The story of the first 100 years of the Silk Wonder case has been mentioned above, so this "following" will bring this story to a successful end!
Friendly reminder: It is recommended to read the timeline first, restore the silk case spanning a hundred years - Daming under the microscope (top) and then read the next part, the background introduction is basically completed in the first part
Makuchi: The little handsome son inherits his father's business and exposes the truth about silk tax and hidden fields
About 20 years after the death of the old marshal, a young man surnamed Shuai Jiamo, a person from Renhua County, was once again involved in the old matter of silk tax.
That's right, Shuai Jiamo is the stupid son of the old handsome who died innocently and tragically, perfectly inheriting his father's talent for arithmetic, and his favorite thing in daily life is arithmetic, so he will also help the official to measure the land every day. He was a non-staff person, according to today's words, a geographical surveyor of the Ming Dynasty.
- When Huang Ningdao, the prefect of Jin'an, first arrived, the eight-county alliance was solid, and the first round of proposals collapsed
When Xiao Shuai helped the people measure the land, he found that the actual area of land was not the same as the data recorded in the fish scale album, so Xiao Shuai begged his good friend Feng Baoyu to find a way to let him enter the pavilion.
It was also mentioned before that Xiaoshuai became more stupid after experiencing that fire, to be precise, it should be a lack of emotions, most of the time immersed in the world of arithmetic, the reason why he wanted to enter the pavilion was simply to know whether he had miscalculated.
It is this simple reason that kicks off this big drama.
With the help of his good friend Baoyu, Xiaoshuai successfully entered the racket library. In addition to confirming that the fish scale atlas did indeed have a large number of forgery traces, Xiaoshuai also discovered a secret incident over the years - a county in Renhua County assumed all the co-pay of the whole province (later changed to the human silk tax), that is, the old incident mentioned in the first paragraph of the story nearly a hundred years ago.
Xiaoshuai was a person who confessed death, and he directly reported the matter of Renhua County's overpayment of the Ding silk tax to the official Yamen. This case should have been handled by Fang Maozhen of Renhua County, and if this were the case, the matter might not be so complicated. But it happened that Jin'an Prefecture changed prefectures, and the matter of the silk tax of people came to the hands of Huang Ningdao, the prefect of Xinke.
Why is it said that things have become worse when it comes to the prefectural government, the prefect is still one level higher than the prefectural county, and it should be logical that it should be able to better help Renhua County solve this overpayment of taxes!
Thus began the first trial of the silk tax against this background.
Shuai Jiamo argued in the hall that the witness Ding Si silk tax and the co-pay (which is the background of the first paragraph of this story), coupled with Huang Ningdao's intentional favoritism, several counties led by Fang Maozhen could not find any reason to reject Xiao Shuai's complaint.
Just when Xiaoshuai's complaint was about to succeed, a lawyer named Cheng Renqing was killed at this time, which is equivalent to today's lawyer.
The purpose of his appearance is not to sell Guanzi, stir up Huang Xiaoshuai's complaint, and prevent Huang Ningdao from continuing to investigate the Ding Silk Tax. As for his specific identity, for what purpose do you want to do this, first press the table, let me first finish the story of the first round of triage.
It is worthy of being a well-known local lawyer, and the appearance is Wang Fried, he did not question that Xiaoshuai had a problem with his calculation, but pointed to the key - why did Xiaoshuai do the accusation?
Xiaoshuaiyi is not an official; Second, in ancient times, filing a complaint was a very serious matter, and ordinary people generally did not ask for trouble; Finally, he also directly threw out the fierce material - the little handsome father Lao Shuai was investigated for embezzling people's silk tax, and finally committed suicide in fear of crime (the second paragraph of this story).
Therefore, Cheng Renqing insisted that Xiaoshuai's insistence on suing Ding Sisilk Tax was not pure, and coupled with Xiaoshuai's private running into the rack to check the information, it was also illegal. As soon as this move came out, it was equivalent to giving Xiaoshuai a fatal blow.
Xiaoshuai defended himself and filed a complaint just to correct the wrong figures. But Xiaoshuai's pure thoughts are really incomprehensible to others, and they are not enough to justify themselves as reasonable motives.
Even if Huang Ningdao had the intention to support Xiao Shuai, the reason for this complaint was really untenable, and he had to reject Xiao Shuai's complaint. Xiaoshuai was also imprisoned because of his previous private break-in with Geku.
Fortunately, with the help of Huang Ningdao, Xiaoshuai was acquitted after not sitting in prison for a few days. Huang Ningdao knew that he could not sue at the level of Jin'an Mansion, so he ordered Xiaoshuai to go to a higher-level mansion to file a complaint. By analogy today, I can't sue in the city, so I ran to the province to fight a lawsuit, which somehow reminds me of "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit" hahahaha
Before Xiao Shuai left, Huang Ningdao returned Xiao Shuai's complaint to him, and wrote some annotations with a red pen.
Inside the complaint. Huang Ningdao clipped a Di newspaper, and this Di newspaper has a wonderful use behind it, and there is also the reason why Huang Ningdao killed the Ding Silk Tax.
Di Bao is equivalent to the current newspaper, but it is only the internal information of civil servants at that time, basically writing about national policy events, personnel transfers, changes in the national situation, and so on.
The first complaint about the human silk tax ended in failure, Xiaoshuai did not give up, and the next time he will go to the provincial capital.
There is a question earlier, what is Cheng Renqing's identity, and for what purpose is it to disrupt the bureau of the inventory of Ding Silk Tax?
- Fengxing patrol intervened according to Liu Jing, Fan Yuan retreated to advance, and the second round of prosecution fell into a dead end
Ordered by Huang Ningdao, Xiaoshuai immediately took his good friend Baoyu to the provincial capital to file a complaint. On the other side, Fan Yuan also received the news that Xiao Shuai went to the provincial capital to file a complaint, and quickly sent Cheng Renqing and Lu Feilong soldiers to stop Xiao Shuai and the two in two ways.
Cheng Renqing was in charge of the affairs of the Ming Department, and rushed to the provincial capital overnight to find his former classmates and friends to drink and talk freely about the old things about the teenager's study. This emotional exchange was indeed useful, and the next day, the petition previously submitted by Shuai Feng and the two was dismissed. Shuai Feng and the two remembered the previous encounter with Cheng Renqing, and their complaint must have been stirred up by Cheng Renqing again.
The little shuai and the two could only go back to the house to see if they could encounter the case of Fengxing's inspector Liu Jing's judge Ding Si silk tax. Although the position of inspector does not seem to be as good as that of the prefect, it represents the central inspector and the locality, and the authority is very large, so the case that was rejected by the provincial level, the inspector has the qualifications to restart the investigation.
In the "History of Ming", it is recorded that the inspector patrolled hunting on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and the ministers and officials of Fuzhou and County were inspected according to the order, and the impeachment was especially specialized, and the big things were decided, and the small things were immediately decided.
On the way back to the city, Xiaoshuai Baoyu and the two were ambushed by Lu Feilong, and if it weren't for a mysterious man in black who rescued them, they would have died directly.
Lu Feilong is the aforementioned rogue sent by Fan Yuan, he is responsible for the affairs in the shadows, and plans to let Xiaoshuai and the two die on the way back to their hometowns, so that the case of people Ding silk tax is completely over, but unfortunately his plan was disrupted by a mysterious person. As for who this mysterious person is, for what purpose do you want to save Xiaoshuai and the two, and look at the story behind.
Xiao Shuai's side was lucky, and he accidentally bumped into Liu Jing, an inspector who was patrolling various places, and the two submitted the prepared complaint upward. Liu Jing saw that the case that had been rejected by Jin'an Prefecture and the higher provincial ministries was not intended to be accepted. Seeing this, Baoyu had a flash of light, remembering the newspaper of Huang Ning Daosai before, and guessed that there must be a deep meaning in it, so he handed over the newspaper.
Look again
There is an important detail in the Di Pao, the pilot project of clearing the Zhangtianmu in Fujian has achieved results, Zhang Juzheng has clearly proposed to crack down on the gentry who use various means to conceal assets and evade taxes, and the national cleanup is about to begin.
Yes, this is also Huang Ningdao's main motivation for insisting on the human silk tax, what is the relationship between the human silk tax and the land clearance? And see later
As soon as Liu Jing saw the content of the Di Bao, he immediately tasted Huang Ningdao's hint of mystery, and when he turned his words, he directly told Xiaoshuai and the two that he Liu Jing was in charge of the matter of the silk tax.
At this time, they happened to be in Yamen in Lanxi County, and Liu Jing directly ordered Mao Panfeng of Lanxi County to open the pavilion to let Xiaoshuai enter to thoroughly investigate the case of Ding Silk Tax.
Mao Panfeng did not want to be restarted again, and all kinds of delays did not open the pavilion, but he had no choice but to have more power. The rack library in Lanxi County was opened, and Liu Jing sent Xiaoshuai and two book-copying writers to go in together to investigate the accounts of previous years and find out the truth about the Ding Silk Tax.
Unfortunately, a few days later, the rack library was burned, and the little shuai and the two mysteriously disappeared.
Who put this fire? It's not someone else, it's still a rogue deer flying dragon, in order to stop the progress of the human silk tax case, this kid is really desperate. However, he alone still can't do such a big thing, and someone has to cooperate inside and outside.
That person was, Lanxi County Ling-Mao Panfeng.
You must know that the burning of the pavilion was definitely a major crime in the Ming Dynasty at that time, even if the death penalty in the Ming Dynasty was not easy to sentence, but not to mention it had to be a crime of exile and filling the army, is it not good to be a comfortable official?
There must be someone behind Mao Panfeng, and it is obvious that Fan Yuan, the person who least wants to restart the silk case, and the squire who does not hesitate to kill people, is the person behind Mao Panfeng.
Mao Panfeng is Fan Yuan's third force, if Cheng Renqing is responsible for the lawsuit, and Lu Feilong is responsible for killing people and crossing goods, then this Mao Panfeng is responsible for wiping his ass in the internal system.
In order to get rid of the crime of burning the rack library, Mao Panfeng threatened an old bookman in the household to give perjury, claiming that the rack library was burned by Xiaoshuai and the two. Perjury was quite clumsy, but at that time, human evidence was the most direct evidence, and Xiaoshuai and the two were charged with burning the pavilion.
As for the disappearance of the two little shuai, it was not luck, but someone came to the rescue, otherwise these two people would have lost their lives.
Although he did not die, because of the great crime of "burning the pavilion", the two became wanted criminals. Xiao Shuai and the two were caught hiding for a few days and escorted to Jin'an Mansion for trial, the chief judge was Huang Ningdao and Liu Jing, but this time there was one more case, in addition to the old case - Renhua County paid more people Ding silk tax, and Xiao Shuai and the two burned the pavilion library.
Wait, there is also a person missing, Fan Yuan, this old man shakes people again, this person is Jinqu Military Preparation Road Ma Wencai, his official name is too long, probably equivalent to a local military chief with some administrative powers, the vernacular is that this person's official position is not low, and there are soldiers in his hands!
The case of Xiaoshuai burning the pavilion, due to Cheng Renqing's negligence, the perjury of the old scribe in the household was quickly exposed, and the case was closed.
Cheng Renqing was disgusted by Fan Yuan because of this, except that he did not handle this matter well, and the most terrible thing was that Fan Yuan had already noticed Cheng Renqing's defection.
Remember that Xiaoshuai was rescued by mysterious people twice before, one was the deliberate murder of Lu Feilong, and the other was almost burned to death in the Jia Ge Library, both of which were good things done by Cheng Renqing!
Cheng Renqing is from Fan Yuan's side, why did he suddenly turn against the water?
Speaking of Ding Sisui's case, there were still great differences in the trial this time, but fortunately, thanks to the joint efforts of Huang Ningdao and Liu Jing, Mao Panfeng and Mar Wencai on Fan Yuan's side unexpectedly did not obstruct too much, and agreed to Huang and Liu's proposition - clear the acres of land in each county and recalculate the share of Ding silk tax for people in each county.
At this moment, the truth of the inventory of people's Ding silk tax is related to the first time of the inventory of land acres, and clarifying that the Ding silk tax is just a high-sounding excuse for Huang and Liu.
Until this moment, the careful thinking of all parties finally surfaced and reviewed it for everyone.
So since Fan Yuan had already understood the true purpose of Huang Ningdao, why would he let Huang Ningdao and Liu Jing's purpose of clearing the field and mu be easily achieved?
No, no, ginger is still old and spicy, it was the appearance of Ma Wencai that made Fan Yuan open his mind, and simply put Huang Ningdao directly in order to retreat.
How does it work?
Huang Ningdao Liu Jing's order to check the land was issued, but the actual people who carried it out were still local officials, plus Huang Ningdao was new to the country, and no cronies went down to the grassroots level to carry it out. So, this order to inventory the land completely changed at the bottom.
Huang Ningdao wanted to check the land of the squire and wanted to catch the evidence of the squire's hidden field, but the people who carried it out obeyed the squire's order, and the land of the natural squire was not remeasured, and he first went to find the land of the innocent people.
Blatant local officials, the common people directly fill 12 acres of land with 10 acres, can the peasants not be angry, what kind of demon is there on the ground, they have to measure the land again! Coupled with the water army prepared by Fan Yuan in advance, under their intentional instigation, the victimized people in various counties directly came to protest, and a group of people killed at the gate of Yacheng in Jin'an Prefecture.
The peasants marched in protest, and this was a popular uprising.
Ma Wencai directly detained Huang Ningdao and Liu Jing, the crime was to forcibly clear the land and cause a civil revolt, take over the Jin'an government affairs with the trend, and then issue an order to revoke the Qingzhang field, and finally put a name for Xiaoshuai as the bane of the people's change, and the backhand is a slashing decision, trying to cut first and then play, and restore the farce at the moment.
In this wave, Fan Yuan won a complete victory, Huang Liu and the two were suspended, and Xiaoshuai was about to be beheaded, what about the people's silk tax and land clearance? And listen to the following article.
- Fengxing Inspector Li Shida sew down, and "everyone is happy" is a cool finale
The death is difficult to break, but Fan Yuanbaimi always has a mistake, he still underestimated Cheng Renqing, after Cheng Renqing was abandoned by him, he has been visiting with Baoyu to understand the old affairs of the Ding silk tax, and also found a copy of the evidence "Silk Silk" left by the old marshal (the chain of evidence mentioned in the second paragraph of the story).
So, Cheng Renqing went to the provincial capital alone to recruit Fengxing Inspector Li Shida (one of the officials who presided over the trial of the old marshal with Fan Yuan), Li Shida saw the evidence book written by the old marshal that year, he knew the beginning and end of the matter, and Cheng Renqing quickly rushed to Jin'an Mansion, and also rescued Xiaoshuai at the last moment.
As soon as Li Shida came, things went quite smoothly. Even an official of Huang Ningdao's level knows to follow the policy trend above, and he still doesn't understand it.
Li Shida, who came to Jin'an Mansion, solved the case of the silk tax at a lightning speed and speed, and directly issued an order to clear the land, this time the clear is the land of the squire, and Fan Yuan is really at the end of the road this time.
The end of the story is really happy, and the ending is cool.
The tax on Renhua County was reduced from 3,530 taels to 1,500 taels, and the remaining 2,000 taels were not borne by the remaining 7 counties, and the land property confiscated by Fan Yuan was filled as a settlement. Fan Yuan had several accomplices, Lu Feilong was exiled to the army, Mao Panfeng, Song Ren, and Ma Wencai were all officials involved in the case, and it is estimated that they are also murderous.
From a historical point of view, less than a hundred years before the complete collapse of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng's policy of vowing to clear the land was effective, but the hidden land and tax problems accumulated over hundreds of years had reached a situation where it was difficult to return.
The finale seems to be a peaceful and cheerful scene, but it's just the happy ending that everyone has always liked, hey, life is hard enough, the TV series is a little dreamy and unrealistic, so why not.
The truth of history is often more cruel than TV series, is the drama "Daming" just telling history and telling stories?
Invisibly, you can also glimpse the shadow of some contemporary events, perhaps this is borrowing ancient irony haha
Unconsciously wrote nearly 10,000 words, the story of "Daming under the microscope" has also been written, let's end this article. If you like this article of radish, you may wish to like the comment and forward, then we will see you again in the next issue!