"Hooray...... Hooray...... Damn it! ”

Just as Zhu Youzhen was thinking about how to clean up Concubine Li Kang, he suddenly heard a wail like killing a pig.

When he heard the sound, he saw an old eunuch about fifty years old in the distance kneeling on the ground and wailing, and was stopped in place by two brocade guards.

This person Zhu Youzhen is very familiar with, he is Wei Jinzhong, who has taken care of Zhu Youxiao's mother and son for more than ten years.

Maybe this name is not famous for later generations, but if it is according to the course of history, he will be given the name Wei Zhongxian by Zhu Youxiao later......

It was this Wei Zhongxian who laid one of the foreshadowings of the sudden death of the Ming Dynasty.

Although some people in later generations said that when Wei Zhongxian was there, how stable was the frontier and how the tax was ......

But in fact, among the two sides of Wei Zhongxian and the Donglin Party, it was the Donglin Party that advocated increasing the commercial tax, and Wei Zhongxian was indeed the initiator of the reduction of the commercial tax.

During the period led by Yang Lian and other six people, the Donglin Party advocated the abolition of mining taxes, the reduction and exemption of land taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the increase of commercial taxes.

The reason is very simple, the Donglin Party at this time was still relatively clean, and they were not a township party, but a party organized by aspirants from all over the country.

Their opponents, before the rise of Wei Zhongxian, were mainly the Chu Party in Huguang and Henan, the Zhejiang Party in Zhejiang and Southern Zhili, and the Qi Party in Shandong and Northern Zhili.

These three major parties can be seen from the region, the birthplace of the Chu Party is a place rich in grain, while the Zhejiang Party is a place where merchants are rampant, and the Qi Party is a place rich in salt and iron.

In addition to them, there are also some small parties, such as the Sichuan Party, the Min Party, the Qin Party, and other township parties that are gathered together by geography and hometown.

They colluded with the officials and businessmen at the bottom, exploited the people together with the big businessmen, and distributed the taxes of the original big businessmen to the people.

That is, when the big businessmen came out to stand in line to pay the tax, the people blindly obeyed, and after paying the tax, the squire and businessmen returned the full amount, and the people's taxes were evenly shared, part of which was handed over to the imperial court, and part of which was embezzled by the officials below.

In such a situation, it is the common people who suffer the most, not only by the officials, but also by the big businessmen.

Therefore, Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou advocated reducing land taxes and increasing commercial taxes and miscellaneous.

Later generations thought that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not know the potential of commercial taxes, but among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, especially Wanli, Zhu Changluo, and Zhu Youxiao, they all knew the potential of commercial taxes.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have been using the Donglin Party.

To put it bluntly, the Donglin Party is a good backbiter, and even the first four years of Zhu Youxiao's succession to the throne were also using the idea of the Donglin Party.

But such problems began to end in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, when there was infighting within the Donglin Party.

Wei Zhongxian began to come to power, and he had a grudge against the Donglin Party, and he was the kind that never stopped.

At this time, all the township parties were targeted by the Donglin Party and suffered unspeakably, so they turned their heads to Wei Zhongxian, and they formed the so-called "eunuch party".

If Wei Zhongxian wants to encircle his subordinates, he naturally has to give benefits, and the most intuitive benefits are the reduction and exemption of commercial taxes and miscellaneous.

Wei Zhongxian won the support of the local big businessmen by reducing or reducing the commercial tax, and the local township party officials in order to make money and in order to pat Wei Zhongxian's ass, they worked with the big businessmen to distribute the commercial taxes on the heads of the big businessmen to the small businessmen.

After gaining profits, big businessmen and local officials began to build shrines for Wei Zhongxian in the local area to make a fool of themselves.

At this time, there was strife within the Donglin Party, and some people defected from the Donglin Party and defected to the Eunuch Party, and then the purge of the Donglin Party.

Until the end of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Donglin Party, which served the country and the people like Yang Lian and others, had died.

It can be said that since the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the real Donglin Party has died, and in addition to Xu Guangqi, Zhang Huangyan, Sun Chengzong, and Lu Xiangsheng, a small number of capable officials and officials, other officials are essentially the former eunuchs.

The end of the Ming Dynasty was already rotten, and it was very difficult to rebuild it, even more difficult than to create a new dynasty.

But Zhu Youzhen has no choice, he has become a person in the center of power, whether he wants to be an idle prince or an emperor, he must govern the Ming Dynasty.

He knew that Wei Jinzhong was not a good thing, but everyone had his usefulness.

Therefore, he did not fan the flames, because he knew that Zhu Youxiao was essentially reluctant to kill Wei Jinzhong.

"Let him come!"

As soon as Zhu Youxiao spoke, the two brocade guards immediately let him go, and Wei Jinzhong also crawled over, knelt on the ground with a handful of snot and tears, and cried:

"Long live, long live slaves and maids......"

"Heh......" Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao sneered: "You are not wrong in what you said. ”

"The slave maid wanted to take the opportunity to rescue Banzai, but she didn't want Concubine Kang to not give the slave a chance, the slave maid had to go to Kebaba, but Kebaba had no choice, fortunately, Banzai Jiren had his own natural ......"

Wei Zhongxian sobbed, but Zhu Youxiao had a serious expression on his face after hearing the words "Kebaba".

Zhu Youzhen, who was next to him, saw this change and didn't say anything, just because he understood the importance of "Kebaba" for Zhu Youxiao.

Kebaba is also known as the Hakka family, she entered the palace at the age of eighteen and took care of Zhu Youxiao for sixteen years as a nursing mother, and there is no incest slandered by later generations, after all, this cannot happen in the system of the inner court.

For Zhu Youxiao, after the death of his biological mother, the Hakka family is no less than an adoptive mother in the real sense.

Even if it is Zhu Youzhen himself, he is not sure that in Zhu Youxiao's heart, his status can be higher than that of the Hakka family.

He won't come out at this time, what he is not sure of, he will not do.

Once he makes Zhu Youxiao unhappy, maybe there will be no way to realize the plan in his heart.

There are too many things for brothers to separate for women, friends, and status, and Zhu Youzhen will not gamble with his life.

He stood silently behind Zhu Youxiao, while Wang An glanced at him with a little surprise in his eyes.

Being able to advance and retreat is a prerequisite for the inner court and the outer court.

Establish yourself in an invincible position before you have a chance to win.

His silence was not noticed by Zhu Youxiao, because Zhu Youxiao's mind at this time had already been placed on the Hakka family.

He thought for a moment, and then said to Wei Jinzhong:

"You tell Kebaba to let her stay in the inner court, and when the inner court is more stable in a few days, I will summon Kebaba again."

"Long live the slave and maid, long live the slave and maid, long live the slave and maid......" Wei Jinzhong, who heard this, knew that he didn't have to die, so he hurriedly kowtowed and knocked out a red mark on his forehead.

"Alright, you can step down." Zhu Youxiao was out of sight and out of mind, and directly waved his hand to ask Wei Jinzhong to leave.

"The slave and maid retired ......" Wei Jinzhong, who saved his life, knocked again and again, and then bowed while retreating, and finally disappeared.

Zhu Youzhen saw that he was gone, and also said to Zhu Youxiao:

"My brother was tired last night and couldn't get a good rest, now let's go to the palace to have a good rest, and my brother will go back to the palace to rest first."

"The national funeral will start after noon, and the younger brother will go back to rest first."

"Hmm!" It seems that because Zhu Youzhen arranged everything, Zhu Youxiao was not as uneasy as before, he nodded and said:

"My brother has a lot of rest, and Wang An will do the national funeral."

"That brother has retired......," he said, Zhu Youzhen slowly took a few steps back, and then left the main hall with Wang Chengen.

Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Youzhen's back, from the original chin with a smile, but little by little it became suspicious......