Zhu Youzhen first glanced at Fan Jingwen, the first assistant of the cabinet.

Zhu Youzhen naturally asked Fan Jingwen to express his stance first, and the cabinet must still be in charge of tax policy, and the army naturally cannot participate, and at most it will assist in preventing the chaos from happening.

That is to say, if the gentry who control the grassroots leadership make trouble after the new tax policy is really introduced, and it reaches an uncontrollable situation, Fan Jingwen will bear the consequences.

For example, Shang Ying.

Of course, if there is no trouble, or if he can be suppressed by bullets, Fan Jingwen, as the first assistant of the cabinet and the secretary of the household department, will definitely be rewarded by Zhu Youzhen.

Sometimes that's the case, since you want to be the head of a hundred officials, you have to have the awareness to take the greatest risks.

Fan Jingwen is a native of Hejian Prefecture, a representative of officials from the north, the highest position among the officials who moved south with Hu, he has always been honest and loves the people, and there is no industry in the south, so he naturally has no objection to the new tax policy.

As a civil official, Fan Jingwen naturally knows how vicious the pen of a civil official is, but Fan Jingwen also knows how ruthless His Majesty is, Wei Zaode ended miserably because he refused to take responsibility and sought personal gain, and he naturally didn't want to end up being robbed.

Fan Jingwen raised his heels a little awkwardly, and suddenly felt a little hot, Wang Chengen very considerately put a basin of ice on the pestle beside him: "Elder Ge, Your Majesty is waiting." ”

Fan Jingwen smiled awkwardly, the beads of sweat on his forehead dripped to the ground, and he noticed that not only the emperor's eyes were staring at him, but also the civil and military dignitaries present were staring at him.

He Fan Jingwen is the first assistant of the cabinet, if Fan Jingwen wants to express his support for His Majesty's imperial meeting, they will naturally refute it again, and if they offend people, they will have a pot to shake.

Squeak.

The official hat chair made of Huang Huali rang, Fan Jingwen stood up suddenly, swallowed, and arched his hands: "Your Majesty, Weichen, Weichen." ”

Although Fan Jingwen said that he had been the first assistant for almost a year, but before that, all important affairs of the court were military affairs, and everything was ordered by the Generalissimo's Office, and the cabinet seemed to be dispensable.

And the tax policy is different from the currency and money law, today's Ming subjects do not have a strong concept of money, no financial awareness, whether the court uses copper money as currency or silver money as currency, they don't care too much, but the tax is different, which is almost related to the interests of every class of people in the Ming Dynasty, this is the first major event he Fan Jingwen has undertaken since he was the first assistant.

If it is really successful and beneficial to the country and the people, it will naturally shine for a thousand years and become a famous minister; If he fails, he may become a traitor who is reviled by thousands of people.

Therefore, Fan Jingwen is a little nervous, but he knows that His Majesty does not like the mediocre ministers, and now Ma Shiying, Li Banghua, and Lu Zhenfei in the cabinet are not sharp-edged people, and he Fan Jingwen can only grit his teeth and be a first assistant who dares to take on big things!

When Zhu Youzhen saw him standing up, he smiled with relief: "Pavilion elders don't need to be in a hurry, say slowly, Wang Chengen, send an eunuch over and fan the pavilion elders!" ”

Zhu Youzhen was expressing his affirmation of Fan Jingwen, and Wang Chengen also knew the emperor's intentions, so he personally took a pu fan and fanned Fan Jingwen with the wind: "It's better for the lower officials to personally give the pavilion old man the wind, and the people below are not serious." ”

The eunuch and the commander of Dongchang personally fanned Fan Jingwen, the first assistant of the cabinet, and it was in front of the emperor, so he naturally wanted to deliberately praise Fan Jingwen in Zhu Youzhen, give Fan Jingwen enough face, and let him know that he is now above 10,000 people under one person, and he wants to preside over the taxation matter.

"Lao Jian is hot in spring and autumn, and Ge Lao is also a handful of years old, although he is worried about state affairs, he also has to take care of his body, or worry about His Majesty for a few more years, or I will be taught for a few more years."

As soon as Fan Jingwen stood up, he naturally made the bureaucrats present breathe a sigh of relief, especially the northern officials who were willing to support His Majesty Zhu Youzhen's reform or cater to the holy will, the governors and soldiers of the Guards system, and the local governors, many of them did not have much business in business, and as magistrates, they also knew that once taxes were levied, the wealth of the local area would also increase a lot.

But they also know that the difficulty of this kind of thing is not that everyone doesn't understand the truth in it, but that they want to offend people, offend people of a class, and even their own clansmen, they need someone to take the blame, and they need to transfer the complaints of these people to a person, so that they can confidently and boldly implement the decrees of the imperial court, so as soon as Fan Jingwen stood up, he won the respect of many officials.

In the past, the minister of ceremonies and supervisors personally fanned the wind, and now Li Banghua, a native of Jiangxi, personally cared about Fan Jingwen's body in front of His Majesty, revealing admiration in his words.

Of course, some officials who were still quite dissatisfied with the taxation of the gentry and wealthy businessmen also looked at Fan Jingwen and showed a smile to Fan Jingwen.

Although because of the case of Qian Qianyi and Zhang Shenyan, the gentry and bureaucrats in Jiangnan realized that His Majesty had the power of the monarch even when he arrived in Jiangnan, so in order to keep his official position, naturally no one would brush His Majesty in front of him at this time, but it was still okay to transfer their grievances to Fan Jingwen.

Fan Jingwen can naturally guess how many pairs of not-so-kind eyes are facing him now, but he can only stand up now, at least let the internal minister fan the wind can be regarded as a good story for a while: "Thank you for your grace, please rest assured, Weichen, as the first assistant of the cabinet, will definitely lead the hundred officials to complete the tax collection work after the new tax reform!" ”

"Fan Ge Lao has this determination, I am very pleased, you Aiqing must cooperate with the cabinet effectively!"

Zhu Youzhen said that he looked at Qu Shiyun, Chen Zizhuang and other governors, Qu Shiyun and Chen Zizhuang were busy and immediately stated that they would follow the cabinet order and complete the major tax collection.

Then, Zhu Youzhen looked at He Xin of the Second Army of the Guards, He Xin understood what Zhu Youzhen meant, and immediately got up: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the first assistant and the cabinet can rest assured that they can do things, although the Second Army of our Guards is not allowed to intervene in political affairs, but as long as someone makes trouble because of this matter, I He Xin will not disturb it!" ”

Other officials also began to actively express their positions one after another, promising to cooperate with Fan Jingwen's work, and they all changed their rhetoric for a while, as if Fan Jingwen was leading the matter of levying commercial taxes and other taxes.

"Since all of you Aiqing have no objections, and Fan Ge Lao is quite determined, I will not say more, Wang Chengen, lead them to retreat and rest first, and Fan Ge Lao and Huguang Governor Li Yan will stay!" As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, the ministers were ordered to retire, Fan Jingwen guessed that His Majesty would definitely give it in private, but Li Yan was a little dazed.

(End of chapter)