"I'm not an unreasonable person, if Aiqing doesn't even want to pay that little tax, I don't have that mood even if I want to be reasonable, but if Aiqing can make me comfortable, and I'm in a good mood, maybe I'll be exempted from Aiqing's debts, and I won't be guilty in the future!" Zhu Cihong smiled sinisterly, and he meant something!

"Yes, the emperor, the minister is confused, as a member of the Ming Dynasty, an important minister in the court, how can the minister be unwilling to pay taxes for the Ming Dynasty, the minister believes that the people of the world must also think like the minister, and will be willing to contribute to the construction of the Ming Dynasty!" Sun Ze immediately stepped forward to express his attitude, compared to the shirk just now, now he has no hesitation, he can't care so much, anyway, he is not the only one present, there are still people who offend the world's corporal and bear it with him, the big deal is to be hated and scolded, but if he offends the emperor, his whole family will have to be exiled to the wilderness to open up the wasteland, this is unimaginable, which one has more advantages than disadvantages, Sun Xue can tell the difference.

"Sun Ge old you" Sun Ze's sudden defection stunned everyone, and an official blurted out, if he hadn't suddenly realized that the emperor was on it, he would have almost scolded.

Everyone didn't know why, but soon they understood why Sun Xue had defected.

Zhu Cihong named them one by one, first Sun Ze, then Zhang Zongyi, almost one turned against the other, and all of them were full of fear, and when they reached the sixth, everyone knew what the reason was.

It turned out that the emperor had their fatal handle in his hands, and in the last case of illicit salt, they were not lucky not to be involved, but the emperor deliberately let them go, presumably at that time the emperor was already planning today's matter.

Many officials secretly glanced at everyone present, no wonder the emperor only invited more than 30 of them to come to the imperial study to discuss matters, feeling that these people have a fatal handle in the hands of the emperor.

Qian Qianyi also broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead, originally he thought that the emperor kept his promise and was not guilty of the previous corruption of officials, but since the emperor said it, the emperor can also regret it, this lies in the emperor's mood, all in all, even if they all did such dirty things back then, even if it was forced by life, but once there is enough evidence in the hands of the emperor, the emperor is equivalent to always controlling their net worth and life, as long as they are unhappy one day, they can immediately take it out and make them ruined!

With such a handle, all the 30 or so officials present had no room for resistance.

"Your Majesty, as ministers of the court, should make due contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and I believe that the people of the world will also be willing to make due contributions to the construction of the Ming Dynasty, and the ministers support the emperor's thoughts!"

All the people have expressed their positions, and they must not fail to express their positions in the face of whether their lives can be saved, even if they really offend the world's corporals, they can't care so much.

"Wouldn't it be good that you Aiqing had been like this earlier, I know that you and the others are all ministers of the humerus of the Ming Dynasty, and there is not much tax in a year. In this way, in order to reward you for your wisdom, I have decided to write it off for the real time, and I will forgive you all the arrears you owe, and you will work harder in the future and be loyal to the Ming Dynasty! Zhu Cihong didn't want to make the relationship so stiff, and a stick was giving some sweetness, which could also reduce the resentment in their hearts.

"Zhao Dequan, you present this book to all Aiqing to read, and let all Aiqing sign their names!" Zhu Cihong picked up a copy of the notebook from the desk, Zhao Dequan immediately stepped forward to take it, and walked down to present it to Qian Qianyi and others to read, and asked the little eunuch to present pen and ink.

Qian Qianyi was the first assistant, and this piece of music was the first to be handed over to him.

After Qian Qianyi only took a cursory look, he smiled bitterly, and signed his name without hesitation, and then passed it to Zhang Zongyi.

In fact, there is nothing written in it, it is a joint letter requesting the cancellation of the privileges of the world's nobles and clans, and signing the name is equivalent to writing a letter of surrender, getting on the thief ship, and in the future, you can only go to the dark with the emperor.

Although many officials did not want to sign, there was still room for them to regret at this moment, and they immediately signed their names with trembling hands and wry smiles.

After turning around and collecting it, the matter is settled, with this letter of nomination, most of the civil and military officials are on his side, I believe that the remaining Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou and others will also have a good choice, as long as they strive to get the approval of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, Zhu Cihong will forcibly implement this reform, at least more than half of the pressure.

The matter has come to this, Qian Qianyi doesn't think about it anymore, anyway, he is just a daughter who got married, and there is no one in the family, no matter how big the anger of the world's corporal clan is, it can't do anything to him, just let the emperor do it, anyway, if the emperor really does it, it will be good for the generations of the Ming Dynasty, maybe he Qian Qianyi can also go down in history with this name.

Although he knew that it was extremely difficult, Qian Qianyi had decided to do his best to support the emperor.

After a pause, Qian Qianyi thought of one thing, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, although we all support the emperor, the resistance of the clan will only be greater than that of the world's scholars. ”

Indeed, the Shi clan in the world is extremely powerful together, but the current number of the Daming clan is several times that of the Shi clan in the world, and it has developed in the past three hundred years, more than 150,000, if it is not for Li Zicheng and other thieves who have killed a lot, there will be more, they occupy more resources than the Shi clan in the world, and the ensuing resistance will be stronger than the Shi clan in the world, and the ambitious vassal king jumping out to rebel is even more directly predictable, such as King Fu who has no news so far, Zhu Cihong believes that King Fu will not let go of such a good opportunity.

Zhu Cihong sneered, he originally thought that the current clan had too many people, it was difficult to manage, and he had to support them every year, wasting countless resources, if they really dared to jump out and make trouble, he could just take the opportunity to cut off a part of the sect openly.

After thinking about it, Zhu Cihong's eyes narrowed slightly: "In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty paid 21 million taels in taxes and 43 million taels in expenditure, most of the imperial army owed more than a year, and the officials owed Lu for two years. At the end of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty collected 16 million taels in taxes and 45 million taels in expenditure, and raised taxes again to get 14 million taels and owed 15 million taels. At the beginning of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the thief army marched east to Beijing, the first emperor could not get 500,000 taels of salary, and had to ask the clan nobles and other nobles to collect donations, get 200,000 taels of silver, still 300,000 taels, in April, the thief army Kecheng, the first emperor suffered! ”

Zhu Cihong said this, after a pause, he continued: "In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, I succeeded to the throne in Jiangnan, with a tax income of 10 million taels and an expenditure of 22 million taels, and in the first year of Zhongxing, the tax income was 9.7 million taels and the expenditure was 30 million taels!" ”

"The next year is overspending, the emperor and the city of Beijing are suffering because of this, and they have almost lost the country, and the children of my clan are more than 150,000, and everyone enjoys the Lu Tian and Lu rice offerings of the imperial court, can't they make a little contribution to the Ming Dynasty at the time of this national crisis? I don't ask them to donate much money to the imperial court, only charge them a meager tax every year, so that they can accumulate strength in the coming year, exterminate the world's rebels, and drive out the Tartars. Zhu Cihong's expression was full of coldness.

At the beginning of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen raised donations from the clan in order to resist Li Zicheng, but the entire clan together only donated tens of thousands of taels of silver, watching Beijing break and ignore it, it can be said that it is selfish to the extreme, Zhu Cihong doesn't mind raising a group of clans, but he doesn't raise selfish villains!

From the very beginning, Zhu Cihong had planned that no one in the clan would dare to jump out and make trouble in the next reform in order not to pay a little bit of tax, and he would not let any of them go!

Qian Qianyi and the others were shocked, the emperor was planning to be ruthless, and he didn't even plan to keep his hands on the blood-related clans, it turned out that the Ying Long Army that was transferred to various places was for such a thing, and it seemed that the world would set off a bloody storm again.

Qian Qianyi sighed, he didn't know what the consequences of the emperor's doing this would be, but he could see that the emperor was resolute and did not turn back from the bow, even if the emperor did it at all costs.

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