"Madam Fengsheng, do you think Wei Bao will be disloyal?" Zhu Youxiao thought for a while, felt a headache, and asked Kebaba.

Wei Zhongxian also raised his eyes and looked at Kebaba.

At this time, the weight of Kebaba is reflected.

Kebaba generally does not interfere in military affairs, and usually mainly talks about things in the palace, and can manage the palace well.

But Kebaba's influence on Zhu Youxiao is all-round!

Once Kebaba says something, it is likely to become the final verdict.

Wei Zhongxian was afraid that even Kebaba would stand with Wei Bao, in that case, the Ming Dynasty would be in danger, and the emperor would be in danger!

Ke Baba hesitated a little and said, "The slave maid thinks that Lord Wei is still very loyal, because he did not propose to His Majesty that he should do these things, collect the water master, and also hope that it will be supervised by the East Factory." This shows that he himself does not have such great ambitions, and it can be seen that he is thinking about Da Ming and sharing worries for His Majesty. If his character is not good, the British duke will not take a fancy to him. ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded when he heard this, and Kebaba's words were in line with his heart.

Wei Zhongxian's face turned blue in an instant, and his face was about to be like ashes.

If Kebaba firmly stands with Wei Bao, Wei Baoquan will lean towards the opposition, squeeze him away, and even empty His Majesty's day, just around the corner!

However, fortunately, the hospitable Baba followed closely and said: "The slave maid thinks that Grandpa Wei's words are also reasonable, Lord Wei is too talented, what to do is like what to do." Such people have to use it, but they also have to be guarded against. People often say that brothers have to settle accounts and take precautions. Not to mention courtiers. ”

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he felt a little more comfortable, and secretly thought to you, you are too cunning, right? What exactly do you mean? Is it towards our family? Are you still looking for Wei Bao?

Judging from Zhu Youxiao's life, Zhu Youxiao has been implicated in this case since he was a child.

Emperor Tianqi, who ascended the throne at the age of 16, has been neglected for a long time, has not been able to go out of the cabinet to study, has no teacher, is basically equal to illiteracy, and the eunuchs and palace maids around him are not to be seen, have no friends, and develop an introverted and cowardly character of the Apocalypse.

The closest thing to accompany is the nursing mother Keshi, during the authoritarian period of Kewei, the pregnant Empress Yi'an offended the Hakka and Wei Zhongxian because of the admonition of Zhu Youxiao, and finally the murdered miscarriage led to lifelong infertility, Zhu Youxiao couldn't even keep his own flesh and blood, but when he was dying, he listened to the opinion of Empress Yi'an and passed on the throne to King Zhu Youzhen, and asked King Xin to treat Empress Yi'an well.

Zhu Youzhen also fulfilled his brother's instructions, and has been treating his sister-in-law preferentially for 17 years.

Zhu Youxiao is tragic, he is not a good emperor, but he is a kind person, but his kindness was taken advantage of, resulting in the dictatorship of eunuchs, and the situation in the interior and Liaodong was erosive.

People think that he is just a person who only loves carpentry and does not love the country, but when he was dying, he used Yao Shun to encourage his younger brother, which is still quite embarrassing.

Although Wei Bao didn't know how the palace would discuss today's matter for the time being, Wei Bao roughly guessed it.

Wei Zhongxian's suspicion of him and his intention to restrain him were already very obvious, and he almost did not openly attack himself.

And the emperor's preference for his side is also obvious, otherwise he would not have asked so many people in a row.

But it also illustrates Zhu Youxiao's indecisive personality.

Wei Bao is a reborn giant, so he naturally knows what kind of character Zhu Youxiao is.

Therefore, although Wei Bao was a little worried, he couldn't talk about being afraid, everything that should have been done had already been done, and Wei Bao knew that Zhu Youxiao would not be unfavorable to him because of his own suggestions.

Wei Bao is now very familiar with the people in the palace, Wei Zhongxian lost all the money in his pocket because of gambling, and then chopped off his own life with hatred and entered the palace.

Through Wei Zhongxian's action of chopping himself, it can be seen that this guy is very ruthless.

Ordinary people can't lose weight, let alone chop themselves.

Those who can do this are not ordinary people.

Survive at the bottom of society, what if you want to get to the top quickly.

A series of methods of Wei Gonggong can be learned, although there are some disdainful places, but there are also places that can be used for reference.

After Wei Zhongxian entered the palace, because he was at the bottom of the society before, he had a strong desire to survive, and he was shameless, so he was very good at stammering people.

It's true that the person who stammers is a little low, but the person he stammers is the point.

He first relied on the knot to enter the Jiazi library, and then made a meal for the emperor's eldest grandson's mother, Wang Cairen, and then to the Wei Dynasty, and then to Wang An.

A series of operations, so classic that it is jaw-dropping, catch up with the helicopter, otherwise many eunuchs who have entered the palace since childhood, when they are old, they will not be able to mix with the position of a foreman eunuch.

Wei Zhongxian is an ambitious man.

The Hakka clan around the Wei Dynasty.

entered Wei Zhongxian's next target.

After Wei Zhongxian entered the palace, he focused on everything he did, and his most successful investment was Hakka.

Then the return was also very fruitful, Guangzong died, the eldest grandson ascended the throne, that is, the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao, Feng Ke as the holy lady, Wei Zhongxian was soon promoted from the salary division to the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi and the governor of Baohe Sandian.

It's a rocket going up.

The next thing is more strange, the emperor arranged a woman by his side to care about others, but the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty were more strange, and wanted to drive the Ke family out of the palace, saying that she was obscene and vicious.

A woman in the palace said that he was fierce, which is easier to understand, after all, the court struggle is very cruel, the key is this obscenity, how did the courtiers find out? Did they go to the palace to crack the door?

Then there were no other men in the court except the emperor.

Is Hakka poisonous to the air?

Then this led to a contradiction, Wei Zhongxian's backer is the Hakka family, except for the Hakka family, Wei Zhongxian's life must be difficult, so Wei Zhongxian will definitely not spare these people who want to get rid of the Hakka family.

How did Wei Zhongxian do it?

first improved his strength, and his methods were also extremely vicious and vicious, driving away the old benefactor Wei Dynasty, and then plotting to kill Wang An.

Wang An was the companion of the eldest son of the emperor during the Wanli period, and he was very clever, that is, he killed Li Xuanzhi.

Wang An is a very upright person, and he is Zhu Youxiao's big companion, according to reason, if Wang An has been alive, he may be a good helper.

The key is that Wang An blocked Wei Zhongxian's way forward and was also killed.

Next, Wei Zhongxian formed a party.

may be Wei Zhongxian's experience of fighting in groups when he was a child, Wei Zhongxian seems to know the specific routines better than anyone else when it comes to forming a party for personal gain, and he can't do big things alone.

The celebrant Wang Tiqian, Li Yongzhen, Shi Yuanya, Tu Wenfu and others all called him 9,000 years old.

At this time, something happened, the Hakka family left the palace, but soon Wei Zhongxian found a way to recall the palace.

Leaving the Hakka family, Wei Zhongxian was worried that he would not be able to handle Zhu Youxiao.

Yu Shi Zhou Zongjian, the squire Chen Bangzhan, the Yu Shi Ma Ming, Hou Zhen in the matter. During the incident, Ni Sihui, Zhu Qinxiang, and Wang Xinyi made suggestions to the emperor again, but they were all relegated to other places.

After this wave of struggle, Wei Zhongxian began to train troops in the palace.

It's hard to imagine what a group of men who don't have that thing can practice if their physical strength itself is not good.

Wei Zhongxian colluded with the scholar Shen Wei to make an offensive and defensive alliance, and guided the emperor to indulge in advocating excellent voice tricks and hunting with dogs and horses every day.

It's understandable that this thing is just a man's instinctive desire.

Those who like to do these things are not necessarily good emperors, but don't overdo it.

Gu Xiancheng, the secretary of the ministry, lectured at Donglin Academy, and Dr. Haineshi obeyed him.

The name "Donglin" began from here.

The names of this group of people are very good, and there are a lot of positive energy bigwigs, but the key is that the Donglin Party has not done anything good since its formation, and it is quarrelling, quarrelling, quarreling every day.

also changed direction, so that the Emperor of the Apocalypse Zhu Youxiao realized that only Wei Zhongxian was worthy of reliance, and without his own team, he couldn't do anything, and Zhu Youxiao was very sober about this.

Now Wei Bao has risen from the eunuch party, and Wei Bao has never really voted for Wei Zhongxian, because Wei Bao has never recognized Wei Zhongxian as a godfather or grandfather.

Wei Zhongxian has always been worried about this, but he didn't expect Wei Bao's promotion to be so fast.

Just before Wei Zhongxian had time to think more about Wei Bao's affairs, Wei Bao had already taken control of the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong and the Jiliao Governor's Mansion!

At this time, Sun Chengzong had already gone home, although there was a Gao Di in the position of Ji Liao Governor, but everyone knew that Gao Di was an ornament, and the military power and Shanhaiguan were all caught by Wei Bao.

Therefore, Wei Zhongxian was really forced to act against Wei Bao like this today, and without consulting his subordinates.

People with strong ability to control power have a natural keen sense of smell, and Wei Zhongxian is such a person.

"Your Majesty, the matter of opening up a treaty port and collecting all the sailors of the Ming Dynasty is not the idea of Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei and Huang Liji, the Dongchang Fan Service found out last night, and all of this was proposed by Wei Bao! I don't know what method Wei Bao used, the old slave estimated that these ministers were all bought by Wei Bao! Wei Bao is used to using this trick, and many ministers have received Wei Bao's benefits. Wei Zhongxian said: "Your Majesty, think about it, since Wei Bao proposed these new policies by himself, is he really just thinking about the court and His Majesty?" ”

Zhu Youxiao was speechless when asked by Wei Zhongxian, and looked at Kebaba again.

Kebaba is more knowledgeable than ordinary women, after all, she has been in the palace for a long time, but Kebaba's insight is mainly reflected in the palace struggle, reflected in the officialdom struggle, and the officialdom is tilted against each other.

For militaristic affairs, Kebaba does not understand.

Kebaba thought that Wei Zhongxian slandered Wei Bao so vigorously because he was afraid that Wei Bao would be too aggressive and felt Wei Bao's threat.

Kebaba likes Wei Bao in his heart, even if Wei Bao is unlikely to have anything to do with him, a woman in her thirties, Kebaba likes it just as much.

Compared with Wei Zhongxian, Kebaba was more loyal to the emperor.

In Kebaba's view, Wei Bao is definitely much more useful to the Ming Dynasty and the emperor than Wei Zhongxian.

"The slave maid thinks that Grandpa Wei is too careful, and the algorithm is all thought up by Wei Bao, Wei Bao can let Gu Bingqian and a few of them put it forward, but they don't want to be too eye-catching, this is Taoguang Yang, giving credit to others, for such a young person, it is rare. Moreover, Wei Bao did not say that he did it himself, and he got the benefits, or the court and His Majesty got the benefits, and he might not be able to get anything. Kebaba said.

Wei Zhongxian was almost not by Kebaba.

Just now, the two sides of Kebaba didn't help each other, and it was more fair, but now they are completely helping Wei Bao to speak.

Zhu Youxiao nodded when he heard this, and felt that what Kebaba said was very reasonable, so he said to Wei Zhongxian: "Father-in-law Wei, I am tired today, you can step down." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wei Zhongxian said worriedly, and retreated in small steps.

As long as you know a little bit about the history of the late Ming Dynasty, you will not talk nonsense about "the fiscal revenue during the Apocalypse is mainly a variety of commercial taxes" and "Donglin does not levy commercial taxes".

Donglin resisted taxes, preventing the imperial court from collecting taxes from the wealthy, and also did not allow taxes on mountain and forest minerals.

In fact, on the contrary, it was the eunuchs who did this in history, not Donglin.

In the past, Wang Yingjiao, a member of Donglin, opened a commercial tax, and later Li Qiyuan proposed to levy a tax, but was rejected by Cui Chengxiu, the backbone of the eunuch party.

In fact, the miscellaneous and tariff increases were all made up by the Donglin Party.

Wang Yingjiao's "Notes on the Ministry of Planning" and Li Qiyuan's "Notes on the Ministry of Planning", just look at a few of them, all of which are proposed by the Donglin Party to levy taxes.

Wei Zhongxian was incapable of solving the financial problem and not being able to guarantee the supply of military salaries for the border army.

When Wang Yingjiao first became the secretary of the household department in the first year of the Apocalypse, he proposed a number of financial open source measures, such as: minting money, pawn shop discretion, storing grain, deducting work and food, leveling the barn, the case of the Eastern Expedition, the house tax deed, the donation of care, saving money and customs silver, the monk's Taoist degree, the horse price silver of the Ministry of Urging Troops, the Nanzhi Horse Pasture, the southern grain reform, and the Kuzhi cloth millet.

These are also known as miscellaneous, and a total of about 2.96 million taels can be levied.

Among them, pawn shop discretion and house tax deed belong to the category of commercial tax.

Property tax deed: Where there is land, there is a tax deed, and if there is a cut, there is a tax deed.

When private real estate is bought and sold, the discretionary tax deed is levied in two cents per tael, that is, the real estate transaction tax, with an amount of nearly 290,000 taels.

Pawn shop: A merchant who engages in the pawn business makes a lot of money.

The pawn shops in each province are divided into five classes according to their assets, and the annual taxes range from 10 to 50 taels, with a total levy of more than 195,000 taels.

Later, the official levy of "preferential exemption of grain and silver", Ming Dynasty civil and military officials, lifters, supervisors, Confucians, officials and other categories of personnel enjoyed the privilege of exempting from a certain amount of rent and forced labor.

At present, in addition to the students who are still exempted, the rest of the civil and military officials and eunuchs are also exempted from grain and silver, with a total of more than 444,000 taels.

This was all done by the Donglin Party.

On the contrary, during the reign of Wei Zhongxian, Shaanxi was even exempted from taxes.

During the Apocalypse, the annual income of Liao was about 4 million taels, and this was only Liao.

During Zuo Guangdou's management of Tuntian, he actively promoted Lu Guanxiang, a talented person in Tuntian, and at the same time advocated taking agricultural administration as the main criterion for evaluating the performance of local officials.

In addition, Zuo Guangdou recruited southerners to come to the north to teach northerners to farm in view of the fact that northerners were not good at planting rice and that taxes in the north were lighter than those in the south.

At the same time, it also opened the "Tun School", which was a school specially set up for the Tun Army and their children.

If you want to enter the "Tunxue" study, you also need to learn to ride and shoot; The admitted students are also given a certain amount of land for farming.

Tun school students can also be directly exempted from the county examination and directly take the college examination. What's even better is that Tuntian and Tunxue have not yet used state financial expenditure, and have achieved self-sufficiency.

"Yesterday was 600 acres, today is 4,000 acres, looking at the grass, now it is full of yellow clouds, chickens and dogs smell each other, fish and crabs are outlined, the scenery is vague, absolutely like the south of the Yangtze River", these are all Zuo Guangdou's political achievements.

Yang Lian also did a good job in Changshu County, and in the 42nd year of Wanli, he was the "first honest official" in the country.

Yang Lian attaches great importance to education, and adds 800 acres of school land and 300 acres of righteous land to collect rent, which is used for school expenses.

Yang Lian donated money to build the stone embankment of Futang for forty miles, which is called Yanggong embankment.

There are two main types of commercial taxes in the Ming Dynasty: customs duties, including inland customs duties and customs duties.

Among them, the mainland tariff is divided into banknote tariff, industrial tariff, gate tax, dam tax, and ship tax.

Then there are miscellaneous, including the tax on collapsed houses, the tax on wine and vinegar, the fishing tax, the deed tax, and the market tax.

In the six years of the Apocalypse, the share of arrears of the nine sides reached 72.38% (about 2.37 million taels) and 61.29% (about 2.01 million taels) respectively, where did the money go?

The share of arrears in the first year of the Apocalypse was 36.58%, 20.54% in the second year, 9.76% in the third year, 0.51% in the fourth year, and 8.38% in the fifth year.

Wei Zhongxian came to power, and the number of arrears of nine-sided salaries became higher and higher.

In the first year of Chongzhen, through the efforts of the new head of the household department, the Ming Dynasty barely alleviated the fiscal deficit.

When the Duke of Wei was in power, he owed Jiubian so much money, and Emperor Chongzhen and Bi Ziyan were busy wiping Wei Gelding's buttocks.

Chongzhen is worse than Zhu Youxiao, but Chongzhen is not necessarily inferior to Wei Zhongxian.

It's because of the Ming system, unless the emperor is particularly powerful, otherwise, it is definitely better for the emperor to let a particularly powerful person take charge of it than to manage the entire empire by himself.

In fact, now in Zhu Youxiao's heart, there is already such a person, that is Wei Bao.

It's just that Wei Bao is too young, and Wei Zhongxian tore his face and brought it up today, Wei Bao has to be careful, which makes Zhu Youxiao very distressed.

Zhu Youxiao was distressed, and Wei Zhongxian, who returned to the mansion, was even more distressed.

Wei Zhongxian immediately invited a group of cronies to discuss.

Wei Liangqing, Fu Yingxing, and Wenchen of the outer court have Cui Chengxiu, Tian Ji, Wu Chunfu, Li Kuilong, and Ni Wenhuan as the main conspirators, known as the "Five Tigers"; Wuchen had Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun, Sun Yunhe, Yang Huan, and Cui Yingyuan to kill, known as "Five Biao".

Wei Liangqing, Suning Bodong Factory, Fu Yingxing, Wei Department Manager, Luan Ruping, Zuodu Yushi Zheng Erpin, Zuodu Yushi Zou Yuanbiao, Rong Keqin Rong Zhengyu Right Capital Yushi Zheng Erpin, Wang Ji Criminal Department Shangshu Zheng Erpin, Wang Dewan Zuo Yushi Zheng Sipin, Yang Weiyuan Right Yushi Zheng Sipin,

Zhou Yingqiu, Secretary of Dali Temple, Yin Shao Fuzhong of Shuntian Mansion, Liang Menghuan, Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, Shaoqing Cao Qincheng of Taifu Temple, Xu Xianchun, commander of Jinyiwei, Fu Zhen, Chen Liangxun, and Zhang Yunru in the matter.

Yushi Zhou Zongjian, Xu Yangxian, Zhang Jie, Xu Jinglian, Wen Gaomo, Zhu Qinxiang, Xu Shangjing.

After a large group of eunuch backbones heard about what happened in the palace today, they were shocked at first, they didn't expect that the nine thousand years old would suddenly turn their faces with Wei Bao? Then it's acceptance.

After accepting it, they scolded Wei Bao together.