Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 336 The Trip to Anyang ([-])
Of course, the other five counties will respond, but no one has jumped out to claim responsibility for the assassination. They are officials ordered by the court, and they are not terrorist organizations. No one will hit this kind of gun.

The first to respond was Wuyuan County.Wuyuan County is the second largest county in Huizhou Prefecture after Shexian County. Its strength ranks first among the five counties, and it is also the hometown of Zhu Zi.Wuyuan magistrate received the document on the 22th day of the winter month, and sent back the document on the [-]nd, which was extremely fast in terms of the average administrative efficiency of the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that although the speed is fast, the quality is really not good enough.The argument of this Shenwen is the same as the previous Jixi Yang Jiaozhi, alleging that She County owed 780 shi of summer wheat and was fined to pay the summer tax of [-] pieces of raw silk, which had been transported over the years, and had nothing to do with the other five counties.As for "people produce silk", that is a matter of the Nanjing shipping warehouse, and it has nothing to do with the place.

This argument is of course flawed and nothing new.But there is no way, there are only a few days in total, no matter how talented the Wuyuan county magistrate is, it is impossible to match the evidence that Shuai Jiamo has carefully prepared for several years.

However, the county magistrate was not mediocre in the end. In his application, he also put forward a four-two-two plan: consult the yellow book.

The so-called yellow book is an important tax file of the imperial court, and the collection of taxes and services on the peak must be carried out according to the yellow book.It is first-hand information, the most authoritative.

The logic of Wuyuan County is: if the "Da Ming Hui Dian" and the government records are correct, then there must be corresponding records in the original records of the Yellow Book, and the latter is more reliable than the former.So as long as you check the yellow book files, you will naturally know who is right and who is wrong.

According to regulations, several copies of the yellow book will be copied, not only for the county and the government, but also for the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs.You can say that the yellow book kept by the county and the government may be tampered with, but the records of the Nanjing household department cannot be tampered with by your officials in a certain place.

Wuyuan County's statement is unique and provides a new way of thinking for resolving disputes.

In addition, he followed the example of Shexian County and brought in a group of celebrities from the county to cheer.Although the formation is not as prominent as that of She County, there are also four high-ranking officials who were born as Jinshi. This is the reason why the competition for Jinshi in Nanbang is fierce. This is only a mere Huizhou, and it is so awesome that it only has two counties under its jurisdiction. Out of so many famous people, they are all still alive.

Three days later, Jixi County joined the battle group again, also led by the county magistrate.

With Wuyuan gaining time, Jixi County is more fully prepared.The county magistrate chose another rebuttal strategy, placing the breakthrough on the "separate collection of raw silk".

Shuai Jiamo had a question before, saying that there are six counties in Huizhou, why is raw silk collected in She County alone?This is unreasonable at all, so all six counties must lose.He also cited many examples. For example, Changzhou government paid tribute to tea, and the "Hui Dian" stated that it was "conquered in Yixing County"; Ningguo government attacked papaya, and it was also stated that Xuancheng County was the only one to lose.Therefore, if the imperial court collects raw silk in She County alone, the "Hui Dian" will definitely write it clearly.

In response to this question, Jixi listed a lot of counterexamples: Su and Chang only collected white rice; Ning and Tai only collected herd horses; Jixi exclusively collected imperial wood.These are not specifically written in the "Congress Code".For example, the mung beans in Songjiang Prefecture are only collected by Huating County, and Shanghai County does not need to take care of them; County, as for the two items of silk and yarn, it is levied from Tangxi, and other counties do not have to pay.These single-sign items are not mentioned in the "Congress Code".

After listing all these items, the county magistrate of Jixi said that it is normal for a government to collect one type of material from a certain county alone.Therefore, Shuai Jiamo's questioning is purely due to his lack of knowledge and is unreasonable.

The reasoning is clear, but unfortunately Jixi is the smallest county among the six counties. After searching and searching, I found that there are no living Jinshi in this county, so I had to settle for the next best thing, and invited three candidates to jointly sign.

Wuyuan and Jixi counties, one large and one small, took the lead.Other comrades-in-arms were not far behind, and Xiuning and Qimen counties also responded a few days later.

In particular, the response of the magistrate of Xiuning poses the greatest threat to Shuai Jiamo.This gentleman has been preparing for nearly a month, and his shots are extraordinary. He put aside those twists and turns, and pointed at the core of Shexian County-numbers.

The core question of She County or Shuai Jiamo is that the figures of the two taxes do not match.

In Shexian County, "Xia Tax Raw Silk" supplements wheat with 4000 shi, and there are only more than 780 pieces of raw silk; however, Shexian County has to pay [-] pieces of "people's silk" every year.The extra [-] horses must have been borne by the other five counties.

Regarding this question, the county magistrate of Xiuning gave his own findings:
He found that during the reform of Yisi, in addition to seizing the [-] shi owed by She County to Xia Mai, the Xingzhong Secretariat also re-investigated some of the abandoned mulberry in the two townships of Dengying and Mingde under its jurisdiction. Yuantian, plus the confiscated fields of two big landlords, Cheng Huixiang and Ye Zhong.These lands are re-measured and recorded, and then the taxes are recalculated.

Adding up the three items owed to summer wheat, abandoned mulberry fields, and confiscated fields, the new taxes in She County totaled 970 four catties and three taels of raw silk.For every 24 taels of raw silk, one piece of silk is folded, so the total is exactly 770 nine pieces, which is consistent with the number of "human silk and silk", so this is the tax of She County.

In the 24th and 18th years of Hongwu, the 14th year of Yongle, and the 24th year of Chenghua, the amount of this tax was adjusted.In the 20th year of Hongzhi, the imperial court adjusted the ratio of raw silk and silk from 770 taels to [-] taels, but the fixed amount of [-] nine horses remained unchanged.

This was only the first move of Xiuning county magistrate, and his second move was to point to property.

Because Shuai Jiamo had previously pointed out that Shexian County obviously does not produce silk, so why use raw silk as a tax discount?
The magistrate of Xiuning County inspected it and found that the villages of Dengying, Mingde, Renli, Yongfeng, Xiaoti, Gunxiu, and Xiangxiang under the jurisdiction of Shexian County originally had mulberry gardens, while the other five counties never had them. .Obviously, although She County does not produce silk now, it does not mean that it did not produce it before—raw silk used to be a special local tribute in She County.

In other words, this is a problem left over from history caused by property changes, but it is still your own problem in She County, and you cannot shirk it to others.

As for why there was no mention of the fact that there was a mulberry in She County in the "Fu Zhi"?The county magistrate of Xiuning thought it was very simple, because She County was originally the seat of Huizhou Prefecture, and officials from She County took the lead in compiling "Huizhou Prefecture Chronicles", so of course they had to mix private goods!

Xiuning County's third move was aimed at the "Da Ming Hui Dian" that Shuai Jiamo was embracing.

Why in the records of "Da Ming Hui Dian", it is only written that "Ren Ding Silk" was collected in Huizhou Prefecture, but not in She County?Xiuning County's explanation is very simple, just three words - no need.

The canon is recorded from the chief envoy level, and there is no need to record it in such detail as the county.What's more, each prefecture has its own situation, and it is absurd to use the example of other prefectures to question this prefecture.

Xiuning County's answer can be said to be the sharpest of the five counties' counterattacks so far.After these three moves, the punches were to the flesh, and the strokes saw blood. Even if Shuai Jiamo had already appeared in the case, it would be very difficult to argue with him face to face.

In contrast, in Qimen County, where homework is due on the same day, the Shenwen is written meaninglessly, nothing more than clichés and crying for poverty.But there was no way, because Qimen county magistrate happened to have a vacancy, and Shen Wen was answered by the county magistrate, who was an old Juren, and he was indeed not as good as a Jinshi master.

With pearls and jade in front, the magistrate of Yi County seemed much more relaxed.In the Shenwen, he absently repeated the opinions of the previous magistrates, and then said a slightly sarcastic remark: "She County is so big, even if the silk tax is reduced, it is nothing more than removing a boat on the river. "Our Yi County is now so poor that we can only sell our underpants, and if we add even a little tax, it will be like a chronically ill person eating aconitum, and he will die on the spot!"

When Gao Wushi told Shuai Jiamo about the situation, Shuai Jiamo became anxious.

He first expressed his gratitude to Gao Yushi for his care along the way, and then asked to go south and return to Huizhou in advance to have a good debate with the five counties.

(End of this chapter)