The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 439 Huating County Magistrate
Li Dongyang is right, the Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven, and this will never change.

Xie Shen can elect his own people within the rules, but the decision is still in the hands of the emperor.

The most troublesome thing is that this rule is not written in the Daming Law, there is no clear provision, it depends entirely on the mood of the emperor.

Rao is an easy-going king like Emperor Zhengde, and his mind is not completely understandable.

Li Dongyang's official career has been ups and downs for many years, and he has already seen the truth of it thoroughly, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a human being.

Xie Shen was very satisfied with the result of the court push. As long as Emperor Zhengde agreed, Wang Shouren could immediately go to Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture to take office.

Xie Shen firmly believes that as long as Wang Shouren is around, his political ideas can be best implemented.

If there is anyone in this world who will never let him down, then this person must be Wang Shouren.

In July of the second year of Zhengde, Emperor Zhu Houzhao allowed the court to push the results, and ordered Wang Shouren to go to Huating County to take up his post.

Since the imperial decree had the word "departure immediately", Wang Shouren did not dare to delay, and set off to leave Beijing after the official department hastily completed the formalities.

With the existence of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it is still very convenient to travel from the capital to Songjiang. Wang Shouren arrived in Songjiang Mansion within half a month.

Huating County is Fuguo County, so the county government is located in Fucheng.

This is not good news for Wang Shouren.

You know, there is an immediate boss pressing on top of your head, and many things will be hindered.

Fortunately, his county magistrate is somewhat special, to some extent, he was appointed by the imperial court to implement the New Deal.

Although there is no Wang Ming flag to protect him, he has more or less confidence, so he doesn't have to completely look at the face of the prefect of Songjiang.

Of course, there are still some etiquettes that should be given.

After Wang Shouren arrived in Songjiang Mansion, he immediately went to the magistrate's yamen to meet him, which was considered a courtesy.

The prefect of Songjiang, surnamed Zhao, named Ji, styled Huizhi, was from Qingzhou, Shandong.

This Zhifu Zhao was a Jinshi in the third year of Hongzhi, but this year is his first year in Songjiang Prefecture.

As the saying goes, there are three fires for a new official to take office. Zhao Zhifu has just taken office not long ago, so he is naturally still in an exciting period.

Like many of his colleagues, Zhao Ji focused on several aspects.

Taxation, culture and education, prison litigation.

The latter two are okay to say, but this tax is a worry.

It is well known that Nanzhili is rich and prosperous, and Songjiang Mansion and Suzhou Mansion even accounted for half of the tax revenue in Nanzhili.

Even children know that the officials and gentry of the two prefectures are as rich as the country, so the prefect Zhao naturally understands.

It is one thing to understand, but it is not an easy task to extract taxes from them.

Most of the local gentry have official backgrounds, and they can be exempted from taxes with only a little affiliation.

At first, Zhao Ji excitedly ordered the government officials to check the fields, intending to clear up the old accounts and make up for the deficit left by his predecessor.

But when the officials handed over all the registered land acres to Zhao Ji, Zhao Zhifu was stunned.

Compared with the beginning of the dynasty, the ownership of land has undergone great changes. Nearly [-]% of the land is in the name of local officials and gentry, and only a small number of scattered land belongs to ordinary farmers.

After thinking about it again and again, Zhao Ji still didn't make up his mind to break the face with these officials.

After all, the iron-clad official, the gentry, the parent official.

After the three-year tenure, he will go to the capital to report on his duties and seek a new place of office. He has nothing to do with the Songjiang Mansion, so why bother to quarrel with the local officials and gentry over this matter.

If these officials and gentry unite to trouble Zhao Ji, I am afraid that Zhao Ji may leave Songjiang Mansion in disgrace.

Naturally, he would not be so stupid as to do the thing that the predecessors planted trees and the descendants enjoyed the shade, so the agricultural tax was dropped.

As for business tax, it is even more impossible to start.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Emperor Taizu clearly stipulated that the commercial tax is one in thirty, and this one is fixed.

Even if Zhao Ji wanted to increase taxes, he didn't have any official laws as evidence, so he really had a guilty conscience.

The agricultural tax cannot be changed, and the commercial tax cannot be changed. It seems that what Zhao Ji can do is to eat and wait to die.

The enthusiasm at the beginning of his tenure gradually faded, and he had already planned to wait until the end of his term to get a mid-level or upper-middle assessment, and he would be transferred elsewhere.

It wasn't until the news that the imperial court ordered Wang Shouren to go to Huating County to carry out the New Deal that Zhao Ji rekindled his enthusiasm.

What he valued was not Wang Shouren, but the attitude of the emperor.

The content of the New Deal has long been copied and sent to various places in the residence newspaper, and Zhao Ji has already read it at the first time.

To be honest, Zhao Ji admired the new policy promoted by Mr. Xiaoge very much.No matter from which angle you look at it, this New Deal has something to say, and it cures the sick and saves the sick.

But Zhao Ji is not very optimistic about the success of this new deal.

Because Zhao Ji is a landlord himself, he understands the thoughts of these officials, gentry and landlords very well.

Xiao Ge always wants to check the land nationwide, and the difficulty can be imagined.

However, Zhao Ji was a little surprised that Xiaoge Lao's new policy was supported by the emperor.His Majesty the wise and mighty emperor also ordered Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture to be used as a pilot, which is obviously to be implemented nationwide.

To be an official in the Ming Dynasty, you must have the ability to act on rumors, and you must also have a strong ability to figure out what you want.

The most important thing is that we must know how to judge the situation.

Even if this new deal will fail in the end, but with the support of the emperor right now, we have to give face.

If you don't have this level of awareness, you deserve to be trampled under your feet for the rest of your life and made a fool of others.

Of course, how to get along with Wang Shouren is also a very tangled matter for Zhao Ji.

If there is no such relationship as the New Deal pilot project, Zhao Ji will of course put on the airs of his immediate boss and play a good role.

But now Wang Shouren came here by order of the emperor, although he was not an imperial envoy, but it was almost the same.

If Zhao Ji is too strong at this time, once he is used by someone with a heart, many troubles may arise.

After discussing with his staff, Zhao Ji finally chose a compromise method-to have a good personal relationship with Wang Shouren, and to delegate full power to the county magistrate in the New Deal.

"The new Huating county magistrate, Wang Shouren, pays homage to Fu Zun."

In the inner hall of the government office's backyard, Wang Shouren bowed his hands to Zhao Ji and said respectfully.

I don't know when, when officials of the Ming Dynasty met with their superiors and subordinates, they would kneel down and worship.Such bad habits not only did not dissipate with the passage of time, but intensified.

For example, if the prefect or county magistrate sees the governor, if he does not kneel down and greet him, it is disrespectful to his superior.

But Wang Shouren obviously didn't have this plan. For him, there was no one else he needed to kneel down to, other than the kings and teachers of heaven and earth.

To salute Zhao Ji is already the limit of what he can do.

Zhao Zhifu naturally didn't mean to trouble Wang Shouren.He had already discussed with his staff how to deal with it, and he wanted to attach importance to personal friendship with Wang Shouren.

"Shouren is too polite. Brother Yu, how old are you, why don't you call Brother Hui?"

Zhao Ji twirled his beard and smiled slightly.

　ps: I would like to recommend a book in friendship, "The System of Enduring Humiliation in the City".

　　The second update will be posted at night, please wait a moment, happy Sunday~
　　


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