The Ming Dynasty's horse administration has long been changed to a system in which the people responsible for raising horses will hand over the horses to the Taifu Temple, which is the system of purchasing horses by the imperial court itself.

In this way, it can not only facilitate the people who raise horses to have the freedom to engage in other professions, which is conducive to the improvement of productivity, but also allows the government to have an additional amount of taxes.

Therefore, Taifu Temple has also become a yamen with its own small treasury in the Ming Dynasty.

However, before the beginning of Wanli, most of the silver deposited in Taifu Temple over the years was not actually used to buy war horses, but was diverted for other purposes.

Because before this, the finances of the Ming Dynasty have always been beyond their means, so many times it is necessary to use the horse price silver of the Taifu Temple to supplement it for other use.

But this also led to a decline in the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, after all, war horses are still a very important strategic resource in this era.

Whether it is communications, sentinels, or large-scale mobile operations in the plains, he is still inseparable.

Since the early days of Wanli, because Zhu Yijun supported Zhang Juzheng to carry out tax reforms, the national tax revenue has increased a lot, and the horse price silver of Taifu Temple has no longer been misappropriated.

It's just that after Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, he frantically increased his troops and added post stations, not to mention the increase of 80,000 troops in Jizhou, but also increased the number of cavalry in Liaodong by 30,000, and also laid post stations and garrison bases in Korea and the Japanese Kingdom, and now set up military garrisons in Burma.

As a result, the demand for war horses naturally skyrocketed.

Although the horse price silver of Taifu Temple did not need to be misappropriated to other departments, it could not save money, which made it difficult for local officials to approve the request of the local officials to ask the imperial court to continue to reduce the price of horse silver because the burden of paying the horse price silver was too heavy.

However, now that the imperial court has plowed heavily in southern Burma, it has increased a lot of gold and silver income by collecting in southern Burma, which can also reduce the price of horse silver and reduce the burden on the people in the country.

Therefore, now that Fu Laipeng, the young secretary of Taifu Temple, said this with a smile, Xu Zhenming will be in a happy mood.

Of course, because Zhu Yijun quickly approved many chapters overnight, Fu Laipeng's holy decree of being promoted to Shaoqing of Taifu Temple was also quickly promulgated.

So now, Fu Laipeng has changed into the red-robed official uniform of the fourth grade, and has come to Taifu Temple to take up a post.

Now because Shi Xing congratulated him on his ascension, Fu Laipeng hurriedly bowed his hand and said, "Ashamed! Ashamed! ”

As he spoke, Fu Laipeng took out two posts and gave them to Shi Xing and Xu Zhenming: "Prepare a little wine the day after tomorrow, and invite the two of you to enjoy the light in the cold house." ”

"Naturally, it's coming."

Shi Xing and Xu Zhenming replied.

As Fu Laipeng spoke, he arched his hand towards the Forbidden City and said: "The contemptible person can be promoted to the position of the imperial servant Shaoqing, which is really the emperor's grace, and it can be seen that His Majesty still trusts the courtiers, so he is willing to make this will." And I heard that the reward money was also approved, which shows that the Son of Heaven still believes that the courtiers will continue to adhere to the integrity of the country after using the reward and gold to support their integrity. ”

"The emperor's grace is long'en, but it is to earn the prize and money, and it is harder; In addition, it is not the right way to promote honesty with profit; In fact, most of the courtiers do not value profit, but most of them value virtue over profit, so even if they do not have a fortune, they will be loyal to His Majesty's society with the ambition of serving the country as a scholar. ”

"What's more, whether it is a generous reward for hundreds of officials or a tax exemption for small people, it is all used to plunder the wealth of foreign plunder. If it goes on like this, I don't know if the surrounding people will hate my emperor even more because of this. ”

Shi Xing smiled and expressed his opinion.

"There is no way to do this, either we will not afford to serve the army, reduce the number of soldiers, and use the saved national expenditure to relieve the difficulties of the small people; Either you can only grieve Fanyi. ”

"Anyway, as a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, you can only care about the Ming Dynasty's own people, and let them respect or hate him!"

"Anyway, when there was no military affairs in the past, I didn't see them not offend my Ming Dynasty, and this Burmese incident was also caused by their own invasion, and even their own scholars participated, and they wanted to collude with the barbarians to destroy their own society!"

Xu Zhenming said at this time.

Shi Xing couldn't help but bow his head.

"However, Shi Gong is right, this way of enriching the country and benefiting the people only requires hundreds of officials to work harder, but fortunately, His Majesty knows that we are working hard, so the reward is rich."

Fu Laipeng said.

Shi Xingqiang smiled and said, "So Your Majesty Shengming! ”

"Your Majesty is a saint, but it's a pity that because the country wants to be strong on the outside and prosperous on the inside, not on the outside, and on the inside, Mr. Xiuwu and they will also be torn apart."

Xu Zhenming sighed at this time.

Shi Xing and Fu Laipeng both nodded, and they couldn't help but sigh.

Li Sancai and the others were indeed escorted to the execution ground next.

In history, Li Sancai admired luxury and made friends, and during his tenure as the governor of Caoyun, he held a permanent banquet to entertain the past gentry, so that the world's official eunuchs were close to him.

Today, although Li Sancai has not yet reached the rank of governor of Caoyun, there are still many officials who have a good relationship with him.

So there are many people who sympathize with him.

But no matter how sympathetic Li Sancai is, he still has to be torn apart.

No way.

That's how brutal political struggle is.

Especially now, when restructuring is still the main theme of the Ming Empire, and the benefits brought by foreign expansion are not large enough, which leads to more fierce struggles.

"Prince, Xiu Wu is incompetent, and I didn't expect him to be so moralistic in Shenwu County, and he was not even allowed to talk about the truth, so he forcibly planted it."

"The glory of arrogance is covered by Taiyue!"

Li Sancai only sighed a few words before being split by the car, and after he sighed, he was split by the car in the city with Yang Cunren and others.

……

Because of the series of events caused by the burning of the Middle Palace, Shen Shixing and others were finally not allowed to step down.

Therefore, the restructuring is still being implemented.

Even, because Shen Shixing and other ruling ministers showed tough measures in this incident, the ban on abandoned babies and foot binding was better enforced.

Local officials such as the prefect did not dare to be false, so that the phenomenon of a large number of abandoned babies and foot binding among the people was curbed.

"Foot binding is something left by the ancestors, why do you want to ban it!"

Wuqing County, Jingshi.

Ning Wenfang, who was very conservative, cried and questioned the magistrate because Peng Yingshen, the magistrate, asked him to take off his daughter's footwrap.

Peng Yingshen therefore asked, "When did the ancestors leave this bad habit?" Empress Gao of this dynasty is the first generation of ancestors of the temple of this dynasty, can she have bound her feet? You are violating the habits of your ancestors! ”

As he spoke, Peng Yingshen said: "Either you carry out the order, or you wait to be removed from your reputation!" And excluded from the good households that are free of horse price silver! ”

Ning Wenfang couldn't refute it, so she had to tearfully agree.

The counties of the capital have always been the heaviest in the battle of raising horses, and now the imperial court is exempt from the price of horses and silver, and the first is to exempt the horses of the capital of the provinces.

Because the people of the prefectures of Gyeongshi have been exploited by the Gyeonggi magnates and the collection of horse price silver, the situation of thieves in the Gyeongshi area has not been greatly improved.

Therefore, the imperial court has now achieved benefits from foreign expansion, and the first thing to do is the people of Gyeonggi who are in the trouble of Su Xiaomin, so it was decided to exempt the horse price of silver first.

And Wuqing County is one of the counties that should be exempted.

It's just that since Zeng Province set up a good taxpayer system, the requirement of the household department is to exempt the good households from the horse price first.

And Peng Yingshen was willing to let Ning Wenfang let go of his wife and daughter's feet, so he forced Ning Wenfang to do so.

Ning Wenfang had no choice but to agree, and received two pairs of full-foot embroidered cotton shoes issued by the magistrate yamen in order to encourage the people to let go of their feet in response to the call of the imperial court.

His wife Yang couldn't help but cry with joy when she saw her husband agree.