At present, the summer tax is about to be collected, and it is a very important question for the officials and gentry to pay the tax honestly.

Xiao Yin also asked Yang Yingkui at this time and said: "The dog is now in Renzhi County, Guixiang, and your government intends to pay the grain and silver truthfully first, but I hope that the dog will only add miscellaneous taxes and fire consumption to the common people, so as to reflect the difference between the noble and the low, and after the tax collection is completed, the fire consumption and miscellaneous items of the domain will be refunded to the regular tax paid by the noble house, I don't know what the public thinks?" ”

"Now the Son of Heaven has six guards in the army, and the household department is in charge of Haigangfeng, so you can't covet temporary profits and end up with several generations of people who can't enter the office, and you can't be so short-sighted!"

"I will write back to discourage this matter, and the tax that should be paid still has to be paid! Lingzi should not do this, otherwise it will be found out, and it will inevitably implicate several generations. ”

Yang Yingkui did not hesitate to ask Xiao Yin to stop this.

Zhang Whale deliberately pouted and said: "According to our family, it's nothing, will his household really come to check how much miscellaneous taxes are collected by the local government?" ”

"If you're not afraid of 10,000, you're afraid of what if!"

"I still hope that the Queen Mother and the powerful people in the DPRK can allow Terada not to pay taxes in the name of worshipping the Buddha! This kind of orderly thing for the noble and the lowly cannot only be for us to come out, but also for the nobles to come out, after all, they are the ones who have the most farmland. ”

Yang Yingkui said.

"It's good!"

"I wrote back to the dog so that he didn't have to do it!"

"As the public said, it is not appropriate for us scholars to come out now, especially now that due to the secret system, even Lu Gong and others are not in good faith, and everyone in the Shilin is in danger, who would dare to compromise for the noble and low?"

Xiao Yin sighed as he spoke: "Okay, and bear with it, just let the powerful go nonsense!" ”

"How long will it take? Once the powerful can't be controlled, they will also become powerful ministers! ”

"Although our family is a minister, but now we have raised the idle Nandu, we are not considered powerful, just like you, we are just people who eat and rent profits, and it is not a good thing to really let the powerful become bigger and arbitrarily annex our fields."

Zhang Whale said at this time.

Yang Yingkui smiled and said, "Don't worry, father-in-law! There are too many cultivators in the world to read heirlooms, and it is difficult for the powerful to fight against the world's scholars, otherwise the soldiers with such power as Qi and Li would not have dared to stand on their own. ”

"Besides, I can't endure it for long."

"Although the Son of Heaven is the lord of the world, it is not the Son of Heaven who really rules the world, but the official gentry!"

"Although it is difficult for the gentry to act consistently because of different regions, different ideas, and different morals, as more and more people enter the office, they will be more and more children of official eunuchs, and after the small people's families are difficult to produce noble sons, the officials of the world will become more and more eunuchs, so that the barriers will be self-contained, and the top and bottom will be the same!"

"No matter how hard they fight with each other, there will be no more people who speak up for their husbands and mess with the noble and cheap."

Yang Yingkui continued to say a few words, then got up and looked at the clouds outside the building, and said:

"And today, the traitorous party in the imperial court has not been liquidated, so the bureaucrats in the world have no choice but to take the initiative to help the family of the virtuous eunuch to win the first place more easily, and cut off the road of the common people to enter the government by studying!"

"After all, the people who are villains in the DPRK are obviously mostly children of poor peasant families! It can be said that the poorer the person is, the more shameless he is after studying and becoming an official, and there is no bottom line whether he is accumulating money and bullying the king or greedy for power, so that the government of officials is corrupt and the government is disordered, and it is better to cut off his way to progress. ”

"In this way, the day of the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty will not be long before it comes."

Yang Yingkui said and looked at Zhang Whale with a smile.

……

"It's also powerful to say such righteous words about fraud in the imperial examination and monopoly of the imperial examination quota!"

"Although it is easy for the children of the common people to become officials, they are also more willing to be diligent, more willing to innovate, and more aware of the people's feelings! If the imperial examination system is really allowed to go to the same ending as the nine-grade Zhongzheng system, then the Ming Dynasty is really not far from the death of the country! ”

After Zhu Yijun received the secret report from Zhang Whale, he wrinkled his eyebrows and pondered, and said in his heart: "It seems that not only to rectify the Buddhist temple, but also to grasp the discipline of the imperial examination in the future!" ”

After Zhu Yijun said this, he asked Sun Xin of Dongchang: "What has happened to the powerful people in Beijing recently?" ”

Sun Xin knew why Zhu Yijun asked this, so he replied directly:

"Not really, but when His Royal Highness King Lu went to greet the Queen Mother recently, he stayed by her side for a long time."

Zhu Yijun didn't say anything, only got up and walked outside the hall, looking at the vast galaxy, letting the summer evening breeze blow his long sleeves like sails.

"The emperor forgives the sins! The slave and maid just told the truth, and did not dare to slander His Royal Highness King Lu. ”

Sun Xin hurriedly crawled on the ground and replied.

Because Zhu Yijun didn't express his position, he was a little worried that Zhu Yijun would accuse him of separating his brother.

"Stand down."

Zhu Yijun only said this.

Sun Xin hurriedly thanked him, and then retreated uneasily.

Zhu Yijun continued to ponder after Sun Xin left.

He had already learned through Zhang Whale's secret report that some scholars who were dissatisfied with the imperial court had planned to instigate the clan magnates to promote the emergence of the system of Terada tax-free silver, so as to indirectly achieve the purpose of not paying tax and silver on the fields of the noble family.

And Zhu Yijun therefore had to admit that if any dynasty wants to develop benignly, the biggest problem ultimately comes from whether the emperor dares to kill his relatives in righteousness, whether he dares to do anything to his relatives, and whether he dares to become a real loner.

Just as officials want to be iron-faced and selfless, they must cut off their relatives and friends from relying on their power for personal gain, and do not hesitate to end up with an unsympathetic reputation.

Whether the emperor succeeds in reform or not depends on whether he dares to become even a brother and child who violates the law.

After all, in the society of the world, the relationship with the emperor determines the amount of interests he occupies in the world, and the closer the relationship with the emperor, the more he will naturally embezzle the national treasury and the people, and it will be easier to undermine the stability of the society, and he will become the person who dares to challenge the country's major politics in the end.

Just like now, many local gentry who are dissatisfied with the government are very smart and know that they are not strong, and they also know that instigating the powerful will affect the emperor's heart, and then affect the national policy.

It is precisely because of this that in history, when Yongzheng reformed his Qing Dynasty, he had to finally attack his brothers and nephews, and he was ruthless, because the reality is like this, and in the end, the biggest obstacle is his brothers and nephews.

It also happened in the history of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's relatives wantonly asked the emperor to give the land, if the emperor has a weaker character, he will directly encircle the people's fields for his own farms, and force the people to tenant farmers for their own households, and then force the emperor to agree, and the emperor who attaches importance to family affection or has a cowardly character will often agree because "the raw rice has been cooked and cooked".

Of course, it is also human nature to be unwilling to be evil to those around you.

You must know that even in later generations, it is difficult for many people to even refuse strangers, let alone let the emperor reject their uncles and aunts.

But fortunately, Zhu Yijun is a traverser, which makes him feel a lot less pressure.

But after all, he has also gotten along with the people in the royal family for so many years, and King Lu often treats him with courtesy and does humble things, so if he decides to kill his relatives in righteousness, it will also require some ideological struggle.

However, Zhu Yijun knew that he had to kill some royal relatives in righteousness.

Especially King Lu.

Because he had to admit that King Lu, like in history, was an insatiable man, and he had already thought that he didn't use enough silver for his wedding more than once, and he complained a lot about the ruling dynasty because of this, and even complained that his brother listened too much to the rulers.

Of course.

Zhu Yijun didn't really just know that he only listened to the words of the rulers, but deliberately rejected the unreasonable request for King Lu's wedding through the mouth of the first assistant Shen Shixing and Xu Xuemo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, in order to control the cost of King Lu's wedding within a reasonable range, not as in the original history, King Lu's wedding cost as much as 100,000 taels, and the coronation ceremony cost 600,000 taels, according to history, it is many times higher than the Son of Heaven Zhu Yijun's own wedding and crowning.

The reason why he is taller than Zhu Yijun himself is naturally because when Zhu Yijun was crowned and married, Zhang Juzheng was still there, and the royal family in history did not dare to spend money indiscriminately.

But it is clear that King Lu is indeed a greedy person, and in history, he also wantonly annexed salt fields and grain fields after the feudal domain, set up private tax customs, and spent as much as two million taels of silver every year, and even built his own mausoleum according to the emperor's specifications, and because the Wanli Emperor in history was very indulgent to his younger brother, he didn't care about these.

And now Zhu Yijun naturally did not intend to indulge him, so at the beginning of his wedding, he followed the advice of Shen Shixing, Xu Xuemo and other ruling ministers to limit the cost of King Lu's wedding.

(End of chapter)