On the first day of February, the Harmony Festival, the Great Pilgrimage Meeting.

Before Zhu Yunwen's ass was hot, Wang Qian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, stood up.

"Your Majesty's day of concubine has been selected by the Ministry of Rites in conjunction with Qin Tianjian, and the rules and regulations of the etiquette have been informed, and your Majesty will be invited to look at it."

The final draft of the draft discussed by the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Front Division with the Queen Mother and Ma Enhui is to include all the finalists in the palace, and there are more than 20 people, where can Zhu Yunwen be willing, his body can't bear this kind of multi-person sports, not to mention, his workload is much more than that one.

No matter how much you squeeze it, it is impossible to squeeze out the time when the rain and dew are evenly wet.

So, with the attitude of never entrusting the hands of thieves, Zhu Yunwen took double happiness, and the master and servant walked out secretly under the guise of food and sundries sent by the imperial front division, and took a look at this group of girls from all over the country.

Wang Qian knew at a glance that the emperor must have violated the etiquette law, but he was cautious and honest, and he directly pretended to be blind and dumb in this kind of matter, and only said that the person who failed the election failed the etiquette test of the Ministry of Rites.

It is impossible for the pot to be thrown on the emperor's head.

Zhu Yunwen is too lazy to watch, how to do it is naturally arranged, he only needs to go through a process and then go to the cave room if he wants to, and he doesn't want to do what the cave room should do.

So the book was thrown directly by him on the imperial case: "Just arrange these things for the secretary's family, and I can rest assured." ”

With that, the dragon eyes swept across the court.

"Do you guys still have this music?"

As soon as the words fell, one person stood up.

"The minister has his own music!"

The person who stood up was a young man who was not very old in the six subjects, and at this time he was like a rooster waiting to fight: "The minister impeached the university scholar Fang Xiaoru!" ”

Ooh!

Needless to say, it's amazing.

The court was in an uproar, and even Zhu Yunwen was interested.

Fang Xiaoru is a true and upright gentleman, not greedy for money and lustful, what is there to impeach him?

"Why impeachment? Let's talk about what the so-called secretary of the family is. ”

Glancing at Fang Xiaoru, who was ugly, Zhu Yunwen was interested.

This official didn't care that he was in a state of great attention at this time, and shouted: "On the twentieth of last month, the third issue of Qiushi Newspaper was released, Fang Xiaoru Fang Ge Lao made a lot of nonsense in the newspapers and periodicals, openly questioning His Majesty's great achievements, and then the ministers looked around, and found that Fang Ge Lao's words were all out of thin and out of context, so I was really not angry in my heart, and today I want to confront Fang Ge Lao on the Golden Palace, if Fang Ge Lao can't justify himself, please Your Majesty cure his crime of bullying the king!" The sin of hubris! ”

This official talked endlessly, talking slowly about the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and even Zhu Yunwen was happy.

The sin of deception? The sin of hubris?

These two hats are really tightly buttoned.

In addition to watching the excitement, Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but think of the time when he first ascended the throne, this group of speech officials did not hold back their hearts to find trouble for themselves as the emperor, now it seems that it may not be that this group of speech officials really has such courage, they are purely pushed out behind him to test the temper and city government of the new emperor.

Now that these good players in politics have been defeated, this group of speech officials has exposed their temperament, and the left and right are nothing more than interests, and people are still the only ones in the end.

Even this group of speech officials are still like this, what should the low-level scholars and ordinary people be arguing about for Fang Xiaoru's article now?

"Old Fang Ge."

Thinking in his heart, Zhu Yunwen turned his gaze to Fang Xiaoru.

"Do you need to defend yourself?"

Literati fight this kind of thing, Fang Xiaoru can't let a speech official and pee on his head, and he is also angry at the moment.

"The minister has the courage to confront this colleague in the Golden Palace today."

A cabinet scholar wants to quarrel with a speech official in the Fengtian Temple?

The civil and military officials all woke up and looked lively with great interest.

This kind of strange thing may not happen once in many years.

The official was also bold, what kind of pavilion old man was not old at all, and when he saw that Fang Xiaoru took it, he asked directly.

"Old Fangge, since ancient times, can there be emperors who subdue Beiyi and swallow the grassland?"

"I don't."

Facts speak louder than words, and this kind of thing Fang Xiaoru responded without even thinking about it.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went on a northern expedition against the Xiongnu, and the left and right were nothing more than to divide the Xiongnu into two, one fled west and one was attached, and when the Han army turned around, a new ruling race was born on the grassland, and later the Xiongnu fought back, so that the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Wuhuan stood side by side on the grassland.

"Old Fang Ge, since ancient times, there have been emperors who have leveled the Southern Barbarians and swallowed the Seven Kingdoms?"

"Not either."

Princess Wencheng entered Tibet, just this one allusion, how can not wash the Tang Dynasty. Regardless of whether Princess Wencheng is from the Li Tang clan or not, since such a thing as harmony exists, it shows that the Tang Dynasty has never made achievements in the southwest for hundreds of years.

"Since there are no of these two, why can't you say a sentence from the Han and Tang Dynasties!"

The official came to the fighting spirit, and the excited beard was all open, looked directly at Fang Xiaoru, and said angrily.

"Go down and ask the old Fang Pavilion again, in all dynasties, there can be a country like my Ming Dynasty that is light and has been exempted from grain taxes."

Light punishment and land tax are important indicators to measure whether a dynasty loves the people, and it is clear that in these two points, Emperor Taizu left a good example for Zhu Yunwen.

How low was the grain tax at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty?

You can refer to the long-term grain system.

Yan Zhenzhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was a big household in Zhejiang back then, and served as the grain chief as a wealthy household, and was later recommended to enter the court as an official.

What is the Chief Grain System?

That is, the escort loss after the spring harvest and autumn harvest in the local provincial capitals is compensated by the family of the grain chief.

For example, if an official of the provincial government goes to Nanjing to obtain a survey (land measurement register) to measure the acres of land in the local government, assuming that the acres of land in Zhejiang Province are 800,000 hectares, that is, 80 million mu of land, and two stones of grain are collected for one mu of land, that is, 160 million stones of grain, and the state collects it according to the standard of 20 taxes and one or 1, and Zhejiang should pay 8 million stones of grain tax.

However, this way of measuring is rough, that is, the measurement method of horizontal and vertical length, and the corners and corners will naturally be missing. Moreover, many peasants have less than six acres of land and only six acres and four points of land, so they only pay taxes according to the grain collected on six acres of land.

When Zhejiang's grain is put into Nanjing or filled with official warehouses, the total amount of storage may only be six or seven million stones, so this part of the loss will have to be borne by the grain chief.

This is also known as 'robbing the rich and giving to the poor'.

Emperor Taizu was born at the lowest level, and he knew all the sufferings of the people, so he and Hu Weiyong came up with such a strange system.

Obviously, this system is very unreasonable and illegal, and it is an official exploitation of the rich by the imperial court, which is extremely unfair to the rich households in the provincial capitals of the world. However, it just reflects Emperor Taizu's love for the poor peasants at the grassroots level.

Thanks to this system, the poor and middle peasants can live well, and they have a lot of grain stored every year, and they do not have to worry about dying of cold and starvation even in the event of a disaster.

And those landlords with a large number of acres of land in their homes were miserable, of course, they still pinched their noses and recognized them, because those who did not recognize them were killed.

Otherwise, where did the millions of acres of imperial property come from after Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne?

The province has a grain chief, and the government has a grain chief.

The grain chief system at the provincial and government levels fundamentally ensured that the survival of ordinary people after the founding of the Ming Dynasty would not appear to starve to death due to disasters on a large scale.

By squeezing and exploiting the property of large families to feed back to the ordinary people every year, this is also the reason why there were two large-scale corruption and collusion cases in the Hongwu Dynasty.

It is just an act of collusion between local wealthy households and local government and county yamen in an attempt to avoid taxes.

Well, in the end, everyone died miserably.

In addition to the grain chief system, Taizu also has a good habit, that is, no matter where a disaster occurs, the first thing Taizu does is to be exempt from taxes.

If three counties in Suzhou were hit by floods, the entire government would be exempted from taxes, and wealthy businessmen in Suzhou would be encouraged to work with the government to help the victims, and to work with the government to stabilize grain prices.

This is also the main reason for the large-scale reproduction of Dingkou in Hongwu Nian and the rapid recovery of national strength.

The joint efforts of the state and local governments should ensure that the basic livelihood of the country is not greatly harmed by the disaster.

Only this one rule, Hu Weiyong, the prime minister, can be called a virtuous minister through the ages!

And this ancestral system, Zhu Di continued to implement after he ascended the throne, so even in the era when there were no high-yield crops, Daming was stunned to multiply to more than 200 million people, and later during the Xiaoice period, this ancestral system was abolished.

The imperial court could not afford to provide disaster relief, and neither could the local government.

Coupled with a large number of feudal kings, the number of starvation deaths directly led to tens of millions!

The official said this, and Fang Xiaoru was suddenly speechless.

"I've never had it."

Seeing that Fang Xiaoru was refuted by himself and had nothing to say, this official was extremely excited, pointing at Fang Xiaoru and shouting.

"When it comes to loving the people and caring for the peasants, there has been no one who has come out of my Ming Dynasty in the past dynasties, even so, why can't I bear the sentence of the Tang and Song dynasties!

Suzhou students Xu Buji's words are conclusive and reasonable, and there is no boasting, but you, Fang Ge Lao, turn a blind eye and only refute them with personal prejudice.

The refuge is even more evasive, and only uses the barren land of the Western Regions to make partial generalizations, such as the Dingkou income of the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, which is simply ridiculous!

The Kaiyuan of Xuanzong, how many generations has it inherited? I've only been building a few years since I built a book! You are biased and unreasonable, this is the vision and consciousness that you should have as a scholar and a scholar! You are so arrogant and ignorant, you are a deceit! ”

After speaking, the official bowed his head and looked at Zhu Yunwen impassionedly.

"The old Fang Pavilion is arrogant and unreasonable, arrogant and ignorant, this statement hurts the hearts of the people of the world, and it stains His Majesty's holy face, and it is not enough to be angry if you don't kill it!"

Even if you don't kill enough, the people are angry?

Do I knock on it!

Fang Xiaoru was dumbfounded.