"Isn't this the time to pursue this?" Zhu Youzhen sneered, "If the root cause problem is not solved, this civil unrest will be pacified, and there will be more in the future." The people can't live hungry, how can they not rebel? Huang Ge Lao, Shi Ge Lao, and Bi Shangshu, if it were you, when you were about to starve to death, would you have a bad heart? Oh, I forgot, but there are countless fertile fields in each of your homes, and no one can starve you if you are hungry. ”

Huang Liji and the others were expressionless, and they were used to Zhu Youzhen's sarcasm.

"To quell the chaos is to calm it, and the root cause of the civil unrest must also be found and countermeasures formulated, otherwise the civil unrest will only intensify!" Zhu Youzhen said categorically.

Shi Fenglai, the second assistant, stood up: "The minister suggested that Shaanxi Province be exempted from paying taxes for three years, and strictly ordered local officials not to collect taxes from the people in any name, otherwise they will be severely punished!" In this way, the rioters will inevitably go home and stop making trouble. ”

Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department, shook his head and said: "No, Shaanxi has been exempted from taxes for three years, so what about other disaster-stricken provinces?" You must know that Shaanxi Province is not the only province that has civil unrest, and if it is all exempted, what will happen to the treasury revenue? Where is the money and grain to pay for the nine sides? ”

Shi Fenglai sighed: "Northern Shaanxi is different from other provinces, where there are several years of drought, the yield of the fields has been reduced or even no grains have been harvested, and the people have long been miserable. Bi Shangshu, you can't stare at the revenue of the national treasury, but also see how much silver it costs to quell the civil unrest, I'm afraid that the three years of taxes in Shaanxi Province are not enough to quell the rebellion, and the civil unrest has started, where will the taxes be collected next? It is better to simply avoid it, and let the hearts of the people disperse in order to calm them. ”

Bi Ziyan sighed: "If that's the case, I'm afraid that other provinces will complain." ”

Shi Fenglaiqi said: "How can there be complaints? Officials in other provinces had to reduce their taxes so that they could collect their taxes. As for the people in the provinces, how will they know what happened in Shaanxi? Therefore, it is not the other provinces that complain, but the officials of Shaanxi Province, who have reduced their taxes, and they have also lost the opportunity to fish the people. ”

In these years, the news is very closed, the will of the imperial court is at most transmitted to the county, and the people living in the countryside don't even know who the emperor is, let alone the imperial decree. Bi Ziyan sighed and stopped talking.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Shi Fenglai in surprise, feeling that he was once again impressed by this second assistant. is worthy of being a person who can be admitted to the Yuan Bangyan, he is really talented, in terms of insight into people's hearts, on power and strategy, no one in the audience is as good as him!

"As for those officials in Shaanxi, they have to bear the main responsibility for the outbreak of the popular uprising! Even if the civil unrest is pacified, it is necessary to investigate its faults, and the dismissal of officials who should be dismissed, and the raiders who should be raided should not be ignored! Shi Fenglai said gloomily.

Shi Fenglai's words made Zhu Youzhen suddenly brighten, and he stroked his palms and smiled: "The words of the second assistant are very good, so let's do it." While sending troops to quell the rebellion, publicize the will of the imperial court, and make sure that the rebellious people know about it. ”

can use the price of three years of taxes to quell the upcoming civil unrest in Shaanxi, this price is extremely weak in Zhu Youzhen's opinion. You must know that the thieves in Shaanxi are not like other provinces, they are giant thieves who can flow through the entire Central Plains and then destroy the Ming Dynasty!

Bi Ziyan said: "Your Majesty, it's not that the minister is deliberately discouraged, just like this, I'm afraid it's not enough." It's good to be directly exempted from taxes for three years, but now that the people have nothing to eat, they can't kill them all, right? It is necessary to purge and soothe in parallel, and it is necessary to allocate grain and grass for relief. According to Yichen's estimates, there are more than 1 million but hundreds of thousands of displaced people in several prefectures in northern Shaanxi, and the grain expenditure alone is a huge amount, and the state treasury simply cannot take out so much ........"

Zhu Youzhen frowned and looked at Bi Ziyan, but there was nothing he could do about him. Compared with other officials, Bi Ziyan is definitely an honest official, a few years before Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, there was an invasion of Jiannu outside, and there were thieves raging inside, thanks to Bi Ziyan as the head of the household, tossing and turning, so that the finances would not collapse, and after Bi Ziyan was dismissed, the finances could no longer be supported and finally collapsed, Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to continue to levy money and grain, forcing more people to take risks......

"I know you're thinking about this bit of my possessions!" Zhu Youzhen didn't have a good breath and said, "Didn't you copy more than 300,000 stone grains from King Fu, so let's use it for relief to the people first." However, Bi Shangshu, the food and grass needed to suppress the bandit army have to be raised by you, the head of the household, Shangshu! ”

Bi Ziyan said happily: "Your Majesty, the minister will definitely do his best." ”

It is now the end of July, and 300,000 stone of grain is enough to support the autumn harvest, and there will be room for tossing and turning.

The more Zhu Youzhen thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became, and said coldly: "Half of the reason why there is civil unrest in northern Shaanxi is caused by the King of Qin. I sent Cao Sicheng, the imperial historian of the left capital, to Xi'an Mansion in person, responsible for the inventory of all the fields in the Qin Palace, I gave him a month, and he must count the results, and ordered the King of Qin to pay off the arrears of land rent over the years, and then transport the grain to northern Shaanxi to appease the people! Xu Xiancun, the commander of the Jin Yiwei, went to Shaanxi with Cao Sicheng to supervise the reform of the Qin clan! ”

Not long ago, the imperial court had sent a large number of imperial histories to various places to supervise the reform of the clan system. The King of Qin in Xi'an Mansion naturally sent people there, and now Zhu Youzhen actually sent a big man like Zuodu Yushi to Xi'an, and there is also the notorious Jinyi Wei leader Xu Xiancun, which is clearly the rhythm of the knife against the King of Qin!

Huang Liji and the others wanted to persuade them to say a few words, so they opened their mouths and closed them again. The emperor is angry, and it is useless to persuade him.

What's more, the King of Qin is not innocent, Guanzhong is fertile for thousands of miles, and no third of them must have a quarter of the Qin Wang's family, in addition to the King of Qin, there are more than a dozen county kings, as well as hundreds of generals, thousands of lieutenants, just to feed the Lu rice they need, they have to occupy seventy or eighty percent of the taxes paid in Shaanxi Province! Why can't the people of northern Shaanxi live? In addition to natural disasters, a large part of the reason lies in these feudal clans. Coupled with the fact that the gentry also owned a large number of non-taxed fields, only two or three percent of Shaanxi's fields were probably in the hands of ordinary people. These two or three percent of the fields have to pay national taxes, feed the vassal kings, and deal with the extortion and looting of the wolf-like servants, how can the people survive?

And Zhu Youzhen can't use the knife against the gentry for the time being, so he can only deal with the weak and bullying vassal clan first. First take the king of Qin, use the money of the Qin king's mansion to appease the displaced people in northern Shaanxi, and then quickly send troops to quell the chaos. The combination of suppression and appeasement, coupled with the exemption of taxes for three years, should be able to quickly quell the civil unrest.

As for sending troops to quell civil unrest, of course, it is the Janissary New Army!