"The Cabinet?"

Liu Ruoyu carefully checked these recitals twice, and only after confirming that he had any omissions did he timidly replied: "Back to the governor, none of these recitals have been yellowed in the cabinet." ”

There is no yellowing.

Is it that the concert has not been from the cabinet, or is the cabinet having trouble with miscellaneous families?

Wei Zhongxian sat up suddenly, and his fully open eyes were full of coldness.

"Send these books to the miscellaneous family and send them to the cabinet again, and tell them to send them over immediately after they are yellowed."

After thinking for a moment, Wei Zhongxian coldly ordered.

In any case, with such neglect of government, it seems that the bachelors of this cabinet are going to change their talents.

cabinet

Looking at the "forgot" yellow piece sent back by the waiter, Gu Bingqian obediently picked up the pen and began to paste yellow on the piece.

The so-called yellowing refers to the fact that the cabinet scholars use a small piece of paper to extract the main content of the recital, attach the opinions on the processing, and paste it on the recital for the emperor's imperial judgment.

Because it is necessary to distinguish it from the white paper used in the recital, the cabinet scholars generally use yellow paper, so it is called yellow.

The fact that these books are not yellowed is not that the cabinet has really forgotten, this is just a silent protest by the cabinet against Wei Zhongxian.

Since the resignation of Ye Xianggao and Han Yi, the Ming cabinet has been supplemented by Ding Shaoshi, Wei Guangwei, Gu Bingqian, Feng Quan, Huang Rupan, and Huang Liji.

But by the end of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Huang Rupan died of illness, and Wei Guangwei was forced to return to his hometown because Wei Zhongxian was not happy, and there were only four people left in the cabinet: Ding Shaoshi, Gu Bingqian, Feng Quan, and Huang Liji.

As soon as the Qingzhou case broke out, the existing cabinet scholars had great opinions on Wei Zhongxian's clear support for Qingzhou tax supervisor Sun Ming's approach.

It was just that because of the obscenity of Father-in-law Wei, the cabinet scholars did not dare to oppose it openly, so they took the opportunity of the serious illness of the first assistant Ding Shaoshi in the past few days to deliberately neglect the government in protest.

After receiving the recital from the master of ceremonies, Gu Bingqian, who was on duty, was busy pasting a few recitals in yellow, but his heart was happy and worried.

What Gu Bingqian is worried about is the content of the concert itself. He knew that as soon as these books were published, in order to deal with such a serious situation, Gonggong Wei would definitely do everything to get money.

In this way, the power of the tax supervisor will definitely be greatly expanded, which is certainly not a good thing for the gentry of the Ming Dynasty.

And what Gu Bingqian is happy about is the opportunity brought by the concert.

The books returned by Gonggong Wei fell into his hands Gu Bingqian, and it happened to be justifiable for him to paste the yellow. This is a great opportunity to get rid of other ministers and enhance the favor of Father-in-law Wei alone.

To get this opportunity is definitely a good thing for him Gu Bingqian.

"Alas, no matter what you want to do, you still have to maintain a good relationship with Grandpa Wei first. Now that the imperial court is not yet in my early stages, I still want to learn from Li Dongyang, and let's talk about it first. ”

Thinking of the seriously ill first assistant Ding Shaoshi, Gu Bingqian's heart was hot.

Shaking his head slightly, leaving his worries about the tax supervisor behind, Gu Bingqian concentrated on handling the book by book.

Wei Zhongxian's private residence

"Duke, do you really want to do this?"

Cui Chengxiu and Huang Liji heard the latest decision made by Wei Zhongxian, and they all let out an exclamation.

"If you don't, what else can you do?"

Rolling his eyes, Wei Zhongxian asked rhetorically.

Hearing Wei Zhongxian's rhetorical question, Cui Chengxiu and Huang Liji were speechless.

Both of the imperial court's family members know very well that the imperial court really can't afford large-scale disaster relief and Fujian's military spending now.

However, Wei Zhongxian came up with the two methods of courtier donation and tax supervisor's commission, and the two of them felt a little frightened no matter how they thought about it.

The tax supervisor can get a commission from the tax, and Wei Gonggong is not clearly telling the tax supervisor in the world, as long as he collects more taxes.

With Qingzhou Sun Ming in front, and then keep up with this policy, what the local tax regulatory commissions do, the two of them can know without thinking. If it goes on like this, it won't make a mess of Daming.

However, although the tax supervisor's commission is terrible, the consequences are far away, at least it has little impact on Cui Chengxiu and Huang Liji.

This courtier's donation is different.

According to Wei Zhongxian's meaning, the courtiers paid money to donate to the court according to their rank. Cui Chengxiu and Huang Liji are also among the donors, and they have to pay real money now.

That's a lot of money!

Cui Chengxiu and Huang Liji paid their own money to help donate, this is still a trivial matter, the problem is that those courtiers who are forced to pay money to donate, once they know that this is their strategy, they don't directly hate Wei Gonggong and them to the core.

What a thousand people pointed to, it ended without a problem!

Thinking of this terrible result, Cui Chengxiu and Huang Liji shuddered.

Seeing that Cui Chengxiu and Huang Liji were speechless for a long time, Wei Zhongxian suddenly smiled bitterly and said very bitterly: "You don't even know that the miscellaneous family knows that this makes the courtiers' donation a very hateful decision."

But the miscellaneous family really can't help it now.

The autumn tax of the fifth year of the Apocalypse has not yet been paid in all places.

Even the local governments that have paid the autumn tax are in very serious arrears. Up to now, the tax arrears of the household department have reached more than 2 million taels.

With such a big gap, how can miscellaneous families make up for it?

It was easy for the miscellaneous family to let King Xin take over Jinyou's opening and temporarily solve the problem in Liaodong. But Fujian has risen again.

If you don't put it out quickly, what will happen if the disaster starts? ”

Speaking of this, Wei Zhongxian sighed deeply helplessly.

"Alas, if you don't rely on the courtiers to donate for emergencies, the tax inspectors everywhere don't have the ability to turn out money immediately. The miscellaneous family is also helpless. ”

It was rare to see Grandpa Wei showing such a weak side, Cui Chengxiu and Huang Liji didn't know how to comfort Grandpa Wei, so they could only shake their heads helplessly together.

Wei Zhongxian is telling the truth, the local governments of the Ming Dynasty have always had the habit of defaulting on taxes.

In this regard, even if the Ming court repeatedly pleaded for it, it would not work.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, only Hongwu, Yongle and Zhang Juzheng have implemented the examination method in those years, and the taxes in various places have been a little more timely.

After Zhang Juzheng's death, why did the Wanli Emperor send a large number of tax supervisors to various places, and it was not that he really lost confidence in the tax arrears of the local government.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is not able to collect taxes, it is not enough to make up for the tax arrears of the imperial court by counting on the miscellaneous income of one or two million a year from the tax supervisors in various places. This is the biggest reason why the imperial court is short of money.

Of course, it is not that the taxes owed by the people in various places cannot be collected. In fact, in addition to some of the taxes owed by the powerful in various places, more tax arrears are due to the problem of excessive withholding by local governments.

Tax arrears are actually a game between the Ming court and the local government.

In the face of the tacit agreement of the local government to pay taxes, what can he Wei Zhongxian do.

Although Wei Zhongxian is now in control of the Ming Dynasty and has restored the tax supervision system during the Wanli period, Wei Zhongxian's deterrence of local governments is far from reaching the point where they will not be in arrears of taxes.

He, Wei Zhongxian, is not Zhang Juzheng.