Chapter 16: Attacking Friendly Forces
Although Yunzhi was born in a family of former ministers, the education he received when he was a child was Han culture, and he was very dissatisfied with the history of his ancestors who won the world and robbed houses everywhere.
is obviously the owner of this land, and it seems that when he was on the grassland in the past, he didn't look like the lord of the world at all.
Now that he has entered the Central Plains, he can't still treat himself as an outsider in everything.
Naturally, we must take the common people as our own responsibility and put the livelihood of all the people in the world in our hearts.
Yesterday's argument was his last fight to establish his heart for heaven and earth and his life for the people.
The first emperor died suddenly, and those conservative forces were ready to move for so long, and finally seized the opportunity and showed their minions.
A few days ago, the imperial court had been arguing over whether to collect taxes.
The voices of the people behind him gradually lowered and became louder and louder.
It's not that he doesn't know what kind of huge force he is facing, and it is understandable that the people behind him chose to remain silent in order to protect themselves.
But he can only make a desperate bet, he is in the position of the head of the household, he can't be sorry for the people of the world.
The group of people thought that it was just a trivial matter of levying a few cents of copper coins per acre of land, but once it was implemented, it would be exploited layer by layer, and what would be added to the heads of the people would be a shackle of 10,000 catties.
Fortunately, when Wei Zhen and others were in full swing yesterday, they were interrupted by the Queen Mother, which stopped them from issuing an order immediately.
Fortunately, the first emperor left an edict when he left, and the golden seal of the queen mother was required when the edict was issued.
No matter how bold this group of people is, they will not dare to disobey the last orders of the first emperor now.
However, as for Feng Tian's inquiry yesterday, he only regarded it as the queen mother's excitement and casually mentioned it.
Out of duty, and finally trying his best, he drafted the cantata, but the Queen Mother was able to quickly discover the problems in these three places from the cantata, which was really much beyond his expectations.
Yun Zhi was excited, and quickly cleared his thoughts.
"The Queen Mother's eyes are like torches, although these three places are vast, they are not suitable for farming, and they will always transfer grain from other counties, and after the suspension of taxes, the local financial reserves are insufficient, so..."
Yun Zhi's eyes swept over Wei Zhen's face with coldness, he remembered that the county guards of these three counties had an inseparable relationship with the Wei family.
Every time these people go to Beijing to report on their work, they are crying out for days and crying poor, but only they know how much it will cost to transfer grain.
According to what he inquired about, although they did not dare to collect taxes openly in the county, there were other ways to loot money.
If the people want to survive, they must eat, and if they do not grow food in the fields, they can only buy it.
But these grain merchants are all children of Wei's partial branch.
The officials of the imperial court cried and stretched out their hands to ask for money from the treasury, and the relatives of the officials made money in business, but they were really interlocking, and the people were killed.
These words are not easy to say clearly, and Yun Zhi can only glance at the Queen Mother without saying anything.
Sheng Shaoqing understood what he meant almost at the same time.
This look is inexplicably familiar.
Isn't this the little look in her eyes when she and her best friend want to gossip and worry about someone next to them.
"Ahem, I see."
"Lord Yun is right, so shouldn't we start taxing immediately to replenish the treasury and the treasury?" Wei Zhen took the opportunity to say, this Yunzhi is really interesting, on the one hand, he opposes the tax, and on the other hand, he said that because of the financial constraints of the tax suspension, isn't this helping them?
Sheng Shaoqing was also confused, since the suspension of the levy caused the problem, shouldn't it be the same as what Wei Zhen said?
Could it be that he is Wei Zhen's ally?
So Wei Zhen was beating allies before?