, the servants were locals and the gentry were locals, but they themselves were not locals. Therefore, when taking office, the first thing Medi wanted to do was to break off relations with the local gentry.
Xia Yuanji pointed at the thing I was holding in my hand and asked with evil eyes: "What is that?"
Jin Zhong, Secretary of the Ministry of War, said something. I am also worried about the food problem. The New Deal cannot be implemented, but there is more food.
"This person is as timid as a fighter!"
It was just that those memorials were sent to Wenyuan Pavilion and various ministries, but they triggered a calm discussion.
Gao Xiang said: "The sage also said that scholars can manage business, right? Doesn't that have anything to do with Li Ben Le being good?"
Yang Rong was naturally vague about Xiaojia's thoughts. I smiled and said: "So... the land is going to be deserted after all. According to you, if you really want to have no land, are you willing to lower the rent, but are you worried about whether there will be people to farm? In the final analysis, just go back
When it comes to the problem just now, it’s still Liu Guan. The gentry who sells goods is in Liu Guan, and the gentry who got angry is also in Liu Guan. It’s just that the interests of each other are the same. No one is inferior and the other is superior."
Xia Yuanji is of course reasonable and reasonable towards those parents and officials who are slow to lose their temper. That is our own problem.
Gao Xiang said: "Yes."
After all, the Xiaoming court had a so-called small amount of allocations to outside the county. It had almost no money and food, or any problems outside the county, it had to rely on the gentry to raise funds.
Medi said that if you offend one, you will offend them all.
Yu Qian said: "Customs affairs are complicated, so Shangguan Chuan is the first person to do it."
The kind of certificates and vouchers are issued by local merchants, proving that there is no business dealings between them.
We thought that letting things go like that was the best way to do it. When the time came, we reported to the imperial court and begged the imperial court to stop this matter. On the other hand, we went to Taiping Mansion to ask Taiping Mansion to "behave" more.
When he saw Qi Pengfei, Yu Qian still bowed politely as usual and said, "I've seen you, Your Majesty."
After hearing this, Xia Yuanji frowned and snorted: "You have nothing to do with my county. What are we doing here? Those people must be ignored."
The price of sucrose is the same as before, no matter how low it is, it is still within reach.
Jin Chundao, the Minister of Punishment, said: "I haven't heard anything about it. This person seems to be in charge of the customs, he is a civil servant, and he is very courageous. I heard that a batch of goods from Chengyang Marquis Mansion was detained by me a few days later, and ordered Chengyang Marquis to pay taxes.
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What's more, those young men don't have any honors, and they don't even have some clan members as officials. If they really fall out, they may not think highly of him as a mere first-grade county magistrate.
The ministers drank tea each and seemed to be talking about this matter attentively.
That would be too shameful!
"In any case, the food issue is just a joke. Even if it is a matter for scholars, it cannot be discussed urgently. If this causes the land to become barren and the grain production to decrease, and if there is a year of famine in the coming year, you will be a sinner for the ages.
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Everyone couldn't help but smile after hearing what Jin Chun said.
However, those gentry are deeply entwined in the local area. After hundreds of years of reproduction, there are no so-called weddings and funerals for the so-called well-matched families. The essence of it is that whether we are from the east or the west outside the county, there are many differences. To put it bluntly, we
They are all relatives. It is the man of that family who married the son of this family. It is not that the son of this family has been promoted by this family, but the disciple of this family.
Xia Yuanji thought for a moment and said, "Let's wait until my charter report arrives at the Prince's Mansion before we can discuss it."
Because those officials who were asking for money soon discovered that the merchants who were escorting the goods gradually changed from the merchants wearing common clothes and shoes to the scholars in Confucian shirts and silk scarves.
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Yang Rongdao: "Let's take another look at those memorials. When you are waiting for the votes to be drafted, you still suggest that your Majesty should keep them in the lottery and read the previous chapters."
At first, that kind of thing was just covert, or in other words, it was still the majority, but soon...that kind of thing actually ended and became widespread.
After all, it is my duty to report to the court and negotiate with the Taiping Mansion. What can the Taiping Mansion do to me?
Therefore, everyone has begun to imitate the model of official schools. For example, the current customs requires a group of anti-smuggling personnel and strict discipline. These people are not only used as a guarantee of force, but also need to be able to read and write.
And they have sufficient arithmetic ability. In addition, a large number of customs clerks have higher requirements for arithmetic.