Ministers, please pay homage to His Highness the Grand Sun. Your Highness is a thousand years old!
After Zhu Yunxi changed into his robe, he just finished it on the throne of Jingren Palace. He was headed by Liu Sanwu, the scholar of Zhongshushe, Linghan, the official secretary, Zhan Tong, the bachelor, Fang Xiaoru, the Hanlin lecturer, Huang Zicheng, the Hanlin bachelor, and Qi Tai, the inspector.
More than 30 people, including the censor of the academy and the bachelor of Zhan Shifu, entered the hall and kowtowed.
The six central departments of the Ming Dynasty and the core powerful figures of the civil servant group are all included in this list.
Among the civil servants, Zhu Yunxi saw Xie Jin, who was standing next to the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. The latter looked at Zhu Yunxi calmly.
Zhu Yunxi immediately realized that these civil servants came early in the morning to discuss more than just ordinary affairs.
Get back on your feet! Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, give a seat to all your dear friends!
Liu Sanwu, a member of Zhongshushe, led a group of Hanlin scholars to pay homage again solemnly. The ministers and others congratulated Your Highness for bringing the king's troops to sweep away the unsubordinate country, destroying the foreign countries and shocking the Ming Dynasty. It has been thousands of years, but the military front has never been as good as our victory in the Ming Dynasty.
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On that day, Your Highness was preparing for the Northern Expedition, but the ignorant ministers and other ministers were short-sighted and warned that war would be dangerous. The small country of Goryeo was unruly and capricious. Unexpectedly, Your Highness led a million soldiers, swept across the country, destroyed the foreign countries, and permanently eliminated the border troubles in the north for the Ming Dynasty.
His Highness’s illustrious martial arts will surely be remembered in history. His majesty in the Ming Dynasty will be praised by generations to come!
Look, what the scholar says sounds good.
Don’t use nice words, just say them to Gu Gu! Zhu Yunxi said with a smile that the great disaster in the northern part of Goryeo was destroyed in the First World War. It was the emperor’s strategic planning and the brave soldiers on the front line who fought hard. Furthermore, our Ming Dynasty has a strong national power, so we can work together to restore the old days of the Han Dynasty.
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Your Highness is kind and kind, and I can't wait to see if anything happens. All the ministers pay their respects again.
After talking a lot of polite words, seeing that these people still didn't speak the truth, Zhu Yunxi said, you guys came here so early in the morning, didn't you just come here to sing praises?
Among the civil servants, after their eyes collided, the great scholar Zhan Tong came out and spoke slowly, Your Highness, I have my own notes!
Let’s talk! Zhu Yunxi picked up the tea bowl, took a sip and said.
During the Northern Expedition, His Majesty ordered the Ming Dynasty to levy commercial taxes. I am not a pedantic person, let alone someone who is ignorant of current affairs. Commercial taxes are also a source of national finance and cannot be wasted. However, the Ming Dynasty was only thirty years old, and all parts of the world are waiting for waste.
Prosperity, light taxation is a policy of virtue to recuperate and enrich the people.
The people in the south of the Yangtze River are already heavily taxed, so if they collect business taxes now, wouldn't all the previous efforts be wasted? In the south of the Yangtze River, many people in the prefectures were resentful, and scholars, officials and gentry wrote letters one after another. The imperial court imposed strict laws, and the tax collectors sent were all cruel officials.
The local people are in dire straits, and the wealthy families are ruined...
Zhu Yunxi suddenly felt disgusted. These civil servants were so upset by the old man that they still refused to give up. When they saw that he was back, they immediately came to complain.
In the past, King Wen asked Yu Lu Wang, "What are you doing for the world?"
Counterpoint: The kingdom is rich with its people, and the hegemonic country is rich with rich people; the only remaining country is rich with wealthy officials; the country that is in ruins is rich with warehouses; this means that the top is overflowing and the bottom is leaking...
Bang, Zhu Yunxi slapped the imperial case and shouted angrily, "Shut up!"
What Zhan Tong said was an allusion to King Wen of Zhou asking Jiang Ziya.
How should the world be governed? Jiang Ziya said: A country that practices kingly principles will have its people rich; a country that dominates the world will have people with military merit; a country that barely exists will have its officials rich; a country that is without moral principles will have a rich treasury.
The wealth of the kings and ruling groups above is so great that it overflows, while the people below are as poor as water leaking out of a bamboo basket.
Fortunately, you are still a bachelor, and you are arguing with Gu Gu here! You are really bold. Why don't you say these words to the emperor's grandfather?
Under Zhu Yunxi's angry rebuke, the sound of needles dropping could be heard in the palace, and there was silence.
At this time and that time, you use the story of King Wen of Zhou a thousand years ago to compare our world, and you are not being pedantic?
How many people were in the world during the reign of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty? How many people are there in the Ming Dynasty today? How big was the territory of the Zhou Dynasty at that time, and how big was the territory of the Ming Dynasty?
To govern the world is to enrich the country and strengthen the people. Commercial taxation is the way to enrich the country and a good source of wealth for the country. How come you are here and you only see the disadvantages and not the benefits?
Taxes are taken from the people and used for the people. They support officials and the army and replenish the national treasury. They build water conservancy projects and provide relief to victims. How can we do without money?
According to what you said, we don’t collect commercial taxes, but only collect agricultural taxes. Doesn’t that mean that all the taxes in the world are imposed on the farmers? If you want to settle this account for me, you will collect it all from the farmers. Just rely on the grain taxes in the world.
, If things go on like this, can the country be rich? Can the people be rich? I'm afraid that both the country and the people will become poorer and poorer! They have eaten one meal but not the next!
Zhu Yunxi became more and more angry as he spoke, and said loudly, in your mind, Master Zhan, the Ming Dynasty collected commercial taxes just to enrich the national treasury, and to make the country rich and poor, an immoral country?
I dare not! Zhan Tong was afraid and bowed down. I just said that when the world is stable, it is not appropriate to do such a thunderous thing. As a king, you should be gentle!
Huairou? Huairou means that by not collecting taxes, it is harming the national interests? Let me ask you, even if we don’t collect taxes from these businessmen, can the people be rich?
Zhu Yunxi looked around and continued to speak, "Without taxation, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. The rich are lawless and the poor are shouldering the burden of the world. This is a country without justice!"
Gu knows, Gu has long expected that you will come back to Gu here to make trouble over business tax matters. He thinks that the collection is too much, there are too many names, and the collection is ruthless!
Can't you take a closer look, think about it, and talk to me again?
The commercial tax covers city, river, and customs taxes. How come it harms ordinary people? Furthermore, you just said that the people in Jiangnan are taxed quite heavily. Don’t you know why it is so heavy? The commercial tax is
In order to reduce the taxes of ordinary people in Jiangnan, how much should they be reduced?
If you insist on messing around with me over these things, are you sure that I will accommodate you?
Jiangnan has been the center of world wealth since the Song Dynasty.
When the Ming Dynasty was founded, there was a fierce battle with Zhang Shicheng in the south of the Yangtze River. The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River had always looked down on the Huaixi founders of the Ming Dynasty. They not only missed Zhang Shicheng, but also missed the Yuan Dynasty who gave them a high degree of autonomy and high officials and generous salaries. Therefore, after the founding of the country,
, Jiangnan field tax is twice that of other places in the world.
All the ministers in the palace bowed their heads and said nothing.
Those who disagreed with the collection of commercial taxes were ashen-faced, while those civil servants who agreed, such as Ling Han and others, were gloating over the misfortune.
The emperor's grandson has changed!
Most of the courtiers who did not agree with the collection of taxes, or who did not agree with such collections, were the civil servants and scholars in Zhu Yunxi's East Palace in the past. They always thought that the emperor's grandson was close to the civil servants and was kind and virtuous, so they would obey their advice in the past. But they did not expect that
Today, I came up with a slap in the face.
Looking at Zhu Yunxi on the throne, many people sighed like this.
Among the civil servants, Fang Xiaoru and others looked at Zhu Yunxi and were also secretly fascinated.
If Zhu Yunxi in the past was a sword with hidden clumsiness, now he is a sword with sharp edges. In his early years, he was a powerless grandson who studied in the university hall. Now he is the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty. He is not only deeply loved by the courtiers, but also praised by the emperor.
Allegiance to the Huaixi Xungui Group of the Ming Dynasty.
In the past, the emperor's grandson needed to be praised by others so that the world would know his virtuous name. But now, the emperor's grandson, who has military exploits and is regarded as the top one by the emperor, has begun to exercise control over his subordinates.
The affairs of the king of Jiuding.
Although Emperor Hongwu was a heroic figure, his rule was too harsh and not tolerant enough. I thought that in the future, when the emperor's grandson ascended the throne, he would be like the two emperors Wen and Jing ruled during the Han Dynasty.
But now it seems that the stubbornness and arrogance in the heart of the emperor's grandson are exactly the same as those of the old emperor, and he is more energetic and aggressive. However, he will not kill people as often as the old emperor.
I know that these days, for business tax matters, the emperor has killed many officials and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River and punished many people, which makes you feel unsure. Zhu Yunxi slowed down his speech and said slowly, so you are
Come to me and tell me this, I want you to persuade me!
How can a national decree be changed overnight? How can an emperor's decree be allowed to be refuted by his ministers?
In the past, the Qin Dynasty's reforms were the only way to unify the six countries. Today, the Ming Dynasty's reforms are the only way to enrich the country and strengthen the people!
If you object, I don’t want to hear it anymore. Ministers and ministers, please be patient and see how the Ming Dynasty’s treasury will be in ten years’ time.
Only when the country is rich can the people be strong. If the country is not rich and the army is not strong, no matter how rich the people are, they are just fattened lambs! Don’t you see, have you learned from the past?
In the main hall, Zhu Yunxi's words were like thunder, rolling and circling.
Outside the hall, the old man with a gloomy face stood quietly at the corner, and couldn't help but smile a little, "Great Sun, you said it well!"
Looking at the ministers in the palace, I cursed in my heart, Damn it, our eldest grandson is here to file a complaint! This is what he wants to do about tax collection, it’s weird that he can speak for you!
At this time, a group of birds landed on the treetops and chirped happily.
The old man turned his eyes over there, looking at the jumping and chirping birds, and continued in his heart, a group of thieving birds, making noise all day long. They don't know what is going on in the world, but they jump everywhere!