Zhuang Yuanzhou has been serving as the magistrate of Qufu for almost half a year, and the official life of this six months completely overturned his cognition that he had formed over the years, prompted him to abandon certain fantasies, and finally chose to turn to the emperor's side.

After first arriving in Qufu, after participating in a series of routine gentry banquets, Zhuang Yuanzhou often dressed in casual clothes and took his servants to go deep into the fields, intending to have a relatively comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the local social conditions and public opinion of Qufu in order to lay a solid foundation for subsequent governance.

However, after more than two months of busy life, Zhuang Yuanzhou had serious doubts about whether he could achieve some political achievements in office. He had already realized that as the nominal highest administrative officer of Qufu County, as long as he did not bow to the Kong family, his government orders would not be able to be released from the county government.

Since the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Taizu appointed Qufu as the hereditary of the Confucius family, for two hundred years, all the magistrates of Qufu were children of the Confucius family. In addition, Yan Shenggong, the name of Yan Shenggong, belonged to the Ming Dynasty, was actually independent of the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

Since Zhu Youjian, who has traveled through time in the eighth year of Chongzhen, has been disgusted with the Kong family's various bad deeds, so he has changed the rules set by Taizu at the end of that year and has sent foreign officials to serve as the magistrate of Qufu, hoping to use this method to dismantle the huge power of the Kong family in Qufu and even the entire Yanzhou Prefecture.

But it turns out that Zhu Youjian's actions were futile and ridiculous.

As the first foreign official to take office as the magistrate of Qufu, Li Shaohua went to Yansheng Gonggong Mansion on the day of his tenure. In front of Kong Yinzhi, he expressed his attitude in front of Kong Yinzhi. Although he was an official appointed by the court and ordered to serve as the magistrate of Qufu, he had no intention of offending the authority of the magistrate of Yansheng Gonggong Mansion. In Qufu, all the rules were the same.

Since then, with the strong support of the Kong family, Qufu County has been as always as ever. Because Li Shaohua respected the Kong family's instructions everywhere, he has been rated as the top in the everyday routine examination of the Ministry of Personnel. He can only wait for the five-year term to expire and can be promoted to the local official level.

However, this seemingly happy situation ended abruptly due to Kong Yinzhi's drowning. Li Shaohua also dismissed from his post because of his inexplicable drowning of Yan Shenggong and his post were dismissed from his position. Subsequently, the magistrate of Qufu and the Duke of Yan Sheng were emptied. It seemed that the palace had forgotten these two things. Although the Kong family repeatedly submitted letters to ask for titles and appointments, all the letters were like stones sinking to the sea and there was no response.

When Zhuang Yuanzhou came to office, although the Kong family arranged for his children to entertain him, Kong Yinzhi's eldest son, Kong Xingxie, the nominal successor of the Yansheng Duke, never showed up, and the Kong family's great family line ignored his arrival.

Zhuang Yuanzhou naturally knew in his heart that although Kong Xingxie had not inherited his title, he had already regarded himself as the new generation of Yansheng Gong, and was waiting for him to visit him in person.

But he knew very well that the emperor was tired of the Kong family, so he could not go to this door no matter what. As long as he stepped into the Kong family's door, it would mean the end of his career, and even Sun Chuanting's face would be useless.

Therefore, after Zhuang Yuanzhou took office, he only went to the Confucius Temple to worship, deaf ears to all kinds of gentry reminders, and refused to join the Kong family. The reason was that the Yansheng position was empty. As the imperial official, he went to visit Kong Xingxie, who was nominally a commoner, and as long as Kong Xingxie inherited his title, he would naturally visit him in person.

Seeing the new magistrate doing this, Qufu's gentry and gentry immediately adopted the strategy of intentionally or unintentionally alienating him, and Zhuang Yuanzhou didn't care about it either. In his thoughts, Qufu was just his career. As long as he could understand the emperor's true intentions and put it into action, and then get a middle-ranked ranking in the Ministry of Personnel's assessment, it would not hinder his smooth promotion.

But Zhuang Yuanzhou soon discovered that since his statement, almost everything related to him has become worse.

First of all, the collection of summer grain encountered major obstacles, and the tax collection indicators of 1,000 stones set by the court for Qufu could not be completed at all. During the tax collection, the household plaques found Zhuang Yuanzhou several times with various forms, and then explained one by one how much should have been paid by a certain household, but due to drought and rain, the harvest was not collected in place. Because a certain township suddenly encountered strong winds and hail before harvest, the crops fell over and reduced production on a large scale. Not to mention paying taxes, even this year's food rations became a problem, etc.

The last household house official admitted that this year's tax collection could only be completed by 300 stones, and the remaining 700 stone vacancy was unable to be completed, so he could only ask the magistrate to find a way. Either pay the 300 stones and then be rated as inferior in the Ministry of Personnel's evaluation at the end of the year; or you pay this big hole out of your own pocket and spend money to buy peace to ensure that there is no stain on your career.

The clerk finally told Zhuang Yuanzhou with a smile that if the magistrate wanted to buy grain at his own expense, he knew several big grain merchants, and promised that it was a little cheaper than the market price. He also hinted that when the senior master encountered such trouble, the Kong family finally completed the errand.

After Zhuang Yuanzhou calmly sent away the official, he already knew in his heart that all this was caused by the Kong family. As long as he went to the Kong family to visit him immediately, the tax collection this time will definitely be completed as scheduled.

For the Kong family's dirty tricks, I didn't expect that the saint would be so narrow-minded after that, Zhuang Yuanzhou was both ridiculous and disappointed with this.

When I was experiencing the people's conditions some time ago, Zhuang Yuanzhou had already roughly known about the land wealth owned by the Kong family. He knew that the 1,000 stone of grain tax that Qufu should bear was like a drop in the bucket for the Kong family, which owned hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land.

While the emperor and important officials tried every means to raise food and resettle tens of millions of victims, the Kong family, who produced millions of stones of grain in the fields every year, turned a blind eye to this and took the opportunity to raise the price of grain to make a fortune. This behavior can no longer be described as dirty.

Until this time, Zhuang Yuanzhou suddenly understood why the emperor was so disgusted with the Kong family and wanted to make the Kong family pay.

The emperor's fundamental purpose was to allow the Kong family's hundreds of thousands of acres of land to be paid taxes. The title of Yansheng Duke has always been emptied, which is one of the means by which the emperor wanted to use this to control the Kong family. However, such a thing requires someone to be a villain, and he is unfortunate or fortunate to be taken by the emperor.

wrong!

Once the Kong family pays taxes for hundreds of thousands of acres of land, what about the other gentry and wealthy families of the Ming Dynasty? All the saints can pay taxes later. Why can't you?

The emperor is planning to be enemies of the gentry in the world!

Thinking of this, Zhuang Yuanzhou's heart suddenly became beating faster and he woke up completely. At the same time, he felt both shocked and admired.

He was actually very clear that the Ming Dynasty did not lack food at all. The reason why the food prices were high was mainly because the gentry and wealthy families in the world hoarded the production and production of land without taxes under their name, and then put them into the market for huge profits in the event of natural disasters and man-made disasters.

Once the emperor's grand strategy is finally achieved, Taicang will soon become extremely full. No matter how big the disaster occurs, the court can calmly respond, thus avoiding the occurrence of large-scale thieves in the early years of Chongzhen.

Only when you have food in your hands will you feel unhappy.

However, if you really want to do this, you will immediately become the public enemy of scholars in the world and be despised by the entire gentry group. If the emperor cannot withstand the pressure and give up halfway, the person who stands out will be pushed out as a scapegoat, and eventually loses his reputation and his family will be destroyed.

Similarly, if this strategy can be successful, your future will be bright. As long as you don’t make big mistakes in the future, there will be no problem in being in the court in the future, and it is even possible to join the cabinet to rule.

Faced with this opportunity of success and failure, how should you choose?

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