Chapter 787: Similar to an official but different from an official, similar to the people but above the people
Recently, two major cases occurred in the Ming Dynasty that shocked the whole country. The first was the Tian Bing Rebellion in Ruijin, Jiangxi, and the second was the Soul Calling Case in Songjiang Prefecture.
These two cases seem to be completely different from each other and have little connection, but in fact, the internal logic and essence are completely consistent.
Political activities are never limited to the heights of temples and the people of the country. The choice of each person determines the final direction of society.
The society of the Ming Dynasty is undergoing drastic changes. Interpreting these changes from the perspective of traditional concepts will feel deviant; trying to analyze them based on performance will become superficial;
To interpret changes, we must start from the essence.
The Ruijin Tianbing Rebellion and the Songjiang Soul Calling Case are essentially conflicts between the development of productive forces and production relations;
In essence, it is the contradiction between the economic changes caused by changes in production relations and the current ideological and moral, political and legal systems, organizational structures, and distribution methods.
That is the contradiction between the economic base and the superstructure.
Only by seeing through the appearance, clearly understanding the truth of the matter, analyzing the underlying issues, putting aside class prejudices and interests to analyze the causes, and finding practical solutions to the causes can we solve problems and alleviate conflicts.
The four steps of phenomenon, problem, cause, and method are the way of thinking provided by the theory of contradiction.
The Theory of Contradiction has never been a classic; its only function is to provide people with a methodology to think about various social phenomena.
The Ming Dynasty abolished the status of humble slaves and began to return farmland in Zhejiang and the five major cities, which represented the beginning of the disintegration of the old dependence on production relations. No matter how little news the tenants had, they would still hear news from far away.
Productivity has changed. The Ming Dynasty has new crops, water and fertilizers, which represents a slow but steady increase in food.
The tenants can empathize with the changes of the Wanli Reform, because Pan Jixun began to promote sweet potatoes in Jiangxi in the third year of Wanli, and sweet potatoes have been planted all over the wasteland;
However, the Jin gentry in Ningdu, Ruijin and Ninghua counties, headed by Shi Chengwu, still want to go the other way and restore the decadent and old strong-man dependence production relationship, doing their best to exploit and treat the people as nothing.
After the string broke, the conflict broke out violently.
The contradiction between the development of productive forces and production relations, and the contradiction between the economic base and the superstructure, are concentrated expressions of class contradictions and struggles.
"Wang Cifu." Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Chonggu and said, "I don't understand."
"I am scared." Wang Chonggu stood up quickly and bowed his head to listen to His Majesty's inquiry. Your Majesty and Zhang Juzheng are close masters and disciples, but he and Your Majesty are also close monarchs and ministers.
Your Majesty doesn’t listen to Zhang Juzheng in everything!
"I don't understand why, in Ming Dynasty law, the transfer of interests and judicial favoritism to rural gentry and gentry have been maintained for a long time. Instead of alleviating the sharp contradiction between landlords and tenants, it has actually intensified this confrontation?" Zhu Yijun frowned. He said with a frown.
Wang Chonggu was the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty and had been in charge of the Ministry of Punishment for thirteen years.
Wang Chonggu was stunned, and after a moment of silence he said, "Rong Chen, think about it slowly."
Transfer of interests and judicial favoritism exist objectively.
Scholars in the Ming Dynasty did not have to kneel down when they saw the officials. They had rice and were exempted from labor. If they were elected, they could serve as officials, be exempted from part of the land tax, and even have slaves.
And Jinshi is even more incredible!
It is the ruling class that elects officials. In addition to being exempt from taxes, they also have the privilege of not being punished.
As long as you pass the Jinshi examination, even if you enter the Fusi Yamen in Beizhen, you will not be punished. There are also eight proposals and eight discussions, this systematic clemency system, not to mention those shady unspoken rules.
After becoming an official, as long as he does not rebel or cause civil unrest, the word "beheading" is too unfamiliar to scholar-bureaucrats.
His Majesty's question seems simple, but in fact it is not simple at all. This kind of legal favoritism did not meet the expectations of the court.
The imperial court asked the virtuous and gentry of the countryside to provide for the imperial court to settle the land and herdsmen, educate the people, preach government decrees, and set an example for the countryside.
Instead of playing their due positive role, these rural sages and gentry took advantage of their power to abuse their families and bully their neighbors, causing great harm to the local area.
"A country gentry is similar to an official but different from an official. He is similar to the people but above the people. Naturally, he has no fear of being favored."
Wang Chonggu said with a solemn expression: "Your Majesty, in the third year of Wanli, the Governor of Suiyuan, Pan Jixun, was in Jiangxi. He put great emphasis on rectification and strictly enforced prohibitions. All gentlemen began to know that there were laws, so they could abide by them and love themselves accordingly."
"Recently, old habits have resurfaced. They have ignored the sacred mandate, blatantly resisted the decree, and acted wantonly. It can be described as lawless."
"I heard from Wang Jiaping that in some prefectures and counties in Guangzhou, the wealthy gentry families sent thugs armed with long swords and short spears to go to the villagers' Shafields to pull out seedlings. The Shafields were barren and they were barely cultivating. They were still forced to occupy the land because the villagers were planting seedlings in the Shafields. No one will be a tenant anymore.”
"I heard from Li Le, the governor of Nanya, that in Nanya, if there were powerful people who heard about whose family had hidden silver, they would falsely accuse the villagers of selling illegal salt and take the opportunity to embezzle it. In the tenth year of Wanli, Nanya came under heavy pressure and rectified it. This trend stopped for a while, and Wanli In the 14th year, when His Majesty left on his southern tour, the trend started again and was rectified again. ”
"I was born in Shanxi. When I was young, I heard that in Xiangling and Linfen counties in Shanxi, the gentry monopolized water conservancy. Farmers must buy water coupons for farming. If there is no coupon, there will be no water. This goes on and on."
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"Your Majesty is wise, I think it may be this partiality in the law that led to the emergence of this unworthy gentry who is greedy for profit and bribery."
"If you don't know the rewards and punishments, you don't believe it."
Zhu Yijun took a deep breath and said: "Guanzi has a saying: The sage sets up measures and rituals, like the firmness of heaven and earth, like the solidity of stars, like the brightness of the sun and moon, and like the faith of the four seasons."
"Nothing can be accomplished if rewards and punishments are unclear; if rewards and punishments are clear, everything will work. I am guilty of all the sins, and I am guilty of the sin of unbelief."
"I deserve to die for my crime." Zhang Juzheng was startled and immediately bowed his head in unison with the other ministers.
If the emperor is guilty, the ministers will have no choice but to die. Therefore, the emperor cannot be guilty or wrong.
Belief means fairness and does not deviate; disbelief means injustice and causes deviation in society.
As the emperor, Zhu Yijun bears the main responsibility.
Is it really Zhu Yijun's fault? But hasn’t it been like this for thousands of years?
"The Great Ming Dynasty Conference is being revised, so regarding the judicial and taxation privileges of the rural gentry and gentry, all your beloved ministers will discuss it and submit it to the emperor." Zhu Yijun waved his hand.
When the time came for the ministers to choose, whether to cancel the privileges of the rural gentry and the gentry, or to find the emperor guilty of disbelief.
It seems that there is a choice, but in fact there is only one option, which is to cancel the judicial and taxation privileges of the rural gentry and the gentry, and to eliminate this kind of favoritism, instead of making the rural virtuous, similar to officials but different from officials, similar to the people but above the people. Let the local sages return to the order of the people in the law.
Confirming that the emperor was guilty of disbelief would be extremely harmful. It was extremely absurd for Empress Dowager Li to always ask the young emperor to write a self-incriminating edict.
After the sinner has issued an edict, the ministers have to serve. The appointment is not finished yet. Your Majesty's Beijing camp needs to go on an expedition to physically eliminate the rural sages and gentry who have placed Your Majesty in a place of disbelief. Only then can Your Majesty be freed from the predicament of the sin of disbelief. Otherwise, If the emperor is guilty, will the world still sit still?
“At the same time, we must also be wary of the emerging bourgeoisie in the coast, which has a status that is similar to that of officials but different from officials, and that is close to the people above the people. Otherwise, they will, like the rural gentry and gentry, strengthen personal dependence and do their best. I can't do it and take it for granted." Zhu Yijun frowned and said: "This is very important to Ming Dynasty."
The emerging bourgeoisie is progressive, but if these emerging bourgeoisie gain more legal favor, their progressiveness will gradually disappear.
The thinking of the emerging bourgeoisie will change from improving production tools, improving the production environment of the labor factory, increasing production efficiency, reducing production costs, and maximizing profits to exploiting the value of labor as much as possible.
Gewuyuan over-quantified the work of a strong laborer, that is, the workload of a person in a day is equal to 1.2 horses.
There were many people in the Ming Dynasty and abundant labor force. Once the court granted more privileges, the emerging bourgeoisie would look like the old landlord class and do whatever they wanted.
Zhu Yijun looked around for a week and said: "The world is not my world alone, but everyone's world. Once the emerging bourgeoisie, which represents advanced productive forces, becomes corrupt, the consequences will be unimaginable."
Can the emperor's legislation really prevent the decay of the emerging bourgeoisie? it's out of the question.
From the perspective of basic political logic, economic status determines political stance. As time goes by, the emerging bourgeoisie will inevitably fall into the old cycle. It will make more money from rent collection than hard work, and it will be easier to make money.
But the metabolism of the emerging bourgeoisie is much faster than that of the old landlords.
Because new industries are springing up like mushrooms after a rain, new meat eaters will continue to appear, impacting the old meat eaters and forming a metabolism.
"Your Majesty, the law is easy to establish, but it is extremely difficult to implement it." Wang Chonggu reminded the emperor that even if the law was changed, the final result might not be satisfactory.
Because these rural gentry and the emerging bourgeoisie control the means of production, they control the power of distribution. Through distribution, they can even control the right to speak, shape morality, and let others call them daddy.
"First revise the law. Only with the law can it be implemented." Zhu Yijun was very aware of the difficulty. The emperor's holy order was useful, but its effect was limited and required the consensus of the majority of people in the Ming Dynasty.
It is true that most people may be deceived, but they will not continue to be deceived, because the knife that cuts off them will scratch themselves.
It really hurts when the bone scraper scratches my body.
Legal provisions and judicial practice are contradictory in succession, so that we can continue to move forward.
"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Household Affairs is impeaching the First Situ and the Younger Situ." Li Youzi, the censor of the right capital, took out a memorial, which impeached Wang Guangguang and Zhang Xueyan.
"In the Northern Qi Dynasty, Yang Zunyan was appointed to regulate, and Gao Anahu was appointed to create chaos; in the Sui Dynasty, Gao Juong was appointed to be rational, and Yang Su was appointed to create chaos; in the early Tang Dynasty, Fang Xuan was appointed to be rational, and Xuanzong appointed Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong to create chaos."
"The gains and losses of employing people are not related to lightness; safety depends on issuing orders, and survival depends on the appointment. In ancient times, when a minister was appointed, he must be virtuous, not talented. Virtue will advance, loyalty is the first, and the world will be safe; if talent is advanced, it will be left untouched. Be the first to bring trouble to the country. ”
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The memorial is very long. The first part discusses the importance of appointing people, and the following part criticizes the emperor's logic in appointing people. The emperor is a meritocracy and does not pay attention to virtue at all. Some people lack great virtue, but His Majesty still uses them in high positions.
Among these great virtues, there are two great Situ and the young Situ.
Zhu Yijun listened for a long time before he understood what exactly Hu Ke was impeaching.
Of the eighty students who graduated from the first batch of the Polytechnic Institute of Accounting, only ten were retained by the State Council and only three were awarded by the Ministry of Household Affairs. This was unacceptable to the Ministry of Household Affairs, which had an audit gap of more than 400.
Why don't students join the household department to do auditing? Because there are too many things to do, little money, and they are far away from home and they can't make progress.
The main reason is the inability to make progress.
There are natural barriers between officials in the Ming Dynasty. These auditors have been doing this job all their lives.
To be an official, one must have a good background, and being a disciple of a polytechnic is equivalent to being a scholar, not even a scholar.
Hai Rui, the magic sword of the DPRK, vigorously combats corruption and investigates and punishes a large number of corrupt officials every year. These audits only want to collect money, but they are also afraid of being caught by Hai Rui.
Moreover, the audit system of the Household Department is very strict. During the annual audit, once the door of the Household Department is closed, they are all in a small cubicle. Three people review the same account at different times. Anyone who makes a problem must be held accountable.
It is very difficult to work together and work together.
Working as an auditor in the Ministry of Household Affairs is a hard job that guarantees harvest despite drought and flood.
"Did Situ really do what the Ministry of Revenue reported to Shi Zhong?" Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Guoguang and asked in confusion.
According to the impeachment in the matter, Wang Guoguang directly robbed the company without any documents, but all the originally signed labor contracts were declared invalid.
Wang Guoguang bowed his head and said: "Everything is true and not fictitious. I asked each village to send the students to the Ministry of Household Affairs."
Wang Guoguang did not issue an order, but asked the secretary to blow the wind. When these private houses received the wind, they immediately took action.
If you don't do it, you can imagine the consequences of offending the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty would not offend the Ministry of Husbandry for no reason. In the past, when the Ministry of Husbandry had no money, everyone would step on it.
Now the Ministry of Finance has enough money and food, and wherever we go we hold our chests high and our heads high!
"Send them back. If you don't want to work for the imperial court, what's the use of snatching them? If the household department is missing, just increase the salary and win the next batch." Zhu Yijun said with a troubled expression. There is a big gap in the audit of the Ministry of Revenue. Every year for the end-of-year audit, the Ministry of Revenue needs to go to the palace to coordinate. In addition to going to the palace to coordinate, it is recruitment.
Wang Guoguang bowed his head again and said: "It's just an abacus. Three people audit an account and review it. All they need is an abacus."
The twisted melon is not sweet, but it quenches thirst.
What the Ministry of Revenue did was no different in nature from robbing civilian girls. It was no longer a small willfulness of power, but a huge willfulness.
But Wang Guangguang's actions can actually be explained by the traditional concept of monarch and minister for thousands of years.
The emperor is the master of the world, his ministers are his servants, and his servants work for him.
The Royal Institute of Technology was built solely with internal funds. There was no private collection, and even the national funds did not contribute. If His Majesty did not use money from internal funds, there would be no Royal Institute of Technology.
All disciples of the Royal Institute of Technology should be grateful for the emperor's kindness and die for the emperor in order to repay the divine grace.
Nowadays, the emperor's national property audit lacks auditors, and these students do not want to repay their kindness. Instead, they abandon the majesty for some scraps of silver.
Even from the most utilitarian point of view, if one hundred and twenty silvers are spent in four years to repair, His Majesty has provided an interest-free loan of sixty silvers, shouldn’t the sixty silvers of kindness be repaid?
The narrative of gratitude can be regarded as a typical feature of the feudal monarchy.
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"It's not all just for scraps of money. Many of them are children of the family who specialize in studying business and accounting. After studying, they have to go home." Zhu Yijun explained to the students with a smile.
The family has property to inherit, which is one of the reasons.
Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Guoguang and said: "If there is a shortage of people, I will train them myself. There is no need to make such a fuss."
Zhang Xueyan stood up, bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, if this continues, the audit of national funds will only be in name only. The fake accounts cannot be calculated by the people and cannot be seen."
"By that time, the Hubu Yamen will become a joke. Da Situ had no other choice, so he came up with this strategy."
Zhu Yijun was stunned, then nodded and said: "I understand. It turns out that the Ministry of Revenue has such concerns. This is reasonable."
"Let me think for a moment."
"Yes." Zhu Yijun's eyes flashed and he thought of a good idea. The Idea King had an idea and came up with a plan that was acceptable to everyone.
It is also true that Zhang Xueyan said good things to his boss. The government's financial resources are insufficient. When the year-end audit comes, he needs to go to the palace to coordinate.
Under the Great Ming Dynasty, the most powerful abacus eunuchs are the internal moneymen. There are 2,400 abacus eunuchs in the palace led by Cui Min, the internal money eunuch.
And these abacus eunuchs were trained bit by bit in the palace study for more than ten years. The eunuchs had no place to go and could only serve the emperor.
Most of these abacus eunuchs are not in the palace, but in various governments, providing support for the tax collection of the tax collection court.
In the ranking of computing power, the second place is the Royal Gakushu Academy. It is mainly for research. The Ming Dynasty is mapping the world. Various star maps, astronomy, pressure difference tables, etc. all require computing power.
The third place is the national fund audit, with a total of 380 auditors responsible for the audit of six accounts and one volume.
Zhu Yijun let accounting students from polytechnics go unchecked. In a few years, private computing power will be greater than national funds. By then, all the national funds will receive are false accounts.
Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "I have an idea to allocate 60 acres of land in Dongjiaomin Lane to build a prison."
"The Tax Inspection Institute has investigated many cases over the years, not to mention the arrest of four thousand accounting clerks. These accounting clerks cannot carry their shoulders or lift their hands, and they have to be locked up to eat food."
"How about dividing two thousand of these accounting gentlemen and putting them in this prison for dispatch by the Ministry of Accounts?"
Vocational and Technical Professional Prison.
Zhu Yijun expressed his thoughts. The accounting clerk arrested by the Tax Inspection Institute was sentenced to several years in prison and was sent to work.
Of course, the tax office of the Tax Inspection Institute has many accounts. When it is busy, these accountants will be assigned to help, which is considered as part of the hard labor.
Mr. Accountant would rather settle accounts for the Tax Inspection Institute than go out to do coolie work. That is real coolie work, such as repairing bridges and roads, building official roads, burning steel, delivering grain, etc.
The courtiers looked at me, I looked at you, and finally they all looked at Zhang Juzheng. Ninety-nine percent of these damaging moves were taught by Zhang Juzheng.
His Majesty is so kind and virtuous that he even refuses to force the students of the Polytechnic Institute to work for the court. The only one who is unkind is Zhang Juzheng.
"Doesn't that mean that many years later, students from the same year at the Polytechnic Institute will meet again in Dongjiaomin Lane?" Hai Rui was stunned for a long time before he spoke.
The auditor of the Audit Department went to the prison to get the account books. The person in charge of auditing the accounts in the prison was a classmate from that year.
Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "I wanted to buy sweet-scented osmanthus and drink wine with me, but it turned out that it was not like that. We were young people. We can meet again in Dongjiaominxiang Prison. It can only be said to be fate."
"What do you think of my idea, Great Situ?"
"Your Majesty is wise and wise." Wang Guoguang chose to agree. He wanted to solve the problem of insufficient computing power in the Ministry of Revenue, instead of forcing the cow to drink water.
Zhu Yijun looked at Li Youzi and said, "That's easy to explain. Fuliu Kelang said that students will still perform their duties as usual. It's because the secretary misheard and it was a misunderstanding. There is no need to hold on to him."
"I obey the order." Li Youzi obeyed the leader's order. His Majesty had already determined that it was a misunderstanding. The chief minister had misunderstood what the chief minister meant.
The secretary will take responsibility and be removed, but after being removed, he will be reactivated in another place after a period of time, and the matter will be completely over.
If you take the blame for your immediate boss, you will end up disastrous. Who will be willing to take the blame for this boss in the future?
In the officialdom, there is fighting and killing, but there are also people and sophistication.
Zhu Yijun attaches great importance to Xunli. He pays more attention to whether he can do the job well. If he can do the job well, he will be greedy if he is greedy.
Hu Keqi felt that the emperor paid too much attention to talent and not to virtue. This is the sentence: In ancient times, when appointing ministers, they must have virtue, not talent.
This vocational and technical prison is a typical example of using talents without virtue.
The court meeting ended at three o'clock in the morning. Zhu Yijun dealt with some major matters that needed to be discussed, and then began the daily parade of military horses.
By the time Zhu Yijun returned to Tonghe Palace, the leader of Jiangxi Ruijin Tianbing had been escorted to the capital and moved into Fusi, Beizhen.
Feng Bao said with a complex expression: "Wan Qianchang, Lian Yuanhou, and Zheng Sanwan are the leaders of Tian Bing. Wan Qianchang is from Guangzhou, Lian Yuanhou is from Hu Guang, and Zheng Sanwan is from Fujian."
"They are also foreigners. They are called Hakka in the local area. Hakka is still very common in Jiangxi. The land in Fujian cannot support people. If there is a natural or man-made disaster, they will flee to Jiangxi."
The poverty in Jiangxi is due to the poverty of Jiangxi’s yamen, not the lack of gentry in Jiangxi.
There are three scholars in one school, two prime ministers across the river; three champions in five miles, nine sons and ten governors; nine ministers in ten miles, two ministers in one hundred steps; there are many good rivers in the Hanlin, and half of the scholars in Jiangxi.
This is not an exaggeration, but a fact.
Many court officials are reluctant to go to Jiangxi to take up their posts, because there are too many powerful right-wingers in Jiangxi, and no one can afford to offend them, so it is better not to go.
Retired cabinet ministers and ministers have disciples all over the world and implement administrative orders. It is easy for them to not finish their work and to be criticized continuously.
This also resulted in a rather contradictory phenomenon. On the one hand, local poor coolies in Jiangxi fled, and on the other hand, foreigners fled to Jiangxi to work as tenant farmers.
"Go to Beizhen Fusi and I will meet them." Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial and chose to go to Beizhen Fusi Yamen.
Seeing the leader of the Tian soldiers was Zhu Yijun's long-awaited plan. He said they were soldiers, but they were just ordinary people who rose up.
Zhu Yijun saw the leaders of the three Tian soldiers. Although they were very clean after bathing and changing clothes, they were still very thin.
"The common people pay homage to Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty, Long live Your Majesty." Wan Qianshang, Lian Yuanhou, and Zheng Sanwan kowtowed to each other. The etiquette was not standard, but the Ministry of Rites worked hard to teach it.
"No gifts, no gifts." Zhu Yijun said with a smile on his face: "Sit down and talk, sit down and talk."
It is impossible for ordinary people not to be nervous when meeting the emperor. These three simple men were trembling even when they spoke.
The three of them were very thin and a bit dark. Their palms had deep lines and were full of ravines, and there was mud in their palms and fingernails that could not be washed away.
Zhu Yijun did not directly ask about the Tian Bing Rebellion, but chatted about family matters, how many people were in the family, how many children there were, how old the children were, how much land the family had, what they farmed, etc.
After the conversation started, the three of them finally stopped being nervous.
"What do you think of this camp method?" Zhu Yijun finally asked the purpose of meeting the three leaders and asked for advice.
When it comes to policies involving the common people, it is better to ask the common people.
"It's better to return the land." Wan Qianchang was the most courageous. After listening to His Majesty's explanation of the camp system, he tentatively answered His Majesty's question.
"I know it's better to return the fields. This is a compromise. It's really difficult to return the fields in Jiangxi now." Zhu Yijun explained in detail the difficulties of returning the fields.
It's not that I don't want to, but that the local conditions don't exist yet. If an imperial edict can solve the problem, then it's not a human master, but a god descending to earth.
The most urgent thing is to reduce rents and land income, so that these rural gentry can take their eyes off the land.
"Then it's better to return the land." Zheng Sanwan said stubbornly.
Zhu Yijun said very seriously: "The people who are most hurt by excessively violent political activities are the people. Returning the land must be done."
In order to let the people take a breath and let the people die violently, Zhu Yijun couldn't do such a thing. Isn't this nonsense?
The reason why Zhejiang can return farmland is that Zhejiang's handicraft workshops have been highly developed, and the rural gentry who occupy a dominant position in the local area can no longer look down on the little land output. They have many things to do and still don't make much money.
Only when Jiangxi develops for a while can we have the foundation to return farmland.
Lian Yuanhou said in a low voice: "Then we can't return the land. This farming method is still very good, but the common people are worried that the lazy people in this village have become gang training, lazy ruffians, and have gained power, and they have oppressed the people."
Zhu Yijun frowned and said immediately: "The question you raised is very good. I will next chapter the Household Department to strictly guard against these lazy ruffians."
The height of the temple has its own limitations. Think about problems from the top down, not from the bottom up. These lazy ruffians did group training, and the camp immediately became a mess, and the people were even more bullied.
Zhu Yijun asked Feng Bao to take out three waist cards, and then said: "Now that you have this waist card, if there are any problems with the implementation of the business law, you can go to the tax collectors in Ningdu, Ruijin, and Ninghua counties." Riding, let them tell me.”
The waist badge was prepared long ago. It is a full copper waist badge. On the front it says Min Kuai and on the back it says People are the foundation of the country and the foundation is strong and the country is peaceful. It is a talisman specially issued to them.
The only function is to go to the tax office to find the tax inspector to report the situation.
Wan Qianshang, Lian Yuanhou, and Zheng Sanwan put their heads in their belts and gathered the tenants to truly plead for the people. After all, no one knew how the court would react or whether Jiangxi local officials would brutally suppress them.
After Zhu Yijun left Beizhen Fusi, he immediately went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to ask for their opinions.
The Ministry of Household Farming Law and the Ministry of Punishment's memorial to abolish the judicial privileges and tax preferential treatment of rural gentry and gentry were sent to Tonghe Palace early the next morning.
(End of chapter)