Taiyue County, formerly Jiangling County, was the place of Jingzhou Prefecture, and now because Zhang Juzheng's reputation has been preserved, it is much more prosperous than Jiangling City during this period in history.

The Guy Imperial Court Cabinet still has more investment support for the local area and care for the local people than other places.

Even, even Jingzhou first through the railway, is also related to Zhang Juzheng.

Therefore, after Zhu Yijun arrived in Taiyue, he saw that there were dense houses that stretched for dozens of miles, and there were traffic and people inside and outside the city.

After Zhu Yijun arrived in Jiangling, the officials and eunuchs in Huguang were naturally very enthusiastic, not to mention offering all kinds of soil and things, but also reporting various political achievements.

For Zhu Yijun, this is the first time he has come to Huguang and Zhang Juzheng's hometown.

Originally, Zhu Yijun wanted to come a long time ago, and even when Zhang Juzheng was alive, he wanted to come, and asked Zhang Juzheng to explain the situation in Huguang to him in person.

However, Zhang Juzheng was not happy that the emperor would go out of the palace to inspect the world.

After all, Zhang Juzheng is actually relatively conservative compared to some current reformers, and has always advocated that the royal family should be frugal.

Therefore, since Zhu Yijun did not want to aggravate the contradictions and conflicts between the two when Zhang Juzheng was alive, he did not mention this idea.

Only now, after Zhang Juzheng has passed away, the country is rich, even Zhu Yijun's own internal money is abundant enough, and the concept of people in the world has changed greatly, he came here.

Although Zhu Yijun did not come to his hometown with Zhang Juzheng, for some reason, after Zhu Yijun came here, he still had a sense of right and wrong, especially when he came to sweep Zhang Juzheng's tomb, and he felt quite timid after seeing his tomb.

Because Zhang Juzheng in this life has not been liquidated, Zhang Juzheng's tomb and his ancestral tomb are built quite magnificently.

All around are also planted with pine trees, which are tall and straight.

"It's been more than 20 years since Mr. Ichaki left!"

"I am no longer confused, and the country has tens of thousands of miles of territory than before!"

"All of this is because Mr. dared to open the world for me to restructure the matter, so that I can now achieve this great cause, so I personally came to Mr. today, and gave a picture to Mr. Yu, hope that Mr. is under the nine springs, can be happy because of it, and trust my dream to me!"

Zhu Yijun poured the wine on the soil after speaking, and then kissed the incense.

The children of the Zhang family were busy kowtowing and saluting.

The rest of the people were also more solemn.

Zhu Yijun also signaled Zhu Guozhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Tian Yi, the eunuch of the Ministry of Rites, to unfold Li Shida's map of the imperial city.

In Zhu Yijun's view, what a politician like Zhang Juzheng may want most is not to be born as a Taishi and chase Wenzheng to the death, otherwise he would not risk the disapproval of the world and do the things of the landlord class in the world, and what he really wants to see should be that the king he assists can really make the world after him become the world of Yao Shun.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun is now using Li Shida's market picture scroll as a sacrifice.

The slowly opening picture scroll with the blue sky as the curtain, the birds as the music, and the green mountains as the backdrop, began to be revealed in front of Zhang Juzheng's tomb.

For a while, the clouds of deceitful snow suddenly rose slowly from behind the green mountains, accompanied by a slight breeze, which made the monarchs and ministers here calm and calm.

In traditional society, the emperor's personal sacrifice to the minister is naturally a rare posthumous honor for the minister.

This will mean that it will be more difficult for future generations to deny Zhang Juzheng.

Because once Zhang Juzheng is denied, it is impossible to avoid the fact that Wanli personally sacrificed Zhang Juzheng, according to the principle of three obscurities, it is okay to deny Zhang Juzheng, but if you deny your ancestor Wanli, it is undoubtedly a big rebellion.

Zhu Yijun's doing this also made the ministers who accompanied him look hot.

Regardless of whether they really have a sense of reverence for Zhang Juzheng, at least the emperor's behavior makes them want to be so grieved after death in the future, and they want to be more attentive to assisting Zhu Yijun, and the desire to serve the country is also stronger.

After all, they are also people who lack nothing in material life, and the only thing they cannot be satisfied with is to be able to get more honor than others, and then to leave more political legacies to future generations.

"Zhang Taiyue became the country, and he cleared the world's acres;"

"Shenwu County is the country, and the world is exempted from servitude;"

"Qi Penglai is the country, so that all military households in the world can study for free for three years;"

"Next, if you want to show that in addition to borrowing money to build wonders and building buildings, I have to do one or two good governance that is not popular in the world."

"Otherwise, I'm sorry for Your Majesty and the people of the world!"

Although Wang Xijue did not go to Huguang with the emperor, he did not long know that the emperor was going to sacrifice Zhang Juzheng, and therefore after knowing this, he said so to his colleagues such as Chen Yuma, the minister of the household, and Yang Junmin, the secretary of the household department.

After hearing this, Chen Yuma smiled and said: "Yuanfu doesn't have to be too stressed, if today is already a prosperous world, and you, as the first assistant of the prosperous world, Xiao Gui Cao Sui actually has nothing to do." ”

"That being said, in the end, it is quite bleak compared to the previous public loyalists."

Wang Xijue said with a smile, and then picked up the official newspaper that reported the news of the emperor's personal sacrifice to Zhang Juzheng, looked outside, and said:

"And at the moment, if there is anything that should be done but dare not do, it is to thoroughly investigate the population and land and adjust the tax structure again."

"What do you think?"

Chen Yu's majesty shook his head after hearing this: "The country is people-oriented, the people are food-oriented, no matter how prosperous industry and commerce are, population and land should still be the two government affairs that the imperial court must control clearly, and in fact, since ancient times, these two points are the most difficult, this dynasty only Taizu period really did it, Zhang Taiyue only understood the fields of Middle Earth when he was in power, but the population was not thoroughly inventoried, not to mention the rest of the period, before Taizu founded the country, at least six hundred years, no dynasty did this!" ”

"Therefore, if Yuanfu really wants to do something that dares to be the first in the world, it is better to adjust the tax, increase the commercial tax, and exempt the agricultural tax."

"At present, the income and non-agricultural tax revenue of the imperial court's government-run commercial banks have indeed exceeded the agricultural tax by a lot, and if the commercial tax is increased and the agricultural tax is reduced, it is indeed very realistic."

"What's more, if there are any twists and turns in this way, it will not let the people who farm and the households with land also be coerced in, and even they can become the backing of the imperial court to do this."

Yang Junmin, the head of the household, also nodded at this time, followed and said, and then looked at Wang Xijue with Chen Yuma.

Wang Xijue asked: "What if only the agricultural tax is exempted and the commercial tax is not increased?" ”

Chen Yuma thought for a while and said: "Although Yuanfu doesn't want to offend the world's businessmen too much, but Yuanfu should understand that the current increase in business profits is too great, and it has far exceeded the benefits of farming, especially now that there are a large number of cultivated fields overseas, and some big grain merchants directly use a large number of serfs overseas to settle the fields, and then transport a large amount of grain back to China for dumping, the equivalent price of grain and wheat has been very cheap, so that many people abandon farming, and would rather go to the city to work than return to the countryside to farm, resulting in a large number of fields being abandoned, so, In order to ensure that the increase in the country's annual income can catch up with the increase in commercial profits in the future, it is still necessary to increase the commercial tax, and then it is best to feed back agriculture, after all, from the long-term perspective of the country, the local cultivated land can not be abandoned, once the land is abandoned for too long, it will be difficult to fertilize the land, so if the future is really uneasy outside, internal unrest, there is not basically enough good land to produce grain, then how will our court be peaceful? ”

Wang Xijue shook his head after hearing this, and said with a smile: "The elder of the pavilion is two generations of emperors, and he has a longer plan than me. ”

Then, Wang Xijue said: "I have asked Shaoqin (Zhu Geng) to inspect the situation of agriculture and commerce and inspect taxes when he inspects the world, and I hope his opinions are the same as those of the elders." ”

"Yuanfu praises!"

"Each other is just doing their best for the country."

"In the opinion of the lower bureaucrats, whether the commercial tax is levied or not, there should be some precautions, and even the governor of a place should try it first."

Chen Yuma said at this time.

Wang Xijue said: "This is nature. ”

Yang Junmin and the others also nodded.

At this time in Huguang, Wang Yingjiao, the governor of Huguang, and Xiong Tingbi, who was on vacation in the township and province, also sighed together when they went home after dark because they witnessed Zhu Yijun's personal sacrifice to Zhang Juzheng.

Wang Yingjiao said in advance: "Your Majesty is so elevating the minister, and then I am afraid that those who have aspirations will only compete for the first, and there is no heart to return to the hidden forest spring." ”

"Exactly."

Xiong Tingbi got on the horse very energetically and replied.

"Wait!"

Wang Yingjiao stopped him at this time: "It is heard that you have passed the imperial history examination, where are you going to patrol?" ”

"Liaodong."

Xiong Tingbi replied.

Wang Yingjiao said: "Where is the cold place, everyone wants to sign up to go to the south to patrol, why do you want to go to the Guanwai?" ”

"It is precisely because everyone wants to go to the south that I can't go to the south, and the imperial court can't do without officials who are familiar with the north in the future, not to mention, with such a holy master, if you go to the north, you can also realize your life's ambitions!"

Xiong Tingbi said and then whipped away.

"Who's going north?"

Coincidentally, Zhu Yijun came in a carriage in civilian clothes at this time, and because he heard this, he lifted the curtain and said a word.

Wang Yingjiao was so panicked that he immediately gave up the sedan chair to greet him: "Back to Your Majesty, it is Xiong Tingbi, the former director of the Ministry of Works, who is now returning to his hometown to recuperate at home, and now because His Majesty is coming to Taiyue, he has come here to wait." ”

(End of chapter)