Han’s Son is Not a Slave

What Jiang Guozhu said, Suna was also half-understood. He was only a leader when he was in the Eight Banners, and he would not care about these money, grain and taxes. There were Han officials around to help collect them, so they didn't bother Uncle Man. Now that he is the Marquis of Xin'an in the Ming Dynasty, and the general of the Taiping Army, he doesn't need to worry about this kind of thing. Fortunately, since he surrendered and returned to the Ming Dynasty, he has acted very carefully.

"Since the rich are unwilling to pay the money for these years, then they should pay the taxes owed during the Chongzhen and Tianqi years. In the Ming Dynasty, they paid the taxes of the Ming Dynasty, and in the Qing Dynasty, they paid the taxes of the Qing Dynasty. ."

Yan Shaoqing almost laughed when he heard it. This Marquis of Xin'an is really whimsical. How can anyone ask people to pay taxes from ten or even twenty or thirty years ago.

Jiang Guozhu did not listen to it as a joke, but looked thoughtful. Ren Weichu's eyes were also shining. As the magistrate of Wuzhong, he was very clear about Wuzhong's payment of grain and taxes in the past few decades. If he remembered correctly, the wealthy households in Wuzhong have been pushed up for more than ten years, and there is no one that does not owe taxes and evade taxes! If the Ming Dynasty were to die, then nothing would be mentioned. Now that the Ming Dynasty is not dead, why can't you be asked to pay the grain and taxes!

"The principle of the Marquis of Xin'an does work. I am still alive, and the debtor should hand over the money and grain to the treasury. Otherwise, the honest, honest, public and law-abiding people will suffer, and the treacherous and cunning will get cheap. It's just this gap of years. After a long time, some things will be difficult to handle, and the single bill is a trouble, and it needs to be discussed in the long run..."

Jiang Guozhu seriously considered Suna's proposal. Although it sounded absurd, he could taste it carefully, but it was right and proper. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, all gentry and officials above the eighth rank can enjoy different degrees of preferential tax exemption, but this preferential exemption is limited. Therefore, apart from the share of preferential exemptions, officials and gentry are the same as ordinary people. Those who should pay taxes and those who should be errands should not be special. However, with the passage of time, officials and gentry ignored the laws of the state, colluded with each other, and broke through the boundaries of legal rights. In fact, they implemented full preferential exemptions.

Not only the officials and gentry's own families, but also their tenants and distant relatives, who are dependent on their tenants, and who do not have a single hand to respond to the public service, nor a single grain of money to fill the labor. In this way, the official households became a source of evasion from the state's taxation and corvée, and this was the so-called contribution. Not only the common people donate their fields to officials and gentry, but even some wealthy common people who have no fame also "accounted for their production in the scholar-officials, and would rather use the rent as a servant and lose the rent to avoid the big war." The poor got poorer and the rich got richer, which eventually led to a catastrophe during the Chongzhen period.

Now, since these wealthy households think that they should not pay the government the money and grain under the rule of the Qing court, then let them pay the taxes owed during the Chongzhen and Apocalypse years. What do they have to say? Unless they have been law-abiding for decades, they have to pay a lot of money, and they have nothing to do with the corvée. However, is this possible?

Jiang Guozhu was very touched. In the Ming Dynasty, the officials and wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River relied on what the government could not do with them, so they blatantly did not pay taxes. When the Qing Dynasty came, they did not dare to pay taxes, so they colluded with government officials, and even bribed officials directly, so as to achieve the privilege of tax exemption again. Jiang Guozhu remembers one thing. When he first took office, wealthy households in Suzhou and Songjiang ignored the decree of the Qing court and defaulted on the tax (Thirty Tax One) they should have paid for two full years. It is precisely because of this incident that Jiang Guozhu was thinking of a major case.

However, this proposal is not bad, but after all, it sounds absurd. Whether it can be done this way, or whether to find a compromise, must be carefully considered. The King of Qi also had to report it. Furthermore, it cannot be one size fits all. It is necessary to distinguish between those who have fought against the Qing Dynasty and those who have not fought against the Qing Dynasty, and those who have worked hard for the Qing army. In this way, the Jiangnan gentry can be differentiated, so that they cannot become an iron plate, so, It works much better later.

"Ben Hou also said that casually. Whether this method works or not, it is up to you officials to do it."

After all, in matters of civil affairs, Suna is the general who leads the troops, and there are some things that he can't say much. He changed the subject and mentioned what he had seen and heard just now, and reminded Jiang Guozhu and the others that he had to suppress this matter as soon as possible, otherwise it would have an impact on him leading his army into Zhejiang. Moreover, the stability of Jiangnan is also related to the safety of the southern capital. The money and grain must be accepted, and the local area must be stable. These two conflict and do not conflict. How to balance the two depends entirely on Jiang Guozhu's means.

Hearing that the Marquis of Xin'an mentioned Jin Shengtan and them, Ren Weichu couldn't help but resentfully said: "That Jin Shengtan is arrogant, arrogant, and eager to win, but he doesn't know his own weight, and his actions of crying at the temple are like openly provoking chaos. to him!"

Jiang Guozhu snorted slightly, and was very dissatisfied with that Jin Shengtan who did not take good intentions and caused chaos, but he really wanted him to forcibly suppress this matter, and he felt that it was not appropriate. This concern mainly came from Qian Qianyi.

Seeing Jiang Guozhu frowning deeply, Suna realized that this matter was not so simple, and asked, "What does Mr. Jiang want to do? Could it be that these talents are allowed to cry in there?"

Jiang Guozhu complained bitterly: "These scholars are all scholars in Suzhou. If the subordinate officials forcefully suppress them, I'm afraid it will arouse people's revolt, but they cannot approve what they invite... Well, to be honest, the subordinate officials are also a headache. what."

"It's just a bunch of scholars, what's not easy to do." Su Nayu immediately "smiled": "This marquis knows that the commander has a saying that he often talks about, and troubled times need to be re-enacted. There is no reason in this world. Love, but also hatred without reason. Jin Shengtan and others are unwilling to pay food when they cry in the temple. This alone is enough to cure their sins. Since ancient times, what sin is it that does not pay food or even persuades people not to pay food, this is what Mr. Jiang is afraid of It's better than Ben Hou."

Jiang Guozhu didn't answer, Yan Shaoqing came to the conclusion: "It's like a rebellion!"

"That's it, since you want to rebel, how can you deal with it? If you are afraid of provoking civil revolt, this Marquis will send a battalion of soldiers to your ears, just take the people, and never ask for threats. All of them will be taken first, and the people who are clamoring and clamoring for it will also take all of them. When you do things, you should cut the mess with a quick knife. If you are a mother-in-law, how can you do things if you are afraid of that? I think when the commander was in Guangzhou that day, there were so many officials and scholars. Kill, kill, if you say catch, catch."

"Okay, let's do it according to Lord Hou!"

Jiang Guozhu thought about it, but he had no choice but to act first. Now that the Confucius Temple was crying so hard, it would definitely be useless for him to send someone to talk. But if the tone of voice is a little softer, I am afraid that these talents will be even more aggressive and put forward more unreasonable requirements. Therefore, suppress it first, and then determine the nature of the case later. Whether it is a severe punishment or a light-hearted punishment is the most effective method.

Yan Shaoqing had the idea of ​​suppressing it from the very beginning, but Jiang Guozhu hesitated to agree. Now the Marquis of Xin'an also means the same thing, and there are soldiers of the Taiping Army who can be called, so he can let go of it.

Only the poor group of scholars in the Confucian Temple were wailing, thinking that the government would come to appease them, and then everyone would fight for the hero status of "petition for the people", and the soldier with the knife and the gun broke into the door.

"Qing Shang respects me and other scholars, but Er Daming officers and soldiers treat me like a pig and a dog!"

"This is the school temple, the temple of saints, how can you and other soldiers trespass!"

Jin Shengtan, who was wearing an iron chain, was really angry, and he pointed at the flag of the Taiping Army and scolded. The general flag ignored him, as long as his subordinates dragged people out. Inside the temple, a group of scholars who were desperately squeezing their tears were dumbfounded. They were timid and ran around in the school temple, and some of them accidentally knocked down the clay statue of Saint Confucius.

The dignified Confucian Temple is a mess.

Outside the Confucius Temple~www.wuxiaspot.com~ a large group of soldiers had already stopped the onlookers, and there were yamen from Suzhou Prefecture and Wuzhong County to help maintain it. There are idlers who have got money, or the family members of scholars and entourage who see the master's house being pushed out by the soldiers. Shocked all over. This time, I really cried, and the tears really fell.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Jin Shengtan shouted at the emperor all the way in grief and anger. The unaware of the capital, Mr. Jin Da, was calling the emperor of Dingwu, but he did not know that Mr. Jin Da was calling the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Just like when he heard that the Qing emperor praised him as a master of ancient prose, he couldn't help crying and kowtowed to the north a few times.

The "Crying Temple Case" that happened in Suzhou was soon passed on to Zhenjiang by the Yamen, the governor of Jiangsu, and the next day, King Qi arrived in Zhenjiang by hand.

The hand instructed Jiangsu to designate Jin Shengtan, Ding Guanzhong, Ding Ziwei, Ni Yongbin, Shen Yue, and other 31 scholars as the main criminals of the case, and ask them to kill them all. The remaining 87 scholars were all sent to Annan for hard labor.

As soon as this decree came out, Suzhou was shocked, Jiangnan was shocked, and Nandu Chaotang was even more shocked. (To be continued.)