Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

On the second day after Zhang Shouren led his troops into the city, rumors started to spread.

It was said that Zhang Shouren wanted to mobilize a large amount of grain for military supplies. There was such a news that many rice and grain stores in the city raised their prices urgently. Before dark in the evening, the price of grain in the city had increased by more than five or six times.

Originally, polished rice cost four qian per stone, and unthreshed rice cost three qen per stone. As a result, by evening, the price of one stone of polished rice and noodles had always risen to more than two taels.

Food is fundamental, and now is the time when the shortage is at its worst, and the price of food should have risen long ago!

This incident also involved a major drawback of the country, that is, the summer tax system. [

In the beginning, due to the plundering and rape of the Mongols and decades of wars, gold and silver were all collected. Precious metals such as copper disappeared, and the private economy was also very depressed. At that time, the economic policies set by Ming Taizu were all conservative and restful with the people, including the fiscal system and taxation system of course.

In order to rest with the people, at the beginning of the country, only in kind was collected, and it was not collected through the Ministry of Households. The people can directly complete their own settlements.

For example, one mu of land is three liters and three combined. When the summer tax is collected, farmers in Songjiang have to push their own carts to send grain to the guards in Yangzhou.

Or farmers in Zhejiang pushed the summer tax grains to the warehouses of the Jingying warehouses in Nanjing.

The original intention of this approach is not to disturb the people, but of course the actual effect is to double the disturbance.Later, the whip method was implemented. Although the Ministry of Households still could not unify the collection and expenditure, and all localities still acted on their own, at any rate, the grain was changed to fold color, that is, silver collection, which also included some forced labor and miscellaneous collection. , can be regarded as helping farmers reduce the burden.

At the beginning of the implementation, the effect may be like this, but once the government's affairs are not clear, everything will go out of shape.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, grain merchants deliberately raised the price of grain to make more profits when there was no harvest before the summer tax, so that farmers had to pawn their wealth to barely survive.When the summer grain comes and it’s time to pay taxes, the grain merchants will deliberately lower the price of grain, so that the farmers who are eager to pay the tax and need cash will suffer another crime. Before, it had to be peeled off by big merchants.

These grain merchants and the government are all inextricably linked, with strong strength, and there is no way for farmers to be exploited. In addition to additional levies such as post and miscellaneous sects, the people are forced to go into exile when taxes are collected. There are so many, this is also a major feature of this dynasty.

In fact, this matter is a matter of regular warehouses. Grain is released when it is not harvested. When the summer grain is harvested, the government collects grain at a par price. Once a grain is collected, the people will reduce a lot of losses... It is a pity that the government is unwilling to do it, and the officials are honest There is nothing to do if you want to.

This is again thanks to Ming Taizu's system, there is no local office funds at all, and it is impossible to have public funds ranging from a few thousand taels to tens of thousands of taels to do such a thing...

Before and after the summer tax collection in the past two years, because of the existence of the Chamber of Commerce, there are many restrictions on the big grain merchants in Jinan. Although there are many other ways to get money, the old big profits are right in front of you. Why can't you earn this money?

This matter, just like the dental business, involved many gentry and even officials. In the past two years, although Zhang Shouren has been dispatching the big ship of the chamber of commerce, but at the same time, he has also incurred a lot of grievances for himself ah……

"A bunch of turtle grandchildren, bastards!"

"You bastards of the donkey shop, think about who helped you get to where you are today?"

"Thinking to direct the misfortune to the general, blind your dog's eyes!"

The combination of food prices naturally caused an uproar in the city!

Jinan City is already a prosperous city, and it has been in peace for more than two years. Liu Zeqing's entry into the city and the chaos of the chamber of commerce only happened in a corner, and it didn't affect the whole city, or even affect the price of goods.

However, the Liu Department has already withdrawn, and after Zhang Shouren led his troops into the city, such a large-scale price fluctuation suddenly appeared in the city, and the twists and turns of it could not deceive the people at all... No, before the major grain stores, not only The expected voices of dissatisfaction with Zhang Shouren did not appear. On the contrary, as soon as some deliberately induced people made their voices, they were immediately scolded to death by the people.

Wang Dongzhu and his party, who were hiding in the food store, were all pale and ugly. [

They really didn't expect that Zhang Shouren won the hearts of the people of Jinan to such an extent!

Like many cities in Ming Dynasty, most of the people's homes have ten and a half months' worth of grain in their homes, which is fine and easy to live on, and the few are that they have no overnight grain and have to buy it every day.

It may be difficult for future generations to imagine, but in fact, this was the case in many cases back then.Because those who do part-time labor and do hard work may earn two to five or six cents of silver a day, or more than 100 copper coins.After deducting the money that must be taken out as an emergency fund, the rest is just the family's food. If you want to earn a penny more, it means doing an extra hour of work.

A lot of heroes in movies and TV show a big silver coin, that is a joke, not real life... The real life is that every common people has to rush for a penny for several days, and for a tael of silver for more than ten or 20 days For a city resident, the annual net income is only ten taels or eight taels of silver. He has to know some crafts and be good at managing money. Most of his families are middle-aged and no one is sick. Otherwise, it would be a waste of money difficulty.

For a shop facing the street, four rooms are used to make a living, and the cost is 40 taels. For a small courtyard with one entrance, the gatehouse plus the left and right side rooms and five or six rooms in the main house, it costs 60 taels of silver to buy, which is already quite a lot. Decent houses, the self-built houses of the common people along the street are enough to buy two or three rooms, but some are very shabby, there is no kitchen, and if you want to wash your face, you have to go to the snack shop Buy it, but that's it, it's the real urban dwelling life during the Song and Ming dynasties...

There is no overnight grain, of course they are all bought in the grain store. The grain store in the Ming Dynasty city must be far away. The small shops in the later generations, on the streets and alleys, before the market, there are big and small, anyway, there are only a few steps away, so Many families make money during the day, buy food at night, and buy food at night after eating the next day.

When food prices rise, these people will be unlucky first.

And the original plan was to use these poor people to put pressure on Zhang Shouren. The general didn't always show his love for the people. If the people couldn't survive, would he consider cooperating with the merchants?Let's sit down and discuss how to stabilize food prices?

As long as Zhang Shouren sits at the table, even if nothing can be discussed, Proprietor Wang's plan will be fulfilled.

Going further down, plans such as the tooth shop and each business house's own guard business group can be implemented, and the benefits are of course a part of the general Taibao... After all, Zhang Shouren is still the biggest and strongest force in Jinan City, but the benefits are equally shared. General Zhang must not cover the sky with one hand!

Although the plan is good, it is now slipping to a place that no one expected...

"I didn't expect that the general would be so popular."

"Of course, the money we gave, the general tried his best to use it on these people, such as the Public Welfare Bureau and the Civil Affairs Bureau, building bridges and paving roads for the old and the young, giving gruel and medicine, all kinds of things, and everyone all went to him. Forget it, what is this? We paid for nothing!"

"Ni Zhongcheng and the officials of the Jinan Mansion have already done their best. The yamen servants are all huddled, and the price of food has risen like this. The government has not said a word. This is actually a great opportunity..."

"Of course we have to persevere!" Wang Dongzhu said decisively: "The general is not that strong, so I'll wait if we persevere..."

Before the words were finished, a loud noise suddenly erupted in the city.

At the beginning, it seemed that some people were shouting, then there was a huge cheer, and then there was a shout like a landslide and a tsunami. The sound was so loud that it was like bursts of thunder rolling past. Involved in the turbulent waves, for a while, it is difficult to extricate yourself!

"What's that sound?" Proprietor Wang sat down on the ground, unable to get up for a while.

Dressed in Yanfu, hiding in the deep palace, King De, who was drinking wine and beauties, sat up suddenly, his face full of panic!

"The people changed?"

In the governor's inner hall, Ni Chong, who was thinking about how to negotiate with Zhang Shouren, and how to get more benefits from the dental clinic's distribution of benefits, suddenly turned pale.

"Something has happened!" [

Staying out of the matter, he dared not participate in it, but Huang Yinchang, the deputy commander in chief who had a clear understanding of Zhang Shouren's strength, immediately grabbed the sword in hand and turned his feet outward.

Everyone, at the same moment, rushed out together.

The entire city of Jinan has a radius of nearly [-] miles. The center of the city is composed of east and west archways, with the Forbidden City and the palace in the middle, where the Yamen of the later governor of Shandong is located. There are also famous springs such as Baotu Spring as the center. It was the cities in the east, west, north, and south that, almost at the same time, made a sensation together.

"Fushan Army, mighty!"

Shouting, like throwing a stone into a river, aroused circles of ripples, and then kept expanding towards the periphery, and then expanding!

Proprietor Wang and the others climbed up to the high place of the private house, and when they looked over, they found it was cold from the front to the back!

Soldiers, countless soldiers!

Countless soldiers with spears and firecrackers!

Because it was entering the city, all the Fushan troops put on long armor over their uniforms. This kind of armor is Ming armor, with the iron pieces on the outside, and it is polished shiny. In addition to the style, it is actually the silver hard armor of Donglu There is a great degree of similarity, but it is not as thick as the silver armor used by Hou Jinbai armor.

If there are thousands of armored soldiers, what they see is an endless stream of iron, everyone is wearing armor, and everyone is holding a long soldier. In such a situation, it is a few businessmen, even if they are today. The emperor will be surprised when he sees it!