After Li Xingzhi instructed Liu Lishun to submit the "Salt and Iron Rectification Order" and the "Mining Tax Rectification Order", the newly established Yongli Imperial Court of the Ming Dynasty caused an uproar.

According to the system, as long as the Prime Minister's Office submits this matter, the cabinet members vote to draft, and the celebrant supervises approve the red, and the completion of this set of procedures is within the scope of the Ming law's recognition, but due to the difficulty of the Jingbei Army, the ceremonial supervisor has already existed in name only, and it can be signed by the two auxiliary kings.

Originally, the main force of the Jingbei Army was still in Gyeonggi, and the hundred officials were taken by the military prestige of the Jingbei Army, and they did not dare to make a mistake, and after the clinker Jiaoshan battle report was transmitted to the Beijing Division, many officials saw the defeat of the Jingbei Army, and they had a repeated heart, but because the Fourth Town and the newly formed Jinyi Wei were in Beijing, they did not dare to point the finger directly at Li Xingzhi, but impeached Liu Lishun, the first assistant of the cabinet who proposed these two bills.

Literati don't use knives to kill people, and when it comes to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the scholars and doctors will point out that the punishment is not inferior to the doctor, and the etiquette is not inferior to the people, but when the imperial court proposes to levy commercial taxes and mining taxes according to the law, the penmen who control the public opinion of the Ming Dynasty have become the people again.

Since the cabinet was actually controlled by the officials of Shandong Town, to which Li Xingzhi belonged, the courtiers who colluded with many parties did not stupidly submit the bullet seal directly to the cabinet, but chose to attack the court meeting in the middle of each month.

On the 11th and 15th of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the Wangri Dynasty Meeting, in fact, such a court meeting has become a form of etiquette after Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the original cabinet chief assistant Liu Lishun and the governor of the Jingshi City Defense Zhang Shaoqian and the commander of the Jinyi Guard Ma Sande did not agree, but the Fu King Zhu Changxun thought that it must be held, the reason is that his old man wants to enjoy the hundred officials to congratulate and rule all directions.

King Fu is still nominally Li Xingzhi's future father-in-law, how dare Liu Lishun and others disobey, just open it, and the left and right are just a formality.

The clinker waited for the hundred officials to congratulate the end, but it was a sudden change in the style of painting, and Chen Qixin suddenly came out of the household department, took out a question book from his sleeve pocket and said loudly: "In the matter of the minister's household department, Chen Qixin played His Majesty and the two auxiliary kings, and the first auxiliary minister of the cabinet Liu Lishun The proposal for reforming salt and iron and mining taxes put forward by the former is not in line with the teachings of our emperor Ming ancestors. ”

Chen Qixin said that he grabbed the ground with his head and bowed heavily in front of His Majesty.

"The ministers seconded it!"

"The ministers seconded it!"

Wang Shilun, director of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Jiaji, director of the Ministry of Households, and other officials of science and technology seconded the proposal, and the reason why they dared to disregard Li Xingzhi's majesty so much was that this song did not explicitly refer to anyone, but talked about the tax standards set by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, when he was alive.

Zhu Changxun was stunned, our original intention was to play prestige, you cowards actually moved Lao Tzu's ancestors out at the court meeting, looking at the court ministers who knelt on the ground, he couldn't help but think of his Lao Tzu Wanli Emperor because of the mining tax, forced by the civil official group not to dare to go to the court.

"Regarding the reform of salt, iron and mining taxes, it was originally proposed by the first minister, how can the first person explain this matter?"

After hesitating for a long time on the brocade pier on the left side of the throne, Zhu Changxun raised his eyes to look at Liu Lishun, to be honest, Zhu Changxun agreed with the collection of mining tax and salt tax, why do you civil officials guard these money-making transactions, and the four million taels of silver donated by this king do not know where to get it back?

Liu Lishun thought for a while, and replied: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Fu, His Royal Highness King De, at this time, at that time, when Taizu Zhaoji, the world was initially decided, my Emperor Taizu had to reduce taxes to support the people in order to recuperate, and now the country is worried about internal and external troubles, and the people have been miserable. ”

Wu Changshi sneered again and again, "Hehe, the first is wrong, Emperor Taizu once said, future generations cannot change, violators, according to the great disrespect, Shoufu is now changing the ancestral teachings, this is a blatant contempt for my Emperor Taizu, the two auxiliary kings, such a big disrespectful thing, how to deal with it?" ”

Zhu Changxun was even more depressed, although he was a local vassal king, but Emperor Wanli trained him as a prince back then, and he still knew something about the government, knowing that these cowards were using Taizu Xun as a shield, but there was no way at all, so he had to turn his head to look at Zhu Youshu, the king of Germany, who was sitting on the right side of His Majesty.

"What do you think Lone is doing? What is the situation of loneliness, don't you know that you are the father-in-law of Li Xingzhi's dog? ”

Zhu Youshu saw Zhu Changxun looking at himself, and immediately slandered, we are sitting in Dan Majesty, and the disaster came from the side, and secretly scolded Zhu Changxun, so he had to speak: "It stands to reason that the ancestral teachings of Taizu cannot be violated, but the situation is difficult, if you continue to stick to the old ways, my emperor Ming foundation may be difficult to overturn, and Taizu Zu Xun not only set a commercial tax, but also a thirty tax in the agricultural tax. ”

"His Royal Highness is reasonable, since the fourth year of Chongzhen, the imperial court has successively increased the salary and salary, this pavilion has heard Xue Ge Lao say, Chongzhen 12 years, the imperial court's agricultural tax has been increased to Chongzhen 15 years, so the official forced the people to rebel, is it against the Taizu legacy?"

Song Guangkun, the former prefect of Laizhou and now a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion University, got up and questioned.

"This ......!"

For a while, the civil and military officials in front of the Fengtian Palace were speechless.

"Elder Song Ge, this official remembers that you are an uncle and sister-in-law who was deposed of your fame, the first emperor thought that you had a meritorious service in Shandong, so you restored your fame, you kept saying that the first emperor was sent to the party, are you worthy of the first emperor?"

Zhou Zhonglian, the director of the Ministry of Rites, saw that the situation was not good, but he changed the topic, and turned the matter that violated Taizu's teachings into a personal attack.

"Hehe, such a low-ranking and shameless person can be in the center, which is really a shame for the children of saints such as us."

Chen Qixin, Wang Shilun, Wu Changshi and other officials showed disdainful expressions on their faces one by one, and looked at Song Guangkun with a smile on his face.

Without waiting for Song Guangkun to speak, Chen Qixin played again: "Your Majesty, the two auxiliary kings, the matter of business and taxation, let's talk about it later, Weichen heard that the first and the cabinet had asked for the matter of opening the Enke a few days ago, but this scientific examination is all about the scholars to test the art of archery, this scholar has been a cold window for ten years, and finally passed the township test, and now it is said that it will be changed, so what is the significance of the ten years of cold window for all scholars?" This official is the plan of the imperial court, for the plan of the Ming Society, and also asks the two auxiliary kings to stop this court meeting. ”

After finishing speaking, Chen Qixin knelt down again, slowly took off the black gauze hat on his head, and showed a decisive look on his face.

"Director Chen said well, let the Qing nobles practice the art of archery, this is really insulting, the loss of Shoufu and the elders of the pavilion came out, this is to dig up my Confucian Taoism, the inheritance of the sage!"

He believes that even if Li Xingzhi can cover the sky with one hand, but the governance of the world still depends on the literati, who are as strong as the barbarian Mongols.