A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 155
Wang Dou understood what Qian Zongtian Changguo said. The funds, money and food that the prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty operate on a daily basis are the remaining money and food left over after the money and food are shipped every year.

After the taxes and grains of various regions are collected, the share of the national treasury is completed, and the rest is at the disposal of the localities themselves. This is retention.

As for Xianyu, it is a small treasury independently controlled by the local state and county guards. It usually comes from the increased consumption of retained land taxes.In addition, there are all kinds of extra levies, such as fines for stolen goods, commercial taxes, and envy silver, as well as new ginseng for officials, salt leads, net levies, etc., which are also sources of envy.

Retention and surplus expenditures are generally office expenses in various places, and are used for disaster relief, construction, water conservancy and other public utilities. In the late Ming Dynasty, these expenses were generally used for banquets, gifts, or officials and generals. I support my family, fill my pockets, etc., and there are many places to offset the normal amount of money and food.

Retention and surplus are the small treasuries of government guards in various places. The first source is to collect taxes and food from the soldiers and civilians. routine.

The officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has developed to the present, and all the Weisuo, prefectures and counties in various places first collect routines from the military and civilians, fill up their small coffers, and then collect regular taxes.It doesn't matter if the amount of regular tax is not fully collected, but all kinds of routines are first collected in one's own pocket.It is added layer by layer, from the upper officials to the lower officials, and then to the Li Chang Jia Chang at all levels, etc., all of which are the same.

Wang Dou will not collect taxes and grain next year, and the military households will get benefits, but this year the officials at all levels in the prefecture and city will not have the opportunity to fight, and they are afraid that they will hate Wang Dou to the bone.As for how Wang Dou will deal with the share of taxes and grains to be levied by the court next year, many people may not think about it. Presumably they will think that Wang Dou intends to pass the customs in the form of arrears. Get used to it early.

Cutting people's wealth, such as killing their parents, Wang Dou will offend many people by doing so.Moreover, there are indeed some military officials in the state city who are poor, and they count on the guards to distribute food for the day, and there will be no taxes and grains next year. How can the city get the normal monthly salary and rations of some officials in the state city?

Tian Changguo thought that Wang Dou was young and didn't understand the unspoken rules in the officialdom. He planned to rely on Wang Dou so that his future would be bright. How could he want to see Wang Dou fall into the abyss of eternal doom?So speak up immediately.

Yang Zhichang, who was next to him, sneered in his heart, thinking that Wang Dou was a stunned young man after all, so he could find a way to seek his own death. The great feelings were moved, and even tears filled my eyes.

Wang Dou smiled and said, "Old Tian, ​​sit down."

Tian Changguo sat down, and Wang Dou said: "Your worries are not unreasonable. Many soldiers and officials in the state city live on the money and food allocated from the lower levels. This officer will find a way to solve this matter. Not only that, but from next year, this officer will also It is necessary to increase the monthly salary and food of the officials in the prefecture city, and increase the monthly food and rice to one stone, so that they can support their parents, wives and children."

The monthly salary of the officials in all parts of the Ming Dynasty was no more than three or five dollars, even for the highest-ranking officials.Wang Dou increased the monthly salary to one stone, enough to feed their whole family.

After hearing Wang Dou's words, Tian Changguo and others were even more shocked. Seeing Wang Dou's confidence, it seemed that he was determined to make his own decision, but where did he get the money?
Yang Zhichang was also in doubt, he wanted to wait and see how Wang Dou conjured money and food out of thin air.But thinking about Wang Dou training a strong army of thousands of people in Shun Township Castle without making a sound, he felt faintly in his heart that Wang Dou might have a way.

Zhangjiabao defense officer Shi Min opened his mouth for a long time, and finally he asked: "Dare to ask my lord, next year the state city will not collect grain, and then the grain and salary of my soldiers in each castle..."

Wang Dou said: "Don't worry, when the time comes, I will review the rosters of the soldiers in each fort, and the sergeants in each fort will not be short of their rations."

Shi Min sat down in relief.

Wang Dou turned to the governor of the town, Chi Dacheng, and said: "From next year, I will exempt the military households in the prefecture from collecting taxes and grains. When you patrol the various places, if anyone dares to defy my decree and collect grains without permission, you will be punished." Even if he is arrested and interrogated, no matter who he is, I, Wang Dou, will kill him!"

His voice was stern, so that everyone present did not dare to show their anger, and the governor Chi Dacheng stood up solemnly, and bowed his hands to accept the order.

With his rigid appearance, no one would suspect that he would bend the law for personal gain.

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Things in Zhoucheng and other forts are the same for the time being, Wang Dou focuses on Shunxiang Fort.

He said to Lin Daofu, the defense officer of Shun Township Fort: "Master Lin, starting next year, our city will start large-scale farming. We will need a large number of well irrigation trucks and related tools. You need to prepare."

Lin Daofu said: "Don't worry, my lord. As long as the money, food and materials can keep up, the subordinate officials will handle everything properly."

Wang Dou smiled and said: "Master Lin's ability, I don't doubt it. You ask Li Maosen, the head of the craftsman, to come to Zhoucheng, and just select some craftsmen who can be used."

He pondered: "Not only that, but in the future, Shunxiangbao will also open gun factories, gunpowder factories, quilt factories, wood factories, lumberyards, stone factories, coal factories, iron factories, and even brick kilns, lime kilns and other workshops. Get ready."

Wang Dou reckoned that after the money and food reserves were sufficient, he would have to train heavily.Military training requires a large amount of iron materials, armor, military uniforms, firecrackers and artillery, so the daily material reserves should not be relaxed.Regarding iron materials, according to the data of Zhuolu County in later generations, there are nearly 30 billion tons of iron ore reserves in Baoan Prefecture, but most of them are concentrated in Taipingbao Township, Dahenan Township, Fanshan Township and other places in later generations. Wang Dou estimates Many iron mines that are easy to mine have been occupied by many tyrants.

This is not important, what is important is that these places are far away from Shun Township Fort, or from the city of Zhou, and the location is remote, so it is not easy to mine. I already have high-quality hematite in Huiyao Castle, which is enough for myself to use for dozens of years. For hundreds of years, there is no need to seize these minerals. It is enough to operate the iron mine in Huiyaobao.

Lin Daofu's blood boiled when he heard it, and he said loudly: "Don't worry, my lord, the next official will definitely not make any mistakes."

Listening to the question and answer between Wang Dou and Lin Daofu, Qianzong Tian Changguo and the others were all in a daze. Wang Dou wanted to do so many things, where did he get such strength?Yang Zhichang, the defense officer of Wubao, was also puzzled, and his eyes turned to Lin Daofu from time to time, and then to Wang Dou.

Wang Doudao: "These factories and workshops will be located near Shunxiangbao in the future, and the same is true for the iron factory. By the way, you can organize people to repair the road from Shunxiangbao to Huiyaobao."

Lin Daofu took orders loudly again.

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After the discussions among the military officers in the forts, soon, within a few days, the news about Wang Dou reclaiming wasteland and allocating land, and even exempting military households in the prefecture city from tax and grain next year, spread in and out of the city.

Wang Dou wiped out the rebellious army in the state city with thunderous force, and established unprecedented prestige in Baoan state city. Now that the fields are divided and the land is exempted from tax and grain, the first reaction of the military households in the state city is that they dare not believe.In fact, Chinese people’s desire for land is unlimited. The reason why no one is willing to reclaim wasteland is because the burden of taxes and food will be extremely heavy, and the benefits of reclaiming land will outweigh the benefits. Some people do the so-called beheading business, and no one does the loss-making business.

If the integrity can really guarantee that after the land is divided, the fields will be exempt from grain in the first year, one dou will be levied in the second year, and two dou will be levied in the third year, and it will remain the same, then there will be a lot of people.I don't know if the moral integrity is just talking in the white.

Of course, from the experience of Shun Xiangbao, many people are sure that what the moral man says must be true.

Amid all the discussions, on November [-]th, the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Mansion of Ethics posted a notice affirming that everyone's guesses were true.Every military household in Baoanzhou City, with four to seven people in each household, can reclaim [-] acres of wasteland. After being registered, the government will help them build well irrigation water trucks and grant them farming tools.In addition, it will also be exempted from collecting grain grains for military households in Zhoucheng next year.The refugees outside Baoan Prefecture, if they are willing to join the military households in Baoan Prefecture, enjoy the same treatment.

All of a sudden, the entire state city was in a commotion, and the military households rejoiced, and the news even quickly spread to the security guard city. Lord Li Yi'an was guarded, and Xu Zucheng, who was guarded by the guard, was shocked when they heard it. He hurriedly called Wang Dou to come to question him. I promise that next year, I will pay the full amount of the farmland in Baoanzhou City next year, and I will never be in arrears.

After repeated explanations, the two were relieved, but they didn't understand what Wang Dou would pay for it.

On the 5000th, Wang Dou began to act. When the officers and soldiers rebelled, more than [-] mu of the fields of the rebel generals and officers were confiscated in Zhoucheng.Wang Dou allocated [-] mu of these fields to the families of the common people who were victims of the military rebellion, and each family of the executed rebellious soldiers also got [-] mu of land.

After the officers and soldiers rebelled, the families of these rebels spent their days in fear in the city. They didn't expect that the integrity would give them land, and even most of it was fertile land. They were very grateful.In the past few days, a large number of family members of the rebel army came to the Chengshou mansion to kowtow to Wang Dou to thank him.

Wang Dou came out to comfort them with gentle words, saying that when he executed the rebellious soldiers that day, he said that his wife and daughter would not be harmed, as long as they lived in peace and did nothing wrong, he would still treat them as one of the people under his rule, saying The family members of these rebellious soldiers shed tears even more.

The family members of the victims who were assigned to the fields also came to kowtow to Wang Dou in large numbers, and Wang Dou also comforted them with gentle words.

With this example first, who wouldn't believe it?For a while, military households appeared everywhere in the state city. Although the cold weather could not stop their enthusiasm for land reclamation, there was a lively scene inside and outside the state city for the past few days. Household registration is for oneself to share the land and pass on the family to live.There are even more refugees rushing here.

At the same time, Li Maosen came to Baoanzhou City, wiped out more than 100 military craftsmen in Baoanzhou, brought them to Shunxiangbao City, and began to work hard, making waterwheels and other things.

Different from Baoanzhou City, when working in Shunxiang Fort, there is a basic ration every month, and there are corresponding rewards for each waterwheel produced. Although the weather is cold, these Baoanzhou craftsmen are full of enthusiasm. Enthusiastic about work, they can be described as fast and good.

Only the clerks in Baoanzhou City were in mixed feelings. Wang Dou was exempted from levy and the military households stockpiled grain next year.Moreover, Wang Dou also promised to increase their monthly salaries. As long as they keep their heads down and work hard, they can support their families. So what should each choose...

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Because Wang Dou opened up wasteland and divided the land, the exemption from collecting grain was only aimed at the military households in the city, which made many households in the city unstable. Many people were already thinking about whether to join the military household registration so that they could also divide the land. landed.

In response to this situation, on November [-]th, Li Zhenyu, the magistrate of Baoan Prefecture, invited Mr. Wang Dou, the integrity officer, to discuss matters.

(End of this chapter)