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Back in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao found that Zhang Yuer and Xiaobai were not there. The palace people reported that it was the good concubine Niangniang who sent someone to invite her, wanting to let the white lady and her cat meet.

Cat meet?! It's not a person, it's not a friend, what are you going to meet?

Zhu Youxiao felt that Concubine Wang Liang was playing tricks, but he didn't care too much and let the palace people set the meal. gave a banquet in Wuying Palace, but he didn't eat well.

Just as he was about to start eating, he saw Zhang Yuer coming back with Xiaobai in his arms, and his expression was a little weird.

"The slave has seen the emperor." Zhang Yuer squatted down to give a salute, and the white lady in her arms couldn't help but jump on the table.

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Look at Xiaobai's monkey in a hurry, it seems that he hasn't eaten it!" ”

Zhang Yuer smiled, got up and came to the table, skillfully brought a small plate, and began to wait for the dishes according to the instructions of the white lady.

"Concubine Liang didn't leave you to eat?" Zhu Youxiao began to eat and asked casually.

Zhang Yu'er pursed the corners of her mouth and said, "Originally, I was going to stay for dinner, but Bai Niangniang was not happy, so she beat Concubine Liang's cat and ran around, climbed to the tree and didn't dare to come down." Taking advantage of the chaos, the slave and maid hurriedly hugged the white lady and slipped away. ”

Yes?! Zhu Youxiao was a little stunned. Wang Liangfei's cat and Xiaobai are the same breed, and they are also white, but they are male cats, and he has seen them.

Looking at the chubby Xiaobai, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile and said, "I didn't expect that Xiaobai is still a fighting cat." However, can this fat man still climb trees? ”

Xiaobai glanced at Zhu Youxiao very proudly, lowered his head, and ate sweetly.

Zhu Youxiao shrugged his shoulders, not as knowledgeable as a cat.

It's just that Xiaobai has been a little weird these days, and Zhu Youxiao has some indescribable feelings in his heart. It's like, it's like it's about to be separated.

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Xu Hongru's rebellion was suppressed for only a month. However, several counties were eroded, tens of thousands of dead and wounded, and the losses were not insignificant.

It's just that grief and suffering are just after-dinner conversations for people who are far away from the turmoil. There is no physical feeling, and there is no real pain.

The two prefectures of Su and Song are not only the main tax collection of the Ming Dynasty, but also the hardest hit areas of the landlords and gentry who are in arrears of taxes.

The so-called "big households and people who talk about scarves and boots are unwilling to pay grain, and even if they are not white grain, they have no additional consumption, and they are unwilling to travel far." ”

Moreover, the commodity economy of the two provinces of Su and Song was developed and the merchant power was strong. By bribing the officials, the merchants and gentry were able to seize local power and control the local government.

By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, landlords, gentry, merchants, and even bureaucrats had no strict distinction, and cross-border development was intertwined, and it was common to have multiple identities.

It is precisely because of such a complicated situation that the gentry and businessmen in Jiangnan have no fear. Without him, a powerful spokesman has been cultivated in the DPRK; At the local level, they controlled the officials in order to get away with them.

As early as the Jiajing period, some local governments were already monopolized by businessmen, and local government officials were to some extent obedient to orders.

The fight between Zou Wang, the richest man in Wuxi, and Gu Kexue, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites at that time, fully proved the existence of this situation.

The cause of the incident was the death of Zou Wang's old mother, and the funeral was carried out in a big way, and there were too many people coming, not only the streets were congested, but also the Gu family's old house was demolished!

Lao Gu is proud of his high officials, you are such a bold businessman, don't you want to clean up! So, he asked the Wuxi prefect to throw Zou Wang into prison!

As soon as Zou Wang was arrested and imprisoned, all the shops in and around Wuxi went on sale as a threat to demand Zou Wang's release.

The prefect of Wuxi was helpless and told Gu Shangshu, stating that if this matter developed like this, the imperial court would inevitably condemn him, so he could only release Zou Wang first. Gu Shangshu was not angry in his heart, so he had to swallow his anger first.

But the matter was not over, all the shops and merchants in Wuxi refused to sell anything to Gu Shangshu and his family. There was even harassment by hooligans and rogues, as well as threats of submission.

Gu Shangshu was frightened and hurriedly asked the prefect to send officials to protect him. However, no one came to the house where the officials were on sick leave, and no one came to make up the reasons for taking personal leave.

This retrospective adult understands that this place is the home of other people, and no matter how big his official is, it is useless. In the end, Gu Shangshu could only leave Wuxi with his family.

Judging from Zou Wang's defeat of Gu Shangshu, the ancestor summed up that "a strong dragon is difficult to suppress the head snake", which is indeed very reasonable.

In such a political ecology, no matter how good the policies launched by the imperial court are, they will be greatly discounted or even deliberately misinterpreted and implemented.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao took advantage of the aftermath of the rebellion of the Wenxiang Sect and began to do it. However, the inferior gentry of Su and Song are still ignorant of it, and they are dreaming of maintaining the status quo and continuing to be extravagant.

The pirated reprint of "Daming Forum" was thrown on the table, and Li Zitong, a wealthy landowner in Jiading County, Suzhou Prefecture, pouted with disdain.

Picking up the tea bowl and taking a sip, he said to the butler with a sneer: "The imperial court is poor and crazy, and if you want to launch the policy of 'because of grain', isn't it a dream?" ”

The housekeeper echoed with a few handfuls of rats, "Don't care if he does everything possible, we have certain rules." No matter what his policy is, when he arrives in Jiading County, it is not easy to use. ”

The so-called grain policy is to impose additional taxes on the rich.

The specific implementation measures are: all rural households that pay taxes of less than five taels will not be subject to additional taxes; For wealthy households who pay more than five taels of taxes, grain taxes will be levied to varying degrees according to the amount of property.

This is not Zhu Youxiao's initiative, but together with the "Qingtun Charge", it was known as the two good policies for saving the country in the late Ming Dynasty, and it was briefly implemented in Chongzhen.

When Lu Xiangsheng was the governor of Xuanda, he was one of the advocates and implementers, and he received good results.

Originally, although the "grain" policy touched the interests of the gentry, after all, the officials could still use their power to evade something, so the resistance was not too great.

But under the agitation of Yang Sichang and other ministers, Chongzhen's brain was kicked by a donkey again. "Because of food" has become "both losses", that is, whether you are poor or rich, all of them will be levied together.

As a result, the people, who were already on the verge of life and death, had no way to live, and they could only choose to rebel, which made the peasant uprising soar and it was difficult to contain it.

Now, Zhu Youxiao picked it up again and prepared to carry it out to the end. Of course, it is still just a matter of getting the wind through and preparing the local government.

But in the eyes of rich gentry landlords such as Li Zitong, this levy could not fall on their heads at all.

It is not up to the local government to decide how much tax to pay and how to determine the list of exemptions and additional levies. And what is the relationship between the local government and them, it's just a matter of writing.