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Chapter 346 The visit of the new governor

It is not difficult to see from Zheng Zhilong's actions in surrendering to the Qing Dynasty in history that when facing a powerful opponent, this person was not determined to resist. He fought against the Dutch at sea, not because Zheng Zhilong was patriotic, but because of his great interests. In addition, he had the Ming regime as his support, so he could persevere.

Now the general of the Ming Dynasty is also a general of the Ming Dynasty, who comes to grab meat and eat it. This general of the Ming Dynasty is a bit different.

Since the moment I meditated on the negotiating table, the end of compromise has been destined. Negotiations cannot be achieved overnight, and both sides have to continue to whine. The bitter one is the ship on this route. The fleet of Xilaijing's guest-starred pirates at sea, and they have a lot of fun.

It was already late autumn in Dengzhou. Chen Xie was not in a good mood while sitting on the soft kang. The ones on the small table were not good news. Premier Lu Xiangsheng, Jiangbei, was in the momentum. Gao Yingxiang, who was on the verge of Hong Chengchou, was about to embark on the road of defeat after winning a series of victories against Hong Chengchou's encirclement. There were two people waiting for him on this road, one was Lu Xiangsheng and the other was Sun Chuanting.

The situation in the Central Plains at this time can no longer be described as corruption. In October, Gao Yingxiang left Zhuyang Pass, and in November, Zhang Xianzhong met with Zhang Xianzhong in Lingbao. Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had three forces, and the joint camp was 60 miles away, with a huge momentum. After defeating Zuo Liangyu and Zu Kuan in succession, the conquering Shanzhou, this cooperative march ended again with division of troops.

It is not ruled out that there are conflicts and mutual guard against each other. The main reason is that there are too many people together, so it is difficult to find food. Zhang Xianzhong went to Ruzhou, Gao Yingxiang, and Li Zicheng went to Yanshi. The biggest advantage of the peasant army is mobile combat, which makes it difficult for the official army to encircle and eliminate. But the biggest disadvantage is that it is mobile combat, destroying one place, and then stealing everything, and encircling the people. When it grows, it looks very fast. In fact, there are serious disadvantages, that is, there is no basis. The leaders of the peasant army may not be able to see these disadvantages, but they do not have a better way to survive. They can only count wherever they go, eat and destroy all the way. This form of combat has devastating destructive power to the Central Plains economy. As long as the bandits pass by, they will inevitably be in vain.

When Chen Xie entered a distracted state, Ying Niang always tactfully withdrew without anyone disturbing him. The historical process was not disrupted by Chen Xie. Natural disasters were too fatal to the late Ming Dynasty. Bandits were constantly defeated and rose up. Even without Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong, other people would come out to take these people who had no food to grab.

Chen Xie knew the fundamental solution to the bandits. The last time he went to Beijing, he wanted to do his best to help Zhu Youjian. Unfortunately, Zhu Youjian was definitely not a good teammate. His control over his subjects was too strong. Chen Xie didn't like his personality very much, and he had to hold everything in his hands. In the end, he lost all his family and took advantage of it. "I'm the Qing Dynasty"

The knock on the door interrupted Chen Xie's distraction, looked outside the curtain and said, "Come in, why are you polite?"

Ying Niang lifted the curtain and came in. After Wanfu said, "Master, I didn't intend to disturb you to think about things. Governor Zhu is here."

Uh, Chen Xie was stunned for a moment. Why did Zhu Dadian come? This person is still very interesting in history. A corrupt official has no money he dared to make, but he chose to die in battle and die in the face of the national crisis. It is not right for these ministers in the late Ming Dynasty to say that they have no ability. The key to not governing the country well is that the relationship of interests is at work. The civil servant group and the gentry group played a role of sucking blood from the state's body in the late Ming Dynasty.

Although he was very annoyed by these guys, Chen Xie decided to meet him. In name, Zhu Dadian was his boss. After returning from North Korea, he just went to meet him and left. Chen Xie was really a bit too bullying.

When Zhu Dadian took office, he knew that this position was not easy to do. Zhu Dadian, who was old in the officialdom, decided to use static to control the situation from the beginning. After he actually took over, he knew what role the governor Denglai was. Denglai was a very strange place, completely different from other places in the Ming Dynasty. Ordinary governors took over the military and dismounted to manage civil governance. When they arrived in Dengzhou, they could not get involved in military affairs. Even if the garrisons in each county were not from Dengzhou camp, they were wearing pairs of pants with Dengzhou camp. In terms of civil governance, it was easy to take over, but when they were really doing things, they realized that there was nothing he had to do.

The clerks in Dengzhou are very efficient. Other places are busy with taxes every year, so there is no trouble in Dengzhou at all. Just take out the account book from last year, take a look at the total number, tell the officials below, and then the matter is done. The silver guaranteed to be one or two taels of taxes is also the same. The arrears in other places are serious, and Dengzhou does not exist at this time. When the day goes by, go to Dafa Money House to see how much money is stored in the account, and then open a bill to send someone to the Dafa Money House in the capital to get it done! The entire service team seems to be completely different from other places in the Ming Dynasty, and no one wants to deal with taxes.

At first, Zhu Dadian was not used to it. After the autumn grain was harvested, he handed over the taxes. While wondering why no one was doing anything to pay him a filial piety, the clerk in charge of money and grain took an account book to find the master in charge of money and grain, and asked him to take a look at the number on it. After looking at the numbers on it, he didn't need to sign or handprint. He just told me that there was such a thing.

Then, Zhu Dadian got 10,000 silver dollars passbooks, which required money and went to the money house to collect them at any time. Zhu Dadian brought about the same treatment as the staff, as long as the person in charge of things, there was a passbook, and the amount was different. How did this money come from? Zhu Dadian didn't understand, so he asked the master to inquire. The explanation he got was "official-run tertiary industry dividends", which made Zhu Dadian dizzy. This name, which was purely Chen Xie's personal bad taste, was really a bit shocking. If you ask the details, people wouldn't hide it, and they would bring out the account book for you. The master couldn't understand the duplex accounting method, and he was still responsible for teaching you.

After reading it, I realized that there are two main sources of income. One is the Denglai Salt Farm jointly organized by officials and businessmen. Each Denglai official has an income in it. After taking the money, he knows what he should do and what he should not do. The second income is grain trading. The grain prices in Dengzhou are low. Foreign grain merchants come here to purchase grain, and the price of grain sold by the official channels is more than twice the price of private grain. With these two transactions, Denglai officials can live a very comfortable life without a salary. As long as there is no problem in the local area, they can be very leisurely officials.

The garrisons of each county are not counted on the books. Dengzhou camp has 15,000 people (including the water division). Since the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Ministry of Revenue has stopped allocating Denglai's money and grain. In other words, Zhu Dadian has no official income. All the income under the governor's rule comes from the Dengzhou Chamber of Commerce. At the beginning of each month, the chamber of commerce will pay a sum of money to the fixed account of the money house. The money is covered with a coat and "public security maintenance fee". It is not difficult to see the clues from the books that the essence of this money is industrial and commercial tax.

. Dengzhou was actually collecting industrial and commercial taxes, and local gentry paid the money obediently. This discovery was amazing. Relying on this money, Dengzhou ground security maintenance, education expenditure, road and bridge maintenance, market management, etc., all of them were all taken. There was still a lot of surplus every year, so they were kept in the money shop to deal with emergencies at any time. In theory, this money should be very attractive, but no one was doing anything. At least the previous governor and his subordinates had no idea of ​​this money.

I soon discovered a more amazing thing. Almost no one was corruption in the transactions of grain and salt fields of Denglai officials. You should know that this is a very profitable transaction. It is not that I don’t want to be greedy, but that I don’t want to be the enemy of the entire Denglai officialdom. In short, there seems to be a strange hand at the mercy of Dengzhou. Compared with other places in the Ming Dynasty, Dengzhou was prosperous and the people’s lives were stable. Zhu Dadian was really strange. How did this hand do all this?

After thinking about it, he decided to visit Chen Xie in person. Before that, he needed an excuse. It was not until Zhu Dadian received an order from the Ministry of War to have a suitable excuse, and he could see Chen Xie without losing face.

In contrast, those who are not ashamed of face are really not very important in the face of the money they receive after two taxes every year. Zhu Dadian is also an official with control, but in Dengzhou, his control was entangled by a big net before it even diverged.

Even if he was the governor, Zhu Dadian would not do anything to be an enemy of the entire Denglai officialdom.

Five hundred meters away from the other courtyard, the governor's carriage was stopped. A soldier opened the car door rudely, looked at the people inside, and saluted: "Sorry, Master Zhongcheng, the young one is performing official duties." That's right, Zhu Dadian didn't feel that he had any sincerity. Then the carriage door was closed and continued to go in. When he got off the car, Chen Xie was already at the door.

"I have met Zhongcheng. If you have something to do, why should I come here in person and send someone to pass on the message?" Chen Xie said very politely. Zhu Dadian looked at his smiling face, but he didn't think he was very respectful to him at all. Some things can be guessed even if they don't know the details. Who is Hong Chengchou? Zhu Dadian has never dealt with him. Even if he is such a ruthless person, he dared not leave Chen Xie's Dengzhou camp in Henan. It is conceivable that Chen Xie was very irritated with Zhu Dadian, but he didn't have any trouble. After going to the capital, this guy went to North Korea and was not worried about something happening in Dengzhou.
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