For a time, there was a lot of controversy among the officials below.

Coincidentally, the cabinet members did not talk about the taxes of the rich families, and seemed to have forgotten that the current efforts of the Emperor of the Apocalypse to collect business taxes and mining taxes were only progressing slowly.

Zhu Zilong looked at it coldly, watching the cabinet members and the officials have a war of words. Either the word of the word, or the attack on each other, there is only one thing in common, and there is no key and effective solution.

Of course, it is said that the landlords and merchants in Jiangnan are unwilling to let the landlords and merchants in Jiangnan pay money, and contribute to the masters behind them.

Which of them, cabinet members and officials, is not a big landlord or a big merchant family? Is there any reason to let yourself lose your privileges and pay taxes for the country?

No wonder the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty said that all officials in the world can be killed?

That's true.

The princes and generals on the side were also disappointed, and these literati scolded and scolded, fighting back and forth. It's just that they can't get money and food, so do they have to find their own way to organize and train the new army?

Zhu Zilong's body sighed, the end of the Ming Dynasty was already a dead end, big officials and businessmen, big officials. Honorable military generals, who occupy up to ninety percent of the resources of society, they don't want to contribute, relying on those small people, can they save the decline? It's only going to make things worse.

The Ming Emperor defined it as ruling the world with scholars and doctors from the middle period.

And now the scholars are all representatives of merchants and landlords, which is a dead knot. The presence of the emperor will make the government unstable.

It seems that it can only be the body or the brocade guard, come to the yin.

When he was young, Zhu Zilong's emperor doppelganger asked again: "About throttling." What are your plans? ”

Hubu Shangshu knew that the performance just now did not satisfy the emperor, so he was the first to reply: "Back to Your Majesty, save money and save money, and the minister has a few strategies." The border pay department learned that it was in the middle, and the ministers asked to change the big difference and order the nuclear army. Those who are incompetent will be replaced by others, and they will receive equal salaries and receive a part. ”

Zhu Zilong nodded after hearing this.

So, the head of the household department Shangshu continued to say: "The minister asked the ministers of the court to supervise the Quartet rent, since the rise of the army, in addition to the regular supply, there are side salaries, there are new salaries, there are practice salaries, there are many items, the officials are easy to be traitors, and the ministers please become one." ”

Zhu Zilong nodded again, and the rest of the officials were also pensive.

The first of the two things that the head of the household book just mentioned can reduce some of the problems of the generals eating empty salaries and drinking the blood of the soldiers.

And the latter one, if it is done, it is the benefit of both the military and the people, but the local wealthy traitors, for fear of disagreeing, will be deceived and concealed.

When Hubu Shangshu saw the emperor Longyan Dayue, he couldn't help but be hot, and said: "Regarding opening up sources and reducing expenditure, the minister also thought of a strategy. His Majesty could order a drastic abolition of the post station, which would save tens of millions of taels of silver a year. ”

Hearing this, Zhu Zilong, who was still very satisfied, raised his eyebrows on the spot.

Why does this sound so familiar?

Oh, TM, remembered. At that time, Li Zicheng began to rebel after he lost his job at the post station.

I'll go, this household is still a cheat!

In the original history, in the early years of Chongzhen, in order to save expenses, the emperor ordered a large reduction in the post station. As a result of the retrenchment, a large number of post men who could not survive joined the ranks of the peasant army, including Li Zicheng.

Speaking of Li Zicheng, Zhu Zilong was very entangled with him.

As a modern traverser, I heard that he was a great hero in elementary school, and when I was in high school, I heard that he was a person of great sin in the Han nationality.

And in fact, Li Zicheng is definitely a poor person.

On September 22, 1606, Li Zicheng was reincarnated in a large family in Mizhi, Shaanxi. He estimated that he and Ma Mian were brothers in the underworld, and the family he chose was really good, rich, with servants and beautiful little maids. Just when he grows up, he can be a rich second generation every day.

However, a natural disaster struck.

The insects had eaten up all the fields in his house, and the locusts had eaten them for a year, and then they came the next year.

In the third year the locusts did not come, but the drought came.

In this way, one after another, Li Zicheng's family finally joined the proletarian revolutionary ranks with honor, and Li Zicheng's fate also took a sharp turn, from the rich second generation to the poor second generation.

He was sent by his family to the temple as a food monk, which is similar to Zhu Yuanzhang. Later, he was sent to a woman's house to herd horses!

Soon, Li Zicheng's mother died, but his family's economic situation pulled out a ray of light, began to bottom out, and life began to get better again. So, Li Zicheng went to Yan'an Mansion and worshiped a martial arts master named Luo Junyan to learn martial arts and the art of war.

In this way, he studied kung fu for five years, and at the age of eighteen he married his wife, Han. And became a post worker!

However, his wife Han is a very powerful scheming.

not only transferred all the family's money, but also made Li Zicheng angry with his father. In the end, he also hooked up with a Mizhi County official named Gai Junlu, also known as Gai Huer.

After knowing that his wife had brought him a green hat, Li Zicheng immediately went home to catch the rapist.

However, Gai Hu'er ran out of bed with a bare buttocks. According to the provisions of the "Da Ming Law": catch the traitor and catch the double!

As long as the adulterer X wife is caught and killed on the spot, then Li Zicheng is at most just an incident for a reason, extenuating circumstances, criticizing education, and not making an example. But Gai Hu'er ran away, and the nature is different!

If he rushes out to chase and kill Gai Junlu, this is a serious crime of attacking the police, and his wife will also take the opportunity to escape, and no matter which court the case is brought to, it will be a vicious criminal case.

As a result, he chose the latter one, Li Zicheng caught the rapist and did not see the double, saying that his wife stole people, the evidence was insufficient, and it was not accepted, so he became a murderer with honor.

In China, the county official is not as good as the current management, and after a friend gave him money, the jailer pretended not to investigate and let him escape from prison.

Since then, Li Zicheng has embarked on the road of rebellion, and has become bigger and bigger.

In later generations, some people said that it was because the post station fired employees, so Li Zicheng rebelled. Apparently not like that!

He is a big man, with hands and feet, and he rebels not only for one job. This is due to a number of reasons!

However, for the head of the household, Shangshu said that the post station should be abolished.

Zhu Zilong still instinctively wanted to oppose it, even if he was not the real cause of Li Zicheng's rebellion.

Because, as long as the post station is flexible, the effect is still quite big.

In ancient China, the post station was used by people who passed official documents and information, or where officials could eat and lodging and change horses on the way to and from officials. If there is no this, it is like a new China canceling the post office, isn't it too cheating? Is it possible that in the future, I will rely on Shunfeng Express to send warmth and open the door to check the water meter?

As long as the regulations are amended, the children of officials, and officials cannot use them for free without official documents, and it will be fine.

There is no need to abolish the station!

Thinking of this, Zhu Zilong controlled the emperor's clone and opposed the proposal of the Hubu Shangshu to abolish the post station, but changed it.

In the future, officials cannot use it for free and at will!

After the meeting, in the palace, Zhu Zilong, the cottage emperor, sat in the study and called the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Luo Sigong.

Touching his temples, Zhu Zilong sighed and gave Luo Sigong a new order. Let him go to Mizhi County, Shaanxi, to find a person named Li Zicheng.

If possible, bring him back to the palace. If the situation is special and inconvenient, you can kill it on the spot! -

(To be continued.) )