Chapter Sixty-Four: A Bunch of Hidden Shadows

In this way, Chiguoguo alludes to officials and businessmen, and it also involves the most untouchable Tusi issue in the Ming Dynasty, which is basically [***]. You must know that Chen Jiru wrote "The Biography of Li Gongzi" to scold Jinshi, but a very small number of people who read are just a small part of them, but it is another large number of people who are flattered, and the officials and businessmen implied in this book are the largest vested interest groups in the Ming Dynasty.

However, Chen Jiru has always scolded the whole world, famous for his crazy face, and everyone in the world knows that he Chen Jiru is a famous man who does not follow the rules of etiquette [I am a madman in Chu, Feng Ge laughs at Kongqiu], and now I see that someone dares to conceal the largest power group in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that this person is still a thirteen-year-old boy, so he naturally wants to shoot the case.

"Okay." He shouted, reached out and took the teacup on the stone table, drank a drop of water in one gulp, and then frowned, and couldn't help but say, "Brother Zheng, this water is really bitter." ”

The good official smiled, at this time, he can still say that the tea is bitter, this Chen Jiru is really a little innocent, but he is not blindly arrogant and big-eyed. After Chen Jiru said bitterly, he said excitedly: "However, I want to make an opinion, these four words with imperial equipment are used by the royal family, and the cabinet seems to be difficult to send." ”

What is this royal weapon? It is the [Imperial Sanpin with Sword Guard] in later film and television works, generally speaking, when the military ministers go out, they want to hang a name with imperial equipment, after the Southern Song Dynasty, many generals in Nandu also have this title, such as Han Shizhong, Yang Yizhong, the famous generals of the anti-gold industry, all have the name of the imperial equipment, which is actually a kind of official honor. Interestingly, Yue Yun, the son of Grandpa Yue, also held this position, and Yue Fei, the privy deputy envoy of Shaoxing in the 11th year of the Southern Song Dynasty, gave Zhao Gou a "Second Note of the Resignation of the Male Yun in Addition to the Imperial Belt", which began with the words: The minister said that the minister of the twelfth month of the province of Zhun Shangshu was sent by the holy decree to dismiss the male Yun except for the imperial equipment, and it was not allowed. The ministers steal the position of the royal belt, and they are close to the crown, and they are not talented enough to be the ones who can be sent by the heart, which is not enough to be their choice.

Therefore, this person with imperial equipment is close to the emperor, or the person who the emperor trusts to give important tasks, in Chen Jiru's words, it is indeed not something that the cabinet can send.

But the obedient official said lightly, "In this book, bringing imperial equipment is sent by the cabinet." Immediately called Dong Qichang, Chen Jiru and Cao Yuanyang gasped.

Hiss! This...... Isn't this the face of the cabinet, by the way, even the royal face has lost some of it, which is too reckless, Dong Qichang next to him is the most cautious, and asked in a low voice: "Dare to ask Brother Xian, at the end of this book, how is Brother Xian going to write?" ”

The obedient official touched his hairless chin and said slowly: "Most of the twelve ruling princes and princes of the cabinet died, only the chief prince and prince of the cabinet, Yoda, escaped, and then, the imperial king was overwhelmed, and the business alliance was prostrate at the feet of the emperor, and the commercial tax changed from thirty taxes to five taxes and one, and the world was one, and all the people came to ambush ......."

Hisss hiss!

The three of them seemed to have turned into cold-blooded lizards, hissing and spitting cool air, really because the ending that Zheng Guofan said was too shocking.

After the Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet made the so-called ancestral system, in fact, it doesn't matter much if there is an emperor or not, and the civil officials still run the huge empire in an orderly manner, so that when it comes to the year of Wanli's Lao Tzu Longqing, the cabinet elder even simply said to the emperor: You still go to ** to play with the concubines and palace maids! We will be able to take care of the government.

To the current Wanli Dynasty, ten years before Wanli, the cabinet was controlled by Zhang Juzheng, the emperor was actually a puppet, and after ten years, Wanli wanted to fight with the cabinet, but the cabinet did not buy it, Wanli was so angry that he simply did not go to court, but the huge court still operated, and the Ming Dynasty seemed to be fine without him An emperor The Ming Dynasty seems to be fine at all, and the calm road is not left behind, resulting in a change of dynasty after a few decades, and the remnants still miss the Wanli year of the previous dynasty, saying that it was good at that time! At that time, a hen was thirty yuan, and at that time, we could scold the emperor if we were fine, and at that time, ...... In short, it is stronger than the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but Wanli is estimated to burst into tears when he hears it, and my feelings are tired and I don't care about political affairs, and it has become the standard of the prosperous era.

In fact, the reason is very simple, the businessmen just remember the food of the goods, the Ming Dynasty slightly raised the tax one by one to throw off their arms and make trouble, as a result of the Ming Dynasty a year of various income, two and a half million taels of silver, Zhang Juzheng desperately engaged in a whip method, the annual income rose a little, five hundred taels, but to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a series of head cuts, hair without head, enclosure, but Shunzhi year is 20 million two years old, Qianlong directly 40 million taels, of course, this data is often used by Qing powder to whitewash the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Emperors such as the ancestors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Shizong and Shengzu governed the world well, better than the Ming Dynasty.

Let's take a look at a data, the Grand Canal's Linqing, Huai'an, Yangzhou and Hushu four major checkpoints, the average annual tax revenue of each customs is 505,000 taels, and Huai'an Pass is the highest, reaching 623,000 taels, this is the data of the last years of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, contained in the "Huai'an Local Chronicles". This data should also be added to the corruption of officials, such as Huai'an Guan Supervisor Qingyuan embezzled 200,000 taels, Hushu Guan tax and sea protection was involved, the crime is to collect fire consumption Guan Ping, and embezzled 220,000 taels of silver in seven years.

Looking back at the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, Hushuguan received 45,000 taels of silver a year, Yangzhou Pass 13,000 taels, Huai'an Pass 22,000, and the population of the world in the year of Kangxi Yongzheng was about the same as that of Wanli.

If I were the widow of the Ming Dynasty, I would also miss the good of Emperor Wanli! Lying in the mud of the Gobi, how good Wanli is! After collecting so much tax from us, we are not satisfied, we can still pick up the rice bowl and eat meat, put down the rice bowl and scold the mother, and the emperor Lao Tzu is right. The Manchu Halal Black of the Mud Horse! As soon as the tariffs were collected, it was ten times that of the Ming Dynasty, and I knew that at that time, why did I secretly support the Houjin State, I was really on the thief ship.

And the book of obedient officials, from the cabinet to the officials and businessmen, up and down, scolded a huge vested interest group over and over again, and the final outcome is to take the route of military expansion, you know, this route is almost not approved by the literati, the Yongle Emperor is so powerful, cutting off the heads of the literati is similar to cutting leeks, and the ministers are against him going to the West at every turn.

You are a little thirteen-year-old boy, even if you are a bodhisattva in the womb, knowing the past and present lives, are you as powerful as Emperor Chengzu?

And the chief prince and master of the cabinet in your book is called Yoda, and you think we don't know the so-called twelve saints of the Jesuits? I don't know that the great traitor among the Twelve Apostles is called Yoda? You're Chi Guoguo slapping the head of the cabinet in the face!

Although the Ming Dynasty does not know much about overseas, it is definitely not less, and there are even Portuguese gunners who were posthumously awarded by the emperor because they were stoned to death by supervising the construction of Franc cannons, and the Ming Dynasty even had Spanish mercenaries, of course, there were not many people.

This book, Dong Qichang and Chen Jiru can almost predict, even if he writes it and some booksellers buy it and engrave it, he will definitely be scolded by countless people, and maybe he will get the title of "The country is about to die, there will be demons", because this book touches the most important things that the powerful vested interests cannot touch.

Back then, Zhang Juzheng also wanted to engage in the integration of officials and gentry to pay food, but it didn't work out, and Uncle Zhang was the ruler of the world! He only dared to think about the problem in his mind, and it was written into a book by you, a thirteen-year-old boy, and it was sold wantonly, and it is strange that the scholars who do not need to pay food taxes and the officials and businessmen who do not pay commercial taxes do not scold you until your ancestors crawled out of the grave for three generations.

The three hissed and exhaled cool air, and looked at him so steadily, for a long time, Chen Jiru sighed, got up and took two steps to Zheng Guofan, dusted off his clothes, and shook it to the ground, "Brother Fengzhang is a great talent, I, it's better to do it." "Although people are thirteen years old, they can't even think about what they can write, and they don't even dare to think about it, this is the gap!

The obedient official hurriedly knelt down and returned the salute, Chen Jiru saw that he returned the salute and couldn't help but smile, "This ...... Brother Zheng Xian, to be honest, I don't like your spleen surname very much, the etiquette is too heavy, not free and easy, and not enough morale! The good official laughed twice, stood up, and said in his heart that I am not like you! Isn't the name of the madman good? Besides, it's not strange to have many people in etiquette, I'm a five-star expert in etiquette, and I don't think you know what a five-star etiquette is.

He took out this mentality that you don't know, immediately smiled, bent down and stretched out his hand, added tea for Dong Qichang and Cao Yuanyang, and then asked Chen Jiru, "Brother Zhongyu, are you still there?" ”

Chen Jiru has a good crazy life, when you don't like it! I have to find fault with you everywhere, but I see that you are pleasing to the eye, and I am probably not happy to accompany you to eat dog poop, but it is still completely okay to drink a little bitter tea by yourself under the grievance. So he laughed and sat down, snatched the teapot from the good official's hand, and poured it into his cup, "Along the way, I have long been thirsty, but I think your tea is not good, but the tea is made by this little girl, so I won't worry about you." ”

After he finished speaking, he drank all the tea in the cup in one gulp, and then poured another cup, and the obedient official next to him looked at it, a little jealous, mud horse, this guy is really a bit of a famous man's free and easy style, his skin is too thick, I can't learn it for the time being.

Xiaoqian next to her saw it, she was very happy, she knew that her young master wanted to quickly become famous in Jiangnan, so she naturally wanted to communicate with Sanwu celebrities, this Dong Qichang and Chen Jiru She had heard from Yan Qingwei's mouth, that was a first-class celebrity in Jiangnan, and it was really good to have a good relationship with the young master.

These days, there are some local scholars in Ningbo who have come to visit, but these two are undoubtedly the most famous, and Xiaoqian also knows a truth, in the most famous circle of celebrities, your reputation can rise faster, this truth is what she learned from Yan Dazhang, the head of the Yan family, Yan Dazhang has a famous saying, only when you enter the rich circle of 500,000 yuan, you can be regarded as a wealthy businessman in Jiangnan.