Huang Yourong now has no way out, and Shen Changmao has been planning for a long time. In addition, the two of them know each other well and can guess each other's bottom line. The differences are not big, so the deal was easily reached. , encountered almost no obstacles.⊥
But at the same time, in the presence of Emperor Deqing, the exchange between Emperor Deqing and Crown Prince Zhu Heyu seemed unhappy.
In fact, at the beginning, the conversation went very smoothly.
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However, it was said that in front of all the civil and military officials in the court, Emperor Deqing's attitude towards Prince Zhu Heyu was quite concerned, and he showed obvious protective intentions, as if Emperor Deqing had no intention of rectifying the business tax secretly because of Prince Zhu Heyu. Angry at the action.
However, the reality is quite the opposite.
Regarding Prince Zhu Heyu's private move to rectify business taxes, Emperor Deqing was furious and furious, and even thought of changing his reserve because of this matter. However, Emperor Deqing was not carried away by the anger and could still see it. Understanding the situation, it is clear that now is not the best time to change the prince.
After all, after Prince Zhu Heyu rectified the business tax, he had violated the interests of all parties. Now is the time when the officials in the court are excited. If Emperor Deqing chooses to change the prince at this time, it seems that Emperor Deqing is afraid Like hundreds of officials, this is detrimental to the imperial majesty of Emperor Deqing!
Therefore, in front of all the officials, Emperor Deqing not only did not show his dissatisfaction with the Crown Prince Zhu Heyu, but instead deliberately defended the Crown Prince Zhu Heyu and put the blame for the commercial tax rectification on Huang Yourong's head.
However, when Prince Zhu Heyu entered Emperor Deqing's palace, Emperor Deqing could no longer control his emotions. He instantly changed his attitude and stared at Prince Zhu Heyu coldly with a black face. I plan to reprimand him.
If it were normal, seeing Emperor Deqing's appearance like this, Zhu Heyu might stick to his position and argue with Emperor Deqing.
However, because of Zhao Shancai's advice yesterday, Zhu Heyu had already found a better way.
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After Prince Zhu Heyu entered Luanjia, Emperor Deqing did not have time to reprimand him. He saw Zhu Heyu kneeling in front of Emperor Deqing, bowing his head and saying, "My son is guilty. I have caused trouble to you, Emperor Father!"
Seeing Zhu Heyu taking the initiative to admit his mistake, Emperor Deqing was stunned for a moment, then snorted coldly and said: "So you also know that you are causing trouble to me? Humph! What you did is more than just trouble! You can Do you know how much you have ruined my affairs because of your rectification of business tax matters?"
However, Prince Zhu Heyu's character has always been stubborn, and it is very rare for him to take the initiative to admit his mistakes. Therefore, although Emperor Deqing angrily reprimanded Zhu Heyu, his expression softened slightly.
On the other side, Prince Zhu Heyu still lowered his head and said: "My son didn't know it at first, but now he knows it! Father, the real reason for your southern tour is to deal with Zhou Shangjing, but because my son rectified the business tax However, it disrupted my father's plan! I didn't want to do this at first. If I could know my father's thoughts in advance, I would never choose to rectify the business tax at this time."
Emperor Deqing snorted coldly again and asked: "What? Are you blaming me for not telling you the true purpose of my southern tour in advance? With your scheming, how dare you let me tell you this? Things?! Also, business and tax matters are extremely sensitive and require extremely high methods and wisdom. Even I don’t dare to touch them easily, let alone you? Don’t I have the intention to deal with Zhou Shangjing, so you can do whatever you want Are you rectifying business taxes? How can this matter be as simple as you think? Ridiculous!"
However, seeing that Zhu Heyu finally understood a way to work around the situation and was no longer as rigid as before, Emperor Deqing's anger also subsided a little again.
Prince Zhu Heyu was not good at acting, so when he replied, he still lowered his head, hiding his expression so that Emperor Deqing could not see the change in his expression, and explained: "I also know that my ability is still high."
There is a shortcoming, but my son has repeatedly seen your father being troubled by the court's money and food turnover over the years, so he wanted to solve your problems for your father to fulfill his filial piety, but he did not expect that he did bad things with good intentions. Not only did he fail to help
My father, on the contrary, I caused trouble to my father and ruined my father's important affairs. I really made a big mistake!"
On the other side, after hearing what Prince Zhu Heyu said, Emperor Deqing's expression softened a lot.
As Zhao Shancai said, Emperor Deqing was a father after all. After seeing his son's filial piety, he would always feel soft-hearted.
As a result, Emperor Deqing also fell silent, hesitating a little about how he should treat Prince Zhu Heyu's filial piety.
After all, although filial piety is good, it is not a reason to get into trouble!
Just when Emperor Deqing was silent, Zhu Heyu said again: "In addition, this time it was Erchen who thought of things too simply. Business tax involves the interests of all aspects, but Erchen's initial actions were really too big.
The scope of the attack was too wide, so it was naturally met with resistance and obstruction from all officials! If I were to do it again, I would start with the subtleties and eliminate the opposing forces in every possible way.
No matter how we gradually rectify the chaos of business taxation, we will never make a big splash like this time, and we will never expect that we can complete the task in one battle. As the saying goes, running a big country is like cooking small dishes, and the most important thing is patience...
It’s a pity that I didn’t understand these truths until now.”
After hearing all the truths Zhu Heyu said, Emperor Deqing couldn't help but be startled, and suddenly discovered that Zhu Heyu had grown a lot suddenly.
If Prince Zhu Heyu really changed his character and matured his mind because of the business tax rectification, then in the eyes of Emperor Deqing, no matter how big the chaos caused by the business tax rectification, it was all worth it!
Therefore, in order to confirm his judgment, Emperor Deqing continued to test quietly: "Oh? I didn't expect that you have grown a lot because of this matter, but the matter has come to this, there is no use regretting it! Now because of business
The tax rectification has caused chaos in the government and the opposition. The top priority at the moment is to stabilize the situation between the government and the opposition. But I would like to know, what do you think about this?"
Because of Zhao Shancai's reminder, Zhu Heyu had already done his homework and replied: "In my opinion, due to the rectification of commercial taxation, the situation between the government and the opposition is certainly a little chaotic, but the rectification of commercial taxation is necessary.
To continue, it must not be suspended because of the chaos between the government and the opposition! After all, the problem of commercial tax is now common to everyone. If it is suspended just because of the chaos, the people will look down on the court and the officials will look down on them.
Looking down on the imperial power. According to Erchen, the chaotic situation between the government and the public is mostly because the rectification of business and taxation has touched the interests of certain people, so they naturally obstructed it in every possible way, preventing the smooth flow of the imperial decrees and delaying the rectification of business and taxation.
Unable to achieve results, and then they used the excuse that the commercial and tax rectification could not achieve results, and blatantly violated the imperial decree, but they were already trapped in an endless cycle, but precisely because of this. As long as the commercial and tax rectification achieved collective results, then
If you can stop Youyou's mouth, you can initially stabilize the situation in the court."
Then, Zhu Heyu analyzed it in detail and put forward many effective suggestions to Emperor Deqing. Of course, these were all Zhao Shancai's ideas, and Zhu Heyu just copied them.
However, even so, it was enough to shock Emperor Deqing.
Emperor Deqing had no idea that after encountering the setback of business and tax rectification, Zhao Shancai would be able to grow so much. Not only did he become mentally mature and know how to adapt, but his vision and knowledge also improved a lot!
Therefore, just like Zhao Shancai's idea, after seeing the growth of Prince Zhu Heyu, Emperor Deqing's idea of changing the throne was shaken a lot. He only felt that Prince Zhu Heyu was still a child to teach, and he could grow up according to this trend.
, he may not be able to become a qualified heir to the emperor in the future.
So, after listening to Zhu Heyu's analysis, Emperor Deqing nodded secretly and said: "Since you are the one who promoted the rectification of business and taxation, I will still leave it to you to handle. However, you have nothing to do with taxation and financial management."
I am not familiar with Tao, so I plan to ask Zhao Junchen to assist you in rectifying business taxes, are you willing?"
Originally, Emperor Deqing planned to leave all the business and tax rectification matters to Zhao Junchen and not let Zhu Heyu intervene.
This is because Emperor Deqing has completely lost confidence in Zhu Heyu, thinking that Zhu Heyu only knows how to cause chaos.
However, because of Zhao Shancai's plan, Emperor Deqing regained some confidence in Zhu Heyu, but changed his mind and planned to let Zhu Heyu continue to be responsible for the rectification of business taxation, while Zhao Junchen became an assistant. In this way
Come on, if the commercial tax rectification is really effective, then the credit will naturally belong to Prince Zhu Heyu. If the commercial tax rectification ultimately fails, the responsibility will naturally belong to Zhao Junchen.
It can be said that Emperor Deqing's consideration for Zhu Heyu was very thoughtful.
When things have developed to this point, everything is going according to Zhao Shancai's idea.
Next, as long as Zhu Heyu agrees to Emperor Deqing's proposal, the situation facing Zhu Heyu will naturally be greatly improved!
Unfortunately, as mentioned above, Zhu Heyu followed all of Zhao Shancai's suggestions, except for cooperating with Zhao Junchen to rectify commercial taxes!
Now, after hearing Emperor Deqing's inquiry, Zhu Heyu still did not change his mind, but said: "Father, I believe that I can take charge of this matter alone and do not need Zhao Junchen's assistance at all!"
After hearing Zhu Heyu's rebuttal, Emperor Deqing frowned subconsciously.
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In the end, no one knew what Prince Zhu Heyu actually said to Emperor Deqing.
However, the gradually harmonious atmosphere between the two people completely dissipated because of this.
In fact, before Emperor Deqing returned to the palace, Zhu Heyu had already left Luanjia halfway, with a faint expression of anger.
Obviously, Emperor Deqing and Zhu Heyu had another conflict because of the use of Zhao Junchen!
Also because of the stubbornness of Prince Zhu Heyu, the various plans proposed by Zhao Shancai, although they progressed smoothly in the early stage, still failed in the end!
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ps: Well, this is the third update today! There should be another update before midnight!
In addition, the plot of this chapter has been fully hinted before, and everyone can guess the subsequent development. It is necessary to write, but it is not very interesting. If I write another four to five thousand words, I am afraid it will be a waste of everyone.
I have lost my feelings, so I will simply skip it. I hope everyone can understand!