Chapter 498 is intriguing

Jingshi, the Forbidden City. * Since the introduction of commercial taxes in Jiangnan, the impeachment of Chen Xie has not been broken. According to the explanation, knowing that the impeachment is invalid, the officials should be honest, so why bother with the pen and energy? This thing is still very interesting to say, if you change it to the previous official, when you bite a thing and don't let it go, it is a cliff that will die to the end. There is no shortage of such precedents in the Ming Dynasty, such as the Great Gift Dispute. Civil officials are arguing with the emperor, not afraid of death, not afraid of the court staff. At every turn, there is a sentence of "Righteous Death!" ”

The current situation is very interesting, impeachment is impeachment, but it will not be dead or alive. The recital came up, but the emperor didn't care, and they didn't take any other action, just continue to impeach, and don't make a fuss. At the beginning, Zhu Youzhen was still a little like a big enemy, but after a period of time, it is not the same as before, and gradually he has tasted a little taste.

What is the situation? Times are different. Since two years, in the internal and external wars, Chen Xie has established great prestige. The traditional methods of dealing with political opponents are ineffective on Chen Xie, a minister who even the emperor may not be able to help. With this premise, the civil servants should be impeached or impeached, because they took someone else's money. But whether it has an effect or not, they don't care. Anyway, if you collect money to do things, you can fight to the death for others, but it is useless for Chen Xie.

There is also a situation where Wenchen's control of military generals was shaken by Yan zhòng. No, the cabinet minister, who was talking in the imperial study, had a strange expression, like constipation. Now the Ming Dynasty is still fighting, and there are two main battlefields, one is Liaodong. One is Sichuan.

Lu Xiangsheng, who was worried about the end, immediately returned to the position of the secretary of the military department, and Zhu Youzhen was not at ease. He presided over today's meeting, which was attended by Yang Tinglin, the secretary of the household department, and Zhou Yanru, an assistant to the cabinet. Today's discussion was mainly caused by the battle reports coming from the front. One is the battle report of Liaodong, Chang Shiren, the chief soldier of the Dengzhou battalion, led his troops to the north, pushed all the way, and Jiannu fled in despair. Avoid without fighting. One is Wang Ben's battlefield outside the Saiwai. Together with the Korqin tribes, he fought a battle with the combined forces of Duoduo and Chahar, cut eight hundred, and advanced five hundred miles to the west.

The Liaodong Battlefield Imperial Court didn't have to worry at all. Because you don't have to pay for food. Just give a little population and policy. The Dengzhou camp was arranged. By the way, Zu Dashou was thrown to Tongliao to station troops. Compared with Shanhaiguan and Tongliao, everyone understands in their hearts that there are 50,000 Guanning troops. It will be impossible to threaten Gyeonggi in the future. If you are a feudal town in Tongliao, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, so there is no threat for the time being. The battle on the grassland greatly relieved the pressure on the three sides, which is also the reason why Lu Xiangsheng was able to be the secretary of the military department.

The battle in Sichuan was not so smooth, how to say it? Shu Road is difficult! When the army entered the southwest, the logistical pressure was very strict. It is very unrealistic to raise logistics on the spot, because after the rogue crosses the border, it is much more powerful than the locust plague. Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Ru were the ones who did the sabotage, which was much easier than construction. Moreover, the officers and men in Sichuan are not a question of combat effectiveness. It's rotten at all, and the officer knows how to make money, and the soldier has nothing to eat, so the ghost is willing to die. This led Zhang Xianzhong to enter Sichuan, all the way to the ground, and there was only one officer and soldier who really threatened Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, that is, the Tusi soldiers of Shizhu.

With Hong Chengchou leading the Qin army and a part of the Guanning army into Sichuan, plus the troops from all walks of life after the whole army, the situation eased somewhat. However, due to the huge logistical pressure, Hong Chengchou, the prime minister, could only follow the thieves and chase slowly. Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai ran all the way to the southwest, they were not stupid, they knew that if they turned back, they would find death. The whole of Sichuan can be regarded as a mess, and the benefit is that the Central Plains and Northwest have basically calmed down. Of course, it's messy, but it's not as messy as it used to be.

After Hong Chengchou entered Sichuan, he did not rush to use troops, but continued to urge money and food. Under his command are the Qin army and a part of the Guanning army, these two armies have not changed much, and they can't work hard without money. There is also an army, which is very good, but Hong Chengchou is not very moving. Because people's salaries are self-contained. He Renlong, Hu Dawei, Liu Guoneng, and Li Guoqi became unexpectedly honest after Xiangyang was cleaned up by Chen Xie. They have one thing in common, that is, they listen to Lin Ya, the chief soldier of Xiangyang. Lin Ya took the officers and soldiers of the four A-word battalions and gave them four people to be in charge of logistics, so you can imagine their choice.

In principle, Hong Chengchou's orders should be listened to, in fact, reasonable to listen, unreasonable not to listen. Hong Chengchou was still very helpless, so he had to complain to the imperial court. Now this is the situation, a large number of officers and soldiers have entered Sichuan, and Henan, northern Huguang, and Jiangbei are under the control of the Dengzhou battalion. The Dengzhou camp is the most worry-free and never complains. One mind to do things, work for relief, immigration, do a good job. The dikes of the Yellow River are being repaired, the official roads of the provinces are being repaired, and the immigrants are constantly being sent away, and the imperial court knows what they are doing anyway. People didn't hide it, so they knew that the most reassuring place now was the territory of Dengzhou Yingzhi.

Therefore, at the beginning of this meeting, Lu Xiangsheng said: "The reports in Liaodong, Henan, Jiangbei, Huguang and other places are all good news. Shaanxi and Shanxi have been urging relief of grain. Inspector Hong has been complaining that the money and food can't keep up, and has repeatedly said that the soldiers from Huguang do not listen to the dispatch. However, according to the official reports of various localities, since the entry into Sichuan, the officers and soldiers of all walks of life who were originally subordinate to Chen Sihua have strict military discipline and have not committed any crimes against the people. On the contrary, other officers and soldiers, after entering Sichuan, can harm the people more than thieves. "Lu Xiangsheng doesn't have a good impression of Hong Chengchou, this thing is to kill and kill the rogues, and to deal with the officers and soldiers is to indulge. As long as you listen to the dispatch, you can mess around, this is Hong Chengchou's command method. If you don't listen to the dispatch, it's hard to say.

Zhu Youzhen also has a little headache, and the people who can use it at the moment are Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting. Recently, there was an incident in which Hong Chengchou cut off Zu Kuan's head on the charge of not listening to the dispatch, and it is said that Guan Ningjun was very restless because of this. Chen Xie advocates equal emphasis on suppression and appeasement, unlike Hong Chengchou, who is to kill! At the moment, Chen Xie's method is more effective, but the biggest problem with this method is money and food, others can't play this, it's not that they don't understand this.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Yang Tinglin and said, "How is the situation in the household department?" What is the business tax for the year? ”

Hearing this question, Yang Tinglin crooked his mouth, and said in his heart, His Majesty really dares to say that it is a year's worth of business taxes. How long has it been since the tax was collected? And it's only three provinces in force. But when it comes to this matter, Yang Tinglin, the head of the household, is still very happy. Because of what? The effect is remarkable. When he mentioned this, he came to the spirit.

"Back to Your Majesty, after the official start of this year's commercial tax in August, all the autumn commercial taxes in Jiangnan have been transferred to the account of the household department in the bank, totaling 586,700 taels. Shandong's commercial tax was officially levied in April, with a total of 834,000 taels in two quarters. According to the meaning of His Majesty, these two sums of silver may not be used without the approval of His Majesty. The commercial tax on the Liaodong side was also officially collected in August, and the amount was only more than 50,000 taels, and it had already arrived. Yang Tinglin read the book according to the script, and after Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, his face changed a little. Even Liaodong collected more than 50,000 taels of commercial taxes? It's only been a quarter.

Before the introduction of the commercial tax, Zhu Youzhen couldn't believe that he could collect so much silver in a quarter. Now when I hear this number, my eyes are a little red. According to the previous agreement, thirty percent went to the inner warehouse, and seventy percent went to the household department. Zhu Youzhen, who has always been a poor child, will feel a little like Lao Tzu is a rich man. Take a deep breath, then a deep breath.

Not to mention Zhu Youzhen, even Fu Zhou Yanru and Lu Xiangsheng and others, their faces changed. Knowing the matter of commercial tax, who knew that after the change to ten taxes and one, the commercial tax would come so violently? Without waiting for everyone to digest the news, Yang Tinglin came to say again: "According to the report of the three provincial departments of industry and commerce, there were a total of 365 incidents of tax resistance during the period, and most of them were resolved through negotiation, and the detective team was mobilized 103 times. More than 560 people were taken, 58 people were killed or wounded, and a total of 340,000 taels of silver were confiscated to those who resisted. This silver is still left in the provincial industrial and commercial departments as a bounty to be used. ”

Zhou Yanru couldn't sit still when he heard this, his assistant recently received a lot of blind dates from Jiangnan, all of whom came to complain. said how Chen Xie fished the people of Jiangnan, but he didn't have a specific cognition. Now he knows that the fine alone is 340,000 taels, and he didn't bring it to Jingshi to pay it, so he left it for himself.

"Isn't that nonsense? How much public anger should be aroused by such a large sum of silver? This Chen Sihua is too reckless. "It's all at this time, and Zhou Yanru doesn't dare to say anything serious. Other cabinet ministers, you can imagine. Like what Lu Daqi, he directly pretended to be a mud bodhisattva. Why? Chen Xie is too difficult to deal with, this guy doesn't follow you the usual path. To put it bluntly, the commercial taxes in various parts of the Jiangnan region were collected by a group of officers and soldiers in Dengzhou, and the incidents that occurred during the period caused more than 100 bloodsheds.

This is a very strict thing, but the entire Jiangnan officialdom does not have too many weighty voices. Even if it was Jiangnan Liubu, there was no sound. This is a very strange phenomenon, and it is said that the hardest-hit areas should be Nanjing and Susong. As a result, there was little resistance in these three prefectures, but problems occurred in other places one after another. That's intriguing!

Zhu Youzhen didn't care about this, he knew that he was rich now, so he decided to indulge Chen Xie, and said lightly: "That's it, let Chen Sihua have a self-defense excerpt, let's see." After saying this, he glanced at Zhou Yanru very dissatisfied. What does that mean, what are you messing with? The emperor of the Zhu family is really mean and unkind.

Zhou Yanru was blocked in his chest in one breath, and it took a while before he gasped. The face was uncontrollably red, and it took a while before it slowly turned white. The other cabinet ministers all showed desperate eyes, and some showed disdainful expressions.

"Your Majesty, since you have the silver, let's take care of the money you owe to the Beijing officials first, right?" It was Lu Daqi who said this, he has been very quiet, and a sentence will come out, God has shifted. Zhou Yanru showed an intriguing look in his eyes and looked at this silent person.

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, a painful expression appeared on his face, and he frowned and said, "Then it's three months first." (To be continued!)

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