Forbidden City, Wenhua Palace.

Zhu Yijun looked at the fold in his hand, his expression was a little complicated, and he didn't know whether he was disappointed or relieved.

I am glad that my layout for so many years has finally taken effect now, and after the commercial tax hurdle has passed, my control over Daming has really reached an unprecedented level.

From this moment on, the fetters of Da Ming were basically eliminated.

The loss is because this time I was holding back to do a big vote, but people didn't give me this chance, and before they could do it, they coaxed, as if they had punched the air.

Zhu Yijun just remembered that Wanli's mine supervisor was abolished and the tax envoy was beaten to death.

But in fact, in the early days, things did not develop to that point, and everyone did not stand up and resist in the early stage. It's just that the disadvantages of eunuch taxation are very great, so that the gentry can't stand it.

When the eunuchs arrived, they were not people who acted according to the rules.

They do things very simply, there is only one way, and that is to make money. Some of the money was sent to the palace to stabilize his position so that he could continue to make money.

The other part is that they have embezzled.

The way to make money is simpler, basically how to make money.

The easiest way is to set up cards, and many checkpoints have been set up along the river, along the river, roads and bridges to collect taxes, and the more the merrier. The abundance of taxes has made businesses unprofitable, businesses have stopped production, and the economy has almost come to a standstill.

After serving as mine envoys, the eunuchs and their entourage often colluded with local ruffians and scoundrels to oppress the officials and the people, plunder the wealthy, and commit crimes. And the huge amount of tax money plundered was privately withheld to fill their own pockets.

According to some statistics, from the twentieth to the thirty-third year of Wanli, the miners handed over two to three million taels of silver to the state treasury, and the income from private interception was eight or nine times the amount handed over.

As a result, the rich no longer operated, production came to a standstill, and the workers lost their jobs.

You must know that at this time in the Ming Dynasty, land annexation was very serious, and many landless people chose to work in the city, and working in the city was indeed a new way for the people to live.

In the land south of the Yangtze River, this situation is even more serious, and the Ming Dynasty has a population of more than 500,000 to more than 1 million large cities, which is really everywhere. Big cities like Yangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, and Beijing all have populations of more than three million.

Of course, if there is a situation in which officials and businessmen take the opportunity to force the imperial court, there must be.

It's just that the more reason is the simple and crude taxation policy, the tax can be collected, but there is a limit. At the same time as collecting taxes, it is necessary to develop new industries and make them money.

The most important point is that once the workers are unemployed, then find a new way out for them, so that they have a way to earn a living.

In these aspects, Zhu Yijun has actually made arrangements a long time ago.

The first is the development of new industries, which is fully guaranteed by the presence of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the smooth flow of trade routes. In addition, the land tax is collected first, and after there is money, the money from the land tax will be used to stimulate domestic demand.

You must know that after the imperial court changed the military household system to the conscription system, the money for raising soldiers every year will be big.

Every year, the military's procurement is a big order for all kinds of businessmen. Around the internal affairs government and the imperial court procurement, Zhu Yijun has established a very large merchant group.

Or the crony businessman group, in this era, it is unrealistic to put aside the powerful to play business.

With the Ming system, the best way Zhu Yijun can think of is crony capitalism. You are an emperor, if you don't play crony capitalism, it is estimated that no one will finish with you.

As for whether there will be any capitalist democratic revolution, Zhu Yijun feels that he will not see it in his life.

Of course, Zhu Yijun feels that the difficulty of crony capitalism lies in class solidification, and if the people at the bottom can find a way to the elite, then the relative system can be much better.

Becoming a powerful official with military merits and imperial examinations, this is the road arranged by Zhu Yijun, if it doesn't work, try it and talk about it!

If Zhu Yijun goes to carry out a people's democratic revolution, then his brain will twitch.

With the support of crony capital, the matter of commercial taxation is actually much simpler, such as the nobles and nobles in various places, or the officials and businessmen in various places, they are willing to maintain this system.

Not to mention anything else, just the list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there is no simple one who receives orders, and basically all of them are crony capital. Many officials have made a lot of profit from this, much more than they can do tax-exempt.

Just for the annual purchase of grain, cloth, and so on in the northwest and Jiliao, more than half of the merchants in Jiangnan have been pulled over.

The military's order is getting bigger and bigger year by year, and who will fall out with the Internal Affairs Office at this time. Thirty taxes are just one, and if you give it, it's not a big deal.

In a word, Zhu Yijun now has a big fist, and following the emperor has many benefits.

Zhu Yijun glanced at Zhang Whale and said slowly: "How is the Wei State Mansion this time?" ”

"Back to the emperor, the Wei Mansion is very cooperative this time, not only sent people to cooperate with the Taxation Department and the Internal Affairs Office, but also the industries of the Wei Mansion also cooperated with the court's commercial taxes for the first time."

"At the same time, the Wei Mansion also released the news that if they do not support commercial taxes and do not pay commercial taxes on time, the Wei State Mansion will not cooperate with them."

Zhu Yijun sighed, since the establishment of the Internal Affairs Office, the Wei State Mansion has taken two-thirds of the purchase orders in Jiangnan, and it has definitely taken one-third.

Now the Duke of Wei is staring at the military reform, the military reform in Nanjing.

Once Nanjing's military reform was opened, then the opportunity for the Wei Mansion to make a fortune came again.

Embezzlement of military funds is pediatrics, and military supplies alone are enough for the Duke of Wei to make a lot of money. Can anyone compete with the Duke of Wei in this regard? No one at all!

Buying ordnance, food, and vegetables, it is all money, and the Duke of Wei estimates that the money is counted to the point of hand cramps.

Zhu Yijun sat on the dragon chair, smiled bitterly and shook his head, in fact, he didn't know if he was doing it right, and he didn't know what unpredictable consequences would be caused.

But Zhu Yijun knows that he is the emperor and the emperor, and the Ming Dynasty is a feudal monarchy.

Under such a system, crony capitalism is definitely the most suitable. As for the drawbacks of crony capitalism, it is actually very easy to solve, that is, to turn the contradictions abroad.

In the context of this global colonization, plundering the whole world will basically not be a problem.

As for whether there will be other problems in the future, it is none of Zhu Yijun's business, it is estimated that even if it appears, it will be three to five hundred years later, and his bones and slag should rot.

"In that case, let's transfer a wave of contradictions to the outside!"

With a smile in his eyes, Zhu Yijun turned to Zhang Whale and said, "Come on, it is rumored that the cabinet scholars and the six scholars will enter the palace tomorrow morning, and I will hold a court meeting and let them all come." ”

After the news of the court meeting spread, the ministers outside were a little puzzled.

The court meeting was not a big deal, and the ministers were used to it, but this majesty of his own family was not like this. Every time the court is discussed, what comes out is earth-shattering.

But there's not been much of a deal lately!

The collection of commercial taxes is quite smooth, and the treasury is also very abundant, so at this time, there is a problem with such a lively meeting. If you summon a cabinet member, you may be less worried.

But the people of the six departments are also called, so it's not a trivial matter.

It's just that something unexpected happened again, and news came in the evening, and the emperor called the people of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies this time. British Gong Zhang Rong, Dingguo Gong Xu Wenbi, Dingbei Marquis Qi Jiguang, Linhuai Marquis Li Yangong and so on are also listed.

The courtiers instantly understood that the emperor was going to fight!

Look at this posture, this is not a small fight, this is a big job!

When he first fought in the Northwest Warat, the emperor didn't come up with this formation, didn't the emperor want the Northern Expedition, right? As soon as they thought of the Northern Expedition, the ministers were in a bad mood for a moment, and it was really the lesson of the Tumubao change that was too profound.

Now the situation in Daming is just better, the treasury is full, the military armor is ready, what kind of battle is there at this time!

Of course, at this time, no one said anything about barbarian and remote places, and there were not many benefits from fighting down, and the northwest was about to become an oil depot in the past two years. Everyone ran over there like crazy, all running to make money.

Wenchen reached a tacit agreement without discussing at all, the first goal was to stop the emperor's northern expedition, and the emperor could not be allowed to do this.

The second goal is not to let the emperor drive the expedition in person, and it is okay to fight, let Qi Jiguang fight.

For Qi Jiguang, the Manchu Dynasty still trusts the civil and military, and the record is really too brilliant. After so many years, he has never lost, and since the newspaper publicity, Qi Jiguang has been a god-of-war level existence.

Qi Jiguang went to fight, he couldn't win, and he wouldn't lose, anyway, the emperor couldn't drive the expedition in person.

Of course, this is because the ministers think too much, and Zhu Yijun doesn't want to drive the expedition in person. First, I am not good at fighting at all, and I am not good at using soldiers, if this is a strategic game, I should be fighting a violent army flow.

Play logistics, play economy, and then riot soldiers, with the capital of the Ming Dynasty, play the flow of riots.

Besides, it is too dangerous to fight, although the emperor can go first at the critical moment, but this journey is tiring, if he is sick and hangs up, it will not be a big drop.

Of course, the ministers also know that if the emperor wants to fight, it is not easy to stop him.

But it's okay to stop the emperor from driving in person, because if you don't fight, the nobles won't agree, and you didn't see that the emperor called Li Yangong, the Marquis of Linhuai, speaking of Li Yangong, this is also a legendary figure.

The ancestor is Li Wenzhong, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, and the nephew of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of Li Wenzhong. He is Zhu Yuanzhang's famous general and strategist, and the third hero of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. When Li Wenzhong was twelve years old, his mother, Princess Cao, died.

His father, Li Zhen, took him to the chaos of the army and was on the verge of death many times. Two years later, I met my uncle Zhu Yuanzhang in Chuzhou. When Zhu Yuanzhang saw Li Wenzhong, he liked him very much, so he adopted him as his adopted son and followed his surname Zhu.

At the age of nineteen, Li Wenzhong led the pro-army as a sheren, supported Chizhou with the army, defeated the Tianwan army, and became the head of the generals with courage and good fighting. Zhu Yuanzhang was very fond of Li Wenzhong, and often sent him to supervise the army and accompany the generals on the expedition.

Li Wenzhong transferred to the battlefield, and the official was Dr. Ronglu, Zhejiang Province, and his surname was Li.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Li Wenzhong led his troops out of the fortress many times to conquer the remnants of the Yuan army, and his military achievements were outstanding, and he was awarded the title of Duke of Cao.

In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Li Wenzhong died of illness, posthumously crowned the king of Qiyang, called "Wujing", deserved to enjoy the Taimiao, and the portrait was hung in the temple of meritorious heroes, ranking third.

Such a meritorious man is naturally an important minister of the Ming Dynasty, and his status will definitely not be better than that of the British Principality, and even much stronger. In fact, the title of Duke Cao is also well-known in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the second-generation Cao Guogong covered up Li Wenzhong's reputation, because the second-generation Cao Guogong was called Li Jinglong.

In the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, raised troops and defeated Geng Bingwen, the Marquis of Changxing, in Zhending. Huang Zicheng recommended Li Jinglong to Emperor Jianwen and suggested that he be allowed to replace Geng Bingwen. In August, Emperor Jianwen appointed Li Jinglong as a general.

Let him lead an army of 500,000 to the north, and personally travel by the river, perform the gift of "holding the hub and pushing the wheel", and give him the right to "act cheaply". As a result, he was defeated by the Yan army at Zhengcunba and Baigou River, losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers, so that the offensive and defensive situation was reversed, and he was finally recalled from his post.

In fact, it is said that Li Jinglong is the undercover agent of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and Zhu Yijun believes it.

Because there was another thing that happened later, that is, in the fourth year of Jianwen, the Yan army crossed the Yangtze River and approached Nanjing, and Emperor Jianwen was terrified. Fang Xiaoru went up again, please punish Li Jinglong.

Emperor Jianwen did not allow it, but ordered Li Jinglong, Shangshu Ruyu of the Ministry of War, and Wang Zuo, the governor of the army, to go to the Yan army camp to ask for peace, and expressed his willingness to divide the river and rule, but Zhu Di refused. Soon, the Yan army went to Jinchuan Gate.

Li Jinglong and Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, opened the door and surrendered, welcomed the Yan army into the city, and Nanjing fell.

It doesn't matter if he loses, he doesn't have integrity, it would be strange if such a person could be favored by Zhu Di, but in order to win over his subordinates and calm people's hearts, Zhu Di held Li Jinglong very high.

Yan Wang Zhu Di is the emperor's throne and is the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty. Li Jinglong was awarded the title of Fengtian Fuyun Tui Cheng Xuanli Wuchen, Doctor of Special Jinguanglu, and Zuo Zhuguo because of his "merit of silent affairs", and was crowned the prince and prince, and increased the number of years by 1,000 stones.

At that time, whenever the imperial court discussed major events, Li Jinglong was at the head of the train.

Of course, it is more likely to stand there as an ornament, and in the second year of Yongle, Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, exposed Li Jinglong, saying that he had "accepted bribes in the palace" during the Jianwen period.

Zheng Ci, the secretary of the Criminal Department, also impeached Li Jinglong for "harboring evil intentions, accumulating deaths, and plotting misdeeds."

Ming Chengzu did not pursue it, and later, Zhu Neng, the Duke of Chengguo, Jianyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu, and Zhang Xin of the Sixth Branch gave the matter to impeach Li Jinglong again, saying that he and his younger brother Li Zengzhi conspired and rebelled.

Ming Chengzu then cut off Li Jinglong's meritorious title, and did not allow him to go to the court to face the monarch, and he was idle at home as a duke.

Soon, Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said: "Li Jinglong accepted the kneeling of his family at home, like the courtesy of a monarch and a minister, and it was a great rebellion. Li Zengzhi set up many farms and raised hundreds of slaves, with ill intentions. ”

Ming Chengzu then stripped Li Jinglong of his title, put him under house arrest with Li Zengzhi, his wife and dozens of sons, and confiscated his family property. Li Jinglong went on a hunger strike for ten days, but he never died, and he did not die until the last years of Yongle.

Since then, the Li family has declined, and they have been living in Nanjing, and their lives are miserable.

It's just that the Li family is also ruthless, during the orthodox years, the imperial court allowed the Li family to restart the door, and in the Hongzhi period, Li Xuan was the commander of the Nanjing Jinyi Weishi, and after two generations of struggle, Jiajing was enshrined as the Marquis of Linhuai in the eleventh year.

The latter two generations have also been reused, repeatedly exemplifying the military government, admiral Caojiang, Peiping Man's general seal, and Zhenhuguang.

It was passed to Li Yangong, the Marquis of Linhuai, who was stationed in Nanjing, entered the Beijing camp, and accumulated less protection.

Li Xichao, the son of the Marquis of Linhuai, graduated from the Imperial Lecture Hall, was an old man in the Xue Palace, participated in the battle of Warat in the northwest, and was one of the leaders of the new hawks in the military.

The Marquis of Linhuai will also be one of the main battle factions, Li Xichao proudly said that he would make meritorious contributions to the crime of blood ancestors. Immediately seal the marquis, glorify the lintel, and take back the ducal title of the Li family. This time, the emperor summoned the Marquis of Linhuai into the palace to participate in the court meeting, and the meaning could not be more obvious.