Heaven's Martial Fate

Chapter 866 Slapping the Emperor in the Face

Before Jia Rong gave orders to let the Jinling clan and the members of the four major clans be more honest and peaceful recently, the outbreak broke out today.

Obviously, the public opinion of scholars in the south has greatly stimulated the current situation.

What is competing with the people for profit, and what is the people?
Every family has tens of thousands of mu of fertile land, and they are ashamed to say that they are people!

Today is not muddy, even if the emperors in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were greatly restrained by the civil official group, wouldn't the civil official group be so depressed?

First of all, those madmen who dare to speak out and anger the royal family directly lose their qualifications for the imperial examination, no matter how famous you are.

Not going to prison directly, it is already very face-saving and generous.

Then, there is the big eunuch delivery.

Taxation supervisors such as mining supervisors, tea supervisors, and porcelain supervisors generally sprinkle money to the south.

Do you really think that today is a fool?

I don't know how the big families in the south and the wealthy merchants make a lot of money, but they don't pay taxes to the court?
The situation in the world was still turbulent during the Taizu period, so it was too late to pay attention to it.

During Taizong's reign, it was too late to digest the new land, and the people thought about resting and recuperating, so they didn't pay too much attention to it.

In the early days of the emperor's reign, most of the honorable courtiers that Gu Nian followed came from the south, so it was naturally not easy to target the south.

When they want to gain a good reputation in the later stage, even the official circles have relaxed their supervision, let alone the land in the south of the Yangtze River.

Then there is the current time, the south has not experienced major rectification, and the strength of the local gentry group has reached a certain level.

Apart from other things, how much was stolen by those salt merchants just for the salt tax supervised by the Yangzhou patrol salt censor?
The salt merchants have the support of Jiangnan gentry behind them. Some things are well known today, but they are just ignored on the bright side.

Some inspectors and censors who did not meet the wishes of these gentry in the south of the Yangtze River were either dismissed from office and sent to prison, or died in office for unknown reasons.

Even the Jinling Zhen family, who had been secretly compensated by the emperor for taking over four times, had only been re-elected as the Xunyan Yushi for seven years.

No matter how much, it's not that the emperor or the present is reluctant, but that the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River have refused to agree, that's how domineering.

It can be said that the hand of the Jiangnan gentry group has reached out to the private land of the royal family and the imperial court, which is something that any emperor who has made a difference cannot agree to.

For example, salt administration, tea administration, and silk weaving, Jiangnan gentry groups have all intervened, which has reached the limit that the royal family can tolerate.

Just kidding, at the moment when maritime trade is not booming, Dagan has a vast territory, but in fact there are only so many interests. The Jiangnan gentry group has one more point, and the rest of the forces, including the royal family, have to take a little less. How can this work?
In addition, because of the inheritance of the Ming system, people with fame can be exempted from taxes, which has led to a surge in efficiency. If you want to stop such things from continuing to expand, you are going against scholars all over the world.

It is obvious that such a determination has not been made yet, and there is not much thought about land taxation.

But apart from the land tax, such as mine tax and tea tax, they used to collect very little due to various reasons, but now they are serious.

Since the Jiangnan gentry group dared to launch scholars to scold him, as an emperor, it is natural that he is not polite, and he just wants to take this opportunity to win the taxes that should be collected.

According to rough estimates, if several aspects of taxes can be fully collected, the annual fiscal revenue of the imperial court will be at least several million taels more.

Don't underestimate millions of taels, there are too many things that can be done.

Then, the South boiled over.

The emergence of a large number of tax supervisors is self-evident.

Now it is clear that they want to share the benefits from the southern gentry group.

How could the Jiangnan gentry group, who were used to completely taking all the benefits they could get, bear it?

Then, a very fierce anti-tax action broke out in the South.

Some tax supervisors disappeared without a sound, and they just disappeared from the world.

Some tax supervisors were attacked by countless agitated businessmen and people, and were beaten to death and maimed in broad daylight.

Most of them were the ones who got the news first, and were so frightened that they hid in the yamen everywhere and dared not act rashly.

Because of the fierce conflicts, not only did many tax supervisors die, but they were directly labeled as eunuchs and traitors, and they also wrote articles to criticize, as if they wanted to completely nail the tax supervisors who were killed by them to the shame of history. Do not turn over on the pole.

In addition, some well-known scholars wrote biographies of southern merchants who died unexpectedly due to fierce conflicts, and were praised as heroes and martyrs.

It seemed that in that instant, there were signs of instability throughout the south.

All of this happened too suddenly and too intensely.

For a while, the southern officialdom fell into a state of deep panic.

Nima, the current big work is not in the middle and late Ming Dynasty when the military power was weak and the royal family was not good at controlling the local area.

The gentry played so aggressively that they put the local government and officials on fire.

If one is not careful, it will really end in pieces.

No one has come, the possible angry move today has triggered such a strong backlash.

I don't know, I thought that something outrageous has been done today, which may even cause turmoil in the whole south.

But in fact, today it is just a group of tax supervisors.

A bunch of tax inspectors, at most, just scraped their hands to get some money. The reaction of the Jiangnan gentry group was so fierce, and they could only have such a strong reaction if they were iron roosters and planned to do nothing.

But in this way, the southern government yamen will feel uncomfortable.

Just ignore it, it is likely to cause dissatisfaction among the gentry under the rule, and it will be difficult to secure a position.

But if you don't pay attention to it, you are watching it like a tiger, and you won't listen to how embarrassing the local officials are.

To say that the most terrified is the Zhen family in Jinling, which has the most powerful power in the south. At this time, the big brothers of the Zhen family are all very frightened.

They all understand their mission, not only to supervise Jiangnan, but also to guide and divide the local forces in Jiangnan.

But the Jiangnan gentry group's sudden arrival is not to make it clear that the emperor and the present understand that the previous limelight of the Zhen family is just a gimmick.

When it's time to see the real chapter, it's useless.

If the emperor and the present are really disappointed with the role of the Zhen family, then the Zhen family will not be able to support it even if they have the prince as their backing.

The Zhen family fell into a very embarrassing situation, while the four major families in Jinling were taken aback and did not dare to act rashly at all.

It's not that the Jiangnan gentry family sent them letters, hoping that they could act at the same time. Fortunately, Jia Rong's reminder letter came in time, otherwise the situation would be bad...

(End of this chapter)