On the sixteenth day of the second year of Chongzhen, Chang Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen didn't miss Concubine Tian's quilt, got up early, wore a dragon robe under the waitree of the eunuch palace, washed, and went to court after using snacks.

In the court, the cabinet ministers, officials above the squire, as well as the inspectorate and the imperial historians of the six departments were waiting in the main hall.

After the three prostrations, the officials returned to their respective positions and began their deliberations as usual.

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu took the lead to come out: "Your Majesty, the coming year will be the provincial and township examinations, and after the Ministry of Rites has deliberated, the following officials are elected to supervise the provincial and township examinations, and the list is as follows......"

Zhu Youzhen nodded slightly: "Accurate!" ”

Hubu Shangshu then stood up: "Your Majesty, the governor of Sichuan sent someone to report that there was an earthquake in Wumeng, more than 1,000 houses collapsed, more than 10,000 people were displaced, and asked the court for compensation. ”

Zhu Youzhen said expressionlessly: "Yes." ”

The Ministry of Industry then stood up: "......"

Zhu Youzhen: "Okay." ”

These are all routine official articles, and the matters have already been determined by repeated discussions by the cabinet, and Zhu Youzhen has also reviewed them, so naturally there is no controversy, and no one has come forward to tear them up.

Many officials listened drowsily, but others waited for the end of these routine deliberations before they could show their skills, such as the Imperial Historians.

Zhong Jianyuan, Xu Song, Shi Fan and other imperial historians kept making eye contact, encouraging each other, and just waiting for the end of the routine deliberations, they collectively impeached Sun Chuanting.

Some people impeach Sun Chuanting for profit, and they take a fancy to the annual military expenditure of millions of taels of silver in Liaoxi and Liaodong, and some are only impeached for the sake of impeachment, such as some imperial histories, after all, it is a great achievement to be able to pull down a feudal official!

Finally, the routine came to an end, and no one stood up again.

At this moment, many officials looked excited, some wanted to go back to the next court to make up for sleep, and some knew that the time had come for the big war.

In the eyes of the officials, Wang Chengen, who was standing on the side of the throne, stepped forward slowly, but did not shout the routine "Something to start, nothing to retreat", but slowly unfolded a bright yellow scroll.

"Hey", many officials were stunned, this is the rhythm of announcing the emperor's will.

"The system said, since the 46th year of Wanli Jiannu rebelled and attacked Fushun, for more than ten years, Liaodong was lost, Jiannu was ravaged and invaded repeatedly, and our Ming army was repeatedly defeated, and the soldiers lost their land. In order to deal with the construction of slaves, the imperial court levied a heavy burden, which brought a heavy burden to the people of the world, and the people's grievances were boiling, so that there were civil riots in Shaanxi, and there were riots in Shandong, Henan and other places.

At present, although Liaodong has not yet been pacified, after the battle of Liaodong, more than half of the Jiannu army and population have been lost, and it will not threaten the Ming Dynasty for at least ten years.

Mencius said that the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light. Xunzi also said that water can carry a boat and also capsize a boat. The people of the world, the world of me, is also the world of the people of the world, without the people of the world, where am I, where is the Ming Dynasty?

Thinking that the people of the world are living too hard, I don't want to increase the burden on the people, so I decided to stop levying Liao salary across the country from Chongzhen three years ago, so that the people can recuperate. ”

In just a short paragraph, there is no one who cares, there is no chewing words, and very plain words come out of Wang Chengen's duck throat, but they are so shocked that the whole court is quiet. The suspension of the levy of Liaoyu, the four big characters, like Huang Zhong Dalu, rang in the hearts of all officials, shocking them.

During the Wanli period, the Jianzhou Jurchen rebelled, Liaodong quickly erosed, the treasury was empty and could not take out the money for conscription, so the Liao salary was levied, except for the land belonging to some Tusi in Guizhou, all provinces were levied Liao, according to the land of the acres of land. At the beginning, an additional three cents and five millimeters of silver were levied on one acre of land, and later the disaster of building slaves intensified, and more and more silver was levied, until each acre of land was levied as much as nine cents, and the annual levy of silver was as much as one or two million taels to four or five million taels!

In the first year of Chongzhen, the additional salary amounted to 5 million taels!

Five million taels of silver, compared to the hundreds of millions of people in the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that it is not much, but you must know that this is only the silver that is levied and sent to the imperial court, and the officials in private use this as a name to expropriate and extort violently, and the silver collected from the people is at least several times that of these five million taels, at least one or two million taels. Moreover, the gentry and wealthy families who occupied most of the land did not give out the money, and all the silver was passed on to the ordinary people who had no power and powerless.

Even in the wealthy south of the Yangtze River, there are many people who sell their children and land because they can't afford to pay the extra salary, not to mention the north where natural disasters have been going on for many years, and the reason why such a big civil unrest broke out in northern Shaanxi is absolutely inseparable from the more and more Liao salaries that are levied.

The weather is getting colder and colder, there are droughts year after year, the yield of the fields is reduced, the people are already not full, the court not only does not pay for the pension but also levies more money and grain, and the people can only abandon the fields and become homeless people. Some of the homeless people sold themselves as slaves of the gentry and wealthy families to barely survive, and many more homeless people could not even get this opportunity, so they had to take risks in order to survive.

In fact, over the years, civil unrest has broken out in Shandong and Henan, such as the Xu Hongru Rebellion in Shandong, but because it is located in the Central Plains and is too close to Beijing, it was easily suppressed.

In northern Shaanxi, because it is far away from Beijing, the people are fierce, and it is difficult to suppress once the riots occur. It's just that Zhu Youzhen lived once, and knew that northern Shaanxi was the source of the civil unrest, so he drove the rebellion in person when the northern Shaanxi rebellion just started, and quelled the civil unrest in the bud.

Zhu Youzhen had accumulated a lot of money and grain in his hands because of the raid on the eunuch party and the seizure of King Fu, and he was able to quickly pacify the displaced people in northern Shaanxi by relying on the money and grain in his hand. But in the face of the poor people in the whole north and the whole world, relying on this little money and food in his hands is not enough.

Now that Liaodong has won a big victory, it is difficult for Jiannu to become a threat to the Ming Dynasty in the near future, and it is time to reduce the burden on the people of the world. When the levy was suspended, the people paid less money and grain, and the most important thing was that the officials had less reason to take the opportunity to scrape the fish and meat, and many ordinary people could breathe a sigh of relief, and their lives could barely go on, and they would no longer take risks.

Of course, now that the war has just ended, the levy of Liao salary has been suspended, which seems to be very urgent, but Zhu Youzhen also has to do so. It is now the month of Layue, and it will take at least a month or two for the imperial court's order to stop levying Liao salaries to all provinces and counties across the country. If we wait a little longer until the army retreats from Liaodong, and wait until the affairs of Liaodong are completely over, and then issue an order to stop collecting Liaoyu, I am afraid that it will not be until the summer when the provinces and counties receive the order, and at that time many places may have already collected Liaoyu for next year.

So we have to take advantage of the year before this order is issued!

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