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Wei Zhongxian did not stay in the court with the emperor, because he was now "nine thousand years old", so he could only choose to avoid suspicion and hide outside the court to eavesdrop. But this method of understanding is very limited, because these pieces will be sent to the cabinet first by the cabinet first for annotation, basically to stay in the post will be sent to the emperor, so some cabinet ministers feel that the less important posts are directly ignored, based on this reason, Wei Zhongxian had to hide outside the court when he was in the court.

Of course, as the chief eunuch of the East Factory, the secret agency of the Dawu Dynasty, he also has a large number of eunuchs under him who act as Fanzi to inquire about the news, and he can also manage the line of Jinyi Wei through Tian Ergeng's relationship, which means that the factory guards are under his control, but this way of finding out the news is far more annoying than the previous ones - these eunuchs and Jinyi guards often do not have much culture, and they often do not know the priority of various intelligence, basically no matter what it is, they are all packaged into the same information and sent over, He also lacked an intelligence agency to analyze intelligence, and every piece of information had to be screened by himself one by one, for an old man in his early sixties, this was simply his own life, rather than waiting for these outdated or messy information to be slowly sent from all over the Wu Dynasty, it was better to eavesdrop on the walls quickly, as long as it was not discovered.

However, today, Wei Zhongxian was able to get the conclusion that the emperor lacked silver not from the root of the wall, but he could see it, and it was not a secret that the entire Dawu Dynasty lacked silver. Last night, I read the war reports in Shanxi and many other places, whether it is Liaodong or Shanxi, there is now a lot of silver in need, and the country is full of natural disasters, and a large number of peasants have gone bankrupt and abandoned their land to flee the famine, resulting in the inability to collect silver. And most of the wealthy gentry who can get the silver are because they have more or less a few scholars on hand, and even if they can't get it, they can donate a student tax-free and exempt, so the silver of the ninth year of the Apocalypse will only be tighter than before. Today, in the court of the previous dynasty, hundreds of officials and ministers will only open their mouths to the emperor in order to ask for money, but they do not care about the fact that there is no silver in the treasury - to put it bluntly, there is only one reason, everyone is playing the emperor's internal money. During the Wanli period, Zhang Juzheng presided over a whip law, coupled with multiple means such as the imperial court sending mine supervisors to gather wealth, which made the treasury full of silver for a while, and there was no shortage of silver. However, with the three major levies of Wanli, these silver were quickly used, and the tax of the whole Dawu is very low, low to a heinous point, whether it is the opening of the Wu Dynasty or the present, the average agricultural tax is only one-thirtieth, one of the methods of gathering wealth in the Wanli period comes from the mine supervisor, and the imperial court collects a lot of silver for the treasury under the supervision of minerals; At the same time, Zhang Juzheng adopted a whip method to adopt a new tax method for land properties, which made it difficult to achieve tax evasion and seriously dealt a blow to the common situation of hidden land failure to report among the families of hundreds of officials. Originally, if it continued like this, the financial situation of the Dawu Dynasty could still be saved, but with the death of Zhang Juzheng, a whip law was killed, and the post of mine supervisor who supervised the mineral tax was abolished by the Taichang Emperor who subsequently ascended the throne after the death of the Wanli Emperor because of the opposition of the original vested interests of the officials in the court. The father of the Emperor of the Apocalypse only served as the emperor for twenty-eight days, and he died violently because of the Red Pill case, but he left the Emperor of the Apocalypse Zhu Youxiao with a mess of the Great Wu Dynasty. The officials who tasted the sweetness of forcing the palace became more and more free, forcing Zhu Youxiao to make concessions every day in the court, and forcing a new emperor who was originally ambitious and planned to work hard to make the country not want to go to the court, and would rather hide in the harem to be a carpenter. Just kidding, the money in the inner money was left to him by his grandfather, who didn't like him, although he didn't spend much effort at the time, but what qualifications did he have to pay for the money he inherited by his ability?

"Didn't you say that the silver thing has been settled?" Zhu Youxiao was obviously very sensitive to the word silver, and immediately asked, "Speak up and listen." ”

Wei Zhongxian didn't speak, just looked around, of course Zhu Youxiao knew that he was afraid that the people next to him would spread the word, waved his hand to disperse the eunuch and palace maid next to him, and raised his hand to pull Wei Zhongxian up, "Wei Banban, in the end, you are still my confidant, the most trustworthy, now the entire court is full of people looking for me to ask for money, but you are the first person to help me find a way to solve the silver problem." ”

Wei Zhongxian saw that there was no one next to him, so he hurriedly told Zhu Youxiao in detail about the review of the recital last night, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be stunned, his two eyes were almost round, "What?" There is such a chaotic people in my land who have not obeyed the king? But after thinking about it, now Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan are full of chaotic people, and there is no difference between saying this sentence and not saying it, so I couldn't help but shake my head and continue to ask, "Then what do these chaotic people have to do with my silver?" ”

"Of course it does!" Wei Zhongxian hurriedly looked left and right, lowered his voice and said, "Your Majesty, although these people are not convinced by the king, they can make delicate things, they can even create big birds that fly in the sky, and they can carry people to fly in the sky......" Before the words fell, he looked at Zhu Youxiao's eyes and began to be wrong, "What? Can these people fly? ”

"No, they can't fly, it's just that the birds they make can fly......" Wei Zhongxian began to secretly complain about why he talked about flying birds just now, who is the emperor of our Dawu Dynasty? O legendary carpenter emperor! The emperor's skills in carpentry are not three-legged cat kung fu! Some time ago, the emperor spent a few months directly building a woodworking Forbidden City! Everything on it is exactly the same as the real reference, not to mention that this is built by the emperor, even if it is created by an ordinary carpenter, such a masterpiece cannot be bought for tens of thousands of taels of silver, not to mention the kind of machine bed designed and built by the emperor himself, which is not only light in weight and easy to lift, but also can be folded at will using the mechanism inside. What is even more frightening is that two years ago, the little eunuch was ordered to take the emperor's woodworking products to the market in the capital to sell anonymously, which caused a sensation in the capital, and it was sold for up to 30,000 taels. It's not good to say anything yourself? When it comes to creating a bird that can fly, isn't this saying good wine in front of drunkards?

It is said that Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of the Dawu Dynasty, admired the wooden bird created by Lu Ban in the ancient books before, and always wanted to create one by himself. Now that Wei Zhongxian suddenly said that there was such a group of people from overseas who could create flying birds that could fly into the sky, he immediately hooked his addiction to carpentry skills, and hurriedly took Wei Zhongxian's hand and asked, "How did they do it?" Are there any drawings you can refer to? I want to see you! That's right! Call them into the palace and show me the birds! ”

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but roll his eyes secretly, and hurriedly persuaded him, "Your Majesty, these people have now arrived in our Great Wu Dynasty, and they have also taken root and built a city in Annan Province, and they are worried about that righteous thing......"

"I've got it!" Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said, almost choking Wei Zhongxian, "Quick!" Eight hundred miles to rush those people into the palace! I'm going to want to see these thaumaturgies right away! ”

"Your Majesty! Let's wait first, "Wei Zhongxian is already crying for help in his heart, where is there something so easy to do?" This group of people is also very lucky! Just talking about the birds they made, the emperor approved the name of what they wanted, and he also knew that there would be no progress in telling the emperor about these things now, so he had to take out the letter from his sleeve pocket that the man had sent together in the music last night, and held it high above his head and bent over it to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao was stunned, he didn't know what kind of medicine his companion was selling in the gourd, he reached out and took it only to find that it was a few pieces of paper, the size of this paper was exactly the same, although it was harder than the rice paper that he usually wrote on, but it was not much thicker at all, and there were many small characters densely written on it. Zhu Youxiao was just a twenty-four or five-year-old young man, and his eyes were not as old as Wei Zhongxian's, although he squinted, he still read the words on it effortlessly.

"What the hell are these people trying to do? Why do you want to help me put things down? Although Zhu Youxiao was later made the carpenter emperor, he said that he ignored the government. But in fact, he is a young man who works hard, in the memory of many Donglin Party members, the first year of the Apocalypse is really a glorious time worth remembering: at that time, the Emperor of the Apocalypse ascended the throne for the first time, and the Donglin Party members who had a dead force before and after the saddle also followed the rising tide: Ye Xianggao became the first assistant, Zhao Nanxing did the secretary of the ministry, Zou Yuanbiao did the imperial history of the left capital, Gao Panlong did Guangluqing, and Yang Lian made the left deputy imperial envoy...... This long list was not only the bigwig of the Donglin Party, but also the well-known Qingliu at that time. From administrative power to personnel power to supervision power, all of them have been grasped by these gentlemen who have always flaunted justice. The history books call this period "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty", inside and outside the court, the atmosphere of Haoran is pressing. But not long after sitting on the throne, this group of great celebrities began to make the young Emperor of the Apocalypse crazy. It's not that this group of people like to find trouble, but they not only look for things, but they don't do things. According to the second year of the Apocalypse, the Emperor of the Apocalypse issued a sad and indignant edict saying: Liaodong has fallen, and the country's major affairs are urgent, but you are still arguing with each other. If this happens in the future, I will not tolerate it. But the grief and indignation of the apocalypse did not seem to have any effect, this group of people was still the same, so two months later, the apocalypse continued to issue an edict of grief and indignation: I just said that you are not allowed to spread rumors and attack indiscriminately, but you are still making trouble. Since the rise of Nurhachi, the country's finances have been strained, the army has suffered heavy casualties, and you have not been able to come up with the slightest good idea except for arguing with each other. The government is in this way, and you are all responsible for it. This time, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was ruthless, and if there are ministers messing around in the future, it will not be an edict of grief and indignation, but a real penalty salary. But the ministers should be noisy or noisy, should they retreat or retreat. Until the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Yang Lianshang, a member of the Donglin Party, scolded Wei Zhongxian, this time it was really a big scolding, and then ...... The Donglin caucus was extinguished. But after all, the Donglin Party is involved by a huge interest group, and the Donglin Party at this moment has already infiltrated all aspects of the Dawu Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao can borrow Wei Zhongxian's hand to eradicate the Donglin Party members on the face, but he can't eradicate those Donglin Party members who are dressed in other clothes.

Even if he and all the emperors of the Wu Dynasty faced the same lack of money, he was reluctant to raise taxes on the peasants, since he came to power, Yan'an has had a snow disaster, Jinan has had a locust disaster, Suzhou has had a wind disaster, Lingqiu has had an earthquake, Yuncheng has an earthquake, and Beijing has an explosion of Wang Gongchang, which time didn't rely on him to take out a lot of money to come out for disaster relief and pacification? At that time, the Donglin Party repeatedly suggested that it should start to levy Liao salaries from the peasants, but he simply refused at first, and adopted another method, one was to reduce expenditure, first take the clan nobles to cut the knife, and limit the indiscriminate rewards and gifts of the vassal kings. Then take hundreds of officials to open the knife, make large-scale layoffs, and clean up redundant civil and military officials. The second is to open source, the focus of rectification has shifted to industry and commerce, and the main force of tax collection is eunuchs. First through the addition of Jiangnan weaving, it once collected taxes from the southeast industry and commerce. At the same time, the salt administration was cleaned up and the salt tax was increased. At the same time, various industrial and commercial taxes have also been vigorously rectified, and the target is these rich businessmen and the scholars behind them: the country is in trouble, and it is time for you rich people to cut their flesh and serve the country. With the strong support of Wei Zhongxian, the effect of rectifying the finances was very obvious, and the tea tax in Zhejiang alone received 200,000 taels every year. Before Emperor Wanli took great pains to send tax supervisors to charge several times, he only collected more than 100,000 yuan a year. But where do these taxes come from? Originally, if the emperor levied Liao from the peasants, he would not have to touch the interests of this large group of vested interests, but now they have suffered heavy losses, so the scolding of the emperor above the court has come and gone. After a long period of tug-of-war, Zhu Youxiao could only choose to give in and began to recruit Liao in the eighth year of the Apocalypse.

With Zhu Youxiao's political IQ, where can't he see that this group of people has intentions? Why did this group of people ask for a port to be set aside in Laizhou, Shandong Province for them to temporarily serve as a transshipment port for supplies and troops? Is it the idea of fighting the land or the idea of invasion? There is already a group of Jianjiao with money rat tails on the back of their heads in Liaodong, who knows if this group of short-haired and haired people will become the captives in the future?

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