Emperor Wanli said angrily: "What state affairs are controlled by the factory guards, that is the yamen of the imperial court! And there are hundreds of officials overseing, where are there so many mistakes?"

Someone else stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, now that Lord Shoufu is reforming the talent tax system, and the treasury is about to be full, why bother the people with some small money!"

Emperor Wanli squinted his eyes and said, "Since it's a small amount of money, why don't they pay it? And is this really small money? How many businessmen are there in the world, and how many taxes can you recover, have you calculated? Don't you want silver for the relief of widows and orphans, the construction of roads, the improvement of river embankments, and the payment of money to hundreds of officials?"

These officials took turns to speak forward, but they were refuted by Emperor Wanli one by one! And the more Emperor Wanli spoke, the more excited he became, and he actually felt a little vertical and horizontal! But he knew in his heart that this was thanks to the many truths that Liu Haojia usually taught in his letters!

After a confrontation, Emperor Wanli closely followed the principle of "take it from the people and use it for the people", as well as the saying that "I just want to force useless merchants back into the fields", and he was speechless to all the officials, and finally had to fall silent one by one!

At this time, Emperor Wanli straightened his body and sat on the dragon chair, feeling extremely happy! Especially when he defeated the civil officials with the reason given to him by the civil officials, he was in a particularly happy mood! But he also thought of one thing, which is like Liu Haojia said, most of the things they handed over to him on weekdays were just afraid that they were fooling him!

Because their theories are not self-consistent, even self-contradictory! The only explanation is that these studies were explained to him according to the needs of the civil officials, which completely distorted the original intention of Sage Confucius! So when he thought that he and the previous emperors had been fooled by these scholars, his heart was furious!

Just when he was hesitating whether to reprimand them again, Zhang Juzheng suddenly stepped forward. When Emperor Wanli saw it, he immediately cheered up! He knew that his teacher was very difficult to deal with!

I only heard Zhang Juzheng speak, "Your Majesty, there is no precedent for such a thing before the dynasty! Why don't the cabinet work with the ministries and the palace supervisors to come up with laws and regulations and then implement them?"

The courtiers were all very excited when they saw Zhang Juzheng standing up before, and they all felt that it should be easy to persuade Emperor Wanli with Zhang Xiangye's talent and identity! But when they heard Zhang Juzheng's words, they were like being struck by lightning, and they were stunned one by one!

But then some people seemed to understand something, and sneered slightly. Some wise people stepped forward and bowed to the ground and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Shoufu's words are the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country, and I hope Your Majesty will approve it!"

Emperor Wanli won the victory in the hands of Zhang Juzheng for the first time, and he was extremely excited for a while, and immediately said without thinking much about it: "Okay, please ask Mr. Zhang to work harder!"

Zhang Juzheng bowed down and said, "This is the old minister's business!"

After such a toss, the other courtiers did not have the mood and energy to discuss other things, and then they dispersed after the end of the early dynasty. However, many people are still muttering and complaining that Zhang Juzheng is not dignified and bows to the emperor!

But after not saying a few words, he was pushed by a smart man and said, "Don't you know that the court needs to be safe? This kind of thing always has to be discussed again and again, and it is good to seek a stable situation! If the laws and regulations are hastily brought out and there is a mistake and the people are harmed, who can afford to take this responsibility?"

The person who was prompted understood in the blink of an eye, it turned out that this was a procrastination! So after he understood it, he immediately criticized himself for being thoughtful, and once again expressed his admiration for Zhang Xiangye! So the courtiers were not far from the main hall, and the atmosphere in the crowd was already much more harmonious!

Returning to the duty room and sitting down, Zhang Siwei took the lead and couldn't help but say, "Shoufu, I don't know what you think of today's events?"

Hearing this, Zhang Juzheng put down the teacup and said, "The old man actually doesn't have an opinion!"

Everyone was amazed to hear him say this! What do you say about the fact that you don't have a point in collecting business taxes? Don't forget that you represent the interests of the world's scholars, without the support of the world's people, where can you achieve the position of the first assistant!

And Zhang Siwei's face was also a little gloomy, because the Zhang family's business in the northwest is not small, if the business tax is really pushed away, it will really be like cutting his flesh!

But Zhang

Siwei still adjusted his expression and said, "Shousuke, you can't say that! This business tax collection involves the gentry of the world!"

Zhang Juzheng twisted his beard and said, "It's not that the old man doesn't do his best, but he doesn't have the energy to get involved in this matter at all now!"

Now Zhang Ju is busy implementing the test method and a whip method, where is the energy to allocate to this matter! And even if you want to make a rough idea of this kind of thing, it can't be solved in two or three months! So he really didn't want to pay attention to it!

Zhang Siwei immediately followed up and said, "But we can't just watch the gentry of the world in the middle of fire and water, right?"

The reason why Zhang Siwei asked this was that he had actually sensed Zhang Juzheng's thoughts. Zhang Juzheng simply wanted to use Liu Haojia as a pathfinder chess piece, and he didn't want to get involved in this matter! It was done, and he sat down and reaped the full credit; The failure of the matter will not damage the prestige of his first assistant!

Where do people who have come to their position not know the importance of silver to a country! But the gentry of the world do not pay taxes, and the most profitable business is in their hands, and the result is that the treasury is empty! If this is not the case, why would Zhang Juzheng go to clean up the world's acres and do such a thankless thing!

However, clearing up the acres of land is also something that the imperial court must do, although it will cause the anger of the gentry in the world, but it will not cause major turmoil! But if the merchant tax is collected, it will really poke the lungs of the gentry of the world! Because everyone knows that the money you make in business can come faster than those who dig in the soil, and you come more!

So now, as long as Zhang Juzheng shows that he has the intention of collecting business taxes, he may not be able to do a stable job with this first assistant, and he, the second assistant of 10,000 years, also has the opportunity to take a step forward, so he dares to ask Zhang Juzheng like this and force Zhang Juzheng to express his position!

But how could Zhang Juzheng not understand what Zhang Siwei meant, so he said directly: "The old man is busy taking the test and has no time to doppelganger, so it's better to leave this matter to Fengpan!"

After speaking, Zhang Juzheng's eyes quickly swept over everyone's faces, and found that there were already people with a little dissatisfaction in their eyes, and they couldn't help but sigh in their hearts! Thinking about it, he devoted himself to managing the country's finances, how much pressure did he have to clean up the fields? But now most of the people in the court are vegetarian, only staring at a few taels of silver in their pockets, completely ignoring the life and death of this country!