Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 317 Master Wang (first update)
"This matter is easy, and there must be a brave man under the heavy reward."

Old Master Shi said indifferently: "Your Excellency, you can post a notice to the whole city, offering a reward to those who can speak eloquently. If you can tell the hammer bandit back, you will be given 1000 taels of silver.

Even if he doesn't succeed, he can be rewarded with 100 taels of silver as funeral expenses, and those who have no guts should not come. "

Song Rong, the county magistrate, didn't care about the pain from the blisters in his mouth, and hurriedly shouted, asking the master to issue a notice quickly to recruit warriors.

Being surrounded by hammer bandits outside Wuzhai County is nothing new.

More than half of the residents in the city hoped that the Hammer Bandit He Jinzhao would be able to lead troops to occupy their place.

Especially for shops, they not only have to support the big rats of the county government, but also bear the door board tax of the imperial court.

People who have nothing to do with business and taxation are unavoidable.

The commercial tax of [-]% tax is not heavy at all, and in the early stage, Eunuch Wei gave a large area free of commercial tax.

Then the Donglin Party saw why they didn’t exempt our hometown from commercial taxes, so they secretly beat to death the people that Eunuch Wei sent to collect commercial taxes.

The eunuchs who took refuge in Wei Zhongxian were also members of the scholar-bureaucrat class, and Wei Zhongxian won the hearts of the people, so they would not collect taxes from their area.

The business tax is getting less and less, and it can't be collected.

Due to the bad performance of Emperor Wanli for nearly 30 years, he did not go to work.

The lack of officials in the Ming government was very serious, which led to a vacuum of power.

There is no one in the Six Ministries, let alone the local government.

But there is never a lack of power, but a substitute.

The local gentry took advantage of the situation to rise up and became the emperor of the land. Didn't that mean they took all the money belonging to the court to their own homes?
Exempt yourself from taxes, and transfer the taxes they should pay to good people.

After Tianqi took over, the number of officials under him increased sharply, good and bad.

Wei Zhongxian appointed Zhou Yingqiu as Minister of the Ministry of Officials. He blatantly demanded a price according to the size of his official position, and he received 1 taels of bribes every day.

Corruption is rife.

The local government collects various taxes in clever ways. Otherwise, how can they give money to Shangguan if they have no money?

It even made life difficult for the small people.

Most of those who froze to death and starved to death were well-intentioned people. If they don't add chaos to the Ming court, An'an will starve to death.

Those who have money and become officials in Daming are all fucking black-hearted.

When some people no longer feel that An An is starving, they smash bowls and yell that his grandma cut wood into soldiers.

The clan, gentry, and corrupt officials of the Ming Dynasty may have a little bit of regret, because the knife was really cut on their necks!
Shanxi merchants are so powerful that no one dares to provoke them after all.

However, many small shops in the county are not only paying taxes to the local government.

Those dark and evil forces behind the scenes don't need to pay protection fees?

Think beautiful!
But even Yaxing, one of the evil forces, is looking forward to He Jinzhao's coming to occupy Wuzhai County.

Because last year, Chongzhen made a decree.

With the exception of Yunnan, Guizhou and poor frontier counties that are exempt from the discussion, in the local area of ​​the abdomen, where the goods are produced and gathered, all merchants come and go, because there are dental brokers, a group of papers can receive dozens of papers, and the price of the papers can be converted into hundreds of gold.

That is to say, in small counties and secluded states, there must be shops and shops for trade, there must be dental shops, and there must be thirty or fifty gold.

According to the provincial government, the total number is about [-] taels. As for the locality of the province, the production and accumulation, and the number of dispatches, the supervisory department can decide for itself.

Now, the provincial government will list the quotas at the discretion of the province, and order the provincial government to levy the same amount as the military salary.

This policy is the same as the abolition of postmen can save tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the upgrade of the tooth dealer's Nagu to a tooth bank in exchange for post silver, that is, tooth tax.

At the same time, Chongzhen released more than [-] high-level young and strong talents (post soldiers) to the Ming society, allowing them to fend for themselves.

There is no severance pay, and there is no reasonable placement position. In short, they are all laid off.

Then they can't team up with soldiers who are also owed wages in Shaanxi to complete the plan of self-employment and physical salary payment?

Chongzhen's plan is to collect 7 taels of silver every year, but when the policy reaches the local level, is it possible to only collect taxes according to the imperial court's requirements?

As long as this tax is passed, it will be more oily. The local government will eat the big head, and the small head will belong to the court!

As for the fact that the Imperial Household Department has no money to suppress bandits in the Liao Dynasty, that's none of my business!
They think that the emperor's internal funds may have hidden a lot of silver, but they just don't take it out.

And those vassal kings are all very rich, and they don't take it out.

Anyway, the world belongs to the old Zhu's family, the emperor doesn't pay, and the feudal lords don't pay, they count on their subjects to pay, why, I don't know what the emperor thinks!
The interests of the gentry and landlords have not been passive. The interests of the good people who paid taxes normally in the past can be squeezed vigorously.

As a result, fewer and fewer people supported Chongzhen in the end.

When a normal person like He Jinzhao appeared, the common people flocked to him. It can be said that it was all due to the frequent tricks of the Ming court.

The Ming court suppressed bandits, but there were more and more bandits. Chongzhen probably never thought about the real reason.

Most of the people in Wuzhai County are looking forward to the fact that the hammer bandits can quickly conquer Wuzhai County.

That is to say, no one organized them, otherwise they would have to be the internal response to welcome Master Wang into the city.

At the same time, I also pray that no Ming army will come to help enter the city, otherwise they will be the good people of the Ming Dynasty who will suffer.

The imperial court couldn't afford to pay the soldiers, so they naturally wanted to "generate income"!
A group of rebels who called themselves hammer bandits were considered by the people to be the master of the king. On the contrary, they regarded the officers and soldiers of the imperial court as even bigger bandits.

It has to be said that it really is the magical reality of Daming.

When notices are posted everywhere in the county government, recruiting people to negotiate with the hammer bandits.

As soon as this news came out, the people in Wuzhai County even discussed it.

Especially as long as you sign up, you will be given 100 taels of silver. The hammer bandit He Jinzhao doesn't seem to be killing innocent people indiscriminately, at least he is more disciplined than the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers!

This money is not earned in vain.

Even if he took this opportunity to run out and still earn 100 taels of silver, then he must have made a lot of money.

Or take the silver and go directly to surrender the hammer bandit.

There are many choices, and you can earn money no matter what!

No one thought that He Jinzhao, the leader of the hammer bandits, had come in person, and that the county magistrate could still guard Wuzhai County.

The courageous people went to the county government office to sign up.

For a while, many people outside the county government were queuing up to sign up, hoping to earn this money.

Niu Wancai also wanted to make money. Looking at the long queue, he was slightly worried that he would not be selected.

Song Rong, the county magistrate, was both happy and annoyed when he saw this scene.

Delighted, Mr. Shi's method is really effective, so many people have signed up, and they are brave enough to go out and negotiate with the hammer bandits, so as to win a bright future for the people of the whole city.

The annoyance is where did he get so much money?
Even if it was 1000 taels of silver, it was still pooled by a few gentry.

Our county magistrate works so hard for the imperial court, why should we spend our own money?

Song Rong, the magistrate of Wuzhai County, looked anxious: "Master Shi, don't count carefully, there are more than 100 people. Is the bounty of 100 taels too much?"

(End of this chapter)