What Jiang Guozhu said was also a little bit clear about. He was originally just a subordinate in the Manchu Eight Banners, and he would not care about these money, grain and taxes. Han officials helped him to collect them, so it would be unnecessary for them to take action. Now he has become the Xin'an Hou of the Ming Dynasty and the general of the Taiping Army, so he doesn't have to worry about such things. Fortunately, since he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, he has been very careful. If he doesn't understand, he will ask. After asking a few questions, he finally figured out the matter.

"Since the rich people are unwilling to pay the money and grain for the past years, they will have to pay the taxes owed during the Tianqi period. They paid the taxes from the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty. This marquis thinks that this is fine."

Yan Shaoqing almost laughed when he heard this. This Xin'an Hou was really whimsical. How could he ask people to pay taxes from more than ten years ago or even twenty or thirty years ago?

Jiang Guozhu did not listen as a joke, but looked thoughtful. Ren Weichu also had his eyes shining. As the magistrate of Wuzhong County, he had a clear understanding of the situation of paying taxes for Wuzhong in the past few decades. If he remembered correctly, the wealthy families in Wuzhong have pushed up for more than ten years, and no one has ever evaded taxes! If the Ming Dynasty died, then don’t mention anything. Now the Ming Dynasty has not yet perished, why can’t you ask you to pay the taxes for grains!

"The truth of Xin'anhou is working. My Ming Dynasty is still here. I should pay money and grain to the treasury. Otherwise, it would be called honest and honest. Those who follow the public and abide by the law suffer losses. They are called treacherous and cunning. But after this period of time, some things will be difficult to handle. The bill is a problem and we need to consider it for a long time."

Jiang Guozhu carefully considered Suna's proposal. Although it sounds ridiculous, it is natural to appreciate it. Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, all gentry with fame and above and officials of the eighth rank or above can enjoy different degrees of tax exemption, but this exemption is limited. Therefore, except for the share of exemption, officials and gentry, like ordinary people, pay taxes and pay taxes and pay taxes and pay taxes and pay taxes and pay taxes and pay taxes and pay taxes and pay taxes and pay taxes and pay taxes as well as pay taxes and pay taxes as needed. However, as time goes by, officials and gentry ignored national laws and colluded to break through the boundaries of statutory rights, and actually implemented full exemption, as the so-called "the fields are connected to the fields and the fields are not allowed to be divided into slight corvee."

Not only did the officials and gentry families do this, but they depended on their tenants, and they were distant relatives, and they did not take the government's quest for one hand and one piece of money and one piece of labor. In this way, the official households became a source of evading state taxes and corvee labor, which is the so-called contribution. Not only did the common people give their own land to officials and gentry, but even some wealthy people who had no fame also "produced them from scholars and officials, and would rather use them as commissions and tenants to lose the rent to avoid major battles." The trend of offering became more and more intense. The poorer the poorer the richer the richer, and eventually led to a major disaster during the Chongzhen period.

Now that these wealthy families think that they should not pay the money and grain under the Qing government to the government, they will ask them to pay the taxes owed during the Chongzhen and Tianqi periods? Unless they have been following the law for decades, they have paid a lot of money and grain, and they have to be employed without any labor service. However, is this possible?

Jiang Guozhu was very touched. In the Ming Dynasty, the wealthy families in Jiangnan relied on the government's failure to do anything to them, so they openly refused to pay taxes. When the Qing Dynasty came, they did not dare to pay taxes, so they colluded with the clerks of the government and even bribed the officials directly, thus achieving the privilege of tax exemption again. Jiang Guozhu remembered one thing, when he first took office, the wealthy families in Suzhou and Songjiang ignored the Qing court's urging to collect laws and owed the taxes (thirty taxes) they should have paid for two years. It was precisely because of this incident that Jiang Guozhu had the intention to have a major case.

However, this proposal is good, but it sounds like a ridiculous feeling. Whether this can be done like this or whether it is a compromise method must be carefully considered. The King of Qi must also report it. Besides, it cannot be done in one size fits the whole. Those who have made contributions to the Qing Dynasty, those who have not fought against the Qing Dynasty, and those who have sold their strength for the Qing army must be distinguished, so that they can separate the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River and prevent them from becoming a piece of iron. In this way, it will be much easier to operate later.

"I said casually, whether this method is good or not, you officials will eventually do it."

After all, in civil affairs, Su Na was the general who led the army and didn’t say much. He changed the subject and mentioned what he had just seen and heard, reminding Jiang Guozhu and the others that he had to suppress this matter as soon as possible, otherwise it would have an impact on his leading his army into Zhejiang. Furthermore, the stability of Jiangnan also concerns the safety of Nandu. Money and grain must be collected and the local area must be stable. The two are both conflicting and not conflicting. How to balance the two depends entirely on Jiang Guozhu’s methods.

When Xin'an Hou mentioned Jin Shengtan and others, Ren Weichu couldn't help but say angrily: "The Jin Shengtan is arrogant and arrogant, arrogant and competitive, but he doesn't know that his own weight is important. The crying behavior of the temple is like openly promoting chaos. His crime is quite serious. Lord Futai must not tolerate him!"

Jiang Guozhu snorted slightly, very dissatisfied with the fact that Jin Shengsai was not kind enough to cause trouble, but he really wanted him to suppress the matter forcibly, and this concern mainly came from Qian Qianyi.

Seeing that Jiang Guozhu was frowning, Su Na realized that this matter was not that simple, so she asked: "What does Lord Jiang want to do? Could it be that if these scholars were allowed to cry?"

Jiang Guozhu complained: "These scholars are all scholars from Suzhou. If the officials forcefully suppress them, they will probably cause civil unrest, but they cannot be allowed to ask them. I will not hide it from the Marquis. This is a headache."

"It's just a group of scholars, what's wrong with it?" Su Na immediately laughed: "I know that the commander always talks about something, and needs to be punished in troubled times. There is no love without reason in this world, and no reason for hatred. Jin Shengtan and others cried that the temple was not willing to pay food, and this alone was enough to cure their sins. Since ancient times, what is the crime that does not pay food or even persuades people not to pay food? Lord Jiang is probably better than this than this."

Jiang Guozhu did not answer, but Yan Shaoqing concluded: "It's like a rebellion!"

"That's right, since you want to rebel, how can you not deal with it? If you are afraid of stirring up civil unrest, I will dispatch a battalion of troops to you to listen to it. Just take the people, and don't ask for any questions. You will take them all first. If you are called to clamor, you will take them down. Do things, cut off the mess, mother-in-law, are you afraid of this and how can you do things? When the commander was in Guangzhou that day, there were so many officials and scholars, and they would kill them and arrest them if they said they were killed."

"Okay, let's follow the marquis's plan!"

After thinking about it, Jiang Guozhu had to take the initiative to suppress the situation first. Now that the Confucius Temple is crying hard, it will definitely be useless to send someone to talk. But if the words are a little soft, these scholars may become more aggressive and make more unreasonable demands. Therefore, suppressing first and then determining the nature of the case. Whether to punish or raise lightly is the most effective method.

Yan Shaoqing had the idea of ​​suppression at the beginning, but Jiang Guozhu hesitated and disagreed. Now the same is true for the Xin'an Hou. There are Taiping Army soldiers to call, so he can let go.

It’s just a pity that a group of scholars in the Confucius Temple were howling, thinking that the government came forward to appease them, and then everyone was fighting for the heroic identity of "petition for the people", and the soldiers holding swords and guns broke into the door.

"The Qing Dynasty respects us scholars very much, but the Ming soldiers regard me as pigs and dogs!"

"This is a temple of learning, a temple of saints. How can you trespass on your soldiers!"

Jin Shengtan, who was wearing iron chains, was really angry and pointed at the Taiping Army's general flag and scolded him. The general flag ignored him and dragged people out as long as his subordinates dragged them out. In the temple, a group of scholars who were howling and thrusting at tears were stunned. The timid ones ran around in the temple, and the one who failed actually pushed down the mud statue of Saint Kong.

The Confucius Temple is in a mess.

Outside the Confucius Temple, a large group of soldiers were blocking the people on the side, and the yamen runners from Suzhou Prefecture and Wuzhong County helped to maintain it. However, when someone shouted in the crowd, they immediately stepped forward and dragged it out to tie it up. There were also idle people who had money, or the family members of the scholars who saw the master's family being pushed out by soldiers, in desperation, they gathered to respond and wanted to rush to save the people, but they were beaten up by the soldiers on the spot, and the howling sounded all over. This time, they were really crying, and the tears really fell.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Jin Shengtan was so sad and angry that he shouted to the emperor all the way. Unknowingly, he said that Mr. Jin was calling Emperor Dingwu, but he didn't know that Mr. Jin was calling the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Just as he heard that the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty praised him as an expert in ancient Chinese, he couldn't help but cry and knocked a few poems northward.

The "crying temple case" that occurred in Suzhou was soon spread to Zhenjiang by the Jiangsu Governor's Yamen. The next day, the King of Qi arrived in Zhenjiang.

The hand-in-hand mandated Jiangsu generals Jin Shengtan, Ding Guanzhong, Ding Ziwei, Ni Yongbin, Shen Yue and other 31 scholars were designated as the main culprits of the case, and all of them were sentenced to be executed. The remaining 87 scholars were all entitled to 3,000 miles away and sent to Annan to serve hard labor.
Chapter completed!