"Huang Taichong is good, where you pay a lot of taxes, there should be more places for the imperial examination...... Good way! It is also true that agriculture and commerce are all right, and only with the development of industry and commerce can taxes really increase.

In addition, his advice on the governance of officials is also very good, as an official, you should be lenient and strict, and you should also be eliminated at the end, and if you can't do things, you should get out!

Luo Dagong's method is also very good, and the officials and gentry are fortunate to pay taxes in one piece! That's how it should be...... Okay, this is a direct minister! Mr. Qian, the name you gave him 'Grand Duke' is really appropriate! The champion of this branch should be produced in Huang Taichong and Luo Dagong! ”

You've finally been scammed! Qian Qianyi looked at Zhu Cihong, who had discovered the direct minister and capable minister, and said in his heart: This Grand Duke Luo is a traitor, and he deliberately caters to you in order to be the champion and a big official! As for that Huang Zongxi, hehe, he just has too many ideas, and he dares to say it and write it...... Otherwise, he would have been a jinshi a long time ago! For this kind of person, just give a fellow jinshi, and then find a remote county and throw it away.

Let him win the champion, it is not happy to find himself, it is better to use the traitor of Luo Dagong as the champion!

Of course, Qian Qianyi would not say this to Zhu Cihong......

"Zhang Huangyan is not bad," Zhu Cihong picked up Zhang Huangyan's scroll again, and said to Qian Qianyi with a smile, "Although it is not as insightful as Huang Taichong, Zheng Sen, and Luo Dagong, it is also a rare talent...... He advocated the implementation of a ban on salt, tea, wine, and other items that were prohibited from being sold privately. Although it is difficult to implement, the idea is still very good, and the article is good, and it is also a first-class and second-class level. ”

The "ban" proposed by Zhang Huangyan is actually a kind of monopoly. However, instead of delegating the monopoly to private businessmen, the state controls the monopoly and obtains great profits through the monopoly. Such a method would not work in the Southern Ming Dynasty, because the situation faced by the Southern Ming Dynasty was that the imperial court was weak and the merchants were strong.

However, Zhang Huangyan was able to write such an article, instead of directly handing in the blank paper, and he had already made his position clear.

In today's exam, in addition to the public boycott, many candidates chose passive resistance - to hand in blank papers! You won't do it, you won't break the king's law, right?

So now I have received the rolls from Mingyuan Building, and most of them are white rolls! It can be regarded as a great spectacle in the history of China's imperial examinations.

And behind this "white scroll spectacle" is the passive resistance of the southeast Shilin - if you consider that many of the people who participated in this imperial examination were "insiders" arranged by Zhu Cihong, and there were many proletarians who were exiled from the north, they would not hand in the white scrolls. Then the proportion of passive resistance of the southeastern scholars is still quite high.

Therefore, if the policy of comprehensively and strictly levying commercial taxes is really to be implemented in the southeast, there will certainly be many troubles...... And in order to deal with the upcoming troubles, Zhu Cihong must usurp the Donglin Party!

The usurpation of the throne can wait a little longer, but the usurpation of the party is imperative!

"Mr. Qian, Mr. Wu, Mr. Gong......" Zhu Cihongsi said with a smile, "Although there are many people in Enke who have handed in blank papers this time, they can still select a lot of talents." Among these talents, many of them are Donglin's successors. Therefore, the palace wants to take advantage of the opportunity for everyone to gather in Jinling to hold a Donglin conference to elect the new Donglin Sanjun and Donglin Seven Sons. I wonder what the three gentlemen think? ”

Zhu Cihong had already told Qian Qianyi, Wu Meicun, and Gong Dingyu about the idea of convening the Donglin Conference, but it was an idea at that time, and now it is an order. Asking them what they think is about getting them to support, not really what to listen to.

This Donglin Party, Zhu Cihong is usurped!

......

Outside the Sanshan Gate, on the Qinhuai River, all kinds of boats, passing back and forth, are extremely busy.

A passenger boat slowly passed down the river, the passenger boat was very beautifully decorated, luxurious and elegant, and there was a bare flagpole erected in the bow of the passenger boat.

The old master Fan Yiji, a talented man in Suzhou, turned pale, sat in the cabin, looked out from the open hatch, and looked directly at the flagpole.

When he came to Nanjing Yingenke by boat, there was a "lifting flag" on the flagpole that he had enjoyed for more than 30 years - a flag with a white background, with five big characters written on it: "Wuxian Fan Juren".

This is not a flag to show identity, but a long-term, stable, and lucrative source of income for Fan Yiji's family of more than 30 people!

He Fan Yiji was originally a poor family in Wu County, and he was still a poor private school gentleman in his thirties, although he had already passed the county examination and the government examination, but he was stuck in the hospital examination, so he was not even a showman. The privileges of the urban people in the Ming Dynasty started from Xiucai, and without Xiucai's fame, they were ordinary people. So Fan Yiji at that time was really down, if it weren't for the fact that there was a butcher's father-in-law who gave money from time to time, he was afraid that he would starve to death on the streets of Suzhou.

When he was nearly forty years old, he suddenly came to run, first passed the hospital examination and became a showman, and then passed the township examination in the next year and became a lifter!

That's really a carp jumping over the dragon gate, it's amazing!

Before the move, Fan Yiji was just a talent who had just been lifted out of poverty, and it was the existence of a vehicle bucket in Suzhou City.

And after the lift, that's a big deal! And there were more and more former students who came to honor him: some gave him land; Someone sent it to the store; There are also those who have broken down to join the family as servants, so that he will be a shadow. In two or three months, Fan Yi's own slaves, maids, silver, land, and real estate will be available!

In addition to these, Fan Yiji can also "rent" his signboard to businessmen to avoid taxes, but the signboard is more valuable, there are more businessmen who can "protect", and the effective use range is also wider, so it can bring rich benefits to Fan Juren's family every year - there are unspoken rules for this matter, and it can't be too abused, otherwise it won't be worth much.

But all this came to a complete end after yesterday's Jiangnan Gongyuan turmoil.

When Qian Qianyi personally announced to him that he would be removed from the people's fame, his family's wealth and glory for more than 20 years came to an end, and the sky above his head collapsed!

When the news reached Suzhou, it would not be long before his easy land, shop, and slaves would leave him one by one. He didn't have any signs to rent to merchants to avoid taxes, and his students didn't know him as a penniless gentleman......

"Teacher, teacher...... It's the students who are bothering you! I'm sorry students! ”

A somewhat trembling voice sounded in Old Master Fan's ears, interrupting Fan Yiji's thoughts. It was Su Jin who spoke, that is, Su Jin Su Juren of Wu County who became a leading bird in the Gongyuan.

Fan Yiji glanced at his "good gentleman" and smiled bitterly: "What do you say about whether it is even related or not...... The old man is not the first bird, how long do you think the right to raise people and show off talents to avoid taxes can be maintained? ”

"Teacher," Su Jin looked at Old Master Fan, "After all, there are still old Qian Ge and Hou Ge in the imperial court...... Moreover, the students also heard that the Donglin Conference was about to be held, and perhaps the righteous man and gentleman would soon have the upper hand in the court. ”

"Humph!" Fan Yiji sneered, "Have you forgotten who removed the two of us?" Isn't it Qian Ge himself? What Donglin Conference, in the old man's opinion, is just a eunuch conference in the name of Donglin! ”