Chapter 107 The stone sinks into the sea without waves
After dinner, Yu Qian stacked the bowls and chopsticks and handed them over to Zhang Maifu. He thanked him in a very low posture, then turned around and walked into the dusty warehouse again.
This warehouse has a special name, called Jiageku.
All documents and archives of the prefectures and counties have been stored here, which is generally similar to the imperial library on Xuanwu Lake outside Nanjing.
All of this is because the documents archived in this cabinet are the key to the tax and grain registration of prefectures and counties, and the rise and fall of this place. It is archived to facilitate the retrieval of anytime and anywhere.
But everyone has always been indifferent to such existences, and they are naturally perfunctory when they are not bad at the top and the bottom. No one wants to be boring numbers all day long.
Over time, no one cared about these documents and books that were left alone.
Yu Qian was very patient. As soon as he discovered the problem, he searched through the entire Jiage Library, found out all the accounts of the silk silks of the people of She County, and checked them one by one.
Things have come to the point.
Yu Qian knew very well that the taxes of more than 8,000 pieces of silk were definitely impossible to be borne by a small She County.
She County does not plant mulberry trees and does not produce silk. If the people of Yi County bear the responsibility independently, they will definitely sell grain for money and then exchange money for silk for taxes.
In Yu Qian's idea, this account must have been remembered incorrectly at the beginning, and it should have been evenly distributed by the six counties in Huizhou Prefecture.
But why is She County alone responsible for it?
Although She County is the capital of Huizhou Prefecture and is larger than the other five counties, it cannot pray for honest people like this, right?
Fire cannot be created in the trench warehouse, because this is to ensure that water will not be removed.
Yu Qian took advantage of the faint light coming in from the window and put the account book in front of him and flipped over and checked it carefully.
At this time, he was holding the account book of Huizhou Prefecture in the early years of Hongwu.
In vain, Yu Qian's eyes shrank, and then he widened violently.
He found it!
According to the account book, Emperor Taizu Gao became the queen in the 24th year of Zhizheng in the previous dynasty, and the first thing he did in Huizhou Prefecture was to modify local taxes.
This tax change was recorded in the account book as the "Jiachen Legal System".
However, at the end of that year, during the review of the Secretariat of Xingzhong, he discovered some problems, so he carried out another "Yi Si Change to the Certificate" in the second year, and made another adjustment to the various tax accounts of Huizhou Prefecture.
The problem lies in these two tax revisions and adjustments!
Yu Qian kept checking the piles of accounts in front of him, and kept climbing over with the Ming Dynasty.
Finally, he discovered that when the tax was revised, the court discovered that there was a problem with the amount of summer grain tax in She County. The result of the investigation was that She County had a total of 9,700 stones left last year!
Your local finance department dares to evade taxes?
So much is missing?
If you are missing a hundred stones, our court will think you have spent it. You are so much different, and you are the big men in the Secretariat who are blind?
Make up!
I must make it up for you!
Therefore, the wise adults of the Secretariat Province made a ruling on the finances of She County. She County rented land lightly for 3,646 hectares and levyed four cents of "summer tax raw silk" per mu to make up for the shortage of summer grain.
How did Yu Qian view this ruling and why did he think something was wrong?
His extremely smart head told him that this matter was not over.
So Yu Qian picked up the pen to calculate, and a set of data was obtained in a few seconds.
She County replenished 9,700 shi of summer grain. According to the price at that time, each stone was worth three cents of silver. How could it be calculated that 9,700 shi were only 2,910 taels?
Nowadays, the 8,780 pieces of "human silk" paid by She County every year are priced at seven cents per piece, and the silver is discounted by 6,146 taels.
Two thousand nine hundred and ten taels.
Six thousand one hundred forty-six taels.
Are these two numbers very similar?
His grandfather's is not good at all!
Yu Qian looked at the data he obtained and was stunned.
Co-author, the people of She County pay more than 3,000 taels of silver every year?
Grandpa Tian, from the first year of Hongwu to the 14th year of Yongle, the people of She County have paid 50 years, and the total amount of nearly 200,000 taels of white silver!
The people of She County are just a group of unlucky guys!
Yu Qian couldn't help but clench his fists. He knew very well that the account was not settled like this!
His head was buried in the vast account books again, and this time Yu Qian expanded the scope to the account books of the entire six counties of Huizhou Prefecture.
He knew very well that the great figures in the court could not have made a decision just for a small She County. At the very least, the entire Huizhou Prefecture could only be matched with the reviews of the great figures.
Yi County, Xiuning County, Wuyuan County, Qimen County, Jixi County, including the unlucky She County, Huizhou Prefecture, all owed taxes!
None of them are spared!
Except for the unlucky She County, the other five counties owed a total of 1780 stones of grain and sold silver for 3,234 taels.
Yu Qian is quite confident in his calculation ability.
She County has 2,910 taels of silver, plus 3,234 taels of five counties, which is 6,144 taels.
It is only two taels of silver shorts from the "human silk" of the court!
The answer has come out!
"Damn it, Shexian is just an unlucky guy!"
Yu Qian finally couldn't help but scolded his heart and expressed his silence to the unlucky guys in She County.
The people of their county have been owed for fifty years and have been responsible for the "silk silk" that the entire Huizhou Prefecture owed that year. This burden has been for fifty years!
After finding out this, Yu Qian knew what was going on.
At the beginning of that year, there were turmoil in all directions. The court investigated local taxes and found that the entire Huizhou Prefecture had a total shortage of more than 20,000 stones of taxes, so it had already asked Huizhou Prefecture to make up for the "Xia Taxation Wire".
This is not wrong. There are so many places in your place every year, how can the court survive?
We won’t forget it before, after all, everyone lived under the brutal rule of the previous dynasty at that time.
But in the future, you Huizhou Prefecture must be obedient and we must pay all this money of money.
One or two can’t be missing!
For Huizhou Prefecture, there is no problem. We should have paid for it, but now we have paid it all in the future.
But the problem lies in the fact that the more than 6,000 taels of silver that were added every year should have been borne by the entire six counties of Huizhou Prefecture. In the end, God knew why it became the unlucky She County.
At this moment, Yu Qian felt that the entire Jiageku was glowing, and the light source was himself.
He felt that he was the person shining in the entire Huizhou Prefecture.
He wants to make the decision for the entire She County and escape from this justice.
We have treated the transactions in She County for more than 50 years, but we must not do this again in the future!
It is not like bullying honest people like this.
This is just catching a pig and plucking it to death.
The pigs are bald, so they have to continue to pull them.
"Fortunately, I discovered it!"
Yu Qian put down the book book in his hand, stood up straight and stretched, and the clamps of his fingers and neck twisting.
After a short rest, Yu Qian shouldn't have rested anymore. He felt that he should make the decision for the people of She County, Huizhou Prefecture.
I immediately wrote quickly, and soon I was full of literary talent, clear organization, and clear data, and written from Yu Qian's writing.
In this official document, Yu Qian presented the facts and reasoned, and finally mentioned that the taxes levied should be jointly borne by the entire Huizhou Prefecture Prefecture, not by the She County, and the prefecture can be proved!
Where can I testify in Huizhou Prefecture Chronicles?
There was no mention of this account back then, and it was not clearly stated that it was Huizhou Prefecture or She County. It was just a vague record that you had to pay as many "silks of people" in Huizhou.
But the six counties share the burden but there is no word.
After all, according to the situation at that time, the great men in the Xingzhong Secretariat must have known that Huizhou Prefecture owed money to the court, so Huizhou Prefecture must have known it itself, otherwise the money could still be in the dog's stomach?
Now I just need to post a message to Huizhou not owe money in the future, and Huizhou Prefecture will definitely make full contributions.
But behind Huizhou Prefecture is the most important thing, but She County paid the entire Huizhou Prefecture...
Yu Qian's official documents have been handed over to the county master of Shexian County.
He was relaxed and now he had no plans to visit and ask for advice on his predecessors.
He was waiting for his great discovery to be respected by Shexian County and was waiting for recognition and praise from the government.
However.
one day,
Two days,
Three days...
Yu Qian's official document was like a rock sinking into the sea, and he didn't even get a wave up.
Chapter completed!