Beginning in the winter of the eighth year of Jianyan's reign, the imperial court officially began large-scale soil excavation and land inspection in the southeast, specifically the most prosperous Liangzhe Road and Jiangdong Road.

Under the direct pressure from Fenghuang Mountain, all the local officials in the southeast almost bit the bullet and started the most core and most relevant work that they had never dared to think of before. This may cause direct resistance to land inspection and soil cutting.

Scholar-officials and householders were summoned to Fenghuang Mountain one after another, and like the local officials, they also directly faced the pressure of the current Emperor Jianyan.

Let’s also say that Emperor Jianyan has been in the imperial court for seven or eight years, and he is quite skilled in martial arts. He is known as ZTE... To put it bluntly, not everyone has the courage to say no to this emperor. After the martial arts competition, even

Most people even lost the courage to discuss relevant issues with the emperor.

Not to mention, these people in the southeast, whether they are officials, scholar-bureaucrats or ordinary households, naturally lack the experience to deal with an emperor.

However, even so, after just a few months of getting along, these members of the so-called "ruling group" in the southeast still saw some clues... If nothing else, this official is a person who can go to hell once he makes up his mind.

The attitude of insisting on doing it is really intimidating.

It is precisely because of this that with the beginning of land inspection and soil separation, the entire southeast fell into a strange atmosphere:

First of all, it is definitely wrong to say that thousands of horses are silent, because Phoenix Mountain actually shows a vibrant and relaxed political atmosphere.

It's really very relaxed and energetic.

Former ministers like Ye Mengde who came from the southeast were pardoned, and leaders of the Southeast Shilin like Zhang Jiucheng were directly promoted to officials of the Secret Pavilion... Who can say that it is not lenient?

However, people like Zhang Jiuzheng and Ye Mengde are still relatively far away from everyone. What really gives the southeastern scholar-bureaucrats and social households something they can be eager to try is, after all, the public cabinet.

While inspecting the land and seizing land, the public cabinet also quickly and resolutely established a three-level local public cabinet system of road, state and county with a structure similar to the prefecture-county school in Sanshe Fa.

Under this system, the scholar-bureaucrats and prominent households in the southeast, as well as wealthy businessmen, and well-known monks and Taoists were almost wiped out.

And this public pavilion is by no means a mere empty shelf used to hold powerful households. Under Phoenix Mountain, everyone witnessed with their own eyes that many white-bodied scholar-bureaucrats who were around me in the past used the public pavilion as a springboard to express their political stance.

With the show of talents, they have obtained a political future that was unimaginable in the past. From the promising job of editor of Di newspaper to the real shortage of general judge and county magistrate, Zhao Guan family is not stingy at all, and they really take practical political work.

power to carry out political bribery.

Even those with official status, as well as pure wealthy merchants, landlords, monks and Taoists, because they entered the public cabinet, a large number of their children and nephews were arranged to transfer to state schools and county schools, and some of them with some fame even directly graduated from martial arts.

The reputation of being a scholar and becoming a servant of an official family not only gave these households a bit of political identity, but also gave them the additional expectation that their descendants would become masters.

Isn't this what people who want to be educated in arts and martial arts, gain access to goods and belong to the imperial family, regardless of whether they are official households or not?

In this kind of atmosphere, it's almost like jockeying for the first place, but who dares to say that it's like thousands of horses standing in silence?

However, the weird thing is here - everyone knows that Zhao Guan's family did these things to ensure his two reforms related to the population tax, which are the so-called "no tax" and "sharing the land", but except for the most extreme

In order to become officials, a few scholars would formally express their support through petitions, but almost everyone intentionally or unintentionally avoided talking about the specific development of the matter.

At the same time, the local land inspection and land settlement was not so smooth. There was no public policy resistance, but there were private obstructions, delays in changing laws, and various complaints against state, county and local officials.

, there are bribes to executive officials. Even after Lu Yihao, Lu Xianggong, issued a note and asked officials from various states to investigate each other, they suddenly took advantage of the snowy day to go out drinking and burn down the building next to their public house.

There are still hayyards.

But only Zhao Guan's family Long Shu on Fenghuang Mountain had the protection, and no one died, which surprised everyone.

In short, for a time, the vitality here in Fenghuang Mountain and the tension and seriousness in the local area, the repeated orders and five orders of official documents and the drunken and slow chanting in the West Lake Restaurant formed a strong separation.

It can only be said that this phenomenon not only illustrates the instinctive resistance of these households to reform, but also fully demonstrates their ambivalence when faced with the coexistence of political bribery and harsh posture of Zhao Guan's family.

In this way, before the New Year's Day, which was about the time when Tokyo Taixue inquired about politics, the light snow began to clear, and Zhao Guan's family formally held a general meeting of the public cabinet on Liangzhe Road and Jiangnan East Road at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain. Not to mention all the trivial matters in between.

At the end of the meeting, Lu Yihao and Mr. Lu suddenly stood up and announced three new regulations on situational households in public.

First, the wealthy businessmen, landlords and temples with real estate and assets reaching a certain amount (annual rent of three hundred dan, income of three hundred guan) should be unified into the status households, which means that the status households will completely live up to their name.

Moreover, as the name suggests, the status household refers to the local status household, which is also the so-called wealthy and powerful household.

But in the Song Dynasty, the status household was still a proper term, but there was really such a household register, which was full of official households and official households. Once the family declined, the property was insufficient, etc., it would be removed from the status household.

Transferred to Hirado...that person who is rich and has official status is of course a typical right-wing person.

However, this hukou still has nominal flaws, that is, it lacks the wealthy businessmen and landowners who theoretically became rich through hard work, and it also lacks the temples outside the temple.

Now that they are unified, no one can escape, and in a sense, this can be regarded as a "reorganization of household registration" for households in a certain situation.

Secondly, regardless of anything else, all households on Liangzhe Road and Jiangnan East Road will have to pay their taxes half a month in advance starting from the summer tax next year, which means they must complete their tax payments before normal people pay taxes... Anyway

These people's property is placed there, so they don't have to wait for the silk to be woven or the autumn grain to be put into storage.

Thirdly, in this summer tax, the status households in the southeast and two roads will be the first to enjoy the benevolent government that will never increase taxes and allocate the land. In any case, the land inspection of the status households themselves must be completed first, and then the tax amount will be drawn up.

The benevolent government of the country cannot be without the needs of everyone.

Finally, Xianggong Lu also reminded the members of the public cabinet sitting below that they have an obligation to report on the small number of households who are not only ungrateful, but also want to evade prosecution and the New Deal... The official said, that kind of situation before

Just engage in some kind of field skins and bones to resist the property tax, or hide the land during land inspection without reporting it. There is no second way out, just raid homes, temples, and shops!

This kind of message was basically seen by Tu Qiongdagger, especially when Lu Xianggong was talking, Zhao Guanjia was sitting silently in the back... In other words, the scene that followed was that the most difficult land inspection work had already reached the gnawing hard bone.

It's the stage of attacking... And everyone also understands that with the determination of Zhao Guan's family so unshakable that they want to gnaw the hardest bones first after the spring begins, can the inspection of the two Zhejiang and Jiangdong areas be completed, or directly

Whether the entire tax reform can be successful or not depends on this wave.

If it works, it will work, if it doesn't work, it will work... Before the Northern Expedition, I was afraid that it would not work if it were true.

However, although the picture was very clear, and although everyone knew it face to face, no one dared to carry out the murder in Hangzhou Prefecture, considering that Yang Yizhong disappeared from behind the officials and a large number of plainclothes Imperial Banzhi were walking in and out of Fenghuang Mountain.

Series connection, even if this is the best connection opportunity... for a moment, the road seems to have a purpose.

Of course, Hangzhou Mansion is at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain, and the Zhao Guan family is personally suppressing it. It is normal not to dare. But when these members of the Public Pavilion, who are basically equivalent to the status quo households, left Hangzhou and went home to prepare for the New Year, they couldn't bear it.

Let’s get together again during the Chinese New Year.

"Master Mahamati is cleaning off the dirt of Buddha for the New Year, and he doesn't want to come over!"

On Jingshan Temple, in a quiet backyard, several people from Yuhang came to burn incense. They naturally gathered together, and after chatting for a while, they couldn't help but ask the abbot of the temple who came to accompany them to invite the two of them.

Zhang Jiucheng, a member of the Zhejiang Road Gongge and the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, is said to be a close friend of Zhang Deyuan, a monk who came here.

The host was thin-skinned, so of course he couldn't refuse, but after waiting for a long time, unexpectedly, the little novice had only this reply.

Everyone looked at each other, how could they not know that Monk Dahui was a suspicious person and was unwilling to come?

However, although Monk Dahui is an outsider, he is actually the most outstanding member of the imperial court in Yuhang. Moreover, he also took the opportunity to receive the purple robe and cassock in Hangzhou and officially received the title of Dahui from the official family.

The name can be called the four-character master of the Great Hui Zonggao.

If you give up this position, you will inevitably feel a little unwilling.

So, seven or eight people looked at each other for a few times, but a leader came out, straightened his face, and asked the young novice to lead the way to find the person. He meant to take the initiative to find the person. The young novice was at a loss and could not see.

The person who knew how to look at a host actually just bowed his head and turned around to take a few local luxury figures with him.

However, these people still miscalculated. They followed the little novice monk for a long time and finally came to a remote and abandoned Buddhist hall. They suddenly discovered that the man who was celebrating the New Year had just been at Zhao Guan's house.

Zen Master Dahui, who had assumed the identity of a purple-robed master, actually personally bathed the Buddha with several novice monks... An abandoned wooden Buddha that had been standing here for who knows how many years, covered with dirt and dust, just like

In this cramped Buddhist hall, Zen Master Dahui placed a bucket of hot water next to him. He personally picked up a rag and went to work. He was busy working on the Buddha, leaving stains and dust all over his head and face.

Only because the sleeves were rolled up and the forearms were constantly wet, they were still as white as two lotus roots in winter.

Seeing the other party's appearance, a group of Yuhang scholars hesitated for a while. However, when the Great Wisdom Monk saw the crowd arriving, he did not stop. Instead, he continued to wash the Buddha's dirt and recited a poem directly on the Buddha's body.

jingle.

As the saying goes:

"Everyone, pour a spoonful of bad water to wash the Tathagata and remove the dirt around you.

When all the impurities and worries of all living beings are eliminated, the fox will roar like a lion."

By the way, not all of these seven or eight people have the same knowledge as Zhang Jiuzheng and can immediately wake up. On the contrary, most of them are confused. A few two may have heard something interesting, but they dare not confirm it.

I'm afraid that if I get it wrong, I'll be laughed at.

So, everyone once again looked at each other, and just laughed and praised Master Dahui for a few words in front of the Buddhist hall, and then left in embarrassment. Then they returned to the original secluded courtyard, and left Monk Dahui behind to talk until the afternoon, before they dispersed.

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Not to mention others, I just said that the master in charge of Jingshan Temple had been serving these people all afternoon. His mouth was already dry, but he was not in a hurry to go back to rest. Instead, he turned around to look for Dahui, but unexpectedly Dahui had already given him to him.

After the Buddha had taken a bath, he was now digging lotus roots by himself in a small pond in the temple.

In winter, the small lotus pond has lost its beauty in summer and is completely covered with dead branches and leaves. Although the lotus roots are in good season, they are also hidden in the cold water mud below. It requires people to go down to the pond under the cold water and carefully dig through the mud to dig out the big lotus roots.

Lotus roots, and they will break if you are not careful... In the past, even young novice monks were not willing to do this kind of work. They always let the white lotus roots rot in the mud. That is to say, the temple recently inspected the ground and patched it up.

A complete set of free money for thousands of monks in the temple, and then the abbot sent a message that if the temple does not rely on its own efforts, it will run out of food. He also pointed out a few young and energetic monks to imitate the Zhao Guan family and set up a set of wealth-building funds.

Basically, we carried out internal financial reforms, and then we had the hard work of digging lotus roots in winter.

However, no matter what, it was not the turn of Monk Dahui, the only four-character ** master in the temple, to go dig it himself, so the presiding mage looked awkwardly on the shore for a while and saw Monk Dahui wearing a borrowed cowhide

The waterproof smock was rolled in the mud in the middle of winter, but the cold air in winter couldn't even cover up the stench of muddy water. It was hard to take off the monk's robe and go down to help, so I had to dryly cough a few times, and then call out seriously:

"Senior brother! Senior brother Dahui! Why is this happening?"

Monk Dahui raised his head and saw the host. Immediately he stood up from the mud and recited a rhyme from a distance:

"No one is plowing the deserted fields, but there are people fighting over them. There is no wind and the lotus leaves are moving, but there are definitely fish."

The presiding master smiled bitterly on the shore, then looked around and waved to the accompanying monk Zhike and the novice monk who was here to look after the lotus root to go out and look at the door. Then he became solemn again: "Brother, I have something serious to say to you.

, and junior brother has always been stupid, so today we talk in human language and not in Buddhist scriptures... Do you think it is good or not?"
To be continued...