Chapter 358 This is active tax payment, labor is glorious, and the archway is established
"Respond? How dare you ask how to respond? Such a despise of the gentry, why did Mr. Yuan, Prince and I, a great man in Guide, not advise and block this matter in the court? The officials and gentry paid food together as a member of the government, which was also a pity that the court could think about it. How could this make the villagers actively contribute to our aristocratic families and gentry classes!"
Hou Ke replied directly.
Yang Donglai sighed and advised: "What can I do if I don't respond? Is it a crime of beheading? In the future, our gentry can only honestly pay more money, grain instead of taxes and labor. If you don't love me, today, I will not love me!"
"The Yuan family is ashamed of all the neighbors. Although the dog son is a great sage, he has not stopped such evil policies that harm the village! However, since this is the case, when we, the gentry and people, we will ask the county magistrate to send someone to order that the old man has no money to serve, so he has to go to serve in person at that time! There is also this autumn tax, and the old man cannot pay for the fire, so he simply transports grain to Beijing by himself. Anyway, the loss is not my face!"
Yuan Keli's father Yuan Huai also said to other gentry Guide at this time.
"You are all local famous scholars, so please don't do this. Otherwise, wouldn't it be better to leave the world a reputation as a court of rude scholars? Especially you, Old Lady Yuan and the father of the Grand Sima served themselves. How could this be done? Your Yuan family is a local family with tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, so you can't afford this little corvee silver. Why do you need to be injustice to the Grand Sima?"
The prefect Zhu Zhongpeng persuaded him.
"Hmph! Not only Old Lady Yuan is going to serve in person, but our gentry in Guide Mansion will serve at that time! At that time, we will also ask the scholars in Guide Mansion to do some hard work like Bai Ding to see who is losing face!"
Hou Ke said that.
"That's right, we just do this, calling on the children of the clan to stop taking the exam and study. We will go to the post station, embankment, river channel to perform labor service, or give taxes and food! Let the court lose this face, and look at the history books, there will be no scholars who will work hard!"
Yang Donglai also echoed.
So, the gentry of Guide Prefecture really did this.
They knew that the current emperor was tough and did not dare to fight directly, so they adopted this method to fight.
Some gentry, including Yuan Huai, Hou Ke, and Yang Donglai, had really started to carry dry food, wear coarse cloth and short clothes, carry sluts and so on, and went to the official roads that are now being built to the world to serve labor service.
According to the current new corvee service system in the Ming Dynasty, corvee service can be paid to offset the corvee service. However, if you don’t want to pay money and want to sell your labor and serve, you only need to report it with the official office, and the government will arrange the construction period for corvee service to be mortgaged according to the monthly salary standards of some projects.
To this end, the prefect Zhu Zhongpeng arranged for them to build an official road according to the corvee bank that these gentry needed to pay.
"Come and have a look! Grand Marshal Yuan, former left minister of the Ministry of Justice of Nanjing, and former Imperial College Priest Wu, are here to serve!"
When Yuan Huai and others came to perform labor service, there were some good scholars shouting, deliberately trying to let everyone know.
"I am over 70 years old and now I am here to serve. Please take care of my neighbors."
Yuan Huai also said a few words with a smile.
Zhu Zhongpeng, who followed him, felt quite a headache when he saw this. He didn't know if he was right or not, whether he would violate the orders of the court, not collect taxes from these gentry, nor did he allow them to perform labor service, but he made the Minister of War Yuan Keli look good and not jealous of himself. But he really didn't have the courage to violate the orders of the court. Moreover, as an official, he actually hoped to limit the power of the gentry.
This is not only the headache for Zhu Zhongpeng, but also the fact that the scholars took the exam because of the food they paid together by officials and gentry.
"The great master calmed down. It was not because the officials were greedy for the money to advocate for the study. It was because the gentry of Guide Prefecture was dissatisfied because the officials and gentry paid food as errands. Therefore, scholars did not come to take the exam in the name of having to perform corvee labor, so that the government and subject examinations have not been successfully held so far."
When the envoy of the academic envoy Ni Yuanlu came to Guide to hold the college entrance examination, he also asked Zhu Zhongpeng if there were any bad things in government, and ordered the students to stop the exam. Therefore, Zhu Zhongpeng explained accordingly.
After hearing this, Ni Yuanlu felt embarrassed and said, "Report to the court as it is true, but it must be clear that the scholars did not stop the exam because they were dissatisfied with the new policy, but because they actively carried out the officials and gentry to pay food together to take the exam, so as not to make Long Yan furious!"
"The lower-ranking official has reported this to Li Zhongcheng, Futai, and I believe Li Zhongcheng has reported this matter."
Zhu Zhongpeng replied.
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Emperor Zhu Youxiao learned that many Guide gentry and scholars were in labor service, but he was not furious and even laughed.
Zhu Youxiao immediately told the ministers of the Political Affairs Hall: "It's great! It's rare that the gentry and gentry in Guide Mansion are so active this time. The scholars in Guide Mansion are so active in executing the policy of paying food and serving as a member of officials and gentry. The style of scholars in Guide Mansion is good. In addition, I don't think that scholars who work as labor service will lose face of the court! Labor is a very honorable thing, especially scholars who are not diligent in all four bodies need physical labor and need to know more about the hardships of the people through labor service and other matters. If all scholars in the Ming Dynasty actively implement the new policy and take the initiative to participate in labor, I will be so happy that I will be enrolled again, because this shows that scholars in the Ming Dynasty are very enlightened and worth using them!"
Some ministers were surprised by this, but they did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor would be willing to see the gentry of Guide Prefecture serve without worrying about gaining a bad reputation as a mean scholar.
The cabinet chief Fang Congzhe was not surprised by this. He knew that his emperor, His Majesty, didn't care about the impression in the hearts of scholars, so he said: "Not only these, many gentry in Guide Prefecture were also willing to take the initiative to transport grain to Tianjin because the court canceled the exemption and exemption, so he saved some food loss. Among them, the father of Grand Marshal Yuan, Yuan, said that he would transport grain to Beijing."
"Your Majesty, I will write a letter to persuade my father."
Yuan Keli glanced at Fang Congzhe, then said to Zhu Youxiao with a blushing face.
Zhu Youxiao waved his hand: "No need to persuade! Actively performing corvee labor and actively paying taxes are things worthy of promotion, especially local gentry like Yuan Lao Taigong, who actively transfers grain to pay taxes is even more commendable! Where should I persuade you? Should you persuade Ling Zun to resist the new policy of the court? Therefore, in my opinion, Ling Zun's behavior should be rewarded, and he should be promoted to Guanglu Dafu, and he was awarded the "Tax-paying Glorious House" and "Model House" to the Yuan family. He ordered a Henan company to use public funds to build corresponding arches in front of his mansion to show glory. In addition, he sent an order to Henan officials that the scholars could participate in corvee labor, but there was no problem to take the exam after the exam."
"Yes! I thank Your Majesty for your kindness on behalf of my father."
Yuan Keli replied.
Fang Congzhe's smile gradually stopped, and then gradually piled up: "Your Majesty is wise! If all the gentry in the world can take the initiative to pay food and serve as the gentry in Guide Mansion, why should you go through a lot of trouble? It is worthy of praise."
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"What? Your Majesty said that we are very good at taking the initiative to serve as a labor service, and we are promoted to old officials? No, Your Majesty doesn't think this... This scholar, a high-ranking official and gentry, is it a shame for the court to ramble earth and chisel stones every day, just like the common people?!"
Yuan Huai asked in confusion.
"Your Majesty said this is a very glorious thing. He gave you two plaques of the Yuan family, one is the 'Tax Payer Glorious Household' and the other is the 'Model Household' and these two arches must be erected in front of your mansion! To show your glory!"
Chapter completed!