In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 132 Killing Alive
During the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, Japanese merchants often drove goods to the south of the Yangtze River and along the coast of Fuguang, sold the goods after landing, and only received copper coins, and then brought them back to China for use.

Historical Records: In the second year of Chunyou in the Southern Song Dynasty (1242), the Japanese Taizheng Minister Xiyuanji dispatched ships to trade in Taizhou, Wenzhou and other places in the Song Dynasty. When the goods were sold out, they did not buy commodities, but bought copper coins, and took away 10 copper coins at a time. , As a result, "Taicheng suddenly has no pennies in the market for one day.

Almost all the small money in Taizhou was collected directly.

In the second year of Zhizheng, Japanese ships from Tenryuji Temple began to trade in China. One of the ships returned and paid 50000 copper coins to the shogunate, and there was still a large surplus.

At this time, the goods traded by Japan to the Southern Song Dynasty were mainly gold, placer gold, raw copper, sulfur, wood, handicrafts, and rice.

Because Japan's copper smelting technology is not up to standard, raw copper has more impurities than cooked copper, so it can't make money, and the government doesn't make money, so it is sold directly to the Southern Song Dynasty.

"Japan is short of copper coins. We need copper mines. We can exchange copper coins for raw copper. We will set up a base in Japan to buy raw copper." Qin Zhuo said at this time.

Without even thinking about it, Zhao Yurui said, "Just do it."

Quan Yong stayed in Dinghai County for three days before leaving. After Quan Yong left, Zhao and Rui tried their best to control Dinghai County.

The current county magistrate of Dinghai County is Li Zongmian, and the master secretary transferred a man named Qian Chun from among the Cao officials in Qingyuan Mansion.

There are eight Cao officials in Qingyuan Mansion, and Qian Chun is more loyal.

The county captains are Zhao and Ju, and there are only three people-friendly officials.

But there are more than 200 officials below, controlling the county government and county power. After Hu Peng left, many people began to obey Li Zongmian.

Among them was a local scholar named Zhou Bing, who the common people called sin as hair as a cow.

But some people said that he was the most familiar with the county's financial records, and no one could replace him, even if he was guilty, he had to keep it.

Zhou Bing became more and more arrogant and exploited the people even more.

In addition to being most familiar with books, there is another important reason, that is, the township scribes do not have much remuneration themselves, but they have to raise many additional expenses for higher-level officials and the county magistrates themselves in addition to collecting extra regular taxes. The color, the official is prepared for "those who.

So, he can help the county magistrate and Qingyuan government officials raise additional expenses. Do you think this kind of person should be reused by leaders?
Most of these additional expenditures are in the name of so-called additional taxes to exploit the people, making them pay double or even double the original tax.

This is also due to the high grain production in the Southern Song Dynasty, and there was no shortage of food everywhere like the late Ming Dynasty, otherwise the country might perish faster.

After Li Zongmian arrived, according to Zhao Yurui's intention, he took back a large number of rented military houses. These houses were originally rented out by officials and servants under various names, and some of them were even occupied by their own families.

Now that Li Zongmian has taken it back, it has severely encroached on their interests. About 200% to [-]% of the more than [-] officials in the entire county government have been involved.

Beginning in February, Li Zongmian's words began to be ineffective in the county government. Everyone has a good way to deal with this, that is, obedience and disobedience, superficially agreeing, and privately delaying.

On the sixth day of February, Li Zongmian asked the officials to re-register and count all the shops in Dinghai County. Each shop was assessed a commercial tax, and then the list was reported to Li Zongmian.

The person in charge of this matter is Liang Youbin Liang Dian, this person is a hereditary Dian, who has been a Dian in the Fuzhong since his grandfather.

Among the recovered houses this time, the Liang family rented more than 30 rooms at a low price. The price was so low that it was nothing.

Zhao Yurui is quite dissatisfied now that they have all been taken back.

Li Zongmian asked him to lead people to complete the registration within half a month, and he agreed wholeheartedly, patting his chest and saying it was okay.

As a result, it was mid-February, and there were only a few days left before half a month. Li Zongmian asked him why he didn't go out when he saw you in the county government every day. How are things going?

Liang Youbin said, "It's in progress, magistrate, don't worry, it's almost done."

In a blink of an eye, it was late February, and Li Zongmian asked him again, is it done?Oh, the time has come.

Liang Youbin said: "My lord, don't worry, just wait a little longer and allow a few more days. It's cold now, brothers are working hard."

Li Zongmian endured his anger and waited for a few more days.

Liang Youbin said again, someone has called for sick leave, and there is not enough manpower.

Sure enough, during this period of time, people in the county government asked for leave from time to time. Something happened to this family, that one was a little dizzy and had a sore foot, and this one was going to a distant place for a wedding.

Officials in ancient times also had holidays. They asked for leave every three days, and Liang Youbin kept procrastinating.

It was to embarrass the county magistrate on purpose.

Li Zongmian's temper has also come up. He has been in the capital since he became an official. He didn't expect the grassroots to be so complicated.

Liang Youbin was not afraid, he still procrastinated.

When the three days came, Li Zongmian was so angry that he ordered him to be beaten ten times.

As a result, people playing boards all around looked at it one after another, and didn't want to do anything.

Li Zongmian smoked from his seven orifices, and then ordered them to fight.

Well, just hit it, the servants put on a show in front of Li Zongmian, blah blah, weak, and didn't use any effort at all.

Not to mention playing ten boards, it's okay to play one hundred boards. Liang Youbin screamed and learned to cooperate, almost driving Li Zongmian to death.

Li Zongmian was also dissatisfied, and ran over as soon as he saw it, and wanted to beat himself after taking the board.

Liang Youbin was not stupid, so he got up and ran without saying a word, directly ran out of the Yamen, and went home.

Li Zongmian asked people to chase him, but naturally he failed to catch up, and the people below didn't listen to him at all.

At this time, Li Zongmian knew that there were officials at the grassroots level in the Southern Song Dynasty who could not be appointed as officials. 'The statement is not nonsense.

At this time, not only him, but also Qian Chun, the chief secretary, and Zhao and Ju, the county lieutenants, all three orders were invalid in the county government.

Of the more than 200 officials, [-]% did not listen to them, and [-]% were obedient, but did not dare to offend others.

Because whether you are a county magistrate or a county lieutenant, you have to leave in three years, and you may be transferred away in one or two years.

But these pawns and officials are always there.

On the sixth day of March, Li Zongmian asked Zhou Bing about the wine account books in Dinghai County. Zhou Bing had kept them firmly in his mind before, but Zhou Bing said he didn't know this time, so he sent someone to bring a large number of account books and said It takes some time to look for it, the account books for many years are in the warehouse.

Li Zongmian didn't react when he heard the words, he just said lightly: "Put the account book away."

That night, it happened to be Zhou Bing's turn to be on duty. He asked some old brothers to drink and eat food in the county government office.

While drinking happily, suddenly the backyard yelled and caught fire, and everyone hurried to the back to see that it was the tent that caught fire.

In that account room are the account books of the entire county government for many years, and all the materials are in it. If it is burned, it will still have to be done?
Zhou Bing stared at it for a while, but he didn't go up to put out the fire. He was even secretly happy that a lot of information was stored in his mind. From now on, Dinghai County can do without anyone, but I, Zhou Bing, can't be missing?

The county government was on fire that night, and the fire was not extinguished until the early morning, and the tents were completely burned down.

Early the next morning, Li Zongmian, the county magistrate, convened all the officials to discuss matters.

Li Zongmian said the moment of Chenshi, but by the third quarter of Chenshi, there were still five or sixty people who had not arrived.

The courtyard of the county government office was fairly large, with nearly 200 people crowded into the courtyard, occupying less than half of the space, and everyone was whispering to each other. Zhou Bing was busy all night, not very energetic, but he was still chatting with people.

Li Zongmian's face was gloomy, and Qian Chun, Zhao and Ju stood at the junction of the corridor and the door.

After a while, he looked up at the weather and nodded to Zhao Yuju.

Zhao Yuju immediately stepped forward and said: "Today, the time has come, and those who have not come will be expelled from the yamen."

The crowd was in an uproar, and everyone was in disbelief.

At present, there are still 60 to [-] people who have not arrived. Can you operate without so many people in your yamen?
Everyone was thinking about this question when suddenly there was a rush outside and someone ran in.

Everyone turned their heads and saw a group of young and strong like soldiers, wearing uniform clothes of yamen servants, running in from the outer courtyard, and then walked along the corridor and stood on both sides of the corridor.

There were more than 30 people running in this wave, all young and strong between the ages of 17 and 20. They were not many in number, but they had a lot of training.

Nearly 200 people stood in the yard, all of them were frightened.

Because it seems that these 30 people look like the elite of the Song army.

Zhao Yuju stepped forward again, and said sharply, "The person on duty last night stood up."

Zhou Bing and the others looked at each other in blank dismay, but at this time he didn't think he would have a problem. The entire county government account book was burned, and only he could remember most of it.

He brought several people out one after another.

Zhao Yuju said angrily, you were drinking on duty, and you didn't know how to take care of the warehouse, which caused the account room to be burned, Dinghai County suffered heavy losses, and all data and account books had to be redone.

Zhou Bing and others were taken aback.

Before they could react, more than a dozen people rushed out of the corridor like tigers on a wolf, and pressed them to the ground in groups of four.

Then a young man said to the officials in the crowd: "Come and fight."

The officials holding the boards looked at each other, they didn't want to fight, but they didn't dare not to fight.

Zhao Yuju said coldly: "If you don't fight, put down the board, take off your official uniform, and go out immediately. You will also be fired."

Is the county magistrate really here?Now everyone knows that today is the real deal.

Originally they were relatively large, nearly 200 people, but this is not more than people, and they cannot rebel.

Immediately a yamen servant came out of the crowd.

"Tie Niu, how dare you hit me?" Zhou Bing cried out as he saw the people coming out.

The man named Tieniu had a bitter face: "Brother Zhou, I'm sorry."

Pick up the board, bang, and hit it with a board.

"Ah!" Zhou Bing screamed, but the beating was not very heavy.

"Didn't eat? No, call again."

"Ba" Tieniu stepped up his efforts.

"Too light, don't count, hit again."

Zhao and Ju said they played Zhou Bing 40 boards, but Tieniu actually played more than [-] boards, more than half of which were not counted.

The screams can still be heard on the twenty boards in the front, but there is no sound at all when they hit the back.

Tie Niu at the back was afraid of killing him, so he didn't dare to use force, but someone next to him called him too light, it doesn't count, just hit him again.

There is no way, Tieniu can only use force.

After more than 40 boards, they finally hit [-] times, and the others were thrown on the ground, begging for mercy frantically, screaming wrongly.

There were more than 200 people in the courtyard, trembling, and some even wanted to run away, but when they looked back, they saw a dozen or so archers outside the courtyard gate, but they had never seen these archers before. And the crossbow, blocking the door.

"Return to the county captain, it seems that he was beaten to death—" Tieniu stepped forward to touch Zhou Bing, and was beaten to death on the spot.

(End of this chapter)