Wang Yunchang didn't expect Feng Ziyong to be so stubborn, and dared not listen to the emperor's words, so he asked carefully: "Gei Master, then Master Ma won't inform you!"

Feng Ziyong shook his head and said, "No, the new law must not be implemented. I told Ma Mingyuan that they were prepared. Lord Wang has nothing to do with you, so you can go home!"

Wang Yunchang wanted to stay away from this matter. He heard Feng Ziyong say so quickly and stood up and retired.

Seeing Wang Yunchang leave, Feng Ziyong called a family member and asked him to go out with a letter he wrote to go to Chen Zizhuang's mansion. Feng Ziyong silently recited in his heart, "Second brother, I'm sorry for you, but it's not the time to implement the new law at this time, so I can only do this for the sake of the country."

Zhu Hongsan was probably the lazy one among all the founding emperors. He was incomparable to Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang. Even the later generations of Yongzheng and Qianlong could not compare with him. Zhu Yuanzhang decided that the morning dynasty would be every three days. Of course, this system was destroyed by several lazy emperors who later served, and Wanli did not attend court for decades.

After Zhu Hongsan became emperor, as a modern person, he really didn't want to get up to work before dawn, so after coming to Guangzhou, Zhu Hongsan changed the court meeting system. He changed the three-day dynasty to five-day dynasty, which was a small court meeting between the cabinet members and the emperor. The grand court meeting attended by all third-rank officials was changed to ten-day dynasty, which means he could meet the emperor three times a month. Of course, this was just a discussion of national affairs. Usually, several prime ministers in the cabinet could meet the emperor directly if they had anything to do.

Today is the dynasty meeting on the tenth day. Zhu Hongsan set a decision to start at 9:00 in the morning, so the ministers who were qualified to participate were waiting at Chengyunmen early. Now Zhu Hongsan's group is only in peace with Guangdong Province. Except for the members of the cabinet and the ministers of various ministries, there are no other nine ministers, including the Censor, Tongzhengsi, Dali Temple, etc., so there are only more than 20 officials waiting to attend the court.

As soon as the hour arrived, the Chengyun Gate opened, and all the ministers entered one after another to enter the Chengyun Hall. In fact, after Zhu Hongsan became emperor, he should have changed it to Fengtian Hall, but Zhu Hongsan was too lazy to change it, so he followed the original name Chengyun Hall to do the work.

The ministers entered Chengyun Hall. On the high platform in the hall, Zhu Hongsan's bright yellow dragon chaise was placed, and underneath it was a chair and six Minghuang embroidered slogans were placed. These were the seats of seven Prime Ministers of the Cabinet. After Zhu Hongsan came to power, he wanted to govern the world with the scholars and officials, and restored the habit of the prime ministers having seats in front of the emperor during the Han and Tang dynasties. This action made Zhu Hongsan highly praised in the scholars and forests.

Seven Prime Ministers of the Cabinet took square steps and walked to their embroidery pedestal to sit down. Other officials without seats looked at their eyes and secretly swear in their hearts that they would also have to get seats in this place.

The rankings of the Prime Ministers are Chen Zizhuang, Ma Mingyuan, Feng Ziyong, Tong Yangjia, Huang Yingxiu, Liu Dalin, and Fu Wenlong. When the seven people entered the hall, they were not talking, and they all thought about their own thoughts. Everyone knew that there was a fierce battle today. After all, there was no secret in the officialdom, and everyone already knew what the issue was today through various channels.

Tong Yangjia should be considered an alternative in the cabinet. It is estimated that the Grand Secretary with a scholar's degree has never been published since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Although Tong Yangjia got a juren in the provincial examination, everyone knows that he was given to him by the emperor, so the one that others in the cabinet despise the most is Tong Yangjia.

Tong Yangjia also knew his position in the cabinet. Seeing others looking at him, he sneered in his heart: There was a good show today. I wonder if Ma Laoer could succeed, so he changed his embroidery stud to a chair.

Just when everyone was ulterior motives, the emperor arrived. A small yellow gate came out behind the hall and shouted: "Go to court!"

The seven prime ministers quickly stood up, and Chen Zizhuang led all the officials to bow and salute, "Welcome to Your Majesty!"

The bastard emperor Zhu Hongsan walked to his dragon throne and said, "Everyone is flat!"

Zhu Hongsan had already passed the news to Ma Mingyuan two days ago, asking him to propose a new banking law at today's court meeting. Zhu Hongsan also knew that there was no secret in the officialdom, so he had already prepared for a fierce battle today.

"Dear families, the anti-Qing situation is now very good. Jiangxi and Fujian provinces have succeeded anyway. I decided to lead the army to recover the old capital soon. However, the financial situation in Guangdong is really bad. I think we will discuss the bank's affairs today!"

As soon as Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, Ma Mingyuan stood up.

"Your Majesty, my colleagues, the court's finances are now tight. There are only 1.21 million taels of deposit in the bank treasury of the Ministry of Finance. It is not enough to consume a month when the war is fought, so the banking method is imperative!"

After Ma Mingyuan said that, he took out the copy of the "Please set up a bank to issue silver coins" from his sleeve and raised it high, saying: "Your Majesty, the last time Mr. Feng has revised the opinions, leaving a buffer period for two years. This is the new law after the modification. Please review it!"

As soon as Ma Mingyuan finished speaking, Huang Yingxiu, who was sitting next to him, stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I think this method cannot be done!"

Zhu Hongsan had expected someone to object, and waved his hand and said, "Say!"

Huang Yingxiu walked to the center of the hall and said, "Your Majesty, I opposed it last time. This method must not be done! Now that the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, the north is in ruins, and it is time to unite the gentry all over the world. Lord Ma's new banking law obviously causes losses to the gentry, and this will lose the support of the gentry all over the world. Your Majesty! Now is a dangerous time, and you must never do such a thing as the relatives and the enemy is happy!"

"Mr. Huang, why is this a matter of the relatives suffering from the enemy? If you don't agree with the new bank law, that's fine! Now the treasury only has so much money, and you still have to fight the Northern Expedition and recruit soldiers. What do you think?" Seeing Huang Yingxiu coming out to object, Ma Mingyuan didn't want to bother him, and directly threw the problem to Huang Yingxiu, you can do it yourself.

"Your Majesty, Lord Ma, colleagues, I have some understanding of the financial situation. I have several strategies to ask everyone to review. First, increase the commercial tax. I have calculated that if the commercial tax increases by 10%, there will be an additional three million taels of silver every year. Second, please ask Your Majesty to hand over the factory shares in your hands to the Ministry of Finance to alleviate the financial dilemma!"

After Huang Yingxiu said that the hall was quiet. If Ma Mingyuan's new law was to cut off the financial path for all officials, Huang Yingxiu's two points were to kill the officials and the emperor in Huguang.

Because the Huguang School came to Guangdong for a limited time, it did not occupy much arable land. However, with the construction of development zones in various places, the Huguang School penetrated into most of the businesses. The Ma family was mainly concentrated in the sugar and salt production in Leizhou, the Tong family was mainly concentrated in the steel mining in Qiongzhou, and Fu Wenlong was the governor of Luzon for several years. He had shares in the Luzon iron ore and gold mines. Feng Ziyong was the prefect of Guangzhou, and he built the Guangzhou Development Zone and Dongguan Development Zone by himself, so there were naturally many benefits. However, the Guangdong School was still in the traditional planting industry, and business had little impact on them.

These are all secondarily. The most important thing is that Huang Yingxiu actually asked the emperor to hand over the factories in Dongguan, which caused the emperor's life.

Because Zhu Hongsan started from scratch, he had many of his own industries before he became emperor. Of course, these industries also contributed a large amount of silver to Zhu Hongsan every year and supported Zhu Hongsan's still luxurious life. In fact, to talk about the corruption of life, Zhu Hongsan was much worse than the previous dozen emperors of the Ming Dynasty. Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang, who beg for food, Zhu Hongsan only had seven or eight dishes for a meal. He didn't eat it himself. The palace was not very majestic, and it was enough to be able to live. Every year, Zhu Hongsan invested a large amount of money in the factory into the new army.

But in this way, the ministers in the court were still jealous of Zhu Hongsan's factory. Half a year ago, they all forced Zhu Hongsan to hand over some unimportant factories, leaving only some heavy industries. Today, Huang Yingxiu is taking the abacus on asking Zhu Hongsan to hand over all of them.

However, today Huang Yingxiu was not Zhu Hongsan, but also the entire Huguang faction. After Huang Yingxiu said that, the first person he jumped out was Tong Yangjia. As a vested interest, he had to fight for himself.

"Mr. Huang, you have made a good plan and want to increase business tax, so why don't you increase the land tax?"

"Mr. Tong, the land tax is already high enough now. The Chongzhen Dynasty was the rebellion of the people in Shaanxi that was forced to collect Liao levies and suppress the wages, so it is not advisable to increase the land tax!"

Fu Wenlong heard Huang Yingxiu’s shamelessness at the side, and he couldn’t help it. Fu Wenlong’s industries were all in Luzon. If the commercial tax was increased, he would lose tens of thousands of taels of silver every year. He was not going to participate in the struggle between the two factions of the DPRK and China in the past, but it would be impossible not to participate today.

"Mr. Huang, it's a bit unrealistic to say that increasing the commercial tax is a bit unrealistic. Now Guangdong merchants account for most of the taxes, and they pay most of the annual taxes. Wouldn't you be afraid of accidents when increasing?"

Huang Yingxiu sneered: "Mr. Fu, when His Majesty proclaimed himself emperor, he said that he was reviving the old Taizu system, and the Emperor Taizu was the one who suppressed the merchants back then. Does Lord Fu still have to oppose Taizu?"

Zhu Yuanzhang, who once asked for food, hated merchants the most. He believed that merchants earned money that was ignorant. In his more than 30 years of rule, the peasant issue was always his first focus. This was not only because he was a peasant, but also because 90% of the people of the empire lived in the countryside. So when Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he immediately lowered the status of merchants by law, stipulating that merchants were not allowed to sit in sedan chairs or wear silk when traveling, and that merchants’ descendants were not allowed to take imperial examinations. Although these policies were basically not taken seriously in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was different from Zhu Hongsan.
Chapter completed!