Because the emperor was sprayed, a group of spokesmen of the capitalists were involved in the purge.

These Donglin Party are like maggots on tarsal bones, and for their own interests, they have been sworn to resist any change that is beneficial to the imperial court.

At the beginning of the reign of Emperor Wanli, there were constant wars at home and abroad. Of the three major expeditions of Wanli, none of them cost millions. But the court still had a lot of surplus to reward his son, the old Fu King. This is because Wanli knew that the meagre agricultural tax would not only be insufficient for the treasury, but also unbearable for the peasants. So he tried his best to collect taxes from the capitalists in Jiangnan, and since the household department that managed the outer treasury did not accept industrial and commercial taxes, but only collected agricultural taxes, Wanli transferred industrial and commercial taxes to the inner treasury.

Such a move to benefit the country and the people, because it touched the interests of the Donglin Party and the forces behind them, so the shameless literati did their best to frame them, and Wanli was portrayed by them as an emperor who was greedy for money and unscrupulous. Later, through the wonderful performance of the three cases of the court striking the red pill and moving the palace, the Donglin Party finally took control of the government for the first time after Wanli's death. They immediately forced Taichang to abolish various industrial and commercial taxes. It fully exposes the role of the Donglin Party as the spokesman of the capitalists.

Later, a generation of ruthless Wei Zhongxian appeared, and finally someone could cure them. But Wei Zhongxian was killed again because he offended Zhu Yousong, and Zhu Youzhen also hated him deeply. A group of Donglin party shouted slogans and returned to the center of the country, the Donglin cabinet and the Donglin party of the government and the opposition shouted long live for the wise decision of the Son of Heaven, and then their cabinet put forward a package of tax cuts, they believed that the natural disasters were mainly caused by Wanli's indiscriminate collection of taxes, and now was the time to set things right, so they suggested to the Son of Heaven to carry out a general tax cut, so as to make the heavens happy, so as to bless the Ming Dynasty with good weather and rain.

After coaxing the young son of heaven Zhu Youzhen agreed, the Donglin gentleman was the first to propose a tea tax, and in the past, the Wanli Emperor could not trust the ministers, so he sent the supervising eunuchs to inspect the tea plantations in various provinces, which of course was a great evil government. The gentlemen of Donglin would never be greedy for the country's tax land, so the Son of Heaven took back the eunuchs who supervised the land of the various political departments. Of course, since then, the tea tax revenue of the provinces has dropped sharply, the civil officials have reported disasters in succession, and the tea harvest has failed, and in the tenth year of Chongzhen, the tea tax in Zhejiang Province alone has been reduced from 200,000 taels of silver in the Wanli and Tianqi years to 12 taels of silver per year!

Then there is the sea tax, the Ming Dynasty civil officials and the maritime merchants of the party were inextricably linked, they proposed to the emperor that the "forbidden sea" should be restored, the Wanli Emperor opened the sea to ban the eunuchs to collect taxes is a serious violation of the ancestral system, is a great evil government, and then the continuous natural disasters also proved the extreme injustice of the sea tax, the Son of Heaven once again recognized the judgment of the Donglin cabinet, and ordered the eunuchs of the customs to return to the palace.

Since the Wanli Tianzi Xinghai trade, the customs tariff has been a pillar of the Ming Dynasty's finances, and it is also an important source of domestic currency. Since Zhu Youzhen's accession to the throne, after they stopped collecting customs tariffs in the name of reinstating the ban on the sea, the inner treasury could no longer get a single or two taels of silver from the maritime trade of the increasingly prosperous countries.

This time Zhu Yousong wanted to move the tax, which obviously reminded them of the days when their fortunes were cut off. So the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty blew up, and they shouted like Zhu Yousong sprayed. Led by the unlucky guy Han Yi.

After some purging, the court suddenly became much cleaner. The recitals placed on Zhu Yousong's desk every day are also decreasing geometrically, after all, this is China, thousands of years of official-based society, who will not get along with their official position.

October 1 is the ancient Winter Clothes Festival, a day to pay tribute to the ancestors. On this day, after Zhu Yousong went to the Taimiao Temple to worship, he officially set off. There are not many accompanying officials, because there is a shortage of people in the DPRK and China, and many official positions are still vacant because of Han Yi's purge. At this time, they needed to stay in the capital to deal with government affairs, Wen Tiren seized the time and arranged his cronies, all of which Zhu Yousong saw in his eyes and did not break it. Sometimes you want your employees to do things, and you can't give them a little sweetness.

There is no big difference from the last time I went to Jiangnan, and it is still Ge Jiu Zhang Yuanhua's escort. The difference is that this time Yue Yingying stayed in the palace because she was pregnant and couldn't go along. The last time I was sneaky and turned into a merchant, this time I used the banner of the Son of Heaven to inspect Jiangnan.

When he arrived in Xuzhou and went down the river, Zhu Yousong thoroughly enjoyed the pleasure of Emperor Yang of Sui going down to the river.

Xuzhou is Fang Yingfan's old nest, and here he took out the Fang family's most luxurious boat and gave it to Zhu Yousong. The carved beams and painted buildings are no less than the palace garden.

Shaanxi has been in Shaanxi for three years, and not a drop of rain has fallen, but Jiangnan has been smooth and rainy. The water level dragged the boat steadily, and the farther south went, the warmer the weather became.

"Fireworks in March down Yangzhou! It's a pity that I passed by twice last time, and I didn't have a tour, and I didn't have time this time. "This time it's really in March, but there is still no leisure. Because Shen Muhong was reforming in Jiangnan, he was hindered everywhere. Although his own means may not be as good as Shen Muhong, his identity, sitting in Jiangnan, is a great deterrent.

In the beautifully decorated master cabin, Zhu Yousong held Xiaohe on his lap and was playing with a beautiful globe. This is the old thing hidden in the palace, it is the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci came to China during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, in order to teach China the ancient Greek theory of the circle of the earth, the globe made by himself.

"Master, what is this ball?"

"Hehe, this is the world we live in. You see, this is our Ming Dynasty. ”

Xiaohe's little head obviously can't understand that Qiankun is such a profound geographical knowledge as a ball. Zhu Yousong absentmindedly fiddled with the globe, thinking about the problem at hand. From the perspective of a time-traveler, he can see things from the perspective of God. Now all the natural and man-made disasters in the Ming Dynasty are incurable for Chongzhen, but Zhu Yousong knows the cure.

Lack of food in a major drought? The whole of South America can be the breadbasket of the daimyo. Liaodong is short of pay? There is an endless supply of gold and silver overseas, and there is nowhere to put gold in the royal palaces of Spain and Portugal. This is an era that has turned upside down, and the end of resting on one's laurels is to become a backward nation, and the humiliation of modern times for a hundred years is a naked reality.

As long as the tax problem in the south of the Yangtze River is solved, the country has capital and mobilizes, and on the vast sea, no one has the background of the Ming Dynasty, and thousands of ships and thousands of sails will make way for the ships of the Ming Dynasty. Thinking of this, Zhu Yousong couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth and laughed.

Only Xiaohe, who was sitting in his arms, looked up and saw his master's evil smile, and then saw his familiar action of playing with the ball, and couldn't help but feel an itch in his chest.