Xia Yan should be relatively upright as an official, he is also diligent, and he has a little real ability, so Jiajing still admired him at the beginning.

However, he has a bad problem, that is, he likes to play music, the bigger the official, the more he likes to put music, and the desire for power is still very big, and his desire for the position of head and assistant of the cabinet is simply a little stunned.

Originally, he should have stood on the side of the people when the eunuchs in the palace encroached on the land of the people, because the eunuchs encroached on the land of the people and would not bring any income to the court.

During the Zhengde Dynasty, because the eunuchs encroached on too much land in the name of Huangzhuang, they once provoked the peasants of Beizhili to make trouble, which made the entire capital unpeaceful.

The reason why Jiajing asked Xia Yan to clean up Huangzhuang was to clean up the old forces of the Zhengde Dynasty, and also to clean up the peace of Gyeonggi.

Xia Yan naturally understood this truth, but when it came to power, he was confused.

If this land was occupied by the eunuchs under Huang Jin, he would even support Liu Shuxiang to handle it impartially, but it was different if this land was occupied by the eunuchs under Chen Hong, because he still had to rely on Chen Hong to win Jiajing's favor.

Chen Hong is indeed not a good person, not only greedy but also extremely ruthless, if anyone offends him, he will put people to death, and he will not make any sense at all.

Xia Yan is quite clear about this, and he also dislikes people like this, after all, he thinks he is still reasonable.

However, he can't help it, the most powerful people in the palace at this time are Huang Jin and Chen Hong, and Huang Jin is Jiajing's companion, treating Jiajing like a relative, it is impossible for him to find Huang Jin to fool Jiajing, only Chen Hong is willing to help him say good things in front of Jiajing.

He wants to climb to the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, but no one in the palace is sure that he can't, especially at this time, because he mistakenly believed in Liu Boyue and Chen Da, the two traitorous villains, and accidentally burned a few important pieces, Jiajing already has some opinions about him, if Chen Hong didn't help him say good things, he was likely to completely lose Jiajing's grace, so as soon as Chen Hong said that he would help clean up Liu Shuxiang, he agreed without hesitation.

He originally thought that Liu Shuxiang should know each other, and he sent someone over to warn him, and this guy should know the severity.

Unexpectedly, Liu Shuxiang not only didn't know each other, but went to visit Yang Cong, the new champion, in person.

This means that he has taken refuge in Yangming's line and is against him.

Mapi, do you think that with Yang Ming protecting Lao Tzu, you won't be able to clean you up or what's wrong?

Xia Yan received the news, and even if he was angry, the next day he ordered his subordinates to play a crazy game in the matter and impeach Shuntianfu Yin Liu Shuxiang!

Of course, what he ordered to impeach was not Liu Shuxiang who awarded the land that originally belonged to the Xu family to the two brothers of Xu Da Xu, and he also sentenced this land at the beginning, he wanted to order someone to impeach this, didn't he slap himself in the face.

He ordered people to impeach Liu Shuxiang for accepting bribes and canceling the assistant money of the descendants of the wealthy merchants of the Yongle Dynasty.

This matter is indeed true, Liu Shuxiang did accept bribes from others, and he really canceled the assistant money of the descendants of the wealthy merchants of the Yongle Dynasty who migrated to Beijing.

However, Liu Shuxiang did not do anything wrong in this matter.

During the Yongle Dynasty, the capital moved from the south to the north, not only the major yamen of the imperial court moved over, but also many wealthy merchants in Jinling City were forced to move over.

No way, Shuntianfu at that time was almost a border town, although there was the old capital of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, but after several wars, the merchants here were either robbed or ran out, the old capital of the Northern Yuan Dynasty can be described as a depression, sparsely populated, as the capital of the Ming Dynasty naturally can not be so desolate, so, Ming Chengzu decreed, ordered thousands of wealthy merchants in Jinling to move to Beizhili.

This was originally a good thing, because although the old capital of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was depressed, but the scale of the city was there, after expansion, it was not a problem to live in millions of people, and as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court would definitely move people in, and it would soon be full, which was a potentially huge market, and even, in order to let them take root in the new capital as soon as possible, Ming Chengzu also provided them with the corresponding shop for free.

However, there is one bad thing, they must hand over the auxiliary silver, because the new capital was under construction at that time, money was needed everywhere, and the imperial court could not afford it, and they got the shop for free, and there were huge business opportunities, which was equivalent to a great benefit for nothing, and it was also appropriate to give out some auxiliary silver.

Originally, the auxiliary silver set was one hundred taels per year for each wealthy merchant until the new capital was built.

One hundred taels a year, for ordinary merchants is naturally a huge expense, but for rich businessmen is not too much of a burden, as long as the business is good, they earn a few hundred taels a year is not a problem, and they run to the new capital to open a store at all without worrying about business, at the beginning of the assistant silver they paid.

However, in the back, there were more and more merchants in the capital, and their business became more and more difficult to do, and one hundred taels a year became a huge burden.

After this continued for decades, the capital was built, and many merchants were a little overwhelmed, but the imperial court did not cancel the auxiliary silver.

Because this is a huge income, hundreds of thousands of taels a year, the new capital has been built, this money does not need to be spent, how good it is that the major yamen have shared these hundreds of thousands of taels of additional income a year.

They are cool, but those rich merchants can't afford it, there are more and more merchants in the capital, and the competition is getting bigger and bigger, but they still have to bear one hundred and twenty-one years of auxiliary silver, and the cost is obviously higher than that of the later merchants, how can they compete.

Many of the descendants of wealthy businessmen have gone bankrupt because of this, but they still have to pay the assistant silver, in desperation, they have to choose to run away, from the Yongle Dynasty to the Jiajing Dynasty in the past hundred years, the thousands of wealthy businessmen who originally moved to Beizhili ran more than ninety percent, and there are still hundreds of families still struggling to persevere.

After Liu Shuxiang took office, the descendants of these wealthy businessmen heard that he was a good official who collected money and did things, so they united and pooled some silver and gave it to Liu Shuxiang, asking him to cancel this fateful assistant silver.

This matter originally belonged to the jurisdiction of Shuntianfu, Liu Shuxiang ordered people to investigate, the descendants of these rich businessmen are really difficult, except for the dozens of businesses that have started, other families basically can't afford such a high miscellaneous endowment, if a few more years, I am afraid that these so-called "rich businessmen" will run away from dozens of others.

He also checked the whereabouts of these assistant silver, basically the major yamen in the capital were divided, and they did not enter the treasury at all, that is to say, the silver was not collected for the imperial court in the first place, and when the merchants ran away, there were only a few thousand taels left, and the major yamen had nothing to share.

Therefore, he tried his best to eliminate public opinion and cancel the auxiliary service silver that should have been canceled when the capital was built.

This was originally not a normal income, and it was not good for the major yamen to sue him for this, and he also explained to the major yamen that if this continues, sooner or later the descendants of the rich businessmen will be forced to run away, and they will not be able to reap any benefits, and then a yamen will be able to divide hundreds of taels or even dozens of taels, what is the use.

Therefore, this matter did not make much waves, everyone acquiesced, but they didn't expect it to be turned out by Xia Yan and his party at this time.

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