After sending the emperor away, the bigwigs of the Donglin Party were comforting the ministers who had just gotten a dog, discussing how to deal with the menacing Wen Tiren.

Xiao Ming was originally standing in the back row, at this moment, taking advantage of no one paying attention to him, he was about to sneak away, he did a big thing today, I believe in the propaganda ability of the Donglin Party, he dares to guarantee that in less than a day, in the entire capital, he will become the second traitor after Wen Tiren, and his notoriety will resound throughout the Ming Dynasty in less than a month.

The person who knows the times is Junjie, and Xiao Ming is now ready to go home and study behind closed doors.

"Lord Xiao, please stay!" Wen Tiren stopped Xiao Ming.

"Huh! Wen Shoufu called the humble position, what is the so-called thing! Xiao Ming turned around and said with a smile, he still hasn't cultivated to his home, he can't be regarded as a qualified politician, and when facing his plagiarism target, his heart is actually a little unnatural.

"You and I are both loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty and loyal to the emperor, so naturally we must communicate well" Wen Tiren stepped forward quickly.

Although Wen Tiren looks like an echo worm and never does anything serious as a first assistant, he is actually the real wise fool.

This time, Xiao Ming's performance must have entered the emperor's eyelids, and the promotion of Xiao Ming is to give the emperor a son, and it just so happens that Xiao Ming and the Donglin Party do not share the sky, such a talent Wen Tiren of course has to be included in the command, join the eunuch party group, give her shares, and let him work to the death.

"Lord Wen is invited, and the lower officials dare not obey their orders" Xiao Ming did not refuse.

"Lord Xiao is the talent of my Ming Dynasty, but it is a pity that the Ministry of Officials was controlled by the Donglin Party before, so that the Lord spent his years in Qintianjian, and now the old man is in charge of Jingcha, selecting materials for the country, and the merits of Lord Xiao can be rated as the first-class, serving as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, I don't know if Lord Xiao is satisfied?" Wen Tiren helped Xiao Ming make a choice very rudely, and then looked at Xiao Ming with a smile on his face.

"Thank you, Lord Wen!" Xiao Ming was excited, he was working hard for this, Dali Temple is the Supreme Court of the Ming Dynasty, and Shaoqing is the second-in-command of Dali Temple.

"Please forgive me for being too shallow in my studies and difficult to follow!" Xiao Mingshi refused.

"Now that the old man has the emperor's will and is in charge of Jingcha, why doesn't Lord Xiao think about it more? Or is Lord Xiao dissatisfied? Wen Tiren was stunned for a moment, and said half-threatening and half-seductive.

"Haha, of course I'm satisfied, but my ability to do my job is limited, and I'm really powerless!" Xiao Ming refused with a haha.

"Hehe, then Lord Xiao is so self-conscious!" Wen Tiren smiled and said no more, he just looked at the emperor, and it was just an investment in advance, otherwise, with his status as the first assistant to the cabinet, how could he afford to be a Qin Tianjian master book now that he is powerful!

Xiao Ming also smiled bitterly, he was bitter in his heart! Shaoqing of Dali Temple was a position he couldn't think of before, but now it was placed in front of him, but he refused.

And in this way, he refused Wen Tiren's olive branch in person, with the mind of this first assistant, I am afraid that Wen Tiren will be happy to see the Donglin Party kill himself. Now Xiao Ming can only hope that he has not guessed wrong, and the emperor will protect him.

Yang Su got into the car under the escort of hundreds of eunuchs and guards, tapped his fingers on the seat, and sighed lightly for a long time, this early dynasty, Yang Su seemed to easily hit the entire Donglin Party, after this storm, the power of the Donglin Party in the court is likely to be devastated, but it actually did not play any role in changing the general trend of the Ming Dynasty, because the foundation of the Donglin Party is not these court ministers.

Moreover, the problems encountered by the Ming Dynasty were not only the Donglin Party, but the overall corruption of the entire civil and military officer system and the decay of the entire gentry class.

To put it simply, the Ming Dynasty ruled the world by relying on, the gentry class for their own interests, digging the roots of the Ming Dynasty, and finally in the two doors of Buddhism and Taoism, with the help of the gods and goddesses, the entire Ming Dynasty was quickly dug up, and finally the Manchu Qing Dynasty picked peaches, and then swept away the gentry class, and then the world was ruled and the Kangqian Dynasty was prosperous!

Wang Chengen waited until Yang Su finished thinking before he came up and reported, "Your Majesty, Concubine Liu, Concubine Li Kang, Empress Yi'an, the Empress and the Crown Prince are already waiting in the Qianqing Palace." ”

Yang Su nodded quietly, the news must not be hidden, the concubine, Concubine Li Kang, Empress Yi'an, the queen and the prince must have learned about what happened yesterday, so they organized a group to visit themselves, and secondly, to test their tone for the prince's affairs.

"Cheng'en, how many silver taels are there in the inner library!" Yang Su suddenly asked Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen replied with a tangled and sad face, "Your Majesty, the existing silver in the inner treasury is less than 30,000 taels, and when this year's 200,000 gold and silver arrive, in addition to the military attache month, there will be about 20,000 taels left, a total of 50,000 taels!" ”

Hearing that the dignified Emperor Ming's inner treasury actually only had one kind of input, gold and silver, and the main role of gold and silver was to give the military attache a monthly salary, Yang Su couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

The so-called gold and silver is actually the tax grain into silver and the conscription into silver, because the tax collection in the early Ming Dynasty was mainly in kind, and the people needed to transport grain and pay taxes by themselves, and the transportation of physical goods consumed huge manpower and material resources, which was unfavorable to the people and officials. In order to solve this problem, they converted gold and silver, and taxed it according to four stones per two taels of silver.

It's a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, because commerce was not developed at that time, in order to promote commerce, left a big hole for future generations, and the commercial tax was set extremely unreasonable, setting the commercial tax at 1/30, and the imperial court did not pay attention to it, and the scholars did not pay taxes, so the merchants and the scholars colluded, and they were so rich that they could not collect any money after the collusion of officials and businessmen.

When commerce became more and more prosperous after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor wanted to levy a commercial tax, but it was absolutely impossible to spit it out from the scholars who had already eaten the commercial tax in their stomachs, and even the emperor had to give in in the face of great pressure.

All the taxes of the entire Ming Dynasty came from the most honest peasants, and the scholars did not have to pay taxes, and in the end all taxes and forced labor fell on the poor.

In addition, there were continuous natural and man-made disasters at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and there were foreign invasions, so the imperial court could only raise taxes! However, the internal officials were corrupt, taking advantage of the fact that the imperial court was raising taxes, constantly increasing the burden on the peasants, causing the people to be displaced, selling their sons and daughters, and the gentry class taking the opportunity to continue to annex the land, and the peasants who lost their land had to wait for death to follow the thief's way, which was completely a vicious circle, and the thieves were more and more exterminated, and finally the Ming Dynasty collapsed as a matter of course.

"But it's only 50,000 taels, it's far from enough!" Yang Su sighed lightly, he now has a krypton gold system in his hand, how can he play without charging money!

Just the 10,000 gold consumed by the refresh task at a time, and the five points of the faint monarch value are enough for him to have a headache, but it can't be done without refreshing the task, such as the ring mission of the Japanese Imperial Hundred Women, just the body left by Chongzhen for him, if he can't complete a mission, he will really die.

"Your Majesty, they are all old slaves and incompetent! can't share the emperor's worries, the old slave deserves death! Wang Chengen heard Yang Su sigh, knelt down to the side and cried. Your Majesty, last time you ordered all kinds of gold and silver objects in the palace to be melted away as side pay, and now there are only concubines and their own gold and silver ornaments left in the palace, you have paid enough for the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty! ”

"Where are the king's heart and Luo's cultivation?" Yang Su asked suddenly.

"Back to the emperor, Wang Dugong and Commander Luo are still kneeling at the gate of the Qianqing Palace! Your Majesty, do you want to see them? Wang Chengen tested Yang Su's tone.

"See! Yes, of course. After Yang Su finished speaking, he closed his eyes and took a nap.