"This is the food and clothing of millions of workers, Your Majesty should not have such thoughts."

Zhu Yuanzhang was wearing a big placket and four regiments of regular clothes, sitting on the soft collapse of Su embroidery in the Wenhua Palace.

On the pear incense table on both sides, there is a Xuande furnace, and wisps of agarwood rise, dyeing out a stream of tranquility and tranquility.

The tranquility in the Wenhua Hall did not last long, and was soon turned into depression and anger by the aggressiveness of several central officials.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at several central officials sitting on the official hat chair, and was bored for no reason.

How did the Yuan Dynasty die.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew better than any central official in front of him.

Mainly due to the various maladministrations caused by the bureaucracy and gentry, the state treasury collapsed, and the common people had no way to live.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to go on an expedition to Liaodong to defeat the remnants of the Mongol Tatars in Liaodong, and prepare to rectify a major maladministration of the Ming Dynasty, so that the treasury would have money and grain to conquer Liaodong.

This major malaise is Cao Yun.

This waterway not only communicates the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, but also relates to the taxation of the Ming Dynasty.

Taxes on silver, silk cloth, rice, tea, etc., had to be transported to Jinling through waterways.

These large quantities of goods are not lightweight, and these taxes can only be transported by water.

In the process of transportation, fire consumption is inevitable.

These unnecessary expenditures have led to unimaginable extravagant tax expenditures.

Zhu Yuanzhang understood the dangers of the Cao Yun better than anyone else, so he summoned several central officials and proposed a new policy to rectify the malpractices of the Cao Yun.

Waste and change to sea.

Just put it forward, but before the benefits of it were elaborated, several central officials did not think about it, and immediately rejected the new policy in a solemn and stern manner.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened to the harsh 'million workers', looked at the old faces of several central officials who were not ashamed at all, and was speechless.

Open your mouth to be a million workers, close your mouth to the people's livelihood and public opinion, and those who don't know think that these people are really loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty who are dedicated to the country and the people.

In the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, these bureaucrats and gentry thought they could deceive the beggar-born emperor, and only the disgusting faction and selfishness remained.

What kind of virtues do these bureaucrats usually have?

For their own selfish interests, they are eager to dig up the ancestral graves of other central officials.

Tonight, these central officials suddenly changed their sex, did not fight or fight, and their relationship was so harmonious that it was like a township party that had lived together for generations, and they were united in the outside world.

It's nothing more than two words, silver profit.

According to the provisions of the Ming Law, the fire consumption generated by Cao Yun is only the loss on the way to Cao Yun.

It was almost insignificant for the millions of stone of grain collected by the various political secretaries.

However, compared with the early years of Hongwu, the amount of grain was reduced by hundreds of thousands of stones.

Where is all this grain?

Several central officials really think that Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't know?

It's all in the pockets of these bureaucratic gentry.

If it is really abolished and the sea is changed, how can the bureaucrats and gentry, these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, still eat the fire consumption of the past years.

Zhu Yuanzhang's body leaned back slightly, leaning on Su Xiu's soft collapse, and his face was expressionless: "Some time ago, Jinyiwei went to check the treasury inventory and found that the treasury was already a little unable to make ends meet to maintain the current armament. ”

"The world has been decided, and there are still Liaodong and northern grasslands to be conquered, so we have to expand the army."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately paused and looked at the central officials in front of him.

There was still no change in the expressions on the old faces of several central officials, as if this matter had nothing to do with them.

Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "But now that the grain is about to be distributed, and there are still some prefectures and counties that need disaster relief, the treasury can't keep making ends meet, so we think about changing the grain to sea transportation to save unnecessary fire consumption." ”

The boats in the canal are all small boats with hundreds of materials, and if all of them are changed to sea transportation, they can be replaced with thousands of boats.

The draft of the ship is very deep, and it will completely eliminate the loss of grain caused by the overturning of the boat and the flooding.

However, several central officials understand one thing: the fire consumption saved is not a small profit in the process of transportation, but a grain that the bureaucrats and gentry at all levels are greedy for.

This is only the grain, not counting the fire consumption of smelting broken silver into official silver.

As well as the fire consumption in the process of silk cloth, tea, salt class, etc., if you really count them all, there are too many bureaucrats and gentry at all levels involved to be counted.

Several central officials themselves ate the most silver profits in the process of luck, even if they knew what the beggar emperor was intended for, where was he willing to cut off his own financial route.

One by one, they sat on the Huali official hat chair without saying a word, holding the official kiln tea cup on the table next to Xiangnan.

Even if the tea is Tanchun tribute tea, it is refreshing and refreshing.

I didn't see them take a sip.

It was always motionless, and it became a clay statue in the temple.

Be silent.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw the appearance of the central officials and understood what they meant.

No matter how much the beggar emperor in front of him said, the central officials would not agree to the new policy of abolishing the sea and replacing it with the sea.

Zhu Yuanzhang clenched the lake pen in his hand, and couldn't help but want to smash the lake pen on those tiresome clay old faces.

In the end, it just waved his hand.

"The old ministers will not bother Your Majesty."

The central officials shouted Your Majesty in their mouths, but there was no self-reproach on their faces, and they walked out of the Wenhua Hall with light steps.

Obviously, I didn't take what I just did to heart.

This is why Hu Weiyong has always been important, knowing that Hu Weiyong is constantly seizing power, and he has to be reused because he is much more obedient than the bureaucrats and gentry, at least for the sake of the imperial court, and constantly raises the salary for the border army in the north.

The scholars and the Son of Heaven have been fighting for power for a long time.

Since the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, I have never seen a Song Dynasty official who did not compete with scholars for power.

The bureaucrats and gentry who have never won the whole world, even the Son of Heaven are no longer called, and they have taken an official family that flatters scholars and doctors.

It is precisely because this is clear.

Zhu Yuanzhang had to reuse Hu Weiyong, who had been holding power, but he became more and more jealous of Hu Weiyong: "Big companion, what if we kill these officials." ”

Yuansheng Gonggong is a high monk with a deep Buddha nature, and he was still frightened by this sentence: "Your Majesty killed these officials, and the officials who were reinstated are still members of the bureaucratic gentry, so it is possible that you can kill all the scholars in the world." ”

"Without scholars, who can help His Majesty govern the Ming Dynasty."

"Besides, we have to keep the bureaucrats and gentry to balance Hu Weiyong, if we really let Hu Weiyong's family become dominant, it will be even more harmful."

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Yuansheng's father-in-law was reasoning about every sentence, so he could only temporarily suppress the idea of killing officials: "We can only let them go for the sake of the world that has not yet been completely peaceful." ”

"If we are obsessed with it again, we don't mind setting off another empty seal case, so that these bureaucrats and gentry know that we are not those weak emperors of the Song Dynasty, and let them annex the land of the common people."

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