quarreled, and Zhu Houxi watched them quietly.

"The two battles in Tuen Mun were fought at sea and never invaded the hinterland. Guangdong's summer and autumn grain amounted to more than one million stones, and only 100,000 taels of silver were shipped to Beijing. Last year, the quota of grain and salary was more than 400,000 taels, and how much can Guangdong save on transportation in four years? This time, if you don't increase it a little, the rest of the provinces will follow suit, and what will happen if they ask for taxes in the name of banditry? Li Qi took the lead in refuting.

Yang Tan also spoke: "Your Majesty's wedding should be after the autumn grain harvest, and the summer grain quota in Guangdong is only more than 5,000 stones, and only places like Guangdong have the most people's power at this time!" ”

Mao Ji said: "However, Guangdong has cleared the land, and everyone knows that the new law will be implemented." At this time, the increase in forced labor did not give the squires and wealthy families an opportunity to incite the people to make trouble? ”

Wang Qiong joined the war group: "It's just a matter of clearing the land, and it has not been reformed." If there are squires and rich families who take the opportunity to make trouble, Zhang Fu respects the sword of the Son of Heaven and still gives it! ”

Fei Hong shook his head: "In this way, won't the provinces be shocked?" Last year, the traitor killed the official and provoked the incident, and the world was uneasy. The new law has to be implemented, but it can only be slowed down. ”

Jiang Mian: "There is also the fact that the daughter of a scholar will be the queen, and who is the one who forbids Chinese?" Dasi Nong, isn't it another reason for Guangdong to apportionment of fragrant tea when your household department invites all over the country to offer fragrant tea? How time-consuming and laborious it is to harvest spring tea, and the products to be offered need to be selected from one in a hundred! Zhuang Ding is enlisted, women and children pick tea, who has time for spring ploughing in the fields of Guangdong? ”

Li Chong's heirs were stupid: Sun Jiao's daughter? Empress?

Also, what is the point of such a quarrel?

Uncle Zhang Zilin, didn't you say that the monarchs and ministers were united in the national policy meeting?

Zhu Houxi quietly watched them perform.

In the locality, it was the conspiracy of the gentry and the desire of the local officials to please the emperor.

In the imperial court, it was the backbone ministers of each ministry who were in charge of practice who secretly buried their selfish desires in the national policy, and it was the central ministers who used it to fight.

How many people want to change the law to become stronger?

The concept of the kingdom is very vague in their minds.

The definition of the people also varies in their minds.

Wen Yanbo said: Your Majesty rules the world with scholars. On the surface, many people will not agree with this sentence, but they will silently praise it in their hearts.

And now, what is the undertone behind this superficial fighting and quarreling with each other?

Gui Cao couldn't see it, and Zhang Fujing and Yang Shen couldn't see it.

No one wants to hurt anyone, it's all tacit understanding.

Otherwise, if the ministries are invited, why didn't the cabinet mention it when they had an opinion? The addition of the party related to this year's wedding, why does the emperor have to nod and agree to everything?

Zhu Houxi smiled at the corner of his mouth when he heard this: You want me to take the blame, you want to make peace with the mud, and you vaguely remind me of the fundamental difficulties of the new law.

"Alright, stop acting."

The emperor's words made the hearts of these old ministers beat a lot.

Zhu Houxi stopped their further quarrel: "Guangdong tried to implement the new law, and the provinces were uneasy. What is the situation today? It is a confluence of the world, and it wants to block the effectiveness of the new law in Guangdong Province. After three or five years, the more I change and the worse it gets, I will stop thinking about it, I'm right, right? ”

The situation in Guangdong has its own Zhang Fujing, Chen Jin, Mai Fu, and Zhu Qi staring, and what Zhu Houxi wants to solve is the root cause of the problem: everything is because of the new law.

The imperial study was quiet, and Li Chongsi also had the same feeling as Cui Yuan at the beginning: This minister who participated in the national policy meeting must prepare a few pills and carry them with him.

What is the confluence of the world blocking Guangdong...... In this national policy meeting, isn't it just that the ministers are working together to block the emperor?

Shoufu could only speak on behalf of the representative again: "Your Majesty, the minister has said before that he will reform the disadvantages and try to make new ones, and the minister is not unwilling." However, the difficulties of accumulating disadvantages for a hundred years are really this. The fundamentals of field endowment, the use of conscription, the supervision of courses, storage and transportation, and the distinction between military and political affairs are all entangled. In Guangdong, there are also difficulties in the city's sea ban and frontier guards. Where to start with the new law, the ministers are really not embarrassed because of the so-called fields of the ministers. ”

Yang Tinghe now seems to have really become a member of the Fa Reform faction, it's not that he doesn't want to do it, but he has to make it clear where the difficulties are.

"Shrinking the rope and hiding the field, treacherously sending hidden households, taking advantage of disasters to report famine, flying, and wide lines...... The means of these places, the squires and wealthy officials colluded. Last year, Guangdong only cleared the fields of less than three prefectures, such as Guangzhou Mansion and Zhaoqing Mansion, and the situation was already very worrying. The land that should be given to the two prefectures is less than 20% less than that in the Hongzhi period, which is still the result of some hidden fields and some of the fields that have no purchase and sale vouchers. ”

"As for the fields of the Guangdong Juntun, there were only more than 70 hectares at the beginning of the country, and what about now? More than 70,000 hectares! The minister also didn't know how many people's fields in Guangdong had been converted into military tuns over the years, but even though the output of tuntian in Guangdong had exceeded 150,000 stones, the imperial court still needed to deliver grain and wages every year! Yang Tinghe let out a long sigh, "Your Majesty, this is only the land that is less than the three mansions, and the new policy has not yet been tried for enslavement." ”

Zhu Houxi listened.

Fields are the assets that provide the most consistent output in this era. Even if you want to do business, the stable output of the field is guaranteed, and there will always be great uncertainty in the trade.

Food is also the most important thing for the country, and people must live first.

Zhang Fujing killed a lot of people in Guangdong and collected a lot of stolen land as official land. This official land also needs to be cultivated by the people. When the people ploughed the official fields, they not only paid the land endowment, but also had to pay an additional rent to the local government.

Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated: one mu of official land is taxed five liters of three in five spoons, and one mu of private land is three liters of three in five spoons. As for the official land that is confiscated, the standard of land endowment is one acre, one bucket and two liters.

But Yang Tinghe's words, only the last sentence touched the root, only one of the words.

"Taizu compiled a book of fish scales, and the rich people of Zhejiang and Zhejiang were afraid to avoid forced labor, and often used land to trick their neighbors and tenants, which was called iron-footed trickery. After a long time, it has become a habit to bully the state and county, and the state and county to bully the government, and there are many treacherous and deceitful. So the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Yang Ge Lao said that shrinking the rope and hiding the field, tricking the hidden household, taking advantage of the disaster to report the famine, flying, and wide line are probably all these small tricks, right? ”

"Your Majesty is aware of everything." Yang Tinghe was a little surprised for a moment, and then looked at him seriously after speaking.

He really understands......

"At the beginning of the country, those who were exempted were only limited to Beijing officials, and only a certain number of acres were exempted, and foreign officials were halved. During the reign of the emperor's brother, Zhengyipin was only exempted from 400 acres, and those who had official status, those who were courteous to officials, and those who were forced to serve were exempted. Is that so? ”

Wang Qiong nodded, already knowing what the emperor was going to say.

"Prisoners, students, and lifters, at the beginning of the country, there were also regulations that could be exempted from forced labor, right?"

Yang Tinghe looked at the emperor with a solemn face.

"So what's the situation in the ground now?" Zhu Houxi looked at Yang Tan with a smile, "Dasi Nong, how many percent of the year's income into the field is actually handed over by the official household and the official field?" ”

Yang Tan only felt sweat in the back of his head, and replied stubbornly: "More than half ......"

Zhu Houxi nodded: "Don't forget, at the beginning of my ascension, the first thing I did was to check the accounts. In the fifteenth year of Chenghua, I have more than 70 million accounts in the Ming Dynasty. In the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, sixty million. In the first year of Zhengde, more than 46 million. In less than 30 years, what kind of natural disasters and military disasters have occurred in the Ming Dynasty, so that there are more than 30% of the people? In the two years before the imperial brother ascended the throne, more than 13 million people died in the Ming Dynasty? Hongzhi Zhongxing, more than 10,000 people die every day? Regardless of whether it is ZTE or not, no matter how many people are less, how much land should be given, there is no less land endowment, and there is no less income, it is very stable, is it strange that they say strange? ”

There was silence in the imperial study, and they all looked at the emperor with complicated expressions.

Don't be weird, you know you get it.

If you can say that you are afraid of servitude, you can do it......

Zhu Houxi quietly looked at them who were embarrassed.

Where did the people in the Ming demographic caliber go? It's not dead, it's a runaway. Without legal status, they are all slaves.

Why? The field endowment is heavy, and the conscription is even heavier.

Taizu set it at 30 taxes and 1, which is actually not high, so why should the common people flee their citizenship?

Because the gentry were exempt from forced labor, and the official households had a certain amount of tax relief, it was the most cost-effective to sell the land to the official households.

Because of the apportionment of conscription in the locality, the officials and officials will not be apportioned to the tenants of the official households.

What if the rich don't want to go into service? Look for officials, find those who have meritorious fame, and "sell" fields to them.

Many local wealthy families were in fact tenants, or "partners", of the gentry.

Many peasants were also willing to sublease land from wealthy households for farming, and wealthy gentry and wealthy households would also "cherish" their tenant farmers and "house slaves".

Because this is a chain of interests, you don't have to bear the burden of forced labor, so you can naturally cultivate with your heart and produce more.

The proportion of taxes paid on real private land is very low. However, the proportion of real households and farmland is now less than 40% on average in the country.

Therefore, although the land should be given less and less, the land endowment has been very stable.

Stability, it means that there is no problem, and there will be no big investigation of those who have illegally fled the land in the local area.

In fact, more than half of the taxes paid by the Ming Dynasty were paid by the help of officials, and the rich households and peasants who rented their land were executives and workers respectively.

The situation is so funny, what is the Great Pillar Stone?

Zhu Houxi also checked the accounts in detail and found out: Daming doesn't seem to have the so-called official gentry exempted from field service in his memory!

He didn't know that this was the system of preferential exemption for the gentry that was originally formed in the 26th year of Jiajing and expanded even more during the Wanli period.

At that time, from Beijing officials to foreign officials, from showmen, lifters to miscellaneous officials, all of them had exemptions and exemptions. During the Wanli period, 10,000 mu of land was exempted for the first product of Beijing officials, and 2,700 mu of foreign officials were halved for eight products. Jinshi who have not been an official can be exempted from more than 3,000 mu at most, more than 1,000 mu for lifters, and 80 mu for Xiucai.

As for conscription, that's not to mention. The name is exempt from a few dings, but in fact, who is in charge of how many dings there are in the gentry's house?

In this case, how can the finances not collapse?

Zhu Houxi looked at them quietly: So why are you acting so tacitly now?

Half hoped that Zhu Houxi would see where the real difficulty was, and half hoped to dissuade him from moving the knife to this.

It was a real chaos in the world, affecting the gentry and wealthy families across the country.

This is the essence of Fang Muxian's words.

Daming's Tian Fu is on their shoulders! The meaning of moving their fields is not Tian Fu, how much is Tian Fu in total?

It is the burden of conscription that is placed on these fields, and it is to make them bear the burden of conscription.

The gentry, the rich and the officials are all decent people, how can those conscripts be done by them and by their people? It will be apportioned to ordinary households.

If the households are busy farming, they have to pay the money, and the government will hire people to serve in the army.

Local taxes are excessive, and this kind of forced labor is the real burden on the people!

Li Chongsi thoroughly felt the difference between the current national policy meeting and the court.

The emperor was neither happy nor angry, but simply explained the problem thoroughly, and then asked them to figure out a way.

Cui Yuan looked at the emperor in embarrassment: I can't think of a way like this.

Why can't I start after the land is cleared in Guangdong? Because Zhang Fujing and that Gui Cao's method of asking for play can't solve the fundamental problem.

Many local sections have been compiled and examined as a whip, which cannot solve the problem of levy and apportionment.

It was the magistrates and officials who carried out this whip, and they themselves were not responsible for any other apportionment other than the land endowment. In the end, it is still borne by the common people, and at most there is less greed for ink.

"As I said, in the next three years, I will only focus on three things, and the new Guangdong law is one of them." Zhu Houxi looked at them, "There's no way?" So what should I say first? ”

“…… Your Majesty, please make it clear. Yang Tinghe could only bite the bullet and listen to what he had to say first.

"I've always made it clear." Zhu Houxi glanced at him quietly, "Studying part-time, the cost is really high, I know." The local staff is thin, and I know it. The wealthy households, gentry, and relatives involved in commercial taxation are all pillars of stability up and down, and I also know it. Ran Taishi Gong said: There are those who die due to service, and those who die without endowment. Serving the people but not serving the gentry, sooner or later there will be no people to serve in the Ming Yellow Book, and sooner or later the society will die. The foundation of this society is the people after all. These pillars are also based on the people and the Ming Dynasty ritual order. ”

"Which of the new laws in Guangdong will be implemented secondly, and the secretary and others will participate in the national policy, and at this time it is just a discussion, so don't act. The fundamental problem is there, and what the monarch and ministers want to discuss at this time is that this new law will not evade this fundamental issue. In Li Chongsi's eyes, the emperor said these words very calmly, "Although I am indeed ruling the world with scholars now, if all the people in the Yellow Book are hidden from the gentry, will I become a scholar to rule the world in the future, and reward my descendants with a mouthful of food?" ”

Li Chongsi was terrified, and he left his seat with the others and knelt down with the others: "The ministers don't dare, Your Majesty is angry......"

"Do you think I am angry?" Zhu Houxi smiled, "When Fang Muxian said wild words, I told you. What the scholar wants in his life, the family is right to serve the country. I understand the importance of motivation. If you enter the office, you will serve the country, and if you do not, you will be educated, and the status of the officials and gentry will also be guaranteed. During the ceremony, I also said that I bear the responsibility of safeguarding the interests of all people in the order of etiquette. When I think of the new law and talk about the new law, others misunderstand it, why do I also misunderstand it? Am I like someone who doesn't understand these truths? Get up and take your seats. ”

Eighteen people, plus Zhang Bi, the "scholar" who was trembling with his pen just now, got up and sat down again with trepidation.

What does it feel like for the emperor to understand too well?

But is it really okay to say that a scholar rules the world and rewards the Son of Heaven for a bite of food? The killing intent is too heavy!

"I said that, but Wangqing and the others understood the truth. All over the world are my people. Now the eldest son is successful in studying, and the second son takes care of the family business on his behalf, and many heavy chores in the family are undertaken by the younger son. The weak body is overwhelmed, the young son is a slave to the eldest son and the second son, even if I want to admonish their brothers, friends and brothers, they have to look at the face of the eldest son and the second son, what kind of father and son filial piety is this? Zhu Houxi looked at them, "Zhongqing, is this the situation?" Should this be the case? In the long run, will the murder of father and brother be repeated? ”

With a family name, there is nothing wrong.

But now, do you really have to blame the eldest son and the second son?

"That's why I'm making it clear to you. With this new law in Guangdong, I believe that we must face the fundamental problem of forced labor. Zhu Houxi looked at them, "Unless you don't enter the national policy meeting, after the agreement, the secretary and the others will all be with me." If the new law is to be implemented, the Qing and others are all people who advocate changing the law. How to do it can be discussed next; But walking with me is still the opposite of me, and this is more important. ”

Li Chongsi wanted to escape, but he couldn't.

He was a newcomer, and he was met with probably the most important national policy meeting.

He understood the spirit of the meeting.

The central ministers who sat at the national policy meeting will not be able to do so in the future if they are inconsistent with the emperor in the general direction, and at most it is recommended to take the waterway or the dry road or the sheep intestine path.

Otherwise, the rest of the positions are the end of the career.

"In order to ensure the unity of the monarch and the ministers, I said at the beginning of the establishment of the national policy meeting that the ministers participating in the national policy meeting have those three privileges. Even if you just come here for a while, you can retire without stopping. Therefore, Wang Qiong and others are involved in old things, and I can also protect my grace first. Zhu Houxi finally pointed out, "I have only paid attention to Jingying and this matter at the national policy meeting in the past three years, so the secretary and others can now think carefully and express their positions, and they will not be able to deal with the fundamental problem of conscription at every turn." ”

The Emperor was silent.

In the two months after the Spring Festival, the emperor once again took a hard line on something, but he did not match his words and deeds, and only said the new law of Guangdong.

This attitude is not easy to show. This attitude cannot but be expressed.

Because it has risen to the height of loyalty or disloyalty, "filial piety or unfilial piety".

So the ministers acted tacitly, and by the way, what kind of strength did they fight with this matter?

Fight someone has gone, sat in his place, and if you dodge this fundamental question, you have to leave.

It's definitely not emeritus, it's almost the same as a new Mao Cheng.

The emperor was calm.

No wonder he is not in a hurry now, Zhang Fujing is like an ant on a hot pot in Guangdong, but he is not in a hurry at all what to let Zhang Fujing do next.

He first wants an iron bucket, a center that is truly "one heart for the monarch and the minister".

If there is no result in this position, I am afraid that it will continue to be discussed until it is truly stable.

If you don't agree, just change the batch.

If you have other thoughts, you will kill some first.

Kill only these, while continuing to be lenient, easy-going, and honest with others.

Before the new law was officially moved, before Guangdong even cleared the land, to go up to rebel? In what name?

If it is settled now, and the latter begins to move, and there is a rebellion again, the minister who has participated in the strategy is the biggest target of suspicion!

Don't be afraid, with the concerted efforts of the eighteen ministers at the national policy meeting, what kind of things can't be suppressed?

Yan Song finally understood the emperor's big wedding, relatives, Emperor Zhengde's heirs, new laws and whatever, what kind of fish these online fish.

The big fish at the national focus meeting.

He had lived in the countryside for a long time, and had only stayed in Hanlin Courtyard before. He has no pressure from the interests of his family and the interests of the township party, at least not much.

Therefore, Yan Song was the first to say righteously: "The minister thinks that what His Majesty said is very true, and this fundamental problem is about to be moved!" ”

Wang Shouren was silent for a while, and then spoke: "This is a conscience, there is no way to avoid it, and the minister agrees." ”

Yang Tinghe looked at him: ......

Cui Yuan is a Xun relative, and he knows that His Majesty already has a new idea for Xun Qi, so it is not a big deal to see the excitement: "The minister also thinks that it should not be avoided." ”

Sun Jiao already has a "way out" for the earl: "...... The minister thought that he really needed to plan for his descendants. ”

The other five cabinet ministers and the nine ministers, which one has not been an official for many years and represents a huge number of interests?

But Wang Qiong, Wang Xian, Yang Tan, and Li Qi all understood His Majesty's true intention to protect them: "The minister seconded the proposal." ”

Don't speak now, punish the sins!

The rest were still pondering.

If you don't express your position, you can either find an idle position and not oppose it and cooperate with the new law in the future.

It's hard to rebel, look at what kind of emperor this is now? He will definitely be very patient in laying out the fishing.

First false and wronged? Those that don't exist will definitely arrange their own tasks and take the lead in implementing them.

The minister seconded the proposal...... "Li Chongsi was reluctant to get out as soon as he came."

"The minister seconded the ......" Zhang Zilin saw the importance of the Ministry of Rites in the future, and he also had a "case record" with the emperor.

The six Shangshu are alive, and only eight people remain.

Yang Tinghe thought of Yang Shen, who had already gone to Guangdong to experience "meritorious service", and remembered that after patting his ass and leaving and handing over the important task of safeguarding the interests of the gentry to Fei Hong, would this old fox use a knife against himself who had connived at King Ning so much that his ancestral grave was dug up.

From the bottom of his heart, some helpless tears appeared in his eyes: "Minister...... Seconded. ”

What do you care about your mind and continue to stay in the court? After discovering that His Majesty understands the importance of science, he should slip away.

Yang Shen entered the imperial study and the Tuen Mun war, why was he coaxed by a series of things and the emperor's "heart-to-heart words" of "no one is difficult" to the present?

It's too late!

He knows how to go online best, forgot?!

After Yang Tinghe dared to stand in front, he finally made a series of statements.

Zhu Houxi nodded with a smile: "The monarch and the minister are single-minded, and I am very relieved." ”

Li Chongsi finally confirmed: The unity of the monarch and the minister at the national policy meeting has always been formed in this way.

What kind of mood did Zhang Zilin have when he said this?

(End of chapter)