Wanli Youming

Chapter 429

Chapter 429

Now that the summer tax collection is imminent, it is a very important issue for the officials, gentry, tyrants and rightists to pay taxes honestly.

Xiao Yin also asked Yang Yingkui at this time and said: "The dog is now the county magistrate in your hometown. Your government intends to pay the food and money truthfully first, but I hope that the dog will only add miscellaneous taxes and fire consumption to the common people to reflect the difference between high and low. After the tax collection is completed, the fire consumption and miscellaneous items of the treasury will be refunded to the regular tax paid by your mansion, what do you think?"

"Now the emperor has six guards in the army, and Hai Gangfeng is in charge of the household department. Don't be greedy for short-term benefits and end up not being able to become officials for several generations. You can't be so short-sighted!"

"I will write back to dissuade you from this matter, and you still have to pay the tax you should pay! Ling Zi, don't do this, or if you are found out, it will inevitably implicate generations."

Yang Yingkui asked Xiao Yin to stop the matter without hesitation.

Zhang Jing deliberately said: "According to our family, it's nothing. Could it be that his household department will really come to check how much miscellaneous taxes are collected by the local government?"

"Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case!"

"Let's hope that the Empress Dowager and the dignitaries in the court will not pay taxes on the temple land in the name of worshiping the Buddha! This kind of orderly matter for the noble and the humble can't just be ours, it's better for the nobles to come forward. After all, they are the ones with the most estates."

Yang Yingkui said.

"Alright!"

"I wrote back to Gouzi to tell him not to do this!"

"As you said, it is not appropriate for us scholar-officials to stand out now, especially now that due to the informant system, even Lu Gong and others are not safe. Everyone in the scholar community is in danger. Who dares to make compromises for the difference between high and low?"

Xiao Yin sighed after speaking: "Okay, let's bear with it, just let the rich and powerful go about their business!"

"How long will you have to endure? Once the rich and powerful can't control them, they will also become powerful ministers!"

"Although our family is a courtier, we have now raised the southern capital, so we are not considered dignitaries. Just like you, we are just renters. It is not a good thing if we really want the dignitaries to become bigger and wantonly annex our land."

Zhang Jing said at this time.

Yang Yingkui smiled and said, "Don't worry, father-in-law! There are too many farming and studying heirs in the world, and it is difficult for the rich and powerful to fight against the world's scholars. Otherwise, the soldiers are as powerful as Qi, Li, etc., and they will not always dare to be self-reliant."

"Besides, I can't bear it for long."

"Although the Son of Heaven is the ruler of the world, it is not the Son of Heaven who really rules the world, but the officials and gentry!"

"Although it is difficult for officials and gentry to act in unison due to different regions, different ideas, and different morals, as more and more people become officials, they will be the children of officials and eunuchs, and it will be difficult for the families of ordinary people to produce noble sons, and the officials in the world will naturally There will be more and more eminent eunuchs, in this way, the barriers will be self-contained, and the top and bottom must be consistent!"

"No matter how fiercely they fight each other, there will be no one who speaks out for everyone and messes up the high and the low."

Yang Yingkui continued to say a few words, then got up and looked at Yunyi outside the building, and said:

"Besides, the treacherous party in the imperial court has not been liquidated, so the bureaucrats in the world have no choice but to take the initiative to help the family of virtuous officials to win the first place more easily, and the common people rely on their studies to become officials!"

"After all, those who are villains in the court are obviously the children of poor farmers! It can be said that the poorer the people, the more shameless they are after studying and becoming an official. There is no bottom line whether they are accumulating money to deceive the king or greedy for power. If the court is in chaos, it is better to cut off its way forward."

"So, it won't be long before the day of Zhongzheng Yingchao comes."

Yang Yingkui looked at Zhang Jing with a smile as he spoke.

……

"It is also powerful to say that the imperial examinations are cheating and monopolizing the imperial examination quotas so righteously!"

"Although it is easy for the children of the common people to be tempted, they are more willing to be diligent in politics, more willing to innovate, and more aware of the people's sentiments! If the imperial examination system is really brought to the same end as the nine-rank middle school system, then Ming Dynasty will not be far from the end of the country!"

After receiving the secret report from Zhang Jing, Zhu Yijun frowned and thought, "It seems that we not only want to rectify the Buddhist temple, but also have to grasp the discipline of the imperial examination in the future!"

After Zhu Yijun said that, he asked Sun Xin of Dongchang: "What's happened to the dignitaries in Beijing recently?"

Sun Xin knew why Zhu Yijun asked such a question, so he replied directly:

"Not really. It's just that when His Royal Highness King Lu went to greet the Empress Dowager recently, he stayed by her side for a long time."

Zhu Yijun didn't say anything else, just got up and walked outside the hall, looking at the vast galaxy, let the summer evening wind blow his face, blowing his long sleeves up like a sail.

"My lord, please forgive me! The servants are only telling the truth, and they dare not have the intention of hurting His Highness King Lu."

Sun Xin hurriedly prostrated himself on the ground and replied.

Because Zhu Yijun didn't make a statement, he was a little worried that Zhu Yijun would blame him for alienating his brother.

"Go back."

Zhu Yijun only said this.

Sun Xin hurriedly thanked him, and then retreated anxiously.

Zhu Yijun continued to meditate after Sun Xin left.

He has already learned through Zhang Jing's secret report that some scholar-bureaucrats who are dissatisfied with the court have planned to instigate the clan and dignitaries to promote the emergence of the system of tax-free money for temple fields, so as to indirectly realize the goal of not paying tax money for the fields of wealthy and noble families.

And Zhu Yijun had to admit that if any dynasty wanted to develop soundly, the biggest problem ultimately came from whether the emperor dared to kill his relatives righteously, whether he dared to do something to his relatives, and whether he dared to become a real lonely family.

Just as officials want to be impartial, they must cut off relatives and friends from relying on their own power for personal gain, and they will not hesitate to get a reputation for being unkind.

Whether the emperor's reforms are successful or not depends on whether he dares to punish his brothers and children for breaking the law.

After all, in the society of the home world, the relationship with the emperor determines how much profit it can seize the world, and the closer the relationship with the emperor, the more it will naturally embezzle the country's money and the people, and it will be easier to destroy the stability of the country and become a king. In the end, he is the person who dares to challenge the state affairs most.

Just like now, many local gentry who are dissatisfied with the government are very smart. They know not to force themselves to stand out, and they also know how to encourage the powerful to influence the emperor's heart, which in turn affects the national policy.

It is also because of this that in history, Yongzheng had to finally attack his brothers and nephews for his reform of the Qing Dynasty, and he was ruthless, because this is the reality. In the end, the biggest obstacle is the brothers and nephews.

It also happened in the history of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor’s relatives and relatives wantonly asked the emperor to grant land. If the emperor’s character is weaker, he will directly enclose the peasant’s land as his own farmland, force the peasant household to be his own farmer’s tenant, and then force the emperor to agree to it. Family affection or a cowardly emperor will often agree because "the raw rice has been cooked".

Of course, it is human nature not to want to do evil to those around us.

You know, even in later generations, many people find it difficult to reject strangers, let alone let the emperor reject his uncles and aunts.

But fortunately, Zhu Yijun was a time traveler, which made him less stressed.

But after all, he has been with the royal family for so many years, and King Lu often shows courtesy to him and does things with humility, so if he decides to kill his relatives righteously, he will need some ideological struggle.

However, Zhu Yijun knew that he had to kill some royal relatives righteously.

Especially Lu Wang.

Because he has to admit that King Lu is the same as in history, he is greedy and greedy. He has complained more than once that he did not spend enough money for his big wedding gift, and because of this, he has complained a lot about the current ruling, and even blamed his elder brother for being too obedient. The words of the rulers.

of course.

Zhu Yijun didn't really only know how to listen to the rulers, but he deliberately rejected Lu Wang's unreasonable request for the wedding through the mouths of the chief assistant Shen Shixing and the Minister of Rites Xu Xuemo, in order to control the cost of Lu Wang's wedding within a reasonable range , instead of the same as in the original history, the silver for Lu Wang's wedding was as high as 10 taels, and the silver for the coronation ceremony was 60 taels. According to historical records, it was many times higher than the emperor Zhu Yijun's own wedding and coronation.

The reason why he is taller than Zhu Yijun himself is naturally because Zhang Juzheng was still there when Zhu Yijun was crowned and married, and the royal family in history did not dare to spend money recklessly.

But what is clear is that King Lu is indeed greedy. In history, the queens of the feudal clan wantonly annexed salt fields and grain fields, set up private tax customs, and spent as much as 200 million taels of silver every year. It is made according to the standard, and because the historical Wanli emperor pampered his younger brother, he didn't care about it.

Now Zhu Yijun naturally didn't intend to pamper him, so he followed the advice of Shen Shixing, Xu Xuemo and other ruling ministers from the very beginning during his wedding to limit the expenses of King Lu's wedding.

(End of this chapter)