Zhu Gaochi's eyes were fixed on Xie Jin, and his plain and gentle gaze was as sharp as a knife at this time.

"Is it the meaning of the officials of the Su, Song, Jia, and Hu origins below, or what do you mean? Or are they all mixed up? ”

Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong were silent, and Xie Jin replied with difficulty: "It's what the officials below mean." ”

"This is what your cabinet has discussed? As soon as the Jingjing tribulation ended, the north was a blank field, and all the people in the south were exhausted...... Seeing that it is the time when the sea is boiling, money is being used everywhere, and you want the court to use the life-saving taxes to support those corrupt officials? ”

Zhu Gaochi was extremely angry and slapped the case table fiercely.

"Do you think that my father is Jianwen's ignorant child?!"

"What is Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai's advice to Jianwen Xiao'er?"

"Junjiang and Zhetian are endowed, and the edict says: The country has the only right supply, and Jiang and Zhejiang are unique, and Su and Songguantian are allowed to pay private taxes, and they are punished for a while, how can it be a rule. Today, with reductions and reductions, there is no more than one bucket per mu. Su and Song people still have the official household department. ”

"Xie Jin!" Zhu Gaochi pointed with his halberd, "Translate and translate in the vernacular now!" ”

Xie Jin frowned and reluctantly explained: "Emperor Jianwen thinks that the tax system set by Emperor Taizu Gao is unreasonable, and the taxes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are too heavy, and they are only used as punishments when the country was founded, and should not be continued forever...... It was ordered that the average land tax in Jiangsu and Zhejiang should be levied according to the uniform standard of no more than one bucket of grain per mu of land, and officials from Suzhou, Song, and other places could be the chief officials of the household department. ”

The eunuch came in and cleaned up the ground, and Zhu Gaochi also regained his composure, and he took a sip of tea.

"During the Hongwu Dynasty, the Suzhou or Songjiang clans were forbidden to be appointed as the head of the household department, so as to prevent people from these wealthy prefectures from controlling the finances and favoring their hometowns at the expense of the national treasury. Emperor Jianwen was young and ignorant, and was fooled by those Wenchen who were born in a big landlord family, so he abolished the old system of Taizu. ”

"Now Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng's grave grass hasn't grown a few inches." Zhu Gaochi glanced at the three of them, "Are you in such a hurry, do you want to go down to accompany them?" ”

Xie Jin and the other two suddenly felt a chill in their hearts.

None of them thought that Zhu Gaochi would be angry like this.

In fact, Zhu Gaochi was extremely gentle and respectful to these ministers on weekdays.

This attitude makes it difficult for them not to think of the era of Emperor Jianwen, although that era is very short, but it is indeed a happy era for Wenchen, which is very nostalgic......

Emperor Jianwen respected the Wenchen unusually much, protected their interests, despised those rude martial arts nobles, and formulated many policies in favor of the landlord class.

How could it be that in the blink of an eye, such a good emperor was usurped?

But the situation is like this, and they can only accept the new emperor at the same time, otherwise will they really let them, who are young and promising, go underground to accompany Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng?

Xie Jin and the other three cabinet officials turned their hearts a thousand times.

Yang Shiqi couldn't help but whispered: "Your Highness is angry, the minister thinks that this matter needs to be carefully considered." ”

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Yang Shiqi, and after being silent for a moment, he suddenly smiled.

"Although you didn't ask, you must have been unable to hold it back...... I would like to know what His Majesty's attitude is to the tax reform based on the two tax laws today. ”

Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong glanced at each other and nodded.

Xie Jin was actually more curious than Er Yang, but at this time, whoever spoke first would be too eager.

Zhu Gaochi was probably annoyed by the cabinet's tax-free operation, and today he insisted on cracking down on these conceited and talented young talents of the empire.

Let you accept a little shock from Mr. Jiang.

I know what it means to have people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky!

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Gaochi said directly.

"—Your Majesty doesn't intend to use it at all."

How can it be?

This news made the three cabinet ministers stunned, and they raised their heads one after another, they thought that Yang Shiqi's proposal would definitely be approved by Zhu Di, and the imperial court would definitely adopt a new land tax policy, but they did not expect such a result.

"Isn't it to Your Majesty's wishes?" Yang Shiqi asked bitterly.

Zhu Gaochi asked rhetorically: "Why do you think Your Majesty is opposed?" ”

This confuses everyone.

Yang Shiqi immediately got up and arched his hand and said, "The minister doesn't dare to say anything." ”

Yang Rong frowned and thought for a long time, but he didn't dare to say anything.

Only Xie Jin breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Your Majesty Mingjian." ”

"Even if the well field system is not restored, the current land and tax system cannot be easily moved, if it is rashly shaken, it will affect the foundation of the Ming Society, so the minister thinks that this matter is very important, and he can't make a decision with his head...... It's still a long-term view. ”

Xie Jin didn't have a backache when he stood and spoke, because the idea had nothing to do with him at all, and it was Er Yang's responsibility from beginning to end.

Zhu Gaochi stood up, walked to the window with his hands behind his back and looked at the tree in the yard, and said slowly: "It's because the countermeasures Your Majesty got are much better than what you proposed, and it can even be said that it is close to perfection!" ”

Yang Shiqi's face changed slightly, and he suddenly felt a buzzing in his head.

Finding a way to do this matter was pressed by Zhu Di to Zhu Gaochi, and Zhu Gaochi pressed them again.

It's obviously a propositional essay, the kind that dances in shackles.

Yang Shiqi's idea was just to tinker with the two tax laws and take advantage of this errand.

But even so, Yang Shiqi still doesn't think that anyone will be able to come up with a better countermeasure than him.

Yang Shiqi's sentence of "impossible" was almost blurted out, but after all, he had a bit of qi cultivation kung fu, and he couldn't bear it, but his expression kept changing and his eyes flickered.

Yang Rong, who is quite a city government, fell into deep thought, and Xie Jin, who had nothing to do with this matter, turned his eyes and took the lead in speaking.

"Why is Your Highness like this?" Xie Jin suddenly thought of a possibility, "Your Majesty doesn't adopt this method, is it ......?" ”

"Just as you think."

Zhu Gaochi saw the thoughts of the three of them, and then lightly stated Jiang Xinghuo's proposal of "spreading labor into acres".

The faces of the three changed again, each with a different expression.

Yang Shiqi had a slight look of shock on his face, he didn't seem to expect that Emperor Yongle would actually plan to take such drastic measures!

Yang Rong looked suddenly enlightened, and couldn't stop nodding in admiration.

Xie Jin, however, did not show a particularly surprised or admiring expression, but just held his face ugly as if he had eaten a dead fly.

Xie Jin quickly came back to his senses and asked tentatively: "Your Majesty really approves this method?" ”

Zhu Gao nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Wouldn't that be tantamount to the complete abolition of conscription? After that, the scholar has been admitted to the examination for more than ten years or decades, and he has no privilege to be exempted from forced labor? ”

"How do you say that?" Zhu Gaochi looked at Xie Jin strangely, "Naturally, there will be compensation for this part of the privilege, such as the extra rice or cloth distributed every month, and the dynasty will always not treat it badly...... Wouldn't it be better to spread the money of the common people to serve in the field tax, so that everyone does not have to serve the forced labor? ”

Xie Jin was stunned for a long time.

“...... Insulting Sven. ”