Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 66 Zhu Yuanzhang of Dingyuan County

Zhu Qi wanted Gao Jin to pretend to be a vendor and set up a stall on the street, but it wasn't just a matter of buying some goods, making cakes, and parading around the streets with a pole on his shoulders.

In the early Ming Dynasty, because the world was uncertain, the management of towns was still extremely strict. The "Ming Hui Dian" records that in towns, "Anyone who invades the road, builds a house, or makes a garden, sixty sticks, each Order to restore the old"; "Whoever passes through the wall and releases filthy things into the streets and alleys will be whipped forty times. It does not matter if it comes out of the water."

In other words, if you build indiscriminately, you are not warned to dismantle it, but to eat boards, throw garbage and dump dirty water, and whip forty.

In addition to these regulations, all behaviors such as destroying public facilities, driving in violation of regulations, setting up stalls in the restricted area, taking soil to make bricks, defecating everywhere, etc. will also be "prosecuted". Those involved will be forcibly put on torture tools, It is displayed on the street for a month, which is the so-called "the shackles are issued for a month".

However, the places where it is forbidden to set up stalls are generally around the government office, and the rest of the places are not too particular.

It was Meishi in November at this time, and the streets of Dingyuan County were very lively. Among the open shops, there were people going in and out to buy goods. The two rows of the street were also filled with various stalls, some selling gold There are silver jewellery, snacks and desserts, cloth brocades, and some craftsmen pulling sugar figurines. Each of the weird sugar figurines attracted a group of children to stop and watch.

On the one hand, it is fun, on the other hand, it is greedy.

And in the box behind this busy street, a tall man dressed in the clothes of ordinary people was carrying a shoulder pole, but he was a little cautious.

This man is none other than Gao Jin, Zhu Qi's bodyguard, and he picked out all the cakes covered with thick cloth. The pole, including the cakes and thick cloth, were all bought from the cake seller. of.

To that cake seller, he took the money and slapped himself in the face, thinking he was dreaming.

Gao Jin tentatively asked, "Your county boss..." Before he finished speaking, the cake seller ran away. Come on, it seems that the people in Dingyuan County really don't know a word about their own family. The county magistrate's master.

Seeing the attitude of the common people, Zhu Qi became more convinced of his judgment, so he took Gao Jin to find a place to hide, saw an official envoy nearby, and gestured to Gao Jin.

"My lord, I'm going."

Gao Jin carried a shoulder pole and said something to Zhu Qi who was in the alley. Zhu Qi nodded and watched Gao Jin walk out of the alley.

Then I saw Gao Jin carrying a pole, walking along the street, shouting:

"Cooking cakes! Selling cooking cakes!"

Don't say this sentence, Gao Jin's voice is so loud, it really makes sense to say it.

However, when the common people saw Gao Jin, a foreigner, carrying a pole and selling pancakes, they all had strange expressions. One of the egg sellers called Gao Jin and said:
"You're not a local, are you? Why did you come here to sell cooking cakes?"

Gao Jin hurriedly said:

"Isn't Dingyuan County also my Daming territory? I'm also from Luzhou. Why can't I sell it? Brother, is there something special about it?"

The egg seller was about to speak, but when he saw three people in official uniforms approaching not far away, he quickly shut his mouth. Gao Jin wanted to ask, but when he saw the official officers approaching not far away, he stopped talking What, carrying a shoulder pole and continuing to sell cooking cakes.

Which official messenger came here, of course, Gao Jin who was rushing to buy cooking cakes. One of them raised the saber in his hand and stopped Gao Jin, asking:

"Look at you. You're not from Dingyuan County. How much are you selling this cake for?"

Gao Jin was taken aback, bowed and said:

"Back to the three officials, our cakes are worth a penny."

One of the officials picked up the thick cloth with a saber and took a look, then said:

"Say there are less than a hundred?"

"My lord, there are not so many."

"What nonsense?" The official scolded loudly, his eyes widening.
"You are an official, am I an official? I said one hundred tickets, one hundred tickets, one penny, and you will be charged ten pennies in tax. Hurry up and pay!"

The official spread his hands, and this time it was Gao Jin's turn to be dumbfounded. Ten coins is nothing to him, a bodyguard who follows His Highness the Liao King, but to ordinary people, it is estimated that a person earns only one yuan a day. Twenty or thirty Wen, half of the money earned from this tax is gone.

Gao Jin hurriedly said with a smile:

"My lord, stop joking with the villain. The villain's cakes are all made by himself. It's a small business, so what tax do you pay?"

The officer stared and scolded:
"Who told you not to pay taxes! You trickster, want to resist taxes?!"

Gao Jin hurriedly said again:
"Even if I have to pay taxes for this small business, but the emperor said that the tax in this world is [-] yuan, how did you charge me [-] yuan? And I don't have a hundred cakes, and I Zhang didn't sell it yet."

Those officials smiled, and one of them continued:

"That's right, the tax in the world is indeed [-] per cent, but don't you know that the emperor is in the Fengyang practice palace? Before the extra tax is charged, it is used to support the emperor's palace. You, a troublemaker, have a chance to help the emperor. , that's your honor, hurry up and pay the money, if you don't pay the money, go back to the prison with me!"

Gao Jin showed a look of embarrassment, the official raised his hand to hit him, Gao Jin quickly took out ten coins from his pocket, and handed it over respectfully.

The faces of the three officials looked better, and after accepting the money, they continued to patrol the streets with the handle of the knife, but they were not protecting the country and the people, and inspecting criminals, but looking around to see which stalls did not pay. What about taxes?

The surrounding people also avoided it one after another, how dare they look at each other, even an official picked up a pear, wiped it on his body and started to eat, the pear seller could only laugh along with him Nodding and bowing, I didn't dare to say half a word.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhu Qi's face became more and more serious. The little officials below dared to bully the people so boldly. If they said that there was no problem, he would not believe it.

It's not difficult to clean up these three small officials, but it's not very useful to clean them up. Flies need to be beaten, but tigers must be beaten even more!

But just like this, it cannot be said that the magistrate of Dingyuan County committed a crime, there must be more solid evidence.

Xu Miaoyun at the side smiled slightly and said:

"Young master, don't we have evidence?"

Zhu Qi was taken aback for a moment, and just wanted to say that the offenders were only three officials, but Xu Miaoyun continued:
"My lord, the local government needs to have a special circular to collect taxes. These official documents are unified decrees issued by the Central Secretariat, and they are carried out by the six departments. It is not that the local government can change the tax at will.

Moreover, this announcement is an official document, and it must be posted at the gate of the government office. If there is no notice of tax reform, even if the government office wants to collect taxes, there is no basis for it. The people in the county just dared to be angry and dare not speak out. The servants thought to themselves, why don't they go to the notice board of the government office? "

Zhu Qi nodded after hearing this, and he didn't talk nonsense. After Gao Jin changed his clothes, he led a group of people and went straight to the official yamen. Sure enough, he saw various notices posted at the entrance of the official yamen, There are still officials guarding the side, and in one of the notices, it is impressively written that the tax in Dingyuan County is thirty tax three!
Zhu Qi chuckled, isn't this evidence already in hand?

Zhu Qigang wanted to go forward and tear off the notice, but someone went ahead and tore it off.

Zhu Qi was taken aback for a moment, turned around and was about to speak, but all words were blocked in his throat.

The person behind him is none other than Zhu Yuanzhang!

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