Seeing Wang Tiqian go to the celebrant to draft the decree, Zhu Youxiao sneered.

He could even imagine how angry the Donglin Party of the Manchu Dynasty, and even the scholars of the whole world, would be after today.

The power of public opinion has always been in the hands of literati.

At present, it is impossible not to seek change, if even the emperor is afraid, then no one dares to take this step.

With Wei Zhongxian stirring up in front, Zhu Youxiao's open source and throttling are also quietly being carried out.

The first step was to let Wang Zaijin go to Gyeonggi to check the basic situation of grain reserves and government stocks in various parts of the world.

It's not very detailed, but at least it won't fall into a situation where you're blinded.

The second step is the holy decree and edict issued by Zhu Youxiao in the court and when he returned to the warm pavilion today, and his position is clear that he wants to crack down on collusion between officials and businessmen and tax evasion.

Of course, the civil officials in the court will definitely continue to oppose it, and raising the tariffs on Beijing and Hangzhou will also make the merchants get into trouble, so it is necessary to raise a competent and loyal official.

This official must be capable, but also in order to do practical things regardless of his full reputation, Wei Zhongxian and Liu Qiao belong to the eagle dogs who do black things, and they can't be put on the surface.

At this time, Wang Zaijin appeared.

Wang Zaijin supervised the Beijing-Hangzhou River in Jiangnan before being summoned to the capital, and because of strict control, his reputation among scholars was not very good.

However, judging from the notes of Zhao Bingzhong, the secretary of the household department, the financial revenue and expenditure of the Ming Dynasty for the whole year this year happened to be after he supervised the transportation of the Beijing-Hangzhou River, and the overall deficit situation had a slight improvement.

In the 47th year of Wanli, there were only about 40,000 tariffs on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and this year's income on the books increased to 116,000 taels.

This change is very small, and even the amount of import and export of most wealthy merchants cannot be worth it, and the tariff income of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations is often 10 million or 20 million, which is not worth mentioning.

But from the emperor's point of view, in less than a year after the king was in the Jindu Canal, the revenue from the unilateral tariff had nearly tripled!

If Wang had had much influence on the current Jiangnan chaebol after he supervised the tariffs in Jin, he would have left his post a long time ago, and he would not have been able to summon him after he ascended the throne.

Wang Zaijin nearly tripled the tariff revenue of Beijing and Hangzhou, and the scholars complained about him, but the chaebols did not make much movement.

Raising the king to the cabinet can basically change the situation of the existing Donglin leading cabinet.

But that's not enough!

At present, Wang's main role in Jin is still reflected in entering the cabinet as a "eunuch" to do something uncomfortable for civil officials.

As for making the chaebol uncomfortable, it is difficult for Wang Zaijin to do it with his own strength, and this has to be commanded by Wei Zhongxian, the commander of Dongchang, and Liu Qiao, the commander of Jinyiwei.

The reason why these two were brought up, in addition to the meaning of letting them check and balance each other, was mainly to support Zhu Youxiao for some things that could not be done in the name of the emperor.

You carry the black cauldron, Mingjun through the ages, I will be it!

Although he ran to Nanhaizi at two ends in three days, thanks to the blessing of the factory guard, Zhu You still knew the situation in the middle of the court well.

Wei Zhongxian's big case has caused a lot of trouble, and Zhu Youxiao is looking forward to what the ending of Yang Lian, who is often the first to jump out and make himself uncomfortable, will be in his hands.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao picked up the Three Kingdoms and really looked at it twice.

He never understood how this book could be loved by those Jianyu as a magic weapon to win?

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In the last half month of the forty-eighth year of Wanli, Zhu Youxiao did not make any major moves, except for reading the question book and chapter music in Xinuan Pavilion every day, he went to Nanhaizi to ride a horse and bend.

Although I went to hide and be quiet, I couldn't be idle.

Zhu Youxiao asked Liu Qiao to select a few Jinyi Wei Qianhu who were good at equestrianism to accompany him, and he practiced equestrianism seriously, and made rapid progress.

In terms of government and politics, Wei Zhongxian also arrested more and more people.

Although the place of Donglin Academy has not been closed, the fans have to visit the door almost every day, and then grab a few of the loudest and come back.

After Wang Zaijin was brought into the cabinet, the latter lived up to his expectations and soon put forward the first suggestion in the Song Shu - to change the policy on the privileges of the scholars, who were born in the courtesy, and who were born in tribute.

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, after scholars have gained fame, it is equivalent to an upgrade in class, becoming a "superior person" who is completely different from ordinary people.

Their privileges are manifested in many ways, but the main ones are exemption from conscription and taxation, which are too deadly.

Wang Zaijin suggested that in terms of conscription, scholars from Juren, Xiucai, and Gongsheng can still be exempted from forced labor and miscellaneous service, but they will no longer be exempted from military service.

In other words, there is a possibility that the scholar will be conscripted as a soldier by the guard.

In terms of taxation, all the privileges of the two Beijing tribute students in the country in terms of taxation were abolished, and the tax-free land for scholars from Xiucai was limited to 5 mu, and the tax-free land for scholars from the people was changed to 20 mu.

Scholars who owned surplus land were required to pay taxes normally, and provincial superintendents were to be set up one after another, not only to monitor the collusion between local officials and businessmen, but also to supervise the matter.

Due to the particularity of this matter, Wang Zaijin suggested that it was best for the Supervision Department to let Jinyiwei be in charge and subordinate to the Suppression Division.

Zhu Youxiao gave permission to all these bold proposals.

On the Liaodong side, Xiong Tingbi held great power, and after completely eliminating the Mongolian refugees and Jianzhou surrenderers in the Liaoshen area, he ordered that he would no longer accept surrenderers.

At the end of December, Xiong Tingbi's recital was sent to the Beijing Division, and the content was that Nurhachi was about to move, and the Houjin troops were gathering, saying that they would live and die with Liaoyang City.

There is also Zhang Weixian's rectification of the Beijing camp, more than a month has passed, and it is also said that the eyebrows have been sorted out, and it will not be long before the Yongwei camp will be built.

After the Yongwei battalion was built, it needed a candidate to lead the troops.

Zhang Weixian is not good, judging from the attitude he showed when he went to Beijing last time, although he holds the real power of Beijing, he seems to be not very interested in training and fighting.

What's more, this thing is now dozens of years old, so let him go into battle, I don't know if he can go through this toss.

As a result, Zhu Youxiao was pondering other candidates.

This person must be brave and loyal, and he must also be familiar with the battle formation and be good at training.

The candidate Zhu Youxiao has already been selected, and there is no one else, it is Qi Jin, a descendant of the Dingyuan Qi family, who is now idle at home.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao was in a good mood.

At this time, there is still a lot of talent available, and if it is a few years late, it will be very difficult.

However, this good mood did not last long, and was soon interrupted by the deputy cabinet assistant Han Ying.

He held a copy of the joint recital of the ministers in his hand and handed it to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao frowned and opened the recital, and found that it was the result of the cabinet and the six ministries.

Last time, Fang Congzhe's resignation was approved, and there was a vacancy in the position of first assistant, and the cabinet and the six ministries recommended three candidates to Zhu Youxiao after the meeting, in order - Ye Xianggao, Han Ying and Liu Yixian.

Don't think about it, these three are all Donglin Party.

Han Ying is a veteran of the Donglin Party, and has been in the cabinet since the 36th year of Wanli, with a very high prestige, although Liu Yixian is also from Donglin, but the controversy is very great.

The Donglin Party tried its best to squeeze Fang Congzhe out of the position of first assistant, not to let Liu Yixiao pick up the cheap ones, and push him up, most of them were made up.

The most important thing is Ye Xianggao.

This person is the current leader of Donglin, Yang Lian is the first, Ye Xianggao has the most prestige, not long ago Wei Zhongxian set off a big case, targeting the Donglin party in Beijing, and he never thought of directly dealing with Ye Xianggao.