When the emperor drew his knife and walked towards Zheng Cunzhong, Yan Song's scalp began to tingle, and his blood couldn't help but stir.

Your Majesty has seen through it, I'm afraid it has already seen through it!

What about so many officials under the guise of "party strife" in the imperial court? The process of reshuffling the cards is also the process of redistributing those invisible powers among the ministers!

But are the backbone of the gentry an official?

No, lift people!

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the total number of surviving Jinshi was about 2,000; After Chenghua, it was only about 3,000.

And what about lifting people? The number of surviving people is more than 10,000.

Most of the Jinshi were in official positions, and the dignity of the officials and the low-key required for promotion did not allow them to be publicized.

It is to connect people from the top to the bottom, to connect Jinshi officials with talents and wealthy households, and to play a key role in the chain of various interests such as local fields and shops.

Jin Juren, Yin Jinshi, do you know?

You know!

"Party strife" for several months, did you implicate a person in the opposition?

No.

Now Zhang Fujing has sent a person who is "innocent" and has only committed one crime.

Your Majesty slaughtered him with his own hands!

Yan Song looked at Yang Tinghe and Fei Hong, and their solemn expressions were not abrupt.

The shock brought by the Son of Heaven killing people with his own hands in the palace made every court counselor look like this.

But the emperor known to the counsellors was not like that.

He is always easy-going, honest, generous, and dignified, and has a pure youthful enthusiasm for Daming.

Liang Chu, Wang Qiong, Chen Jin, Wei Bin, Guo Xun, Zhang Heling...... Which one is not more guilty than Zheng Cunzhong? His Majesty didn't kill him.

The participants of the seminar on geriatric theory, which had spent a few months in a very harmonious atmosphere, suddenly faced this scene.

The emperor returned to his throne, and the first reaction inside and outside the Fengtian Hall was to kneel down in unison.

Zhu Houxi saw the fear in their eyes.

No matter what ingenuity, skill, or temperament they had shown in the past, there was no such natural fear in their eyes.

That knife was like a coming-of-age ceremony.

At this point, the political animals in the court will completely forget his age.

It is not a person who kills in a rage, but a very calm and purposeful killing.

"Get up."

The emperor opened his mouth, the ceremonial officials shouted, and everyone inside and outside the palace stood up.

The ground has been washed, and there are no prisoners here.

No one knew how to speak, and no one knew what the emperor was thinking at the moment.

Many officials standing in the sunlight outside the Fengtian Hall felt chills and trembling legs.

"How many gentry in the world are like this Zheng Cunzhong?" Zhu Houxi spoke.

"Your Majesty, the traitor's mouth is arrogant, and he has a selfish desire to cover the sky, and he has a home but no country. Such rebellious people are rare in the world, and it is advisable to spread the crime of disloyalty and disobedience to the world, and warn the provinces of the three tribes! ”

Fei Hong was the first to answer, and many people nodded secretly: That's it! The madness is boundless! How dare you imply such a thing as a family of flowing water dynasty iron beating?

We really don't have that much guts!

"No, what I ask is, how many officials and gentry in the world have committed the crime of evading service like this Zheng Cunzhong."

Fei Hong's heart sank: It's going to be real.

Yang Tinghe was in a dizzy.

Who played whom?

Yang Shen's recklessness made him have to play the leader of the party, and the emperor's knife cut off his possibility of playing a good person again.

So the emperor also let them act first, let them shout the slogan loudly and there is no longer a way out?

This time, the emperor has already shown his determination to fight resolutely, and there can be no luck.

Yang Tinghe could only speak stubbornly: "The sage has taught for two thousand years, and the imperial examination has been a scholar for nearly a thousand years, and now all the people dare to speak so wildly!" There are indeed few people who are as rebellious as him, but what about those who are as rebellious as him? Fei Zichong, Your Majesty's question, why don't you dare to answer! ”

This scene can only be performed for a lifetime. Fortunately, when Fei Hong wrote this script, he did not just expect the emperor to retreat in the future and take the initiative to reconcile.

If the performance continues, the future of the participants will at least have an extra layer of security.

So the head of the dignified cabinet knelt down and said ashamedly: "The minister's land is given, the land purchased by the minister's family, the people in the minister's family, and the officials have not taken the initiative to urge the service!" The minister is like this, the world can know! ”

Then he raised his head and said categorically: "To change the law since ancient times, the monarch and the minister must work together!" If Your Majesty has made up his mind, the minister will take the initiative to pay! The new law is urgent, and the old system must be easier! ”

Zhu Houxi asked Fei Hong: "Elder Fei Ge, what do you think?" ”

Fei Hong also knelt down and choked up: "Your Majesty, the old minister is ashamed! If Your Majesty only seeks to enrich the country, then the gentry of the world are really guilty. However, the way to govern the country is not only for the rich country! Respect and order, etiquette is the fundamental! In the first year and April of His Majesty's reign, the power traitor talked about changing the law and shaking the foundation of the society, what was his intention? Your Majesty, the stability of the country is the most important, and the rest and recuperation are the most important! Why doesn't Your Majesty take it slowly, and wait for the future? ”

Yang Tinghe shouted angrily: "There are already such traitors in Guangdong, Fei Zi accused the old man of being a traitor, do you want to give the traitors in the world a chance to recuperate?" How much have the scholars of the world forgotten the teachings of the saints, do you have a clear conscience? The dogs couldn't bear the hardships of forced labor, and all the people fell on their heads, and the gentry of Guangzhou had already called him Yang Buxiu! Who is not in good health? Who is not right-hearted? Does the Fei family have too many fields, so they ignore the truth in the world? ”

During the personal attack, Fei Hong just cried again and again: "Your Majesty, the policy of exempting Ding from being exempted, and strictly ordering the officials not to overstep." The policies of the new law have not yet been agreed, Guangdong is already manipulative, Yang Tinghe advocates the new law, what comprehensive and good policies are presented to His Majesty? The old minister is loyal only for the stability of the Ming Society, Your Majesty Mingjian! ”

As the emperor stabbed Zheng Cunzhong in his "rage", the wind direction of the court seemed to be set, and Fei Hong could only admit the existence of the facts, and could only advise the emperor in the danger of turmoil.

And he has accepted that the changes to the enlistment can be directed to the appointee.

Zhu Houxi sighed in disappointment: "A hurricane blew out the Ming Dynasty full of devastation. For more than 100 years, scholars have been loyal to the monarch and love the people. With the addition of fame, the teachings of the sages are left behind, how many people are willing to be honest and loyal ministers? He has a family but no country, treats the people as slaves, respects the monarch and his father and seeks his property, and the slightest admonition is like an enemy. If people want to do this, what is the reason of heaven? ”

Just like that time when Yang Shen's matter was transmitted to the imperial study, the emperor's words shocked the hearts of the other court counselors.

Your Majesty...... It seems that the Dao heart has collapsed. The recognition of Confucianism is shaking.

Yang Tinghe really wanted to open his mouth to stack an extra layer of protective aura for himself, but he knew that now he really needed "allies" to bear the firepower together.

Only then did Yan Song come out and kneel, and bowed down: "The minister Yan Song has the courage to ask His Majesty to open a special grace again, and welcome the Zhongwu Gong to enjoy the Taimiao, thinking that the world's officials and scholars are an example!" Those who are loyal to the monarch and love the people will not be a few in the world! At this time! ”

The reaction was exactly the same, but there were more people, and many people looked at Yan Song in disbelief.

And Zhang Zilin also joined the team: "Minister Zhang Zilin dared to ask His Majesty to order the Ministry of Rites to discuss the number of Emperor Jing's temple!" Ordered to turn the tide in the face of danger, although Emperor Jing succeeded to the throne of the vassal king, he really had immortal achievements in the Daming Society! Your Majesty has the ambition of a rich country, loves the people like a son, such as today's selfish desires, Your Majesty wants to recreate the Ming Dynasty, and the ministers will do their best! ”

Wang Qiong changed her line: "If the gentry of the world do not distinguish between right and wrong, and forget the teachings of the sage, they should reform their fame and make them retest!" The minister Wang Qiong seconded the proposal and asked His Majesty to set this precedent, and people with lofty ideals in the world will gather to create a prosperous era with His Majesty. ”

The new party and the imperial party merged, and Fei Hong seemed to be alone.

This drama has finally come to this point. In full view of everyone, the emperor will not back down again.

He was really not afraid of this difficulty.

So Fei Hong also wanted to express his last loyalty, and after kowtowing, he cried: "The old minister has the courage to admonish!" The new law has not yet been decided, and His Majesty must not do it. If it continues, officials are greedy for merit, and officials harm the people, Your Majesty must take Xining's old things as a warning! ”

After saying that, he straightened up and glared at Yang Ting and them: "Please for the troubled country!" Greedy for merit! Invite the traitor! Yang Tinghe, you are scheming, and you are all a party member, is it really for His Majesty to create a prosperous world? Do you have any magic ways to make the world practice new laws without chaos? has been vague for more than a year, could it be that in the end it is just a market restructuring and an official to apply for payment? Just these two, you also vainly try to enjoy the Taimiao? ”

The contradiction intensified, and Yan Song, Zhang Zilin, Wang Qiong and others seemed to have become accomplices of Yang Tinghe who wanted to open the door of the Taimiao.

The new law has caused the world to be confused, and it is true that so far it has only been after the land has been cleared, and a city reform has been carried out in Guangdong, and then Yang Tinghe and the officials who have resolutely expressed their stance today have applied for conscription.

At that time, Wang Anshi still clearly understood the "Hundred Years of Nothing to Do in this Dynasty", set up the three departments and regulations to coordinate finance, there was the law of equal loss, there was the green seedling law, and there were later recruitment law, Baojia law, Fangtian average tax law, city easy law, and exemption law......

Yang Tinghe took a deep breath and replied in a deep voice: "Naturally!" Your Majesty, after more than a year of deliberation at the national policy meeting, it is the gradual concerting efforts of all the counselors that have now changed the law with His Majesty to recreate the Ming Dynasty. Fei Zi is full of the heart of a villain and spends the belly of a gentleman, and the minister disdains to care about it! Now that he asked, the minister directly stated the general outline of the new law and the new laws. ”

After he stood up, he spoke eloquently to the ministers: "Its general outline says: separation of enslavement, unification of the department, and sharing of the rich and the poor. All offices procure, agriculture and commerce at the same time, and draw points. The tax inspector is permanent, the financial account is predetermined, and the rate belongs to the imperial court. Amend the laws and regulations, clarify the rules, and the officials abide by them. ”

"There are three steps. It was first tried by Guangdong, and after three years, it was revised and improved depending on its effectiveness. Then the laws were enacted, and the provinces set up new ya, elected officials, and proclaimed the world, all of whom had been trained in Guangdong for three years. After the implementation of the world, the inspection of the world supervised the actual inspection, rewards and punishments are in accordance with the new regulations. ”

"It has the accounting law, the budget decision-making algorithm, the adoption method, the library law, the tax law, the commercial law, the examination law, the official treatment law, and the Ming law.

After this series of words, he took out a thick book from his sleeve and raised it cheekily: "The results of the joint consultation of the ministers are all in this "Ming Rich Country Financial Planning", and I submit it to Your Majesty for a royal review!" ”

As a result, it became a scene in which the New Party and the Imperial Party took the results of the people's deliberations for several months as their own merits and announced them to the public.

The emperor accepted Fei Hong's exhortation, and he had to leave room for it.

Zhu Houxi doesn't need these many ideas to come from his reputation, he just needs these things to be implemented.

On the throne, the emperor looked down at Song Shu.

In the Fengtian Temple, the counselor generously expounded the new law.

The head of the household department explained the "Accounting Law", and the ministers were shocked by the double-entry accounting method.

The Ministry of Officials explained the "Examination Law", and the national policy meeting decided the policy every year and every three years, and then dismantled and arranged it to various ministries and provinces, and the officials will have some quantifiable and observable annual tasks from now on.

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu explained the "Law on the Treatment of Officials", which everyone is a little happy to see, because the income of low-level officials has been improved, and it will be uniformly converted into silver in the future. In addition, the various government offices have also stipulated some benefits that should be borne by the financial authorities, such as some official expenses, travel and entertainment expenses, which used to be borne by the officials themselves.

Li Chongsi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, explained the "Daming Laws", which only said that the Daming Laws and the Punishment Regulations should be revised in the next few years, and they will be all plain laws, and the punishments will be clear after that. The most significant change will be the change from the original five punishments of flogging, rod, imprisonment, exile, and death to death, prison, and silver. Among them, the prison also includes servitude, and there will be labor during the prison period. The specific strategy will be refined later. And the principle of atonement will also be changed to incomplete atonement for serious crimes.

The most important ones are the "Budget Decision", "Tax Law", "Adoption Measures", and "Commercial Law", all of which determine whether money can be obtained or not.

The most significant change will be that the household departments will be transferred to the provinces, and the households and houses in the prefectures and counties will also be directly managed by the household ministry, although the ordinary direct management only involves tax revenue and expenditure at the financial account level.

The "Tax Law" involved land taxes, commercial taxes, salt taxes, etc., and the collection of taxes would be the responsibility of the household department and the magistrates, but in the future, the Metropolitan Procuratorate would set up permanent inspection courts in each province to supervise the collection of various taxes, and the same was only responsible to the imperial court.

In addition to the annual office required by the palace and the imperial court, the most important difference in the "Procurement Measures" is that the local government will directly levy silver after unifying the rules, and these money will be taxed according to the "field right" of the land, that is, the area of cultivation or tenant rent, and the amount of people. The preferential exemption of the gentry is still the same as before, but the excess part must be paid. With this silver, the local government can purchase what the local needs are, both in kind and in labor.

The highlight is Business Law Journal. The government has so much demand for purchases, and in addition to handing over the land and providing grain, the common people will also need to sell more other outputs into silver. The previous budget and final accounts, taxes, procurement, etc., all reduced the functions and powers of the local government in disguise, but the Commercial Law gave them a new authority, that is, the registration and licensing of all businesses and the unified management of the accounting law.

A very important one is that the clan relatives and relatives will use the emperor's name to conduct business, and the imperial court will also prepare some commercial houses in the fields of salt, mining, iron, transportation, etc., and the incumbent officials and their descendants cannot do business.

There are naturally many workarounds in the secret, but at the same time, what Yang Tinghe affirmed is the importance of commercial law to the tax law, as well as the severity of the punishment of merchants after violating the "Daming Regulations": this is the basis for the flow of revenue to support the beginning of greater finance in the future, and those who evade taxes and are corrupt will be severely sentenced.

"Your Majesty! How to implement the laws in Guangdong one by one, the ministers and others will have to discuss again. However, there is one clause that all the commercial houses set up by the imperial court should abide by the laws and regulations, but the old laws of the honorable relatives shall be adjudicated by His Majesty, and the ministers ask His Majesty to grant the right to sentence the three divisions if this law is approved. ”

After this performance, many people looked at Yang Tinghe's eyes and changed.

This guy is not acting, he is real, and the idea has hit the head of Xun Qi, and it has also hit all the officials and gentry in the world.

If you are doing business today, who doesn't have a background behind you? Although many firms do not say it explicitly, which one does not have anyone's dark stocks?

In this case, Yang Tinghe cut himself off from his relatives and from the gentry of the world.

If the emperor approves it, then the new party is really in power and the opposition, and I am afraid that it will have to use harsh means to implement it and maintain stability.

How could Yang Tinghe not think about his own life?

Fei Hong was still advising bitterly: "Your Majesty! Yang Ting and the laws are too different from the current example. How can a businessman be encouraged to be cunning? The court competes with the people for profit, and many purchases will eventually come from the court and be collected by the court. Although this accounting method is new, how can it stop people from being greedy for national money? Outside the accounting law, it is all chaotic, and I am afraid that when the income has not increased, the imperial court has exhausted its expenditure. If there is a natural disaster on the border, could it be that the people's wealth is looted again? The department uniformly converts silver, the people sell grain, and the merchants hoard and mess up the market. ”

Zhu Houxi was silent for a long time, put down the song, and looked at Yang Ting and them: "Buyiqing and others have discussed many new laws, although they are not all leaked, but they are already very attentive. ”

The court counselors obviously saw that Fei Hong's body trembled slightly, and he was extremely depressed.

"Guangdong's disadvantages are vivid, and the gentry in the world have families but no country. Now that I have ascended the throne as the emperor, if I can't recreate the Ming Dynasty, what will I do to see my ancestors and ancestors in the future? Zhu Houxi's calm expression finally faded, allowing the ministers to see his anger and unwillingness, "Three years is not enough, then five years!" I am not a dull king, whether the new law will work or not, and I will decide to stop it by looking at its effectiveness. Yang Tinghe! ”

"The minister is here!"

"I order you to lead the trial implementation of the new law in Guangdong, and if the relatives of the invited relatives violate the law, the three law divisions can first determine the sentence and then submit it to me for ruling. Tell the world that five years before Jiajing, the rest of the provinces waited and saw the effect. If someone uses clever force to obstruct it, those who find out the evidence will be regarded as complicit! ”

“…… The ministers will live up to His Majesty's trust! ”

"Fei Hong!"

"The minister is here!"

"Once I have made up my mind, the court can no longer quarrel. I have ordered you to be the governor of Sichuan, and you will still serve the country. ”

The ministers froze when they saw Yang Tinghe's excited expression, while Fei Hong could only cry and thank him.

The tone was set, but the emperor first held the final ruling power on Xun Qi in his hands, and secondly, let Fei Hong stare at Yang Ting and his hometown without Zhishi.

Today's situation is really intriguing.

"Yan Song, Zhang Zilin, Wang Qiong."

"The minister is here!"

"Please, please! I want to see if there are any honest ministers in my Jiajing Dynasty! If I have no way to govern the country, chaos and national skills, I will have no face to enter the temple! If I recreate the rich and powerful Ming Dynasty, I look forward to my humerus good ministers accompanying me in a hundred years and sharing the blood and food of future generations! ”

"Your Majesty! There must be a good minister in the world who is loyal to the king and the country! ”

Zhu Houxi stood up and looked down at the ministers: "The gentry are honored, the officials are exempted, and there is already a national law." The teachings of the sages, loyalty to the king and love for the people, how can we forget or forget? Today, I tell the world that the king of my vassal will succeed to the throne, and I only hope that the Ming Dynasty will be governed and the virtuous ministers will be full of courts. Long birthday this month, big wedding next month, no one in the world has to sacrifice and disturb the people. ”

“…… His Majesty is lenient and benevolent to the people, and his ministers are admired. ”

Zhu Houxi finally smiled: "The big wedding is imminent, and I have also learned the rites of Duke Zhou on the orders of my mother." Not long ago, the female official Lin had a dragon fetus, and I intended to be a concubine when I chose a concubine. In the future, when the queen is established and the concubine grows up, I hope that a rich and powerful Ming will be passed on to him in a hundred years. ”

In one sentence, the amount of information exploded, and the counselors glanced at Sun Jiao one after another.

Although I don't know if it's a man or a woman, the emperor has already left the seed!

The female official who is currently pregnant will only be a concubine.

And it was made clear that the throne would be a son-in-law in the future.

As long as there is a kind.

Yang Tinghe is heartily happy now.

Step by step, he has become the real leader of the new law, and he has no way out.

The emperor can have a queen, this is the real guarantee.

Suddenly, there was a voice of worship inside and outside the Fengtian Palace: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty!" There are successors to the Ming Dynasty, long live Your Majesty! Banzai! Hooray! ”

The morning sun outside the hall is gradually fierce, and the Ming Dynasty is stable!

This really is the best time to make this announcement!

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