Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 347

It should be said that the new taxation system in the North Zhili area has been implemented well in the past few days. It may be that after seeing Li Jingqiang's strong skills, most landlords and businessmen in the North Zhili area, especially the counties around Gyeonggi, obediently Complete the payment of the previous arrears and the current year's tax.

But there are still a small number of people who refuse to pay taxes. Li Jing has seen these lists. These people are mainly relatives of princes and nobles, such as Zhou Guozhang, Tian Guozhang, and the British Duke Zhang Weiying.

Among them, Zhou Guozhang and Tian Guozhang are just because they gave birth to a good daughter, while Zhang Weiying is a hereditary duke, and the ancestor Zhang Yu is the most important hero when Chengzu Zhu Di died in Tianjing.

No matter how the Ming government changed, countless people came and went, and the British public line was always there.

In fact, during the reign of Chongzhen, there were still five branches of the Duke of the Ming Dynasty, namely, the first line of Wei Guogong, the first line of Ding Guogong (the above two lines are descendants of the founding general Xu Da), and the first line of Cheng Guogong ( The descendants of Zhu Neng, the hero of Jing Nan), the line of Qian Guogong (the descendant of Mu Ying) and the line of British Duke.

Among them, the most stubborn one belongs to the family of the British Duke. When Wei Zhongxian was the most domineering, he could not help the British Duke. The Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao died.

With such credit, Zhang Weiying was naturally full of confidence, even if Zhou Guozhang and Tian Guozhang were in front of him, he would not dare to act presumptuously.

It's just that Li Jing didn't want to understand a little bit. Are these people's minds filled with mud?He even confiscated the emperor's estate and distributed it to the poor and retired soldiers without land. Why do these people think that they won't touch them?

After pondering for a while, Li Jing put down his pen, turned to Xiao Wu behind him and said, "Someone call Zhang Weiying, Zhou Guozhang, and Tian Guozhang to see me."

When Xiao Wu heard this, he hurried out and called a few soldiers to give him some instructions.

After following Li Jing for a long time, Xiao Wu knows Li Jing very well. Generally speaking, when Li Jing invites people to meet, he usually uses the word please, but this time he actually called these three people, which shows that Li Jing is already very dissatisfied with these three people. up.

In fact, according to Xiao Wu's thinking, there is no need to be polite to these people at all, and these people should be taken down directly. People, so they eat delicious food, drink hot food, and show off their might. It is superfluous to keep such people.

But Li Jing didn't let him take him, Xiao Wu didn't dare to really tie him up after all.

Zhou Guozhang's name was Zhou Kui, and because his daughter was a queen, he was granted the title of Bo Jiading, so he was known as Zhou Guozhang.

Tian Guozhang's name is Tian Wan, also known as Tian Hongyu, Tian Guozhang is not actually the head of the country, there is no way, who told his daughter to be just a concubine?However, Tian Hongyu's daughter is very favored by Zhu Youjian, and he also rises with the tide.Tian Hongyu was named the right governor. At that time, most people called him Tian Qiwan, and some people called him Tian Guozhang.

One of these two relied on their daughter to be the queen, and the other relied on their daughter to be favored. They basically had no children in Beijing.

There is no way, the family is a hereditary duke, and the two of them only have their current status by relying on their status as daughters. In the face of a family like Zhang Weiying, they will eventually be dwarfs.

However, Zhang Weiying also had good eyesight. Seeing that these two families were gaining momentum, although he looked down on them from the bottom of his heart, he would not offend them for nothing, and usually walked around with these two families quite frequently.It seems that there is a tendency to help each other with the same spirit.

As a result, no one would dare to mess with these three families in the capital. They basically belonged to crabs and walked sideways.

But when Zhang Weiying and the others saw Li Jing's personal guards enter the mansion, they knew that this time the matter might become serious.

Although Zhang Weiying and the others hadn't entered the palace in the past few months, how could they not know about all the big events that happened in the capital and even Daming?Especially when Li Jing rectified the military affairs, the capital alone laid off more than 7 people. At this time, if they didn't know that the Ming Dynasty had changed, they would be fools.

However, since Li Jing came to power, he has been relatively lenient to the rest of the people except for being ruthless against corrupt officials.

Seeing this situation, these people immediately felt relieved, because although their status is not low, their real positions are empty positions and they have no real power. He was not worried about what Li Jing would do to them.

The facts are indeed true. In the past few months, Li Jing has ignored them, the princes and nobles (mainly because Li Jing has no time, and Li Jing has just come into power. To investigate and deal with corrupt officials, there is no time to deal with them).

A few days ago, the imperial court promulgated a new tax system. These people discussed it privately, and they all felt that it was impossible for someone with their identities to come to collect taxes. Even if they came to collect taxes, it was just a show.

Therefore, when the tax officials came to collect taxes, these people either used bad business, poor harvests, or lack of money to fool the tax officials.

Strange to say, the tax officer left without saying anything, which made them think that Li Jing was not planning to collect taxes from them.

In fact, Zhang Weiying and others didn't know at all that because Li Jing's time to implement the new tax system was suddenly advanced, the local government's preparations were not ready, and the tax collectors were not prepared enough.

At that time, Zhang Li had already served as the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture. Zhang Li had been the magistrate of the prefecture for many years. He was familiar with local government affairs and knew how to deal with such a situation.

After Zhang Li received the notice from Shen Zheng to start implementing the new tax system, he knew that the collection should be started from those merchants and landlords who have no strength. To help Zhang Li take care of the place, those small merchants and small landlords can only submit obediently.

If we gnaw at such tough bones as Zhang Weiying and Zhou Kui from the beginning, once a stalemate arises, those small merchants and small landlords will wait and see about the new tax system, and even use the excuse that these big households do not pay, so why should we pay it?

It's not that Zhang Li doesn't want to fight tigers, but what's the point of scoring tigers? Killing Zhang Weiying and others can solve the tax system problem in Beizhili at once, but it will also touch nerves elsewhere.

We must know that the implementation of the new tax system this time is not only in North Zhili, but also in South Zhili, and all over the country.

Those princes and nobles all over the country have no good enemies. Now that Chen Dahu and Liu Erleng have not led troops into the southern Zhili area, if they start rashly here, the south will inevitably trigger a fierce backlash. Once there is turmoil, there will be Contrary to Li Jing's original strategy of step-by-step strategy.

Especially now that Li Jing is in urgent need of money, the most urgent task at this time is to collect the money first.

Zhang Li started to collect from the small households, even if the big households were unable to accept them, at least he could complete part of the tasks and help Li Jing solve his urgent needs.

If the money was confiscated and Li Jing was in trouble, then Zhang Li would never expect to be reused by Li Jing again.

And when Chen Dahu and others led troops into the Nanzhili area, they could start hunting tigers here.At that time, the southern region was deterred by the strong army of Chen and Liu, and no one dared to act rashly.

In addition, Zhang Li also has some malicious intentions in doing this from the bottom of his heart.

You must know that officials like Zhang Li don't like princes and nobles like Zhang Weiying very much. It's not certain whether he can be promoted to the magistrate's thigh.

And Zhang Weiying has been the prince of the state since he was born, and enjoys the treatment of a first-rank official. How can Zhang Li's psychology be balanced?

As for Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, Zhang Li looked down on them from the bottom of his heart. These two people have no shit skills, and just because they gave birth to a good daughter, and the emperor took a fancy to them, they started to get together.

Zhang Li has been playing tricks on Zhang Weiying and others during this time!

Because Zhang Li didn't completely let princes and nobles like Zhang Weiying do nothing, he sent several tax officials to harass them from time to time, and Zhang Li made the tax officials weak first and then gradually became tougher. At this time, Zhang Weiying felt that the government would follow them no matter what. Be tough, this is what Zhang Li wants.

Zhang Li knew very well how much Li Jing attached importance to taxation. Whoever dared to mess with Li Jing in terms of taxation, Li Jing would definitely not spare him.

And Zhang Weiying and others confronted the tax official in such a way that they would inevitably anger Li Jing in the end.And once Li Jing was provoked, none of these people would have any good fruit to eat.

To say that Zhang Li is indeed a master in operating such things. When Li Jing besieged Jiezhou, he dared to trick the wealthy businessmen in the city, thus occupying a certain position in Li Jing's mind. Now Li Jing has grasped the overall situation , if he didn't cheat Zhang Weiying and others, he would really feel sorry for himself.

Moreover, Zhang Li believes that even if Li Jing sees through his purpose, he will definitely be happy to see the results, and he may even praise him for doing the right thing and doing it cleverly.

Of course, this opportunity must be grasped well.

It's too early, Chen Dahu and Liu Erleng didn't arrive in Nanzhili too early, even if Li Jing knew that Zhang Weiying and others were resisting the tax, he wouldn't rush into it.

It doesn't matter if it's too late, if it's too late, with the characters of Chen Dahu and Liu Erleng, they will definitely start working in a hurry in the south, and then he will lose the meaning of fighting tigers.

The timing of Zhang Li's report was just right. Not long after Chen Dahu and Liu Erleng arrived in the South Zhili area, Zhang Li reported the tax collection situation to Shen Zheng. Shen Zheng did not hesitate to report it to Li Jing immediately after reading it.

So there was the scene where Li Jing summoned Zhang Weiying and others.

And Zhang Weiying and the others were not fools. When they found out that it was Li Jing's personal guards who came to summon them, they knew that something might happen.

The reason lies in the identity of the summoner.

What do Li Jing's personal guards do?They were responsible for protecting Li Jing's safety, and there were only a hundred people in total (actually, there were a total of two hundred people in total, and the other half stayed in Pingyang Mansion to protect the safety of Yuan Keli and Xu Guangqi, and at the same time help Yuan Keli deliver orders).

These people are equivalent to Ouchi bodyguards. When did you see the emperor send Ouchi bodyguards there?If these people are sent out to send a message, it means that things have exploded.

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