Chapter 247

Zheng Zhibao saw the governor and Deng Bingwen sing and make a plan and eat them like this.

Fortunately, they made the plan, otherwise it would be settled this time. Zheng Zhibao said, "it's not a problem for us to send troops, but what about the food ring?"

Chen YingYuan said, "it's very difficult for the imperial court now. The emperor's majesty wears patched clothes, and the Queen's mother is also weaving to subsidize her family. So I mean that the grain ring is pulled out locally and deducted from the tax silver?"

Liu Yuanqiao said to him, "the tax is deducted from the silver? The imperial court exempted the tax of Denglai area for three years to help the local recovery. Now it's only the second year. How can the tax be deducted?"

Chen YingYuan said, "Liu Daren's words are bad. The so-called exemption of three-year tax by the imperial court refers to the exemption of local tax, but it doesn't explain that Liao Xiang and Lian Xiang are exempted, so Liao Xiang and Lian Xiang still have to be collected this year. You can deduct them from it after receiving them."

Liu Yuanqiao didn't expect that the other party would be so shameless that he would drill such a loophole. He asked Deng Bingwen: "Lord Deng, do you still levy liaoxiang and Lianxiang in Dengzhou this year?"

The so-called Liao Xiang and Lian Xiang are specially collected taxes, which are added to the land tax. Liao Xiang refers to levying taxes to fight and build slaves, and Lian Xiang refers to levying taxes and training troops to wipe out the exile bandits and the extravagance and security chaos in the southwest.

Daming's ability to quickly go to the abyss is also related to these two taxes. The people who toss about a field tax alone do not have a full meal. Coupled with these two taxes, it can be said that the people are in dire straits.

The rule of the Ming Dynasty is to receive one or two at the top and one hundred Liang at the bottom, so that they can be retained layer by layer. After layer by layer exploitation, they will pay one or two silver to the court.

Deng Bingwen said with awe inspiring righteousness: "I also want to be a good man, but the imperial court is now in great difficulties. There are aggressive slaves outside and bandits inside to dig my imperial mausoleum. It's very difficult. Liao Xiang and Lian Xiang can't be avoided?"

Liu Bu shook his head secretly when he heard that he was still collecting taxes. Dengzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture all depended on their Liu family for disaster relief. These talents survived the winter smoothly. Now the government began to decide to levy taxes before the land began to grow. Does this make people live? There are still some ordinary people who barely survive the winter. As a result, the government is expected to fall into bankruptcy again as soon as it collects taxes.

Liu Yuanqiao and Chen YingYuan said, "even if you want to collect taxes, you won't collect them until June. It's too late to send troops when the grain is ripe in June?"

Chen YingYuan said readily this time: "special affairs are handled specially. This is because there is a major crisis in the imperial court, so I allow you to collect taxes in advance. After today, you can send tax collectors to collect taxes everywhere. After receiving the tax silver, you can send troops immediately to wipe out the exiled bandits and serve the imperial court."

Liu Bu and his family were completely shocked when they said this. Without their large amount of money and food subsidies, the Liu family in Denglai area could not survive this winter. Now it is only the beginning of the year, and they began to kill chickens and eggs. No wonder so many people will go bankrupt. No wonder so many rogue bandits are forced to have no way out, but these officials do it like this, I didn't think there was a problem at all, and I still looked like a loyal minister who served the country with awe inspiring atmosphere.

Liu Yuanqiao said: "after the Wuqiao mutiny in Denglai area, it was originally poor. Without the Liu family's disaster relief, it couldn't survive this winter. Now go to collect taxes. How can the people collect taxes?"

Deng Bingwen said, "Lord Liu, you underestimate the cunning of these mud legs. You shout that you have no money. In fact, you are crying for poverty. Your children will have milk to eat. In this way, you Confucianism will generously give them rice."

It's the Liu family's mistake to listen to this person's feelings.

From the perspective of the people, this disaster relief is definitely a living Buddha praised by everyone, but in the eyes of these officials and nobles, he has become a fool. It is very kind not to be sued by the court to buy people's hearts. He will have a tone of schadenfreude when he says this.

Liu Bu feels very angry about this and is still here discussing how to eliminate the exiled bandits. Their practice is simply to produce the exiled bandits. The people already have nothing. After you collect taxes in advance, it is estimated that many people will break their property and become new exiles, The situation that the Liu family finally stabilized will collapse.

Normal tax collection has made the people miserable and in dire straits. Now they still collect taxes in advance. It is called: the country is in trouble, and special measures are taken.

If the Liu family did this, they would spend so much money and so much food to become the living Buddha of thousands of families and soon become the villains of thousands of families.

At this point, Chen YingYuan ate Liu Yuanqiao to death. This is because as an official of the imperial court, you have to carry out the imperial court's orders and collect taxes for the imperial court. Now the most difficult thing for an official is to collect taxes.

If you don't collect taxes, you can't pay taxes to the top. If you want people to collect taxes in such a violent way, you must let your subordinates increase taxes layer by layer, so as to ensure their normal expenditure and everyone's profit. Of course, the rules are still the old rules, that is, no matter how tired or hard you are, you can't be an official.

It is estimated that by this time next year, Laizhou Prefecture and Dengzhou Prefecture will have to eliminate the roving bandits, and the development situation they finally figured out has become empty talk.

Liu Yuanqiao said: "early expropriation, the people are already poor, early expropriation is easy to provoke civil unrest."

The greatest fear of being an official is to provoke a popular uprising. If it is to provoke a popular uprising, the official will be either killed by the people or questioned by the superior government.

Deng Bingwen disagreed and said, "what kind of civil commotion? We have so many troops in Denglai area, as well as your Liu family and so many Ding army. Do they all eat dry food? Who dares to catch anyone here, who dares to make trouble and catch them immediately, who should go to jail, who should go to jail, and who dares to mess around?"

According to his tone, it is Deng Bingwen who is responsible for wantonly sabotage and Zheng Zhibao who is responsible for wiping his ass.

Liu Bu is also thinking about the same thing, that is, during the new year, everyone is full of hope and prays to the gods one after another, hoping that the new year will be better. This kind of thing happened before February, and things are developing in the worst direction.

If they are allowed to toss about like this, their plan to build Denglai area into a large rear area will be completely destroyed. They will not only be unable to draw strength from this place, but also completely destroy it. They must also invest huge troops to suppress civil unrest in four places here.

Seeing that the other party was so vicious and aggressive, Zheng Zhibao couldn't sit still. He said, "Sir, since you have decided, it's hard for me to say anything, but one thing is that the imperial court has dragged me to Denglai military town for March. Let's distribute the arrears."

Chen YingYuan was furious and very angry. He asked Zhang Zhongwen loudly, "why does Lord Zhang still have the act of arresting the army?"

Zhang Zhongwen is one of Chen YingYuan's deputies. He is responsible for patrolling the army and is in charge of the distribution of grain and grass, the exploration of armaments, etc. he said very wrongly: "Who says that our soldiers have been asking them to get the grain in arrears, but they don't want to get it themselves. There are six texts to destroy the grain, but several adults don't want to come."

As Zhang Zhongwen said, he took out several copies of the script from his sleeve. As expected, they destroyed it three times a month. They destroyed the following generals to receive military pay, but none of them came, so it was not the soldiers who were wrong, but the local people.

Chen YingYuan was very happy with this evidence. He asked, "Zheng Zongbing, what's the matter with the arrears of military pay you said? Lord Zhang has told you to get it several times. Why don't you get it? Is it just a deliberate matter“

Zheng Zhibao said, "it's not that the end general deliberately makes trouble, but when he goes to get the ring, they clearly only pay half of the food and salaries, but they want us to sign for the full amount. Where does the less half go? If we don't sign, they won't pay, but if we send half, we need to sign for the full amount. It's impossible."

Chen YingYuan pretended to be a fool. He asked Zhang Zhongwen, "what's going on?"

Zhang Zhongwen said wrongfully, "that's the rule. What can I do next? The top has been pulled out and has been withheld and retained layer by layer. I have to set aside mobile food here to meet the needs, so only half can be given to the bottom."

This is basically the practice in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, that is, withholding military pay. Which general or civil servant doesn't do this? Civil servants can make a fortune by withholding military pay, and general can support private servants by withholding military pay. As for how soldiers are hungry and how they don't have combat effectiveness, it's none of their business. It's the responsibility of the person in the war.

Since it is a rule and a common practice, Chen YingYuan can't say anything. He said, "Zheng Zongbing, this is your fault. Since it has always been the case before, why can others and not you?"

His tone and feelings were still Zheng Zhibao's fault. Zheng Zhibao said, "my old Zheng is a real person. One is one and two is two. There is no room for half a grain of sand in his eyes. If you let us sign half, we will sign, but let us sign half in full, which is possible."

Chen YingYuan said, "commander Zheng, you should understand that in this way, you are against the whole officialdom. It can't be said that you are in arrears with military pay, but you deliberately don't take it and make trouble. However, commander Zheng, you also have such confidence. After all, if you don't send it for three months, soldiers can still fight and eat enough."

Zheng Zhibao, Liu Bu and Xiao Ning were completely annoyed that officials could say such words.