Chapter 436 Doing hard work to prosper the country, empty talk misleads the country
Wanli finally got an erection, and asked the court staff to be Yuren, but after all, it still didn't work, and the second auxiliary king Xijue Wang Ge Lao pleaded for mercy, and finally deposed him from his official position, took three generations of orders, and could not recover for life.
It is said that Yu Yuren wants to thank Wang Ge for being old? No, Yu Yuren scolded loudly, "Wang Xijue, you old thief ......" and was about to pounce on him with his teeth and claws, eager to eat his flesh and gnaw his bones.
In the later generations, the Legislature of the Treasure Island of the Heavenly Dynasty fought and was full of blood, compared with the Ming Dynasty, it was not enough to see, but there were Wenchen in the Ming Dynasty who was angry and grabbed the weapon of Jin Wuwei who was standing on duty, and smashed it when he picked it up, Emperor Xiaozong's brother-in-law was beaten in the court, and after the fight, the ministers still had to tout, and the fight was good, and the emperor had to pinch his nose and endure it...... In the words of later generations, it is called "people's cooking".
Yu Yuren shrew generally rushed over, for the courtiers, but Erer, everyone is battle-hardened, especially the six branches to the matter and the imperial history of the road, if these officials have not fought in the court, where can they talk about it? Always roll up your sleeves and slap your fist, so that everyone will regard you as a colleague, and you will be able to talk in the future, just like a little black triumphant display of scars in the future: Na! See, the knife in my stomach was cut by a watermelon knife, and I was fighting with the boss of Balan Street at the time......
Luo Yuren is so shameless, there is a reason, he scolded the emperor so desperately, scolded Zheng Guifei, scolded Uncle Zheng Guo, asked for fame, what was tightened by the court staff, as long as he didn't die, he would be a rich qualification in the future. No one can ignore it. Why was Hai Rui able to go from a scholar who was born as a scholar to be an official and a second-class imperial history? Didn't you just scold Emperor Sejong!
In this world, some people are famous, some people are profitable, and some people are lustful, if you really think that the clear stream of good names is higher than the corrupt officials and lustful gentlemen, then you are wrong, the shackles of fame and fortune, each other, everyone is good all the way.
Wang Xijue seemed to intercede, but. Demotion of officials, lifelong inadmissibility, take three generations of life, this. It's better to die!
In the words of martial arts novels, this is the abolition of martial arts, which is really more vicious than death.
Can Yu Ren not be crazy!
However, he couldn't do Wang Xijue after all, and he had already been dragged by a few Jin Wuwei next to him, and dragged out like a dead dog.
"Wang Xijue, old thief...... Bah! You don't have to die well......"
Yu Yuren's mournful voice faded away, Wang Xijue unhurriedly took out a handkerchief from his arms, bent down and wiped the phlegm and saliva on the corner of his robe. Of course, this is also the mainstream of high-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty, such as Zhang Juzheng, who even left a text in the history books that he likes incense.
Whether it is Zhang Juzheng or Wang Xijue, they are all pavilion elders, not pawns who roll up their sleeves and take the lead in the matter.
"Your Majesty, there are always such rebellious people who do not care for the sake of fame, and they are not worthy of their anger." Wang Xijue, in turn, wanted to comfort Wanli. The faces of the Qingliu people next to him were ugly, but they couldn't intercede at this time, Wang Xijue was the elder of the pavilion and the second assistant, and Luo Yuren did something out of line. Besides, Qingliu is not a fool either. Wanli was angry at this time, why bother to poke this hornet's nest.
Later, Zhang Pu, the leader of the Qingliu Society, did not even collect the body after his death, and his colleagues were busy with the eggs of the newly appointed bachelor Zhou Yanru, or the corpse collected by the famous traitor Ma Yaocao in history, and held the coffin for thousands of miles, and held the funeral......
As the saying goes, friends who die don't die in poverty.
I have to say that Wang Xijue is a qualified politician, Dong Qichang sneered at him for being in the position of the old cabinet for a long time, and he only knew how to bully others. Just a fluttering word, I don't know how many people are willing to take the lead for the elder pavilion! …,
He originally wanted to watch Uncle Zheng's jokes, but now that he saw that the momentum was not right, he immediately turned the wind and jumped out, as if he and Uncle Zheng Guo were one.
"Zheng Dudu's talent, rare to see in five hundred years, Huo Yao was the wolf Juxu back then, and he was the supreme martial artist of the millennium, compared with Zheng Dudu, but it was also small...... This is the symbol of the foundation of our dynasty for all eternity, Sejong Xu Caoyun entrained, Muzong opened the sea, the two emperors and the people rested, and finally there was the virtue of His Majesty...... "He was born in the end, and he praised the emperor up, and he was not inferior."
Emperor Shizong Jiajing allowed Cao Yun to carry private goods, and since then, the north and south Cao Yun have been out of control, which means that it is a bit like the early stage of the reform of the Celestial Dynasty in the later generations, at the beginning of those who secretly did business, called the reverse master, and other leaders said, allow some people to get rich first, the commercial market suddenly boomed, Emperor Sejong did this thing, the Ming Dynasty business was booming, Jiajing contributed a lot.
And Jiajing's son Emperor Muzong Longqing opened the sea, and went further, science and technology are productive forces, and the south was suddenly rich and uncontrollable, and even faintly dared to argue with the imperial court, which was the credit of Longqing.
Wang Xijue said that these two men and sons, obviously talking about the allusion of the rule of Wenjing in the Han Dynasty, and said that Huo Quai, naturally turned a corner and praised Wanli's martial arts to surpass Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Wang Ge Lao touted Wanli for a while, and as soon as his voice changed, he said: "Why don't you try to open the sea banknote customs?" With the full authority of Zheng Dudu, does Your Majesty think it is okay? ”
This sea banknote, isn't that a commercial tax, a few Qingliu were just about to jump to their feet, but Zhao Nanxing, Zou Yuanbiao, and Gu Xiancheng signaled with their eyes and watched the changes.
These people have left a great name in history, naturally they are not stupid, they asked the emperor to deal with Uncle Zheng Guo's crime, but now the emperor has come to push the blame to the courtiers.
You must know that in the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia has always been the biggest heart disease of the imperial court, and the three guards of Wuliang Ha surrendered and rebelled, rebelled and surrendered, endlessly, and the Wara and Tatars could not move Koubian, and from time to time they hit the city of Beijing. Although it was impossible to capture the city of Beijing. But the majestic emperor is bright, let the enemy run his horse outside the capital like this, how can he save face?
The court finally recruited Altan Khan, the border pass was stopped, and when Altan Khan died, his son Huang Taiji wanted to marry his stepmother Sanniangzi, but Sanniangzi refused, and ran away with 20,000 people, or the court specially sent ministers to persuade Sanniangzi, and Sanniangzi returned to Guihua City. There are many ridicules among the people, but the court also has the difficulties of the court, Mongolia is in chaos, and the border passes are erosive. The silver was really poured out like water.
Does the court have any silver? The salary of the nine-sided army is millions every year, which is barely maintained, where is there any silver.
Therefore, seeing that the ministers are dancing happily, they are really going to deal with Uncle Zheng Guo, but the two departments of Tumut and Chahar have just entered Beijing, if they rebel immediately, when the time comes, those who are jumping to do Uncle Zheng will definitely be thrown out of the black pot and used as scapegoats to force rebellion against Mongolia.
Everyone danced happily. It's just because of self-interest, now, in this court, who hasn't done business in anyone's house? Countless Confucians have said that business is also a good stream, as long as you don't do it yourself and let the head of the family run it, it's okay, Uncle Zheng Guo wants to take charcoal from the fire and rip their flesh. To make up for the scars of the imperial court, they naturally refused.
However, silver is not as precious as the head, and now the emperor has put the responsibility on their heads, do you want silver or heads?
Officialdom like Yu Yuren was stunned. That's a minority, after all.
So, for a while. There was no sound in the court.
"Customs?" Wanli muttered to himself, raised his eyes and looked down, "What do you ministers think?" Let's talk about it! ”…,
At this time, Dong Qichang, who had been silent, finally stood up, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the old pattern of the Wang Pavilion is too small. ”
Dong Qichang's words, Wang Xijue was stunned for a moment when he heard this, his throat was sweet, he almost vomited blood, and glared at Dong Qichang fiercely, Dong Qichang doesn't buy it, you are the leader, I am Tanhua, everyone is not far behind, you are not too old and older, and there are only a few means for politics, which is not enough to see.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the pattern is too small to try the banknote customs at sea, why not try the Ningbo Mansion?" Dong Qichang straightened his chest and shouted, but his words made the ministers look sideways.
"Your Majesty, this is not in line with the ancestral system." Dong Qichang's words, for some people, are naturally rebellious, and naturally someone jumped out.
Dong Qichang was dismissive, "Ancestral system? Ancestral merchants or untouchables! Now that this court is full of people, how many people are from businessmen? ”
Xu Guo Xu Ge Lao first blushed, and almost jumped out to scold Dong Qichang, the old man is also a Ge Lao, and he doesn't point his nose at people like this.
This sentence is really a big killer, dare to say that their own family has nothing to do with businessmen, there are really few in the whole court, in the Jiajing year, the local feudal officials began to complain in the book, saying that the people are not worried about the agricultural mulberry, and they have been doing business, and so on, this is the year of Wanli, take out the chapter of the local feudal people, there is almost no province that does not complain, why? The common people refused to be honest and practiced farming, and they all had to go into business.
This is like the later Celestial Empire, in the early days of reform, there were still officials who collected grain and gave white slips to farmers without giving money, but when the reform deepened, I'm sorry, no one in the local area grew grain, and all the strong laborers went out to work. You have to find a way to beg grandpa to tell grandma to get the strong labor back!
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty really fell into a dead circle at this time, no commercial tax, fewer and fewer farmers, the imperial court became poorer and poorer, and the scholars and doctors shouted, saying that the imperial court and the people competed for profits, and the huge financial pressure was desperately pressed on the peasants of Shanxi and other northern provinces, and it was strange that the peasants did not rebel.
Just look at the later Celestial Empire, when the agricultural tax was completely abolished, the whole country voted unanimously in favor, 0 votes against, and 1 abstention.
Only change, you don't change, it's a dead end.
Dong Qichang turned around and scolded, and after scolding, he only raised a finger, and there was nothing to say in the court, "Try Ningbo Yifu, the annual tax should reach half of the country, and try it for three years, if it is proper, it will remain unchanged for fifty years, so that the silver of the court can breathe a sigh of relief." ”
Try a government, the tax reaches half of the country, this is what Dong Qichang has the confidence to say, as soon as he said this, the court was frightened by half of the national tax, and suddenly did not say a word.
In the final analysis, in these years, who doesn't know that silver is a good thing, and the court is noisy every day, isn't it just a lack of silver? Who is noisy if there is silver! As for trying Ningbo Yifu, hey! Dead friends don't die poor, we are not from Ningbo Mansion!
But. Some people were the first to reflect on it. No, that's not right!
You must know that Zhang Juzheng's reform, history, private people are getting rich, the public is getting poor, and there is a comparison with the resale of state-owned assets in later generations, in short, there are more and more rich people, of course. On the surface, the financial pressure seems to have disappeared all of a sudden, and the annual tax has reached more than 4 million taels of silver.
It seems that there is no financial pressure does not mean that there is no pressure, not to mention anything else. You have to pray for good weather and good weather, peace for the country and the people, the Yellow River cannot break, there can be no war at the border pass, and once there is a little difference, this silver will not be enough.
This is like the family written in Qian Zhongshu's novel, although it is poor, it is just right, just enough to hide poverty
Half of this kind sounds bluffing. But it doesn't really mean much!
If someone has a heart, doesn't this mean that as long as Uncle Zheng Guo pays more than two million taels of silver every year, Ningbo Mansion and the sea will let him do whatever he wants? …,
"Dong Hyun Jae." Someone said angrily, "Doesn't this mean that Uncle Zheng Guo only needs to spend more than two million taels of silver to become a side-by-side king?" ”
This word is side by side with the king, that is the speech in the book, where is there that saying in the serious court, this person is clearly sowing discord. At the same time, everyone in the court reacted, yes! That Uncle Zheng Guo was able to dig up one million taels of silver every year in Yinshan in Fusang, and took a group of Oiran from all over the country to sing songs. That's millions of millions of dollars, half of the country's taxes. It may be a lot for others, but for Uncle Zheng Guo, it's really, not money!
The hall was buzzing and buzzing.
Dong Qichang suddenly shouted angrily, "I advise some sneaky people who dare not speak to their faces, work hard to prosper the country, talk about the country, don't be a-stirring stick in the court, if you don't do things yourself, you have to stir up and urine, and don't let others do things, and the sage book is read on the dog." ”
He stood in the hall with his chest straight, turned his back to Emperor Wanli, opened his mouth and rushed down, and shouted domineeringly: "Look at my mouth shape, lie in the mud and gobi, don't think that a certain Tanhua will not scold." ”
The princes of the court were really dumbfounded, and they actually scolded such words, it was really insulting to Sven, insulting to Sven.
Wanli snorted and laughed on the top.
Shen Shixing, a good old man who has never opened his mouth to pretend to be a mud bodhisattva, had to open his mouth to scold Dong Qichang, "Shut up, what kind of system has it become, it is really insulting to Sven ......"
In fact, Dong Qichang's scolding is really a-stirring stick, and it will mess up the court at once, everyone is a scholar, you want to save face, you point at everyone and scold the mud and Gobi, who can stand this? This group of ridicule kung fu immediately pulled the hatred value to the full value, and scolded one by one, and the first assistant Shen Shixing couldn't stop it, and the court was in chaos.
After a long time of commotion, Dong Qichang shouted, "Five million taels a year." ”
Five million, this is already more than the national tax revenue when Zhang Juzheng was in power, although the ministers have all read books and understand that commercial taxes are thick, but I really don't believe that commercial taxes can be collected so much, even if your Uncle Zheng Guo has gold and silver mountains overseas, he can't stand digging like this.
Of course, there are still smart people who take the lead in filling the loopholes, "Not counting the tax money of the East India Company that changed the sea to the sea." ”
The East India Company held by Jing Daxiang is actually an enlarged version of the former Cao Gang, the fat and beautiful Cao Yun, as long as the world is an official, who doesn't know, now that this loophole is filled, most people don't believe that Uncle Zheng Guo can toss five million taels of silver a year in Ningbo.
You said that you took Oiran to a concert, so it was impossible to make such a profit every year, and no one was a fool.
Even so, someone from the Ministry of Rites jumped out, "This prostitute in the sect is free, do you want to return it to us first." "In addition to the words, we must also fill the last loophole.
Dong Qichang sneered in his heart, these people were born as businessmen, but they didn't know the true power of money.
When he was penniless, it was extremely difficult to make money, for example, at the beginning, the good official had to make a living by selling scripts, just like that, to earn some manuscript fees, to be honest, it was not worth the money for a meal of the rich family, when he took the whole family to Ningbo Mansion, the whole belongings, that is, the notes of the people of the time said that the rich family was not worth a thousand dollars for a meal.
And with silver, it is much easier to roll money, so later generations said that the first pot of gold is often extremely bloody, that is, it is difficult to start a business, with the first million, and then earn the second million, but it is much easier.
Dong Qichang and the obedient officials often debated in the future, knowing the stakes well.
For example, in the later Celestial Empire, a stock market stamp duty paid for the country's military spending, and not only that, but there was also money to engage in the aviation industry, which was the most money-burning. …,
Therefore, although the businessmen of the Ming Dynasty are rich, they are worth a thousand gold from time to time, but they are still in an ignorant understanding of capital, five million silver, to put it mildly, fifty million is about the same.
For the trial of the sea money customs and even the trial of Ningbo Mansion, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are not unacceptable, you know, when the Longqing Emperor opened the sea, at the beginning, it was also a trial, the ancients were not stupid, the Ming people are even more receptive, not to mention anything else, just look at the firearms, just say that the Franc cannon, from the beginning to the later all kinds of Franc cannons, at every turn is hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands of made, so the Ming Dynasty is the most vigorous and energetic and the most able to accept new things.
Although for Uncle Zheng Guo, from the beginning of the question, to now try Ningbo Mansion, Uncle Zheng Guo has full authority, which has changed so much, it can be said that the old hen has become a duck, but then again, this is not unacceptable, the current chaos must be over, in this case, why not let Uncle Zheng Guo toss!
Five million taels of silver a year, hum!
Most of the officials sneered in their hearts, who do you think you are? Zhang Jiangling?
Even Zhang Juzheng, the invisible emperor, only tossed out more than four million taels of silver in a year, and that's it, he is boasted that there is no Zhang Juzheng in the world.
For a while, the court was full of sneers, but Dong Qichang was not sneering.
A group of ignorant people.
Seeing that the good official's affairs were done like this, Wanli was also extremely happy in his heart, he still had confidence in the good official, not to mention the silver that the good official gave him, only said one thing about him, which made the belly of the third lady bigger, Wanli felt that his brother-in-law was a talent who had not been born for five hundred years, so he really didn't pay attention to the matter of five million taels.
As soon as he was happy, he prepared a feast, after all, it was a great joy.
As for every word in the court that reached the ears of Zhang Whale, the governor of Dongchang, Zhang Whale's face twitched, and he couldn't help sighing, muttering: "This Uncle Zheng Guo has really become the climate!" Alas! (To be continued......)