Chapter 150 Hanging the head of Qi's army
Originally, he planned to get close to Qi Liang and brought a powerful lifeguard. However, the final result was that Wang Xiaoguanren was treated as drowning, and three or four young men went down the river to "salvage" and almost carried him down and forced him to vomit water. Even so, Songmingshan Village was still shocked. When Wang Qihuo rushed over and saw that the little official was wrapped in three layers of clothes and three layers of outer layers of clothes looked at him with innocent eyes, he couldn't help but feel suspicious, pushed the others away and went forward, and shouted that others should not speak first.
"Little official, what's going on?"
"Who said I fell into the water? I just swam over from Xixinan Village opposite!" Just now, the noise around was like a vegetable market. Wang Fulin had no chance to speak. At this moment, he finally said this sentence with righteousness. Seeing the onlookers looking at each other, many people were still a little unbelievable, he pointed to the other side with annoyed and said, "I haven't seen my clothes still left on the other side!"
Now, everyone turned to look at the other side. Seeing a man wearing clothes on the other side, the woman who started shouting remembered that she seemed to be someone beside Wang Fulin at first, and then she was a little skeptical. An anxious person quickly went up the bridge and rushed to the opposite side. When he came back in a hurry, he was holding a neatly folded dress in his hand, and a servant was followed by Ye Qinglong.
Ye Qinglong confirmed Wang Fulin's statement, and the others finally believed it. But when they thought that Wang Xiaoxiuke, who was beaten to bed by a villain a few months ago, dared to go into the river, these verbal persuasion reminders were indispensable, and they were nagging. They almost drove Wang Fulin crazy.
After finally struggling out, looking at the surroundings, Wang Fulin dared to change clothes naked here and go home. As a result, he met the patriarch Wang Daohan who rushed over and learned a lesson. When he finally packed up and returned to the Wu family orchard, the jokes from the early morning had spread throughout Xixinan Village. Everyone who saw him smiled, even if he didn't directly mock him, but this was already unlucky enough! As for Ye Qinglong, he was originally staying in Xixinan on the other side of the bank to watch the wind, and he couldn't even take his anger on this guy, so he could only sulk.
When he returned to the orchard and saw Qi Liang again, this guy who was very honest and usually smiled at him and said, "I am really not good at dealing with women, so I can only leave Brother Wang and run away at that time. Don't worry, if you go back and swim in Fengle River, I will call you all my brothers to watch the wind!"
Bah, who will tell you to be honest in the future? I must expose you in person!
Although this small episode has become a major topic for the villagers on both sides of Songmingshan Village and Xixinan Village after dinner, it undoubtedly brought the relationship closer to Wang Fulin and the generals and soldiers of the Qi family army. Especially for the small holiday between his own Qi Baihu and Wang Xiaoguanren, a few truly honest old soldiers thought that Wang Fulin also borrowed a house for them, and they were a little disgusted, so they privately actually used Qi Liang to compensate him on behalf of Qi Liang. Wang Fulin was not very good at himself, but took the opportunity to inquire about Qi Liang's achievements and indeed heard a legend.
This guy has ever intervened in with the pirate leader Wang Zhi to be a spy! Can honest people be spyed? All the guys who have been deceived by this honest face, including himself, are all self-proclaimed!
As for Master Cheng who was lifted out, he naturally seized the opportunity to laugh at Wang Fulin. However, early the next morning, as a landlady, he could only watch Wang Fulin and Qi Liang cross the river one after another. Even though he was itchy and wanted to ask Wang Fulin to teach swimming, he was moved out by Mo Xiang to warn Mr. Cheng and suddenly became weak. However, when Wang Fulin came ashore to wipe his body dry, put on his clothes with Ye Qinglong's help, he smiled and called him and Qi Liang to the bridgehead together, and began to talk about serious matters. He immediately had no intention of resentment.
"Preparation warehouse?"
Cheng Naixuan was completely unfamiliar with this noun, and his confused eyes revealed whether he understood it. Qi Liang was chewing on the three words that Wang Fulin suddenly mentioned. After a while, he smiled bitterly and looked at Wang Fulin with a somewhat puzzled look.
"As far as I know, the three words "preparatory warehouse" are used only by the government. People only know that they are called granaries. If my father had not been a good old man in the past, I'm afraid you would have asked me for nothing. When Grandpa Shimiao (Jiajing) was still there, the reserve warehouse would have been in a mess. At that time, the three major warehouses in various places, including the reserve warehouse, were almost unable to rely on. Hu Butang almost shaved a layer of oil on the big families in Zhejiang, and finally guaranteed the grain supply of the Qi family and even other armies. Later, the big families really responded to the saying that the landlords had no surplus grain!"
When Wang Fulin saw Qi Liang understand, Cheng Naixuan didn't understand. He could not explain to this young master who was pampered and had no choice but to explain it to this pampered young master. In the Ming Dynasty, there were three types of warehouses. There were Taicang and Jingtong warehouses in Beijing, while there were water warehouses in various places in the canals. These belong to the court, which was managed by the court and had no connection with the local area. The local warehousing system was Changping, Preparatory warehouses and Social Warehouses, and Yi Warehouses. Changping warehouses had a long history and started from the Han Dynasty. To put it bluntly, it was used to stabilize grain prices. It was sold in disasters and years and bought in bumper years. It was very popular in various dynasties in the past, but not in all prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty. However, the social warehouses and Yi Warehouses were used to provide relief to the disaster and civilians when encountering famines. The government treated them as sects to the homes of large households and forced them to lose, because most of the time there was no gain, so they declined earlier.
As for the reserve warehouse, it was Zhu Yuanzhang's first inventor. The top priority of local warehousing in the Ming Dynasty was to provide relief to the victims. The most prominent word for loans was to be paid. The grain loan was to be returned according to the rules! According to She County's standard of 120 miles per radius, the standard grain storage requirement was 70,000 stones! But in fact, when the reserve warehouse was strictly managed during the Zhengtong period, there was no such much grain stored. By the Jiajing period, the court only required 3,000 stones, and the place could not be reached. Anyway, Wang Fulin met Ye Daxian Zun all day long in the county government, and never heard him mention the three words "preparation warehouse".
Before, my uncle Wu Tianbao collected the summer tax and prepared to return home. Before he left, he mentioned it to him. This year is a rare bumper harvest year in recent years. However, the grain price has been falling again and again. Now all summer taxes have to be paid. All the prefectures, six counties and villages in Huizhou were driven away like whips to pay the tax, but every rice store was trying hard to lower the price. At this time, he thought of the government buying the wheat and barley that had just been harvested through the reserve warehouse to stabilize the price of grain. But when he asked Liu Hui, he realized that the reserve warehouse in She County was useless. It is estimated that rats and cockroaches had more food than grain. And they had to collect grain? There was no money at all!
Before, Wang Fulin thought that there was an autumn grain crisis after the summer tax. Wang Fulin decided to prepare for the future, which could be considered as a benefit for the villagers in She County, so he planned to have a dozen reserve warehouses. His plan was that since the tax collection is now collected and the villagers had to sell grain for silver, so they would be exploited by the rice store and grain store at the price cut, so they would take out the silver capital from the reserve warehouse based on the amount of silver to be paid for the summer tax and autumn grain distributed to each mile, and collect and store grain equivalent to the amount of summer tax and autumn grain, and then sell the grain when the shortage of grain is sown in spring.
Anyway, when Zhang Juzheng came to power, he would definitely promote a whip. At that time, the messy Dingfu Plenary Session was divided into silver and distributed to households to people. In this case, the reserve warehouse system could alleviate the urgent need for villagers to pay taxes without bankruptcy. The problem was that the government had no money, so he could only make his own ideas from this system.
When he had already brought up this matter to Qi Liang, the one-eyed officer with a simple and honest face looked over with a meaningful look: "Does Wang Xiaoguan beg for the money of us mud-legged soldiers?"
"No, I don't lack capital. Although my family still owes Mr. Nanming a lot of debts, Mr. Nanming said that I don't rush to pay it back. I still have the remaining money on hand. Mr. Cheng even has thousands of taels of wealthy people with private money. How could you need to take out the savings of years of blood fighting?" Seeing that Qi Liang's face suddenly eased, Wang Fulin said bluntly, "But I want to use the name of the Qi family army."
Qi Liang was originally angry that a young man who was rumored to his enemies as ruthless as the autumn wind swept away fallen leaves, but when he was free, he also gave people a sense of sincerity and clarity. He actually wanted to calculate the blood, sweat and money of his people. But Wang Fulin's answer first dispelled his doubts, and then made him suddenly leave and shocked him. He glanced at the same confused Master Cheng and asked directly: "What do you mean?"
"In other words, Qi Baihu, take the lead, in the name of Qi family army, Cheng Naixuan and I each gathered a share, collected the capital, and collected the food for the villagers to exchange for money when they paid the tax!" Seeing that Qi Liang almost glared out, he obviously felt that the two good scholars were doing such thankless things. They were completely full and had nothing to do. Wang Fulin smiled and said, "This is also a way to make money. As long as it is operated well, the profits are absolutely considerable. Of course, I mean using the operating mechanism of the reserve warehouse, not that I plan to carry the reserve warehouse burden, I will start a new job. Qi Baihu, you just need to borrow a name!"
Seeing that Qi Liang didn't say anything, he continued to bewitch, "You know, Qi Baihu, you guys retreated from the army, but left the old place in Jiangnan, but moved to She County. Some people have already made a lot of noise. Mr. Nanming took office as the governor of Yunyang, and my two uncles also went with him, which means that it is difficult for the Wang family in Songmingshan to suppress those voices. Before the expedition to the treasury, the momentum I created for you was very useful, but how could it be compared to such a feat that the villagers were anxious about? It has been thirty-four years since the Huizhou Prefecture suffered Japanese pirates. The old ones may still remember the incident at that time, but the young people have never experienced it."
How could Qi Liang remember that the 100 Japanese pirates made the Zhejiang turmoil a mess, killing and injuring many court officials, and then scrapping a large number of civil and military officials. However, for his head coach Qi Jiguang, it can be regarded as a major event that promoted his rise. He nodded cautiously and suddenly grinned.
"My brother Wang just said that he was afraid that people would tell us all the same things. It would be better to do this. Those of us turned back to worship the villagers who died when the Japanese pirates invaded Huizhou Prefecture. I am from She County, Huizhou, and I said that the deceased was my uncle's family. It was because of him that we would join the Qi family army and let others say that some of the victims were among the victims. In this way, we can move to She County and this excuse will be fulfilled."
Hearing Qi Liang changed his previous familiar title and found an excellent excuse. Wang Fulin knew nothing more about other words, and this was considered to have changed his agreement. The old soldiers below Qi Liang were very convinced of him, and the next thing they had to do was to convince Ye County Zun. So he pulled Cheng Naixuan who was about to ask questions and yelled: "Xixinan is one of the richest villages in She County, and it is Nanxinan. If you have time tomorrow, I will take you to Nanxinan for a good walk!"
Chapter completed!