Volume 3: Hundred Tempered into Steel Chapter 161: Selling Land

Although Zhu Qizhen couldn't bear to be so sad as Empress Dowager Sun, after all, it was better to solve the knot than to tie the knot, his cheap father died early, and Empress Dowager Sun may not be happy living alone in the deep palace.

Besides, everyone in the world has opinions about the abolition of Xuanzong, and Zhu Qizhen was originally in the seventh year of Tianshun after the death of Empress Dowager Sun, and he gave Hu Shanxiang a posthumous tribute to Empress Chengshun Kang Mu Jingcizhang.

In this case, why not do it as soon as possible, maybe it can really solve the heart disease of the Empress Dowager Sun.

At that time, it will not only solve the hidden health risks of the Empress Dowager Sun, but also show the prestige of the royal family, especially herself, why not?

But since Zhu Qizhen's idea came out, Empress Dowager Sun began to say nothing, even if she ate dumplings after returning to the palace, she always looked preoccupied.

Zhu Qizhen persuaded him several times, saying that he should have misunderstood the meaning of the first emperor, how could his father's generation of British masters be affected by this?

Empress Dowager Sun always shook her head when she heard this, but she still didn't say anything.

"Your Majesty, Scholar Cao has arrived, and the slave maid has placed him in the Qianqing Palace and waited." Jin Ying quietly approached Zhu Qizhen and whispered.

Zhu Qizhen was hesitating to retire, and the Empress Dowager Sun spoke: "The emperor is busy with business, the mourning family is fine here, the mourning family just wants to be the emperor first, just wait for yourself." ”

Zhu Qizhen got up when he heard this, saluted and said, "The queen mother must take care of her body, and her sons will come when they go."

Today's Chinese New Year's Eve, what you want to eat for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, you will order Jin Ying to do it.

Jin Ying, you will stay here to serve the Queen Mother, help me personally keep an eye on the Shang Shan Supervisor, and cook a good meal of Lu dishes for the Queen Mother.

The queen mother and the sons retired. ”

Empress Dowager Sun nodded Mu Ran, and after Zhu Qizhen left, she withdrew from the palace people around her and sat alone on the bed in a daze.

"Alas, Your Majesty, I know you think that the abolition of the Hu family is unpopular, but can't you wait any longer?

When my mother dies, you can do whatever you want, aren't you stabbing your mother's heart now?

Daddy and mother are not here to make you rightfully ascend the throne, so why risk the world's condemnation?

Why do you have to embarrass your mother like your grandmother? Empress Dowager Sun said and fell on the bed crying.

There is such a saying in history: When Empress Chengxiao Zhang was feasting in the inner court, the Hu family was on the throne of Empress Sun, and Empress Sun was unhappy.

No matter how euphemistic Zhu Qizhen's words are, in the eyes of Empress Dowager Sun, it is no different from the humiliation he suffered before, although only

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If you hear it, you can be hurt by your own son, and it is worse than losing face outside.

Zhu Qizhen naturally didn't know the performance of Empress Dowager Sun, at this time, his mind was already filled with tens of thousands of monks, and he was trying to clean up these bald donkeys.

When he came to the Qianqing Palace, seeing that Cao Nai had been standing, Zhu Qizhen ordered: "Xing'an will move a stool over, no need to be polite, Cao Naizhen asked you, how many monks are in Beijing?" ”

Cao Nai, who had already done his homework in advance, replied without thinking: "There are 11,223 monks, including 342 foreign monks; There are 1,311 Taoist priests.

There are one hundred and seventy-one temples and thirty-seven palaces, occupying thousands of acres of land......"

"What?" Zhu Qizhen, who had just sat down and hadn't taken a sip of water, got up directly and looked at Cao Nai in shock.

"Thousands of hectares? Where did Jingzhong buy so much for them? ”

Don't blame Zhu Qizhen for making a fuss, at this time, Beizhili was not Hebei in later generations.

Close to the border, the people were frightened by the Northern Yuan, maybe they would come to loot it at any time, whether it was the scale of the cultivated fertile land, or the number of people.

In addition, the proportion of the noble minister's family is very high, these thousands of acres of land can even account for as much as five or six tenths of the people's land, but there are millions of people in Beijing, and the per capita land area is less than one cent.

Even if there were a large number of tenants among them, this number would be terrible enough to control the rise and fall of food prices in a small area.

"Don't you care?" Zhu Qizhen asked.

Cao Nai smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, the temple ...... The situation of the temple is not easy to say. ”

Zhu Qizhen followed Cao Nai's gaze and fell on Xing'an on the side, and Xing'an fell to the ground with a weak leg.

"How much land do you occupy through the temple?" Zhu Qizhen asked in a cold voice.

"Slave, slave and maid don't dare." Xing'an's scalp was broken.

Seeing this, Cao Nai hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, in order to avoid taxes, some local gentry attached their fields and properties to the name of the temple, so there is such an amount, and what actually belongs to the temple itself is not as amazing as it seems." ”

"What! Either way, is there less tax revenue from the state?

Well, you ministers, you know that there is such a situation to avoid taxes, but none of you say it.

Cao Nai, you are from Zhendingfu, did you say that your family's land is also hanging in the temple?

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You gentry are already preferential to tax exemptions, but you are not satisfied, and you are not even willing to use them for the imperial court.

The minerals in Kyushu are all minerals, and I also ordered the celebrant to set up a firm to pay taxes. ”

"Your Majesty, the ministers don't have it! Is the minister the kind of person who doesn't know the emperor's grace? Cao Nai also kowtowed with Xing'an.

Zhu Qizhen took a few deep breaths to calm down, but looking at Cao Nai's gaze, or looking at other people's gaze, was getting colder and colder.

"That's it! During the Chinese New Year, I don't want to talk about these things anymore, so I go back and reunite with my family. Zhu Qizhen stopped the self-harm behavior of the two.

Cao Nai was still reluctant to leave, his eyes were red and he said: "Your Majesty, thanks to your appreciation, the minister can come to this day, how can the minister be this ungrateful person!" The Emperor Mingjian! ”

Zhu Qizhen also realized that his words were serious, after all, the courtiers were still relatively honest at this time, so he walked to Cao Nai's side a little reluctantly and helped up the cabinet chief assistant who should have died in battle.

"Cao Aiqing, I dismissed your cabinet chief, you won't blame me, right?"

Cao Nai just wiped his tears with his sleeve, and even looked at his expression and said a little happily: "The emperor naturally has the emperor's considerations, the minister is a courtier, it is the knife in your hand, how you want to use it, the minister will do it, it's just ......"

"Just what?"

"I also hope that in the future, the emperor can directly order that it is better not to treat the minister as an outsider." Cao Nai said and wiped away her tears.

Zhu Qizhen looked at the other party movingly, and he didn't know what to say for a while, and finally he could only sigh and say: "I hope you can understand my hard work, do a good job, and there will be a place for you to contribute to the court in the future." ”

"Your Majesty has a will, and the minister dares not to do his best to serve the death?" Cao Nai knelt down again.

Zhu Qizhen helped Cao Nai up again and said, "It's me who disturbed your mood for the New Year, Xing'an, you ordered someone to take some supplements for Scholar Cao and send them to your home." Cao Nai: Go back to reunite with her family quickly, and wait until it gets dark. ”

After Cao Nai's thanksgiving left, Zhu Qizhen also regained his calm, he glanced at Xing'an, and Xing'an immediately knelt down in interest.

"I can sell as much land as I have in my hand as soon as possible, and it will be difficult to sell it if it is too late." Zhu Qizhen got up and left the Qianqing Palace and walked towards the Renshou Palace.

Xing'an looked at Zhu Qizhen's back, only to feel a cool breath rushing from the center of his feet to Tianlinggai, couldn't help but shiver a few times, and hurriedly left the Qianqing Palace.

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