Wang Xijue raised his eyes to look at these people, and said with a smile:

"What does it mean to refuse to leave half a cent for the benefit of the people?"

"The imperial court has issued the dividends of the future wealth income of the entire country in the form of subscription coupons!"

"It can be said that Your Majesty has distributed the official profits of the entire world to everyone who is willing to believe in the imperial court and be loyal to the imperial court."

"If this is still called refusing to let half of the benefit of the people, it is obviously talking nonsense with open eyes."

"This is clearly Your Majesty's eagerness to give all the benefits to the loyal and patriotic people of the world!"

"That's right!"

"You say to yourself, whose family is not growing in wealth now?"

"Even the relief money for the deformed households is rising!"

Yang Junmin, the head of the household, followed at this time, and asked Qiao Yun and the others: "So, what do you want from the imperial court?" ”

"But!"

Qiao Yun subconsciously replied with a "but", and then argued strongly: "But the imperial court should not do business by itself, it should stop all the official merchants of the imperial store, and give the people the opportunity to get rich by relying on business routes, so that the business road can be more prosperous and the world more prosperous." ”

"Yes!"

"If you come to the official camp, you will inevitably spend money, affect the convenience of the people in the world, and make business very bad!"

"It's not just that business is bad, the officialdom will become more and more degenerate, corruption will be more serious, and the entire court will only emphasize profit over morality, as long as it is able to profit from the officials, even if it is insatiable, I am afraid that it will be regarded as a capable minister!"

Wang Jiao and the others also followed.

Then, Qiao Yun arched his hand and said, "Please think twice!" ”

"Please think twice!"

Other officials chimed in.

Wang Xijue just smiled slightly, and then looked at Li Chengliang:

"What do you think?"

"What can I think?"

"I will only let Yuan Fu think twice, if I really persuade Your Majesty to stop running official business, be careful that there will be a military admonition tonight!"

"You must know, everyone in the world is waiting for the imperial court to cash in the subscription coupons, at this time, the official and commercial emperor's stores are stopped, how to cash in the subscription coupons? Do you rely on raising taxes, and add back all the taxes that the Son of Heaven has exempted? ”

Li Chengliang asked as he spoke.

Qiao Yun replied at this time: "It's not impossible, for example, today it is still based on agriculture, and the majority of farmers are still the majority, and it is completely possible to increase the field tax. ”

Li Chengliang couldn't help but sneer: "Qiao gave advice, you have a grudge against the farmers in the world, right?" ”

"The peasant households of this clan have been raising the nobles and ministers of the dynasty for more than 200 years, and now they can finally take a breath, and you are eyeing them again!"

"Do you think that the farmers of this dynasty will not learn from Huangchao?"

"Or do you have an enmity with the country, and you have to come up with this idea of destroying the country? In other words, where have the peasants in the world offended you, and you have to see them live a good life? ”

Qiao Yun immediately stopped.

"Why fight for this!"

"Even if the agricultural tax is increased to the point that the people will not have the slightest ration, and even the grain of their children and grandchildren will be added to the tax, it will not be able to satisfy the benefits of the subscription coupons that are to be cashed out now."

"And that, you should understand."

"At this time, it is too naïve to expect that the national fortune can be maintained only by cutting down the farmers!"

Wang Xijue continued to speak, and left as he spoke.

Li Chengliang and others also followed.

Qiao Yun and the others stood in place, looking at Li Chengliang and the others quite lost.

"What they said is right, in this land, the era of profit to the people and power to the officials is gone."

Wang Jiao sighed at this time, lamenting that it was no longer possible for most of the business profits to go to the locality.

Of course, the people in Wang Jiao's mouth refer to the gentry class, not really to say that the interests of the past were really all in the hands of the people.

In fact, Qiao Yun and others are still fighting for the interests of the entire gentry class, and the so-called hope that the imperial court will implement a free economy, reduce market intervention and manipulation, and even run a business in person, not for the sake of the people at the bottom, but for their own gentry class.

Because in this era, the private businessmen who really ran businesses in the private sector were all from these gentry classes, and ordinary people could not catch up with them in terms of capital and information, and naturally they could not personally feel the pain brought by the official and commercial emperors.

Geng Suilong also said: "Yes, Wang Taicang himself is also a rich businessman, and he doesn't know the harm of the official and merchant emperor's shop, and now he is fighting for the interests of the imperial court, presumably out of helplessness and has to follow the general trend!" ”

Qiao Yun didn't say anything, and only went to various places to drink and relieve his worries.

It's just that on the second day, Qiao Yun just came out of a high-end restaurant, and one person followed him.

This person was tall and straight, with a serious expression, with a wound on his face, and after Qiao Yun fell to the ground and came out, when he was about to get into his carriage, he took out the handcuff in his hand and aimed it at Qiao Yun.

Bang!

Suddenly, Qiao Yun suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back, and couldn't help but look back, and saw that the scarred face was facing him, and he made up for it, looking very calm.

"You!"

Qiao Yun immediately sobered up and asked, "Who sent you?" ”

"Killing thieves for the country doesn't need anyone to send!"

With that, the man drew his knife and slammed it into his chest, and then fell to the ground, blood quickly pouring out of his chest, but his expression was peaceful.

Qiao Yun also fell to the ground here, with his mouth open, his eyes open, and looking at the sky.

At that time.

The people in the downtown area were so frightened that they fled, and some of the female relatives fainted or screamed on the spot.

was shot dead in the downtown during the incident, which is undoubtedly a horrific thing in the Ming Dynasty, especially at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

Although Zhu Yijun also knew what the reason might be, in order to show that he did not approve of this terrorist retaliation method, he still ordered a strict investigation and demanded that Jinyiwei, who was responsible for the security of the day, be severely punished.

"Haven't you found it yet?"

Even, a few days later, Zhu Yijun specially asked Zhang Jingxiu.

Zhang Jingxiu replied: "Not yet!" ”

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said: "Why is it so difficult to investigate? ”

"Your Majesty, in the opinion of a foolish minister, first, it is difficult to trace the origin of this murder that he committed suicide first, and secondly, this may be the internal participation of our Jinyiwei, my Jinyiwei and the people in the army have great opinions on Qiao Zhizhi, Qiao Zhizhi had the behavior of intercepting Yuanfu outside the palace gate the day before he was killed, and said a lot of unacceptable words that made the Jinyi guards on duty, a person can appear in trouble and kill people with an official handcuff, and it is impossible to achieve this purpose without Jinyiwei's secret help."

Zhang Jingxiu replied.

Zhu Yijun nodded: "I know this, but no matter what, I can't use this way to retaliate!" ”

"I still have to investigate, whether I find it or not, I have to make the person who does it feel afraid, and I know that I don't dare to use this way in the future to find out which missing battalions and auxiliaries, including those who have been discharged!"

"Yes!"

Zhu Yijun didn't say anything next, just looked at the sunset in the west and pondered.

Under his control, the Ming Dynasty has developed to the present and has formed a huge military aristocratic group that advocates expansion.

Although these people were required not to participate in business after Qi Jiguang was appointed as the first assistant, the proportion of dividends in the imperial court has become larger, whether it is newly acquired land or the profit dividends of major government industries, a large number of them have fallen into their pockets.

Therefore, they do not look down on the benefits obtained by doing business at home, and they are not so resistant to prohibiting them from doing business, and they are even less resistant to the benefits obtained by squeezing the people inside, and they are not so resistant to the high requirements of military discipline, and they only hope to get more land outside and become the emperor of the soil, so they do not want the imperial court to change its national policy, from external expansion to internal absorption, from military expansion to internal economic reform, especially the reform of some profiteering industries from government to private enterprises.

They do not want to be naturally opposed to such reforms, especially some of the radicals among them, and they will take more extreme retaliation against those who hold such reforms.

And.

These radicals also find reasons to convince themselves when they take such extreme measures, after all, it can be said that it is completely necessary to protect the interests of the country, and they do not want the interests of the country to be divided by the gentry and private profiteers, so they kill thieves for the country.

Although Zhu Yijun couldn't support this method, he had already guessed in his heart that this situation would occur, so he didn't feel so resistant.

Even, Zhu Yijun was still a little relieved, because it meant that the scholar class had encountered a very strong counterbalance, and they didn't dare to treat him as an emperor.

After all, what they should be more worried about now is how to deal with this huge group of military aristocrats.

"It's horrible!"

"Hurry up and send someone to get back the article I voted for "Wei Gazette", don't vote!"

"Burn all these notes and articles in the study that involve criticizing the court and the people for profit! Hurry up and burn it! ”

Wang Jiao, the official of the Ministry of Officials, said a word in horror after knowing what Qiao Yun had done, and then immediately ordered his son Wang Fu.

Wang Fudao: "Master, Your Majesty is not very strict with political speech, and said that there is no limit to research, but the master only said that it seems that he can't do research, why should he burn it?" ”

Wang Jiaodao: "What do you know, Your Majesty doesn't care, it doesn't mean that those vulgar martial artists who treat life as child's play don't care!" ”

"We can't learn from them, the parents who suffer from the body and the skin, easily let themselves lose their lives, it is unfilial!"

"So we have to prevent some martial artists who are not afraid of human life and take it seriously, and they also shot me on the street after knowing that I was reading these articles and even agreed with the views of some officials converted to civilian people."

"I see!"

"Son, let's burn it!"

Wang Jiao sat down on the chair dejectedly, sighed and said, "It's better for me to resign, this court can't wait!" ”

Qiao Yun's fate made many bureaucrats who hoped that the imperial court would not want the government-run economy, reduce market intervention, and only develop a free economy, so that the people would go to open up foreign countries more and more frustrated.

Wangjiao is just one example.

Not only bureaucrats like Wang Jiao, who held such hopes, but also bureaucrats who had already advocated the use of state power to intensify foreign exploitation were also quite shocked by this incident.

Wang Xijue learned that the true identity of Qiao Yun from Zhang Jiayin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was Wu Bingguo, a veteran officer of the Beijing camp and a military merit medal, and he sweated and said: "Fortunately, I didn't listen to them, otherwise I would have been killed in the downtown area!" ”

"Gong is right, they originally wanted to kill you!"

"What?!"

Wang Xijue immediately stood up, stunned. (End of chapter)