In the next few minutes, he slandered Chen Minggang - strictly speaking, it was not slander, it was just telling the truth. It can be seen that the secretary of this house and Mr. Wang have not complemented each other in the past few years.
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Wang Zhaomin didn't know that his words were recorded - of course he didn't realize this either - the Political Security Administration was extremely interested in this kind of information about indigenous people exposing each other. Sometimes a few words or a sentence would bring out the truth.
Lots of useful information.
After Wu De listened attentively for a while, he said in a very embarrassed tone: "Master Wang is right, but we are unfamiliar with our connections in Linggao. If we don't rely on such people, I'm afraid we won't be able to stay any longer.
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If Wang Zhaomin had not produced so many "traitors" to help you work and fight, you would definitely not be able to stay. But I had to say this in my heart, but the thief Kun is really cunning, and the meaning of his words is obviously to
Be the first to ask for conditions yourself.
Wang Zhaomin put forward the conditions discussed with Wu Mingjin: when the Chuanchuan people began to collect autumn grain, they would take the initiative to pay grain taxes to the county government in the name of Bairen Village. The taxable area was 500 acres of paddy fields, and each mu was not divided.
For fat and thin fields, the price of brown rice is three dou and five liters, and the Liao rate is 9 cents. The capitation fee is 300 Wen per person, which is levied according to the household registration of about fifty people in Bairen Village.
In return, Wang Zhaomin promised that for every one stone of the autumn grain quota, one dou, two liters and five tons of "rice consumption" would be levied, and all of this income would be given to the Chuanchuan Group. It was about one thousand dan of grain. As for the "reasonable burden" collected by the Chuanchuan Group itself
"The county government doesn't interfere, they can collect whatever they want - in fact, they can't interfere even if they want to.
Wu De did some calculations and found that according to this condition, their actual income after deducting the taxes paid was about seven to eight hundred kilograms, which was basically a net income that could be obtained without any effort.
However, this is different from their purpose: Chuan Chuan Group is not precious about this little rice now - not counting the warehouse in Lingao, but only in the granary in Vietnam, they still have seven or eight thousand kilo of brown rice that has not been shipped, and they need to buy more.
A few thousand dan is a piece of cake.
The Chuanchuan Group is preparing to take this opportunity to break the Ming Dynasty tax system that has been chaotic and full of shortcomings for hundreds of years, and establish an efficient and orderly tax system, thereby penetrating and controlling Lingao's county administration. In other words, it is preparing to
Treat Lingao as a test field under the new administrative system. For this purpose, Chuanchuan Group is prepared to spend a lot of money, and there is only a thousand stone meters that can be spent.
Wu De did not answer, but asked: "Master Wang, we really don't know anything about the autumn grain collection. Can you explain it to us?"
Wang Zhaomin said: "What's so difficult about this? It's just that there are all kinds of tricks and shortcomings. It would take three days and three nights to talk about it all."
"Please enlighten me!"
Anyway, I had nothing to do. Judging from Chief Wu’s intentions, he didn’t feel like he was rejecting people thousands of miles away. The matter probably still had to be discussed. In order to win the trust of the Australians, Wang Zhaomin sorted out all the bad policies and tricks in the grain collection.
I told Wu De something.
"Actually, I am from a criminal background." Wang Zhaomin said, "However, I have also learned about money and food, and I can handle the money and food in an ordinary small county."
Whenever the county magistrate takes office, the two masters of criminal names and money and grain are the most important. The former assists the county magistrate in hearing criminal cases. The latter specializes in cooperating with the boss to handle money and grain sales, land residents, house number inventory, field measurement, opening of warehouses for relief, and collection of miscellaneous taxes.
The specialty of this type of business is that he is not only familiar with all kinds of methods in this field, but also good at calculation.
Wang Zhaomin's profession is criminal justice, but his academic skills are not good, and he has never been able to find a good employer - most of them are people who work in remote small counties. The population is small, so it is natural to litigate.
It was a bit wasteful to hire two masters, so I learned about money and food. Although I was not very proficient, I could hold two jobs for one person. Not only did I get an extra income, my boss also lost one person's expenses. Everyone was happy.
In addition to the abacus, the Qianliang master's skill lies in his ability to understand the situation and be good at dealing with the clerk. This is because the land tax levy requires money and grain, and the Ministry of Household Affairs only asks about the total number, not the details. Who has how many fields, how many land, and how many seats are there in the local area?
Where did he end up and how many subjects did he start with? Only the clerk of the household office in the county government knows for sure. What they rely on is a secret book passed down from generation to generation, called the "Fish Scale Book". Without this book, the sky is the limit.
I can't afford to collect money or food.
The Yulin volume is a public property, drawn up and revised by the government. However, over time, the county archives have been destroyed or lost, and have long since disappeared. The "public volume" revised by the government has become the private property of the book office. Regardless of whether it is the county
Ling is still the master of money and food. He wants to smoothly handle the official affairs of summer and autumn every year, but he is often hijacked by the book office.
Generally speaking, after the county magistrate takes office, Mr. Qianliang will go to negotiate terms and balances with the secretary of the household to form a tacit understanding and collude to get what each wants. However, there have always been some knots between Wang Zhaomin and Chen Minggang.
The reason is that Lingao is a very remote place, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so the secretary office is much less wary of officials.
Because the "household book" has a Yulin register, not only can official affairs go smoothly, but you can also make a lot of money. For many years, the collection of money and food by landowners has been a mess. Those who have paid money and food may not receive it from the government.
There are "grain strings" for collecting grains, and those who do not pay grains have proof of grain payment. Some people have no land but have to pay grains, and some people have thousands of hectares of fertile land but do not need to pay grains of rice. Anyway, as long as the "higher" levy amount is enough, so what?
It doesn't matter at all if you have the crown and the throne.
As for the tricks in it, there are many names. Wang Zhaomin mentioned two tricks: "strange sending" and "production and grain storage". Wu De knew the latter from Zhang Xingjiao. As for "stunning sending", he also briefly mentioned it.
Know a thing or two.
"When it comes to imperial exemptions and exemptions, isn't there always a quota?" Wu De "sold" a little of the knowledge he had heard, lest Wang Zhaomin really think that they knew nothing and were talking nonsense.
Wang Zhaomin was really startled, thinking that this was probably what Chen Minggang said, so he explained: "The imperial court's exemptions originally had a quota." This quota was set during the Hongwu period. Generally speaking, the first-rank official in the capital could be exempted from 30 shi, and the second-rank official was exempted from 24 shi.
Stone, and so on. The exemptions and exemptions for foreign officials are half of those for Beijing officials. As for supervisors, candidates, and scholars, as usual, they can be exempted from 2 stones. In addition to the grain-free share, other self-purchased acres must be reported to the official and paid for grain.
"Actually? Those who could be exempted from two dan were exempted from dozens of dan. When Zhang was in charge of the government, he first checked his own acres. It was estimated that he would be exempted from more than 80 dan, but in fact he was exempted from nearly 900 dan."
Wu De listened very carefully, and he guessed that Prime Minister Zhang was probably referring to Zhang Juzheng. When Yu Eshui was teaching the land tax system of the Ming Dynasty, he specifically mentioned that Zhang Juzheng had engaged in land ownership during his reign - it was not too far away from now.
"In addition to the exemptions and exemptions from the imperial court," Wang Zhaomin said with a wry smile, "there is another type of people, the so-called 'scammers'." Every county has a group of "special characters" who are domineering and difficult to deal with.
They are either powerful landowners or rural scoundrels. They have to deal with it. The portion is insufficient and the beige color is rough, but they have to be accepted. Sometimes they even give false "grain strings" - proof of grain payment, to buy a peaceful land.
If you pay less for food, you will "bring land to donate." This is one of them.
The second is that some people will ask them to "guarantee payment". Over time, so-called "guaranteed households" are formed. These tenants are either "grain poor" themselves and collude with the officials, or they are local powerful people who can blackmail the officials. Small households
If you entrust them with "guaranteed payment", the "floating fee" part is of course indispensable, but it is much cheaper than paying it yourself.
"The two Gou brothers you killed were originally the two largest contractors in the county." Wang Zhaomin said, "But if they hadn't colluded with Chen Minggang and worked as 'grain men', they wouldn't have been able to become such contractors.
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Wu De nodded, this "householder" actually meant a "tax collector".
Naturally, the work of the "contractors" is not for nothing. As usual, they have to scratch their skins. Some of the "contractors" are so bold that they simply only collect the grain without paying the grain, and just default on it, just waiting for the final "exemption" from the court. This situation is obvious in the Ming Dynasty.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Jiangnan area was very prosperous.
Some people pay less, while others pay more. County taxes still have to be borne by the county people. In addition, all kinds of exploitation costs, plus the benefits of county officials, all come from the small people.
This is called "grain consumption at the top of the pile", also known as "floating harvest".
"Consumption of grain and tip of grain" is not considered "arbitrary charge". It is clearly stipulated in the tax system of the Ming Dynasty. In some places, the additional consumption of rice and tip of rice per stone is as much as 7 buckets and 6 liters, which is more than half of the regular amount.
This extra income is the largest and most reliable "gray income" for local officials. It is much safer than the black money gained through corruption and bending the law.
The "Grain Consumption Duijian" nominally pays for the freight and loss of taxed grains. In fact, there is no standard at all and it is very arbitrary. Wang Zhaomin dared to propose that each stone should be levied at 1 bucket and 2 liters for the crossing group, and he took advantage of this loophole.
Wang Zhaomin was vague about the "floating revenue", saying only that it was used to pay for the freight and losses of grain taxes. Of course, he didn't want Australians to know too clearly about this revenue.
Wu De thought to himself: No wonder Luo Duo said at that time that the real tax burden in Lingao County was more than 15,000 dan. From this point of view, it is entirely possible.
"How much rice is consumed in this county per stone?"
Wang Zhaomin was startled and said quickly: "Well, you only need to pay the full amount of food, and all the floating payment will be waived."
Wu De thought, it doesn't matter if you don't say this, we will investigate it naturally.
"Isn't it difficult for the county to pay extra taxes?" Wu De asked.
"Difficult." Wang Zhaomin was worried about this matter and nodded involuntarily.
"Where is the difficulty?!" Wu De held on to this question.