"Weichen also feels that his body is declining day by day, and he is not enough to serve as the second assistant, and I hope the emperor can allow the minister to return to his hometown. "Prince Liang also spoke, if the emperor wants to completely control the cabinet, it is obviously not enough to get rid of one cabinet elder, maybe getting rid of two can make the emperor's anger disappear.

Zhu Hou looked at these two people, and the anger in his eyes became even stronger. With a mouth open, he was about to accede to the two men's request. But when the words came to his lips, he stopped.

"How can there be such a good thing if you want to do it?" Zhu Houzhao couldn't help sneering in his heart, according to the rules of the Ming officialdom, once the official Zhishi went home, the previous things, whether good or bad, could not be implicated.

If these two go home, it will not have the impact of fart, and they will still live a life of being sought after by thousands of people, rich and glorious. But Zhu Houzhao is angry at the moment, where do you want these two people to be so good?

If you want to stay out of it, there is no door.

"No!" Zhu Houzhao reached out and grabbed the edge of the dragon chair and squeezed out two words from between his teeth.

"Weichen is already old, I'm afraid I can't share the emperor's worries anymore. When Yang Tinghe heard the emperor say this, his heart was extremely strange, didn't the emperor already look at him unpleasantly? Why did he refuse to let him go?

If it were any other emperor, he would feel that it was just a courtesy retention. Because of the general minister's letter, the emperor will keep him again and again, and the minister will also refrain again and again, and finally the emperor will let him go. After Zhishi, there will inevitably be a lot of rewards.

But now that this emperor is Zhu Houzhao, Yang Tinghe doesn't think that the other party will be polite to him, if the other party really wants to let him go, I am afraid that he would have agreed a long time ago. What does he mean when he says the word "not allowed" now?

"No, I can't say it, it's not allowed!" Zhu Hou looked at Yang Tinghe and said almost word by word, there was both anger and happiness in his eyes.

"And my Huagai Hall scholar, you must not leave!" he turned his gaze to Liang Chu again, and continued. Prince Liang was also stunned, what did the emperor mean by this? Didn't he always regard himself and others as a thorn in his side? Why did he not agree with himself and others this time?

For a moment, everyone was a little at a loss, what exactly did the emperor want to do? According to reason, the emperor should push the boat down the river and take the opportunity to control the cabinet.

"It was decreed that Lu Wan, Zhang Lun, Wang Jianzhi, Wu Jing, and Zhao Yuan were crowned university scholars and entered the cabinet on the same day. Zhu Hou looked at the crowd, and seeing that they were at a loss, he continued to throw a big stone into the pond.

Originally, there were already three people in the cabinet, but now he has added five more people to the cabinet, and the number of people in the cabinet is as many as eight, which is very rare in Daming. The size of the cabinet can be between three people and eight people, most of the cases are three people, and five people is also a lot, but eight people are very rare.

This is not to say that the more people you have, the more efficient you are, on the contrary, the more people you have, the harder you are to control. The most important thing is that these new people have not stepped down from their previous positions. Let's take Lu Wan as an example, Lu Wan himself is the secretary of the ministry, the first of the six ministries, and now that he has entered the cabinet, it will be difficult for even the first assistant to suppress the other party. What's more, the five people appointed by Zhu Houzhao are all close to the emperor, which makes it even more difficult for Yang Tinghe and others.

"The ministers obeyed. Lu Wan and a few others immediately came out, but their hearts were full of surprises. Entering the cabinet is the dream of almost all civil officials, and once you enter the cabinet, it is equivalent to changing from a chess piece to a chess player.

"When you are new to the cabinet, you should be worried. I have often heard that the people have little land and it is difficult for them to live. In this world, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, which is not the appearance of prosperity. When you are newly appointed to the cabinet, you should assist the chief assistant and resolve the matter as soon as possible. Zhu Hou looked at Lu Wan and the others, and said in a deep voice.

As soon as he said this, it exploded in everyone's ears like a thunderbolt. The emperor is going to be ruthless, Yang Ge and the others are afraid that they will be sad.

Zhu Houzhao said that if the people's fields have decreased, where did their original land go? Naturally, they were bought by the landlords or rich households, and whenever a disaster occurred in the world, the poor would sell their land at a low price in order to survive, just to have a life-saving ration. As the days go by, the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.

Those landless people could only go to the landlord's house to work as tenant farmers, and they were tired and tired every year, and could only get a little enough ration to survive, most of which were taken away by the landlord.

The landlord class, on the other hand, basically has spare money to provide for the children of their families to study, and as long as they gain fame, their families can be exempted from all or part of the agricultural taxes. As a result, the poor people could not get benefits, and the imperial court could not receive food, only the middle landlord class became richer and richer.

After a long time, the poor peasants who could not eat would inevitably rebel. And because the imperial court had no money and food, it was ultimately unable to support the long war. At this time, it is time to change the dynasty.

When Zhu Houzhao first ascended the throne, he had already begun to prepare to solve this problem. He put Liu Jin in charge of the ceremonial supervisor and began to clear the acres of land. Because many fields in the world are privately cultivated and not registered, and the state cannot collect taxes, if all those hidden private fields are found, the state's tax revenue can be increased by at least 30%.

This method can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. In other words, although the imperial court has benefited, the poor still have nothing to eat. And the most affected is the landlord class, although they have money, but pay a part of the tax out of thin air, how can they be willing?

At the beginning, Liu Jin planned to clear the acres of fields, and the world condemned it, but in the end, Zhu Houzhao had to kill Liu Jin to calm the anger.

Now that he has brought up this matter again, it is clear that he intends to clear the acres of land again. Moreover, this time he let the cabinet come out, just to pull Yang Tinghe and others into the water.

Yang Tinghe is the head of the civil officials and the representative of the landlords and gentry, but Zhu Houzhao asked him to stand on the opposite side of all the landlord class, and he is afraid that this scheming Yang Ge Lao will have to jump to his feet. He can't fool things like he used to, because there are now five more subordinates in the cabinet who stand on the emperor's side, and even if he fools, the matter of clearing the fields and acres will still be carried out. And as the head of the cabinet, even if he wants to stay out of the matter, the world will not believe it.

"Wechen...... Pray for the Lord. After listening to Zhu Houzhao's words, Yang Tinghe's body trembled, and he knelt down again and begged. His heart was full of chill at the moment, the emperor's hand was really poisonous, and he directly cut off his foundation with a knife, if he couldn't do it, then there was only a dead end.