"I wanted to kill you before!"

Seeing that Li Hongyu didn't seem to be joking, as if he really wanted to entrust him with a heavy responsibility, Sima Ze looked at Li Hongyu suspiciously, you must know that Li Hongyu is undoubtedly raising tigers for the sake of raising tigers.

"It is precisely because you saw that it was the biggest stumbling block on the road to King Fu's ascension to the throne and made a decisive decision that it is more suitable for the position of Guangzhou Mansion!"

Li Hongyu smiled slightly when he heard this, and said loudly to Sima Ze, "If Wuwei Hou can take the opportunity to adopt your opinion, then the person sitting on the Jinluan Hall now is King Fu." ”

He already knew that Sima Ze suggested to Zhang Quan to kill him, and Zhang Guang fell to those who followed Zhang Guang and betrayed Zhang Guang and other "culprits" in order to make meritorious contributions, including Sima Ze's incident.

However, Li Hongyu didn't mind the matter, but saw that Sima Ze's keen eyes and decisive personality were just right for him to work hard in Guangzhou Mansion.

"Aren't you afraid that I'll secretly stumble and pull the back leg of the Customs Department?" Sima Ze suddenly fell silent when he heard this, he never expected Li Hongyu's mind to be so broad-minded, and he looked up at Li Hongyu for a long time.

"Brother Sima is not the kind of capricious villain, and he will definitely seek the well-being of the people of Guangzhou Prefecture." Li Hongyu smiled and shook his head, "If Brother Sima really resents the previous things and hinders the Guangzhou Customs Branch Office at that time, then I will admit it." ”

Sima Ze's face suddenly revealed a complicated look, and he secretly felt ashamed in his heart, realizing that he had underestimated Li Hongyu, who was far more broad-minded than he imagined, and did not mind appointing him as an enemy.

This also made Sima Ze invisibly relieve the heavy pressure on his body, if Li Hongyu protected him, then he would definitely survive this catastrophe safely.

Li Hongyu walked easily when he left the Imperial Prison, with a faint smile on his face, and he was very satisfied with this meeting with Sima Ze, who had already agreed to serve in Guangzhou Mansion under his persuasion, and the rest of the matter was to let Sima Ze get out of the current whirlpool of right and wrong.

According to the official who investigated the case, Sima Ze and Zhang Guang had no deep friendship and did not participate in Zhang Guang's rebellion, so he was acquitted and reinstated.

After Sima Ze left the Imperial Prison, he felt as if he had turned around in front of the Ghost Gate, and the previous encounter was like in a dream, and then he came to visit Li Hongyu, he was not the kind of person who didn't know what to do, so he naturally wanted to thank Li Hongyu, if it weren't for Li Hongyu, he would probably be beheaded in the autumn duel.

The officials quickly issued an official document of appointment to Sima Ze, appointing him as the governor of the Guangzhou Prefecture and embarking on the road of exile.

In fact, it is impossible for Sima Ze to stay in the capital now, he is a person who is implicated in Zhang Guang's case, and if he stays in the capital, he will not have a good future.

Since Zhu Changluo ascended the throne, the Li Mansion can be described as a crowded city, and officials of all sizes come to visit every day, and there is an endless stream.

Li Hongyu was helpless about this, so he went to the Hanlin Courtyard to hide and leave the errand to Qin Yue at home.

At the same time, Li Hongyu paid close attention to the movements in the Forbidden City, Zhu Changluo fell ill within a few days after ascending the throne, and has been recuperating in the Qianqing Palace, and the affairs of the court were handled by the auxiliary ministers appointed by the Wanli Emperor.

Except for Li Hongyu, no one thought that Zhu Changluo, who was in the prime of life, would suffer from a serious illness after ascending the throne, and they all thought that Zhu Changluo's illness was not a big deal, no matter how Zhu Changluo was still young.

Therefore, at the suggestion of the auxiliary ministers, Zhu Changluo issued three edicts soon after he ascended the throne, which became his swan song in history.

In the first edict, Zhu Changluo issued an order to dismiss the mine supervisors and tax envoys sent to the whole country, and stop any form of mining.

As soon as this holy decree came out of the capital, the civil officials were jubilant, and they fought with the Wanli Emperor for so many years because of the matter of the mine supervisor and the tax envoy, and finally Zhu Changluo abolished it, and all the eunuchs who served as the mine supervisor and tax envoy were transferred back to the capital.

Li Hongyu shook his head helplessly, and secretly smiled bitterly, he was actually against the removal of the mine supervisor and the tax envoy, because in this way, the emperor's inner treasury would lose an important source of funds, and how would the inner treasury allocate funds when things happened in the future.

As for the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, there is no extra money to deal with sudden natural disasters**, so it can only rely on the emperor's inner treasury to provide disaster relief.

With the abolition of the mining tax, there is bound to be an increase in the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise how to maintain the proper operation of the government?

There are two kinds of important taxes in the Ming and Qing dynasties, one is agricultural tax, and the other is commercial tax, which is closely related to the civil and official groups in the court, and it is naturally impossible to increase, and even Emperor Wanli is helpless about it.

Therefore, with the abolition of the mining tax by Emperor Taichang, the imperial court was bound to fill it with agricultural tax, and the people who paid the agricultural tax in the Ming Dynasty were poor peasants living at the bottom, which undoubtedly made their lives even more difficult.

Emperor Taichang's second edict was related to the army, and in the name of Emperor Wanli's edict, millions of taels were sent to reward the soldiers of the nine sides, which greatly boosted the morale of the army and made them happy.

Li Hongyu could only shake his head and smile bitterly, the silver taels in the inner treasury were not rich, and Emperor Taichang took out so much silver to reward the border guards at once, how to fill such a big financial hole?

Therefore, in Li Hongyu's view, although this edict seemed to appease the border guards, it undoubtedly indirectly intensified the collection of agricultural taxes.

As for the third edict of Emperor Taichang, it is related to the cabinet, because the cabinet only has one cabinet member, Fang Congzhe, so Emperor Taichang elected several cabinet members, the most eye-catching of which is the return of Ye Xianggao, the former cabinet leader and Donglin party leader.

Moreover, to Li Hongyu's shock, the cabinet members co-opted by Emperor Taichang were all from the Donglin Party.

For example, He Zongyan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was named a scholar of Dongge University and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, Han Yi, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, was named a scholar of Wenyuange University and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and Liu Yixian of Hanlin was named a scholar of Dongge University and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, all of whom were members of the Donglin Party.

As a result, the life of the first assistant of the cabinet has become difficult, He Zongyan and other new cabinet members are not as senior as him, and he can still control the scene of the cabinet now, but once Ye Xianggao, who has returned to his hometown, returns to the capital, then he will completely lose the right to speak in the cabinet.

Li Hongyu originally thought that Emperor Taichang used the Donglin Party only to balance the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang in the court, but after learning of the appointment of cabinet members, he knew that he overestimated Emperor Taichang, and Emperor Taichang was preparing to use the Donglin Party to suppress the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, rather than check and balance each other.

It is worth mentioning that Ye Xianggao was the official Zhan Shi of the Zhan Mansion when Emperor Taichang was the crown prince, in other words, Ye Xianggao was Emperor Taichang's enlightened teacher.

It is no wonder that the Donglin Party wanted to protect Emperor Taichang to the death when King Fu and Emperor Taichang competed for the throne, just like the relationship between Li Hongyu and Zhu Youxiao.

Assuming that Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen compete for the position in the future, then the officials of Li Hongyu's camp will definitely fully support Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao will naturally regard the officials of Li Hongyu's camp as his own people.

It's just that Li Hongyu believes that Zhu Youxiao knows more about checks and balances than Emperor Taichang, and he will definitely not insist on trusting the officials in Li Hongyu's camp infinitely, but will adopt the strategy of checks and balances, which is what Li Hongyu has always taught Zhu Youxiao.

At this moment, Li Hongyu realized that he had made a mistake and overestimated his expectations of Emperor Taichang, who obviously believed more in Ye Xianggao and the Donglin Party when governing the country.

Emperor Taichang obviously did not know that the three edicts he issued brought great trouble to the later Emperor of the Apocalypse, so that the Emperor of the Apocalypse had to break with the Donglin Party, and then severely suppressed the Donglin Party.

Li Hongyu is powerless about this, in the final analysis, he is the crown prince Zhu Youxiao's person, coupled with his shallow qualifications in the court, he is not qualified and should not be involved in the appointment of cabinet members by Emperor Taichang.

Not only that, with the change of the cabinet, the situation of the cabinet members of the six ministries will also change, which is what Li Hongyu is most worried about.

Originally, the establishment of the cabinet was to check and balance with the six ministries, since Emperor Taichang has changed the cabinet to the world of the Donglin party, then the six departments may not be spared, will be controlled by the Donglin party, and there will be no one in the court to compete with the Donglin party.

In fact, Li Hongyu also ran into trouble, and some officials of small and medium-sized factions gave Emperor Taichang a dismissal, hoping that Emperor Taichang would abolish the Customs Department on the grounds of violating the ancestral system, working the people and losing money, and damaging the national prestige.

The so-called no wind and no waves, Li Hongyu naturally will not believe that those officials of small and medium-sized factions dare to offend him when they are full, there must be someone behind him, thinking of the situation in the court, he can also guess with his eyes closed that it was secretly instigated by the people of the Donglin Party, and now the officials of the small and medium-sized factions in the officialdom have taken refuge in the powerful Donglin Party.

Obviously, the Donglin Party members are testing Emperor Taichang's attitude towards the Customs Department, and once Emperor Taichang loosens his tone, I am afraid that he will attack him en masse.

Although Li Hongyu has not offended the Donglin Party because of personal grudges, the party's unity and disagreement are the eternal theme of factional struggles in the officialdom, and if you want to blame, you can only blame Li Hongyu for being a member of the Chu Party, so naturally he will be attacked, how can he sit back and watch Li Hongyu sit big in the court.

What is particularly important is that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin are the teachers of the crown prince Zhu Youxiao, once Zhu Youxiao ascends the throne in the future, then the Chu Party and the Qi Party will definitely take the opportunity to rise, just like Emperor Taichang's reuse of the Donglin Party, they are naturally afraid.

Li Hongyu has no foundation in the court, and what he relies on is the Customs Department, so the Customs Department has naturally become the target of attack.

However, to Li Hongyu's relief, Emperor Taichang rejected the impeachment of the Customs Department, forbade the courtiers to discuss the matter of the Customs Department, and dismissed the violators.

Although Emperor Taichang reused the people of the Donglin Party, in his opinion, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin were both out-and-out loyal ministers, so naturally they would not listen to some slanderous rumors and alienate the two.

Moreover, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin are the prince's mentors, and Emperor Taichang will not easily attack the two even if he looks at the prince's face.

The most important thing is that the Customs Department is a yamen under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor, and the purpose of its existence is to make money for the emperor, and Emperor Taichang has not reached the point of being so confused.

As Emperor Taichang took a strong attitude to reject those recitals related to the Customs Department, the ministers above the court no longer dared to mention this matter, and no one would be full enough to touch this mold.

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