Jiangmen Tianjiao: Reborn with funny ancestors

The Wang family is the largest family in Ganzhou.

There were many scholars in his family. Not only did his own children become officials, but they also relied on the influence of the royal family in Beijing.

Therefore, only his family dared to hide [-] acres of farmland at once.

The Wang family not only paid back the deed tax of 8 taels, but also paid back taxes and grain for three years, totaling 20 shi, and paid a fine of [-] taels.

Chu Sheng was a little dissatisfied, but Chu Tianjiao said, "Third uncle, let's leave it like this for the time being. After all, Ganzhou suffered a disaster this year and the grain production has been reduced. No matter how hard it is, the Wang family will not be able to produce much grain.

We must also be kind and powerful, and we must be merciful and merciful.

I will ask Wang Ting to go and tell the Wang family. It stands to reason that their fields must have been hidden for more than three years.

This officer, for the sake of the second sister-in-law and the prince, is trying to be more generous.

The Royal Court will ask them to be more honest in the future, and I reserve the right to recover tax arrears in the past at any time. "

Only then did Chu Sheng give up his plan to check with the Wang family about the specific time to start farming each acre of land.

Although other large households in Ganzhou, especially merchants, also have hidden fields, the amount is much smaller.

Seeing that the Wang family was being punished, they were so frightened that they all took the initiative to go to the government to re-register their land and pay back the deed tax, land tax and fines.

At this time, Chu Tianjiao received 15 shi of grain and 50 taels of silver.

Taking advantage of this east wind, Chu Tianjiao immediately issued a decree on tax reform.

Starting from the autumn tax, the five prefectures will no longer accept money and silk to offset the field tax, and will only accept grain.

In the five states, Ding tax is exempted and only land tax is collected.

The tax rate is one out of ten. Because it is a year of great disaster, Gong Tian and Lu Tian are also levied a land tax of one out of ten.

Many other decrees on labor and miscellaneous taxes and commercial taxes were also issued.

The aristocratic and wealthy families in Ganzhou had just been caught in the wrongdoing and did not dare to say anything.

But the people rejoiced.

This decree not only exempted the Ding tax, but also reduced the field tax from one in five to one in ten.

As a result, the burden on the people was reduced by half, and the enthusiasm for growing grains suddenly increased.

Chu Tianjiao immediately decided to take the soldiers from the Ganzhou camp to inspect the other four states.

On the one hand, the model of the Wang family is copied and used on aristocratic families in other states, forcing the aristocratic families to make up for the tax money and taxes evaded in previous years. On the other hand, it is also to deter these aristocratic families from opposing her new tax reform. .

Li Yanghou was originally going to go with Chu Tianjiao.

It happened that Li Kuang also followed Chu Minyu back to Longcheng from the Taziwo camp.

Before Chu Minyu had time to spend two more days with Wang Xingran, he rushed to the border of Nanchu with his people to pick up the food brought back by Qiao Xing and Lu Chengji.

Zheng Linlang and Chu Yun'er also clamored to go with Chu Tianjiao.

Chu Tianjiao simply suggested that the troops be divided into four groups and ask his father to personally lead troops to Shu to shock those aristocratic families and collect the taxes, money and food that the aristocratic families had evaded.

Zheng Linlang and Li Kuang went to Guanzhong for a trip.

Chu Sheng and Chu Yun'er took two thousand Chu family troops to Yuzhou.

Chu Tianjiao himself went to Jinzhou.

Everyone felt that this would save a lot of time and readily agreed.

One month later, a total of 10,000+ stones of grain were collected from the five states, mainly contributed by Jinzhou and Shuzhou.

Due to the disaster in Guanzhong and Yuzhou, even the wealthy families had no food to pay and could only convert it into silver and turn it over.

Including the back taxes, Chu Tianjiao collected a million taels of silver in one fell swoop.

When the autumn harvest began in September, Chu Tianjiao had basically collected enough food and wages for the northwest army to need in the second half of the year.

However, she did not report such a huge number to the court.

When Marquis Liyang returned to Longcheng from Shu with grain and money, he sighed to Chu Tianjiao:

"Zhou Changan is incompetent! If I had known it could be done like this, your father and I wouldn't have had to suffer for so many years, and the Chu family's army wouldn't have had to starve for so many years!"

Chu Tianjiao knew that the reason why this time was so smooth was entirely because the Chu family had military power.

No matter how powerful the aristocratic family is, they are still afraid of death.

When the troops arrived outside the palace, they dared not refuse to surrender.

However, now that they are gone, these aristocratic families will definitely start to make trouble, and there will still be difficulties in collecting autumn grain.

Perhaps soon, the imperial court will issue an order.

As Chu Tianjiao expected, there had been a lot of noise in the court recently.

Emperor Lu Yunkui wanted Chu Tianjiao to bully the people, but Chu Tianjiao did not expect that Chu Tianjiao would hang a knife on the heads of aristocratic families and scholars.

Most of the officials in the court came from aristocratic families, and they complained about Chu Tianjiao every day.

Lu Yunkui was so annoyed that he issued several decrees in succession, admonishing Chu Tianjiao and asking her to defend herself.

Hearing that even Marquis Liyang went to Shuzhou in person to persecute the family, Lu Yunkui was so angry that his brain ached again.

"Well, Chu Ge, as soon as I let you leave the capital, you ran to support your daughter. You have soldiers, you are amazing. You can lead soldiers to collect taxes like this and regard the court's laws as nothing. Let's see how I deal with you!"

The emperor wanted to remove Chu Tianjiao from his post and wanted Marquis Liyang to return to Beijing.

Chu Ye was also in the court, and he went out to address him:

"On behalf of my brother and my eldest niece, I would like to express my gratitude to Your Majesty for your great kindness.

Your Majesty, you don’t know that my brother and my eldest niece don’t want to do such offending things.

How about I write to my brother and niece to return all the grain and tax money they collected to each family?

Should the military pay and food in the northwest be allocated by the imperial court?

I heard from my fourth brother that the garrison at Yangguan has started chewing tree bark because of lack of food.

If the fourth brother hadn't been chewing tree bark with them, the soldiers might have been hungry and ready to go to the capital to look for food. "

Chu Yan, who was nibbling the leftover mutton hooves from last night in Yangguan, felt that the mutton was no longer fragrant.

He glanced at the number outside the window and sighed: "Recently, Yangguan relies on the sheep brought by my eldest niece from Beihu to satisfy hunger, but in this summer, eating mutton every day is unbearable!"

He just wanted to eat something plain right now...

In the court hall, Lu Yunkui heard Chu Ye say that Yang Guan had begun to chew the bark of the tree, and felt his face burning.

The anger just now also disappeared.

He would not let Chu Tianjiao return the collected grain and money.

He was afraid of aristocratic families, but he was also happy to make those families bleed.

He waved his hand and said to Chu Ye: "There is no need to return the tax grain and tax money that have been collected. What I want to warn Chu Ge and Chu Tianjiao is that they should not lead troops to collect taxes!"

When Chu Ye heard this, he didn't feel the slightest bit sad, nor did he defend Li Yanghou and Chu Tianjiao. Instead, he followed the emperor's words:

"Yes, my brother and my eldest niece should be dismissed from their posts! Your Majesty, please issue an order quickly."

Seeing Chu Ye's happy expression, Lu Yunkui's suspicious temper relapsed.

He began to think about it: The Chu family seems eager to get rid of this drudgery?

The emperor didn't know how much grain and money Chu Tianjiao had collected, and those aristocratic families did not dare to expose their evasion of tax money and grain.

Therefore, Lu Yunkui thought that Chu Tianjiao was ill and sought medical treatment.

Chu Tianjiao promulgated the new tax system because the gap was too big, so he could only make up enough food and salary from the merit fields and salary fields.

The emperor thought about this and hesitated.

Once Chu Tianjiao is removed from his post, the new tax system that Chu Tianjiao has just announced in the five states is abolished, and the court is asked to find a way to come up with food and money to supply the Northwest Army and the victims of the disaster in Yuzhou and Guanzhong, he can't come up with it!

Hearing the miserable situation of the Northwest Army again, Lu Yunkui was really afraid that the army would mutiny, so he had to endure it.

"I am not someone who changes orders overnight. Since I have already issued an order to let Chu Tianjiao take charge of the finance and taxation of the five states, I will wait and see for another half a year.

However, it was still inappropriate for her and Marquis Liyang to lead troops to collect taxes, and they were each fined half a year's salary. "

The courtiers made a fuss for several days, and only allowed Li Yanghou and Chu Tianjiao to be fined for half a year. They were angry and helpless.

However, Chu Tianjiao dared to touch Lu Tian, ​​which was a taboo for scholars.

These courtiers were all thinking of inciting the imperial students and the scholars to cause trouble after returning, so as to put pressure on the emperor and the Chu family.

Unfortunately, their calculations were wrong after all.