MTL - Wei and Jin Cooks-Chapter 765 Give gifts (Moyan, come back)
Wang Yifeng and Wang Xuan led their own soldiers to go first, and the troops, food and grass that she and Zhao Hanzhang wanted stayed behind.
At the beginning, not many officials were willing to listen to Wang Yifeng and Wang Xuan. They were too young. The most important thing was that they were both surnamed Wang.
Hmph, those surnamed Wang are not good things. One Wang Cheng caused chaos in Jingzhou, and the other two surnamed Wang took over. Do you think that the officials and gentry in Jingzhou are vegetarians?
So officials at all levels acted independently, seduced the gentry who made good friends with them, built Wubao, robbed the refugees, and opposed the Governor's Mansion.
Of course, this is all done secretly. If they want to make trouble, they can't tattoo on their heads saying, I don't accept it, so I want to rebel, right?
At the time of the excitement, two thousand Zhao family troops brought thirty students, food, and military equipment to Jiangling, Nanjun County. This is the seat of Jingzhou, and all the people Wang Cheng brought with him when he took office were here.
Jingzhou officials did not cooperate, so Wang Yifeng directly used the 30 students he had brought to let the Zhao family army take over the Jingzhou army, and under the banner of the Zhao family army, went to recruit the rebellious refugees.
The students of the academy followed them. They have done a lot of this kind of thing, and the academy has also specially trained them, and they are very proficient.
Zhao Jiajun and Zhao Hanzhang's methods of recruiting refugees are well-known throughout the world, which is one of the reasons why the Jingzhou rebellion came so quickly.
They really couldn't stand the governor Wang Cheng and the local yamen, so they wanted to leave Jingzhou and go to Yuzhou.
Anyway, refugees and refugees who go to Yuzhou can be allocated fields and grain seeds, and the yamen will also reduce or exempt some taxes. As long as there are no natural disasters, they can live.
So everyone flocked to Yuzhou.
Wang Cheng didn’t care about anything, but since the year before last, he has restricted the people of Jingzhou from going to Yuzhou.
In addition to going to Yuzhou, there are still many refugees who choose to become bandits. Didn’t Zhao Ju invade Jiangxia County last year in the name of suppressing bandits?
After that time, Wang Cheng sent people to set up checkpoints on the border, not only to guard against Zhao Ju, but also to prevent the population from entering Yuzhou.
But he only stops people, does not deal with the problem of refugees, does not close in, does not appease, and anyone who is caught is either used as a slave or sent to the army as a soldier.
Under this kind of lazy government, the refugees rebelled, just wanting to break through the checkpoint and go to Yuzhou.
Oh, some of them have rushed into Yuzhou. Recently, Yuzhou has received many refugees from Jiangxia County.
But Jingzhou is very big, and more refugees are stopped by the checkpoint, and there is no way to get over it. Wang Cheng killed more than 8,000 people with blood and iron some time ago. Most of the 8,000 people were refugees, and a small number were treated as refugees by the local people. of the people.
But the refugees are also the evolution of the common people. They leave their land, hide their names, and do not pay taxes. They are refugees.
But they are still from Jingzhou, and their relatives and friends are all from Jingzhou.
Wang Cheng's killing directly chilled the hearts of the people in Jingzhou.
So when they heard that the successor governor was Wang Cheng's niece, or from the Wang family, the rebels resented them very much.
Until the coming army played the banner of Zhao Jiajun.
They worked so hard and desperately, didn’t they just want to live under Zhao Hanzhang’s rule?
It's because they can't get through, so Zhao Hanzhang came to find them?
Students from the school came forward to persuade them to surrender, saying that the newly appointed governor Wang Yifeng was once a governor under the command of Governor Zhao and was trained by her.
At the same time, the news that Wang Yifeng had a big fight with Wang Cheng as soon as he took office also spread throughout Jingzhou.
The restless and angry Jingzhou gradually calmed down, and the atmosphere became less tense. Zhao Jiajun led the Jingzhou garrison into several groups, and actually persuaded the rebels to surrender.
And Wang Yifeng did what she said, and the rebels in Zhao'an gave them some rations and asked them to return to their hometowns to cultivate land. Taxes are not payable.
Not only the rebels who recruited refugees can reduce or exempt taxes, but the entire Jingzhou has reduced taxes. Even if it is only a 30% tax reduction, it is enough for the common people.
The situation of rebellion in various places has stopped slightly.
Even the officials in Jingzhou didn’t say a word, but some people think it’s not good. If there is a rebellion, the tax will be reduced or exempted. Isn’t this just buying the people?
In the future, what if they rebel whenever something goes wrong?
But thinking of Wang Cheng, the officials who felt something wrong in their hearts still suppressed their thoughts. Forget it, Wang Cheng is still in Jiangling. Wang Yifeng is Wang Cheng's niece. If he objected, Wang Yifeng would be taken by Wang Cheng. If you don't care about politics, it's over.
The Wang family has a tradition in this regard, they are very afraid.
Wang Yifeng acted directly under the banner of Zhao Hanzhang, and all the 30 students he brought were placed in the Governor's Mansion and various counties.
Jingzhou is very large, with 22 prefectures under its jurisdiction. In each prefecture, 22 students were sent in. In this rebellion, many county magistrates and even county sheriffs were killed, injured, and escaped.
Wang Yifeng has re-appointed someone to take up the post, and these thirty students are simply not enough.
And they can only start from a young age, working as clerks in the governor's mansion, as master bookkeepers in the prefect's mansion, and as small officials like county magistrates and county magistrates in the county government.
This is also Wang Yifeng's promotion path.
Zhao Hanzhang said that one has to start from an early age to know the sufferings and needs of the people.
As Wang Cheng directly descends to the governor, he really only has himself in his heart and does not know the suffering of the people.
All the students who came out of the school also kept this point in mind. After the Jingzhou rebellion gradually subsided, they took official positions and went to various places.
The business travelers who have been stuck in Wuchang and Jiangxia can finally leave.
After the spring wheat was harvested, drought-tolerant soybeans and other crops were planted, and the summer solstice was approaching, Zhao Hanzhang began to prepare gifts for Yuncheng.
Bring gifts to the emperor, of course, money is the most liked by the other party, after all, the emperor is not rich.
So Zhao Hanzhang asked people to bring baskets of money, all of which were new money.
For more than a year, Zhao Hanzhang's new money has been squeezed into the markets of Shu, Jingzhou and Jiangnan. Even Yanzhou has a lot of new money.
The main reason is that as long as the imperial court asks Zhao Hanzhang for money and food, Zhao Hanzhang will give new money for the money.
Even if the new money is lighter than the old money, in order to maintain the expenditure, the imperial court has to turn a blind eye and close one eye to spend the same amount of money. In addition to the operation of Zhao Ming and Ji Yuan, everyone in the world knows that Zhao's new The money is lighter than the old money, but the value is the same.
This time, Zhao Hanzhang sent new money.
Of course, these new coins can’t be minted and used casually. The money has to be given value. As soon as Zhao Hanzhang harvested the new wheat, he took it out and exchanged it for new coins.
Oh, the transaction was given to the Ministry of Industry, and then privately transferred to the public. In the end, it was Zhao Hanzhang himself who lost.
After loading everything into the car, Zhao Hanzhang sighed, "Why do I have to pay for the gift to His Majesty myself?"
Zhao Ming said with a blank face: "Didn't you say that to curb this trend, the public should not give gifts to the powerful and powerful? If you want me to say, you shouldn't give gifts. How about going empty-handed?"
