This Bingbi eunuch Tian Wuxian ran to see Wanli, and he also knew that Zheng Guifei was now the most favored by Wansui, so he tactfully told what he heard and Uncle Zheng secretly met Luo Fuzheng, never thought about it, but Wanli smiled, "I know about this......"

Tian Wumian chuckled, he was very annoyed in his heart, and understood that he had slapped the horse's leg on the horse's head, although it was strange in his heart, when did this Uncle Zheng Guo look at the Long Live Lord? But he didn't dare to ask, so he knelt on the ground and slapped himself twice, "The slave should die, the slave should die." ”

"Okay, get up" Wanli slapped his mouth a few times, and then called him up, "When the imperial grandfather was still there, you entered the palace to serve?" ”

"The slave maid is the palace that Jiajing Ye entered in the twenty-ninth year." Tian Wumian hurriedly replied, and Wanli muttered, "Twenty-nine years of Jiajing...... Is it the year I besieged Beijing? ”

Tian Wumian nodded again and again, "Shengming has no more than Long Live Lord." Wanli smiled, naturally not taking his naked fart to heart, "Back then, I besieged Beijing City for half a month, burning, killing and plundering, and the emperor's grandfather even sent a Qin Wang Yu...... Now the little prince of Chahar, Buyan, has personally entered Beijing to ......"

Lao Tian has also studied in the inner study, serving Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli dynasties, how can he not know how to speak at this time? Immediately puffed and knelt down again, "Long live Lord is talented, and he is better than Long Qing Ye and Jiajing Ye, the slave can have the honor to serve Long Live Lord, and I don't know how much high incense was burned in the previous life, and how many wooden fish were knocked through, so there is such a blessing......"

He flattered, and at this time, there was a laugh from behind the screen, Tian Wumian was smiling on his face, and when he heard this laughter, his heart suddenly sank, and he only felt that his bone marrow was cold, and a large cold sweat immediately oozed from his forehead, this voice ...... It's the concubine Niangniang.

Concubine Zheng Guifei turned out from behind the screen, followed by a sophisticated grandmother, and the baby in her arms was Zhu Changlu.

"Mother forgiveness, mother forgiveness." Tian Wumian banged his head on the floor tiles, and after knocking a few times, his head was bruised, Zheng Guifei seemed to smile and stretched out her lotus feet, and blocked in front of Tian Wumian's head, "Okay, okay, I know that you are loyal to the emperor, and you can be regarded as an old minister of the Three Dynasties, and the errand of the celebrant has never been a major mistake in what you have done, there is no merit, and there is also a ...... of hard work."

Tian Wumian's back was full of cold sweat, and he knocked a few times, until Zheng Guifei said to Wanli, [The emperor still says a word, I don't have you to speak] scared Lao Tian so much that he didn't kowtow, but his face was pale and tight, Wanli sympathized with him and was also an old man who served the three dynasties, so he smiled and said: "Your loyal concubine also knows, Uncle Guo's errand is quite secret, it's normal that you don't know, remember not to tell others more, go down"

Seeing Tian Wumian slowly retreating in a cold sweat, Concubine Zheng snorted, "If I hadn't come to show you the child in my arms, maybe how would I arrange a good official" Wanli next to her pouted looked at her pouting, and couldn't help but reach out and wrap his hand around her waist, "Forget it, he is also a loyal ......"

Zheng Guifei was very angry, "Can there be a good official loyalty, this fool, he carried such a big black pot on his brother-in-law, and he didn't know how to arrange his bad words outside, he was only fifteen years old, when I was a child, I promised my mother to take care of him, but now I am a concubine, but I haven't taken care of him at all......" said, and lowered his head and sobbed.

Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun couldn't help but be embarrassed, and the old lady next to him also had eyes, so he quickly hugged the prince and swayed to the side.

Look at the grandmother walked away, Wanli salivated and whispered: "Ruotong, my good Ruotong, don't I support the good official, last time he was called to quietly enter the palace, what he said was very orderly, I see that there is more rule than Mr. Zhang back then...... When I was a child, I listened to Mr. Zhang's lectures, and sometimes I wondered, why is the court so poor when we are so big, and then Mr. Zhang made a whip method, although there is more silver, but the people complained......"

Zhang Juzheng's political reform, although it was boasted by later generations, and there is even a saying called [there is no more Zhang Juzheng in the world], it seems that the Ming Dynasty fell because Zhang Taiyue died too early, but in fact, Zhang Juzheng's whip law, the ultimate damage is the farmers who have land, a large number of small farmers who originally had land in their hands, because of a whip law, and had to surrender their land to those famous scholars or big landowners, in order to get shelter, resulting in a more rapid and nationwide large-scale land annexation. …,

For example, if a county has a population of 100,000 and 100,000 mu of land, then the county's service money will be apportioned to the population and land in proportion.

How many rich people are there in a county? How many poor people?

About 5 percent of the population of the Ming Dynasty controlled more than 80 percent of the wealth, is this apportionment fair? In addition, although the Ming Dynasty absorbs a huge amount of silver from overseas, there is still a lack of silver in circulation in the world, and a whip law only collects silver, and the common people have to exchange copper money for silver in the hands of merchants when they pay taxes.

This whipping method, which was exploited by both merchants and officials, was called [a whip for the remnants of the people] by the later great Confucian Huang Zongxi.

The so-called open source and throttling, this kind of throttling means, at the time looked like some effect, but in fact brought more serious hidden dangers to the country, Wanli later abolished a whip, is this reason, the emperor's ultimate means is to send eunuchs to collect mining taxes.

The mining tax in the Wanli period, carefully studied, in fact, is a disguised commercial tax, the emperor also knows, the common people have no money, so he said, [An Ren plus send small people], to ask the rich businessmen to collect cash, the then public security leader Yuan Zhongdao once said fair words for the emperor, said: Wanli, the two palaces and three halls are all disasters, the nine sides of the supply of 100 million do not give, and the foreign money is empty. The Son of Heaven was worried about the scarcity, and those who spoke of profit were enlightened by the mining tax, but they were made to serve the mining tax, and they went out in all directions.

In the notes of the contemporaries, it is said that [Pingyang, Ze, and Luhao merchants are the best in the world, and they are not rich if they do not cause hundreds of thousands], and the "Shexian Chronicles" even says that [the salt pods of Yi sacrifice wine and the world, at the beginning, the Huang family, and then the Wang family and the Wu family, all of which are connected by hundreds of thousands to reach millions. She County is a subordinate county of Huizhou, a gathering place for Huizhou merchants, and a local county chronicle of one of the six counties in Huizhou, all of which are written in a grand manner, and it is conceivable how rich the merchants were at that time.

Therefore, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the great Confucian Gu Yanwu wrote the "Book of Diseases of the Counties of the World", saying: The profit of agriculture is doubled and the work is the most, and the foolish people do it. The profit of the work is two and the labor is more, and the people who carve skillfully do it. The profit of the businessman is three and the labor is light, and the scheming people do it.

Wanli sent so many eunuchs out to collect mining taxes, what is this tax rate? In fact, it is only worth 100 draws of ten, and the tax of one tael of silver is collected for this ten taels of silver, but the result is a sentence in the history books [In the late season of the Ming Dynasty, the mining tax was the end of the thick end, and the eunuchs were erected in all directions, and they were solicited for no art, and the people were sent for the sake of the reason, and there was an uproar in the sea. ]

In fact, this is nothing more than a group of vested interests that have harmed the integration of government and business, among them, the Donglin Party is the most, such as Gao Panlong, one of the so-called eight gentlemen of Donglin, who jumped up and down in history, and in "The Strike of Commercial Taxes" made alarmist remarks: The harm of the increase is calculated by taxes, and the harm of commercial taxes is measured by days. Commercial taxes are not trapped businessmen, but also poor people.

This is the face of the so-called Donglin Party of the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty, just like the one written earlier to ask the rich merchants of Suzhou to levy silver to repair the city wall, the rich businessmen refused to pay, and had to come up with a reason, [this unprovoked battle, in order to exhaust its essence, the big households are poor, and the small people stand up, and it is impossible to do it] The rich and large households have paid the silver, and the poor and poor will suddenly wither, so the city wall cannot be repaired.

These so-called gentlemen, one by one, were filled with righteous indignation, and their words seemed to be the truth of heaven and earth, and later historians also took their words seriously, which eventually led to the word [Ming Shi died in Wanli].

However, even if what these gentlemen and historians said was true, the so-called [a catastrophe of feudal autocracy to the budding capitalism], according to their data, on average, the Wanli Emperor scraped about 500,000 taels of silver a year for the merchants.

500,000 taels of silver, what a lot of money, this is what the people of the time said in the notes of the times [rich businessmen and big men in the world, not to hundreds of thousands of not be rich] era, the Wanli Emperor, this turtle, skillfully robbed, carried countless infamy, and only a year to receive the equivalent of a family that is not a rich family of silver...... When Shenzong died, Zhu Changluo, the Guangzong who was educated by the gentlemen of the Donglin Party, spent all the silver within a month, which was really the largest turtle father and son in history.

Reading history so far, it is really necessary to give birth to seven glittering characters from the chest, lying in the mud of the Gobi. …,

Of course, the largest black pot in history, Mingshenzong, has moved the black cauldron to Zheng Chengguan at this time, he is a student carefully taught by Zhang Juzheng, and the closing of the door for the festival is well known, so he talks to Zheng Guifei like a husband and wife in an ordinary person's family, and comforts Zheng Guifei, "I also know in my heart that Mr. Zhang's means are just throttling, and the silver saved between his teeth is not a royal road after all, I have repeatedly wanted to levy commercial taxes, but ...... I want to eat one bite at a time, so I thought about taking my time, step by step, in the end, I am still a good official, and I came up with such an idea, which is excellent, once I slap these businessmen's mouths, I will have enough confidence to speak in the future, all of which are thanks to the good officials......"

The concubine snorted, "But...... You see, before this happens, someone came to complain behind his back, no matter how smart the good official is, he can't stand people, you say one by one, I don't care, I don'......t care, I don't care" said, he made a little temperament, Wanli had no choice but to reach out and hug him tightly, "Ai Concubine, Ruotong, isn't he also for his nephew, for the sake of our children, the country passed down from the ancestors, I, I can't hand it over to Chang Tong in tatters."

Concubine Zheng raised her head, her eyes were full of joy, "You don't joke, you said this." ”

Zhu Yijun took a look, how could there have been half a tear on the face of the concubine, there was only cunning in the eye sockets, where did the tears come from, she laughed at the moment, and shook her head helplessly, "Ruotong, Ruotong, you are the mother of two children, how can you still be the same as when I first met you, naughty and willful." ”

"I don't care, you said it yourself." Zheng Guifei shook Wanli coquettishly, her face was full of coquettishness and softness, she was breastfeeding again, the weather was hot, and she was wearing less, so the milk seeped out from the thin Su Jin skirt, and a large piece of wet chest was wet, and a stream of frankincense spread faintly.

Wanli couldn't help but shake in his heart, hugged her tightly and salivated and said, "Ruotong, these days, I can be suffocated......" said that, he went to move his hands and feet. Concubine Zheng Guifei was delicate and dizzy, stretched out her hand to remove his Lushan claws, and said angrily: "Don't change the words, you write them down for me." As he spoke, he dragged him to the desk, dragged a blank yellow silk holy decree, and took a pen and stuffed it into Wanli's hand, "Write quickly." ”

After all, she loves her ruthlessly, Wanli has almost no objections to her, even if Concubine Zheng Guifei's move seems to be against the ancestral system, Wanli can't be angry, but feels that Aifei is true temperament, so he had to say at the moment: "Okay, good, according to you, all according to you." Licked the ink at the moment, and wrote it in an instant, Zheng Guifei smiled and brought the jade seal, Wanli took it, covered it on the head, and then handed it back with a smile, "Ai Fei, I'm satisfied now."

Carefully put away Huang Aya's holy decree, Zheng Guifei deliberately pursed her lips, "His name is Zhu Changjun, he is Zhu Yijun's son, what does it have to do with me......" Saying, she deliberately turned around to leave, Wanli was in a hurry, and grabbed her softly, "Ruotong, aren't you cheating?"

With a soft smile, Concubine Zheng spun in a circle, and Su Jin's skirt bloomed like a blooming flower, so she pulled her hand and turned to Wanli's arms, "My stupid emperor, you are so stupid, the same stupid ...... as when I knew you" As he spoke, he slowly blew into Wanli's ear and whispered: "Zhu Yijun, do you want to grab milk from your son?" ”

As she spoke, a hint of cunning flashed in her eyes, and she giggled, got up and spun around again, hooked her finger at him, and smiled, "Come on."

Seeing her so charming, Wanli couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and pounced at once, "Look at me, I don't catch you, this demon girl......" Zheng Guifei dodged with a smile, but threw a wink at him......

At this time, the obedient official was talking to Dong Qichang in the Jinghai Marquis Mansion, Dong Qichang had written a book these days to invite himself to prepare for the rectification of Ordos, and he lost his eyes and beads, and he was a dignified list of flowers, not in the Hanlin Academy, but he was going to go to the bitter cold place outside the fortress, and it was estimated that I don't know how many people secretly scolded this Dong Tanhua for losing his heart and going crazy

This self-invitation must not be difficult, but when the imperial court approves it, it is not a matter of a day or two, and these days, he simply does not go to the Hanlin Academy to stay.

However, after listening to the careful plan of the obedient official, Dong Qichang still felt that this was too risky, one was not good, the government and the opposition were shaken, the world was booming, and the emperor might not be able to shelter him at that time.

Frowning, Dong Qichang couldn't help but say, "Feng Zhang, you ...... It's too risky, during the Chenghua period, the merchants boycotted the market, and the palace officials begged for food but couldn't get it...... You're putting yourself on the cusp."

The obedient official laughed, "Brother, when and where am I not on the cusp?" ”……，