The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

Zhang Juzheng did not live up to everyone's expectations of him at all. At this moment when everyone thought he would start to take action, he really did. It was already expected, but when Zhang Juzheng really did this, he still surprised those people in the court who were clearly prepared.

Of course, the reason why they were surprised was not because these people were not prepared enough. After all, they had been "warned" by Zhang Juzheng so many times before. , but also know almost.

The reason why they were so surprised was that what Zhang Juzheng said was beyond their psychological tolerance. Of course, what he was talking about here was naturally the "A Whip" that he had prepared for a long time. Law matters.

However, it was obvious that the people in the court would have such a big reaction to this matter, and this was also within Zhang Juzheng's expectation, so facing this situation, Zhang Juzheng was really calm and calm, and did not respond in the slightest panic.

Zhang Juzheng can do so perfectly. After all, he is well-prepared. In addition, he is the chief minister of the cabinet, and he has won the trust of the queen mother. Therefore, Zhang Juzheng can basically make decisions on all matters in the court. That's the only way to do it.

Therefore, no matter how much the people in the DPRK disagreed with Zhang Juzheng's "One Whip Law", in fact, their opposition was powerless. If Zhang Juzheng said to do this, then he could only do so.

In fact, this is not the first time that the "One Whip Method" has been put on the court. It came out, and it was not only proposed, but Emperor Jiajing at the time also agreed to this matter, but in the end, it was still because of this method that the interests of those in the court were greatly damaged, and in the end it was nothing.

It has been more than 40 years since Jiajing ten years ago, and during these 40 years, the "One Whip Law" has been repeated repeatedly, but there is no way to implement it stably.

But now, the person who wants to do this is Zhang Juzheng who has fully grasped the real power, and Zhang Juzheng has really worked hard for this matter and prepared a lot. It can be said that Zhang Juzheng really came with the necessary determination this time. Therefore, Zhang Juzheng wasn't worried at all under the preparations for the opposition he had already expected in the court.

However, it is precisely because the power of the "One Whip Method" is really not small, so even under Zhang Juzheng's preparations, it still attracted great opposition from the ministers in the court. But it really touched their roots.

Originally, Zhang Juzheng created the "Kaochengfa", although they said they were against the "Kaochengfa", but after all, "Kaochengfa" was a court affair, and it was well-founded, so those people had no reason at all Come to object.

Although it can be said that because of the "Kaocheng Law", the situation of officials filling their pockets has been greatly improved, and the government has also increased their salaries in order to take care of these people who have lost a lot of gray income, but This salary is naturally not as good as their original situation.

But fortunately, even if it is difficult for these people to accept large sums of bribes, none of these people in the DPRK have any land in their families. With these, they can still maintain the kind of expenses in the past.

But this time, the "One Whip Law" proposed by Zhang Juzheng is quite different. One of them is that there will be no Yao slaves in the future, and all poll taxes will be converted into silver money, and the money is not based on households, but It is calculated by mu, that is to say, how many mu of land you have, how much money you have to pay in the future.

Everyone knows that these people in the court have a lot of fields in their homes. In the past, they sent those hired farmers to go to the army, and some simply concealed the fields. These people rely on this method to make money of.

Now, even this part of the "One Whip Law" proposed by Zhang Juzheng has been cut off for them. In this way, how will this make these people who already have less income willing.

And in the current situation, even if you want to hide all the fields, Zhang Juzheng has spent a lot of thought on this matter, how could he not have thought of this, so long before, when Zhang Juzheng had just decided to do this When he was young, he started to act, and what he did was naturally clear the land of the whole country.

As a result of the Qingzhang, the number of acres found in the whole country is nearly [-] acres more than the original record of the Ministry of Household Affairs. It can be seen from this that after so many years, how much land has been annexed by these people? Not to mention how many people went bankrupt, lost their homes and became displaced.

And the result of clearing Zhang's land this time also made Zhang Juzheng more firm in his plan. He understood that the reform was imperative and had to be done.

Therefore, after so many things settled down and Zhang Juzheng prepared for such a long time, this is the current situation. From the current point of view, there is a person like Zhang Juzheng leading this matter. Obviously, "One Piece" The implementation of the "Whip Law" can be said to be a certainty, but it is precisely because of this that those in the court are extremely disgusted with it.

However, today's Zhang Juzheng is no longer the young boy who was under Xu Jie's protection and dared not speak out even if he had his own ideas. Now Zhang Juzheng is in control, and after so many hardships, Experience, no matter whether it is an official or a human being, has reached a state of perfection, so he doesn't care about these things at all.

It's just that this matter really affects the actual interests of those people too much, so even those things that Zhang Juzheng did before made these people feel scared, but now, after the "One Whip Law" came out, Let these people have the courage to come to Zhang Juzheng for a theory.

It's just that the current Zhang Juzheng is not only powerful, but he can also lower his face. Even the person opposite him let go, but Zhang Juzheng only needs to put on a face, "You can say whatever you want, I'll listen, but I just ignore you" With their appearance, these people still have nothing to do.

It's just that these people have hit a wall with Zhang Juzheng, but they obviously won't give up just like that. Therefore, if Zhang Juzheng's path doesn't work, they will find another path. Of course, the so-called other path , In fact, it is to find those who can talk to Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Juzheng will not refuse without listening.

As a result, the other five bachelors in the cabinet are now full of people coming and going at each door, all of them come to see them, hoping that they will intercede with Zhang Juzheng.

Of course, as Zhang Juzheng's student and Zhang Fan who was the most able to talk to Zhang Juzheng, he became the most "focused care" of these people.

Feng Bao was the only person who was not greatly affected by this matter and had a good relationship with Zhang Juzheng. However, none of Zhang Fan and the others envied Feng Bao. After all, Feng Bao was in a special situation.

Although these people really broke their legs during this period of time because of this matter, and some people even couldn't change one house for another, and searched all the people they could find, but it was obvious that Doing it is of no use at all.

It's just an idea they came up with temporarily. In this case, how could Zhang Juzheng, who had already started preparing for this matter, not have thought of it.

Zhang Juzheng had already thought that this kind of thing would happen, so at the last stage of his doing this, he didn't ask anyone to help, not even Zhang Fan.

The purpose of doing this is not to get rid of these people, but for the present, and now, this effect is also reflected.

Take Zhang Fan as an example, no matter who comes to him, he can completely reject everyone with a sentence of "I don't know". In fact, even if everyone knows that he can say it, but at least on the surface There is no way to force Zhang Fan anymore, this is Zhang Juzheng's idea.

Therefore, in this way, these people are unreasonable in front of Zhang Juzheng, and it is very unreasonable for them in front of Zhang Fan and others, but they still have no choice but to shut the door. Most of the people in the village are opposed to this matter, but they just have no choice, no matter whether it is to go through the open path or the secret path, it will not work.

Therefore, the matter of the "One Whip Law" was passed under such a situation, when all the opponents obviously did not want to agree, but were unable to oppose it for many reasons. up.

Perhaps, the word "is" cannot be used, because under the promotion of Zhang Juzheng, it is impossible for this matter to fail, but the preparations made by Zhang Juzheng in the early stage only made things smoother That's all.

For Zhang Juzheng, this is naturally a great thing. After all, this is what he has always wanted to do. Now that it has succeeded, he is naturally happy.

But for Zhang Fan, this is a troublesome matter. The matter itself makes Zhang Fan happy, but even if Zhang Fan can completely shirk his responsibility in the end, he is still very troubled. After all, the people involved are too much. too much.

It is conceivable that if Zhang Ju had continued to ask him for help back then, Zhang Fan would have been annoyed to death now.

However, this matter is not that simple. It is not that it will be over at this time. After all, this has just been implemented, and there must be many problems in the future, and Zhang Fan himself knows that he cannot escape those problems. the trouble it caused.

It can only be said that Zhang Fan is just preparing for the future now, and the troubles at that time will definitely be much more than the current ones.

In fact, even Zhang Fan himself can predict how troublesome things will be in the future, but this is different from the troubles now. If it is because of this, even if it is troublesome, Zhang Fan plans to accept Get off, after all, it's a good thing.