On the third day of the start of the tax collection work, the tax collection was still stagnant, and the Guards continued to guard the city of Nanjing, but the number of people in the east factory increased.

It just so happened that it was pouring rain on this day, and the bluestone streets after the rain became streams, and the offending officials and relatives who were handcuffed by iron chains and shackles were dragged by the Dongchang Fan in the ankle-length rain.

The people under the eaves looked indifferently at everything in front of them, just as the bureaucrats looked indifferently at the time when they once starved in front of the Zhu Gate.

Li Qiao, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, staggered forward, he didn't understand why Dongchang suddenly arrested him, he thought to himself that he just knew about this matter and made some bribes, he should not be detained, even if he was detained, as an official, he should also be detained to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but why did he drag him to the execution ground of this Taipingmen.

Not tried?

Ignore?

No sentence?

Looking at the row of executioners on the execution ground, and the row of cold knives that flashed snow-colored luster under the rain, Li Qiao, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, couldn't help but panic in his heart, he didn't expect His Majesty to directly kill all their officials and relatives here!

One after another, many officials and relatives were dragged up, and some of them had already whimpered and cried, and Liu Shaozong, the arrogant and domineering Marquis of Anyuan, yelled at Ma Jixiang: "Ben Hou just slapped the surnamed Wu, what is his surname Wu!" Why did you catch Benhou! ”

"Although Wu Jiayin, a member of the household department, said that the official is low, but he adheres to the will of His Majesty and the order of the imperial court, what are you An Yuanhou, and you dare to disobey the tax policy of the imperial court!"

Ma Jixiang replied without showing weakness.

At that time, Yao Sun Ju, the left deputy capital of Yushi, also walked up, glanced at Li Qiao, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, and smiled bitterly.

Yesterday he was still the second-in-command of the household department, in charge of the world's money and grain inputs, and the big man who could bribe millions of silver dollars in tax administration alone, but today he had to drag dozens of pounds of iron chains, kneeling in the cold rain, waiting for his head to be cut off.

Dang Chongya regretted it, but he knew that it was too late to regret it, he didn't know where he started to think that he was lucky to think that he would not be held accountable by His Majesty for being greedy for some money, but he seemed to be more sober than anyone else at the moment, and greed for money was killed.

Half an hour, on the execution ground in front of the Taiping Gate, there was already a row of kneeling court dignitaries and officials, many of whom had gray hair and brocade robes and python clothes, and could only kneel in this cold and biting rain at this moment and wait for execution.

People say that the emperor is angry and ambushes millions of corpses, which is not a big scene with dozens of heads, but for Zhu Youzhen, this is the first time he does not know how many times he has carried out a brutal massacre of the privileged strata of this society, and he only hopes that this can really suppress the resistance of the privileged stratum to his new policy.

Of course, as long as the new policy can be implemented, it doesn't matter if there are a few more heads.

Jiang Yueguang's hands were trembling, and his mood was different from that when he executed Duoduo and Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, he was more afraid and unbearable than excited at this time, and many of them were his relatives and friends, and at this moment he wanted to personally supervise and behead them, regardless of whether they were indiscriminate, just because he hindered His Majesty's tax policy.

Ma Jixiang, who was in charge of the execution, reminded Jiang Yueguang in a low voice: "Da Sikou, it's time to execute!" ”

Jiang Yueguang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, threw the token to the ground.

Dozens of cold steel knives were raised, and with a brush, the blades cut off the heads of dozens of officials and nobles along the dripping rain, many of which were hereditary relatives during the Hongwu Yongle period.

Human heads rolled down in the rain, and human blood shot out in the rain.

Soon, the bright red color spread in the air and on the ground, but the slashing knife had been washed very clean at the moment, waiting for the next group of people to challenge the emperor's authority.

Jiang Yueguang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, sat down dejectedly, he didn't know what to say, and he didn't understand why so many people had fallen to the ground because of a small tax reform, money was something outside the body, and they were already extremely wealthy people, why would they take such a risk because of thousands to tens of thousands of silver dollars.

This incident was not published in Guanghua Daily, and only some private publications reported it.

Zhu Youzhen did not carry out the crime of joint sitting, but only abolished the titles of these hereditary nobles and the official positions of these high-ranking officials, cut the privileges of these official eunuchs and relatives, and reduced them to become a member of the common people.

It is inevitable that the old privileged class will always wither away in various ways, and the new privileged class will always be born in various ways.

But at least in the short term, the imperial court will reduce a lot of financial expenditures to support these families, and it will also make them lose the ability to annex land, so that the two-hundred-year-old Ming Dynasty will reduce the huge social burden brought about by the growth of the wealthy class.

The Household Zuo Shilang Party Chongya is the most miserable, the key to the Ming Dynasty is the finance, and the finance is under the control of the Ministry of Households, and the Household Department Zuo Shilang is the key member of the management of the income and expenditure of the Ministry of Households, once the Household Department Zuo Shilang is corrupt, the loss caused to the entire Ming Dynasty is immeasurable.

In order to make future household officials remember the lessons of the party Chongya, Zhu Youzhen used the old Hongwu law and set up the party Chongya in the household department's official office.

Although cruel, it is also Zhu Youzhen's helpless move now, Rao is that he, as a future generation, knows the general trend of the world and does not know how to stop greed.

Fan Jingwen, the head of the cabinet, and Yin Chengde of Yingtianfu and Chen Yi, the same knowledge of Yingtianfu, were not dismissed, and Zhu Youzhen, Emperor Chongzhen, in order to ensure the performance of the tax collection work, issued an order to let them be guilty and make meritorious contributions, but once there is another mistake, they will be directly killed regardless of the reason.

Ying Tian Governor Qu Shiyun was promoted to the rank of Imperial Historian of the Left Deputy Capital, and continued to lead the taxation of Ying Tian and its affiliated state capitals.

Wu Jiayin, a member of the household department, has been promoted to the head of the household department and the imperial history of the city, commanding the five city soldiers and horses, and assisting Ying Tianfu to recount the industrial scale of various shops and workshops in Nanjing and draw up tax stamps.

At the same time, Dongchang established the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, with the position of the same guard, and Ma Jixiang, who was in charge of thousands of households, was appointed as the first Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, with the rank of commander and envoy.

Ma Jixiang was responsible for recruiting talents who knew how to calculate and were familiar with business to enter the Bureau of Statistics, granted official positions ranging from deputy commanders to general banners, and formally participated in statistical economic and administrative affairs, and conducted separate or secret investigations, without going through Ying Tianfu and the Ministry of Households, and directly reported to Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

And Li Yan was also appointed as the deputy commander to assist Ma Jixiang, Zhu Youzhen arranged this, naturally intending to let him know about the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty, so as to lay the foundation for him to make overall arrangements for the strategic direction of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

(End of chapter)