Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 570 The Season of Harvest

Chapter 570 The Season of Harvest

The autumn pool grows longer, and the leaves turn from dark green to brown yellow. Under the blowing of the autumn wind, they float down and sneak into the bushes.

In fact, compared to the vibrant spring and summer, Zhang Fei prefers the elegant, lonely and sad autumn.

Under the autumn sun, all the scenery in front of me seems to become clear and bright, and this beauty is even more unforgettable.

At this time, Zhang Fei was sitting at the open-air dining table, with two charming wives beside him.

"what--!"

Zhang Fei stretched his waist, looked at the two beautiful wives, "It's a beautiful day today, would you two beauties go for a stroll in the city with me?"

Gao Wenyin asked in surprise, "Going to the city? In such a season, everyone in the city will go out to have fun."

Zhang Fei hesitated, "Then don't go to the city, go to the suburbs."

Gao Wenyin said again: "If you talk about the suburbs, where is the scenery more charming than ours? I heard from Xiaotao that many literati visit our neighborhood."

".?"

"Pfft!"

Seeing Zhang Fei's deflated expression, Xu Zhiqian couldn't help laughing.

Zhang Fei turned his head to look at her, and said pitifully, "Beauty Xu?"

Xu Zhiqian hurriedly shook her head and said: "We still have a lot of things to be busy with. We already have the pleadings from the common people. Now there is a regulation on punishment for public security management. How can we have time to go out and play?"

"You have to catch your breath even if you hang yourself."

Zhang Fei said: "You must know that autumn is the harvest season, and you may encounter surprises."

"surprise?"

Xu Zhiqian glanced at him curiously.

"Ah."

Zhang Fei smiled deeply.

As Gao Wenyin said, in this season, the suburbs are full of literati, who stop to visit and look far away.

In the southern suburbs, I saw two plainly dressed, older scribes come to rest at a tea shop by the roadside.

"call."

The scribe in the blue gown sat down, heaved a sigh of relief, and said to the scribe in the gray shirt next to him: "Nowadays, the transshipment department is so busy with business, Brother Yuan is still interested in inviting me to climb the mountain for fun." .”

These two scholars are Cai Yanqing and Yuan Jiang.

"You have to go out to catch your breath!" Yuan Jiang said, "Furthermore, doing things behind closed doors will only backfire."

Cai Yanqing heard that he seemed to have something in his words, but when he thought about it carefully, he had no clue, looked around, but there was no scenery that could give people inspiration.

Just at this time, the shopkeeper came up with some wine and dishes, "You two guests, please take your time."

"It's work!"

Yuan Jiang nodded with a smile, and said, "Shopkeeper, your business is doing well!"

"It's okay! It's okay!"

The shopkeeper nodded happily.

Yuan Jiang said: "You are so happy that you can't close your mouth. I don't know if it's okay!"

The owner smiled: "The guest officer doesn't know something. I'm happy not because the business is good. Usually, business is good in this season."

Yuan Jiang snorted, "Why is that?"

The shopkeeper said excitedly, "It's because our Hezhong Prefecture has a public prosecutor's law."

Cai Yanqing frowned, "Public security? What does this have to do with your business?"

"It's a big relationship."

The shopkeeper said: "In the past, when we ran a small shop, at least three or four out of ten of the money we earned every year had to be sold out. If we were unlucky, if we had a few more customers who we dare not ask for money, this day's business would be in vain. Done.

But it's different now, now that there is a public prosecution law, we can do business with confidence, and if anyone dares not to pay, then we will sue him in the imperial court.Doing business is not good, it is because we have no ability, I admit it, but many shops are closed not because of no ability, but because there is no way. "

Cai Yanqing nodded and said, "I see."

It happened that there were guests calling in that room, and the shopkeeper greeted him twice, and then went back to the shop.

Cai Yanqing looked at Yuan Jiang and said, "This must be the reason why Brother Yuan asked me to come here today."

Yuan Jiang nodded: "This public prosecutor's law is more conducive to businessmen. It is obvious. Since the police station arrested some people last time, not only the law and order has improved, but also those small traders can come and go easily."

Cai Yanqing said: "The promotion of Changping Division is to make money with money, and money can attract businessmen. Brother Yuan intends to make more use of businessmen in the future."

Yuan Jiang nodded and said: "Exactly. As far as the salt law is concerned, at the beginning our dynasty implemented the salt law. The corruption in it was shocking. In the end, the court had to use money to subsidize the salt law. So there was the Commercial Law, but the merchants colluded with the frontier generals, shoddy and profited from it.

In the end, Fan Xiang came here and switched to the salt banknote method, so that he gradually returned to the right track. Although there are also disadvantages, in general, relying on merchants can save the court's consumption more than laboring the common people.

Now that the public security law is very beneficial to businessmen, why don't we take advantage of this and choose to spend money to hire businessmen. "

Cai Yanqing pondered a little, and said: "Indeed! Every year when selling salt, as many as [-]% of the ships that died on the way, and as few as [-]%, most of them were intentional. Therefore, Xue Xiang had already used merchant ships to transport salt, or put merchant ships , Official ships merged, let them supervise each other.

In this way, a lot of loss is indeed reduced, but businessmen are always seeking profit, and they will also try their best to obtain greater profits from it.

Moreover, this only applies to peaceful times. In times of war, merchants are still less reliable than the transportation of officers and soldiers. "

Yuan Jiang immediately said: "The transportation of merchants is not as good as officers and soldiers. It is just that there is not enough money. If there is enough money, merchants must be more useful. Moreover, the transportation of officers and soldiers only depends on the labor of a large number of people along the way, but after the war, even if there is no war The ravaged inland counties often need to recover for several years, resulting in a sharp drop in tax revenue, and the loss is far lower than that of hiring businessmen!"

"That's true."

Cai Yanqing nodded, and asked again: "I don't know what Brother Yuan is going to do?"

Yuan Jiang said: "When the transfer department is promoted, it only cares about the goods in and money out, and the goods out and money in, and the rest will be ignored. When the transfer department is allocated to the government, it will be mainly coins. Didn't we say before that a lot of finances are handed over to the government?" In terms of places, what the government needs, it also spends money to buy, instead of doing labor or hiring people to do it themselves.

In this way, the accounts are simple, corruption can be prevented, and loss can be saved well. "

Cai Yanqing said: "But Hezhong Mansion doesn't have so many coins!"

Yuan Jiang said: "Isn't there a salt note? Moreover, I will also suggest to the imperial court to increase the coinage of the Hezhong Mansion."

Cai Yanqing said: "But no one has ever done this before. Whether it will save money or increase expenses is not certain!"

Yuan Jiang said: "To tell you the truth, I dare not speak nonsense about what will happen, but right now, reforms are being carried out, not only financial, but also layoffs in the military camp. If you choose to hire businessmen at this time, you can also lay off people." Losing more people, if it is tried out, the cost will be much lower.”

But Zhang Fei still fooled Xu Zhiqian out, and the husband and wife chose to travel on horseback.

The two of them galloped through the suburbs on horseback, enjoying themselves.

In fact, Xu Zhiqian is not a house girl, she can't stay at home, but she loves work more.

Of course, the cost is also very high, and there are Long Wu, Niu Beiqing, and four masters behind.

The group rested for a while at the foot shop along the way, then rode south again to visit the surrounding scenery.

"Oh, the surprise you mentioned is this businessman."

Xu Zhiqian looked at Zhang Fei suddenly.

Zhang Fei nodded and said: "Exactly, the public security law is of course not only to help businessmen, but it depends on how the public security law is implemented, it is best to find the answer from the businessmen.

Because no matter how fair the public security law is, it is difficult to change the lives of ordinary people, but it can revitalize business, because businessmen have no power and power, and can only rely on contracts, which is very consistent with the public security law. "

Xu Zhiqian nodded thoughtfully, "It's a pity that those businessmen are also mercenary and forget their righteousness for profit. It is of no great use to the country."

Zhang Fei laughed and said, "It's good for the public security system, but is it good for the country?"

Xu Zhiqian said, "Is it good for the public security bureau?"

"of course."

Zhang Fei said: "If a businessman grows stronger by relying on the Public Prosecution Law, he will naturally become a staunch supporter of the Public Procurement Law, and those big landlords will never support the Public Procurement Law.

Because the public security law will not only deprive them of some power, but also inhibit their development. "

Xu Zhiqian said happily: "I understand, you want to use the power of the merchant to deal with those big landlords."

Zhang Fei smiled and nodded, "Exactly."

Suddenly heard a noise coming from the front, looked up, and saw a wooden shed on the street full of people.

"What happened?"

Xu Zhiqian immediately walked over.

"Hey."

A fast horse suddenly caught up from behind, it was Long Wu.

Only then did Zhang Fei heave a sigh of relief, thinking, this woman is really courageous.Immediately also rode to keep up.

Just arrived near the wooden shed, but saw a man walking from the side, "Zhang Zhang Zhang."

Zhang Fei turned his head to look, "Ou Jun? Why is it you."

Ou Jun pointed to the wooden shed, "This is the branch of our Royal Police."

"what?"

Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, and then thought that at that time, this branch office was promoting to the nearby villages by registering military pay for soldiers, and in order not to let people realize that these branch offices would exist permanently, so they did not directly buy or build houses, just temporary A wooden shed was built.

Xu Zhiqian asked, "Police Officer Ou, why are there so many people?"

Ou Jun said: "They are all nearby farmers, and they came here specially to pay taxes."

"Pay taxes?"

Xu Zhiqian said in surprise: "It seems like half a month before the autumn tax is collected."

Ou Jun said: "We have told them to pay the tax when the time comes, but they are not willing to pay the tax now. After Cai Zhifu's permission, we let them pay the tax."

Xu Zhiqian was at a loss when she heard it, and she had never encountered the rush to pay taxes.Can't help asking: "Did the Hezhong government charge heavy taxes before?"

Ou Jun said: "That's not the case, it's just that in the past, Li Zheng, the head of the household, and the yamen were responsible for collecting tax bills from door to door, and they mostly looked at the tax bills, but now they declare independently, see the land deed, and pay taxes. This is very beneficial to those self-cultivating farmers, who are afraid that the government will change their minds, so they are in a hurry to pay taxes."

Zhang Fei said: "That's why all the farmers who come now are self-cultivators."

Ou Jun nodded and said, "They are all owner farmers, and there are no landlords or tenant farmers."

Zhang Fei said: "Then have you inquired about the specific situation in the village?"

Ou Jun looked left and right, and whispered again: "Now they are all walking around, and they seem to be unwilling to pay taxes according to the land deed."

Xu Zhiqian worried: "Zhang San, if they all play tricks, how should we deal with it?"

Zhang Fei laughed and said, "Then only one can come out alive."

(End of this chapter)