: Greedy for History

Author: Fat Bird Goes First

: Greedy for History

Instead of relying on the Yanping Guards, where did the weapons, bows and arrows Xu Shisheng smuggled come from?

Su Ze had long been suspicious of Yanpingwei, and Lin Qingjian's words only confirmed his suspicion.

However, after visiting Yanpingwei's Fire Bureau today, Su Ze had a new speculation.

Yanpingwei's powder and fire bureau produces day and night, and there is no way it can use so much gunpowder.

As for where the gunpowder was transported, the result is about to come out.

So it seems that Xu Shisheng is really a scumbag like a jackal. When the Japanese rebellion in the southeast was so serious, he was still smuggling gunpowder to the Japanese pirates?

Su Ze used to be just a little hostile to Xu Shisheng, but now he has murderous intentions.

Yan Maoqing came to the Qing army in Fujian just for money. This was originally a matter of spending money to buy peace.

Changning Guard is just a hereditary place for hundreds of households, so only two hundred taels of silver can avoid disaster.

But Xu Shisheng interfered, and it turned into five hundred taels of silver. I am afraid that in the world before the time travel, Changning Wei was in debt and never recovered.

For the current Changning Guard, two hundred taels of silver is not impossible to come up with. The most important thing is to eliminate Xu Shisheng, the county government's formidable enemy.

Having made it clear who was the main enemy and who was the secondary enemy, Su Ze decided to kill Xu Shisheng, the fox of the county government, first, to get rid of this big worry!

However, Changning Guard is not a bandit den. Xu Shisheng is a clerk in the county government. It is definitely not possible to kill people directly in the county seat.

Su Ze asked Lin Qingjian: "Is this taxation matter all in the hands of Xu Shisheng?"

Lin Qingjian nodded and said: "Which company in the county has the most oil and water to squeeze out, which company is soft and not hard, and which is hard and not soft? Xu Shisheng knows this in his heart. He is the only one who leads the servants when collecting taxes every year.

If you go down, you will never let other scribes interfere."

Su Ze now understood why several county magistrates disliked this Xu Shisheng, but still allowed him to continue to be a clerk in the household.

Guys like Xu Shisheng are familiar with various situations in the county. Whenever the court needs to collect taxes, the county magistrate cannot do without him.

This tax collection is naturally a technical job.

Who can you extort money from, and who are tough ideas? Don't waste your efforts.

Those who are impoverished and impulsive certainly don't have the guts to fight with such people. If a popular uprising is triggered, the county magistrate will not be able to come to power.

Those who are powerful cannot blackmail them at will. If they are forced to say hello to someone above, it will appear that the county magistrate cannot distinguish between the important and the important, leaving a bad impression on the Shangguan.

Therefore, someone like Xu Shisheng who is familiar with the situation in the county should be used by the county magistrate no matter what.

However, Xu Shisheng was never allowed to be a historian, which was also the technique of the two previous county magistrates to control people. If Xu Shisheng had his name in the official department, the county government would not be able to deal with him casually, as that would really be a big deal.

This is why Xu Shisheng worked so hard, and even the former magistrate did not allow him to be a classics historian.

Now this guy only wants to make money, but Baizhi County still wants to use him.

Su Ze then said to Lin Qingjian: "Brother Lin, I was born in Changning Guard, and you also know the enmity between the guard and Changning Guard."

Lin Qingjian nodded quickly.

"Recently, the imperial censor came to Fujian for the Qing army. He also asked Brother Lin to help keep an eye on Xu Shisheng's movements and not to let him assassinate the Changning Guards."

When Lin Qingjian saw Su Ze's generosity, he already wanted to make friends.

Su Ze once again used the rock candy produced by Changningwei to solve his food problem, and now he was tied to Changningwei.

Lin Qingjian understood that his relationship with Sun Dianshi had created an undying hatred between him and Xu Shisheng.

Since Xu Shisheng has been offended, it is better for Changning Wei to become an ally and defeat Xu Shisheng together.

Lin Qingjian immediately said: "Brother Su, don't worry, if there is anything unusual about Xu Shisheng, I will go to Changning Guard to inform you immediately!"

After the banquet ended, Su Ze dragged the three drunk classmates back to the school building.

Lin Qingjian's experience seems to have awakened Chen Chaoyuan, who originally wanted to be a subordinate official. He also understood that with his character, he would definitely not be able to survive among this group of subordinate officials who were like wolves. It would be better for him to study with peace of mind and get a job after being elected.

Like Hai Rui, it is enough to make a living as an academic official like an edict.

During the banquet, Xiong Yue also intentionally made friends with Lin Qingjian.

Escorting tribute tea to the northern and southern capitals was also one of Lin Qingjian's responsibilities.

This section of the road has to cross mountains first, and then go through the mountainous areas of Jiangxi and northern Zhejiang. It can be said to be very difficult. However, the time limit required for tribute tea is very tight. The officials responsible for escorting often force the slaves to rush, causing the slaves to rush.

Many people have fallen off a cliff or died from exhaustion. It is considered good if six or seven of ten people set out to reach their destination.

Even if you arrive safely, you will get seriously ill or even become disabled when you return.

The Xiong Yue family is considered a rich farmer with their own tea garden. Naturally, their family will not let their children carry tea to the two capitals, so they will hire people to do the work for them.

As the name suggests, acting on behalf of others means serving on behalf of someone else. This was strictly prohibited in the early Ming Dynasty. Once it was discovered that a person was acting as an acting servant or someone paid someone to serve on their behalf, they would be severely punished.

But at this time, agency service has become quite common.

However, the Xiong family hires people to serve on their behalf. Whether the person who acts as the agent comes back alive or dies on the road, the Xiong family's capital is completely different.

As long as the person can come back, it will be easy. Even if he becomes disabled, the Xiong family will at most have to pay for some soup and medicine.

But if a person dies on the road, the Xiong family will suffer a great loss.

Family members would make trouble and come to the house, and then demand a large sum of money from the Xiong family.

Although it is a very common thing for the Xiong family to hire someone to serve on their behalf, it is illegal. If they go to court, the Xiong family will suffer even more blood.

Xiong Yue's family has been declining in the past two years because the civilian husband who served twice in a row died on the road, and a large amount of compensation was paid!

Xiong Yue asked Lin Qingjian to help intercede with the servants who delivered the tribute tea. Next time the tribute tea was delivered, he would take care of the civilian husband who helped the Xiong family.

Lin Qingjian naturally agreed to this matter.

After a night of silence, Su Ze was woken up by Hai Rui early the next morning and brought to the stables behind the county school.

In the county school system designed by Lao Zhu, students in the county school originally had to learn not only the Four Books and the Five Classics, but also the Six Arts of the Gentleman such as riding and archery.

Therefore, every county school has stables and shooting gardens. However, as the civil and military leaders of the Ming Dynasty changed their ways, and after Tumu Fortress, the nobles and the military were humble, these facilities were also abandoned.

[I found the stable at the location where I can learn the skill "Riding". Do you want to learn it? 】

Su Ze was overjoyed and quickly chose to study.

Although he had ridden a donkey, riding a horse was completely different from riding a donkey. Some simple points entered Su Ze's mind and became his memory.

Sure enough, as Hai Rui said, the horse he rode to Nanping when he took office was a Yunnan horse of short stature and quite a lot of age.

Just such a horse was bought by Hai Rui's mother and daughter-in-law after they spent their savings from years of spinning and weaving.

Although this horse's tongue is a little loose, Hai Rui still raises it well, and its shiny hair shows that Hai Rui washes it frequently.

Su Ze rode back to Changning Guard with a grateful heart. At the same time, in Fuzhou City, Yan Maoqing, the censor of the Qing Army in Fujian sent by the imperial court, finally started to get down to business after several rounds of banquets.

When the censor leaves the capital, he represents the emperor and is an imperial envoy of the imperial court. Officials of all sizes in Fuzhou Prefecture do not dare to neglect him. These days there are even more banquets and banquets.

Yan Maoqing also refused to accept anyone who came. No matter what the invitation was, he would gladly attend the appointment. If someone offered a bribe, he would accept it.

After Yan Maoqing offered the price of Ping'an for military households at all levels, convoys filled with gold and silver jewelry entered Fuzhou City in an endless stream these days. The Yamen warehouse where Yan Maoqing stayed temporarily was filled with gold and silver jewelry.

There are those who take the initiative to pay, and there are also those who pretend to be dead and refuse to pay.

With so many military positions in Fujian, it is natural that not all ancestors are guilty. There are always those in the Wei Suo who think that their family background is innocent and there is no need to report to Yan Maoqing.

Yan Maoqing did not take any action against these people, and everyone in Fujian breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this was the end of the matter for Yan Yushi, so Yan Maoqing came to the Fujian Chief Envoy Yamen.

Today's Fujian chief envoy can be regarded as Yan Song's partisan and Yan Maoqing's ally.

However, Yan Maoqing came to the Qing army this time and had little to do with civil affairs, so the chief envoy still supported Yan Maoqing.

Welcoming Yan Maoqing into the main hall, after a moment of greetings, Yan Maoqing explained his intention.

Putting down the white porcelain tea bowl in his hand, the chief envoy said: "Yan Yushi wants to borrow someone?"

Yan Maoqing cupped his hands and said, "I would like to ask the chief envoy for your convenience."

"It doesn't matter if we need more manpower when the time comes, but why does Yan Yushi want a scribe from the household room instead of a scribe from the military room? Isn't the military room more familiar with the local military situation than the household room?"

Yan Maoqing chuckled and said, "That's not necessarily true."

"In this case, I will send an official document to all prefectures and counties."

Soon, the chief envoy Yamen issued an order, requiring the tax clerks in all prefectures and counties to go to the provincial capital Fujian to report.

The distance from each place to Fuzhou City is different. Counties in Fuzhou Prefecture received the news the fastest and arrived in Fuzhou City on May 5th.

Yan Maoqing decided to start with the secular military generals in Fuzhou Prefecture. He immediately met with the household tax collectors in Fuzhou Prefecture and counties and began to ask them about the situation of military households in the county.

It has to be said that the group of scribes summoned by Yan Maoqing really know the local situation best.

They all know exactly which hereditary military families there are in the local area and which hereditary military family is the richest.

Yan Maoqing took out another account book and asked the clerk of Fuzhou Prefecture to check which military households had not sent money.

The scribes were making calculations day and night, and soon calculated the list of military households in Fuzhou Prefecture that had not yet been submitted to Yan Maoqing.

Immediately afterwards, Yan Maoqing took this list to the Fujian Dusi Yamen, took out his imperial edict and seal of the Qing Army Censor, and set up a court directly at the Dusi Yamen.
To be continued...