Chapter 62 Examination Method
The performance of "Champion Media" was very successful, my mother liked it very much, and the atmosphere at the scene was also very good, Zhu Yijun squinted his eyes and looked at the stage, and the smile on his face never broke. He has arrangements for this troupe, but it is not a simple troupe.
Watching the play, eating at noon, the family was happy, and the laughter of Cining Palace never stopped.
After lunch, everyone chatted for a while, and Zhu Yijun asked people to send Wu Qingbo's family back, after all, today is the Chinese New Year, and it is not appropriate to keep them here. In the afternoon, it was time for activities in the palace, and the ladies from various palaces also came.
The play arranged in the afternoon is "Suolin Bag", this kind of drama has no values in this era, and it is very correct.
The tone of the whole drama is very good, the key is that this is a women's drama, and it will be the story of two women. It's perfect for this kind of drama to show my mother, and middle-aged and elderly women like it the most.
Although her mother is only twenty-eight years old, her mentality has long been that of a middle-aged and elderly woman, of course, this is also related to the life expectancy of people in this era.
Thirty and standing, forty is not confused, fifty knows the destiny of heaven, sixty ears are obedient, and seventy ancient times are rare. In this era, there are many people who die in their forties, and those who die in their fifties are not considered to die young, and when they die at the age of sixty, they are considered happy and mournful.
If the average life expectancy is calculated, it is estimated that it is in its thirties, and people in this era are precocious because they live short.
Sure enough, the afternoon's "Suolin Bag" was very popular, and his mother and Empress Dowager Chen liked it very much, and they were also unanimously loved by the concubines. The vigil in the evening also went well, and everyone ate happily and chatted happily.
From the Chinese New Year to the Shangyuan Festival, Zhu Yijun has lived the happiest days since he came to this world.
You don't have to study, you don't have to go to school, you don't have to watch the music all day long, and you don't have to cheat me.
As the days passed, Zhu Yijun's mood also became better, and the yamen opened on the sixteenth day of the Lunar New Year to work, and Zhu Yijun also held a grand court meeting. It's just that the dynasty will have a good time, and no one will come out to stir up trouble at this time.
It wasn't until the first month that the yamen gradually got on the right track, and Zhu Yijun also followed the mess, in addition to exercising every day, Zhu Yijun also made a New Year's plan for himself.
Start with yourself, and then you can implement it to the imperial court, step by step.
As soon as the first month of the first month, a big event happened in the imperial court, Zhang Juzheng's Jingcha began, and at the same time, Zhang Juzheng took a twist and turn, which shook the entire Ming officialdom.
The theme of Zhang Juzheng's recital is very clear, that is, "respect for sovereignty, the duties of officials, trust rewards and punishments, all orders, all affairs are real, do not be false!" To put it bluntly, it means that the officials are assessed.
At the back of the fold, Zhang Juzheng wrote in detail what he was going to do, which is the famous test method.
As soon as the test was completed, the officialdom shook, and countless twists and turns flew to the palace, most of the time they were pulled by cars. Zhu Yijun didn't bother to look at it, so he directly asked the celebrant to select these folds, and then burned them directly.
No matter what the reason for opposing the test is that Zhu Yijun doesn't want to hear it or see it.
There are many people who can speak in this world, but there are not many people who can do things, and there will be a mouth cannon party in the Ming Dynasty, which is the famous Donglin Party. These people don't do anything but talk.
The slogans were loud and loud, but they still couldn't hide their filthy nature.
Zhang Juzheng doesn't like them, and Zhu Yijun doesn't like them even more, although their slogans are beautifully packaged, but they are just forming a party for personal gain, and they are the spokesmen of big landlords, big businessmen, and big bureaucrats.
The slogan of the Donglin Party is: Honesty and public service, revitalization of the rule of officials, opening up the way of speech, eliminating the accumulated evils of the government and the opposition, and so on.
It sounds very lofty, but it can only be shouted, no one proposed how to do it specifically, Zhang Juzheng's test method is the way to do these things, and the Donglin Party is a mouth cannon. Later generations have paid attention to "empty talk to mislead the country, and hard work to prosper the country".
The Donglin Party is not just empty talk, they sway public opinion and interfere with the administration of the imperial court, in Zhu Yijun's view, they are a chaotic party that brings disaster to the country and disrupts the government. Why didn't Wei Zhongxian kill them all, and if he killed them all, the Ming Dynasty would not have perished so early.
Of course, the Donglin Party is not without doing things, they do, and they do it very well.
The Donglin Party vigorously opposed the emperor's dispatch of mine supervisors and tax envoys to various places to carry out frenzied plundering and expropriation. He advocated attaching importance to both agriculture and industry and commerce, and demanded that businesses benefit the people and benefit the people, reduce taxes, reclaim wasteland and farmland, and build water conservancy. He opposed the frequent malpractice in the imperial examinations, and advocated that scholars should be hired according to their talents and intelligence, regardless of rank.
It sounds quite lofty, but Zhu Yijun knows that their most practical proposition has always been to pay taxes.
Abolish the mining tax, abolish the industrial and commercial tax, reduce or exempt the agricultural tax, of course, when it is really not possible, it is also possible to increase the agricultural tax, but the mining tax and commercial tax cannot be increased. The mines and industry and commerce are all controlled by the gentry, and they are all rich but they don't even want to pay taxes.
Agricultural taxes, these people are exempt from taxes, and the additional agricultural taxes cannot be levied on their heads, they can only be self-cultivated farmers, and in the end they are homeless, and when they encounter disasters, they will be full of smoke, and finally a large-scale peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty will be brewed.
As for the construction of water conservancy in the future, the reclamation of barren tuntian fields is all a joke.
It was a good thing to build water conservancy, but the fields were theirs, and they didn't pay taxes, so they let the imperial court build water conservancy to irrigate their fields. The imperial court has no taxes, so what is it used to build water conservancy?
To put it nicely, the fields reclaimed are not enough for them to annex, and they can profit as much as they reclaim.
The latter is not divided into ranks, but according to personal talent and intelligence, they are hired exceptionally. On the one hand, this statement buys people's hearts, and on the other hand, it is for their own benefit. According to the intelligence and admission of individuals, who has intelligence? It's not what they say.
Looking at the lofty slogans, they are actually covering up their unsightly purpose.
When Wanli died, through the three major cases, their efforts were finally realized, abolishing the mining tax and reducing the commercial tax and customs duties. It's just that Emperor Taichang only lived for a month before he died, and they didn't have time to do anything more.
The Emperor of the Apocalypse who came up ignored these mouthpiece parties at all, but appointed Wei Zhongxian and established the eunuch party, that is, those who were beaten down in the three major cases.
However, the Donglin Party has the support of the Jiangnan Group behind it, and it has a deep heritage, and after the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, in the process of overthrowing the eunuch party, they rose again, or they fooled Emperor Chongzhen. The tax burden on overseas trade tax, mining tax, salt tax, tea tax and other taxes has been abolished or reduced.
If there is something to do, Emperor Chongzhen's inner treasury will ask for money, or he will increase agricultural taxes, and in the end, the whole economic system of the country will be messed up, and Emperor Chongzhen will sell his pants if he is poor. It wasn't until before the fall of the Ming Dynasty that Emperor Chongzhen remembered his eldest brother's words and thought of Wei Zhongxian.
Emperor Chongzhen will let people collect Wei Zhongxian's bones, and will shout the sentence "Wenchen misunderstands me, Wenchen can be killed!" ”