Yang Chengzu said: "Brother, you see, these people have been recruited clearly.
The person who contacted them is Ling Shiba, the head of the Hongying Society who is quite famous in Jiangxi.
The ordnance they purchased several times was from Hongying.
Will deliver.
And those who escort the ships are well-known green forest warriors and river bandits from Jiujiang and Nanchang."
"Hongyinghui Ling Shiba" Zhang Jiayin shook his head and said: "No, this is wrong."
"It's indeed wrong.
No matter how famous the Hongying Society is, it's just a local gang in Nanchang.
Why do you buy so many firearms to fight gangs and gangs?
Most of them use swords, and at least some bows and crossbows.
They have to be prepared for the imperial army.
Such as door-to-door killing.
If firearms were used, they would be asking for death.
Besides, these people were responsible for transporting ordnance, beheading people and confiscating their homes.
If the price was high, Hongying would buy these ordnance.
I am afraid that her annual income would not be enough.
Then why did they buy this?”
"My brother is right.
A bunch of reckless people may buy a few fire guns or armor for self-defense, but I have never heard of buying so many.
Besides, they also buy flags, official uniforms, these things, too.
If the Jianghu Gang uses this method, our clues will be cut off again."
"That's not necessarily true.
Look, brother, at least we can be sure that this buyer is in Jiangxi.
And since he can afford so many ordnances and can use so many ordnances, he must have been powerful all the way.
According to this idea, we will investigate.
I believe it will not be difficult to find someone.
Of course, this is a Jiangxi matter.
We can only do our best to follow fate, and we can’t control much else.”
He was basically certain that the buyer of this ordnance was Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao, but this certainty came from his prediction of the future.
He couldn't tell Zhang Jiayin that he knew that Prince Ning would rebel, so he could definitely be sure that he was the buyer of this batch of ordnance.
It's one thing to know something, but another thing to make others believe you know it.
Furthermore, he believed that he had solved the problem to this point, which was considered perfect.
As for the subsequent analysis and selection of candidates, that was a matter for his superiors.
If you do everything by yourself, it will be too perfect, and you will feel too much pressure as a superior.
And a subordinate who creates pressure for his superiors will not have a good life no matter how he looks at it.
Besides, this matter is Jiangxi's business in the final analysis.
As long as I do my job well in Henan, I will have no clues when Shangxian investigates in the future.
Zhang Jiayin obviously supported his idea.
He couldn't help but nodded while looking at the confession: "With this confession, no matter how big the trouble is in the future, we can protect ourselves.
Speaking of which, what happened with the White Lotus thief last time, The county magistrate and I filed several lawsuits, but the dust has finally settled and your reward has been awarded. " Last time, Yang Chengzu rescued Zhang Jiayin and divided the thieves into the White Lotus Sect in a neighboring county.
He handed in the case file and waited for the reward to be distributed.
However, Jixian County, a neighboring county that was targeted by the White Lotus Cult, suffered an unjust injustice.
The two counties had some old grudges, and this time they broke out.
The two counties continued to fight with each other, and there was a lot of litigation.
In the end, Zhang Jiayin endorsed Jin Yiwei's confession, and he was from Sichuan, the same hometown as his chief minister Yang Tinghe.
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I think the fellow countryman who came to be the first assistant must tell the truth and not lie, so in the end, Zhang Jiayin won the pen battle.
And Yang Chengzu's reward was also awarded, and he just arrived at the Yamen today.
Yang Chengzu said: "As for the silver reward, I don't think you should rush to give it to me now.
We need money now rather than food.
Before the price of food rises, we have to collect food.
Otherwise, there will be more and more refugees. , when food prices rise, we won’t be able to cope with it.”
Although Zhang Jiayin lacked experience in being close to the people, he was indeed not slow in thinking and he understood it quickly.
"Brother, you are very knowledgeable.
Indeed, if there is a problem with this food, it will indeed cause a big problem.
But there are several big households in our county, and I think they will also come forward to help the victims.
After all, if the victims cause trouble, they will My family is the first to be affected.”
"Brother is right.
They will indeed come forward to provide relief, but we cannot count on the conscience of these big households.
You are a parent in this county.
You know better than me what kind of people these people are.
They may open warehouses to provide relief, but Their purpose is not to save They would provide relief and make some of the victims become tenants of their own homes.
From then on, these people would no longer exist in the Ming Dynasty's yellow and white books, and the taxes of the Ming Dynasty would be reduced.
Part of it has to be shared with others.”
"Of course, this is Huguang's matter and has nothing to do with us.
But this Henan matter has nothing to do with us.
When they provide relief to the people, they will also drive up the price of food, and then say that it is just a matter of the market and there is nothing they can do about it.
There have always been natural disasters , are all excuses for price increases, let alone During the military disaster, they will say that freight and labor have increased.
Even if there is no increase, the price of food in other places has increased.
If they don't increase, they think they have suffered a loss, so in the end they will have to increase.
And this increase is not for those people.
Refugees are the people of Hua County.”
In the Ming Dynasty, grain prices were set independently without the court interfering.
Therefore, every time there was a disaster, big businessmen and big households would join forces to hoard grain and drive up grain prices.
Provinces like Henan, which are plagued by floods, often suffer from this, and Zhang Jiayin knows this very well.
It's just that the Ming Dynasty restricted the power of local officials, so it was difficult for him to interfere in these matters, not to mention the intricate relationships among the gentry and wealthy families, and it was not possible for him to interfere as a county magistrate if he wanted to.
"It's not that they want to trigger a civil uprising, nor do they necessarily rely on how much money they get from selling grain.
What they care most about is land.
As long as the people can't afford to buy grain, they have no choice but to go to them for loans, and the borrowers don't have enough money.
So I have to pawn the field They can take the opportunity to seize the land and turn these self-cultivated fields into private fields under their own names.
Most of the fields under their names are not taxable, and in the end they are taxable fields in Hua County.
With fewer people coming, it becomes harder and harder to be a county magistrate.”
Zhang Jiayin was deeply troubled by money and food, and greatly agreed with what he said.
"In fact, the country has already made arrangements for land exemptions.
Even if it is a first-class official in the capital, the land area with exemptions is only 10,000 acres.
We in Huaxian County are big and powerful, and our families have at most a few people.
We are not qualified to enjoy so much tax-free land.
It's just that their family The business is big, the clan has many people, and we can't measure his land, so we have to admit it's bad luck.
But brother, I understand what you said, but how should you deal with it?"
"I'm afraid I can't deal with them myself.
I'm a military minister, not a civil servant.
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It's inconvenient to do this in advance.
If you want to deal with those powerful people, Brother Zhang, you have to help me.
If you are willing to lend a helping hand, the two of us can If we join forces to fight a food war with these big households, I can't guarantee that people won't starve to death, but I can definitely guarantee that the fields harvested by these big households will be reduced by at least 70% this year.
But this is something that offends people, Brother Zhang.
Have this liver and gallbladder":