Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

"This matter needs to be dealt with clearly..." Ms. Chen San withdrew her smile, and said seriously: "I have heard about this matter for a long time. Those who make troubles are mostly people from various clans, even Dengzhou soldiers are also young people from nearby clans. Zhuang, if you have offended these big clans so deeply, unless you send troops to wipe out all the clans in Wendeng, Ninghai Prefecture and Weihaiwei, otherwise, it must be your political burden."

Zhang Shouren gave her an admiring look, and Xun Xunshan asked, "What should you do in your opinion?"

"Comfort first, many people have been killed, and they don't dare to make trouble with you when they are free. But it is difficult for people to obey. First appease, and then slowly sort out the relationship. The most important thing is to get those patriarchs and big gentry Be subdued, those who can be pulled will be pulled, and those who cannot be pulled must be eradicated. Keep them, no matter how good you are to the people, it is useless. At critical moments, if the prestigious patriarch and gentry shout, the people in the clan must still listen to the patriarch. , I won’t listen to you, General Zhenglu.”

Zhang Shouren looked at this sixteen-year-old girl with admiration. Not only was she beautiful, she was also genuinely intelligent. She could see and speak clearly about this kind of complicated civil affairs. It is rare.

No wonder Chen Dengkui, a soldier, dotes on this daughter very much, and she really has something special about her. [

Miss Chen San blushed when he saw him, she lowered her head, revealing a section of white neck, and a faint scent of body that only a girl could have hit Zhang Shouren's nose.

"Well, let's go."

Zhang Shouren coughed slightly, regained his composure, and murmured: "What you said is also helpless. I clearly said that the emperor and the cabinet govern the world, rather than the clan. Administration, judiciary, taxation, education, water conservancy, farmland, warehousing, post transmission, so many things are on him alone, the county magistrate still shakes his head as a master. Personal? If you don’t embezzle the two and hire a few old masters to help, the county magistrate will be played to death by the local clan. That’s it, it’s just a few scattered silver coins from the hands of the big clan gentry..."

This is indeed the case with local government affairs. It is vague and unclear, and the powers are unclear. The administrative, military and judicial chiefs are all county magistrates, but the county magistrate is also a foreigner. Again, people from the south use it from the north, and people from the north use it from the south. For example, people from Cangzhou are assigned to serve as county magistrates in Shaoguan, Guangdong. They speak different languages. It is good if the county magistrate can figure out which street the county government is located, but it is impossible to talk about it at all. There is specific governance for localities.

The third class of yamen servants is the yamen servants of the government system, that is, there are only a dozen people who have an establishment. The assistants and miscellaneous servants who collect taxes are all from various clans. There are thousands of mouths in Hulala, and they seem to be the magistrates of the county. Yes, but if you collect taxes, you will not be able to collect those big households. No matter how powerful you are as a local official and how powerful you are, you will not be able to collect money from the local rich officials and gentry.

In the Susong area, most of the gentry belonged to centuries-old scholarly families. When the imperial power was at its strongest, the tax revenue was less than [-]%.

This is the political truth of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Shouren didn't realize before that his power had not yet extended to the point of conflict with the power of the clan. At this time, clan power was a major barrier that could not be avoided.

This time the conflict with the local clan in Dengzhou Manor was an extremely powerful start.

"Hmm, I know."

Ms. Chen San, who was born in a big clan herself, lowered her eyebrows and was pleasing to the eye. Listening to Zhang Shouren's long speech, there were bright smiles on her pretty face.