"Pick it up!" Zhou Dongtian scolded dissatisfiedly, "Your personal number and military rank!"
"Yes..." The girl trembled and stood at attention, her eyes looking in other directions, "He Chun. Political security cadet, personal code: 1629042749545210."
"Isn't it okay to see a man naked? How will you do your work in the future? Prepare to record it immediately!"
"Yes!" He Chun sat down with an embarrassed look on his face, his face lowered and he did not dare to look at the interrogation scene.
It seems that the training in the political security training class is not adequate. Zhou Dongtian thought that for people in this profession, the enemy has no gender and no age. Their awareness in this regard must be downplayed.
"Okay," Zhou Dongtian turned to Chen Minggang and said softly, "Speak slowly, don't be in a hurry, but don't miss anything."
"The Fish Scale Book is here, right there..." Chen Minggang trembled his lips as he revealed the hiding place.
According to his confession, the fish scale books were opened from several hidden locations, including the accounts of grain tax collection over the years, including this year's account books of extorting big households in the name of "land management". The most important thing is that important information was found.
An important "black account". This account book is different from the fish scale book. It clearly records the number and location of the "hidden fields" of many local grain households in Lingao. Some wealthy gentry once paid bribes to ask him to modify the details of the fish scale book.
It was also recorded one by one on it. Although Wu De couldn't understand the terminology above for a while, but now that the officials in the household are under their control, it is not difficult to understand the meaning.
Of course Zhou Dongtian is not satisfied with this, but these can only satisfy Wu De, and several members of the planning committee are watching eagerly. Chen Minggang has been a household clerk in the county for generations, and he has accumulated a lot of wealth.
It would be a shame not to squeeze it out.
"Where is your hoard of silver?"
“The small ones don’t have cellars——”
Zhou Dongtian nodded, and Chen Minggang's body immediately began to tremble.
"Come on, tell me, money is something external to the body -" he followed suit.
The torture lasted for almost an afternoon. Zhou Dongtian specially transferred a nurse to measure Chen Minggang's blood pressure and heartbeat every hour to prevent the continuous electric torture from killing him. He had enough data to know what to do.
Torture should be limited to the extent to which it can inflict maximum pain on the prisoner without damaging his life.
"Just tell me, it will be fine."
"You have been a household secretary for so many years and you only have this little thing. Who are you kidding?"
…
In the end, the Planning Commission's search team uncovered three vaults full of property, one of which was in his home in the county town, and one in the farm where Qiu Hong was placed. The last one was in the name of his relatives outside the city.
In the farm.
A lot of silver was collected from the cellar of his own house, and a large amount of fines were stored in the cellar of Qiuhong's farm.
Nearly 40,000 taels of silver were recovered from three hoards - this number is an astronomical figure in the local area. You must know that this is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of Lingao County in the Ming Dynasty for three years. This does not include many unverified prices.
The wealth of small possessions and "household records" is really shocking.
In addition, many kinds of daily necessities were also seized, including large amounts of grain, cloth, oil, salted meat, salted fish and wine.
"I really don't understand." Zhou Dongtian looked at the list of supplies sent by the Planning Commission, "I can understand that he stores a lot of silver and it's excusable. But what are you doing with so much food and cloth? Keep it for a long time.
It’s not just like rotting away in vain.”
Du Wen said: "One of the main characteristics of feudal society is that the upper class endlessly occupies a large amount of means of living that far exceeds its own needs..."
"It can be used to lend money. When there is a lean period, the old rice and rotten millet will be loaned out, and the new rice will be recovered in the autumn." Yan Ming was also very happy to have made this fortune. He had done a lot of research on Lingao's socio-economic situation.
Research.
"It's so dark."
"Not really, it's just a simple means of capital management." Yan Ming shrugged, "The modern financial industry is called dirty when it plays tricks. But let's be clear, rural microfinance has great potential!"
"Immediately organize the retained personnel of each household. Cooperate with our people to translate and compile these account books. Zhou Qi will be responsible for it," Wu De issued the order. "If the study class performs well and the public anger is small, the food gap can also be absorbed."
Several people will participate. "Also," Wu De thought for a while, "we need to sort out this year's grain collection situation within a week, including what has been collected, rice consumption, bribes they have collected, false claims of land acres, etc., all have to be done.
clear!"
"How to deal with Chen Minggang?" Zhou Dongtian asked for instructions.
"Secret execution after the accounting books are processed."
"Where are the family members?"
"Leave everything to the labor reform team," Wu De instructed, "without any time limit."
"Yes!" Zhou Dongtian thought about it, "Qiu Hong will also be sent?" The implication is a bit pity. Lingao has a serious male-female ratio imbalance. If young women are given to indigenous workers, it can be regarded as a welfare.
"No, Qiu Hong will be rewarded to Zhou Qi."
"Ah? This guy is really cheap."
"Not only do I want to give him Qiuhong, but I also want to organize a glorious wedding for them."
"What are you doing? You don't need to do this to bribe him."
"You have created so many rumors about her and Zhou Qi, now you have to make it real and make it known to everyone in the county." Wu De said with a smile, "Zhou Qi is accused of betraying the teacher and hurting the way.
Really. He will have to work with us wholeheartedly from now on."
After the disposal of Chen Minggang's property, the cleanup operation in the county came to an end. The leading group convened another meeting.
"Now that the county government is completely in our hands, and all necessary account books have been obtained, we need to restart the grain collection work," Wu De said.
"We have already allocated enough grain reserves, so we might as well not levy taxes this year and directly start the new tax reform. A one-year deferment of taxes can also give the people a break."
"The new tax system will not happen overnight. Stopping grain collection will cause us too much loss." Wu De shook his head. He then conveyed the opinion of the executive committee: the reform of the new tax system will begin immediately, but this year's grain collection will also continue.
.
Although the time-traveling group has reserved enough food for payment, this is mainly for emergencies. The time-travelers themselves also need food, and local resources must be used as soon as possible.
"Using the method of walking on two legs, two things are done at the same time." Wu De elaborated on his plan, "All the way, we will continue to collect grain according to the old system, and the basis for collecting grain is still the fish scale book." Wu De said, "I know:
In essence, the fish scale register is very unsatisfactory, but at the moment there is only one thing that everyone can accept as a basis - at least we must use it before our own land register comes out."
In addition to the fish scale book, they also have the account book of collection and payment. This is not an official book that is just a formality, but Chen Minggang's real "book". With this, they can clearly know who has paid and who has not paid, and who has really paid.
What are the numbers?
"... Once we have this number, we can implement compensatory levies and refunds..."
"Want to return it?"
“In order to implement the principle of fairness, of course the overtaxed part must be refunded,” Wu De said. “Since the new tax system cannot be implemented for a while, we must strive to be fair when continuing to use the old system to minimize disadvantages and win the trust of the people.
"
Specifically, the tax is levied according to the tax amount registered in the fish scale register. The floating tax is set as an additional three dou per stone for the entire county, and there is no additional tax. Any overpayment will be refunded.
"As for the many malpractices such as flying and spreading, they are complicated and cannot be cleared up in a while, so we will ignore them in this year's grain collection work. The focus will be on cleaning up the collection links, including the selection of weighing instruments and pile tips.
and beige judgment.”
“Wouldn’t you switch to the metric system?”
"No need for the time being. Immediately changing the scales for collection will cause a lot of confusion. I asked the woodwork factory to process and manufacture a batch of standard official buckets based on the iron buckets stored in the county government - the official buckets used for grain collection are all one size smaller.
.”
In order to eliminate the shortcomings of big and small fights in the collection process, Zhu Yuanzhang made a special weighing instrument as a standard weighing instrument and distributed it to all counties in the country. However, judging from the current situation of this county, this measure did not have a long-term effect.
The second step is to ban heaping. Of course, the so-called trick of kicking the stems will no longer continue.
The last one is beige. The Committee of Agriculture formulates a beige color standard, and produces sample cards and distributes them to collectors.
"It's already October." Sun Xiao expressed concern, "According to Wang Zhaomin, all the food must be prepared before November in order to pay on time. This time it took more than ten days... and now there is no
For experienced players, I’m afraid it’s too late…”
"So we need Vietnamese rice?" Wu De said, "That's what emergency response means. First use Vietnamese rice to top it off, and the food collection can be handled more calmly."
"Understood."
"Don't keep focusing on Vietnamese rice," Wu De warned them. "Our food reserves are not abundant. We will develop iron mines next year, and immigrants are still coming. These people need to eat and clothe themselves. Sugar season in Leizhou
It’s almost over.”
Moreover, as they dumped large amounts of sugar to Vietnam and then purchased rice, the local sugar price fell while the rice price increased. The exchange ratio was no longer as good as in the past.
"The specific collection unit will be handled by Delong."
In addition to the head office in Dongmen City, Delong Grain Bank now has branches in Nanbao and Bopu. Grain can be collected at these three places, which is very convenient for grain households - they originally have to come to the county.
pay.
"In addition, we also plan to open a branch in the county town." Yan Ming said. "Since we act as an agent for the county treasury, we have to be as close as possible to our customers. It will be convenient for everyone to do things."
"This is good. The indigenous people still believe in the authority of the county seat."
"In addition, we have to set up a special agency," Wu De said, "let's call it the Grain Recruitment Bureau."