Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 215
Ding has labor, land has rent, and the people of the world have worked hard for a long time.

Zhu Yihai and Wang Zhiren had dinner together, Wang Zhiren didn't say a word when talking about things before, Zhu Yihai deliberately left him to eat together.

"How is the rectification of the soldiers in Zhejiang?"

Wang Zhiren put down his chopsticks and told the truth, "Since the uprising, the generals in the east of Zhejiang have been swarming with invincibility. Everyone has recruited troops, everyone has paid, and even copied and plundered news, searched and searched."

"Especially for those who surrendered to the northern captives, they stole all their wealth."

"However, for the rich and powerful families who have not surrendered the thieves, as well as farmers, businessmen and merchants, the forced donations have intensified. Many soldiers and horses are also good and bad. The military discipline is not good, and the people are very disturbed."

Speaking of the situation in eastern Zhejiang in the past two months, Wang Zhiren could only sigh.

Zhu Yihai went north to the Three Wus. He was preparing for the battle against Huang Binqing in Ningbo, but he was in chaos on the front line of the Qiantang River.In the beginning, powerful and powerful gentry and generals from all over the country responded to Zhu Yihai's flag-raising uprising and recruited troops everywhere.

This self-proclaimed governor, that self-proclaimed chief soldier, although their loyalty is commendable, but these officers and soldiers are also very chaotic, without food and wages, they are distributed everywhere, and even force strong men to join the army as soldiers or do long-term labor.

First, they confiscated the homes of officials and gentry who had surrendered to the Tartars, and then confiscated all those who were trapped in the north, regardless of whether they were indiscriminate. Later, ordinary people were apportioned and levied.

The military discipline of people from all walks of life is getting worse and worse, and they even fight and merge with each other.

Later, Zhang Guowei and others followed Zhu Yihai's order to reorganize the various volunteer armies, grant them battalion numbers, quotas, and divide their garrisons.

But soon Fang Guoan took the lead, and people from all walks of life fought with the court because of the salary.

Xingzai asked all localities to transport taxes, money and food to Shaoxing Xingzai, and enter the treasury of the Xingzai household department. Then, the household department will pay the rebels in various places according to the numbers and quotas granted by the reorganization, and half of them will be paid first.

However, Fang Guoan and other people from all walks of life demanded to allocate land and pay, that is to say, where they were to be guarded, they would eat food directly on the spot and hand over the local taxes to them for the army.

Not only did they withhold the taxes that should have been handed over to the industry, but they also set up additional taxes under another name, and even persuaded the rich to donate in various ways. Skills, someone who is good at being an official, soldiers and horses dare not force them.

If no one is in power, then you can only rely on relationships, or simply recruit troops.

So from Shaoxing to Yanzhou, from Ningbo to Wenzhou, from Quzhou to every state, anyway, for a while, there are general soldiers, generals, and guerrillas everywhere. There is a battalion here and an army there. Everyone privately allocates territory and intercepts taxes. , privately conscripted soldiers and horses, apportioned randomly, plundered everywhere, and even fought for territory, money and food, making it seem like they were fighting with warlords and wanting to separate themselves from the crowd.

Although Xingzai is also working hard to rectify, but with someone like Fang Guoan taking the lead, the effect is not great.

Later, Huang Binqing was forced to hand over Zhoushan and go north, and Wang Zhiren was finally able to take the Beijing camp to travel, which was considered to have slightly stopped the unhealthy trend.

But the time is too short. Now the Ministry of War and the Beijing Camp are responsible for the reorganization of the army, and it has not yet been completed. Those soldiers and horses are not willing to disband easily at this time. One is that there are soldiers and they have power. Disband the army, fearing that the safety of their own family and property will not be guaranteed.

Anyway, only in the five prefectures of eastern Zhejiang, there are hundreds of thousands of people reported from all walks of life, too many false reports, but even if it is really carefully cleaned up, there are 30 or [-] people and [-] people in total, although there are many It is simply a mob, but there are indeed so many soldiers.

For example, after the Yuyao uprising, Sun Jiaji and Xiong Rulin recruited tens of thousands of people, named Sun Xiongjun. Both of them were court officials for righteousness. It's a matter of ransacking the house to persuade the apportionment.

It doesn't work if you don't apportion, after all, tens of thousands of people need to eat and drink.

But some people can't do it. They say that there is not much difference between the rebels and the bandits, just like Fang Guoan, who is a strong soldier or a general of the court.

The Qing army has never crossed the Qiantang River. In fact, it has little to do with these rebels. The main reason is that Boluo and others rushed to Hangzhou to capture Queen Lu, and they have no plans to continue going south for the time being. It is advancing, and Yu Ying, Zhang Guowei and others use the Qiantang River as their line of defense, and they are defending in a decent manner.

Ever since, it was maintained for the time being.

But if Boluo really goes south to attack, although he lacks ships and it is difficult to cross the Qiantang River, it is still very easy to cross the river from Fuyang and other places upstream and attack Shaoxing by detour.

"Actually, there is still no money to make trouble."

Wang Zhiren concluded that before Zhang Guowei and others wanted to disband some small groups of rebels, but these rebels asked for rewards, and they were unwilling to do so for nothing, but Zhang Guowei and the others couldn't get any money.

In the end, each person was rewarded with five qian, but with the five qian, there were still some people who took a lot of money, causing a mutiny, so the dismissal couldn't go on.

After procrastinating and procrastinating, some teams had no money and food, and couldn't compete with others, so they had to disband and go home.

But most of them still use the land to get paid, just stand up like this.

When Zhu Yihai came to Fuyang, Master Liu Mu was also fighting with Fang Guoan. The counties in Fuyang belonged to Liu Mu. He was considered to be the strongest in the rebel army, so he fought alone in the five counties west of Hangzhou. , but Fang Guoan was also staring at this place, and the two sides fought back and forth several times.

"Wang Qing, do you have any suggestions?" Zhu Yihai asked.

Wang Zhiren said truthfully, "His Royal Highness punished Fang Guoan here in Yanzhou. With a larger force, we can reorganize and reorganize in two or three months."

Fang Guoan was originally the largest force in eastern Zhejiang, especially since he was a general of the regular army of the imperial court, but now he was easily punished by the prison state, and his 3 or [-] troops, who claimed to have [-] subordinates, were also quickly reorganized. For the leaders of these rebel armies everywhere, it was a big impact.

They all have to think about how much they have, how much they have, and whether they can be compared with Fang Guoan.

No matter how much Zhang Guowei, Yu Ying and others tried to persuade them before, they were still not as easy to use as Jian Guo's sword.

If Zhu Yihai came back later, in fact, Wang Zhiren had already selected a few early birds, and was going to borrow their heads for use, and then come to make an example of others.

"Silver, in the final analysis, it is actually a matter of money." Zhu Yihai could only sigh.

"Wang Qing, what do you think of what I said to the princes today that I will never add a tax, and how about sharing the money with the mother?"

Wang Zhiren didn't express the slightest opinion just now, but now he said very seriously, "In my opinion, this new law is not bad. It was born out of a whip method, but it is different. Although it will inevitably touch the interests of many gentry and bureaucrats, but In the current situation, there is no other way.”

Zhu Yihai nodded.

The taxation in the early Ming Dynasty was based on the two tax laws of the Tang and Song Dynasties as the template, and the lijia system was used as the principle of compiling the Yellow Book of Taxation, and then based on the yellow book, it was divided into three types: lijia service, corvee service, miscellaneous general service, and summer and autumn taxation. Two tax land tax.

Later in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the one-whip method was actually to combine the land tax and forced labor that had been collected separately since the early Ming Dynasty, including armored service, corvee service, miscellaneous labor, and power difference, etc., into one, compiled into one, and incorporated into the field tax. The summer and autumn taxes are collected together.

And, levy silver.

The forced labor required by each state and county every year will be hired by the government from the taxes collected, and civilians will no longer be recruited without compensation.

The object of taxation is acres of fields, and the form of taxation is in silver, which is the so-called taxation of silver by mu.

Compared with the early Ming Dynasty, the method of a whip is to simplify the complexity, combine the tax and service into one, and even combine the tax and service into one.In the old labor law, the silver gap and labor gap were issued according to the household and household standards. However, in the new law, all corvee labor is levied, and forced labor is cancelled. Ding and Tian Di share.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the real property was mainly collected, and the one-whip law stipulated that except for the real color of the grain supplied to the capital in the south of the Yangtze River, the rest of the land tax would be collected in silver.

In the early Ming Dynasty, taxes were collected and dispatched in units of lijia, and after a whip, prefectures and counties were used as units.

Generally speaking, the changes have been great, but why Zhu Yihai has brought up these similar content now? In the final analysis, one whip was originally a combination of tax and service, and all of them were collected by one whip.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to a whip, various kinds of labor came, and there were additional taxes such as three rates, and the burden on the people became heavier and heavier.

And Zhu Yihai doesn't want to return to the state of a whip. The biggest difference in his new law is that the major reforms of the past whips are mergers and silver discounts, but they are still land taxes, Ding silver, etc.
The service is converted into silver, which is still collected in units of Ding.

The biggest difference in Zhu Yihai's new law is that it also has simplification and integration, but in the end it is not collected by dime, but converted into dime silver, and then divided into acres of land. The actual collection object is changed from poll tax to land mu tax.

On the basis of a whip, it is a small step forward, but it is a big step across a milestone, and it completely changes the basic nature of taxation.

"All corvees are simplified and combined into one, which is equivalent to the amount of silver per penny, and then divided into the land tax per mu. The small silver and the land tax are combined into one, collected once a year, and the silver is collected uniformly and fixed."

When everything is simplified, there is only one item of land tax left. Ding Yin has already folded it into the field and collected it together, and then just add [-]% of the fire consumption.

In various places, if you want to do anything, whether it is a servant in the yamen or a project, you have to pay for it.

Moreover, Zhu Yihai's breeding population will never increase the tax, which means that no matter how many people there are in the future, the land tax will be fixed. It will not be said that the increase in the number of people will increase the tax, and it will become a fixed tax. Easy to collect and transparent.

"How to implement it smoothly?"

"I think that it is necessary to use the army to assign the prefectures and counties with the imperial camp and the Beijing camp army, and then send the censor and others to take the lead to complete the verification of the register and the field mu and population with the local officials. After these are done, according to the book Just collect the land tax. If you refuse to pay it, you can second the officers and soldiers of the imperial camp and Beijing camp to assist in the collection."

There is one word in Wang Zhiren's words, which is forced.

"Actually, Your Highness doesn't need to worry too much. Judging from the chaos in eastern Zhejiang in the past two or three months, those so-called gentry and powerful don't need to be overestimated. I'm all cowardly."

The warlords' forced plundering is much more ruthless than the imperial court's taxation!

Zhu Yihai smiled, "The Shenji Battalion that was seconded to you before now belongs to the Imperial Battalion."

Wang Zhiren immediately said, "I think there is no need to set up the Beijing Camp. It is better to transfer the Three Thousand Battalion and the Fifth Army Battalion to the Imperial Battalion. If there is an Imperial Battalion, there is no need for a Beijing Battalion."

Zhu Yihai shook his head, "Let's keep the Beijing battalion, responsible for the garrison, guarding Qiantang, the [-] battalion and the fifth army battalion, each can be increased to ten battalions, each with [-] combat soldiers, and [-] auxiliary soldiers. Soldiers can be selected and supplemented from various rebel armies."

Zhu Yihai will definitely reorganize these rebels from all walks of life in eastern Zhejiang.

The Beijing camp retains five armies and two towns of 3000, with 800 auxiliary soldiers in each battle.

Then there are the town battalions in Zhejiang Province. Wang Chuangzi is the admiral of Zhejiang Province, commanding the battalions of the towns in Zhejiang Province. The town has two bids and four associations, each with five thousand soldiers.

Shaoxing Mansion will be changed to Shaotian Mansion and Dongdu will be here.

After the restoration of western Zhejiang in the future, the admiral of Zhejiang will be stationed in Hangzhou, and Jiaxing will each have a general army.

In this way, ten towns in the imperial camp, water and land, were formed to divide the town south of the Yangtze River, with [-] people.

The two towns of Jingying are stationed in Dongduji,
Five towns of Zhejiang battalion soldiers assisted in defending the situation, and there were seven towns of all land, water and horse troops, with more than 4 people.

Therefore, most of the rebels will be reorganized and disbanded.

For example, Sun Xiong's army, which is considered to be a stronger one in the rebel army, will also be reorganized into the Beijing camp. The Yixing army has already been transferred to Anhui.

The imperial camp is under the personal command of Zhu Yihai, the governor of the country, the Beijing camp is under the command of the governor Wang Zhiren, and the Zhe town is under the command of the admiral Wang Xiang.

"Disband the rebels from all walks of life, and each will reward five taels of silver, which will be returned to each family. If there are young and brave elites, they can choose to keep them to supplement the battalions, and give five taels of silver to their families."

Wang Zhiren laughed and said, "Five taels of silver per person is not a small sum."

"In any case, it was very rare for them to be able to respond bravely before."

You can't be stingy with this money, otherwise whoever will come next time something happens.

"Actually, quite a few guys have been robbing for a while, and quite a few guys have made a lot of money." Wang Zhiren reminded.

Zhu Yihai knew very well that it was like the Hunan Army fighting the Taiping Army. After defeating the Taiping Army, Hunan immediately went up a few steps, but Zhu Yihai could only turn a blind eye to this kind of thing. What he wants now is to reorganize and dismiss the army. Forget about the past.

Back then, he was able to stand up and respond to Juyi, which was indeed a show of loyalty with his head raised.

"Lonely in the south of the Yangtze River actually made a lot of money."

"Hahaha!"

"I've heard it before."

"I'll give you 20 taels from the Beijing camp in the future, and make up for the money and food owed by the An family before."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

"Thank you, it should be Gu Xieqing and the soldiers."

"Your Highness, when will we attack Hangzhou? I would like to lead the Beijing camp as the striker!" Wang Zhiren patted his chest and said.

"Wait."

Zhu Yihai was waiting for the latest news from Hubei, Anhui, and Jiangxi. After Jingxiang launched a counterattack, it was time to cross the river and attack Hangzhou.

At that time, the whole line will be linked, and you will not be able to care about the head and tail of the Tartars.

"Then can you go and recover Yuhang first?"

Zhu Yihai thought for a while, "You can try it first, but if you don't have a chance, don't attack by force. Let's not rush."

"clear."

(End of this chapter)