Of course, Yang Hongzhang did not forget to ask the imperial court to tax the nobles and officials as a whole, but because these are two different battlefields, Yang Hongzhang is the protagonist in the specific tax rate adjustment of the tax rate reform, but on the battlefield of taxing the nobles and officials, the emperor Zhu Youzhen must personally implement it, otherwise no one can push it.

And the reaction of the officials in the court proves that Yang Hongzhang's arrangement in advance is occipital, at least after some time of deliberation, now he is openly speaking for businessmen, and no one dares to stand up and say that businessmen are having a hard time at every turn, because the most smooth people have already been imprisoned.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what objections do you have to Yang Aiqing's step-by-step tax rate for each industry?" Zhu Youjian sat behind the dragon book case, his young face was a little flushed, and his hands couldn't help but hold the book case. Yang Hongzhang drew a big pie for him, saying that if the new tax rate can be successfully implemented, and the nobles and officials can be taxed together, the treasury revenue can at least be doubled or even more, if it is calculated according to the overturning, it will only take three or five years to completely wipe out the thieves, and then free up his hands to go all out to deal with Jiannu, as long as there is money, it is not impossible to form a Guanning Iron Cavalry. And the key point is that the nobles of the imperial court will definitely resist the new tax rate with all their might!

However, it is obvious that Zhu Youzhen's worry is a bit redundant, and after he finished asking, he did not appear in a group of gossips, and occasionally a few people were about to make eye contact.

"Your Majesty, Lord Yang's new tax rate is very detailed, and it can be promulgated and implemented only after the specific demarcation of industry classifications, and the minister seconded it! In addition, Lord Yang's last proposal that the nobles and civil and military officials should pay taxes together with the common people, and the ministers thought it was feasible and should immediately implement it in the world. Ni Yuanlu, the head of the household department, was the first to stand up to support Yang Hongzhang's tax rate reform, he was purely from a business point of view, Yang Hongzhang often sent people to send things over these days, and the content was naturally the content of the tax rate reform, so today Yang Hongzhang said in the court that he had already known it, and he carefully calculated that if Yang Hongzhang's tax rate was completely implemented to implement the annual tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty, the result of the calculation made him so excited that he couldn't sleep.

"The minister seconded the proposal!" Liu Yuliang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was the second to stand up and support, and he had already made a recital in the Dongnuan Pavilion, and there was no way out.

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

“……”

Following Ni Yuanlu and Liu Yuliang, many people came forward to express their support, but these people were all officials of the fourth and fifth grades, and they had to express their stance under the pressure of being cleared and put in prison.

"Your Majesty, Lord Yang's step-by-step tax collection and novelty are indeed feasible. It's just that if the imperial court wants to tax the nobles and civil and military officials, should it also ask the feudal kings and local officials in various places. The ancestors of the local feudal kings Mengyin cannot be overthrown in one day, and the local officials are not enough to rely on some industries to survive, and the imperial court used to give them preferential treatment, but now they are suddenly gone, and I am afraid that people's hearts will fluctuate...... "Yang Sichang, who was standing at the forefront of the civil officials, saw that most of the important ministers of the court were not perverted, so he took it up, and now Xue Guoguan has become a thing of the past, and he Yang Sichang has faintly become the head of the civil officials.

Sure enough, as soon as Yang Sichang moved, some people immediately followed suit and stood up to persuade the emperor to think twice. Then I saw the Taihe Hall in a big uproar and knelt down in a large area, and they persuaded the emperor to take back his life, and the ancestral law should not be wasted. There are far more people than those who support tax reform.

Zhu Youzhen watched everyone's performance, his brows furrowed. Although Yang Hongzhang repeatedly persuaded him to be mentally prepared, he still didn't expect that there would still be so many people who didn't know whether they were alive or dead after his continuous actions.

Seeing that the good situation could not continue, Zhu Youzhen stood up from the dragon chair and patted Shu'an heavily: "Think twice, I have thought a lot, now the imperial treasury is empty, and the family property of an uncle and a second assistant can be compared to half a year's income of the treasury." It is always said that the law of the ancestors, Emperor Taizu formulated the system in order to give preferential treatment to nobles and officials. But now that the country is in difficulty, there are slaves on the outside and thieves on the inside, so the nobles and officials just stand by? ”

Seeing that the emperor Zhu Youzhen was angry, Yang Sichang raised his eyebrows but did not flinch, but continued to argue: "Your Majesty, no matter how much property the nobles and officials have, it is their own income, and the imperial court cannot ask them for money because the treasury is empty. It is not feasible to exhort donations, this kind of taxation is not feasible! Otherwise, if another nobleman and official from the imperial court donates half of his family property, how will these nobles and officials live, why did they get honors, why did they get officials, and it was not because they had meritorious service to the court and the country. Isn't it chilling that the imperial court treats heroes like this? ”

Yang Sichang said a word, and someone in the court immediately echoed it. Obviously, Yang Sichang has also made preparations, and it is not easy for the emperor to directly erase the merits of the ancestors of the nobles to the Ming court.

"Yang Xiangke don't forget, every time Jiannu goes south to plunder is only the people, one day, the people fled, Jiannu robbed unstoppable, and turned to attack the city, Beijing Chengpo Daming Dynasty is not necessarily the people, the first to bear the brunt of the vassal kings and princes, marquis. It is precisely because the nobles enjoy the budding yin of the imperial court, and the officials enjoy the treatment of the imperial court, that they should pay taxes according to the rules and regulations. Only then can the army protect their fields and shops, and only then can they protect their mines and slaves. Only when there is a country can there be a family, don't forget that they are hereditary titles of the Ming Dynasty, and they are the officials of the Ming Dynasty. They and Daming are both prosperous and loss-making. Liu Yuliang parroted Yang Hongzhang's point of view.

"Your Majesty, the ministers asked the establishment of Jinyi Wei to take the lead, and the household department and the criminal department participated in the special investigation of the nobles and officials, covering for the landlords and wealthy merchants in various places to evade the tax burden of the imperial court. If the chain of interests can be cut off, once it is verified, follow Chen Guogong's example and demand five times the amount of payment, and then pursue the most important people of the relevant officials and nobles, and then go back and talk about the preferential treatment of officials and nobles. What does Yang Xiang think? Ni Yuanlu followed Liu Yuliang's words and brought the topic to the issue of affiliation that Yang Sichang and others were most reluctant to talk about.

I heard that many people changed color, and it was just gossip that I heard that there were two civil officials of the fourth grade who were imprisoned because of this matter. Now that the head of the household department and the secretary of the criminal department have solemnly brought him up, naturally those people with unclean buttocks are restless.

Zhu Youzhen sneered at the change in the expressions of the people below and said: "There is no need to discuss this matter, I will issue an order to the vassal kings today, since I began to pay taxes according to the regulations, my inner slaves immediately began to take inventory, last year's income was handed over to the household department according to thirty taxes, and this year's all will be implemented according to the new tax rate, and there will be no less than one cent of tax." If you have any disobedience to the decree, you will be demoted, dismissed, and fined. ”

Zhu Youzhen was also ruthless, he was stimulated by Uncle Guo's family property a few days ago. An uncle who has only been in power for more than ten years has such a family property, what about those hereditary vassal kings?

Hearing that everyone changed color again, Zhu Youzhen's attitude towards the civilian official group for more than ten years is well known, and everyone wants to hide away from this moody moment.

Finally, Zhu Youzhen made a final decision, and then Ni Yuanlu and Yang Hongzhang of the household department took the lead and began to draw up detailed tax rates, and then followed the holy decree of the imperial court to all provinces and provinces and the residence of each vassal king.

Since then, one stone has stirred up a thousand waves, and there are scoffers and uneasy people behind the holy decree of the feudal kings in various places. But most people put it on the shelf, and those local officials did the same.

However, Zhili, especially the city of Beijing, could not hide, the emperor stared at it with two eyes, and specially appointed Yang Hongzhang, a member of the household department, to be responsible for collecting taxes.

Although there were not too many people in the court who directly confronted Yang Sichang, after the court was dispersed, the officials began to connect in tandem, and the letters of those nobles flew to all parts of the Ming Dynasty like snowflakes. Because one of the important targets of Yang Hongzhang's proposition, the vassal kings were not in Beijing City, and they could not leave the fiefdom at will, but they were vassal kings and royal families, and many people put the hope of resisting the new tax policy on these vassal kings.

The first to write to the imperial court were the kings of Dai, De and Jin, who were closer to the capital. The three of them unanimously condemned Yang Hongzhang for bringing disaster to the country and the people, and bitterly stated that it was not easy for him, in short, the law of the ancestors cannot be abolished, and Yang Hongzhang should be Zhu!

These were originally expected by everyone, these vassal kings were all of Taizu blood, and they were not in the capital and did not need to face the pressure of the emperor, so they were justified and fearless when they objected.

It's just that what the three princes didn't expect was that after Zhu Youzhen received the three of them, he immediately issued an order to reprimand the three of them, degrading the Marquis of Dezhou, and fining the king and the king of Jin for three years! The holy decree also clearly stated that those who dare to criticize the government will never be spared!

The acting king and the king of Jin are better, and Yulu is dispensable for them, but they can't get over their faces, and King De wants to cry without tears, and he is directly demoted from the prince to the marquis, and now it is not the beginning of the founding of the country, he and the current emperor are already far away blood relatives, and it is impossible for the son to be crowned king again. But the loss is much bigger than paying tens of thousands of taels of taxes a year!

Some of the other vassal kings who wanted to go to the book were also dumbfounded after hearing about what happened to King Toku. Most of them are actually blood relatives who are far from the current emperor like King De. It is not better than the king of the king, the king of Jin, and even more so the king of blessing. It's okay to follow everyone to coax, and come out alone to pick the head, in case the emperor is angry and masturbates to the end, he will play Dafa.

However, even so, there were still people who continued to hand out medals to the imperial court, especially the officials and nobles left behind in Nanjing. Not only did they oppose the imperial court's taxation of nobles and officials, but they even opposed the increase in the commercial tax rate.

In the recital, they stated that most of the merchants in Jiangnan today look glamorous, but the merchants are not engaged in production, and all the food and clothing need to be purchased. The continuous flooding in Jiangnan has caused prices to skyrocket, and most merchants have been unable to make ends meet. The imperial court raised taxes on merchants at this time, which was tantamount to forcing them to rebel. In the long run, even if the businessmen do not rebel, it will definitely lead to the withering of the people's livelihood in Jiangnan.

Watching the performance of this group of people, Zhu Youzhen was really iron-hearted, and ordered to directly demote the leaders of Yan Ping and Runan Hou as civilians! All other nobles and officials who attended the medal were fined.

Now the nobles are completely honest, but this kind of honesty is only no longer written to the court to oppose taxation, but there is no door to really want to collect their taxes, they have all thought about it, they don't pay it alive or dead, there is no money in a word, is it except the emperor who dares to put a knife on their necks?