Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 93 Zhenjiang Tax Card
"Be alert, the chief tax officer will be here soon, he came from the Son of Heaven's army, see you like this, be careful to whip you."

Wang Kuai was a subordinate official of the tax card on the road from Zhenjiang Mansion to Jinling Mansion. He led the tax bureaucrats and tax servants to wait for the tax chief's arrival at the tax card office.

Under the Lijin Bureau system formulated by Zhu Cihong, at the provincial level, for example, the leaders of the Lijin Bureau in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are supervised by the third rank, which is not low in terms of product loss. What is even more powerful is that he has military power in his hands, and a battalion of 3000 people pays taxes. soldier.

This is because Zhu Cihong considered the great differences between ancient times and modern times, and even modern China, so he specially set it up. You must know that at the beginning of the [-]th century, Song Ziwen had a tax policeman in Jiangnan who was even more elite than the Central Army. Headquarters, let alone him in troubled times.

Not to mention the landlords and gentry living in the countryside, even ordinary people may have weapons such as knives, guns, bows and arrows.

Collecting Lijin is destined to offend people. If the Lijin Bureau is not given some force, Zhu Cihong reckons that the people in the Lijin Bureau will not know how they died.

And at the government level, there are gold envoys, who are nominally attached to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and sent from Zhu Cihong's side, but in fact, Zhu Cihong has no restrictions at all, anyone can do it.

Except for the more important Lianghuai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, even the tax chief of the tax card has to be dispatched from Zhu Cihong's side here.

"Brother Wang, I heard that our tax chief is still a scholar, how could he do such a disgraceful thing as the tax chief?" a tax official approached Wang Kuai and asked.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce, which have something to do with commerce, were the most humble occupations in feudal society. A scholar who came to collect taxes was regarded by most people as overqualified and even degrading.

In the eyes of ordinary people, princes and nobles, and even a time traveler emperor like Zhu Cihong, those who have read the book should go to the court to become officials.

"I don't know that, but I heard that the tax chief Xu only has the reputation of a scholar. Who knows if he donated it, or got some heresy tricks to get in."

Although the new tax chief is a scholar, he only has the reputation of a scholar, so Wang Kuai doesn't respect him very much.

Although a scholar has a serious reputation, he has no benefits at all, let alone power. Only a few outstanding scholars will receive funding from the Imperial College.

If it were a Juren to be the tax chief, Wang Kuai promised that he would not say a word, and would just kneel and lick when people around him said bad things about him. Here to be a small Zhengjiupin tax chief.

"Master Xu, look, our tax card is in front of us." Just as Wang Kuai led his people to wait outside the tax card, Xu Ruogu, the chief tax officer, walked over slowly under the leadership of several tax officials.

Looking at the few rough thatched huts on the side of the road in front of him, Xu Ruogu didn't feel disgusted, but a sense of ambition.

Since he joined the flag-bearer guard, he has been training or training every day. Now that he is sent out to be the tax chief, he feels that he is finally useful.

"My lord, these are the taxpayers and tax servants of our tax card. Those taxpayers are drawn from the military households in the nearby guards, and those tax servants are hired from the nearby villages, or sent by the government to serve as corvees. .”

As soon as Wang Kuai saw Xu Ruogu approaching, he immediately introduced him to the staff behind him.

Their tax card is just one of the several lijin bureaus in Zhenjiang Prefecture, a grassroots unit under the lijin system. Wang Kuai felt that there was no need to make a big show for the arrival of the chief, and welcome them lavishly.

Xu Ruogu looked at these people with his head. The handymen were wearing casual clothes, and the tax collectors were wearing T-shaped uniforms. There was a clear distinction between the two.

"Have you explained to them the account books and regulations?" Obviously Xu Ruogu thought the same as Wang Kuai, and he didn't care about the pomp and welcome.

"I've already said it, but these mud-legged people can't read and have a bad memory. It's all in vain. I guess we'll have to take the trouble to explain it by then." Wang Kuai said to Xu Ruogu.

He and Xu Ruogu have one thing in common, they are both scholars, but Wang Kuai is a little more watery, he is just a boy, he has not passed the township examination several times, and his status is very different from Xu Ruogu's.

If it weren't for the poor family conditions, and the fact that he failed the exams many times, the family became more and more poor, otherwise he wouldn't come to this tax card to be a subordinate and obey others.

"It doesn't matter, just take your time. According to the regulations of the imperial court, the tax card can be officially operated as soon as I come here. Go and let the handymen move the roadblocks. If there is a caravan coming later, it will be done." Collect their taxes."

Unlike the lijin system in the late Qing Dynasty, Zhu Cihong's lijin system was somewhat conscientious. He did not exploit ordinary people, but only collected taxes from merchants, and ignored everything else.

After Xu Ruogu finished speaking, the handymen moved the barricade from one side to the middle of the road, and brought over a few tables, chairs, and parasols for Xu Ruogu to use.

Zhenjiang Mansion is located in the south of the Yangtze River, next to the Yangtze River, next to Jinling, and Taihu Lake to the south. The land is fertile, the population is dense, and the economy is developed. Naturally, businessmen are indispensable.

No, just after Xu Ruogu sat down for a while, he saw a caravan driving a carriage coming to their tax card.

Before Xu Ruogu stepped forward to question him, a man who looked like a butler walked over from the caravan. He walked up to Xu Ruogu aggressively, pointed at Xu Ruogu's nose and began to curse.

"Who are you, you dare to block the way in the middle of this official road, because you want to rebel, I think you don't want to die, so hurry up and let us go together, otherwise your dog's back will be interrupted."

Xu Ruogu was at a loss for what to do by this sudden guy, he thought to himself, he wanted to tell you about the latest system of the imperial court, but you scolded him when he came up.

"Come here, give him a spank." Xu Ruogu is not a clay figurine to be manipulated by others, he thought that if you dare to scold me, he will make you pay the price.

As soon as the words fell, four or five tax officials surrounded the butler with whistle sticks.

"Try if you dare to touch me. I am the housekeeper of Shen Ju's family in Zhenjiang Prefecture. If you dare to touch me, my master will definitely sue you to the government. Your family will be ruined and your wife will be sold out."

The Shen family housekeeper's tone was very arrogant. He had the confidence to speak like this. The head of the Shen family was a civil servant. Although he had never been an official, he had a huge network of classmates, classmates, teachers, and students.

It is not an exaggeration to say that in the territory of Zhenjiang Mansion, the housekeeper of the Shen family has never seen Master Shen deal with injustice.

(End of this chapter)