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Chapter 441

In the eyes of these people, if the British Duke asked such a question in front of so many people, he must have developed suspicions against Li Huan.

Of course, there are only a very small number of people who think this way. After all, not many people are fools who can get to the current status. There are many smart people, all of whom stared at Zhang Lun with strange expressions.

The relationship between Zhang Lun and Li Huan is too close. In addition, because of Li Huan, the Xungui Group has a faint tendency to regain the right to speak above the court. If Zhang Lun, who is the representative of the Xungui Group at this time, It is simply unrealistic for Lun to fall out with Li Huan, the emperor's favorite minister.

So at this time, Zhang Lun asked questions in front of them and Li Huan's policy of distributing everything to the mother.

Thinking about these questions, the faces of some people couldn't help but become serious.

Li Huan smiled slightly, glanced at Zhang Lun, then glanced at the officials present, and then said calmly: "The British Lord wants to ask if the law of spreading the land into the mu is implemented, then the world will Will the imperial court be able to receive taxes for the fields occupied by the dignitaries and gentry?"

Many people raised their brows when they heard this. You must know that they still thought about this before. Just because of the privileges they enjoy, they can ignore Li Huan's method of dividing the family into the mother.

The fields under their names can fully enjoy the privileges of the court, and what can Li Huan do to them.

Now that Zhang Lun is directly pointing out this matter, if this is not a slap in the face of Li Huan, what is it?

Even Zhu Hou, who was sitting there, couldn't help frowning when he saw the momentum of the officials, although he knew that once Li Huan proposed the method of paying the officials and gentry at the Great Court Meeting, it would inevitably cause an uproar among the officials Hei Hei had a certain amount of psychological preparation, but when this moment came, Zhu Houzhao was still a little worried.

Seeing the supervisory censor Chen Fang, Lu He, Bai Lang, Du Qing and more than a dozen officials kowtowed to the emperor and said righteously: "Your Majesty, you can know the law of the ancestors, and you can know that the Emperor Taizu engraved on the law. The gentry of the world, the kindness to the world's scholars is as great as a mountain, and they are given the privilege of tax exemption. This is the law of the ancestors. Is your majesty going to violate the orders of the emperor Taizu and ignore the laws of the ancestors?"

Such things still require the emperor to nod in the end, so what the officials are most worried about is that the emperor is bewitched by Li Huan. With the points in hand, no matter how much they resist at that time, they will lose their righteousness.

For some reason, seeing Li Huan's calm appearance, many officials felt a little bad in their hearts.

It is precisely because of this that when Li Huan said the words "officials and gentry pay food as a whole", almost all the officials looked at Li Huan in horror.

At this time, everyone has reacted, no matter how slow the reaction is, they can understand what Li Huan means by the so-called government and gentry.

Good guy, on the square in front of Qianqing Palace, hundreds of officials stood up at once, eighty to ninety percent, and only a few dozen people remained in place.

In an instant, Li Huan's voice resounded throughout the audience, suppressing the shouts of beating and killing from all the officials.

It can be said that Wu Guangyuan's roar shocked the audience and directly awakened all the officials.

Amidst such yelling, beating, and killing, those who are weak-minded would probably be frightened by such momentum, but Li Huan just glanced at the officials indifferently, and then turned to the emperor with a loud voice. Said: "Your Majesty, I ask your majesty to put the country and the people of the Ming Dynasty as the most important thing, and allow me to implement the law that officials and gentry pay food as a whole."

Now Li Huan actually wants to break the privileges of these nobles and collect taxes from their land. If Guangzuo and the others stood there calmly, I'm afraid they will stand up and follow all the officials to ask the emperor to kill Li Huan.

Wu Guangyuan just stared at Li Huan and said, "It's true that Wu doesn't understand what it means to pay the officials and gentry together. I also ask Champion Hou to explain one or two for the lower officials and one or two for the hundred officials."

As soon as this remark came out, the expressions of all the officials present changed drastically.

Worried eyes turned to Li Huan. I only hope that Li Huan can bear such pressure.

Even Wang Yangming, Cheng Guogong and others who knew in advance what Li Huan was going to do at today's court meeting couldn't help but sweat for Li Huan.

Li Huan is not friendly to these people at all. Now Zhang Lun is asking Li Huan if there is any way to solve the problem. Who knows if Li Huan will come up with a way that is not good for them.

Even among the nobles standing there, some nobles who had not received any news at all looked at Li Huan with complicated expressions at the moment.

Li Huan's mouth showed a bit of a smile, he glanced at the official lightly, and then said loudly: "This method is that the officials and the gentry pay the food together."

One after another, the important ministers bowed down.

Another important minister bowed to the ground and said with a broken heart: "Your Majesty, please kill Li Huan, so as to calm the hearts of my officials."

If Wu Guangyuan didn't understand, no one in the room would believe it.

Speaking of this, Zhang Lun said to the emperor with a serious face: "If such a problem cannot be solved, no matter how good the method is, it will not be able to completely solve my Ming's problem."

For a moment, all eyes fell on Li Huan.

But at this moment, after all the officials looked at Li Huan, their eyes fell on the emperor.

Especially seeing Chen Fang, Lu He and others' awe-inspiring and considerate attitude for the world, Zhu Houzhao was so angry that he wanted to kick all these people away.

If it is said that they are not still guarding their duties as courtiers, I am afraid that these supervisory censors and six officials will jump up and point at Zhu Houzhao and yell.

Li Huan smiled slightly, looked at Wu Guangyuan and said, "Oh, Mr. Wu has read a lot of poetry and books, and he was also a top three Jinshi in the high school imperial list in the past. Could it be that Mr. Li is needed to explain to Mr. Wu?"

Many officials even looked at Li Huan as if they were looking at some kind of enemy, giving the impression that Li Huan dug their ancestral graves and killed their parents.

But why did Wu Guangyuan insist on Li Huan explaining to him? It was clear that he wanted to put pressure on Li Huan.

All the officials bowed down in front of the emperor, and saw the important minister in red and purple robes saying to the emperor: "Your Majesty, Li Huan is a thief with ulterior motives. He wants to destroy the laws of our great Ming ancestors and disrupt the foundation of our country and society. His heart can be punished, his person can be killed, I ask Your Majesty to kill Li Huan immediately, so as to ease the hearts of my scholars tomorrow."

All of a sudden, the audience was full of yelling and killing of Li Huan. Looking around, there were only dozens of officials who were still standing. Compared with the hundreds of officials who prostrated themselves on the ground, it was almost negligible. Excluding.

Being questioned almost like scolding by Chen Fang, Lu He and others, Zhu Houzhao, who had never been questioned in public by his courtiers since he took the throne, could hardly suppress the anger in his heart.

Among the crowd, Wu Guangyuan, who was still an old god before, stared at Li Huanning and said, "Champion Marquis, can you explain to everyone what it means to pay the officials and gentry together?"

Zhang Lun nodded and said, "This is what I mean."

Their own interests are damaged, even if they are the emperor, they are not afraid.What's more, they have a righteous reputation in their hands, and they don't believe that Zhu Houzhao dared to agree to Li Huan's request when they brought out the law of their ancestors.

"Bold Li Huan, dare to propose such a law that harms the country and the people, with the intention of bewitching His Majesty, and messing up our Daming country and society. His heart can be punished!"

It can be said that such a scene of hundreds of officials working together may not be encountered once in many years. I have to say that the scene of hundreds of officials working together is quite shocking.

To a certain extent, they have suffered a lot of loss of interests. If it weren't for the fact that they still have the privilege of tax exemption, they would have torn face with Li Huan long ago.

Some officials looked at Li Huan, and even showed a little smile on their faces.

But even so, the questioning attitude is obvious, and the attitude can be described as extremely bad.

At this time, all the officials raised their heads and looked at Li Huan.

Li Huan took a step forward, walked under the imperial steps of the emperor, then turned around suddenly, facing the officials present, a stern look flashed in his eyes and said slowly: "It's actually very simple to solve this problem, Mr. Li here There is indeed a way."

Li Huan looked at the officials with clear eyes and said, "Even you are the same, and the fields under your names also have to pay taxes..."

Seeing this, almost all the officials stood up immediately, and they all said to Li Huan: "I also ask the champion to explain to us what it means to pay for the officials and gentry together."

It has to be said that as an important minister of the imperial court, Wu Guangyuan's official authority is still quite strong, especially now that he is staring at Li Huan in an almost questioning tone, ordinary people can't bear Wu Guangyuan's pressure absolutely.

When it came to the end, Wu Guangyuan almost spit out every single word, and the sharpness in his eyes made people startled.

Zhang Lun turned his gaze to Li Huan, and said to Li Huan, "I wonder if the champion has a solution?"

Looking at Li Huan's immature face, he roared in his heart, how dare he make such an enemy of the world, how dare he.

Even the officials representing the clan couldn't help bowing down with all the officials, ""Your Majesty, please kill Li Huan, so as to calm the hearts of hundreds of thousands of clans in Ming Dynasty.

Officials and gentry pay food in one body, the literal meaning could not be clearer, it is an ordinary person, even if he has not read the book, he can understand the meaning just by listening.

On the contrary, Li Huan, who is the core of the storm, looks calm and composed at the moment, as if the pressure from the officials does not exist, he glanced at the officials lightly, and said with a light smile: "Oh, Li thought that everyone Everyone can understand what it means to pay food for officials and gentry, since everyone can't understand, then Li will explain it to you."

In an instant, all the officials in the field became short of breath and looked at Li Huan one by one.

And the emperor who was sitting there at this moment also looked at Li Huan, and said solemnly: "What the British Duke said is true, I wonder if Li Qing has a solution?"

Before Li Huan finished speaking, Wu Guangyuan, whose eyes were red and filled with endless anger, roared at Li Huan.

Absolutely can't let the emperor mess around.

It can be said that in an instant, Baiguan had such an idea in his heart.

For them, which family does not hold a large number of acres of land, although most of them do not rely on land to live, but since ancient times, Chinese people have a special plot for land, so the land they occupy The number is not small, so the benefits obtained from the land every year are naturally quite a lot.

As he said that, Li Huan's face became serious, his eyes were full of determination, and he said coldly: "The meaning of the government and gentry paying the food is very simple, that is to say, no matter whether it is under anyone's name, all the land and acres in the world must be paid according to the imperial court's law. No matter what the status of the person is, there is no exception for the payment of taxes according to the law, from the royal family, nobles, and ordinary people."

But to Li Huan, Wu Guangyuan's little pressure was nothing, it was like a breeze blowing on his face.

Speaking of Zhang Lun, he bowed to the emperor and said: "A considerable part of the land in the world is concentrated in the hands of the dignitaries and gentry, but the imperial court has given certain privileges to the dignitaries and gentry. collecting taxes."

However, some officials didn't realize that something was wrong with the surrounding atmosphere. They just wanted to see Li Huan's jokes, and said to Li Huan with a bit of sarcasm: "Oh, I don't know what good strategy Champion Hou has to solve this problem. ?”

After all, being stared at by so many officials, the pressure is not something ordinary people can bear.

Immediately, a group of officials attacked Li Huan as if they were facing an unshakable enemy who killed his father, shouting loudly that he wanted the emperor to kill Li Huan, so as to calm the hearts of the people in the world.

However, Zhu Houzhao still suppressed his inner anger, looked at the crowd, took a deep breath and said, "I think what Li Qing said is not unreasonable. Three to four out of every ten acres of land in the world are divided between officials, gentry, powerful, noble, In the hands of the royal family, taxes are the foundation of the country. If the court fails to collect taxes, it will inevitably endanger the Ming Dynasty. In the past, the Emperor Taizu did bestow favor on the gentry and nobles in the world. Even when the country is in danger of being lost, I also ask all the noble families to consider it for the sake of the great Ming country."

Zhu Houzhao looked at Baiguan with emotion on his face, and said, "Your family is the herdsmen of heaven, and you are the parents and officials of all the people in the world. Why can't you be sympathetic to the people, set an example for the people in the world, and pay taxes as a whole?"

Speaking of which, Zhu Houzhao stood up, bowed to all the officials present and said: "Da Ming will never forget the merits of your family, let alone treat meritorious ministers..."

Thinking of what Li Huan had said before to implement the strategy of opening up the sea and promoting maritime trade, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help thinking of using this to win over the officials to compensate for the losses of the officials on the fields. He was about to say this, but without waiting When the Son of Heaven spoke, he saw Chen Fang, Lu He and other officials kowtowed and cried bitterly: "Emperor Taizu is here, please open your eyes. Your Majesty is bewitched by villains and wants to destroy the foundation of my Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty will perish. Daming is about to perish..."

(End of this chapter)