Two streets away from the Yang family's mansion, there is another mansion, which is also brightly lit.

It's just that outside this mansion, there is only a sedan chair parked, and the person who comes out of it is Zhang Yi, a cabinet scholar.

The owner of the mansion is Yang Dan, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, who has already gone out to greet him in person.

Zhang Yi hugged his fists: "The affairs are heavy, I just got out, and I hope that the virtuous brother is not strange!" ”

Yang Dan led Zhang Yi to the inner house and said, "I heard that Brother Zhang returned to Beijing, and Brother Yu made a special trip to Wenyuan Pavilion to meet him, but he saw that Brother Zhang was very busy, did something happen to Mobei?" ”

Zhang Yi's face was full of exhaustion, and he said: "The two thousand cavalry of the Tatar Department suddenly rushed into the territory of our Ming Dynasty, and the emperor did not bring guards with him, and the situation was critical, so he needed to urgently transfer troops to Mobei to meet the enemy. ”

When the two came to the inner house, a maid immediately came over with tea.

Yang Dan waved his hand, the maid understood, turned around and went out, and closed the door with him.

"So, the court is going to war again?"

Zhang Yi took a sip of the teacup, and then said, "Sort of!" ”

Yang Dan was puzzled and asked, "Is this ...... At last? ”

Zhang Yitang smiled and said, "It's just two thousand people, it's not a problem at all." ”

"Which troops is the imperial court going to transfer to Mobei?"

As he spoke, a cold light flashed in Yang Dan's eyes, but it was fleeting.

Zhang Yi didn't notice anything unusual, and said truthfully: "Five military camps! ”

It stands to reason that the transfer of troops to fight is a secret of the imperial court, and only a few relevant yamen of the cabinet, the military department, and the household department, and only a few high-level officials are qualified to know the inside story.

Zhang Yi didn't hide it at all, because although Yang Dan was the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, the two had another relationship.

Yang Dan's father is Yang Pu, the former cabinet assistant.

When it comes to the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty, the first thing that most people think of is Sanyang, that is, the famous Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, and Yang Pu.

After Emperor Taizong Zhu Di was martyred, he abolished all the reform measures of Emperor Jianwen and restored the ancestral system of the Hongwu Dynasty.

Soon, he realized that something was wrong.

Because Lao Zhu abolished the Zhongshu Province and the emperor directly managed the six departments, this also led to the emperor's daily workload seriously exceeding the standard, even if he only slept for two or three hours a day, the rest of the time was used to approve the folds, and he could not approve it.

However, he started from Jingnan, under the slogan of the Qing monarch, and now he has taken over the country, and he must not dare to move a word about the ancestral system.

I didn't do it, I didn't dare to change it, I thought about it, and finally found a compromise method, the cabinet!

In the late Hongwu Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang once formed a cabinet, which was originally intended to be a secretarial group, which could only put forward opinions and had no decision-making power.

At this time, the cabinet members have neither character nor power, and are completely obedient babies.

Zhu Di simply came to steal the beams and change the pillars, summoned Xia Yuanji, Xie Jin and others into the cabinet, and at the same time gave the cabinet higher powers, in addition to suggestions, you can also give instructions.

The general process is as follows:

The recitals sent to the imperial court by the hundred officials first went to the cabinet, and several people in the cabinet read it for the first time, and after reading it, they had to write an approval, and then submitted it to the emperor.

At this time, the emperor only needs to make a checkmark, or a cross, and it's over!

The direct execution of the checkmark, and the cross-cut and cross-fertive are sent back for reconsideration.

At this moment, he can be regarded as freeing himself from the vast sparseness, and he can free up his hands to lead the troops to fight.

However, in order to prevent the cabinet from becoming bigger and stronger, Zhu Di still kept an eye on it.

He separated the cabinet outside the six ministries, and all the ministers were of very low quality, which not only restrained the hundred officials, but also prevented his family from becoming bigger and stronger, and always kept in a state of balance between the emperor and the hundred officials.

This state lasted until the end of the Yongle period, and when the Renxuan Dynasty arrived, the situation suddenly changed.

Emperor Renzong's personality is completely different from his father's, he has no ambition to expand the territory, and he has never fought since he was a child, except for the battle in Beiping City, he has never been on the battlefield.

Since there is no war, then vigorously develop the economy and restore the people's livelihood, so that it will be more dependent on civilian officials.

It was from this time that the momentum of emphasizing literature over military force appeared in the imperial court.

When he arrived in the Xuande Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji couldn't sit still and wanted to fight again, but at this time, under the leadership of Sanyang, the civilian official group became bigger and stronger, and even began to send supervisors to various armies to participate in military affairs.

As a result of civilian officials leading troops, the combat effectiveness of the barracks began to decline sharply, and then ...... Jiaozhi is lost, and Nu'er Gandusi is lost.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji was unwilling to accept this result, so he set up an inner study hall, intending to use eunuchs to contain the cabinet, but he didn't expect to train a Wang Zhen who covered the sky with one hand for his good son Zhu Qizhen.

In the "History of the Ming Dynasty", Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, and Yang Pu are listed as a biography, and at the end it says:

It is to be called virtuous, and it must be the first three Yangs. All of them can be originally Confucianism, understand several things, cooperate with each other, and slack the CCP. Historically known as Fang, Du ...... It is also known as Yao and Jing, who are good at keeping the text to hold the righteousness of the world. Three Yang Qishu almost.

To put it simply, Sanyang is to be a virtuous minister.

Since it is compared to a virtuous minister, it also shows that the cabinet developed and grew during the Sanyang period.

Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi died of illness in the fifth year of orthodoxy and the seventh year of orthodoxy respectively, and before Zhu Qizhen's personal expedition, only Yang Pu was left in the glorious three Yangs.

At that time, Wang Zhen was autocratic, and the court was full of smoke and miasma, and although Yang Pu took over as the first assistant of the cabinet, he couldn't fight Wang Zhen at all.

In the following years, he silently forbeared, and successively cultivated Cao Nai, Miao Zhen, Chen Xun, Zhang Yi and others to balance Wang Zhen.

Zhang Yi is Yang Pu pulled it up, so he and Yang Dan are often referred to as brothers.

Even if it is a major event in the imperial court, he will not deliberately hide it.

First, Yang Dan's identity is Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and he has the right to interrogate.

Moreover, as the son of his mentor Yang Pu, his character is naturally trustworthy.

As soon as he returned to Beijing today, he received an invitation from Yang Dan, and he didn't think much about it, he pushed away other entertainment, and hurried over after finishing his business.

Yang Dan's face turned pale, and he continued to ask: "Since the situation is urgent, why don't you send out the three thousand battalions?" ”

The 3,000 battalion was cavalry, and it was more mobile when fighting.

Zhang Yi replied: "The three thousand battalions went out to train, but they have not returned yet, and the Shenji battalion has too much baggage, so it is more suitable for the fifth legion." ”

Yang Dan nodded, and suddenly changed the subject: "By the way, Brother Zhang, a friend came from his hometown and brought you some small gifts." ”

Zhang Yi was puzzled and asked, "What?" ”

Yang Dan got up and took out a small wooden box and put it on the table.

Zhang Yi saw that he didn't speak, and he was mysterious, so he asked, "What is it?" ”

Yang Dan smiled and said, "Brother Zhang will know at a glance. ”

Zhang Yi didn't think too much, stretched out his hand to open it, and it turned out to be a pile of land deeds.

"What is this?"

Yang Dan still didn't speak, picked up the teacup, blew the tea foam floating on it, and drank it slowly.

Zhang Yi became more and more puzzled, picked up the title deed and glanced at it, and suddenly his expression changed greatly.

"Brother Yang Xian, these land deeds ...... How is it in your hands? ”

Yang Dan put down the teacup and said leisurely: "It's not a foolish brother, but another friend." ”

"Who is it?"

"This person, Brother Zhang, also knows, it is the commander of Jian'anwei, Yang Tai."

"Yang Tai?"

Zhang Yi's expression was grim, this Yang Tai was not a relative of Yang Dan, but the grandson of Yang Rong, another cabinet minister, among the three Yangs.

"What does he mean by taking these title deeds?"

Yang Dan said: "These are the ancestral properties of Brother Zhang, and it is a pity to sell them to those cheap merchants at a low price?" ”

Three years ago, the imperial court changed the tax law and implemented the system of apportionment into the mu.

Before that, it was called a population tax, or a poll tax.

If there are several people in the family, how much tax will be paid.

This system has been the case since the Han Dynasty for more than 1,000 years and nearly 2,000 years.

However, the people at the bottom are too poor to pay at all, so they have to run away with their families or hide the report, and in the most cruel time, they will even drown babies.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang established a household registration system to prevent the people from escaping.

After Zhu Qizhen fought in the south and the north, and after quelling the foreign strife, he finally attacked the gentry class, opened the sea, and the new deal was completed in one go, which made people unguardable.

From now on, paying taxes does not depend on the size of the population, but on how much land and how much property you have in your family.

After the population tax was exempted, the people could produce with peace of mind and no longer flee, and the restrictions of the household registration system were no longer necessary.

As a result, the big landlords, who used to value the land more than their lives, began to waver.

Because the land tax is divided into grades, the more acres of land, the more tax will be paid, and it will rise in multiples, up to 50%.

Do the math, these lands at home, growing grain is not enough to pay taxes, and you still plant a ball?

From that time on, the situation of land annexation was broken in one fell swoop, and the former landlord and gentry continued to sell their land, and invested the silver obtained from the sale of land into other industries, such as trade, workshops, etc.

In short, what to make money does.

Zhang Yi's hometown has 150,000 acres of fertile land, and he is a genuine landowner.

This is not to say that he is a corrupt official, the insatiable kind.

In the Ming Dynasty, as long as you are an official, you either have a lot of land in your own hands, or your relatives have a lot of land, in short, no one is poor.

Even if it is bought by legitimate means, it cannot be less.

Not to mention that many land transactions are illegitimate and even have cunning and grabbing.

There is also a situation where affiliation.

For example, the gentry class, all of whom have meritorious reputations, can be exempted from a part of the land tax.

Zhang Yi was exempt from tax of 500 stones, that is, if he needed to pay 2,000 stone grain tax, he would only need to pay 1,500 stone if he was exempted from 500 stones.

This does not include the fact that some people deliberately conceal the number of acres of land through some means, and in the end only pay a small amount of taxes, or even pretend to be too lazy to pretend, and simply do not pay.

But the people can't, they can pay as much as they should, and there are no preferential policies.

So there was a situation in which the people took out their land at home and gave it to the landlord.

Then as a tenant, he continued to farm.

The landlord pays part of the grain grown, and keeps the rest.

That's because landlords have the right and the ability to hide the number of acres they have.

This kind of field became a hidden field, and it was not recorded in the government's fish scale book.

However, after the New Deal, the imperial court cleared acres of land on a large scale, and the hidden fields could not be hidden.

Everyone understands that the land is no longer profitable, so sell it without hesitation!

Under such a wave, Zhang Yi is no exception, selling a large amount of his family's land, anyway, he is not short of money, let alone food.

But I didn't expect that someone would buy these lands back today, which is very strange.

Because his family's land is close to the city of Nanjing, most of the land he bought was used to set up workshops and engage in industrial production, and he would inevitably build a lot of infrastructure, so it was only two years, how could he sell it?

What's even more bizarre is that it was Yang Rong's grandson who bought these lands again.

The current cabinet members, except for the newly promoted Yu Qian and Peng Qing, were all cultivated by the original Sanyang.

Although Miao Zhen and Chen Xun have already become scholars, their protégés and former officials are still serving in the imperial court.

It is no exaggeration to say that Sanyang is the ancestor of all Wenchen today.

This is also why the identity of Shaoqing of Dali Temple in Yangdan District has a high prestige in the DPRK.

Now that another grandson of Yang Rong has popped up, things are starting to get a little strange.

"Brother Xian, don't sell Guanzi, what do these title deeds mean?"

Yang Dan no longer concealed it, and said: "Yang Tai sent the title deed back, just to tell Brother Zhang that these lands are the property of Brother Zhang's ancestors, how can they be easily sold?" ”

Zhang Yi frowned and said, "Brother Xian, do you know how much tax you have to pay when you hold these lands in your hands?" ”

Yang Dan still had a light smile on his face, and said: "According to the new policy, those that exceed 10,000 mu are the highest grade, fifty percent." ”

Zhang Yi was speechless for a while, do you know how to get it back for me?

Am I selling my land because I lack money?

I'm the second assistant of the cabinet, is this money missing?

"Brother Zhang, don't worry, in fact, Brother Yu invited his brother to come tonight just to talk about the issue of land."

Zhang Yi finally heard some clues, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said: "Brother Xian, if you have anything to say, just say it directly, with the relationship between you and me, there is no need to go around, otherwise, I won't come back tonight." ”

"Brother Zhang is refreshing, and that foolish brother won't go around the bend!"

Yang Dan's expression suddenly became solemn, and said: "Today, the emperor is taking advantage of the new policy to make a lot of money, competing with the people for profit, and making the court a miasma, and the officials are even more reckless, corrupt and bribe, and exploit the people, Brother Zhang can know that the people of the world have complained!" ”

Zhang Yi's face darkened suddenly, and he said, "Brother Xian, be cautious!" ”

"Brother Zhang is an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, doesn't he know anything about these situations?"

Zhang Yiteng stood up and said angrily: "Yang Dan, I have been benevolent to you in the love of my teacher. I don't think I heard your rebellious remarks tonight, and if I mention it again in the future, I won't blame my brother for turning his face and not recognizing people! ”

Slandering the New Deal and smearing the emperor is already equivalent to public rebellion!

Yang Dan raised his head and laughed.

Immediately afterwards, his face changed, and he said coldly: "Zhang Yi, you have to think clearly, who brought you up the position of cabinet assistant!" ”

Zhang Yi said angrily: "What are you going to do? ”

Yang Dan said: "The so-called new policy is all an excuse for the imperial court to collect money, and the people of the world are already miserable, at this time, do you still want to pretend to be blind and deaf?" ”

Zhang Yi finally understood, it turned out that it was not equivalent to rebellion, this product was rebellion!

"You're going to rebel?"