It was not long before the three cabinet scholars hurried into the inner sanctum, and the emperor did not regain his original wrath, but as usual, there was no different color. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, it is worth noting that this time Zhu Yijun did not let Luo Sigong and Sun Xian avoid it, the matter was so big, not only the imperial history of the city, but even the people in the capital also witnessed what happened.

What's more, Zhu Yijun actually didn't feel that what he did was wrong, the battle of North Korea last year was that he allocated money in the inner treasury to support the entire war, and now the emptiness of the inner treasury is caused by this, how much oil and water the rich people in Jiangnan have, he knows that this time it is just a layer of flesh cut off from them, and it will not cause any serious consequences, but it is inevitable that he will be impeached and wantonly accumulate money.

"The old minister has seen Your Majesty!"

After seeing the salute, Zhang Wei stepped forward and took the lead in speaking.

"Half an hour ago, in Bei'anmen, there was a fight between Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and robbed a large amount of silver taels escorted by Dongchang. According to the report of the Imperial History of the Patrol City, this silver is conservatively estimated to be a million dollars, and the minister dares to ask, where did the East Factory get such a huge amount of silver, and where do you plan to transport it? ”

Zhu Yijun had long known that this matter could not be contained, but he didn't expect it to be so serious.

Whether it was Sun Xian or Luo Sigong, they only said that Jinyiwei snatched the silver taels escorted by Dongchang in Bei'anmen, but they didn't say that they caused a fight, and what was more serious was that even the total number of silver taels was figured out!

But no matter what, at this moment, Zhu Yijun couldn't express his position, pretending to be displeased, and the emperor spoke.

"Oh? Is there such a thing? Sun Xian! How did you do it for me? Is this important place in Beijing a place where you can be presumptuous? ”

"Your Majesty, the minister has been wronged!"

The matter has come to this, Sun Xian can only bite the bullet, anyway, the internal envoy will take the blame for the emperor, not once or twice, the more he carries it, the more promising it is.

It's just that this time, he really didn't want to come out like this, and under the bitterness in his heart, Sun Xian still had to scream out against the sky.

"Those silver taels were originally the mining tax silver taels that the minister was responsible for collecting, and they were about to be sent to His Majesty's inner treasury, who would have thought that they would be stabbed by the Jinyi Guard, robbed the silver taels, and asked the emperor to be the master of the ministers!"

Sure enough, it's a mining tax!

As soon as Sun Xian's words came out, the three cabinet ministers present were shocked, and secretly guessed in their hearts that it was one thing, but it was another thing to say it clearly, one-seventh of the entire treasury revenue!

It was easily confiscated and entered the emperor's inner treasury, so you can imagine how it came about!

At the beginning, the emperor sent the eunuchs for mining taxes and it was indeed tacitly approved by the courtiers, after all, for the sake of the Korean battle, the emperor almost emptied his family, and the ministers felt embarrassed not to give some compensation.

But at that time, including the three major auxiliary ministers today, they all thought that it was already great to be able to get hundreds of thousands of taels this time, but who knew that now it would be one million taels!

You don't have to think about it to know that this is beyond the scope of what the courtiers can tolerate, and once the incident breaks out in full force, it will be met with countless scolds and impeachments.

"Your Majesty, the minister does not know how the mining tax is hugely profitable, but it has caused only half a year, collecting millions of huge sums, in the long run, the people's grievances will boil, the country will not be a country, please Your Majesty immediately supervise and punish the mining tax, and abolish the scourge of the mining tax, with the virtue of the emperor and the saint!"

However, what no one expected was that this time it was Shen Cheng who jumped out first, and his attitude was very resolute, and the opening was that the building was about to fall, as if this million taels of silver was the root cause of the country's demise!

It's right to think about it carefully, in the cabinet, Shen has always been the least qualified, and the heavyweight is usually the last to speak, otherwise the tone will be set as soon as he speaks, what else do others say?

In terms of qualifications, it should also be Shen who has always been the first to express his attitude.

As for the reason why he opposed it so vehemently......

Naturally, it is because of Shen's other identity, the leader of the Zhejiang Party!

It is not an exaggeration to say that the Zhejiang Party was single-handedly supported by Shen Zheng, and the place where Cao Jin went was precisely ZJ Although it was mainly aimed at the local gentry, you must know that the most powerful thing about these local gentry is not their own forces, but their own people, and there is no doubt that Shen has always been the vanguard among them......

"Your Majesty, what you have always said is not unreasonable, just half a year, millions of huge silver, how can you get it by normal means? Those who rely on His Majesty's reputation, act recklessly, and commit lawlessness, and thus ruin the royal reputation, should be severely punished to show His Majesty's benevolence! Otherwise, under the turbulence of the court, the situation will definitely be turbulent, and the gains outweigh the losses! ”

Compared with Shen's usual fierce words, Wang Xijue is obviously much more rational, and he supported the emperor's collection of mining taxes at the beginning!

Because he also knows that today's Jiangnan gentry have vaguely become a cancer of the imperial court, if they are not controlled, they will definitely raise tigers, and the mining tax system is precisely the most powerful means to fight the gentry with monarchical power.

It is precisely because of this that he can be so valued by the emperor, but now, Wang Xijue also realizes that the matter is really too big, even if he wants to crack down on the gentry, he must slowly figure it out, if the mining tax payment this time is only a few hundred thousand taels, it is still within the controllable range, but it has reached an astonishing one million taels, which is too much.

After all, this is only the first year of mining tax payment, and in the long run, the mining tax will inevitably become a money-collecting machine, and it is almost foreseeable that the people will be ruined at that time.

Therefore, in this matter, his attitude is also very clear, severely punish the mining tax eunuch who is in charge of this matter this time, and return the mining tax to the controllable road.

Zhu Yijun sat on his head and looked at Shen Yiyi and Wang Xijue taking turns to speak, but his heart was very complicated.

From the time Sun Xian told him the results of the mining tax, he expected that there would be such a scene, so he ordered Sun Xian to block the news, and even acquiesced to him to buy two Jinyi Wei Qianhu, just to control the news to the greatest extent and prevent Wenchen from counterattacking, even the silver two escorts, all the way cautious news, low-key, and even in order not to attract attention, he specially ordered Sun Xian to transport the silver into the inner treasury in three batches, the first two were safe, who would have thought that this last batch was destroyed by Jinyiwei!

As soon as he thought of this, the emperor's eyes looked at Luo Sigong more and more unkindly.

But this is not the time to deal with him, Zhu Yijun is vaguely glad that he took measures in time, and now what has been found is only the last batch of silver taels, one million has caused such a strong backlash from the courtiers, even Wang Xijue, who has always been on his side, has asked for severe punishment of the mining tax supervisors, he doesn't dare to want to be discovered, this time the mining tax silver two have a full three million taels, will the courtiers directly detain the que, and force him to make an edict!

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Yijun put his eyes on Zhang Wei, who had been frowning, and his opinion was the most important thing so far.

"Yuanfu thinks that this matter should be handled?"

"Lao Chen has the same opinion as he has always been, if the millions of silver taels are true, the mine tax supervisors should be severely punished, and the mine tax should be dismissed!"

Zhang Wei's voice was vigorous, slow but firm......

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