"The emperor has arrived!"

With a loud noise, it was time for the Huangji Gate to be in the early dynasty again.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live." The ministers bowed, but many of them were scolding their mothers, didn't your sister go to court? Why is it that the cold day is suddenly going to the court, so that we can't enjoy the warm quilt, early in the morning before dawn we have to brave the snowflakes fluttering in the cold, shivering all over the body to go to the morning court.

"Zhong Aiqing is flat." Zhu Youxiao said very briskly, Ye Xianggao and the others stood up and saw that the emperor was looking at the ministers with a smile on his face.

Recently, Wei Zhongxian's Qi Chu Zhexuan Party Ma Zai has been victorious, and the Donglin Party has lost the big man Zhou Jiamo, and the emperor has robbed his house to get silver, so he is naturally proud.

"Zhong Aiqing doesn't look very good!" Zhu Youxiao saw that the officials looked like they were going to die, yawning and yawning, and lifeless, so he sighed and said: "They are all pillars, don't work hard to become sick." ”

"The emperor really mentions the subtleties, as far as his subordinates know, there are often officials who have been working hard recently, so that their backs are sore, their legs are weak and their kidneys are weak, and they are very tired!" Wang Shaohui, the secretary of the ministry who had just taken office, said loudly. Ye Xianggao couldn't help but scold: "What kind of system has it become above the court." ”

"What? Someone did it, and I can't say I can't? ”

"Who are you talking about?"

"Why are you so excited, don't others know that you just married the eighth concubine?"

It was torn up just now, and Ye Xianggao was unlucky. ran into the stalker Wang Shaohui, what kind of concubine in the eighth room, it was nothing at all, but Ye Xianggao was about to explode. Flicked his sleeves angrily, bowed to Zhu Youxiao and said: "Your Majesty, Wang Shaohui slandered his subordinates, and asked the emperor to investigate and ask this traitorous villain to be guilty." ”

"Well! Ye Aiqing, this is not right. As the saying goes, those who are clean are self-purifying, and those who are turbid are self-turbid, so why care what others say. If I am like you, and you Aiqing are spreading rumors behind your back, wouldn't I want to cut you all down? Zhu Youxiao smiled and smiled, Wang Shaohui was so messing around, naturally he had something to rely on. If the emperor wants to deal with the Donglin Party, it is naturally impossible for him to have an attack because of this trivial matter.

Many things can be big or small, just look at whether it is on the platform, as long as it is not on the platform, it is naturally not a big deal, and it will be revealed in a casual sentence.

"Your Majesty, the ministers have never spread rumors, you must not listen to the nonsense of villains." Ye Xianggao's heart jumped and he hurriedly said. Zhu Youxiao smiled and didn't continue.

Anyway, both sides know that there is no point in arguing.

"Okay, today I asked Zhong Aiqing to come to the early dynasty, and I am not here to talk about it. If you have something to do, let's retreat if you have nothing to do! Zhu Youxiao waved his hand.

"The minister has something to do." Xu Dahua jumped out, and Xu Dahua at this time also turned from a small minion to a gorgeous turn into a secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

"Quasi-play." Zhu Youxiao is very comfortable, there is a group of lackeys who are different, and he doesn't need to express his position about what he wants to do.

If the referee himself came off the pitch to kick the ball, wouldn't it be too ugly.

"Your Majesty, my Ming Dynasty's finances are decreasing year by year, and the minister thinks that the tax law should be reformed. The second is to levy commercial taxes in an all-round way. The third is to strictly inspect the transportation of water. Fourth, we should strictly investigate the salt administration. Xu Dahua said loudly. For a while, hundreds of officials were in an uproar, and a group of Donglin parties couldn't sit still.

Strictly check the sacrifice, this is against all the scholars! This is part of the interests of the nobles.

The comprehensive collection of commercial taxes has dealt a huge blow to the interests of the Donglin Party. Those officials who seem to be very honest are actually mostly businessmen at home, and they don't look down on that little money. Only when you get to the big guy and are qualified to embezzle large sums of money can you do it.

"Your Majesty, the ancestral law is immutable!"

"Since the collection of commercial taxes, Beizhili has already caused the people to complain, like porridge boiling. If the commercial tax is levied in an all-round way, I am afraid that the world will be in chaos. ”

The Donglin Party jumped out one after another to oppose it, and the rhetoric was still the same old-fashioned, and it was still talking nonsense with its eyes open.

"Since Ye Aiqing also opposes the levy of commercial taxes, then Ye Aiqing thinks that how should the imperial court solve the financial problem?" Zhu asked Ye Xianggao by name.

"Your Majesty, you can send additional land to the provinces, my Ming Dynasty is so vast, millions of taels of silver will be apportioned, and each mu of land will only be a few centimeters of silver, and it will not shake the national capital at all." Ye Xianggao replied, he didn't know that the emperor wanted taxes, but this was a matter of class interests, so he naturally had to fight to the death.

"Ye Aiqing, can you think of those people who were affected by the disaster, in your opinion, a few cents of silver is really not much, but you have ever known that it is a lot for those people. And the local corrupt officials are not just a few cents more, it is likely to be a few cents, a few dollars, Ye Aiqing is so considerate of the merchants, can he think about it for the ordinary people? Zhu Youxiao asked, it was so heart-wrenching that Ye Xianggao couldn't help but shed two lines of cold sweat.

"Your Majesty, corrupt officials and corrupt officials should be severely punished, but they should not waste food because of choking, and it is a good policy to send Tian Fu. In addition, if it is not enough, the labor tax can be levied again. Today, the people in all parts of the North Zhili have a lot of income, and they can get 30 copper coins for one day of work. If the imperial court levied ten taels on the workers at various construction sites, they could get three hundred wen in a month, and millions of taels in a few months. Suddenly, a voice rang out.

Ye Xianggao and others were stunned for a moment, which stupid person is this? How could such a bad idea? When I turned my head, it turned out to be Wang Wenyan.

Wang Wenyan is very close to the Donglin Party and is a member of the Donglin Party, but many Donglin Parties disdain to be with him.

Because Wang Wenyan is not a jinshi, let alone a scholar. It was a small jailer, who escaped to Jingshi and defected to Wang Anmen because of his own theft. Yu Yuli of Langzhong of the Criminal Department sent him to Beijing to investigate, bought him as a prisoner with money, and turned the three parties of Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang into two parties with small actions, and brought them down. Since then, the Donglin Party has been dominant. Under the support of Ye Xianggao, the head of the cabinet of the Donglin Party, the official was promoted to the middle scholar.

Wang Wenyan is not a literati, but he can be among the court, and he is really a talent.

Since Wang An was imprisoned by Zhu Youxiao for questioning, Wang Wenyan has not been implicated, and the emperor will not have time to clean him up for a while.

Wang Wenyan is extremely good at officialdom transactions, and he only talks about interests as an official, so he is naturally not loyal to the Donglin Party. Ye Xianggao didn't understand why Wang Wenyan would be so proposing. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "Your Majesty, this move is not very appropriate. However, the imperial court has always used forced labor to start construction, and it is really inappropriate to give wages. If the emperor could pay less wages, or directly use the conscription to mobilize the people to repair various projects, wouldn't it save tens of millions of silver? ”

What Ye Xianggao said is indeed true, according to traditional concepts and practices, what kind of projects the imperial court does, most of them are to add burdens to the people. And the common people's conscription is itself a kind of tax, but now the conscription system is on the verge of collapse, and many people can just pay some money casually and leave it alone.

Zhu Youxiao suddenly smiled, obviously the conspiracy succeeded.

"What do you think?" Zhu Youxiao asked the other officials again. A group of other Donglin Party officials shouted one after another: "What Lord Ye said is extremely true. ”

"I'm tired, let's retreat first!" Zhu Youxiao yawned, then waved his hand, stood up and walked away. A group of officials froze on the spot, what is the situation?

Why did you leave all of a sudden? What kind of system is it?

Teasing them?

The emperor suddenly withdrew from the court, leaving a group of officials confused. Zhu Youxiao didn't feel good when he got up early in the morning! I'm thinking about going back to sleep. Now that you've achieved your goal, let's retreat!

The Donglin Party was confused, and Wang Wenyan, who had received the money, didn't know what the situation was. The current situation is really incomprehensible!

The emperor had not been to court for more than a month, and suddenly went to the next morning court, and withdrew from the court after a few casual words. However, it seems that the emperor's ambition to levy a commercial tax has been thwarted again, and such a result is indeed satisfying!

The day was spent in peace.

However, early the next morning, the "Daming Daily" published the political process of the early dynasty yesterday, and added fuel to the exaggeration of Ye Xianggao's remarks on the Donglin Party. The abolition of wages for work and the replacement of construction with forced labor These projects were all truthfully reported, but they added fuel to the fire by saying that one person from every household in Beizhili should be sent to work for several months to build various projects.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao did not make any statement in the "Daming Daily".

Suddenly, the people of Jingshi were fried, and with the propaganda and rumors spread all over the street by a guy with individual ulterior motives, they all became anxious.

"Did you hear that? Ye Xianggao's group of Donglin Party wanted to force the emperor to collect taxes from our poor people, not only did they not want to pay us, but each household had to be forced into labor for three months. ”

"I've heard that where is the three-month conscription, I obviously heard that it is half a year."

"Can you be a little more stupid? How could it be half a year of conscription. It's three months of conscription, but it's going to come out every year! This group of Donglin Party is really so bad that they have no asshole for their sons. ”

"The Donglin Party also said that the emperor has given us too many guarantees, and there is no need to spend this money on us grass people."

"It's so hateful."

The people's anger is surging! The report of "Daming Daily" and the slight rumors spread by the factory security intelligence personnel quickly made the workers on the construction site indignant.

"Brothers and sisters, listen to me. The Donglin Party can't see that our poor people can live a good life, and if they succeed, we will have no way to live. We want the workers to have strength, we want to defeat the Donglin Party and severely punish Ye Xianggao. ”

Suddenly, someone shouted on the construction site, and then a few people on the side shouted: "Down with the Donglin Party and severely punish Ye Xianggao." ”

Then he pulled out a banner with these words written on it, obviously prepared.

"Everyone come with me, let's go to Ye Xianggao's mansion." The men instigated again.

Some workers hesitated and said suspiciously: "This is not good! What if the imperial court says that we are rebelling and sends troops to suppress it? ”

"What rebellion? What we are against is the Donglin Party. And today, the saints love the people like sons, how can they arrest us and ask us for sin. Come with me if you have the guts, and go home if you don't have eggs! ”

On almost every construction site in Beijing, a group of demagogues appeared.

In less than half an hour, the workers on the construction site gathered into a torrent, pulling banners and 'killing' towards Ye Xianggao's mansion.

The workers have already fried the pan. (To be continued.) )