"Your Majesty, natural disasters cause thieves and man-made disasters, Tartars detain the customs to rob the people, poison the place, this is actually not the most fundamental reason, the fundamental reason is that the Ming Dynasty's taxation is a problem, the gentry of the world occupy 80% of the world's wealth without paying taxes, and 80% of the people only have 20% of the world's wealth, but they have to pay taxes to support the entire court, so that our Ming Dynasty's annual income is only a mere 4 million taels, and even Liaodong's annual military salary is not enough. For example, last year, the tea tax in the entire Yunnan was only 18 taels of silver, which is a big joke in the world.

Under such circumstances, how to help the victims and appease the soldiers, His Majesty has no money and no food in his hands, and the national policy and Zhongxing are in vain. ”

"Bang" Chongzhen slapped on the imperial case, "The country has been raising scholars for three hundred years, can't the gentry be loyal to the country and take the initiative to pay taxes." ”

Yang Tingjian almost laughed out loud when he heard it, and quickly shook his head and said, that is absolutely impossible.

"Then I will issue an order now, take back the tax-free privileges of all scholars, and I will ask the officials and gentry to pay for the grain in one piece."

Yang Tingjian heard it, but he was anxious, it seems that Chongzhen is really eager to govern, and he himself has no good way to govern the country, and now there is suddenly such a good policy for governing the country, so that Chongzhen can't wait to implement it immediately, but at this time, it is absolutely impossible to implement this national policy, so Yang Tingjian hurriedly spoke out to stop:

"Your Majesty can't."

"Why not, I am the Son of Heaven, whoever dares to oppose me will be killed."

It seems that Chongzhen is still not stable enough in politics, so he is always fooled by his ministers, Yang Tingjian now needs to find a reason to convince Chongzhen, so that he will not die by himself for the time being:

"Your Majesty, first calm down and listen to the grass people's analysis for you:

First; There are no soldiers in the hands of the majesty, which means that the majesty does not have enough force to ensure the implementation of this national policy.

Second; All the civil and military generals are actually the gentry class, they have been exempt from tax for hundreds of years, they have long been accustomed to it, His Majesty wants to take silver from them, that is no different from killing them, His Majesty can kill one or two gentry, can His Majesty kill all the gentry in the world, these gentry are the foundation of the emperor's industry, and they must not be moved lightly, otherwise the country will be unstable.

Third; His Majesty acted too harshly, and before His Majesty did not have enough force in his hands, he would definitely force these people to rebel, and then it would be a situation of great chaos in the world......"

Before Yang Tingjian finished speaking, Chongzhen slapped the table again, because of excessive force, so that the palm of his hand was a little painful, Chongzhen hurriedly took down his right hand quietly, and kept rubbing it on his clothes.

"Bump...... You...... You are presumptuous, you madman dare to say that I am acting in a good way, and dare to accuse me of forcing those gentry to rebel, how can this be reasonable, don't you know that under the whole world, it is not the king's ministers, and it is not the king's land. ”

Others are afraid that the emperor is afraid to death, but Yang Tingjian has no such thoughts, and Chongzhen is not such an indiscriminate emperor, and the ministers killed by Chongzhen during his reign were all beheaded because of serious negligence.

"Doesn't Your Majesty know that the scholar and the Son of Heaven rule the world together? The world is not the world of one person, but the world of the people, and those who benefit from the same world will gain the world, and those who are good at the benefits of the world will lose the world. ”

Although Chongzhen is unhappy, he has already added a lot of points to Yang Tingjian in his heart, at least this Yang Tingjian is a minister who admonishes, and dares to tell the truth to himself, instead of fooling me with any big truth.

"Then Yang Aiqing has a strategy, shouldn't she be a boastful person!"

Yang Tingjian sighed in his heart, thinking, "It seems that if you don't take something real out, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the self-righteous emperor in front of you." ”

"Your Majesty, Fang Luochen also has it, so let's say a few! These are the ones that can be implemented temporarily, and there is less resistance:

The first is to clean up the salt administration, the Ming billions of people, each person eats five catties of salt every year, which is almost 500 million catties, and the current tax per catty is as high as 20 Wen, so the salt tax that Daming should collect is 10 billion Wen, equivalent to 10 million taels of silver.

May I ask your majesty, how much was the salt tax last year, less than one million taels, and most of these nine million taels of silver went into the pockets of officials, businessmen, and smugglers of salt. ”

When Chongzhen heard this, his nine million taels of silver were privately divided by those people, and he was so angry that he gritted his teeth, and those cabinet ministers never complained in front of him, and never came to talk to himself about the issue of salt politics, which was really a mistake and a misunderstanding of the country.

"Smack...... I am angry, such a big tax loophole in the dynasty, why have I never heard my ministers mention it, it really should be killed, if it weren't for Yang Aiqing to talk about the disadvantages of this salt policy today, I would have been kept in the dark by those ministers, Yang Aiqing is really my minister.

Yang Aiqing, if I hand over the salt politics of the world to you, you can recover the nine million taels of silver for me. ”

Chongzhen has this character, as long as he thinks that people can be reused, he will vigorously promote, such as Wei Zaode, the champion of the late Ming Dynasty in history, and three years after the middle champion, he was promoted to the head of the cabinet.

"There are many vested interests involved in the salt administration, and if the majesty hands over the salt administration to the grass people, it should be regarded as a tax for the seven or eight layers of the salt administration. However, this must wait for the grass people to participate in the examination, and this fame is still good for the Guò Imperial Examination, so as not to be criticized by some Xiaoxiao. ”

"Well, I also know that the relationship in this salt administration is intertwined, Yang Aiqing is unwilling to enter the official position as a promoter, if it is really a bamboo in the chest, then I will depend on you, and after the trial, I will help me sort out the salt administration, Yang Aiqing still has a strategy?"

Judging from Chongzhen's character, although he is in a hurry, he is still a very upright person, at least he is willing to entrust important responsibilities to the people he trusts, which is exactly what Yang Tingjian needs most.

"Your Majesty, of course, the grass people still have good policies for governing the country, such as opening the sea ban, placing agricultural mulberry, building water conservancy, and training the new army, all of which need to be smashed with a lot of silver, and there is no money to talk about, so the grass people will help your majesty make money for a long time in the future, and the money that cannot be used up.

After His Majesty has money, he can realize the wish of Zhongxing Daming, but now there are some traitors in Daming who have secretly taken refuge in the Tartars, and they are secretly helping the Tartars to smuggle materials and pass on information, so that the Tartars can calmly enter the Kou Jingji and wreak havoc in the place, these traitors and traitors, and the grass people want to eradicate them as soon as possible. ”

"What, there are traitors and traitors?" Chongzhen was about to slap it again, but Chongzhen's hand was already a little painful, so he hesitated, then quickly put his hand down and continued:

"Yang Aiqing, are you sure that there are traitors in Daming who help the Tartars smuggle materials and pass on information?"

Yang Tingjian is too familiar with the history of the late Ming Dynasty, the eight emperors and merchants in the early Qing Dynasty were all traitors, there is no doubt about this, Chongzhen has no money in his hands now? Then Yang Tingjian planned to slaughter these fat pigs who collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country first.

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