Chapter 1299: It's Too Poisonous
As Zhu Youxiao issued the holy decree, dozens of Han generals who were originally guarding outside the hall immediately rushed in, they did not use weapons, but each raised their leather whips and raised them towards the officials who were still jumping and scolding.
Only a crackling sound was heard, accompanied by bursts of screams, and it took a while for the Jinluan Hall to gradually regain its calm, but there was an additional group of officials in the hall who either had blue noses and swollen faces or official robes on their bodies that were whipped by leather whips.
Looking at this scene in the hall, Sun Chengzong, Zhu Guozhen, and Han Yi were all frowning, and then looked at Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on the dragon chair and looking at the riots in the hall, with an expressionless face, as if he was not the one who ordered the Han general to enter the palace to suppress the riots just now.
The hearts of the three of them couldn't help but be shocked, Zhu Youxiao always gave people a gentle and kind appearance in the past, but today they saw from him that they had never been ruthless in the past.
What was it that gave Zhu Youxiao such a big change, and he dared to order the Han general to enter the palace to suppress the commotion of hundreds of officials, and he was not afraid of causing turmoil in the court and politics?
Don't......
Thinking of this, the eyes of the three of them couldn't help but look at Yang Feng, who was still standing on the right hand side with an old god, and he looked unaware of the turmoil in the hall just now.
looked at Yang Feng and then at Zhu Youxiao, and the three of them finally understood where Zhu Youxiao's changes today came from, and it was the Ming God of War who seemed to be closing his eyes to recuperate that gave Zhu Youxiao confidence, and it was precisely because of his arrival that Zhu Youxiao had enough confidence.
Thinking of this, the three pavilion elders glanced at each other, their faces were different, and it seemed that they would pay more attention to Yang Feng from now on.
After a while, the hundred officials only heard a voice in the hall, surprisingly this voice was too loud, even the eunuch with the loudest voice specially selected by the kilometer was far behind, everyone looked at the voice, but found that Zhu Youxiao had already stood up, holding an iron horn in his hand, looking at everyone expressionlessly.
"How...... Don't shout anymore? ”
Zhu Youxiao looked at everyone with a cold face.
"In the nearly ten years since I ascended the throne, it is the first time I have seen the officials so disregard for their manners during the court meeting, some of you are yelling, some of you are rushing out of the ranks, some are even scolding loudly, and there is no dignity of officials, and there is no demeanor of a scholar? Seeing your appearance, even I am ashamed of you, you are not worthy of being a scholar! ”
Zhu Youxiao almost roared out in a roaring tone, and with the blessing of the tin horn, his voice echoed in the Jinluan Palace.
Don't look at many officials, it is not the first time to go to the early dynasty, but because the Jinluan Hall is too big, nearly a thousand people are lined up like this, and some people are even hundreds of meters away from Zhu Youxiao, such a distance can only see the emperor's figure from a distance, let alone hear the emperor's voice, but it doesn't matter, all the officials present today heard it.
Hearing that the emperor was angry, the first reaction of the officials was to kneel down and ask the emperor for guilt, no matter what the reason provoked Long Yan's anger, they were all responsible, so the black pressure in the Jinluan Hall knelt down a large area.
Yang Feng's reaction was a beat slower, he had never been in the habit of kneeling to others, and he didn't look around until everyone knelt down, and then he knelt down towards Zhu Youxiao with the general flow, but because of this, it was particularly eye-catching.
"I have always been known for my wide range of words, since the letter Guogong wrote an excerpt to be submitted, it is natural to allow people to read it, you are good, the excerpt just read a name, and you can't wait to jump out, what do you want to do? Blocking the way of words? ”
"Don't you dare?" The officials replied in unison.
Whenever the emperor did something, the officials wanted to fold it, and the emperor didn't give it, so the officials used this sentence to scold people, but they didn't expect it to be used on their heads today.
"Hehe......"
Seeing the appearance of the kneeling officials speaking in unison, Zhu Youxiao sneered: "Since you have figured it out, let's calm down, and honestly listen to Wei Zhongxian finish reading the excerpt." ”
"The ministers obey."
Wei Zhongxian raised the fold again and read it aloud: "Yang Feng, the minister of the country, went to Jiangnan this time to suppress the bandits and quell the chaos, and found that Jiangnan, which was originally known as the granary of the Ming Dynasty, has long been unworthy of its name, and the people have land, and most of the fields belong to the gentry and wealthy households. The poor have little place to stand, and the rich sing every night...... Da Ming is poor? Fuhu? If the Ming Dynasty is poor, why countless gentry and wealthy families can spend a lot of money to buy a Yangzhou thin horse, and if the Ming Dynasty is rich, why do the imperial court pay taxes to record lows? I thought it was ......"
Listening to Wei Zhongxian's yin and yang frustration and excerpts, the hundreds of officials in the Jinluan Hall looked wonderful one by one, and Yang Feng not only told the current situation in Jiangnan in the excerpts, but also listed a large number of data to prove it.
Later, he also pointed out that the reason why the Ming Dynasty had no money was because most of the fields fell into the hands of the landlords and gentry, and it was precisely because these people concealed the income from the fields and enjoyed the privilege of tax exemption, which led to the fact that the finance was getting smaller and smaller year by year.
In the end, Yang Feng proposed a solution to the problem, that is, to implement the method of integrating the officials and gentry into the one errand and paying the grain in one way, and returning the fire consumption to the public, abolishing the poll tax, and replacing it with a tax according to the amount of land and property owned.
The privileges of the gentry and scholars were abolished, and everyone had to pay taxes, so that the financial crisis of the imperial court could be completely alleviated.
Not only that, Yang Feng also formulated specific punishment rules for the lawless gentry and scholars. For example, it is strictly forbidden for gentry to take money and food. Whoever is in arrears for receiving money and food, no matter how much, will be stripped of his fame; Those who are in arrears to 80 taels shall be punished as stolen goods or perverting the law.
It is strictly forbidden for the gentry to be in arrears of food. If the gentry are in arrears of money and grain, the magistrate shall separate him from the common people and report it separately, so that he may be punished according to the gentry's anti-grain regulations; The state and county officials should make a register of the money and grain that should be paid by the students and send it to the school officials, and the school officials will assist in supervising the completion of the payment. It is strictly forbidden for gentry to drive words and start lawsuits.
Not only that, but local governments should also strengthen the management of health prisons. At the end of each year, the birth supervisor asks five people to guarantee each other, and there is no food resistance, etc., and the students are allowed to take the test only after they finish their food. In other words, if a scholar does not pay taxes and food, he is not even qualified for scientific examinations.
This excerpt is relatively long, and there are nearly 20,000 words sprinkled with it, after Wei Zhongxian finished reading, the entire Jinluan Hall was silent, and many people gasped, Yang Feng's method is really poisonous.
If this method is really implemented, the good days of scholars who have lasted for thousands of years will be gone forever.
Hearing this, many people looked at Yang Feng as if they had seen a ghost, how long was this guy's brain, how could he come up with such a vicious method.
In fact, what they didn't know was that this was not Yang Feng's idea at all, but just copied the method of one errand and one grain implemented by Emperor Yongzheng in another time and space.