Zhu Houzhao patiently reasoned with Li Gang with the facts, not because he was very idle, he just wanted to thoroughly understand what kind of mentality these corrupt officials under his hands had, unscrupulously making money. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"In fact, the official also found out that Li Shangshumin has revised a lot of properties, and he can earn 8,000 taels of silver every year. Now, I want to interview Li Shangshu, what kind of mentality do you have to obstruct the emperor's business reform plan? ”

Zhu Houzhao asked like this, and Li Gang naturally didn't say anything.

The unfathomable young man in front of him made him feel a deep despair, and he was so surprised that he found himself in such a high position that he was so careless that all the evidence was put on the table.

At this time, Li just now began to face up to his stupidity, and for the first time felt that he had been driven out of the capital, and it was not wrong at all to be a nominal scholar in Nanjing.

Like half of the defeated rooster, Li Gang, the head of the Nanjing household, said in a dull voice: "Who are you?" What the hell do you want to do to me? ”

"It doesn't matter who I am, it's our policies that matter to you."

"What policy?"

"The emperor said, confess leniently, resist strictly!"

At this time, Li Gang finally confirmed that this young man was the person next to the emperor.

Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Gang, whose face was finally pale, and said with a smile: "You still have the opportunity to atone for your sins, it depends on whether you are willing to grasp it." ”

Li Gang's eyes were blank and he said, "What do you want to know?" What will I get? ”

Zhu Houzhao said: "At least life guarantees that you can stay." ”

"Okay!" Li Gang gritted his teeth and said, according to Emperor Taizu's decree that if he embezzled five taels of silver, he would have to peel off the skin, and the silver in his family was enough for him Li Gang's ancestors for eighteen generations to be peeled and cramped.

In fact, the problem of collusion between officials and businessmen in the Ming Dynasty began with Zhu Houzhao's father and even his grandfather. Although the Ming Dynasty enacted many policies to promote the development of commerce, the real power was always in the hands of the officials, who were the biggest beneficiaries compared to the merchants.

As commerce became more and more prosperous, many people who wanted to engage in business needed to find a way out of the government because they were not merchants. And officials have found suitable spokespersons from these people to satisfy their thirst for money.

To a certain extent, this is the unfinished building left by Zhu Yuanzhang, the old man has planned everything for future generations, and has sorted out merchants, farmers, workers, and military households, but he forgot that some people may not be suitable for war and farming, but suitable for business.

Those who were fit for business were tied to their chariots by the officials, helping them to take care of their business and help them earn a lot of money. And what they give to merchants is all kinds of conveniences.

It can be said that in addition to a powerful family like the Mo family, which relies on its own overseas forces as the backing, many other businessmen are basically the spokesmen of officials.

Zhu Houzhao finally understood that his commercial tax reform was completely a struggle against the middle and lower groups of the broad landlord class. The emperor seems to be the only one in the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty who actually suffered, and the others, no matter how clear the yamen, seem to have a way to make money out of the loopholes in the country's business rules.

And these people tacitly don't mention this matter to the emperor. Thousands of miles of officials are only for money, and few of these people who have become the ruling class from the ruling class in one day want to continue to live a hard life of ten years of cold windows.

After Zhu Houzhao understood what happened, he felt that this trip was worthwhile.

"Alright, you can pack up and get ready to parade through the streets!" Zhu Houzhao got up and packed up his robe and walked out: "By the way, your family's property will be re-entered into the treasury, which can be regarded as your last contribution to the country!" ”

"Didn't you say you'd spare me?" Li Gang said resentfully.

"I spared your life, but I didn't say that I spared your money!"

"Tell me which yamen in the court are you?"

"If you're happy, you can call it the Ming Commission for Discipline Inspection." Zhu Houzhao smiled indifferently.

After Zhu Houzhao left, Li Gang sat on the chair decadently, and the Ming Commission for Discipline Inspection had never heard of it with his status, so it can be seen that it is very deeply hidden, and things that are hidden very deeply are generally more terrifying.

Soon after, a team of heavily armed brocade guards drove to Li Gang's mansion.

There was a bloody storm in Jinling City, which was not a bloody storm. The dignified Zheng Er Pin Shangshu was put in a prisoner car and paraded through the streets of Jinling City for three days.

On the prisoner car, there is Zhu Houzhao's vicious handwriting: The official is in the prisoner car!

However, half a month has passed, except for the officials in Jinling City who knew that Lord Shangshu had been exiled from his home because of what he had done, officials in other places were basically still unscrupulous and secretly fighting against what must be done.

This made Zhu Houzhao puzzled.

After thinking about it, Cai found that he had fallen into a big misunderstanding, although he had lived in this place for more than ten years, there were many things that could not change the thinking mode of his previous life because he had not encountered them.

Damn, in the final analysis, it turns out that the information spread in this era is too slow, and the fastest communication is the pigeon, and it is basically a one-to-one secret message. The ordinary is just a stagecoach, and the scope of information can be imagined.

Regarding this problem, Zhu Houzhao did not turn to other people's ideas, and soon he thought of a way to solve the problem, and it must be feasible.

Zhu Houzhao asked the Mo family to run the first newspaper in the history of the Ming Dynasty that was not a newspaper in the name of the official, and this thing was destined to see more than just officials or people who were close to officials.

Its audience will be a broad and literate public.

Originally, Zhu Houzhao thought that running a newspaper in this era would be a very terrible thing, because it would make Zhu Houzhao crazy in terms of efficiency and speed of transmission.

But Zhu Houzhao clearly underestimated the Ming people's way of thinking and doing things, and their ability to transform something they could not understand into something they could understand.

In layman's terms, it means that the people of the Ming Dynasty had the strange talent of doing what they could and thinking about what they could do.

Movable type printing, a technique that had been invented a long time ago, was greatly developed in the Ming Dynasty. Of course, it is unrealistic to ask them to get the current printing technology, but it will not be difficult for them to make certain reforms in movable type printing.

The vertical spiral hand wrench printing press, which was invented by the Germans in 1400 and can print hundreds of works in an hour, had more advanced equipment in the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhu Houzhao gave constructive suggestions, it was just two days for a thick pile of newspapers and periodicals with thousands of sheets to be put in front of Zhu Houzhao. (To be continued.) )