Heaven's Martial Fate

Chapter 879
The substitution at the Jinmen Daotai did not attract the attention of the court chiefs.

It's just that Wang Ziteng, the candidate for the Jinmen Daotai, is a little strange to the court.

Fortunately, it is not uncommon for the imperial court to change from Wu to Wen. The most typical example is the first generation of Baolinghou Shilao Linggong.

This one, in the early days of the founding of the country, achieved the position of the top civil servant, such an achievement is quite remarkable.

It's just a pity that historians didn't take advantage of the trend to transform.

Of course, if this is the case, the historian may have been completely removed from the powerful group.

At that time, the distinction between civil and military was not so clear, and civil officials had to be ready to go to the battlefield to kill people at any time, and their identities were exchanged quite frequently.

As for the relocation of 3000 troops led by Zhongjing Hou Shi Ding to Jinmen, it did not cause the slightest disturbance.

This is a transfer negotiated and arranged by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Ministry of War. It only needs to be approved and decreed today, and it does not need to be discussed in the court.

It's no wonder that the civil official group is desperately trying to get involved in the Ministry of War. It is really such a thing that the civil official group finds it difficult to accept.

Nima, the mobilization of troops and horses on the scale of thousands of people, such a major event, the civil service group can't even know about it, if something happens, won't it be caught blind?

In other words, as long as the emperor reigns for a long time, a battle for the throne will break out in the capital every two to thirty years, and it may be that a knife will be used.

Whenever this time, the civil servant group is extremely passive.

The only soldiers and horses that can be controlled or influenced are the officers and soldiers of the Wucheng Bingma Division.

Once encountering riots and looting, the most unlucky ones are of course the wealthy businessmen in the city, and then the residences of civil servants. Who told them that they have no strength to protect them?
Besides, the reason why political power grows out of the handle of a knife is actually understood by the big civil servants.

In an environment where civil and military affairs are paralleled by Dagan, the voice of civil servants is often closely related to the army.

It's just that, for the sake of reputation, such things are kept secret.

Whether the newly emerging civil servants can understand it depends on their own understanding.

These two incidents did not cause disturbances in the court.

After all, I heard that Yuan Chun, the eldest daughter of the Rong Mansion, has been favored in the palace. Not only has she been promoted, but she has also had many servants recently.

The Rong Mansion didn't get much benefit, and it was the same for the four major families of Jinling who were allies.

Along with other major events and minor incidents in the capital, the transfer of Wang Ziteng and Shi Ding was quickly forgotten by others.

Both of them are veterans. Although the new official took office, although he made some moves, he did not attract special attention from the court in the capital.

This is what Jia Rong specially told in private. Their future actions will cause countless ups and downs. When they first arrive in office, if they don't lay a solid foundation, when will they wait?

And in the court hall, because of the fact that a large number of tax inspectors were sent to the south, there was quite a commotion, so not many eyes paid attention to them.

The matter has fermented to the present, and it has completely become a mess.

It's not something that anyone who wants to stop can easily stop.

The competition for interests is the most touching, not to mention the prosperity of the south, the interests involved may be in units of millions of taels, or even tens of millions of taels.

The southern gentry naturally wanted to protect their own interests, while other interest groups wanted to reach out and make a fortune.

It is also a joke to say that it is a matter of course to pay taxes normally, but it has become an out-and-out bad government in the south.

Without taxation, how can the government get money to operate?

However, the towns on the border of the south of the Yangtze River are neat and beautiful, and the urban architecture and scale are quite impressive.

Where did these construction and development funds come from?
Don't think too much about it, it's all about exploiting the blood and sweat of the people at the lowest level to have such a prosperous scene.

The more prosperous the town, the more concentrated the surrounding fields, and the more landless peasants, who were forced to enter the town to become small handicraftsmen or the most elementary workers.

According to the books of later generations, this is the so-called sprout of capital society.

The so-called capital is to maximize the benefits as much as possible while increasing productivity.

Farmers, who could only be exploited indirectly, are the best targets for direct exploitation after losing their fields and being collected together.

However, because the flow of capital has brought about the prosperity of the commodity society, the people at the bottom who are exploited feel that their lives are not bad, and they are even much more affluent than when they were farming in the past, and they are very satisfied with their current life.

As everyone knows, their life and death are all in the hands of those gentry.

A slight fluctuation in the prices of daily necessities in the market can completely bankrupt the so-called petty bourgeois families and make them impoverished.

Unfortunately, they still have to bear the running costs of the yamen, but most people don't notice it at all.

There are also yamen officials, local gangsters Qingpi and even the clan's exploitation expenses. It is conceivable that the pressure of life is great.

It can be said that the development of the boundaries of Jiangnan is quite distorted, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Of course, you said that it is possible to hide wealth from the people, but the so-called "people" refers to the local gentry.

For the imperial court to collect taxes, it is one thousand and ten thousand people who are not happy and dissatisfied.

The fierce means against the tax supervisor is only one of them, and the real main force is the southern officials in the court.

They put forward suggestions in the court, and now it is possible to collect taxes if they want to, but don't make it so drastic, you can do it step by step.

As for how long this slow down, naturally, the more fully prepared the better.

According to their thoughts and ideas, it is best not to mess around during the current reign, and wait until the next emperor.

The so-called death of the people and the rest of the government, in addition, every emperor is different, who knows if the head of the next emperor will still have the iron of today?
How can such a situation be satisfied today?

Supporting the four major families in Jinling secretly is only one of the methods, and it is naturally impossible to make the southern officials' voices too loud in the court.

Nima, he wants to leave a name in history, if he can't do something in his position, how can he achieve his goal?

Besides, the behavior of the southern gentry was too exciting, not to mention today, even the emperor in the Dragon Head Palace is quite upset.

The people sent by the royal family dare to kill at will. Do you want to wait until the critical moment to send the royal family's army?
With such huge interests in the south, and a sufficient population, it is also the food center of Dagan. If something happens, it can pull up a team in the blink of an eye, and it is the kind with enough money and food.

As long as I think of these, my heart is cold now.

Not only did he have to collect enough taxes, but he also wanted to exercise strong control over the South, allowing no surprises there.

Facing the throne, or the stable situation in the world, everything else is not worth mentioning, and the turmoil in the court is not so easy to settle...

(End of this chapter)