When Yang Tinghe heard the word "Huan Pavilion", he immediately understood that it had nothing to do with Your Majesty himself! It was because if Your Majesty really made any mistakes, he would definitely not be summoned in the Huan Pavilion. The summoned place must be Dagao Xuan Palace or the harem.

But besides what happened to His Majesty, can there be something else that wants to summon yourself overnight?

The more Yang Tinghe thought about it, the less he understood. He filtered some of the recent political affairs in his mind, and suddenly remembered the border town, thinking to himself, maybe something big happened in the border town, yes, from last year to the beginning of this year, the Ming army had come out of seclusion several times and fought with the Tatars for half a year. It was impossible that bad news came.

Thinking of this, Yang Tinghe looked solemn and stepped up his pace. When he arrived at the warm pavilion, the lights were already on in the warm pavilion. It was thought that the emperor's carriage had not arrived yet, so the outside of the warm pavilion seemed a little deserted. After walking in, Yang Tinghe saw Yang Yiqing with a gloomy face.

"Mr. Yang, something big happened!" Yang Yiqing stood up and said in a deep voice.

Yang Tinghe complained in his heart. If something hadn't happened, how could he have entered the palace tonight? After all, he had seen strong winds and waves, so his face did not change, and he just said, "What happened?"

Yang Yiqing said: "A memorial came from Zhizhe, saying... it was said that the prefectures and counties were in a sudden chaos, and the people resisted taxes, gathered as many as one million, surrounded the Governor's Office, surrounded the various departments in Nanjing, and surrounded the prefectures and counties..."

If the memorial this afternoon was just a chaos in the people, it might not be worth mentioning for Yang Tinghe and Yang Yiqing.

Because the definition of civil chaos is hundreds or thousands of people, it is definitely not a trivial matter to reach the scale of tens of thousands. But to reach the scale of 100,000, it is enough to become the most concerned event of the court, but to reach the scale of one million people... This...

This means that almost 20% of people in Zhizhe have already gone to the streets. Such a big situation can be said to have never been there in ancient times. Million... Million... What is the concept of Million? Once the concept of Million is broken, it will be enough for the country to collapse and the country will be in danger.

Even if it can be suppressed, the impact of this incident is enough to make people scare and sweat.

It’s no wonder, no wonder the emperor invited himself into the palace overnight, no wonder Yang Yi was calm and unable to do so.

Yang Tinghe said: "Why did this happen? Why was there no signs in advance?"

Yang Yiqing sneered: "It must be someone who incites and instigates him behind his back... I see...."

Yang Tinghe tried his best to look at Yang Yiqing calmly and said, "At this point, it's a big deal, it's not appropriate to shirk responsibility for those who are interested. It's so big that it can't be revealed in just one sentence!"

Yang Yiqing smiled bitterly. Yang Tinghe said nothing wrong. This kind of thing is definitely not something that can be said instigated. You can say that the evil thief instigated hundreds of people, or that the treacherous party bewitched thousands of ignorant people, but you have to say that someone fooled millions of people to resist taxes. This reason is really pale.

Yang Tinghe couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "It seems that you and I have made a mistake."

The word "mistake" is actually not an exaggeration. In fact, at the beginning, Yang Tinghe and Yang Yiqing far underestimated the impact of the new policy. In their opinion, the so-called new policy is just a group of merchants who can make profits. A group of merchants can play tricks and kill you as much as you want. As for those new policy officials who are involved with merchants, as long as the court makes a tough move, they will naturally be able to destroy the so-called new policy.

So from the beginning, Yang Tinghe and Yang Yiqing thought that their enemy was Xu Qian and a group of merchants and officials led by Xu Qian. For this reason, the two made sufficient preparations. They prepared the official army. Once the merchants wanted to make abnormal movements, they immediately suppressed them. They prepared the inspectors. Any official who dared to sing a counter-arrangement with the court would immediately investigate and deal with it.

These methods are foolproof.

But the two of them didn't understand the new policy. After the implementation of the new policy, it was not only merchants and officials of the new policy that benefited. The millions of craftsmen and apprentices, even the lowest-level skills, greatly improved their lives through the new policy. Most of these people were refugees, and there were also quite a lot of tenants. They were originally the lowest-level figures of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, they never thought that they could support their families and even buy new clothes of style to their wives, so that their children could find ways to study in school.

In fact, for them, they are the most powerful supporters of the new policy. Even if the scholars and businessmen do not have the new policy, they can still have rich food and food, still have servants to take care of them, and they still have their clothes and horses to be angry. Even if the officials of the new policy do not have the new policy, they are still their masters. Once these people lose the new policy, they will be nothing if the workshops go bankrupt and are difficult to maintain. They may starve to death on the streets and may continue to become refugees. They are hungry and cold. The best luck is to return to the countryside, rent a few acres of land, and be hungry for half a year.

Therefore, there is no need to encourage them at all. As long as they may not be able to work in the future, these people will not hesitate to become the main force in tax resistance.

At this time, Yang Tinghe and Yang Yiqing could only describe it as shock and fear.

The fact of millions of people is so big that they don’t even know what to do at this moment.

It’s no wonder that Jiajing summoned two people to the palace overnight. I guess Jiajing lost his composure at this time.

It didn't take long before Jiajing arrived angrily. He squinted his eyes, bit his lips and said nothing, and came in straightforwardly, then sat down on the dragon throne.

"I have seen Your Majesty."

The two saluted Jiajing.

Jiajing raised his hand lightly and said, "What's going on in Zhizhe? Why did the tax supervisor cause an accident after the establishment of the tax bureau? Why did this happen to the governor of Zhizhe just now? "

After some questioning, it can be seen that Jiajing did not have much patience at this moment.

It’s a big deal to be patient, but it’s a good idea that something really happened suddenly. And this month, the account books given to the palace by Ruyifang and Hailu Pacification Envoy have shrunk a lot this month than before.

In the past, the palace could earn at least one million silver, but this month it was only 300,000. Huang Jin asked, saying that since the imperial court collected heavy taxes, the income of Ruyifang and Hailu Pacification Envoy Department has been greatly reduced, and the next month may be even lower.

For Jiajing, whether the treasury has silver or not has something to do with him, so the more silver the treasury, the better.

But the treasury is his foundation. If the treasury is gone, not to mention building a new palace, even if you speak in the future, you will lose much weight.

Jiajing was very angry. He had not collected much taxes, but there was not much left in the treasury. In addition, such a big deal occurred, millions of people became rioters, and they could kill officials and rebelled at any time. This was a great deal.

Yang Tinghe was sitting in the chair silently at this time, without saying a word. Obviously, he could do nothing about this.

As for Yang Yiqing, hesitated for a moment and said, "The most important thing at the moment is to suppress this matter. The unruly people are ruthless and should not be tolerated. I think that all the troops and horses should be immediately transferred..."

Jiajing sneered: "There is no rebellion yet, so I have to press down on various military and horses. Do you think they are not rebelling fast enough? 7 Where is the root of the problem? Is there any use for so many people?"

Jiajing is definitely not an idiot. Thousands of people can be suppressed by placing lots of things, and tens of thousands of people can be suppressed by placing trouble. If there are hundreds of thousands of people, the court has to consider it seriously. But if it reaches the order of millions, it is a death sentence. You are clearly trying to force people to rebel.

Yang Tinghe said: "It is necessary to mobilize the army and horses to the three provinces of Zhili and Zhejiang. However, the official army should be led but not launched, and it should not be used to form a deterrent. Of course, it should be mainly recruited and pacified. After the army and horses arrive, they will be recruited and pacified again. The court will have choices, so that they will not be unable to recruit and panic at that time."

Jiajing narrowed his eyes: "But now, even if we mobilize all the troops to Zhizhe, it's probably too late. The army has not had several months of time. How can we reach it? Recruiting and pacifying is the most important thing."

At this moment, an eunuch came in outside and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Xu, Minister of Revenue, has arrived."

"Why did Chi Jiajing frown slightly? In such a big thing, Jiajing would certainly think of Xu Qian, so he not only invited two cabinet ministers, but also asked Xu Qian to call him. In addition, Xu Qian was previously the Governor of Zhizhe, so he obviously had a more say in this matter.

"Come in quickly." Jiajing said after pondering for a while.

However, Yang Tinghe and Yang Yiqing looked at each other, but they were unable to speak.

After a while, Xu Qian stepped across the threshold and saluted Jiajing, saying, "I have seen Your Majesty."

Jiajing nodded and said, "Sit."

Xu Qian nodded and sat down sideways. His eyes stopped on Yang Tinghe and Yang Yiqing for a moment, and then he showed a little sneer.

Jiajing said: "Does Xu Aiqing know about Zhizhe?"

Xu Qian nodded and said, "I am already aware of the information. Tonight, a few old friends from Zhizhe came to compile a letter. I am somewhat familiar with the situation there."

"Is it?" Memorials are one thing, private messages are another. Jiajing really wants to hear the contents of those private messages: "What did they... say?"

Xu Qian said: "Your Majesty has implemented the new policy so that all the people of Zhizhe are bathed in the holy grace. However, nowadays, there are treacherous people in the court who control the government and wantonly act. The people of Zhizhe are already unbearable."

When Jiajing heard this, his expression was relieved. This explanation was of course very sympathetic to his appetite, because the people seemed to have no dissatisfaction with their emperor. Even if it was wrong, it was the treacherous ministers who were wrong. If this was true, it would make Jiajing breathe a sigh of relief.
Chapter completed!