784 The household department proposed to pay the money in lieu of money, and the emperor and the crown prince refused to fool him

Zhu Qiyu looked innocent: "It's you who forgot about the matter, what are you doing with my brain." Miaoyue Niangniang's milk, I don't dare to eat it.

I'm a wretch, and I only dare to play with you five little whores; A slightly more decent woman, I don't dare to intrude and blaspheme.

Like Miaoyue Niangniang, she is awe-inspiring, it's almost there, my admiration and love for her is like a surging river, endless, or just watch it from a distance. ”

Lin Xiangyu asked, "Why is the husband's malice towards his sisters so great?" ”

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Knowingly asking, I am used to you." Now that the woman gives me a little grievance and a little face, I can't stand it.

What I like is a slave with no dignity and absolute tame, not a pure beauty with self-respect and self-love.

But I just casually said that they were willing to give me a baby, and I was already grateful to Dade, so I sent them to kowtow.

Let's take a look, there is no Jingtai vassal king on the border now, and the imperial court doesn't even have a helper, which is really a nest and grievance.

Forget it, let's not talk about them. It's better to listen to the sound of the rain and sleep, nourish your spirit, and in a few days, the civil and military officials will definitely be moths again. ”

As expected, the next day the spring rain was still the same, and the ministers who were qualified to go to the court all came to Ganquan Palace in the rain.

It's a pity that when the ministers entered the Qingyun Palace, they saw that the prince was sitting leisurely on the dragon chair, and the emperor was nowhere to be seen.

The ministers were all anxious, but Zhu Wenfang smiled at everyone: "My father occasionally feels cold and is unwell, so he wants to rest at home for a few days."

If there is anything, you will tell me the same. ”

Everyone couldn't help but slander in their hearts, the emperor didn't show up for several days at every turn, that is, the relationship between the emperor and the crown prince was very good, otherwise everyone thought that there was a coup d'Γ©tat.

What everyone doesn't know is that in the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was no prince who rebelled.

However, from Hami in the west to Liaoyang in the east, on the northern border of five or six thousand miles, there are enemies everywhere.

Usually, the crown prince doesn't look at the court, but in this critical autumn of survival, it is safer for the emperor to preside over the court.

Zhu Wenfang continued to persuade: "Father will definitely not be able to come out today, if you are willing to do something, then do it." If you don't want to do something, then let's disperse.

It just so happens that I'm still in a hurry to go back fishing, and now that spring is back to the earth and the weather is getting warmer, stewing a fish soup to make up for it, which is very good for the body. ”

Luo Tong replied: "Your Highness, the Mongolian army is Koubian, we are not prepared, and we were caught off guard. For the sake of today's plan, it is still necessary to quickly deploy troops and prepare for war. ”

"Didn't my father already make arrangements yesterday, and the cabinet can implement it according to my father's wishes.

Not to mention that the imperial court was not prepared, my father had already split Gansu and set it up as a province. Gansu now has tens of thousands of elite border troops, as well as the three guards of Ganzhou, which are the elite of the elite.

Can the enemy easily move Gansu?

Not to mention Gyeonggi and Shanxi, Dongsheng, Kaiping, Daning, and Quang Ninh all built new cities and reset the guards.

The enemy wants to attack the capital from Shanxi, the outer Great Wall is a line of defense, and then there is the important town of Xuanfu, and then there is the Xuanhuai Great Wall specially built by his father, and then there is the Great Wall of Juyongguan.

The enemy was also threatened by the defenders of Dongsheng and Kaiping. Do you think that the Mongol cavalry will attack so many lines?

There are also Datong and Taiyuan directions, as long as the governor of Shanxi is not a chaotic minister and thief, as long as the general army of Shanxi is not a self-respecting envoy, what will the Mongols do to break through Shanxi. Mountains and rivers on the surface, you think it's just fun. ”

When Luo Tong heard this, he stepped aside and stopped talking.

Geng Jiuchou stood up and asked: "Your Highness, the number of coins minted in the imperial court has increased significantly, can the military salaries in the border towns be replaced with silver coins and copper coins in the future?" ”

Zhu Wenfang shook his head with a puzzled expression: "Didn't my father mention it to you, my father had already said that the soldiers' salaries would be increased by fifty percent on the original basis."

and then give an additional copper coin equivalent to fifty percent of the soldier's salary.

Grain is the main thing, supplemented by copper coins.

The border has little grain production, and if you just give copper coins, it will lead to the dilemma that the soldiers have nowhere to buy grain with copper coins.

When the salary is paid, only silver coins and copper coins are issued, which is a disaster for the country; When collecting taxes, only silver coins and copper coins are collected, which is also a disaster for the country. Is there anything else to discuss about this? ”

Zhu Wenfang was a little suspicious that Geng Jiuchou, the head of the household, asked such a strange question, purely to test his ability to govern.

Although the crown prince is young, he will not be led by the nose by the civil officials on such an issue.

When everyone saw that the prince couldn't be fooled, they understood that the emperor and the prince had not yet floated. Although the amount of silver and copper coins in the hands of the imperial court increased dramatically, the emperor would never carry out a monetary policy that seemed very elegant.

Shen Yi also stood up and asked, "Your Highness, should Shandong's taxes be reduced or reduced this year?" ”

Zhu Wenfang waved his hand: "Shandong's taxes have been exempted this year, the disaster has been so serious in the past two years, what else to collect, and then collect it again, it will make a civil change." ”

Now that the subordinate officials of the East Palace are gradually improving, Shandong is handed over to the prince and the East Palace team to practice.

Moreover, Zhu Wenfang is also the king of Qi, so he must first govern a province and then take over the world.

To manage Shandong well, the first thing to do is to win over the people's hearts. The quickest way to win the hearts and minds of the people is to exempt them from taxation, grant amnesty, and clear up unjust prisons.

The ministers in the palace knew this, but the domineering spirit of the prince's big hand still startled everyone.

Everyone chatted for a long time before they dispersed.

Two days later, Zhu Qiyu took advantage of the sunny weather to come to Qingyun Pavilion to govern.

Zhu Wenfang first told the story of the small court meeting.

Zhu Qiyu nodded again and again when he heard this, and let the people only pay taxes with silver, but someone had done this. Our powerful minister Zhang Juzheng used this trick to pit the people at the bottom to death.

The field tax is not collected, but the money is collected. The question is, where do the people at the bottom go to get silver?

Swap the grain for the silver yourself, and then hand over the silver to the government? When redeeming silver, wait to be stripped of a layer of skin by the powerful gentry.

The well-known 'one whip law', the people at the bottom may not really benefit much.

Thinking of this, Zhu Qiyu instructed again: "The opening of the Chinese law must not be abolished, let the merchants transport the grain to the border and hand it over to the military guards."

As a result, the merchants were given a corresponding amount of salt, which they took back to receive and sell.

Once the Kaizhong Law is abolished, there will inevitably be a shortage of food in the frontiers.

In order to save trouble, the imperial court gave the border army silver instead of food, and the entire border town was completely abolished. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was not far from destruction. ”

These things have been done by the Ming Dynasty in history, and this is probably the process. Then, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the border army was in arrears of pay and food, and it quickly advanced to 'the Jin army was less than 10,000 and invincible'.

Zhu Wenfang nodded, and then asked: "It's going to be a big battle again, is daddy's reform of the southern tax law and salt law going to be put on hold temporarily?" ”

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "There is no need to put it aside, continue to change the law in the name of reform." The battle is endless, and after this battle, there is still that battle.

I have to wait until the battle is over to change the law, and when I abdicate, I will change my position.

This change is so offensive, I'll do it for you. I'll be the bad guy, just be a good and gentle emperor. ”

(End of chapter)