The ministers of the Ming Dynasty present all looked at each other.

I don't know why Emperor Lao Tzu suddenly changed his conversation and led the topic to the issue of tax arrears.

Zhu Daohua saw that some of the ministers in the audience showed a look of panic on their faces.

I couldn't help but snort coldly in my heart.

He is not an emperor who grew up in the deep palace.

He was the Founding Emperor.

Of course, it is clear that with the strength of some low-level scholars, it will not be able to create a big mess that will spread from Sichuan to the Central Plains and southwestern provinces!

Behind this must be the provocation and laissez-faire of the Confucian bureaucrats in those places.

They want to use the Sichuan incident to attack Xinxue.

And the timing was right.

Just when the Ming Dynasty was about to employ people, and the students of the new-style universities that the emperor Lao Tzu had pinned his hopes on had just graduated and were still unusable.

Although Emperor Zhu was anxious to use newcomers, he also knew the harm of pulling out seedlings.

Therefore, the first batch of new-style college students were arranged at the grassroots level, not only in the officialdom, but also in some factories and the Ming royal consortium.

But everyone knows.

Although these people are not in high official positions now, they are real "protégés of the Son of Heaven".

The future will definitely be of great use.

As long as the emperor sticks in this direction.

In the future, the trend of new learning and the decline of Confucianism will be inevitable.

therefore

This time in Sichuan.

It can be seen as a counterattack by the unwilling old literati.

A temptation!

It's not that the new school will be banned at once, but the mode of small steps is adopted, if the emperor succeeds in making the emperor back down this time, then the next time it will be more!

These old literati were able to take away the power of the examination content of the imperial examination little by little.

How can this Emperor Zhu endure it.

He can endure anything else.

This is the only one that I can't bear it.

What is tested in the imperial examination.

This is an issue that has a bearing on the country's development and future.

If these old literati succeeded, where would he, the authority of the founding emperor, go?

The corners of Zhu Daohua's mouth showed a sneer, and his eyes swept over the ministers like swords.

It was the first time that many ministers were angry when they saw Emperor Zhu, who was smiling every day.

Suddenly frightened his back cold.

Finally remembered the identity of the emperor in front of me.

He is the new Ming Emperor whose authority surpasses that of Ming Taizu!

He was a founding emperor.

His tiger power is not something that can be easily provoked

Many Wenchen couldn't help but bow their heads a little weakly.

"What? Is there a delay in the field tax of the fields in the Zhuqing's house? ”

As soon as this statement came out.

Suddenly, the air in the hall became even colder.

The accumulation of land tax by wealthy households is actually a matter of ancient times.

The so-called deferred note means to indicate the meaning of deferred payment and revenue reduction.

Originally, this system was designed to take care of small people with meagre land or disaster victims.

You can postpone the payment of the field tax and survive the disaster year when the harvest is not good.

In the next few years, if there is any happy event when you meet the royal court, if you want to do some virtue and politics, then these outstanding land taxes can be exempted.

However, the policy of the imperial court was good, and the people below recited the scriptures crookedly.

Since the Yongzheng year.

"Delay" has completely become the privilege of the wealthy.

The wealthy households produced tens of millions of dollars, but they could avoid the land endowment in the name of "slowing down" the income, and the shortfall was passed on to the homesteaders who only owned meager land.

The so-called "official gentry receiving grain in one" soon became a legendary thing, but it was just given the Qing court some more knives that could handle the local wealthy.

And after the revival of the Ming Dynasty.

In many places, no radical reforms have been carried out, and a large part of the old system has been retained.

Because the Ming Dynasty did not kill people at the local level, there must be no such thing as thorough reform.

The only way to change is to establish a new system by reforming the old system.

But reforms will inevitably anger the old vested interests.

And now, although the Ming court has replaced the original official class with Xiucai as an official.

But the number of officials in the provinces has also increased more than ten times compared to the Qing Dynasty.

It is no longer possible for the grassroots to implement the strategy of becoming officials in different places.

Therefore, local officials in various places are actually still proud of their families.

In the absence of a revolution that touched on the fundamentals, the local tycoons still held a large amount of land, and this situation did not change much from the previous Qing Dynasty.

Emperor Zhu knew about this situation.

However, when fighting, Emperor Zhu can turn a blind eye.

Wait until the big battle around you is over.

It is also time for these wealthy families in the country to experience the iron fist of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that everyone was silent.

Emperor Zhu stood up, looked at the ministers and said: "You all know that my Ming army is invincible, and it almost didn't take much effort to defeat the former Qing Dynasty and win the world. But this also makes the local government still controlled by wealthy households, who have a lot of wealth, but can collude with local officials to use various means to avoid paying taxes, and transfer taxes to the poor, aren't they afraid that the officials will force the people to rebel? ”

Emperor Zhu looked at Luo Fangbo.

Prime Minister Luo hurriedly said: "There is no one among the three clans who owe or pay!" ”

The Luo family in Jiaying Prefecture runs a shipping company, and they don't buy much land, and the shipping company is so profitable, and the income from that bit of land has long been not very good.

"Okay, you're the prime minister, lead by example!" Emperor Zhu smiled slightly.

"I don't say much else, three months! In three months, I will send someone to thoroughly investigate whether the officials of the three clans in the southeastern province have any tax arrears, and if anyone's name appears on the list of tax arrears, this official will be considered to have done it! ”

Everyone was cold in their hearts, and they all knew that the emperor was playing for real.

The local literati and bureaucrats gave the emperor a difficult problem for Sichuan students to boycott the examination, and he in turn had to check the taxes!

Now it's all right.

Officials in the southeastern provinces are at risk.

"Or go back and hurry up to make up for the taxes, my Daming's field tax is not high, and there is a positive tax, everything else is exempt, if you don't even pay this, then the black yarn hat will not be guaranteed, which is more important, everyone weighs it themselves."

After Emperor Zhu left, Luo Fangbo turned his head and said to the officials.

"Also, if the students in Sichuan don't want to take the imperial examination this time, then they won't take the exam first, and when they are willing to take the exam, they will start the exam. Anyway, I'm going to never be short of people who want to be officials. ”

Of course, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are not afraid that no one will do it.

Wait a few years.

These Sichuan scholars have to be subdued.

Qin Ying's face was slightly gloomy, and then he shook his head and said, "I don't know how many people's careers will be delayed now." ”

Gu Song sneered: "I asked for it, if it is delayed, it will be delayed, who will let them not stand the provocation." This time, I went back to warn my nephews and brothers in the family not to anger the emperor in this matter, otherwise there would be no good fruit to eat! The emperor was quite dissatisfied with the collusion between the wealthy families and officials in the southeast! ”

This time, there were a lot more officials whose faces changed color

"I'm afraid there are a lot of black gauze hats that are about to fall to the ground."

Zhang Huiyan muttered in a low voice when he heard this.

(End of chapter)