Chapter 556: The Decree Will Be Suppressed

The role of the 3,000 reinforcements sent by Tongzhou to Cangzhou is to hold on to the city and prevent the surrounding rebels from taking advantage of the situation, but the current Cangzhou capital city has no significance worth attacking, whether it is money, food or weapons, they have been looted, and the waist knives, water and fire sticks of the servants in the government have even been taken away, and they can only temporarily make some sticks to fill the number.

When the garrison sent reinforcements began, he still wanted to take these 3,000 soldiers and horses to make contributions, and he thought that he was just a chaotic person in a mansion, and what could he do.

After being stationed in the city for three days, he sent his men out to inquire about it, and immediately the flag died down, and the people inside and outside the city never cut off contact, and the horses outside the city were almost open, and they had no scruples, whether it was the number of inquiries from the mouths of the people, it was said that those people had at least a thousand or more horses, and hearing this number made people gasp.

Among the 3,000 soldiers he brought, that is, 400 cavalry, this is already all his family background, and the officials of Cangzhou Mansion swore that the 900 cavalry in Tongzhou were defeated by these horse teams, and the cavalry of Tongzhou Wei was an elite division in the entire Beizhili soldiers and horses, and such troops were still defeated, not to mention that they were ordinary soldiers stationed in Tongzhou, this garrison immediately took the important city of the city, and was unwilling to go out of the city to clear it for reasons that could not be taken lightly, and Cangzhou Mansion was originally ransacked by Xiangma. There is no foundation, and now there are 3,000 people eating and drinking for nothing, which is really miserable, and the Cangzhou prefect has the idea of letting the ringing horses outside the city drive the officers and soldiers away at this time.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in the twenty-second year of Jiajing, the news of the death of the tax supervisor and nine hundred cavalry in Cangzhou reached the emperor's desk, because the Cangzhou prefect did not directly fold, but followed the process of official documents, from the local officials at all levels, to the six departments of the center, all the way to the emperor, there was no one who did not know, except for the relevant places of Beizhili who were nervously deploying troops to clean up and suppress, and the court was quiet, just waiting for the inner study to come up with opinions.

The local public opinion is quite interesting, and the local officials are also silent, but the Qingliu literati have written articles and commented, commenting that this tax supervision policy is a bad government that the heavens are angry and the people are resentful, and if it is implemented, the people will not be able to make a living, and it will inevitably provoke the people to revolt, and the current Eastern Party can no longer make a too powerful voice in the court, but the Qingliu in the opposition is still inclined to them, and the Western Party that supports the emperor has nothing to say this time.

In fact, it is not only the three northern provinces that have been harmed by tax supervision, but Jiangnan is also miserable, but there is a thick foundation there, and secondly, Jiangnan also has six yamen and various departments in Nanjing, and there is a bit of a containment.

In the past, the turmoil of the Ming Dynasty was generally the attitude of the court is the attitude of the people, generally speaking, the magistrates and Qingliu literati will not express any opinions, even if there are, they are all singing praises to the soldiers and horses of the court, saying that the crusade against the chaotic people is in accordance with the mandate of heaven and the righteous act of maintaining the unification.

This time the situation is a new problem, whether everyone says that what the court has done is worthy of the people, or whether they review it themselves, and the chaotic people are not allowed to mess up.

The Forbidden City is about to celebrate the New Year, the eunuchs and palace maids are nervously arranging, the lights are colorful, but there is no happy expression on the face, everyone knows that Emperor Jiajing is not happy at this time, and the inner study is a forbidden place, the eunuch on duty yesterday arranged for people to arrange in the inner study, and after being seen by the emperor, he was immediately furious, hit twenty boards, and removed everything.

The emperor was in a very bad mood, everyone knew, in the inner study, the six members on duty sat in their seats with their heads bowed, where they carefully browsed the documents and folds, the reports of various situations in the country, the summary of documents, and the folds had to go to their hands first, annotate, this is a complicated work, these people are very tired every day, but this time everyone's mind is not on the bookcase.

The inner study is a slightly spacious room, after becoming the center of the imperial court, there is no decoration, the seat of the six members of the outer lang is by the door, and the eunuchs of the master of ceremonies are on the other side, just in the middle is the place where the important ministers and the emperor deliberate, at this time the atmosphere in the room is very tense, the eunuchs and the eunuchs are there to pretend to check the papers, or pretend to be flying with a pen, in fact, the corners of the eyes are looking at the middle.

The prime minister, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, the commander of the East Factory, and the father-in-law of the Imperial Horse Supervisor Yin Rui Xiaosanrui, were kneeling in front of Jiajing at this time, and they were in fear and pleaded guilty there.

Nanjing Sixth Department is now the base camp of the East Party, one is the heart of Jiangnan, and the other is that Nanjing Sixth Department is a place of demotion and pension for the center, and no one cares about going there. Therefore, those in the court who did not need to be imprisoned to ask for crimes, but they all sent away the troubled ministers, and Nanjing ruled several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and counted the opportunities for the people's voices to go to Beijing.

The bigwigs in Nanjing will not let go of this opportunity to disgust the imperial court, and the northern remarks collected by Lu Bing's subordinates can really make people angry to death.

The whole world has thousands of words, sprinkled with joy, and it boils down to a few words "tax supervisor bad government", and the excerpts and scrolls that go to the emperor are to be previewed and copied by the celebrant supervisor, and of course Grandpa Rui is very familiar with the content of these documents, and these articles are still in accordance with the usual practice, pointing the finger at the eunuchs, all of which are eunuchs taking the opportunity to collect money and loot places, so the officials force the people to rebel.

The money must have been made a lot, each tax supervisor to get a position out of Beijing, or to return to Beijing after the expiration of the term, to have an appointment is naturally to be filial, after returning to the city to fish full of oil and water or filial piety, as the top of the eunuch Rui Gonggong, just two years, it is really rich and rival the country.

After seeing this, Grandpa Rui couldn't even break out in a cold sweat, and the things above were indeed worthy of the anger of the heavens, outrageous, and even more than that. Rui Xiaosan knew a lot about Emperor Jiajing, and he was immediately horrified to think about whether he would be pushed out as a scapegoat, Emperor Jiajing would never be soft on these things, and there were not too many people who were thrown out to calm the people's anger.

So early this morning, Father-in-law Rui first asked for guilt, after all, the tax supervisors are nominally the people sent out by the celebrant and Dongchang, and he also has the responsibility that he can't shirk for the following eunuchs, so he first sincerely confessed his guilt, and admitted the charges of the emperor's laxity first, presumably the other charges will not be pressed on himself.

Looking at the frightened and confessed guilt of Father-in-law Rui below, Emperor Jiajing's face had no expression, just silently browsing the scroll in his hand, Jiajing's heart has been sneering, and he knows the pretentiousness of this cronie eunuch in front of him, and the emperor is also wondering in his heart, whether to throw this person out to kill the head to calm the people's anger, and then withdraw to the tax supervisors in various places, the current treasury accumulation is enough, the soldiers and horses of the mighty battalion have also been trained and formed, and the civil and military affairs in various places have gradually been incorporated into the control of the imperial court.

Now there is no much reliance on the wealth looted by the tax superintendent, and Emperor Jiajing has also begun to consider whether to withdraw the tax supervision.

Throwing out the father-in-law Rui who was kneeling there as a scapegoat, although Jiajing wanted to, he knew that it was not feasible, although the officials of the Western Party now loyally supported him, but who knows if there is no check and balance in the future, the Western Party will not control the government and encircle itself again.

No matter how Emperor Jiajing calculates, only the eunuchs and the military attachés of the internal guards are firmly on his side, although Rui Xiaosan is not a highly capable person, but he is better than foolishness, killing this person will inevitably make the people behind him cold, after Emperor Jiajing regained power, the awe of the surrounding courtiers for him is also more than one day a day, although the chief eunuch Rui Gonggong knelt there in panic, Jiajing has been there silent, but no one dares to persuade, just waiting for the emperor's final treatment.

"Zhou Lin of the mighty camp said that he lacked clothes and armor there, I heard that your family is quite rich, you have no relatives and no reason, please pay 150,000 taels!"

After hearing this, Rui Xiaosan, who was on the ground, knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few times, and said with a crying voice:

"Long live the lord, the slave will hand over the silver tomorrow."

Whether it is the ministers or the other eunuchs who are the celebrant over there, they are all secretly speechless in their hearts, good guy, 150,000 taels, depending on the meaning of Father-in-law Rui, has this money been drained of his family, how much has he made, but these people also know that if the 150,000 taels are taken out, Father-in-law Rui's life will be saved.

"Although this tax supervision policy is the key to Zhongxing, I don't want to disturb the people too much, and I have drawn up a decree to recall the tax supervisors in various places in March next year......

As soon as these words came out, several ministers on the side all left their chairs and knelt down, saying "Long live Shengming", Jiajing's face put a smile on his face, and then he became serious again, and continued to speak:

"Order the military department, focus on the north Zhili, Henan, Shandong Zhuwei, and make every effort to clear out the bandits, there must be no mistakes!"

Jizhen sent 5,000 troops, Baoding sent 5,000 troops, plus 10,000 guards and 20,000 soldiers and horses in Beizhili, and they would suppress Beizhili......