Reborn Nongmen's little lucky wife

Chapter 1238 Arbitrary means
According to the thinking of the adults in the capital, the first thing that will cause chaos in this tax matter is the two prefectures of Jianghuai near Zhongzhou.

However, it was Zhili that first became chaotic.

Zhili is at the foot of the emperor, and it is next to the capital. The emperor and the adults all felt that the people in Zhili were rich and could pay double the tax.

But the emperor and the adults didn't know at all that the land in Zhili had long been taken by the emperor's relatives and noble officials. To add insult to injury.

And this is only the summer tax, and there is an autumn tax in October. The poor people in Zhili are desperate. Many people who are 45 years old, after selling themselves and no one wants them, commit suicide together in order to save their families from paying some taxes. up.

In one village in Zhili alone, more than 30 people committed suicide. Almost all the elderly in the village died, just to save their own share of taxes for the family.

The rest of the girls who could sell themselves were sold, and at the same time they paid less tax, and at the same time, they could exchange for silver for the family. Although the value of silver was already as low as one tael, and the youngest girls only had five hundred cash, But as long as someone buys them, they can live.

When the emperor and the adults in the capital heard about this, they were horrified.

Apart from being horrified, the emperor was more angry. He threw the table over in anger, and immediately issued an order to punish several adults in Zhili. It's not good to do things, so that such a thing against the harmony of heaven has happened at the feet of the emperor!
Shangguan Pavilion and the others are very troublesome. When you said that you would charge double taxes, we had already advised you that this would cause serious trouble. If you didn’t listen, now that someone is dead, you’re blaming us again?
The other four court chiefs immediately pleaded guilty to the emperor: "Your Majesty, calm down, it is the old ministers who are not good at doing things, please punish the emperor!"

With a bang, Emperor Jing Yuan smashed the cup, pointed at them and cursed: "It's such a cliché again, if something goes wrong, you will only apologize, let me calm down, and you have nothing else to say?!"

Yes, I said it, but you didn't listen.

The elder Shangguan Pavilion sighed, and said to Emperor Jing Yuan: "Your Majesty, it's just a trivial thing for the old people in the village to commit suicide together in order to save taxes at home. Now the people in the barracks should be the most wary. Most of them have families, and if the family cannot pay the taxes, it is very likely that they will... reverse."

This is what Emperor Jing Yuan was most worried about. Hearing this, his face turned dark, but he didn't worry so much when he thought that Duke Wei's family had already been eliminated, and the other soldiers in command were nothing to be afraid of.

However, he didn't want to rebel against the soldiers, so he said: "Zhen will personally issue an imperial decree to exempt half of the tax for families with soldiers."

When he said this, Emperor Jing Yuan's heart was bleeding. Great Chu was about to conquer the world, and he had fought against the Great Rong for many years. There were many soldiers, and half of the tax was exempted for those who had soldiers. It was not a small amount.

Shangguange frowned, and said again: "Your Majesty, the army will go out to fight against the army in a short time. It is the right time to use troops. It is better to waive all taxes for those who have soldiers. In this way, the soldiers will be grateful for the emperor's kindness." , when fighting against the Rong people, he will definitely be even braver."

Emperor Jing Yuan refused: "March and fight, you need to rely on money to support the army. There are so many soldiers in the Great Chu. If the soldiers' families are exempted from taxes, where will the money come to fight? Is it from the lovers? Or from those aristocratic families?"

After finishing speaking, he sneered twice, and stared at the five elders in the hall with dark eyes like eagles.

The complexions of four of the five elders changed. These four were all descendants of aristocratic families. They did not try their best to stop this tax matter, because they were afraid that Emperor Jing Yuan would not have money and would take action against the aristocratic family.

During Emperor Jingwu's time, the aristocratic family had been killed and half of their homes were ransacked, and there was not much left. They couldn't let all the aristocratic families fall into the hands of Emperor Jingwu, grandson and grandson.

Seeing that they had stopped talking, Emperor Jing Yuan sneered and said, "I know that you all have worked hard, but this time, I have been very lenient on the matter of taxes. Northwest, Northeast, and Zhongzhou have not raised taxes. , are all wealthy towns, if the taxes cannot be collected, I will have to wonder whether there are big rats in the wealthy town of Dachu?"

The most affluent place in Great Chu is nothing more than Jiangnan. Since the war in the previous dynasty, many aristocratic families have moved to Jiangnan to avoid war disasters. They have set up a lot of industries in Jiangnan. It is not an exaggeration to say that the aristocratic families are the emperors of Jiangnan. .

And the "Shuoshu" that Emperor Jingyuan said to stop him from being a wealthy town where he couldn't collect taxes refers to the aristocratic and powerful families entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River.

The elders of the Shangguan Pavilion were in cold sweat, and they brought several elders to kneel down, saying: "Your Majesty is merciful, loved by all the officials and the common people, and the collection of taxes is also for the purpose of attacking Da Rong and avenging the people of Da Chu. , the people are naturally willing to give generously."

Emperor Jing Yuan smiled: "Since that's the case, all dear ministers, go down and do business. Keep an eye on the military camps everywhere, and don't make any other troubles, otherwise..."

Don't blame him for imitating the emperor's grandfather and killing aristocratic families to get money!

"My minister complies with the decree." The elders of Shangguan Pavilion and the others hurriedly retreated, and wiped a cold sweat together after leaving the Mingwei Hall.

Emperor Jing Yuan was really ruthless. Emperor Jing Wu killed the powerful family because he didn't want the court to be controlled by the powerful family, and Emperor Jing Yuan killed the powerful family purely to fill the national treasury.

In addition to killing aristocratic families, Emperor Jing Yuan also loved to kill the founding nobles. He almost wiped out the founding nobles with heavy soldiers. Those who are obedient must also put their daughters and granddaughters into the harem to show their loyalty.

The hearts of the elders: the founding of the country was only three generations old, and with such arbitrariness, it might end.

Qi Yi stood outside the Mingwei Hall, waiting for the elders to leave before returning to the Mingwei Hall.

In the Mingwei Palace, the eunuchs and maids were lightly cleaning up the smashed things, and they were cleaned up in a short while. After Qi Yi saluted Emperor Jing Yuan, he returned to his desk and continued to give Jing Yuan a hand. Emperor Yuan Yu wrote the imperial decree.

When Emperor Jing Yuan saw him, he frowned, and asked sullenly, "Don't you have anything to say to me?"

Didn't you always advise him when you saw such things in the past, tell him to calm down, and don't act impulsively?

Are you dumb now?
Or do you think he is hopeless? !

Hearing this, Qi Yi didn't raise his head, but lowered his head, turned to face Emperor Jing Yuan, and said obediently: "I dare not."

With a bang, the table just cleared by the eunuchs was lifted again. Emperor Jing Yuan was furious, pointed at Qi Yi and said, "Don't you dare? You don't consider yourself a good minister, and you let go of your bold words during the palace examination, saying that you will be a generation of assistant kings." The minister of the thigh? Now I have also learned the tricks of those old foxes, and started to tell me these things against my will!"

Qi Yi: "Your Majesty, I have never said a single word against my will to Your Majesty."

"Not a single word against your will?" Emperor Jing Yuan smiled: "Look at your perfunctory dead person, how can you still have the high-spirited appearance when you made a bold statement to help me establish a century-old dynasty?!"

(End of this chapter)