Wanli Youming

Chapter 143 How can the country be powerless!

Chapter 143 How can the country be powerless!

"You can't say that."

"Although the New Deal has increased the burden on the common people, the rich and powerful families did not dare to increase the rent too much. They really forced their tenants into refugees, and they had no harvest, so they only increased it slightly."

"In short, in fact, it is to jointly bear the imperial court's urging tax and the additional land tax."

"Because most of the renters are clansmen and villagers, just like me, in order to take care of the fellowship, the rich have to bear more, so the loss of the tenants is not too big, and because the new policy makes the government clear, the officials dare not be too exploitative. That’s why people dare to engage in more side jobs.”

"If you open a small workshop like me, or go to the town to work, the harvest will be higher than before!"

"It's just that I'm more tired than in previous years, and I don't even have leisure time during the slack season."

Liu Quexian retorted at this time.

"It is."

"I was originally from a military family in Jizhou, and now I have relatives living in Jizhou. In the past, they had a hard time."

"Ah, Tuman, these bandits who enter the customs from time to time plunder a few times, don't talk about life, they don't know when they will be able to save their lives."

"Now that the new policy is implemented, the imperial court is rich, the military pay is sufficient, and the pension money is high. The frontier soldiers will dare to die and take revenge, and the Tartars will not dare to go south. Everyone's life is much easier."

"Although life is still tight, at least you don't have to worry about it, and you can rely on building side walls for the imperial court, building a pass city, and so on to raise more money for the New Year."

"If you have a family, you can still go to Xikou, go to Datong to do business, and get rich."

Chen Yizheng, one of the Hundred Households of Jinyiwei guarding them, couldn't help but speak at this moment.

At this moment, Zhai Rujing put down the storybook, and then came over and gave Chen Yizheng a kick: "Have you forgotten the rules? Go down later and collect thirty family laws!"

Chen Yizheng had no choice but to shut up, and then said yes.

"It seems that Zhang Jiangling's new policies cannot really be called bad policies. It is nothing more than that the people in the south work harder, but they also increase their income, while the soldiers and civilians in the north don't have to worry about their lives because of the prosperity of the country, and they can live in peace of mind."

Tan Yangzi said something at this time.

"Tan Yangzi is right!"

At this time Wang Changgeng agreed.

Tan Yangzi couldn't help but look back and smile.

At this time, Jiao Hong sneered: "The small tenant farmers can continue to increase their income through more difficult methods, but what about the big gentry, can they lose profits for nothing because of the New Deal?"

"Can't the big gentry also work harder?"

"Do you have to just be a rat that lives on the people's government money?"

Li Zhi asked back at this moment.

"That's right, can't the big family gentry work harder?"

Liu Quexian followed up and asked a question.

"Li Zhuowu!"

Jiao Hong couldn't help but yelled, but then he didn't know how to refute, so he looked at He Xinyin and asked for help:

"Mr. Fushan, didn't you say that scholars are above merchants, and merchants are above farmers and workers?"

"Do you also think that the gentry should suffer more for the court instead of being treated preferentially by the court? And it violates the patriarchal system of the emperor who established the court to support scholars?"

He Xinyin thought for a while and said, "My morality has gone wrong again!"

Then, He Xinyin continued: "I just discovered that the reason why the New Deal has not turned into an evil policy, but has made the world more prosperous is because it not only benefits the common people but also the big gentry. It has turned into an evil government, so it can be seen that if Jiangling governs according to my Taoism, there may be frequent civil upheavals."

As He Xinyin spoke, she began to spin the yarn earnestly: "This prison is really right!"

……

"Since there is another problem with He Xinyin's Taoism, let them continue to stay in the imperial prison!"

"However, those who should prepare for the imperial examination should also be given time to prepare for the imperial examination."

"In addition, those who were tricked in by He Xinyin, who were not great Confucian scholars, can be released first, so as not to worry their family members."

"However, we can arrange more students or ordinary military officers like Liu Quexian to contact them. For example, we can send those poor children who committed minor crimes and the frontier soldier Wu Bian to receive prison sentences with them, so that they can spend more time in prison. Knowing what the world outside of Shilin is like, so as not to become a sectarian prejudice.”

"For great Confucian scholars, they are also allowed to write letters to their families to report their safety, and let them explain to their relatives and friends that the imperial court only imprisoned them, and there was no severe torture, let alone life-threatening, and they would release a batch of them regularly according to their performance."

After Zhu Yijun learned about He Xinyin's situation in the prison, he continued to give Zhang Jing instructions.

Zhang Jing bowed his hands and said yes.

Therefore, Liu Quexian and Wang Changgeng, who were tricked by He Xinyin, were released from prison not long after.

And Wang Xijue and other officials and gentry who were very anxious because of the arrest of these famous Confucian scholars also felt relieved after receiving the family letter from the imperial prison, and stopped making trouble. Let people go.

As for the great Confucian scholars who were imprisoned in the Imperial Prison, they continued to study while spinning and weaving, and even planting vegetables and farming land.

After internally arranging the leaders of various new thoughts in the Ming Dynasty's intellectual circles, Zhu Yijun only focused on foreign wars.

Although Zhang Juzheng had confessed to the emperor that he would continue to reform the system for him, a civil official like Shen Shixing had the attitude of being willing to be driven by His Majesty even if Zhang Juzheng refused.

However, because the Ming and Qing Zhang Tianmu has come to an end but has not been fully completed, the entire bureaucratic group has not yet had the energy to continue the new reform.

After all, land measurement is really not an easy task, and many officials need to be used.

Therefore, after completing the corresponding ceremony, Zhu Yijun focused his energy on matters of concern to foreign wars.

After all, fighting foreign wars well will gain his prestige as an emperor.

Because the thinking of ordinary sergeants is very simple, even if the emperor gives them enough money, they will continue to win battles and make military exploits, and then they will be promoted to ranks. They feel that the emperor is worthy of allegiance.

It's just that Zhu Yijun got a report from Pan Sheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, that North Korea rejected the Ming Dynasty's garrison!

"Qizou Your Majesty, the North Korean envoy said that now the emperor's military virtues are abundant and spread far and wide. The Japanese slaves are afraid of the power of China, and even North Korea, which is a vassal, dare not commit crimes again. Disturbing the people, and harming His Majesty's virtue of caring for the people of the vassals, is of no benefit, and it also rejects my Ming Dynasty's request to garrison troops."

For this reason, Zhu Yijun specially summoned the first assistant Zhang Juzheng, the privy envoy Fang Fengshi, and the Minister of Rites Pan Sheng to sit in front of the imperial court to discuss the matter.

Zhu Yijun couldn't help throwing Zhang Zuo on the case: "Even the vassals dare to reject me! Could it be that all these years since I came to the throne, at the request of my husband, I have spent so much money to let Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang train troops to strengthen the side? ?”

"How can the country be powerless?!"

Seeing this, Zhang Juzheng, Fang Fengshi, and Pan Sheng all stood up and stood in awe.

Zhu Yijun said at this time: "Since this is the case, it is better to let Li Chengliang gather troops across the river, and let the Ministry of Rites send officials to go together to question Li Shi on my behalf, and ask Li Shi whether he really dared to resist the order or whether he was a domestic traitor. Blinded!"

"Let him, Li Chengliang, tell Li Shi that when he beheaded the traitor and apologized to me with the money from the treasury, so as to appease my anger, when will he report to me for permission to ask the guilty army to withdraw to Liaodong!"

After Zhu Yijun said that, he looked at Zhang Juzheng and the others: "What do you think?"

(End of this chapter)